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What technology have you incorporated into your practice that makes the biggest impact on your patients' experience?
Quentin B. Allen, MD
Florida Vision Institute, Stuart, Florida
In 2019, incorporating the AcrySof PanOptix Trifocal IOL (Alcon) in my practice had the biggest impact and the biggest wow factor—not only for my patients, but also for our staff, and even the referring doctors in the community. Seeing the visual outcomes and patient excitement has energized and simplified our discussions around premium IOL technology.
Robert T. Chang, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
We have incorporated the Stanford MyHealth App, which allows patients to view their own medical records and selected test results, make appointments, manage medications, and more. It also acts as a secure portal to improve communications among patients, physicians, and staff to share health-protected information and make documentation easy. This is a step toward a more connected and convenient, yet secure, data-sharing environment.
Jorge L. Alió, MD, PhD, FEBOphth
Vissum-Instituto Oftalmologico de Alicante, Spain
No. 1 is myopic SMILE. SMILE has demonstrated, in my hands, to be a superb refractive surgery technology for myopia, even though the technology is, in my opinion, still not completely developed. Despite the lack of adequate technological centration and rotational adjustment, I find it works just as well as LASIK. The immediate visual recovery, almost similar to that of lamellar techniques, is also a wonderful advantage. I love seeing patients on the day of surgery and then on the following days, and almost nothing has happened in the cornea. The lack of a flap is indeed a huge advantage in refractive surgery, and I believe that, once SMILE is developed for hyperopia and other refractive errors, it will be the refractive surgical technique of the future. I love to SMILE.
No. 2 is an accommodating IOL. Another technology that has impressed me is the new accommodating IOL, Lumina (Akkolens), as it offers me the possibility of recovering the long-sought-after achievement of accommodative pseudophakia. Patients recover their near vision capabilities extremely quickly, sometimes the same week as the surgery was performed. The lack of photic phenomena and the experience of real accommodation are outstanding for patients. I hope that this technology will be commercially available in the immediate future, as soon as the ongoing multicenter clinical studies have been completed.
Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD
New York University, New York
The adoption of Veracity Surgical (Carl Zeiss Meditec) has made the biggest impact on our patient experience and refractive outcomes. We can now rapidly auto-populate our electronic health record system with all of the data generated during an office visit, document our conversations with patients, and verify our surgical planning—all on one system. Since beginning to use Veracity Surgical, my practice has increased the number of refractive cataract surgery procedures performed and improved outcomes, which has led to happier patients.
Fernando Faria-Correia, MD, PhD, FEBOS-CR
CUF Porto, Porto, Portugal
From a surgical standpoint, transepithelial PRK (Streamlight on the WaveLight EX500 platform, Alcon) improved my patients' experience regarding laser vision correction. In addition to offering a faster and touchless procedure compared with other surface ablation options, transepithelial PRK enables outstanding visual and refractive outcomes and regularizes the anterior stromal surface.
Brenton Finklea, MD
Vantage EyeCare, Philadelphia
The use of interactive video education material has become an invaluable source of standardized information delivery to my patients who are considering surgery. Graphics explaining the basic anatomy and steps of surgery help to demystify the process and provide patients with the knowledge that empowers them to make informed decisions. When coupled with a thorough preoperative physician discussion, video education improves patient satisfaction by garnering confidence in their treatment plans.
W. Barry Lee, MD, FACS
Eye Consultants of Atlanta, Georgia
Our biggest innovation for patients in my practice has been in ocular imaging. The use of tomography imaging systems has been a game-changer for refractive evaluations and for identification of patients with keratoconus who need CXL. The ConfoScan 4 (Nidek) has also been a huge referral device for patients needing endothelial cell analysis with endothelial keratoplasty or phakic lenses, corneal nerve imaging, or infectious disease diagnostic information. Retinal imaging with the Optomap (Optos) has been a great resource for documenting retinal appearance for referring doctors, comparing with future examinations, and showing patients their pathology to help them understand various disease processes.
Audrey R. Talley Rostov, MD
Northwest Eye Surgeons, Seattle
We started performing SMILE with the VisuMax femtosecond laser system (Carl Zeiss Meditec). It is an amazing laser—the most impressive femtosecond laser that I have worked with for cornea and refractive surgery. The patient experience with SMILE has also been great. The laser experience itself is much gentler due to the lower pressure rise created with the patient interface device as compared with other femtosecond lasers. We can now treat higher myopic refractions because less tissue is removed, in general, compared with LASIK, and patients appreciate the ability to return to work and other activities faster than would be possible with either LASIK or PRK.
Angie Wen, MD
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, New York
One of the most useful tools that I have incorporated into my surgical practice is the use of the ORA System with VerifEye+ Technology (Alcon) for the confirmation of IOL power immediately after cataract removal, especially in patients who have had refractive surgery and patients receiving astigmatism-correcting toric lenses. Post-LASIK patients are often among the most demanding, as they have previously experienced great visual benefit from technology. Although our IOL prediction methods for post-LASIK patients are fairly accurate these days, it is still helpful to have real-time wavefront analysis of the eye during surgery. There have been instances in which the ORA recommended a lens adjustment that ultimately proved to be correct for the intended refractive result.
Additionally, we know that even a small offset in axis of astigmatism can result in a large residual refractive error and that there can often be parallax errors in marking and aligning toric lenses. The ORA device can be used to tweak the final positioning of the toric lens to ensure an optimal result.


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In order to maximizing the effectiveness of production processes and meeting employee needs & desires Facility layout and design plays a key role in business's overall operations. It entails in determining the placement off departments, work group within the departments, workstations, machines ; stock holding points within a production facility.
DEFINITION: "The physical arrangement of everything needed for the product or service, including machines, personnel, raw materials, and finished goods.The criteria for a good layout necessarily relate to people (personnel and customers), materials (raw, finished, and in process), machines, and their interactions. "- Howard J.
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Weiss and Mark E. Gershon FACTORS IN DETERMINING LAYOUT ; DESIGN: There are many operational factors which need to consider while construction or renovation of a facility for maximum layout effectiveness. It includes: * Ease of future expansion or change: Facilities should be designed so that they can be easily expanded or adjusted to meet changing production needs.
Flow of movement: The facility design should reflect recognition of the importance of smooth process flow. The flow need not be a straight line. Parallel flows, U-shaped patterns, or even a zig-zag that ends up with the finished product back at the shipping and receiving bays can be functional. However, backtracking is to be avoided in whatever pattern is chosen. * Materials handling: It is essential to ensure the facility layout makes possible to handle materials (products, equipment, containers, etc. ).It should be in an orderly, efficient—and preferably simple—manner. * Output needs: The facility should be laid out in a way that is conducive to helping the business meet its production needs.
* Space utilization: This aspect of facility design includes everything from making sure that traffic lanes are wide enough to making certain that inventory storage warehouses or rooms utilize as much vertical space as possible. * Shipping and receiving: Some business organization leaves ample room for this aspect of operations. * Ease of communication and support:Facilities should be laid out so that communication within various areas of the business and interactions with vendors and customers can be done in an easy and effective manner. Similarly, support areas should be stationed in areas that help them to serve operating areas. * Impact on employee morale and job satisfaction: Since countless studies have indicated that employee morale has a major impact on productivity, ; therefore managers should pay attention to this factor. There are some ways layout design can increase morale are obvious, such as providing for light-colored walls, windows, space.Other ways are less obvious and not directly related to the production process like a cafeteria or even a gymnasium in the facility design.
* Promotional value: Customers, vendors, investors, etc. , visits the offices often. It is necessary to make sure that the facility layout is an attractive one that further burnishes the company's reputation. Design factors that can influence the degree of attractiveness of a facility include not only the design of the production area itself, but the impact that it has on, for instance, ease of fulfilling maintenance/cleaning tasks.
* Safety:The facility layout should enable the business to effectively operate in accordance with Occupational Safety and Health Association guidelines and other legal restrictions. FACILITY LAYOUT AT MCDONALDS ABOUT MCDONALDS: McDonald's Corporation is one of the world's largest chains of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving nearly 58 million customers daily. It is worldwide renowned for the high degree of respect for the local customs and culture.
It started as a drive-in-restaurant in the late 1940's. In June 1967, McDonald's opened its first restaurant outside U. S in Canada McDonald's entered in India with joint venture project in 1996.
McDonald's has 160 restaurants across the country. For its supreme benchmarks established in the QSR sector McDonald's India has been presented with many prestigious awards. FACILITY LAYOUT DESIGN: KITCHEN AREA VEG AREA NON-VEG AREA ENTRANCE FOR EMPLOYEES WASH-ROOM SERVICE COUNTER 4 SERVICE COUNTER 3 SERVICE COUNTER 2 SERVICE COUNTER 1 SERVICE COUNTER 5 REST – ROOM FOR EMPLOYEES BIRTH-DAY PARTY ZONE QUE SERVICE DINING AREA LCD TV QUICK PACKAGING COUNTER Customer entrance & exists door Statute of Ronald OBSERVATION: The USP of McDonald's is Quality, Service, Cleanliness & Value for money.
It mainly concentrates on providing customers high quality products, served quickly with a smile, in a clean and pleasant environment at an affordable price. The McDonald's philosophy of QSC;V is the guiding force behind its service to the customers. Following are the key features of the layout which I observed. About Queuing system: McDonalds is a pioneered in establishing Queuing System in Indian Restaurant Industry. However; the one of the major advantage of the queuing system is; it saves time ; server can serve maximum number of customers quickly in minimum time.Customer has to wait approximately 30 seconds after placing the order. ; it is lowest time of waiting period. However it fulfills the priority rule of queuing system i.
e. first come first serve base. About Kitchen Zone: As McDonalds is cultural sensible; it has given exceptionally importance to the kitchen zone. It has developed a menu especially for India with vegetarian selections to suit Indian tastes and preferences. Keeping in line with this, McDonald's does not offer any beef or pork items in India.
In the last decade it has introduced some vegetarian and non-vegetarian products with local flavors that have appealed to the Indian palate. About Birth-day Party Zone: Since McDonalds attracts mainly to the kids (the age group of 5 – 17 years old); the concept of birthday party hall emerged. However; not only kids but also youngsters prefers to celebrate its birthday party in McDonalds as it costs very economical. It is important part of layout. Quick Package Zone: This zone is especially for the customers who are in hurry & don't have sufficient time to seat & eat in the restaurant.Rather they don't prefer because of various reasons may includes parking problems, rush in the dining area etc. Dining Zone: It is specious area where customers seat & spend their time with each other while eating.
Statute of Ronald: Statute of Ronald is attraction for the kids as well as visitors. According to me it's a least important thing in the layout. FACILITY LAYOUT OF DOMINOS PIZZA ABOUT DOMINOS PIZZA: Domino's Pizza, Inc. is an international pizza delivery corporation headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
It is the second-largest pizza chain in the United States.Jubilant FoodWorks Limited, a Jubilant Bhartia Group Company holds the Master Franchisee Rights for Domino's Pizza for India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Domino's Pizza opened its first store in India in January 1996, at New Delhi. Today Domino's Pizza India has grown into a countrywide network of more than 300 stores with a team of over 9,000 people. Like most corporate success stories, Domino's started out small – with just one store in 1960. Now, Domino's Pizza is celebrating over forty years of delivering food, fun and innovation.Some interesting facts about the company: * 70 percent of its revenue comes from home delivery service & around 30 percent is over-the-counter sales. * Indian operations are ranked number one for the past 3 years.
* Delivers an average of 1 million pizzas per day * Over the last 2 years, they opened stores in 15 new cities * Establish a reputation for being a home delivery specialist capable of delivering pizzas within 30 minutes or else FREE to a community of loyal consumers from all our stores around the country EMPLOYEES ENTRANCE FACILITY LAYOUT DESIGN: KITCHEN AREA EMPLOYEE REST-ROOMWASH – ROOOM S CASH & SERVICE COUNTER LCD TV W STORE – ROOM DINING AREA CUSTOMER ENTRANCE OBSERVATION: My observation about facility layout of Dominos Pizza is; * It is constantly strives to develop products that suit the tastes of consumers and hence give pleasure to them. * Domino's Pizza has a guarantee that customers would receive their pizzas within 30 minutes of ordering, or else they would receive the pizzas free. * The main feature of Dominos Pizza is to make Home-Delivery of pizza within 30 seconds ; therefore; there is no enough space to seat ; have a spare time while eating a pizza. Company follows multichannel, single phase line structure which involves the uneven service time given each customer which results in unequal speed or flow among the lines.
; therefore; customer prefer order a pizza through telephone rather than visit the store ; have it with their friends, colleagues or family. * Overall store layout seems to be congested including kitchen area ; they therefore they don't have a spate section for vegetarian ; non-vegetarian like McDonalds. Working at Dominos Kitchen Area: Facility Layout at Pizza Hut About Pizza Hut: Pizza Hut is the leading casual dining restaurant in India.Pizza Hut made its venture into India with a restaurant in Bangalore in June 1996.
It was the first international restaurant chain to enter this category ; is pioneered of establishing the pizza market in India. Its great tasting pizzas and trademark dining experience have made it possible for the company to register a double-digit growth and scale up its presence to its current size. With a 27 per cent market share of the eating-out market and over 70,000 footfalls per day across the country, Pizza Hut is geared to provide diners with the ideal place to build memories and relationships over delicious food.Apart from the pizza it also serves with wide range of vegetarian and non-vegetarian appetizers, soups, salads, pastas, beverages and desserts.
International products have been tested on levels of salt and spices to ensure they suit the Indian palate. In order to enhance menu pizza Hut keep evolving tastes and preferences of the Indian consumers. Another point to note is that world over; the toppings at Pizza Hut are mainly beef and pepperoni; but in India Pizza Hut are serving more variety in the toppings on the vegetarian side because 60% Indian population is vegetarian.Pizza Hut is one of the flagship brands of Yum! Brands, Inc.
, which also has KFC, Taco Bell, A;W and Long John Silver's under its umbrella. Pizza Hut is the world's largest casual dining restaurant chain with over 13,000 restaurants across 97 countries and 143 stores across 34 cities in India. EMPLOYEE ENTRANCE FACILITY LAYOUT DESIGN: PARKING AREA WAITING AREA CUSTOMER ENTRANCE DINING AREA KITCHEN AREA WASH – ROOOM EMPLOYEE REST-ROOM CASH ; SERVICE COUNTEER LCD TV LCD TV BELL AREA OBSERVATION: My observation in Pizza Hut layout is as follows: Pizza Hut is split into several different restaurant formats like * The original family-style dine-in locations which is known as "Red Roofs" * Store front delivery and carry-out locations which is known as "Delcos" * Hybrid locations that offer carry-out, delivery, * Dine-in options which is known as "RBDs" or Restaurant Based Delivery units * Many full-size Pizza Hut locations offer lunch buffet, with "all-you-can-eat" pizza, salad, breadsticks, and a special pasta * The Dining area of the restaurant is specious ; therefore friends ; mainly family prefer to go Pizza hut. The restaurant doesn't have queuing system. It follows multichannel, single phase line system. However; to avoid crowd at counter as well as in restaurant; one personnel of Pizza Hut stands outside ; direct the customers.
It helps to serve customers better without hastily. * Layout of kitchen model is similar to Dominos Pizza's Layout * Consumers don't get angry though it takes lot of time to serve consumers. Because ambience maintained in the restaurant very well. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE THREE LAYOUTS ; THE EFFICIENT LAYOUT AMONG THESE THREEAccording to me; though the pattern of facility layout is same; design is differs from each other. All these three layouts have different strategies to serve the customers at its best.
Differences between layouts of McDonalds India, Pizza – Hut India ; Dominos Pizza, India are: * McDonalds follows queuing system because of which it serves more customers with less time * Dominos Pizza, India is best in Home Delivery of pizza within 30 minutes but it is not good when it comes to serves customers in the layout because of lack of space * Pizza Hut, India is follows multichannel single phase system.Though it takes lots of time to serve the customers; normally they doesn't get annoyed because they generally visit the restaurant to spend their time with their friends, family etc. Talking about efficiency; according to me Dominos Pizza as well as McDonalds is the best at their place. Because; when customer arrives at any fast food restaurant; he expects to get his order at the earliest time as his main aim is to have the food ; exist. So, in case of McDonalds; they serve their customers at very less time i. e.
within 30 seconds.They are more efficient in terms of satisfying their customers' needs in lesser time. ; by this way they serve nearly 58 million customers regularly. also in case of Dominos Pizza, India; company serves much better in case of Home Delivery. Because they serves their customers within 30 minutes from the time of order placed. But in case of Pizza Hut; it is less efficient in terms of serving the customers though they have impressive facility design.
But it doesn't fulfill the main purpose of facility layout is to increase productivity process. ; therefore; customer mostly not prefer Pizza Hut in case of hurry.


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Over the past five years, the online business community in Iran has exploded with different stores coming to market every month.
By 2015, the Internet industry radically transformed itself into the region's leading e-commerce sectors. With that in mind, Financial Tribune spoke with founders of Iran's web 2.0 experience.
Cousins Alireza and Saman Sadeqian, began their own startup,NetBarg.com, a local deals website back in 2011. Similar to Groupon, offers people special deals in a variety of different categories such as food, leisure, and beauty products.
Alireza originally came up with the idea while he was still studying in Columbia Business School, in New York, in 2010. While studying, he dissected the Groupon business model, looked how it could be utilized in an Iranian environment and began his plan to bring it to Iran.
On his return to Iran, Alireza gathered a group of friends, including his cousin Saman to devise a strategy, studying over 400 articles about Groupon and proceeded to kick-start his own business.
Que NetBarg.com, Iran's first deal site, based itself on the US original in 2011.
Alireza said one thing that helped his company "pull away from the pack" was their offer of an iPad with the purchase of a deal, he said in 30 days we got 20,000 email addresses signed up in Tehran alone. Saman added that they received 40,000 entrants for the iPad competition nationally. He did his Masters dissertation at Royal Holloway University of London on group buying websites for local businesses. "This really helped our cause and route to market."
He went further saying, generally the Groupon-style website was adaptable to Iran with only minor alterations.
The duo said initially they had to break down the mental barrier held by many consumers with conducting online transactions.
"This was 2011 and online payments in Iran were still in their very early stages."
Saman said "trust was difficult at first, but it was interesting for us how quickly people were able to trust our brand."
Prior to their deals site, the cousins sold Persian rugs online with limited success. As they say what changed the general feeling among the buyers was they could pay bills online, something that was not available from their first online rug store in 2004.
About statistics, the team said mobile is now playing a much larger role with 65% logging on from Android and 35% from iOS. Android downloads now make 90% of Netbarg.com views on mobile.
Saman noted that the 10% that download the iOS app are more active on the platform and spend higher sums of money.
The most popular thing the website has ever offered was a charity effort in support of the Azarbaijan earthquake in 2013.
"We sold over 18,000 tickets in support of the charity dealing with that particular disaster," Saman noted.
Post Sanctions
The next key issue for the duo was the potential lifting of sanctions on the Iranian economy, and the prospect of sites like Groupon moving into the local market.
Alireza remarked that since they started, there were over 150 local group buying websites running in Iran, adding that only three others have remained in the market.
"I do not see a serious threat to my business [from foreign competition], if they want to negotiate a merger, then we are open to business."
NetBarg.com's closest local competition is Takhfifan, another Persian-language deal site. "Takhfifan is three to four times smaller than our business, and we've managed to hold our lead"
Future Plans
The cousins plan to offer further bulk offers to larger companies. Alireza mentioned that this new method of attracting business has worked well, with corporate take-up increasing, albeit gradually.
Saman said the future holds many interesting challenges for the company, as people become more familiar with the deals platform. The cousins beleive they will have to keep their prices and deals interesting.
At the end our interview, the cousins said they are no longer a startup; employing more than 120 people, they have now switched into a fully corporate model even employing an HR manager to deal with their daily issues.
Saman noted that being a startup was a great experience, where one does all the work themselves. However in recent years, they have had to change their own mentality and working practice.
"We have some key area[s] where we try to retain our startup agility, but as our strategy is based around growth it is challenging to continue to act in that manner. It will take time to be the leader online," Saman added.


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The 03 2018 is New Zealand's longest brevet, circumnavigating the island by way of perilous peaks and shadowy single track…
This ride is 4000 kms long and is the pinnacle of "type-2 fun" self-supported multi-day navigation that are Brevets. There is 41,561m of climbing. It's a no-frills "you are on your own" self-supported type affair.
This will be an annual event. There will be a leaderboard with timings for finishers and a special momento to keep for everyone who completes 100% of the route.
Entry Details:
You must register. Click on this link http://register.trackme.bike/
There are two rides – Race and Tour.
This includes three steps:
1. Individual entry – you can ride as a team of two or three and share the SPOT between you all, but you each must enter individually for safety reasons. Enter a common team name when you register. The entry fee is a donation to the McQueens Valley Mountainbike Club.
2. Booking a SPOT device or you can use your own.
3. Arrange tracking.
This can all be done via the online registration page above.
SPOTs and tracking are compulsory – for your safety – and for friends, family and the flahute to stalk you!
There is a special deal through SPOTNZ for these events.
An electronic map in gpx format, cue sheets and a ride guide will be emailed out on receipt of registration and donation from 90 days before the event up to the Wednesday evening before the event. IF you withdraw after the Wednesday prior to the event or don't turn up on the day, there will be no refunds. There is some room for movement at our discretion. This will help the planners relax and if you register early, to get great rates on accommodation. You will need to prepare everything else – your legs, your bike, your kit, food, maps, backup, transport, you name it. It is highly recommended that you have a physical map as a back up. Your device will run out of batteries at some point.
The Rules:
Borrowed largely from the Kiwi Brevet – www.kiwibrevet.blogspot.co.nz. The main thing is to complete the course under your own steam, without a support crew or ANY outside assistance (other than what is commercially available to every participant). Text-ins are to be made from designated locations along the route until you either finish or abandon the brevet.
1. Do it all yourself, under your own steam.
2. Riders must carry all their own gear.
3. Follow 100% of the course.
4. You must carry a SPOT, and agree to cover the cost of rescue in the event they need to be evacuated.
5. Riders must finish by 9pm on Sunday 11 February 2018.
6. Between 9am one day and 9am the next, every rider must spend at least one block of at least six hours not travelling. That is, the maximum time any rider may spend travelling along the course will be 18 hours. (between each 10am-to-10am period)
7. When on public roads, follow the NZ Road Code.
8. Text-ins are to be made from designated locations along the route until you either finish or abandon the brevet.
9. Riders must observe all rules laid down by land managers along the route.
Enjoy it, it is an adventure more than anything else.
That's probably enough for now! Feel free to post up any questions that you may have, or visit the Facebook event page for current updates.


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Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Traditional Cree Medicinal Plants
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|This thesis evaluated traditional medicines used by the Cree First Nation of Eeyou Istchee (James Bay Region, Quebec, Canada) for safety and efficacy in the context of Type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Drug metabolism and absorption were evaluated using whole cell in vitro models: human liver microsomes and Caco-2 permeability assays, respectively. It was found that the 17 medicinal plant extracts had an effect on the cytochrome P450-mediated metabolism of one co-administered conventional antidiabetic therapy, repaglinide, while having no effect on another, gliclazide. Furthermore, 11 of the extracts were tested for absorption and had no effect on either conventional therapy. One promising botanical, Sarracenia purpurea L. (Sarraceniaceae), was studied in detail. The phytochemistry of the traditional water preparation was compared to the more widely used ethanol extract. The concentrations of the 10 phenolic compounds present, as well as an active principle, the iridoid glycoside morroniside, were very similar between the two extracts, with generally slightly higher concentrations of phenolics in the ethanol extract as expected. However, two triterpenes, betulinic acid and ursolic acid, were 107 and 93 times more concentrated, respectively, in the ethanol extract compared to the water. Further analysis of safety of S. purpurea and morroniside was examined using Caco-2 cells, a model for first-pass metabolism, using 19K microarrays. Following 4- hour and/or 24-hour exposure to 100 μg/mL S. purpurea or 8.8 μg/mL morroniside, no transcript changes related to metabolism or drug transport were significantly altered, thus further supporting its role as a generally safe botanical. However, when S. purpurea was examined in an in vivo model of Alzheimer's disease, the TgCRND8 (Tg) mice, it increased the frenetic behaviour observed in the Tg mice and further impaired learning and memory as examined by the Morris Water Maze. This impairment was associated with an increased level of the PC(O-16:0/2:0) lipid second messenger. Taken together, these results suggest both potential safety and limitations of using Cree traditional medicines when co-administered with pharmaceuticals. While in vitro studies also suggested potential safety of S. purpurea, it impaired Tg mice in vivo. Furthermore, Cree elders clearly understand the limitations to their traditional therapy as they warned us not to use this plant medicine in a "weakened state".
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(An extract from The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, by Matt Ridley, chapter 7 The release of slaves: energy after 1700 pp 220 – 222)
The burst of innovation which Britain experienced quite suddenly in the late 1700s was both the cause and consequence of mechanisation, of the amplification of one person's labour by machinery and fuel. The tiny nation of Britain, with just eight million people in 1750, compared with twenty-five million in far more sophisticated France, thirty-one million in far more populous Japan and 270 million in far more productive China, embarked upon a phenomenal economic expansion that would propel it to world domination within a century. Between 1750 and 1850 British men (some of them immigrants) invented an astonishing range of labour-saving and labour-amplifying devices, which allowed them to produce more, sell more, earn more, spend more, live better and have more surviving children.
A famous print entitled 'The Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Year 1807-8', the year that Parliament abolished the slave trade, depicts fifty-one great engineers and scientists all alive at the time — as if they were gathered together by an artist in the library of the Royal Institution. Here are the men who made canals (Thomas Telford), tunnels (Marc Brunel), steam engines (James Watt), locomotives (Richard Trevithick), rockets (William Congreve), hydraulic presses (Joseph Bramah); men who invented the machine tool (Henry Maudslay), the power loom (Edmund Cartwright), the factory (Matthew Boulton), the miner's lamp (Humphry Davy) and the smallpox vaccine (Edward Jenner). Here are astronomers like Nevil Maskelyne and William Herschel, physicists like Henry Cavendish and Count Rumford, chemists like John Dalton and William Henry, botanists like Joseph Banks, polymaths like Thomas Young, and many more. You look at such a picture and wonder, 'How did any one country have so much talent in the same place?'
The premise is false, of course, because it was the aura of the time and place that drew forth (and attracted from abroad — Brunel was French, Rumford American) such talent. For all their brilliance, there are Watts, Davys, Jenners and Youngs galore in every country at every time. But only rarely do sufficient capital, freedom, education, culture and opportunity come together in such a way as to draw them out. Two centuries later, somebody could paint a picture of the great men of Silicon Valley and posterity will stand amazed at the thought that giants like Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, Steve Jobs and Sergey Brin, Stanley Boyer and Leroy Hood all lived at the same time and in the same place.
Just as the Californian is today, so in 1700 the British manufacturing entrepreneur was unusually free, compared with both European and Asian equivalents, to invest, invent, expand and reap the profits. His huge capital city was unusual in being dominated by merchants, not the government, and always had been.


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Stephen Connolly
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BA (Hons) Business Studies and PhD Economics, 1992-99
From evaluating museums to the impact of Lottery programmes across the UK – research is what GCU graduate and founding Director of DC Research Stephen Connolly knows best.
"After I left school, I worked in high street banking for five years in the late 1980s and early 1990s before deciding that I wanted to go to university," said Stephen Connolly.
Since then, Stephen has co-founded his own research company DC Research.
"The desire to work in research was certainly stimulated by my time studying at GCU, whilst establishing and running my own company was probably a dim and distant thought in the back of my mind, and not something I seriously considered until later. Once I did so, aspects of what I was taught during my business studies degree certainly supported and helped my approach to running my own business."
Completing his first degree sparked an interest for further study, and an interest in research in particular. Stephen returned to GCU where he gained a PhD – and he has now spent 25 years working in both academic and private sector research and consultancy.
Having worked in research roles for various other organisations and companies, he and his co-founder wanted to do things their own way – in terms of both the quality of the research they delivered and the overall approach to running the business.
"Starting a new business at the peak of an economic recession didn't dampen our enthusiasm and eleven years later I believe our hard work has paid off given where we are now and what we have achieved."
His company, DC Research works in the economics, heritage and culture fields of research, and carries out work for national government departments, public bodies, independent trusts, regional agencies, and local authorities throughout the UK.
"My qualifications from GCU, as well as the wider life experience and skills from my time there, have been core to what I have achieved."
His advice to current students and graduates is to "be prepared and to work hard if you want to achieve all that you can from your time at university and your early career. Don't be afraid to change your mind and change your career path if you think you have made the wrong choice. Remember, there is no replacement for hard work – no matter how talented or clever you are."
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At one time or another, I guess I've been in love with all my friends. This is what Judith Butler taught me when I was introduced to her theory in a class about the secret architecture of people. Then came a peculiar process known as coming out. I reinhabited my memories in a way that felt something like rearranging of a set of objects of whose aesthetic harmony I had once been convinced. When I was done, my past friendships with women were incomprehensible.
When Todd Haynes—a filmmaker—studied this architecture at the same institution, I imagine, in the same way, some things were made hazy, and others quite plain. Haynes and Butler entered my college life in the same lecture, the week my friends and I abandoned our worship at the throne of normative sexuality for the throne of a select few films and their accompanying soundtracks. That week, I began to sleep every night in the bed of a girl who bore a striking resemblance to Rooney Mara. My friends and I began to believe movies could break chains, could save our lives, and that lesbians were the highest evolved form of humans.
I was as unsure about the difference between loving my girlfriends and being in love with them as I was sure that Haynes's films were some of the best ever made, and that when he and Butler wrote, they were writing for me. 1988's Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story was a film about the way women's bodies—our bodies— when mediated, became objects that decayed, like the quality of film itself as it was reproduced illegally over and over from the few bootlegged copies that remained in existence. Watching it felt transgressive, like discovering some dark and shameful secret about myself. 1998's Velvet Goldmine was about how queer people who make art—us—are not of this world, and will therefore outlast it.
When, in 2015, Todd Haynes directed a movie called Carol about a romance between two women, in which he cast Rooney Mara, it seemed not only fitting, but even preordained. It was almost as if the other women and I in that lecture about Judith Butler had willed Carol into existence, and we rejoiced.
I see Carol in a theater in Havana. Movies are the only things that get to the island before they get to the States. It's about New York City, Christmastime, a woman who runs away with a woman.
It screens at the Cine Yara. A boy who works as a projectionist at the theater on the next block down from the Yara meets me after his shift to see it.
For some weeks, I have been sneaking him up the stairs to my second floor apartment late at night, in the hopes of catching the watchman asleep, in the hopes that the story I will later try to summon to this page might remain absent among the hearsay passed between floors like the dilapidated elevator, its stick and lurch.
For some weeks, when there are no more questions to ask about his peculiar and foreign life, when the things in the projectionist's mind are like something etched but without cipher, I have been asking myself about the sorts of stories that could be told between a person like him and a person like me.
Before the film, we wait in a line of a hundred to get in, and beside us, someone crosses into the street and deals with a dog that lies nearly dead there: both back legs in one fist, muzzle dragging. On the sidewalk, it shudders.
Carol is not subtitled. When Cate Blanchette finds a cassette tape in the wall of the motel room she shares with Rooney Mara, the revelation rolls through the audience a moment late, like seafoam or bad dub.
The projectionist tries funny business. I am thinking about things that circle: toy train set Cate Blanchett buys from a department store, fabric on Rooney Mara's glowing body.
After, a 50-cent vanilla cone with his money. He has never felt snow, I remember in the quiet, and he will never know about the girls.
In the Cine Yara, between the house and the projection cabin, eight metal rungs. Between the cabin and the screen, light whirred through negatives of Mara and Blanchette.
'Blanchette': a name that means 'white.'
In the last row of the theater, their bright faces and teeth, the projectionist, the dark house, I, trying to describe Times Square in December. It all comes out like lore.
In Havana, there is a cement border between one realm and the next where everyone goes to neck. There are stairs that lead into the sea that seem too huge for human use. Maybe they would be appropriate for a different species. Giants. Beings not of this island. The water is too deep to swim in for most. Some humans slip on prostheses to elongate their feet or tie dirty Styrofoam together with plastic, and float. We watched their torches glow from the cement. In the morning, around their shoulders in stacks will hang small fish.
There are laws against this sort of behavior, enacted one day after many thousands of humans, starving, surged over and down the great steps. Now, every night, many thousands of humans perch to drink rum and watch the waves where the sharks surfaced then. On the border of cement, there is a border of bodies. Around the border of cement, there is a border of sea. Under the border of sea, there is a border of bones.
During the rainy season, the border floods. Waves curl over cars that drive by. It's as if the sea is reclaiming the land slowly, with great care. I, too, push up against the border of myself for the sake of it, just to see where I end, hoping the salt will wear me down enough to justify all the concrete.
It is easier to have a border. It is easier to keep things out than in. For example, trying to remember what someone said and how he said it, sitting on a long wharf of cement pocked by saltwater and humid air. For example, destroying yourself before someone else can do the same from across a country or a language or body of water. For example, closure.
I am written wrong on a shred of paper he draws from somewhere. Still, I say, show me again how you have the right words and I do not.
These are the subtitles, the footnotes, the evidence recorded on tape. This how to hear the final consonants of words a person does not say. This is how to address someone formally. Remember what happens to direct and indirect object pronouns when they meet one another. Remember so you can say it right when you say, I've forgotten the word I was taught. Remember how the Spanish translates closer to something like, the word I was taught has forgotten me.
This is the word you forgot, that means 'boulder' and rhymes with a word that means 'by yourself.' Have you found it in a dictionary? Be sure to find it in a dictionary. These are the terms of endearment. These are the terms of endearment for the woman who washes the dishes, the one who sells paper in a washroom for a dime, for a friend, for a man, for a cab driver, for the sky. This is how you do not understand what is being said. This is how difficult it is to explain it to you when your words are not concordant, are fractured, do not agree. This is how a person would want you if you did not have to be explained the ways in which you are not sufficient, how you have not given yourself enough to it all: as much as the sky.
There is so much left to say, the projectionist says, and no ways to say it. There is something I cannot touch, but that touches me. It is something like a border.
As a condition of gaining custody of her character's daughter, Cate Blanchett must cut ties with Rooney Mara with the exception of occasional phone calls, during which, in order to avoid incrimination, neither speaks.
My last night on the island the waves that broke over the border reached the far side of my building, bigger than they'd ever been. When the projectionist called me, just before light, all I could hear was the ocean.


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Project Delivery Maturity Assessment
"United Outcomes give you a fresh, external perspective."
The unique challenge
In the past 24 months, 90% of projects run by the client have not been delivered on time, and most do not meet their projected delivery date. There has been a lack of alignment of in-flight projects to strategic priorities, an inability to deliver change against various strategic priorities, to deliver benefits in a timely manner, and for projects to remain on-budget.
This insurance company engaged United Outcomes to undertake an engagement to baseline project delivery maturity against the challenges listed. The engagement was in two parts: an initial diagnosis phase reviewed the current project delivery practices; the second phase, an advisory phase, provided recommendations, an EPMO Target Operating Model and revised project delivery framework.
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The framework focussed on fifteen project delivery areas within six main project delivery categories.
An online questionnaire was distributed to the client's Project Sponsors, Project Managers, Senior Users and Suppliers to gain their views on the project delivery maturity of the organisation. Twenty nine responses were received.
The client was keen UO provided an independent assessment of the maturity of project delivery. In essence they wanted to see if their view of project delivery matched an external review. They nominated four in-flight projects for UO to review and feedback how well these projects were delivering against the fifteen project delivery areas.
To undertake the "deep dive" reviews, UO interviewed the project managers, sponsors, Senior Users, Suppliers and vendors for each of the four projects. In addition, UO reviewed all project documentation as well as observed the governance in place at project boards and Portfolio Steering Committee meetings. By collating this evidence, UO produced a "Harvey Ball" schematic to demonstrate the differing views of the questionnaire responses to the deep dive evidence.
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Demonstrated the importance of projects having a strong alignment to achieving strategic business benefits. To support this, UO provided the client with a list of strategic criteria that can be used to prioritise their projects. UO have also offered potential tools for portfolio prioritisation.
Throughout this engagement, UO built strong relationships with key stakeholder levels across the organisation.
UO supported the EPMO Governance and Reporting team through the provision of new project delivery templates – these will standardise project delivery across the organisation.


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The Law on the Security of Retirement Income for Employees (Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") was enacted in 1974. Governs how private employers and businesses pensions and insurance should be administered the benefit plans of the employees, which includes health plans.
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ERISA governs benefits such as pension plans, health insurance, disability benefits, death, plans, severance pay plans legal services prepaid, funds scholarships, training programs, and internship, and child-care facilities operated by the employer. ERISA does not cover plans required and administered by state laws, such as workers ' compensation or unemployment insurance.
Remember, the laws do not require that an employer provide specific services, such as health plans, to their employees. However, ERISA requires that, if an employer chooses to offer a plan of these characteristics, you must manage it in accordance with certain standards designed to protect the interests of employees and other beneficiaries of the plan (such as the family).
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ERISA generally provides that the benefit plans must be operated in a fair and financially reasonable. The employees and the entities that manage and control the funds of benefit plans employment must do the following:
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Benefit claims
The administrator of a plan may not refuse to illegally an application for benefits under a plan administered under ERISA. When the participant of a plan submits a request, the plan has ninety days to inform you if he accepts or rejects it. If it rejects the request, the plan must inform the participant how you should submit the denial for review a complete and fair, and to give you 60 days to do so. Once the participant submits a request for review, the plan must review the denial and make a decision within 120 days. If the participant still believes that the rejection was wrong, you can start a lawsuit against the plan.
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Freedom can mean so many different things to so many, but let me define it from Webster's dictionary to begin. Freedom is:
- The quality or state of being free
- Liberation from slavery or the POWER of another
Hallelujah! That sounds just like what Paul talks about in Galatians.
Galatians 5:1 KJV
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Those who have received Christ as Lord and Savior know what it felt like to be weighed down and in bondage, until the day we recognized that Jesus took our sin and He made us free. What a glorious day! What a wonderful moment! We are warned not to go back into bondage once we are free.
Our freedom isn't just for us! The definition of freedom is also "unrestricted use." The BIG picture is that we can proclaim freedom to invade darkness and build righteous pathways for others to walk on. We can use OUR voice to speak truth and they, too, can be set free from the torment of the enemy and live in ALL that God sent His Son to win for them.
The Scripture that Liberty is founded on is Isaiah 61.
Isaiah 61:1 KJV
The SPIRIT of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
We have been given the mandate this year to be SPIRIT EMPOWERED ALL OUT, and it is tied directly to what the Lord has mandated us to do from the beginning. I believe that we will proclaim liberty to the captives, and their prison doors will swing wide open!
This year is the year to see the fruit of our labor realized. We don't just casually read the Fasting Guide, but we also partake of the truths God is saying so that we can accomplish His mandates BY THE SPIRIT.
I get so excited because we don't have a list of what we have to do. Instead, we have a list of promises that will engage us in living our lives with His super on our natural! It will benefit others, but it will also benefit us! There is so much joy in store for those who will grow in their own freedom, as they are carriers of it.
The world has nothing to offer but bondage. We have everything to offer that the Lord has bought for every person through His great sacrifice. We must build ourselves up in our most holy faith. How do we build ourselves up in faith?
Jude 20 KJV
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.
He is our Comforter, our Guide, our Friend, the precious Third Person of the Trinity, Holy SPIRIT.
I think a lot of people will be talking about 2020 as a year of vision because of "20-20 vision." While that is true, I believe God has already been focusing on vision with us. I now believe it is of utmost importance to open our mouths in agreement with what the SPIRIT is saying and doing, and join Him in action.
Without us recognizing and agreeing with the SPIRIT, we cannot join Him in going ALL OUT to release the voice of freedom, to destroy bondage, and set the captives free!
The words of our mouths are actually creating with God, if we are truly hearing from Him as we release our voices. The bigger vision of God is for ALL of His people to be HIS mouthpiece, releasing His plans and His priorities into the atmosphere to bring change with SPIRIT EMPOWERMENT.
We must always pay attention to those who are around us, listening to Holy SPIRIT for His strategies. He releases us:
- To speak freedom into a situation or freedom to someone.
- To pray effectively and pre-emptively with revelation for different scenarios.
- To operate in the gifts He has given us with discernment and freedom.
- To co-labor with Him in miracles, which will become normal activity for us.
- To activate the Kingdom of God that is within us!
Only those who have experienced freedom can bring freedom. Once you have tasted and seen that the Lord is good, you know the freedom only He can provide!
#Spirit-Empowered Prayer:
Lord, we thank You for setting us free from the bondage we were living in before we came to know You. We are so grateful today to know You in a deep way. We are asking not just for ourselves; we are asking for freedom to flow through us and draw others OUT of the bondage they are living in. Open their eyes to truth. Grant your servants boldness to speak the Gospel truth and confirm it with SPIRIT EMPOWERMENT, Lord.
Give us a heart for the lost and dying that we come across every day. Let the atmosphere of Heaven come and charge the atmosphere, to open the doors of their hearts and to respond to the freedom You offer every individual.
We are looking for them. We are interceding for them right now. We are willing to be Your spokesperson to them. We believe You for the fruit of souls, because that is living the good life You promised. There is no greater joy than seeing Your children responding to You and being set free.
Thank You for this year being a year that will bring open doors, and we will walk through them as we go ALL OUT with You. Hallelujah!
In Jesus' Name. Amen.
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Difference between "Principal & Interest" and "Interest Only" Loan
An amortizing and interest rate borrowing means that any loans you repay will progressively balance the amount you have lent (the principal) and the interest on the loans. Redemptions for an interest only loans go only towards the disbursement of the interest component of your home construction loans. At the end of the lending term, the capital is then fully disbursed or progressively disbursed when you convert the loans to a main and interest rate loans.
The decision on which mortgage to take really will depend on your circumstances, the eligibility will depend on whether you are a first house purchaser or a real estate developer. For more information about these lending facilities call 0800 38 48 58. A mortgage policy from the lender may be necessary. Credits are intended only for New Zealand housing.
Which is a pure interest mortgage?
We' ll tell you in this section how pure interest rate mortgage loans work and what you need to know before you request one. Which is a pure interest mortgage? A pure interest mortgage is a kind of home loans where the owner is only obliged to repay the interest on the capital he has lent.
As it only pays the interest, these invoices can stay the same for some while. These can be useful for first-time home buyers who need to postpone large payment until they have supported more revenue. Yet, it is important to keep in mind that interest only mortgages will not last forever and at some point the home buyer will be liable for disbursing off the capital of the loan. 4.
Exactly what does an interest only mortgage require? During the first years of a pure interest mortgage, you are only obliged to make the interest payment on the housing construction loans. That means years of mortgage payment. Housing loans have a pure interest component for a set term, often five to seven years.
As soon as the pure interest component of a mortgage ends, your repayments rise - usually by a substantial amount - so that you can begin to repay the capital of your mortgage. Whose mortgage should be a pure interest rate mortgage? A pure interest mortgage can be the right thing for you if you are expecting a strong rise in your salaries over the next few years, e.g. after graduating from a vocational training course.
However, physicians, attorneys and other specialists may consider this kind of home loans when completing higher education and postgraduate programmes. They will earn high enough wages to cope with the rise in their mortgage payment when the pure interest rate component ends, until they finish their deals.
Unless you anticipate a large rise in your pay over the next few years, you can opt for a more traditional funding scheme for your home loans, one that will fit conveniently into your current and prospective budgets. Anyone with a more volatile earnings may be tempted to take up a pure interest rate mortgage for the large fraction in mortgage repayments in the first few years of the mortgage.
However, if you choose this approach, it is important that you are well disciplined about your cash when it comes in. Are you going to put the additional cash on your mortgage payout or set the cash aside for saving for the time being? Otherwise, you may be in trouble later when your mortgage repayments skyrocket.


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Originally published in the Long Beach Business Journal.
Although we're fully committed to serving all of our clients to the fullest extent possible, businesses with a privately-owned structure are one segment we feel we can passionately serve like other financial institutions cannot.
In fact, one family-owned business, RMI International, Inc. (RMI), discovered firsthand the commitment First Bank has to other like-minded organizations. After possessing a long-term relationship with another larger financial services provider, the Rodriguez family sought funding to buy out the entire ownership shares of a silent partner whose involvement no longer made sense and, conversely, was hindering further growth and expansion of the family's security services' operations. After interviewing eight other banks and receiving five viable proposals, First Bank was ultimately chosen as their strategic partner.
"We truly felt First Bank understood what the unique needs and challenges of a family-owned business are," said Rick "Rocky" Rodriguez, Jr,. President of RMI. "Both privately-held businesses, we have a common DNA and synergy."
Now, in its second generation of family leadership, RMI sees its' employees, clients, and partners as an extension of their family. Introduced to me through RMI's CPA, Lew Finkelstein, Partner at Rossi, LLP, Rodriguez said they saw us as not only a strategic partner but also an extension of their family. Much like First Bank, RMI places great emphasis on their people and long-term relationships. "We have similar histories and family values," said Rick Rodriguez, owner of RMI and father to Rocky Rodriguez, Jr. And, as often is the case of family-owned businesses, the family's values are also parlayed into the business setting. Striving to be long-term partners with their clients, RMI works to find the most effective, cost-efficient solutions available. "We know there are thousands of security options out there," said Rodriguez, "but our clients definitely feel a sense of partnership with us."
Poised for growth, the Rodriguez family partnered with First Bank because we offered access to local decision making; nimble responsiveness; a creative financing structure, and are family-owned. After all, we understand family-owned business; quite simply, because we are one.
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We have been delighted to work with the Fortress Resort & Spa hotel who are part of the Small Luxury Hotels organisation based in Sri Lanka, and a Trip Advisor winner for several years. Due to the hotel's outstanding reputation, Selectronic was thrilled to be chosen to help improve the lighting solution for the four main guest corridors inside the hotel, totalling 570 meters.
In order to create a lighting solution that would benefit the hotel's customers and further enhance the hotel's excellent reputation, we wanted to engage with the needs and requirements of the hotel and its customers before carrying out any major work. We set out to identify what factors were important for the Fortress hotel in relation to lighting, in order to find the best possible solution, tailored to the hotel.
We quickly established that lighting level and colour temperature were important factors for the hotel, as these help to create the right customer ambience. Product reliability was another major factor – due to the high temperature/high humidity environment of the Fortress hotel, the lighting product had to meet the highest market standard requirements. As the leading specialists in the design, development and consistent supply of optoelectronics, this was something that Selectronic was able to supply.
LEDs are known for their reliability and longevity, surpassing that of standard bulbs by at least ten years, as well as their low upkeep and maintenance costs. Selectronic has been involved with LEDs since the early stages of the technology and have championed the value of LED lighting since the beginning. Rooted in our core values for a truly customer-oriented service, we were able to match our LED products and adapt them to suit the needs of The Fortress hotel and its customers. We provided LED lights and LED drivers both rated to IP 66, that also met the UL, CE, and RoHS approval standards, enhancing the experience of the hotel's customers and staff, and supporting the hotel's excellent reputation by providing a reliable and efficient product.
The installation was completed in April 2016, and Selectronic has been pleased to receive such positive feedback from the management of the Fortress hotel who have been delighted with the end result.
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By Jeremy S. Office, Ph.D., CFP
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I define a true entrepreneur as an effective, self-aware risk taker whose individualism is matched only by his or her drive to succeed. An entrepreneur defines a problem or need; invests time, capital and blood, sweat and tears; builds a solution to the problem; and then goes to market. For many entrepreneurs, the typical process goes: define, invest, build, repeat.
But what happens when you don't want to repeat anymore? When you're ready to move on to the next phase of your life? It's relatively easy to run the numbers to determine how much to sell your business for, but what about the emotional aspects of exiting the business you labored so hard to build?
Of course, there are many operational steps to take to prepare your business before a sale — increasing earnings, auditing financials and internal controls, and diversifying your customer base. But what are you doing to prepare yourself for when you no longer run the business?
To start thinking holistically about selling your business, consider the following questions. Write them down, revisit them, share them with your spouse and business partners. You must be comfortable with your answers, because they will help define the next phase of your life.
1. Why do you want to sell your business?
Is it because you are burned out? OK. Because you want a change? Great. Because you feel you've added all the value you can to its success? That's the self-awareness mentioned earlier. Or is it because you want $10 million in the bank? If so, why? What does that money mean to you? What changes would it bring, and why is this particular amount enough?
2. What do you want your business to accomplish before you exit?
Answering this question helps create a timeline for getting your business ready to sell. It also helps you determine whether there is anything you can improve upon to bring up the price. But perhaps most important, it can show you how emotionally ready you are to walk away. If your list is long or you keep adding to it, you may not really be ready to sell.
3. What is your ideal post-exit lifestyle?
Do you want to retire? Start another business? Travel? Spend time with family? When the exuberance of successfully selling your business passes, how will you fill your days? I promise you there will be a void. Make sure you have a plan for maintaining your happiness.
Keep in mind that these are just three of the many questions we help clients explore when they are preparing for a sale. Ultimately we want to uncover as much as we can about a business owner's goals for him- or herself and for the business.
Entrepreneurship is a true passion of mine — I even wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on the topic. So while we of course talk numbers and strategies with clients who want to sell their business, we understand that a decision like this is about so much more than a business transaction.
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"Lord Leylin is extremely erudite," Nonov said in praise, "Ever since the ruins appeared the seal has slowly been lifting. No matter what methods we think of, we haven't been able to stop this process…"
"And you've come to me as a last resort." Leylin's snort had Nonov and Anye break out in cold sweat but he didn't concern himself with them, instead stroking his chin as he fell into deep thought.
Although the subterranean world was rich in resources, with the violent invasion of the ancient Magi many of the tribes there didn't have a favourable impression of humans. Although humans remained there, after so many years would they side with the humans or the subterranean world? The latter possibility was more likely.
The subterranean world was vast and boundless, and wasn't lacking in powerful Morning Stars even in the first layer. There should even be rank 5 existences there.
Twilight Zone was only a very small part of this first layer, just like how the south coast was just a part of the surface world. Furthermore, even in spite of its long isolation, there were many terrifying tribes there.
Thus, it wasn't hard to understand why Nonov and Anye grew extremely panicky seeing the seal wither away.
"A.I. Chip, based on the current rate, how much longer will the seal last?" A blue light shone from Leylin's eyes before he had the answer.
With a series of calculations, the A.I. Chip gave an extremely precise answer. [Beep! Calculating with current rate of decay, estimated time to total disintegration is 28572h 34min and 12s.]
To the A.I. Chip which had already been renewed several times, this level of operation was only the simplest.
"You invited me here, what exactly is it for? If it is to strengthen the seal, I'm afraid I can only delay it for at most a hundred years' time…"
After he finished calculating, Leylin stroked his chin and said to Nonov and Anye.
"How… How can this be? Sir is a Morning Star ranked Magus!"
Such an outcome caused Nonov and Anye to be a little in disbelief.
"Hmph! If it's just to strengthen the seal. although it's relatively harder, it's not that I'm unable to do it, but now, the entire Eternal River pocket dimension has been completely developed for several hundred years, most the remains here have also been destroyed by you…"
Leylin snorted, watching Nonov and Anye, his tone was very hostile, "In fact, the entire Eternal River pocket dimension is a part of this seal. The Magus who set up this pocket dimension had long before installed the time when the pocket dimension would appear, he even used your greed and sped up this process artificially…"
"Until now, the breaking of the entire seal is already something that's unavoidable!"
"We're done for! We south coast, are we really going to be completely destroyed?" Nonov's both eyes were slightly despondent. If it really linked to the underground, apart from his Ennea Ivory Ring Tower moving to a distant place and collectively migrating, there was no other better way.
On the other side, Anye's expression was also very dark. Towards the viciousness of the underground tribes and their hatred towards humans, he who had the reference of historical books knew even more clearly.
Once they were attacked and occupied, probably not just Magi, even ordinary humans would face extinction.
Watching these two Magi who had sunk into a struggle, Leylin's pupils were very calm.
In fact, with the Radiant Moon strength and the assistance of the A.I. Chip, if he made an all-out effort, not stinting on cultivating more precious materials, it was not impossible to entirely seal this pocket dimension. However, the crucial thing was, how would that benefit him?
Nonov and Anye were both rank 3 Magi, they were small and weak like ants before the underground tribes. Naturally, they would not wish to see them infiltrate the surface and threaten their positions.
But Leylin was different! He was already a rank 5 warlock! His military strength was outstanding and the underground world's first layer was also the weakest underground world, he totally had the premise of associating equally with the underground powerhouses!
With the underground world's rich mineral resources, their legacy that had been passed down from the ancient times and the entirely different spell system, they could definitely bring Leylin great benefits.
He believed, not just himself, even if it were other Morning Star existence in the central continent, once they knew about this passageway, they probably would not choose to seal it too.
"How? Have you thought about it? If you are willing, I can step out and strengthen the seal, gaining you a hundred years' time…"
After a few minutes, Leylin spoke indifferently.
"Then… please, Sir!" Nonov and Anye took a glance at each other and in the end still gritted their teeth and requested.
No matter what, if there was another hundred years' time, be it discussing a countermeasure or directly retreating, there was more allowance for them.
"Okay! Pass down my command, seal this area, I want to set up a strengthening spell…"
After hearing them say that, Leylin nodded but instead sent away the two Magi who wanted to stay and help.
A Morning Star light screen enveloped the entire central hall with a buzz. Blue radiance was emitted in all directions, isolating it from the outside world.
"Ancient combined sealing spell…" The blue radiance in Leylin's pupils flickered, many materials were casually taken out from the space equipment.
According to his original intentions, it was naturally to open the seal as soon as possible and gain the benefits. However, his current condition was not good, the Allsnake Curse was like a sharp sword hanging above his head, causing him to have to end things here as quickly as he could and head towards the Purgatory World to resolve the bloodline's shackles.
Hence, postponing the disintegration of the seal for a period of time was also something that was in accordance to Leylin's interests.
"Perhaps, there might be a need to move the Ouroboros Clan here in the future, grasping trade with the underground world…"
Leylin had already drawn out a blueprint regarding the development of the Ouroboros Clan in his mind. The expansion of the entire Ouroboros Clan in the central continent had already reached its limits. Even without the appearance of the Flame Monarch, it would meet the resistance of other Magi sooner or later.
Although the elemental particles environment in the south coast was not much, towards warlocks that relied mainly on bloodline force, the influence in this aspect was much smaller than Magi.
Moreover, the entire central continent had not yet connected to the underground world's passageway, what was discovered occasionally, were just a few totally sealed miniature underground space like that of the Twilight Zone.
Once a passageway that connects to the entire underground world was developed, even simply controlling trade between the two places would bring about huge benefits, enough to allow the Ouroboros Clan to make a rapid development.
"The top priority now, is still to confirm if this connects to that ancient completed underground layer of the underground world or the miniature sealed area like that of the Twilight Zone…"
Leylin stroked his chin, there was even a radiance constantly flickering in his pupils, "If the place this links to is really that ancient underground layer, as long as we occupy here, the profits gained by the Ouroboros Clan would definitely not a little bit less than the Monarch of the Skies that has control over the entire central continent's airship network…"
"A.I. Chip! Export spell formation layout!"
[Beep! Mission established, beginning coordination with supplementary assignment…] The A.I. Chip's sound was as mechanical as usual, without the slightest emotions in it.
A complicated yet detailed formation diagram was rapidly exported from the A.I. Chip's database and was being projected by fluorescent light onto the hall's floor.
The spell formation diagram illustrated by the fluorescent light combined with the original patterns on the floor harmoniously, forming a brand new formation.
[Beep! Separating black hole spell formation deduction setup completed, estimated rate of success 98.99%!] The A.I. Chip sounded again.
"Very good!" A piece of mithril with black spots was melted into juice before Leylin, spreading out evenly onto the ground at the position where the fluorescent light had originally shone.
With Leylin's current alchemy grand master's academic achievements and the A.I. Chip's fine and detailed assistance, the entire setting up of the spell formation proceeded very smoothly and was thoroughly completed in almost half an hour.
Only, when setting up, Leylin would certainly not do it according to Nonov and Anye's requests, he included many of his own smuggled goods in it instead.
The entire spell formation continuously rumbled with a buzz, streaks of silver radiance rippled on the ground.
[Beep! Spell formation energy operating normally! Compatibility of connection 91.673%!]
Large amounts of data floated across Leylin's eyes, he could not help but nod secretly, "It is a linking technique that is acquired after all, to have 90% compatibility is already not bad!"
"Then…" Leylin took in a deep breath. "A.I. Chip!"
[Open up the connection assignment, attempting to establish a spatial link, searching coordinates!] Accompanying the A.I. Chip's sound, the patterns on the ground suddenly changed, its circulating speed was continuously increasing. Faint silver light emerged, undulating in mid-air, even slowly forming into a state of a semicircular arched door.
Opposite the arched door, was a patch of thick darkness and a mirror-like radiance was constantly emitted.
This was the smuggled goods Leylin had added. At the same time while strengthening the seal, Leylin also left a way of escape for himself, and could even reach the other side of the space with the prerequisite of not damaging the original seal by directly going through the crack in the spell formation.
"You guys guard here, no matter who comes, kill them all!"
Leylin flicked his hands and four translucent void assassins emerged. He faintly ordered a few sentences and these four assassins immediately vanished into the void.
Possessing rank 3 limit strength and with the addition of this kind of ability to go through the void, void assassins were almost invincible existences in the south coast.
Four void assassins along with the spell formation outside that Leylin had set up, even if the dark and light Magi joined forces, they would definitely not be able to fight their way in.
Although Leylin was more reassured towards Nonov and Anye and he also knew that they did not have the guts, he would not entrust his hopes on their reverence towards him just like that.
Countless historical examples have all proven that this was something very foolish, Leylin would certainly not do that.
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Edison, Lemley writes, "did not 'invent' the light bulb in any meaningful sense." Electric lighting was long in the works when Edison came on the scene, and his work attracted several patent infringement lawsuits from his contemporaries. "What Edison really did well," Lemley argues, "was commercialize the invention."
Like Steve Jobs, Edison may have taken a lot of the credit for other people's work. In other words, his 10,000 failures were really team efforts. But why not build the team around the quarterback? The leader is the face of the company after all.


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- Antonio Conte is reportedly unhappy with Alvaro Morata after an inconsistent season
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Antonio Conte is reportedly unhappy with Alvaro Morata as the striker has struggled in his first season at Chelsea.
Despite scoring in consecutive games against Leicester and Tottenham, Morata has only scored 14 goals in all competitions for the Blues, a disappointing tally considering the qualities he has shown in the past with Juventus and Real Madrid.
The Sun reports the inconsistencies of Morata's performances have frustrated Conte with the tabloid newspaper stating that he's displeased that football is not on the top of the Spaniard's agenda.
As we head towards the end of the season, it's difficult to predict how the Italian will utilise the 25-year-old with the head coach's own Chelsea future in question.
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