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Everhart Museum Executive Director Resigns, Caitlin Heaney West, Access NEPA, June 11, 2020
Everhart Offers Programs, Outreach Online for All Ages, Caitlin Heaney West, Scranton Times-Tribune, June 10, 2020
Francesca Saldan and Ryan Ward discuss Forming the Maslow Collection, Erika Funke, WVIA, February 5, 2020
Everhart Exhibit Looks Back at NYC's '80s and '90s Ccene with Warhol, Lichtenstein and More, Caitlin Heaney West, Scranton Times-Tribune, February 5, 2020
Everhart Museum Announces Pop-Up Wedding Contest, Caitlin Heaney West, Access NEPA, January 27, 2020
Warhol, Lichtenstein, Stella, LeWitt, and Others Exhibited at the Everhart Museum, Scranton Chamber of Commerce, January 24, 2020
The Everhart Museum Welcomes New Board of Trustee Members, Scranton Chamber of Commerce, October 10, 2019
The Diwali Festival of Lights, FOX56 Newsroom, October 1, 2019
Plans finalized on the new 'Hope Horn Red Wing Sculpture' at Everhart Museum, FOX56 Newsroom, October 1, 2019
'Red Wing' Sculpture Moved to New Home in Scranton, WNEP, September 30, 2019
Red Wing sculpture by Hope Horn now displayed at Everhart Museum, The Abington Journal, September 30, 2019
Red Wing sculpture given a new home, Cody Butler, PA HomePage, September 27, 2019
Raught Collection on display at Hope Horn Gallery in Scranton, Anja Whitehead, PA HomePage, September 12, 2019
Children spend afternoon with grandparents at Grand Day @ the Library, Ben Freda, The Abington Journal, August 19, 2019
10 Things you might not have known about Scranton's Everhart Museum, Caitlin Heaney West, Scranton Times-Tribune, August 18, 2019
Residents attend Internship Program, Carbondale News, August 15, 2019
A Study Partnership In High-Quality Arts For Older Adults, Kevin Conroy, Happenings Magazine,
Learning Lessons in the Garden, Cassie Semyon, WNEP, June 14, 2019
NEPA Bursts with Pride Month events, Patrice Wilding, The Citizens Voice, May 23, 2019
What's The Good News?, Erika Funke, WVIA, May 14, 2019
Art Bloomed at the MFA, Claire Speredelozzi, The Mass Media, May 7, 2019
Art in Bloom: Scranton's Everhart Museum gears up for Spring Events this weekend, Ryan Leckey, WNEP, April 25, 2019
|Radiologist examines mummy X-rays, Meredith Peachy, Lewistown Sentinel, April 15, 2019
Mysterious Mummy Taken from Peru a Century Ago Was the Body of a Teen Boy, Mindy Weisberger, Livescience.com, April 1, 2019
Courthouse Square Sculpture to Be Restored, Relocated, wnep.com–March 28, 2019
Sculpture to move to museum, Cody Butler, PA Homepage, March 25, 2019
Everhart's New Initiative Brings Free Museum, Carbondale News, March 22, 2019
Officials X-ray 2,000-Year-Old Mummy to Reveal ' Fascinating' Secrets, Jack Phillips, The Epoch Times, March 21, 2019
X-Rays on Peruvian mummy in Pennsylvania reveal 'fascinating' 2,000-year-old secrets, Jennifer Earl, Fox News, March 21, 2019
X-Rays at Geisinger CMC Reveal Secrets of Everhart Mummy, Stacy Lange, WNEP, March 19, 2019
Experience March Madness at the Everhart Museum, Carbondale News, March 14, 2019
March Madness at the Everhart Museum, Moscow Villager, March 11, 2019
Best Bets: Five things to do this week, Citizens' Voice, March 7, 2019
Mummy returning to Everhart Museum, Caitlin Heaney West, Citizens' Voice, March 7, 2019
Everhart Museum will bring its Peruvian Mummy out of storage, The Abington Journal, March 4, 2019
Middle School Artists Recognized, The News Eagle, February 27, 2019
Breaking Ground Poets express selves, Brooke Williams, Wyoming County Press Examiner, February 20, 2019
Conversation piece: New Everhart exhibits aim to spark dialogue about mental health, Caitlin Heaney, Citizens' Voice, January 31, 2019
Everhart Museum in Scranton creates 'The Office' lip dub parody for online dance-off, Rich Howells, NEPA Scene, April 27, 2018
Museum Dance Off 5 – Eastern US Group 4, When You Work at a Museum, April 27, 2018
Staff at PA. museums showcase their dance moves in Museum Dance OFf competition, Julia Hatmaker, Pennlive.com, April 11, 2018
10 of the best local parks in Pennsylvania to visit this spring, Jim Cheney, Pennlive.com, April 11, 2018
Everhart Museum launches first-ever Art in Bloom this spring, The Abington Journal, February 18, 2019
OurSELF and HerSELF at the Everhart Museum, Jayne Ann Bugda, PA Homepage, February 09, 2019
Everhart Museum shows off renovations, Eric Deabill, PA Homepage, November 09, 2018
AMERICAN VISIONARY: John F. Kennedy's Life and Times at the Everhart Museum, Jayne Ann Bugda, PA Homepage, September 29, 2018
Peek inside artist Hunt Slonem's world with Everhart Exhibition, Gia Mazur, Citizens' Voice, September 27, 2018
Local History: Scranton-born artist helmed Everhart Museum in the 1930s, 40s, Erin Nissley, Scranton Times-Tribune, June 10, 2018
About Face John Kascht shows 30 years of portraits with retrospective exhibit at Everhart Museum, Brooke Williams, the570.com, February 1, 2018
State Grant will help Everhart renovate, Gia Mazur, Scranton Times-Tribune, May 15, 2017
Gaming Grant Gives Everhart Museum Major Facelift, WNEP, May 15, 2017
Everhart Museum Announces Major Renovations, WBRE/WYOU PA Home Page, May 15, 2017
Everhart Museum Executive Director Resigns, Board Appoints Interim Executive Director, June 11, 2020
Warhol, Lichtenstein, Stella, LeWitt, and others Exhibited at the Everhart Museum, January 21, 2020
The Everhart Museum Kicks-Off the Holidays by Giving Back, November 18, 2019
Northeastern Pennsylvania Healthcare Foundation Awards $10,000 Grant to the Everhart Museum, September 11, 2019
Everhart Museum Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant, August 28, 2019
Fall at the Everhart Museum, August 26, 2019
Victoria Lowe, artist whose credits include exhibitions at White House comes to the Everhart Museum, August 12, 2019
Meet Zak Zavada, local Artist for a Guided Walking Tour and a Special Everhart Membership Opportunity, August 9, 2019
The Everhart Museum More than the Building in the Park, July 22, 2019
The Everhart Museum's Stef Colarusso, Director of Programs, Recognized at Power in Purple Event, May 31, 2019
The Everhart Museum co-hosts with Queer NEPA, exhibit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, May 28, 2019
The Everhart Museum Presents The Good News by Scranton photographer Zak Zavada, April 22, 2019
The Everhart Presents Art in Bloom on April 26 & 27, April 10, 2019
Everhart's New Initiative Brings Free Museum Experiences to Area Students, March 18, 2019
Preserved: Traditions of the Andes, March 4, 2019
Art in Bloom at the Everhart Museum, February 13, 2019
OurSELF and HerSELF at the Everhart Museum, February 8, 2019
Everhart Museum Celebrates Community Day, November 6, 2018
Everhart Museum's Summer Exhibitions open May 25, 2018, May 18, 2018
New President and Board Members, July 11, 2017
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'Strong' evidence links Bardo Museum, Tunisia hotel attacks
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British police said Wednesday they were investigating links between an attack on a Tunisian hotel in June that left 38 people dead, including 30 British nationals, and an attack that killed 22 at the Bardo Museum in Tunis in March.
Counter-terrorism officers with Britain's Metropolitan Police, better known as Scotland Yard, have been helping Tunisian authorities with the investigations. They now say their efforts have led them to focus on links between the attack in the coastal city of Sousse on June 26 and the one that targeted the Bardo Museum in the Tunisian capital on March 18.
Commander Richard Walton of the Metropolitan Police told reporters on Wednesday that he could not provide details of the connections but said it was based on "strong" evidence.
"We are now linking, evidentially, the Bardo Museum investigation in Tunisia, that attack, with the Sousse investigation," Walton said.
"While I cannot go into further details regarding this live investigation, I can confirm that a team of officers, led by a senior detective from the Met's Counter-Terrorism Command, are working closely with the Tunisian authorities on both investigations and we have advised the coroner of the connection between the two," Walton said.
The jihadist connection
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for both attacks.
"Two knights from the Islamic State ... heavily armed with automatic weapons and grenades, targeted the Bardo Museum," the group said in an audio message posted online.
Police are still searching for a third suspect in connection with the museum attack. Authorities have released a photo of the suspect they say aided Yassine Laabidi, 20, and Hatem Khachnaoui, 26, in a shooting spree that left 22 dead, including 19 foreigners and a policeman.
And this is not the first time that officials have acknowledged links between the Tunis museum and the Sousse resort hotel.
The Sousse gunman, Tunisian student Seifeddine Rezgui, was killed by police in the aftermath of the shooting spree. Tunisian officials later said that he had trained in Libya.
"Rezgui had training in Libya at the end of 2014," prime ministerial spokesman Dafer Neji told Reuters in July. ""He was trained during the same time in Libya as the Bardo attackers."
Rezgui arrived at the beach resort by sea on a jet ski or speedboat, pulled out a Kalashnikov hidden in a parasol, and opened fire on the holidaymakers relaxing on the beach of the Hotel Imperial Marhaba. He then entered the hotel and shot several more tourists before running out of the front of the hotel, where police shot and killed him.
The Islamic State militant group later hailed the attack and referred to Rezgui by a nom de guerre, Abu Yahya al-Qayrawani. The Islamist group said he was a "solider of the caliphate" who had targeted the enemies of the jihadist group and "dens [of] fornication, vice and apostasy".
Tunisia declared a state of emergency following the Sousse attack.
Tunisia's terrorism problem
Prime Minister Habib Essid revealed last month that 1,000 people have been arrested and 15,000 prevented from fighting jihad abroad since the double attacks on Tunisian venues popular with tourists.
The UN said in July that it estimates some 5,500 Tunisians have joined the ranks of jihadists abroad and urged Tunis to adopt a "national strategic plan" to stem the tide. Of these, about 500 have returned to Tunisia and are under surveillance.
Tunisians now make up the majority of jihadists moving abroad to fight. And Tunisian officials say they cannot face down the threat by themselves.
"We note that Tunisia faces an international movement," Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said in June. "It cannot respond alone to this."
Tunisia's jihadist problem is exacerbated by the chaos in neighbouring Libya, which has become lawless and flooded with weapons since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi.
Regions of the fractious country are now ruled by rival militias and the lack of a functioning central government has allowed the Islamic State group to establish a foothold.
A lack of effective border controls has made the country a route for weapons shipments to al Qaeda branches in sub-Saharan Africa as well as a travel corridor for Syria-bound jihadists.
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Microsoft's Clash With Google Over Privacy Settings May Be Part of a Larger Problem
Google's policies are once again under scrutiny as Microsoft and others have caught the company circumventing users' privacy settings to track them with cookies. But Google representatives have pointed out that they are not alone.
It all started with Apple's Safari Web browser. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google and other advertising companies have been using a special code to trick Safari into bypassing users' privacy settings to monitor their activities online. Stanford grad student Jonathan Mayer first spotted the code. A follow-up investigation by WSJ advisor Ashkan Soltani revealed that the Google tracking code had been installed on a test computer through ads on 22 of the top 100 websites and that the code was also installed on an iPhone browser through ads on 23 sites. (Once the Journal contacted the company about the matter, Google disabled the code.)
When Microsoft heard that Google had circumvented user privacy settings on Safari, they wondered if Google was also bypassing users' privacy preferences on Internet Explorer. Microsoft's Internet Explorer corporate vice president Dean Hachamovitch wrote in a blog post, "We've discovered the answer is yes: Google is employing similar methods to get around the default privacy protections in IE and track IE users with cookies."
The real issue, according to a blog post by TAP, is that the default setting Microsoft created to block third-party cookies has a bug. As a result, many companies – including Facebook – have been able to get around the requirement for third parties to summarize their privacy policies and offer users a way to opt out of sharing their personal data. The protocol for writing compact policies (CP), as defined by the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P), has not been widely implemented since it was first created in 2002 by the World Wide Web Consortium.
A Facebook representative told ZDNet, "While we would like to be able to express our cookie policy in a format that a browser could read, P3P was developed 5 years ago and is not effective in describing the practices of a modern social networking service and platform. Instead, we have posted a public notice describing our practices that is consistent with Section 3.2 of P3P. We have reached out directly to Microsoft in hopes of developing additional solutions and we would welcome the opportunity to work with W3 to update P3P to account for the advances in social networking and the web since 2007."
Google's response to Microsoft's complaints said more or less the same thing. "Today the Microsoft policy is widely non-operational," Google wrote. "A 2010 research report indicated that over 11,000 websites were not issuing valid P3P policies as requested by Microsoft."
The complexity of the issue begs the question, is there an easier way to handle this? According to Jonathan Mayer, there is. He and fellow Stanford researcher Arvid Narayanan are currently working on Do Not Track, a policy proposal that would allow users to opt out of being tracked across all third-party sites, much like the Do Not Call Registry.
If it goes through, would you sign up?
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When I think back to how things started I have to laugh. I was working on a short film and a few of our production staff revealed to us that they were vegetarian. I was like "great, what are we going to be able to feed them, a bunch of side dishes?" And now I'm here eating daiya cheese, tons of kale, and quinoa. :-)
I began my vegan journey a few months ago (April 2011) and it's been an amazing transformation. I was tired of how my body felt and I knew I needed a change. I wanted to be more compassionate and kind to my body but I didn't know how or where to start. But, I did remember hearing about Alicia Silverstone's book The Kind Diet. I went online and did a little research and decided that I needed to check this book out. When I received the book in the mail I was excited and nervous at the same time. I wanted to see what new and delicious food I would be trying but I didn't want to hear about how terrible I was for eating meat. So, I proceeded with caution. "I'm just going to be a flirt," I said, which in her book means to just try and incorporate some vegan changes into your life from time to time. No commitment. That's exactly what I wanted, no commitment! I wanted to give it a try but there was no way I was going to give up my In-N-Out cheeseburger. As I continued reading the book I realized that by eating meat and dairy, I wasn't just affecting my health, I was also contributing to the pain and suffering of animals and their children. I continued to research by searching the web and watching documentaries and I was finally faced with the question "Am I going to make a change or not?"
I never in my life thought that I would give up eggs, dairy, cheese, and meat...but I'm fully Vegan now! Woo hoo! My husband is still a meat eater (I'm slowly trying to convert him). Oh man, you should have seen his face when I told him "I think I want to try and adopt more of a vegan lifestyle," he looked at me like I had been taken over by the invasion of the body snatchers.lol Don't get me wrong, he's very supportive, now...but it was definitely hard for him to accept that his meat and cheese loving wife had changed her eating so completely and so quickly. But, it was like something wonderful had come over me and I knew that living a more compassionate and vegan friendly lifestyle is where God was taking me.


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Many individuals share a goal to lose weight. The tips contained in the following paragraphs of this article below can help you to successfully lose weight. Follow these tips listed here in order to achieve your goal to lose weight quickly.
Don't bother with weight loss fads like shakes and bars when planning your diet menu. Such items have lots of unexpected calories and will not satiate your need for actual food. You will find yourself just as hungry after eating it. Also, these things have a lot sugar, which will spike your blood sugar and make you even more unhappy.
One excellent method of losing weight is by joining an organization such as Jenny Craig or a similar group. They have a built in support system and resources like home food delivery. If you are able to afford it, a diet center like this is a great investment.
Just about everybody loves eating french fries. They can be a great pitfall for many who want to lose weight. If you want to make healthier fries that are less likely to ruin your diet, bake them instead of frying them. Turn them over and bake for another 10 minutes more. This recipe was taken from Laurel's Kitchen cookbook.
You achieve the best weight loss when you determine what works best for you. If you are someone who functions better in the morning, wake up an hour early and workout in the A.M. Those who enjoy nighttime can exercise in the evening hours will prefer a later hours. If you hate getting up, you probably won't want to get up super early.
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Eat with a friend so you consume. Eating alone tends to make us focus on besides finishing all of your food.
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If you are interested in hosting a future NIME in your city, please submit a proposal to the Steering Committee. Proposal forms are available below. NIME has a tradition of moving the conference between North America, Asia and Europe thus far. Nevertheless, the excellence of the proposal is the most important factor for the decision taken by the Steering Committee.
Please send your NIME hosting application (for 2022 and later) by 15 July 2020 to Alexander Refsum Jensenius, chair of the steering committee. Feel free to approach us with any questions you may have regarding hosting the conference.


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Javea Race for Life
The event is taking place on Sunday 25th September with the 5km race starting from the L'Ancora Playa bar in Avenida Paris, Javea, and is open to everyone.
The day will start 10.30am with a warm up session – and entrants can run, jog or walk the course. Teams and people in fancy dress are also welcomed.
The charity "Race for Life Javea" sends a message of hope and support to all those battling against cancer, the families of patients, people who have lost loved ones, doctors, nurses, scientists and carers – in fact anyone who is dealing with cancer.
Michelle Hughes, owner of VillaMia, said: "It is a great day out for all the family and at the same time is a good way to raise valuable funds for a very worthy cause. It is a fact that one in three people will get cancer during their life, a figure expected to rise to one in two by 2020.
"As a company, we are keen to support the local community and more than happy to be one of the sponsors on the t-shirts. There are various ways to help and I hope more sponsors come on board."
Money raised will be distributed between cancer charities and organisations within the Valencian community with the main beneficiaries of the 2011 event being Asociacion Espanola contra el cancer (AECC), Asociacion de Padres de Niños con cancer de la Comunidad Valenciana (Aspanion), Expatriate Ostomates of Spain (EOS) and MABs Cancer Support Group.
Registration and sponsorship forms are available at L'Ancora Playa bar or can be downloaded from – http://www.raceforlifejavea.com Registration forms should be completed and returned to L'Ancora Playa Bar, together with the registration fee of 10 Euros for adults and 5 Euros for children age 14 and under, before the day of the race. Latecomers can still register on the day of the event before 10.15hrs.
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Thursday August 1, 2013_July reading.
I finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, which when I read it the first time, he hadn't even entirely written. I am glad to have now completed the series. Jesus Land by Julia Scheeres is a memoir I read because Lauren said I had too, it was just that good and she was right. Every Day by David Levithan is the story of a 15 year old who wakes up every day as some new, other 15 year old, different genders, different races, different social standings etc. Mister Monday & Grim Tuesday are the first of seven books in the Kings to the Kingdom young reader series by Garth Nix. Each book is named after a day of the week and each day of the week represented one of the seven deadly sins. I'll try a summation next month when I post about the other 5 books :)
Friday August 2, 2013_We did this month's bookclub, Seriously, I'm Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres, at Katie's, which has this view from in front of her house. The 'meeting' was held in her backyard, under the stars while we drank sangria and munched on much deliciousness and discussed life and, at times, even the book. Lovely evening.
Saturday August 3, 2013_Our first August puzzle of an amazing, and really kind of disgusting, sandwich.
Thursday August 15, 2013_The outside and inside of the Berkeley Rep where we saw No Man's Land, which I have discussed at length already on my journal HERE. They wouldn't let us take photos during the production. So sad :(
Friday August 16, 2013_Our second August puzzle, this one of a zillion beetles was HARD!!
Thursday August 29, 2013_Our third, and last, August puzzle. This one I LOVED doing, so much fun.


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Thanks Francis - my new friend. As "OAS Out Reach Coordinator" spreading teh OAS message is of utmost importance. The internet is a great way to do that, as there are many sources that we can make contact with large numbers of Americans, via the email system. If you would like to pursue this endeavor, please send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com and I will be happy to provide the details.
Francis, I do not know the NYS leader. I am a member of the OFA prayer warriors because I cannot go to DC.
Hi Francis,
I've put several calls to New Yorkers (city folks) not a single answer.
I'll keep doing it periodically anyway.
Where are you located Francis?
TY Francis! Wish I knew people up there--I'd fling them your way!lol Thx for getting the word out! TY TY TY!
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The Mini MOOC and FELTAG
Here is a way we can better engage with local employers through taking the best of what e-learning can do with the best of free, yet targeted Mini MOOCs.
A Mini MOOC is of course an oxymoron. These aren't massive (necessarily) and they aren't public (necessarily) but they are the same kind of new approach to having learners engage with what college a collectively knows and the expertise that sits in the content section of the courses teachers run for the benefit of the learner initially but in the hope of developing a relationship with learners who then enrol as a result and then developing a reputation with employers and others for the quality of it's expertise.
FELTAG looks to colleges to become the training departments of local employers. This could include have them rent space on college VLEs and ILPs and e-portfolios and join social learning groups. Apart from 'hosting' training, teachers can provide the curriculum design expertise and offer assessment services as well as general tutoring and access to college libraries etc. for local employees.
But colleges, like universities are sitting on the accumulated knowledge of its teaching staff and e-learning is particularly good at supporting cognitive domain learning, so the time is right for colleges and other providers to start moving a great local asset (what they collectively know) on-line in order to support training around, and engage with the world of work.
Another way to describe this as seeing colleges and others delivering learning that is taught, caught and acquired. With a miniMOOC, what is taught is put on-line, encouraging learners to come to college to work with others on what is caught and acquired in preparing for the world of work. This is an extension of flipped learning of course. MiniMOOCs sit between Distance Learning and Blended Learning with elements of both yet very different.
But rather than open up all we know to the world, miniMOOCs allow the harnessing of knowledge in support of learning and development and act as a huge advertisement of what and who colleges are. In short, mini MOOCs offer what we know but in a structured form to allow learners to explore it in a non-chaotic way.
So MiniMOOCS are taylor-made learning episodes consisting of cognitive learning objects, that can be singular or strung together (perhaps like beads on a string of learning activity) in short course format that provides basic skill knowledge or basic practice or contain something a college is very good at.
This is such an important development that every course leader should be looking at putting 'knowledge' on-line to advertise their course, target it to local employers and beyond to showcase the college and develop a reputation with employers.
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PWMania has learned CM Punk's injury appears to be serious, as the MRI on his hip apparently shows significant enough damage to warrant a surgery or serious rehabilitation therapy, according to a well-placed WWE source.
"Punk really screwed up his hip, and it needs to be addressed," the source told us earlier today, "this is a major blow to Monday Night Raw, because the only heels on the show are Nexus and Miz. It's pretty obvious Punk was moved to Raw to become a top heel, but that's on hold now because he'll be out at least til the end of the year."
We will keep you updated on this breaking story as it develops.


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How To Keep Your Feet Protected From Some Sort Of Fungus Infection
The development of nail fungus infections is a typical challenge that huge numbers of people in the United States cope with from time to time. Obtaining this sort of concern may guide someone to come to feel embarrassed concerning the way their own fingernails look. Nail fungus infection usually leaves toenails looking yellowish or golden-tinged or even off white. Nail fungus infection can also cause someone's fingernails to appear highly weak and chipped. Nevertheless, if you're curious about how to get rid of toenail fungus, you'll find a couple of uncomplicated opportunities to take into account.
The best and also most commodious version of some kind of remedy is often the most natural resolution. In this instance, enjoying suitable nutrition is amongst the finest methods to deal with nail infections. The well-being of somebody's nails usually will depend on quite a few necessary nutrients and vitamins, just like Vitamins B and E . Owning a deficiency inside these types of natural vitamins could cause the fingernails to get more vulnerable to actually producing toenails fungus. Take into account putting in a few supplements on your food regimen to revive your fingernails.
The Best Nail Fungus Treatments can often involve an actual transformation within an individual's day-to-day hygiene strategy. However, the majority don't handle their feet just like they may be suppose to. Much like your entire body, your own feet ought to be washed and wiped clean at least twice each day. Your own feet happen to be stuck on the inside of your actual shoes or boots all day every single day. Becoming trapped on the inside of shoes or boots can cause feet to sweat, and this specific moisture is really a breeding ground just for fungus. Make use of water and soap to thoroughly clean up your feet, after which you can dry them with some sort of delicate bathroom towel.
From time to time the simple and DIY approaches don't apparently work. In the event that that is definitely the outcome, consider using a therapy solution much like ZetaClear. This really is a topical solution that may be made from pure oils which have been proven to eliminate all indicators of nail fungus. The particular agent may easily be applied on over the particular contaminated nail twice a day.
These are merely a couple of hints that may be selected as a way to eliminate and avoid nail fungus. Once again, consider the nutritional supplements you are taking (or not taking). Also, look into continuing to keep your feet dry and clean. Finally, consider purchasing one of the many topical fungus fighting chemicals in which happen to be out there.


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Usually, it's translated as "What do you me to do for you?" but this could simply be translational inertia, reflecting either the grammatically smooth Textus Receptus Τί θέλετε ποιῆσαί με ὑμῖν; or the somewhat rougher Hort's Τί θέλετε ποιήσω ὑμῖν; (I would prefer a ἵνα, though).
Turner, JTS 28 (1927): 357, seems to think the text is corrupt:
So does Higgins, Exp Times 52 (1941): 317-318, who proposes an emendation.The extraordinary reading of אc B Ψ in x 36 τί θέλετέ [με] ποιήσω ὑμῖν; is relegated to the margin of W-H, and must presumably be a conflation between two readings ποιήσω and με ποιῆσαι.
Metzger et al. (1994:91), however, keep the pronoun με as the reading that explains the emergence of the others. But the harder reading can be too hard, and I can't figure out for the life of me what that pronoun is supposed to be doing grammatically or syntactically in the text. Neither verb θέλετε nor ποιήσω makes any sense to me with an accusative first-person pronoun object.
I'm not asking for a resolution of the text critical issue, just an understanding of the attested text Τί θέλετέ με ποιήσω ὑμῖν; Any ideas?
P.S. Mike Aubrey has some comments about this verse in his post, Pronominal Clitics Attaching to Verbs with Focal Constituents.


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Microsoft PowerPoint has storyboards - once you have completed one - how to you print it?
Storyboards are like plain presentation and slides. You just need to use the Print button. Make sure you select the format type when printing for all the content to be printed on the same page.


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On March 10, leading professionals from Jacksonville's commercial real estate industry gathered for NAIOP Northeast Florida's Annual Awards & Celebration at the Garden Club of Jacksonville. This event, which attracted over 200 attendees, recognized the most outstanding commercial real estate performances and projects from 2015. A special congratulations to Sam Mousa, Chief Administrative Officer with the City of Jacksonville, who was recognized with the Jessie B. Smith Award.
Mixed-Use Project of the Year – 220 Riverside
The 220 Riverside is the vision of Alex Coley, principal and co-founder of NAI Hallmark Partners, over a decade in the making. He spent much of this time researching other cities' iconic places, specifically Bryant Park in New York City and Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland. Almost every major city has such a location, now it's Jacksonville's turn.
The excitement surrounding 220 Riverside is being driven by the mixed-use development's creative concept and its integration with Unity Plaza, the first barrier-free, openly accessible urban park and amphitheater in the history of our community. Additionally, 220 Riverside serves as an important point of connection as the revitalization of the Brooklyn neighborhood expands the housing and entertainment venues of Riverside and Avondale into the Downtown submarket. With the completion of this project, and the developments it has spurred, we will see an invigorating and vital living Downtown.
Mixed-Use Project is awarded for the design and amenities of a pedestrian oriented development with elements of live/work/play, maximized space usage and mitigates traffic and sprawl.
Land Sale of the Year – Brooks Rehabilitation
NAI Hallmark Partners represented Brooks Rehabilitation in the purchase of 58 acres of vacant land located in Clay County at the northwest corner of Old Jennings Road and the First Coast Expressway, north of St. Vincent's Medical Center Clay County.
While Brooks Rehabilitation does not have immediate plans for the property, the $5.1 million purchase is an investment in the long-term expansion of the health system and positions them for future growth in Clay County, a growing submarket of Jacksonville, FL that they have served for many years.
"Purchasing the land now, in anticipation of future needs, positions Brooks to better serve this area in the future," said Christian Harden, Senior Vice President of NAI Hallmark Partners. Harden oversaw the transaction along with NAI Hallmark Partners Principal Jeff Conn.
Land Sale of the Year is awarded based on the size of the transaction, total consideration as well as the impact on the environment, challenges faced and overcome, level and quality of job creation and the impact the project made on the community.
Complete list of winners
- Chapter Merit Award – David Hillegas, Cushman & Wakefield
- Distinguished Service Award – Tony Suttles, Danis Construction.
- Construction Project of the Year – Danis Construction for Jessie Ball duPont Center
- Green Project of the Year – Danis Construction with Jessie Ball duPont Center
- Design of the Year – Citizens Property Insurance offices by Workscapes
- Land Sale of the Year – Brooks Rehabilitation of Orange Park brokered by Christian Harden, NAI Hallmark Partners
- Office Lease of the Year – Citizens Property Insurance brokered by Buddy Register of Cushman & Wakefield and Preston Phillips, Lisa McLatchey and Chuck Diebel of Colliers International of Northeast Florida
- Industrial Lease/Sale of the Year – Calavo Growers brokered by John Richardson and Bryan Bartlett of Newmark Grubb/Phoenix Realty Group and Nathan Rogers, CBRE
- Developing Leader of the Year – David Hillegas, Cushman & Wakefield
- Industrial Broker of the Year – Guy Preston, Colliers International of Northeast Florida
- Mixed-use Project of the Year – 220 Riverside by NAI Hallmark Partners
- Jessie B. Smith Award – Sam Mousa
- Office Broker of the Year – Oliver Barakat, CBRE


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Torrington woman charged with threatening Litchfield court officials
BANTAM >> Known for assailing the gravitas of the gavel, Mary Bagnaschi was in the curious position of groveling for a judge's mercy at a Monday arraignment in Superior Court.
Bagnaschi, 51 — reeling from a recent appellate court decision which upheld a foreclosure of her Torrington home — is accused of threatening Litchfield and Bantam court officials in a series of phone calls.
Michael Gailor, executive assistant state's attorney, said at the hearing Bagnaschi inquired about obtaining a gun permit and had showed an "increasingly severe pattern of behavior."
Bagnaschi was ordered held on $10,000 bond, ordered not to possess any firearms, to seek mental health treatment if she makes bond, and not to have any contact with the Litchfield State's Attorneys Office, an order requiring the transfer of her criminal cases to Waterbury.
Bagnaschi told a judge her daughters couldn't afford to put up the $1,000 surety bond necessary to spring her from jail and that she wasn't a "dangerous person."
After a judge ordered her held, Bagnaschi cried out to one of her daughters, "Get me out of here."
A three-page arrest warrant authored by state Trooper Matthew Pakulski says court staff in the Litchfield judicial district feared as far back as 2012 Bagnaschi was "unbalanced" and capable of bringing a firearm to the courthouse.
Pakulski wrote in the arrest warrant Bagnaschi "caused annoyance and alarm to a number of court officials in the past, and it continues to be an issue."
Veiled, phoned-in threats targeted Supervisory Assistant State's Attorney Devin Stilson and Judge John Pickard, the same magistrate who presided over Monday's arraignment.
Stilson said in an arrest warrant he recognized Bagnaschi's voice from a message left at his office June 12, a day after a pretrial hearing on an unrelated criminal matter.
Stilson said he received messages from Bagnaschi the last four years, many of which threatened civil litigation or the prospect of a federal indictment, but this was the first in which she had allegedly threatened violence. The obscenity-filled tirade ended ominously.
"There is a cold day in hell for you and I am going to make sure you get there, in person (or in prison) you bast***," Bagnaschi allegedly said.
Stilson was concerned about the woman's mental well-being concerned and wondered if her "condition has deteriorated to a level where she poses a threat to the safety of myself and other members of the Bantam courthouse staff."
Litchfield clerk Craig Malone reported receiving a similar voice mail in December 2012 during which Bagnaschi said, "You guys will pay."
On May 28, state police were apprised by judicial officer Robert Kirchner of a harassing phone call directed at Pickard. Court staff called a recent home foreclosure Bagnaschi's "breaking point."
According to court papers, Bagnaschi is a veteran on disability and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. She has been involved in a lengthy legal battle with the Torrington Housing Authority over the foreclosure of her 478 Clearview Ave. home.
A recent appellate court decision upheld the foreclosure, and Bagnaschi is appealing to the state Supreme Court, according to online court filings.
In court papers, Bagnaschi identifies herself as a former employee of the Torrington Housing Authority and said she was forced to resign from her job, and claims the foreclosure is retaliation for threatening to blow the whistle on unspecified corruption and malfeasance.
Bagnaschi's motions are also littered with references to Torrington police and other state entities.
A motion from April 21 calls for a grand jury investigation into "crimes committed by the Torrington police and state government and certain state and executive and judicial branch officers involving corruption and the unlawful use of physical force."
Bagnaschi portends she contacted the U.S. Justice Department's civil branch, and her motion mentions an emailed response from President Barack Obama.
Bagnaschi wrote she "can easily prove [the allegations] if and when a competent, no-corrupt judiciary," is in place, rails against the Connecticut Bar Association and says she is reaching out to the United Nations about grievances.
"I cant even get an honest judge or clerk at the appellate levels and I will NOT have my equal rights usurped by this judiciary," she wrote.
Bagnaschi was arrested last May for second-degree breach of peace and interfering/resisting arrest.
State police said it has numerous tape recordings of Bagnaschi calling the courts and using indecent and obscene language, court documents show.
Held at the York Correctional Facility, Bagnaschi is expected back in court June 30.
Reach Isaac Avilucea at 860-489-3121 ext. 324.


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Eleven years before the Declaration of Independence, John Adams declared, "Liberty of the people cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." A similar rationale inspired the Center for Michigan to launch Bridge Magazine in 2011. We saw then – and continue to see today - a public information crisis.
Michigan has lost 40 percent of its professional journalists to retirement, buyouts, and newsroom cuts since the 1990s. Through no fault of the talented but over-worked reporters and editors who remain in newspapers, the public receives far less factual, in-depth news coverage than in the past. Today's journalists are simply out-numbered. Too many important public deliberations and documents receive far less fact-driven coverage and scrutiny than they used to. Too many kitchen-table issues deserve better explanation.
And in this age of social-media-driven alternative facts, fake news, and hyper-partisanship, the public service mission of journalism continually grows both tougher and more important.
That's why we at Bridge Magazine are so thrilled with this week's announcement that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Ford foundations are making a new, $2.3 million investment in nonprofit journalism in Detroit and southeast Michigan. The Knight Foundation has invested a portion of these funds in Bridge to deepen our ongoing coverage of Detroit through the Detroit Journalism Cooperative.
For the past three years, Bridge has collaborated on a wide range of in-depth, multimedia journalism projects with our nonprofit DJC partners: Michigan Radio, WDET, Detroit Public Television, and New Michigan Media. Last year, for example, our year-long "Intersection" project traced 50 years of societal change outward from the Detroit street corner where the 1967 civil unrest began. The concluding chapter of The Intersection – "He Started the Detroit Riot. His Son Wrestles with the Carnage" – may be the finest work Bridge has ever produced. The Intersection will be available in book form this spring – again thanks to support from the Knight Foundation.
Renewed Knight Foundation support for Bridge through 2018 allows us to add "Michigan Journalist of the Year" Joel Kurth to our staff. Kurth will oversee Bridge coverage of Detroit neighborhoods, city hall, schools, justice issues and this year's municipal elections. What can readers expect? Authentic, in-depth, fact-driven news – informed by diverse Detroiters because our team is on the street, every day, listening to Detroiters. That's how we learn to question deep problems in individual city schools and explain how a new water bill spike taxes the finances and patience of religious congregations across the city.
The importance and public service potential of philanthropic investment in Michigan journalism extends well beyond any one particular grant. With this investment, and many others nationwide, the Knight and Ford foundations are leading a revolution in how local news is produced, collaborated, delivered to readers – and funded.
Published each Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, Bridge has grown into an impactful statewide publication with a staff of seven professional journalists with more than 200 years' experience covering the people, politics, and issues of Michigan. More than one million people read Bridge in 2016. For the second straight year, Bridge has earned "Newspaper of the Year" honors from the Michigan Press Association. For the second straight year, Bridge has earned an "Advancement of Justice" award from the State Bar of Michigan – this year for investigation of the Flint Water Crisis.
High-quality, in-depth journalism takes time. And money. Bridge has grown rapidly in the past five and a half years only through the generous support of philanthropy and readers.
We are deeply grateful for the renewed Knight Foundation funding announced this week. We are equally grateful for generous support provided by our founders (Philip and Kathy Power and the Power Family Foundation), the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Consumers Energy Foundation, Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation, DTE Energy Foundation, Frey Foundation, Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Hudson-Webber Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Masco Corporation Foundation, McGregor Fund, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation, the United Ways of Michigan, Van Dusen Family Fund, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, our corporate funders (Amway, Dominos, and Meijer), and our publishing partners (Crain's Detroit Business, the Michigan Press Association, and Southwest Michigan First).
Perhaps most important of all over the long term, we are grateful to the more than 2,000 individual readers who financially support Bridge through their donations. Every individual donation is doubled and sometimes tripled through generous philanthropic matching programs. Indeed, our philanthropic investors expect us to continually build public support – to sustain Bridge and the Center for Michigan over the long haul.
We are extremely fortunate to attract such diverse financial support for our work. Yet everywhere we go, our staff receives challenges from citizens, public officials, and fellow journalists to do more. As I regularly respond, Bridge has a talented platoon of journalists, but we need a battalion to fully cover all the issues of public importance in this state.
We aspire to provide much deeper state capitol coverage. We aspire to greatly deepen coverage of how changes in federal health policy may impact Michigan families, workers and employers. We aspire to add a full-time reporter to cover the environment and the "Pure Michigan" economy. We aspire to provide much deeper coverage of criminal justice and civil courts. We aspire to increase our coverage of the Michigan economy and businesses large and small. And we aspire to continually expand our public engagement programs to collect and amplify the priorities of Michigan residents.
So, we'll keep pursuing philanthropic support. And we'll continue to ask Bridge readers to contribute. Because there's so much more work to do.
All of our funders – from retirees on fixed incomes who send us $25 to major state and national philanthropies – are investing in an engaged and informed public. It is hard for even journalists to put into words how much this means to us – and how much it drives our commitment to deliver the most engaging, insightful, thoughtful, fair, and fact-driven journalism Bridge can possibly produce.
A hateful slogan gained hopefully short-lived social media prominence last year: "Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required." At Bridge, we agree that some assembly is required. But it's not about lynching journalists. It's about re-assembling a free and vibrant press to work in the public interest.
It's about answering John Adams' call for liberty through "a general knowledge among the people."


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Two new genes (mexXY) similar to mexAB,mexCD, and mexEF and mediating multidrug resistance were cloned from the chromosome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Elevated ethidium extrusion was observed withEscherichia coli cells harboring the plasmid carryingmexXY. This MexXY system confers higher resistance to fluoroquinolones than the MexAB and MexCD systems, and E. coli TolC or P. aeruginosa OprM is necessary for the function of the MexXY system.
Pseudomonas aeruginosashows significant degrees of intrinsic resistance to a wide variety of antimicrobial agents, including most β-lactams, fluoroquinolones, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and erythromycin. This is a major problem in hospitals because P. aeruginosa is an important opportunistic pathogen and a leading cause of hospital-acquired infections. Three RND (resistance nodulation cell division) family drug efflux systems are known to exist in P. aeruginosa: MexAB-OprM (18), MexCD-OprJ (16), and MexEF-OprN (6). Recent studies have made it clear that these Mex systems, especially MexAB-OprM in wild-type cells, are mainly responsible for the intrinsic resistance of this organism to many antimicrobial agents (8, 9). Similar results demonstrating an involvement of the RND family multidrug efflux system AcrAB in mediating intrinsic resistance to many antimicrobial agents inEscherichia coli have been reported (11). Thus, it seems that RND family multidrug efflux systems are common in gram-negative bacteria and are responsible for intrinsic resistance to many antimicrobial agents. Here we report on a new multidrug efflux system, MexXY, of P. aeruginosa.
Cloning of multidrug resistance genes. P. aeruginosaPAO1 was used as a source of chromosomal DNA. E. coli KAM3 {ΔacrAB supE hsdD5 thi (Δlac-proAB)/F′ [traD36 proAB+ lacIqlac ΔZM15]}, a derivative of TG1, was used as a host for gene cloning (13, 19). E. coli KAM3 lacksacrAB genes and is therefore hypersensitive to many antimicrobial agents (14). Chromosomal DNA was prepared from cells of P. aeruginosa (1). The DNA was partially digested with Sau3A1. The DNA fragments ranging between 4 and 10 kbp were ligated into pBR322, which had been digested withBamHI. Competent cells of E. coli KAM3 were transformed with the ligated hybrid plasmids (5) and spread onto agar plates containing L medium (7) and 1.5% agar plus one of the following antimicrobial agents: 12 μg of ethidium bromide per ml, 10 μg of erythromycin per ml, or 1 μg of chloramphenicol per ml. The plates were incubated at 37°C for 1 day. The clones formed were picked. Plasmid DNA was prepared from each of the transformants by using a miniprep kit (Qiagen Inc.) as suggested by the manufacturer. Competent cells of E. coli KAM3 were retransformed and spread on the same plates again. The plates were incubated at 37°C for 1 day. Many colonies appeared on the plates. Plasmid DNA from each of the retransformants was prepared. The ethidium bromide plates gave us the largest number of candidates (43 candidates), followed by the erythromycin plates (8 candidates), and the chloramphenicol plates (3 candidates). We prepared and digested plasmids from all of these transformants. Three patterns were seen, one of which was similar to the restriction pattern of the mexABregion and a second one that was similar to that of themexCD region. We confirmed that the former type wasmexAB and the latter type was mexCD by partial sequencing. However, the third plasmid seemed to contain a novel drug resistance gene(s). We designated the new genes mexXY as described below. The new genes were identified from all three kinds of selection plates.
We measured the MICs of many antimicrobial agents with KAM3 cells harboring plasmids carrying each type of mex gene. Cells of KAM3/pTEM4 (carrying the mexXY genes) showed resistance to acriflavine, ethidium bromide, erythromycin, and fluoroquinolones (Table 1) and some degree of resistance to tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and kanamycin (data not shown). Cells of KAM3/pTUM3 (carrying the mexAB oprM genes [17]) showed lower resistance to most of the above-mentioned antimicrobial agents than did KAM3/pTEM4 cells (data not shown). Cells of KAM3/pTEM31 (carrying the mexCD oprJ genes [16]) showed higher resistance to acriflavine and ethidium bromide than KAM3/pTEM4 cells did but lower resistance to fluoroquinolones (data not shown). Thus, this indicates that the mexXY genes are multidrug resistance genes. One of the characteristics of the MexXY system is that this system conferred higher resistance to fluoroquinolones than other Mex systems did.
We measured ethidium efflux with KAM3/pBR322 cells and KAM3/pTEM4 cells to clarify whether the mexXY are genes for a multidrug efflux system. We observed a lower intracellular ethidium level before addition of an H+ conductor, CCCP (carbonyl cyanide m -chlorophenylhydrazone), than after its addition with KAM3/pBR322 cells (Fig. 1). This indicates that an ethidium efflux pump driven by an electrochemical potential of H+ is still present in KAM3 cells. We observed a much lower intracellular ethidium level before the addition of CCCP with KAM3/pTEM4 cells than with KAM3/pBR322 cells. The intracellular ethidium level increased after the addition of CCCP and reached the same level as that in the case of KAM3/pBR322 cells. Thus, it is clear that the mexXY genes confer to the cells H+-driven ethidium efflux ability.
Sequences of genes and products.We determined the nucleotide sequence (20) of the DNA insert in pTEM4. We found two open reading frames (ORFs) oriented in the same direction preceded by Shine-Dalgarno sequences in the nucleotide sequence determined (Fig.2). We designated the first ORFmexX and the second ORF mexY. Amino acid sequences were deduced from the mexX and mexYnucleotide sequences. The deduced MexX and MexY sequences consist of 389 and 1,046 residues, respectively. The calculated molecular masses are 41,444 and 113,116 Da, respectively. We found a promoter-like sequence in the upstream region from the mexX gene. It seems that mexX and mexY are in one operon. No other ORF was found in the region downstream (about 1 kbp in length) from themexY gene.
Characteristics of the primary structure.A homology search of sequence databases (GenBank and SwissProt) revealed that MexX has 30 to 40% sequence identity and 40 to 60% similarity with MexA (17), MexC (16), MexE (6), AcrA (10), AcrE (12), and putative YhiU (15) and that MexY has 40 to 50% identity and 60 to 70% similarity with MexB (17), MexD (16), MexF (6), AcrB (10), AcrD (12), AcrF (12), and putative YhiV (15). Thus, it is clear that MexXY is a member of the RND family.
Hydropathy values were calculated along amino acid sequences of MexX and MexY by the method of Eisenberg et al. (3). Judging from the hydropathy patterns, MexX is a hydrophilic protein with one hydrophobic domain in its N-terminal region (data not shown). The N-terminal hydrophobic region seems to be a signal sequence (24). Immediately following the hydrophobic core region of the signal sequence is the sequence L-L-G-C, which is very similar to the sequence L-L-A-G-C, which has been reported to be a consensus sequence of the signal cleavage site of lipoproteins of gram-negative bacteria (14). Therefore, it is likely that the MexX is a lipoprotein anchored in the membrane by its lipid portion. It has been reported that AcrE (EnvC) is a lipoprotein of the cytoplasmic membrane of E. coli (21). On the other hand, MexY seems to be an intrinsic membrane protein with many hydrophobic domains.
Requirement for TolC or OprM.OprM, an outer membrane protein, is necessary for the function of the MexAB system. The oprMgene is located just downstream from the mexAB genes (18). OprJ is necessary for the function of MexCD. TheoprJ gene is adjacent to the mexCD genes (16). There are only 400 bp between the termination codon ofmexY and a BamHI site, which is in the downstream end of the DNA region necessary for conferring drug resistance. No ORF corresponding to an outer membrane protein or to any other protein was found in this 400-bp region or in the downstream region (1 kbp in length) from mexXY. The MexXY system is functional inE. coli KAM3. This suggests that an outer membrane protein of E. coli such as TolC, which is required for the functioning of the AcrAB system (4), may be utilized by the MexXY system as the outer membrane component. We tested this possibility. E. coli N43 (F−lac ara mal xyl mtl gal rpsL acrA1) tolC::Tn10and its parent N43 (4, 25) were used for this purpose.E. coli N43 lacks the AcrAB system like KAM3. Cells of N43 were hypersensitive to many antimicrobial agents, but, as anticipated, N43/pTEM4 became resistant to many antimicrobial agents (Table1). Cells of N43tolC::Tn10 were also hypersensitive to many antimicrobial agents. However, N43tolC:: Tn10/pTEM4 cells were still hypersensitive to many antimicrobial agents (Table 1). This means that the MexXY system in N43 tolC::Tn10 was not functional whereas that in N43 was functional. Thus, we conclude that TolC is necessary for the MexXY system to function in E. coli. It has been reported that MexCD functions in E. coli cells in conjunction with TolC (22). We also tested whether the TolC could be replaced with the OprM of P. aeruginosa in E. coli. Plasmid pTEM4 carrying themexXY genes and plasmid pPMM2 carrying the oprMgene were used for this purpose. pPMM2 (vector, pACYC184) is a derivative of pTUM3 (pBR322) and carries oprM but notmexAB. Either pTEM4 or pPMM2 alone, or both, were introduced into N43 tolC::Tn10 cells. The sensitivity to many antimicrobial agents was then tested. Introduction of both mexXY and oprM into N43tolC::Tn10 cells resulted in an increase in the MICs of many antimicrobial agents (Table 1). Introduction of either mexXY or oprM alone, however, resulted in no increase in the MICs. Thus, it seems that OprM forms a functional multidrug efflux pump together with MexXY inE. coli cells. It has been reported that OprM and OprJ are interchangeable (23). Thus, it seems that OprJ and OprN could be alternative outer membrane proteins for the MexXY system. However, since OprJ and OprN are not expressed in wild-type P. aeruginosa (6, 16), it is very likely that OprM is the most probable candidate to form a complex with MexXY and function as a multidrug efflux pump in wild-type P. aeruginosa. Very recently it has been reported that OprM can be expressed and function in a drug efflux capacity independent of MexAB in P. aeruginosa (26). This OprM-dependent and MexAB-independent system is responsible for resistance to quinolones, erythromycin, and tetracycline (26). This substrate specificity is the same as that of the MexXY system.
Nucleotide sequence accession number.The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank nucleotide sequence databases under accession no.AB015853.
We thank Joe A. Fralick for providing us with E. coliN43 and N43 tolC::Tn10 and Manuel F. Varela for critically reading the manuscript.
This work was supported in part by a grant from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan.
- Received 20 July 1998.
- Returned for modification 22 September 1998.
- Accepted 2 December 1998.
- Copyright © 1999 American Society for Microbiology


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The Naked Grouse Blended Scotch Malt Whisky
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Volume: 700ml ABV: 40% Age: No Age Statement Country: Scotland
The Naked Grouse enriches the flavours of Scotland's favourite whisky by maturing in sun dried sherry oak casks. The influence of the quality first-fill sherry casks develops a deep russet appearance and an aroma that melds black cherries, cocoa and oak. The taste experience is sublimely smooth with famous trade-mark dried fruits yielding to cinnamon sticks and nutmeg. The sweet finale is rich in dark chocolate with a spicy, orange finish. A fine example of the blender's art, it is best enjoyed neat or as a classic "Old Fashioned".
Official Tasting Notes
Colour: Deep amber glow.
Nose: Black cherries, cocoa powder and oak wood.
Palate: Sweet winey notes, plums and a hint of cinnamon.
Finish: Dark chocolate, lingering spiciness and medium sweet.
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Facebook to Pay Users $20 Million for Sharing Personal Data in Ads
If you're one of the 614,000 Facebook members who appeared in a site ad without permission, you may have some cash coming your way.
Facebook was granted final approval on Monday for a $20 million settlement stemming from a 2011 lawsuit involving "Sponsored Stories" ads.
The ads, which were posted on both the right-hand side of the site and in news feeds, used member names, pictures and details about the brands and interests they Like on the site. Members whose details appeared in the ads will now receive $15 each.
The five people who led the lawsuit claimed to represent all user and said the company violated their privacy by highlighting personal data without permission.
"We are pleased that the settlement has received final approval," a Facebook spokesperson told Mashable in a statement.
The company did not comment on when users would receive their payout.
Although the lawsuit reached a settlement back in early 2012 — and again later in the year — both were rejected. According to a BBC report, the judge acknowledged the payout was small for users. It was not proven that Facebook "undisputedly violated the law" and that the plaintiffs could not show they were "harmed in any meaningful way," per the report.
Now, Facebook is required to update its Statement of Rights so users can retain more control over their personal data.
Mashable composite; Images: iStockphoto, Ydefinitel and Facebook


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Do physical bank branches still hold value?
Retail Banking Trends
What We Did
We gathered secondary research and conducted an online survey of approximately 700 Gensler employees to explore the evolution of consumer interaction with banks. We then facilitated an "idea charette" in Gensler's New York office to identify ways in which a new design or different type of bank branch could respond to customers' evolving relationship and interaction with their banks.
The Context
As with other retailers, the role of bank branches appears to be diminishing as online interactions and consumer technology play an increasingly large part in everyday banking—from ATMs to mobile apps that let you check balances, transfer money, and deposit checks from anywhere. Our exploratory survey results suggest that usage of bank branches for purposes other than the ATM is very rare: 67% of respondents visited a branch a few times a year or less, and only 7% visited once a week or more. Even when we do visit branches, the interaction is largely transactional: Only 22% visited for financial advice versus 72% to make a deposit.
However, while virtual or online interactions seem to be dominating the banking experience—95% of our survey respondents use online banking, and 82% use it at least once a week—consumer trust in this technology remains uncertain, even while an unstable economy has made such trust critical to the future success of the banking model. Trust in banks themselves also remains uncertain: According to Edelman's 2012 Trust Barometer, the percentage of consumers who expressed trust in banks fell from 69% in 2008 to only 35% in 2012.
The Results
In order to succeed, banks must embrace the potential for technology to make the lives of their customers easier and more convenient, and recognize a necessary shift in focus for their in-person locations. Physical locations are an opportunity to keep and engage customers: In our internal survey, the top reason why respondents remained a customer of their current bank was its convenient branch locations; and a 2009 Mintel Comperemedia survey reported 65% of adults prefer to get up close and personal at a bank branch to communicate.
Customer-centric strategies and in-person strategies that complement technology offerings present opportunities to create connections with customers through multiple channels. Improving transparency is necessary to help build trust in both online tools and with banks themselves. Banks can use the physical environment to build trust in their brand and promote more authentic, sustainable values— from environmentally sustainable bank branches and headquarters to community integration and investment.
What This Means
Provide multiple settings and ways to interact, both virtually and in person. A variety of interactive spaces let customers select the setting they're most comfortable with and eliminates barriers between banker and customer.
Give the customers control. Digital in-store communication offers more current, customizable, and compelling interaction with less paper waste. An interactive welcome kiosk, for example, allows customers to choose what they want to accomplish and avoid salespeople on the prowl.
Use technology wisely, and integrate with personal tech when possible. Touch-screen technology empowers customers to control interactions and ensures that personal records follow them.
Take advantage of in-person interaction to build relationships. Use familiar, natural design elements to make customers feel more comfortable and at ease when entering the bank and sitting down to discuss personal and private information.
What's Next?
Many banks have made significant strides in improving their online and mobile banking offerings, delivering on the promises of mobile banking and shifting the function of the traditional bank branch. However, trust and personal relationships continue to be important for building customer loyalty. Other retail sectors have begun to position the in-store experience around community building rather than selling. There is an opportunity for banks to follow that trend to continue to invest in customer engagement. Bank of America is making strides in this direction and gained media attention for a new breed of ATMs with integrated video displays that enable customers to speak with bank employees directly and outside normal banking hours.
We see the bank of the future as a place focused on customers, not just on their money. It's a combination of convenience and comfort. It lets customers connect, explore, learn, and make choices. It's welcoming, not overwhelming, and most of all, it's human.
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Lance Boge, Tom Bittner, Virginia Sertich
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I need you less.
Want you less.
With every step that I take further away from you.
With every check in, every boarding pass.
Every time I move an hour forward in time.
You are less to me.
As if a figment of time.
That perhaps never really happened.
Perhaps all those things I never really said.
For now.
Home is where my boys are.


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Grave Street Blues, A six-piece Rock and Roll band from Melbourne comprised of ex-members from No Way Out and Ikarii, meshing styles to bring you that classic Rock and Roll sound that people are drawn to adding their own punk rock twist, giving the boys the sound that they're rapidly becoming renowned for.
After releasing their first demo early 2015, Grave Street Blues have wasted no time getting back into the studio to bring you "New Devil" a four track 7" which is the collaboration of genres, created by musicians who are no stranger to live music. After years working on separate projects, the collective experience produces a sound that is both fresh and new but oddly familiar.
This four song 7'' is just a welcoming sample of what Grave Street Blues have to offer. Although new, they are a band that should not be over looked or taken lightly leaving your Gaslight Anthem or Against Me fan wanting more of this sounds that is Grave Street Blues.
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Choose Your Booze French Onion Soup
French onion soup is a dish I love to make. It's therapeutic to stand over a pot of onions and coax them from their raw state into the sweet, tender and beautifully golden strands that make French onion soup so good.
When my husband told me he didn't like it, I pressed him. Why? This soup has EVERYTHING you love. Onions. Beef stock. Bread. Cheese — loads of awesome cheese. So what's the deal? He claimed it was too messy. I solved the problem by using cubed bread and toasting it in the oven before adding the soup and cheese. It's all the awesomeness of French onion soup without having to mess with a thick slice of bread.
Getting the hang of caramelizing onions takes a few tries and a ton of patience. I couldn't wrap my head around how long it really took to get the onions to break down. So if it's your first try at French onion soup, check out the photos and guide to help you out. I show you step by step what your onions should look like and a time frame. Scroll down to the recipe if you already know the process.
White or yellow onions work best for caramelizing. I use a mandolin to slice them as thinly as possible. It makes the process go quickly, too. Add your raw onions to the pot with melted butter and oil on medium-low heat and give them a good stir to coat.
Place the lid on the pot and let it cook for 10 minutes. Give it a stir then replace the lid and cook for another 10 minutes. Remove the lid and stir. Another 5-10 minutes and the onions will start to take on a light golden brown. In the photo below you can see how the onions are soft and starting to break down. But seriously, 25-30 minutes in and this is all the further we've gotten? Ridiculous.
You'll want to keep an eye on your pot from here on out. The step of caramelized onions to burnt onions is shorter than you'd think. Crank up the heat to medium-high and add in your sugar and salt. In the next 10 minutes, your onions will start sticking to the bottom of the pot and develop a deep brown color. I see you little brown specks! Don't hide from me! Stir them constantly to keep them from burning. Don't worry about the layer sticking to the bottom of the pan. We'll deal with that.
Hurray! Your onions are caramelized. You can actually do something with them now. Make French Onion soup! Bring on the booze! Alternatively you can use this for a topping on burgers, in a dip, or for something else.
Traditional French Onion soup uses white wine with beef stock. Whatever, fancy French cooks. I am more of a "what's in the fridge" sort of cook. I've made this recipe with white wine, red wine, and beer. Use a dry wine – either a Sauvignon Blanc if you choose white or a Cabernet Sauvignon if you want to use a red wine. My husband picked this red wine for me based on the "cool label" and it met the "dry red" I asked for.
Wine? Pssh. You're here for the beer. What kind of beer should you use? I recommend darker ales and stouts. Smithwick's is a good choice and you can't deny Guinness is awesome for cooking. You can use any good Scottish ale or a nice stout. Porters and brown ales are a good choice too. I don't like using IPAs because their hoppiness leaves the soup a little too bitter.
Choose Your Booze French Onion Soup
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 1/2 lbs yellow onions
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon all purpose flour
4 cups beef stock
12 oz beer or wine of your choice
cubed bread, toasted
1/2 lb shredded Gruyere cheese
minced fresh thyme for garnish
In a large soup pot with a lid, melt the butter and olive oil over medium-low heat. While the butter and olive oil melt, slice the onions with a mandoline or use sharp knife so your onions are as thin as possible. Add the onions to the butter and olive oil and stir to coat. Cover and let cook for 15 minutes. Stir the onions and cover again for 15 minutes. Remove the lid and add the sugar and salt and raise the heat to medium-high. Continue cooking, stirring more frequently. Once the onions are a deep brown color and start sticking to the pot, reduce the heat to medium low. Sprinkle in the flour and cook 2-3 minutes. Add 1 cup of beef stock to deglaze the pot, scraping up the onions and brown bits stuck to the pot. Stir in the remaining stock, add in the alcohol and turn the heat to low. Cover the pot again and let the soup simmer for at least 30 minutes to combine the flavors.
While the soup is simmering, heat the oven to 425 degrees. Cut the bread into cubes and spread out on a sheet pan covered with foil. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Toast the cubes in the oven until golden about 5-8 minutes.
Place the bread cubes in oven safe soup bowls. Ladle the soup onto the bread cubes and top with a generous amount of shredded cheese. Set onto a sheet pan covered in foil and bake for 10-12 minutes until the cheese is melted and browned to your liking. Let cool for 5 minutes, then enjoy!


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SharePoint Online and Windows Azure: Developing Secure BCS Connections using WCF Services
SharePoint Online and Windows Azure: Developing Secure BCS Connections in the Cloud
Over the Christmas vacation, a few of us got together and started down the path of how to not only secure external data connections to SharePoint Online, but more generally discussed a few different patterns that can be used to develop 'complete cloud' solutions; that is, solutions that leverage the collaborative platform and features of SharePoint Online and deploy solutions to SharePoint Online with code that lives in Windows Azure.
In this blog post, I'm going to cover how to secure an external data connection with the Business Connectivity Services (BCS) using a secure WCF service deployed to Windows Azure. The discussion will highlight three additional areas you need to consider when securing the connection. The blog post will reference a comprehensive hands-on lab at the end that you can walk through to replicate what is discussed.
Business Connectivity Services and SharePoint Online
Late last year, I wrote a blog post on SharePoint Online's newest feature addition: BCS. On its own, BCS is a very interesting artifact; it enables you to connect external line-of-business (LOB) systems with SharePoint Online. So, what at first appears to be a normal looking list actually dynamically loads the external data from a cloud-based data source like SQL Azure. This special kind of list is known as an external list. For example, you can see how the below list exposes data from an external data source and provides the user read/write permissions on the data it dynamically loads.
Figure 1: External List Loading External Data
Now it's not my intention in this post to give you an overview of the BCS; you can get a great introduction to SharePoint Online and BCS by reading this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh412217.aspx. More to the point, my previous blog post(s) focused on how to walk through the creation of an external content type (ECT) using a WCF service deployed to Windows Azure that acts against a SQL Azure database, also hosted in the cloud. You can find a prescriptive walkthrough here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steve_fox/archive/2011/11/12/leveraging-wcf-services-to-connect-bcs-with-sharepoint-online.aspx. However, while the aforementioned blog post gave you a walkthrough of how to create the connection between an external data source and SharePoint Online, it didn't discuss how to secure that connection.
Key Elements in Securing the Connection
While creating an open WCF service (e.g. HTTP-enabled service with no authentication) can be useful in some situations, say exposing bus schedule data or public demographic information, it's doesn't enable developers to add a level of security that you will often require. You can control permissions against the ECT, thus provisioning some consumers of the external list with read-only privileges and others with read/write privileges, but that's only one layer—it doesn't cover the service layer. To add an additional layer of security for the WCF service, in this pattern, will necessitate three additional steps:
1. Configuring the service to be an HTTPS endpoint rather than an HTTP endpoint.
2. Leveraging the UserNamePasswordValidator class to help authenticate the service.
3. Encrypting the WCF service with a certificate.
I'll provide some discussion around these three elements and then to close this blog post will point you to a comprehensive hands-on lab that we've put together for you to walk through and test this pattern.
Configuring the WCF Service
To create an open or non-secure (HTTP) service, you can use BasicHttpBinding on the service. For example, the serviceModel snippet from my service web.config below illustrates how I used BasicHttpBinding to create a recent service that exposed Grades data in SharePoint Online.
<service behaviorConfiguration="Grades_LOB_For_SP.Service1Behavior" name="Grades_LOB_For_SP.GradeService">
<endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="Grades_LOB_For_SP.IGradesService">
<dns value="localhost" />
<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
However, when redeploying the service for security, you can employ a number of methods to either pass or look up the identity of the SharePoint user (or external system identity) when creating your WCF service. For example, you could amend your service configuration and move beyond BasicHttpBinding and use WSHttpBinding instead. Using WSHttpBinding provides a broader array of security options that you can use to authenticate the service. Thus, when the identity of the client is known, it is authorized to perform the functions that are built within the service—e.g. create, read, update, and delete web methods that execute against the back-end (external) data source.
<binding name="Binding">
<security mode="TransportWithMessageCredential">
<transport />
<message clientCredentialType="UserName" />
<behavior name="NewBehavior">
<userNameAuthentication userNamePasswordValidationMode="Custom"
customUserNamePasswordValidatorType="MyService.Identity.UserAuthentication, MyService" />
<serviceMetadata httpsGetEnabled="true" />
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
<service behaviorConfiguration="NewBehavior"
<endpoint address="" binding="wsHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="Binding"
contract="MyService.IContentService" />
<endpoint address="mex" name="MetadataBinding" binding="mexHttpsBinding"
<serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
From the above excerpt from my web.config file, you can see that there are a few more configuration options to consider/add when locking down your service. And debugging these in the cloud can be a challenge, so be sure to turn on errors and debug locally often before deploying into your cloud environment.
For more information on transport security, go here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms729700.aspx.
Using the UserNamePasswordValidator Class
When authenticating using WCF, you can create custom user name and password authentication methods and validate a basic claim being passed from the client. The creation and passing of the username and password claim can be accomplished by using the UserNamePasswordValidator class. For example, in the following code snippet, note that the Validate method passes two string parameters and in this case uses comparative logic to 'authenticate' the user.
public override void Validate(string userName, string password)
if (null == userName || null == password)
throw new ArgumentNullException();
if (!(userName == "SPUser1" && password == "SP_Password") && !(userName == "SPUser2" && password == "SP_Password2"))
throw new FaultException("Unknown Username or Incorrect Password");
Note: The username and password are passed using the Secure Store Service Application ID. So, when you add the service using SharePoint Designer, you would add the username and password that would be validated within the WCF service.
This proved to be an interesting framework to test the authentication of the SharePoint Online user, but the reader should be aware that we still are discussing the pros and cons of implementing this pattern across different types of production environments. Perhaps for a small-scale production services architecture, you might leverage this, but for large, enterprise-wide deployments managing and mapping credentials for authorization would require a more involved process of building and validating the user.
You can find more information on the UserNamePasswordValidator class here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa702565.aspx.
Encrypting a WCF Service using Certificates
The final piece of creating the new and secured service was encrypting the WCF service using trusted certificates. The certificate not only enabled an encrypted connection between the WCF service and SharePoint Online, but it also established a trusted connection through the addition of an SSL certificate from a trusted certificate authority. For this service, you must create a trusted certificate authority because SharePoint Online does not trust a self-signed certificate. The username and password are passed in the request header, which is trusted by the WCF service. This provides transport level authentication for the WCF service.
Beyond the process of creating a trusted certificate authority, a couple of things you'll need to be aware of:
1. The Windows Azure VS tools automatically create a certificate and deploy it with your code. You can view it from your Settings in your project.
2. You need to both include your trusted certificate authority with your service code and upload it to your Windows Azure management portal.
Note: I mention #1 because we ran into an error when deploying the service, and it turned out to be a mismatched certificate error with the auto-generated certificate in the tools. (Reusing the thumbprint from my trusted certificate authority got it working.)
Adding the trusted certificate authority is straightforward; you use the Cloud project Settings to add certificates, as per the figure below.
Figure 2: Certificates in Windows Azure Project
Also, note that you'll need to ensure you enable both HTTP and HTTPS on your service endpoint—and then map the SSL Certificate Name to your secure HTTPS endpoint in your Windows Azure project.
Figure 3: HTTP and HTTPS Endpoints in the WCF Service Project
After you load your trusted certificate authority to your Windows Azure subscription, you'll then note that you have the chained certs as well, as per the figure below.
Figure 4: Uploaded Certificates in Windows Azure
The net result of deploying the now secured service is that you can browse to the service and then click the security icon in the URL field to view the certificate information. You should also be able to browse your WSDL without any issue.
Figure 5: Final Service
At this point, you can then use this service endpoint to create the ECT in much the same way you did in my earlier post.
Summary & Specific Guidance
This blog post was a follow-up to my earlier post on using WCF to connect SQL Azure data to SharePoint Online. It was meant to highlight how the earlier non-secure WCF service that was connected to SharePoint Online could be extended and secured using 1) WCF HTTPS, 2) the UserNamePasswordValidator class, and 3) trusted certificate authority. I typically like to give prescriptive guidance for developers to use to test out these patterns, so to help you get on your way, we've put together a comprehensive hands-on lab that walks you through how to create a secure WCF service and connect to SharePoint Online using BCS in a step-by-step fashion.
You can download a lengthy hands-on lab that walks you through the specifics by going here: http://tinyurl.com/7oghxln.
This is an interesting movement forward in the ever-evolving SharePoint Online and Windows Azure development story. We'll have more for you moving forward. Look for some additional information on general cloud patterns with SharePoint Online and Windows Azure and also some cross posts that will highlight service-bus relay patterns as well as additional information around identity management.
I'd like to thank a couple of the guys on my team (Paul and Matt) and the team from Hyderabad (Aniket, Manish, Raj, & Sharad) on their collaboration to get us this far. Lots more good stuff to come on SharePoint Online and Windows Azure development with quite a bit of interest on this from the community.
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A few things. There's been some back and forth book drama and headaches and not enough sleep, but I'm fine. In a crazed, still-adjusting, holy airbags, did I really just cut someone off in the B'nai Israel morning drop-off? I have been earmarked for jail. (I'm so so sorry! I didn't realize I was in the carpool lane and not the park lane). When I tell you I spent the day (half the day) feeling sick over it, I'm not exaggerating.
Now then…
One of my neighbors came *this close* to running Lucas down with her golf cart (she was gunning it down THE SIDEWALK). She looked mid-50's and manic. Apparently, her dog had wandered off and she was searching the neighborhood for him (she found him, called security, and then came careering down the sidewalk). I saw her. Lucas was standing outside the passenger side of my car. Abigail was climbing into her seat (which is passenger side). Lucas sprung out to come around to the driver side, where his seat is, and that's when she slammed on the brakes and screamed, "ARE YOU FCUKING KIDDING ME?!" And I just stood there, my mouth, I'm sure, hanging. I was shaking and hugging Lucas. She said nothing else, no, is he okay, or I'm so sorry.
Stop. Think about this. Had you almost accidentally run over a four year old while driving, wouldn't you, I dunno, stop, get out, make sure he's okay? Say something without the word fcuk?
No. She rode off into the sunset. And I called the Home Owners Association. And by I, I mean Phil.
And that would be a no. Driving on sidewalks with golf carts is NOT permitted. In case you were siding with the runaway neighbor.


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Disruption Decoded: Strategies for Billion-Dollar Success in the Era of Endless Innovation
Americans today face an age of economic disruption that is changing the way we buy, sell, and advertise goods or services. This new era of supply and demand is not gradual; it is a rapid process happening every day. With the rise of the on-demand economy, the most successful companies are those that can quickly adapt. But how can you, as an individual, avoid falling behind and find success during this disruption?
Jay Samit, futurist and author of Disrupt You! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation, joined MBO for a webinar to help explain the answer. During the discussion, Jay covers the several essential steps needed to stay afloat, including: the current and future state of the economy—as well as expert predictions into its growth and expansion over the next five to ten years—specific insight into the impact that disruptive economic trends will have on employment figures in the next decade, and essential steps needed to personally ensure your role and success in the new economic landscape.