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Ivorian Model Awa Sanoko Wins Miss Model of The World
Well how about that, Ivorian model Awa Sanoko may have lost out on what she thought was an opportunity of a lifetime when she did not make the cut for the top 15 finalist of the Eite Model Search 2014 but life has a way of turning things around.
Awa Saonko is now the first African to win Miss Model of the World. The 27th edition took place in China over the weekend. Congratulations Awa, you have made the motherland proud.
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You've finished your estate plan. All the documents are signed. Now what? Where do you actually store your Last Will and Testament and other estate planning documents? The simple answer is to store them in an accessible, safe place which will vary for every person. As you plan your estate, here are some common storage locations for estate planning< documents as well as the pros and cons for each location.
Safe Deposit Box
A safe deposit box at a federally insured bank certainly provides a safe place for your will and other estate planning documents but may not be accessible to loved ones after your death. Many states have laws regarding who and when a person may access a safe deposit box after the owner's death—as well as the necessary documentation to retrieve the safe deposit box's contents. Some states seal a box after the owner's death, requiring a court order to access its contents, which can be costly and delay the execution of your estate. If you decide to store your will in a safe deposit box, ensure your executor knows the location of the safe deposit box and has the legal authority to access the box after your death. Many people choose to store a copy of their will in a safe deposit box with other valuables, but it may not be the best place for the only copy.
In Your Home
Many people commonly store their estate planning documents in their home or home office. This makes documents accessible, but not necessarily safe. If you choose to store your will in your home, keep it in a safe that is both waterproof, fireproof and bolted securely to the floor. If the safe has a combination or key, make sure your executor knows the access code or keeps a spare key to the safe.
With Your Executor
After your death, your executor needs immediate access to your will and other estate planning documents to begin the estate settlement process. Ideally, your executor should already know you have chosen them to act as your representative and is a trustworthy individual with whom you feel comfortable giving your original estate planning documents. If your executor is a personal friend or family member, you should make sure they can safely store and protect your documents.
With Your Attorney
Storing your estate planning documents with the estate planning attorney who drafted them is most likely the safest and most accessible location for your will. Even if you keep the originals in a separate location, your estate planning attorney should keep signed copies of your estate planning documents. In the event the originals are misplaced or destroyed, the attorney can recreate the estate planning documents for you to sign. When you choose your executor, make sure they are aware your attorney is holding your estate planning documents.
What Happens If No One Can Find My Will?
Resist the temptation to try and "hide" your will; it is meant to be found. If your executor or loved ones cannot find your estate planning documents after your death, they may as well not exist. The court would act as though you died intestate—or without a will in place—and your wishes for the distribution of your assets and property may not come to pass.
The most important thing when deciding where to keep your will is to ensure your executor knows where to find it and can access it in a timely fashion.

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LYNNWOOD, Wash. — A woman arrange a date at a Lynnwood lodge Sunday night with the intent of killing a person and consuming his coronary heart as the first step in her plan to grow to be a serial killer, however the man escaped after she stabbed him within the lung, police mentioned.
Handsome Dack Rambo was Jack Martin Cole a rich playboy who was framed for embezzlement and sent to prison. Whereas there he learned all the methods of the commerce; the best way to pick locks, tap phones, crack safes and the like and when he is released from prison he becomes an avenger, going after white collar criminals like those who set him up. He all the time left a calling card, the three card from the deck of cards, three being the number of years he spent in prison.
Nick Donovan (Asher Brauner) and Ocee James (Steve Hanks) are former race car drivers who are employed by the LAPD, because of their superior driving expertise. They're to grow to be members of the newly formed B.A.D. Cats division which stands for Burglary Auto Element Industrial Auto Thefts. Becoming a member of them in their struggle to stop car thieves is Officer Samantha Jensen (a younger Michelle Pfeiffer).
This train would zoom from New York City to Los Angeles in 36 hours. It was a excessive velocity nuclear powered bullet practice that had all the comforts of home… a pool, restaurant, buying facilities. It was sort of a Love Boat on rails with visitor stars each week having some kind of private drawback to solve earlier than the tip of every episode.
Ken Howard was Adam Bonner and Blythe Danner was his spouse, Amanda. The present was primarily based on the classic big screen film of the identical identify that starred Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. Preserving theme with the movie, the TELEVISION present has Adam as an assistant D.A. and his wife as a associate in a regulation firm whose jobs typically pitted them in opposition to one another. In fact, this didn't cease in the courtroom room, they had been usually on opposite sides of issues in their house life, too.


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The Grinder
The Grinder occupies a weird space on the TV-comedy spectrum. As we saw in last week's "A System on Trial," it's remarkably small in scope but big in comedic ambition. This is an extremely smart show disguised as a dumb one, affectionately draping tired tropes over itself in the form of "The Grinder" itself.
Over the course of this season, the show got a lot of mileage out of its high-concept premise, which paved the way for some terrific showbiz satire. And all the while, the underpinnings of a bizarre family sitcom became more and more fleshed out.
With only two episodes left before the season's end, "For the People" can seem like a strange episode. It comes right in the middle of a high-stakes story arc, with the fate of Sanderson & Yao hanging in the balance. It's a surprisingly vanilla sitcom plot, too: Stewart and Deb have both forgotten their anniversary and lie about their plans for one another. Stewart claims he's made dinner reservations at Boise's hottest restaurant, a trattoria with a two-month waiting list. Deb says that she's got a mind-blowing gift of some sort. They are very obviously both lying, and Dean knows it.
Let's be real: This is Mickey Mouse stuff. (I mean that literally. Every Disney Channel tween sitcom has used this plot like, 15 times each.) It's still interesting, though, to see The Grinder take on such a well-worn sitcom trope in its own idiosyncratic, quick-witted way. It does so by twisting the story into something hyperbolically complex, roping in every member of its cast into one lie or another that they all desperately need upheld. It gets very complicated — and, of course, very funny.
First, the Sanderson family matriarch Lenore (played by legend Anne Archer) makes a surprise visit to her sons' home. Lenore has disapproved of Dean's lifestyle choice for years, and Dean — who longs for nothing but affirmation — lies to her, thinking a settled-down life would finally win some approval. So, he tells her he's engaged to Claire.
Then, because he promised he would stop harassing Claire, he uses Stewart's lie as leverage to get him to help convince Claire to play along.
Dean: I've already harassed her enough […] Tell her to do it or she gets fired or something.
Stewart: Dean, that's the definition of harassment.
Obviously, that approach isn't going to work. Stewart still mentions it to Claire just in case she'd be game. (She's not.)
Good thing Dean can exploit Deb's lie, too. Since Claire won't play along, he wants Deb to feed his mother a story about how Claire used to date Todd, but then he became violent and horrible — and that's why Claire won't admit that she and Dean are engaged. Deb agrees to this ridiculous plan, only because she doesn't want Stewart to learn she doesn't have a gift yet.
On top of all that, Lenore is lying too! She's not living happily with Nigel, her current partner. She's after Dean Sr. again. Pop Sanderson, however, doesn't know this … and he's also fibbing. To make it seem like he's got "irons in the fire," his grandkids help set him up with an online-dating account, and he quickly lands him a date with Callista, a hot twentysomething who matches with him because he uses a photo from his Army days.
It all comes to a head at the trattoria, where everyone shows up: Stewart and Deb (because he got Dean to call the restaurant for him), Dean, Lenore, and Claire (because she feels compelled to go along in the most noncommittal way possible, since everybody else seems invested in their lies), Pop Sanderson, Callista (because of the aforementioned online date), and even Todd (because he's picking up takeout).
Everyone spots everyone and the lies are immediately threatened by Todd, the only character who knows nothing and hasn't told a single lie. (He barely even utters a sentence throughout this episode.) It's all set up for disaster: Lenore spots Todd and wants to get Claire out of there, Todd is about to inadvertently ruin the whole invented history between him and Claire, and Dean is desperate to keep his poor clueless friend quiet. So, he sucker-punches him. It's a pretty mean thing to do, if I'm being honest.
Of course, the gang can't keep up the lies beyond that point. Of course, they all forgive each other and come clean. (Even Dean Sr., who tells Callista, "That picture of me was taken quite a while ago. I'm actually an old man!") And of course, everyone still likes each other — especially Lenore and Dean Sr., who passionately make out in front of everyone.
Other Notes:
Timothy Olyphant, Where Are You? Lenore is hilariously awful to Dean when she arrives, noting that "The Grinder" doesn't really need him back "because Timothy Olyphant is so fabulous." To which Dean responds: "You don't think Timothy Olyphant is fabulous, you just disapprove of my lifestyle choices." I, however, think that Timothy Olyphant is fabulous. Here's hoping he stops by for one last grind.
The Dean Sanderson Sr. Guide To Dealing With Exes. When Pop Sanderson's grandkids find him melancholic after Lenore's return, they mistakenly think he misses her. He quickly sets the record straight: "I don't want her back! I just want her to hate herself."
Dean Sanderson Jr., Legal Professional. On why his marriage to Claire isn't happening any sooner: "This law profession is the real deal for me. I can't just up and get married in the middle of legal season." (This is a line that makes me laugh every time I read it. Claire's dubious repeating of " … legal season?" is endlessly funny.)
Claire, the Long-Suffering MVP. Natalie Morales's deadpan sensibilities are put to terrific use this week, even if Claire still doesn't have a plot of her own. At the very least, I'm grateful that The Grinder remains committed to keeping Claire and Rob firmly out of "will they, won't they" territory, but I can't help getting a little nervous every time they trot that trope out for a laugh.


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Made In The A.M. becomes 2015's fastest selling UK album.
One Direction are in celebration mode after finding out their latest album is a sales hit.
After a lengthy promo battle with Justin Bieber (that they never actually took part in), 1D are the clear winners on the European side of things.
Made In The A.M. has debuted at number one in the UK, Ireland and a handful of other countries in Europe. It also broke the record for fastest selling album, previously held by Oasis's Noel Gallagher. Can't wait to hear his reaction!
Made In The A.M.'s first-week chart sales of 93,189 make it the fastest selling album of 2015, beating the record previously held by Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' Chasing Yesterday.
1D are currently promoting the album in the US, but hit up Twitter to share their excitement about their chart victory:
Made In The AM is number one in the UK. So happy that people are liking it. We're very proud of it. Thank you. H
— Harry Styles. (@Harry_Styles) November 20, 2015
Thank you so much to everyone who has bought the album so far! Proud day today
— Louis Tomlinson (@Louis_Tomlinson) November 20, 2015
Means so much to get a number 1 in our home countries ! Buzziiiiiiiing
— Louis Tomlinson (@Louis_Tomlinson) November 20, 2015
Yayyyyy number one in the uk so amazing this record means a lot to us so happy u guys are loving it thanks you x
— Liam (@Real_Liam_Payne) November 20, 2015
People of the UK ! What a great feeling to Wake up and find out that you've got a number 1 album . Thank you so much , means a lot
— Niall Horan (@NiallOfficial) November 20, 2015
Ireland ??.. Thank you guys so much
— Niall Horan (@NiallOfficial) November 20, 2015
The band performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, rehearsed today for their AMA performance on Sunday and a pre-recorded interview with UK chat show host Jonathan Ross airs tonight.


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John McWilliams, CPA, Esq. is professor of accounting at Golden Gate University. Previously he was a professor of accounting at San Francisco State University. He began his career as a tax adviser with a Big Four CPA firm. For more than 30 years, while teaching, he has been a tax adviser to lawyers and CPAs regarding the tax matters of their clients. His areas of expertise include tax issues related to buying and selling privately-held businesses, financially-troubled businesses, business restructuring and reorganization, and ownership succession to employees or family members.
McWilliams has been active in CalCPA, having served as president of the San Francisco Chapter, chair of the Financial Literacy Initiative, member of the CalCPA Board of Directors serving as Vice Chair, and member of the Accounting Education Committee. He has served as a California representative to the AICPA Council, and as a member of two AICPA Tax Division Technical Resource Panels (Corporations, and Shareholders and Partnerships). McWilliams is the original author of two chapters of the CCH Expert Treatise Library: "Federal Taxation of Corporations," and "Shareholders."


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EDITORIAL, November & December 2001
by Gerasime Patilas
The week leading up to Tuesday 11 September 2001 and the one following were some of the most traumatic days of my life. I was contemplating Pluto's position and aspects in my chart on that Tuesday while wondering whether a drop of TipEx would work its magic on my emotions when the phone rung. 'Trouble', I thought. I forced myself to pick up the receiver, and during that rather upsetting conversation I was told about the World Trade Centre 'bomb'. The information didn't really register. I walked to the next room and switched on the telly. It took a little while for the images I was being bombarded with to register. Eventually, numbness, confusion, and fear enveloped me, ensuring that my internal landscape and the murderous and destructive events in New York became one. It's hard for a Capricorn to admit to crying, but tears were burning my cheeks before too long. Was I crying for myself or for the poor victims and their families? So much pain, terror, anguish, loss, fear. What can a person do? The world could be-and is, for most of us in the West-such a beautiful place, but when confronted by such hatred Hell is all too real.
Meaning and meaninglessness. What does it all mean? Does anything matter? Everything is full of meaning. Everything is meaningless. Once again astrology came to the rescue. Not for the unfortunate people in the two Towers, but for me. It didn't ease my emotions, but it enabled me to look at the squiggles on a piece of paper and make some sort of sense of my world, the world. Where is Saturn? Where is Pluto? Ah yes, the charts make sense. Therefore, the universe must make sense. More tears.
At the time when the North Tower was hit by the hijacked jet Libra was rising. There were no angular violent planets at the time, although a tentative case could be made for Venus (ASC and 8th house ruler) in an angular house (only just) applying to an opposition with Uranus (air flight). The chart does highlight travel however. Angular Mercury (flying) disposits two planets in the 9th in Gemini, while the emphasis in the 9th house would normally set me thinking along 9th house lines. The Saturn-Pluto opposition across the 3rd-9th axis warns of danger, but the dignified Jupiter tells another story. Saturn does rule the 4th however, which does point to the ground or buildings, while Mercury rules the house of hidden enemies, and the Sun is on the 12th house cusp. The Moon is Void of Course, and if I was looking at the chart without knowing what happened on that tragic Tuesday, I might have come to the conclusion that a plane had been grounded, travel delays, or that some sort of cock-up was making life difficult, etc.
When I compared the terrorist attack chart to the USA chart however, I nearly fell off my chair. The destruction of those two gleaming towers, the emblems of American wealth, the Pentagon buildings, the panic and terror from the skies, it was all there. Not the exact location, but the chart comparison looked grim. I need to digress here, before I get onto inter-aspects. There has been much debate over the years as to which is the correct USA chart, and there are many to choose from, but after these momentous and scary events there is no doubt in my mind that the 12SG21 is the correct one. In fact this is the first time that Pluto crossed the USA ASC. It was discovered in the 30s while in Cancer, but I cannot remember what happened when it crossed the MC of the Declaration chart. In any case it would not have been opposite Saturn-a double helping of Hell.
The Saturn Pluto opposition across the 1st-7th axis highlights America, its people and its enemies. With Capricorn on the 2nd house cusp, America's financial institutions fall under Saturn's rulership which is exalted in the 10th. This is appropriate for the richest country on earth. What is more, transiting Uranus is in the 2nd in a Saturn sign trining radical Mars in the 7th house of open enemies. Mars rules the 12th house of hidden enemies. Personally, I don't go along with the idea that outer planets rule signs, but those of you who do will have noticed Scorpio on the 12th. One possible trigger for the Saturn-Pluto opposition is the transiting Sun at 18VI51 applying to the square of the Declaration Mars and the conjunction of Neptune in the 9th. The negative interpretation of treachery, deception, and iniquitous acts instantly come to mind involving these aspects.
The transiting ASC and Mercury on radical Saturn once again highlight the effect of this terrorist act on the USA's economy, as well as the aviation industry. What's more, transiting Mercury (dispositor of the transiting Sun) squares the radical Sun, which is in the 7th conjoining the 8th house of death. The transiting MC in the radical 8th conjoins the USA Sun and squares Saturn. When Pluto was discovered it was at 17CN46. Interestingly, the transiting MC at 16CN28 conjoins that degree. Maybe there's something here about triggers within triggers, or wheels within wheels, or whatever other metaphor you can think of. Transiting Jupiter will conjoin the declaration Sun and 8th house cusp every 12 years or so, highlighting death. If any of you have any comments on these transits I would love to read them and publish them. The best place to start would be eclipses and ingresses, but I haven't looked at those yet. Nevertheless, one transit that jumped out at me-one that I wouldn't normally look at-is Venus at the time of the suicide attack. It was on the 'big' 1999 eclipse degree. There are numerous charts that will yield more information, but I'm once again pushed for time. I repeat, don't hesitate to share your thoughts on this horrendous event with the rest of us.
Finally I feel I should mention that on the day of the opening of the World Trade Centre, when the ribbon was cut, Saturn was at 15GE52. I don't have the time, but this is the worst Saturn return I have ever witnessed. Once again Saturn and Pluto are highlighted by the transiting Sun and Moon which squared the WTC Saturn and Pluto respectively.
I think I've covered the main points involving the above charts, and all that remains is for me to wish you all a Happy Christmas. I don't know what kind of a world we'll be living in by the time this edition is in the hands of the printers, but I really, really, hope that peace and love gets a look in


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It was a visually relaxing moment, almost like a snow day when you are forced to stay put, light a fire and just be still.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The White Luncheon
It was a visually relaxing moment, almost like a snow day when you are forced to stay put, light a fire and just be still.
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What a gorgeous tablescape! I love the dishes, so much texture and I love the birds in the dome. Actually, I like everything on the table. Great creations! Thanks for becoming a follower...ChristineReplyDelete
Oh, this table is rich in texture....I love it all! Your sweet birdies and the nest are a perfect centerpiece.ReplyDelete
CHRISTmas Blessings!
Beautiful table! Gorgeous dishes and decor!ReplyDelete
I'm in love with every single element on this table!! The little birdies look so cute on that beautiful pedestal cloche!ReplyDelete
You have lots of gorgeous pieces to play with & I really enjoyed seeing them. Oh & those LINENS....be still my ♥!!!! *sigh*
I was really drawn to your table, and I think it is because your dishes show up so wonderfully without a tablecloth. You got it just right! Those little birds are the cutest! They seem to be trying to find a way out of the glass!ReplyDelete
I also went to your Christmas table. LOVE the green glass and the napkins. Those are just the best.
This is a lovely, lovely table- full of tone on tone texture and simplicity. I think that is what makes such a statement. The pinecone s/p shakers are so cute, as are your little birds w/the real nest. Isn't it fun to find such a treasure? Thanks for visiting yesterday, I hope you'll stop back again. Enjoy the holiday season~ SueReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 15, 2010 at 8:48 AM
Love the way this table looks- crisp and clean, yet inviting all at the same time. I agree with Pat- the wood really adds a nice touch and warms it up. And of course, I love the birds in the nest- what a whimsical touch to a beautiful luncheon at the junction!ReplyDelete
So lovely! All the textures are so appealing in this all-white table -- and stunning photography! Your stack of plates looks great!ReplyDelete
You are so right about the textures, they just make studying this post like eye candy. I love the textures in the plates but the cake plate, turreen and salt and pepper shakers are like the frosting on the setting.ReplyDelete
I have come to your blog via Kathleen's party and will be back again to visit soon. You may not know me but I am a bird lover and the birds in the cloche are the cherry on top :)
Oh I love all of the textural patterns on your place setting, and your napkins that appear to have a similar cutwork pattern. Beautiful tablescape. laurieReplyDelete
Just beautiful! Love your whites and all the texture. Exquisite!ReplyDelete
Love all your white textures! Your birds & your found sweet nest are the scene stealers for me:-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 16, 2010 at 7:18 AM
Wow, this is stunning!ReplyDelete
What a lovely table you've set! If I were invited to this luncheon, I would feel oh-so-special! Happy Tablescape Thursday!ReplyDelete
I love a white palette!ReplyDelete
Great table!ReplyDelete
- The Tablescaper
This is just beautiful! Look at all those textures you have with your whites, such lovely pieces!ReplyDelete
Thank you for linking up this wonderful scape to my White Christmas Party!
A wonderful mixture of whites and textures to achieve a beautiful tablescape. Thank you for sharing your charming design. Cherry KayReplyDelete
Your layered dishes are so lovely, then add the pine cones, greens and birds...beautiful table...I ♥ it!ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
This is such a gorgeous set. I purchased 6 of these bowls at a local Home Goods store and love them - they go with a serving tray with stand I have. Unfortunately I broke one over the holidays. The store no longer has them & I have spent fruitless time on line trying to find a replacement. I would be most grateful if you could advise me where I might find more? Janet at email@example.com
The dishes are beautiful! I especially like the salt and pepper shakers. Can you tell me who the maker is of the dishes?ReplyDelete


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Ms. Skinner was nominated for a Tony Award and received a Drama League Award as Daisy Hilton (alongside Alice Ripley) in the brilliant but short-lived Broadway show, SIDE SHOW. She was recently handpicked by acclaimed director, Stephen Daldry, to become the very first American selected to play the role of Billy's dance teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson, and star in the original Broadway company of BILLY ELLIOT. She has also starred on Broadway in the original casts of JEKYLL & HYDE, JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD, THE FULL MONTY, the revival of DINNER AT EIGHT (Outer Critics Circle Nomination), as well as The Actors Fund productions of THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS and DREAMGIRLS. Emily Skinner recently starred in the world premiere of THE GREAT AMERICAN MOUSICAL under the direction of Dame Julie Andrews. Just before that, she originated the role of Monique McCandless in Stephen King/John Mellencamp's GHOST BROTHERS OF DARKLAND COUNTY at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre.
At Carnegie Hall, she has sung many times with The New York Pops as a soloist, as well as appearing in the New York Debut of Richard Thomas' JERRY SPRINGER THE OPERA with Harvey Kietel.
She not only appeared in the City Center Encores productions of NO STRINGS, PARDON MY ENGLISH, A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, and FIORELLO!, but also created roles in productions at Manhattan Theatre Club, The WPA Theatre, The Paramount Theater at Madison Square Gardens, York Theatre, Playwrights Horizons and The Roundabout Theatre. Her numerous CD recordings include countless cast albums and audio books, in addition to 20th Century Fox's animated feature ANASTASIA; RAW AT TOWN HALL, DUETS, and UNSUSPECTING HEARTS (all with Alice Ripley); ELEGIES FOR ANGELS, PUNKS, AND RAGING QUEENS; THE STEPHEN SONDHEIM ALBUM; WALL TO WALL SONDHEIM; BELIEVE: THE SONGS OF THE SHERMAN BROTHERS; THE STEPHEN SCHWARTZ ALBUM; and her self-titled solo CD which may be found at Amazon.com. Next up: Hal Princes' new show PRINCE OF BROADWAY.
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The Accord Multi Academy Trust is an educational charity established in September 2016 that is currently made up of four academies who were the founding members of the Trust. In September 2016 Horbury Academy and Ossett Academy & Sixth Form College came together, moving away from their stand-alone Trust status and were joined in December 2016 by Horbury Primary Academy and Middlestown Primary Academy.
The overarching vision for the Trust is to work in one 'Accord – celebrating the differences of each academy through strong collaboration in order to inspire all members of our learning community to be the best that they can be.
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Jeremy Lin has had a relatively quiet start to the 2012-13 NBA season. Through eight games so far this season, he's averaged a modest 10.9 points and 6.1 assists. But, he's not complaining about his current situation at all. In fact, it sounds like he's happy to be flying under the radar right now. In an interview that he did with Yahoo! Sports recently, Lin acknowledges that he wasn't comfortable when "Linsanity" struck earlier this year in New York City.
"I went into an absolute shell for a few months in New York," he says. "I went through a phase when I didn't want to talk to anybody. I didn't want to talk to my friends. I didn't want to give anybody close to me a chance to mess up our relationship. I saw how publicity and fame changed certain people around me and changed how people looked at me. And, I hated it."
Most pro basketball players would probably kill to have the kind of season that Lin had last year. So, it's interesting to hear him talk about how hard it was and how he's glad it's over. But, we've gotta admit: We're glad it's over, too. Fun as it was, "Linsanity" wasn't going to last forever in NYC. So, it's probably best for Lin to be back where he belongs for awhile—under the radar. Just as long as he doesn't stay there for too long.
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There is an urgent need for new homes in The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, including homes that are affordable. The draft Local Plan plans to meet that need by identifying sites to provide at least 1,505 homes in Maidenhead, and at least 14,240 homes across the rest of the Royal Borough in the period to 2033.
The Spencer's Farm site was designated in the draft Local Plan as being suitable for a residential development of up to 300 homes with educational provision, a junior football pitch, landscape treatment to transition into the countryside, improved connectivity to the public rights of way network, and measures to address the impacts of noise from the railway line.
The draft Local Plan was submitted to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on 31 January 2018 and is currently undergoing examination by an Independent Planning Inspector.


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6 toaster pastries with icing packets. Natural and artificial flavor.
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Thanks to the passionate alumni volunteers who lead the Alumni Annual Fund (AAF), Carleton alumni give back to the college in numbers almost without parallel in American higher education. We are proud and grateful for this outstanding alumni contribution to Carleton's excellence.
While most institutions depend to some degree on volunteer support, none boasts the level of ownership that Carleton's alumni volunteers have assumed in raising dollars for the AAF.
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Any gift during the current fiscal year (July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021) to any of the AAF designations will be recognized in class totals and the Annual Report on Giving for year. Learn more about the ways you can direct your gift within the Annual Fund–and what those dollars support:


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"Barcode" web service
Obtain barcodes directly from your own company system
Who is this service for & preconditions
The "Barcode" web service is suitable for
- customers with more than 2,000 consignments per year
- customers with a billing relationship who obtain barcodes directly via their system and do not want to leave their usual user environment
- printing barcodes for parcel, Swiss-Express and letter mail
- printing the address label incl. barcode (standard formats)
- integration of the barcode directly in your delivery document
Technical requirements
To be able to use the "Barcode" web service, you need a system with a web service interface, based on SOAP. You can find all documents required to configure the web service here:
The example files, together with the XSD files, form the implementation templates. These are organized according to the operations of the "Barcode" web service.
Example files per operation (request and response):
- "Validate Combination" (ZIP, 1,011 bytes)
- "Generate Label" (ZIP, 49.6 KB)
- "Generate Single Barcodes" (ZIP, 12.9 KB)
- "Generate Barcode" (ZIP, 2.4 KB)
- "Read Allowed Services By Franking License" (ZIP, 3.1 KB)
- "Read Service Groups" (ZIP, 795 bytes)
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Visitors inspect the crafts for sale at the old-new train station in Jerusalem.
A boy reads about the history of the Jaffa-Jerusalem rail line at the old Jerusalem station.
Jerusalem has finally found a use for its old train station, in the heart of the city. The gabled stone building with arched doorways and the surrounding compound are the capital's newest entertainment spot, offering cafes, restaurants, shops, crafts and food fairs, a small history museum, and free entertainment for children. A variety of tours, including a self-guided hybrid-bicycle tour, set out from the souvenir shop.
Blessedly, everything there is open on Saturday.
Although I was afraid that the city would not have the good sense to preserve the memory of its first train (completed in 1892), I was pleasantly surprised. True, the old train station lay abandoned and neglected for many years, but even before the new entertainment area opened this month a very pleasant park was built alongside the old tracks, running west from the train station for several kilometers. It has become very popular with bike riders and walkers.
I thought there had to be a reason for my chocolate addiction, and now I've discovered it. According to a recent Times of Israel article, Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 and fleeing the Inquisition in Portugal starting in 1536 brought the knowledge of chocolate processing to France, settling on the outskirts of Bayonne, in southwestern France.
After they taught the secrets of the trade to local workers, the chocolatiers guild barred Jews from producing the sweet stuff.
This month, 500 years later, Bayonne has paid homage at its Chocolate Days festival to the Sephardic Jewish chocolate pioneers.
Michèle Kahn, the author of the novel Cacao, told the Times that little is known about how Jews got into the chocolate trade in the New World, but surmises that some must have sailed across the Atlantic with Cortes. I would look at the Jewish involvement in the sugar trade as a possible connection.
So what are my chocolate genes? There's a family legend (on my mother's side) that places an ancestor in Amsterdam, where many of the Jews were Sephardic. It's as good an explanation as any.
For centuries, European aristocrats sent tributes to Catholic churches in Jerusalem but these precious gifts were hidden away for safekeeping by the Franciscan Order in the city. Now, according to the daily Ha'aretz, these treasures—ritual objects and works of art—are to be displayed in three museums in the Old City starting in 2015. Among the items are a 13th century Mongolian bell, an inscribed golden goblet from the Spanish king Philip III, and a ceremonial silver scepter from the Italian king Victor Emmanuel II.
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i am using an Arduino UNO as a slave. up until now i have managed to sent and receive numbers from one to the other using this schematic and programming to both: http://blog.oscarliang.net/raspberry-pi ... ected-i2c/ .
On my Arduino i am using an NFC reader and i want to sent the card's UID to my raspberry pi. i have tried lots of methods that i have found but non of them seems to be working for me. this has become frustrating. i just want to get a UID and sent it over to my raspberry pi. could you please help me with this problem?
The code for receiving the UID is:
Thank you in advance
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while (NFCserial.available() > 0) {
boolean success;
// Buffer to store the returned UID
uint8_t uid[] = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
uint8_t uidLength; // Length of the UID
// Wait for an ISO14443A type cards (Mifare, etc.).
// When one is found'uid' will be populated with the UID
success = nfc.readPassiveTargetID(PN532_MIFARE_ISO14443A, &uid[0], &uidLength);
if (success) {
Serial.print("UID Value: ");
for (uint8_t i=0; i < uidLength; i++)
Serial.print(uid[i], HEX);
delay(10000); // Try to read a card every 10 sec


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EEK! So excited for a long weekend =)! I only wish I could be on the beach too!
We have been doing a lot of math games to work on our number concepts. Kids were given many manipulatives to help them show the number 10. I loved seeing their creativity come out!
We began our penguin unit this past week and made some to hang from the ceiling. I am always shocked how empty the room looks with nothing there. We took the santas down upon returning from break and had to quickly make these cuties. Kids made snowballs and wrote a few of our high frequency words on them. We made an anchor chart with all of the things penguins can, are, and have after reading some informational texts. They really do a nice job recalling facts from the books.
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When we returned to school, I had my birthday and decided to make it fun for everyone. I let the kids wear pajamas to begin our arctic study, I made large snowflake cut out cookies, we studied our penguins, and watched "Happy Feet" during indoor recess with popcorn/drinks. It was a super fun day! I also got a long run in and enjoyed dinner with my family. Everything I hold dear to my heart!
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"Which one?" says Luckman. 'They always ask me, 'Which one?'"
Wilson laughs. He gets it, too. "I say, 'No, Glen and I own them all.' And they go,
'ALL of them? Where'd you buy the franchise?' "
Easy assumption to make.
The handsome, brown-and-tan stucco buildings — pueblo post-modern? — could easily have sprung from the deep calculations of some head office in Atlanta or Dallas or Boca Raton.
Same for the high-visibility locations. And the carefully casual uniforms of the "associates."
Can it be this suddenly ubiquitous business — one self-storage centre in 2006, seven this spring with the opening of a tower at Carling Avenue and the Queensway, 20 buildings eventually — but not TOO eventually — stretching from Kanata to Orléans to Gatineau — is a hometown effort?
"As Canadians, we're sort of humble and think, 'Oh, a couple of local guys from Ottawa couldn't have done this,' " says Wilson.
But even those who have noticed the "Ottawa-owned, Ottawa-proud" slogan on the Dymon website might not realize how these local guys — Wilson who grew up in Bells Corners, Luckman, an early son of Kanata — have refined and broadened the self-storage concept.
Comparing a modern Dymon centre to the traditional, chain-link-and-cinder block storage yard is like comparing a Harbor Hilton to Myrt's Motel.
Dymon now holds as much as 70 per cent of Ottawa's self-storage market, a number likely to jump closer to 90 per cent when it's finished expanding in the capital. The storage centres and other Ottawa holdings, including a pair of high-end retirement homes, will by the end of this year be worth, the partners figure, $500 million.
All of it has been pay-as-you-go or financed through conservative borrowing by two entrepreneurs who got together in 1995 to refit down-at-the-heels commercial properties with a stake of just $100,000 — about the cost of a set of high-speed doors for a drive-in bay at one of their storage buildings.
But what may be more surprising yet, even to those who know Luckman and Wilson, is their coming march on Canada's densely populated heart. Their plan is to build and operate 10 million square feet of storage in a vast swath from Hamilton to Oshawa, from Barrie down to Lake Ontario. Call it the Greater Greater Toronto Area.
"There will be anywhere, depending on size, between 70 and 80 facilities by the time we're finished there," Luckman predicts.
At the end of this invasion, set to unfold over eight years, the partners estimate the Dymon asset value will approach $2.5 billion to $3 billion.
"So it's not," as Luckman says in enormous understatement, "a small game."
And of that necklace of 70 to 80 beige stucco Dymon centres to spread across the Greater GTA, how many will the couple of local guys from Ottawa own?
All of them.
At the very core of what Dymon sells us — no, what Dymon RENTS us — is … air. Roomfuls of air.
Five feet wide, 10 feet deep, nine feet high — the industry clings to imperial measurements — for $128 a month. Ten feet wide, 15 feet deep for $264. Less with one-year contract.
The value, though, is in the ease with which we can displace this air with bureaus and bicycles, couches and kayaks. How we can stuff a room and leave the roll-down door locked until we need the camping gear or the kids get a house and can take that dining set.
Self-storage began in Texas in the great postwar expansion of the 1950s. People were buying, migrating, multiplying. The United Nations Demographic Yearbook spoke of a "population explosion."
And they needed space — short-term for furniture between household moves or retail inventory before a selling season; longer-term for the acquisitions that were overflowing living space.
Between 1973 and 1978, according to the Virginia-based Self Storage Association, one billion square feet of storage would rise across America. In the next eight years, another billion would be added.
Today, says the industry group, self-storage in the U.S. is a $22.5-billion yearly business. One in every 10 households rents a storage unit — up from one in 17 in 1995.
Six decades in, most storage facilities still follow the Texas blueprint: rows of barracks-like buildings surrounded by gravel lots and high fences. The big addition was the introduction of heated units, often in converted urban buildings, where a higher rental fee could buy some protection from temperature swings.
Luckman and Wilson thought there was more potential.
Before they opened the first Dymon Self-Storage on Coventry Road, near the St. Laurent Shopping Centre, they toured storage facilities in Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles.
"We hired guys to do feasibility studies," reports Wilson. "We travelled with them, we went to all the trade shows. We spent years investigating this."
From that research they devised a very different blueprint. Underpinning everything in their buildings is security. Not so much for the items in storage — the industry was already doing a reasonable job with that — but for the people bringing those items in and out.
Storage facilities are lightly staffed during business hours and usually unstaffed at night. More employees would mean higher rental fees. Yet the buildings the partners saw were isolated and dim and ridden with places where an attacker could hide — unnerving for potential renters, especially the women who today make up the majority of Dymon customers.
To make visitors feel safe, the hallways in Dymon buildings are lit up like laboratories. The employees wear uniforms. But the biggest difference — one the company says no one else offers — is its central, 24-hour "command centre" in which security staff can see camera views of every corridor, every door and elevator, in all the Dymon buildings. At a sign of trouble, the staffer will contact police and announce through two-way intercom that officers are on their way.
Other operators haven't seemed to grasp how important security is to customers, the partners say.
"In the States, they said, 'Well, punch in your code, and we'll just light the corridors going to that person's unit,' " Wilson remembers. 'We thought, 'Oh my gosh, my wife was in there, and saw all those dark corners.' "
The nighttime Dymon customer is greeted by a fully-lit floor. She knows she can press a button to connect with the command centre. "She feels very safe," says Wilson.
Humidity control was another must-have. Heating a building is not enough; a stable moisture content is necessary to prevent your antique table from splitting or your clothes from getting musty. Dymon says it is the only Canadian operator with the elaborate heating and ventilation systems needed to control humidity.
Convenience was another priority. Locations close to where people live and, at the buildings themselves, big drive-through bays like the service areas at car dealerships, so you can load and unload out of the rain or snow.
Equally important, both for making the centres more attractive to customers and for boosting per-square-foot income, was the addition of products and services. Each location sells and rents cardboard and eco-friendly plastic boxes — already close to a $1-million yearly business. Customers can rent mailboxes and security deposit boxes and have free use of meeting rooms with boardroom tables.
In each facility is a studio where employees will photograph items customers no longer want and, for a 15-per-cent commission, sell them on the Internet (www.dymonmine.com). It's not a big business, but it's welcomed by renters who have tired of paying to store their mantle clocks and exercise treadmills yet don't want to discard them.
"It was a need from the customer's point of view," says Luckman.
For business clients, Dymon is introducing paper shredding and an indexed document storage and retrieval system.
"We're developing an app so that people can manage their documents almost like you'd manage a library," explains Dymon's senior vice-president, Steve Creighton. "As opposed to just throwing all your boxes in a storage unit, you can actually organize them."
For all Dymon's founders learned from established storage operators — the what-to-dos and what-not-tos — they took as many lessons from other sectors.
Walmart's security centres were a model for their command centre. Home Depot taught the benefits of standardization and economies of scale. From Enterprise Rent-a-Car's free pickup service came the free truck and driver to help renters move in (also available, for a fee, at move-out). Ritz-Carlton's "create guests for life" philosophy inspired their customer-first ethic.
And from where — NASA? Star Trek movies? — came a near unworldly focus on materials and construction. Tour the storage floors at the Kanata building, the largest of its type in Canada. You'll find no wood, no drywall, nothing that could harbour spores or bugs or even dust specks.
Epoxy coats the concrete floors. Corrugated steel, coated with zinc and aluminum, lines the storage units. More metal, this time smooth and painted white, clads hallways that stretch on to the vanishing point. It's so spotless, so quiet, so uniform, it could be a spaceship.
A space ship.
"A lot of people think, 'Well, why would you ever do that in self storage?'" says Luckman. "The president of the Canadian Self-Storage Association, years ago, he came down and saw Coventry, our first facility, and he looked around and he said, 'Why did you spend all your money on this?' He was incredulous. He said, 'It worked before under our old system. Why would you do this?'"
Coventry reached full occupancy in 4½ months. A standard facility like it in the U.S. takes 30 to 36 months to fill. Kanata, with 221,000 square feet and 1,532 units, is on track to fill in 18 months.
And the people renting theses units are willing to pay a premium — Dymon says its rates are in the "high middle" range — for security, for convenience, for the extra services.
That's why they did it.
Established operators are also benefiting from a buoyant market. Ottawa operator John Kenny says he has doubled his Stittsville Storage since buying the facility 10 years ago and is already expanding Barrhaven Bridlewood Self Storage, which he opened in 2011, to try to meet demand.
While he's impressed by Dymon's rapid expansion, he believes many customers seek a cheaper choice.
"Not everybody shops at Harry Rosen," says Kenny, who estimates he can beat a Dymon prices by 30 per cent on comparable units.
Kenny offers heated and unheated units in facilities with alarms and 24-hour camera-monitoring. His customers can be homeowners with no room left in their garages, sports clubs looking for economical space to store equipment and independent tradespeople who need readily accessible warehouse space.
For every dollar they spend on advertising," he says of Dymon, "my philosophy is, there's some of that dollar going toward my business."
If Dymon was a technology company, Luckman and Wilson believe it would get plenty of attention.
"If Mitel said they were doing a $100-million offering to pump money into the Ottawa region, the mayor would be out, everybody would be out," says Luckman.
But self-storage? Hardly your trending topic. Or as Luckman puts it: "Don't expect to get the girl at the dance."
He and Wilson are laughing again. Clearly, they've worked this Rodney Dangerfield bit before. Just as clear: in terms of publicity, of profile, they're exactly where they want to be.
Luckman, 52, is Dymon's chief executive officer. Groomed and youthful looking, he likes to discuss abstract concepts from books like Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point and Wired editor Chris Anderson's Free: The Future of a Radical Price.
Wilson, robust at 59, talks about architecture, about construction. He moves his hands as if to roll up his sleeves. He's the company president.
But titles are for business cards. "We've always talked about ourselves as partners," says Luckman.
Adds Wilson: "We do everything together. We both design it and finance it and make all decisions as a team."
They joined forces 18 years ago, each with experience in condominium management. They had, they readily confide, a mere $100,000 in cash. But that was enough to start buying budget-priced commercial and industrial properties across Ottawa that they could upgrade and rent or resell.
Speculators? Flippers? A better word, they say, is "redeveloper," someone who preserves and adds value. And in the 1990s the capital was a sea of shabby commercial space — Class C in the industry argot. Cheaply built, poorly maintained, crying for redevelopment.
All aspects of their business — acquisition, zoning, designing, construction — they kept in-house. Such integration may be unusual in other industries today, but in real estate it's common. It helped them make deals quickly and quietly.
"Every one was in a separate numbered company because we didn't want anyone to know how big we were," Wilson explains. "We always kept under the radar. So I'm buying a building, I didn't want the people selling (to say), 'They buy and retrofit and sell — we'll charge a price on it.'"
They branched into retirement homes, first by finding properties for big investors, then by opening their own. The Lord Lansdowne, in a Bank Street tower that once held apartments, and the Duke of Devonshire, in a one-time medical office building on Carling Avenue, are two of Ottawa's most luxurious seniors homes.
When it became clear the real estate market had peaked, when they decided to sell their office and industrial properties and find something else, they struck on a segment that appeared largely untapped.
The U.S, when the partners launched their study into self-storage, had 7.6 square feet of commercial storage space per person. Ottawa then had less than one square foot. Toronto, now, has about 1.1 square feet.
Explanations were offered. Americans have fewer basements. Americans move more. American cities have huge universities and military bases that boost the need for storage. None stood up to analysis. They learned that cellarless cities like Las Vegas, for example, had as much as 20 square feet of storage space per capita. But places like Boston and Chicago, comparable to Canadian cities, still averaged six square feet.
Unusually, maybe uniquely in the service sector, the labour requirements of self-storage were low.
And the U.S. industry — the mom-and-pops, the big players like U-Haul and Extra Space — had never stopped growing through financial cycles and shifting demographics.
"Nothing repels a recession 100 per cent, but it's very resistant," Luckman says. "You just change your customer. In very good times, you have a lot of disposable income, people developing their basements, their backyards, people buying too much stuff.
"And in down times you have people moving back home with mom, moving from office space to home offices — they've got to store their stuff somewhere."
Dymon may not be a tech firm, but much of its approach is startup modern. The name — developed by the founders — has all the business-psych must-haves. Two syllables. Hard consonants. Ability to trademark.
There's the requisite environmental focus: structures built to the latest green standards, hybrid and electric cars for employees, arrays of rooftop solar panels that will send power to the grid and will remain functioning, the company says, regardless of the fate of Ontario's Feed-in Tariff program.
With about 65 employees in the self-storage division and head office, Dymon operates as a "meritocracy," says Luckman, with bonuses for performance and plans for increased training when the headquarters move from Walkley Road to the top floor of Dymon's latest building on Carling Avenue. Salaries, say the partners without giving details, are well above comparable sectors.
The community focus, meantime, is pure Main Street. The company supports charities and is keen to say so. Each store has a mandate to get involved in neighbourhood programs.
And its commitment to planning, to detail, is textbook MBA material. The partners say the systems they have developed, the "policies and procedures" manuals they've written, will carry Dymon through a rapid expansion that would overwhelm a less-prepared company.
Another key step toward that growth was the hiring of the tireless Creighton, a former Minto Corp. executive who is on the job by 6:30 a.m. every morning and can cite every Dymon fact and figure.
"I knew him from years ago when we were in Kiwanis together and I knew he was a machine," says Luckman. "I knew he'd fit in with our corporate philosophy, which is, the upper group works a lot, but we love what we do."
The two principals could open their company to private investors — they've had offers. Or they could take it public and sell shares or trust units. It's certainly big enough. But with a debt-to-value ratio that now stands at about 42 per cent, they say they have no need for outside cash, and no desire to give up control.
Nor do they dream of Dymon as a national or North American brand, with two facilities in Winnipeg, six in Phoenix and so on. Instead their strategy, accomplished in Ottawa, soon to unfold in Toronto, is to be regionally dominant. Further expansion could come through licensing, with a deal now under discussion with a group in Germany.
Despite their limited profile, the partners are hardly recluses: Wilson likes to do hot laps in the company's bright yellow Tesla roadster at the tracks in Shannonville and Calabogie; Luckman's sunny-day ride is a red Ferrari F430 Spider F1.
But they admit they're still adjusting to the need to claim their territory and put their names before the public. Wilson remembers issuing the first Dymon Storage press release. "It was foreign to Glen and me and it almost felt like we were bragging, which is not our nature."
Developing a corporate identity, though, and establishing a company name that can live on? That's exciting.
"Anybody can build an office building, a retirement home, one self-storage," says Wilson.
"It's fun to build a brand."


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OBJECTIVES : OBJECTIVES Develop human resource of the company continuously for better performance to meet objectives. Provide opportunity for development of different level of employees. suitable need based training programs Prepare newly inducted staff to perform their work with high level of competency and excellence. Meet social obligations of industry to contribute towards the excellence of technical and management education. OBJECTIVES : OBJECTIVES Assist the existing and potential customers in the better use of our equipments by training the employees. Promote a culture of creativity, innovation, human development, respect and dignity. Achieve excellence in every aspect of working life. Create environment for the trainees conducive to their character building. Evolution of HRD : Evolution of HRD Early apprenticeship programs Early vocational education programs Early factory schools Early training for unskilled/semiskilled Human relations movement Establishment of training profession Emergence of HRD HRD Functions : HRD Functions Providing skill input to apprentices and trainees Identifying training needs and imparting training Outside deputation for competency enhancement Competency mapping Organisational development activities Conducting sessions and workshops Training and development (T&D) THE NEED FOR HRD:BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS CHANGED : THE NEED FOR HRD:BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS CHANGED HRD can be 'a platform for organisational transformation, a mechanism for continuous organisational and individual renewal and a vehicle for global knowledge transfer'. THE NEED FOR HRD : THE NEED FOR HRD Implementing a new policy Implementing a strategy Effecting organisational change Changing an organisation's culture Meeting changes in the external environment Solving particular problems THE NEED FOR HRD:TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES : THE NEED FOR HRD:TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES Technological change creates requirements for training and development THE NEED FOR HRD:ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE : THE NEED FOR HRD:ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE Organisations that work in less time will have a competitive advantage. A customer and quality focus will permeate tomorrow's superior organisation. The arena for an organisation's planning and action will be global. Business strategies now depend on quality and versatility of the human resource. Work structure and design will change dramatically. THE NEED FOR HRD:SOCIAL,LEGEL & OTHER CHANGES : THE NEED FOR HRD:SOCIAL,LEGEL & OTHER CHANGES Social attitudes, legal requirements, industrial relations and so on generate training and development needs. They demand new skills in the workplace Training and Development (T&D) : Training and Development (T&D) Training – improving the knowledge, skills and attitudes of employees for the short-term, particular to a specific job or task – e.g., Employee orientation Skills & technical training Coaching Counseling Training and Development (T&D) : Training and Development (T&D) Development – preparing for future responsibilities, while increasing the capacity to perform at a current job Management training Supervisor development Benefits of Training and Development : Benefits of Training and Development Training and development helps the employees to achieve their personal goals which in turn help to achieve the overall organizational objectives. Thus, we can bifurcate the benefits of training and development into two broad heads: Organizational benefits Personal benefits Organizational benefits: : Organizational benefits: Improves the morale of the workforce. Leads to improve profitability and more positive attitudes towards profit orientation Improves the job knowledge and skills at all levels of the organization. Aids in organizational development Improves relationship between superior and subordinate. Personal benefits : Personal benefits Helps the individual in making better decisions and effective problem solving. Aids in encouraging and achieving self-development and self-confidence. Provides information for improving leadership, knowledge, communication skills and attitudes. Helps a person handle stress, tension, frustration and conflicts. Helps a person develop speaking and listening skills. Helps eliminate fear in attempting new tasks. Impact on Training : Impact on Training Training practices rapidly changing in response to pressures Impacting instruction design, delivery, and evaluation processes Global interest in E-learning is growing Training & HRD Process Model : Training & HRD Process Model Needs Assessment Phase : Needs Assessment Phase Establishing HRD priorities Defining specific training and objectives Establishing evaluation criteria Design Phase : Design Phase Selecting who delivers program Selecting and developing program content Scheduling the training program Implementation Phase : Implementation Phase Implementing or delivering the program Evaluation Phase : Evaluation Phase Determining program effectiveness – e.g., Keep or change providers? Offer it again? What are the true costs? Can we do it another way? Learning & Performance : Learning & Performance THE LEARNING CURVE : THE LEARNING CURVE Critical HRD Issues : Critical HRD Issues Strategic management and HRD The supervisor's role in HRD Organizational structure of HRD Strategic Management & HRD : Strategic Management & HRD Strategic management aims to ensure organizational effectiveness for the foreseeable future – e.g., maximizing profits in the next 3 to 5 years HRD aims to get managers and workers ready for new products, procedures, and materials Supervisor's Role in HRD : Supervisor's Role in HRD Implements HRD programs and procedures On-the-job training (OJT) Coaching/mentoring/counseling Career and employee development A "front-line participant" in HRD Organizational Structure of HRD Departments : Organizational Structure of HRD Departments Depends on company size, industry and maturity No single structure used Depends in large part on how well the HRD manager becomes an institutional part of the company – i.e., a revenue contributor, not just a revenue user HR Manager Role : HR Manager Role Integrates HRD with organizational goals and strategies Promotes HRD as a profit enhancer Tailors HRD to corporate needs and budget Institutionalizes performance enhancement HR Strategic Advisor Role : HR Strategic Advisor Role Consults with corporate strategic thinkers Helps to articulate goals and strategies Develops HR plans Develops strategic planning education and training programs Challenges for HRD : Challenges for HRD Changing workforce demographics Competing in global economy Eliminating the skills gap Need for lifelong learning Need for organizational learning Summary : Summary HRD is too important to be left to amateurs HRD should be a revenue producer, not a revenue user HRD should be a central part of company You need to be able to talk MONEY You do not have the permission to view this presentation. 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Diverse fields of specialization in law exist, ranging from administration law, civil law, penal law, commercial law to constitutional law. Professor Lee Ho-yong of the Department of Public Administration at Hanyang University (HYU) is an expert in the field. Lee had attended HYU as a student, receiving his Ph.D. in Law in 2001. Although he does have experiences teaching different types of laws such as police law or social security acts, he has found public administration the most fascinating. Lee has been a member of the examination board for diverse national examinations such as the bar exam.
Q1. Why did you choose Public Administration despite having majored in law?
Lee: "Public administration law deals with the intentions of a country. It regulates a country so that it isn't perceptible to unlawful acts. Administration itself is the action taken by a country while public administration law is what enforces administration in the way that law functions. I believe that public administration law meaningful in that it propells the country in the right direction. Through it, people can be compensated for what they have been wrongfully dealt with. For instance, let's say that my driver's license was revoked due to an insignificant reason, not under the appropriate grounds for such a revocation. Then I can claim for a restoration through this law."
Q2. You seem to have a lot of experience in being a bar examiner. Tell us more about it.
Lee: "I became an examiner through the recommendations of other professors in 2002. There are diverse types of tests ranging from the bar exam, to civil service examinations. I have probably been an examiner in more than hundreds of tests counting the small tests as well. We used to have a system where examiners are grouped and stay together for seven to ten days with no connections with the outside world. We would hand in our cell phones and communication would be limited. Out of the question banks, we pick out a few question cards and make sure that the questions have no ambiguity. This takes as long as making questions ourselves. Then we would compare certain questions with other professors to make sure that the questions and answers are correct."
Q3. Do the examiners become acquainted with each other as well?
Lee: "Out of the professors that do not belong in the same majors, we do hold meetings from time to time. Since professors from the same majors often meet frequently in conferences and societies, the meetings don't really mean much to us but as for examiners with different occupations, such as a judge, we sometimes get to meet and talk."
Q4. Can you tell us about the law school preparation class? What could be the pros and cons for the elimination of national bar exams and turning it into a law school system?
Lee: "Around 100 to 130 students from HYU usually enter law schools, and their achievements are starting to gain more light. A lot of students go to better law schools compared to when I first started this law school preparation class. As for the bar exams, it's quite a sensitive issue. As of next year, bar exam would be out of use and law schools would completely replace the exams.
"As for entering law school, there are three things to prepare for: LEET, GPA and English. Personally, it seems unfair to only have a law school system since a lot more people could have seized the chance to become a lawyer, prosecutor, or judge, but now there is only one way to become a national judicial officer- by getting into and graduating from law schools. The biggest problem is that this imposes a huge limit to those who obtained low GPAs during their university years. LEET or English proficiency tests could improve through a lot of practice, but as for GPA, students cannot recover from it unless they return to school for retakes. Although the intention of the law school is for the good of many, it seems to me that other alternative options should be left open as well."
Q5. Was it your dream to become a professor? What motivates you to lecture students?
Lee: "Yes, I have always dreamed of becoming a professor and it took me a lot of effort to bring me to this place. I worked hard anywhere I went, since I wanted to be recognized as a hard-working person so that universities would ask me to teach at their place. Once you set your dream too late, it just makes you fall behind. Some students come to me after watching a few of my lectures on YouTube. They either send e-mails thanking me for the lecture or come and visit my office for advice as well. Close acquaintances with my students is what makes me feel proud. I talk to the students a lot and they come asking for help quite often. This is what keeps reminding me to be a good professor."
Q6. Any last comments for the readers?
Lee: "You should never be afraid to reach for your dreams. Put your mind to it, as well as a lot of effort, into the things that you would like to do- not what others tell you to. People get to reach a certain status socially, but what determines your status is how much you have worked for it, not where you have started off from. Dream for what you would like to do and pour the passion and effort into it. That's what I think success is."
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Every so often, I'm going to post a short explanation of concepts that are particularly useful for thinking about sustainability, social structure, economics or other themes relevant to The Progress Motive. First up, it's the profit motive, which is key to understanding how the current economic system is supposed to work.
What's the profit motive?
The profit motive is the desire to make money. In a free market (where people voluntarily swap money, goods and services), the profit motive decides who gets what. In theory, the profit motive distributes resources efficiently, but in practice there are some problems.
How is the profit motive supposed to work?
Profit is the reward for doing something useful
A business can make a profit by selling a product or service at a market price that is higher than the cost of production.
Market price is determined supply (how much of a particular item is available for sale) and demand (how much of that item can be sold). Both supply and demand vary with price. Supply tends to go up as price goes up, because more profit can be made at a higher price, encouraging businesses to sell that item. Demand tends to go down as price goes up, because not everyone can afford more expensive items and because people might decide to spend their money on something else. The market price is the price at which supply equals demand, meaning that everyone who is willing and able to buy that product at that price can do so, and none are left unsold.
The market price shows how valuable a product is to customers and tells businesses whether to bother making it.
Let's say that it costs a juice business £1 to buy apples and £1 to juice and bottle them, making a total cost of production of £2 per bottle.
If people will only pay £0.50 per bottle of apple juice, then the business makes a loss of £1.50 per bottle. It wastes resources by turning relatively valuable apples (£1) and effort (£1) into relatively worthless juice (£0.50).
If, however, people are willing to pay £3 per bottle of apple juice instead of buying and juicing the apples themselves, then the business helps its customers. It adds value to the raw materials and makes a profit of £1 per bottle in return. Crucially, the business does something useful not out of kindness, but because it wants to make money.
The profit motive corrects undersupply and oversupply of goods
The beauty of the profit motive is that, in a free market, it automatically corrects shortages and surpluses of different products by balancing supply and demand.
If lots of people want potatoes, for example, but the harvest was low this year, then the price will be high. The few potatoes that are available will be sold to the small number of buyers who are willing and able to pay a lot for them. The high price encourages farmers to plant more potatoes, which increases supply and brings the price down.
On the other hand, if there is a glut of cabbages, then the price will be low, encouraging people to buy cabbages. Since there are so many cabbages, some might not be sold, causing waste. Some farmers will decide to switch to more profitable crops for the next season, which reduces the supply of cabbages and brings the price back up.
There's no need for a central authority to tell farmers which crops to grow, because prices send signals to farmers about shortages and surpluses.
Who gets which resources?
What happens when there is a choice about how to use a particular resource?
Take apples, which can be used in many different ways. How does the apple farmer decide whether to sell her apples to the juice factory or the jam maker?
If jam making is more profitable than juice making, then the jam maker can get the apples by paying a higher price for them. The jam maker outbids the juice factory because it adds the most value to the apples.
This doesn't mean that all apples will be sold to jam makers – if this happened, the resulting oversupply of apple jam would cause jam prices to crash and reduce the maximum price that the jam maker is able to pay for the apples. Instead, the juice factory and the jam maker will get apples in a proportion that reflects the relative value to the market of juice and jam.
The profit motive directs resources to where they are the most valuable to the market, simply through businesses acting in their own interests. In fact, because all transactions in a truly free market are voluntary, every transaction should make the buyer and seller better off, leading (so the theory goes) to greater total wellbeing across society.
The dark side of the profit motive
You've probably already spotted some problems with this system.
Some economists say that at the market price, products are being allocated efficiently. To quote Investopedia, "everyone (individuals, firms, or countries) is satisfied with the current economic condition" when supply equals demand. This ignores the huge problem that anyone who wants or needs the product, but who can't afford the market price, can't get it. Most of the 795 million hungry people in the world are hungry because they are poor, despite there being more than enough food to go around (World Hunger).
Furthermore, the profit motive prioritises what richer people want over what poorer people need. Free markets may automatically send resources to where they are most valuable, but even if two people need the same item with the same urgency, the richer person can afford to pay more for it. Market value therefore doesn't necessarily correspond to degree of usefulness.
Voluntary transactions might make both buyer and seller better off, but transactions can also have side-effects that harm other people, meaning that overall wellbeing in society doesn't necessarily increase. The side-effects are known as negative externalities. Examples include air pollution from cars, noise from factories and litter.
So, although the profit motive is supposed to maximise overall social wellbeing, it doesn't necessarily work that way in reality.
A quick recap
We've seen that the profit motive drives businesses to make things that help customers. Market price, determined by the balance between supply and demand, indicates which products are most valued by customers. The profit motive is supposed to correct shortages and surpluses and send resources to where they are most useful. However, many people cannot afford the things they need, the market often puts the wants of richer people before the needs of poorer people and people can be harmed by the side effects of profitable transactions.
In the next post, I'll investigate why negative externalities account for much of the damage being done to the planet. To make sure you don't miss future posts, sign up for email updates below.


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We had a nice kitchen table with those ceramic tiles that were bordered by an oak frame for a top. Over the years a couple of the tiles were cracked from dropping pots & such on the top. It was time for it to go. The legs of the old table were nice heavy oak that were well worth saving. The apron of the table was made of that MDF stuff laminated over with oak veneer. Sooo the top & the aprons were scrapped & some nice Red Oak was acquired to make the new top & aprons. The aprons were made with a nice 1/8" bead along the bottom edge & I made new corner braces / brackets to join the aprons & table legs together. The aprons had two cross braces installed with pocket screws. I milled three planks for the top to just over 3/4" thick & edge glued / biscuit joined two 10" wide planks to a 14" center plank. I chose to highlight the planks with a slight "V" groove along the glue line & screwed but not glued three battens to the underside of the top to help prevent warping but still allow for wood movement. The edge of the table was also treated with a 1/8" bead around the top & bottom edges. 16 of those little "figure 8" desk top fasteners were used to attach the tip to the apron. All of the new oak was finished with a red oak stain & Arm r Seal. And the legs, that had an original finish of golden oak, were only scuffed with a scotch bright pad & given a thin coat of red oak color "gel stain" & a top coat of Arm r Seal. The match came out surprisingly well.
-- Frank, Florissant, Missouri "The New Show-Me Woodshop"
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#1 posted 02-09-2014 12:44 PM
I'm a huge fan of oak and your table is a good example of why. Nice job, thanks for sharing
-- Dick, Malvern Ohio - my biggest fear is that when I die, my wife sells my toys for what I told her I paid for them
#2 posted 02-09-2014 12:59 PM
Very nice job
-- Nature created it, I just assemble it.
#3 posted 02-09-2014 02:53 PM
The reuse the old table legs was a good idea and you have and create a very nice looking new table.
-- Peter, Woodbridge, Ontario
#4 posted 02-13-2014 03:05 PM
It came out really beautiful and sturdy, like the stain and finish. It will last for more years for the family to enjoy.
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