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ACAMS chapter members from across Europe will discuss AML regulatory developments in their jurisdictions during 2016 and what can be expected in 2017.
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Moreover, Mrs. Sheen holds a bachelor's degree in public administration, an LLB and a master's degree in risk management. She is a member of ACAMS and is a graduate of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies program. Mrs. Sheen's particular area of interest is in relation to the effectiveness of risk management and mitigation measures in influencing changes in staff behavior and culture within financial institutions.
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Organic Chemistry: Building a "Lego Castle" with Daniel Nasrallah
Daniel Nasrallah graduated from UNCG in 2014 with a degree in chemistry. As an undergraduate student majoring in organic chemistry, Nasrallah worked on a research project with Dr. Mitchell Croatt. Last year, Daniel sat down with UNCG Research to tell us about his work, how he got started in research, and how it has impacted his life.
Organic Chemistry: Building a "Lego Castle"
I do research in an Organic Chemistry lab, which means I get the opportunity to go into a lab, combine chemicals, run reactions, look at the results of these reactions and try to draw conclusions to see what I've made. In order to find results I have to ask questions like 'Is it important? Is it a significant discovery? Would the scientific community care about this discovery?'
I'm synthesizing cyclooctatetraene and cyanocarbene molecules, which have potential applications in pharmaceuticals, energy production, and material sciences. The simplest way to break down the project that I am working on right now is to think about it as Lego blocks. I am taking individual 'Lego blocks,' which are molecules, and combining them under specific condition and trying to build a Lego castle. I take basic starting materials, organic compounds, and expose them to different temperature, solvent, and catalyst conditions, to make specific or targeted products. Depending on how successful or unsuccessful the reactions are, I modify the procedures and investigate new aspects of reactions, to try to come up with a new ways to make these compounds or Lego castles.
Turning obstacles into opportunities
Research does have its challenges. The project that I'm working on publishing now was not the intended goal of the research that I started. Like many great scientific discoveries, we set out trying to discover one thing, were not able to find it, but over the course of running reactions discovered something entirely different, something almost entirely unexpected. We renamed the project, shifted our focus and began trying to intentionally make this compound that we had just discovered we could make. And so that's what we've been doing ever since. It's been a really interesting project because it wasn't what we initially intended but is still potentially valuable to the scientific community.
A Team Effort
When I started my research, I was actually part of a team. I was on a team of two other undergraduates and a doctoral student. We all worked together on similar but different aspects of same project. So whenever I ran into a problem, I could ask other students what they had done when facing similar problems like mine. Over time, they've actually graduated and moved on so I've had to take on more responsibility for the project. It's been really unique and cool to be able to work alongside students, upperclassmen, and over the years, I've actually had the opportunity to train and pull people on to my project. When we had a post-doc come to our lab for a semester, I had the responsibility of training him, getting him up to speed on the project, assigning him the reactions and the work we wanted him to be responsible for, and just overseeing the work he did. It's really a transition from me, being trained to being able to train other students.
Another key collaboration is with my research advisor. I've been working with the same research advisor for three years, Dr. Croatt, and he was the one who accepted me as a freshman, which was a bit of a risk for him, but I think he will say it that it's the one that paid off. It's crucial to have a good relationship with him and be able to go by office to say, "I've run into this problem. I've asked everyone in the lab and they have no clue on what to do. What do you think? What approach do you recommend me?" There's a lot of collaboration. Within the lab, even people who aren't working on your project, you ask them for support all the time. It's kind of like a little community or family in the lab.
I've also done a good bit of partnership and collaboration with the Office of Undergraduate Research. They funded me to travel to New Orleans to present research through a travel grant. This semester, OUR awarded me a assistantship to help me pursue my research. OUR is actually paying me to do the research, which is an awesome opportunity for me.
Also, I've had the opportunity to collaborate with other professors in the chemistry and biology departments. On a couple of projects or aspects of projects, we have needed to call in biologists, or we needed to call in another chemist who had experience in the field.
Future plans
From this experience of doing research for past three years, I've had incredible opportunities to present research, to study abroad, and just to have my name on publications. This has prepared me very well for graduate school, which is what I am planning on applying for this semester. In graduate school, I will be doing very similar things: taking classes but mostly focusing on doing research and learning the most about chemistry in the purest form.
It's even prepared me for beyond grad school. When I get into a professional career, whether it's at a university or at some sort of business, I'll have the ability to communicate chemistry clearly, in a way that chemists and non-chemists can understand, which is very important in our field. Even if we make the biggest discoveries in the world, if we don't tell anyone about it and if we can't communicate to other people appropriately, then it's almost not significant. So being involved in research has gotten me to place where I can learn the chemistry, understand it, use it, but then also tell other people about it.
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How Similar Are European Business Cycles?
In this paper, we focus on how European economic integration has affected the synchronization and the magnitude of business cycles among participating countries. We measure, based on bandpass filtered data, the characteristics of European business cycles analyzing to what extent they have become more similar over time. We also consider the role of other factors such as differences in fiscal and monetary policy, border effects, and trade intensity. Our main finding is that European business cycles are highly synchronized, although we also find that synchronization was higher during periods with highly flexible exchange rates. In addition we find a positive tradeoff between timing and magnitude such that more synchronization coincides with larger relative magnitude. These results raise concern about the consequences of a common monetary policy within EMU.
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Let's talk for a moment about bone marrow registries. These are efforts to find donors with the genetic match to save patients with life-threatening illnesses. But in New England, one such program is under investigation. Prosecutors are looking into a registry that allegedly spent 40 to 50 thousand dollars per week on female models who recruited potential donors. And some of those would-be donors say they were later stuck with big bills. Jon Greenberg of New Hampshire Public Radio has our report.
JON GREENBERG: If New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney has it right, the Caitlin Raymond International Registry is an organization run amok. It's part of the sprawling UMass Memorial Health Care system. The registry has seen explosive growth in donor registrations with a presence in places like the Fenway ballpark and kiosks in shopping malls. Delaney says part of that growth came from booths staffed with models in high heels and black skirts.
Mr. MICHAEL DELANEY (Attorney General, New Hampshire): The model agency is actually sending photographs to the marketing director at UMass for personal selection of those models that are going to go recruit donors to help save people's lives.
GREENBERG: We made repeated efforts to speak to the Caitlin Raymond registry and UMass Memorial health care. They issued a written statement, saying they've stopped using models and have halted donor recruitment in New Hampshire.
But they aren't in trouble for just recruiting. Investigators question their billing practices too. A bone marrow drive is a two-step process. First, they run a cotton swab along the inside of your cheek. You go home and then there's step two. The registry sends those cheek cells to a lab for genetic testing.
Mr. MARC FERLAND: When I got swabbed, there was no idea that any money would change hands, one way or the other.
GREENBERG: Marc Ferland stopped at a registry booth after giving blood at a large Red Cross drive. A month later he got a bill that said he owed over $2,000 to cover the cost of the genetic test. When he complained, it was immediately cut to $760, which he paid out of a health care account offered by his employer.
Mr. FERLAND: When you take money out of my spending account, that's a cost to me.
GREENBERG: Contrary to promises from the Caitlin Raymond registry, people like Ferland with certain kinds of insurance plans found their offer to help save a life was rewarded with a bill. When Ferland complained further, he got a letter offering to pay the bill, but he says he feels manipulated and deceived.
Investigators are targeting another side of the billing. The genetic test that other labs charge 60 or 100 dollars to do are priced by the UMass lab at over $4,000. Under state laws in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, insurance companies must cover the cost of those tests.
In its defense, the registry has said repeatedly the UMass lab has full control over billing. But Senior Assistant Attorney General Jim Boffetti said the real relationship between the registry and the lab is much closer. Boffetti says it appears the revenues from testing at the lab flowed into the registry.
Mr. JIM BOFFETTI (Senior Assistant Attorney General, New Hampshire): Some of the money that was paid by insurers for these tests was being used for what they would call these recruitment activities.
GREENBERG: Marc Ferland says he feels his good intentions turned him into a victim. And now one thought leaves him uneasy.
Mr. FERLAND: What if I'm a match for somebody? I can save somebody. I'd go on the table to do it, you know. But I want to know that the people behind me are trustworthy. And that's not the case with Caitlin Raymond.
GREENBERG: With potential criminal violations on the horizon, many people worry these events will deter potential donors from helping those registries that have unblemished reputations. And that could cost some people their lives.
For NPR News, I'm Jon Greenberg.
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Britain's state-rescued lender Royal Bank of Scotland said Thursday it was cutting another 3,500 jobs, sparking anger from union bosses.
An RBS company spokesman told AFP that "3,500 job losses have been announced in the business services division," which comprises back-office functions such as IT and payment operations.
The lender is shutting 12 of its business services centres at locations across Britain, including Harrogate, Leeds and Liverpool in northern England and Borehamwood, Bristol and Plymouth in the south.
RBS, which is 83-percent state-owned after receiving the world's biggest banking bailout amid the recent financial crisis, added that the jobs would go between 2011 and 2012.
About one third of the 3,500 job losses are connected to the 318 RBS branches recently sold to Spanish banking giant Santander.
RBS has now axed 23,100 jobs since October 2008 when the bank was ravaged by the global financial crisis and rescued by taxpayers. The majority of the losses have been in Britain.
"Having to cut jobs is the most difficult part of our work to rebuild RBS and repay taxpayers for their support," the group said in a statement on Thursday.
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'Toyota Town' In Kentucky Braces As Automaker Fumbles
Toyota's problems have caused a severe fall in sales, and that means layoffs for many Americans who manufacture the cars. Host Lynn Neary discusses the impact with Karen Tingle-Sames, the mayor of Georgetown, Kentucky. It is home to a Toyota plant that generates the majority of the town's income, and employs more than 6 thousand workers.
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Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is not the only governor asking that Toyota be treated fairly by Congress. The governors of Kentucky, Indiana, and Alabama joined Barbour in sending a letter to congressional leaders asking Toyota get a responsible and fair response from the federal government.
Now, we're going to take a look at what it means to have a Toyota plant in your state. For over 20 years Georgetown, Kentucky, has been home to a Toyota plant. To get a sense of the role Toyota plays in that community and the reaction to the recent recalls and hearings, we are joined by Georgetown's Mayor Karen Tingle-Sames. She joins us now from member station WUKY in Lexington, Kentucky. Welcome to the program.
Mayor KAREN TINGLE-SAMES (Republican, Georgetown, Kentucky): Well, thank you so much for having me here to talk about Toyota today.
NEARY: Well, Mayor Tingle-Sames, I think you were listening to our last interview, were you?
Mayor TINGLE-SAMES: Yes, I was.
NEARY: I'm just wondering what your reaction was to what you heard - that's a little sampling of what you might be - the kind of thing we're hearing on the Hill now.
Mayor TINGLE-SAMES: Well, one of the points that came across was that the public has lost confidence in Toyota. And I don't believe that that is a completely accurate statement. Toyota has such a track record in their quality, and granted, now they are hitting a bump in a road, you may say, and something that they are taking very seriously, and taking it to heart, to look to see what they're going to do to fix the problem and be able to move on.
But, you know, Toyota introduced to the world a much higher manufacturing standard than really we had known before. And they will respond to this challenge just the same way to that equal standard. And Toyota is a very humble company. They don't brag about their self that much. They do kind of stay in the background. But, you know, the company has become such a close-knit part of our community that we really can't separate the Toyota plant from Georgetown itself.
NEARY: What is that relationship like between the town and the company? How does it play out?
Mayor TINGLE-SAMES: Well, since Toyota came to town over 20 years ago - and we do have the largest manufacturing Toyota plant in the United States and we are the home of them starting out into the U.S. - that we produce there the Camry, the Camry Hybrid, the Avalon, and the new Venza. And we have over 7,000 employees that work at the Toyota company here in Georgetown. So, as far as Georgetown the city is concerned, 60 percent of our tax revenue comes off of that Toyota factory and the other companies that are in town that supply parts for the factory. We now have 34 percent of the team members that work at Toyota actually live in our county. And 60 percent of the employees that work at Toyota live in the Central Kentucky area. So
NEARY: So this has been a huge economic boon to you, I would think. And I'm wondering if you're worried or concerned that if things are not going so well for Toyota, it's going to cost money, it's going to cost jobs.
Mayor TINGLE-SAMES: Well, it's kind of amazing. We are connected to Toyota, there's no doubt about it. And we do - as a matter of fact, the Toyota officials that are here in Georgetown that we meet with them, the elected officials meet with them on an every-other-month basis to sit down and talk about what's going on with Toyota, to also let them know what's going on in the city and the county, as the things that we do will affect them and the things that happened with Toyota affects us. The county judge executive, he has role much as mine for the county, as I am mayor for the city. We have their personal cell phone's numbers, so if anything comes up that we contact them, they contact us. So we have this great, open communication. So we're always a step ahead of knowing what's going to go on and affect our local plant, so that if it affects our economy and our numbers.
And you're right. There is always a certain amount of - I don't know that is concern, because I don't know that I have a concern for it, because Toyota has proven what they are about to our community. When the downturn in the recession happened just a few months ago and there was not car selling in the United States, Toyota never laid off any of their employees. And even if they didn't have a production day, they allowed their employees to volunteer and go out into the community and help the community with different things.
Like our local college, Georgetown College, that we have in town, they went there - volunteers from - Toyota's team members went over there and helped them paint dorms and get dorms ready for school. They came to the city and helped us do some planning at the city. They went to the county. So they took their team members, instead of laying them off, and let them come into the community in the central Kentucky area to volunteer to work and help out other organizations.
NEARY: How do people there feel about what's going on? Do they think that Toyota is being treated unfairly?
Mayor TINGLE-SAMES: They think that - our community is really rallying around Toyota and behind Toyota and supporting Toyota, like you mentioned earlier, from the governor down to the mayor and everybody in between and the team members have really gotten in behind Toyota. So I think you might say that - I don't know. They are going to Capitol Hill to answer questions, and they need to answer questions. But I think on the flip side of it, and when this is all said and done, that Toyota will come out so much stronger than what they were even before this, that I think they'll make it through okay with what they're doing.
NEARY: I'm curious: Do people in Georgetown, Kentucky think of Toyota as an American company?
Mayor TINGLE-SAMES: Oh, yes. We absolutely do think of it. And that was a question that has imposed to me before about it being a company from overseas. The people that work there, the 7,000 employees that work there, they're our friends, our neighbors, the people we go to church with, the people that we, you know, shop at Wal-Mart with, we do all the daily activities, our Boy Scout leaders and all that. So it's not a - it's - to us, it's an American company. And I drive a Camry, as mayor of the city. And it is a - it's an American-made car by Americans that are our friends and our neighbors.
NEARY: Karen Tingle-Sames is the mayor of Georgetown, Kentucky, home to a Toyota plant. She joined us from member station WUKY in Lexington, Kentucky. Thanks so much for speaking with us.
Mayor TINGLE-SAMES: You're very welcome. Thank you.
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Cognitive control processes reduce the effects of irrelevant or misleading information on performance. We report a study suggesting that effective cognitive control mechanisms are configured quickly during training. In a Stroop-like task, participants practiced naming abstract shapes using color words (with one shape called "red," another called "blue," etc.—these are referred to as "shape names") In a subsequent test, naming the actual color of the shape was impaired when the color name and the shape name conflicted. Using regression analysis, we found that both the relative speed of basic shape and color naming processes and the amount of training on an individual shape made independent contributions to the amount of interference created. ERP recording in the same task revealed a larger frontal N200 component for participants who showed more behavioral interference.
Human and animal sensory systems are constantly bombarded with an overload of information, and environmental demands often require the rapid integration of many sensory stimuli in order to choose an appropriate response. This job is facilitated by selective attention, the situation-specific control over which stimuli and responses are fully processed. To the degree that selective attention fails, irrelevant information interferes with performance.
An important step in understanding how selective attention works is developing theories of how interference is created. One simple model of how interference is created is a 'horserace' model based on the processing speeds for relevant and irrelevant attributes of the stimulus. That is, the relative speed of basic perceptual/motor processing of relevant and irrelevant stimulus attributes predicts how much interference will be produced.
Evidence also exists that the relationship between relative processing speed and interference is not linear, but an inverted-U shaped function (Dyer, 1973). Faster or earlier processing of irrelevant stimuli does not always lead to increased interference. For example, if irrelevant features are processed sufficiently faster than relevant stimuli, it appears that the irrelevant response can be primed and then inhibited before the relevant processing reaches the critical stage where it is vulnerable to interference.
Another factor contributing to interference is the automaticity of stimulus processing—the degree to which the flow of information along a stimulus–response pathway is independent of controlled attention. Automaticity and relative speed may independently affect cognitive control, and thus measured interference. Alternately, an automaticity-based account may replace relative speed as an explanation for why interference occurs.
MacLeod and Dunbar (1988) used training in a Stroop-like paradigm in a study designed to investigate the effects of both relative speed and stimulus-response automaticity. Participants practiced naming irregular shapes with color names (e.g., "blue"). They were then tested on both naming the shapes when they appeared in colors ('shape naming') and on naming the colors in which shapes were presented ('color naming'). MacLeod and Dunbar found that the interference created on each of these two tasks was equal after five days of practice, but that the relative speeds of the color naming and shape naming processes were not equalized until 20 days of practice. Based on their results, they suggested that automaticity, created by training, is a better predictor of interference than relative speed.
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Omnibus ANOVA results showed that congruence affected color naming latency. Colors with incongruent shapes were named more slowly than those with neutral or congruent shapes. There was no significant main effect of session, F < 1. The significant interaction between session and congruence, F(6,66) = 2.61, MSE = 854, p < .05, demonstrated that interference increased slightly with practice.
A planned comparison testing for a linear change in incongruent relative to neutral across days revealed a significant increase in interference with practice, F(1,11) = 5.96, MSE = 324, p < .05.
Few errors were made on the task. However, an analysis of accuracy rates yielded similar results, demonstrating that there was no substatial speed-accuracy tradeoff.
MacLeod and Dunbar suggested that training affects performance above and beyond the effects of relative processing speed. This analysis investigated whether training and relative speed independently contribute to interference.
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. Scalp distributions and waveforms for the color naming task, 235 – 275 ms after stimulus presentation. A,B: Scalp distributions for subjects who showed low and high behavioral interference effects, respectively. C: ERP waveforms during the ~n200 time window for each subject group. The thick solid line is neutral (circles), the dotted line is incongruent, and the thin solid line represents averages over congruent trials.
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Not so. Enter Sequoia Capital's "RIP Good Times" presentation. Within a day, eight people had forwarded it to me, along with notes taken by a briefly-anonymous Sequoia portfolio CEO. Shortly thereafter came the Benchmark Letter, which another investor and our corporate counsel both forwarded to me. And the Ron Conway email. The argument is that revenues and earnings will fall off the table (thus perhaps justifying the fact that today's S&P 500 is trading at a pretty low average P/E of 10.5), thus necessitating tectonic readjustments to spending.
And there it was: in one great, coordinated movement, Silicon Valley panicked. It was as if the Valley remembered 2000-2001 and couldn't sleep. A friend of mine, at a Seqoia company, worked the weekend and executed a 40% layoff earlier this week. Hi5 cut staff, Zillow and Adbrite did the same, and the list goes on and on. One day everything is fine; the next, the world is ending. Trader mentality hit Sand Hill Road. With the zeal of the converted, a paroxysm of cost-cutting swept Valley CEOs.
This "stampede for the exits" mentality of supposedly long-term investors here in the Valley makes zero sense. One of my Directors correctly pointed out that Moritz et al. at Sequoia were undoubtedly "firing for effect," and I'm sure they were, but tell that to the employees laid off by my friend's Sequoia-backed company. The problem with making rapid adjustments to early stage companies is that the adjustments themselves effect the business. There's a Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in startups: trimming too fast or too precipitously will injure the company far more deeply than it would a larger, established company. Why? Because start-ups in particular rely on their employees to go the extra mile, think the impossible is possible, burn the midnight oil, and invent the ingenious. They also rely on their employees knowing they're involved in something special, relishing their creative environment, and collaborating with their colleagues. (For which, of course, they need to have colleagues…!) Take all that away, and a start-up is just a thinly-staffed, under-capitalized company with no track record or proven market.
There's another, more profound risk, however: react too strongly and Heisenberg will assure your startup misses the market opportunity it's not expecting. The problem with over-optimizing, particularly in venture-backed companies, is that they will miss the unexpected, creative opportunity, either because they are so busy dealing with the ramifications of precipitous cost-cutting or because they will be so under-staffed and so hyper-focused on cash flow that they will have neither the energy nor the creative spirit to do something daring when the opportunity presents itself.
Does this mean we should be spending profligately and ignoring the broader dynamics of the economy? Of course not. No CEO in his or her right mind would do so. But the fact remains that what makes Silicon Valley great is certainly not its ability to play the part of proverbial "tail" to the economic dog which wags it. Every one of us should take a careful look at our spending, our sales forecasts, and make sensible business decisions based on what we see. (In our case, we see changes coming and are adjusting for them. We're cutting where we need to, investing where we can afford to, and otherwise treating the shake-up as an opportunity to test every single one of our assumptions. And, yes, if one of those assumptions changes and we see a problem, then we're going to cut spending.) But lay off 40% of staff just because someone gave a presentation?
Fortunately, voices of sanity have begun to speak up. My friend and colleague Pascal Levensohn (full disclosure: also now an investor and Board member in my company) wrote an excellent post today putting context around the Sequoia presentation. And none other than the Sage of Omaha himself is going long on US equities. All of us running businesses under these economic circumstances are well-served to create a back-up plan (the "survival plan"), take a whack at expenses wherever and whenever possible (hey, shouldn't we be doing that all the time anyway?), test every single assumption in our models, and perhaps think long and hard before hiring additional staff. But then we should go back to work, build amazing businesses, and remember that Silicon Valley is about the future and we're in charge of creating it.


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Fidget SpinnerMorgan Millerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187620480838153953.post-53256659041279148052016-11-27T21:50:08.793-08:002016-11-27T21:50:08.793-08:00Some of the most common EDC tools are knives, flas...Some of the most common EDC tools are knives, flashlights, multitools, wallets, smartphones, notebooks, and pens. The type and quantity of such items may vary widely. While often distributed among pockets in everyday clothing, carry options are frequently expanded by the addition of clothing accessories like a fanny pack, purse, small day pack, bracelets, or even footwear like long boots or a vest with pockets. The multiple large pockets of cargo pants make them a popular choice among people who carry EDC tools. TechTeacherhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187620480838153953.post-14129725858032357062016-11-13T19:00:02.417-08:002016-11-13T19:00:02.417-08:00Everstryke Match Pro is a reliable lighter. It is ...Everstryke Match Pro is a reliable lighter. It is small, compact, and it burns bright. The top cap allows it to be screwed and tightened to prevent water from getting in the lighter. Your review is really helpful. I particularly admire how handy this lighter is when camping. The following post provides resourceful waterproof lighters: http://survival-mastery.com/reviews/best-waterproof-lighter.htmlJulie Smithhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187620480838153953.post-69255149128528936482016-09-01T17:03:17.424-07:002016-09-01T17:03:17.424-07:00Interesting to hear about your experience enshiro....Interesting to hear about your experience enshiro. I don't try to flex the tritium vials, but I've had one on my keychain and one on my wife's keychain, since I did the review. Haven't had an issue with either. But to be honest, we don't subject the keychain to a lot of abuse either. My just sits in my pocket most the time, and wife's sits in her handbag.haznahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187620480838153953.post-82326173657688182792016-08-30T22:49:10.034-07:002016-08-30T22:49:10.034-07:00sadly i had to say that i lost 2 vials within one ...sadly i had to say that i lost 2 vials within one month on my keychain. they are not very stiff during normal use. if you carefully try to bend them you will recognize a lot flex.Enshirohttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187620480838153953.post-27119169052084187682016-08-15T01:23:46.651-07:002016-08-15T01:23:46.651-07:00So if I get a fever, as long as I don't go abo...So if I get a fever, as long as I don't go above , let's say, 10 million degrees, I should be safe? ;-)Kent Brownehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187620480838153953.post-88685829736750572402016-07-11T03:16:46.883-07:002016-07-11T03:16:46.883-07:00Hi Diane, I don't know if the guy still does t...Hi Diane, I don't know if the guy still does the acrylic cover. It's
a bit more complicated to do, as you need to buy the acrylic tube,
tritium and special glue separately, and put it together yourself.

I've had the Tec isotope glow fob on my keyring for a couple of years
now with no problems. There is an updated version tec isotope 360.

You can buy it preinstalled all ready to go from this thread:
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The smaller one or second one in the picture.Is it covered by hard resin platic, like the first one? Is the liquid amount same size as the rest.Im in Australia also.
diane garthhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187620480838153953.post-23007047619342258202016-03-10T08:58:29.408-08:002016-03-10T08:58:29.408-08:00I have used one for 3 years and find it really use...I have used one for 3 years and find it really useful. Not had any problems with it. EssexYankeehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187620480838153953.post-47098516575467732952015-10-26T16:32:06.077-07:002015-10-26T16:32:06.077-07:00Great review. They also do a flat bottomed version...Great review. They also do a flat bottomed version with inbuilt keyring clip. As an ex smoker I wanted a lighter whos fluid would not evaporate over time such as my Zippo which was filled every Friday wether I used it or not. Time will tell if the O ring will help with this.Frank Flahertyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187620480838153953.post-41901357928537920432015-10-26T16:31:38.464-07:002015-10-26T16:31:38.464-07:00Great review. They also do a flat bottomed version...Great review. They also do a flat bottomed version with inbuilt keyring clip. As an ex smoker I wanted a lighter whos fluid would not evaporate over time such as my Zippo which was filled every Friday wether I used it or not. Time will tell if the O ring will help with this.Unknownhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3187620480838153953.post-28151579835829685592015-10-24T01:58:26.771-07:002015-10-24T01:58:26.771-07:00Hi Praire Wolfdog, if you want to look for some wi...Hi Praire Wolfdog, if you want to look for some with tritium preinstalled, have a look at these two threads. You can get blue tritium, but that is less bright than green tritium.

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i found out why you insisted we run the flag up only half way. No wonder you didn't answer in the email just "confirmed" that we honor the request. You were abashed about your silly idea and also maybe worrying you were the only state office to have your flags run half mast for a police dog.
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Tackling My Life List in 2014
A couple years ago, I created an official life list, and I have to be honest – it has been slow going marking off the tasks.
Saying that, here is a wrap-up of what I WAS able to tackle in 2013. Though a small feat, it was still a feat.
Hot Air Balloon Ride.
You guys, I rode in a hot air balloon! It was an amazing experience that I cannot compare to anything else. So incredibly peaceful, quiet and calming.
The Stoweflake Mountain Spa & Resort in Stowe, Vermont not only invited me to visit their resort, but to also ride in a hot air balloon during my stay. It's a thing they do. Who knew? Read all about my flight in this post.
Two New States.
The hot air balloon ride also introduced me to a whole new state – Vermont. Before you ask, no, I didn't try any maple syrup, but I did buy some for the trip home. It's not bad.
I also had the opportunity to travel through Massachusetts, courtesy of CVS/pharmacy, for the very first time. Though short, I did see quite a bit of the landscape of the state, as well as some of the Boston area in passing. There is still a long list of landmarks and history to explore there, so I hope to make it back soon.
So, I'm officially at 27 states VISITED. Here are the states that I have remaining:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Connecticut
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- Mississippi
- Montana
- Nebraska
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
So, what does 2014 bring? I'm not quite sure, as I don't really set specific goals or expectations regarding my life list or travel, but what I HOPE for is that the trip to Costa Rica that I mentioned in my life list last year (still pending) happens and perhaps a few more states visited. In addition, SURELY I can squeeze in that In-N-Out Burger goal, too, right? That zipline? That needs to happen ASAP, too.
As for full-time travel blogging, I am working towards that one as well. Though a long term goal, I still plan on writing more travel content (every Thursday, here on Mom Spark!) on a regular basis and making a few new trips this year. My wanderlust has only be contained for so long, you know.
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Industrial policy, corporate governance, and the competitiveness of China's national champions: The case of Shanghai Baosteel Group
The paper presents an in-depth case study of the Shanghai Baosteel Group as a contribution to the overall assessment of the competitiveness and catch-up capability of the Chinese national champions after China's WTO accession. Significant competitive advantages of the firm in the domestic industry are identified, with cautionary remarks concerning the future stiff competition with the global steel giants. Through detailed examinations of the corporate governance mechanism and the industrial policy implementation in Baosteel and the whole steel sector, the paper sheds light on the institutional and policy challenges that the Chinese government has to face in building up its big businesses. It is concluded that whether Baosteel could emerge as a globally competitive steel firm depends critically upon the effectiveness of both the further reform of the state-dominated corporate governance system and the improvement of the industrial policy enforcement.
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Manchester, United Kingdom (PressExposure) February 19, 2009 -- DNB Vacation Rentals [http://www.dnb-vacation-rentals.com/] has unveiled a new holiday villa in Spain [http://www.dnb-vacation-rentals.com/property/europe/spain/76]. The Casa Quarenta 3 bedroom villa is located on the Lauro Golf Resort in the Costa del Sol. Just off the first fairway, 100m from the 1st tee, and 150m from the club-house is sure to attract plenty of attention on the holiday rentals market, as thousands of British golfers travel to the Costa del Sol each year.
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"Occupancy of holiday villas in Spain [http://www.dnb-vacation-rentals.com/europe/spain/] are currently very high because of the strength of the British market. But golf holiday villas on the Costa del Sol are among our best performers, with occupancy rates growing month on month, year on year. This new villa was added to the site just yesterday [28 January], and already it is receiving quite a bit of attention. As with all our holiday properties the availability of the villa changes in real-time, and those interested can book online for their holiday in the villa."
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The UCLA Green Building Symposium - Building Better Places discussed how vital it is for more buildings to increase the use of sustainable technology. Within new builds of commercial and residential buildings and retrofits in existing buildings.
Improved building energy efficiency not only can save substantially on utility bills but will also increase productivity and happiness for occupants, resulting in lower carbon emissions further improving the atmosphere internally and externally.
During the symposium sustainability leaders from across Los Angeles discussed challenges to improve sustainability of the building stock. They also revealed several misconceptions that provide stumbling blocks including amongst others: limited market information, misaligned incentives, and lack of available capital.
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Buildings in Los Angeles make up 51% of the city's carbon emissions, the largest cause, hence energy efficiency in buildings is a vital component of the city's sustainability efforts.
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Q&A: Top-ranked banking analyst shares his latest picks
John Aiken, analyst with Barclays Capital, who was just recently named as the most accurate estimator of earnings among analysts in the Canadian financials industry by Starmine, takes your questions.
John, Starmine has identified you as the top earnings estimator in the financial sector, and also one of the top stock pickers for Canadian banks and insurers. How do you go about determining estimates and targets, and how does it differ from the rest of the Street?
It was a very solid quarter for the banks, they continue to hold in, in terms of earnings, regardless of what us jaded analysts keep on saying. The resiliency is quite remarkable and is being well rewarded by the market. However, we remain cautious on the ongoing outlook as some of the factors may not necessarily be sustainable...
The most glaring factor is the losses incurred by bad credit. Although we are not concerned about any massive losses, they remain at cyclically low levels and investors have to be aware of what they are paying for. Should they begin to tick up, the banks could appear more expensive than they do now. That said, this risk is offset by their strong yields.
I see you have been talking with some of your U.S. investors... While we believe that debt levels are elevated, that in and of itself does not constitute a crisis, from our perspective. Debt as a percentage of household income will need to moderate but that can be done over time. However, what this means is that personal credit growth is likely to slow, creating relative headwinds for the banks' loan book growth...
This also means that we are not overly concerned about a housing crisis in Canada. Pricing may moderate, but not damaingly so. However, even if we are wrong and we see a correction in housing prices in the neighbourhood of what the U.S. experienced, the banks should not be too damaged from a credit perspective. Housing for the banks is not a balance sheet issue (i.e., capital hits), it is more of a revenue issue and what does it do to profitability.
We definitely have a bias towards the banks that have exposure outside of Canada. Not because we are worried about losses domestically, but the outlook for growth is stronger. We continue to like TD's exposure to U.S. retail banking but the economy is not bouncing back as quickly/strongly as we would have anticipated. That said, we believe that the recovery is simply delayed, not postponed. In a similar vein, we also like Scotia (BNS) given its exposure to Latin America. It has faces similar issues in the Caribbean as some of its peers, but the medium and longer term growth in their international operations is hard to deny.
Ahh, trying to generate controversy... the flipside to our thesis is that the banks with greater domestic exposures should be avoided as they are likely to experience slower earnings growth. This points the finger at CIBC and National Bank out of the Big 6. With the regional banks, Laurentian continues to faces headwinds to growth but Canadian Western Bank continues to show resiliency and we would not necessarily categorize it with the other three, despite its solely domestic exposure.
Hey, controversy is good in the media biz! Thanks for answering...Let's talk insurers here for a moment. As our Tim Shufelt wrote this week, now might make for an interesting time to buy given that their stock prices have come down a lot with the falling bond yields. With interest rates seemingly bottoming out here, do you feel this is a good time to buy the insurers overall?
We really like the life insurers here. They have significant leverage to an improving global economic outlook in terms of both interest rates as well as equity valuations. 2013 was an exceptionally strong year for their valuations as the outlook strengthened on the back of rising rates. While we do not anticipate that valuation multiples will move as much, we are optimistic that the tailwinds we are seeing will translate into strong earnings growth coming out of 2014 and through 2015.
Regardless of the changing stance by the Bank of Canada recently, what will drive the lifecos is what the Fed does. We still do not see the Fed raising rates in the near term, but 2015 still looks like a strong possibility. The positive for the life insurers is that they do not need the Fed to actually raise rates, but have the bond markets begin to price in increases. We saw this in 2013 and we believe that investors can reasonably anticipate this in the latter half of 2014. In the meantime, investors can enjoy the benefit that the lifecos are receiving from rising global equity valuations on their earnings.
All of the banks have announced dividend increases coming out of the financial crisis but the lifecos have not. The banks that have raised their dividends by the highest amounts (TD, NA and RY) had the benefit of a lower payout ratio coming out of the downturn as well as relatively stronger earnings growth. That said, the increases going forward are going to be much more in line with earnings growth. With our outlook for slowing domestic consumer lending, investors should look for dividend increases more in the 4-6% range as opposed to 10% going forward...
For the life insurance companies, they still have some (minor) balance sheet issues. While regulatory capital is strong, leverage ratios are a focus from the credit rating agencies. We beleiv ethat dividend increases are coming but not immediately. We optimistically are looking for increases by Q4, but it will likely be a 2015 discussion. That said, depending on how earnings growth materializes, we could see the lifecos announce higher increases than the banks, based on stronger earnings growth.
Along with the lifecos, we are very excited about the prospects of the asset managers. They bring direct exposure to equities and still have some significant upside as the Canadian retail investors are still underweight equities. As that preference shifts, a lot of money on the sidelines or in bond funds should flow to equity mandates and the mutual fund companies will stand to benefit, on top of the asset appreciation they have received from investment performance.
For the more daring, we believe that there is significant upside still available in AGF. While it is still trying to right-size its operations, there is significant value in the cash flow it generates, which translates into what we believe is a sustainable dividend. The market is betting that redemptions will continue to put pressure on earnings and force a cut but redemptions are slowing and investment performance is allowing for asset growth. Admitedly, this is a bit of a contrarian view, but the business model for mutual fund companies are so strong once scale is achieved, it is very difficult to disrupt the cash flows.
Fortunately, it does not look like the Canadian financials will be facing the same disruption as a result of regulatory changes as some of their global peers. However, the process is far from over and wrinkles can always develop. Certain issues still need to be resolved (leverage ratio for the bank regulation junkies out there) but it looks like the banks are pretty much in the clear (i.e., will not need to raise additional common equity)...
For the lifecos, it is not as certain but the most recent statements from the Canadian regulator looks to point towards a result that will not be disruptive for them either. The Canadian financials retain strong regulatory capital ratios but, as the pendulum has swung dramatically in some regions, they are not the strongest on a global basis. We are fine with that and can make the argument that they do not need to be based on their long term historical performance. However, what remains to be seen is what the true impact on profitability will be from all of these changes. So far, so good, but we are not likely to see circa 2006 ROEs any time soon.
To be honest, I would have expected a greater drag on profitability than what we have seen. However, the banks recognized the challenging environment early on and took proactive measures to deal with their costs and controling expenses has been able to somewhat offset the impact on profitability. Domestic competition could have an impact on performance, but we do not believe that additional competition from global players in areas like capital markets will intensify because of capital shortages.
Excess capital will be used for growth, but the defninition has changed and they do not have as much as they would have with similar ratios 5 years ago. Returning capital to shareholders appears to be on the sidelines in the near term but rising dividends should not be ignored.
Grace - We do not believe that TD's medium term price is in jeopardy and remains solid over the longer term. It terms of a broader market correction, the Canadian banks have been a good hold as they have outperformed on the downside in most blips. while we see greater opportunity in the lifecos, it may take a few more months for their outperformance to develop.
The U.S. banking market is very competitive. However, both TD and BMO have scale and the ability to leverage costs accross vary broad platforms. TD is competing on service, something that they are very good at on this side of the border and acquired similar capabilities in the U.S. several acquisitions ago. BMO's strength in credit is serving it well, as it has managed to outperform its U.S. regional peers (and side-step a lot of pain in the mean time). While troubles may emerge, both appear to be able to leverage the strengths they developed in Canada and translate them into the U.S.
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KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Police say a Mountie has been shot and injured while trying to stop a vehicle near the community of Golden, in southeastern British Columbia.
RCMP spokesman Staff Sgt. Rob Vermeulen says in a statement that the officer was injured during a "rapidly evolving series of events" on Tuesday afternoon.
Rob Creasser, with the Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada, says the unidentified female officer was shot in the arm, but details on the situation remain scarce.
Vermeulen says multiple officers were trying to stop a vehicle believed to be associated with a theft when shots were fired. He says another vehicle was allegedly stolen at gunpoint shortly after.
The officer's injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.
A spokeswoman for the Provincial Health Services Authority says one patient was airlifted from a police incident near Golden to an undisclosed hospital in serious but stable condition.
"The police officer has been taken to hospital. The officer and family are being offered all possible support," Vermeulen says.
He says no one is in custody and a search for a suspect is currently underway.
The incident closed Highway 1 west of Golden for several hours Tuesday, but some traffic was allowed through late in the evening. (CHNL, The Canadian Press)


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Unanswered: Write a query to list ... (was "Help, trouble with database query!")
Hi guys, I am busy doing an database assignment for a hardware supplies company and i am having trouble with two queries. Could anyone help?
The queries are what i am trying to do -
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Write a query to list the customer name and the number of orders they have placed. Include any customers that have not placed orders. Sequence the list by the customer number.
Write a query to list parts (identity number and first 20 characters of the description) and the total quantity ordered for each part and total value relating to those quantities. Include any parts that have not been ordered. Sequence the list in alphabetical order of description.
If it helps the tables structure is included below!
Thanks in advance!
create table customer
Cust_No number primary key,
name varchar2(30) not null,
address1 varchar2(40),
address2 varchar2(40),
area varchar2(40),
postcode varchar2(8),
phone varchar2(14),
credit_limit number default 100
) pctfree 0
storage (
initial 0K
next 2k
pctincrease 0);
create table part
part_number varchar2(13) primary key,
description varchar2(40),
UOM varchar2(10) default 'EACH' not null,
PricePerUnit number
) pctfree 0
storage (
initial 0K
next 2k
pctincrease 0);
create table SalesOrder
Order_No number primary key,
cust_no number not null references customer,
date_placed date default sysdate not null,
date_completed date
) pctfree 0
storage (
initial 0K
next 2k
pctincrease 0);
create table SalesOrderLine
order_no number,
line_no number,
part_no varchar2(13) not null references part,
Qty_ordered number default 1 not null,
Qty_shipped number default 0 not null,
date_shipped date,
primary key(order_no,line_no)
) pctfree 0
storage (
initial 0K
next 2k
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we are just flat out not going to write your queries for you
show what you've been able to do so far in writing the queries
show your test data
show your error messages if any
oh, and by the way, you are in the wrong forum, mysql has no such datatype as varchar2
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