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Violinist legend, 21 times nominated for the Grammy, opens Trans-Siberian Art Festival on 9th of April in Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra will traditionally open the concert season on Maestro Arnold Kats's birthday
Novosibirsk Philharmonic Society held a press conference dedicated to the opening of a new concert season and the recommencement of the VIIth Trans-Siberian Art Festival
In the State Concert Hall named after A.M. Kats a press conference devoted to the opening of the 83rd concert season took place
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On 9th of April Vadim Repin's Trans-Siberian Art Festival will be opened with the concert with Pinchas Zukerman - legendary musician - a violinist, violist, conductor, 21 times nominated for Grammy. At the concert he will perform as a soloist and as a conductor.
On 9th of April Vadim Repin's Trans-Siberian Art Festival will be opened with the concert program "On the way again!" Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the stars of the festival - a violinist, violist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman (Israel), cellist Amanda Forsyth (Canada), conductor Pietari Inkinen (Finland) will perform at the concert.
In the first part the music of Mozart, Vivaldi and Saint-Saëns for violin, cello and orchestra will sound, Pietari Inkinen will conduct. In the second part Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Brahms's Symphony № 1. It will be conducted by Pinchas Zukerman.
Pinchas Zukerman is a violinist, violist, conductor, and teacher. There are more than 100 CDs in musician's discography, among them the recordings with Daniel Barenboim, Jacqueline Dupree, Isaac Stern and Itzhak Perlman highlight. Joint recordings of Pinchas Zukerman with Itzhak Perlman have been twice awarded the Grammy Award, and the musician himself was nominated for the most prestigious music award more than 20 times.
Trans-Siberian Art Festival will take place in Novosibirsk from 9th to 24th of April. The artistic director of the Forum is the star of the world of classical music, a native of Novosibirsk, violinist Vadim Repin. In 2016, the festival for the first time the will expand its geography beyond Russia. Domestically, along with concerts held in Novosibirsk, there are concerts in Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk. The organizers of the Festival are Vadim Repin's Fund, Novosibirsk State Philharmonic Society, the project is supported by the Governor and the Government of Novosibirsk Region
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Roberta Torre
Jury Member 2018
Roberta Torre was born in Milan where, after doing a Philosophy degree, she attended at the same time the Drama School at the Scuola d'Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi and the Direction and Screenwriting courses at the Casa del Teatro e del Cinema. While still a student, she encountered famous directors as Ermanno Olmi, a personality that she herself stated to be an influence for her work and for the creation of a personal style of direction, especially for what concerns realistic situations, street settings and the importance given to non-professional actors.
In the 1990's she moved from Milan to Palermo, Sicily and she fell in love with the city so much that she'll decide to stay there for ten years. In the early 90's, as her Master Olmi had previously done, she made her debut as a documentary director and presented La vita a volo d'angelo (1996) at the Venice Film Festival, a portrait of the Neapolitan singer Nino D'Angelo. At a later time she directed two musicals, both set in Palermo: Tano da morire (1997), in which irony and music make a fool of a grave subject, such as the Sicilian Mafia in the 80's; it is followed by Sud Side Stori (2000), in which she reinterprets Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
From that time on she devoted herself to feature films and she attained prizes and recognition in the major film festivals in Italy and abroad, such as in Venice, Cannes and at the Sundance Film Festival. She won numerous David di Donatello Awards and Nastri d'Argento with Tano da Morire ( 1998), Angela (2002), Mare Nero (2006) and I baci mai dati (2011).
The hallmarks of her films can be found in a strong interest for genre contamination, first of all between music and painting, especially by means of the musical film. Another important feature to consider is the highlighting of the absurd and the grotesque, even in realistic situations. These are some of the traits that are usually inserted in contrast with an overwhelmingly colourful style, adopted not to enhance carefreeness but profound contradictions.
In the last few years she was also committed in drama production. She has been the first woman director to stage a play in the Greek Theatre of Siracusa in the context of the VLVIII classical series, with the comedy Uccelli by Aristophanes in 2012, for which she won the Ombra di Dioniso Award. She also signed both the script and the direction of Insanamente Riccardo III (2013), a play in which she completely transformed the Shakespearean tragedy, thirteen years after the reassessment of Romeo and Juliet in Sud Side Stori.
The work for the stage is the starting point to develop another project based on the Shakespearean work, a full-length film titled Riccardo va all'Inferno (2017).
Besides the effort in the theatre and for the cinema, she also worked on video-art installations, another proof of the merger of various languages and the sign of a versatile aptitude for different types of art. She worked in the United States as well, in collaboration with the University of Bloomington, Indiana, for which she settled in as artist in residence in 2013. The institute also honoured her with a personal exhibition in the same year. The next year she was invited to hold the postgraduate course of Direction and Drama at the Oakland Mills College, California. She currently lives in Siena.

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In this Aug. 20, 2015, file photo, Cleveland Browns wide receiver Terrelle Pryor (87) against the Buffalo Bills before an NFL preseason football game in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane, File)
CLEVELAND (AP) — Terrelle Pryor didn't catch one pass during the preseason. He snagged a roster spot anyway.
The former Ohio State and Oakland quarterback made the Browns' roster as a wide receiver, and he's expected to be used in other ways by a Cleveland team lacking game-changing playmakers.
The 26-year-old Pryor was slowed by a hamstring injury during training camp and only made his exhibition debut Thursday night in Chicago. Pryor did not have a reception — he wasn't targeted — but he displayed his versatility by taking two snaps at quarterback and blocking on the punt team. The Browns are intrigued by the 6-foot-4, 225-pounder's potential and kept him on their initial 53-man roster.
There were few surprises as the Browns, who went 7-9 last season under first-year coach Mike Pettine, trimmed their roster on Saturday. Pryor was one of seven wide receivers to make the squad, and his selection came at the expense of rookie Vince Mayle, a fourth-round pick from Washington State who may end up on Cleveland's practice squad. Wide receiver Josh Lenz, an undrafted free agent who played well in the preseason, was also let go.
The Browns also released veteran backup quarterback Thad Lewis, leaving them with just starter Josh McCown and Johnny Manziel, who has resumed throwing after being limited by a sore elbow the past few weeks. Pryor, who made 10 starts for the Raiders, could also serve as Cleveland's third quarterback.
Lewis' release seems to indicate Manziel will be available to back up McCown for next week's season opener against the Jets.
Pettine said finalizing the roster wasn't easy.
"Some of the discussions at the 75 cut were difficult. We knew it was going to be some tough choices that had to be made at the 53. We were right," he said. "There were lengthy discussions. It was not cut and dry. A lot of variables went into it. Still, even now past the deadline, the situation is still very fluid."
Pryor had only played some wide receiver in high school before he decided to give it a go at the game's highest level. He remains a work in progress, but Pryor's size and speed make a unique athlete and the Browns can envision using him in multiple formations and packages.
It helped Pryor that he has some background with new offensive coordinator John DeFilippo as the two worked together with the Raiders. As Oakland's starter for nine games in 2013, Pryor rushed for 576 yards and two touchdowns, including a 93-yarder on the first play from scrimmage against Pittsburgh — the longest run in NFL history by a quarterback.
The Browns kept only six offensive linemen and will likely add another one or two for depth. Last season, the team never recovered after losing Pro Bowl center Alex Mack with a broken leg in Week 6.
Cleveland is also starting the season with four tight ends, including E.J. Bibbs, the only undrafted rookie to make the squad.
Among the notables to survive the cut was defensive lineman Billy Winn, a four-year veteran whose future appeared in doubt because of the emergence of Jamie Meder and rookies Danny Shelton and Xavier Cooper. Also, the club signed free agent Randy Starks in the offseason, bolstering the team's depth up front.
"That was big with Meder stepping up. That's like found money," Pettine said. "He's a guy that was undrafted a year ago that we were able to add mid-season and then for him to step up and have the offseason he had and make a big jump, that was impressive. You add that to our rookie class with Danny and Xavier and then add veterans like Starks. Desmond (Bryant) had one of his better offseasons — he seems primed to have a big year — and the versatility of an Armonty Bryant that can swing back and forth between outside linebacker and defensive line gives you more depth there."
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John Warren (born September 23, 1938 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian jazz musician (saxophone) and composer, known for the cooperation with John Surman and Mike Westbrook.

Career
Warren has played with many of the UK's most notable modernists like John Surman and Mike Westbrook, beginning in the '60s. He was a regular member of Mike Westbrook Concert Band and The Mike Westbrook Orchestra.

Discography
Tales of the Algonquin (Deram, 1971), with John Surman
The Brass Project (ECM Records, 1993), with John Surman
Finally Beginning (Fuzzy Moon Records, 2008)
Following On (Fuzzy Moon Records, 2009)
The Traveller's Tale (Fledg'ling Records, 2017)

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1938 births
Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian jazz composers
Male jazz composers
Canadian jazz musicians
Canadian jazz saxophonists
Male saxophonists
Living people
Musicians from Montreal
21st-century saxophonists
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module Puppet::Network
class AuthConfigParser

  def self.new_from_file(file)
    self.new(File.read(file))
  end

  def initialize(string)
    @string = string
  end

  def parse
    Puppet::Network::AuthConfig.new(parse_rights)
  end

  def parse_rights
    rights = Puppet::Network::Rights.new
    right = nil
    count = 1
    @string.each_line { |line|
      case line.chomp
      when /^\s*#/, /^\s*$/
        # skip comments and blank lines
      when /^path\s+((?:~\s+)?[^ ]+)\s*$/ # "path /path" or "path ~ regex"
        name = $1.chomp
        right = rights.newright(name, count, @file)
      when /^\s*(allow(?:_ip)?|deny(?:_ip)?|method|environment|auth(?:enticated)?)\s+(.+?)(\s*#.*)?$/
        parse_right_directive(right, $1, $2, count)
      else
        raise Puppet::ConfigurationError, "Invalid line #{count}: #{line}"
      end
      count += 1
    }

    # Verify each of the rights are valid.
    # We let the check raise an error, so that it can raise an error
    # pointing to the specific problem.
    rights.each { |name, right|
      right.valid?
    }
    rights
  end

  def parse_right_directive(right, var, value, count)
    value.strip!
    case var
    when "allow"
      modify_right(right, :allow, value, "allowing %s access", count)
    when "deny"
      modify_right(right, :deny, value, "denying %s access", count)
    when "allow_ip"
      modify_right(right, :allow_ip, value, "allowing IP %s access", count)
    when "deny_ip"
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    when "environment"
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    when /auth(?:enticated)?/
      modify_right(right, :restrict_authenticated, value, "adding authentication %s", count)
    else
      raise Puppet::ConfigurationError,
        "Invalid argument '#{var}' at line #{count}"
    end
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  def modify_right(right, method, value, msg, count)
    value.split(/\s*,\s*/).each do |val|
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      end
    end
  end
end
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The first of the two matching structures was built in the late 1870s and the second a few years later.
The stonemasonry, gabled roofs, hardwood internal structure, catheads and surviving pulley systems are historically significant relics of a period when Circular Quay was the centre of Australia's international shipping trade. On April 2nd of 1999, the buildings were added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register.
The site also has a rich social history. In 1949, it became home to the Society of St Vincent de Paul; in 1952, part of the building was used as the Matthew Talbot Hostel for Homeless Men – which included dormitories, a bookshop and soup kitchen on the ground floor, as well as a barber's shop and laundry in the basement. When the hostel moved to a larger premises in 1966, a new chapel was created on the ground floor of the northern structure, before its most recent use as an international English school.
Perhaps the building's most iconic remnant is a statue of a gilded sheep, which has been carefully restored and still sits proudly on the northern parapet.


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Home State Rescue helicopter partnership to continue
Rescue helicopter partnership to continue
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One of the State's most recognised partnerships is set to continue, with RAC appointed as the exclusive naming rights sponsor for Western Australia's fleet of emergency rescue helicopters.
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The helicopters and their highly skilled crew respond to road crashes, search and rescue missions and transfer seriously ill patients between medical facilities – providing a lifeline for our community in times of need, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Fire and emergency services commissioner Darren Klemm AFSM said the long-standing relationship between RAC and the Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) reflects a mutual commitment to improving community safety.
"The importance of this life-saving community safety service cannot be underestimated, with more than 6,750 missions flown since its inception," Commissioner Klemm said.
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Commissioner Klemm said the RAC Rescue helicopters can be airborne within 15 minutes, stabilising patients at the incident scene and transporting patients to hospital sooner, ultimately saving lives and improving recovery outcomes.
RAC Group Chief Executive Officer Rob Slocombe said RAC is proud to continue their 16-year partnership with DFES.
"The safety of Western Australians sits at the heart of what we stand for as an organisation and we are incredibly proud to support such a vital part of the State's emergency response network," Mr Slocombe said.
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Die Una (veraltet auch Unna, ) ist ein rechter Nebenfluss der Save im Nordwesten von Bosnien und Herzegowina. Sie entspringt nahe Donja Suvaja in Kroatien im Grenzgebiet zu Bosnien und fließt bei Jasenovac in die Save. Die Una ist von der Quelle () bis zur Einmündung in die Save () 212 Kilometer lang.

Der Fluss bildet über weite Strecken die historische und heutige Grenze zwischen Bosnien und Kroatien. Wichtige Zuflüsse sind der Unac, der bei Martin Brod in die Una mündet, und die Sana, die ihr bei Novi Grad zufließt. Größere Ortschaften an der Una sind Bihać, Bosanska Krupa, Novi Grad und Kozarska Dubica.

Zwischen Bihać und Bosanska Krupa fließt die Una durch kilometerlange Schluchten; oberhalb von Bihać befinden sich im Nationalpark Una zahlreiche Stromschnellen und Wasserfälle. Der höchste von ihnen ist der Štrbački Buk südwestlich von Ripač. Durch dieses enge Tal und weiter über Bihać bis nach Novi Grad führt die Strecke der Una-Bahn meist in unmittelbarer Nähe am Fluss entlang.

Der Fluss Una ist mit 28 verschiedenen Arten sehr fischreich. Ferner sind zahlreiche andere Tiere wie Fischotter, Muscheln, Flusskrebse, Schildkröten und einige Vogelarten angesiedelt.

Eine Besonderheit, die es in dieser Form nur in der Una gibt, sind Kalksteinformationen, Sedra genannt. Diese entstehen durch den hohen Kalkgehalt des Wassers und bilden regelrechte Kaskaden. Die Una ist beliebt für Kanu- und Raftingtouren.

Hydrologie
Mit einer mittleren Abflussmenge (MQ) von 202 m³/s an der Mündung steht die Una hinter Save, Neretva und Drina an vierter Stelle der großen Flüsse Bosnien-Herzegowinas. Ihr Einzugsgebiet hat eine Fläche von 9368 km² und liegt zum größeren Teil in Bosnien, zum kleineren in Kroatien.

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Summary and book reviews of Brothel by Alexa Albert
Mustang Ranch and Its Women
by Alexa Albert
Ariz. Nev. N.M. Utah
1980s & '90s
When Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study at The Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada (where prostitution is legal) she was drawn into the lives of the women and her project evolved into something more intimate and ambitious.
When Harvard medical student Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study at the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only state in the union where prostitution is legal, neither she nor the brothel could have predicted the end result. Having worked with homeless prostitutes in Times Square, Albert was intimate with the human devastation caused by the sex trade, and curious to see if Nevada's brothels offered a less harmful model for a business that will always be with us. The Mustang Ranch has never before given an outsider such access, but fear of AIDS was hurting the business, and the Ranch was eager to get publicity for its rigorous standards of sexual hygiene. Albert was drawn into the lives of the women of the Mustang Ranch, and what began as a public-health project evolved into something more intimate and ambitious, a six-year study of the brothel ecosystem, its lessons and significance.
The women of the Mustang Ranch poured their stories out to Albert: how they came to be there, their surprisingly deep sense of craft and vocation, how they reconciled their profession with life on the outside. Dr. Albert went as far into this world as it is possible to go -- some will say too far -- including sitting in on sessions with customers, and the result is a book that puts an unforgettable face on America's maligned and caricatured subculture.
Chapter I: The Opening
The postmark read "Reno Nevada, 24 Dec 1992." I stared at the envelope for a long moment before opening it. Reno? My mind was blank. Then it came to me: the brothel. For three and a half years, off and on, I had tried to convince a man named George Flint, executive director of the Nevada Brothel Association, to grant me permission to conduct a research study inside Nevada's legal brothels, the only licensed houses of prostitution in America. My letters and telephone calls had been for naught; Flint stood firm that the brothel industry wasn't available for a researcher's examination. "Brothel people are very private people," he had told me. "They don't like people nosing around."
It had become a ritual to send him a card every year reminding him of my project. I had long ago stopped entertaining any serious hope that he would agree, so I was in a slight daze when I tore open the envelope and read: "Your holiday card arrived earlier today. ...
An unrevealing glimpse of daily life in the sex trade. There's some news here, particularly on how sex workers can help prevent the spread of disease. But there's not much depth, and readers are likely to respond to Albert's report from the field with a shrug.
Albert convincingly dispels myths about this mysterious world and provides a strong defense for the legalization of prostitution - this engrossing, plainly told account should attract considerable attention.
Although Albert is clearly sympathetic to the plight of these women, she is careful to present a balanced account of what it means to be a prostitute in a legalized brothel. The tone is engaging, and some sections are a little raunchy. Written for a popular audience, this is highly recommended for sociology, women's studies, and cultural history collections.
M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D.
This well-written, non-judgmental, informative book helps to replace ignorance with understanding concerning the lives and attitudes of women involved in legal prostitution, as well as their customers. It could serve as a light at the end of a very long tunnel, and form the basis of both moral and legal discussions about prostitution in the future.
I couldn't put the book down. It gives you a new look at the sex trade occupation.
Not only is the book highly engaging and readable, it sets one's mind reeling with implications. This book ranks with Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed" as two of the best pieces of investigative journalism in the past two years.
Not your usual journistic or 60 Minutes show expose. A well written look inside the workings of a curiousity in the United States - a legal brothel. While Nevada has decided it is worthwhile to have legalized, controlled prositution other States ... Read More
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I think she did a wonderful job with the info that was provided. Way to go Lexi. I remember you. Thanks for treating us like everyday people.
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If you liked Brothel, try these:
The Dancing Girls of Lahore
by Louise Brown
With beautiful understatement, Louise Brown turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination - the lives of the 'dancing girls' of Lahore, Parkistan.
This gripping and daring new novel sensitively explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons and embrace our own "inner light."


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Q: How to run Excel VBA SendKeys in line with the other code I separated 2 sub functions (NextStep and AnotherStep) because the SendKeys code will run after the code is done. After I created ImportWorkbooks function, the SendKeys code are now inside a loop, and it will run again after the loop is done.
I used SendKeys because I cannot get the data from the filtered cell. I did my research and somehow SendKeys is the only code that works.
Public Sub ImportWorkbooks()
  Dim FNames As Variant
  Dim Cnt As Long
  Dim Wbk As Workbook
  Dim MstWbk As Workbook
  Dim Ws As Worksheet
  Dim I As Integer

   Application.ScreenUpdating = False
   Set MstWbk = ThisWorkbook

   FNames = Application.GetOpenFilename(FileFilter:="Excel files (*.xls*), *.xls*", MultiSelect:=True)
   If Not IsArray(FNames) Then Exit Sub
   For Cnt = 1 To UBound(FNames)
      Set Wbk = Workbooks.Open(FNames(Cnt))
      Wbk.Sheets("Summary").Activate
      Wbk.Sheets("Summary").Copy Before:=MstWbk.Sheets(1)
      MstWbk.Activate
      Application.DisplayAlerts = False
      MstWbk.Sheets("Summary").Activate
      NextStep
      Application.DisplayAlerts = True
      Wbk.Close False
   Next Cnt

   'Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub

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   'set column AV
   Range("AV1").Select
   ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = _"=IFERROR(CONCAT(RC[-9],""_"",ConcatenateButBlank(RC[-3]:RC[-1])),RC[-9])"
   Application.CutCopyMode = False
   Selection.Copy
   Range("AV2").Select
   ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "=AGGREGATE(3,3,C[-47]) - 2"
   Range("AV3").Select
   ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "Status & Date"

   Dim Counter As Integer
   Dim Total As Integer
   Dim I As Integer
   Dim RowID As Integer

   For Counter = 1 To I
    SendKeys "+({DOWN})"
   Next Counter

   SendKeys "^(v)"
   AnotherStep

End Sub

Private Sub AnotherStep()
   // VBA code...
End Sub

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BioBusiness
A Receptive Leader
Some executives would have left a company after being demoted. Graham Allaway didn't do that at the HIV therapeutics company Panacos, and it's better because of it.
Credit: © 2007 Cade Martin Photography
On June 14, 2006, Graham Allaway received a shocking call in his office. His boss, Samuel "Skip" Ackerman, had just walked off the stage at an investors' conference in New York City and suffered an apparent heart attack. Within hours, Ackerman, the energetic chief executive officer of Panacos Pharmaceuticals, would be dead. Allaway, the company's chief operating officer, found himself staring down a crisis.
For Allaway and Panacos - a Watertown, Mass.-based drug development company focused on bringing a novel HIV compound to market - adversity was hardly anything new. In recent years at Panacos, Allaway had been forced to abandon a promising drug candidate, much to the surprise of his board. He had been demoted from CEO to make room for Ackerman.
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Now, with Ackerman dead, Allaway watched the company's stock prices fall, but colleagues say the thoughtful, deliberate Englishman never panicked, and now, with Panacos looking to begin Phase III testing next year for its lead compound, an HIV-maturation inhibitor called PA-457 or bevirimat, Allaway believes the future is bright. "We've shown proof of concept," he says. "In many ways that was probably the most exciting thing of all: to show that bevirimat worked in patients." The next step, he says, is making a commercial product that, when used in combination with other drugs, "might provide a whole new paradigm for treating resistant patients for long periods, and maintaining their viral load productions, so that they have a really better quality of life." (For more on promising directions in HIV research, see "5 HIV - treatment strategies".)
From Cement to Startup
Allaway, 52, grew up in North Kent, just east of London, the son, and grandson of cement industry laborers. Like many people he knew, he spent his summers as a kid toiling away for cement makers. "It was dirty work," he recalls. When he had to work inside the cement kilns, it was also "borderline deadly hot." It was here that Allaway first wore a white coat, working in the labs, testing cement. He was hooked on science.
Allaway went on to study zoology, entomology, and ultimately, in 1982, he earned a doctorate in virology at Imperial College London. He was specifically interested in insect viruses. "What I realized," he says, "is that people did not understand very much about virus receptors - how the viruses get into the cells - whether it's an insect cell or a human cell." His research expanded into human viruses while working as a visiting fellow at the National Institutes of Health from 1984 to 1990. He then moved into the private sector in 1990, joining Tarrytown, N.Y.-based Progenics Pharmaceuticals, where he led a team that helped discover the role of the chemokine receptor, CCR5, in HIV infection.
Based in part on this experience, Ric Schumacher, then the CEO of Boston Biomedica, decided to hire Allaway in 1998. The company was looking to spin out a company, later called Panacos, to develop some promising compounds that University of North Carolina medicinal chemistry professor Kuo-Hsiung Lee had identified in a partnership with Schumacher's diagnostics company. "Allaway had that FDA experience," Schumacher recalls. "He had the clinical trial experience. He had the research experience of working for a company, and also a startup type company, an early-stage type company. So he wouldn't be afraid of us as a small, early stage company."
Panacos officially spun out of Boston Biomedica in November 2000 with just four employees. By 2002, it had more than doubled in size, Allaway says, and it had raised roughly $3.5 million in an initial round of fundraising to develop its lead drug candidate, a compound known as PA-344B. Investors were expecting the company to file an investigational new drug application within months and to begin human trials by the end of 2002.
Allaway with Jill Smith, director of corporate communications. Credit: © 2007 Cade Martin Photography
There were problems, though. Preclinical studies of 344B showed that it didn't stay in the blood as long as scientists had expected, and it also had the potential to interact with other drugs, says David E. Martin, Panacos' senior vice president of drug development. The shortcomings left Allaway with a difficult decision to make: Move forward with 344B to please investors, knowing that it could possibly fail down the line, or, change course by dropping 344B and focusing instead on another compound, PA-457.
"That wasn't an easy decision. There was a lot of waffling," says Martin. Allaway went about it, Martin recalls, in his typically deliberate and thoughtful manner, making sure to build consensus among his top scientists before taking their decision to the board. Allaway says he saw no other way to do it. "We don't agree 100% on everything," Allaway says of his team. "But in general I like throwing ideas up in the air, asking hard questions, and questioning what we're doing."
In this case, the questioning had led Allaway and the others to the decision that they had no other choice: If they were going to make it to the next milestone, they needed to drop 344B. Allaway went to the board and delivered the disappointing news. "It was a tense board meeting," Martin says. But Allaway, with his top scientists behind him, stood his ground. Sometimes, Allaway says, the hardest thing to do in a small, startup company with limited financing is to admit when you're wrong and try something else. "That's really what sometimes distinguishes the 'men from the boys' - the ability to make a difficult decision at the right time and marshal your resources to enable you to survive and move forward."
Getting the Job Done
For Panacos, abandoning PA-344B for PA-457 turned out to be the right decision. Though Allaway and his team didn't know exactly how this other compound worked at that time, they soon learned that it had a novel mechanism of action: targeting a different step in the HIV replication process than protease or reverse transcriptase inhibitors.
Protease inhibitors attack the protease enzyme, which slices the large viral protein, called gag, into several smaller proteins. One of those proteins - the capsid protein - forms a conical core that, along with nucleocapsid, helps protect the viral genetic material and allows the virus to infect other cells. PA-457 - also known as bevirimat - attacks the gag substrate itself and binds to the capsid protein, where it joins another protein called SP1, and prevents it from being cleaved off with the others. As a result, the capsid protein cannot perform its typical duties, the viral core breaks down, and infection cannot spread. "And as a result of that," Allaway says, "the virus can't mature and it can't become infectious. It can't spread the infection to new cells around the body."
These properties surprised many, including Allaway himself. Early on, he says, he even had trouble convincing investors that the drug worked in this way. The investors ultimately came around, but Panacos, like many small startups, still struggled to remain viable. By late 2003 the company was short on cash, and the board of directors decided to replace Allaway with Ackerman, an entrepreneur with more Wall Street experience than Allaway.
"Graham's ego isn't tied up in a title. It's not about [that]. It's about the job. It's about getting the job done." --David E. Martin
Another person, demoted from CEO to COO, might have decided to leave at that point, says Martin, Allaway's colleague since 2001. But Allaway understood the move and decided to stay. "I think what it says is Graham's ego isn't tied up in a title," says Martin. "It's not about the title. It's about the job. It's about getting the job done."
"That certainly wasn't the easiest of times," says Allaway, "and if it had been someone other than Skip it might not have worked out." Ackerman, he says, was a consensus builder just like himself. So, in the end, Allaway decided that the good of the company was more important than the title on his business card. "My goal," he says, "is devoted to trying to do what's best for the company."
Novelty Overcomes Adversity
In the months that followed, Allaway and Ackerman, working together, ushered in a new era at Panacos. The company agreed to merge in June 2004 with publicly traded V.I. Technologies, a biotech that had been developing anti-infective technologies until it was forced to suspend Phase III testing of its leading compound, Inactine, in late 2004. The reverse merger, in which Panacos kept its name and slipped into the public infrastructure of V.I. Technologies, made the little startup a publicly traded company. News in August 2005 that bevirimat had performed well in a small, 10-day human trial tripled Panacos' stock price, lifting it over $10 a share.
More adversity was to come, and when Ackerman suddenly died, many were thankful that Allaway had stayed. Operationally, the company mourned and then moved on. Peyton Marshall, the chief financial officer, became the acting CEO, and Allaway added president to his COO title. Now, along with the company's new CEO, Alan Dunton, hired earlier this year, they are continuing with Phase IIb studies of bevirimat, slowly increasing the dosage to determine the optimum amount. They are working to create a commercially viable liquid and tablet form of the drug, and moving toward Phase III studies next year. The hope is that bevirimat - along with other new-generation HIV drugs such as Pfizer's maraviroc, which blocks the CCR5 receptor, and Merck's integrase inhibitor, raltegravir - can help prolong the lives of HIV patients who have built up resistance to the drugs already on the market.
"My greatest hope is that it will join the currently very effective antiretroviral compounds - the protease inhibitors, the RT inhibitors - and will be useful in combating HIV-1 and delaying, or possibly even preventing, the possibility of resistance to this group of currently available antiretrovirals," says Eric Freed, chief of the virus-cell interaction section of the HIV Drug Resistance Program of the National Cancer Institute. "The bottom line is, the more effectively we can limit virus replication in patients ... the more effective the therapy will be."
That's Allaway's goal, too. After almost a decade at Panacos, he has watched the company grow to more than 40 employees, move from private to public, and develop a compound that some estimate could be the next blockbuster in HIV treatment. Allaway says he won't be happy until it actually happens. "The major unmet medical need in HIV treatment is patients failing therapy due to resistance," he says. "That's where you need a novel-mechanism drug like bevirimat. In fact, you need more than one, ideally."


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Banning write-in candidates in runoffs unwise
UPDATE: The measure to ban write-in candidates in runoffs passed, about 55%–45%. Another measure also put on the ballot by the County Supervisors, to "clean up" provisions of the County Charter, passed about 70–30. I will take the relatively close result of the measure on which I published an op ed (copied here on the inside page) as evidence of my vast influence on County voters. My "no" got 15 points more than the other! Alas, it was not enough.
The following ran in the 2 June edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune:
On election day, the county Board of Supervisors is asking voters to approve Proposition B, which would bar write-in candidates from contesting general elections for county offices. The measure is an obvious response to the controversy in 2004-05 in the city of San Diego when Donna Frye's general election write-in campaign for mayor resulted in a recount, court battles and ultimately Mayor Dick Murphy's resignation. While no one would hope to see a similar situation in a county election, the board's proposal sharply restricts voter choice and should be rejected.
County elections, like those of the city, occur in two rounds: First, a nonpartisan primary in June, in which a majority of votes is required; if no candidate obtains a majority, a runoff occurs in the November general election. Proposition B would ensure that the only candidates competing in this runoff were the two candidates with the most votes in the primary.
There are two problems with Proposition B's proposed change: Time and choice. June to November is a very long time. New issues might arise that were not even addressed when voters whittled the field to two in the primary. This is exactly what happened in 2004 in the city of San Diego, when the scale of the financial crisis became clear only after the primary.
This is where choice comes in. By entering the race as a write-in candidate, Donna Frye gave voters another alternative, and focused the fall campaign on the looming crisis. The controversy that followed the election stemmed not from the mere presence of a write-in candidate, or even from the election of a candidate by less than 50 percent of the votes. Rather, it stemmed from the technicality that Frye's margin over Murphy included improperly marked ballots.
Banning future "Fryes" is attacking the wrong problem. Given the uphill battle any write-in candidate must face to have a serious shot at winning, an insurgent campaign like Frye's can flourish only if the ground is fertile – that is, if there is popular demand for another choice on account of information that comes to light only with the passage of time after the primary.
If one is concerned to ensure that the winner of these nonpartisan elections have a majority of the votes – a criterion, by the way, required at no other level in this state, where third party candidates contest general elections – there are better ways than to force a majority by restricting voters' choices.
The time between voters' narrowing of the field and then giving their final verdict could be shortened. Many jurisdictions that use two rounds hold them only a month or so apart. That is not an option in San Diego County, because it would require the establishment of a completely new election date. So why not reduce the time between rounds to zero? That is, make the runoff "instant."
Under an instant runoff, the only election needed is the November general, yet a majority-supported winner is still guaranteed. Voters rank-order their choices – first, second, etc. – among the candidates running. The candidate who is last in first-preference votes is eliminated, and his or her ballots are transferred to those voters' second choices. This process continues in multiple rounds of counting until a candidate has a majority.
The result is exactly like a runoff, but on one ballot – a far better solution than the Board of Supervisors propose with Proposition B. Rather than four months between the narrowing of the field and a runoff with restricted choice, voters would have a menu of many candidates from which they would produce a majority in one election: Less time, more choice.
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Tom Round says:
"Twelve Write-in Candidates in California Primary Place Second and Will Run in November [2018]" (Richard Winger's blog)
http://ballot-access.org/2018/07/13/twelve-write-in-candidates-in-california-primary-place-second-and-will-run-in-november/
msshugart says:
That's interesting. Thanks, Tom!
(I am, however, appalled to see that I published something in a newspaper 12 years ago that used the term, "nonpartisan primary" for what is not a primary at all. Well, let's just say that I've "grown" in the interim.)
Might have posted this here before but I've noticed that US reporters often use "the primary" and "the runoff" to describe the two rounds of presidential elections in other countries, eg France, Poland, Chile, etc (from memory).
Not sure why they don't just go all the way and say "President Theresa May addressed the British Congress yesterday…"
Or President Sánchez addressed the Spanish congress…
On the other hand, almost everyone translates German and Austrian premiers/ministers-president into governors.
Tom says, "I've noticed that US reporters often use "the primary" and "the runoff" to describe the two rounds of presidential elections." This would not surprise me, although I do not think I recall reading or hearing this particular (mis)usage.
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Hundreds of runners including several local talents gathered earlier this month at Apalachee Regional Park in Tallahassee for this year's cross country state championships all ready to measure up their strength in the 5K race.
Of course, at each race and in each class, there can only be one winner. On the girl's side this year's 4A state crown went to Riverview High School sophomore Baile Hertenstein, with a time of 17:32.55, nearly 24 seconds ahead of second place winner Kayley Delay of Duncan U. Fletcher High from Neptune Beach.
Coming into the race, Hertenstein had high expectations with no doubt about finishing on the top as she led the roster winning both district and regional titles. The state crown also helped the young runner to put last year's disappointing 15th place state run behind her, while looking forward to only getting stronger.
Going into the event on the boys side Newsome, Bloomingdale and Plant City all had great prospects and, while as a team, Durant fell short of placing in the top three at districts the school's individual program had high hopes for one of the best runners in the state; Haftom Fliegelman, who has finished with 16:45.07, and a 45 second lead ahead of Newsome's junior Cody Caskey.
Ready for state, Fliegelman pushed hard and finished fourth with a 15:54.17. The title went to Sarasota High School senior Adam Bradtmueller with 15:44:83.
For official results, visit www.FHSAA.org. For more information visit, www.elitetiming.net.


Written for the individual investor, this guide explores the planning and savings options available to families that are saving for a child's college education.
Whether you are a new parent looking to get a head start on saving for your child's education or a grandparent wishing to help your grandkids afford their dream college, this is the PERFECT starting place to learn how to create the best savings strategy for you.
Putting your college savings plan together.
Also included in the Family Guide is a comprehensive chart that compares the different aspects of 529 plans with other college savings alternatives. This makes a great quick-reference tool to research the different options side-by-side.


How Do You Pay Your Salespeople?
How do you properly compensate a sales team? Your sales employees can make or break your business. But knowing how to manage, and properly incentivize them to do a great job day in and day out can be tricky. Here is a breakdown of what you need to know.
Some companies pay their sales team on a salary basis, such as in some retail chains; others are commission-only, such as in recruiting or real estate; while the majority offer a combination of salary and bonuses based on performance. Today, the typical base salary-to-commission ratio is 50/50 or 60/40.
"There is no such thing as the perfect sales compensation plan," says Jake Dunlap, CEO and founder of Skaled, a company that helps fast-growth ventures develop their sales processes and systems. So instead of striving for a perfect system that doesn't exist, try to incentivize the behavior and results you want.
For example, companies selling low-cost products or services — under $300 to 400 — are very transaction oriented. To keep salespeople motivated to make those non-stop sales, employers should use regular sales contests to drive higher volumes. The salesman or woman who has the highest numbers for the month will win a prize, be it a desirable item (like an iPad) or extra compensation.
Many companies set a sales floor, as well as a bonus plan for their sales team.
A "floor" is the minimum amount that needs to be sold to earn anything above the salesperson's base salary. What's the right way to set a floor? Dunlap suggests a standard would be 75% of the total monthly sales quota. Meaning that, unless 75% of the total quota is met, the salesperson receives no additional compensation that month.
At the other end of the spectrum, sales pros who meet and then exceed their sales quotas qualify for bonuses tied to those additional sales. These bonuses can consist of a higher commission per sale over the quota — a.k.a., you'd earn 15% of every sale instead of the standard 10% after 10 units are sold.
The other bonus structure is flat bonuses based on tiers of performance, such as an extra $1,000 for every additional $25,000 sold.
According to Dunlap, some salespeople will find creative ways of managing their quotas, such as timing sales to ensure they fall in the next calendar month, when the count starts back at zero. This can be a problem for some companies, especially for products or businesses where sales need to be done quickly. As such, smart companies can create compensation plans that discourage this practice, called sandbagging.
Dunlap's favorite compensation approach is a monthly plan with a quarterly bonus. Using this system, salespeople have both a floor and a monthly bonus tied to their sales quota.
To discourage sandbagging, he also recommends a quarterly bonus that is paid on top of monthly bonuses. Here's one example: As soon as you hit your quarterly quota, you earn 20% (instead of 15%) on all deals above that, so you're incentivized to close deals as quickly as possible.
The timing of payments to your salespeople can be tricky when your team is selling higher value products and services that take many months to close. In enterprise sales, where the value of the sale exceeds $40,000, salespeople are usually compensated on a quarterly basis.
A less common, but still used, approach is team-based compensation. In larger sales organizations, where sales professionals are divided into teams, these compensation programs can take into account your own performance, your team's performance, and your division's sales performance.
In these situations, 50% of the compensation is often based on the individual, 30% on the team, and 20% on the division. While this may be appealing to companies, it's usually less appealing to your sales team, unless they're placed on an established, high-performing team. Otherwise, the potential downside is bigger than the upside.
"I'm not a big fan of team-based compensation when you're rapidly growing," says Dunlap, because fast growth requires a steady stream of new hires who will bring the team's sales total down.
The monthly plan with quarterly bonus, on the other hand, incentivizes individual salespeople to close quickly and frequently.
The most effective sales compensation programs encourage salespeople to close as many deals as possible as quickly as possible, and then they pay out commissions as close to when deals are done as possible, says Dunlap. This keeps both the employer and the salesperson happy.


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Q: Finding the PDF from the CDF where the CDF is not differentiable at some point I got the following problem:

Let $X$ be a continuous random variable with $CDF$ denoted $F_X$ defined as follows:
$F_X(x)=
\begin{cases}
1-x^{-4/3}, & x\in[1,\infty) \\
0, & x\in (-\infty,1)
\end{cases}$
Find the PDF of $X$.

My try:
Since the PDF (denoted $f_X$) is the derivative of the CDF I get that $\forall x\in(1,\infty), f_X(x)=\frac{4}{3}x^{-7/3}$ and that $\forall x\in(-\infty,1), f_X(x)=0$.
Now I don't know what to do. The function $F_X$ is not differentiable at $x=1$ since the derivative from the right and from the left got different values and since the domain of the PDF must be $\mathbb{R}$ .
Is defining $f_X$ to be zero (or any other non-negative value) when $x=1$ is the solution?
Thanks for any help.

A: As yourself this: If I define $f_X (1) = 1$, will it be true that
$$
\int_{-\infty}^x f_X(t) ~ dt = F_X(x) ?
$$
If the answer's "yes", then you've got a PDF for $X$.
Corollary to the result you'll get: the value  of the PDF at any particular point doesn't matter. Why?


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Relax, the BBC has a long history of right-wing comedy. I should know, I've been on the receiving end of it
High on Tim Davie's list of shows deemed 'too left wing' is Mock The Week. When I was on the show, I was told I must do my 'Iranian material' – that didn't feel left wing to me
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Steph McGovern wears 'Girly Swot' jumper as she presents Have I Got News For You
Tim Davie, the box-fresh director of the BBC, wants an overhaul of comedy shows which are deemed to have too much left-wing bias. Good news because, dammit, pro-government comedy has been stifled for too long. Where are all the jokes about how annoying it is tripping up over homeless people when you're on your way to Soho House?
And my goodness I cannot wait for a comedy show which really tells it like it is about refugees paddling over and living in Windsor Castle with the Queen, forcing her and Philip to camp under the gazebo.
What's that? Such comedians don't exist? What tosh! We had that nice Jim Davidson with his hilarious Paki jokes, do you remember? Only he got "cancelled" because we all went too far to the left, political correctness went mad and we weren't allowed to point at LGBTQ+ people and laugh anymore.
Bernard Manning should be given his own prime-time show. The left bang on about "prejudice", yet for years they banned Manning from having his own show merely because he is dead.
As an immigrant kid, I was on the receiving end of quite a bit of "right-wing" humour, particularly when we went to holiday camps. Mr Punch himself told me I had a "stupid name". I know Mr Punch isn't known for his diverse outlook, but when you're six years old you don't expect to be laughed at by an adult, even if he is a renowned wife beater and made of wood.
As Billy Graham's granddaughter, I worry for our country under Trump
Labour and the Lib Dems may have to work together to beat the Tories
Foster workers like me should have their employment rights recognised
It's exhausting being disabled and fighting for what we're entitled to
My favourite right-wing comedian was Kenny Everett. He steered clear of politics until he was invited to do a turn at the Young Conservatives conference in 1983. I was only 10 years old and a huge fan of his. I was sad that Kenny was in the Mr Punch camp.
Kenny Everett hated Arthur Scargill and supported Margaret Thatcher. He came on to the stage with two giant foam hands and shouted "Let's bomb Russia!" and "Let's kick Michael Foot's stick away!", and received gales of laughter, rapturous applause and, by all accounts, regretted the incident for the remainder of his career. "I'm not a full Tory", he said in subsequent years. It didn't diminish my love for him because proper fans of comedy aren't merely there to have their own views reflected. I love The Kenny Everett Show and Not The Nine O'Clock News.
Everything changed when "alternative" comedy became prime-time viewing. Ben Elton, Julian Clary, Alexei Sayle and later the glorious Jo Brand hit our screens and being a "leftie" became cool. They went against the grain, they were the punks of comedy.
Jo Brand responds to backlash over her battery acid joke: 'I'm not employed by the BBC, so how can they sack me'
High on the current list of shows deemed "too left-wing" is Mock The Week. When I was on the show 13 years ago, I was told I must do my "Iranian material". Hanging someone on a hook like this didn't feel left wing to me. Radio 4's The News Quiz too has been criticised for being "too left-wing". Those on the right should relax. In the 43 years it has existed, it never nurtured a single non-white comedian to be at its helm or become a regular on it until very recently with Nish Kumar and Phil Wang. If I was a right-wing type I'd be heaving a sigh of relief and saying, "two in 43 years is not bad, let's just thank the lord neither is a woman". No disrespect to The News Quiz of course, but BBC bashers should chill out.
It seems to me that it's political comedy people are objecting to and that is always bound to lean towards the left, because most comedians and indeed most artists are left-leaning. We are, after all, the communicators, the dreamers – if we weren't, we'd be bankers.
Maybe the time for ubiquitous topical panel shows is coming to a natural end for now. The internet means the best topical jokes can be found online anyway, seconds after the event and long before the Mock The Week writers can be summoned. Gone are the days when we excitedly waited to hear what the gang on Have I Got News For You had to say about an event. We can just follow a hashtag on Twitter.
If I was director general of the BBC, I'd have a good hunt around for the sitcoms and sketch shows we used to invest in before we realised how much cheaper panel shows are to make. There is, I'll bet, gold lying forlornly on producers' desks, ignored. Phenomenally funny people are shining on social media – get them on the BBC. Nurture the new.
All comedy formats need fresh life blown into them eventually and perhaps it is time for some panel shows to take a breather. To say it's because they are "too left wing" is a little silly, because bar a handful, political comedians will always lampoon the powerful and that will always be deemed a leftie thing to do.
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Q: Does Object Orientation require the concept of inheritance? I read Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications Notes  written by Grady Booch. In the book there is a sentence:

There are three important parts to this definition: (1) Object-oriented programming uses objects, not algorithms, as its fundamental logical building blocks (the "part of" hierarchy we introduced in Chapter 1); (2) each object is an instance of some class; and (3) classes may be related to one another via inheritance relationships (the "is a" hierarchy we spoke of in Chapter 1). A program may appear to be object-oriented, but if any of these elements is missing, it is not an object-oriented program. Specifically, programming without inheritance is distinctly not objectoriented; that would merely be programming with abstract data types.

I want to know this is right?If we don't have inheritance' our program is not object oriented?

A: Alan Kay, who coined the phrase object-oriented programming has remarked here and in other places, that object-oriented programming is more about messages than objects. The key is that programs are designed as a set of objects that communicate through messages (in many languages a message is referred to as a polymorphic method call).
In Smalltalk (the language Alan Kay was working on) when a message is sent to an object, the receiver of the object determines how the object will respond. In a class-based language, the typical behaviour is:

*

*Check if the object has a method matching the message's signature, if so invoke that.

*Otherwise, check (recursively) if any of the object's base classes contains a method matching the method signature. When a class inherits another class, it means that the methods of the base class are available for object's of the derived class, but may be overridden to provide different behaviour.

However, other languages such as Self and JavaScript, objects are not instance of classes. In place of inheritance, a pattern known as delegation is used. When a object receives a message it does not understand, it can delegate its response to another object known as a prototype.
In all the languages mentioned so far, unlike most mainstream languages such as Java, C++ and C#, any object can implement a message for any message. C++ derived a different (and more restrictive) model from Simula, where a message is defined on a base class and can be overridden by a derived class, but no other classes can respond to the method.
Self demonstrated, by including in images a Smalltalk subsystem, that using the prototype-based model a class-based model can be implemented as a pattern of programming, so in this sense the prototype-based model is more descriptive. The converse would require implementing a new object system from scratch (e.g. a class called PrototypicalObject, with behaviour entirely distinct from normal Smalltalk objects).
At its core, OOP is about objects and messages (method calls), where various objects can implement different responses to the same message. The details of inheritance and delegation can help create those objects, but are simply variants of the standard model.

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If we don't have inheritance our program is not object oriented?

Umm, no.
I expect that a majority of programmers would still consider a program with traditional objects (bundles of related state and functions) as objected oriented, even if there is no inheritance. In the past handful of years, it has become widely accepted that inheritance of concrete objects is something to be used cautiously if not avoided outright.
Regardless, you're asking about terminology. There are no rules for what Object Oriented is really. It's a name used loosely to help communicate concepts; concepts that are decreasingly useful in helping programmers solve problems.

A: Most OO principles depend on inheritance,  abstraction and interfaces. So inheritance and interface implementation plays major role in object oriented software design.
You may want to read about SOLID and other object oriented design principles.
Of course it is possible to write programs in object oriented languages without using inheritance (and more specifically interfaces and specializations of those interfaces) but you will end up with more tightly coupled code.

A: Inheritance is another form of containment even if the inheritance is interface implementation. Without leveraging inheritance, you lose a lot of the strength of object-oriented programming.
Inheritance allows you to substitute implementations of a class without impacting the client of the class. Think of a UI framework (like MFC or WPF). A lot of the framework depends on the fact that a Button, TextBox, Label, and Combobox are all subclasses of the same base class Control. If there weren't this common interface or base class, there would be a huge proliferation of code to do the same thing for the specific instances of these classes.
In that case you might as well be using basic C.


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It was the long pending demand of guardians which was neglected for long time. The service started as a part of initiative of modernization of education by the new government. At the same time the school decorated beautifully with initiative of the MLA. Meanwhile a new private Nursery English Medium School opened with initiative of MLA Roy.
Later on Agriculture Minister Pranajit Sinha Roy visited Pineapple garden of Amlighat today. Sources said that cultivation of Queen Variety of pineapple is going on at 32 Hectare land with initiative of Agriculture department.
Then the minister inaugurated Krishak Bandhu Kendra of Satchand Block at 3 p.m. which is 12th centre of the state. On the occasion he handed over 10 spray machines and 10 power tillers to the beneficiaries.
Speaking on the occasion the Agriculture minister said, the state government is active in implementation of center's decision to double the income of farmers in state by 2022. At present the government is buying paddy from farmers through FCI and took initiative to increase income of farmers by cultivation of Queen Variety. MLA Roy sought cooperation of people for all round development of farmers.


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Lucy Read Prekindergarten Demonstration School - First-Year Cohort's 3rd-Grade TAKS Performance, Spring 2011
Students who attended Read pre‐K in 2006-2007 performed better than the state average on their Spring 2011 3rd grade math TAKS and had a greater percentage scoring commended on math TAKS than did other AISD pre-K students or those assumed to qualify for pre‐K.
Prekindergarten Evaluation Series: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Performance by Vertical Team 2010-2011
Although pre-K students average gains on the 2010-2011 PPVT/TVIP significantly differed by vertical team, these differences were attributed more to the students' school or classroom rather than to the vertical team in which a school resides.
Dual Language Program - Pilot Year Evaluation Report 2010-2011
Ten AISD elementary campuses implemented one-way and two-way dual language pilot programs in the 2010–2011 year. What were parent and staff's perception of its implementation? Did students advance in second language proficiency? Find out more.
Prekindergarten Evaluation Series 2010-2011: Program Participation
In 2010–2011, AISD prekindergarten enrollment was 5,614, an increase by 3% from the 2009–2010 year. The cost per student for pre‐K was approximately $3,234 for the 2010–2011 year, a $94 perstudent decrease from 2009–2010.
English Language Learners Summary Report 2010-2011
Twenty-nine percent of 2010-2011 AISD students were English language learners (ELLs). The majority of ELLs (62%) made progress in English proficiency and they showed overall improvement in most TAKS content areas for most grades.
English Language Learners 6th Grade Reading TAKS Performance, Spring 2011
Spanish ELLs' 6th‐grade TAKS reading passing rates declined from 2008 to 2011, possibly due to the increased number of Spanish ELLs who exited language programs prior to 6th grade and increasing state academic achievement standards in Spring 2010.
Out-of-District Mobility of 2009-2010 Kindergarten Class by Vertical Team
About 12% of 2009–2010 AISD kindergarten students left AISD before the 2010–2011 year. The vertical teams with the highest out-of-district mobility for kindergarten students were LBJ (16%), Anderson (14%), and Akins (13%).
2010-2011 Out-of-District Mobility of 2009-2010 Prekindergarten Class
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Prekindergarten Evaluation Series: Student Performance 2010-2011
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Every job is different as they vary in size. Generally, it takes 3--4 hours for the entire process ..
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Power washing scars and deteriorates the wood. We use a high concentrated cleaning solution that will remove any mold and dirt without damaging the wood's fine fibers.
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Casey McKeel interviews hip-hop artist and activist, DevRock, in front of the site of the proposed juvenile detention center about the release of his new Mixtape.
On December 21st of last year, as many across the world were speculating about the end of the Mayan calendar, 40,000 actual Mayans marched silently into five cities in Chiapas, Mexico, putting the Zapatistas and the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN) back into the forefront of grassroots political discourse the world over, and mainstream political discourse in Mexico. A stream of provocative communiques from the EZLN's spokesperson, Subcomandante Marcos, have followed.
On Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 20, 2013, activists from CODEPINK, a Peace & Justice organization, staged a demonstration in the Atrium of the U.S. Senate Hart Office Building in Washington, D.C. In its press release, CODEPINK said it organized the action to show the growing grass roots opposition to the use of "killer drones and doubts about John Brennan." Brennan is currently under consideration by the Congress for the post of CIA Director. On the evening of Feb. 21, 2013, a "prison chic"-styled party—aka "Prison Reception"—was held at the au courant Hays-Adams Hotel, in Washington, D.C., only blocks from the ex-Constitutional Law Professor Barack Obama's White House.
As a teacher, it is better to have a loving classroom environment than a fearful classroom environment. Of course there are pros and cons to both. But from a little research it is possible to determine whether one outweighs the other. Although it is the teacher's job to determine how they are going to run their classroom, it is generally better for student achievement to have a loving classroom environment.
In "Not in my Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City," former Sun reporter and editor Antero Pietila focuses in on one facet of Baltimore's history: namely, how housing patterns have evolved in Baltimore City along racial and religious lines over the last hundred years. With a journalist's eye for detail, Pietila describes many colorful characters involved in the real estate scene, including politicians, civic leaders, bureaucrats, homeowners, developers and agents. For local activists, the book provides food for thought about an issue that strikes close to home, if you will forgive the pun.
The mainstream White media represented Dorner as a loony with a grudge and an assault rifle. But an amazing thing happened in the alternative and social media outlets. Although African Americans did not support Dorner's murder spree, many supported Dorner. The difference between how Black people saw this and White people viewed Dorner was like the parting of the Red Sea. It was like the O.J. case: Blacks on one side and Whites on the other. The issue for some Black people was Dorner's blowing the cover off the racist, brutal tactics of police bullies in poor black and brown communities. For White people it was just the case of a murderer on the loose.
By now, the world is beginning to hear about Arafat Jaradat. A young Palestinian father, imprisoned three months without charge, in the notorious Israeli Megiddo Military Prison. Allegedly, he'd been involved in throwing stones. Two nights ago, he died, still in custody. Still without charge or trial.


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When ASAP. Different types of dolls require different amounts of machine hours, setups, production runs, shipments, etc. Aim, Objectives, Rational……………………………………. Compare and contrast the profitability of each doll under the new and the old systems.
Toys change its existing cost system in the Chicago plant? Toys is calculating its manufacturing overhead costs on only on one cost driver, the direct labor. These extreme differences between the old and new system exist because of differences in production methods between the two products. It include using the analysis to answer the company's vision, mission and key objectivesand how your suggestions will take the company to next level in achieving those goals.
You can use the following strategy to organize the findings and suggestions.
Business plan quick reference guide allocating overhead as a percentage of direct labor cost, the resulting margins for g.g. toys case study answers product lines do not properly reflect the overhead costs attributable to the same.
Its product groups included toy cars, trucks, construction equipment, rockets, spaceships and satellites, musical instruments, animals, robots, and action figures. Refine the central problem the protagonist is facing in the case and how it relates to the HBR fundamentals on the topic.
G.g. toys case study answers two costing systems that are widely used in practice are: Why or why not?
This might be accurately applicable for certain direct costs. The Chicago plant has a very high manufacturing overhead but is only considering direct labor, which is calculated as a single cost driver in the old costing system.
Business Unit Level Solution - The case study may put you in a position of a marketing manager of a small brand. So instead of providing recommendations for overall company you need to specify the marketing objectives of that particular brand. Assumption 1: Because of this, the activity-based costing method would be unnecessary at the Springfield plant and G.
There is a further sector for children of school age of 5 years and upwards. However when the overhead costs have been broken out into cost pools based on activity, a clearer picture begins to form.
Toys Once you finished the case analysis, time line of the events and other critical details. You should make a list of factors that have significant impact on the organization and factors that drive growth in the industry. It can be further utilized in making decisions for new technology investment. Why The decline in margins on the Geoffrey Doll has become intolerable.
Yes Theory? In the Springfield plant? Compare and contrast the profitability of each doll under the new and the old systems. September 20, CASE 4: The Chicago plant production is run with Toys 1. The system sticks to the fact that whenever a product is manufactured a cost is incurred.
Manufacturing overhead costs within the plant are all related to the manufacturing of hello essay guru one thing, therefore it is not necessary to establish variable costing allocation bases because all costs will be allocated to one product. Because each of the three dolls use different amounts of machine hours, as well as variable costs, the activity-based costing model would better reflect the contribution margin, and ultimately, the profit margin.
Additionally the toy market is broken down into categories of toys.
We need the forecast of demand for each rental class on the next night provided room availability does not After assessing the costs of the Geoffrey doll and specialty doll using activity based costing, it is clear as shown in Exhibit 4 that the production cost for the Geoffrey doll had been priced too high, whereas the production cost of specialty doll too low.
Because the Chicago plant is producing a variety of products which require differing levels of manufacturing overhead costs such as; labor, materials, machine time, set-ups, receiving, and shipping it would be wise to allocate those costs separately to each product line to gain a better understanding of the true unit cost per product.
Forgets about toy if hidden. When we are writing case study solution we often have details on our screen as well as in our head. Business case study paragraph by paragraph mapping will help you in organizing the information correctly and provide a clear guide to go back to the case study if you need further information.
In most of these product categories the company produced a wide range of designs, colors, and sizes. Implementation framework differentiates good case study solutions from great case study solutions.
It would be advisable for GG Toys to limit customer options for the specialty dolls as well as increase the minimum order quantities to attain better margins. By using ABC Costing, each specific category of doll would have a different manufacturing overhead and consequently, a different contribution margin allocated to it.
Barbie doll was introduced in and Ken product followed it. Manipulates toys very well.
Other advantages for using the ABCS is that it provides a better management, performance evaluation and budgeting. Toys should change its existing cost accounting system from the legacy or traditional costing methodology to activity-based costing ABC. Toys Case Study Construction contract administration case study Once you are comfortable with the details and objective of the business case study proceed forward to put some details into the analysis template.
Do you recommend that G. G.g. toys case study answers should change its existing cost accounting system from traditional costing to activity-based costing in the Chicago plant. They need to consider drastically shifting their production towards specialty dolls. There are different sectors with toys aimed for babies under one year old; children aged 1 to 3 years and pre-school children of 3 to 5 years.
Moreover, ABC methodology is unnecessary because Springfield plant is related to producing only one product. This simply means that the estimated selling price of the dolls should be bartleby essay website to recover the costs of manufacturing it.
Toys Background Robert Parker, president of G. For example GG Toys is now producing holiday themed dolls, which only are in production for three months of the years.
This would be helpful to do a cost-profit-analysis for each of the products the company sells. To Produce or Not? Calculate the cost of a Geoffrey doll, the specialty-branded dolland a cradle using the cost study conclusions. Calculate the cost of Geoffrey Doll. These systems are applied in estimating the products cost in different circumstances. Based on your recomputed product costs.
The company buys finished components and assembles them manually, so there are no machine hours. In relation to units produced, Specialty Dolls have a much higher rate of set-ups, production runs, and shipments due to the nature of making custom products for customers. Drawing a motivation chart of the key players and their priorities from the case study description.
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Clearly Mattel does not have sufficiently tight quality control procedures in its supply chain to compensate for the extra risks of outsourcing to Chinese subcontractors and clearly there are design flaws in the toys with the magnets that could come loose.
Begin slowly - underline the details and sketch out the business case study description map. Toys Another way of understanding the external environment of the firm in G.
Without knowing how the fixed overhead it split between the two plants, this is impossible to do without making generalized estimations. The first issue is the continuously declining pre-tax margins of the Geoffrey doll.
Different types of dolls require different amounts of machine hours, setups, production runs, shipments, etc. What Where At the Chicago plant of G. S, The comPany had started with a unique design for molding highly durable dolls using vinyl and resin materials.
These skills include thinking on your feet, adapting to changing conditions, debating a point, and carrying a discussion. This recommendation is contingent on the fact that the Springfield plant currently only produces one product, using one process.
Implementation framework helps in weeding out non actionable recommendations, resulting in awesome G. Competitive priorities………………………………………………………………. Convert to Type 1 room because the shadow price for the Type 1 room availability constraint is higher than that of Type 2 room. Cost System Recommendation I recommend that G.
That being said I would recommend that the company determine how the fixed overhead costs consisting of selling, general, and administrative are allocated between the two plants.
This leads to unstructured learning process resulting in missed details and at worse wrong conclusions. You should try to understand not only the organization but also the industry which the business operates in.
Efficiency of supply chain…………………………………………………………. ACOA 1: Rests weight on outstretched arms and flat palms. You have to recommend business unit level recommendations.


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Semba began going into labor last night to a baby weighing in at 245 pounds; she has not yet been given a name.
Semba and offspring Sundzu at Reid Park Zoo. Semba gave birth to a female calf Wednesday night.
Reid Park Zoo says Semba, a 24-year old African elephant, gave birth to a female calf on Wednesday night, after a 22-month long pregnancy.
Semba began showing signs of labor at about 10:35 p.m. and her calf was born 20 minutes later without any assistance.
Vivian Van Peenen, the zoo's curator of education, said the baby weighed in today at 245 pounds.
"A typical elephant calf is 200-250 pounds so that's a good size baby within normal limits," she said.
Mother and baby are off exhibit in the Click Family Elephant Care Center. Zoo officials say during the next 72 hours, they'll form deep emotional and physical bonds are being given space and privacy. Only essential staff members are being granted access to the Elephant Care Center during this time.
Van Peenen said this is the first elephant birth in the Reid Park Zoo and in Arizona.
Semba's calf hasn't yet been given a name, but Van Peenen said the elephant team has been charged with picking a name. Members of the community might be asked for their input.