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A pioneering electronic service enables people to set up companies electronically, with information transferred instantly.
Keilalahdentie 2-4 FI-02150 Espoo Finland
Electronic services can be used to set up limited liability companies online, with all legal documentation generated in one session. Business IDs are granted immediately and it is no longer necessary to deliver documentation by post. They also enable customers to provide addresses and contact details electronically.
'We fetch data from the basic system and compare it with the information that the customer has submitted online. This enables us to guarantee a high level of automation, as the data is compared with the information in the trade register as soon as it is submitted,' says Esa Kosonen, Senior Officer, Finnish Patent and Registration Office.
As forms are filled in they pass inspection points, which enable the system to ensure that applications are correctly filled in first time. According to Kosonen, when company establishment forms were submitted on paper there were a lot of errors. These have now been eliminated.
Agile methods ensure usability
Citizens have welcomed the ability to set up companies electronically. Substantial effort was made to ensure good usability and the service was tested by several different user groups at different stages in its development.
'The service has been well received. In fact, the feedback from end users has surprised us - there have been very few requests for further development. We have received very few queries via our electronic service channel or over the phone,' says Kosonen.
Tietokarhu, our joint venture with the Finnish state, used agile working methods to implement the customer-facing service.
'This was a good way to work. We have been involved since the testing phase and we have been able to react to any changes that were required as soon as they became apparent. This working methodology also ensures that the finished system really is fit for purpose. We had no trouble going through the acceptance test,' says Paula Väliverronen, Senior Officer, Finnish Tax Administration.
Väliverronen advises others who are developing electronic services to consider what is implemented in each phase:
'It may not be necessary to include everything in the online service. It is worth investigating which data your own basic systems can verify and what can be verified at a later stage. It is important to think about the system as a whole and the benefits for customers.'
Higher-quality information and more automation
The aim of the electronic service was not just to provide citizens with better service, but also to reduce the volume of manual work required at the Finnish Patent and Registration Office and the Finnish Tax Administration. According to Kosonen, the Patent and Registration Office will only be able to provide a reliable estimate of the efficiency improvements when the basic system, which is currently undergoing redevelopment, is brought into production.
'Of course, we have calculated break-even points, but it is difficult to forecast the exact moment these will be reached as the environment is constantly changing. As manual processing is reduced, we will be able to improve our operations in other ways, such as adding more real-time monitoring by verifying data accuracy,' says Kosonen.
It will also take some time before the Finnish Tax Administration can measure the large-scale benefits of automation - first it must implement integrations to off-the-shelf software, which is currently at the project stage. However, the data received via electronic services is already of higher quality and it has been possible to directly automate some phases.
'When we receive different data about new companies, we can direct it to our other systems. We use this basic information for purposes such as analysis, determining pre-payments and matters related to the reporting periods for self-reported taxes,' Väliverronen says.
Steps towards an entirely electronic service
More and more limited liability companies are being set up electronically. Electronic applications are cheaper, providing a clear incentive to use them.
'Now the groundwork is complete and limited liability companies can be set up electronically, things will become easier for us when changes are implemented in the autumn. We will be able to use the work we have already done and apply it to private sole traders,' says Kosonen.
There is significant potential for efficiency gains when change notifications become electronic.
'There are Tax Offices all over Finland. As customers increasingly access our services electronically and the services are the same regardless of where they are accessed from and we are becoming a genuinely national organisation,' says Väliverronen.
The Finnish Patent and Registration Office and the Finnish Tax Administration both aim to make as many of their services as possible available electronically. Electronic solutions will be implemented for all of the most common company types.
'People should be able to carry out business electronically, whatever they are doing. Digital services are in demand and citizens are willing to use them. Although we may not yet be able to handle certain matters digitally, we should provide our customers with the opportunity to submit information electronically.
'The electronic service offered by the business information system is an example of a genuine partnership between official agencies for the benefit of customers. As digital services are developed, it is right that the authorities involve their customers in the process.' says Kosonen.
The challenge
Setting up a limited liability company required a considerable amount of paperwork to be completed by the applicant, the Finnish Patent and Registration Office and the Finnish Tax Administration. The information supplied on paper often contained errors and omissions, resulting in resources being consumed in verifying and correcting information.
The solution
Digital services offered by the business information system make life easier for citizens and meet the demand for online services. It is possible to set up a limited liability company in a single session using any computer and receive a business ID immediately. The system sends data directly to the Finnish Patent and Registration Office and the Finnish Tax Administration.
The decrease in the volume of manual work, such as scanning and data inputting, enables personnel to spend their time advising customers, improving monitoring and performing other value-added tasks. Plus the number of errors on applications decreases when they are submitted electronically.
The Finnish Patent and Registration Office
The Finnish Patent and Registration Office registers companies, foundations and associations. It also researches and grants patents, utility models, trademarks and design protection. The Finnish Patent and Registration Office offers a wide range of services including advice, information and training. It belongs to the administrative sector of the Ministry for Employment and the Economy and it negotiates its operational objectives with the Ministry annually.
The Finnish Tax Administration
The Finnish Tax Administration operates under the Ministry of Finance. It is tasked with collecting taxation in the correct amounts and at the correct time to finance the operation of society. The Finnish Tax Administration collects approximately two thirds of all taxes and tax-like payments. In addition to the Finnish Tax Administration, taxes are collected by Finnish Customs (excise duty and import duty) and the Finnish Transport Safety Agency (taxes related to vehicles).
The business information system has been in use since 2001. It handles 19 million searches annually.
Tietokarhu Ltd
Tietokarhu is a joint venture between us and the Finnish state. It develops and maintains information systems for taxation in partnership with the Finnish Tax Administration. Tietokarhu employs approximately 280 IT professionals.


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Pre-McNair Academy
The Pre-McNair Academy provides academic counseling and research development mentoring to early career undergraduate students at Wayne State University. Participants in the Academy recieve tailored mentoring over the course of an academic year to apply and enter the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program. Participants learn about the fundamentals of pursuing a doctoral degree, network with prospective faculty mentors, and become part of a community of emerging scholars.
Eligibility requirements
- U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident of the United States of America
- Freshman - sophomore status
- Considered low-income and a first generation college student and/or a member of an underrepresented group in higher education, per federal regulations. To view regulatory eligibility policies click here.
- Interested in earning a Ph.D. in a field of study
- There is no GPA requirement for application into the Academy
Upcoming events
101: Getting into graduate school workshop and McNair application overview
Tuesday September 24, 2019 11am-12:30pm, snacks provided!
Student Center Room 358
This workshop provides an overview of the fundamentals required to sucecssfully apply to graduate school programs. Students receive planning support and gain inisght into the McNair Scholars Program application process which provides intensive coaching to apply to graduate school.
Past Events
We cordially invite you to the final Pre - McNair Academy workshop of the semester:
Cultivating Faculty Relationships: A Hands-On Workshop
WHEN Wednesday November 28, 2018 1:00pm - 2:30pm
WHERE Student Center Building Rm. 289
Bianca Suarez, PhD firstname.lastname@example.com
Dwight McDonald email@example.com
The goal of this workshop is to prepare students to engage with faculty on campus. We know that students can sometimes experience anxiety when reaching out to faculty. Thus, we want to help demystify this process and support students in gaining an understanding of why research mentoring relationships matter for career planning. We look forward to seeing you and your students there!
With faculty remarks provided by: Dr. Donyale Padgett, Associate Professor, Department of Communications
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All participants must commit to active participation in the following components:
- Meet twice per semester with the McNair Ambassador to recieve tailored academic counseling
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- Pre-McNair Academy orientation: What is graduate school? During orientation students learn what graduate study entails. Students hear from current graduate students and McNair Scholars about their experiences and recieve instruction on how to develop a research-oriented undergraduate plan of study.
- Getting into graduate school 101: This workshop provides an overview of the fundamentals required to successfully apply to doctoral programs. Students recieve academic planning support and gain insight into the McNair Scholars Program application process.
- Cultivating faculty mentor relationships 101: This workshop provides an overview of the importance of finding and cultivating a faculty mentor relationship. Students learn tips from current WSU faculty on how to approach faculty and recieve strategic insight on how to find faculty mentors with aligned research interests.
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VPNs: should you use them?
We've been getting questions about VPNs that are more advanced than before. It isn't so much what a VPN is, as it is whether people should use them.
What should a US federal data privacy law ideally include?
What do small, privacy-protective companies think about a federal data privacy law for the US? It turns out, they're all for it. Here are some of their ideas for US data privacy legislation.
Maine governor signs ISP privacy bill
Less than one week after Maine Governor Janet Mills received one of the nation's most privacy-protective state bills on her desk, she signed it into law. The move makes Maine the latest US state to implement its own online privacy protections.
Maine inches closer to shutting down ISP pay-for-privacy schemes
Unlike a data privacy proposal in the US and a new data privacy law in California, the Maine data privacy bill aimed at Internet Service Providers (ISPs) explicitly shuts down any pay-for-privacy schemes.


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Cheshire Wellness is an award-winning family-run business with an impeccable track record in the design and build of cutting-edge spas, swimming pools and heat treatment rooms for commercial and private clients around the world.
Like us, the company's experienced team enjoying tackling challenges, and have worked across a huge range of projects, including residential swimming pools, hydro spas, Hamman tables, saunas and snow rooms.
Cheshire Wellness were commissioned to create a luxury sauna and spa suite within this private residence. The design vision included mood-enhancing lighting, and the company specified UFO fiber optic products, which are perfect for wet and humid areas such as spas and saunas, as they don't emit scalding heat. In addition, the elements containing electricity can be kept a safe distance, which makes them ideal for sauna use.
UFO star effect lighting was chosen for the spa ceiling area, with our mixed diameter fiber (manufactured in-house) creating a 3D effect. The fiber strands are installed in the ceiling, then each individual tail is fitted with a star point - a small conical end fitting which softens the light, and is ideal for spa and relaxation spaces. The twinkling effect is created by the metal halide illuminator used to power the fiber optics.
Meanwhile, the wooden benches in the sauna are fitted with a stainless steel channel on the underside, housing 106 tails of fiber. This casts beautiful scallop-shaped shafts of color-changing light onto the floor, enhancing the natural timbers in the sauna. Here, too, a metal halide illuminator has also been used to power the lighting. This is housed over six feet away, in an easily accessed location to allow straightforward maintenance.
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Illuminators: Star Ceiling - 1 x Compact DMX 150W metal halide. Steam Room - 1 x Compact DMX 150W metal halide.
Harnesses: Star Ceiling - 306 tails of sheathed PMMA mixed diameter fiber. Steam Room - 106 tails of 2mm sheathed end lit glass fiber
End Fittings: Star Ceiling - 306 UFO star points. Steam Room - 1 x resined stainless steel channel
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Lawrence Rotruck, who has served as Smithfield High's athletic director for more than two years, resigned recently to accept a teaching position at Bethel.
Rotruck said that one of his biggest highlights in 13 years as a teacher, coach and administrator in Isle of Wight County was coaching his son, Devin Rotruck, on the Packers' varsity soccer team. Rotruck added that hard-fought games with perennial state power Jamestown — including a breakthrough 2-1 victory one season — are also memorable.
He is proudest as athletic director of the consecutive Virginia High School League Claudia Dodson Sportsmanship Awards the program has won.
"After re-evaluating my position at the school, I decided to look for other opportunities," Rotruck said. "I took the opportunity to go back to the classroom and I'm excited about the challenge."


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This silver-plated bracelet features the Serenity Prayer: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference " engraved around the bangle. A dangling, silver cross charm completes the design and adds another layer of thoughtful symbolism.
- Celebrate your faith with this attractive accessory and constant reminder
- Makes a lovely gift
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THE "FEEL BAD" MOVIE OF THE YEAR! Grim depressing tale of modern day hillbillies in Missouri who have been cooking meth for years and its aftermath. It's has a gritty documentary-like feel with almost no background music. Jennifer (Hunger Games)
Lawrence lives with her catatonic mother and takes care of her 2 younger siblings. Her father was a meth cooker who had been arrested and skipped bond, so the family house is about to be repossessed unless she can prove that her father is dead. She walks around to all her paranoid, hostile, deadbeat relatives (they found some REALLY ugly actresses) who refuse to talk. Finally one of them forces her to take a ride and tells her that her father blew up in a lab explosion, but she checks it out and finds weeds have been growing through the wreckage for about a year. She eventually finds the scary grandpa Thump (who looks like an evil Kenny Rodgers). They take her to garage and beat her up, but eventually she is led to her father's corpse in a dark swamp and chainsaw's his hands off "because if you just turn in one hand they'll figure he cut off his hand to get out of going to jail--they know that trick" and gives them to the sheriff in a plastic grocery bag that says "Have a Nice Day." There are scenes at the high school where all the kids learn is how to take care of a baby and ROTC training. Army recruiters are everywhere. There hasn't been this kind of an unflinching look at the no-future third world in our own backyard since Gummo. The whole thing kind of reminded me a bit of a Harry Crews novel only darker. It's probably one of the scariest films I've seen in many a moon. It was nominated for 4 Academy Awards. I'll never forget the Oscar party that year at the local art theater where the executive director went dressed like a meth head in honor of this movie. Absolutely compelling.


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From 2015 to 2020 there will be 57,900 average annual openings for graduates with bachelor's or higher degrees in food, agriculture, renewable natural resources, or the environment, says a report by Purdue University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But not enough graduates are expected to be experts in those fields, says the report.
Of those jobs, 46 percent will be in management and business, 27 percent in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), 15 percent in sustainable food and biomaterials production and 12 percent in education, communication, and governmental services.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects "a 10.8 percent increase in the U.S. labor force between 2012 and 2022 due to job growth and openings from retirement or other replacements," says the report. Employment opportunities in food, agriculture, renewable natural resources, and environment occupations are expected to grow more than 5 percent between 2015 and 2020 for college graduates with bachelor's or higher degrees.
"Job opportunities for food, agriculture, renewable natural resources, and environment graduates in STEM areas are expected to grow. Expect the strongest job market for plant scientists, food scientists, sustainable biomaterials specialists, water resources scientists and engineers, precision agriculture specialists, and farm-animal veterinarians."
The report says colleges and universities aren't expected to keep up with the job market. "An average of 35,400 new U.S. graduates with expertise in food, agriculture, renewable natural resources, or the environment are expected to fill 61 percent of the expected 57,900 average annual openings."
That leaves the remaining 39 percent to be filled by graduates with experience in fields such as biology, business administration, engineering, education, communication and consumer sciences.
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Athens (AFP) - The Greek bailout drama has given rise to a series of buzz words that so rile Athens they have become no-go areas for those attempting to broker a deal.
Here is a list of the offending words:
The nickname for Greece's creditors, the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank -- all of whom keep tabs on Athens to ensure they're getting enough reforms for their buck.
For many Greeks, the troika is made up of faceless bureaucrats, despised "men in black" with no democratic legitimacy, who lurk around the ministry of finance or gleefully order Athens around by email -- the utmost insult.
This is the deal Greece signed with its creditors in 2010 and again in 2012, which comes to an end on February 28 unless Athens asks to extend it. In exchange for billions of euros in aid, Greece was obliged to implement a slew of unpopular reforms -- termed "barbaric" by the new Greek government -- which included public sector lay-offs, pushing back the retirement age and raising taxes.
The byword on the streets of Greece for a ruthless and interfering austerity policy, which claims to be a remedy for the eurozone debt crisis but is squeezing ordinary Greeks dry. Angela Merkel and her finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble are frequently caricatured -- sometimes in Nazi uniform -- in newspaper cartoons depicting Greece as a German colony.
It can also be a catchword for money due, after Athens renewed claims that Berlin owes it around 162 billion euros ($183 billion) -- or around half the country's public debt -- in reparations and an unreturned war loan.
"Extension" and "Bridge"
The EU says Greece must prolong its bailout or risk defaulting on its debts and crashing out of the eurozone. The Greek government insists it wants a "bridge programme" instead, which would tie it over while it negotiates a new deal.
Cartoons in Greece's dailies have had a field day with this, with Greece's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis depicted enthusiastically building bridges, only to find in one case that his unfinished wooden creation was about to be felled by a saw-wielding Merkel.
"Grexit" and "Dirty Exit"
A Greek default would likely mean its exit from the eurozone, but the knock-on effect on its European neighbours feared in 2011 and 2012 may be avoided.
After the diplomatic efforts scrambled across the EU to keep Athens in the zone, however, a failure to clinch a deal before the bailout expires at the end of the month would lead to a "dirty exit" -- a term flung about by analysts but strictly avoided by politicians.
Ruling radical left party Syriza wants Greece's creditors to write off part of the money it owes. Faced with EU resistance, the government appears open to settling for an extended deadline for debt repayment and lower interest rates -- which Varoufakis has termed essentially a haircut with another name.
"Structural reforms"
This is the watchword of the central banks, from Mario Draghi of the ECB to Jens Weidmann of the Bundesbank, who never miss an occasion to remind the Greek government, and other European countries, that it's the key to their future growth.
Their biggest fear? That concessions to Greece would weaken the resolve of others such as Italy and Portugal to implement reforms.
This is the Emergency Liquidity Assistance granted by the Bank of Greece under the European Central Bank's approval, and is the life-jacket keeping the country's banks afloat since the ECB cut off a key funding avenue last week.
Critics worry the ELA is only serving to keep the Greek banks alive artificially and have called for strict criteria to govern access.


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We've been too long away from the Masters Of The Universe newspaper comic strips. Thus far the stories have been enjoyable, and tonight's offering is no different. And this time we get a bit of Eternian lore. Not much, but just a little bit. There are also a few things here that will lead into other stories, so I won't be mentioning them here.
This time Skeletor has a new plan to lead He-Man to his doom. It's a simple plan really. Just get one of the Heroic Warriors to attack him so He-Man has to come to his rescue. And as dumb as this plan sounds it makes sense in context, although it requires a certain pet peeve of mine in magic stories. Luckily the rest of the tale makes up for it.
Attack On Snake Mountain
WRITER: Chris Weber; ART/ORIGINAL LETTERER: Gerald Forton; COLORIST: Connie Schurr; EDITOR: Karen Wilson
He-Man is doing some repair work in the caverns under Castle Grayskull when he finds another door guarded by a falcon statue (and this time it stays a falcon–no hawk at first like in "Vengeance Of The Viper King") This is part of our spoiler for this storyline so I'll bypass it for now. Besides, it's really just a plot device for our main tale. Knowing that if someone tries to destroy Snake Mountain He-Man will have to stop them (I'll get into that in a moment), Skeletor plots to trick Clamp Champ into coming to do just that to lay a trap for He-Man. To get there quickly He-Man will have to face the challenge of corrupting power in order to save the day and himself. Otherwise, Skeletor is a dead man!
Let's just get the problems out of the way because I need to talk about the first big problem now, so why not group them together? Why can't He-Man allow Snake Mountain to be destroyed? Because of what we Earthlings (and for once the Earth reference is actually credited to Earth) call "yin and yang", the Chinese concept of balance between good and evil which must always be maintained lest chaos ensue. Ignoring my own spiritual beliefs or moral thoughts on the subject of good versus evil, I'm not even sure the concept is being used correctly. Of course I'm no expert on the subject but I get the impression that writers of mystical-based stories, be it Masters Of The Universe like here or Jackie Chan Adventures, a show heavily influenced by Chinese (and in a later season Japanese to freshen things up) mysticism, use this to explain why the heroes can never truly defeat the villains (because "we need to keep the stories going" or "we need to keep selling the villain toys" is a bit too meta), lest a "worse evil" arise. Like I said I'm not the guy to ask, but this is a cliché I'm tired of seeing.
The other problem is Teela. Look, I have nothing against Teela being attracted to He-Man. We saw some hints in the Filmation series (although she once said her ideal man had, if memory serves, He-Man's courage and Adam's heart or something like that), although that would be the only continuity I can think of and this one is being created by former Filmation contributors. However, watching her act like a lovesick teenager is just odd. You can have Teela have feelings for He-Man without the levels we've seen in the past two stories. In this story it's worse and kind of pulls away from her strength to see her constantly searching the crowd at a dedications for signs of him despite He-Man rarely coming to such things (since he needs to be there as Prince Adam more) while brushing off even mild conversation with her friend Adam. It's even tied to how she ends up joining the mission to Castle Grayskull.
(Still, it's not as bad as DC's recent depiction where she tells Adam/He-Man to his face that they were never friends and takes every chance she can to tell Mekaneck how lame his power is. The lovesickness may weaken her a bit but at least she's still likable and able to handle herself without me rooting for her opponent just to knock that chip off of her shoulder.)
He-Man gets a superpowered form (no spoilers) but it's just a crown and cape, while Skeletor doesn't even get that. The story also opens with He-Man thinking about his "new armor", but if he's wearing it now it's just his usual harness and bracelets plus his fuzzy shorts and boots. What was the point? But enough complaints. Let's talk about the good parts.
And there are good parts. There are set-ups for potential stories. Miranda gets a promotion to ambassador. Gwildor is working on a new project blending magic and science (big deal–this is Eternia; they already are practically the same thing at times) including creating a "magic detector". And Randor has created a spaceship fleet to trade with other worlds. All good prospects for upcoming stories. The action is good and the character moments are good (Teela's lovesick teenager aside) as we see more of Clamp Champ's ego and Skeletor's spy messing with one of the councilors. Even Evil-Lyn gets some personality when she's willing to share Skeletor's power as Skeletor oddly charms her while actually giving Beast Man a complement even while putting on a probationary collar on him that zaps him every time he thinks something bad about Skeletor. Skeletor being charming? Who are you and what have you done with the REAL Skeletor?
The theme of the story is He-Man's fight with a corrupting influence although we don't see that until the fight with Skeletor near the end. It's not the first time a He-Man story has done this, nor will it be the last. Longtime readers may remember the MV Creations story I reviewed that also dealt with that, while Zodac tested He-Man in one episode with the Starseed in the original cartoon. It's fractionally the same plot but with a different enough take and I'm curious if the crown and cape will ever be used again. Personally I'd rather see him use some of the armors and weapons from the toyline, but I don't think this comic does that. At least there's the minicomics.
So overall it was a good story, maybe a little weaker than the others thanks to the plot device and Teela's mooning over He-Man but still good. Next time our heroes must face a new threat in "Revolution In Rondale".


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In order to determine whether or not they are truly good for you.
The only way that I've liked the online trackers is when someone is doing it with me on dieting 3 days a week the trip. If you keep a food diary before then just put all of your misconceived ideas to one side and approach this with an open mind. A good diabetic diet should be a handful and vegetables and less starches, such as standing abdominal exercises and lower abdominal exercises.
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Scottie Bordelon is a reporter for WholeHogSports.com. A graduate of the University of Arkansas, Bordelon previously covered high school sports for the Times Record in Fort Smith and the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Springdale. He is a member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and Football Writers Association of America and voter for the Biletnikoff Award.
Fassi named SEC Female Athlete of the Year
Arkansas golfer Maria Fassi celebrates on the 18th green during the NCAA Women's Golf Championships on Monday, May 20, 2019, at Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville. Fassi shot a 5-under 68 in the final round of stroke play to earn the individual national title - the Razorbacks' first since Stacy Lewis in 2007.
FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas women's golfer Maria Fassi was named SEC Female Athlete of the Year by the league's athletic directors on Wednesday.
Fassi is the second female athlete from Arkansas to win the SEC's highest honor, joining Amy Yoder Begley (2001).
Florida track and field athlete Grant Holloway earned the award on the men's side.
"So humbled and (honored) to receive this recognition," Fassi posted to her verified Twitter account shorty after the announcement. "I could've not done any of it without the support from my teammates, coaches and staff (at Arkansas). Thanks everyone for making this possible."
Fassi closed her college career in style, winning both SEC and NCAA individual national titles. She also became the first golfer to win back-to-back ANNIKA Awards, presented annually to the top female United States collegiate golfer.
With her win at the NCAA Championships in late May, Fassi became Arkansas' second national champion, joining Stacy Lewis, who won her title in 2007.
On April 6, Fassi finished runner-up at the inaugural Augusta National Women's Amateur and, in early May, less than one month after earning medalist honors at the SEC Championships, she won her second consecutive SEC player of year award.
Fassi's 71.12 scoring average last season was good for the second-best single-season average in school history, topped only by her average from the 2017-18 season (70.5).
"For Maria Fassi to win this award speaks volumes to what she did this season on and off the golf course," Arkansas coach Shauna Taylor said in a release. "She was determined to leave her forever mark on our team and university and this is another award that recognizes her outstanding play and engraves her name in our history books forever.
"I'm so grateful for the impact Maria had on my life, but more importantly for the contributions she made to help our team, our university, and our community."
Three Arkansas men - baseball player Andrew Benintendi (2015), runner Alistair Cragg (2003 and 2004) and basketball player Corliss Williamson (1994) - have previously won the award.
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"I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another." John 13:34
Welcome back B.T.C.S families and students!
As we return for a new and promising 2019-2020 school year, art created in the art room will share exciting and dynamic work from our students. We will experiment with various art mediums, genres, artist studies, culture, and time periods to influence our creativity, while building our students knowledge and understanding of Elements and Principles of Art.
Our schools main lobby to the right of the office shares a year round art exhibit of framed art work created by our students. This art work is rotated quarterly and never disappoints! Additional class art is displayed in the main hallway by the art room so please be sure to visit and enjoy our students' work there as well!
Our technology lab has a mural being created by some of our talented 8th grade students. It will be completed in the next few weeks of school. We are very proud and excited for the completion of this school mural and will share more news later.
I look forward to working with your child/children this year !
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PEmicro has added support for WIZnet's W7500x devices to the Cyclone in-system programmer, Multilink debug probes, and PROG for ARM Cortex devices programming software. WIZnet's W7500x devices offer a hardwired TCP/IP core and are ideal for internet-connected (IoT) applications.
Current users of the Cyclone and Multilink/PROG can access PEmicro flash programming algorithms, including those for WIZnet's W7500x devices, on PEmicro's flash algorithm support page.
PEmicro is changing its licensing for PROG software. Effective Monday, April 27, 2020 the license that activates PROG will reside on a Multilink debug probe rather than in the software itself. The user who activates the software will choose a Multilink on which to permanently install the license. This allows that Multilink to work with PROG on any machine where a supported version of the software is installed.
Note that the PROG software itself is unchanged, it is only the licensing which has been updated.
Some ARM devices have areas of flash memory dedicated to programming user configuration data. Writes to such areas can be sensitive or permanent for some devices, so it is important that the developer is able to write these options in an intuitive way in order to minimizes human error. PEmicro's PROGACMP v7.78 and Cyclone software installer v10.41 introduce a set of new "user options" commands:
These commands allow the developer to individually program user options through the use of an IDE.
Along with clock multiplier and dividers, clock trimming offers a way for users to control the frequency of internal clocks in their target processors. Unlike multipliers and dividers, digital clock trimming allows changes to the internal clock through specific registers. Trim resolution can be any number of bits and different manufacturers provide different levels of trimming. Clocks are typically trimmed to a specific value from the factory and are within a specific tolerance.
The Boot Mode Index (BMI) is a 2-Byte value stored in Flash that holds information about the start-up mode and debug configuration of an Infineon XMC1000 device. From the factory, XMC1000 series devices are configured with ASC_BSL (ASC Bootstrap Load) mode by default. In ASC_BSL mode, ARM Serial Wire Debug (SWD) capabilities are disabled. During debug entry, PEmicro tools will automatically change the Boot Mode Index (BMI) to "User mode with debug enabled (UMD) SWD", allowing the user to communicate with the Infineon XMC 1000 series through SWD.
As of January 2020, PEmicro now offers a new method of programming user configuration data through the new Program User Options command. Click here for more details about this command.
PEmicro supports a wide selection of STMicroelectronics' STM32 device families. Many STM32 devices include a set of user configurable option bytes that can control features such as HW/SW watchdog, read protection, and write protection. These options give users a convenient way of changing the settings of their device. Configuring option bytes of a STM32Fx or STM32Lx device is made easy with our PROG software and Cyclone Image Creation Utility software.
Some Microchip/Atmel's SAM-Series devices allow rows of non-volatile flash memory (NVM) to be configured as EEPROM, so that users can treat NVM pages as EEPROM with Atmel's software, and let Atmel's back-end take care of keeping peripheral data safe.
PEmicro's Cyclone in-system programmers and PROGACMP flash programming software each allow users to set up NVM main flash space as emulated EEPROM by programming the EEPROM FUSE bits in the device's User Row. Our latest Microchip/Atmel algorithms support single-byte writes to the User Row, to preserve adjacent User Row settings.
PEmicro considers the privacy of its customers' intellectual property to be of utmost importance. Silicon Labs' 32-bit devices feature an Authentication Access Port (AAP) as part of their security features, and for some of these devices, a debugger may have a limited time to access this port when communicating with an unsecured device. With that in mind, recent PROG software (v6.94) and Cyclone firmware (v10.04) releases now provide support to secure, unsecure, and mass-erase Silicon Labs devices with these debug time-sensitivities, which can help users keep their valuable data safe.
PEmicro has expanded its ARM® device support of Cypress' current PSoC 4, PSoC 5, and PSoC 6 devices.
PEmicro's popular Multilink debug probes and Cyclone ISP programmers now include support for the following Cypress device families: 4000, 4000S, 4100, 4100S, 4100PS, 4100S Plus, 4100M, 4100BLE, 4200, 4200M, 4200L, 4XX8_BLE, 5200, 5400, 5600, and 5800, as well as Cypress' new PSoC 6xx6 and 6xx7 series microcontrollers.
The safety of users' intellectual property is a top priority for PEmicro. Utilizing the "Chip Protect" function of processors prevents data from being read or written from an external source, which helps keep your data secure. PEmicro is constantly expanding its compatibility with different manufacturers' device security methods. Each manufacturer may employ multiple methods for securing or unsecuring a processor, so the goal is to make this process as simple and easy as possible for the user.
Cypress' PSoC5 line of microcontrollers are a great option for high performance at a low cost. The PSoC 5 provides an Error Correcting Code (ECC) feature to help detect errors in operations that manipulate the flash memory. The ECC peripheral can be enabled or disabled by writing to the Nonvolatile Latch (NVL). The advantage of disabling ECC is that each row of flash gains 32 bytes for data storage, extending the row from 256 to 288 bytes.
PEmicro is constantly expanding its support for device security methods. The Cypress' PSoC 4 Cortex-M0 processor-based microcontrollers have a few device features to prevent external flash access. Enabling device security features on products prevents third party sources from accessing or manipulating program code and data. This post aims to detail the secure and unsecure process for Cypress PSoC 4 devices.
In addition to supporting the flash that resides in many different microcontrollers, PEmicro supports flash connected to an MCU via the SPI, I2C, and Address/Data bus interfaces. Depending on how the flash device is connected to the MCU, the programming algorithm may need to be set up to properly configure the external address, data, and bus control pins of the MCU. If you are not sure if you selected the right algorithm for your flash memory, please also read this blog post on selecting a flash algorithm.
PEmicro's PROG programming software will sometimes prompt the user to enter a "Base Address". In this article, we discuss what the base address is and why it exists. On most 8-bit and 16-bit processors, the internal flash/eeprom is located at fixed address locations. If this is the case, the associated programming algorithm will NOT prompt the user for a base address, since the address is fixed and already known.On 32-bit processors and any systems using external flash, the address of the flash may be configured to reside anywhere within the processor's address space. The developer will decide on an appropriate memory map early in the design process.For these situations where the flash can be relocated, the PROG software will always move the flash so that it begins at address 0. However, the developer may not have an object file that matches this new memory mapping. To account for this, the "Base Address" (specified by the user) is subtracted from all addresses in the object file prior to programming. Below is an example of how the developer's memory map may differ from the one in PROG. Although the external flash is located at different addresses, it refers to the same physical memory. Here, the user would specify a base address of FFC00000.
The base address should always be the starting address of flash in the developer's memory map, and not the "first" address where data exists (although in most cases they are the same!)
When using PEmicro's PROG family of programming software, it's necessary to specify the correct programming algorithm to match your hardware setup. Because PEmicro
provides thousands of different programming algorithms this can seem like a duanting task. In this article we discuss how to quickly determine the programming algorithm that correctly matches a specific hardware setup.1) Obtain the latest Programming AlgorithmsPEmicro's Programming Algorithms are being constantly updated to support new devices. For convenience, all of our algorithms are located here. These algorithms are grouped according to the processor family being used.2) Internal, External Flash/EEPROM, or External SPI Flash?Internal Flash/EEPROM is memory that resides inside the processor itself. Although most modern processors contain at least some internal Flash/EEPROM, there are some specific devices (Freescale MCF5474) that do not contain any nonvolatile storage. External Flash is a separate integrated circuit component that is externally connected to the chip select pins of the processor. External SPI Flash is also a separate component that is externally connected to the SPI pins of the processor. In general, external Flash and SPI Flash is used for higher end 32-bit applications that require increased memory capacity.3a) Internal Flash/EEPROM Algorithm Selection
Once you have identified the processor that you are working with, it is generally straightforward to identify the correct programming algorithm. All of PEmicro's internal Flash/EEPROM algorithms contain the processor part number in the filename. In certain cases, there are separate algorithms for programming the Flash and the EEPROM. This information is also present in the algorithm filename itself. All the algorithms for the processors in the same architecture end in the same file extension. Some processors have proprietary part numbers but have the same memory map as a published part number. In these cases, the algorithm for the published part number can be used.Examples:9S08GB60.S8P - Freescale MC9S08GB60 internal Flash
9S08SG4_PRESERVE.S8P - Freescale MC9S08SG4 internal Flash, preserve the factory trim values at 0xFFAE-0xFFAF
Freescale_912D60A_All_Flash_and_EEPROM.12P - MC912D60A internal Flash and EEPROM
Freescale_MC9S12DP256_1x16x128k_256k_Linear_16k_page.12P - MC9S12DP256 internal FlashFreescale_MC9S12DP256_1x16x2k_4k_EEPROM.12P - MC9S12DP256 internal EEPROM
Freescale_MC9S12A256_1x16x128k_256k_Linear_16k_page_PLL.12P - MC9S12DP256 internal Flash, enable PLL to increase bus frequency on the MCU for faster programming speeds
Freescale_MPC5604B_1x32x128k.PCP - MPC5604B internal Flash
Freescale_MC56F84543_1x16x32k_pflash.dsp - DSC 56F84543 internal p-flash
HD64F2110B.H8P - Renesas HD64F2110B Internal Flash
PEmicro's external Flash algorithms use the following naming convention:
Manufacturer_PartNumber_NumDevices x DataBusWidth x NumRows.FileExtensionManufacturer = Manufacturer of the external Flash devicePartNumber = Manufacturer Part NumberNumDevices = Number of these external Flash devices used in parallel. Devices are typically used in parallel to support a wider data bus. As an example, imagine that an external Flash device only supports a 16-bit data bus. By using two of these devices in parallel, a 32-bit data bus can be supported.DataBusWidth = The data bus width of EACH external Flash device. Certain devices support multiple data bus widths.NumRows = The number of rows in each Flash device. Each row contains DataBusWidth bits. NumRows multiplied by DataBusWidth results in the total size of the Flash memory.FileExtension = The file extension is unique for each processor family.Examples:ST_29W128FH_1x8x16meg.CFP - A single STMicroelectronics 29W128FH device, configured for 8-bit data bus. Total size = 8 bits (1 byte) x 16Meg = 16 MBST_29W128FH_1x16x8meg.CFP - A single STMicroelectronics 29W128FH device, configured for 16-bit data bus. Total size = 16 bits (2 bytes) x 8Meg = 16 MBST_29W128FH_2x8x16meg.CFP - Two STMicroelectronics 29W128FH devices, each configured for 8-bit data bus. The result is a 16-bit wide data bus. Total size = 2 x 8 bits (1 byte) x 16Meg = 32 MB
3c) External SPI Flash Section
Currently we only support External SPI Flash for ARM and some PowerPC Qorrivva (56XX/57XX) devices. PEmicro's external SPI Flash algorithms use the following naming convention:
Manufacturer_PartNumber_DataBusWidth x NumRows_sw_spi.FileExtension
Manufacturer = Manufacturer of the SPI Flash devicePartNumber = Manufacturer Part NumberDataBusWidth = The data bus width of the SPI Flash device.NumRows = The number of rows in each Flash device. Each row contains DataBusWidth bits. NumRows multiplied by DataBusWidth results in the total size of the Flash memory.FileExtension = The file extension that identifies if the SPI flash algorithm is for ARM or PowerPC.Examples:
Winbond_W25Q128B_8x16Meg_sw_spi_nxp.arp - A single Winbond W25Q128B device connected to SPI bus on a NXP ARM processor. Total size = 8 buts (1 byte) x 16Meg = 16 MB
4) Device not supported?This page can be used to request a specific Flash Programming algorithm if you do not find what you are looking for. Use this form if your device is not supported or if the existing algorithms do not match your setup correctly (e.g., if you are not using the default chip select). This service is provided by PEmicro free of charge.


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"Most lawyers take ethics, speaking up and doing the right thing very seriously…and you won't make many friends if you suggest otherwise" was the response I received from one GC when I mentioned I was writing a piece suggesting that they should do more.
So, let me be clear from the start: I'm not saying they don't; I am saying that many lawyers appear, for good reasons, to care much more about, and have more energy for, risk management than ethics management. The key word here is "more".
At least that's my impression after working with in-house teams over many years. I'm also aware that most organisations have Compliance functions and some even have Integrity or Ethics functions and work on ethics tends to sit there. I know also that the subject of ethics is entwined with company values and culture.
But my point is that there is a very good reason why in-house counsel spend more time on risk management and that is because it's measured, to some extent at least. And people tend to deliver only what's measured.
One definition of ethics is "…a set of moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity." One can see why, therefore, that broad work on ethics isn't easily measured, so broad work on ethics is, understandably, not a priority.
Moreover, in-house teams are under enough pressure doing "more for less" without inviting yet more work. The over-worked GC can also rightly point out that ethics are the responsibility of everyone in "the business", not just lawyers. I wholly agree with this point and therefore feel that no function should have ethics with a capital E in its title.
Yet we know that poor conduct creates legal risk. Conduct is defined as observed behaviour over time. Poor conduct is poor or unethical behaviour observed over time. So why are ethics management not, typically, front and centre as a part of Legal's strategy, to the extent that risk management is?
The answer is that there is neither a financial nor an emotional incentive for doing so. But why isn't there? The recent high profile corporate "risk events" which involved seriously unethical behaviour by senior executives in organisations were, surely, in part a failure to anticipate and avoid the conduct which led to that wrongdoing.
With hindsight, would not the CEOs of those companies have approved a much greater Legal spend on reducing conduct risk if they had been forced to confront the high probability of those events occurring in advance?
One CEO said to me many years ago – "All I want from Legal is that they anticipate risk". "Is that all?", I thought. And what crystal ball were they going to provide in-house to do this? And is not risk anticipation a joint endeavour? Is that not the reason that in-house exits?
The average Top and Emerging Risk Report produced by GCs doesn't place "the conduct of our directors" as its No 1 risk. If it did there's a strong chance the risk would be mitigated by remedial action in respect of that behaviour.
It's not that conduct risk isn't by now a familiar term, particularly in the financial services sector. But this is not by choice. The Regulator has regulated conduct heavily since the Global Financial Crash.
But it's not working. Earlier this year The Banking Standards Board published its second annual review and in respect of which The Financial Times ran the headline: "Bankers battle with ethics versus career quandary".
Based on a survey of 28,000 employees at banks and building societies "more than a third fear negative consequences of voicing concerns…one in eight had seen instances where unethical behaviour had been rewarded…[a large number saw] a conflict between their organisation's values and how it did business".
"Conduct" has been commoditised as a term, reduced to a box which needs to be ticked, just like board "effectiveness". Unless and until "the business" honours the spirit as much as the letter of the law then nothing will change and it's only a matter of time before we open our newspapers to the next avoidable corporate scandal.
If a company's Risk Register is a list of top and emerging business, legal and reputation risks, which could affect outcomes, it follows that conduct by directors should go right to the top of that list because most risks are forged in the crucible of boardroom relationships.
The topmost risk is the risk of systemic weaknesses in board decision-making and governance due to the failure of each director to change their worst behaviour and exploit their best.
What if the Legal function, in addition to the regular "calling out" it currently does as part of "BAU", addressed this matter head on and became an agent of conduct change and demonstrated a link between improved conduct and reduced legal risk? Would that not make the annual battle that is the GC's lot, of making the business case for legal spend easier?
My proposal is that you, in your role as in-house counsel, can choose to change the status quo. The incentive to do so is threefold: your function will receive more money if you sell in the idea properly; the business will be better protected and, crucially, your job will be more fulfilling.
But I don't believe that the nettle has yet been fully grasped regarding the relationship between the GC and the CEO. I have spoken and written about this many times, particularly in a pamphlet entitled The GC-CEO Relationship post Global Financial Crash: Flourish or Flounder?. I help GCs and CEOs to grapple with these issues in the first hundred days of a new role. So I am close to the arguments on both sides.
The core of my argument is that GCs often fail to confront CEOs with the truth that they cannot do ten things for seven dollars, if ten things actually cost ten dollars. Often they retreat to the "diving catch" mode drummed into them at law school which is that you get it done, no matter what. This behaviour must have a knock-on impact on the time available for ethics management.
I acknowledge that many lawyers disagree with me on this point and feel that the 10 for 7 argument is a red herring. Indeed some feel it's an affront to their professional code of doing what needs to be done. I respect this view but disagree with it.
I propose three actions:
First, the CEO should accept that they are, de facto and whether they like it or not, the chief ethics officer, all lower case.
Second the GC should help the CEO to publish a company wide ethics policy, heavy on the spirit of good behaviour and conduct, light on regulation and they should place director conduct at the top of the risk register.
Third, the GC and CEO should sign a Memorandum Of Understanding reflecting the reality of their relationship – and the reality that the GC role is a unique and tough one to execute – and which promises "only to deliver seven things for seven dollars".
The CEO must then take responsibility for the missing three things, especially if one of them is withholding budget for Legal to spend time on the important, but not urgent, matter of helping to create an ethical culture.
In practical terms, the GC and team – down to the most junior lawyer – is in a position to contribute ideas to creating an ethical framework on a daily basis because they see things others don't.
Whilst contributing to the creation of an ethical culture is the responsibility of every function, in-house teams have a particular budgetary incentive to champion it because, by helping the company to avoid conduct risk in practical ways, they would have to work less hard to justify their budgets. For many, that would come as a blessed relief.
A version of this article will be published in the August 2017 edition of InsideOut, the online magazine of the Law Society's In-house Division, their community for in-house lawyers.