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Machine-builders join forces to offer open IIoT platform
A group of machine-builders and software developers – consisting of DMG Mori, Dürr, Software AG, Zeiss and ASM PT – have formed a strategic alliance to set a new digital standard for machine- and plant-building, based on an open, non-proprietary IIoT platform, and customised to meet the needs of machine- and plant-builders and their customers. They want to establish the platform, called Adamos (ADAptive Manufacturing Open Solutions), as a global standard for the sector and to attract other machine-builders to become partners.
Adamos will allow machine-builders to use the same central platform, but to tailor it to present their own individual IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) presence. Their customers will see a front-end customised with supplier's own "look & feel", while the machine-builders will retain sovereignty over their own data.
The consortium argues that Adamos will reduce machine-builders' development costs and efforts by making centrally-developed solutions and services available to them. It will be able to run either in the cloud or on local servers.
The consortium members all have an equal stake in a company called Adamos GmbH, which will operate as a platform service and make IIoT tools and functions available to all users of the platform. Each partner will market their own Adamos portfolio independently.
The platform brings together the latest IT technologies, Industry 4.0 and industry knowledge and will allow machine-builders to offer their customers tried-and-tested solutions for digitally networked production, with minimal effort. The developers say that that the machine-builders, as well as their suppliers and customers, will benefit because Adamos offers them data autonomy and access to leading software.
The platform and more than 30 apps will be made available worldwide from 1 October, 2017. Its developers say it will be backed by 200 experts in their organisations.
"The machine- and plant-building industry has to set its own standards and drive development [for digitalisation]," argues DMG Mori CEO, Christian Thönes. "This can only work with strong partners. That is why we are offering an open network with Adamos, together with leading machine-building, production and software/IT know-how – from machine-builders for machine-builders, their suppliers and customers."
Adamos' founders (from left): Christian Thönes, CEO of DMG Mori; Ralf Dieter, CEO of Dürr; Karl-Heinz Streibich, CEO of Software AG; and Thomas Spitzenpfeil, executive board member of Carl Zeiss.
An "App Factory" will concentrate the technological know-how and industry knowledge of the partners to allow rapid development of applications.
"As a machine-builder, we know our customers' requirements and know what is important to them," explains Dürr CEO, Ralf Dieter. "In the Adamos App Factory, we bring industry knowledge for intuitively-operated applications together with the design of digital marketplaces. The Adamos App Factory is a cooperation between machine-builders and software companies that is closely linked with the partners."
From the beginning of 2018, more comprehensive applications will be made available on the cloud for activities such as planning, predictive maintenance and machine dashboards. The Adamos consortium says it will constantly be developing new IIoT applications.
"Together, we are developing technologies for the factory of the future," says Thomas Spitzenpfeil, chief financial and information officer at Carl Zeiss. "Companies that use the IIoT applications from Adamos will be making use of innovative services and thus increase the efficiency, transparency, reliability and availability of their systems significantly."
The growing interconnectivity of production "means that not only our customers, but also we ourselves have to change our thinking," suggests Günter Lauber, CEO of ASM PT's SMT solutions business, which offers workflow products for electronic manufacturing. "Through Adamos, we are combining this knowledge with leading machine-building, production and software know-how."
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The Mercato Centrale Firenze (also called Mercato San Lorenzo) is an interesting and large market in a hall in the centre of Florence. On the ground floor there is a traditional food market. Although Florence is very touristy, the central market of Florence is still largely aimed at the local population. There are mainly fruit, vegetables, meat, cheese and other food. Some traditional small snack restaurants also sell delicious local Italian food at reasonable prices.
On the modern upper floor there are many stalls with ready-made food, especially regional specialties. You buy the food and drinks and sit down at one of the many tables. Tourists and locals get into conversation with each other. The upper floor is also open in the evening and on Sundays. Unfortunately the prices on the upper floor are quite high.
Most sellers offer food. The fruits and vegetables, often from the region, have in the Mercato Centrale our impression clearly low prices than in supermarkets.
We bought a large bowl of fresh, delicious strawberries in February for only 1.50 euros. For tourists, for example, a good cheese as a souvenir from Florence is interesting.
Honey, Italian jam, dried fruit and vegetables such as tomatoes from Tuscany are also popular as souvenirs. A speciality of the Mercato San Lorenzo are also the small cakes and pies "Pastisseria". You should also try the different local types of ham from Tuscany. You should also eat the famous steak from Tuscany Bistecca Fiorentina.
In a small fish restaurant there are delicious fish dishes for less than 10 euros. In another corner, a baker sells small, warm pizzas for only 1.50 euros a piece. Very popular among the hungry tourists is also a small stand with pasta dishes. Here there are different variations of spaghetti and ravioli for only 5 euros. The spinach ravioli were great. At another stand we ordered Pasta al Ragu (pasta with minced meat sauce). A good meal for only 4 to 5 euros (beginning of 2019). Florence does not have to be expensive.
Also in the car, train or plane you can take home noodles from the market in Florence. There are many different pasta, popular among tourists are for example colorful ravioli or black spaghetti.
The upper floor of the Mercato Centrale in Florence has become a popular meeting place for locals, especially on Sundays. Many tourists mingle with it. There are many typical dishes from the region of Florence and Tuscany, and the high prices are incomprehensible to us.
A plate with slices of various sausages from the region (especially salami) can cost 15 euros, a glass of wine 5 euros. We had the impression that in the modern upper floor many things cost twice as much as in the classic market downstairs. Therefore, one drives up an escalator and sits in a modern hall. Football matches are broadcast on large screens at weekends. In any case, we liked the classic market below better.
There is also a famous Italian cooking school on the first floor of the Florence market. The "La Scuola di Cucina Lorenzo de Medici" offers cooking courses several times a week and is known far beyond the city of Florence. There is also a shop for cookbooks and organic food in the Mercato Centrale in Florence.
The opening hours of the upper floor of the Mercato Centrale Firenze are very long, daily from 10 a.m. to midnight. The actual market downstairs is only open during the week (Monday to Saturday) during the day. The best time to get there is in the morning. From 12 to 13 o'clock the first stands are sold out, around 14 to 15 o'clock most market sellers are already on their way home. Of course you don't have to pay an entrance fee at the Mercato Centrale, you can just watch and go again like many tourists.
Around the market there are many dealers who mainly offer leather goods. Most of them are immigrants, many from Africa. The prices are partly very favourable. There is pretty much everything made of leather like bags, belts, shoes, leather jackets, wallets and so on.
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But there are also many stalls with junk and cheap souvenirs. also T-shirts, football jerseys and the like.
In addition, there are some snack bars near the Florence market hall with reasonable prices. These include Indian and Arab stalls, which offer kebab kebabs, for example. A menu with kebab, chips and cola costs about 5 to 6 euros (as of 2019), which is extremely cheap for the expensive city of Florence. Some snacks also have cooked, vegetarian dishes with lentils, peas, carrots, potatoes, rice and much more for well under 10 euros. Nowhere in the city centre of Florence can you eat cheaper than in and around the market hall of the Mercato Centrale.
The Mercato Centrale Firenze is about 10 minutes walk from Florence Cathedral and Florence Central Station. From the cathedral to the north, from the train station to the east. Around the market house there are pedestrian zones or streets with little traffic towards the city centre.
The beautiful Basilica of San Lorenzo di Firenze is only about 100 metres from the market hall (south).


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The Kintyre uranium project is located 60 km south of the Telfer gold mine and 260 km northeast of Newman at the western edge of the Great Sandy Desert in the East Pilbara region of Western Australia.

History
Uranium was discovered in the Kintyre area in 1985 by CRA Exploration Pty Ltd, now Rio Tinto. Due to depressed uranium prices CRA placed the project on care and maintenance in 1998. The camp was dismantled and the site rehabilitated in 2002. The deposit was initially within the Karlamilyi National Park, but the area enclosing the deposit was excised from the park in 1994.

The Kintyre property was acquired in 2008 by a 70:30 joint venture between Cameco Corporation and Mitsubishi Corporation. The project is operated by Cameco Australia Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cameco. The project has an indicated mineral resource of 3.9 million tonnes grading 0.62% U3O8, for a total of 53.5 million pounds of U3O8.

See also
Uranium mining in Australia
Uranium ore deposits

References

External links

Mining in Western Australia
Mineral exploration
Uranium mining in Western Australia

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Sweden collaborates with Zimbabwe to promote green economy By Wallace Mawire Sweden through the Swedish Embassy in Harare is collaborating with a number of partners to create a green economy and transition Zimbabwe to a society built on sustainable environmental solutions.
A green economy is defined as an economy that aims at reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, and that aims for sustainable development without degrading the environment.
According to a publication titled:Innovation-the Swedish way by Eva Krutmeijer, some of the world's most successful innovators are from Sweden.
The same publication says that Sweden excels at environmental technology and sustainable solutions, as international rankings show. It is reported that many Swedish innovations have become highly successful exports. It is also reported that often, they address complex global challenges such as poverty alleviation and climate change.
For a country like Zimbabwe faced with economic challenges including numerous environmental problems such as land degradation, excessive littering, urban streambank agriculture, massive pollution and wetlands destruction, just to mention a few and which impact on a green economy, the Swedish interventions could not have come at a better time.
Sofia Calltorp, Ambassador for the Embassy of Sweden in Harare said that her government had just signed a new five year strategy for development cooperation with Zimbabwe.
"We are seeking new partnerships in Zimbabwe, especially in the area of climate change and environment," she said.
Also recently, Calltorp signed on behalf of her government a $1,35 million agreement to support Zimbabwe's Culture Fund three year programme named Culture Actions to reduce gender based violence, combat child marriages and promote environmental awareness through transformative arts.
The agreement aims to promote environmental awareness by harnessing the power of the transformative arts. "We want to start a discussion around environmental issues and climate change," Calltorp said.
Also at the Culture Fund, Culture Actions agreement signing ceremony, Maria Selin, Swedish Embassy in Harare, Head of Development Cooperation said that the Swedish Embassy was seeking local partnerships with organisations in Zimbabwe to create a new green society. Selin said particular areas of focus include environment, climate and Renewable Energy. She said that these partnerships seek to create new jobs and business opportunities. Selin added that particular focus will be on women and children who mostly bear the brunt of climate change impacts.
Also the Swedish embassy in Harare has introduced its Swedish Open Forum 3 series focusing on the green society.
According to MartinBuch Larsen, Communication and Promotion Officer for the Embassy of Sweden in Harare, the recent forum was the first in 2017.The 2015 one was called the open society, the 2016 one was the innovative society and this year it was called the green society.
The recent open forum attended by various stakeholders in Harare sought to unpack what it would take to green Zimbabwe through open and interactive dialogue.
The forum also explored challenges, benefits and risks in transitioning to a society built on sustainable environmental solutions. Other issues focused on how the public and private sector can join hands to create green jobs for the youths. Green jobs are decent jobs that contribute to preserve or restore the environment, be they in traditional sectors such as manufacturing and construction, or in new, emerging green sectors such as renewable energy and energy efficiency. At the Swedish Open Forum three recently held at the Ambassador's residency, Ms Lova Nilsson representing SWECO, a Swedish organisation made remarks on the Swedish green economy experience.
Nilsson has experience in strategic planning, environmental assessment and environmental management. Her green experience covers environmental management systems, procurement, green house gas emission reduction and sustainable transport and city planning.
Nilsson said to create a green economy, it is necessary to have an enabling environment. She said that there is need introduce lower taxation systems for renewable energy initiatives and come up with innovative ideas.
She also said that there is need to take business on board and commercialise opportunities. She emphasised the need for public awareness on the issues and engagement of communities to spearhead change.
"We also need conscious consumers who are aware of the needs of buying green to create a green economy," Nilsson said.
She said that the public or citizens should be able to put pressure on the leadership to push for green economies. Nilsson also emphasised the need for sustained dialogue on the green economy.
She added that in Sweden, there was ongoing dialogue between suppliers and procurers of commodities for a 50% procurement threshold focusing on organic foods. TawandaMuzamwese, Executive Director of the Business Council for Sustainable Development Zimbabwe (BCSDZ)said at the same forum that private sector in Zimbabwe was still facing challenges on greening initiatives but there were promising initiatives the organisation was working on.
Working with at least 60 companies in the private sector in Zimbabwe, BCSDZ is promoting the mainstreaming of sustainable development initiatives for local business.
"We are encouraging our member organisations and companies to adopt renewable energy for productive use for example through solar lighting and solar irrigation initiatives," Muzamwese said.


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The abrasive tools used are agglomerate (long-life) abrasive belts.
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The town of Belchatow is included in the Lodz Area Research Group.
Please visit this site for further information on researching your Jewish roots in the Lodz region.
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Welcome to the KehilaLinks Home Page for Belchatow, a small town in Central Poland (Latitude 51º 22', Longitude 19º 23'). During the time of the czars (Kingdom of Poland) it was located in the gubernia of Piotrkow Trybunalski. This site was created to share information on Jewish Belchatow and to commemorate the Jewish community that was virtually wiped out in the Holocaust. (Other spellings: Belchatov, Belkhatov.) This includes a small Jewish community that developed in nearby Grocholice (a village now part of Belchatow) that affiliated with Belchatow in the late 1800's.
To begin exploring this site, click on a main topic to the left or click on Site Map here or on the bottom of each page.
This book has been donated by Yehiel (Al) Volchik, grandson of Chil Lajb Przedborski, with the permission of Malka Yoskovich-Gilad, writer and daughter of Faiga Fella Przedborski Yoskovich Z"L, whose memories the book is based on. The book contains the original version written in Hebrew with English translation and inclusion of later photographs and family updates.
Photographs and information from the book will be available on this page soon.
The original Belchatow Yizkor Book in Yiddish is now online in digitized format on the New York Public Library's website. Translated chapters and photographs are available on the Yizkor Book site hosted by JewishGen. Latest new chapters include: "Belchatow 1914-1922" by Avraham Laib [added 12/11/2010] and "On the Border of Two Centuries" by Zalman Pudlowski [added 11/5/2011].
Menachem Sharon, Z"L, leader of the Belchatower landsmannschaft in Israel and former diplomat to Poland, donated a listing of over 6,000 names and birthdates of Jews living, or listed on records, in Belchatow before World War II. This list is now a searchable database on JRI-Poland. Click here to see a listing of the surnames in this database on JRI-Poland's website.
The "Belchatow Holocaust Chronology" compiled by Sam Faivish, a survivor from Belchatow, for his book, My Story, © 2002, edited by Andrea Knight.
A translation of the section on Belchatow from the 1929 Polish Business Directory Project of JRI-Poland in cooperation with JewishGen.
Translation of J. M. Pukacz's reminiscences of Chaim-David Kaufman's Shoemaker Shop and home, including anecdotes about the daily life of poor Jewish Belchatowers, the silent movies at the cinema, baking matzoth, and other events.
Blueprints for the "new" Belchatow Synagogue drawn up by the architect in January 1889.
A list from the State Archives of 177 families who paid their contribution for the new synagogue in 1891.
A list of the 112 candidates who ran for election to the Kahal's Jewish Community Council in 1936. In addition to their names and political affiliations, this list includes year of birth, occupation, and address in Belchatow for each candidate.
A list of the 43 Jewish candidates who ran for election to the City Council in 1927. In addition to their names and political affiliations, this list includes age, occupation, and address in Belchatow for each candidate.
A list of names and birth years of 593 children who were killed in the Chelmno Death Camp in August 1942.
Translation of an article published in the Polish Slowo Zydowskie [Jewish Voice], in 2001. It discusses Jewish publications in the Belchatow/Piotrkow Trybulnalski area.
Two documents found at the USHMM list the Holocaust survivors from Belchatow who went to Lower Silesia (Dolny Slask) after the war and formed a Landsmannschaft there.
The translation of the section on Belchatow from Pinkas Hakehillot Polin is online, on the Yizkor Book Project site hosted by JewishGen. According to its Preface, this book, written in Hebrew, " is the first in a series of volumes dedicated to the Jewish communities of Poland and is part and parcel of the Pinkas Hakehillot project, whose aim is to establish a memorial to European Jewry which was destroyed in our lifetime."
Visit the website dedicated to the Jewish Survivors of Belchatow, containing photographs provided by the families of people in them. Several of the survivors pictured have strong desires to identify and hopefully locate their fellow Belchatowers who shared their growing-up years as well as the horrible years of the Holocaust experience with them. This site is set up to respond to that desire and hopefully to provide faces to those descendants researching their roots in Belchatow.
Read about Andrzej Selerowicz and his new website, which contains an interactive street map of Jewish homes in Belchatow in the early 1900's.
NB: Volunteer translators are still needed to translate into English many chapters of books and journals about Belchatow originally written in Yiddish, Spanish, or Polish.
Click here for the JRI-Poland Projects for Belchatow.
Click here for JewishGen Searchable Databases.
Click here for Historical Records in the Central Archives in Poland.
"Belkhatov Without Jews" on the Yizkor Book Project site hosted by JewishGen.
including pieces of his father's tombstone.
Click here to see other photographs taken in Belchatow before WWII.
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Hugo Dieter Stinnes (12 februarie 1870 - 10 aprilie 1924) a fost un industriaș și politician german.

Viața și cariera
Stinnes s-a născut la Mülheim, în Valea Ruhrului, Confederația Germaniei de Nord. Tatăl său a fost numit și Hugo, iar bunicul său, Matthias Stinnes, a fondat o întreprindere modestă în Mülheim.

După ce și-a dat examenul de absolvire de la o școală secundară (Realschule), tânărul Stinnes a fost plasat într-un birou din Koblenz, unde a primit pregătire de afaceri. Pentru a obține o cunoaștere practică a mineritului, a lucrat câteva luni ca miner la colierul Wiethe. Apoi, în 1889, a urmat un curs de instruire la Academia de Minerit din Berlin (în 1916 a fuzionat la Institutul de Tehnologie din Berlin). În 1890, a moștenit mineritul de cărbune al tatălui său și alte întreprinderi financiare.

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Oameni de afaceri în oțel
Industriași germani
Membrii Reichstagului Republicii Weimar
Oameni din Provincia Rin


With the close of deer season, many sportsmen and women are going through their annual post deer season doldrums. But, cheer up, there is a great deal to do in the outdoors right now rather than mull through old outdoor magazines and watch hunting and fishing shows on TV! Here's some activities that I promise will get you back outside and having fun!
Dubb Wallace was with Seth Vanover and Luke about this time last year for a fun trip on the Sabine River catching lots of spawning white bass. Photo by Luke ClaytonWHITE BASS RUN – The white bass run is going strong on the Sabine River right now. My friend Seth Vanover guides river trips along the stretch of river below Longview and says the big egg laden females have moved up from Toledo Bend. The run actually began about 3 weeks ago when the smaller male white bass moved upstream to spawn, but now the big gals have moved in. Seth says good numbers of solid two pounders have been common the past few days. About this time last year, I joined Seth on one of these river trips and have been eagerly anticipating this years "run." One of the hotspots we fished was a water fall of sorts where the river bottom dropped vertically a couple of feet, creating a barrier that spawning white bass could not get over. We enjoyed strikes on almost every cast in this area and Seth says the current river level has created this scenario again this year. It should be good!
I'm making plans to pack a small cooler with a cast iron skillet, small propane burner and all the necessities for a shore lunch of golden brown fried white bass fillets. There are many secluded sand bars on this stretch of river and it doesn't take very long to turn a few of those white bass landed from the Sabine's cold water into lunch. No need to worry with French fries, a big platter of fried fish, white light bread and some pork and beans will suffice! Oh yes, and some sliced onions. The only real problem with my plan is the fact that fried fish always makes me a bit sleepy, especially when I eat them for lunch. Seth has already granted our group 45 minutes away from the catching for an after lunch nap on a sunny sand bar! For more information on these river trips, contact Seth Vanover at 903-736-4557 or online at www.lakeforkcatandcrappie.com.
MAKE SOME SAUSAGE – I think many people are intimidated by the thought of making sausage at home. I've been doing it so long that is has become second nature to me but the process really can be simple and easy. I usually debone the meat from venison and wild hog shoulders and neck for sausage meat and place it in vacuum freezer bags. This saves a lot of freezer space. Then, when I get ready to make sausage, the meat is already trimmed and cubed, ready for the grinder. I use a vintage old heavy-duty grinder to grind the meat and I don't worry about exact proportions of venison to pork. It is important though to have some fat in the mix. If the wild hogs I've harvested are not fat enough, I go to one of the big Hispanic markets and purchase some of the fatter cuts of domestic meat. Once you have ground meat, all you need is seasonings. I use a German Salami blend from Frisco Spices www.friscospices.com. For a nominal fee, you can purchase a bag of seasonings and cure mixed to season 25 pounds of sausage. In a large bowl mix the seasonings and cure with water and pour on the seasoned meat and mix thoroughly with your hands. Heavy-duty cleaning gloves are very helpful with this process. Getting the sausage into the casings can be done via a funnel on your grinder or a sausage stuffer. With the cure in the meat, it's possible to cold smoke at low temperatures but I've learned to crank the heat up to 225 degrees on my Smokin' Tex electric smoker and, using an internal probe type digital thermometer, allow the sausage to smoke until an internal temperature of 170 degrees is reached. It's important to remove the sausage from heat as soon as it reaches this temperature, otherwise you will begin cooking the meat and it will become chunky and hard, rather than the consistency of good smoked sausage.
HOG HUNTING SEASON – Actually, there is no hog hunting season in Texas. But if there were, it would be right now when deer hunters have vacated the woods and hogs are hitting corn feeders hard. I recently did an interesting interview for next week's radio show with Eric Dixon with Dixon Hunting, down in Georgia. Eric teaches agriculture at the high school level and is also an avid hog hunter. He obviously has learned a great deal about hogs, domestic and feral. I found the interview interesting and very informative. Eric has created a paste with the scent of dominant boars that can be smeared on a tree where one is hunting or on a board inside a hog trap. He and many other hunters have found this scent to be very effective in attracting not only boars but sows as well. "When a resident boar smells this new hog scent, he has to come in to test the scent; he wants to locate this new intruder on his turf. Likewise, sows in season are attracted to the scent. It gives the entire sounder (herd of hogs) a feeling of confidence. I'm sure that the smell of a dominant boar hog in the area assures them that all is well," said Dixon.
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In March, I planted my seeds indoors using these little peat pods. They are small disks of soil material covered in this fabric material. You soak them in water and they grow three or four times their size. It's sort of fun to watch. I thought it was a great idea.
And perhaps it is for some people. But I can promise you that I will not be buying them again next year.
When I pull out my plants, this is what I am finding every single time. Those things do not break down. Or at least not in the time frame I've been using them (started using March 01, planted in the ground May 31). Clearly the roots are growing through them, which is good. But I am wondering if it perhaps stunted the growth some. Plus the fact that they are in perfect shape and could be used again concerns me. They were supposed to break down and compost. Even the soil material is in place and did not mix into the real soil in the ground.
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So I know it's not earth shattering to most but I am adding this to the long list of lessons this year. I'll just use a potting soil mix next year.
Do you use these little peat pods for your seed starting? Have you also found that they don't break down into compost? Or did you have better luck with them?
I always just use potting soil as I plant all my in planters anyway...I would guess if it has to work that hard to branch out of the pod that it definitely stunted it in some way.
This is a little late, but I felt worth mentioning. I'm not sure what others do but I like to cut off the netting right before the seedlings are potted up. It gets chucked into the compost bin where it can decompose at its leisure.


Jack Vettriano: Born in Scotland of Italian parents, Jack Vettriano began his career as a mining engineer in the Scottish coalfields, painting only in his spare time. Vettriano's paintings hint at stories of seduction and betrayal in a style that has been compared to some of the great realist painters of America and England. His work has been likened to that of Walter Sickert, Edward Hopper and the photographer Brassai, and to some show influences from Scotland's distinctive Colourist tradition.


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Aunts Aren\'t Gentlemen: (Jeeves & Wooster)
By P. G. Wodehouse
A Jeeves and Wooster novel Bertie Wooster has been overdoing metropolitan life a bit, and the doctor orders fresh air in the depths of the country. But after moving with Jeeves to his cottage at Maiden Eggesford, Bertie soon finds himself surrounded by aunts - not only his redoubtable Aunt Dahlia but an aunt of Jeeves's too. Add a hyper-sensitive racehorse, a very important cat and a decidedly bossy fiancee - and all the ingredients are present for a plot in which aunts can exert their terrible authority. But Jeeves, of course, can cope with everything - even aunts, and even the country. The final Jeeves and Wooster novel shows P.G. Wodehouse still able to delight, well into his nineties.
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by Cathy Rowan | Sep 12, 2018 | True Significance, Uncategorized
Do you have a history of 'helper syndrome'? I am using this term to replace more graphic but less palatable terms, like sacrificial lamb, martyr, saint or rescuer.
As I see it, the roots of this syndrome are a mixture of nature and nurture.
Some of us learned to get praise, attention and feelings of significance through being helpful and useful in environments where saying no carried negative consequences that we feared.
Fast forward to adult life and we discover that we are no longer rewarded with gold stars.
Instead, 'Helper Syndrome' leads to:
Being used by others, causing the sufferer to feel valued for the wrong things, misunderstood and underappreciated.
Experiences of invalidation from others, if they wanted attention or approval but, not advice or solutions.
Frustration, overload, overwhelm and even burnout
Lack of clarity about who and what we are designed to serve
At some point in my journey as a chronic sufferer, I began to appreciate the fine difference between self-sacrifice and service. Apparently, due my Pisces sun (the self sacrificing part) and my Virgo ascendant (the service part), I'm wired to learn the difference, including the shadow and the light of such qualities.
While there is a time and a place for self sacrifice in the transformative crucible of spiritual practice, success in the so-called real world requires us to be clear with our boundaries and personal limitations. This puts us in the realm of service.
Self-sacrifice is a problem in the real world, other than in special circumstances, such as emergencies or after giving birth to a baby. However, in those special circumstances we are given the resources we need through raised hormone levels, irrespective of nature and nurture considerations.
The transformation of self-sacrifice to service requires self-awareness, including conscious direction of energies through committing only to whom and to what we feel genuinely called, and designed, to serve.
Over the last couple of years, I have gained enormous clarity around who and what I am best suited to serve, as a result of my journey with a process called Tribal Marketing.
But, just a few years ago, I was beyond confused about what I should be offering – and to whom. I trained as an Independent Funeral and Wedding Celebrant, planning to leave the coaching and training worlds altogether.
I liked the work but knew that it needed to be a 'side' rather than the 'main' of my offering. I returned to coaching and transformed my business.
Are you as stuck as I was a few years ago? Click here to learn more about Tribal Marketing.
Status and success vs. significance
by Cathy Rowan | Nov 4, 2017 | True Significance
Recently, Ive been contemplating status and success vs significance.
That bird in the photo… I doubt that he or she contemplates success. But a bird carries significance. It has an important role to play in the balance of nature.
And it plays its role well. A bird is always true to its bird nature.
But, humans are different.
Add cultural conditioning and most of us are out of sync with our true nature and natural energy balance.
Success and status permeate our cultural conditioning.
Have you noticed the different language used for success vs. significance? People chase or attain success. They seek significance or make a significant contribution.
Early in life, success and significance get confused. Chasing success often hides an unconscious search for significance.
The mistaken belief is that success will bring validation from others – and therefore status. This belief is a poor substitute for the genuine feeling and knowing of significance.
It is not uncommon to hear stories of successful but unhappy and unfulfilled people. Unconscious searching for significance, via success, has an enormous trap.
When there is a high need for external validation, a person is more likely to sacrifice their personal values and integrity in order to maintain the status quo. In other words they end up being valued for the wrong things. I confess to falling into this trap – more than once.
What may begin in childhood, in order to stay safe and to belong, has a nasty habit of continuing into adulthood, with disastrous consequences. Toxic relationships. Burnout. Poor choices that undermine self respect.
But, personal crises can serve as an initiation to the true journey, hinted at in myth, stories and parables through the ages. Mapped out for us all by Joseph Campbell in the 20th century. He called it the Hero's Journey.
We are unwittingly captivated by the potential of this journey, which is invisibly wired into us. Many of our most loved films capitalise on this by basing their plots on the Hero's Journey model. (Applies for heroine's too.)
As a transformational coach, I use this model with my clients, supporting them on their lifetime adventure to realise their true nature, from which can flower more effective expression of their unique gifts through work and in relationships..
You could say that the success of this journey is the discovery of True Significance.
True Significance does not come from external sources and especially, it does not come from self sacrifice. It comes from deep knowing and being faithful to a sense of purpose. And that journey is lifelong.
Personal 'eclipses' help you to stay on purpose
by Cathy Rowan | Sep 2, 2017 | True Significance
The American eclipse was big news last month. My topic this month is what it means to experience a personal eclipse.
A personal eclipse is a sudden change of direction, perhaps seemingly forced upon us or perhaps following an inner change of heart. The path we were on 'gets eclipsed' as a result.
In my experience, this feeling of something being eclipsed, while disorienting, is usually an indication that something in life needs to be reconsidered.
What you may not know about me is that 3 years ago I trained to be a wedding and funeral celebrant.
By chance, the first 2 funerals I conducted were for people of my own age. Thankfully, also by chance, so was the first wedding!
Of course, this made me think about my own life and what was important to me. And I realised, that while I enjoyed being a Celebrant and being of service to others in marking a rite of passage, I did not want to make such work into a full time occupation. It didn't give me the same feeling of being 'on purpose' that I was lucky to experience when working as a coach and consultant earlier in my career.
I realised that I was making choices based on what made sense, given age and skills set. But, my deepest interests were hidden under limiting beliefs, such as 'I'm too old' or 'it's too late' or 'I haven't got the resources' for that type of business offering again.
Limiting thoughts and feelings are much easier to address once acknowledged. Since I've retrained as an Awakening Coach, and shifted the personal obstacles in the process, I feel 'on purpose' again.
For most people that feeling of being 'on purpose' makes a huge difference and is needed at every age and life stage.
If you have been experiencing a personal eclipse (which may be associated with the celestial one) ask yourself what might be needed for you to feel on purpose. And if you are in the middle of a life transition, as I was, it's ok to consider a few options. But, please look carefully at your limiting points of view before deciding to believe them!
Have men and women forgotten how to hunt?
by Cathy Rowan | Jul 30, 2017 | Relationships
Have men and women forgotten how to hunt? Is the secret to maintaining passion, sustaining a sense of purpose and using personal power effectively linked to keeping innate hunting instincts honed?
I've been thinking about this recently, reviewing some of my own experiences and observing others around me. This contemplation began while watching the reality tv show Love Island! (my vice this last month)
Love Island wasn't exactly a 'back to the wild' show. Far from that, a group of young, attractive singles are housed in a luxury villa in Majorca. The basic aim is for them to couple up over the 7 weeks of the show. There are challenges and twists, people being voted off and new islanders arriving by surprise etc.
I became fascinated by the journey of transformation that some of the contestants experienced and the clever way the whole show was constructed. The contestants may have been in a luxury 'fishbowl', but the behaviours were 'back to the wild.' The hunting process was clear.
There was the initial search as both girls and boys preened, showed off, flirted and claimed the person most attractive to them. Then there were the dances of power – arguments, games, alliances and resistance. And there was surrender when some let their guard down and bared their vulnerable hearts. Of course, that had to happen before the relationships became believable to the voting public. (My vice did not include voting.)
It seems to me that these 3 stages – hunt (or quest), resistance, surrender – are essential for remaining in the flow of life and love, irrespective of whether the hunt is for a partner or for the renewal of passion for work or for enlightenment or for a wild animal to feed a tribe. The hunt infuses a sense of purpose. Some resistance is normal (to the process or from the 'hunted'). But, re-newal, transformation and being 'fed' only happens following surrender.
Modern life does not help us to keep the hunting instinct sharp. I suggest that hunting skills get dulled by online shopping, take away meals and other conveniences. It's hard for most people to stay in touch with the power of their wild inner core.
If we lead a defensive life, constantly in resistance, we are not honouring the cycle. We may experience stagnancy, repeated false starts and ensuing despair.
All of my mailing list will be too old to sign up for the next season of Love Island. Your best option to keep your hunting skills honed could be through your commitment to personal and spiritual growth!
Awakening is one thing that is not made easy for us in western culture. It's not even valued! Maybe we should be thankful for that. This is one area of our lives where effort must be made, where we must develop the courage to turn against the status quo and the inner strength to face our personal set of resistances.
A person that engages fully in the type of personal journey that yields results must honour the 3 steps I've mentioned. A personal challenge may initiate a hunt for the right teacher, healer, coach or therapist. Certainly discernment must be exercised. And then we must watch for the inner resistances that impede progress.
There's no passion in resistance, no passion in trying to control outcomes and no passion in not stepping forward in the first place.
I had a recent personal experience with my current coach who did not let me off the hook with a challenge to remain in the flow of my passion with regard to my work.
Initially I felt misunderstood and therefore resistant to his suggestions.
I did some parts work. (Parts work is a structured process and also offered an as an aspect of Awakening Coaching.) I dialogued with my 'passion part' and also with a 'heartbreak part.' There was nothing wrong with the passion part, which has plenty of ideas! But the heartbreak part said, 'every time you allow passion free rein, heartbreak is the result. I'm protecting you.'
The unconscious limiting belief was thus revealed! And that had to happen before the brake that my coach was pointing to could be removed.
The impediment was inside me and not with the coach or the programme. There was something that I hadn't seen that a good coach put his finger on. It's always a shock when another reveals that which you have unconsciously been trying to protect. But, surrender and vulnerability are the keys to a breakthrough.
How about you? What I point to affects most of us, particularly in mid life during when duty and responsibility demands often take precedence over the wild longings of the heart and soul.
Apparently, the Love Island final had the highest viewing of any ITV2 show ever. I think I know why.
To begin the re-claim of passion, purpose and power, please reply to this mail. Let's have a chat to discuss how my coaching can help with your unconscious limitations.
I'm off for a week of 'back to nature' camping and communing with a group of women in the wilds of Wales. My wild 'hunting skills' will be extra sharp when back! 🙂


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but don't they usually wait till more then 3 total guilds have completed it?
This is the reason why the Horde has the worst clans! I wouldn't dare congatulate Method; I'd scold them for the kill.
Shut up... Just shut the f*ck up!
well, as the chinese guilds stream progress on him and had <10% wipes there was no reason to wait.
Blizzard gonna make sure it won't happen again!
Really want to see a video of what happen when they first encountered the secret phase.
I miss those times when Blizzard needed to nerf a boss because, after 2 months trying, nobody could beat it.
So, what is the Floating Combat text addon Retolies uses?
I love the videos of the end bosses, and the sense of accomplishment feels good when defeating a difficult foe. Huge congrats to the team as well! Anyhow, the Argus animations are really impressive. I look forward to see what new stuff comes out!


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The Slam
by Ashley Shelby
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Neighborhood: Lower East Side
There is a cohesive community of would-be slam poets, could-be greeting card writers and should-remain computer programmers in New York City, and they meet at various open mic nights around town. I happened upon one of these amateur slams when a friend of mine admitted to being a closet writer of poems (she wasn't sure if she could actually call herself a poet quite yet).
Beth is a reedy woman with thick auburn hair and damp hazel eyes, snobbish about alma maters. She will not, for example, consider dating a man who graduated from any SUNY school, and she'll think twice about accepting an invitation from a graduate of her own alma mater, the University of Wisconsin. Dating, she's discovered is a popular topic for amateur slam poets and so she'd written a funny poem called "Celibate in the City." It was this poem that she wanted to read at Tonic, a small club on the Lower East Side.
Tonic is just around the corner from the Delancey Street subway stop and is crumbly and dank. The basement used to be a distillation room for Kedem Kosher Jewish wine. For the slam, huge, hollowed-out wine barrels were used as seating pavilions, with folding chairs arranged carefully inside. Our hostess was Pearl, a stylishly dressed young woman who wore rhinestone cat-eye glasses.
Slams have become more democratic in the last five years. Slam poetry – seen by purists as a bane and by freer spirits as entertainment – began in Chicago in the late '70s. Clubs like Get Me High Lounge, Green Mill, O'Banyon's and La Mer hosted poetry battles almost every night. Poets Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldeman went head-to-head in one of these battles, draped in boxer robes and wearing gloves, jabbing as they delivered their poems. Back then there were rivalries, literary skirmishes and even physical confrontations. Poetry was war. Fast-forward to 2002, and the slam scene is more equal opportunity and politically correct. Poets are still scored, but kindly; the scores are usually padded.
The first reader at Tonic that night was a lumpy, middle-aged woman who took the mic after pushing her eyeglasses up onto her head. She loped around the barrels and did a stand-up act. This apparently irked Pearl since it contained no poem. It irked everyone else because it wasn't funny. Clement, an affected Oscar Wilde doppelganger in heavy-rimmed glasses, said he couldn't be a judge because he had "an unnatural affection for the number eight." He surprised no one by awarding the first poet an eight and the second an eight-point-eight.
When it was Beth's turn, she read her poem about forced urban celibacy, in which ovaries were left to decay and men were left to make double entendres, in a kind of breathless syncopation. She clutched the paper between her hands and I could see the edges grow transparent with the sweat from her fingertips. It was good, I thought. And she read it with such urgency that people paid attention.
But when she ended up placing third out of seven poets – two of whom had performed stand-up acts instead of reading poems – I was positive it had been a fix. The first and second place winners were two teenage boys who'd read poems about sex and Valentine's Day and virginity and girls who have eyes like oceans and hair like gold.
In the subway station afterwards, I told Beth that I'd heard professors in my MFA program talk about slam poetry like it was the downfall of civilization. She inferred from my comments that I disagreed with these professors, which wasn't necessarily true.
"I think it's fun," Beth told me as we rode the uptown train away from Tonic and its thumbtack-earring wearing slam winner. I told her I thought poetry had suddenly become too democratic.
"Well, that's snobby," she said. When I raised an eyebrow I didn't even need to mention the educational requirements she has for the men she dates. She shook her head. "There's a difference between equal opportunity dating and equal opportunity slamming."
I realized she was right. She's actively looking for a husband, so she only goes out with men that she considers viable candidates. But when it comes to poetry, Beth likes her slams egalitarian. It may be that all eligible men are not created equal but all amateur slam poets are.
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Q: Persisting a bi-directional One-To-Many Association fails with Eclipse Link 2.7.4 I am trying to persist a simple bi-directional One to many relationship, but with eclipse link 2.7.4 it fails.  Below is the sample code..
Department Entity (Parent)
@Entity(name = "Department")
@Table(name = "department")
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.NONE)
@Cacheable(false)
@XmlRootElement(name = "Department")
public class Department {

    @Column(name = "id")
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    private long id;

    @OneToMany(targetEntity = Employee.class, cascade = CascadeType.ALL, orphanRemoval = true, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinColumn(name = "dept_id")
    @XmlElement(name = "employees", type = Employee.class)
    private List<Employee> employees;

    @Version
    @XmlElement(name = "version")
    private long version;

    public long getVersion() {
        return this.version;
    }

    public long getId() {
        return this.id;
    }

    public void setId(final long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public List<Employee> getEmployees() {
        return employees;
    }

    public void setEmployees(List<Employee> employees) {
        this.employees = employees;
    }

}

Employee Entity (child)
@Entity(name = "Employee")
@Table(name = "employee")
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.NONE)
@XmlRootElement(name = "Employee")
public class Employee {

    public Employee() {
        super();
    }

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     * The id.
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    @Column(name = "id")
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
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    private long id;

    @ManyToOne(optional = false, targetEntity = Department.class, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinColumn(name = "dept_id", referencedColumnName = "id", nullable = false)
    private Department department;

    @Version
    @XmlElement(name = "version")
    private long version;

    public long getVersion() {
        return this.version;
    }

    public Department getDepartment() {
        return department;
    }

    public void setDepartment(Department department) {
        this.department = department;
    }

}

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public class Test {
    private static final String PERSISTENCE_UNIT_NAME = "pun";
    private static EntityManagerFactory factory;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        factory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory(PERSISTENCE_UNIT_NAME);
        EntityManager em = factory.createEntityManager();

        em.getTransaction().begin();
        Department department = new Department();
        List<Employee> dists = new ArrayList<>();

        Employee emp1 = new Employee();
        emp1.setDepartment(department);
        dists.add(emp1);

        Employee emp2 = new Employee();
        emp2.setDepartment(department);
        dists.add(emp2);

        department.setEmployees(dists);
        em.persist(department);
        em.getTransaction().commit();

        em.close();
    }
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persistence.xml (Used Derby Embedded DB)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<persistence version="2.1"
    xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_1.xsd">
    <persistence-unit name="pun" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
        <!--  <provider>org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider</provider> -->
        <class>demo.eclipselink.error.Department</class>
        <class>demo.eclipselink.error.Employee</class>
         <properties>
          <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" value="org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver" />
          <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.url"
            value="jdbc:derby:/databases/simpleDb;create=true" />
          <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.user" value="test" />
          <property name="javax.persistence.jdbc.password" value="test" />

          <!-- EclipseLink should create the database schema automatically -->
          <property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation" value="create-tables" />
          <property name="eclipselink.ddl-generation.output-mode" value="database" />

          <property name="eclipselink.logging.level.sql" value="FINE"/>
        <property name="eclipselink.logging.parameters" value="true"/>
         </properties>

    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

Once i run the code using Eclipse Link 2.7.4 it gives me the following exception stack track.
Caused by: Exception [EclipseLink-4002] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.7.4.v20190115-ad5b7c6b2a): org.eclipse.persistence.exceptions.DatabaseException
Internal Exception: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Column name 'DEPT_ID' appears more than once times in the column list of an INSERT statement.
Error Code: 20000
Call: INSERT INTO employee (dept_id, id, VERSION, dept_id) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)
        bind => [1, 0, 1, 1]

I cannot reproduce this issue with v 2.7.3 and fails only in 2.7.4. We are using eclipse link along with Payara 5.191 and this issue exists there as well.
Please let us know if there is a work around.
Thanks

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The source object must use the mappedBy attribute to define the mapping.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence/OneToMany#Example_of_a_OneToMany_relationship_and_inverse_ManyToOne_annotations

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The Potential Opportunity for a Full Mobile Service Offering from Dish and Amazon
Home Blog 2018 The Potential Opportunity for a Full Mobile Service Offering from Dish and Amazon
Is Amazon Primed for Mobile Expansion?
Eddie Hold
President, Connected Intelligence
@eddiehold
In my previous blog, Dishing Out Mobile Predictions, we explored Dish's desire to launch an IoT-focused mobile network and how Amazon would be a natural partner in this enterprise. But, as predictions go, there's a far more interesting potential opportunity for the two companies: a full mobile service offering for consumers. The combined efforts of Dish and Amazon could provide a truly disruptive consumer-based mobile offering that is worth exploring.
The result would be a win-win for the two companies, with Dish benefiting from Amazon's consumer presence, and Amazon gaining another direct connection (one could argue, the most personal, important connection) to the consumer base for its Prime-based value adds, such as video streaming. Particularly in the new post-net neutrality era, Amazon would be able to provide fee-free access to its music, video, and related services using this network, not to mention expand the potential ecosystem around the Alexa service.
Shaking up retail… again
One of the key challenges for any mobile-wannabe is creating the retail presence. In a world of online shopping, mobile service has managed to stay very much a physical store product and this serves as a significant competitive barrier. Indeed, if Dish were to launch a consumer-focused service on its own, the company would face exactly this issue, needing to build out a major store presence in order to get the consumer's attention, especially as Dish is known primarily for its satellite-based TV service.
Amazon solves this problem both with a conventional, as well as a non-traditional approach. First the conventional: with the acquisition of Whole Foods, as well as the opening of some Amazon Books stores, and partnerships with retailers such as Kohl's, Amazon owns a physical retail presence that can be leveraged for a mobile service launch. That's not a bad start as retail goes, but it is Amazon's online presence, the very core of the company, that is its true strength. In many respects, the current mobile focus on retail stores is an artificial barrier created by the carriers in order to protect (and expand) their base. Amazon's online retail presence is easily strong enough to breakdown that boundary - if consumers will buy clothing and shoes online, they will also purchase mobile service the same way. That is a game changer for mobile.
Further, we would expect the consumer mobile service to be focused on Prime customers, with whom Amazon already has a close relationship. Indeed, a "Prime Plus" strategy, with the service fees significantly undercutting the current mobile status quo, would be Amazon's most probable approach. For these Prime customers, an online purchase would be natural.
Ecosystems are king
This would hardly be Amazon's first foray into the mobile world. Previously Amazon took a hardware approach with the Kindle, which included cellular access, followed later by the Fire smartphone. More recently, Amazon has focused on Prime Exclusive Phones, which tie customers more closely to Amazon content in return for discounted, unlocked smartphones. And beyond mobile, Amazon has an array of tablets and streaming devices to deliver content and shopping opportunities to the consumer. But it was really the launch of Alexa that changed the potential dynamic, moving Amazon from a content and hardware provider, to an ecosystem owner.
This is not to say, of course, that the retail component is not still the core focus – it is. But by creating an ecosystem, Amazon keeps the consumer's attention for more of the day, making it the natural "go-to" for everything. And with more content being viewed via mobile, not to mention more purchases made, being front and center in the mobile world will help to ensure that Amazon remains the dominant retailer. The key will be to ensure that the smartphone's interface reflects Amazon's ecosystem, rather than that of the smartphone OEM, with Amazon's video, music, price match app, and Alexa being the dominant services that are available.
Priced to win
Pricing the service is where Amazon can have the most impact, as the company is in a unique position to price differently than the status quo. Mobile is another touch point for Prime customers, not the lead product and, as such, Amazon doesn't necessarily need to make money directly from the mobile component. Rather, this is all about pulling the Prime customer into an even deeper relationship. Additionally, there are potential cost savings, as Amazon doesn't need a dense retail store strategy.
This is particularly true if the mobile service is built with Dish, where there is a win-win for the two companies. This would be quite different from the typical mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) model, which wouldn't allow as much freedom to price effectively. But more than that, Amazon has demonstrated its willingness to spend money to retain – and expand – its Prime base. Take, for example, the plan to spend $5 billion on original content for Amazon Prime Video over the next year.
Does Alexa need a mobile network?
It is worth a pause for thought: does Amazon need a mobile network in order to expand Alexa's sphere of influence, or indeed for the other Amazon assets. All of these are available as apps that consumers can install already, after all. Further, consumers purchasing the Prime Exclusive Phones already get a more integrated solution without the need for Amazon to invest so heavily into mobile (and it will be a hefty investment).
But, we would argue that the Prime Exclusive solution is still a peripheral one that will not see a mass-market adoption, or possibly a means for Amazon to test the market's willingness to purchase devices online. And while the apps are readily available for all other consumers, they aren't integrated as well into the ecosystem as Amazon should want. Controlling the mobile network, and therefore the devices (to an extent) that leverage this network, puts Amazon in a far stronger position moving forward. And owning the mobile connection to the consumer allows Amazon to push the content services, as well as Alexa, in a more compelling manner.
One (large) roadblock on the mobile path
There's a catch in our prediction for Amazon. The main goal of this approach is to build a tighter integration of Amazon services into the smartphone to drive continued and increased engagement for Prime customers. But to do this, Amazon needs to convince smartphone OEMs to allow more prominent placement of the Amazon services on the phone, such as leveraging Alexa as the main intelligent assistant. The larger OEMs may be understandably reluctant to do this, as it diminishes their own ability to differentiate and to create their own ecosystems. Consider the smartphone market leaders, Apple and Samsung. Apple will be highly unlikely to agree to any solution that means it relinquishes control of the interface. Samsung would likely take the same approach, as it is focused on developing a Bixby-based ecosystem. The lack of just Apple would cut out roughly 40 percent of the current consumer base, making Amazon's task a little more challenging, and any compromise on how prominent Amazon's content would be could make the mobile move less compelling.
But where there's a will – and we suspect Amazon does have the will – there's a way. The service can begin slowly, and without Apple if necessary. And even without such a strong interface linkage, there are still many benefits for Amazon to launch a mobile service. Not least is the significant revenue spike that Amazon would enjoy by launching a mobile service, and that is clearly a key metric that Amazon is judged by. Even without some of the additional synergies that come from the Prime linkage, and even if Amazon had to water down the "Prime" presence, such as not insisting on an Alexa-first hardware strategy, the benefits of pushing into mobile are there.
The (even) bigger picture
This brings us to an even bolder possibility... While we began by talking about a partnership between Dish and Amazon, the ultimate end game is perhaps for Amazon to purchase Dish. The combination of Dish's spectrum, existing customer base for satellite TV and network operations skills, combined with Amazon's content services and retail would make a compelling alternative to the current mobile/entertainment giants that are forming up. And of course, the network would also support Amazon's drone service.
The potential loser in all of this would be Sprint, which would quickly begin to look even more isolated with a lack of strong content services. Softbank could choose one of several strategies to counter this: looking to merge with a cable company (again), such as Charter, or looking to double down on the investment, buying into the content market in some way. Or, perhaps, seeing if it can join with Amazon and Dish to form a Triple Entente of sorts. The next 12 months should start to show the path, and it'll be fun to watch how, or if, this prediction comes to fruition.
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I'm am excited with the launch of Qlik Data Catalyst. Our department is on the verge of purchasing a Qlik Sense license. Hence I would like to know how Qlik Data Catalyst complements Qlik Sense. One downside I found while trying out Qlik Sense is that it relies heavily on scripting to clean, prepare data and create a workflow. Since we don't have much manpower to focus on Qlik Sense, it is counter productive to code in Qlik Sense.
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My interpretation of the functionality of Data Catalyst is that this tool provides customers a better organisation and understanding of their data while providing analytics tools for the data. I can combine different data sources and combine them with keys.
Traditionally the qlik applications (view/sense) do not need an extra data warehouse to organize the data sources. While going through the ETL process the qwf files are generated by script to use them within the applications. I can use a qvd file in more than one application at the same time.
My first question is about the correctness of my assumptions above. Am i right so far?
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3) if i can connect the Data Catalyst automatically with third party systems like e.q. SAP BW via connectors?
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More Oxygen to Chronic Cord, More Recovery
Posted by Sam Maddox in Research News on May 31, 2017 # Research
Spinal cord injury begins with sudden traumatic force but that's only the beginning of the damage to the nervous system. A wave of secondary events soon follows, including release of cellular toxins, swelling, and loss of blood flow and vital oxygen to the damaged area.
A study just published in the journal Nature Medicine by a group in Canada reports that after SCI, blood flow is clamped shut along the entire length of the spinal cord.
This is news: Contrary to what most of us always assumed, capillaries remain closed chronically. Experimental animals with SCI had restricted blood flow at the injury site and below, long after injury.
This is the upside: Restoring oxygen to neuronal networks in the spinal cord induces repair and recovery.
According to a press release from the University of Alberta, where the study was done, this discovery will "fundamentally alter how we view spinal cord function and rehabilitation after spinal cord injuries."
Improving the blood flow and increasing the oxygen in the spinal cord has not been a major focus of rehab, but it should be. The research team said that even by simply inhaling more oxygen one might improve motor function.
"We've shown for the first time that spinal cord injuries lead to a chronic state of poor blood flow and lack of oxygen to neuronal networks in the spinal cord," says co-principal investigator Karim Fouad, professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Canada Research Chair for spinal cord injury. "By elevating oxygen in the spinal cord we can improve function and re-establish activity in different parts of the body."
This discovery happened by accident. The lead author Celia Li, a post-doc, and David Bennett, co-PI, were looking at injured rat spinal cords under a microscope and noticed the tiny capillaries contracted in response to application of the dietary amino acid tryptophan.
"Why would capillaries contract, when conventionally arteries are the main contractile vessels, and why should dietary amino acids circulating in the blood cause these contractions," wondered Bennett. "That is just plain weird, that what you eat should influence blood flow in the spinal cord."
Li, Bennett and Fouad found that SCI caused a particular enzyme (AADC, or aromatic l-amino acid decarboxylase) to be overproduced (upregulated, in science terms) in cells called pericytes. Unexpectedly, the the pericytes, which wrap the tiny capillaries in the circulatory system and act as a sort of valve, respond to AADC by releasing their own chemical signals (trace amines, synthesized from dietary amino acids), which activate the clamping down on the capillaries.
Here's the scientific version, from the abstract:
We find that, months after the imposition of SCI, the spinal cord below the site of injury is in a chronic state of hypoxia owing to paradoxical excess activity of monoamine receptors (5-HT1) on pericytes, despite the absence of monoamines. This monoamine-receptor activity causes pericytes to locally constrict capillaries, which reduces blood flow to ischemic levels. Receptor activation in the absence of monoamines results from the production of trace amines (such as tryptamine) by pericytes that ectopically express the enzyme aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC), which synthesizes trace amines directly from dietary amino acids (such as tryptophan). Inhibition of monoamine receptors or of AADC, or even an increase in inhaled oxygen, produces substantial relief from hypoxia and improves motoneuron and locomotor function after SCI.
How about blocking receptor activity related to AADC? Maybe that would unclamp the capillaries. "We blocked the AADC enzyme and found that it improved blood flow and oxygenation to the networks below the injury," Bennett said. "This allowed the animals to produce more muscle activity."
The scientists also exposed the animals to higher oxygen levels. "The rat could walk better," Fouad says. "The change in oxygen restored function." When oxygen levels returned to baseline the effect went away, indicating that the capillaries were still clamped down.
Fouad thinks the blood flow story ought to make an impact in neuroscience and rehabilitation but he's not suggesting a therapy is right around the corner. "The biggest finding is really that we found that blood vessels, these capillaries, are controlled by cells that nobody really knew anything about. Just that knowledge opens so many windows, so many opportunities for treatments of various diseases and injuries of the brain and spinal cord."
"There is still a long way to go when it comes to treatment and helping patients with spinal cord injuries," said Fouad. "But this discovery has helped us understand the etiology of spinal cord injuries in a way we never did before. We can now design treatments that improve blood flow to produce long-term rehabilitation after SCI.
"Possibly even simple therapies such as exercise or just breathing will play a role in preventing long-term hypoxia and damage to the spinal cord. It's a small but important step in the right direction, stemming from studying an obscure enzyme in the spinal cord -- and that's the beauty of basic science."
Next steps: to show this principle is the same in humans. Then the work will begin to perhaps find a clinically relevant way to inhibit the enzyme activity that shuts off blood flow.
Fouad: Consortium Schooled
Fouad began his interest in brain and spinal cord function studying how the nervous system controls motor output mechanisms in insects. Wanting his work to have more relevance to vertebrates, he began studying plasticity – the adaptive remodeling of nerve wiring after damage. He traveled to Zurich to present his work on neuroplasticity. Martin Schwab, the well-known spinal cord injury scientist, was in the audience.
"With a little luck," said Fouad, "Martin heard my talk. He and I wondered whether the adaptive processes we saw in our animal models might apply in the spinal cord. Would we see similar adaptation?" Schwab offered Fouad a post-doc position, where he stayed on for four years. Schwab was then (and remains today) a principal investigator for the seven-lab Reeve International Consortium on Spinal Cord Research. Post-docs from each lab become Consortium Associates, and conduct much of the collaborative studies between the labs.
The collaborative Consortium model helped launch his career, Fouad said. "When I became independent (University of Alberta) one of my biggest experiments continued work that began with the Consortium," said Fouad. "I was able to bring in people from the Mary Bunge lab (Miami Project), from Schwab's group (Zurich) and others. We did a combination treatment in animals."
That 2005 study is described by its title: "Combining Schwann cell bridges and olfactory-ensheathing glia grafts with chondroitinase promotes locomotor recovery after complete transection of the spinal cord." This three-part strategy reduced effect of spinal cord scarring, provided a substrate to support nerve growth, and enabled regenerated nerve axons to exit the injury are and reenter the spinal cord. The combination provided "significant benefit" to treated animals.
Fouad sees SCI research evolving from a competitive environment toward a more collaborative way of working. "We as a field see SCI more comprehensively now. For a long time we were way too narrow in our thinking, looking at one molecule or one axon regeneration strategy to cure SCI. We came to our senses and realized that the word 'cure' is probably not appropriate. It's going to be more like rebuilding. We have to look at the entire picture, and understand that everything seems to be linked."


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In Praise of General Practice
One of the greatest assets – if not the greatest asset – that Australia has in health care is the general practice workforce. General practice is arguably the most cost effective segment of our whole health system. This once cottage industry is changing and growing and you would think that the Government would be striving to fertilise it and nurture it and help it grow. But no, we continue to get negative signals that frustrate and demoralise GPs.
One of the greatest assets – if not the greatest asset – that Australia has in health care is the general practice workforce.
General practice is arguably the most cost effective segment of our whole health system. This once cottage industry is changing and growing and you would think that the Government would be striving to fertilise it and nurture it and help it grow. But no, we continue to get negative signals that frustrate and demoralise GPs.
Sure, we hear the occasional word of reassurance and support in a speech from the PM or the Health Minister, but all the actions are going the other way. The policies and the politics and the language are coming across as less than supportive of general practice. Worse, the calls for proper meaningful consultation on the way ahead for primary care remain unheeded.
The Government must learn to take general practice seriously and seriously support it and build primary health care reform around it – in partnership.
Why? Let me tell you why …
Family doctors train for 10 years before we can claim the title of specialist General Practitioner.
The work we do is very personalised, very private and longitudinal. By the very nature of our work, general practitioners build strong patient loyalty and we put that to good use.
Study after study has shown that a few simple words from the family doctor can profoundly influence behavioural change. A few words that cost nothing at the end of consultations that result in more people kicking the habit potentially save millions of dollars. The inevitable lung diseases and cancers do not occur. The real savings multipliers occur, however, when those patients become role models. The result is fewer smokers to pass on the killer habit. We then have more healthy individuals who can influence virtuous cycles of healthy behaviour and good living, not vicious cycles of illness and premature death.
We general practitioners encourage quarterly visits for our patients with complex care needs. We provide them with personalised health advice, which is enormously motivating to encourage individuals to actively participate in their health care. All my patients know what the ELF diet means - Eat Less Food!
This important health relationship works both ways – and often to the financial detriment of the GP.
How many of us stay back to sign off the paper work? How many of us see that extra patient when it's time to go home because they are 'my' patients? How many of us should charge a 'C' instead of a 'B' but don't because of compassion for our patients. The majority of 'down scheduling' has nothing to do with Medicare audits or PSR processes. It's all about the special doctor-patient relationship.
We do not do home visits and aged care visits because they are financially viable. They aren't. We do them out of loyalty to our patients.
I was woken up on a recent Monday morning by a patient's daughter who had my personal mobile phone number. She told me her father had just passed away in the nursing home and she did not know what to do.
I told her to meet me at the nursing home where together we walked in to pay our last respects to her 'Dad', my patient. He was finally at peace and more relaxed than he had ever been in the past four months since his wife's death. We sat by his bed for 30 minutes swapping stories about his life and times. There are no rebates for that. My patients back at the surgery waited a little longer that day - but they all understood.
An 80 per cent bulk billing rate does not confirm that the rebates are appropriate. It confirms GP compassion. It confirms the willingness of GPs to teach and pass on their 'profession'. It has nothing to do with token preceptor fees. It has everything to do with our duty of care to our future colleagues and their patients.
Survey after survey shows that people want to see a doctor when they are sick or injured or want health advice.
General practice is the health system to many people. The first step in any health reform process should be to appreciate general practice, support general practice, and build on general practice. We are not seeing that at the moment.
If governments want health reform, if governments want to make things better, if governments want to improve efficiency in the health system, you do not demoralise GPs. But this is what is happening right now.
To borrow from a recent former Prime Minister, the greatest moral challenge of our time in health is the assault by stealth on family doctors.
Here is the assault on family doctors in 10 simple steps:
Allow rebates to fall to pitiful levels, cancel any after-hours loadings, and ensure that home visits and nursing home visits are non-viable.
Push GPs out of hospitals and allow their skill sets to contract.
Squeeze GPs into larger practices, making individual continuity of care more difficult.
Refuse GPs access to modern technology like MRI, and claim it is beyond their capacity.
Seek out outlier GPs and publicly castigate them in a public report for their aberrant behaviour.
Build a GP Super Clinics down the road from established practices and subsidise competitors to further reduce private investment in General Practices.
Berate GPs for not making themselves available after hours.
Task substitute with Nurse Practitioners and then grant them higher rebates than Medical Practitioners with decades of experience. For example, $120 per presentation in the Nurse Walk-In Clinic in Canberra.
Take away 'for and behalf of' rebates for practice nurses from GPs and hand it to a third party employer, guaranteeing everyone is worse off except the shareholders.
Set up a primary health care organisation to look after all of primary care. Unwind the structural drivers for centralised communication (100 per cent of primary care funding is no longer from one level of government) and then squeeze GPs out of the governance structures and attempt to insert bureaucrats between doctors and their patients.
Does all this sound familiar? This is all fact, not fiction. This is the brave new world for General Practitioners in 2011.
We at the AMA say we have had enough of this assault on GPs.
The AMA will not tolerate any further interference in the primary tenet of our members' professionalism – that personal doctor-patient relationship. That is what drives us, that is what leads to job satisfaction, that is what leads to excellence, and that is what delivers cost effectiveness.
GPs are the engine room of quality, efficient, longitudinal health care. All our governments need to work this out and support it. Now. Immediately.
Turning the heat up on the frog feels good for a while, but eventually it will surely kill it.


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