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Samsung's much-anticipated folding smartphone, the Galaxy X1, will very likely launch in the second half of this year if the latest rumor coming out of China is anything to go by. According to a post on Chinese microblogging site, Weibo, the device will be officially unveiled during either the third or fourth quarter this year, and will carry the model number SM-X9000. While not much is known about either the hardware specs or software features of the upcoming handset, some of the earlier rumors had claimed that in addition to the standard model, there will also be a Plus-sized variant that is expected to come with a larger display panel. That particular offering will reportedly be called the Galaxy X1 Plus and have the model number SM-X9050. Obviously, all of these are still very early rumors, so they need to be taken with a generous pinch of salt at this stage.
While Galaxy X1 is the label that is now being touted as the chosen name for Samsung's first-generation foldable smartphone, the project was initially understood to have the code-name 'Project Valley' internally within Samsung. Initial patent filings with the USPTO had also indicated that such a handset may even come with an all-new patented technology that will allow the device to project holographic images; something that's straight out of Hollywood science fiction movies, such as Minority Report. How long the new technology takes to get ready for primetime still remains to be seen, but all the talk about stagnating innovation in the smartphone industry may very well be a thing of the past if Samsung can actually start commercial production of it's foldable handsets by the end of this year.
While Samsung's folding smartphone is rumored to hit the market later this year, the company is expected to launch the next iteration of its bread-and-butter Galaxy S-series flagship much earlier. Latest rumors suggest that the Galaxy S8 will very likely see a global launch in mid-April, although there are indications that the company may actually take the wraps off of the device next month itself, at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. It remains to be seen if that actually happens, but the Galaxy S8 will be Samsung's very first flagship since the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco, and the company will be hoping that it will help erase some of the bitter memories of the ill-fated phablet from last year.


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by Perry Green
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper
President Barack Obama hosted a special meeting with former Negro League players and representatives at the White House on Aug. 5 to honor their contributions to the nation's history, civil rights, and professional baseball.
"Well first of all, let me just say, what an honor it is to have you all in the White House, I think everybody knows that I'm a pretty big sports fan, and I think that anybody who knows the history of the Negro Leagues knows that it was important not only because some great baseball was played, that you saw folks like Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson display unbelievable athletic talent, and many of the gentlemen who are here today, but it also changed our culture," Obama said during the meeting.
"You gave opportunities for the African American community to feel pride about their athleticism and it slowly opened the doors for opportunities in the future."

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Nike Reportedly Failed to Hire Women and Minorities According to an Internal Memo
According to one HR Chief, the company will be restructuring.
Nike Reportedly Failed to Hire Women and Minorities According to an Internal Memo
According to one HR Chief, the company will be restructuring.
Nike's chief human resources officer said on Wednesday in a leaked statement that the company needs to increase its representation of women and minorities at the leadership level. This announcement comes at a time when Nike's leadership has been under fire — a few weeks ago, president Trevor Edwards resigned following reports of inappropriate workplace behavior.
CNBC reports that HR Chief Monique Matheson, wrote the following statement:
"While we've spoken about this many times, and tried different ways to achieve change, we have failed to gain traction – and our hiring and promotion decisions are not changing senior-level representation as quickly as we have wanted."
As stated in the memo, Nike aims to increase representation at the vice president level and beyond, which will lead to a trickle-down effect for hiring more minorities and women. In the United States, 29-percent of Nike's vice presidents are women, while 16-percent are people of color. It's not clear how many women who make up the 29-percent are not women of color. According to Reuters, the global workforce of Nike is split between 52-percent men and 48-percent women. The memo unveiled the company's U.K. employee gender pay gap, revealing that men earned 10-percent more than women in wholesale and 3-percent more than those who work in the retail sector. Nike stated the average pay disparity is attributed to having less U.K. women in higher-paying senior-level roles.
Matheson later expresses in detail in the memo that as a solution to providing representation across the entire company, that Nike "will launch targeted training programs, invest in a diversity sourcing team as well as 'Unconscious Bias training' for all managers."
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LANGKAWI /Malaysia/, March 26. /TASS/. Sanctions and political environment won't affect the deliveries of Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets to Indonesia, Deputy Director of Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Mikhail Petukhov told TASS on Tuesday.
Earlier reports said Russia and Indonesia had signed a contract on the supplies of 11 Su-35 fighter jets.
"The supplies of Russian armaments and the provision of maintenance services depend solely on contractual terms and are not affected by political environment and sanctions blackmail," Petukhov said at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA 2019) in Malaysia.
"Joint work on this project is underway. We don't have any information on the sides' statements on giving up the contract on the Su-35 supplies," he noted.
The official stressed that Russia's partners are satisfied by "combat, technical and price parameters of Russian armaments."
Indonesian Ambassador to Russia Mohamad Wahid Supriyadi told TASS on Monday the deliveries of Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets to Indonesia could begin this year.


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The LG G7 ThinQ has all the makings of a flagship champion, meaning that it will look great both in and out of your pocket. The disappointing thing is that the company did not mention when the phone was going to be officially released, but we do thankfully. If your next flagship is going to be the LG G7 ThinQ and if you are living in the U.S. or Canada, here is where you can purchase the handset from.
For Customers Living in the U.S.
In the U.S., you have the four main carriers, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon that will start to sell the LG G7 ThinQ. U.S. Cellular will also be offering the smartphone so let us take a look at the availability of the flagship at each of these carriers.
AT&T will eventually start to sell the LG G7 ThinQ but the carrier has yet to share any solid details. We will obviously be updating this information in the future, but we'd advise you to remain patient on the matter.
Verizon has said that pre-orders for the G7 ThinQ will start on May 24. Unfortunately, the carrier did not mention an official release date.
T-Mobile has not given a confirmed release date, but said that it will be available later this spring.
Sprint will start taking pre-orders for the phone beginning May 25 and the flagship will officially be available to buy starting June 1.
U.S. Cellular
The LG G7 ThinQ will be available on June 1 but it appears that the carrier is not going to be taking pre-orders for the smartphone.
For Customers Living in Canada
Canadians are not being left out from a chance to purchase the LG G7 ThinQ. There are currently five carriers in Canada that will be taking orders for the smartphone and quite surprisingly, all orders will start to be taken on June 1. This makes things so much easier for people as they will be able to see which carrier is presenting the best possible deal for them.
In case you were wondering, those five carriers in Canada are Telus, SaskTel, Rogers, Bell and Freedom Mobile.
As mentioned above, we will be updating each and every bit of information for you so stay tuned for more. Lastly, will you be picking up the LG G7 ThinQ? Tell us down in the comments.


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Conference update
Conference Flyer now available with preliminary information. Please notify your interest in attending this virtual event using your nhs email address to celebrate #AdvPracWeek2020 in the year of the #Nurses2020 and #Midwives2020 we want to particularly #SupportNursesAndMidwives
Full preliminary programme to follow shortly, but please have a think about sharing a poster presentation during our research afternoon and/or nominating a healthcare professional team or individual who has gone above and beyond during COVID-19.
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17° Edizione – Good Buy Trentino 2018
Canazei (Val di Fassa): on top of desires
Val di Fassa, located in the heart of the Dolomites, during the winter season offers snow fans over 210 km of slopes. It is situated in the middle of the Dolomiti Superski ski area (1200 km of tracks) and, thanks to modern lifts that allow fast connections to the neighbouring ski areas, in Val di Fassa you can choose a different ski route every day. Sliding down snow-covered slopes, brushing the legendary Dolomite peaks with your skis, leaving your footprints in the snow, walking or snowshoeing along lonely paths immersed in the silence of snow: Val di Fassa is where magic becomes reality. During the summer time, this valley transforms into an open-air gym, where trekking and biking (for families and all level athletes) are the ideal activities to enjoy nature, together with extreme sports such as climbing and paragliding. Val di Fassa, characterized by Ladin language and culture, is also famous for its excellent gastronomy and its water-related understanding of well-being. Indeed, not surprisingly, this territory is considered as the thermal capital of the Dolomites.
Find more here: www.fassa.com
Some data:
Seller: 102 from the whole Trentino area
Buyer: 72 from all over the world, mainly from:
• China
• Germany
• Sweden
• Spain
• Korea
• Vietnam
Some of the participants: Tui Austria / Germania / Polonia / Regno Unito, Thomas Cook, Dertour, Alpine Adventures, Skiworld


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It is time for an exploration into using a Decision Tree to classify Lego set themes using F# and Accord.NET.
First things first, the data. Rebrickable has downloadable datasets for Lego sets and pieces. I'll use the
sets.csv file as the primary dataset driver, but will grab information from
pieces.csv, and
colors.csv for feature creation. The files are not in an format appropriate for a decision tree, so some transformations will need to happen first. I don't want the post to get too long, so this project will be broken into two components. Part 1 will be building the feature file and getting the data into the desired comsumable format, Part 2 will actually use the file to get to the end goal.
Second, the approach. The goal of part 1 is to do all transformations here. I want the end result to be a file that can be directly loaded into part 2's code. I will use/create a series of features. Year is the set's year, and is directly provided. The following features will need to be grouped and calculated. First is "% of the set's pieces are
Using Paket, here is a sample
paket.dependencies file.
source https://nuget.org/api/v2
This is the boring setup stuff.
#r "../packages/FSharp.Data/lib/net40/FSharp.Data.dll"
Next it is time to leverage the CsvProvider for the input files. The below code configures the types as well as loads the data. You've probably read it a million times, but Type Providers are really helpful to get get working with the data quickly.
// File structures
When building the features, I will be counting the number of specific colors in the set. There are 135 different colors. I only care about eight different colors: Red, Green, Blue, White, Black, Gray, Silver, and Translucent. I will ignore the rest. As an expedient hack, I search for the color text in the description. So 'Red', 'Trans-Red', and 'Dark Red' all count as 'Red'. I then store these indexes for later searching. This method misses things like 'Pink', which is in the red family. It also means 'Trans-Red' counts as a red piece and a translucent piece. For a real problem I would be more thorough, but I just want to get to the decision tree.
let getColorIndexes color =
To perform piece counts in the sets I'll need to do some grouping. I will use SetCountsDetail as an intermediate aggregation record type. SetDetail will be my final output form. You may notice I use counts for the aggregation, but in the final output I store "Percent of the set". I feel this should allow the feature values to be consistent across sets. I also use the function setCountsDetailSum when folding group sums together.
// Piece-type counts for sets (used for aggregation)
Now I create a piece lookup using a Map (for the non-F#ers, think Dictionary). I also filter only the piece type categories I care about. There are 56, and for simplicity I will only look at seven. I also group all "Technic*" categories into a single "Technic" category.
Here I take a row and transpose it in the intermediate feature columns I want. isColorIndex is a helper function to determine if the specified piece color is part of one my color groupings.
// Convert data row to a SetCountsDetail record
I then create a series of lookup functions to support the transformation process. In setPiecesLookup I make a Map for piece counts by SetId. It gets alittle gnarly, but it does a group by on SetId, then sums all columns up to that level. getCountLookup is used to get piece counts by setid. themesLookup maps the set's theme text to an arbitrary int. I will save that into a lookup table/file as well for later access.
// Build lookup for setpieces
All the hard work is done. I now just take the data from the file and run it through a series of filters and transformations to transpose the bricktype and piece color counts into "percent of the set" columns. Once that is done I write out a file
aggregatedata.csv that will be used in Part 2. I also save a themes lookup file. The lookup isn't actually needed for the decision tree processing, but its a nice-to-have if I want to remap the int ids back to text values for evaluation.
// Build dataset
Here are samples of the aggregate data and lookups files.
File: aggregatedata.csv
File: aggregatedata_themes.csv
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Cool, creative and easy-to-care-for lunchboxes
A fun part of back-to-school shopping is the search for the perfect lunch container.
Should it be square with a zip, with space for lots of tasty items? A smart little purse-like affair? A sack? And what about the pattern? When you're going to be spending every lunch hour with it, it's important to get it right.
This fall, there are lots of new designs for students old and young, with thoughtful details and add-ons meant to make lunchtime pleasant and palatable.
Form and function
Karen Cicero, contributing editor at Parents magazine, reminds parents and caregivers to keep kids' ages and grade levels in mind when shopping for lunchboxes.
"If you have a preschooler or kindergartner, you'll want a box that's easy to open and close," she says.
"For middle schoolers, you want to make sure it's large enough to hold their lunch, an ice pack, and snacks they'll need for after-school practices."
Also consider how easy the box is to clean, and whether it hooks on your child's backpack, "which is a good feature so it doesn't get lost or separated," Cicero said.
Many lunch-kit collections can be coordinated with backpacks, water bottles, and hot or cold insulated containers.
Bento boxes
Bento boxes are big among elementary and middle school kids, says Cicero. Popular for years in Asia, bento boxes are made of plastic or steel fitted with various-size compartments.
That separation keeps foods from becoming a pile of crumbs or mush.
And with just one container to wash and re-use, there's often less waste. No more zippered baggies, plastic wrap or foil to pollute the environment.
There are built-in bento containers in many of this season's lunchboxes.
Or Bentgo's colorful, leak-proof bento containers come in several varieties, including an insulated bowl with a silicone-lined snap lid and its own fork and spoon. (www.bentgo.com)
Ditch the disposables
Other environmentally friendly options include Russbe's sturdy, gusseted reusable bags, which come in a bunch of designs and sizes. All have leak-resistant double-lock closures; they're alternatives to plastic bags. (www.reuseit.com)
Cicero also likes Packit: The whole bag is lined with a gel material, so you can freeze it the night before and food stays chilled all day. There's a peppy buffalo check, and a tie-dye pattern in the collection. (www.packit.com )
"Our school has a zero-waste policy, so we try to pack most food in a thermos or containers. Snap lids are easiest for the kids to open," says Toronto mom Amy Tse.
Kristy Lucenti of Brooklin, Ontario, says her young son picked out a PBKids' car-themed lunchbox that matches his backpack.
"I found a set of Rubbermaid containers that fit nicely in his lunch bag," she says. "His school is strict on zero waste, so the containers are very convenient."
She puts morning and afternoon snacks in the smaller containers and his lunch in the big one.
Trending topics
"What's new is that you'll see a lot of girls with traditional boy designs," says Cicero. "Gender-neutral options include geometric patterns, stars and animals."
Unicorns are trending strongly with girls, she says. Zazzle.com has a nice variety; a lot feature rainbows, too. Target has the Skip Hop Zoo unicorn-shaped bag, and Gymboree offers a unicorn-printed box that clips to a matching backpack. (www.target.com; www.gymboree.com)
Other popular patterns? Cute cats and fun food.
Pottery Barn Kids has a lunch sack shaped like a kitten's face; it wouldn't look out of place on a 20-something's office desk. (www.pbkids.com)
Photo-printed lunch boxes and bags stand out from the crowd; some are even 3-D. (www.aliexpress.com)
For younger kids, dinosaur, galaxy, mermaid and camouflage patterns in glow-in-the-dark inks are popular.
Cicero also mentions quintessential favorites like superheroes and sports themes. Nike has lunch-size versions of its classic duffel bag. (www.store.nike.com)
Crocodile Creek has designs with jungle, robot and backyard animal themes. (www.crocodilecreek.com ) And Hanna Andersson offers soft lunchboxes in whimsical designs including a galaxy and spaceship, fluttery butterflies, race cars, and smiling suns with rainbows. (www.hannaandersson.com)
For older boys, consider video-game references like Minecraft or Halo 5 lunchboxes.
Licensed characters are perennial lunchbox favorites. This year, a Wonder Woman lunchbox picks up on the movie's popularity. And the front of a Star Wars Chewbacca lunchbox is covered in washable fake fur. (www.lunchbox.com )
Fashion forward
Allison Spampanato, senior vice president for product development at Pottery Barn Kids and PBTeen, is betting on a few stylish designs: "Our Emily & Meritt gear features neon pink and oversize florals, bringing two trends together," she says.
Other graphic standouts in that collection: a chic, black-zippered lunch sack with the word MEOW in white type, and a bold, black-and-white-banded sack. There's also a shibori motif. Larger-scale gingham and polka dots, and icons like sailboats, bows and hearts are a fresh take on preppy. (www.pbteen.com)


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We offer space for meetings, seminars and workshops.
We have a Centre for welcoming guests, including those coming from the airport and those who need to rest.
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The Sisters of Mary Reparatrix is an international congregation of Catholic vowed women religious who welcome lay associates as friends and partners in ministry. It was in 1854 that their foundress, Blessed Emilie d'Oultremont d'Hooghvorst, was inspired to begin the congregation Today, in 22 countries, the sisters strive to help people realize God's tender love for us and help them respond to that love. In companionship with others, the sisters promote reconciliation wherever individuals feels separated from God, from one another, from themselves and from the earth.
We have a chapel, a large hall for conferences and social functions, smaller meeting rooms for seminars and workshops, spacious guest accommodation and beautiful, well-kept gardens.


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Local Storm Reports from June 30, 2019
Source: https://www.weather.gov/dlh/
•10:56 AM: Hail — 0.70 inch. 3 NNW Beroun, MN (Pine County)
•10:21 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage — 3 NE Askov, MN (Pine County) Broken tree limbs blown onto road.
•9:40 AM: Hail — 0.70 inch. Kimberly, MN (Aitkin County)
•9:31 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage — 3 SE Rossburg, MN (Aitkin County) Uprooted trees blown over road.
•8:52 AM: Hail — 0.88 inch. 3 S Pine River, MN (Cass County)
•8:10 AM: Hail — 1.75 inch. 2 E Remer, MN (Cass County) Golfball sized hail.
•8:05 AM: Hail — 1.75 inch. 1 SE Remer, MN (Cass County) Golfball sized hail.
•8:01 AM: Hail — 2.75 inch. 2 WNW Remer, MN (Cass County) Baseball sized hail.
•7:02 AM: Hail — 1.00 inch. Deer River, MN (Itasca County) Quarter sized hail.
•5:25 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage — 3 WNW Glory, MN (Aitkin County) Large branch fell off of tree and aqua jump flipped over.
•5:19 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Gust — 41 mph. 6 SE Duluth, MN (St. Louis County) Reported at Sky Harbor Airport.
•5:13 AM: Hail — 1.00 inch. Marcell, MN (Itasca County) Quarter sized hail.
•4:56 AM: Hail — 0.25 inch. Pine River, MN (Cass County)
•3:54 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage — Markham, MN (St. Louis County) Tall tree snapped in the middle.
•3:35 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage — 6 NW Swatara, MN (Aitkin County) Uprooted tree 12 inches in diameter.
•3:31 AM: Hail — 0.88 inch. 1 SE Inguadona, MN (Cass County)
•3:24 AM: Hail — 0.25 inch. Remer, MN (Cass County)
•3:18 AM: Hail — 0.70 inch. 5 N Remer, MN (Cass County)
•3:18 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage — 7 SE Grand Rapids, MN (Itasca County) White pine tree limbs down which were around 6 inches in diameter and 8 to 10 feet long.
•2:55 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage — Keewatin, MN (Itasca County) Large tree snapped in half and another tree had a large broken limb land on the roof of a house.
•2:28 AM: Thunderstorm Wind Damage — 13 ESE Marcell, MN (Itasca County) Two tall trees uprooted and fell on a swing set.
Rainfall Reports from June 30, 2019
Source: https://www.weather.gov/dlh/
Hill City, MN: 2.72 inch
Cass Lake, MN (DNR) 2.36 inch
7 SE Grand Rapids, MN: 2.33 inch
1.4 NNW Duluth, MN: 2.13 inch
Grand Rapids, MN: 2.01 inch
1 S Askov, MN: 1.88 inch
4 S Bruno, MN: 1.85 inch
Lakeside, MN: 1.83 inch
Duluth, MN: 1.58 inch
1 SSW Lester Park, MN: 1.56 inch
Culver, MN: 1.52 inch
1.2 W Solon Springs, WI: 1.43 inch
2.3 S Wrenshall, MN: 1.37 inch
3 E Wright, MN: 1.34 inch
7 N McGregor, MN: 1.27 inch
Solon Springs, WI: 1.26 inch
South Range, WI: 1.25 inch
Hayward, WI: 1.25 inch
Pine River, MN: 1.24 inch
Superior, WI (Airport) 1.23 inch
Minong, WI: 1.18 inch
5.6 NE Carlton, MN: 1.15 inch
2 E Esko, MN: 1.15 inch
Morgan Park, MN: 1.12 inch
Walker, MN: 1.07 inch
Northome, MN: 1.04 inch
Winter, WI: 1.03 inch
Source: https://weathermodels.com
18z HRRR model 6-30-19
Radar forecast valid from 7 PM Sunday to 7 PM Monday.
A frontal boundary will be stalled out well south of the Northland through Monday night. Abundant moisture and some instability near this boundary will lead to the development of more showers and thunderstorms tonight through the day Monday, at the moment it looks like most of the rain would remain south of Highway 2 in northeast Minnesota while affecting most of northwest Wisconsin with northern Minnesota and the Arrowhead staying mainly dry tonight and Monday.
Note: The risk for additional severe thunderstorms is very low through Monday, but lightning and heavy downpours will occur in any thunderstorm with a low risk for small hail and gusty winds as well.
Source: https://weathermodels.com
18z HRRR model 6-30-19
As alluded to above there will be an abundance of moisture in place to produce torrential rainfall where storms occur tonight and Monday with potential for 1 to 2 inches of rain with locally higher amounts across central/eastern Minnesota into parts of southern Minnesota, and east through central/northern Wisconsin.
PWATS or precipitable water of 1.50 to nearly 2.25 inches with dew points in the 60s and 70s will be in place through Monday across central, eastern and southern Minnesota into north-central Wisconsin so certainly will be a heavy rain threat which could lead to some flooding later tonight or Monday.
Source: https://weather.cod.edu
Goes-16 infrared satellite loop from Sunday, June 30, 2019.
An impressive satellite loop showing the cluster of strong to severe thunderstorms which impacted much of the Northland earlier this Sunday morning.
Source: https://weather.cod.edu
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Comfort Keepers Improve Senior Care. In-home care extends independence.
Samantha Eyre, a lifelong Maple Grove resident, who has been practicing photography since college, says that "as much as I can, I have my camera with me."
A piece of Maple Grove now lies in the small border town of Sasabe, Mexico.
Thousands of people flock to the Great Minnesota Get-Together each year to experience the variety of foods, entertainment and shopping. Minnesota State Fair blue ribbon winners Robin and Wayne Estenson and Elizabeth Kro not only go for the food and fun—they go to win.
We want to serve our readers in the best way we possibly can. Maple Grove Magazine would love to hear your opinions. Please take a minute to fill out our survey for a chance to win a $25 VISA gift card. We greatly appreciate your time.
It's that time of year again: The Focus on Maple Grove photo contest has returned for its 6th year of beautiful photos of our community.
Life is full of choices: where to go for dinner, how to make your home more welcoming, when to get your eyes checked, what to get dad for his birthday, who can best help bring the kid's grades up, where to get good advice. Take it from us, you're not the first to ask.
Sunshine, laughter, family and fun are all key ingredients for a fantastic summer. This image titled "Watch and Learn," taken by photographer Christa Adamczyk, radiates the feeling of summer.
Today, caring for aging parents means asking questions like, "Where will mom and dad live?" "What is their current lifestyle?" and "What types of care facilities are out there?" Rose Arbor and Arbor Lakes are two senior living centers in the Maple Grove community that provide answers to these que
The owners of the Maple Grove Travel Leaders agency, Sandy Lovick and her son Dave Lovick, were recently given the "Associate of the Year" award by the Travel Leaders Network. Sandy has been interested in travel since backpacking in Europe at age 18.
Maple Grove Magazine is proud to have received a gold medal in the Feature Design category of the Minnesota Magazine and Publishing Association Awards.
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On social media, customers and businesses can directly interact. Both parties can ask each other questions, repost each other's content and work on forming relationships. Getting started with social media marketing can be intimidating, so here are eight tips for effectively promoting your business on social networks.
1. Choose the Right Platforms
There is no shortage of social media sites on which to share your content. The number of sites is growing every day. Sharing your content on the right platforms is crucial to your success.
When determining which channels to use, you should consider your customers and your business. It's important that you create accounts on the platforms your target audience uses, so they can easily connect with you. Conduct some research to determine what sites your audience probably uses, and then use them too.
You should also consider which sites best fit your products. For a video production company, for example, YouTube is an obvious choice.
2. Create a Calendar
Scrambling to create posts at the last minute can lead to low-quality content. A lack of organization can lead to repeated posts or a lull in your presence on one of your channels. Creating social media content calendars can help avoid those mistakes and lead to more effective posts. Content calendars also help you create goals and strategies for meeting them, and track your progress toward them.
To make a content calendar, use a regular calendar for each social media channel and plan out your posts in advance, complete with hashtags, links, images and other content.
3. Encourage Engagement
Social media should, of course, be social. That doesn't only apply to those who use the sites for fun. Businesses need to be interactive, too. In order to take advantage of social capability, you need to encourage interaction.
Post content that people want to read, ask questions and like, repost and comment on other users' posts. Doing research on your audience can help you figure out what they might like.
4. Don't Over-Promote
One trap that businesses often fall into is treating social media too much like regular advertising. You don't want to blatantly promote yourself in every post. You need to create content that people will actually enjoy and want to see.
Promoting yourself is okay every once in a while. Some marketers go by the one-in-seven rule, which says that for every one directly promotional post, six others should be content-based. In these other six posts, you could share articles, comment on current events or ask a question. You don't have to entirely avoid mentioning your brand in these posts; just be careful not to sell too hard.
5. Share Video
Visual content works well on social media. Video content, especially, is ideal for grabbing people's attention as well as conveying your personality and passion to your customers.
Visual content stands out as people scroll through their social feeds, so they're more likely to view it and engage with it. It also allows you to say more than you could in a typical post without taking up much room. Create interesting, narrative-driven video in order to get the best reaction.
6. Address Problems Quickly
Hopefully you receive mostly positive feedback on social media. Occasionally you may encounter someone who is upset, argumentative or has something negative to say about your company.
You should carefully monitor mentions of your brand on social channels, so you can catch issues before they escalate. If you spot a problem, engage with the person by publicly apologizing if necessary and offering to solve the problem over a direct message exchange. This way, people who see the post know you were responsive but don't have to see all the specifics of the issue.
7. Build a Community
Instead of trying to get as many followers as possible, focus on finding customers who are interested, loyal and engaged. These people are more likely to repost your content, like your posts and become customers.
When you build a community around your brand, the people within that community will engage with each other and help to promote your content. You could even try reaching out to exceptionally influential social media users and asking them to help you by reviewing a product or mentioning you in a post.
8. Provide Value
Perhaps the most important thing you can do on social media is provide value to your followers. Create something that your audience will find useful. It could be something that tells them something they didn't know before, makes them laugh, entertains them or anything else that's beneficial in some way.
This aspect of social media is what attracts the right customers to your business, makes people want to follow you on social sites and helps content to spread. Master this, and you'll be a big step closer to a successful social media marketing campaign.
With nearly 3 billion active users, social media is a potential goldmine of new customers and current patrons who could become repeat customers. Create a good social campaign, and you'll be able to connect with some of those people and grow your customer base.
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mary : July 7, 2018 at 11:22 pm
Nice Write-Up


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A 'better' education: An examination of the utility of boarding school for Indigenous secondary students in Western Australia
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Sage Publications Ltd
Kurongkurl Katitjin
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of:
Macdonald, M. A., Gringart, E., Ngarritjan Kessaris, T., Cooper, M., & Gray, J. (2018). A 'better'education: An examination of the utility of boarding school for Indigenous secondary students in Western Australia. Australian Journal of Education, 62(2), 192-216.
Over the past 10 years, great improvements have been observed in the Year 12 attainment rate of Indigenous Australians. This has been due, in part, to government funding of programmes aimed at improving education opportunity for Indigenous Australian students, including funding of scholarships for students from remote areas to attend boarding schools. The current qualitative study investigated the perspectives of school leaders and Indigenous secondary students across the Australian state of Western Australia, on the utility and impact of this boarding provision. Students identified that boarding education allowed them to achieve a dual goal of meaningful career pathways and improved health outcomes, although they faced challenges unique to the Indigenous boarding school experience in terms of student self-concept, racism, homesickness and post-school transitions.


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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a suite of tools that help application development teams enhance and streamline their work experience, from the backend to frontend services. LogicMonitor consolidates data from these services and empowers users to monitor them side by side with the rest of their infrastructure, whether it's in the Cloud or on-premises. Keep reading for tips on monitoring some of these services to ensure business continuity.
Document DB* (Database)
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Our users already monitor traditional MongoDB workloads, and with this DataSource, they can now monitor AWS DocumentDB workloads within LogicMonitor's platform. For organizations that are planning to migrate from a traditional MongoDB environment to DocumentDB, LogicMonitor will provide metrics to closely monitor the transition and alert if there are any hiccups.
Keep the clusters healthy by monitoring the CPU, memory, network activity, database connections, and IOPS metrics. In the case of a node going down, you can monitor the replication lag metric (instanceReplicaLag). There is a chance that if the lag is too high, then your data is at risk of not correctly syncing, so make sure to keep an eye on this metric.
It is crucial to keep backups either via the retention period or snapshots, but it is also essential to know how much storage space these backup are using. Overlooking storage in a cloud environment can create massive headaches, so keep track of the larger backup files to make sure you stay within the storage budget. By tracking these metrics, backupRetentionPeriodStorageUsed, and snapshotStorageUsed, you'll be able to see any unexpected spikes and take action immediately.
RDS Service Limits* (Database)
LogicMonitor already has RDS specific Datasources that will handle useful monitoring metrics. This new enhancement is adding unique metrics to monitor the RDS service limits. Amazon sets service limits on the number of RDS resources that can be created by an AWS account. A few of these resources include the number of database clusters, instances, parameters, snapshots, and allocated storage. With this data, you can be on top of the limits/quotas Amazon has on your RDS resources. You won't get caught off guard and will be able to respond accordingly when critical resources are closing in on the quota.
MQ (Application Integration)
Frequently, users will have complex services that may partially rely on MQ and partially on other infrastructure running elsewhere, either on-premise or Cloud. Centralized monitoring in LogicMonitor equips them with more visibility so they can proactively prevent issues with these complex services in hybrid environments. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ. LM provides visibility into these managed brokers so that application teams can maximize uptime and performance with metrics such as message counts, CPU, memory, storage, and network utilization.
For active/standby deployments, LogicMonitor has a DataSource specifically for the standby resources. Separating the active and standby metrics allows for more clarity and keeps the data consistent.
Codebuild (Developer Tools)
AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. You can monitor the build projects to ensure builds are running successfully and at the right time. It is ultimately giving you the information to optimize performance and uptime alongside your infrastructure data.
Application development teams need to be aware when builds fail. This DataSource has predefined thresholds that will automatically trigger notifications in the case of a failed build. Builds need to happen promptly, and with the breakdown of build time, you can pinpoint the step in the build that is causing delays and possibly add resources to optimize the build time of your projects.
We recently highlighted our commitment to our AWS partnership, and our developers keep cranking out new AWS monitoring integrations. Here is a previous blog highlighting some AWS analytics services. All of these new integrations are included with our LM Cloud offering. LogicMonitor will automatically start collecting these metrics if you are an LM Cloud customer and already utilizing any of these Amazon services.
If you have any questions regarding these new monitoring integrations, please reach out or contact your CSM for more information. Or you can try LogicMonitor for free.


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Garmin and ActiGraph Collaborate to Explore Health and Activity Monitoring Solutions on Wearable Devices
Garmin International, Inc. recently announced a collaboration with ActiGraph to create health and activity monitoring solutions for academic research, clinical trials, and remote patient monitoring. The collaboration will combine Garmin wearables with ActiGraph's CentrePoint data analytics platform to achieve these goals.
Travis Johnson, Garmin Health global product lead, stated that "[c]ombining the sensor data from Garmin wearables with the data capture and analytical expertise of the ActiGraph platform creates a powerful solution for many different patient monitoring applications."
ActiGraph chief technology officer Jeremy Wyatt expressed similar praise for ActiGraph's new partner, stating that "Garmin wearables produce high resolution, accurate data streams that are ideal for scientific analysis and can provide additional, novel endpoints to the ActiGraph software platform."
Garmin International, Inc. is a subsidiary of Garmin Ltd. Garmin is known for developing a variety of products, such as handheld GPS devices and wearable fitness trackers. On the other hand, ActiGraph offers a variety of activity monitors and also software platforms to analyze data collected by such monitors.
Both Garmin and ActiGraph acknowledge the growing importance of wearable devices as potential health and medical tools. By partnering with ActiGraph, Garmin has indicated its interest in the future development of wearable devices with medical applications. Likewise, the partnership allows ActiGraph to utilize Garmin's experience in developing wearable devices to apply and hone its data monitoring and management systems.
23andMe Wins FDA Approval for Test to Detect BRCA Mutations
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently authorized 23andMe to market its Personal Genome Service Genetic Health Risk Report for BRCA1/BRCA2 (Selected Variants). According to an FDA news release, the approved test is the first direct-to-consumer test to report on three specific BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer gene mutations.
According to the news release, BRCA1 and BRCA2 are human genes that produce tumor suppressor proteins. Mutations of these genes may interfere with the production or functioning of the proteins and are linked to an increased risk of female breast and ovarian cancers. About 12% of women in the U.S. population will develop breast cancer sometime during their lives. However, according to the National Cancer Institute, a recent large study estimated that about 72% of women who inherit a harmful BRCA1 mutation will develop breast cancer by the age of 80. Similarly, about 69% of women who inherit a harmful BRCA2 mutation will develop breast cancer by age 80. Because mutations of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes may be passed down to future generations, genetic testing for breast cancer risk has become more common.
23andMe offers genetic testing directly to consumers. Traditionally, genetic testing was only available through healthcare providers: an individual would request tests from a healthcare provider, the healthcare provider would order tests from a laboratory, collect and send the samples, and interpret the test results before passing them onto the individual. In contrast, direct-to-consumer genetic testing allows consumers to order and perform genetic tests without needing to interact with a healthcare professional. 23andMe has previously offered direct-to-consumer tests for the purposes of discovering an individual's ancestry. However, this new FDA approval indicates expansion of genetic testing services to other applications.
Although the FDA approval of 23andMe's test is positive, the FDA expressly noted certain caveats regarding the test. Specifically, the FDA clarified that the test only detects three out of more than 1,000 known BRCA mutations and that only a small percentage of Americans carry one of the three mutations. A negative result therefore does not rule out the possibility that an individual carries other BRCA mutations that increase cancer risk. Additionally, the FDA is establishing criteria, called special controls, which set forth the agency's expectations in assuring the test's accuracy and performance. Though this test may be a precursor for exciting possibilities on the horizon, the FDA warned that this limited test should not completely replace consultations with a health care professional.
Akili Interactive Announces Trial Results for Video Game Treatment of ADHD
Akili Interactive recently announced results of a trial on the company's digital medicine product, AKL-T01. According to FierceBiotech, Akili plans to file AKL-T01 with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clearance under the 510(k) medical device pathway as a novel treatment for children and adolescents with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
According to the article, unlike traditional drug treatments for ADHD, AKL-T01, also known as Project: EVO, is a video game patients play on a tablet device. AKL-T01 uses storytelling and reward
mechanisms, like those found in standard video games, and further uses adaptive algorithms to automatically adjust the level of stimulus up or down to target deficient cognitive neural systems in the brain and meet the specific needs of the patient.
The article further notes that in the randomized, controlled trial, 348 children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD were evaluated before and after four weeks of at-home treatment with either AKL-T01 or an active control. According to Akili's press release, children and adolescents who used AKL-T01 showed a statistically significant improvement in attentional functional compared to the children in the active control group. According to Akili, a full analysis of the results is underway and will be presented in upcoming peer-reviewed publications, scientific conferences, and medical meetings.
The use of interactive software as digital treatment is a relatively new trend. The FDA recently approved what it characterized as its first-ever mobile medical application, an application developed by Pear Therapeutics to treat substance use disorders. As reported by Reuters, Akili's plan to file for FDA approval may pave the way for what would be the first such digital prescription product to tackle ADHD. Considering that Pear Therapeutics was recently selected to participate in the FDA's digital health software precertification pilot program, the FDA has provided an indication that the agency may be interested in the type of digital therapy treatment Akili claims to offer.


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Despite being a general improvement over last year's show, Spike & GTTV's annual Video Game Awards cling tightly to juvenile and damaging stereotypes about gamers and their industry. Continue reading
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Borderlands 2: No Rest for the Wicked
Ah, Pandora. A world of wonder, of beauty, of majesty and riches beyond your imagination. And also, just a little bit, a world of midgets and murder.
The first Borderlands introduced players to this crazy, dangerous world through the eyes of one of four Vault Hunters — mercenaries cut from the same cloth but dyed different colors, united (or alone) in their quest to open the fabled Vault and bask in its glorious booty. And as anyone who finished the game knows, that didn't exactly end as planned.
Borderlands 2 picks up several years after the events of the first game. The Hyperion organization — whose "Angel" served as guide, friend, and sometimes seeming turncoat in the last game — has taken over Pandora under the iron grip and masked watch of a man named "Handsome Jack," who in his path to the annals of ostentatious heroic history has killed anyone he considered "savage" and driven those lucky enough to escape him to take refuge in a shielded city appropriately called Sanctuary. This bastion is the player's first destination, as he or she steps into the shoes of a new generation of Vault Hunters, in search of a new (and hopefully less lethal) Vault.
Knowledge of the first Borderlands is hardly a prerequisite for play, though certainly not a hindrance either. Most important NPCs are holdovers from the prequel, including its four Vault Hunters — Lilith, Roland, Mordecai, and Brick — whose liberation from player control and interpretation affords a wonderful (and mostly realized) opportunity for truly fleshing their personalities and skill sets out. All the people you love (or love to hate) are back, including Scooter, Dr. Zed, Marcus, Moxxi, and of course your good friend Claptrap (whose newfound affinity for dubstep is forgivable in the wake of a nigh constant supply of hilarity).
Thankfully, Borderlands 2 is far more than a rehash. In addition to the smattering of familiar faces we meet a very colorful and memorable new cast, with noteworthy standouts like Scooter's sister Ellie, the rambunctious but lethal Tiny Tina, and the hilariously evil Handsome Jack himself. The new Vault Hunters, too, are far more compelling, due both to a wider variety of callouts (things said when reloading, sorting inventory, getting kills, etc.) and to the inclusion of in-game audio diaries which give insight into the histories of each character and what led them to Pandora.
These four (five, if you preordered or have since purchased Gaige, the Mechromancer) avatars are far more than the husks you occupied in the first game. Hundreds of customization options can be won, earned, or found throughout the game and then applied to your character (namely color schemes and face/hair/head modifications), allowing a far deeper level of visual expression than before.
More importantly, the leveling system has been vastly improved, and each character has three distinct skill trees to be explored. Each tree provides very specific advantages which promote specialization in play style and guide the player in deciding where best to spend the precious points they earn over the course of the game; for example, Zer0, the robotic ninja assassin, has one skill tree which emphasizes stealth and close-quarters combat and another which emphasizes sniping and long-distance attacks. The sparseness of points requires the player to choose one route or the other to avoid having a character with mediocre abilities, as the most beneficial skills must be accessed by pouring points into the specific skill tree of which they are a part.
The result of this set-up is that the path you choose feels far more important, and you must play to your chosen skill-set. Thus two people may play through the game as Zer0 and have radically different experiences, for one may be constantly weaving in and out of enemies on the battlefield while the other remains completely out of the danger zone. Situations which prove challenging for one may be a pushover for the other.
Moreover, in a stroke of brilliance, Gearbox offers players the chance (at a negligible in-game fee) to reset their skill points at will and redistribute them elsewhere, meaning that a player who regrets going the sniping route halfway through the game can instantly become a melee powerhouse and, in a word, begin playing as an entirely different character. To that end there are more like 12 Vault Hunters than 4, and the desire to experience all those permutations keeps the game feeling fresh regardless of how many times you revisit a storyline or begin a new game.
As such, reviewing a game like Borderlands 2 is a bit of a fool's errand. It's a vast, sprawling experience with so many avenues for deviance that hundreds of hours of play leave you feeling like you've only scratched the surface. That proves to be the game's only real problem: you'll never have enough time to play it all the ways in which you'd like. It seems there really is no rest for the wicked.
Review: Gears of War 3 Season Pass
The fourth Gears of War 3 DLC package (and final one for Season Pass holders like me), "Forces of Nature," has been out for a little over 24 hours, and as I've never written on Gears specifically despite it being my most-played game since September, I thought I'd take a few moments and evaluate the Season Pass as a whole. Was it worth it for me? Is it worth it for you, Mr. Holdout? Let's see.
Prior to Gears 3's release the Season Pass (hereafter SP) was announced as a way for players to save money on inevitable DLC that would roll out for the six or so months following the game's release. For $30 SP owners would get $45 worth of content — a 33% savings for those who would ultimately buy all four. As of today, those four packages are Horde Command Pack, Raam's Shadow, Fenix Rising, and the aforementioned Forces of Nature.
If you're really impatient or just short on time (in which case, you should know better than to read something of mine, so shame on you), click here for my overall thoughts on the season pass. Note: most of these packs also offer new weapon skins. I don't consider those make or break aspects of the DLC and have thus ignored them.
The Guide
If you've ever played a Final Fantasy game, you're probably familiar with the idea of "ultimate weapons." The holy grail of offense for each member of your party, acquiring an ultimate weapon often entails as much effort as getting through the game, if not more. These weapons are never so much as mentioned within the world of the game; the components necessary for producing them are often random and isolated, seemingly trivial. If no one told you they were there, you'd never even think to seek them out; certainly you'd never succeed in finding them.
Simply put, if you want the ultimate weapon, you're going to need the strategy guide.
In recent years, buying a strategy guide has acquired a sort of taboo. Though publishers have added incentives (heloooo artbook) to justify the actual expense, most "real" gamers still look down on those who "need a guide" to beat a game. The theory is that if you had the skills you could get through a game without hand-holding, and having used a guide dramatically undermines street cred for your achievements. On top of that, you could have just used GameFAQs. For free. So you really suck.
Well, haters gonna hate. But I imagine if you look at the necessary steps for acquiring the ultimate weapons in, say, Final Fantasy X, you'd agree that, sans guide, it ain't happening.
See, gamers value autonomy. Shoehorn them down a corridor with only one possible means of progress and they will damn you with words like "linear" and "boring." Give them open country and they'll relish the chance for discovery; "open world" and "player choice" ship a lot of product. Nevermind how this is the pure inverse of the punishingly straightforward platformers that gaming calls its progenitors (here's looking at you, Mario); the modern gamer refuses to be told what to do.
But freedom comes with a cost; if you're not forced into making the right choices, you will inevitably make a few wrong ones. Whether the game responds by punishing you (LA Noire), by adjusting (Mass Effect), or doesn't react at all (read: "optional" sidequests), the fact remains that liberty guarantees that you will miss out on at least some of the experiences the game-maker intended you to enjoy.
If you don't follow a very specific path through the game, you're going to miss out on something. Sometimes, this is trivial. Other times you won't realize until hours, days, even years later that you made a really big mistake way back when.
Strategy guides preclude that epiphany at the cost of true freedom. When followed verbatim, they deteriorate the very act of playing; no longer is your experience your own — it is merely a guided tour of someone else's. For those who choose to follow along anyway, this is an acceptable loss. Playing by the creator's intended path is ultimately more rewarding than the independence it denies.
Some, of course, treat strategy guides like user's manuals, consulting them only when they are in a jam and have exhausted all personal knowledge to no avail. They come hoping for someone to point out the obvious mistake in their thinking, the quick fix solution to their momentary trial. As soon as the boss is beaten, the guide goes back on the shelf.
Of course, sometimes the answer isn't so simple. Perhaps the solution is the use of a weapon or power-up that, while wallowing in your sovereignty, you failed to acquire. And most guides, as they assume you've been following their advice all along, don't bother providing alternative solutions. If you've dug yourself a hole and forgot to bring a ladder, it's up to you to improvise an exit plan.
Oftentimes progress for those who've ignored the guide can only be achieved by arduous backtracking to meet the standards prescribed for success. Some will do the bare minimum, others will permanently shift their play-style in an attempt to avoid future pitfalls like this one. In this way the guide is versatile: it portrays the ideal solution and allows the player to choose how closely he or she will follow it. Advancement does not always require complete adherence.
And sometimes, consulting the guide as user manual results in a very simple truth: sorry, dude. You're screwed.
Many people, Christians and non, have this awful tendency of treating the Bible like a user's manual. When life is going well, when they're getting what they want, the Bible stays on a shelf collecting dust, a collector's item purchased primarily for its aesthetic value. But when hardship hits — job loss, death in the family, stock market crash — people snatch it up and scan it desperately to find out how to get out of jail free. A few Our Fathers and Hail Marys later and, if life brightens up, the manual goes away.
Backsliding or apathetic believers accept that following scripture is the ideal means of living, but they're too lazy or stubborn to actually do as it says. They cut corners, ignore what's inconvenient, and try to figure out how little of the Word they have to obey while still, technically, making it from one stage to the next.
But the Bible was not written as a self-help book, a twelve-step (or, for that matter, a ten-step) program to a better life. Cute bumper stickers aside, it was not written as a user's manual for the human soul. The Bible is a strategy guide, and it's meant to be followed at all times, in all stages of life. It provides advice on every aspect of this game we call life. The best armor, the most dangerous dungeons, the spiritual bestiary and, yes, the ultimate weapons are all there. In the ultimate meta-statement, the sword of the spirit is also the very book that describes it.
Like dedicated players, we recognize that sacrificing our own control to follow the Creator's chosen path for our lives is the only way to guarantee the best possible experience. And yeah, haters still gonna hate. But I'll stick with The Guide anyway.


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The 'Automatic Stay' Provision in the Austrian Insolvency Act
By Raffaela Lödl and Mario Kapp, KAPP & PARTNER Rechtsanwälte GmbH
Increasing the amount of successful corporate reorganisations and enabling the continuation of business operations during the financial crisis were the main reasons for reforming the insolvency law back in 2010.
The root for the paradigm change can be found in light of the financial and economic crisis and should therefore serve as a stability factor for vulnerable firms. The law regulations Article 25a and Article 25b of the Austrian Insolvency Act ('IO') were created.
Article 25b IO essentially forbids clauses to terminate a contract in case of an insolvency of the contracting partner as well as structures to hide these clauses. Article 25a IO goes even beyond this: within six months after the initiation of insolvency proceedings, a contracting partner of an insolvent debtor shall not be enabled to terminate a contract if this act would endanger the continuation of the debtor's business operations. So there is in fact a temporal and factual boundary. Nevertheless, the norm is not applicable, if keeping hold of the contract would lead to massive personal and economic disadvantages for the contracting partner.
The Austrian legislator obeyed international paradigms while creating this norm: The main sources have been the legislative guide on Insolvency Law (UNCITRAL) and the American principle of 'automatic stay' based on chapter 11 of the US-American insolvency law. The German legislation is therefore following a similar approach but does – as well as the US legislation – not contain any temporal boundary.
Reports and research have shown that successful reorganisations without following the automatic stay principle are difficult to accomplish. Nevertheless, there are some unsolved problems raised by the current legislation. The Austrian legal norm at stake (article 25a IO) requires the debtor´s dependence regarding the specific contract, a possible endangerment is in fact not very simple to assess. Is this fostering a race to the bottom for the last legal termination?
- Considering the wording of article 25a IO, the necessity of the specific contract itself must be vital for the firm. The specific norm would allow one contracting partner to terminate his contract, if it would not endanger the whole business. Could the next partner also argue that his termination would probably in no way endanger the continuity of the business at stake? Who is in charge of assessing the red line where the terminated contracts in total are threatening the continuation of a firm? Until there is an appropriate court decision, the approach of assessing every contract on its own merits still seems legitimate.
- Due to a lack of judgement, the possible range and design of termination clauses touching article 25b IO also remain unclear.
Conclusion: Through termination of any contract, that is favourable for the insolvent company, vital values are lost and a restructuration will become more unlikely. Despite the changes made by the Austrian legislator to support more successful reorganisations being welcomed, the interpretations of the courts are still awaited. Until the courts decide some meaningful cases regarding this scenario, some legal uncertainty is inevitable.
Mario KappKAPP & PARTNER Rechtsanwälte GmbH, Graz, Austria
KAPP & PARTNER Rechtsanwälte GmbH has four partners and five associates and has an outstanding reputation for bankruptcy law in Austria. The law firm is mainly focused on bankruptcy law, reorganisation law, company restructuring, commercial law, banking law, real estate law and international law.
Mario Kapp was the sole founder of the law firm in 2006. He is Managing Partner and specialises in bankruptcy law, corporate law and business restructuring.
Raffaela Lödl-KleinKAPP & PARTNER Rechtsanwälte GmbH, Graz, Austria
Raffaela Lödl-Klein is Managing Partner of KAPP & PARTNER Rechtsanwälte GmbH situated in Graz, Austria, and specialises in real estate and corporate and insolvency law. She joined the firm in 2013.
Published: September 2017 l Photo: A. Karnholz - Fotolia.com


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With regards to criminal law and criminal defense in particular, all crimes are serious, carrying with them significant penalties, but all crimes also have varying degrees of this substantiality. Concerning battery and assault specifically, and aggravated battery and aggravated assault especially, the differences are slight but certainly could result in much more serious and severe consequences depending on classification. Here is a summary of the major differences between assault, battery, aggravated assault, and aggravated battery to illustrate this point.
Assault: Defined
According to Illinois law, assault happens when someone without any legal authority knowingly engages in an action that places someone else in a circumstance more likely to lead to battery.
A simple assault would result in a Class C misdemeanor, which carries with it up to 30 days in jail and up to $1,500 worth of fines, in addition to potential other penalties....


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You're a big proponent of reverse mortgages. You saw how one gave your parents the extra cash they needed to stay in and fix up their home, pay off bills, and have enough money to travel and see you and the grandkids whenever they wanted. Of course, they were still required to stay current with property taxes and homeowners insurance, the home maintenance and otherwise meet their loan obligations.
After their passing, you sold their home to pay off their reverse mortgage, and after the balance was paid, the remainder of the home's sale proceeds went to you. Although your parents' loan balance had risen over the years, their home had also appreciated, helping offset what was owed on the reverse mortgage. Taking out that reverse mortgage was a win for your parents and for you.
So now you're ready to duplicate their success. There's just one problem. You're not 62, the minimum age requirement for a reverse mortgage. You have a few years to go. And there's another issue. You need money now. You've got plenty of home equity. You just need an alternative financial tool to help convert some of your home equity into cash.
Here are three ideas, two of which are probably familiar, and one that's a little outside the box.
Cash-Out Refinance
A cash-out refinance replaces your current home loan with a new mortgage that's higher than your outstanding loan balance. You withdraw the difference between the old mortgage balance and the new balance in cash. A cash-out refinance can be an ideal solution when you're able to replace your current mortgage interest rate with a new lower interest rate.
Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
A home equity line of credit is a second mortgage that is tacked on to your current mortgage. Instead of your funds getting disbursed to you in a lump sum, as happens with a cash-out refinance, you have access to a credit line that you can draw on as needed for a set period up to your approved limit.
Shared Equity Agreement
A shared equity agreement, also known as a shared appreciation agreement, is a financial agreement that allows another party to invest in your property and acquire a stake in its future equity. In exchange for receiving a lump sum of money, you promise the investor a portion of your future appreciation. You won't have to make any monthly payments on the amount, nor pay any interest on the money you're advanced. Note that if you enter into a shared equity agreement, and then find that you don't qualify for refinancing or a reverse mortgage upon the maturity date, you could be forced to sell your home at that time. This is a far less traditional financial remedy than either a cash-out refi or a HELOC, but one you should at least be aware of.
Upon a closer look, the shared equity agreement is neither a loan nor a mortgage, but a contract binding you to repay the investor after a set number of years or upon the sale of your home. How much you must repay the investor will largely depend on your home's increase or decrease in value.
Let's say you have a home worth $500,000 with a $200,000 mortgage, giving you $300,000 in home equity. You would like to tap $50,000 of that equity to remodel your kitchen and bathroom. An investor agrees to give you the $50,000 in exchange for a 30% stake in any appreciation you realize after 10 years.
After 10 years, your home is now worth $600,000, giving you $100,000 in appreciation of which the investor will take 30% or $30,000. When the contract becomes due, you would pay the investor the original amount you received ($50,000), plus the 30% return on their investment ($30,000), for a total of $80,000.
Of course, as with all investments, what goes up can also go down. If after 10 years, the home was worth only $400,000 (recession, pandemic, home is near a Superfund cleanup site, etc.), you would repay the investor only $20,000. You owe only that amount because the investor's 30% stake in your home resulted in a loss of $30,000, which you subtract from the original amount of money you initially received ($50,000 – $30,000 loss = $20,000 repayment). As these two examples illustrate, the investor shares in both your gains and losses.
Know What You're Getting Into
If you want to explore the shared equity arrangement further, be prepared to ask a potential investor lots of questions:
What are the triggers for repayment? Typically, investors require repayment if you sell your home or the contract term expires. Find a term that works best for you.
What percentage stake is the investor taking in your future appreciation (or depreciation)? If one proposes 25% and another 35%, that will be a key differentiator. But don't let price be the only deciding factor in your decision.
What are the total expenses to do the deal? We already mentioned potential servicing, appraisal, and escrow fees, but there could be other fees like title, transfer, recording fees, and so on, so get a full accounting of potential expenses. Then use a calculator to compare the costs of a shared equity agreement with other financing options. Given the current low-interest rate environment, it may make more sense for you to obtain a home equity loan or line of credit than losing a portion of your future appreciation.
How long will it take to get your money? The answer you get may determine which investor you select.
What's the investor's reputation? This is critical. You want the company to deliver on whatever it promises.
Suit Your Circumstances
As noted, with a shared equity agreement, you won't have to make any monthly payments, and you won't pay any interest on the amount of cash you receive. Meanwhile, if your home appreciates, you will likely earn enough to cover the initial investment while also seeing your home equity rise. It will be a plus for you and your investor. If your home depreciates, you still got your money but won't have to pay it all back because the investor shared in your loss.
If you are considering a shared equity agreement, consider the timing as well. Say, you're 52 now, you could structure your shared equity agreement for 10 years, pay off the investor at the end of the term, and then take out a reverse mortgage, as you would now be 62, the minimum age requirement for a reverse mortgage. If you're 57, you could structure a 5-year shared equity agreement, then apply for a reverse mortgage.
Bottom line, as a homeowner who has likely built up equity over the years, you have many options to convert some of that equity into cash. Be prepared to weigh several important factors as part of your decision-making process, such as where you think housing prices and interest rates are headed, along with your needs and goals for the money, your current age, and your investment philosophy.
We hope this article has given you some help with things to think about. Of course, every situation is different. This information is intended to be general and educational in nature and should not be construed as financial advice. Consult your financial advisor before implementing financial strategies for your retirement.
Q. Could the shared equity investor, as a co-owner or partial owner, move in?
A. In a shared equity arrangement, the investor does not move in.
Q. Where do I find shared equity investors?
A. Top-selling real estate agents in your area will likely have a list of investors to share with you. Also enter "shared equity agreement companies" in your favorite search engine to identify companies that specialize in this area.
Q. Do I have to make payments, including interest, on the amount of money I receive from a shared equity investor?
A. No. You are only responsible for repayment if you sell the home or reach the maximum time limit, specified in your agreement.


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"Human rights abuses are worse when violators aren't afraid of detection." That's the considered opinion of Gillian Caldwell and the driving force behind Witness, the organization she heads. An international human rights organization co-founded in 1992 by musician Peter Gabriel and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Witness provides local human rights groups around the… Read more »
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Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Saturday stressed that the future of media poses a challenge for governments and media professionals.
In a televised speech during the "Future of Media in Egypt and the World" seminar, Madbouly noted that the astonishing development of communications and information technology has impacted media in a clear way, creating a new form of media different from what came before it.
The media is an industry of influence, he said, and this new form of media has only increased its power to influence minds.
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Madbouly also praised press and media workers, stating that they do their best to receive and transfer information to people worldwide.
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Paul, a native of Denver, Colorado, earned his law degree from Saint Louis University School of Law, where he served as an editor of the Saint Louis University Law Journal and graduated magna cum laude. He earned his B.A. in History from Saint Louis University.
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NECA Illinois Chapter, Educational Session, Fiduciary 101 (December 2019; Chicago, IL)
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What is the company Thumbtack up to exactly? On what planet (let alone San Francisco) would it seem like a good idea to invite an antigay, pro-discrimination, anti-choice, pro-gun candidate to use your fashionable San Francisco office space (complete with vertical bike storage and free lunches) as the backdrop for his transparent PR stunt?
Those are the questions we're asking after GOP hopeful Jeb Bush made an appearance at the headquarters of the tech startup, which runs an online platform that promises to help "accomplish your personal projects" by connecting you to "pros," painters, massage therapists, and the like.
Apparently, for the Thumbtack founders, their personal project is to get Bush elected, local commitment to equality be damned. The six year old company, in fact, was founded by Marco Zappacosta and Jonathan Swanson, who served in George W. Bush's White House.
But at the same time, the founders are also aware that the GOP is not very popular in the city (and probably among Thumbtack employees), given it's rabidly anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-everything stance. (We could go on.)
Which is why they were careful not to boast about the event, using the passive voice in describing what was obviously a carefully thought out invitation. Bush's visit was described as simply "stopping by," even though it featured a town hall meeting for 75 employees, rather than just a carefully scripted photo opp that even included an Uber ride to Thumbtack. (Jeb is only figuring out world-dominating Uber now? Does the oldest son of the famously wealth and out-touch-family even have the app on his iPhone? Inquiring minds want to know.)
Zappacosta, who has declined to say which candidate he supports (we'll give you one guess), told The San Francisco Chronicle that his staff was pleased, rather than ticked off, by Bush's visit. Although he admitted he does not know of any actual Republicans on his payroll, "I think the staff was excited that somebody wanted to come engage with us and that we would have a forum for asking them questions."
We see what's in it for Bush. He intentions couldn't have been more clear: execute a "Jeb thinks outside the box and cares about small business, just like you" message to boost his image. It allows him to differential himself from Hillary Clinton, who just announced that she supports better wages and benefits for the part-time, temporary workers that Thumbtack and Uber, among others, have proliferated.
But what's in it for Thumbtack? We hope Zappacosta and Swanson got something in return for making sure the name "Jeb Bush" comes up in Google searches for their company now. We certainly are going to look for our own "pros" elsewhere.


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On 4 March, I blogged the basics regarding two identical bills introduced to the Florida Legislature that would ban the importation and aquaculture of lionfish.
As with most fisheries issues I cover, this situation is incredibly complex, and I've tried to present it from all sides in an online feature for CORAL Magazine. While there is no debate over the invasive nature of lionfish in Florida, there is quite a bit of debate about what should be done about it. While most stakeholders generally support the bills, many also feel they need to be "tweaked" while in committee to make sure they accomplish what stakeholders hope they will accomplish.
One of the most contentious issues is the issue surrounding whether only the two invasive species should be banned or whether all species in the genus should be banned. While the language of the bill supports the latter, many people I interviewed for the story support the former. As Lad Akins of REEF points out in the piece,
"Restricting [non invasive lionfish species] from import simply because they are related to the invasive species could cause unwarranted economic impacts to the trade. If we are going to restrict import of all Pteroids, then should we also look at other ornamental species or families in the trade that could cause harm and enact sweeping legislation? If restrictions based on potential harm are going be made," concludes Akins, "then they should be made equitably across the board and with solid information."
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Every aspiring writer has heard about the few jobs and high competition in the publishing world, but writer and publisher Christine Smallwood gave a humorously dark take on some of the woes of writers in the industry during her Publishing NOW question and answer session on Monday. Smallwood aimed to paint a realistic picture of the publishing field as well as to share some stories from her career path with students and professors present at the event.
Much of Smallwood's discussion focused on freelance writing as a career and being able to adequately support oneself with the income from such a job.
"Well, I think it's pretty terrible to be a freelance writer," Smallwood, a freelancer herself, joked. She expounded on how freelancing does not often pay much but how it can be a great option as a "hobby," or if an individual has other commitments in his/her life. The mother of a young child, Smallwood said that freelancing allows her to take care of her child but that she is not working many hours or getting paid very much. Though she enjoys her career, Smallwood noted how her priorities about writing completely changed after the birth of her child.
"If you're going to make a living wage for yourself, [and then a] family, it's a constant hustle," Smallwood said.
Smallwood then segued into talking about how writers who write for free, like how academics often do, can depress the market. Many publications will take advantage of writers who just want to get their piece out there, even if it means not being paid.
Many writers in the audience found Smallwood's advice empowering.
"I feel like beforehand, I would have just been like, 'Oh, they're giving me this pitch, I'll just take it if I'm not going to get paid, like at least I'm getting my work out there,'" said Jessica Elizondo, a third-semester animal science major. "Hearing her say 'Don't write for no money' is just a really impactful thing, like what can you lose?"
Smallwood also described the characteristics of a good pitch. In addition to using a "lucid, conversational" tone, "your pitch should be as well-written as your article will be," Smallwood said. Editors want to see that a writer has credentials and a unique voice, and then they want writers to get right to the point of their pitch.
Besides pitching interesting ideas, writers usually must write a lot to be successful as a freelancer. Smallwood cited Jia Tolentino, a New Yorker staff writer, as a successful example. According to Smallwood, Tolentino is constantly writing new content for the web, and this high productivity pays well for those who can write so prolifically.
"Freelance writing—I can make it work if I write a lot," fifth-semester psychology major Yawowusu Darko said about Smallwood's point that freelancers must always hustle. "As a writer, I don't have time to write a lot, so maybe that's not so much for me."
Though he learned that freelancers must be quick writers, Darko also said that he learned how to deal with an editor who wants him to make a change he doesn't like.
While her discussion was at times unsentimentally realistic, Smallwood concluded on a hopeful note. She articulated her belief that editors truly have "a vested interest in discovering new voices."
"If your story is great, it will get the attention," Smallwood said.
Stephanie Santillo is a staff writer for The Daily Campus. She can be reached via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Successful extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for respiratory failure in an infant with DiGeorge anomaly, following thymus transplantation.
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We report the first successful use of venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for refractory respiratory failure in an infant with DiGeorge anomaly, following thymus transplantation. A 23-month-old female with complete immune-incompetent DiGeorge anomaly 65 days after allogenic thymus transplantation was treated in our pediatric intensive care unit for acute respiratory failure secondary to bacterial sepsis. She subsequently developed acute hypercarbic respiratory failure unresponsive to conventional medical therapy. She was successfully managed with venovenous ECMO for 4 days, with complete resolution of her respiratory symptoms. This case demonstrates the complex decision making process regarding initiation of ECMO in patients with severe immunodeficiency.
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Cited Authors
- Hornik, CP; Hartman, ME; Markert, ML; Lodge, AJ; Cheifetz, IM; Turner, DA
Published Date
- June 2011
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- 56 / 6
Start / End Page
- 866 - 870
PubMed ID
- 21333090
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0020-1324
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.4187/respcare.01051
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