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Procter and Gamble (henceforth P & G) is one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of consumer products in the world with a global reach for it 300+ brands of 180 countries. During the 1990's the company made some significant alterations to its corporate strategy; it aimed to reduce its cost structure and develop its differentiated business-level strategy, in an attempt to increase revenues and profits. The rapid development of international markets and globalisation demanded a corporate "shake up". Moreover, the reduction of trade barriers and tariffs indicated that to retain a competitive advantage globally the company had to develop an effective International strategy, whilst benefitting from economies of scale. Cross-functional integration and speed of innovation increasingly became imperative to corporate strategy. In this article I will look at the key development that took place in thus process and turned P&G into such a powerhouse. Continue reading
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[Special] Realism v Liberalism – A Persistent Conflict in International Politics
There are two conflicting schools of thought that still play a leading role in today´s debates about international politics – Realism and Liberalism. In order to understand and discuss them, the term international politics has to be defined and the origin of these two views has to be illustrated. Continue reading
Everybody can make a sandwich – The question is just how you do it!
The Subway brand, with its innovative service approach, crafty pricing strategy and delicious meals, has in the last years grown massively; not only in reputation but the chain has also surpassed McDonald's in having more restaurants worldwide. The chain works with the discipline of operational excellence and has a creative and extraordinary business idea that just amazes me and has really changed my perception of the fast food industry. There are so many fast food chains out there today that are incredible in the way they do business; being innovative seeking to get their customers to buy more and more from them; but Subway, according to many, takes the standard of the fast food industry to other levels and is in a class of its own.
If you think about it, the Subway sandwiches and menu's are not particularly cheap, and the restaurants does not provide an upscale, chic environment that could please a huge crowd like many of the other popular fast food chains. Yet they always somehow provide a sense of personalisation, belonging and a feeling that they listen and indeed, actually care about what you have to say; all this while being very productive with handling customer requests at the same time. Continue reading
Darty – The Contract of Confidence
Darty is a French firm specializing in electrical retailing. Wholly-owned subsidiary of the UK company Kesa Electrical Pl. Currently, Darty is mainly present in France, with 224 stores. The company is quite famous in France, and had revenues of €2921 million in 2011, with a 4.6% positive change compared to 2010 (Platt, 2011). The interesting point of the company is that it is highly focused on enhancing its relationship with the customers. Darty makes this customer relationship management its main argument for sale.
Today, and since its creation, Darty's originality comes from the willingness of committing in terms of price, choice and service. This customer relationship management is based on what is called the "contract of confidence", which represents the company's promise. It is the pillar on which Darty's strategy relies. Continue reading
Fundraising Doors Opening for Small Firms?
Small firms in the United States will soon be able to raise money on Wall Street faster than you can say "jackpot"!
The Jumpstart Our Business Startups bill signed by President Barrack Obama allows small businesses more access to fundraising and investors while providing fewer regulatory burdens which give these new-comers all the flexibility they need to operate in a post-crisis environment. Continue reading
CRM in Football – The Case of Manchester City FC
Customer relationship management applies beyond the traditional product and service offerings. CRM has become a core strategic element of sports clubs that recognise the importance of managing and understanding their supporters. For many fans, the football brand is a passion! Due to their cultural ties and emotional appeal, sports clubs surpass organisations operating outside the realm of sports in brand adoration and loyalty. However, this brand craze creates a complex environment and requires careful management and anticipation. This process is especially difficult in the football industry where competition over followers is fierce. It is evident that football without fans wouldn't be the sport that it is today; a weak fan base leads football clubs to ruin. Fans, as customers, are the base of the football club's economic model and should not be taken for granted; they fill up stadiums, buy merchandise, and attract sponsorships. Continue reading
Biket: When business has a deeper meaning
Education is the foundation of development. This fact has not been refuted once throughout the world's history: from the Pharaonic civilization to the Mayan surreptitious culture, and from the British colonies to the American empire. The story replicates itself over and over again. Any civilization commences as a group of people who can barely feed themselves through primitive ways, and then through accumulative knowledge, they identify new ways to prosper and grow.
The Sub-Saharan African continent is no exception. Countries like Mali are still trapped back by its ignorance-evidenced by the relatively low literacy rates (only 26% literate) – from the rest of the civilized world. Despite the abundance of natural resources that these African countries hide beneath their grounds, they have failed to match developed countries like Japan which is bestowed a small area of non-arable land and some fish! The basic principles of economics are exemplified in this case: raw materials and land remain inanimate, non-valuable objects without the co-existence of labor and capital. Continue reading


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The U.S. women's 4x100 relay dropped the baton during the heats, but USA Track and Field has filed an appeal and the team re-ran to earn a spot in the final.
RIO DE JANEIRO – Getting a baton around the track proved to be the Achilles heel of the American sprinting squad on Thursday morning, but after a bizarre day of appeals and a solo rerun on the track, the U.S. women earned a spot in the final and second chance at defending their Olympic title from London.
In the qualifying heats on Thursday morning, Allyson Felix botched a handoff to English Gardner that looked to end the American's hopes at gold. After the race, Felix told reporters in the mixed zone that the the Brazilian sprinter in the lane next to the U.S. may have stepped out of her lane causing contact, and shortly after, USA Track and Field filed an appeal. Officials determined that the Brazilian runner did, in fact, come in contact with Felix during the baton handoff, and the Brazil relay team was disqualified.
Jamaica, Great Britain, Ukraine, Germany, Nigeria and Trinidad & Tobago advanced to the final. The U.S. women earned a rerun on Thursday night, needing to beat China's time of 42.70. Alone on the track, the U.S. team ran 41.77, which is the fastest of all 16 teams that ran on Thursday. Eight advance to the final on Friday but the United States will run on the outside lane as their initial time counts as their mark for the final.
"I feel like it was a glorified practice. We just had fun out there. We were laughing and joking going in and staying light going in," Gardner said. "We already knew we were going to execute the first time except we had an unperceived circumstance. Now all we had to do is the same thing and same plan we had as the first time just get out there and actually execute it."
Gardner thought the United States would be booed after eliminating the Brazilian team but the Americans were welcomed onto the track to cheers.
"It was different. It was really weird," Felix said. "When we walked out. People were cheering for us. I think it uplifted us and encouraged us. I think we're just grateful."
At the 2012 Olympics, Tianna Madison, Felix, Bianca Knight and Carmelita Jeter won gold with a world record of 40.82. After last month's Olympics Trials in Eugene, Ore., Gardner and her teammates said they hoped to break the world record in Rio.

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Importance of a Guru
Srinivas Mallapragada
In continuation of the Shankara Digvijaya series, we shall examine another episode from Shankara Bhagavatpada's life that teaches the way of life to be followed by those who desire to follow the path of the Vedas.
Shri Sacchidananda Shivabhinava Nrisimha Bharati Swamigal, the 33rd pontiff of Shringeri Peetham, in his famous Kamalajadayitashtaka Stotram says :
कल्यादौ पार्वतीशः प्रवरसुरगणप्रार्थितः श्रौतवर्त्म प्राबल्यं नेतुकामो यतिवरवपुषागत्या यां शृङ्गशैले |
Lord Shiva, who was requested by the gods at the beginning of Kali yuga to save the world, decided to do so by reviving the path shown by the vedas. He incarnated Himself as a great sannyasin and came to Shringeri.
The words of the Swamigal tell us that Shri Shankara Bhagavatpada is none other than Lord Shiva's incarnation. The Shankara Digvijaya also tells us :
शम्भोमूर्तिः चारति भुवने शङ्कराचार्य रूपा |
With the understanding that the great acharya is none other than Lord shiva's incarnation, let us examine a seemingly contradictory incident from Bhagavatpada's life and the lesson it teaches us.
After leaving home at the tender age of 8, Shankara, the young Sanyasin arrived at the hermitage of Shri Govinda Bhagavtpada and approached the cave in which Shri Govinda Bhagavtpada was residing. He went around the cave 3 times, prostrated at its entrance and sang the praise of the guru. The great guru immediately recognized that the new disciple is none other than the Great God Shiva in human form and was delighted to see Shri Shankara.
Then, in observance of the customary rules for establishing the relationship between the teacher and the disciple, the guru extended his feet through the tiny mouth of the cave which Shri Shankara worshipped with great devotion and ceremony. Through devoted service of his teacher, Shri Shankara learnt all the Shastras culminating in the knowledge of Brahman, the goal of the Vedanta Shastra.
From this episode, it is clear that Shri Shankara Bhagavatpada, being an incarnation of the Omniscient Lord, still chose to approach a qualified guru, serve him and gain knowledge from him.
On the surface, this seems odd and leads us to the the question "why?". It is understandable that a relatively ignorant person would approach someone with an elevated level of knowledge and learn from him, but what is the need for someone like Shri Shankara Bhagavatpada, an embodiment of that great Lord Dakshinamurthy, who is an abode of all knowledge including Atma Jnana himself, to serve and learn from a Guru ?
What is the lesson this episode is teaching us ?
Since the scriptures are our only recourse to getting the right answers, let us examine what the scriptures say about this dilemma.
Our scriptures emphatically declare the supremacy of the Guru and place him on a high pedestal. Guru is considered equal to the Lord himself as our famous prayer verse indicates :
गुरुर्ब्रह्मा गुरुर्विष्णुः गुरुर्देवो महेश्वरः | गुरुरेव परं ब्रह्म तस्मै श्री गुरवे नमः ||
Guru gita also says "गुरोः प्रसादतो नान्यत् मुक्तिपदं लभ्यते" – Moksha is not possible by any way other than by Guru's grace. This message is well known to all of us from both our scriptures and also from our tradition.
But what do our scriptures say about the case where a jnani , a jeevanmukta or an incarnation of the Lord himself who has nothing to learn, approaches a guru, serves him, gets teaching from him and pays tribute to him ?
There are many examples in our scriptures that support this case like Shri Rama and his brothers serving and learning from sage Vasishtha and sage Vishwamitra, Shri Krishna and Balarama being taught by sage Sandipani, Shri Hanuman obtaining knowledge from from Shri Surya Bhagavan etc.
The answer is given by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavadgita. He says :
न मे पार्थास्ति कर्तव्यं त्रिषु लोकेषु किञ्चन |
नानवाप्तमवाप्तव्यं वर्त एव च कर्मणि ||
O partha, there is no work prescribed for Me in the three worlds. Nor am I in want of anything, nor have I need to obtain anything–and yet I am engaged in work.
यदि ह्यहं न वर्तेयं जातु कर्मण्यतन्द्रितः |
मम वर्त्मानुवर्तन्ते मनुष्याः पार्थ सर्वशः ||
If I did not engage in work, O Partha, certainly common men would follow My path.
यद्यदाचरति श्रेष्ठस्तत्तदेवेतरो जनः |
स यत्प्रमाणं कुरुते लोकस्तदनुवर्तते ||
Whatever action a great man performs, common men follow. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.
In essence, Krishna is saying that great men – the avatara purushas perform certain actions despite having no need to perform any karma whatsoever, essentially to teach the dharmic path and the vedic way of life to the world and to stand as noble examples for the rest of humanity to follow and draw inspiration from.
Another reason for these mukta purushas serving a guru to obtain knowledge is to emphasize the fact that Jnana should be obtained and one's own moksha sthiti should be realized only by a guru's scriptural teaching and grace and not by any other means. One may even have an inborn knowledge of the supreme truth , but it is the dictum of our scriptures that one should be duly instructed in a guru sampradaya.
This also dispels any misconception that Self-knowledge and liberation can be obtained by any other means such as meditation, samadhi, yoga , intuition, mysticism etc. other than by serving and learning from a guru.
Shri Shankara Bhagavatpada himself says so in his Mundakopanishad bhashya –
सास्त्रज्ञोपि स्वातन्त्रेण ब्रह्मान्वेशणं न कुर्यात |
Even if one has the knowledge of all Shastras, without a qualified guru's upadesa, one should not venture into the realm of Self-Knowledge.
Shri Shankara Bhagavatpada also emphatically declares "He who desires enlightenment should render devoted service to the guru, with reverence, offer personal homage, speak with humility and seek the guru's grace."
This is the approach that has been granted by our Shastras and has been followed in our vedic tradition since time immemorial and continues to this date as the only valid means of obtaining enlightening self-knowledge.
Let us follow the path shown by our illustrious Acharyas by and realize the everlasting freedom and happiness, the ultimate goal of human existence.
References :
- Shankara Digvijaya of Madhava – Vidyaranya by Swami Tapasyananda , Ramakrishna Mutt
- Shri Shankara Vijayam of Swami Vidyaranya by T. Shivacharanam , Vyasasramam
- Translation of The Sarva Vedanta Siddhanta Sara Sangraha of Acharya Shankara by Swami Tattwananda, Ramakrishna Mutt


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Using a sharp knife, halve the white part of the leek lengthwise and rinse well under cold running water to rid the leek of any sand. Slice thinly crosswise and set aside.
In a large soup pot over medium heat, melt the butter and add the bacon. Cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the bacon is very soft and has rendered most of its fat. Add the chopped leeks and cook until wilted, about 5 minutes. Add the wine and bring to a boil. Add the reserved bouquet garni, chicken stock, potatoes, salt and white pepper, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for about 20 minutes, or until the potatoes are falling apart and the soup is very flavorful.
Remove the bouquet garni and, working in batches, quickly puree the soup in a food processor or blender, letting it run for about 5 seconds. (Alternatively, if you own an immersion blender, puree the soup directly in the pot.) Stir in the creme fraiche and adjust the seasoning, if necessary. Serve immediately, with some of the snipped chives sprinkled over the top of each bowl of soup.
When blending hot liquid, first let it cool for five minutes or so, then transfer it to a blender, filling only halfway. Put the lid on, leaving one corner open. Cover the lid with a kitchen towel to catch splatters, and pulse until smooth.
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Drone Wedding Photography
Couples are always looking for new and exciting ways to make their wedding day memories stand out. One of the hottest trends on the photography front is actually quite old, which is to capture special moments of the day from high in the sky.
In the 21st century, drone photography can perfectly capture the grandeur of this special occasion. And it's a lot cheaper than a hot air balloon.
Hiring a professional aerial photographer offers the opportunity to capture both still shots and video in cinematic quality. Drone footage can complement rather than replace classic wedding photography, offering a unique perspective to stand alongside more traditional shots.
A couple may well have a budding amateur friend offering to fly their drone, but would be well advised to opt for a professional instead. With the risk of collision damage, couples should look for a professional who is compliant with safety standards, necessary permissions, and carries the appropriate insurance. A professional will establish if drones are allowed in the area and what restrictions apply. The bungling amateur may well end up flying their drone on a collision course with the mother-of-the- bride's hat. Another advantage of engaging the services of a professional aerial photographer is the pictures will be professionally edited.
Drones come into their own for panoramic outdoor shots. They can be used indoors if the venue has very high ceilings, but as the noise factor can be an irritant they are best used outside. One of the most popular shots captured by drones is the bride walking down the aisle, but again, because of the noise, the drone should be decommissioned when the vows are exchanged. One other factor to consider is the weather as drones cannot be operated in rain, snow or wind. Last minute inclement weather may result in a drone shoot being cancelled.
When it comes to selecting a professional aerial photographer, couples should browse through the photographer's portfolio and discuss any particular shots they would like to arrange in advance. Popular images are aerial views of all the guests together, and couples can arrange for something unique such as having all the guests standing to form a heart shape or spelling out the couple's initials. Shots taken of the most special moments can be edited together in video format.
Drone photography is an amazing addition for destination weddings as footage of the happy couple can be woven into a video shoot of the exotic location, panning out to incorporate breathtaking scenery. Hiring a professional aerial photographer can be an extravagance worth including in the wedding budget. It will provide a talking point as the camera is remotely operated above the guests' heads and offers candid shots as it is less intrusive for the camera shy than being posed by a photographer. Drone footage offers a unique and dramatic perspective that takes the wedding photographs and video to a whole new level.
For couples wishing to capture the magic of their wedding from a truly unique angle, drone wedding photography promises cinematic vistas, dramatic shots, and adds an extra frisson of excitement to the celebration. Aerial shots of this once in a lifetime moment are something unique to treasure.


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At the top of the 31 East Meridian (Zep Tepi – the Meridian of First time) we begin our journey to the lands of the indigenous Norwegian, the Sami people.
Ceremonial offering to with the Sami
Sled dogs into the ring of the Sun
Earth merges with infinity under the Sun halo
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About the Artist - Larus H List.
Larus was born in Reykjavik, 28. of February 1956. He now resides in Grána 31 - IS 600 Akureyri, the largest town on the north side of Iceland, surrounded by the lights of the milky way. In Háteigur, Lárus has a working studio, as well as in the Akureyri Art Museum, where he worked for 6 years under the guidance and tutelage of Haraldur Ingi Haraldsson, ex-director, and Hannes Sigurðsson director of the museum. While working at the museum, Lárus H. List demonstrated enthusiasm and diligence. He made sure that he was well informed about all the exhibitions which were set up at the museum, as well as building friendships with many fellow artists, both foreign and Icelandic. Lárus has a wide experience from life itself and has never been afraid to try new things - things that eventually have made a difference.
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We were getting settled at the historic Hotel Denver, when Carli has an announcement. She reads from her phone. "This hotel is haunted. Ghosts have frequented rooms on the third floor." We're on the third floor. Naturally. Carli begins freaking out. Rose is not taking the situation seriously. She's eggs on the spirit world. Now I've seen enough episodes of Ghost Adventures to know that you do not do that. You do not invite spirits, especially demons, into your realm. You simply do not do that. Continue reading
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Toast a glass of your beverage of choice to the Washington Post's Wonkblog, which recently researched the distribution of breweries and wine makers in America to create this nifty map of beer country versus wine country.
Some of the results are unsurprising; after all, wine grows successfully in some regions more easily than in others. (Napa and Sonoma wineries aren't geographic accidents.) Breweries, on the other hand, can exist relatively anywhere that consumer demand sustains them.
What is interesting is not the areas of high concentration—you say there's beer in Colorado, eh?—but the regions on the fringes. Areas of the northern U.S., which include the Dakotas and Montana, have significantly more pockets of breweries than of wine makers. Ditto Florida's eastern coast. And small regional wineries exist in nearly every state, including a strong cluster in Missouri and northern Michigan.
I wish the map also included the non-continental U.S.: Hawaii and Alaska. Yes, there are numerous wineries and breweries in Alaska and Hawaii. Next up, we taste The Wonkblog with overlaying the entire map with data points for average annual temperature and lowest airline fares. Vacation, ahoy.


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Let's be honest, we all wish that we were vacationing on the Amalfi Coast right now relaxing in Southern Italy while sipping wine and getting a fabulous tan. But, even if you can't vacation there right now the next best thing might just be jewelry inspired by the warm colors and landscape of the area. Chloe + Isabel curated this fabulous line of summer jewelry that is inspired by the beauty, and drama of a summer adventure in the Amalfi Coast. With an entire line ranging from all things jewelry (bracelets, earrings, rings, necklaces) to hats, cell phone cases and sunglasses this line has something for everyone.
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Virgin Wines, the Internet wine retailer has signed a deal to host Wine Planet's UK website.The agreement will allow Wine Planet to concentrate on developing its core Australian market.
Sarah Patterson, former head of television at D'Arcy, has left the agency to join production company Chaos as director.
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: Study Sees Link Between Long Naps, Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Posted September 19, 2016
By Steven Reinberg
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Could long afternoon naps raise your risk of developing type 2 diabetes?
It's possible but not yet proven, according to new research out of Japan. The study found that, compared with short naps or no napping at all, the risk for the blood sugar disease may be 45 percent higher if your naps last an hour or more.
But if you nap less than an hour, the risk disappears, the researchers suggested.
Dr. Joel Zonszein is director of the Clinical Diabetes Center at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. He said the possible connection between long daytime naps and a risk for type 2 diabetes is interesting.
But, added Zonszein, who had no part in the study, "People need to be aware that this study, and these findings, are just associations or markers of lifestyles rather that the cause of diabetes."
The results of the study were to be presented Wednesday at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes meeting in Munich, Germany.
For the study, a research team led by Dr. Yamada Tomahide, from the University of Tokyo, analyzed data on more than 300,000 people included in 21 published studies -- a process called a meta-analysis.
In this type of study, researchers try to find common patterns from other research and draw new conclusions. The problem with meta-analyses is that the conclusions are only as good as the original data.
Tomahide's team found that naps lasting an hour or more were associated with a 45 percent increased risk for type 2 diabetes. Shorter naps had no effect on diabetes risk, however.
"Further studies are needed to confirm the efficacy [effectiveness] of a short nap," Tomahide's group concluded.
Zonszein said that "type 2 diabetes is a very complex disorder that can be affected by many environmental factors, including sleep patterns -- particularly in those individuals that have genetic factors to develop diabetes."
Mixing all these different studies, which were done among diverse populations, may not yield the most reliable results because "naps may reflect certain lifestyles and different lifestyles in different countries and different societies," he noted.
There are long naps, and even longer naps, and a key question is why some people nap longer, Zonszein said. "Maybe longer naps are short periods of sleep and more common in those individuals with long working hours, stress all day, working more than one job, and maybe stress is associated with fast-food eating, etcetera. So, the long nap is just a marker of lifestyle," he said -- a lifestyle that could potentially contribute to the onset of type 2 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is a disease often linked to unwise lifestyle choices such as poor eating habits and lack of exercise.
Maybe those who take short naps have less stress and more leisure time than those who take longer naps. And "that may explain why the study found that short naps weren't linked to a possible type 2 diabetes risk," Zonszein said.
"It is difficult to use this meta-analysis to support causation; it can simply be an association," he said.
Dr. Gerald Bernstein is coordinator of the Friedman Diabetes Program at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. He also had no hand in the study.
However, he said, napping can cause blood sugar to rise and if you take long naps regularly and are predisposed to diabetes, that rise in blood sugar might trigger diabetes.
Bernstein agreed that the new study only shows a link between long naps and diabetes -- not that napping causes diabetes. Still, "if you're going to nap, make it short," he said.
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The Next American Revolution, my book with Scott Kurashige, will be available from the University of California Press in the spring of 2011.
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"A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis-political, economical, and environmental-and shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities.
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Unique heart shaped Disney Love 2018 1oz Silver Coin featuring sweethearts Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
Fourth love-themed Disney coin released by New Zealand Mint.
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National Women's Day
7 August 1996
COSATU Statement on the National Women's Day
As we approach National Women's Day on August 9, COSATU once again salutes the women of our country . While there are National Events all over the country including Pretoria, our focus this year will be on the situation in KwaZulu-Natal .
The theme is : The fight against violence on women.
South Africa has a rich history of strong women leaders who played leading roles in the struggle for liberation. It was also a struggle for emancipation of women. This included women such as-Lillian Ngoyi, Ruth First, Helen Joseph, Ray Alexander, Dora Tamana, Albertina Sisulu, Francis "Ma" Baart and thousands of other women. In COSATU this included people like Jabu Ndlovu, Mam Lydia. Emma Mashinini. Susan Shabangu to name but the few. This was a struggle against national oppression and exploitation.
We also salute those women who have managed to break through the prejudices facing them and become prominent leaders of our time, both in government and in civil society. These women see our struggle as both a class and gender struggle.
Violence and Women However, the sad reality is that women are still the most oppressed strata of our society:
Rural women are at the bottom of the rung, often living in the most difficult and sometimes inhuman conditions. In these areas there is no infrastructure, water, electricity and telecommunications. Most women in these area are often uneducated which offers them little hope of improving their situation. We need to build these areas both in terms of infrastructure and education programmes such as those run by ABET.
Women also continue to work in the lowest paid jobs earning slave wages; they bare the brunt of political violence, they are the main victims of violent crimes, such as rape, abuse, battery etc. Some are driven to such degrading activities such as prostitution and drugs as way of survival.
The police are still inefficient in dealing with these cases and the law also provides little support for victims of these crimes. We need to create a society where women feel secure and where there are adequate support systems for victims of crime.
Way Forward
COSATU has identified a number of areas where we need to campaign for women's rights.
Equality : Although we celebrate the number of women who have moved into leadership positions in all tiers of government, women are still sorely underrepresented in decision making processes. Moreover, women are often undermined in these structures and their opinions not taken as seriously as those of men. The government still needs to take bold decisions around issues which mainly affect women, such as those relating to the budget allocation. In our country child care is still not budgeted for.
We need to look at the experiences of other countries where government pays for creche or child minding facilities. The government also needs to look at ways of legally enforcing maintenance pay from those fathers who desert their families .
Six Month Paid Maternity Leave
COSATU is fighting for a six months paid maternity leave, that is not paid for from our UIF Fund. In this way the burden for raising children will not only be born by women parents. We reject with contempt the view held by some employers that granting rights to women will increase costs at a factory. If this be the price that we pay for democracy so be it.
COSATU welcomes the move to grant women "freedom of choice "over their bodies as thousands of women are being injured and killed each year from back street abortions. The government must prioritise setting up counselling services, coupled with abortion clinics, to put an end to this terrible situation. This is not a licence for abortions but a means to ensure that there is no discrimination against those women who decide on abortion.
As we celebrate the National Women's Day, we need to rededicate our selves to take steps that will lead to total emancipation for women at the work place, communities, economically and politically. This will require among others the reprioritisation of expenditure by the government, education of men and women on gender issues and employment programmes which target women and the youth.
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Visit of delegation of the Czech University of Defence
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The Rector of the Czech Military University Rudolf Urban, accompanied by the military attaché of the Czech Republic in Serbia Colonel Lorant Kurtosi, and the representative of the Embassy of the Czech Republic to Belgrade Jiry Jurik, today visited the University of Defence in Belgrade, where they were received by the Rector of the University General Major Prof Dr Miodrag Jeftic. On that occasion, General Jeftic talked about the organization of the University and the plans with respect to its further development. After the visit to the Rector's Office, the Czech delegation visited the Military Academy and the Military Medical Academy, which are the constituent parts of the University of Defence. The Military Academy Commandant Brigadier General Mladen Vuruna had talks with Prof Urban concerning the operation and structure of the Military Academy. They paid special attention to the cooperation in the field of scientific research. At the Military Medical Academy, the guests had talks with the Commandant Prof Dr Marijan Novakovic, who informed them on the activities and tasks of the MMA. Prof Rudolf Urban gave a lecture on the Czech Military University and their Military Medical Academy.
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Last week, Hamas released a new charter that it claimed was less anti-Israel. However, the terror group's position is just as hateful and determined to destroy the Jewish state. In response, The Jerusalem Post reports, PM Netanyahu put the Hamas policy paper where it belongs - in the garbage:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday symbolically tossed into a bin a Hamas policy paper published last week that set out an apparent softening of the Palestinian Islamist group's stance toward Israel.
In a document issued last Monday, Hamas said it was dropping its longstanding call for Israel's destruction, but said it still rejected the Jewish state's right to exist and continued to back "armed struggle" against it.
The Israeli government has said the document aimed to deceive the world that Hamas was becoming more moderate.
Netanyahu, in a 97-second video clip aired on social media on Sunday, said that news outlets had been taken in by "fake news". Sitting behind his desk with tense music playing in the background, he said that in its "hateful document", Hamas "lies to the world". He then pulled up a waste paper bin, crumpled the document into a ball and tossed it away.
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It's back once again! NAMI Wisconsin is prepping for one of our biggest events of the year… the 10th Annual Healing Art Show! This year, we have 35 wonderful artists who have all contributed their talented works.
For many individuals living with mental illness, art can be used a creative outlet to express and understand their emotions, perceptions and behaviors. Art can be a powerful therapeutic tool that fosters clarity and promotes healing and empowerment.
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- Database
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EchinoDB, an application for comparative transcriptomics of deeply-sampled clades of echinoderms
© Janies et al. 2016
- Received: 5 July 2015
- Accepted: 7 January 2016
- Published: 22 January 2016
One of our goals for the echinoderm tree of life project (http://echinotol.org) is to identify orthologs suitable for phylogenetic analysis from next-generation transcriptome data. The current dataset is the largest assembled for echinoderm phylogeny and transcriptomics. We used RNA-Seq to profile adult tissues from 42 echinoderm specimens from 24 orders and 37 families. In order to achieve sampling members of clades that span key evolutionary divergence, many of our exemplars were collected from deep and polar seas.
A small fraction of the transcriptome data we produced is being used for phylogenetic reconstruction. Thus to make a larger dataset available to researchers with a wide variety of interests, we made a web-based application, EchinoDB (http://echinodb.uncc.edu). EchinoDB is a repository of orthologous transcripts from echinoderms that is searchable via keywords and sequence similarity.
From transcripts we identified 749,397 clusters of orthologous loci. We have developed the information technology to manage and search the loci their annotations with respect to the Sea Urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) genome. Several users have already taken advantage of these data for spin-off projects in developmental biology, gene family studies, and neuroscience. We hope others will search EchinoDB to discover datasets relevant to a variety of additional questions in comparative biology.
- Echinoderm
- RNA-Seq
- Database
- Ortholog
- Paralog
- Transcriptome
- Phylogeny
- Developmental biology
- Neuroscience
- Gene family
In many studies focused on using transcriptomics to reconstruct phylogenetic trees, most of the RNA-Seq data are filtered out and do not end up in a matrix for phylogenetic tree search. However the data not used in phylogenetics can be valuable for other purposes such as developmental biology [1], gene family studies [2, 3], neuroscience [4] as well as new ideas that will come from the community. Thus we make much of our transcriptome data freely available via an application called EchinoDB (http://echinodb.uncc.edu). The data can be accessed via text or sequence similarity searches.
Echinoderms are an exclusively marine phylum of deuterostome animals that share a deep common ancestor with chordates. The body plans of extant Echinoderms range from stalked, flower-like sea lilies, to ambulatory and stellate starfish and brittle stars, to soft-bodied sea cucumbers, to spiked, armored and globose sea urchins, to flat sand dollars. The benthic adult forms of these diverse animals share a water-vascular system in which a central coelomic ring extends to form five (and sometimes more) radial canals bearing tube feet. In contrast with the pentaradial form of benthic adults, most echinoderm larvae are bilaterally symmetric and a drastic metamorphosis is required to form the adult body. The diversity of echinoderm life cycles, anatomy and their shared ancestry with chordates make echinoderms important models in a variety of comparative disciplines. In this project we provide a means for investigators to find gene families of interest to their questions across biology.
Construction and content
RNA from muscle tissues samples (adult tube feet, pinnules or body wall) from 42 Echinoderm specimens (Additional file 1) was extracted using a Qiagen miRNEasy kit. An Agilent Bioanalyzer 2100 ver. 2.6 was used for quality control prior to library preparation. Samples were then submitted to the Duke Institute for Genome Science and Policy for library preparation with an Illumina TruSeq RNA kit, followed by RNA-Seq sequencing on an Illumina Hiseq 2000 platform (100 BP, paired end). Reads for each of the samples were filtered by quality score (cutoff threshold > Q20) by fastxtrimmer, Illumina adapters were then removed by fastxclipper, both components of the fastx toolkit [5].
RNA-Seq produced a total of 2.3 billon raw reads. Following trimming and adapter removal, 2.1 billion reads remained, an overall reduction of approximately 11 %. The sample from Pisaster ochraceus had the most reads at 88,987,394. The Cheiraster sp. sample had the least amount of reads at 30,190,658. The sample from Promachocrinus kerguelensis had the most reads removed with a decrease of nearly 19 %. On the other end of the spectrum, the sample from Gephyrocrinus messingi had the least amount of reads removed at a reduction of 3.64 %. There was no observed correlation between taxonomic level and read count. De novo assembly of contigs was then performed using Trinity [6] on a high memory compute cluster using 500 GB of RAM and 24 CPUs.
Contigs for each sample were conceptually translated into peptides using Transdecoder [7] and the PFAM-B protein family database [8] (minimum protein length = 100). Each translated contig was compared to all other contigs in order to discover orthologous clusters using OrthoMCL which uses BLASTP [9]. To provide an initial annotation to the assembled contigs for each OrthoMCL cluster, 24,829 protein sequences for Strongylocentrotus purpuratus were downloaded from NCBI [10] and included in the OrthoMCL clustering. Most of these species have never been sequenced by any high throughput technology except for Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. This provided an opportunity to compare our Strongylocentrotus purpuratus contigs derived from the transcriptome to the publically available genome data for Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. We compared the Strongylocentrotus RefSeq dataset to our nucleotide contigs with BLASTN and found that 91.6 % of our contigs formed high scoring pairs (E-value 1e-10) with members of the RefSeq dataset.
EchinoDB is written using the Go programming language and Revel web framework, and is serviced by the NGINX web server. NGINX allows for load balancing and transparent server redirections in the web application. The redirection allows a single domain name to serve both the EchinoDB keyword search functionality and a BLAST (sequence similarity) interface using SequenceServer [11]. All of the relational data and clusters are stored in a PostgreSQL database, and all sequence files are stored and indexed by BLAST on the local file system.
Utility and discussion
There is one well-annotated echinoderm genome, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, in the public domain. As a result, the keyword search interface to our database is currently searchable by Strongylocentrotus purpuratus RefSeq ID, GI number, gene name, or other text in the annotation of this species. Strongylocentrotus purpuratus RefSeq proteins can participate in the formation of a cluster but are not required to form a cluster.
This is the first large collection of data for transcriptomes sampled across the Phylum Echinodermata, including rare and deep-sea taxa. Given the ancient evolutionary history of the phylum, it is crucial to have a resource that can provide insight via well-designed taxonomic comparisons. In contrast, other efforts have focused on Strongylocentrotus and a handful of easy-to-collect echinoderms and outgroups [12, 13].
Several users have already taken advantage of the data in EchinoDB for spin-off projects across taxa and disciplines. Developmental biologists have used EchinoDB data to study variation in skeletogenic proteins among ophiuroid and echinoid echinoderms [1]. Biologists interested in gene families have used EchinoDB data to discover echinoderm hemoglobins related to the vertebrate neuroglobin and cytoglobins [2]. Another group has used EchinoDB data to uncover variants within the tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases gene family. These genes are involved in the physiology of mutable collagenous tissue in echinoderms, especially holothuroids which are known to have a wide range body elasticity and can eviscerate [3]. Neuroscientists have used EchinoDB data to study variation in echinoderm neuropeptide precursors, known as SALMFamides. This work has opened a new line of research for the role of the SALMFamides variants extra-oral feeding in asteroids [4]. We hope that users will find our application easy to use and the echinoderm tree of life transcriptome data useful in a variety of endeavors.
Availability and requirements
Use of http://echinodb.uncc.edu, its data, and source code http://email@example.com/bioservices/echinodb.git#_blank are unrestricted for use by academic and commercial researchers.
We thank Ben Grupe, Brian Livingstone, Jim Nestler and Nerida Wilson for collecting some of the specimens. We thank Greg Rouse and Harim Cha for collecting some specimens and curating vouchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. We thank John Williams for ongoing EchinoDB support.
EchinoDB is a product of the Echinoderm Tree of Life Project and is based upon work supported by the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Numbers DEB 1036416, 1036358, 1036366, 1036368. Please cite EchinoDB's URL, these NSF grant numbers, and this paper in publications resulting from these data.
Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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There will be an AUWG teleconference on Monday 23 July 2012 at 3:00 pm- 4:00 pm ET: Call: (617) 761-6200 ext. 2894# Zakim: +1.617.761.6200 (Boston) IRC: server: irc.w3.org, port: 6665, channel: #au If people think they will arrive more than 15 minutes late, please send me an email beforehand. Last Call Drafts =========== http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20/ http://www.w3.org/TR/IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20/ Agenda ====== 1. AUWG test development to prepare for entering CR: - As discussed last week, everyone (besides the few that spoke up about conflicts) were going to try to write at least one test. 2. SC's that we might flag as a result of test writing. So far: - B.4.1.3 Feature Availability Information: If the authoring tool supports production of any web content technologies for publishing for which the authoring tool does not provide support for the production of accessible web content (WCAG), then this is documented. (Level AA) - Note: This success criterion concerns the presence or absence of support features, such as accessibility checkers, not any intrinsic property of web content technologies. @ISSUE: This is tricky because the SC just says "support for production", not that the production of the other format needs to meet ATAG 2.0. This makes some sense because if it did imply ATAG 2.0 conformance then to do an ATAG 2.0 conformance check on any format for a tool would actually require doing one on all of them. But, what, then, does "support" mean? One (weak) possibility is [the test I wrote]... that accessible content be possible. Another (stronger) possibility is that a "supported" format has to have checking (even if it is manual checking). If that's what we mean...I think we should fix the SC to say that. (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-au/2012JulSep/0013.html) 3. Selecting new tests to write (each member will choose at least one SC to write tests for the next week) Cheers, Jan (MR) JAN RICHARDS PROJECT MANAGER INCLUSIVE DESIGN RESEARCH CENTRE (IDRC) T 416 977 6000 x3957 F 416 977 9844 E email@example.com Twitter @OCAD Facebook www.facebook.com/OCADUniversity OCAD UNIVERSITY 205 Richmond Street West, 2nd Floor, Toronto, Canada M5V 1V3 www.ocadu.ca idrc.ocadu.caReceived on Friday, 20 July 2012 20:22:19 UTC
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