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Using daily objects to remake famous paintings is becoming more frequent in advertising campaigns. In this example of "The Scream," it is quite interesting how the art directors of Ogilvy & Mather used Faber Castell colored pencils to create a rhythmic sky.
Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Singapore
Chief Creative Officer: Steve Back
Creative Directors: Troy Lim, Jon Loke
Art Directors: David Stevanov, Kairong Ku, Si Hui Heng, Jon Loke
Copywriters: Adeline Siow, Troy Lim
Illustrators: Dash Kadam, Inessa Loh, Loh Yi Qi, Danny Ong, Alicia Tan, Joycie Koor, Brandon Sim
Photographers: Jimmy Fok, Calibre Pictures
Account Managers: Shirley Tay, Ng Hui Min
Retoucher: Lay Leng
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According to Macworld, Apple removed a Knowledge Base article about antivirus software compatible with Mac OS X.
The article received "a lot of attention" because it seemingly contradicted Apple's marketing messages about malware for Mac. Our own Michael Rose tried to take the kettle off the stove, noting that the article had been around for years before the Washington Post noticed it this week.
Macworld's Jim Dalrymple spoke with Apple spokesman Bill Evans, who said "We have removed the Knowledge Base article because it was old and inaccurate. The Mac is designed with built-in technologies that provide protection against malicious software and security threats right out of the box."
Even so, Evans admitted, "Since no system can be 100% immune from every threat, running anti-virus software may offer additional protection."
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The dry cleaning business is usually an added service in almost all laundry shops. Offering both laundry and dry cleaning services means tapping all the available revenue opportunities. But one of the limiting factors is the price tag of this specialized equipment. And with the owner's desire to cut on cost, he/she often resorts to buying either a used machine or perhaps, a cheap and basic unit. Rhino Laundry which specializes in the distribution of laundry and dry cleaning equipment advises that quality and efficiency should be the businessman's priority.
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Way to go Dr. Waltz and Effingham County Young Farmers!!! Great Job!!
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Bainbridge High School
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Subject: Announcement of 2012 NAAE Award Winners
On behalf of the NAAE Board of Directors, it is with pleasure that I announce the names of the NAAE award winners for 2012. As usual, the competition for these awards was intense. I congratulate all of the applicants for their outstanding accomplishments as state winners. They are, indeed, individuals who make our association strong and our profession proud.
Please see attachment for the 2012 NAAE Award winners. All state winning applicants will receive this same announcement in the mail this week. All regional winners will need to wait to make travel, registration, or hotel arrangements for the 2012 NAAE Convention. Regional winners will receive additional information in the mail within the next 10 days explaining the procedures for booking travel, hotel, and registering.
Congratulations to this year's winners.
Alissa F. Smith
Associate Executive Director
National Association of Agricultural Educators
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Hollywood is in shock, following the tragic and sudden death of actor Anton Yelchin at the age of 27. The actor, who was best known for playing Chekov in the new Star Trek movies, died in a freak car accident at his San Fernando Valley home on Sunday (19 June).
Yelchin was born in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1989, the only son of renowned professional figure-skaters Irina and Viktor Yelchin, the two prominent stars of Russia's Ice Ballet. The family was forced to flee to the US as political refugees when Yelchin was a just a child.
He spent his formative years in Los Angeles and later attended the University of Southern California.
He first made his mark winning roles in TV, gaining recognition for his portrayal of teenager Byrd Huffstodt on Showtime's Huff. HisTV credits also included the alien abduction miniseries Taken, The Practice and episodes of Criminal Minds, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and NYPD Blue.
He garnered critical acclaim in the independent film scene as he went on to become the break out star of crime thriller, Alpha Dog, as well as teenage comedy Charlie Bartlett, Jodie Foster's The Beaver and Sundance Film Festival winner, Like Crazy.
A rising star of mainstream cinema, Yelchin also secured roles in Terminator Salvation, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, and Hearts In Atlantis, which is based on a novel by Stephen King. While he won acclaim for his performance in ensemble horror, Green Room, Yelchin was best loved for his portrayal of Pavel Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek films.
He stars in Star Trek Beyond, the latest reboot, which is due for release in July, while the actor was set to star as Mr. Mercedes in AT&T Audience Network's 10-episode adaptation of the Stephen King novel.
As news of his death broke on Sunday (19 June), celebrities who knew and admired the actor turned to social media to express their shock at his passing.
Deadline reports that Paramount issued a statement saying: "All of us at Paramount join the world in morning the untimely passing of Antony Yelchin. As a member of the Star Trek family, he was beloved by so many and he will be missed by all. We share our deepest condolences with his mother, father and family."
The official Star Trek website has posted a biography of the actor, who starred in Star Trek and its reboot sequel Star Trek Into Darkness.
Star Trek co-star John Cho led the tributes, describing Yelchin as "curious, beautiful, courageous." I loved Anton Yelchin so much. He was a true artist ... He was a great pal and a great son. I'm in ruins," he added.
Director J.J. Abrams wrote an emotional tribute on Twitter saying: "You were brilliant. You were kind. You were funny as hell . And you weren't here nearly long enough. Missing you, JJ."
Hank Azaria, who played his on-screen father in Huff said he was "devastated." "He was a very sweet kid. My heart goes out to his family," he tweeted.
Captain America star, Chris Evans, also remembered a "brilliant" actor. "He was thoughtful, kind, and gifted. My thoughts and prayers are with his family," he said.
Guillermo del Toro, who was set to direct Yelchin as part of the voice cast for the upcoming "Trollhunters," called Yelchin "a great creative partner and artist." His role in the Netflix series was only announced earlier this week.
Anna Kendrick, Matt Lucas, Kevin Smith and Olivia Wilde paid tribute to the "bright and brilliant talent" while fans expressed their dismay at another tragic loss in 2016.


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The United States recently dropped an enormous bomb, one of the biggest non-nuclear weapons in existence, in Afghanistan. We dropped it apparently on ISIS fighters. So why in the world are we in Afghanistan?. What is our purpose there? We've been there since 2001, we've spent billions of dollars. We've lost soldiers. Afghani civilians have died. We don't seem to be any closer to leaving or having a plan or date for leaving.
To what purpose all the sacrifices? As far as I can see, all that we've done is ousted the Taliban and Mullah Omar from the central government and put in place a central government that is shaky and still needs our presence. That might have felt good in 2001 (revenge is sweet), but it's sixteen year later and the Taliban is still there and is still fighting. Now there's a third force in the mix, ISIS, and apparently ISIS and the Taliban fight each other. If the enemy of our enemy is our friend, does that mean we're now chums with the Taliban and should fight on their side? It's all too confusing. I wish someone could tell me what our objectives there are. Is it to reduce terrorism? To create a stable, democratic government in Afghanistan?
Whatever our objectives were or are, we have failed miserably. We keep coming up with new plans, new strategies for continuing to fail.
Perhaps it's time to put up or get out.
Some statistics on Afghanistan:
Coalition deaths of 01/10/15: 3,407
U.S. deaths of 01/10/15: 3,424
During the war in Afghanistan (2001–14), over 26,000 civilian deaths due to war-related violence have been documented; 29,900 civilians have been wounded. Over 91,000 Afghans, including civilians, soldiers and militants, are recorded to have been killed in the conflict, and the number who have died through indirect causes related to the war may include an additional 360,000 people.
Direct costs of the war, FY2001 – FY2016 – $783 billion
The war in Afghanistan has so far cost $33,000 per citizen, as of 01/10/2015


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UFC 128 Betting Preview
Every now and then the UFC has a fight lined up that everyone knows will be a classic, and one of those fights is going to headline UFC 128 on March 19 in New Jersey.
The biggest prospect in MMA will get his first shot at a world title when Jon "Bones" Jones steps into the Octagon against UFC Light Heavyweight champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua.
It's not often that a UFC champion, who's been considered the top Light Heavyweight for many years, is an underdog in his first title defense. But oddsmakers at Sportsbook.ag will pay as much as +185 on a bet that the champ will retain his title.
It will be Jones who will be the favorite to walk out of the Octagon as the UFC Light Heavyweight champion and the best MMA odds on that bet sits at -200 at Bovada.
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The other fight on the UFC 128 card that oddsmakers have posted odds on already is the Nate Marquardt vs. Yoshihiro Akiyama matchup. Both fighters have had a rough go of things of late and this fight will keep one of them in contention while dropping the other down to gatekeeper status at best.
Marquardt will be the heavy favorite and the best line available is at 5Dimes at -290. Akiyama will pay a tidy +250 at Bovada, but we don't recommend a bet on "Sexyama" in this one. Marquardt should be able to run over the Japanese judo fighter and collect either a unanimous decision or a third-round submission victory.
The rest of the betting lines for the UFC 128 card have not been posted yet, but two fights will be worth taking a look at once the lines are up. The Urijah Faber vs. Eddie Wineland fight should be a safe-money wager for bettors that like Faber. He's on a quest for the UFC Bantamweight championship and will be very motivated to get past Wineland.
Unless the MMA odds are over -350, a bet on Faber will be the wise choice. But even if the Faber bet is more expensive, the underdog line on Wineland will need to pay out more than +300 to even consider the upset bet.
The fight that should be the safest money on the card is the Jim Miller vs. Kamal Shalorus battle. Miller has only lost to Frank Edgar and Gray Maynard in 21 fights and shocked MMA fans with a knee-bar submission win over then No.1 contender Charles Oliveira his last time out.
Kamal Shalorus, although undefeated, has only nine pro MMA fights and is not ready for what Miller will do to him on the ground.


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Inspire Me: PANTONE colour(s) of the year 2016
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PANTONE have released their colour of year for 2016, and for the first time ever it's actually 2! Here's what Pantone has to say about the choice...
'As consumers seek mindfulness and well-being as an antidote to the stress of modern day lives, welcoming colors that psychologically fulfill the yearning for reassurance and security are becoming more prominent. Weightless and airy, like the expanse of the blue sky above us, Serenity comforts with a calming effect, bringing feelings of respite and relaxation even in turbulent times. Rose Quartz is a persuasive yet gentle tone that conveys compassion and a sense of composure.'
And it seems that it's not just us who have a bit of a thing for Pantone's latest colour additions. Check out this BEAUTIFUL selection of EMMY London shoes that would fit right in at a Rose Quartz, Serenity wedding...
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Insufficient Funds for Prisoner's Wife/Partner
Being the partner to someone incarcerated comes with a hefty price tag.
We pay for this life with different types of currency: money, family, friends, time and freedom.
Can you afford it?
Is the price you pay greater than the return on your investment?
Many prisoners' wives/partners say they'll gladly pay any price because it's worth it. But, are you writing blank checks? Giving more than what you have?
Do you withdraw on an account that is emotionally, spiritually, and physically bankrupt?
You can't make payments from an account with insufficient funds[rft].
Top Two Resolutions for Prisoners' Wives/Partners
Super Spouse Syndrome
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Healthy aging: Putting life in your years
Advice for staying as healthy as possible as we age.
We can't stop aging but we can slow it down depending on what we eat, how active we are and whether we have any disease. The American Institute for Cancer Research says that 30-40% of cancers can be prevented through diet, activity and weight control.
As we age we lose muscle and fat from the places we like it and gain fat where don't want it; scratches take longer to heal, we get more aches and pains, everyone speaks far too quietly and food just doesn't taste the same. Then there are social changes: grief from losing loved ones to death or disease; loneliness; being stuck at home because we can't drive any more; and financial struggles.
Such things change how we cook and eat. Sometimes it's just too hard to cook a meal of meat and vegetables. A quick pop of the toaster and a nice cup of tea is much easier. But it's never too late to make changes – to your eating, activity or attitude. And these changes can delay and sometimes reverse many of these problems associated with aging.
As we age we lose our sensitivity to thirst. On top of not feeling thirsty, we may drink less to avoid embarrassing moments of incontinence. This drying out of the body can lead to headaches, constipation and more concentrated (even toxic) medication levels.
It's important to drink fluids even when you don't feel thirsty, especially in hot weather. With some medication, the doctor may tell you to restrict fluids but for everyone else it's good to drink enough to keep your urine clear – about eight cups of fluid a day. That can be water, tea – black, green or herbal – juice, or even coffee. You might like to fill a two litre jug with water, add sliced lemon and ice, and drink it slowly over the day to ensure they're getting enough.
Fruit juice is good for people who need to gain weight or have no appetite. A glass of unsweetened juice has about three teaspoons of sugar (mostly from the fruit) along with vitamins and antioxidants, depending on the variety.
Too much coffee or alcohol causes dehydration. However, a recent study of almost 6,000 people aged over 65 found that those who had 7-10 alcoholic drinks a week (not all in one session!) had a third less risk of heart failure compared with abstainers. Perhaps it is the relaxing effect of a glass of wine with a meal each night.
"Food doesn't taste the same"
At an age when our sense of taste and smell isn't so great, a glass of wine with dinner may be just what we need to enjoy our meal. It also encourages us to sit down to a 'proper' meal – wine just doesn't go well with tea and toast!
The taste receptors in our mouths take longer to renew themselves as we age and food may start to taste bland. To add some flavour, it's tempting to add extra sugar or salt. Sometimes it's just a habit to shake the salt shaker for a certain time without even tasting the food. Too much salt speeds up calcium loss from the bones, sends up blood pressure and makes us more prone to dehydration. Try using more herbs and spices for both flavour and a few extra antioxidants.
Some medications, pain, depression, mild zinc deficiency, poor oral hygiene, gum disease and poorly fitting dentures can all make eating more of a chore than a pleasure. Try these ideas to help:
- Go for a pre-meal walk to stimulate appetite.
- Set the table attractively and make mealtime a social time, where possible.
- Eat small, frequent meals and have plenty to drink (but go easy on the alcohol).
- Eat a variety of foods with lots of colour (from vegetables, not artificial colours) and try different textures – crispy roast veges and salad with a casserole rather than sloppy mashed potato.
- Stimulate your taste buds by eating individual foods rather than piling them all on your fork for one uniform taste. Choose foods low in fat, salt and sugar.
- Chew food well – just like your mother told you! It extracts more flavour.
As our activity slows with age, we need less food but just as many nutrients – sometimes more. And remember, things change; the low-fat diet you had when you were fat and 50 probably won't suit when you are frail and 80.
The bottom line
Food and exercise are just part of healthy aging. Our interaction with others and how we feel about life also affects health. As the proverb goes: 'A heart at peace gives life to the body.'
Fruit and vegetables may boost your immune system but so does being happily married. On the other hand, if your wife or husband has just died, all the fruit and veges in the world won't stop the grief, loneliness and resulting stress on the body.
A British study of people over 65 found that those who were single, divorced or widowed had lower antibodies than those who were happily married. The UCLA School of Medicine found that people had a stronger immune system when they had more social contacts. Perhaps the most effective strategy for healthy aging is getting out of the house! Join a club, get involved with your marae, volunteer to help in the community or invite friends and neighbours for dinner.
If you can't cook, eat out (and bring the leftovers home), buy takeaways or make it 'pot-luck' where the guests bring food. If you have older friends or neighbours, invite them for a meal – not just for the food but for the social contact. And try to have a laugh – it boosts the immune system. One author, himself in his 80s, told some nursing home residents, "If you can't find anything to laugh about, take all your clothes off and look in the mirror. That should keep you laughing all day!"
Like a good wine or cheese, in many ways we improve with age. Youth may bring vim and vigour but with maturity comes depth and wisdom. Healthy aging is all about feeding and exercising our body, mind and spirit with the nutrients it needs – from food, social contact, learning new things, laughter and thinking outwards. As Abraham Lincoln once said, "It's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years."


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US Fuel Ethanol Exports Climb 8% in Oct
NEW YORK (DTN) -- U.S. ethanol exports in October rose 8% to 93.6 million gallons from September, climbing for the first time since July, said the Renewable Fuels Association in a news release Tuesday, basing their findings on government data.
For ten months of 2017, the ethanol trade association reported that exports totaled 1.09 billion gallons, an annualized export volume of 1.30 billion gallons.
Canada was again the top destination for U.S. exports at 33.9 million gallons, accounting for more than one-third of total exports or an 18% increase over September.
Spain was the second-leading market in October, although this was their first meaningful purchase of U.S. ethanol in 37 months, taking in 13.4 mg.
India's imports of U.S. ethanol fell 35% from September to 13.2 mg, but that was good enough to rank third in October.
Exports to Brazil in October ticked downward for the third straight month, likely a result of the nation's implementation of a tariff rate quota and 20% tariff in September. U.S. shippers sent 12.9 mg of ethanol to Brazil, a 32% decrease from September.
Canada, Spain, India, and Brazil accounted for 78% of all shipments in October, while another 20% was parsed out amongst seven other countries.
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Raise your hand if you have a fiancé. If that's you – or your bestie – and you live in the NJ/NYC area then you should come to this event on Sunday! I'll be there with Work it Out giving out all the details on our bridal offerings.
Here's what Work it Out (WiO) has to offer you brides-to-be:
- 'I Do' Bridal Kits: A motivational combination of services to help you prepare for your big day. Kits include class packs, fitness consultations, nutrition counseling sessions and more!
- Bachelorette Parties: A 90-minute customized private class with all of your friends, plus post-workout 'happy hour' treats!
- Brides & Bubbly: Special events for brides and their girlfriends to meet local vendors, try new services and enjoy a glass of bubbly (or two)!
Tickets are going fast, but they're still available. Purchase here. Only $20! First 50 brides to arrive will receive a free goodie bag with tons of great gifts from participating vendors (Ahem, a free class at WiO)!
Let me know if you'll be there! I'll be at the WiO table and would love to meet you and share with you what we have to offer. It's going to be a great afternoon!


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- I want to take a moment to address where you are in SharePoint via an analogy I like to call the SharePoint Mall Map. If you've ever been into a large mall, or shopping center, sometimes it's difficult to remember where you parked, or you're not sure how to get to the location you're trying to get to. There may be hundreds, or even thousands of stores in the gigantic super malls of today. Well, SharePoint has the same issue. SharePoint can have literally thousands of things we call site collections, and each of those site collections can have one to hundreds to potentially thousands of sites.
Each of those sites can have lists and libraries, and if you're trying to find a document that's in a folder, that's in a library, that's in a site, that's a sub-site of a sub-site of a sub-site in a site collection, you need to find that. Now you can use Search, which is very handy, but it also helps to understand how these different objects fit together. Thus, the SharePoint Mall Map. I want to help you understand where you are in the context of SharePoint, especially as you're thinking about giving others access to, or finding out why you don't have access to something that's being stored inside of SharePoint.
So here we go. It all starts with this thing called the SharePoint Farm. Now the SharePoint Farm is one or more machines, physical or virtual, with the SharePoint bits installed on them connected to one configuration database. It's not that you need to understand how to set all that up, and you may even be in SharePoint online via Office 365, in which case Microsoft is managing the farm. But there is a farm, that's the largest boundary inside of SharePoint. When we talk about SharePoint permissions, or security for users, we're not really talking about things going on at this level.
It's just good to know that this exists. Now the SharePoint Farm will have one more more SharePoint web applications. Now outside the world of SharePoint, generally a web application is in fact a website. But inside of SharePoint, while it does exist as a website inside if IIS, and you don't need to worry about what that is in this course, but it is actually a website. However this is not where we're coming to to access our content inside of SharePoint. We're still two levels up from the home page of a site.
The web application does however provide a connection that things we're very familiar with working with SharePoint for awhile, like Search, or the user profiles service application, or Excel services, which is providing calculations for large workbooks and other functionality inside of SharePoint. All that stuff's coming to us via the service application layer which is passed in to the SharePoint web applications. Now in this course we're really not going to be focusing on configuring permissions, or security, for the service applications or for the web applications.
We are going to briefly talk about how security settings at the web application layer can affect the experience of users. But this is still a llittle bit higher than what we're focusing on in this course if we're talking about a hierarchy of SharePoint objects. This is our sweet spot, the site collection. Site collections exist in the context of being what we would call attached to a web application. Now you can have many, many site collections in a SharePoint web application.
In fact, it's not uncommon at all to work in a situation where you have more than 10, possibly hundreds, sometimes even thousands of site collections in a larger SharePoint farm. The site collection is a natural security boundary. And this is where our site collection administrators are really gonna focus on setting up the SharePoint permissions, then security access controls for the items stored in the sites that are in the site collection. So the site collections are a collection of one or more sites.
There's always gonna be a top level site, and each of these sites is gonna be based on a template. That template that the top level site is based on will set in motion the way that the security is initially configured for SharePoint. It will also tell SharePoint which lists and libraries that are gonna be included in that top level site, as well as what the home page and other pages will look like. The top level site template is a very important decision for people who are working wtih site collections.
Inside the SharePoint site are gonna be lists and libraries, and that's where we're gonna store the majority of our content, in SharePoint lists and SharePoint libraries. It's where our documents are gonna go, our expense reports, our purchase orders, anything that we may be asking SharePoint to handle for us. In fact, those things are actually referred to as list or library items. And they optionally can be housed inside of folders. So the items themselves may or may not be in folders, but the items and the folders will be in SharePoint lists and libraries.
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- Understanding authentication and authorization
- Configuring groups and permission levels
- Accessing the site, lists and libraries, and documents
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3 tbs Dark Chocolate Chips
1. Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees. Line 10 muffin tins with silicone or foil muffin liners (to prevent sticking) and spray with non-stick cooking spray.
2. In a medium bowl, mix everything except for berries and chocolate chips together. Gently fold the berries and chips into the batter. Divide the batter evenly among muffin cups.
3. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean!
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Makes 10 servings – 1 muffin per serving
With Chocolate Chips
Calories: 114 | Fat: 3g | Carb: 14g | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 3g | Protein: 7g
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Calories: 90 | Fat: 2g | Carbs: 12g | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1g | Protein: 7g
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Sustainability scores points: "Frosch" is the most trusted brand yet again
Through their votes, consumers once again showed that, alongside top-class product quality, factors such as consistent sustainability and reliable service orientation by manufacturers, as well as quality seals and awards, are increasingly playing a crucial role with regard to trust in brands. Beginning with production, "Frosch" is focused on the environment throughout the entire value chain. "Ensuring sustainability creates trust", says Reinhard Schneider, CEO of Werner & Mertz. "We are delighted that our commitment to the environment is taken note of and rewarded by consumers."
Through the "Frosch" brand in particular, Werner & Mertz has been backing eco-effectiveness and the careful handling of resources according to the circular cradle-to-cradle principle since 1986. For over ten years, Werner & Mertz has been EMAS-certified at its two production sites in Mainz and in Hallein, Austria. EMAS is the world's most demanding system for sustainable environmental management from the European Union. The brand was able to establish itself as an "eco-pioneer" upon its market launch with the first phosphate-free cleaners on the market.
Through the study "Reader's Digest European Trusted Brands 2016", the Reader's Digest magazine has for the 15th time ascertained the most trustworthy brands in over 100 product categories in ten European countries. Without the prior specification of brand names, 17,969 participants were asked to name the most trustworthy brand for them personally in each category for this study. The annual survey is carried out online in some countries and on paper in others. It is the largest Europe-wide consumer study.


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10 Amazing First Date Expectations Of Every Woman
Everyone is having some unique expectations from his/her partner. These first date expectations of every woman are really amazing.
If you are lucky enough to secure a first date with a pretty-looking partner of your choice then you should try your best efforts to kick start your new relationship.
You should be well-aware of basic rules of behavior, way of dressing & eating in public places, good communication skills as well as treating a woman respectfully & confidently.
Impressing a woman is not a very difficult task. You just need to understand some basic rules of first date.
Whenever you are ready to date a woman or girl, you need to be cautious enough about her requirements to meet or even exceed her expectations. Here are 10 amazing first date expectations or wishes of every woman:
[You can also watch an exciting video on this post from GetUpWise channel on YouTube.]
(1) Be Well Groomed On First Date
It is one of the most significant first date expectations of every woman from her would-be partner. You should prepare yourself for this special day. One should always take care of all personal hygiene.
Some of the personal hygienics for man include combing hairs, shaving beards, wearing clean & casual dress, wearing polished shoes, putting on antiperspirant/deodorant, brushing your teeth, etc.
Your personal hygiene can play a great role in turning-on your future partner. As jeans & jackets are trendy but it will be good idea to avoid torn & grungy outfits unless your first date loves such styles.
However, if you are planned for a dinner date then you can arrive in semi-formal dress or even designer casuals.
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While none of the remixes are as long as the original, seven of them in a row does make for a pretty strange listening experience. Constituent elements become warped echoes, distorted by memories of having first heard them ten minutes ago, thirty minutes ago, or almost a year ago when the original piece came out. Dozzy has an impeccable feel for timing: he knows exactly how long to let each track hang, when to introduce a new loop and when to move on to a fresh rhythm. This sensibility is the perfect complement to Madak's ear for texture and melody. The end result is a close-up look at how many different ways a sound can be interpreted and bent into new shapes. A project like this could easily become an indulgent mess, but it's testament to the quality of the craftsmen involved that Plays Bee Mask remains consistently fascinating.
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How The World is Using New Technologies for a Sustainable Planet
If you have heard of the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain, then you have probably heard of "fintech."
These financial technologies are used across consumer and industrial spaces and are now being embraced by financial organizations with large global investments.
In parallel with the data and fintech revolutions are ongoing efforts at national, regional and global levels to reach the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Could these technologies, associated with concepts like observation, information, context and trust, be the tools we need to build a more sustainable and equitable world?
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The French Revolutionary Wars continued from 1799 with the French fighting the forces of the Second Coalition. Napoleon Bonaparte had returned from Egypt and taken control of the French government. He prepared a new campaign, sending Moreau to the Rhine frontier and personally going to take command in the Alps, where French forces had been driven almost out of Italy in 1799.
At the start of the campaigning season of 1800, the Austrians had strong armies North and South of the Alps
The French had
Both the Austrians and the French decided to make their main effort in Italy. (Bonaparte would have preferred the main attack to be on Kray by a flanking move through Northern Switzerland, but the working relationship with Moreau was poor).
Melas attacked first, and by the third week in April had advanced to the Var, with Massena and half his army in Genoa besieged by land by the Austrians and under tight blockade by the Royal Navy. In response Berthier moved – not to the threatened frontier, but to Geneva- and Massena was instructed to hold Genoa until 4 June.
The Army of the Reserve was joined by Napoleon, and in mid-May set out to cross the Alps to attack the Austrian rear. The bulk of the army crossed by the Great St Bernard Pass, still under snow, and by 24 May 40,000 troops were in the valley of the Po. Artillery was manhandled over with great effort and ingenuity; however an Austrian-held fort on the Italian side (although bypassed by infantry and cavalry) prevented most of the artillery reaching the plains of Northern Italy until the start of June.
Once over the Alps, Napoleon did not proceed directly to the relief of Genoa. Instead, he advanced on Milan, to improve his lines of communication (via the Simplon and St Gotthard passes) and to threaten Melas's lines of communication with Mantua and Vienna, in the belief that this would cause Melas to raise the siege of Genoa. He entered Milan on 2 June and by crossing to the South bank of the Po completely cut Melas's communications. Taking up a strong defensive position at Stradella, he confidently awaited an attempt by the Austrian Army to fight its way out.
However, Melas had not raised the siege of Genoa, and on 4 June, Massena had duly capitulated. Napoleon then faced the possibility that, thanks to the British command of the Mediterranean, far from falling back, the Austrians could instead take Genoa as their new base and be supplied by sea. His defensive posture would not prevent this; he had to find and attack the Austrians before they could regroup. He therefore advanced from Stradella towards Alessandria, where Melas was, apparently doing nothing. Convinced that Melas was about to retreat, Napoleon sent strong detachments to block Melas's routes northwards to the Po, and southwards to Genoa. At this point, Melas attacked, and for all the brilliance of the previous campaign, Napoleon found himself at a significant disadvantage in the consequent Battle of Marengo (14 June). Napoleon was effectively defeated in a tough battle in the morning and early afternoon; Melas, thinking he had already won, had turned over delivery of the coup de grace to a subordinate, when the prompt return of a detached French force under Desaix and a vigorous French counter-attack (in the course of which Desaix was killed) converted the battle into an important French victory.
Melas promptly entered into negotiations which led to the Austrians evacuating Northern Italy west of the Ticino, and suspending military operations in Italy.
Napoleon returned to Paris after the victory, leaving Brune to consolidate in Italy and begin a march toward Austria.
Although the First Coalition forces achieved several initial victories at Verdun, Kaiserslautern, Neerwinden, Mainz, Amberg and Würzburg, the efforts of Napoleon Bonaparte in northern Italy pushed Austrian forces back and resulted in the negotiation of the Peace of Leoben (17 April 1797) and the subsequent Treaty of Campo Formio (October 1797).[1] This treaty proved difficult to administer. Austria was slow to give up some of the Venetian territories. A Congress convened at Rastatt for the purposes of deciding which southwestern German states would be mediatised to compensate the dynastic houses for territorial losses, but was unable to make any progress. Supported by French republican forces, Swiss insurgents staged several uprisings, ultimately causing the overthrow of the Swiss Confederation after 18 months of civil war.[2] By early 1799, the French Directory had become impatient with stalling tactics employed by Austria. The uprising in Naples raised further alarms, and recent gains in Switzerland suggested the timing was fortuitous to venture on another campaign in northern Italy and southwestern Germany.[3]
At the beginning of 1800, the armies of France and Austria faced each other across the Rhine. Feldzeugmeister Pál Kray led approximately 120,000 troops. In addition to his Austrian regulars, his force included 12,000 men from the Electorate of Bavaria, 6,000 troops from the Duchy of Württemberg, 5,000 soldiers of low quality from the Archbishopric of Mainz, and 7,000 militiamen from the County of Tyrol. Of these, 25,000 men were deployed east of Lake Constance (Bodensee) to protect the Vorarlberg. Kray posted his main body of 95,000 soldiers in the L-shaped angle where the Rhine changes direction from a westward flow along the northern border of Switzerland to a northward flow along the eastern border of France. Unwisely, Kray set up his main magazine at Stockach, near the northwestern end of Lake Constance, only a day's march from French-held Switzerland.[4]
General of Division Jean Victor Marie Moreau commanded a modestly-equipped army of 137,000 French troops. Of these, 108,000 troops were available for field operations while the other 29,000 watched the Swiss border and held the Rhine fortresses. First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte offered a plan of operations based on outflanking the Austrians by a push from Switzerland, but Moreau declined to follow it. Rather, Moreau planned to cross the Rhine near Basel where the river swung to the north. A French column would distract Kray from Moreau's true intentions by crossing the Rhine from the west. Bonaparte wanted Claude Lecourbe's corps to be detached to Italy after the initial battles, but Moreau had other plans.[5] Through a series of complicated maneuvers in which he flanked, double flanked, and reflanked Kray's army, Moreau's army lay on the eastern slope of the Black Forest, while portions of Kray's army was still guarded the passes on the other side.[6] Battles at Engen and Stockach were fought on 3 May 1800 between the army of the French First Republic under Jean Victor Marie Moreau and the army of Habsburg Austria led by Pál Kray. The fighting near Engen resulted in a stalemate with heavy losses on both sides. However, while the two main armies were engaged at Engen, Claude Lecourbe captured Stockach from its Austrian defenders under the Joseph, Prince of Lorraine-Vaudemont. The loss of this main supply base at Stockach compelled Kray to order a retreat to Messkirch, where they enjoyed a more favourable defensive position. It also meant, however, that any retreat by Kray into Austria via Switzerland and the Vorarlberg was cut off.[7]
On 4 and 5 May, the French launched repeated and fruitless assaults on the Messkirch. At nearby Krumbach, where the Austrians also had the superiority of position and force, the 1st Demi-Brigade took the village and the heights around it, which gave them a commanding aspect over Messkirch. Subsequently, Kray withdrew his forces to Sigmaringen, followed closely by the French. Fighting at nearby Biberach an der Ris ensued on 9 May; action principally consisted of the 25,000 man-strong French "Center", commanded by Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr.[8] After being flanked by General Moreau, who approached Ulm from the east and overwhelmed his outposts at Battle of Höchstädt (1800), Kray retreated to Munich. Again, on 10 May, the Austrians withdrew with heavy losses, this time to Ulm.[9]
A several month armistice followed, during which Kray was replaced by the Archduke John, with the Austrian army retiring behind the river Inn. Austrian reluctance to accept negotiated terms caused the French to end the armistice in mid-November, effective in two weeks. When the armistice ended, John advanced over the Inn towards Munich. His army was defeated in small engagements at the battles of Ampfing and Neuburg an der Donau, and decisively in the forests before the city at Hohenlinden on 3 December. Moreau began a march on Vienna, and the Austrians soon sued for peace, ending the war on the continent.
Meanwhile, Kléber remained trapped in Egypt by the British fleet. He negotiated the Convention of El-Arish with Britain and Turkey to allow him to evacuate by sea, but Britain later repudiated the agreement. Kléber won a battle against the Turks at Heliopolis in March, but was assassinated later in June.
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Friday Theme - Rebuilding
Friday Scripture - Isaiah 61:4
They will rebuild the ancient ruins
and restore the places long devastated;
they will renew the ruined cities
that have been devastated for generations.
Friday Quote - Lesslie Newbigin
"The gospel is not just the illustration (even the best illustration) of an idea. It is the story of actions by which the human situation is irreversibly changed."
Friday Thought -
One of the constant tensions I experience as I prepare for preaching or teaching is between how the scripture reveals what God is doing and what the scripture is demanding that we do. My first impulse is to jump right to trying to discern and present to you, what it is that the scripture is calling us to do and to be. I remember reading an article about Eugene Peterson in which he said that too often preachers focus on what the church should be doing instead of revealing and celebrating what God is doing.
Over the first three weeks of Advent I have continued to attempt to correct my proclivity to think about what I must do, what we must do as a result of the gospel and instead focus on what the stories are revealing about what God is doing. Most likely with modest success. So let's stop and review. Each of our prophetic texts, Jeremiah, Joel and now Isaiah, are indeed a call for the faithful to watch carefully for what the Lord is or will be doing. Jeremiah promises that God will renew our hearts, Joel, that God will pour out Spirit and Isaiah that God will anoint. Joel and Isaiah go well together because Isaiah spells out in poetic detail what happens when God pours out the Spirit. When God acts according to Isaiah, God breaks into the troubling and traumatic times with comfort and encouragement, forgiveness and hope, a new identity and with an invitation to new work and action.
Once again, I find myself resisting the temptation to jump into what we are supposed to do. But after all, in this week's scripture, after God comforts, encourages, forgives and re-names, God invites the people to 're-build,' 'restore,' and 'renew.' And it occurs to me that these three words begin with the prefix 're-' which means, 'again.' So our verse today shows us God's loving, healing, creative activity in the world and says to us that God acts again, and again, and again, to see the loving, healing and creation done. This is, I would suggest, what it means to be anointed. To be so caught up in this the persistence of God's loving and healing that we cannot help but join in. And so we find the balance. The gospel isn't just about what we are doing. It is primarily about what God is doing in the world. But the gospel is also about how we are inspired and empowered to join with God in God's incredible healing of creation.
Friday Explore - Luke 6:45-48
Friday Prayer - Persisting and Insisting God, we are grateful that you never grow discouraged and never give up on making us your people and all of creation the good that initially intended. Help us to find balance in our lives. When we resist action, encourage us. When we grow busy and stretched too thin, insist that we pause and rest and pray. In both, the pausing and practicing, renew our hearts and renew our world.
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Who is Beth Lindsay Templeton?
Founder and CEO of Our Eyes Were Opened, Inc., Beth is a public speaker, Presbyterian Church USA minister, and writer. For many years, she was with United Ministries, a non-profit in Greenville, South Carolina, where she worked with both "the have-nots" and "the haves." Since 2007, she has focused on a ministry with "the haves" so they can enlarge their understanding about people who live in poverty in order to decrease judgment and increase compassion.
Beth's Written Works
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Based on my own experience of dealing with death, this book discusses loss, letting go, and growth.
This is the emotional chronicle of the first year of that journey, a year that will forever be sacred.
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Referencing quotes from some of our wisest and most revered minds, this book is made up of letters of wisdom from a "secret admirer" about the unavoidable transitions of life and how to respond to the challenges we face on the journey.
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Government of the Punjab, Finance Department has issued Notification No. FD.SR-III/4-41/2008 dated 06-02-2015 in connection with Clarification Regarding Restoration of Pension. The summary of the same is as under:
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|Observations of Accountant General Punjab
|Remarks by Finance Department Punjab
|Whether this is a Notification to establish complaint cell or it also allows restoration of commuted portion of pension alongwith increases as ordered by the Superior Courts?
|Finance Department's Notification No. FD.SR-III/2008 dated 30-01-2015 has been issued for establishment of a Complaint Cell for the purpose specified in the said Notification.
|Whether this Notification is applicable to the petitioner pensioners or it is also applicable to all the eligible pensioners irrespective of the fact that those pensioners were petitioners or not?
|The schedule of time given in the Notification referred to above is applicable to only the petitioners. Other pensioners may also submit their applications to the District Accounts Officers or as the case may be, office of the Accountant General Punjab who issued their pension payment orders (PPO) in case they have not been given pension including restoration of commuted portion of pension as prescribed in the applicable rules and increases. If any, in pensioner, as sanctioned, from time to time by the Govt or they have any other lawful grievances. Such pensioners may also submit their complaints to the Complaint Cell for their lawful grievances and not redressed by the concerned DAO/TO/AGP.
|Will Complaint Cell receive applications from the pensioners from all over Punjab, eligible for restoration of pension with increases in pension or such applications will be required to be submitted to Accounts Office concerned?
|Applications are required to be submitted in the District Accounts Office or as the case may be office of the Accountant General Punjab who issued their PPO. The Complaint Cell will receive complaints against actions or inactions of the concerned offices for necessary action to ensure that pensioners are given what they are lawfully entitled to receive.
|The above referred Notification apparently provides that Complaint Cell will receive the applications and scrutinize the same. If the applications are received from the pensioners by the Cell, what will be the mechanism and time frame for cell to transmit the same to the Accounts Office concerned?
|Same as against serial number ii & iii above.
|If the applications for restoration of commuted portion of pension are required to be received by the Accounts Office concerned what type of applications will be dealt with by the Cell?
|Same as against serial number iii above.
It is to mention here that the Punjab Govt later on 10-02-2015 again issued the Notification for further Clarification Regarding Restoration of Commuted Portion of Pension.
Special Thanks to Mr. Abdul Ghafoor Mirza for sending the copy of the Clarification Regarding Restoration of Pension by Finance Department Punjab.


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In my latest post for the Free Spirit Publishing's Blog, 3 Ways to Make the Most of Attending a Professional Conference, I share tips for making your professional conference experience professionally - and personally - rewarding.
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Ecosystem function
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Definition of Ecosystem function:
Although a distinction is not always made, ecosystem function can be destinguished from ecosystem process. Ecosystem process referrs to mechanistic processes such as bioturbation intensity, decomposition or resource use that are carried out by fauna and which regulate the observed level of ecosystem function such as nutrient cyling or primary productivity.
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Why a New Museum?
The new facility will ensure that a fundamental part of Canadian heritage is not lost. The museum has a national role to play but is limited by its lack of suitable space and its inland location. The new museum and all that it encompasses and enables, is foundational to the realization of a strong, sustainable national organization. The need for a new museum is rooted in three key areas:
Preservation, Promotion & Protection
Since 1997, the museum has been located in the former Outboard Marine Corporation buildings, a 1960s-era factory site in a highly concentrated commercial area. The museum and storage facility do not meet curatorial standards required for a collection of this significance. As such, the artifacts are at risk of accelerated deterioration and potential loss. This facility has always been considered interim due to its location and the limitations of the building.
Organizational Sustainability & Growth
Without the opportunity to increase attendance, grow programs and diversify revenue, the long-term strength and permanence of the organization is compromised.
Programmatic Capacity
Award-winning educational programming has reached capacity due to lack of space. The visitor experience is limited as only 20 per cent of the collection is accessible. On-water programming is restricted due to the museum's inland location.
Our Commitments
We believe that a world-class collection and cultural asset of national significance deserves the best possible home – to preserve, protect, and foster skills and traditions for generations to come.
- We will build a LEED designated facility that also meets Category A curatorial standards.
- We will allow access to 100 per cent of the collection on site.
- We will offer dedicated spaces and opportunities for artisans to teach students of all ages – preserving skills and perpetuating traditions.
We believe we have a unique opportunity, with the canoe as our lens, to share Canadians' stories, aspiring to include voices and perspectives from across the country.
- We will honour the cultural histories and stories within our collection by engaging with and learning from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities.
- We will be guided by the recommendations from the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
- We will provide opportunities for all visitors to find their place at the museum, and to connect with the collection in their own unique way.
We believe that the best way to learn is by doing – encouraging hands-on discovery for a deeper understanding.
- We will provide experiential learning opportunities in the museum, outside the museum, on the water and virtually.
- We will provide dedicated spaces that encourage and facilitate hands on learning, like classrooms, workshops and the green roof.
- We will inspire adventure, spiritual connection, personal reflection and discovery.
"In 2017, we celebrated our 20th anniversary and looked back upon two decades of growth and accomplishment. The museum, with its world-class collection, has come a long way. The new facility will take us to a whole new level and ensure a strong, sustainable future."
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Increased Attendance
Consolidating three of the most significant destinations in the region, community members and visitors alike will explore the museum along with one of Canada's most spectacular waterways and the world's highest hydraulic lift lock – both National Historic Sites. It is estimated the museum will welcome on average 87,000 visitors annually – more than three times the current admission.
First Nations, Métis & Inuit Engagement
First Peoples designed, built and used the first canoes and kayaks on this land. The museum believes in the importance of honouring these cultural histories and stories. In the Research and Knowledge Centre, for example, First Peoples, Indigenous Knowledge Holders, and academics will share cultural traditions and encourage understanding.
Whole New Visitor Experience
The exhibitions will be immersive, dynamic and experiential, thus allowing the visitor to engage in multiple ways through a variety of mediums. One hundred per cent of the collection will be accessible to the public. In addition, Category A standard of care will allow the display of artifacts from other museums and an evolving temporary exhibit will offer fresh experiences, attracting repeat visitors.
Educational Programming
The new museum's location and spaces will dramatically change how educational programming is delivered. Almost three times the number of young people will be able to learn, play and explore. The on-water location will allow for outdoor activities, adding relevance to classroom discussions and firsthand experiential opportunities. The museum's national outreach initiatives will take award-winning interactive programs across Canada and the world.
Artisan Programming
With dedicated, purpose-built spaces, the museum will double its offerings of artisan workshops. As well, an increase in the variety of heritage craft programs will make use of the outdoor spaces, gardens and the green roof. Partnerships with local organizations and Indigenous communities will grow.
Environmentally Sustainable Design
The museum consulted a global leader in 21st century sustainable design. With a 100 per cent intensive green roof, more than 60 per cent of the wall area below grade and extensive use of the latest lighting, mechanical systems and controls, the museum will be almost 40 per cent more energy efficient than a comparable design that only meets current standards and codes.
Financial Strength and Permanence
Financial sustainability is a key driver for the museum as evidenced by the ongoing revenue growth over the last four years. The new museum allows for greater diversification of revenue sources, making the museum less reliant on visitor attendance and fundraising.
Economic Impact
The museum's operations and its redevelopment project will have an overall economic impact on Peterborough estimated to be $111.3M and the equivalent of 1,059 jobs between 2017 and the museum's opening in 2022.


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VENEZUELA MONTH: Monica Ponce de Leon - a pioneer in the application of robotic technology to building fabrication.
Monica Ponce de Leon Studio Overview
Founded by National Design Award Winner, Mónica Ponce de León, AIA, Monica Ponce de Leon Studio brings together an interdisciplinary team of architects and practitioners collaborating across offices in New York, Boston, and Ann Arbor. Ponce de León's work as principal architect is integral to each project, and is supported by a diverse team bringing a unique point of view to each design process. Monica Ponce de Leon Studio has extensive experience in institutional, civic, commercial, and private residential projects and has developed methodologies that allow the projects to be on time and on budget while delivering innovative and meaningful design.
Mónica Ponce de León, AIA, is a Venezuelan American architect, educator, and Dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture. In 2007 Ponce de León received the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture, the first Hispanic architect to receive this honor. Today Ponce de León is the founding principal of Monica Ponce de Leon Studio which she launched in 2011 following twenty years as a founding principal of award winning firm, Office dA. Ponce de León's work specializes in all scales and typologies from furniture design and interiors to private residences, civic buildings, public institutions, master plans and urban design. Throughout all projects, Ponce de León keeps a focus on design integration, craft, detailing, and precision. Much of the studio's research is dedicated to an exploration of how to improve on contemporary modes of construction, investigating both industry standards as well as evolving technologies derived from digital manufacturing processes. Ponce de León is widely recognized as a pioneer in the application of robotic technology to building fabrication and in architecture education.
Known as an educational force, Ponce de León is currently Dean of Princeton University School of Architecture. She previously served as Dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan (2008–2015) and as Professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (1996–2008). She also has held teaching appointments at Northeastern University, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design and Georgia Institute of Technology and has degrees from Harvard Graduate School of Design and University of Miami.
Among her many prestigious honors, Ponce de León has received the Academic Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the USA Target Fellow in Architecture and Design from United States Artists; and the Young Architects and Emerging Voices awards from the Architectural League of New York. Her highly acclaimed and broadly published work has received a dozen Progressive Architecture (PA) Awards, several awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and numerous citations. She was also named a National Academician (NA) in recognition of her exceptional contributions to American art and architecture.
Visit the Website: www.monicaponcedeleon.com
*Venezuela Month is an initiative by DESTIG to bring attention to the many creative successes that have originated from the country. This will be done for a month at no cost to the individuals or the country in order to bring positive attention to Venezuela during these difficult times for the people of that country.
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You're interviewing for a job? Fantastic.
And the company will interview you with the CIDS, or Chronological In-Depth Structured, Interview method.
Even better!
Here's why. A company that uses the CIDS Interview as part of its hiring process has committed to hire only A-players. The CIDS Interview will identify A-Players...quickly. And with a high percentage of success.
That implies the company sees you as a potential A-Player.
The CIDS Interview will allow you to show your consistent history of decision-making expertise, how you have learned and grown, your track-record of growing success and even how you have successfully handled setbacks or quirky bosses.
What is CIDS? CIDS or Chronological In-Depth Structured Interview is a systematic interview method. The goal of a CIDS Interview is a systematic, structured, review of the candidate's behavior and decision-making patterns throughout their education and business career.
The advantage of a CIDS interview is its ability to discover and showcase those decision-making patterns as they were applied and as they have matured over the years. Those patterns are a key indicator of what is to be expected if that candidate is hired. Other benefits of a CIDS interview include avoiding interviewer blindspots, insuring the candidate is the primary speaker and superficial interviews.
It was created as a tactic and resource for companies who seek to TopGrade their talent. The creator of CIDS is Brad Smart* of Topgrading. He discusses the interview, the questions, the philosophy and more in The Smart Interviewer: Tools and Techniques for Hiring the Best. He is also the author of TopGrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching and Keeping the Best.
Here's how to prepare for this opportunity:
1. Relax.
A. You're an A-Player.
B. A CIDS Interview should present ample opportunities to address your successes. And even the inevitable setbacks everyone has faced and how you grew from them.
2. Read the Smart Interviewer. The foundation for the CIDS Interview as well as the sequence of questions are included. This is not a cheat sheet for 'acing' the interview. A CIDS Interview includes calls to your former managers.
However, you will see the patterns you have used over your career. That will allow you to answer for them.
Remember: you're an A-Player. This is your time to shine.
3. Tie the threads of your success. These are the threads that have woven your success. Tie them together in a complete understanding. Then you are prepared to present that understanding to your potential employer as an added asset for them.
4. Tie the threads of your failures. Everyone has a mistake or two or three. (I've lost count of mine.)
But, you learned from each mistake. That makes you an A-Player.
And you applied that new knowledge in the next opportunity. Tie that thread or those threads in the same way. Show your potential employer what you have learned. And that you have the ability to take responsibility, be accountable, and grow from your lessons. That's the mark of a leader. A-Players are leaders. This is an opportunity for you to show in meaningful ways you are a leader.
5. Learn. Pay attention during the interview. CIDS Interviews are interviews you can conduct when you are a manager and leader at the company smart enough to hire you.
6. Celebrate. You will learn something about yourself during this process. That should reinforce you are an A-Player. Find a company smart enough to recognize you as one.
* Brad Smart spoke with me on my BlogTalk Radio show last year. You can listen on-demand at this link.
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The urgent need for a National Commission on Public Health & Healthcare.
There is recent progress in the education sector. The Government of India (Gol) has taken steps to ensure free and compulsory primary education for all children, for which it has recently enacted the Right to Education Bill, making education of children 6-14 yr a fundamental right (2). If implemented properly, this will pave the way for equity in primary education (2). Currently moves are afoot to make even secondary education free for all children. These steps are initiated according to the 2009 election manifesto of the Indian National Congress (INC), the major party in the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), illustrating that progress in social sectors begins with the articulation of vision by the political party that comes to power (3).
Disappointingly, there is no innovative or imaginative vision in the manifesto of the INC to improve the health sector significantly (3). It envisages "health security for all", the meaning and content of which are undefined and vague (3). It also states that the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) will be implemented with "greater sense of urgency"; every family living below the poverty line will be covered under health insurance within 3 years; and every District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) will be upgraded to "provide quality health facilities for all" (3). These are welcome moves in themselves, but are too little in the face of the gross inadequacies faced by the health sector, as pointed out with a few examples below. These statements of intention are indicative of the value assigned to equitable access to quality healthcare, but the proposed steps are insufficient to achieve it. "Health security for all" is also apparently the expression of a desire for equity. Even if NRHM is fully implemented and all DHHs are upgraded, access to healthcare will not become equitable or quality-assured for the rural and urban poor. No concern about the low quality of available healthcare in the public sector or about the lack of regulated/assured quality (and high cost) of healthcare in the private sector is evident in the manifesto. Moreover, no importance is given either to disease prevention through public health or to health system reform. Therefore, health system reform will not evolve from the election manifesto of the ruling political party. An alternate pathway is necessary.
One such pathway is through legislative resolve, exemplified by the Draft 2008 National Health Bill (4). A re-examination and assertion of the legal framework for enabling and empowering people on their constitutional rights regarding health is good in itself, but it is not the solution for the deficiencies of the system. Hope for the future is always welcome but what India needs is structural and functional improvements of the health system beginning in the present. Thus, in addition to what is promised under the manifesto and whatever promises the Draft Bill holds, the deficiencies of the health system deserve diagnosis and remedial measures starting from now. How and where should they begin?
Globally, modern medicine has advanced on two fronts--public health and healthcare. Health systems in all progressive countries subsume these as two sub-systems. Independent India's health system does not include public health as a result of the uncorrected regressive steps taken soon after achieving independence from British Raj. The post of the "Public Health Commissioner" in the central government was abolished and the concept of "Indian Medical Service" was discarded (5). They were not replaced by better public health organization; thus the baby and the bathwater were thrown out together (6). The GoI must now address health system reform in order to re-establish organized public health and to provide quality healthcare with equity. Since these elements are not envisioned in the election manifesto or clarified in the Draft Bill, and since the system-design with reform will be complex, the need of the day is for detailed stock-taking, analysis and synthesis of all the elements of the health system. One way to achieve this is through the establishment of a National Commission on Public Health and Healthcare, with the governmental commitment to implement its prescriptions (7). The purpose of this article is to advocate for such a visionary and bold forward step.
The first such Commission (Health Survey and Development Committee) was established by the British Raj, in 1943, under the chairmanship of Joseph Bhore. Its report, submitted in 1946, reviewed the health system under the following sub-heads: Public health; Medical relief; Professional education; Medical research; and International health (5). The present organization of the health system is patterned after the Bhore Committee report. While it recommended the integration of public health and healthcare at the local level, what happened post-independence was the abolition of the public health sub-system. It is only through public health that health benefits can be equally shared by all (6).
Towards the end of the period of the second 5-yr plan, in 1959, another Commission (Health Survey and Planning Committee) was appointed under the chairmanship of A. Lakshmanaswamy Mudaliar, to review progress since independence and to provide guidelines for national health planning in the context of 5-yr plans (5). The Mudaliar Committee recommended several steps to improve the national health system, but those were not implemented except in part in Tamil Nadu. Accordingly there is a separate Department of Public Health, under a technically qualified Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Tamil Nadu. Also, public health services in units of 2 or 3 districts are supervised by a Deputy Director of Public Health, also technically qualified. The proposed National Commission will do well to analyse the achievements of Tamil Nadu in public health to identify what elements should be adopted in all other States. A structured career pathway for those trained in public health is an obvious element that should be established both in the central Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) and in all States. The establishment of public health training institute in every State, as in Tamil Nadu, is another element for providing trained officers in public health.
The Mudaliar Committee reiterated the need for an Indian Health Service on the pattern of Indian Administrative Service or the Indian Medical Service under the British Raj (4). Both Bhore and Mudaliar Committees recommended the upgradation of DHHs to streamline the referral system; thus the recent election manifesto has merely re-stated what was said way back in the 1940s and 1960s. The inability to implement these is indeed a system weakness--unless re-designed the system may not be able to implement the proposal even today. In Tamil Nadu, every district hospital has already been upgraded into a medical college hospital. This has ensured, within every district, both the referral need of specialties and also a steady supply of doctors to work in the rural areas, compensating for the migration of doctors to towns, cities and other States as well as overseas. For contrast, there are about 70 districts in Uttar Pradesh, but only 7 government medical colleges--so it is not surprising that the State is finding it virtually impossible to fill all vacancies of doctors to work in rural areas.
West Bengal has recently passed a Bill to train health workers for 3 yr and to post them in primary health centres, to overcome the shortage of doctors (8). What primary health centres need are doctors trained in "family medicine"--not half-baked health workers, not even fresh medical graduates, but well-trained family doctors as the first level physicians to care for all members of the family, neonates to grandparents. Ask one simple question: will you take your sick family member to be treated by the 3-year diploma holder or even a fresh medical graduate without experience? The medical graduate is well trained to function within a hospital set up; short 'exposure' to rural conditions is insufficient for developing reasonable quality competence in a fresh graduate, sufficient for entrusting the health and lives of people. The principle is: do unto others what you would want them do to you. Improving healthcare delivery in rural areas is an essential element in ensuring the empowerment of people to enjoy the constitutionally enshrined Rights to Health and Life, whether or not the Draft National Health Bill gets passed. India should aim for nothing less. Equity and quality should begin at the primary care level and continue up along the referral pathway.
There must be a clear policy on public-private participation in healthcare. The national tuberculosis (TB) control programme has already pioneered successfully public-private partnership, but it is confined to TB diagnosis and treatment. There has to be careful auditing of the quality of care in both public and private sector institutions. There are several private but not-for-profit healthcare institutions in the country. If the public sector would partner with them for providing care equitably, and share the basic costs of running them efficiently, this model can spell win-win situation for the local population, the government and the philanthropic institutions. This approach requires innovative policy framework.
The MoHFW works within the National Health Policy that was enunciated in 2002 and not revised since then9. While the Draft Bill referred to above desires revision of health policy every 5 years, nothing has prevented the GoI from revising the policy now, without waiting for the Bill to be passed. According to the current policy, only the following infectious diseases are meant to be controlled: polio and yaws (eradication by 2005); leprosy (elimination by 2005); kala azar (elimination by 2010); lymphatic filariasis (elimination by 2015); HIV/AIDS (zero growth by 2007); TB, malaria, other vector-borne and water-borne diseases (50% mortality reduction by 2010). Of these, the targets regarding yaws, leprosy and HIV/AIDS have been fully or partially achieved, but all others have failed or are failing. To illustrate, the failure of TB control is briefly presented below.
The National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTCP) was launched in 1962 but found to have failed when evaluated in 1990. It was modified as the Revised NTCP (RNTCP) and the tactic of directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS) adopted in 1993 (10). It took 13 more years to expand DOTS programme in all districts (10); RNTCP has not been comprehensively evaluated. There is no reliable evidence that the incidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection or the burden of clinical tuberculosis (especially the infectious form of pulmonary disease) has perceptibly declined in spite of 47 yr of efforts at tuberculosis control (10,11).
The Expanded Programme on Immunization, the flagship project of the Department of Family Welfare under MoHFW was established in 1978 and enlarged in 1985-1990 as Universal Immunization Programme (UIP). It is a relatively straightforward and result oriented public health programme; yet India has failed to achieve equity in the prevention of the 6 targeted vaccine-preventable diseases of children (4,12). The performance is grossly deficient without reliable monitoring of data on inputs efficiency, total performance or outcome achievements (12). The results of the third National Family Health Survey in 20052006 showed that only 44 per cent of children (12-23 months) had received the recommended vaccines (13). In 1988 India resolved to eliminate wild poliovirus transmission by 2000, but has failed until 2009, while every other country of the South East Asia Region of the World Health Organization succeeded by 2000 or earlier. The quintessential reason is the glaring gaps in the health system (14). Diphtheria has re-emerged in this decade as a result of poor vaccination coverage (15). India is the only country in the world that has not been able to provide a second dose of measles vaccine in UIP (16).
While India's burden of infectious diseases remains huge, the gathering clouds of other diseases like diabetes, chronic renal failure, cardiovascular and cerebral-vascular catastrophes, etc. are in urgent need of comprehensive public health responses for control (17). Our health system that has no formal public health sub-system and has not learned the basic lessons of disease control is no match for this challenge. Health system reform is not a luxury, but an urgent imperative --if not for humanitarian reasons, at least for poverty alleviation and wealth creation and conservation, both at the family level and at the national level (17).
Health system reform will not originate from within the MoHFW whose function is to translate policies to action and to administer and manage the public sector component of the health system. It has not succeeded in achieving satisfactory results in disease-control, providing adequate diagnostic support services for healthcare and public health, hoped for reduction of mortality in vulnerable age groups such as infants, under-5 children and parturient mothers, and in nutrition security. Action towards health system reform has to be initiated at the highest level of the GoI. To want reform is a policy shift--unless a policy for the need to re-invigorate the health sector comes from the political party in power or the Prime Minister of the Central Cabinet, the journey will not even begin. The pragmatic beginning is for GoI to appoint a Commission as soon as possible during the early part of the tenure of the current UPA government which has the clear mandate of the people to lead the country on the path of progress. The GoI will still have, within its tenure, time to implement the reform.
(1.) United Nations Development Program. Available at: http:// www.hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/country_fact_sheets/ cty_fs_IND.html, accessed on December 29, 2009.
(2.) Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Government of India. Available at: http://www.educationforallinindia.com/RighttoEducation Bill 2005.html, accessed on December 29, 2009.
(3.) Lok Sabha Elections 2009. Manifesto of the Indian National Congress. Available at: http://aicc.org.in/new/manifesto09eng.pdf, accessed on December 29, 2009.
(4.) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Available at: http:// www.mohfw.nic.in/nrhm/draft_bill.htm, accessed on January 1, 2010.
(5.) Park JE, Park K. Health planning and management. In: Park s textbook of preventive and social medicine, 13th ed. Jabalpur: Banarsidas Bhanot; 1991. p. 470-86.
(6.) John TJ, Muliyil J. Public health is infrastructure for human development. Indian JMed Res 2009; 130 : 9-11.
(7.) John TJ. Lessons from the challenges of polio eradication in India. Natl Med J India 2009; 22 : 4-8.
(8.) The Telegraph, Kolkata, 18 December 2009. Available at: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091218/jsp/bengal/ story_11880892, accessed on January 1, 2010.
(9.) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. National Health Policy. Available at: http://www.mohfw.nic.in/NRHM/Documents/ National_Health_policy_2002.pdf, accessed on December 28, 2009.
(10.) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Available at: http://www.tbcindia.org, accessed on December 9, 2009.
(11.) John TJ, John SM. Paradigm shift for control of tuberculosis in high prevalence countries. Trop Med Int Health 2009; 14 : 1-3.
(12.) John TJ. Quo vadis, expanded programme on immunisation? Indian J Med Res 2007; 125 : 13-6.
(13.) National Family Health Survey-3. Available at: http://www. nfhsindia.org/india2.html.
(14.) Polio Eradication Committee, Indian Academy of Pediatrics. Universal immunization programme and polio eradication in India. Indian Pediatr 2008; 45 : 807-13.
(15.) John TJ. Resurgence of diphtheria in the 21st century. Indian J Med Res 2008; 128 : 669-70.
(16.) John TJ, Choudhury P. Accelerating measles control in India: Opportunity and obligation. Indian Pediatr 2009; 46 : 939-43.
(17.) Reddy KS, Shah B, Varghese C, Ramadoss A. Responding to the threat of chronic diseases in India. Lancet 2005; 366 : 1744-9.
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Christian Medical College
Vellore 632 002, Tamil Nadu, India
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