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The Board of Governors oversees Défi Innovation Estrie. It does so by ensuring that the work and activities of Défi Innovation Estrie is in line to the needs and realities of businesses in the Eastern Townships.
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Jacques Beauvais
Vice-principal for research, innovation and entrepreneurship
Université de Sherbrooke
Professor Jacques Beauvais has been vice-rector for research at the Université de Sherbrooke since 2007. Over the course of his scientific career, he was at the head of several research clusters, including the Centre d'excellence en génie de l'information.
He is the author or co-author of six U.S. patents and more than fifty scientific articles. He has contributed to the education of hundreds of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. He also sits on numerous committees, notably the board of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies.
Nicolas Bombardier
Director of R&D
Nicolas Bombardier holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Concurrent Engineering as well as a Master's of Business Administration from the Université de Sherbrooke. For 11 years, he worked in various research and development centres for Bombardier Recreational Products before joining Verbom, a family business where he holds the title of Director of R&D for the plants in Valcourt and in France as well as a seat on the board. Verbom specializes in shaping sheet metal as well as high value-added assembly services.
Lise Compagna
Waterville Woodcraft Inc.
Lise Compagna has a background in mechanical engineering and holds a degree in business administration. President of Waterville Woodcraft Inc. since 1994, she is also very involved in the region's development and participates in a number of activities aimed at economic development in the Eastern Townships. In fact, in addition to her involvement with Défi Innovation Estrie's Board of Governors, she is Co-president of the "Créneau ACCORD de la transformation du bois d'apparence et composite" and served on the board of the "Centre de productique intégrée du Québec (CPIQ)" for several years.
Jean-Marc Gagnon
President—Chief Executive Officer
Attraction Inc.
Jean-Marc Gagnon is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Attraction Inc., a family-owned company that was founded 28 years ago. His business is located in Lac Drolet in the Eastern Townships and employs more than 75 employees. Jean-Marc Gagnon serves as a member of the "Table de Concertation de la Mode et du Vêtement du Québec" and is also a member of the "Groupement des chefs d'entreprise du Québec". On two occasions he has led his company to win the title of being one of Canada's Best Managed Companies.
Jean de Lafontaine
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NGC Aerospace Ltd.
Originally from Sherbrooke, Jean de Lafontaine graduated from the Royal Military College with a degree in Engineering Physics and received his doctorate in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto.
He worked for the Canadian government in the development of a remote-sensing satellite. He was also an engineer for the European Space Agency in the Netherlands and the Japanese Space Agency near Tokyo. Jean de Lafontaine returned to Canada in 1996 where he became a professor of Electrical Engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke. He is also the president and founder of NGC Aerospace Ltd., a company specializing in guidance, navigation, and control software design for satellites.
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Earlier, the Information Minister Pervez Rasheed had said that Premier Sharif would answer opposition's questions pertaining to the leaks in the National Assembly (NA) on Friday, but today Speaker NA and ruling party member, Ayaz Sadiq said the prime minister would give a policy statement on Panama Papers claims in the House on Monday.
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This means that more tax payers' money is being proposed to be pumped into banks. For that Bank Board Bureau has been constituted which I had mentioned in my previous post.
Today total stressed assets of PSU banks stand at Rs 4 lakh crores. But it is estimated that if we also consider loans that face the risk of being declared NPAs going forward, then the total value of stressed assets of banks will stand at Rs 8 lakh crores. What a royal mess!!
This is our hard earned money which the banks are giving away to robbers masquerading as corporate entities. It is time we demand our money back into bank coffers. Instead of doing that, financial wizards like RBI Gov are devising ways to recapitalize banks. This means that more tax payers' money will be garnered and given to banks so that they can facilitate more robbers to rob us. What irony!
Before recapitalizing the banks we want the list of willful defaulters to be made public. But our RBI Gov insists that we should not name and shame these defaulting entities. Mr Raghuram Rajan, if you are not even willing to name these defaulters who have looted the Indian economy, then one wonders what action you will take against them!
We want government to track down stressed assets of banks, seize all assets of defaulters including their personal assets, and return our money back into the vaults of banks. For doing that, if you need to create a separate Public Asset Recovery Company by an Act of Parliament, do so. We simply need our money back now!


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What is an "accurate" estimate, anyhow? What is a "good" estimate? Merrill writes:
Most people equate "good "with "accurate." I equate "good" with "unbiased and complete, with reasonable accuracy given the time spent on estimating." This is within every organization's reach, relatively quickly. Getting incrementally more accurate may not even be worth the effort. Instead, we need to learn to account for estimation errors when selecting and running projects. We will never be accurate enough to let us off the governance and methodology hook.
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Course Code: VART5913C
Course Title: Communicate and sell design concepts
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Week 4 Research: Trend workshop on fabric
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Week 10 Produce: Story Workshop - range structure
Week 11 Produce: Story Workshop - sketching
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When someone tells me they like reading novels, this is exactly the sort of book I imagine them reading, sitting in a comfy, worn-out armchair, possibly by the fire. A great meaty novel.
'Paradise Postponed' is a satire, but not a satire the way some authors understand it, i.e. you have to be funny in every single sentence, as if the whole book were part of your stand-up routine (inevitably ending up being not funny at all). Another side effect of such ha-ha-ha funny is that all characters end up being cartoonish which makes it impossible to get emotionally involved in the story.
Mortimer doesn't fall in that trap, he is only funny when there is a really good joke and it's quite enough. His characters are real, yet the satire on the British class system is still cutting.
It's essentially a story of what happens to a family when the father, leftist minister (as in a religious one, rather than the one who is in the government), dies and leaves all his money to a sleazy Tory MP. Everyone is a little confused to say the least and tries to deal with it in a different way. Old secrets get uncovered and some hilarity ensues.
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'What's the trouble?'
'Look out there, that's the trouble! It's so green and quiet and it's always bloody raining.'
'That's England, Mrs Mallard-Greene. I'm afraid there's no known cure for it."
"The first sight of the Rapstone Valley is of something unexpectedly isolated and uninterruptedly rural; a solitary jogger is the only outward sign of urban pollution."
"She believed that, in an ideal world, the working class would rule the country, but she had no particular desire to ask any of them to tea."
"You can't change people. You know that. You can't make them stop hating each other, or longing to blow up the world, not by walking through the rain and singing to a small guitar. Most you can do for them is pull them out of the womb, thump them on the backside and let them get on with it."
"Oh, you think everyone's interesting. That's because you're a Red. I don't. I believe that quite a lot of people were just manufactured when God was thinking of something else."
"Take sex, for instance.'
'What do you want me to do with it?'
'Try to be serious for a moment. Take the sex life of our father.'
Even after a couple of brandies he felt extremely reluctant to discuss sex and his father. 'It's something I'd rather not think about,' he said. 'We all come into existence as a result of a momentary embrace by our parents which find impossible to imagine. [...] We all assume we're the result of our own particular immaculate conception."
"He's a cabinet minister and his mother was a cook. My father was a doctor and I'm a cook. Perhaps I passed him on the way down, or did he pass me on the way up?"
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Watson FellowsSophomores Stephanie Kozofsky '13 and Victoria Measles '13 have been awarded 2011 Jeannette K. Watson Fellowships. They were chosen from a pool of New York City undergraduate candidates because they "demonstrate exceptional promise, outstanding leadership skills, and commitment to the common good." The three-year Watson Fellowships include paid summer internships, mentoring, and enhanced educational opportunities.Kozofsky, an English major with minors in Criminal Justice and Spanish, spent last summer working as an English language teacher at a camp in Greece and serves as president of her dormitory council and secretary of the Criminal Justice Society. She is thinking of a career either as an English teacher, a lawyer, or a U.S. Senator.Measles, a Women's and Gender Studies and Political Science dual major, recently attended the 2011 United Nations Conference on the Status of Women, participating in the Working Group for Girls preconference. She is an active student leader and organizes and facilitates weekly "Taboo Talks," where students are encouraged to share perspectives on gender, sexuality, and related topics. Society of FellowsOn April 28, 2011, the Society of Fellows of Dyson College of Arts and Sciences celebrated its 30th anniversary and inducted its 30th class named for University Historian and History Professor Marilyn Weigold, PhD. This honor society fosters undergraduate scholarship in the arts and sciences by providing enriching experiences for students with outstanding academic ability. Participation and membership in the Society of Fellows affords students an opportunity to develop their intellect and display their talents in a variety of settings.Each fall the Society hosts an extremely popular off-site weekend retreat where students, faculty, and alumni share in a lively debate on a chosen topic in a casual setting. This year's topic was "The Cinematic Environment: Reflecting on the Environmental Condition through Film." At the Society's Annual Meeting held in early spring each year, students present scholarly research and artistic projects. New members are recognized at the annual Induction Ceremony held in late spring. The official journal of the Society, Transactions, was created for the purpose of publishing peer-reviewed work done by Pace University students under the sponsorship of a fellow or member of the Pace faculty.Fast Facts About Dyson 23 Fulbright Winners since 200218 Watson Fellowswww.pace.edu/dysonfellowsYear in Review 2010-2011 | 11
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Man pays $9 million for license plate
For drivers wanting to show off their prestige and wealth when hitting the road in the United Arab Emirates, it's all about the license plate — the lower the single-digit number on the front of the government-issued plate, the better.
That's why Indian businessman and Dubai property developer Balwinder Sahni just dropped 33 million dirhams — or $9 million — to purchase license plate No. 5 at a government auction in October, Bloomberg reports.
The No. 5 plate now adorns one of Sahni's six Rolls-Royce cars, according to CNN Money. The wealthy businessman also owns a No. 9 license plate, which he purchased with a winning bid of 24.5 million dirhams — or $6.7 million — in 2015. The No. 9 plate is also affixed to one of Sahni's Rolls-Royce cars.
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CNN Money says he has two additional Rolls-Royces on order, which will bring his collection of the luxury cars to eight.
Sahni described himself to CNN Money a "simple man." He says he's gotten a lot of attention and photo requests since he purchased the No. 5 license plate for $9 million.
The record for the most money spent on a license plate in the United Arab Emirates goes to businessman Saeed al-Khouri. Bloomberg says in 2008, al-Khouri dropped 52.2 million dirhams — or $14.2 million — to purchase the No. 1 license plate.
Bloomberg says the proceeds from the license plate auctions go to Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority.
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United States and South Africa Sign an Intergovernmental Agreement to Share Tax Information
Pretoria, June 9, 2014
- South African Minister of Finance, Mr Nhlanhla Nene and U.S. Ambassador to South Africa Mr Patrick H. Gaspard, today signed an intergovernmental agreement to improve international tax compliance and to implement the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. This agreement promotes transparency between the two nations on tax matters and furthermore underscores growing international cooperation in the endeavor to end tax evasion worldwide.
The United States enacted the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) in 2010 to combat offshore tax evasion by encouraging transparency and obtaining information on accounts held by U.S. citizens in other countries. FATCA calls for foreign financial institutions to provide the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with information about U.S. account holders annually. Failing that, a 30 percent withholding tax will be imposed on the foreign financial institution with regard to certain U.S. source payments, such as interest. The withholding tax is, however, waived if foreign financial institutions enter into disclosure compliance agreements with the US Treasury.
In July 2012, the United States introduced the option of a country entering into an intergovernmental agreement which would alleviate the need for financial institutions to enter directly into an agreement with the United States. The
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Finance Minister Nene said "South Africa is committed to automatic exchange of information for tax purposes and to thereby make the world a more transparent place from a tax perspective. This commitment has been expressed through South Africa's role in both the G20 and the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes. Implementing FATCA is South Africa's first step in AEOI and will lay a sound foundation in extending AEOI to other treaty partners."
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The Causes and Effects of Depression among Teenagers
The causes and effects of depression among teenagers are different from older adults and middle adults. Usually an irritated teenager is unconsciously experiencing depression. Teenage depression if left unnoticed can lead to other social problems such as drug abuse and suicide. As parents find time to be with your teenagers especially during this transition stage of their lives. Always talk to them; make them feel important and special; make the home a safe place to share secrets and fears.
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Among teenagers, depression is an emotional sickness arising from the feeling of not being wanted and accepted by peers. During the adolescent years acceptance of peers is extremely important to a person than what the family would say. Once the peer group will reject your teenager's styles and ways of bringing himself or herself, this hurts their ego. As a consequence, your teenager will act indifferently at home. This reaction is really common among teenagers dealing with depression because of rejection from peers. Parents who are aware about this will allow their teenagers to express this hurt but will make sure to talk about it at the end of day.
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The importance of knowing the causes and effects of depression among your teenagers matters in dealing with it face-to-face. The most difficult stage of one's life is being a teenager because it is where all kinds of transition happen. It is the point of one's life where hormonal changes take place that consequently influences the physical development of the body. Changes that occur during this stage also affect how a person sees himself or herself in the future. In other words, there is an internal confusion about oneself where the advice and assistance from parents is needed.
Parents cannot just get mad and throw dirty words to their teenagers at this stage. If this happens it will create an atmosphere of mistrust and a feeling of insecurity. This will drive the teenagers away from home and near the company of peers and friends. Once the peer group will reject her, this may lead to depression that might lead to another problem. This can be avoided through constant chat with teenagers at home for the causes and effects of depression.


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A member of the European Court of Justice will rule on Thursday whether the government's winter fuel payment regulations discriminate against men.
The ruling follows a complaint from John Taylor, a former postal worker from Ryedale, North Yorkshire.
Women can receive the benefit when they qualify for a state retirement pension at the age of 60, while men must wait until they are 65.
It is thought that 800,000 men could benefit if Mr Taylor wins his case.
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Mr Taylor will qualify for his state retirement pension when he is 65 next summer and the following winter he can expect Ł100 from the government to help towards his fuel bills.
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Drawing Diaries of Larry E. Elsner
Excerpted from the Introduction to the exhibition catalog True to Form:
Journal Drawings, Writing and Related Sculpture by Larry E. Elsner
Larry E. Elsner was a quiet, thoughtful person whose natural inclination was toward modesty rather than self-promotion, regardless of his undeniable talent or the stature of his achievements. As an artist, he was primarily concerned with the process of making sculptural forms -- forms that would speak softly and with eloquence to anyone who would like to listen. He was also a gifted teacher who shared his knowledge of the visual arts, and sculpture, in particular, through courses he taught at Utah State University from 1960 until his death in 1990. During his tenure as a professor in the Art Department, Larry taught anatomy, drawing, ceramics, metalsmithing, jewelry casting and sculpture in all media.
Larry was born in 1930 in the southern Idaho community of Gooding and was raised in the surroundings of his family's ranch. The environment of Larry's childhood home deeply impressed itself upon his visual memory. Its expansive night sky; its seasons, rocks, and wind; its seed and animals; the patterns and textures of its earth; and its quietness helped define the perimeter of Larry's youthful world. Years later, the essence of this place would help shape Larry's artistic universe as its characteristics emerged with infinite variety and interpretation in his works.
Familiar examples of Larry's artworks are the elegantly-shaped sculpture and vessel forms he crafted in clay, metal, and wood. To enrich these forms, Larry worked in other media to generate new ideas or fresh approaches to his materials. Drawing was particularly important because the process functioned as an independent means of expression and a discipline through which Larry invented, explored and clarified ideas about form. Although Larry produced hundreds of exquisitely-drawn studies during the course of his career, this aspect of his work is relatively unknown. True to Form: Journal Drawings, Writing and Related Sculpture by Larry E. Elsner is organized as an introduction to the artist's writing and studies in drawing. The exhibition provides an overview of drawing themes and their relationships to Larry's sculpture and vessel forms.
The most comprehensive collection of Larry's work as a draftsman in contained in a series of seventy journals the artist developed between 1960 and 1990. These journals, which are the central focus of True to Form, also contain bibliographic references, quotations, technical notes and Larry's written thoughts about his own artwork and the significant events of his life. Although Larry most certainly drew while pursuing degrees in art at Utah State University and Columbia University in New York, the whereabouts of drawings from the early period are unknown...
The size and portability of Larry's journals made them convenient for use in almost any situation. There is a marked difference, however, between entries Larry made while close to home and those he made during extended periods of travel. For example, the journal he kept while traveling in Japan in 1987 has an intermingling of manuscript and drawing throughout; the writing is of equal importance to the drawing and in many cases, dominates the pages. Larry recorded his travel routes, conversations, and impressions of the country. He wrote especially detailed accounts of cuisine and matters pertaining to his physical state, as well as that of his daughter, Tami, and his wife, Yoko, with whom he had traveled, Similar journals document Larry's travel to Europe, his artist's residency at Ucross, Wyoming, and some of his annual sojourns in New York.
Larry developed the majority of his journals while working in Logan, Utah. In contrast to his travel journals, these focus on the process of creating three-dimensional forms. Drawing done from memory, imagination and directly from nature, are abundant. Manuscripts entries are brief, touching on aesthetics, philosophy of art, sources of inspirations, and technical issues. Poetry and quotes from other artists also appear. The contents of these journals reflect the overarching theme of Larry's work: the human form; animals, especially cats and horses; the landscape; and the forces and cycles of nature. Whether the balance of writing-to-drawing in Larry E. Elsner's journals tips toward the drawn image or the written word, each journal is like a diary -- an intimate record of the most significant experiences, concerns and ideas of the artist's life.
Rose M. Milovich
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At this time of year it is very easy to eat local and seasonal food in Lancaster.
It is the time of year when it becomes easy to source more than 30 per cent of your food locally and still have a variety of things to eat. (Go on, take the local food pledge: s.coop/1v851.)
The Food Assembly, for example, currently has a wide choice of local organic veg on offer from Growing with Nature in Pilling.
You can buy a variety of different salad leaves, peas, beans and potatoes, in addition to tomatoes, courgettes, fennel, onions and kohlrabi.
As well as vegetables, you can buy crusty breads from Filbert's, tasty seasonal soups from Soup Dragon and baked treats created by the Ginger Baker and Eat and Meet.
I have even been able to cook one of my favourite Greek dishes – Fasoulakia – using seasonal local produce only (except for the salt and pepper).
It is quick and easy to cook and tastes of summer. All you need (to serve four to six people) is one onion sliced, two cloves of garlic crushed, three to six large potatoes diced, about 300g of green beans, six ripe tomatoes, oil or butter for frying and salt, pepper and oregano to taste. Here's the recipe:
Heat the oil (or butter) in a large saucepan and fry the onions until translucent.
Add the crushed garlic and fry gently for approximately one minute.
Add the diced potatoes and fry until slightly 'fluffy'.
Add the tomatoes and fry until they break up and go mushy.
Add the green beans and some water (until roughly three quarters of the potatoes are covered).
Add salt, pepper and oregano to taste and simmer until the liquid has reduced and the potatoes are ready.
Fasoulakia is great eaten with friends and served with fresh bread and the optional slice of cheese (both locally sourced of course).
Fasoulakia is just one recipe that can be made using local produce. I have now started to collect a number of other recipes that can be made using predominantly locally sourced produce – to share with local food pledgers.
In doing so I have come across some great recipe sharing ideas in Lancaster. For example one lady collected her neighbours' favourite recipes and created a booklet which she gave to her whole street at Christmas.
Why don't you send me your favourite recipe and I can share it in future local food columns?
And why not take the local food pledge: s.coop/1v851?


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Propose stats, ways to obtain, etc. And not just "little better than this gun"Better to balance out current useless weapons like FAL, assault rifle, 10mm smg, G11, etc. Than adding new ones. Also I'm pretty sure we're getting some laser smg next session. And I do believe most current weapons will be balanced so they'll be used next session, while some become rarer.
Famas the French weapon. It has high rate of fire so less ap is required. I'd use the actual ammo count in the magazine and give it some damage above xl with lower range.
The current PvP arsenal exists because they are the only weapons that are consistent and actually have an effect on the current game. All the other weapons can be argued to just be for PvE I would assume the belief to be, but there is no need to add new weapons in order to add to this problem.