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Alastair Leith - Prototyping with the Pros: An Introduction to Facebook's Origami App Prototyping ToolsetAlastair LeithDirectorUseful Design
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
60 Mins
Origami is a free set of extensions to Apple's Quartz Composer developer tool that Facebook created to prototype all their app and website interactions. It allows for a tight loop of interaction and artwork iteration that precludes a need for text-language coding, but goes way beyond what customary wireframes and click-through prototypes can achieve.
Brave designers using Origami can become interaction coders for prototyping and testing purposes without writing a single line of code. This type of rich product feature prototyping is an emerging specialisation in app development circles known as Product Design.
Origami can export native iOS/Android/web code, providing animation specifications (dimension, durations, etc) in a language engineers can readily understand and easily transform into finished code. Getting designers and engineers on the same UI/UX page has never been easier.
Those who attend this demonstration of Origami will come away with a feel for:
- the speed with which an app interaction prototype can be constructed;
- how fun live coding a prototype can be;
- the ease with which a prototype can be evolved;
- how expressive and open Origami and QC are in terms of constructing new interaction ideas;
- the tangible benefits in allowing designers to take more responsibility for application interaction design.
Paul Rayner - EventStormingPaul RaynerVirtual Genius LLC
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
60 Mins
EventStorming enables a team struggling with understanding and exploring a complex business problem to model that problem collaboratively in hours instead of weeks. In this talk you'll learn how this technique quickly generates shared understanding and insights into how the software can, and should, support the business capability being explored.
In EventStorming, development team members and business people gather in a room and together they create a visual map of the flow of events – important things that happen – through concrete business examples. They use sticky notes to map out a story of how the software system behaves, or should behave, given a particular business problem to solve. This session will teach you the rules of EventStorming and how it can help your team.
Edward Kmett - PropagatorsEdward KmettResearch EngineerMachine Intelligence Research Institute
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
60 Mins
There are a lot of algorithms that revolve around iterating a form of information propagation until it attains a deterministic fixed point. CRDTs, Datalog, SAT solving, functional reactive programming, and constraint programming all fit into this mold.
One framework for these sorts of algorithms is the notion of a "propagator" due to Sussman and Radul, but until now little rigor has applied to know how such algorithms terminate with consistent results.
Another framework is Lindsey Kuper's work on the notion of "lattice variables" (LVars), which addresses termination, parallelism and eventual consistency well, but not iteration.
By blending these frameworks, I'll build up a series of sufficient conditions for propagators to terminate with consistent results and proceed to show how we can use this common framework to steal insights and quirks from each individual domain to try to optimize the rest.
Simon Raik-Allen - So you want to be a CTOSimon Raik-AllenFounder & CEOThe Big Crunch
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
60 Mins
In this keynote, Simon will be talking through various aspects in the life of the CTO and sharing experiences and learnings from his 6+ years in the role.
He will give you the CTOs angle on building great products with real world examples on topics such as business transformations, agile, technical disruption, influencing, coaching, leverage, architecture, executive communication, the power of platforms, and some more recent approaches for guiding hundreds of engineers.
If you are looking to one day be a CTO yourself, then this talk is the grounding and inspiration you need to launch that phase of your career.
Dave Cheney - SOLID Go DesignDave CheneyStaff Systems EngineerHeptio
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
In his book, Agile Design Patterns (Pearson, 2002), Robert C. Martin introduces the SOLID design principals as cornerstones for the construction of software that amenable to change.
Part of a larger set of design principals, the SOLID principals are closely associated with object oriented languages like C++, Java, C#, and more recently Ruby. And although they span different eras, all these languages share the same class structured, inheritance based foundations.
Go is one of a set of new languages that eschew inheritance, instead preferring the mantra of composition. Does this mean that Go programs do not follow the SOLID design principals, or even that Go is not an object oriented language?
In this talk I will explore the five core SOLID design patterns, discuss their applicability to Go programmers, and explain that while Go programs are not inheritance or class based, they adhere strongly to Martin's principals. The audience will learn how well structured Go applications naturally follow the SOLID principals, leading to code which is loosely coupled, highly reusable, and inherently maintainable.
Mark Hibberd - Turning Technical Debt into Monetary Debt: Price Aware ArchitectureMark HibberdCTOKinesis
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
How much does your software cost to operate?
Software design and implementation has an uneasy relationship with cost. As software developers, we often dwell on the cost of building software, but far less so on the cost to operate. The current zeitgeist of pay-as-you-go infrastructure makes this particularly apparent where rigid, hard to deploy and adapt software directly equates to larger bills. If we want to take control of operational cost, it is critical that we start to make operational cost a first-class constraint in the design and architecture of modern software.
In this talk we will work through the idea of price-aware architectures, answering: what are the properties of a price-aware architecture? what happens when we design our systems in a way that can leverage variable price and availability of infrastructure? and finally, how do we implement such systems?
Tony Morris - Parametricity, Functional Programming, TypesTony MorrisSoftware EngineerSimple Machines
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
In this talk, we define the principle of functional programming, then go into detail about what becomes possible by following this principle. In particular, parametricity (Wadler, 1989) and exploiting types in API design are an essential property of productive software teams, especially teams composed of volunteers as in open-source. This will be demonstrated.
Some of our most important programming tools are neglected, often argued away under a false compromise. Why then, are functional programming and associated consequences such as parametricity so casually disregarded? Are they truly so unimportant? In this talk, these questions are answered thoroughly and without compromise.
We will define the principle of functional programming, then go into detail about common problems to all of software development. We will build the case from ground up and finish with detailed practical demonstration of a solution to these problems. The audience should expect to walk away with a principled understanding and vocabulary of why functional programming and associated techniques have become necessary to software development.
Ben Barclay - Scaling your First 1000 ContainersBen BarclayDeveloperAtlassian
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
Deploying large numbers of containers to production can be a difficult proposition if you don't approach the problem with a strategy appropriate both to the needs of your developers and the size of your operations team. Choosing an appropriate strategy enables you to codify your deployment patterns in a repeatable manner and reuse them over hundreds of deployments without embracing unnecessary cost and complexity.
Using Atlassian's PaaS as a model, the speaker will discuss important milestones as you scale from a single container to tens, hundreds and eventually to a thousand containers. At what points should you begin to embrace log aggregation, monitoring and metrics collection, orchestration and clustering solutions? Learn how to incorporate ever more sophisticated third party solutions as you go, to achieve cost-effective and stable management of your containers in production, and meet both current and future needs.
Uli Holtel - You Don't Need Hypermedia! Or Do You?Uli HoltelSenior IT SpecialistBankwest
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
REST is a popular architectural style for building APIs. But if you take a closer look it seems that not many developers pay attention to or make use of hypermedia in their APIs, although most of them see themselves somewhere between level 2 (HTTP verbs) and 3 (Hypermedia Controls) in the Richardson maturity model.
Why do they miss out on one of the most valuable aspects of RESTful APIs?
Besides the lack of knowledge and experience the need to deal with the inherently dynamic runtime aspect of hypermedia APIs might hold them back.
In this talk, Uli will dive a little bit deeper into some of the aspects related to hypermedia and REST APIs in general and show that most of what is needed for providing a rich hypermedia API experience has to be developed anyway.
This will cover:
- what hypermedia is about and how it can help developing richer APIs
- considerations when selecting media types for a hypermedia API
- how to avoid coupling on the server and client side
- how to leverage and integrate the ubiquitous language of the domain
Martin Feckie - A Rose By Any Other Name: Monoglot MicroservicesMartin FeckieSenior DeveloperHotDoc
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
Our industry has been gripped by microservice fever in recent years as many organisations plan to take to their legacy systems with refactoring scythes to reduce them into loosely coupled, distributed, solutions. In doing so, these organisations will be forced to build substantial operational discipline around managing these services, as the monolithic modules which communicated in-process become fine grained services communicating over the network.
These organisations are likely to be coming to grips with advanced forms of application monitoring, discovery, log management, contract-based testing, automated deployment and environment provisioning, all required to run a microservice architecture with confidence.
But what if there were other ways to reap the benefits of distributed architecture (e.g., independent scaling, versioning and deployment, loosely coupled systems) without needing to construct your own "Netflix in the Small" level of operational awareness? If you're willing to stick to a single implementation language, then perhaps there is…
The OTP (Open Telecom Platform) sits beneath both the venerable Erlang and hipster Elixir languages and provides the process monitoring and management sophistication needed from a platform built to manage telephony applications like those used by Ericsson, where Erlang originated. Building on OTP with either Elixir and Erlang removes the need for 3rd party tools like Hysterix, Zookeeper and forever wondering whether you should use HTTP PUT or POST to update your resources
Is the trade off worth it? Is it worth sacrificing a polyglot future for a less complex operational environment? Come join Andy and Martin as they demonstrate the power of the OTP platform and proposes a monoglot microservices architecture that will have you decommissioning your DropWizard and Spring Boot services in favour of a braver Erlang/Elixir world.
Karl Roberts - It works on my Machine: OpsDev, Engineering Kick Ass Development Environments using Docker on VagrantKarl RobertsSenior ConsultantAvocado Consulting
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
Have you ever heard a developer or yourself say "But it works on my machine!"? This defence is usually heard after a C.I. or deployment failure, or after a new team member has been trying to get his PC set up for the project after a week of trying.
As a Long time JVM developer I thought I had this problem cracked. It turned out that I'd been coddled by the JVM, because when I tried to do some polyglot development with Python and JavaScript significant problems were encountered.
This talk aims to impress on the audience that DevOps is not simply a one way street with developers imparting their hard won skills and best practice on Ops, but also shows how Dev teams can directly benefit from the DevOps discipline by creating and managing their development environments using DevOps tools.
The problem is that there are normally quite a few undocumented or forgotten set-up steps or conflicting tools on a dev box.
It's time to take back some professional pride, and engineer a solution.
In this presentation I introduces a way to systematically capture all the missing steps in an executable specification document (aka a software program). This allows for a much more robust way to develop systems.
In particular the audience will learn how to spin up isolated development environments using Docker as a Vagrant "box" that require almost zero procedural overhead and can be used just as easily as running the development natively on their own PC but with the benefit that it can be repeated by anyone, including themselves 6 months down the line when asked to do a maintenance fix, without breaking or ruining their current working environment.
There is a lot of confusion around Vagrant and Docker, what they are, how they differ and why would someone pick one over the other? The vagaries of Vagrant and the dastardliness of Docker are discussed and I will explain the sweet spot I settled upon and how it solved my problems.
I have prepared a working example in Github to show that this stuff "works on my machine" and it will work on yours too.
James White - Design 101 for ProgrammersJames WhiteMobile App Designer & Developerhttps://www.colourfool.com.au/
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
Many developers at small companies, and most indies, don't have the luxury of collaborating with genuine beret-wearing, latte-sipping designers. But never fear! There are at least 23 weird tricks you can learn to avoid your app looking like it was designed by a developer. After twenty years of designing for print, and six years making mobile apps, James White is probably still a better designer than he is a developer (although some might say that isn't saying much). In this session he'll talk about branding, colour, iconography, typography, whitespace, and the holy trinity of aesthetics, functionality and usability. Expect pretty slides, and to leave with a notebook full of tiny but useful tidbits of advice.
Jacky Li - Architecture Refactoring on Legacy Code BaseJacky LiSenior Mobile Developerrealestate.com.au
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
It's very hard to do architecture changes on a legacy system, but with correct refactoring skills and techniques we managed to apply Presentation-Domain-Data pattern on realestate.com.au's 6-year-old iOS code base.
We did this without creating a feature branch and while continuing ongoing feature development, we were still able to submit to Apple every 4 weeks.
I'm going to share my experience in this talk: The refactoring strategies needed on a legacy code base, how to change the architecture without breaking the system, and what we learned along the way.
Greg James - Today's Options for Cross Platform Mobile DevelopmentGreg JamesSenior ConsultantReadify
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
In today's world the decision of which technology to use to create mobile applications has becoming daunting. The best bet is no longer just native Objective C / Swift and Android with many cross platform technologies become more featured and matured.
Three technologies are in the forefront of this space – Xamarin, Cordova, and React Native. These technologies create cross platform applications in very unique ways, each with their own pros and cons.
This presentation will help explain when and why you would go cross platform, gain an understanding of their differences, what their development experience is like and experience a live demo of each.
Daphne Chong - Metro: The ABC's New Video Transcoding Service for ABC iviewDaphne ChongTechnical LeadABC
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
The ABC recently launched a new video transcoding system to process all the content for ABC iview, our catch-up TV service.
Metro is a cost-efficient, scalable, cloud-based system that was built using Golang, Node, FFmpeg, and heavily utilises a variety of AWS technology including queues, varied capacity autoscaling, hosted database servers, and notifications. The system has been live since December 2015, and has successfully processed thousands of pieces of content.
Come along to learn more about:
- What video transcoding is
- Our system architecture
- Technical challenges we faced
- Costs
- Aims for the future
Andy Marks - A Rose By Any Other Name: Monoglot MicroservicesAndy MarksOffice PrincipalThoughtWorks
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
Our industry has been gripped by microservice fever in recent years as many organisations plan to take to their legacy systems with refactoring scythes to reduce them into loosely coupled, distributed, solutions. In doing so, these organisations will be forced to build substantial operational discipline around managing these services, as the monolithic modules which communicated in-process become fine grained services communicating over the network.
These organisations are likely to be coming to grips with advanced forms of application monitoring, discovery, log management, contract-based testing, automated deployment and environment provisioning, all required to run a microservice architecture with confidence.
But what if there were other ways to reap the benefits of distributed architecture (e.g., independent scaling, versioning and deployment, loosely coupled systems) without needing to construct your own "Netflix in the Small" level of operational awareness? If you're willing to stick to a single implementation language, then perhaps there is…
The OTP (Open Telecom Platform) sits beneath both the venerable Erlang and hipster Elixir languages and provides the process monitoring and management sophistication needed from a platform built to manage telephony applications like those used by Ericsson, where Erlang originated. Building on OTP with either Elixir and Erlang removes the need for 3rd party tools like Hysterix, Zookeeper and forever wondering whether you should use HTTP PUT or POST to update your resources
Is the trade off worth it? Is it worth sacrificing a polyglot future for a less complex operational environment? Come join Andy and Martin as they demonstrate the power of the OTP platform and proposes a monoglot microservices architecture that will have you decommissioning your DropWizard and Spring Boot services in favour of a braver Erlang/Elixir world.
Tom Adams - Typed Services Using FinchTom AdamsProduct Engineering LeadSquare
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
Finch is an open source HTTP library built on top of Finagle, the RPC framework that powers Twitter's infrastructure. Finch is a great candidate to use when building services, and compares favourably to other popular frameworks in languages such as Ruby, Go, JavaScript, Elixir, Clojure and Haskell. This talk outlines the types of problems faced when building small services, and how using a good type system can help. I introduce & outline Finch, highlighting how it addresses these concerns. Throughout, a concrete example of an API built for a startup using Finch is used.
Sidney Shek - Immutable Data for Scale, Flexibility and Safety: Event Sourcing and CQRS from the TrenchesSidney ShekArchitectAtlassian
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
At Atlassian, we are in the midst of rearchitecting our systems as microservices run in AWS to support the scale and flexibility we need. We have been building out a core identity component of our Cloud infrastructure in Scala, based on event sourcing and command-query responsibility separation (CQRS) in order to achieve this safely. With event sourcing, data is captured streams of immutable events to represent data instead of the traditional update-in-place paradigm. Streams can be easily replayed to restore system state up to any point in time to recover from bugs or failures. In combination with the CQRS pattern, we can seamlessly bring online new functionality requiring schema changes or new query patterns, and re-architect later for more scale simply by replaying and reinterpreting events into new microservices and ephemeral data stores. In this talk, we will describe the architecture of our system using AWS (DynamoDB, Kinesis and Lambda), design principles we've used, and most importantly technical and organisational lessons learned to help attendees avoid pitfalls we've come across.
Goals: By the end of the presentation, the audience should:
- have an understanding of event sourcing and CQRS including benefits and how it works
- have an understanding of design principles for event sourcing and CQRS, including event design, and surfacing eventual consistency through the application stack and in APIs.
- have an understanding of an architecture for an event sourced/CQRS-based application.
- have an appreciation of the challenges faced when building a system using techniques presented in the talk.
Ryan McKergow - Don't Be A Zombie Reading Your Stories: Learn The Exciting Parts Of AnalysisRyan McKergowGroup Manager (Queensland)Elabor8
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
For some teams, having a Business Analyst would be a luxury. For others, they are no longer necessary. Whatever your situation, analysis and critical thinking is still essential in software development. Even if you don't have a Business Analyst!
During this talk, you will learn how to become a Business Analyst while still being a developer, tester, or product manager. I will introduce some of the secrets that great Business Analysts use to get people collaborating, discussing the problem, and agreeing on a solution. Learn how to run a design studio, 3 amigos session, or a story kickoff. Don't just be a zombie reading your next ticket. Let's think about the problem and how we'll solve it together!
Rob Moore - Modern AuthenticationRob MoorePrincipal ConsultantReadify
schedule 2 years agoSold Out!
50 Mins
Terms like OAuth, OpenIDConnect, claims, tokens, two and three legged authentication, etc. are becoming increasingly common in discussions about software development. Most of us rely on these for authentication to services we use nearly every day! In an era where applications are highly distributed and dependent on other services to perform their function, modern identity approaches are important in allowing us to access protected resources without needing to share passwords around. This talk will help unravel some of these terms, explain modern approaches to authentication and show you how to easily get started setting some of these up yourself.


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Slack chief executive Stewart Butterfield knew the world was changing the night of March 11, right around when Tom Hanks announced from Australia that he had contracted Covid-19, the NBA suspended its season, and President Trump signed his third proclamation banning travel to the United States. Butterfield's team had already been working virtually for a week--something that came fairly naturally to the business-communications-tool startup.
Seven months later, Slack still is fully remote. Butterfield has had the same jarring experience so many executives and knowledge-workers have had going into his company's near-empty headquarters at 500 Howard Street in San Francisco--one of 16 offices the company has in 10 countries. At the Fast Company Innovation Festival on Friday, he said of the nearly vacant 230,000-square-foot office, "It was pretty strange to be in there. A little depressing, to be honest."
The visit got him thinking about the role of an office beyond the pandemic. Sure, it's a place for meetings. It's advertising, marketing, a shiny recruiting tool with a big Slack logo on it. HQ is a projection of power and a cultural touchstone. It's also--and he said this is of lower value than its other roles--office space, which he referred to as "factory farm, battery-housing for people to sit at desks and use computers by themselves with headphones on not talking to anyone else."
Butterfield believes that now that employees have tasted the flexibility of not having to commute, there's no going back to a 40-hour, butt-in-chair workplace for most knowledge workers in competitive fields, citing a pair of logistical and market reasons.
He explained that if Slack required employees to all return to the office daily, and one of its competitors for the same pool of talent continued to allow remote work, he'd lose talent: "Who wouldn't take that second option?"
"You start to see that as an expectation or requirement and there's a market-force applied. I don't know that individual companies are going to be able to opt out and say our employees have to come into the office," Butterfield said.
There's also logistics. Many of his city-dwelling employees have relocated to have more space, indoors and out. He's also hired 20 percent of Slack's current workforce in the past seven months--all of whom have worked remotely only. He recently brought on the first fully remote member of Slack's executive team, who is based in Chicago rather than San Francisco, and who, Butterfield says, is "not going to move once there is a vaccine."
"Once you make those decisions, you can't go back," he says. Butterfield admits he doesn't have it all figured out, but imagines employees using the company's offices for collaboration and meetings--but staying home on days that primarily include solo work. He says he and other executives have a lot of planning to do to make sure employees can be their most productive in the new reality--whatever it looks like. He says: "To not get the worst of both worlds is going to take a lot."

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Microsoft Word Interface Tips and Tricks
There are some hidden Microsoft Word interface features that can help you immensely. These can make your working in Microsoft Word much simpler and make you more efficient. Here are some useful Microsoft Word interface tips and tricks.
To select text, double click it.หนังใหม่
To go to the previous page, press delve down arrow button.
To copy text, hold down CTRL while clicking the New Query button. Now click the Cut button to get it across.
Select the area you want to customise by clicking option tabs on the ruler toolbar. Then select Format and Fonts to customise your area.
By clicking on the View button in the Pages toolbar, you can zoom in or out of the document.
At the bottom right of the Microsoft Word interface is the File menu, and this is used to save the document as.pdf, as a PDF, or as an Excel file. This is useful when you want to convert Word into PDF format for output publishing. หนังยอดฮิต
To open PDF files, you must have Adobe Reader software. While selecting a PDF file, hold down the Shift key to scroll to the PDF file. This is much easier to do with Firefox as it automaticallyzanies the PDF reader while scanning a PDF file.
In fact, you can distribute Word documents into your local network, or over the internet, as PDF files.
Select the References tab when creating a document, and click on the Document button. This opens the Document pull-down menu.
Click on the Add button to display the Definition andHelp sections. Under the heading of References, you can scroll to the bottom and use the scrolling toolbar to go through the document to find particular terms or phrases.
If you want to add other JavaScript or Java code, press the Ctrl button and M key together. Now enter the words you want to add, and press Enter.
Another way to add JavaScript or Java is to press the C key to open the Edit menu, and then the JavaScript editor. From here you can copy and paste, delete and add lines of code. หนังโป้เกย์
If you want to remove lines of code you can select the lines of code you want to delete with the highlighted text, then press Delete. Alternatively, you can press the up arrow key to view the entire line of code.
If you want to add lines of code to a document that is already formatted, press the letter keys on your keyboard to move to the end of the line, and then press the letter " " to insert a blank line.
To add a new page to a document, select the Insert tab, and in the Document pull-down menu, click the New page button.
In the Create PDF window, select the layout you want, and click OK. A window will open that allows you to create a title for your document.
You can add text by typing in the title, title tags, introduction (with a numbering system), or message boxes. You can also add a header and footer. All of this can be done with the WYSIWYG editor.
By clicking on the References tab, you can access the Document Information window that displays the name of each document in this session, file properties, file attributes, modification dates, and more.สาวหีสวย
This window also allows you to locate documents in the folder tree, create a signature for your document, and set the properties for comments, sidebars, attachments, and other document elements.
If you want to edit the options that have been saved in your file, select the file and then click the Modify button. You will be shown a dialog box that allows you to locate edits by selecting the appropriate references. You can also delete the selected edit by selecting delete from the delete all players filed.
Should you want to add additional modules to your document, select the appropriate module and click Modify. You will be shown further options that allow you to locate and add additional information.
If you want to remove modules, select the module you want to delete and click the Remove button.
To add an image to your document, locate the file you want to add within the module window. You will need to locate the image file and select, either let your computer use the default image for that document or select a different image file to use.
You can also add text to your image. To add text, make sure you have the correct height and width. Select the text you want to add, and then click the Spelling button on the spelling toolbar. Select your chosen text and then click OK.
To add a border to your text, select the border you want. If you want no border, use the Select option as you type text. When you have finished adding a border, select the Apply a border to selected text box. Select OK to complete. เย็ดท่ายาก
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A Magazine (not be confused with the Italian weekly with the same name) is a special special thing. As you may or may not know, I'm a true magazine junkie so this new discovery means fueling my fire. Back on track: A Magazine is a biannual publication, each time directed by a different designer. That's right folks, every issue is uniquely curated by a particular designer, gathering all elements that encompass that specific sartorial artist's vision. We are up to issue #9 (how did i not hear about this mag beforehand??) which Proenza Schouler so finely took helm of. And guess who they put on the cover?!
[image via stylefrizz]
Friday, June 12, 2009
Posted by Hélène Heath at 11:02 AM
Labels: Chloë Sevigny, Covers, Designers, Magazines, Proenza Schouler
2 comments:
- Marie-Louise said...
i love the shorts you have on in one of your earlier posts!
- June 12, 2009 at 12:31 PM
- Daniella said...
I've never heard of this either but it sounds so cool!! Amazing.
- June 12, 2009 at 3:21 PM
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Multi Species Fishing Lures
Pearl White with black dot shallow running 3 inch crankbait
Rick Jalbert
Canoe and Kayak fisherman
One of my favorite past times when I was a child was fishing with my parents. The excitement of never knowing for sure what you will catch. As I got older I loved the science of fishing. Learning how to read weather, water color, vegetation, structure. I recently retired so I started making fishing lures. Friends and fellow fisher persons have been requesting to be able to purchase my creations so that is why I started this online endeavor.


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But when you decide an important expertise by its direct impact on the apply of law, then it would have to be analytics. As I instructed in a latest column, we could possibly be nearing the purpose the place it would be malpractice for a lawyer to not use analytics.
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What is the Difference in Legal Studies and a Law Degree?
Through this program, students are placed as interns all through Northern Virginia, together with in Judges' Chambers, the Office of the Public Defender, the Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney, a City or County legal professional's office, Legal Aid, or in a private lawyer's office. Heavy emphasis is positioned on creating students' litigation abilities. Lecturer in Law Michael L. Davis directs this program, determines particular person placements, screens students' progress, and coordinates with subject supervisors.
Administrative law is the chief method for people to hold state bodies to account. People can sue an agency, local council, public service, or government ministry for judicial evaluate of actions or decisions, to ensure that they adjust to the regulation, and that the federal government entity noticed required process. The first specialist administrative court docket was the Conseil d'État arrange in 1799, as Napoleon assumed energy in France. In the 'decrease home' politicians are elected to symbolize smaller constituencies. The 'higher house' is normally elected to symbolize states in a federal system (as in Australia, Germany or the United States) or different voting configuration in a unitary system (as in France).
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A quick comparison between the 2017 and 2016 joint statements.
By all indications, the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump exceeded expectations of both sides, on the optics and on the language of their joint statement, especially given that officials in New Delhi and Washington had spent much time in the past week managing the expectations, predicating much on how well the two leaders got along.
The "visible personal chemistry" that Ministry of External Affairs officials referred to frequently, was on display, with the two leaders exchanging three hugs and several handshakes through the course of the day.
"This was frankly one of the most productive of all prime ministerial visits to the United States," said Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar, who as former Joint Secretary (Americas) and Indian Ambassador to the U.S. has witnessed the Singh-Bush, Singh-Obama and Modi-Obama relationship up close as well.
While more details of the agreements between the two sides will emerge over the next few days and weeks, a quick look at the joint statement issued on Monday, and a comparison with the joint statement issued a year ago by Mr. Barack Obama and Mr. Modi in June 2016, reveals a few important points.
Strategic convergence, shift to trade focus
The Indo-U.S. Strategic Partnership is on course, but with a new emphasis on trade and economic ties.
This is reflected by the title of the two statements: "Enduring Global Partners in the 21st Century" in 2016, and the more modest "Prosperity Through Partnership" this year.
While the 2016 statement focused on 'Bolstering Economic and Trade ties', this year's statement is more direct on how that will be done, with references to "balancing the trade deficit" (which, as it is in India's favour, is a sore point for the Trump administration).
However, the joint statement of 2017 continues previous references to "a growing strategic convergence" bolstered by military, maritime and intelligence cooperation. In addition, while India has yet to commit to buying Predator drones, a sale of 22 Guardian drones was cleared by the U.S. Cabinet last week. Mr. Trump said he was "pleased" that India buys U.S. defence products.
Terror and Pakistan
The language of the joint statement this year is much tougher on terrorism, specifically on Pakistan-based terror groups. A few hours before the Trump-Modi meeting, the U.S. State Department moved to make Hizbul Mujahideen leader Syed Salahuddin a Designated Global Terrorist, a move that was welcomed by India.
Last year's statement had the same wording when it came to "strengthening cooperation against terrorist threats from extremist groups, such as Al-Qa'ida, Da'esh/ISIL, Jaish-e Mohammad, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, D Company and their affiliates, including through deepened collaboration on U.N. terrorist designations," although this year has dropped the mention of "U.N. terrorist designations."
The language on Pakistan is clear, and a departure from the past year, when all terror attacks from "Paris to Pathankot" were condemned.
"The leaders called on Pakistan to ensure that its territory is not used to launch terrorist attacks on other countries. They further called on Pakistan to expeditiously bring to justice the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai, Pathankot, and other cross-border terrorist attacks perpetrated by Pakistan-based groups," the most direct message sent in an India-U.S. joint statement thus far.
Like the previous year, the U.S. also committed to the U.N. Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism, an Indian initiative, as well as to supporting India's bid for the membership of the U.N. Security Council and Nuclear Suppliers Group.
One of the most important documents signed by India and the U.S., the 2015 U.S.-India Joint Strategic Vision for the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean Region, seems to have been given a miss in the latest statement, which appears to have softened some of the language on China's actions in the South China Sea.
For example, instead of saying the two countries would "ensure" freedom of navigation, overflight and commerce through the Indo-Pacific region (that refers to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean), the language in 2017 only "reiterates the importance of respecting freedom of navigation, overflight, and commerce throughout the region," a significant toning down of the language that possibly reflects Mr. Trump's current ties with Beijing.
In place of the 2016 language calling for India and the U.S. to "secure the domains" of land, maritime, air, space, and cyber, in 2017, it speaks of being "responsible stewards" and "democratic stalwarts in the Indo-Pacific Region." No mention is made either of the "United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea," under which a tribunal ruled against China's claims in the SCS, which was referred to the previous year. India indicated it had brought the U.S. over to its position on the Chinese "Belt and Road initiative" with a reference to "respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity" on regional connectivity projects, which has been India's major concern.
Click here for the 2016 "Joint Statement – United States and India: Prosperity Through Partnership"
North Korea
North Korea is a new entrant into the Indo-U.S. Joint Statement, in keeping with Mr. Trump's sharp focus on curbing the DPRK leader Kim Jong-Un's nuclear and ballistic belligerence.
"The leaders strongly condemned continued provocations by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), emphasizing that its destabilizing pursuit of nuclear and ballistic missile programs poses a grave threat to regional security and global peace. The leaders called on DPRK to strictly abide by its international obligations and commitments. The leaders pledged to work together to counter the DPRK's weapons of mass destruction programs, including by holding accountable all parties that support these programs," the statement said, which is India's strongest statement on the subject.
Traditionally, India has maintained trade and low-profile ties with North Korea, but in 2015, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj received North Korea's Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong.
For weeks leading up to the Trump-Modi meeting, speculation had swirled around the idea that the U.S. would ask India for more support, with some reports speaking of a demand for up to 15,000 Indian Army troops to help with the U.S. and NATO's flagging efforts at fighting the Taliban.
Thus far, the only senior U.S. official to visit India was U.S. NSA McMaster, who came to Delhi from Kabul and Islamabad, which also fuelled the theory the U.S. sees a larger role for India in the conflict in Afghanistan.
However, the joint statement was non-committal on the nature of India's contribution for now, with Mr. Trump welcoming "further Indian contributions to promote Afghanistan's democracy, stability, prosperity, and security. Recognizing the importance of their respective strategic partnerships with Afghanistan, the leaders committed to continue close consultations and cooperation in support of Afghanistan's future."
A clearer picture will emerge once Defence Secretary James Mattis unveils the U.S.' revised Af-Pak policy in mid-July.
Climate change and nuclear deal
While cooperation on energy is highlighted in the Indo-U.S. Joint Statement, it was to be expected that America's commitment to helping India battle Climate Change would be dropped from all reference, given Mr. Trump's harsh observations when he pulled out of the Paris accord.
In 2016, this had occupied a hefty space, entitled "Advancing U.S.-India Global Leadership on Climate and Clean Energy". In 2017, a line in the Trump-Modi Joint statement reads, "The leaders called for a rational approach that balances environment and climate policy, global economic development, and energy security needs," with no mention of the "increased financial support from donor countries to the Multilateral (Climate Change) Fund" Mr. Obama had promised.
The Indo-U.S. civil nuclear deal, which was due to see the conclusion of the NPCIL-Westinghouse agreement for six reactors by June 2017, appears to be on hold for the moment, with Foreign Secretary Mr. Jaishankar expressing the hope that Westinghouse, which has filed for bankruptcy, will be "back in business" by the end of 2017. Instead of the direct reference to funding the project by the "U.S. Exim Bank" in 2016, there was only a reference to "related project financing."
However, on a positive note, "President Trump affirmed that the United States continues to remove barriers to energy development and investment in the United States and to U.S. energy exports so that more natural gas, clean coal, and renewable resources and technologies are available to fuel India's economic growth and inclusive development," indicating India will be making energy purchases from the U.S.


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John plays acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and harmonica. His performing past includes the band "Last Chance" and acoustic solo gigs at House of the Dragon. John's voice is tailor-made for songs by John Mellencamp, Bryan Adams and Bruce Springsteen.
First started playing:
Age 12; parents refused to buy me a guitar so I shoveled snow and did other jobs and bought a $50 Stella guitar which warped and cracked within a month. McCabe Music swapped me for a Kay which was almost unplayable given the distance between the neck and strings. Took lessons from Keith Franks Guitar Studio and quit due to having to play stuff out of the Mel Bay Beginning guitar book like "Polly Wolly Doodle All Day". I wanted to learn how to play "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks. My grandmother helped me buy my first Gibson electric guitar and thereafter a "Silvertone Twin 12 amp". I am basically self-taught on guitar and harmonica which explains some of my shortcomings on both instruments.
Why started playing:
To get girls.
First Record:
I bought my first 45 from my neighbors across the street. Of course it was "Surfin Safari b/w "409" by The Beach Boys. First Album was probably "Meet The Beatles".
Musical Influences:
Nearly everyone in the 60's particularly The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Doors and folkies like Gordon Lightfoot and Arlo Gutherie; Steely Dan, Doobie Brothers, Van Morrison, Eagles and The Allman Brothers Band; Kenny Rankin; Kenny Loggins. Growing up in the Eastridge area of Lincoln there were bands everywhere and any group Bruce and/or Al McCracken were in was always really good ("Nobody's Children", The Burgeguards", "Music". The Flippers and the Chancellors were also huge influences as were The Rumbles which is where I first heard well-arranged medleys of songs, much to Burner's dismay.
Favorite/Most Significant Albums:
Rubber Soul; Live At the Fillmore East; Court of the Crimson King; Strange Days; Aja; Dark Side of the Moon; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; Chicago 2; Pet Sounds; Who's Next, 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus; James Gang Rides Again; Yessongs
Musical Background:
My mother was a vocal/piano major. I had a steady diet of Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett and Peggy Lee in our house growing up. As soon as I saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan, that was pretty much it—I bought Beatle boots, a Beatles wig and had my grandpa make a wooden cut-out of a Fender Stratocaster. I played in the 6-Pak with Ted Larson, Sam Collura, Kevin Puterbaugh and Jim Gogela in junior high. Took time off in high school to play football and wrestle and then joined Last Chance from 1971-75 and played with Bob Creager and Bruce Upchurch. Later played as a solo guitarist/singer at clubs around Lincoln and in Seward. Told Dog and Paul after our 20th reunion I still didn't much care for either one of them but there was music to be sung and they both made me sound better than I was.
Best Concerts: (some but by no means all)
Tower of Power@Omaha Civic Auditorium Music Hall 1973; Doobie Brothers and Bob Seger Omaha Civic Auditorium 1976; Beach Boys and Chicago Kansas City Arrowhead Stadium 1978; Steely Dan @ Wells Fargo Theater Denver, 2009; Loggins and Messina@Stir Cove Council Bluffs 2009; John Prine@Omaha Civic Auditorium Music Hall 2005; Billy Joel and Elton John @Kemper Arena K.C. 2006
Equipment Used:
Taylor 614ce Acoustic/Electric Guitar
Fender Custom Shop Telecaster w/ EMG pickups
Rickenbacker 360/12
Fender Deluxe Reverb amplifier
Full-Tone/Janglebox/Boss pedals
Lee Oskar harmonicas
Shure and Heil Microphones


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The Seven Dimensions of Culture
Understanding and Managing Cultural Differences
Many of us work routinely with people from other cultures and backgrounds.
Often this goes well, and the cultural differences are interesting and enriching. However, sometimes things go wrong, for reasons that we may not understand.
This is where it's important to understand the differences between cultures, so that we can work with people more effectively, and prevent misunderstandings.
Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner's Seven Dimensions of Culture help us do this. We'll look at the seven dimensions in this article, and we'll explore how you can apply the model in your own situation.
About the Model
The Seven Dimensions of Culture were identified by management consultants Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner, and the model was published in their 1997 book, "Riding the Waves of Culture."
Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner developed the model after spending 10 years researching the preferences and values of people in dozens of cultures around the world. As part of this, they sent questionnaires to more than 46,000 managers in 40 countries.
They found that people from different cultures aren't just randomly different from one another; they differ in very specific, even predictable, ways. This is because each culture has its own way of thinking, its own values and beliefs, and different preferences placed on a variety of different factors.
Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner concluded that what distinguishes people from one culture compared with another is where these preferences fall in one of the following seven dimensions*:
- Universalism versus particularism.
- Individualism versus communitarianism.
- Specific versus diffuse.
- Neutral versus emotional.
- Achievement versus ascription.
- Sequential time versus synchronous time.
- Internal direction versus outer direction.
We'll look at each dimension in detail below.
You can use the model to understand people from different cultural backgrounds better, so that you can prevent misunderstandings and enjoy a better working relationship with them. This is especially useful if you do business with people from around the world, or if you manage a diverse group of people.
The model also highlights that one culture is not necessarily better or worse than another; people from different cultural backgrounds simply make different choices.
However, the model doesn't tell you how to measure people's preferences on each dimension. Therefore, it's best to use it as a general guide when dealing with people from different cultures.
Applying the Model
Let's look at each of the dimensions in detail, and explore some of the strategies that you can use with people who fit the characteristics highlighted in each dimension.
Note 1:
For each dimension, we've included some of the national cultures that Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner identified as having a preference at each extreme of that particular dimension. You can use this as a general guide, but remember to treat people as individuals, and to avoid stereotyping.
Note 2:
The cultural dimensions don't take into account people's personal experiences or differences between sub-cultures within the country, so bear this in mind when you're applying the model. This is especially relevant in today's global environment, where people can be influenced by many different cultures.
Note 3:
Be sensible in how you apply these strategies. In practice, there will be many other factors that will have a bearing on how you manage people and communicate with them.
1. Universalism Versus Particularism
(Rules Versus Relationships)
|People place a high importance on laws, rules, values, and obligations. They try to deal fairly with people based on these rules, but rules come before relationships.
|People believe that each circumstance, and each relationship, dictates the rules that they live by. Their response to a situation may change, based on what's happening in the moment, and who's involved.
Typical universalist cultures include the U.S., Canada, the U.K, the Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia, and Switzerland.
Typical particularistic cultures include Russia, Latin-America, and China.
2. Individualism Versus Communitarianism
(The Individual Versus The Group)
|People believe in personal freedom and achievement. They believe that you make your own decisions, and that you must take care of yourself.
|People believe that the group is more important than the individual. The group provides help and safety, in exchange for loyalty. The group always comes before the individual.
Typical individualist cultures include the U.S., Canada, the U.K, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia, and Switzerland.
Typical communitarian cultures include countries in Latin-America, Africa, and Japan.
3. Specific Versus Diffuse
(How Far People Get Involved)
|People keep work and personal lives separate. As a result, they believe that relationships don't have much of an impact on work objectives, and, although good relationships are important, they believe that people can work together without having a good relationship.
|People see an overlap between their work and personal life. They believe that good relationships are vital to meeting business objectives, and that their relationships with others will be the same, whether they are at work or meeting socially. People spend time outside work hours with colleagues and clients.
Typical specific cultures include the U.S., the U.K., Switzerland, Germany, Scandinavia, and the Netherlands.
Typical diffuse cultures include Argentina, Spain, Russia, India, and China.
4. Neutral Versus Emotional
(How People Express Emotions)
|People make a great effort to control their emotions. Reason influences their actions far more than their feelings. People don't reveal what they're thinking or how they're feeling.
|People want to find ways to express their emotions, even spontaneously, at work. In these cultures, it's welcome and accepted to show emotion.
Typical neutral cultures include the U.K., Sweden, the Netherlands, Finland, and Germany.
Typical emotional cultures include Italy, France, Spain, and countries in Latin-America.
5. Achievement Versus Ascription
(How People View Status)
|People believe that you are what you do, and they base your worth accordingly. These cultures value performance, no matter who you are.
|People believe that you should be valued for who you are. Power, title, and position matter in these cultures, and these roles define behavior.
Typical achievement cultures include the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Scandinavia.
Typical ascription cultures include France, Italy, Japan, and Saudi Arabia.
6. Sequential Time Versus Synchronous Time
(How People Manage Time)
|Sequential Time
|People like events to happen in order. They place a high value on punctuality, planning (and sticking to your plans), and staying on schedule. In this culture, "time is money," and people don't appreciate it when their schedule is thrown off.
|Synchronous Time
|People see the past, present, and future as interwoven periods. They often work on several projects at once, and view plans and commitments as flexible.
Typical sequential-time cultures include Germany, the U.K., and the U.S.
Typical synchronous-time cultures include Japan, Argentina, and Mexico.
7. Internal Direction Versus Outer Direction
(How People Relate to Their Environment)
|Internal Direction
(This is also known as having an internal locus of control.)
|People believe that they can control nature or their environment to achieve goals. This includes how they work with teams and within organizations.
|Outer Direction
(This is also known as having an external locus of control .)
|People believe that nature, or their environment, controls them; they must work with their environment to achieve goals. At work or in relationships, they focus their actions on others, and they avoid conflict where possible. People often need reassurance that they're doing a good job.
Typical internal-direction cultures include Israel, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and the U.K.
Typical outer-direction cultures include China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
Tip 1:
Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions is another model that can help you to understand different cultures. The advantage of Hofstede's model is that his research included only employees from one organization – IBM – so his findings are unlikely to be affected by differences in company culture. The disadvantage is that the culture of this company may skew more general results.
Tip 2:
To learn more about managing and working with people from specific countries and cultures, see the Managing Around the World articles in our Team Management section, and listen to our Expert Interviews with Terri Morrison and Michael Schell.
Key Points
The Seven Dimensions of Culture model was created by Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner, and was published in their book, "Riding the Waves of Culture."
The model says that what distinguishes people from one culture compared with another is where their preferences fall on each of the following seven dimensions:
- Universalism versus particularism.
- Individualism versus communitarianism.
- Specific versus diffuse.
- Neutral versus emotional.
- Achievement versus ascription.
- Sequential time versus synchronous time.
- Internal direction versus outer direction.
You can use the model to understand people from different cultural backgrounds better, so that you can work with them more effectively, and prevent misunderstandings.
Be sensible in how you apply the model. Treat people as individuals, and remember that there are many factors that will have a bearing on how you communicate and interact with other people.
* From Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business, by Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner. Copyright © 1997, Intercultural Management Publishers NV, Nicholas Brealey Publishing and Mc-Graw Hill Education. Used by permission of Hodder & Stoughton and McGraw-Hill Education.
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Over a month agoThe post is very informative.Thanks to the authors.
Over a month agoHi Elif,
Based on your knowledge of Brazil's culture, what do you think? Do they have an internal or external locus of control?
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At Vocel we use the New Relic plugin to monitor the performance of our production Rails apps.
In addition to the built-in ActiveRecord and Controller metrics, you can define your own custom metrics. The documentation clearly shows how to add a metric to an instance method, but how do you add one to a class method?


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A Marketing Riddle
Question: What am I? I'm the best minimal effort advertising technique on the planet, I'm modest, yet couple of organizations use me.
Answer: Credibility!
Or on the other hand for you land guru's, what are the 3 most significant components of promoting:
1. Believability
2. Believability
3. Believability
Believability is being accepted and trusted by your clients and expected clients. You can't get it. No measure of publicizing or advancement can hand it to you on a platter. However you can accomplish validity by confiding in and utilizing your own item skill.
Acquiring believability is the best advertising UFABET procedure on the planet. Furthermore, it is the least expensive. It can massively affect pay, and it can accomplish quick outcomes. You will be astonished at how simple it is and the distinction it will make. You can begin right away.
'Purchase this since it's acceptable'.
Most organizations sell their items and administrations just by discussing their highlights and advantages. They don't demonstrate a specific mastery in their industry, or even in the item. They just fundamentally say, 'Purchase this since it's acceptable'. The more they say it and the better the message looks, the more they praise themselves on an effective promoting effort.
Customary promoting has had its day.
There is more proof constantly that individuals stay away from commercials. They are searching for data all things being equal. Numerous families turn down the sound during TV advertisements. Perplexingly the more individuals oppose promoting, the more organizations spend on it. In distress, a few organizations presently resort to 'fired weapon' techniques, for example, paper publicizing and standard mail.
Disregard selling; demonstrate your ability.
Begin to situate yourself as the master on your item or administration. You don't do this by professing to be the master, or showing your great CV.
You do it rather by sharing your insight and giving your clients supportive, pertinent data, without a business contrivance and for nothing.
Jackie's Opals
Jackie Henderson is an honor winning jewelery originator, frequently working with Australian Opals. She utilizes a staff of 8. Jackie was quick to extend her business through building up her believability instead of conventional promoting. She composed a progression of data sheets, unreservedly accessible at her outlets and on her site. The sheets give clients data about the valuation of opals, how they are cut for greatest light impacts, the standards of utilizing gold or silver settings, and plan thoughts for opals. 'Instructions to detect a terrible opal' is especially famous. There are photographs of her jewelery to outline the point, however no immediate attempt to sell something. Jackie is nonetheless, unmistakably the creator. The sheets are a victor with clients, and the public by and large. They have cost close to nothing and brief numerous inquiries, including messaged inquiries from expected abroad purchasers. Jackie accepts the data sheets have been so fruitful she is discovering different roads for her 'validity drive'. She says, 'I'm attempting to set up my standing as the master opal goldsmith. It promises me deals.'
Does your business finish the believability assessment? Do you simply attempt to sell your item or administration? Or on the other hand do you acquire validity and trust from your advancements, by sharing your specific information?


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Posted on March 11th, 2017
By Dr. Tilak. S.Fernando
During a visit to a local renowned supermarket last week I approached the 'pharmacist' to make enquires about an allopathic cardiac drug (RanCV500). A guy who did not appear to have any knowledge of the inquired medicine questioned me as to what the drug was prescribed for? Quite bemused by the answer coming out of the so-called 'pharmacist' I ventured to ask him whether he was a qualified pharmacist, to which his answer was affirmative. I was not satisfied, and summoned the store manager to his presence and enquired whether the employee was a qualified pharmacist. The manager became tongue-tied, which convinced me that the pharmacist in this particular supermarket was an 'ordinary cashier.'
Subsequently, I spoke to the Operations Manager of the giant supermarket chain on the telephone to verify whether the company employs 'unqualified pharmacists' as a policy matter. He promised to deal with the complaint but let it 'die a natural death.' In the meanwhile further enquiries from the neighbourhood pharmacies revealed an established local pharmacy runs the supermarket pharmacy as well. A week later, I spoke to the Operations Manager once again, and he was surprised to hear my latest findings and admitted that the 'Supermarket operation was done with the aid of the local giant pharmacist's licence.' When pointed out that it was illegal to employ unqualified 'pharmacists' using someone else's licence, his blunt answer was: "In that case we have to close our pharmacies in all our branches." The writer explained to the OM, that the law that states, "if the licence holder is not available at any time, either the pharmacy will have to be closed or a locum pharmacist should be employed."
Efficacy and safety of medicine
The problem in this country is everyone is not familiar with their consumer rights and existing laws of public litigation. Safety and efficacy of medicine is vital to prevent maltreatment to patients. To this end only the public health mechanisms demand qualified pharmacists to dispense drugs. Sri Lankan Health Laws specifically make it compulsory for licensed 'Pharmacists' to exhibit their licence in the pharmacy. Despite such legal necessities what seems to take place is many licensed pharmacists employ 'unqualified cashiers' to deal with customers and drugs, which could endanger human life if wrong medicines are dispensed by unqualified square pegs in round holes, while the licence holders are busy with other exploitations.
While writing this article, a known person who is a qualified pharmacist who has had to work only as a pharmacy technician in a London Hospital (Sri Lanka registration is not acceptable in the UK) phoned me to inform about a similar occurrence from a pharmacy in Narahenpita where the licence holder apparently employs two girls to run the pharmacy. On that ominous day the girls, being naïve about the procedure, had refused the issuance of a cosmetic drug without a prescription. Under Sri Lanka schedule 1, drugs are permitted to be sold without a prescription, not loose but a complete pack.
The Drug Control Authority has taken perpetrators in the pharmacy operations to task, induced by public complaints and heavy court fines have been levied. This evidently calls for frequent flying squad operations by inspectors at least on a monthly basis to overcome drug related problems in pharmacies, and moreover to ensure qualified and licensed pharmacists are physically present at all times rather than ordinary cashiers substituting them. The giant franchises (like the supermarket exposed) should come under the stringent, vigilant eye and action of drug control inspectors regularly.
Statutory requirements
Statutory requirements on pharmacy operations require area Inspectors from Food and Drug Implementation, the Cosmetic Devices Agency and Drug Control Authority to organize regular monthly visits in appropriate areas to carry out investigations on 'outdated stock' (if any) and to ensure that every pharmacy maintains a prescription book daily. The book should carry information such as daily issues of drugs with patients' names and address, type and strength of the drugs issued. The pharmacy should maintain a list of their processed prescriptions with the issuing doctor's name on a daily basis.
The current Sri Lankan situation helps anyone known to the pharmacy staff could obtain any drug, including a controlled drug, without a prescription, except in hospitals, law-abiding pharmacies or OSU Sala. This has given rise to the thriving nature of private pharmacies dealing with illegal activities by hiring unqualified staff as 'cashiers'. To overcome this abuse and to protect the public an effective pharmacovigilence system, similar to that of the UK's Medicines Control Agency in London (Department of Health) is vital.
In the UK, for example, only qualified pharmacists displaying their names and 'Pharmacist' tags on the lapel of their white overall are permitted to handle drugs in chemists such as Boots. Even if a junior pharmacist prepares a prescription, the senior pharmacist has to double-check it, as a precaution and prior to handing over the prepared prescriptions to the patient; a double-checking process takes place with regard to the patient's name and address as against the details on the GP's prescription. This goes to show how delicately and dedicatedly drugs are handled when dispensing drugs to the public.
In Sri Lanka such norms seem to fly through the window, instead drugs are placed in small envelopes & given to customers, with the minimum of information (without writing the name of the drug or its strength etc.) Despite having stringent Health Regulations (with amendments to the Cosmetic Devices and Drugs Act 27 of 1980) imposing severe punishments of Rs 100, 000 or one year jail sentence or both on violators of health regulations, Sri Lankan Health sector needs to pull up their socks particularly in the area of pharmacy scams.
The writer's attempt to contact the Chairman CAA or Director Consumer Affairs and Information or the Deputy Director Consumer Affairs and Information to bring this matter to their attention was a disaster. Instead, a staff member answering the phone advised the writer that 'the CAA hasn't got teeth to bite pharmacy fraudsters, but the problem needs to be addressed by the Ministry of Health'. Dear Minister of Health, the ball is now in your court.


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There are multiple types of DNA tests. The three most common are Y-DNA testing, autosomal DNA testing, and mitochondrial DNA testing,(mtDNA testing).
To understand the differences between these tests, it can help to know how DNA is organized. Human DNA mostly comes in long stretches called chromosomes and each person typically has 23 pairs, for a total of 46 chromosomes.
Y-DNA tests look at one of the chromosomes in the 23rd pair, the Y chromosome. Autosomal DNA tests measure 22 pairs of chromosomes called the autosomes. And, mtDNA tests consider a tiny snippet of DNA stored in a completely different place in the cell, the mitochondria.
AncestryDNA uses autosomal DNA testing to provide insight into where your ancestors might have lived 500 to 1000 or more years ago, as well as your family history running back through generations. However, there are specific uses for each type of genetic test. Here's what you need to know about each in order to best compare DNA tests.
What is Y-DNA Testing?
Y-DNA testing can be used by people with a Y chromosome to research their 'patrilineal' ancestry—their ancestry through their male line. But not everyone has a Y chromosome. Only around half the population, typically biological males, have one. Because of this, Y-DNA testing is only available to around half the population (although someone lacking a Y chromosome can have a family member with a Y chromosome tested).
The Y chromosome is passed directly from a person's biological father, who inherited it from his biological father, and so on. This makes the Y chromosome useful for tracing back your biological father's male line. It also provides supporting evidence that someone is related to you.
The primary strength of a Y-DNA test though is that it can trace your biological dad's male line far back into time—thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago. This is possible because the Y chromosome is passed down with very few changes, generation after generation. The downside is that you can only trace a sliver of your heritage back so far.
What is Mitochondrial DNA Testing?
Mitochondrial DNA testing (mtDNA testing) traces a person's matrilineal (mother's female) ancestry using the DNA in his or her mitochondria.
Mitochondria, the powerhouses of the cell, are passed down from your biological mother's egg—your biological father shared none of his mitochondria with you. That's why you can only trace your biological mom's female line using mtDNA testing. And unlike a Y-DNA test, everyone can take a mtDNA test.
However, like a Y-DNA test, a mtDNA test can only trace a sliver of your family tree back in time and it can really only provide supporting evidence that someone is related to you. It also can be traced back in time thousands or even tens of thousands of years.
What is Autosomal DNA Testing?
Unlike mitochondrial DNA testing and Y-DNA testing, autosomal DNA testing analyzes most of your DNA that comes from your parents—the 22 pairs of chromosomes that make up your autosomes. The information in these chromosomes can help find recent and distant relatives, as well as find where your ancestors lived 500 to 1000 or more years ago. Autosomal DNA testing is much more information-rich than either Y-DNA or mtDNA tests since it can reveal more about your ethnicity and who you are related to.
Ancestry's autosomal DNA testing evaluates your genetic code at about 700,000 different locations, or markers, across your autosomal chromosomes, focusing on locations that differ between families and ethnic groups. This information can help you identify which of the more than 350 regions across the globe your ancestors may have lived in.


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Welcome to Rhema Bible Training College – Accra Ghana. We believe it is ordained of God that you are here and this will be life-changing for you. Purpose in your heart to receive all that God has for you this year. Remember that preparation time is never wasted time. During your time at RBTC you will receive solid foundational teaching from God's Word along with teaching on the moving of the Spirit of God, not just in word, but by precept and example.
We encourage you at the beginning of your study to allow nothing to keep you from completing your training. The enemy knows how vital this time is to your future effectiveness, and you can be sure that he will try to turn you aside. Make up your mind now that you will not be one of his statistics but will conquer him every time with the Word of God.
Please don't ever forget that all of us on the RHEMA staff love you very much. We hold regular prayer meetings to fit your needs before the Father. We want the very best for your life, so let us join our faith together for the greatest time in RHEMA Accra history! On behalf of RHEMA Accra, and all of us who take part in your training, we are glad you are here. Through the same spirit of faith and teaching of the Word you are a part of this world wide spiritual family. Get ready for one of the most exciting times of your life as you experience God's presence and grow in the knowledge of His Word.
In Christ,
Rev. Alexander Asirifi & Min Denise Asirifi
Campus Directors of RBTC- Accra Campus


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I have introduced you to the Mother Bear Project before. It's a cause close to my heart and I regularly contribute by making bears. This is a brief description from their website of what they do:
"The Mother Bear Project is dedicated to providing comfort and hope to children affected by HIV/AIDS in emerging nations, by giving them a gift of love in the form of a hand-knit or crocheted bear."
There are several ways to make bears. You can either crochet or knit them. You can make them flat or in the round. There's a pattern for each of these options here. I have made several by knitting in the round, I have made a lot by crocheting in the round and, more recently, I've been knitting flat ones, using the sewing while knitting technique from Mei. I love this method because it means I can knit garter stitch and still avoid sewing, which I really dislike. I love the look and feel of the garter stitch bears but I don't enjoy knitting it in the round, so this is the best of both worlds for me.
We always have technical discussions in the Ravelry Mother Bear Project group and, recently, we were discussing making the arms without leaving an opening. I said that I would take pictures of the process when making my next bear. This is what I did and I also took pictures of all the process of making a bear, from beginning to end. So, I thought I would blog about it in the hope that it might help someone. Here it is…
Using the pattern, I knit the first half (look, my dress matches the bear!)
At that point I use Mei's technique mentioned above to continue the other side and sew as I go. I do that until I'm ready to divide for the legs and then stuff the top part of the bear. I find it easier to stuff as I go along to get the right shape.
Here you can see the top part stuffed and one of the legs finished.
When both legs are finished, I stuff them and sew them shut. I always mean to start the legs with a provisional cast on to Kitchener stitch them closed but always seem to forget in my haste to cast on a new bear! I also use the cast off tail from the first leg to sew the small opening between the legs shut. So this is what the bear looks like before I start on the arms. The pattern calls for leaving an opening on the sides to make the arms, this is where it differs, I shut the sides off completely.
Here is how I pick up stitches directly onto the side of the body to make the arms. I pick up the purl bumps every second row for the desired amount of stitches, on each side of the body.
Here I am finished and ready to start knitting in the round. I use the magic loop technique but DPNs can be used just as well.
When I have finished knitting the arm, I stuff it and then close it using the Kitchener stitch.
Both arms done:
The biggest part of the work is now done. All that is left to do is to shape the head and the ears and to embroider the face. Here is how I do it.
I use the same yarn as I knit the head with. I choose a gap in the middle at the back of the head. I thread the yarn with a needle as pictured all around.
And make sure I come out in the same gap as I started. When this is done, I tie a knot with both ends, pull tightly and make a double knot.
I then hide both ends inside the bear, they will be invisible that way.
After that, I follow the exact same procedure to shape both ears, also starting at the back of the head. I also thread around and knot as for the head.
With head and ears shaped:
Now, what's left is my biggest challenge, embroider the face! This bear was bear number 73 for me but, even after so many bears, the face is always challenging.
Below is the technique I use. I use a standard yarn for this, no embroidery floss as I find that too thin doesn't work well. Make sure to take a nice length so you can finish the face.
First, I enter at the back of the head.
And come out where I want the nose to be.
I then repeat this process until I'm happy with the size of the nose:
Next step is the mouth. I make it this way:
And come out where the first eye will be. I make the eyes the same way as the nose.
This particular bear happened to be a girl bear and I decided she needed eyelashes. I made them this way:
Once I made the eyelashes on the second eye, I was finished with the face. To finish, I come out in the same gap as the one I come in and then tie a knot like I do for the head and hide it inside the same way.
The finished face:
The pattern calls for a scarf, I made my girlie a very thin one (just a crochet chain) because I knew I was going to make a big bow to go in her hair and I didn't want to distract from it. Here she is, all pimped up 🙂
And I should add that she is part of the "Yellow Gang". Their mission in life? Bring a smile on children faces.
I hope this will be useful to someone. If you'd like to help the Mother Bear Project but cannot knit or crochet, there are several other ways to help, all listed on their website. One of them, for instance, is to sponsor a bear, how fun!


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text: On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 10:00:25PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > lib/atanl.c > > lib/logl.c > > If you look into the glibc CVS log of sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128/s_atanl.c > and sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-128/e_logl.c, you see that the copyright holder > (Stephen Moshier) has given permission to license them under LGPL. > > > lib/diacrit.c > > This comes from Fran?ois Pinard's libit-0.2, which is GPL. > > > lib/alloca.c > > A long-time GNU citizen, distributed as part of many GNU packages. > > > lib/lbrkprop.h For these borrowed files from other GNU or free software projects, I think we still need an explicit note in the files distributed as part of gnulib. Could you please add the license header that corresponds to the license terms of the package from which it was borrowed to these files? IANAL, but I think you can legaly do that. > This is an automatically generated file. It's ridiculous to put a copyright > license on an automatically generated file if the generating program is > available under GPL, since anyone could take that generating program, > modify its printf() statements to emit a different license, and run the > generating program. I don't know how does copyright law apply to auto-generated programs. Maybe debian-legal can offer advice on this. > > tests/test-stpncpy.c > > I've put this under GPL now. Ack. Thanks! > > The worst problem, however, is in the "m4" and "modules" directories, where > > most of the files are unlicensed. > > For the m4 files, I propose to add the standard notice to them: > > [...] Well let's see how the GPL vs LGPL discussion ends up. I don't really have a take on this. > About the modules/ files. I wrote most of them. What kind of copyright > would you find useful, given that it's only meta-information? I think when they're copyright-significant GPL would be fine. However, my suggestion is that you set the global COPYING file to say "GPL unless stated otherwise". This way we can avoid trouble with copyright-significant misc files like READMEs and such. > Oh right, standards.texi is under GFDL. So this means that Debian will not > ship the GNU standards in the next release? There's no official statement on this, but the situation is that they may be included with sarge (at the maintainer's discretion) but not for later releases, when the new DFSG that unambigously applies to documentation takes place (see http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_004). -- .''`. Proudly running Debian GNU/kFreeBSD unstable/unreleased (on UFS2+S) : :' : `. `' http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu `-


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It has been four long days since I wanted to hear from my home finder. I know it wont be today as no one works but part of me fears for Tuesday. I am overly concerned about what she will do and if she will step up to the plate
The first time I asked her to step up she said nothing and when they called her she told them that I was "dealing with a lot at this time and could not recommend a placement" When I found this out several months later she said she meant that I was dealing with lead in my house and at that time she did not know I would be done in time. No she did not say that but allegedly that is what she meant. The next time was for a group of three in Ohio. I asked her to step up and she went to her Supervisor and came back saying "No it was not an appropriate match but should one come up she would step up but not this one" At least with this one she said a tentative maybe it is the first glimmer of hope.
My BFF shares my concerns. The agency unfortunately is much like a high school there are cliques and tons of back stabbing. While I am not in the "in" group I do hold the unique position of being the oldest. I was a foster Mom before anyone of them was in foster care. I am the oldest foster parent they have as in the number of years fostering. Sometimes this comes into play but many times the stupid games take lead and I am left out. I would leave them if I could but as long as I have a placement I am tied to their hip.
Each night I pray they do the right thing, realizing that what I want may not be the right thing. I pray for strength to deal with the outcomes regardless and of course I pray for C as she desperately wants a forever home. The more I learn about C the more confident I feel about parenting her and yet it might be for naught. It reminds me of a prayer someone posted on their Facebook page "Dear Lord give me patience right now"
I know I have to let go and let God but I am a control freak so it is killing me. I have to trust in God's plan and if this was meant to be it will work out. But I am torn between my wants and "the plan" But for today there is nothing I can do. I need to sit back, enjoy the kids and not focus on the things I cannot control.


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Once an exotic tropical fruit, the mango is now almost as common as the apple. Mangoes appear in salsas, chutneys, smoothies and fruit salads as well as puddings, tarts and cakes. They are such a versatile fruit in cooking that their popularity continues to grow. They also are delicious eaten with no embellishment.
Mangoes are rich in nutrients and fiber. They also are an excellent source of beta-carotene and vitamins A, C and D.
Mangoes have been cultivated in India – where the mango tree is considered sacred – since at least 2000 BC. Now the fruit is grown in temperate climates all over the world, including Florida and California.
Mangoes can be oblong or round and weigh from six ounces to four pounds. Their thin, tough, green skin turns yellow with red mottling as the fruit ripens. The flesh of the mango is bright orange and has a rich, sweet taste with a hint of lime.
When choosing mangoes, look for fruit with unblemished yellow skin with a red blush. Gently squeeze the nose of the fruit and, if there is a slight give, the mango is ripe. Mangoes can be stored in a cool place – but not refrigerated – for up to two weeks. The green, unripe fruit is used in the cooking of India, Malaysia and Thailand.
Mangoes are in season from May to September, but imported fruit is available sporadically throughout the year. In addition to their many uses in cooking, mangoes make a fine sandwich ingredient.
And a more versatile version of the sandwich is a wrap. Add some mango to a turkey wrap for a light summer lunch or dinner. It's cool, refreshing and fast – three summer requirements.
Turkey lends itself particularly well to a variety of seasonings and condiments. It also is a meat that goes well with many fruits. Wrap thin slices of turkey, along with lots of thinly sliced vegetables, in a whole-wheat tortilla and you're on your way to a healthful lunch.
The following recipe pairs turkey with mango in a light curried mayonnaise and, for a change, uses a pita pocket rather than a tortilla.
Turkey-Mango Pockets
Makes 4 servings.
- 2 tsp. curry powder
- 1/4 cup fat-free or reduced-fat mayonnaise
- 2 tsp. fresh lemon juice
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 8 oz. cooked turkey, cut up
- 2 cups cucumber, peeled, seed and cubed
- 1 ripe mango, peeled, pitted, chopped (about 1 cup)
- 1/2 cup Italian flat-leaf parsley, chopped
- 1/2 ripe avocado, peeled, pitted and cubed
- 4 whole-wheat pita pockets
Heat curry powder, stirring constantly, in a small skillet over medium-low heat until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Transfer curry powder to small bowl. Stir in mayonnaise and lemon juice. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Mix seasoned mayonnaise with turkey, cucumber, mango, parsley and avocado. Put one-fourth of the mixture into each pita pocket.
Wraps can be made up to 4 hours ahead and refrigerated wrapped tightly with plastic wrap. Bring back to room temperature before serving.
Per serving: 339 calories, 7 g. total fat (1 g. saturated fat), 49 g. carbohydrate, 25 g. protein, 8 g. dietary fiber, 498 mg. sodium.
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The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) is the cancer charity that fosters research on diet and cancer and educates the public about the results. It has contributed more than $82 million for innovative research conducted at universities, hospitals and research centers across the country. AICR also provides a wide range of educational programs to help millions of Americans learn to make dietary changes for lower cancer risk. Its award-winning New American Plate program is presented in brochures, seminars and on its Web site, http://www.aicr.org. AICR is a member of the World Cancer Research Fund International.