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The feature works with Gmail new to remind you to reply to old emails which I received several days ago, it can boost your follow-up emails that did not get a reply.
During the last period, I got the e-mail service from Google called Gmail Gmail on many of the news, as the company launched the design of the revamped web version, so that carried with it many significant improvements and new features to help people increase the productivity of the work such as the button postponement Snooze, in addition to facilitating access to frequently used applications, such as Calendar, recording observations, and application of important new Tasks.
During the opening session of the Conference of Google's annual developers Google I/O 2018, Google offered a new feature supported on the artificial intelligence allows the build smart Compose, which aims to help users create new messages from the beginning and quickly, and across the width of its numerous proposals, such as greetings at the beginning of the letter, and phrases most commonly used in e-mails, besides being able to suggest whole sentences by just typing several words of that sentence, which speeds up the process of writing.
And now Google is working on adding another new feature, which should reach users in the next few days, so this feature works to remind you to reply to old emails which I received several days ago, it can boost your follow-up emails that didn't get a response, and resemble the most of the new features added recently, such features rely on artificial intelligence.
It is supposed to be this feature able to select the emails most important to you and remember you, with reference to it works by default for users of the new user interface for Gmail, but you can turn them off in case I wanted to cross-move to Settings and deselect the option to suggest email messages to respond to them and the proposal of e-mail messages for follow-up.
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Karrueche Tran & Quavo: Their Plan To Avoid A Run-In With Chris Brown At BETs
How to avoid your ex, while you're with your new man, 101 — HollywoodLife.com has EXCLUSIVELY learned that Karrueche Tran is worried about a messy run-in with Chris Brown after she slammed him with a restraining order! So, will she be a no-show at the BETs?
Karrueche Tran, 29, is in a pickle. Should she go to the BET Awards and risk a run-in with her ex, Chris Brown, 28? Or, should she attend the show to support her man, Quavo, 26, who is performing with Migos? What's a girl to do? "Karrueche is stressing out about the BET's this weekend," a source EXCLUSIVELY tells HollywoodLife.com. "Things have been going well with Quavo, so she wants to be by his side at the awards show. But, she fears that might not be possible. Due to her restraining order with Chris, Karrueche fears that there will be a messy run–in between the three of them." She's not totally out of the ball park with that thought.
The actress is really feeling the pressure because "Quavo wants her to be by his side during the event, especially since he's performing," our insider says. Here's the deal — "Karrueche does not want any drama with her ex, and doesn't want to do anything to provoke Chris. She knows, first hand, how impulsive and unpredictable Chris can be. So, she wants to avoid the possibility of a big fight on the red carpet." We feel you, girl!
So, this is where the situation is at — "For now, Karrueche's only safe option is to skip the awards show entirely," the source says. But, that doesn't mean she won't try her hardest to be with Quavo. "Instead of attending the actual show, Karrueche has been looking to find a safe, Chris Brown-free BET after-party, where she can celebrate with Quavo." Awe! We hope things work out for the pair.
In case you weren't informed, Karrueche slapped Chris with a restraining order on May 4, while the singer was celebrating his 28th birthday in Houston. Her legal papers — which accuse Chris of threatening her — were granted on June 15. Get all of the details on the 5-year restraining order, right here.
Karrueche and Quavo were first linked when she was spotted leaving his Mississippi concert with him on April 8. The actress and the singer have yet to address the romance rumors. However, they've been dropping subtle hints that they are smitten with each other. While Quavo was in NYC, in the beginning of June, he posed in front of a billboard for Claws, Karrueche's new show, where she looked hotter than ever. "Out here in the New York streets," Quavo said in a video, which panned across the massive Claws ad. "What's up, girl?", he continued.
Although Quavo later deleted the telling video, it was probably because he and Karrueche are trying to keep their apparent budding romance on the DL. We'll see if these two make their red carpet debut at the BET Awards on June 25!
HollywoodLifers, do you think the three stars will have an awkward run-un?

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Welcome to the Beagle Association of Gauteng website. Apart from the addition of & relevant suitable photos our website is now virtually complete, so please browse and contact us if you require any further information. We hope to be able to add these over the next couple of months. We hope that you will enjoy browsing our website, and that you find a lot of useful and interesting information. We expect the information on this website to be of interest to all Beagle enthusiasts, be they owners, breeders, judges, or prospective owners, breeders, judges etc.
As there are many half truths and much hyperbole regarding the breed circulated via social networks and other websites, we would like this site to become the definitive source of accurate information on the Beagle breed in South Africa & the go to site for anyone looking for information on the breed . Additional material, as it becomes available, will be added from time to time. The Events page will be updated monthly so please check it regularly for news.
The Beagle is no more high maintenance than any other dog. Every dog requires food, shelter, warmth, love,company, stimulation and exercise - if you don't have the resources to fulfil these needs then it is best not to own a dog. The Beagle, essentially being a hunting dog, however does have one specific need- due to its highly developed working instinct ie scentwork - the Beagle requires a very secure property and supervision when running free. Although the Beagle is a hunting dog, it is also one of the best family dogs - read on to learn more about this breed.
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We do not read applications in any systematic order and we issue invitations for interviews when enough information is available for us to make a decision. In most cases this is not until after Dean's Letters arrive on October 1st. This is almost always the case for institutions where clerkship grades are only revealed in the Dean's Letter. However, we rarely finish reading all our applications before early November, so applicants should not expect to hear from us before then. Often, some applicants from a school will be invited to interview before others are. This is usually just a consequence of our reading some applications before others and should not be a cause for concern. We expect that all applicants will be notified about their interview on or before November 4th unless applications are incomplete at that time. As noted earlier, we review applications that are received after the October 31st deadline, but interviews are only rarely granted to those who apply late unless there are extenuating circumstances. Interview days for 2018-2019 are:
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- Friday, November 22th
- Tuesday, November 26th
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Approximately 32 candidates are invited for each interview day or about one of every 6 applicants .
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Candidates with MD/PhD degrees or PhD-like research experiences who plan research careers following residency are invited to participate in additional sessions on one of the Thursday afternoons before the December 13th and January 10th interview days. The applicants will also have dinner that evening with residents who plan to become physician-scientists. These sessions have been very popular in the past. They are designed to acquaint applicants with the research and fellowship opportunities in the Boston area and give them a chance to meet several scientists in their areas of interest. The MD/PhD days are entirely optional and are not part of the evaluation process.
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The BCRP embraces all forms of diversity, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, disability, gender identity and sexual orientation. Applicants who identify as a member of one or more of these or similar groups are invited to an informal diner the evening before their interview to familiarize them with special opportunities available within the BCRP and discuss any questions they may have about the program or the local community.
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It's a truism of my life that I can sit at home for days, enjoying the nice weather, but then when I'm actually required to do something, actually go somewhere, the weather will turn.
And so it has came to pass again this morning. The rain is pounding away on the roof above me, and I'm sitting here desperately hoping that it will stop by 11am – the time I need to be heading out of here.
It's been a desperate few days. Not only have we been dealing with my brother's broken nose, and the nightmare of trying to get the police interested (even though we have a photo of the perpetrator, his name, contact details and CCTV footage!), but in my own life there have been the usual turns for the worse.
Number 1 – I have wasted a significant degree of time chasing after people and applying for jobs that either a) don't exist; or b) were already sewn up. I've tried to secure some part-time work recently, including applying for an old job I once did. Now my calls aren't returned, and in any case it was their turn to reply after I'd jumped through all the hoops. If they're not bothered, then fuck them. I've had enough of being pleasant to people only to get it thrown back in my face. It is any wonder why I want to be self-employed properly? I hate sucking up to bosses – "Oh yes, I really want this job because it will be a wonderful challenge for me and I want to work for such an outstanding company that will help me develop as an individual!". Bullshit. You want the job because you need the cash and you're sick and tired of watching Flog It! and Jeremy Kyle.
Number 2 – the football club seems to be heading into ruin because of the incident, and ongoing traumas which were enhanced still further on Saturday. Not only is it a logistical nightmare, but the so-called "kids" were playing against (many of them are overage) are thugs and have no class. Same goes for the managers. Then there is the problem of leagues threatening to go renegade and quit the local FA structures. Total nightmare, and all because of a few egos and the low level of intelligence that most people running football clubs and leagues have.
Number 3 – due to my brother's broken nose, I have assumed all his responsibilities for delivering his newspaper round. Yes, that does mean I take his pay, but for £20 it's a lot of pissing around. For instance, today I'm going to a job, then coming home to do the paper round, then going back out to do another job. Lunacy. But it has to be done, and no one else can do it.
Number 4 – my elder sister is a constant source of agony and woe to us all, but particularly my mum, who feels like she has to help her do everything, from pay her bills, to finding her a new place to live.
And in the midst of all this, there are birthdays and Father's Day. They're meant to be happy, joyous occasions. But no one feels like celebrating anything because of the continuous compounding of misery we've suffered the past two weeks or so.
I despair. I really do. I wish I had good news to report, but there just never seems to be any. The only good news is that at least I'm fit and healthy. Not everyone can say that.


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The VCA Shoreline Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center in Shelton is collecting pet food donations for the Shelton Animal Shelter.
During December, people can bring items to the center, 895 Bridgeport Ave.
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Today we present one of our favorite recipes, wholegrain rice with mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes and spring onion. Enjoy!
Ingredients for 4 people:
-150gr of wholegrain rice
-3 bunches of spring onions
-100gr seasonal mushrooms
-100gr button mushroom
-100gr fresh shiitake (if not available, you can use dried shiitake)
-20gr dried black trumpets
-100gr sun-dried tomatoes
-Olive oil
-Ground paprika
– Ground ñora pepper
Firstly, cook the rice (using twice the volume of water to rice) in a saucepan with the saffron, ground ñora pepper and a pinch of salt. Whilst it´s cooking, hydrate the dried mushrooms and tomatoes in water. Once the mushrooms are hydrated, chop them.
Now, using a paella pan, gentle fry the spring onions, then all the mushrooms and finally the previously hydrated sun-dried tomatoes. Add a little paprika and turn off the heat.
When the rice is cooked, drain and add it to the paella pan, then add one-third by volume of vegetable stock. Let stand until the rice has absorbed the stock, followed by a further 5 minutes. Serve immediately.


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EVA Air will launch flights to three more destinations in Japan in 2019, complementing the eight gateways it is serving now. Subject to government approvals, EVA will initiate flights from Taoyuan International Airport near Taipei, Taiwan to Nagoya, Aomori and Matsuyama, starting in the second quarter and continuing through the third. Travelers can learn more about EVA's schedules, easy connections and services, in addition to booking flights, on the airline's website at www.evaair.com.
EVA Air has brought home two significant Airline Excellence Awards from global airline safety and product champion AirlineRatings.com. The Star Alliance member earned the No. 8 position among the World's Top-10 Airlines 2019 and Best Long-Haul Airline Asia/Pacific. More about the awards and rating criteria is available at www.AirlineRatings.com.
TAIPEI, TAIWAN (October 22, 2018) --EVA Air showcased its first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in a grand debut event at Evergreen Aviation Technologies Corp.'s Hangar No. 3. EVA Chairman Steve Lin officially hosted the event and welcomed Taiwan's aviation authorities, travel agencies, air cargo freight forwarders, EVA social media fans and employees. Approximately 400 guests celebrated with EVA as it unveiled its first 787-9 Dreamliner.
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Dynamic pricing is the practice of having multiple price points based on several factors, such as customers segments, peak times of service and time-based consumption that allow the company is applying dynamic pricing to expand its revenue generation.
Thus, wherein a static or fixed pricing a company applies the same price level to any customer and market condition, in a dynamic pricing strategy a company applies several prices based on a few critical factors for the business.
When price tags didn't even exist
Today we go to any store find a price tag and assume that is the value of that item we're purchasing. There's no question asked, neither interaction in many cases with the clerk. Yet there was a time when price tags didn't exist.
Finding the origin of things is always hard. Before the 19th-century price tags didn't exist. In other words, before buying anything you needed to bargain and haggle with the clerk to finalize the purchase.
When price tags got introduced, they did represent an incredible innovation. Indeed, stores could finally manage more inventories with fewer clerks. That's because clients needed to walk to the clerk ask for price and after haggling, a bit agree on the purchase.
This might have been time-consuming in terms of the clerks required to manage the inventory">inventories, the training needed to have clerks know the price ranges, and what was allowed. And the time it could take to customers to bargain the price.
As price tags have become the norm, where the same prices are applied to anyone, we find it odd when on the web the same thing changes in price. In many cases, we look for a flight ticket, which price is different, an item on a popular e-commerce platform that according to where and when we browse shows us a slightly different price.
This makes us wonder whether the era of price tags is over in favor of what is called dynamic pricing. Also, many dynamic pricing strategies are already used in many of the products or services you might buy. It's just that you don't realize that.
What is dynamic pricing?
Dynamic pricing is the practice where prices for goods or services change based on several factors. Think of the case in which there is a surge in demand for a service (Uber for example), and the price of it rises accordingly.
Therefore, there are certain times of the day or certain periods where the same service or item can be sold for more. Also, at a certain interval of time, the demand for a service might be higher. Think of the case of more people trying to purchase a ticket for a concert which might drive price up.
Is dynamic pricing legal?
As fixed prices have become the norm after the 19th century, people often wonder whether dynamic pricing is legal. Yet it is when price discrimination depends on economic factors that are affected by demand and offer. In other cases, if price discrimination might be based on gender, race or religion that becomes illegal.
Technological changes are enabling dynamic pricing
Think of the case in which you enter a store to purchase a coffee an pay $2. Yet a person enters the same coffee shop and purchase the same coffee for $1. Would you feel good about it? Chances are you'd feel ripped and perceive the so-called dynamic pricing as a fraud.
Think of a different scenario. You're purchasing an item on e-commerce, that item price is set according to several factors. The algorithm that drives the offering on the e-commerce platform has quite some data about your behavior, spending habit, it knows your location, and it knows the time of purchase.
Based on all those variables it determines the price of the good you're buying. You would perceive it as all done algorithmically and automatically by a machine, which is not thinking. You might perceive it as technological advancement.
Besides, if you don't feel like to buy, you can see quite the e-commerce and get back when and if prices are lower. The fact that technology nowadays allows platforms to embed algorithms makes it easy for those companies to leverage dynamic prices and makes it easier for consumers to accept this practice.
How can you apply dynamic pricing to your business?
If you're evaluating dynamic pricing for your business, then it makes sense to understand whether your business model might be better off with this approach. For instance, do you serve several segments that have entirely different budget levels?
Think of a company that serves both consumers or business clients. The former will have a budget that is way lower compared to the latter. In that case, you can achieve higher revenue by simply repackaging your product or service in a different format.
Therefore, for the customer segment with the highest budget, it might make sense to have your service at a certain time of the day. Thus the price for that segment will be higher. In other cases, your product or service might have peaked.
Think of the case of more people consuming electricity at a certain time of the day. Based on simple demand and offer electricity will cost more. Think also of a coffee shop for which customers purchasing from the early hours of the morning are willing to pay more. You can create a fast track that makes the price higher for those customers.
Think also of the case of e-commerce that does business around the world. In certain countries (like the US and Canada) the value of the service is higher and the spending ability as well. Therefore, based on the IP of the user accessing your store prices will change to reflect local spending habits.
In short, there are several ways in which you can apply dynamic pricing to your business, and it boils down to a few scenarios:
- peak or surge pricing: based on peak hours or periods where the service gets charged more
- segmented pricing: based on the spending ability of some customers compared to others
- changing conditions: applied for instance when sales start to slow down due to macroeconomic factors, to keep up with the trend and adjust them upward again when the market gets better
- time-based pricing: offer faster service for a higher charge
- penetration pricing: lower the price of service as a sort of marketing expense to penetrate a market
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Hey guys n' gals I'm back! It's been a while since I've posted on here due to a number of reasons. In no particular order – I moved house, got hit by a motorbike, visited Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, China & North Korea, climbed cranes, snuck into the London sewers, partied in the Paris catacombs, and almost joined a gospel church! I may start another blog for those adventures one day but for now I need to tell you about this amazing restaurant.
Persepolis is exactly as it's name suggests, a Persian metropolis. They sell all kinds of middle eastern ingredients, sweets, cakes, vegetables and dairy products, plus random stuff like ornaments, watering cans and postcards. Frankly there isn't enough room on this page to list everything they sell, and that's just one half of the business. The other half of the shop is dedicated to their vegetarian/vegan restaurant 'Snackistan', run by acclaimed cookbook writer and chef, as well as purveyor of massive red frizzy hair, Sally Butcher, otherwise known as Mrs Shopkeeper. She's written around seven or eight cook books which are all on sale in the shop, and the best part is she will most likely be cooking your lunch or dinner so get ready for a treat!
As you can see I've been many times, in fact I think I've tried almost everything on the menu and it's that kind of place where you keep coming back to try more. It's not a fast food joint so don't expect to be in and out quickly, it's a relaxed affair with friendly vibes and if you're lucky enough you might get some Iranian techno with your meal. ❤
Guess where I'm going for lunch today….
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Poland population and farming model
Hi all,
As mentioned elsewhere, I have been working for a while on a Poland population model. I was also doing this to get a handle on farming needs (specifically land), to use this to help me create a credible view of the world the PCs would be venturing within. So this is what I came up with.
I started with the 2006 populations by voivoideship, powiat, and gmina.
Wikipedia: "The territory of Poland is divided into voivodeships (provinces); these are further divided into powiats (counties), and these in turn are divided into gminas (communes or municipalities)."
Although the current division of Poland in this way was done in 1999 and would probably not have been done in the T2K timeline, for the sake of finding current information this seemed to be the easiest way to go about it.
After getting the 2006 pop data, I had to pick some baselines for the T2K world. As some canon sources disagree on how many people are where, I used my main source to be the East Europe Sourcebook (#2017). This listed (on page 18):
"Before the war, Poland's population was 38,300,000."
"... the country barely boasts 9 million people now."
The first figure was close enough to the number I got for Poland's population in 2006 to ignore the difference there, and so I then used 9/38.3 = 23% as my baseline for population effects.
Page 18 also listed the populations of several cities: from Warsaw with 152,000 to Czestochowa with 18,000. I used these as some starting points, and also assumed that no other city not on this list was over 18,000 population (on the basis that it would have otherwise been included in this list).
From there, I started generating post-war populations down to the gmina (commune) level. I used pre/post-war ratios and population densities per square km as a guide, and randomly generated the last three digits of each population (so I didn't have to decide the minute stuff). Then I matched up all the figures to make sure the totals came out right. That finished the population run.
For farming, I made some assumptions, based on previous ideas I had seen (Grae's & Antenna's). The basic assumptions and model were:
(1) It takes 1 square km to feed 100 people. I got this rough figure from a UN report (I think it was) that said about 1.2 acres = 0.5 ha is needed to sustain 1 person - and then I doubled it as a margin of safety factor.
(2) 1 person producing food can support 2 people. Note that not all these people are farmers, but also bakers, grocers, butchers, ploughing teams, fertilizer merchants, etc.... I figured 50% of the food production people are actual farmers.
(3) Out of every 8 people, 6 are work-capable, 1 is partially capable (young teens, elderly, etc.) and 1 is incapable (very young or old, invalids, etc.). This produced "surplus population" and "partial worker" figures that could be used for other work.
Points (1) and (2) above I made alterable in the file, so that an area (e.g., the Margravate of Silesia) could have greater or lesser efficiency in these two areas. But for the base file, I made everything the same.
A secondary assumption here is that not all of the assigned farmland is actually in crops, etc. Some could be forage land, some fallow, some only for grazing, etc. However, it just gave an idea of what sort of area was being utilized. In terms of cropland, I figure about 1/3 of the assigned land would be in crops at any one time.
Finally, from all this, I generated the surplus population and partial worker figures. This I intend to use as a starting point for generating communities. Of course there is now way I intend to detail all of Poland, or even all of a single voivodeship, but even just the numbers as presented are giving me ideas. More on that below, with an example.
(The file below I made using OpenOffice Calc, converted to XLS. It should be readable in Excel.... if not, let me know.)
Oh, PS: the yellow cells in the file are the ones that are editable to affect the final calculations. Everything not a yellow cell on the right side (last 3 columns) is a calculation based on the yellow cells.
*** updated file posted below in post #10
*** updated file again, posted below in post #12
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Example 1:
Sieradz City (Sieradz County, Lodz Voivodeship)
2006 pop: 44,045
T2K pop: 7,166
Pop ratio: 0.16 = 16% of "pre-war" population
Area in square km: 51
Pop density (people / sq km): 140
Farming factor: 0.500 = 0.5 food producers to make 1 person's food
Farmland factor: 100 = 100 people fed per sq km of farmed land
Area farmed (sq km): 15
Food production surplus: -5,666 (i.e., a shortfall)
Surplus population: 4,625 (these are the people potentially employed outside of food production)
Partial workers: 896 (could be used to partially offset people in other areas, etc.)
Based on this, Sieradz has a huge food shortage, and so will be needing to import food from other places (likely the gminas nearby). They have a relatively large "surplus population" that can be used to produce goods or light industry, or as a militia, etc. (assuming they can be fed). Alternatively, this city could be seen as unsustainable, and population could be redistributed to another area by the GM.
Example 2:
Gmina Sieradz (Sieradz County, Lodz Voivodeship)
2006 pop: 9,788
T2K pop: 2,573
Pop ratio: 0.26
Area in square km: 182
Pop density (people / sq km): 14
Farming factor: 0.500
Farmland factor: 100
Area farmed (sq km): 33
Food production surplus: 727
Surplus population: 280
Partial workers: 322
Gmina Sieradz has a food surplus and it is likely that this is being traded with Sieradz city for goods. The "surplus population" is quite low, and from this pool would need to come the dedicated militia to protect the area. As only around 1/4 of the pre-war population is present in the gmina, it is possible that some villages are abandoned, and the populace concentrated at the best farming land in the area. Only 33 of 182 sq km of land is being farmed, so as GM, a choice could be made to move some people from Sieradz City to the gmina to produce more food. Alternatively, some of the "partial workers" could be employed in the farms (at perhaps 50% effectiveness) to produce more food, etc. However, this could perhaps have other consequences (lack of schooling of young teens leads to lack of other skills down the track?).
Potential storyline options here include PCs being hired as food caravan guards between these locations, getting involved in a food riot, the local council trying to find ways to help improve the area's farming efficiency (machinery, stealing experts from elsewhere, etc.), or the arrival of a military unit tipping the already-bad situation even worse (with attendant violent consequences).
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Very good work !
"There is only one tactical principal which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."
--General George S. Patton, Jr.
Wow Atiff. Impressive. Nice job.
"It is better to be feared than loved" - Nicolo Machiavelli
What Targan said. Wow.
My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.
Something tells me that when Atiff posts from now on, people listen
Thanks guys.
I found a bug in one of the formulae; have fixed, and will post the updated file later (on another computer right now). Basically, it didn't recalculate the numbers properly if you changed the efficiency of the farming from '100'.
My next project is detailing Kepno County (south of Kalisz) using some of these numbers as a baseline. I want to do this for Krakow and environs in the longer run, but want to tackle something smaller first
Thats some awesome detail! One thought, your assuming that all the area in Poland is free to farm no? I doubt that Soviet Tank Division is going to allow your city to farm and keep the food...
Just trying to add another layer of realism to this FINE FINE WORK!
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One thing I like about the outcome of this model is that, by and large, it matches the idea that the greater part of Poland is starving. IMO, this helps to create conflict and helps lead to the breakdown of the nation and the military commands. I.e., I think the basic model matches the basic storyline at a large scale. But within this, there are regions and communities that are in very different situations, and this helps create more story ideas at the smaller scale.
Updated file
Latest file version
Updated a dodgy formula, and added in "number of food producers" column.
Note that "number of food producers" is only the number that are producing and preparing local food. You can see in bigger population centers that not very many people are "producing food". Imported food probably also needs "produced" by people in the location (e.g., grocers, bakers, etc.) unless you assume the "food producers" from the source location are traveling and selling the food themselves. (I.e., this is one point where the model breaks down a bit.)
Updated again
Updated this again, if anyone is interested. Things changed include:
- Added a "max farming area" column for each location down to gmina level. I built this by hand/eyeball, using Google Maps satellite pics and assuming about 80% of the non-forested land is farmable. There will be things that are "off" in doing this, but it's a reasonable baseline, I think.
- Added an "imported food producers" column, showing a number of people assumed to be working within a city/town to help import and distribute food within a location (in addition to the producers who actually make it at the source).
- Roughly updated all the population figures in the yellow columns to show the "maximum population" needed to farm that location. In many rural places, this is larger than the pre-war population (manual labor replacing machines).
From this, I intend to down-grade these population numbers to reflect the specific setting I am working on. But I thought I would provide this as the "max population" file for others, if they are interested, so they can play with it on their own.
Any comments, let me know!
Reading it I found it rather depressing if entirely true. A very sad state of affairs and something every last person is likely to have witnessed countless times since the outbreak of the war, particularly since the nukes dropped.
I think we all tend to forget that it's the children who suffer the most, the children who end up doing the majority of the dying in a total war.
If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.
Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"
Mors ante pudorem
farming force multiplier, or, tactical popcorn
The text of Ruins of Warsaw mentions scythes as farm implements--that's a fairly labor-intensive method of harvesting the grain.
Anybody have an idea how difficult it would be to cobble together a couple of McCormick Reapers to bring the Warsaw harvest in while allowing most of the hand labor to go to shoring up the fortifications? And about how many would be needed to bring their harvest in within 2-3 days? Nothing really fancy, don't need the machines to thresh or bind the stalks just to cut them down. If the city's jackleg mechanics have been scrounging the debris for useable metal, I am sure they would have come across a few bicycle frames by now. Or perhaps Adam Rataj has some part of a consignment of bikes on board the barge from the Krakow industries. The grumpy genius ship's mechanic could use the Krolowa's machine shop to transform the bikes into harvester frames. Research at the New/Old City library could provide essential details as to how to make the frames strong enough to function correctly. Disinformation can be spread that the frames are designed to help people take their belongings out of the city when the Baron("who will surely be the victor") assaults the city. Lots of adventure potential here.
I've been toying with the idea of trying to harvest just the tops of the cereal stalks, leaving the rest of the plant upright. When the Baron's forces come a-marchin' through the rye, so to speak, lob some WP rounds into the dry stalks, creating a ring of fire around the units. Troops, by the numbers, _PANIC_!!!!!! You could probably leave the corn on the stalks--it would cook the ears and provide a meal post battle. THen again, marching through a cornfield with lots of downed ears underfoot is like dancing on rolling pins (something we found out at the 135th Antietam ACW reenactment).
"Let's roll." Todd Beamer, aboard United Flight 93 over western Pennsylvania, September 11, 2001.
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You can figure the math as to how many are needed for three days work as I don't know how many acres you're talking about. I would say a typical field though is probably no more than 20 acres if it's all done by muscle power, probably smaller in the range of 5-10 acres.
In days of old one man with a scyth could cut about an acre a day so I've read. He needed a bundler or two with him, and another to shock, so there were 3-4 persons cutting an acre a day...
Hope this helps some, and not too late.
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Rock 366 : Day 53 : Contact Metamorphism
Day 53 : A bit of a mystery rock this one. I found it, unlabelled, in a box of rocks due to be thrown in the skip but I think it is too nice to chuck out. Some nice reaction products here. Unknown locality. Keele collection, but not for much longer.


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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Feb 8, 2011 16:39:30 GMT 12
Flight of the Tiger Moth
By KATHERINE ROBINSON - The Dominion Post | 3:45PM - Thursday, 20 January 2011
AIR AND GRACES: Open-cockpit thrills over the Wairarapa's
Ruamahana River. — KATHERINE ROBINSON/The Dominion Post.
I BLAME my diary, which comes with cheery motivational messages for every week of the year. The day I was asked if I'd like to go for a joyride in a Tiger Moth I read, "Be brave. There is no substitute for experience." I remember this much later, bouncing 1500 feet up above the Wairarapa Plains in a plane that feels as a light as a butterfly.
Now, my experience of flight to date has usually involved at least two hefty jet engines, a cabin crew, and an aisle wide enough to hold the trolley load of drinks that will anaesthetise me to the fact that I am thousands of feet up in the air in a metal tube.
Flying a Tiger Moth is quite different. For a start it's an open-canopied plane. Not a strong selling point for some, but a test of my theory that it's not heights that make me jittery — more a fear of confined spaces.
And it's romantic. The plane's double-winged silhouette recalls the days when planes were made of cloth and tied together with string. The first De Havilland Tiger Moth flew in 1931 and 10 to 20 years later it was still the primary training plane for air forces around the world.
Hollywood loves the Tiger Moth — Meryl Streep leapt into one in Out of Africa to chase flamingos over Lake Tanganyika, and in The English Patient Ralph Fiennes pilots a Tiger Moth over the sinuous North African dunes. (I ignored comments from those who reminded me that both the planes crashed.)
"So, are small planes dangerous?" I ask John Bargh, chief pilot of the New Zealand Sport and Vintage Aviation Society's aerial acrobatic team at Masterton's Hood Aerodrome.
He chooses his words judiciously. "Well, a lot of small planes are flown by non-commercial pilots and I think sometimes they push it a little," he says. "You have to be careful with the weather here."
John made his first flight as a teenager in 1969 and has stacked up at least 20,000 hours in the air as a topdressing pilot. Flying is how he earns his living and it's also what he does for fun. He practises loop-de-loops and barrel rolls in the Tiger Moth, and once took it on an all-day flight to Wanaka for an airshow. He is my pilot for the next hour or so.
We are both clad in the full Biggles kit — big leather flying jacket, bathing cap-like helmets with goggles and huge ear muffs. There's no mirror, but I'm pretty sure I do not look like Meryl Streep.
But the plane, ZK-BLK, is the real thing. Built at the Rongotai works in 1943 to train Royal New Zealand Air Force pilots bound for combat, it has less instrumentation than my car and is considerably narrower.
ANXIOUS AVIATRIX: Katherine Robinson
prepares for take-off in a vintage Tiger Moth.
I sit in the front, right behind the propeller — a little unnerving, as it makes me wonder if I am expected to drive this thing. Actually, I am just ballast and tightly strapped to the seat. According to John, it's quite hard to fall out, as G-forces would push me inside, even if the plane flew upside down. If I feel airsick, John tells me, I should just pull down one of the sides and go to it over the wing.
The Tiger Moth has a reputation as a fearless yet forgiving plane that yearns to be in the air. It's true — the plane trundles briefly along the grass, not so much taking off as allowing the wind to lift it. Once airborne, it becomes clear how sensitive the plane is to any breeze. A light to moderate wind at ground level translates to a lumpy ride from even 500 feet up. The plane twitches with every gust.
After one rollercoaster-like lurch, I take a few panicky photos that capture my own white knuckles.
Gradually, I calm down — I tell myself that I have been on bumpier roads. If anything, it reminds me of sailing with the same exhilarating sense of being part of the elements.
The engine is a comforting hum, turning into a growl when the little plane beats against a headwind. A wind shield above the cockpit protects me, but if I make any movement away from it, the wind roars in my face. I have to grip my camera as I take shots of the Wairarapa Plains stretching down to Palliser Bay and north to Mount Bruce.
"It's really best early in the morning," says John. "The air is as smooth as silk."
The plane's normal cruising speed is a gentlemanly 70mph (113km/h), but in aerial acrobatics like the loop-de-loop, John points the plane straight at the earth and rockets down to get the speed up to 120mph. This gives enough momentum for him to level out, flip the plane and swoop down. It has been likened to getting a Morris Minor around a racetrack.
We tootle about for a bit above the tangle of the Ruamahunga River, tidy lines of vineyards and a surprising number of backyard swimming pools. Then we swoop low into the afternoon sun towards the Tararuas.
"I'll bank so you can get a better shot," crackles John over the microphone. The wing dips sharply and the horizon isn't in the right place any more.
We spiral, banking tightly around. An old farmhouse, swimming pool and vegetable garden appear on the wing tip. It should be scary, but I'm too busy taking in the view to worry.


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(336).Start a Industrial Gas Plant
Industrial gas is a group of gases that are commercially manufactured and sold for use in industrial processes, such as steelmaking,oil refining, medical applications, fertilizer, semiconductors, etc.,. They may be both organic and inorganic, are produced by extraction from the air by a process of separation or are produced by chemical synthesis, and will take various forms such as compressed, liquid, or solid.
The most common industrial gases are:air gases - oxygen (O2), nitrogen (N2) and argon (Ar) rare gases - such as helium (He), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe) and neon (Ne) and other gases like hydrogen (H2), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) ,chlorine (Cl2), hydrogen chloride (HCl) and sulphur dioxide (SO2) ,acetylene (C2H2), methane (CH4) and propane (C3H8).
In addition, there are many different mixtures of these and other gases to meet the needs of specific applications. The industrial and medical gases industry serves a very large number of customers in the whole community. Industrial gases are essential for almost all manufacturing. Large quantities of oxygen, nitrogen and argon are used in the steel and metal industry. Shipyards and the automotive industry use acetylene, propane, mixtures of fuel gases and oxygen for cutting and welding. Liquid nitrogen is vital in recycling plastics, packaging and scrap tyres. The chemical industry employs all major industrial gases as a raw material or for inerting. The other smaller market segment consists of cylinder gas and mixtures.
According to the Freedonia group, inc., a Cleveland-based industry research firm, world demand for industrial gases is forecast to increase 6.9% annually to $36.8 billion in 2011, with volume exceeding 300-bcm (billion cubic meters). Asia/pacific is the largest consuming region because of rapid growth in developing industrial markets, especially those of china and India.
Coming back to India, there are presently over 300 small & medium size plants and approximately 25 large tonnage plants all over the country. These gases are supplied through pipelines to captive customers in adjacent factories; in cryogenic transport tanks for bulk deliveries to long distance customers; or filled in cylinders.
The present annual turnover of the gas industry, excluding captive production is about Rs. 3,000 crores ($650 million). With increased industrialization, the demand pattern of industrial gases is also changing fast. Modern application in the food processing industry, agro industries, healthcare and technology are growing at a tremendous pace. This has driven the industry to adopt stringent quality control systems and an efficient distribution network.
Major players in India include BOC India, INOX Air Products Ltd., Jindal Praxair Oxygen Co. Ltd., Air Liquide India Holding P.Ltd., Aims Industries Ltd etc.
The Indian gas industry is growing at an average rate of 12 per cent per annum during the last couple of years, with the industrial oxygen growing consistently at 15-17 per cent per annum. The growth of industrial gas industry can be easily forecast on the basis of projections of the steel and other metallurgical industry. Steel demand is seen rising by 10% in the fiscal year to march 2011, helped by higher spending on infrastructure will continue to drive growth of the gas industry. Natural gas comprises 9 % of India's primary energy consumption and it will be 14% of energy mix by 2010. Demand for natural gas is also likely to increase at an average annual growth rate of 7.3%.Metals production and fabrication will continue to be the largest market for industrial gases, accounting for 31% of total demand in value terms in coming years. The second largest market will be the chemical processing/petroleum refining segment. The medical/healthcare market, though smaller in size, will be the fastest growing and record gains from the expansion of healthcare services in developing nations and rapidly increasing use of home healthcare respiratory therapies in advanced economics. Hydrogen is gaining prominence and most companies are striving to develop technologies that can efficiently exploit the potential of hydrogen. Increased use of natural gas will create an opportunity for higher production of argon and carbon dioxide. The Industrial gas industry has a very bright future in the coming years.
- The global market for the industrial gas business was worth $63 billion in 2008. It decreased to an estimated $59 billion in 2009, but is projected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.2% to $76 billion in 2014.
- Sales in the chemicals and refining-related processing market amounted to $22.7 billion in 2008, and decreased slightly to $22.4 billion in 2009, but are expected to reach $27.5 billion in 2014, for a 5-year (CAGR) of 4.1%
- The second-largest segment of the market, metal manufacturing and fabrication, was estimated to be worth $17 billion in 2008 and was expected to decrease to $14.5 billion in 2009. It's projected to grow to more than $20 billion in 2014, for a 5-year CAGR of 6.7%.
Nitrogen Gas Plant
Nitrogen plant/generator operating on PSA technology, consists of twin tower system filled with special grade of carbon molecular sieves (C.M.S). At a time, one tower keeps in production cycle and other in regeneration cycle. When compressed air passed through C.M.S. bed, the molecules of oxygen, moisture & other unwanted gases are adsorbed on surface of C.M.S. And the nitrogen which is not adsorbed by C.M.S comes out of adsorption tower and is collected in a surge vessel. For continuous generation of nitrogen, two adsorption towers are provided which are interconnected with auto change over valves controlled by a sequence programmer. When one tower saturates with oxygen the process automatically changes over to another tower and thus the nitrogen production is continuous.
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Oxygen Plants
Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) technology relies on the selective adsorption phenomena of gas molecules under pressure on the surface of highly porous and efficient adsorbent. Here in oxygen generation, the adsorbent is zeolite based molecular sieve (Z.M.S).
Process of PSA Oxygen Gas Generators
In this system, when compressed air is passed through a adsorption tower field with Z.M.S, the molecules of oxygen, moisture & other unwanted gases are adsorbed on surface of Z.M.S and oxygen which is not adsorbed by Z.M.S comes out of adsorption tower. This oxygen is collected in a surge vessel. Two adsorption towers are used for continuous generation of oxygen gas, which are interconnected with autochange over valves controlled by Programmable Control Panel (PLC) in the control panel. After saturation of one tower with oxygen, the process automatically changes over to another tower resulting into the continuous production of oxygen gas for long.
The Stages:
In the first molecular bed, compressed air is fed in which nitrogen is trapped and oxygen flows out.
When the first bed is filled with nitrogen, air flows into the second bed.
When the second bed separates oxygen from nitrogen, nitrogen is vented out in the atmosphere in the first bed.
Again the compressed air flow in to the first bed, the process continues and there is a constant flow of oxygen.
Product Attributes
In fact, the productivity of a PSA oxygen generator depends upon the requirement of oxygen purity. With a relatively small increase in feed air these generators can produce significantly more oxygen at 90% purity than it can at 95.4%. By means of a PLC or some other micro processor based controller, on larger generators it is practical for the users to change the swing cycles on timely basis. In fact, the purity and flow levels can also be selected and optimized based on changing demand variables.


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Russian-born Maria Kreyn and Heist gallery will present an exhibition of new and existing paintings and drawings, charting Maria's journey as an artist, each piece capturing an intimate moment.
"Intimacy's so awkward in this world of swiping" ran a recent Times headline. Thanks to technology, so many of us are anxious of intimacy now. It offers us a place to hide away from the risks. But what are we risking by hiding away, lost in cyberspace and what is happening to our sense of connection?
Maria Kreyn wants to get us back in the room, communicating, talking, looking at one another, and has captured a series of compositions, remixing the techniques of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic eras of art history for the present day. A millennial eye with an old masters' hand, her paintings suggest that we need to turn towards, rather than turn away. In creating a body of work that captures intimate moments, she addresses the anxieties that come as a part of intimacy, and that in the end, it's the only way any of us can nurture healthy relationships. Kreyn's paintings are achingly real, blending the techniques of Old Masters to illustrate contemporary life residing within fleeting moments of time. Maria loved the classics. Her mother is a classical pianist, so she grew up making sketches, sitting underneath the piano, listening to Rachmaninov. As a teenager, she excelled academically and went on to study maths and philosophy at college. After a year or so of study, Maria gave in to her artistic calling, abandoning her Ivy League education to move to Norway to study as a painter's apprentice. Ever-drawn to the use of old tropes and stories, Maria observed the execution of the painter and his students before laying paintbrush to canvas herself.
When she did start to paint her own subject matter, she riffed on the old masters to tell her own stories, which she calls
"subtly ambiguous and open-ended, remaking them into new allegorical mash-ups."
Recognising her talent, her tutor sent her away to Reykjavik in Iceland, where he owned a stately building that was once a public library, encouraging her to paint in isolation, while residing alone at his home.
While there, she discovered much about intimacy – or the lack of. Driving out into the icy wilderness, Maria would paint landscapes outdoors, while the cold and winds, chapped her face and ravaged her hands. She would return to a grand, empty household, filled with antiques and relics of the past, only sporadically connecting with people living half a world away. Maria started painting about being connected and disconnected at the same time, capturing an ambivalence state of being that has become her metier.
After Reykjavik, her tutor sent her to a chateau that he and his wife were renovating outside Paris. Maria was duly instructed to continue to paint full-time, while liaising with the renovation team, although she
barely spoke a word of French. With limited human connection, with a silence and stillness that has informed her work, she focussed on her craft, creating the psychologically charged works which are now her signature. "Looking back, I did feel vulnerable," Maria says by way of explanation.
When asked why she chose classical painting, instead of a more contemporary, conceptual approach, she explains,
"I think the forms are really beautiful and it's the best way to create emotional resonance. There's no chronology in art. I'm as much a product of the future as I am of the past. A sense of intimacy is certainly something I aim to create. In a chaotic, increasingly technological world, I'd like to create a deep and complex private space that stirs the heart. Intimacy can be very ambiguous, can hold a lot of contradictory feelings, and so I try to capture that as well."
Maria explains that the sense of being connected and disconnected at the same time is a common through line in her paintings and drawings. With regards to her reinterpretation of women in the canon, she presents them as both melancholic and heroic, ambivalent in their intimacy. Women are centre stage, they are the narrators, empowered, even in their vulnerability. In 2016, her most famous painting, "Alone Together," inspired the storyline of the ABC series The Catch, appearing in each episode. The producers were so taken with the work that they wrote Maria into the show, so that she was a character in season one without actually appearing.
"The feeling of being alone together"
, she reasons,
"it's a struggle we've always had. We're still seeking the balance."
Maria Kreyn 'Polyphony' Private view :9 May 2018 Exhibition dates: 10th – 28th Welsh Chapel, 136 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8HB heist-online.com
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Parenting coordination refers to a process by which parties work with a parenting coordinator to reduce the effects or potential effects of conflict on the parties' child.
Parenting Coordinators may be appointed in an action in which the custody of or visitation with a child of the parties is in issue and the Court determines that the level of conflict between the parties with respect to that issue warrants the appointment:
- During Pendency of Action: On motion of a party, on joint request of the parties, or on the Court's own initiative and after notice and hearing, the Court may appoint a parenting coordinator during the pendency of the action. Unless sooner terminated in accordance with this Rule, the appointment shall terminate upon the entry of a judgment granting or modifying custody or visitation; or
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Ordinarily, an applicant who meets the criteria set forth in Maryland Rule § 9-205.2 will be approved. However, the PC Committee may elect to solicit comments from other judges or court staff about a PC applicant. Approved applicants will be notified. Applicants not approved will also be notified, with explanation where appropriate.
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Annapolis, MD 21409
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday 29th April 2015 approved the establishment of two private universities in Nigeria one of which is the Hezekiah University in Umudi, Imo State.
This was disclosed to State House correspondents by the Minister of Information, Senator Patricia Akwashiki, at the end of the FEC meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan. According to Akwashiki, the establishment of the universities was aimed at meeting the high demand for admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
She disclosed that officials of the National Universities Commission (NUC) were in attendance to brief the Council on the need for the two universities.


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Feb 23, 2014
This full show from 1986 features Steve and Garry wondering about the sensitivity of Julian Lennon, Steve practicing his John Gehron impersonation and a chat with John Roach, who is out in L.A. filming Comic Relief with Jonathon Brandmeier.
Feb 15, 2014
Dave Savini stopped by the WCKG studios in 1996 to talk Hidden Hotel Horrors. He did not bring his black light or spoogiecam. Good thing too, because most radio station studios have had all kinds of horrible things done inside of them, some with words.
Feb 8, 2014
On this February pre-Lincoln's Birthday edition of Descent Into the Archives Steve does Gaybraham Lincoln long before anybody else does (1999 WCKG). There are several other gay Lincoln bits and talk of a Black Creek reunion. Sadly, that will never happen.
Feb 2, 2014
Chicago icon Studs Terkel is featured on today's "Descent". He visited us at WCKG 105.9 FM on December 12th, 2003. He was extremely excited about getting to speak with a younger audience that day, and he did not disappoint. Studs Terkel was the real deal.


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Combining Management of Innovation, Sustainability and Technology, UC Merced's MIST program will equip tomorrow's leaders with 21st-century solutions. The program's comprehensive complex-systems management integrates nearly every other discipline on campus, from cognitive science to engineering, natural sciences and psychology.
If, as the saying goes, California leads the nation, then the University of California leads California.
That puts UC Merced, the newest and most innovative campus, at the spear point of not just the state, but the entire country. What happens here will ripple deeply, far into the future.
UC Merced stands at the center of a state filled with rich and diverse histories and heritages, and at the epicenter of a technical revolution at a time when the intricacies of the world's most pressing issues are becoming more and more apparent to everyone.
There are no easy answers. Today demands unorthodox approaches to every question humans ask.
Because UC Merced pioneers and embraces cross-collaborations and new and unorthodox approaches to research and teaching, our students get well-rounded and inspiring understanding of the subjects they study from a variety of perspectives.
By doing everything just a little differently, UC Merced is training the next generations of leaders in fields that demand that kind of complex thinking now and for the future...
"we want students to understand how people, technology and nature operate together, and
how we can better engineer these systems."
People, Planet and Profit Give New Management Program its Unique Focus
Christian Aguayo is helping build the future at UC Merced — physically and academically.
Aguayo is a project engineer for Webcor Builders, the contractor building UC Merced's ambitious Merced 2020 Project that will nearly double the physical campus and making room for more students, faculty and staff.
He's also part of the first 10-student cohort in the campus's new one-year Master of Management program, UC Merced's first professional graduate degree program.
The 2020 Project will wrap up, but the Master of Management (MM) degree program is just beginning.
The program puts a new spin on a traditional area of study, applying the expertise of a group of faculty members from diverse backgrounds to create a holistic educational experience that teaches management from different perspectives. Through it, the students will develop practical skills for working in an increasingly complex world.
Because UC Merced is such a young university, it is unconstrained by "the way things have always been done." The interdisciplinary and innovative spirit at the university's core aligns perfectly with the future of leadership and management, whether it's corporate, governmental or nonprofit, MM faculty members said.
This is the kind of program that could only emerge at UC Merced.
"This is a professional program that will expose students to the real world, to the complexity of the real world," said Professor Paul Maglio, chair of the Department of Management of Complex Systems and founder of the MM program. "We're not interested in stripping away everything that makes management hard — we want students to understand how people, technology and nature operate together, and how we can better engineer these systems."
All student activities will focus on the Triple Bottom Line: people, planet and profit.
Students in the MM program are embarking on a 12-month boot-camp that will provide them with the breadth of knowledge and experience demanded by today's for-profit companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations.
Every class is co-taught by at least two faculty members, and students will participate in individual work, small-group projects and a team-based capstone project. The program also provides the opportunity to travel locally and globally to see management and practices in action and in context.
Professor Anita Bhappu, chair of the MM program, comes from a traditional management background and said this program is unique.
"We're combining faculty and disciplines in ways that are not traditionally done in other management programs," she said. "This is the direction leadership is headed for the future."
-Christian Aguayo
The MM degree program is offered by the Management of Innovation, Sustainability and Technology (MIST) graduate group, associated primarily with the Department of Management of Complex Systems in the School of Engineering. The department also offers a new undergraduate minor in management analytics and decision-making.
The program aligns management with cognitive science and includes scholars who specialize in water, forest and natural lands management, environmental economics, traditional management, big-data analytics, service science, entrepreneurship, philosophy, the evolution of large multiscale socio-economic systems, climate change, the economics of information systems, security and privacy, knowledge management and behavioral operations, among other areas.
They'll help students learn to look at every aspect of managing complex systems, from the ethics and analytics that should guide decision-making and the design of such systems to understanding the unintended ripple-effects decisions can have.
Students with bachelor's degrees in any discipline can apply for admission to the MM program. While recruitment in this first year focused on graduating UC Merced seniors, the program is open to anyone — including Aguayo, 28, from Los Banos, who graduated from Cal Poly in 2017 with a degree in engineering and a job with Webcor. He already knew he was interested in a graduate degree and debated getting an MBA or attending grad school at UC Merced.
Then he heard about the MM program.
As a project manager, he works in a complex system every day, communicating with different groups of people with different goals and functions, and must coordinate them all to accomplish the larger tasks.
Call it coincidence or harmonic convergence — either way Aguayo is excited.
"This couldn't be more perfect for me," he said.
Two current, full-time UC Merced staff members, Taylor Fugere, the campus's coordinator of women's programs, and Marisela Angel, the management service officer for the campus IT department, are also among the first cohort.
Fugere said she heard about the program through Professor Alex Petersen, when she sat in on one of his classes.
"I really love how interdisciplinary it is and how it emphasizes the changing environment," Fugere said. Her office oversees several leadership programs, so the work will be immediately applicable.
"I really love how
interdisciplinary it is
and how it emphasizes
the changing environment."
"I'm excited about
the variety in the
program. It's not
just business
-marisela angel
Fugere said she also sees how the program will provide her with skills to adapt as UC Merced grows and changes.
For Angel, the program is a way of reaching a personal goal.
"I had wanted to get my master's, and this is a great opportunity," she said. "I'm excited about the variety in the program. It's not just business management."
Both have supportive managers who are making it possible for them to flex their work schedules or work part-time to accommodate the block of weekday afternoon classes. Aguayo said his supervisors are encouraging and will work with him on his schedule, too.
It's not just the students who are anticipating the new program.
"What's really exciting about it is that we, as faculty, are going to be learning, too, as the program evolves," Bhappu said.
Other faculty members say they are looking forward to seeing how it will all work — the co-taught classes, the incorporation of so many different backgrounds and interests and the thrill of building a brand-new program from scratch — it's all part of what draws many people to UC Merced in the first place.
"When they were hiring for the program, professors Maglio and (Leroy) Westerling had a specific philosophy — to bring all these different specialties together. It's extremely trailblazing," said Professor Catherine Keske, an environmental economist. "We all have very entrepreneurial mindsets, and that is definitely going to help us succeed."
Petersen, who is an expert in complex systems, said he looks forward to teaching the students, many of whom have little or no real-world experience.
"I bring a technical perspective, and I can't wait to show students how to apply data analytics to management — how and when empirical evidence can provide guidance in how to account for risk and uncertainty," he said.
Faculty members say they are also interested in the structure of the classes, in which students will be divided into smaller work groups. Teamwork, Professor Russ McBride said, is a skill that shouldn't be underestimated.
"Employers complain all the time about people's inability to function within a team environment," he said. "We're going to give students experience working in groups on non-linear problems that have uncertainties — just like the real world."
"I bring a technical perspective,
and I can't wait to show
students how to apply data
analytics to management
— how and when empirical
evidence can provide
guidance in how to account
for risk and uncertainty"
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"In sixth grade, I did a report on the CEO
of the Gallo company because to me,
the Gallos are local heroes. They have had such
a huge influencE on my life and on the Central Valley."
a bridge to THE FUTURE
Though everyone in the first cohort has his or her personal reasons for wanting the MM degree, Ruben Lemus, a 22-year-old UC Merced alum from Bakersfield, has perhaps the most personal connection.
The MM program, like the management department, graduate group and new minor, are all part of the Ernest and Julio Gallo Management Program, which is laying the foundation for a new management and leadership school at UC Merced funded through a generous endowment from the E&J Gallo Winery and family.
As a child, Lemus' family worked for the Gallo farms, picking fruit. He has always paid attention to the successful Modesto-based ranchers and vintners.
"In sixth grade, I did a report on the CEO of the Gallo company because to me, the Gallos are local heroes," Lemus said. "They have had such a huge influence on my life and on the Central Valley. Now I'm in the Gallo management program. I hope to work for them someday."
Lemus, who graduated in May, said he was surprised to hear about the program from a fellow student.
"I didn't think we had anything like this for management," he said. He was looking at MBA programs out of the area but got excited about the new MM program because it's here in Merced, where he is happy.
"It's only a small change for me, going into this one-year program, but it will be a huge step for my career," he said. As the first in his family to complete college, Lemus said he was unsure about coming to Merced initially because he didn't know about leaving home or whether he could do well at university. But in his four years here he built up his confidence. Now he is a role model for his younger brother, who plans to go to college, too.
Down the road, he said, he and his brother would like to start a family business.
That's the kind of ambition MM faculty members are promoting and encouraging.
They are providing outreach to industry and plan to bring in industry partners to meet, mentor and network with the students. They have also set the ambitious goal of placing every MM graduate in jobs within six months of graduation — a measurable outcome that will demonstrate success.
"We have high expectations for ourselves," Maglio said. "We want to help these students become T-shaped professionals — people who have more than just depth in their areas of expertise, but broad experience across many areas so that they can work with a variety of people."
"The kind of training we're offering is exactly what companies and other organizations are looking for."
"We want to help these students become T-shaped professionals — people who have more than just depth in their areas of expertise, but broad experience across many areas so that they can work with a variety of people."
-paul maglio
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Introduction: DIY Concrete Coasters
After making the concrete planters I had some concrete mix left but they weren't enough to make another planter so I had to come up with an idea to use them. As soon as I saw the small flat bowl set in the kitchen I thought of making a concrete bowl but ended up making 3 concrete coasters!
You can make these coasters easily in no time, even if you're not an expert in concrete and casting.
Step 1: Materials Needed
To make concrete coasters you'll need:
- Concrete mix or cement (and sand),
- Mold - small flat round object,
- Bucket for mixing the concrete or cement,
- Rubber gloves,
- Polythene paper,
- Fabric paint and paint brush.
Step 2: Mixing Concrete or Cement
Measure 2 parts cement and 3 parts sand.
Mix them very well,
Pour a small amount of water into the sand and cement mixture and mix them well with the water,
Pour more water if the cement mixture is too thick. But keep in mind not to make the mixture too thin or too thick.
Step 3: Preparing the Mold
I used small flat bowls for casting but you can use any shape or object as the mold. You just have to keep in mind that the thickness of the coaster should be between 1-2 cm.
To prepare the mold you'll need the flat object (with depth between 1-2 cm) and polythene sheet,
Cut a piece of polythene sheet, double the size of the flat object,
Place it on the flat object. Using polythene sheet will make it easier to remove the dry concrete, more precisely the polythene sheet will work like a mold release.
Step 4: Filling the Mold
Carefully pour the concrete/cement mix into the mould,
Make sure to fill 1-2 cm (depth of the mold) of the flat object.
Less than 1 cm thickness might crack and more than 2 cm thickness will make the coaster too heavy.
Allow the concrete to dry overnight (for at least 24 hours).
Step 5: The Concrete Coaster
After the concrete or cement dries you can easily get it out of the mould.
The flat surface of the concrete is the bottom of the coaster,
You can use sand paper to get a smooth bottom and it'll be better if you add a layer of felt on the bottom of the coaster.
Turn the moulding upside down and remove the polythene sheet.
Step 6: Designing the Coasters
You can use fabric paint to design the coasters.
I used black, red, white and golden fabric paint and did tribal designs on them.
After painting allow the paint to dry.
There, you have a set of artistic handmade coasters ^_^
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i've just made some coasters with excess concrete mix from another project. i may sand/paint them when i have time.. thank you for sharing.!!
Are these gonna hold the condensation drips? At the angle of the coaster, I'd say no... Now what? Cute and well painted, but not functionable me thinkest .
Great job! I love the painting! :) Btw how well does the glass stay on them? I would be a little scared, that it could slip away (because you don't know how "handy" I am :D)
Thanks so much! The glass stays on them quite fine. Well, in your case I think it's better to keep the top surface of the coaster completely flat :)
The coasters looks great :) Painting is so neat!
Thanks Passion Make! :) oh, you changed your name!, good to see you in making :D
Thank you :) :D I love all your projects.
love how you painted them :-)
Nice design,
I would probably add felt to the bottom so the wont scratch the table tops
These are really chic! Great job painting them.
Cool idea and you really pulled it off! The finished coasters look great. Nice documentation!
Oh, Thanks so much! :D
How cute! I agree with Tarun, you are so good at painting...I have yet to find a design you made that I don't like, seriously! :)
Ohw, thanks Linda! that's really sweet of you ^_^
Cute! I love your designs! ;)
Thanks! happy to know ^_^
So cool, love the painting! :)
Thanks Natalie! :)
Love this!! Those designs make it look so awsome!!
Thanks a bunch! ^_^


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I AM the product of a wave of immigration that brought people from the four corners of the world into industrial Wales in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
They came from areas riven by poverty and disease. Driven by economic necessity they arrived here to find fresh opportunities and a future for themselves and their families.
They worked alongside the Welsh who were themselves immigrants in all but name. They had escaped the same economic pressures on their farms and in their rural villages to look for a brighter future in the Valleys of South Wales.
Together, the Welsh, the Italians, the Spaniards, the Irish, the English, the West Indians, the Africans and the Chinese created a dynamic new society which made Wales known around the world.
They produced a culture of great variety and achievement. Poets, politicians, novelists and composers thrived in a South Wales which may have been thick with the dust and smoke of industry but which was richly fertile ground for the imagination.
Many of the ideas and the achievements that emerged from that society helped to define modern Wales. Without it the Welsh nation as we know it would not exist.
At the beginning of the 21st Century, we face another wave of immigration which is very different from the first. Rather than a drive to escape poverty it is generated by prosperity. It involves the mass movement of people rich enough to live more or less or less where they want to and driven solely by the search for "somewhere pleasant" to hang their hats.
Its effects can be felt across Europe, from the hills of Tuscany and Umbria to swathes of rural France and coastal Spain.
Those effects are much the same wherever this new migration occurs. The incomers force up the cost of housing, pricing locals out of the market, and disrupt the economy which is usually based on agriculture.
In areas as far afield as the English Lake District, the Scottish Highlands and Central France, it is leading to clashes of cultures and friction.
In the Dordogne, the French have been driven to protest by the proliferation of kitsch olde Englishe tea shoppes and village grocers selling Marmite to cater for the increasingly English population.
But if the effects of this new mass migration is felt in many parts of Europe, the consequences in Wales are potentially devastating.
The newcomers here are arriving in areas in which one of Europe's oldest languages and cultures have thrived for centuries but which are now clinging precariously to life.
The scale of the migration is such that it threatens the very existence of that culture.
Since the roots of the problem are economic, so are the solutions. They are already being tried out in parts of Europe and in England from which come most of the new migrants to Wales. They involve protection for the local culture through, for example, the use of planning laws and the provision of affordable housing as well as through efforts to stimulate local industries.
By its very nature, the argument is open to accusations of racism. Those accusations are baseless and irritating largely because they are deliberate red herrings used to obscure the real issues involved.
Calling Dafydd Iwan a racist because of his remarks at the National Eisteddfod clearly falls into that category. Comparisons between his words at the National Eisteddfod and those expressed by the British National Party are nonsense. The fact that the BNP has called for Wales to remain "white" as haven for those who share its viciously racist views makes his point more neatly than he has been able to.
But by saying that the English migrants who arrive in Wales are fleeing the "Indians and Pakistanis who have moved to English towns" Mr Iwan has played into the hands of his enemies.
He has given them the opportunity once more to raise the hypocritical cry of "racist" and obscure the real - and urgent - issues that revolve around the new migration to Wales.


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