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text: The adoption of Title IX has spurred growth in women's collegiate sports, including soccer. But a women's pro league has struggled, cutting its season short this year. Here, Notre Dame celebrates winning the NCAA College Cup in 2010. Gerry Broome/AP hide caption toggle caption Gerry Broome/AP Opinion Title IX At 40: What Has Changed, And What's Next June 20, 2012 It's been 40 years since the adoption of Title IX, the gender equity law that changed college athletics for both women and men. Commenting on the law's future, Frank Deford says that as women dominate college rolls, football fans might be in for a rude shock. Title IX At 40: What Has Changed, And What's Next Listen · 3:51 3:51 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/155346338/155411613" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript


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1849 began operations as Dimick & Folsom in St. Louis, MO. Name changed to Henry Folsom & Co in 1853. Branch opened in Memphis, TN in 1862 (closed 1866) and in New Orleans in 1864. Branch opened in New York City in 1877 as H.&D. Folsom Co. Main office moved to New Orleans in 1879. Henry Folsom died in 1887 and his son took over. c.1890 begins to import and distribute guns. 1893 took over Crescent Fire Arms. Frank Foster designed new Crescent models in 1895. Folsom bought Baker Gun & Forging gun business in 1919. Merged with Warner-Davis iin 1930. Sold Crescent to J. Stevens Arms Co. in 1932. Folsom continued to sell Crescent-Davis guns.1954 - Folsom sold to Universal Sporting Goods.
Hopkins & Allen (Norwich, CT) bought Forehand & Wadsworth in 1902.
Hopkins & Allen bought the assets of Davenport after Mr. D died in 1903
Hopkins & Allen was bought by Marlin-Rockwell in 1916.
Frances H. Audley (Holsters) died on May 10,1916. Subsequently, his business was acquired by the H. & D. Folsom Arms Co
Crescent Arms Co. (formed 1892) of Norwich CT was bought by
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Crescent-Davis until bought by J Stevens in 1932.
Davis-Warner was formed by merging of NR Davis and Warner Arms in 1917.
New York Times, July 3, 1900, Wednesday. While examining a pile of old revolvers lying on a counter in the store of the H. D. Folsom Arms Company, at 314 Broadway, yesterday noon. Henry T. Folsom, the head of the firm, accidentally, shot and fatally injured Peter Koller, one of the salesmen. Koller, unconscious and in a dying condition, was taken to the Hudson Street Hospital. (Ruled an accident) Read the whole story.
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Colors Shield
The Colors shield can directly plug on the Arduino board, and hook up with the RGB LED matrix, you can use the Arduino to drive the matrix like the Colorduino/Rainbowduino. The code of Colors shield is the same as Colorduino.
The Colors shield can be plug into the Arduino UNO/Duemilanove, so the controller is based on ATMega 168P/328P, the same as Rainbowduino. This design is to make user easily modify or write the firmware of Colorduino by Arduino IDE. But in order to better drive the RGB matrix and reach their best performance, we use the professional LED driver chip, and this chip comprises shift registers, data latches, 8×3 channel constant current and 64 x 256 gray level PWM for per color! Each channel provide a maximum current of 60 mA.
Each RGB dot has 160K colors in theory, and it's easy to use the 6bit correction register to calibrate the current error for each color LEDs – we don't think that Rainbowduino use an adjustable resistors to calibrate the current error is a good idea, because just 1 lap the resistor change from 0R to1K , you cannot get the exact value you need, but now, you have a 6bit software value to correct it.
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The once-sleepy process of releasing economic data has quietly gotten a lot more complicated, and a lot more lucrative, than many people might think.
Take the relatively obscure National Association of Realtors, which releases market-moving housing statistics such as existing home sales figures. Behind the scenes, the release process is a complicated mix of early disclosure involving both free media access and paying clients, each getting access to the data at slightly different times—although all are instructed to release it at the same time.
The association tells CNBC that it sells early access to its data as much as 90 minutes ahead of the official release time to two data service providers. But the association says those data service providers are held to a strict embargo and not allowed to retransmit the information to their own clients before 10 a.m., when the data goes out to the public.
(Read more: Investors are moving out of housing. Here's why)
The association also says it has three paying clients, one of which is "primarily" a trading firm, that buy access to the data at precisely 10 a.m.
A spokesman for the association declined to name any of NAR's paying clients, or to say how much they pay for access to the information, citing privacy concerns.


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In this week's Corn Comments, Jim Woster notes that April is Volunteers Month and he take a moment to thank the many volunteers who work to make our communities and state better off.
The time is now to register your team for the Corn Cob Open which will be held on Thursday, June 19th at the Spring Creek Country Club near Harrisburg, SD. To register, call the office at 605-334-0100.


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Only the Streets Know
This post is a poem written by Javier Zamora. It previously appeared in Meridian Literary Magazine here.
My uncle, Israel, and his fiancée, María, were among the first victims of the war in my hometown. Renato Quintanilla, the high-school teacher's brother, force-injected my uncle with a mixture of unidentified drugs. A few days later, María was raped and murdered by four soldiers under the command of Sargento Cachaca. My mother, then nine years old, found María in the public latrines. Israel became one of the town's locos before, a few months later, he completely disappeared. Mi familia still does not know where he is. This was one of many occasions during our lives spent in El Salvador when we came to understand the exact mechanism of terror.
I wasn't born when all this happened. I've learned
To lower lashes so blood looks like dirt. In dreams—
A desire to see my uncle float from my kitchen
Past the chicken-coop where there's shade. From the corner,
A dog's chained to a mangrove and a ring marries the sky
To the eclipse. The space modules he threw from trees say
If he'd been an astronaut, he would've been Israel Armstrong,
And I can't remember his voice—leaves brown. Yesterday,
He wore a fish-tank to school. When I wake, my toes pinch
And my shirt shortens and the moon says this is a sign.
For the longest time, my father believed Israel was
Rained on by bombs, shadow in rivers, ditch in the dark.
Precisely, radio reporters started countdowns
Backwards. But from my uncle's nose, we think, shrapnel
Never burst. My father still carries unopened water bottles
In case he finds him.
It was known he wasn't a Zamora: a loudmouth, a drunk,
A dumbfuck, a thief, or a good-for-nothing like the rest of us.
He was first to finish dictionaries, first to approach gringos
And speak inglish. By then, La Herradura already sung his name.
He looked like Bruce Lee, taught himself kung fu and nunchaku
From mail-order catalogs. When he spoke, walls hushed
And teachers took notes. Out of seventeen siblings, every evening,
Only he cut beauty and put it in a plastic cup. These bouquets
His mother misses most. After school, he shut the library doors.
He is La Herradura's only poet. As he walked, his steps wrote the ground.
She was not from this world. This was when he learned to steal
Flowers for a woman other than his mother. María loved his smile,
The way he hid the cotton of his teeth, dreaming candy.
When he gave her flowers, air gasped. Today walls repeat
Mi carita de ángel, aquí tenés las flores más lindas.
Curfews María walked toward him whispering
When the owl hoots three times, amor, resin hardens.
Israel knocked on all doors
Weightless but heaviest at the chest the day her mouth was muffled by sheets,
A lamp turned off. He knew there would be no trace
Of the soldiers' last names.
May this be yesterday when he choked with her voice,
Not the day his first word was nada.
He saw the sky fragged by stars the morning he began naming the emptiness—
Hushed oceans, soldiers digging, skin, scars, first blue bruises,
Her breath, that sweet mango scent, her body, whitened from bed sheets
Tightened around her neck, her hair, coiled nets dragged ashore—
They pinned her limbs to cobblestone. No ropes. People said
She was a guerrillera, that she was the one
Who came back to this town, that Israel did steal,
That she did tie red scarves at La Nacional,
That he was the first to disarm guards. Resin.
Flies buzz in a jar.
Years later, I, too
Would tie wrists
To bedframe
And let my tongue bite
Till my teeth would lick
This and walk out my
Lover's room.
Some say you still pace some street
Somewhere. Only the streets know.
We're tired of stranger's left feet
To see if the big toe and the two next to that are missing.
Uncle, your brothers took all your shoes and socks from your mother
And gave her the key
To the steel chain tied to your right foot,
The good one. Around her neck, the key still waits for you.
This was after you kneeled by María and held till bells burned dusk,
After Las Fuerzas splintered María's door,
After her mother was a thud silenced by rifles, after the four times
You convinced enough patients to make a ladder
For you to break from the psych ward, after
Your brothers tied you to the mangrove trunk,
After you escaped to visit María's cross
And after you got into a blue pick-up truck.
Word was you'd been the last to see the saucepan in the sky.
Word was you beat the shit out of soldiers again,
Those hijueputas, who lit a firecracker in your foot,
At gunpoint of course, and laughed you insane.
Uncle, I swing years on the hammock you slept on,
I've never heard so many roosters. Because of your birth-mark,
This is what you've come to: the darker-shade-of-brown
Rooster crest you could never point to in your right bicep,
And after you left, we remembered the beak we erase
With the fist of each of your lost birthdays. Please know,
We weren't allowed to speak of María. Her family left town
And we never heard of them again. On the 20th year from that day—
There was salt on my father's cheeks and he said sand is his skin
you know that right mijo? Uncle, that day, I learned
Mosquito nets can't hold back the loudest stroke of a beak
That hides in the dark. I want you to see the gold chain
Tied around my neck with both of your names engraved.
I'm sorry. Assure me, your names aren't that sacred.
Assure me, when the beach is your face, waves are cotton
Of your teeth hiding goldfish. Our little "astro-nut"
Jumping off the pier with your head in a fish-tank. What we do
Is stare at the beach for you. We wait for spume to touch
Our cheeks. This is what we do sometimes when we can't sleep.
No. This is what we don't do some times. In the water
We carry scintillas of salt and the smoke of your left foot,
In case we find you.
for María de los Ángeles and Israel Zamora
Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, La Paz, in 1990. In 1991, his father fled months before the peace accords were signed. Javier's mother followed in 1994 because peace still didn't bring enough money. By 1999, they gathered enough money to pay for a coyote. In America, Javier graduated from UC Berkley with a History BA., an MFA from New York University, and currently works as the O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University. He has had poems published and was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing.
He writes the following about this poem:
This poem is very much part of who I am, and part of that "success." By that I mean the terrible legacy all Salvadorans inherit after the war. It was Roque Dalton that said "Salvadorans are born half-dead after 1932." What about 1992? What about now? Where are we now if we still can't talk about los desparecidos? The Our Parents' Bones Campaign is a crucial part of this memory. Of the justice that is still lacking in El Salvador.


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Twitter's New Profile Is Now Available To Everyone: Here's How To Get Yours
Today, Twitter began rolling out its latest profile redesign to all users. Here's how you can make the switch right now.
The latest profile page (which feels a lot like a Facebook-a-like redesign) began a slow rollout to Twitter users at the beginning of the month. Now, it would appear, all the kinks have been worked out: all Twitter users can now get the new look.
To switch over to the new profile, first visit this page. You'll find a description of the new profile – which features a much bigger cover photo not partially obscured by your bio, pinnable tweets, a focus on photos and videos as well as other cosmetic changes – and downloadable header images if you need inspiration.
Scroll all the way to to bottom and click the small blue "Get it now" button. As long as you're logged in, you'll be taken to your profile in all of its newly redesigned glory.
After a brief tutorial of some of the new or moved elements, you're on your own to design and explore to your heart's content.
For now, the switch over to the new profile is optional (and users have the option to switch back if the change is too much for them), but it seems as though Twitter will be forcing all users to make the change eventually.


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After 4 years of toiling in the IT sector, I realized that my true interest lies in travel and writing.
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I strive to connect with the readers emotionally through compelling storytelling that comes from my experiences and learnings on the road. I provide an honest review of the places I visit, practical tips to visit the far-flung places and also curate travel itinerary so that the readers can enjoy the best of the place and find the offbeat things to do.
As the name of the website suggests, I associate myself with the flower "Lotus", which is a symbol of purity (or honesty, in my case) and dedication to bloom amid the mud. I believe in creating original and fresh content and live up to the client expectations. My indomitable will to grow like lotus makes me curious to explore new places, experience various cultures and meet new people.
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(Bloomberg) – Collective Health Inc., a startup offering tech-savvy tools for managing health benefits, has raised a fresh infusion of investor cash as it seeks to win over more employers fed up with a fragmented, costly market.
The San Francisco-based company, founded in 2013, is betting that growing dissatisfaction with rising health-care costs will lure more firms to its technology, which lets employers cut through the tangle of different benefits they typically administer.
To tout its services, Collective Health on Wednesday published a manifesto positioning itself as a part of a "movement" to reshape health care, and has put up billboards on U.S. Route 101 near San Francisco designed to catch the eye of executives stewing over high costs while they sit in traffic.
"Every CEO is in the healthcare business. Take Control," one says.
The latest fundraising brought in $110 million from investors including Canadian insurer Sun Life Financial Inc.. The companies plan to bundle Collective Health's products with Sun Life's insurance coverage that helps U.S. employers cap their health costs. To date, Collective Health has raised a total of about $230 million.
Ali Diab, Collective Health's co-founder and chief executive officer, said he sees increasing frustration with health intermediaries who aren't doing enough to improve care or lower costs. He said that a planned employee-health venture unveiled by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. is evidence the industry is ripe for change.
"Corporate America is saying enough is enough," Diab said in an interview. "Employers just don't feel like they're getting their money's worth."
Monitoring Spending
Collective Health offers employers a web-based platform to monitor spending and results in real time, along with a mobile app that lets workers manage their dental, vision and health benefits. The app also offers features like doctor search, wellness and telehealth. Employers contract with insurers to access their networks of doctors and hospitals, but the companies themselves pay the medical bills.
Collective Health covers 120,000 people across 30 employers, up from 30,000 two years ago.
"They're going a little bit above and beyond, improving the employer and the employee experience, and helping in terms of controlling their health-care costs," said Mark Dang, the practice leader for employee benefits at Hays, who's helped companies switch to Collective Health.
Bloomberg previously reported that the company, whose investors include Alphabet Inc.'s GV and Founders Fund, was seeking investments at a $1 billion valuation. Diab declined to say what price tag the latest fundraising put on the company.
Collective Health has attracted tech-company clients including Founders Fund-backed Palantir Technologies Inc., SpaceX, eBay Inc., and Activision Blizzard Inc. as well as retailer RH, formerly Restoration Hardware.
RH expects to reduce its medical costs by about 3% to 5% this year after
switching to Collective Health, said Karen Boone, the company's chief financial and
administrative officer. Boone said she expects Collective Health will help the company adjust its benefits over time, limiting future cost increases.
"The status quo isn't good enough," she said. "We have to do something to get more control over the spend and more insight into how we manage it in the future."
Collective Health says it has preliminary evidence its system can help save money. The company published a report showing its customers' medical spending increased 0.1% from 2016 to 2017, based on data from the first half of each year. By contrast, consulting firm Mercer found average employer health costs rose 2.6% in 2017. Collective Health says some of the savings come from workers getting care at lower-cost locations.
Over time, Collective Health says it can help employers figure out more ways to limit cost increases and direct workers to care.
"We want to be able to measure in real time what's working and what's not," Diab said.


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T. Parker Host Attends 22nd International Coal, Coke and Carbon Forum in Kempinski, Berlin
November 17, 2014 by T. Parker Host Admin
T. Parker Host, Inc. will be in attendance for the 22nd International Coal, Coke and Carbon Forum. This year's event will be held in the Hotel Adlon in Kempinski, Berlin and will extend from November 16-19, 2014.
The International Coal, Coke and Carbon Forum first met in September 1993 as the Carbon Club. The idea was to unite individuals in the coal industry within a safe, relaxed atmosphere to discuss industry issues. Now known as the ICCC, the forum is an excellent opportunity for buyers and sellers in the coal industry to network and build relationships.
Several prominent industry members will speak during this year's forum. ICCC Managing Director Mark Hurst will kick off the first day of presentations and will be followed by a number of speakers.
Topics of the event include:
- World Supply Demand Coking Coal & Steel and Steam Coal
- Australian & Indonesian Update
- The Coal Benchmark Debate
T. Parker Host's President Adam Anderson will speak on Monday, November 17th during the United States Coal Market overview. Adam and fellow members of this panel will discuss Domestic and International Coking & Steam Logistics Reality as well as Colombia's Impact on Imports.
Adam has become a recognized industry expert who shares his wealth of knowledge within the maritime industry through conferences, forums, and events. As a valuable member of Host for over 16 years, Adam is responsible for setting the vision for the company and leading our team of more than 200 members in 24 locations.
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Lavrov Bursts Out Laughing When Asked About CIA Hacking
Pro tip from Russia's Foreign Minister: Leave your phone at home when you're negotiating Syrian ceasefires
Fri, Mar 10, 2017
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has touched our hearts, again.
We wish there was a "Truman Show" starring Lavrov, so we could watch Sergei mow his lawn and tell Merkel directly to her face that she's a hypocritical witch — all day, every day.
During a meeting with his German counterpart, Lavrov was asked about the recent Wikileaks "Vault 7" dump, which details the CIA's global covert hacking program.
Lavrov burst out laughing: "Where do I begin?"
Lavrov noted that the CIA is able to hack refrigerators, and gave all aspiring foreign ministers some free advice:
Personally, I try not to take my phone to any serious negotiations. Till now I've been staying out of trouble.
This is a seriously great man.


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Brace yourselved Directioners, because this weekend, Liam Payne took to Twitter and revealed the name of the boys' first single off their new album Four—"Steal My Girl"!
The guys released the single's artwork minutes later, which features the boys sitting on the edge of a pool, as chill (and HOT) as ever.
As unlikely as it is that anyone could successfully steal Harry, Liam, Louis, Niall, or Zayn's girlfriend, the song is sure to be A-MA-ZING since Louis and Liam wrote the track themselves. Plus, if you're like us, you already have the teaser for the album's first track "Fireproof" on repeat!
We don't know how much more Directioners can take...just kidding, bring on the music video, the album, the pics, and all the GIFs—like NOW!
Sadly, we'll have to wait until September 29th to listen to "Steal My Girl," so start your countdown!
Are you excited to hear 1D's new single? What do you think of the teaser for "Fireproof"? Sound off in the comments below!
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Before we met, I was disinterested in being married. Marriage was a great idea for other people but the concept was not alluring to me. And then what initially began as a glimpse through a window only improved as being close to you provided an unobstructed view of your flawless green eyes and that square jaw I immediately wanted to run my finger along. And I vividly recall all those early dates when the sheer magnitude of you turned me inside out. Unlike some situations, I knew exactly what hit me. And then a glimpse turned into an absolute I Do. And we learned quickly marriage is not like play practice. We felt with our successes before we met, we knew exactly how to navigate this new entity. And even more humorous is how we tried to negotiate with one another that our personal way in certain formats was clearly the. best. way. Oh, we learned much the first year. And the second. Sometimes we learned our lessons gracefully. Sometimes, well, we didn't.
when we found out we were pregnant and I immediately pondered if we
were ready to be at this place, and more specifically would I be
capable? Would I excel? You put your hands on me and said, "This is
exactly where we should be." Later that night, I
found a blue box from Tiffany on my seat in the car which held the most
beautiful silver baby rattle I still own today. As we wander through the tide of couplehood and parenting, there is
not a single person I would rather have in the water with me than you.
with that sexy salt and pepper hair, perfect chest, amazing biceps.
Whose poor heart can only beat efficiently when properly caffeinated.
Who wakes up too early every morning with your sleepy eyes and daily
renewed wish there would be no talking in our house before 10 am.
Who patiently explained to our son why he need not be afraid of spiders
but yet wasn't too manly to hide that the first time you saw our son
hurt you were momentarily washed in discomposure.
with your crisp, expensive collars, and gorgeous cuff links. Who has
the perfect golf swing and seemed almost giddy to buy our son his first
clubs. Who openly stated early on you will not clean bathrooms but does
all the laundry and the dishes. I never pick up after you. You pour me
wine as I pull in the garage on days you know I have worked too hard and
too long. You, who will spend weeks planning surprise trips for me and
go to 3 different grocery stores just to find an exotic ingredient I
want, all with never once being asked.
You who came home one night with a gorgeous black outfit for me and said, "Put this on. We have a dinner date."
And you, who came to me during one of the very rare moments you have seen me distraught and asked, "What can I do to make this day easier for you?"
who sent me to Mexico for a week so I could finish my first manuscript
while you stayed home with a ten month old baby. And you are the same
man who has not a single hesitation saying to me I don't agree with you at all. Sometimes you say this with more flourish than needed. Accompanied by that face you make.
have loved me when perhaps thinking about everyone else in this
household first got tiring. Too little sleep, too many demands at work,
and what we learned early on as parents that there is no greater
responsibility we will ever have then being good leaders to our son. But
we quickly learned the words freedom and spontaneity in
our lives would have radical new changes in definition. But then I hear
you reading to our son and using all the different voices he loves, and I
know you are an amazing Father.
you, the man who has made me palpitate and tremble. But admittedly, we
are both strong and tough and there have been minutes when we felt
perhaps we couldn't even look at one another. But we always return to
our favorable position. Through a glance, a kindness, some offering, or a
late night twist and turn into one another.
I love that you love music. And sports. And our son has adhered to both since he was a baby. Only you would buy our son floor seats for the Eagles concert when he was three. And two weeks ago, we sat and watched as our tiny son was invited to sit in with the band and play drums. It was a very emotional moment for us. We were totally into it as audience members. I felt like this could be a scenario we find ourselves in many times. Rooting our son on from the crowd. I took a mental snapshot and placed a very
high value on such unhampered felicity.
And we take the good with the bad. As much as I have encouraged you to have patience at moments when MiniMac challenges us, you never threw it back on me the first night I came in and asked, "Why is he being SUCH A PILL?" And thats not what I said but it looks much better in print. One night when we sat down sipping wine, we talked about how all the hard work is worth it. He is an incredible boy. You turned to me and said, "It is mostly because of you." No. We have the team work component down well. Reinforced the other night when I told him no and he said, "Perhaps Daddy will have a different answer." Thanks for setting him straight. I like his logical approach. And I love you shut.it.down.
We have laughed. Some of my favorite moments are when MiniMac told me I should get a penis like you two. And when you wore the Darth Vader mask to surprise him at school as guest reader. Or when he caught us mid-act and asked what we were doing. You quickly replied, "Exercising." We have cried too. The day they handed him to you and said, "You have a son" in particular.
The amount of time we spend investing in him is incredible. Worth every minute. You are good at it and you want to be which is the most important thing. Happy Father's Day to the real Mac Daddy.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
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2 comments:
- vanilla said...
You have an incredible husband? He clearly has an incredible wife, one who prepares such plaudits for her man!
- June 16, 2013 at 10:21 AM
- The girl with the flour in her hair said...
What a sweet post. Lucky man. And it sounds like you did pretty well, too. :)
- June 16, 2013 at 1:17 PM
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A single, replicated study in Finland found that hand-reared grey partridges Perdix perdix did not take off to fly as effectively as wild-caught birds, potentially making them more vulnerable to predation from ground predators.
Artificial incubation involves removing eggs from incubating parents and using an incubator to hatch them. Techniques can be extremely complex, with precision humidity and temperature control and turning of the eggs to ensure correct development Hand-rearing can be used with chicks from artificially-incubated eggs or with chicks removed from parents after hatching and involves manually feeding chicks until independence. Both techniques can be used to encourage parents to produce more offspring, or when naturally-raised chicks and eggs have low survival.
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A replicated ex situ study in 1993 and 1994 in Finland (Putaala et al. 1997) found that hand-reared grey partridges Perdix perdix took flight with a shallower take off angle (average of 31o tested on 12 birds) and climbed more slowly (climbing rate of 1.8 m/s for 11 birds) than wild-caught birds (average 44o for 19 birds tested and 2.7 m/s for 18 birds), potentially making them more vulnerable to predation from ground predators.


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Each month I marvel at how much you grow (so fast! so big!) -- broken record cliches' guilty as perpetually charged.
You are officially on the move crawling {video} (usually towards light sockets or our shoes), babble incessantly, are getting the hang of drinking water out of a sippy cup, but much prefer to drink out of a real glass which is the cutest thing to watch, in my opinion. You weathered your first election day like a champ, content in lines at the poll for well over an hour with nary a toy, or snacks #momfail.
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Hardest Challenge: you prefer to stand/crawl towards things you shouldn't have and become quite frustrated when your demand is not met. Quite frustrated. Yowza.
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Current favorites include (but not limited to): greek yogurt, potatoes (in any form, especially sweet potatoes), banana (mashed with cinnamon), bits of cheese, chicken, beef, soft scrambled egg, apples (any form) and of course, ice cream.
*As expected I love(!) making your baby food. Squeeze pouches are a breeze to store/use and along with this cookbook has proved their worth over and over again thus far. Should we be out for an extended period/travelling, I gravitate towards Happy Baby pouches (you don't refrigerate until opened so you don't have to bring a cooler) and creamies (you have Cheerios at daycare).
Sleep: duration unchanged (7:30/8p - 6:30-7p). But it's official, we co-sleep. At some point we will make a concerted effort to transition you back into your bed (is bed regression a thing?!), but for now we are all soaking up the extra snuggles.
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This massive collection of MIDI drum grooves was performed live by Kenny on an e-kit. He dove headfirst into his catalogue of nearly 7,000 songs and picked a wide variety of grooves to start from. In each song he then did several variations of every groove and topped off with a selection of his unique fills. All in all, this is not only a piece of modern rock history captured in the form of drum MIDI grooves, its a well of inspiration for the songs you have yet to write. Get some of Kennys signature mix of raw power and subtile finesse for your next track it deserves it.
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Perfect Practice Makes Perfect
If you're like me, your goal when playing Magic is to win. A lot of people are looking to win, and I would say that the majority of players when they sit down to a match in general, are trying to win that match. There's an important thing that has to be done though before you can regularly win matches. Practice.
Practicing is a great way to improve your gameplay. Just like anything else in the world, someone who practices the most is generally rewarded with having practiced his or her craft. From karate, to woodworking, from speaking in public, to playing Magic, those with more practice can be counted on as the favorite to succeed.
While practice seems important, there is something that must be stressed to those who do practice. You must practice correctly. If a hockey player spends hours and hours per day on the ice, just firing shots on net over, and over, and over again, they will have a greater accuracy when firing than someone who does not. This seems pretty logical. However, when that player is put into a game situation, in which they don't have the valuable seconds they had granted themselves to line up their shot in practice, and there are five opponents looking to not only take that puck away, but be extremely physical about it, that person doesn't have such an advantage over the unpracticed player.
This same thing can be said about Magic. Sure, you may practice all you want, over and over, but if you're not practicing the same way, you could be worse off than someone who spent that time you spent practicing watching videos and Twitch streams, gathering insight and outside opinions.
This discussion came up with a couple of friends of mine recently. As mentioned last week, I live within 30 minutes of two game stores. Their FNMs are about the same size, and are of equal skill level. The game store in New Jersey has publicized that they are going to start a team, and the people on that team will be determined based on player finishes at events held by that store.
The store in New York has a pretty much open practice day designated each week, where players can meet up, play some games, ask for input, etc. Both are trying to achieve the same goal in different ways. They are trying to increase the skill level of their player base in order to promote their stores at different events.
This is fine. Practice is a swell idea. The thought that playing more Magic will increase average customer skill level is a splendid concept. However, in order for this to work, the people in these groups need to understand and come to grips with their respective goals in playing Magic.
The first thing you must do is determine your skill level relative to those around you, and those you play against on a regular basis. This may seem mean to put people in certain buckets inside your head, but knowing who is better than you and who is worse than you in general is a good place to start. Outside of Magic, I like to think I'm a pretty humble guy (humbling statement, I know). I don't claim to be the best at anything, and I'm certainly not. However, I can assuredly tell you after playing a few games if you're lower, higher, or about as equally skilled as me. I'm not mean about it, I can still like you as a person if you're on a different level than I am, this just means what I take away from the game may be different.
This may also seem a little close-minded, but I know when I play my best or when I don't, and if I lose to a player that I consider to be of lesser skill than myself, I won't examine the game that much outside of obvious misplays (did I fetch for the wrong land, oh I didn't tap correctly this turn, etc.). But if I lose to a player that I consider to be of higher skill, I may ask a couple of questions after the match about what I did correctly or incorrectly, and I will examine the games more closely for mistakes I may have made.
Now, on the regular, I can comfortably come out ahead at FNM at either of the stores near me. There are a handful of people at each store that are about my level, but the majority are on a lesser level than I am. Again, I'm not saying this to be rude, but if you're a university student, you wouldn't expect to learn much if you attended a high school lecture featuring your area of study. This is true of Magic as well. Do you expect someone like an Owen Turtenwald or William Jensen to learn much from an outing at an average FNM? No. And it's not because they can't improve, it's rather that they are on such a higher level assuredly than almost anyone else at the average FNM.
This is how I feel about local stores starting up teams, and goes back to what I said about people's' respective goals when it comes to playing Magic. If your goal is just win FNMs consistently, then these sort of local store teams are great for you. Most likely, if you're finding going undefeated at FNM difficult, you can most certainly learn a thing or two from these local store practices. They are a great tool for you to practice with other people.
The issue I raise is that if you're on one of these FNM teams and are hoping that this team prepares you to regularly top 8 competitive REL events while you're already regularly top 8-ing or X-0ing FNM, you most likely aren't going to benefit from anything you haven't already learned on your way to being undefeated at FNM, and these small local teams will most likely not help you improve so much that you are regularly top-8ing events.
If your goal is to improve such that you can consistently top-8 competitive REL events, the best form of practice? Compete at competitive REL events. Honestly, playing at a local event where people are willing to pay $5 entry and get a free pack with possibility of winning more packs is much higher incentive for your average player than paying $30, getting no pack, and having a difficult time getting prize. You will find a much higher level of competition at competitive event you have to drive some time to on the weekend than you will in general at a store that's on the way home for a bunch of people that just want to have a good time on a Friday night.
I want to make it clear, my intent is to not discourage people from playing FNM, or playing on these FNM teams, my intent here is to just be honest about skill levels on these teams, and how these teams may or may not help you in achieving your goals. In fact, I play FNM almost every week that I'm not competing at a competitive REL event. I do this because I like to hang out with my friends, and get me some half-priced Sriracha Shrimp after 10PM at the local Applebee's. Ask anyone at my store. If Sriracha Shrimp isn't in my belly by midnight, I get really cranky.
But be honest with yourself and your goals with playing Magic. To some, winning FNM is very important. It was to me when I first started playing, before I truly found that competitive itch. If your goal is to win FNM, these teams are great. They may also help you get into the competitive scene in your local area outside of your store. However, I would not expect to learn so much that these teams are the reason I made the Pro Tour.
On a lighter note, let's talk about Magic cards. We're a little over a month away from Oath of the Gatewatch dropping, and there has been a sizable spoiler dump already. So far, there have been mixed reviews of the cards, but people need to keep in mind that right now we are still comparing these seemingly underwhelming cards to the relatively mighty cards of Khans block. Compared to BFZ block, Khans block is buuuuuuuuuuusted! Like out of control busted. So while stock in these spoiled cards may seem low right now, I would expect it to go up upon rotations when we see cards like Crackling Doom and Siege Rhino leave the Standard format.
Now, the new colorless mana symbol has been beat to death, like any reliable horse. I want to talk about the card that could just make R/G Tron the best deck in Modern. Kozilek's Return:
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Kozilek's Return deals 2 damage to each creature.
Whenever you cast an Eldrazi creature spell with converted mana cost 7 or greater, you may exile Kozilek's Return from your graveyard. If you do, Kozilek's Return deals 5 damage to each creature.
As a non-tron player, I think I want to be a tron player. This card helps you in so many matchups. While the big debate in the Tron community for some time has been which low cost sweeper should be played, between Pyroclasm and Firespout typically, the main issue as I understand it that caused contention between those two cards is not only the color requirement, but being sorcery speed made it difficult to deal with threats like Mutavault and Inkmoth Nexus.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, we have an answer. Kozilek's Return not only can handle creature-lands in aggressive strategies, which have been an Achilles heel for Tron in Modern for some time, it gets around creatures with protection from red. Devoid on this is beastly, and now Master of Waves can just be dealt with.
Never mind the fact that if you cast this card or it was discarded or even countered, you get it again, FOR FREE, whenever you cast one of your huge Eldrazi. And it can't be countered in the traditional way, since this half of the card is a trigger.
These past few Standard sets have been a huge boon for R/G tron. Being handed such all-stars as Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, Kozilek's Return, Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, Void Winnower, and Rending Volley makes the deck so much more powerful. And I'm sure more huge Eldrazi goodies are coming just around the corner.
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Among the world's major institutions, only the Catholic Church has operated, uninterrupted, for longer than the universities. They are the source of how we think and what we know, and have formed western elites for centuries. They still do, but in the last half-century they have been transformed—in size, but also in their social impact and political importance. In England most universities have been enjoying a glorious 21st century. But the sector now looks politically isolated and unstable, with Brexit simply adding to a set of deeprooted problems.
Early medieval Oxford, England's oldest university, had a few hundred students: rising to 4,500 on the eve of the Second World War. Today it has 25,000, and that makes it one of our smaller elite research institutions. University College London now has 38,000 students, twice as many as a decade ago. Manchester pips this at 39,000; Edinburgh and Sheffield are close behind. Other European countries are the same: the original University of Paris, centred in the Sorbonne since the 13th century, is now just "Paris IV": one of thirteen large campuses spread across the city.. Bologna, the oldest university of all, enrols 82,000. Over the last half-century, the growth of universities has been, quite simply, staggering. This isn't just a first-world phenomenon. Emerging economies are stacking up far more students at a given national income than developed economies ever did.
This means, of course, student votes can shift elections—witness Jeremy Corbyn's surprise success in June in seats such as Canterbury (home of the University of Kent). It also has turned the UK's university sector into a country-wide economic giant. Only the tech sector outpaces higher education's growth rate around the world, and it employs far fewer people. You don't, furthermore, get many tech start-ups in Lancaster or Huddersfield, but in both towns, the university is a dominant physical presence. Their combined annual turnover in the UK is now £33bn—on a par with legal services, and half as much again as pharmaceuticals. Universities bring £11bn a year directly into the UK economy in international payments, largely fees; and international students spend another £5bn on rent, food and leisure, making higher education one of our few reliable, huge and thriving export industries.
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Sitting in front of the TV, yesterday, I was bit by the slumdog. All the news channels were going gaga over the fact that the film was a major hit at the Golden Globe Awards, walking away with four awards. But the biggest news was that our very own AR Rahman had broken the shackles and landed a golden statuette, crediting a "billion people from India".
Since then, every news channel makes me want to puff my chest in glory and take pride in the fact that an 'Indian' had won the coveted award. Every one that is anyone is talking highly either about the film or about AR Rahman; the actors in the films are traipsing from one studio to another talking animatedly about how close they are to Rahman and how wonderful Slumdog Millionaire is. But that isn't all, Karan Johar has penned an article about his experience at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California in BT. Then let Shahrukh Khan land in India, there will be a whole lot more stories of how Bollywood is now as great as Hollywood. Continue reading


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The prestigious The Place Prize, sponsored by Bloomberg, has announced the commissioned artists who are to compete, unveiling another year of innovative contemporary dance, semi-professional dancers kitted out in their dancewear and the upcoming choreographic talent of the UK. As one of the most high-status dance awards, The Place Prize is returning for its 5th edition, premiering the commissions during The Place Prize Semi-finals in September.
16 new dance works have been commissioned from over 200 entries, a phenomenal interest and the highest number to date. By the end of summer 2012, The Place Prize will have enabled the creation of 92 pieces of new choreography, with an investment of over £1.2million in British dance. Since the cuts made to Arts Council funding by the government in April 2011, many dance organisations have had to reduce their activity, even preventing many leotards and ballet shoes seeing their familiar studio floor again.
The 16 entrants competing for The Place Prize have been awarded a total commission fund of £100,000 to realise their dance dreams, and the recipient artists will also benefit from free production time and support from The Place Prize team to create their pieces. The commissions encompass a wide range of contemporary styles, reflecting the sheer diversity of today's dance scene in Britain.
The commissioned artists include former Place Prize Finalists (2011) Riccardo Buscarini and Eva Recacha, and Place Prize Semi-finalists Ben Ash (2006), Ben Wright (2006; 2008), and Darren Ellis (2010). In addition to previous alumni, Jonathon Goddard, the first contemporary dancer to win the Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Best Male Dancer in 2008 and fellow Rambert dancer Gemma Nixon are also involved. Mamoru Iriguchi, a self-taught performance maker who originally trained as a zoologist, and then a theatre designer, has also been commissioned. His work was first seen on The Place stage during Resolution! 2011, another choreographic platform. As only the 5thversion of The Place Prize platform, who knows what choreographic talent it may uncover.


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Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 09:30 - Thursday, 23 February 2012 at 17:00 (GMT)
Event Details
#TruLondon has built a reputation for attracting some of the worlds best practioners in the people space. Those who work in and around recruiting, technology, HR, sourcing, talent attraction job boards, career advisors and more. In September 2011, we attracted attendees from 14 countries and 4 continents, In 2 years, #truLondon has become one of the "must attend" events for anyone with an interest in recruiting, talent attraction, H.R. or people. During the same 2 years, we have hosted 21 #tru events in 8 countries and 4 continents. #Trulondon is the flagship event, where we bring back content, participants and learning for an intense 2 days of discussion, debate, inclusion and networking. It doesn;t matter what experience you have, or what you do, there is a place for everyone.
#Tru is "THE Recruiting Unconference", with global participation in and out of the room. For Feb 2012 theres only 60 public tickets available, and if you book before 2012, you get a 30% discount on the ticket price.
What is an Unconference?
An unconference is a gathering of minds, experiences and opinions where the attendees (or active participants) lead the conversation. There are 4 simple rules:
1: No Presentations
2: No Powerpoint
3: No Name Badges
4: No Pitching
Apart from that, anything goes. We don't have presentations because the best knowledge is in the room. By bringing together participants from all kinds of backgrounds with a shared interest. Job Boards, Recruiters (Corporate and Agency), Technologists, Mobile Specialists, Branding Companies and more, all with a shared interest in talent attraction from a different perspective. No talking heads to listen to and nod or nod off.
No Powerpoint because we want the eyes to meet in the middle and everyone to have the floor. Each track, (session), has track leaders with a background in the topic, but their job is to start the conversation, be available for reference and sum things up. The stars always come from the participants. (We select track-leaders from participants at previous events.)
No name badges because we believe that if you don't know who someone is you should introduce yourself and start talking. No need stare at their chest to work out if they are worth it.
No pitching because we don't have exhibitions or stands. Any give aways have to be creative and relevant and any product pitching gets shut down by the other participants. People will buy from you if they respect what you say, not what you pitch.
Each track lasts an hour, with 3 running an hour. You can move between tracks as you wish, it's not considered rude and there is no need to stand on ceremony. Get what you want and move on, like an all you can eat buffet!
Tracks for 2012
We are currently crowd sourcing discussion topics for 2012. If you want to lead a track or discuss any topic, all you need to do is book a ticket and send us a mail with your request, we will be glad to schedule it.
The tracks from Sept 2011;
Twitter Success Stories
Campus To Career
Social Footprints
Slaying The Social Recruiting R.O.I - .B.S.
Technology Futures
Going Mobile/Successful Apps
The Social Recruiter
Case Study#TruStory
Branding Inside Out
Community Or J.I.T.
The Real Cost Of Engagement
Moving To The Clouds
Spectacular S.E.O.
Managing Talent
Recruiting Technology
Candidate Experiences (from Job Seekers)
Global Case Studies - What works where?
Boolean Strings And Facebook
Referral Recruiting
Expose Yourself
Future Job Board
The Rejection Business
Compelling Content
Every Picture Tells A Story
Graduate Employer Brand
Kool New Tools
Secret Sourcing
Games And The Dutch Army
The Hard Rock Story -Hiring 120 Staff In 4 Weeks
Video Story
Recruiting 3.0
When & Where
City Hotel
12 Osborn Street
E1 6TE London
United Kingdom
Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 09:30 - Thursday, 23 February 2012 at 17:00 (GMT)
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Bill Boorman has worked in and around recruiting since he was 16, and is the face behind the @BillBoorman and #tru brands.He takes unconventional approaches to recruitment and HR problems, working in 4 key areas:
- Lead Advisor to talent technology companies including Job&Talent, Rolepoint, ei Talent, Majio, Take The Interview, Clinch.io and iGrads.
- Social Recruiting Integration - clients include the BBC, KPMG, Oracle and The Hard Rock Cafe.
- Organising and hosting #tru (the recruiting unconference) events around the world. #Tru attracts practitioners and vendors from the people space. There's a #tru event somewhere in the world every 2 weeks giving him access to case studies and best practice to share.
- Key note speaking
As a career recruiter, Bill takes a Recruiter's perspective to get the best results for hiring companies in this new social landscape. He is guaranteed to be different, challenging and thought provoking.


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A successful businessman, with an MBA from the Yale School of Management, Ashwin Sanghi is an Indian conspiracy fiction writer du jour. His debut novel, The Rozabal Line, which he wrote under his pseudonym Shawn Haigins, caused quite a flurry in mainstream fiction.He rose to fame with his second novel Chanakya's Chant that won him many accolades. His third novel The Krishna Key is releasing on 24th August. Thousand Miles got in touch with Ashwin Sanghi for a candid conversation where he talks about his forthcoming novel,his future projects,his personal life…
What was your inspiration behind writing The Krishna Key? Is it inspired by the tenets in Bhagvad Puran or Ramanand Sagar's well-known TV Series Shri Krishna?
Neither. I believe that ancient Vedic seers were much more scientifically advanced than we can possibly understand. My desire was to place the Mahabharata and Krishna in the context of an advanced ancient civilization.
Your third novel, The Krishna Key will be released on 24th August. What can readers expect from it?
A heady mix of history, mythology, theology, mystery, suspense and thrills.
The eternal romance of Radha and Krishna is part of many folk-lore. Does Radha play the same significant role in your latest offering?
The reality is that Krishna-devotion is so deeply entrenched in most of India that it's virtually impossible to distinguish history from myth. Most of the Krishna story, in art and music, revolves around the Krishna and Radha romance but Radha is not mentioned even once in Srimad Bhagavatam—you can't find her name anywhere in it. The earliest text to mention Radha by name is the poem Geet Govind by the poet Jayadeva in the twelfth century—more than four thousand years after the life of Krishna. Given that my novel is a thriller that attempts to place Krishna in a historical context, Radha is not given much prominence in it.
What are the major challenges that you had to face while writing this book?
The key challenge was to find a way of marrying the ancient story from the Mahabharata to the modern-day story of the quest to find Krishna's legacy. Striking the right balance between ancient and modern, between research and story, between philosophy and pace, between fact and fiction… these were some of the key challenges.
Is there any underlying message in your novel that you want your readers to grasp?
Yes. That modern science may pride itself on many discoveries including the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, but the reality is that much of this knowledge was already present in the Upanishads. We simply need to read our own ancient scriptures a little more carefully.
Who designed the cover and helped you in publishing this book?
All my book covers are products of teamwork between the cover artist, publisher, editor and myself. The illustration for the cover was done by two young and talented individuals, Gunjan Ahlawat and Kunal Kundu.
You write a genre of literature that is not very popular with Indian authors. What motivated you?
The recent popularity of historical and mythological novels is related to a change in the Indian psyche. Until the Eighties, we looked to the West for our inspiration. This began to change in the Nineties and came into its own in the twenty-first century as our nation became more confident of itself. I see the rekindling of interest in Indian history and mythology as a quest by the average Indian reader to be entertained and educated in parallel. This change in the Indian reader's psyche is my motivation.
Your first novel was about Jesus, the next on Chanakya and now it's on Krishna. What can we expect in the future?
I have already penned around 30,000 words of my next story. In fact it is a manuscript that I started working on before I commenced The Krishna Key. Unlike all my previous books that have been rooted in ancient Indian history, this one shall have its roots in modern history.
What are in your views essential qualities to become an author?
Doggedness, perseverance, courage and conviction are absolutely essential. Being methodical and organized certainly helps. Most importantly, one needs to be thick-skinned, stubborn and bordering on lunacy.
Your books are very well researched. How much importance do you give on getting the details correct? Some authors take a very liberal attitude to this.
I think that most of my stories are built upon a bedrock of research. I am one of the few authors who makes it a point to list all my sources, no matter their relative importance, at the end of a book. As a writer of fiction, I may consciously choose to deviate from my research and give greater importance to the plot or character but such deviations should not be due to inaccurate research. I have a problem with stories that claim to be historically accurate but are based upon shoddy research. I usually spend around six months on research and another three months on the plot with the final nine months being spent on writing and editing. The most difficult part is getting the research completed and the plot structure finalized. Writing the story after the plot has been frozen is rather easy. Usually the process takes eighteen months from start to finish.
You have graduated with a BA (Economics) from St. Xavier's College and earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management. And then you joined your family business. How difficult was it for you to make the transition from the world of business to the literary world? What made you take the leap?
My life was predetermined for me by family traditions. School, college, an MBA, marriage and work were mapped out and any deviation would have been blasphemy. I tried writing a few articles for some newspapers when I returned to India from Yale but I soon realized that my working hours did not afford me the luxury of writing as a parallel career. Probably it was just as well because it allowed me to fully establish myself financially before I chose to take out time for the passion of writing. Had it not been for my maternal grandfather though, I would have grown up reading only balance sheets. My grandfather was a voracious reader, more than a writer. He was fluent in Hindi, English, Urdu and Persian. He would give me a book to read each week and would always tell me that business was something that would feed my family but a creative pursuit like writing was something that would feed my soul. It was his prodding that got me interested in literary pursuits.
Tell us about your family and your childhood experiences. Did you see writing as a career option back then?
Not at all. I was made to start attending office from age twelve. While my friends would be enjoying summer vacations I would be sitting and learning bookkeeping with an accountant. During my college days, my friends would make plans for leisurely lunch in the canteen or afternoon movies while I would be rushing back to my dad's office. My entire life was geared towards gaining work experience, completing an MBA from a Top-10 university and getting back to manage and grow the business. The thought of pursuing a parallel career in writing was the furthest thing from my mind.
Did you ever get any rejections for your debut novel? If yes how did you react to them?
When I completed my debit novel, The Rozabal Line, in 2005, I spent fifteen months trying to find a publisher. Most agents replied that they were unable to take on new authors. Most publishers did not reply at all. I recall having sent out over two hundred requests but fifteen months later had absolutely nothing to show for it. Unsuccessful in my quest and out of sheer frustration I decided to self-publish the novel so that it would become available on international book retail sites. I had never imagined that this particular self-published book would fall into the hands of Gautam Padmanabhan and Hemu Ramiah from Westland Ltd and that they would love it. That chance reading led to The Rozabal Line being eventually published by Westland in 2008.
Who is your favourite author and favourite book?
I was brought up on a diet of commercial fiction and thrillers for most of my growing years: Jeffrey Archer, Sidney Sheldon, Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth, Irving Wallace, Jack Higgins, Tom Clancy, Ken Follett, Arthur Hailey. In the past decade, Dan Brown, John Grisham, Stieg Larsson, Ian Rankin and countless others were added to my list. Among Indian authors, I enjoyed Salman Rushdie, Ruskin Bond and R. K. Narayan. My favourite books… First: All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren. It was the one that got me interested in politics. Second: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, because it taught me about wine, women and song—and God! Third: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, because it succeeded in ripping out my heart while I read it.
What are your hobbies and interests?
I have none. I work Monday to Friday. I write on the weekends. Any remaining time is spent with my family. I have no time for anything else.
You're part of the overall trend of young professionals and businessmen turning to writing as a parallel career. Will you consider writing as a full-time career option?
The problem with eliminating work from my present life-mix is that my writing would then begin to resemble work. Presently, my business is my work and writing is my passion. I don't want to change that.
Do you have to travel much concerning your books?
Only for promotions and book tours. Increasingly, those are also reducing given the higher levels of connectivity via social media.
How did you feel when your second novel Chanakya's Chant won the Vodafone-Crossword Popular Choice Award for 2010?
Elated. I would never have imagined that in a country where the only English fiction that seems to sell are stories revolving around college romances and IIT/IIM campuses, my novel based on history and politics would be able to strike a chord with the average reader.
Your second book, Chanakya's Chant is being scripted into a film by UTV. Your thoughts on that.
I'm happy that a professional production house like UTV has chosen to take up this project. I'm sure that they will do justice to the story.
Any message you want to deliver to your fans and modern Indian writing trend..
Keep reading. My livelihood depends on it!
Your thoughts on being featured in the INDEPENDENCE DAY ISSUE of our magazine Thousand Miles.
The name of your magazine reminds me of my favourite poem by Robert Frost: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep…" Let's hope that your magazine and I have both taken the proverbial first step in the journey of a Thousand Miles.


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The Master of Science in Supply Chain Management's 12-course curriculum prepares you to be a responsible leader in the supply chain field. Additional prerequisite courses may be required, depending on your academic background.
The curriculum below is effective fall 2018 for students admitted in fall 2018 and thereafter. Students who began the program before fall 2018 may pursue the program curriculum in effect when they entered their program or may switch to the revised curriculum below.
All courses listed are three credit hours.
The purpose of the course is to provide the student with statistical and data analysis tools useful for managers. The course emphasizes all the steps and procedures required to successfully managerial problems in which data are useful - from the definition of the managerial problem to statistical formulation of the problem, to data collection and data analysis, and the use of the statistical information in decision making. Topics considered are measures of central tendency and dispersion, theoretical distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation, regression, and time series analysis. MS Excel and PHStat will be used to analyze data.
Introduction to concepts and methods for managing operations in manufacturing and service organizations. Topics typically include forecasting, capacity and aggregate planning, material requirements planning, scheduling, facility layout and location, inventory management, just-in-time, total quality management, project planning, and logistics.
Business analytics leverages the vast amount of streaming data ("big data") to extract actionable insights and drive better business decisions. It incorporates the best in data engineering, analytics methods, visualization techniques, and communication of results. Business analytics relies heavily on statistical and quantitative analysis, and predictive and prescriptive models to provide a forward-looking business decision making.
This course covers current concepts in database theory and use with a focus on design, implementation, and utilization of business database management systems. This course provides coverage of operational (traditional) database systems. Main topics of the course include ER modeling, relational modeling, normalization, and a comprehensive coverage of SQL.
This course covers current concepts in forecasting methods and use, with focus on implementation of these concepts in context to demand projections, economic and financial data analysis. This course uses R statistical language to create and implement various models. Main topics of the course include Regression, Time series analysis, and Markov Processes.
This course examines how business partners along the supply chain can work together to gain competitive advantage in moving products and services around the world to satisfy customers. The course will be an examination of the planning and management of global supply chain operations. Emphasis will be placed on the areas of traffic management, carrier operations, and warehousing. Each area will be analyzed in terms of its key goals, operational processes, technology applications, and performance control mechanisms.
A study of organizational procurement processes and decision making framework. Topics include insourcing/out-sourcing decisions based on total cost of ownership, purchasing cycle and processes, developing material and technical specifications, supplier evaluation, selection and management, supplier quality management, purchasing capital goods and services, global sourcing and e-commerce, and purchasing tools and analytics.
A study of the fundamental principles of effective management of inventory with emphasis on inventory costs, product stratification, performance measures, demand forecasting, periodic and continuous review, safety stock, material requirements planning, customer service, and use of technology in inventory management. Issues related to storage and the handling of inventory stock are also studied.
A study of the design, development, and use of decision models for analysis of supply chain problems. This course provides an example-driven approach to learn about important supply chain models, problems, and solution methodologies.
This course will focus on the importance of ethical decision making within a business context. First, several decision making frameworks will be presented, applied and evaluated. Business cases will be used in order to illustrate the ethical and risk management implications of each framework. Second, social psychological and cognitive factors that influence decisions and actions will be discussed as well as strategies for mitigating these factors.
This course focuses on how to effectively use Microsoft Excel and its built-in programming language, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), to build financial models. The course will examine equity, fixed-income, option, and portfolio optimization problems. The course is a combination of both lecture and lab.
This course focuses on helping future business leaders, in increasingly competitive environments, think about the strategic use of technology in the development and management of competitive advantages. The course will use case discussions, expert presenters, and real-world projects to help students understand how to leverage emerging technologies—i.e. machine learning, artificial intelligence, block chain, cognitive analytics—as well as an understanding of innovation processes—i.e. design thinking—in developing sustainable business strategies.
MGMT 573 analyzes the responsibilities of general management in formulating, communicating, and implementing a strategic plan. Whereas Corporate Strategy (MGMT 574) defines the scope of the firm with the emphasis on strategic insights and perspectives, Business Strategy (MGMT 573) is concerned with how the firm generates sustainable competitive advantage within a particular industry or product market with the emphasis on strategic analyses and frameworks.
Data Mining involves the search for patterns in large quantities of data. The fundamental techniques used in data mining include, but are not limited to, clustering, decision trees, neural networks, and association analysis.
The art and science of project management as applied to a variety of business and technical projects in commercial, public, and private sectors. The course covers: project life cycle and methodology; team-building; project organization, stakeholders and leadership; proposals and contracts; techniques for project planning, estimating, scheduling, and control; and PMO.
The course focuses on a process view of the organization and provides students with a formal approach to designing, monitoring and improving business processes. The course provides the tools, methods and practical examples to help managers learn how to think from a process standpoint and how to ensure critical processes are controlled and functioning efficiently and effectively in their organization.
This course covers current concepts, components, and design issues related to data warehouses and business intelligence techniques for extracting meaningful information from data warehouses. Oracle, Informatica, Greenplum, and Tableau tools will be used to demonstrate design, implementation, and utilization issues. Most recent technologies in context to big data like MPP system, NoSQL, Hadoop (Pig, Hive, and MapReduce framework, etc.) will also be covered in detail. Advanced analytical SQL methods will be taught as well.
Methods for managing operations in manufacturing and service organizations based upon the Toyota Production System. Topics include the principles lean production: employee empowerment, workplace organization, smooth process flow, pull production, setup reduction, TPM, cellular manufacturing, standard operations, visual management, and supplier partnerships.
This course explores the management of services in general, and the application of operations concepts to the design and management of service delivery systems in particular. A case study approach will be used, supplemented with lectures.
This course serves as the capstone to the Masters in Supply Chain Management curriculum; it is designed to integrate topics covered during foundational courses and engage students in critical topics surrounding leadership in a real-life supply chain. This course will offer a hands-on opportunity to consolidate the concepts learned during previous courses and apply them in a practical and useful way.
* The prerequisite requirement is met if you have completed a minimum of one undergraduate course (3 credit hours) of comparable content in the prerequisite subject area within the last seven years with a grade of B (or equivalent) or higher if the course is determined appropriate by their academic advisor.
** All required courses must be completed prior to or concurrently with SCMG 589.
Loyola's Quinlan School of Business invites you to join us at our downtown Chicago Water Tower campus for an Open House or Information Session. Please contact us with any questions you may have about the supply chain management courses.


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