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Hussein Tarraf, DBA, MBA, CPA, CFE, has been Inducted into the Prestigious Marquis Who's Who Biographical Registry

Hussein Tarraf serves as the owner of Tarraf and Associates PC




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Marquis Who's Who Honors Ernest Njouondo, DBA, for Success in Electrical Engineering

Ernest Njouondo, DBA, is a seasoned engineer who specializes in procuring and delivering construction materials




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Client Feedback Highlights Woodside Credit's Exceptional Customer Service in Classic Car Financing

Why Woodside Credit Stands Out: Trusted Financing Solutions for Classic and Exotic Car Collectors




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Getting Feedback Right on Diverse Teams

We know that teams mixing people of different generations, genders, and cultures yield better outcomes, and that frank, constructive feedback is key to improving individual, group, and organizational performance. But these two attributes -- diversity and candor -- often clash, says Erin Meyer, a professor at INSEAD. She's studied the challenges that arise when teammates with different backgrounds try to give one another advice and offers recommendations for overcoming them, including establishing norms around regular feedback and ensuring that it is asked for, designed to assist, and actionable. She’s the author of the HBR article “When Diversity Meets Feedback.”




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Turn Employee Feedback into Real Results

We live in an age of data. But having powerful tools to gather employee feedback doesn't mean you’ll get powerful results. It’s challenging for executives to turn that feedback into substantive action. New research from Ethan Burris, professor of management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, sheds light on how to weed through all the data, make sure workers feel heard, and turn employee insights into real results. Burris is a coauthor of the HBR article "What Companies Get Wrong About the Employee Experience."




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Halloween DIY Mini Witches Hat Headband Tutorial

Maria visits her local dollar store to find supplies to finish her Halloween DIY witch's costume!




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‘A World Without Clouds. Think About That a Minute’: New Study Details Possibility of Devastating Climate Feedback Loop

By Jessica Corbett Common Dreams “We face a stark choice [between] radical, disruptive changes to our physical world or radical, disruptive changes to our political and economic systems to avoid those outcomes.” As people across the globe mobilize to demand … Continue reading




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Feedback for IWMW 2006 now available

Feedback from this year's Institutional Web Management Workshop is now available. [2006-07-31]




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Workshop feedback

A summary of the Workshop feedback is now available. [2005-08-01]




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Summary of Comments to CSA/CIRO Staff Notice 23-331 Request for Feedback on December 2022 SEC Market Structure Proposals and Potential Impact on Canadian Capital Markets

This document is only available in PDF format.




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How to Give Feedback—Especially When You’re Dreading it

Giving feedback can be tricky and awkward, especially if you’re conflict averse. How do you give feedback that’s empathetic yet effective?




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You Need Tough Feedback—Here’s How to Get It

I want to get constructive feedback and grow from it, without getting upset. Is that too much to ask.




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Position Feedback System

RSF Elektronik unveils the MSR 40 modular rotary position feedback system to machine designers who want a quick way to measure angle on larger rotary axes.




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Episode 9: Remoting Pt.1 and Listener Feedback

This Episode as well as the next one take a look at remoting infrastructures such as CORBA, .NET Remoting or Webservices. In this first part we will take a look at why remote communication is necessary in the first place, what remoting middleware can do for you as well as which other middleware technologies exist in addition to OO-RPC systems, such as messaging middleware. Finally, we conclude with a brief overview of what the broker pattern can do for us in the context of remoting middleware.




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Episode 17: Feedback and Roadmap

This is a short episode that outlines the upcoming episodes and interviews, as well as reports on some listener feedback.




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Episode 22: Feedback

This is an episode with some more of your feedback. Specifically, the episode also contains a 5 minute section from Geert Bevin where he explains how Continuations are used an implemented in the Rife Framework. This is in response to a discussion about continuations and Rife in Episode 15, Future of Enterprise Java. We also have some feedback from Bill Pugh about flaws in our description about the problems of double-checked locking in Java.




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SmartSweets modifies packaging, upgrades recipe based on consumer feedback

 Redesigned packaging features a "New & Improved" badge, setting the stage for a new chapter of growth for the brand.





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#366: Do Bloody Anything: The Changing Role of the DBA

In August of 2018 we did a program entitled Developer Evolution: What’s Rocking Roles in IT. That program focused primarily on the forces that are reshaping the role of the software developer. In this program we shift the focus to the DBA -- the Database Administrator -- and the evolve-or-perish choices that face those in that role. Bringing their insight to the discussion is an international panel of experts who represent years of DBA experience, and some of the forces that are transforming that role.

View the complete show notes.




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Stockholm Bloodbath

“Stockholm Bloodbath,” from director Mikael Håfström, is an exploitation take that struggles to hold its intended tone.




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[ E.812 (05/20) ] - Crowdsourcing approach for the assessment of end-to-end quality of service in fixed and mobile broadband networks

Crowdsourcing approach for the assessment of end-to-end quality of service in fixed and mobile broadband networks




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Wireline broadband access networks and home networking

Wireline broadband access networks and home networking




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HSTP-IPTV-GUIDE.1 - IPTV service deployment scenarios in high-speed broadband era

HSTP-IPTV-GUIDE.1 - IPTV service deployment scenarios in high-speed broadband era




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JSTP-IBBDTV - Integrated broadcast-broadband digital TV application cooperated with server for functional extension including functions of digital TV reception and processing

JSTP-IBBDTV - Integrated broadcast-broadband digital TV application cooperated with server for functional extension including functions of digital TV reception and processing




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[ J.1 (01/19) ] - Terms, definitions and acronyms for television and sound transmission and integrated broadband cable networks

Terms, definitions and acronyms for television and sound transmission and integrated broadband cable networks




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[ J.206 (03/13) ] - Architecture for an application control framework using integrated broadcast and broadband digital television

Architecture for an application control framework using integrated broadcast and broadband digital television




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[ J.207 (07/19) ] - Specification for an integrated broadcast and broadband digital television application control framework

Specification for an integrated broadcast and broadband digital television application control framework




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[ F.746.15 (12/22) ] - Requirements for smart broadband network gateway in multimedia content transmission

Requirements for smart broadband network gateway in multimedia content transmission




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[ Q.3713 (03/17) ] - Signalling requirements for broadband network gateway pool

Signalling requirements for broadband network gateway pool




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[ Q.3719 (12/19) ] - Signalling requirements for the separation of control plane and user plane in a virtualized broadband network gateway (vBNG)

Signalling requirements for the separation of control plane and user plane in a virtualized broadband network gateway (vBNG)









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Calling all Ars readers! Your feedback is needed.

We want to hear from you.




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Power converters with digital filter feedback control

Location: Engineering Library- TK7872.C8W835 2016




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Improving learning in secondary schools : conditions for successful provision and uptake of classroom assessment feedback

Location: Electronic Resource- 




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Blues support local foodbanks with ticket campaign

Half-season ticket launch will see help given to city charities.




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Breedbandwinkel bestaat 21 jaar en trakteert

Internetvergelijker Breedbandwinkel bestaat deze maand 21 jaar en trakteert: klanten ontvangen tot en met 31 oktober minimaal 21,00 euro cashback bij iedere bestelling, een Pathé Thuis film cadeau en kans op één van de zes mooie prijzen.




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Why you're bad at giving feedback

"Feedback is a gift…" or so they say. But are your gifts useful, or are they more like the third pair of socks you get at Christmas? Delivering…




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Banking Phishing Scam - Nedbank transaction notification #2410-779

Phishing scammers targeting Nedbank customers with malware.




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Banking Phishing Scam - Your StandardBank Cash Rewards Programme

Phishing scammers using UCount awards as bait to steal your Standard Bank Internet Banking login details.




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Phillies, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Diamondbacks Win

The YAO Youth Baseball League continued at the YAO Ball Park on Kindley Field this weekend, with the Phillies, Red Sox, Blue Jays, and Diamondbacks all earning wins. Cal Ripken Division [Ages 10-12]: Phillies 14 Red Sox 5 The Phillies had an all-around team effort in their 14-5 win over the Red Sox. The Phillies […]




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News24 | Do you have any complaints or feedback about News24's content? Here's how to get in touch

Any complaints, queries or suggestions about content on News24 may be sent to our public editor George Claassen.




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Multivalent feedback regulation of HMG CoA reductase, a control mechanism coordinating isoprenoid synthesis and cell growth

MS Brown
Jul 1, 1980; 21:505-517
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Belarus Policy: Time to Play Hardball

12 August 2020

James Nixey

Director, Russia-Eurasia and Europe Programmes
Predictably, Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s regime has betrayed its people and the West’s trust yet again. A new, tougher approach is now the only option, and sanctions are only one of several actions that should be taken.

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Women take part in an event in support of detained and injured participants in mass protests against the results of the 2020 Belarusian presidential election. Photo by Natalia FedosenkoTASS via Getty Images.

Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s 26-year rule — one of the world’s longest — is itself testament to his regime’s unwillingness to change. Most of Belarus’s immediate neighbours — particularly Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland — are far more prosperous. Now, with the farce of last week’s vote and the subsequent renewed violence that Minsk is willing to use on its citizens, Belarus finds itself at the very bottom of the post-Soviet legitimacy league table. But others share a portion of blame for this saga. The West — and the EU in particular — have failed the people of Belarus.

Russia — as ever in its relationships with the Soviet Union’s other successor states — has much to answer for. Like a drug pusher, it made a loss-leading investment in getting Belarus hooked on subsidised energy with meaningless security guarantees thrown in. Lukashenka may not have been the most compliant of post-Soviet leaders — especially recently — but he is still preferred by the Kremlin over any other potential contender, especially the reforming ones currently at the fore. ‘A son-of-a-bitch, but our son-of-a-bitch’ is Russia’s take.

But if Russia is the pusher, Western countries have been the enablers. Lukashenka has played them — and played them off against Russia — by frequently rejecting the offers of one and getting closer to the other, then switching and doing the same. The inability or unwillingness to recognize — and act on — evidence of the regime’s insincerity and its propensity to inflict harm on its own citizens has encouraged Minsk’s worst excesses. At the time of writing, more than 3,000 are reported to have been arrested and many tortured.

The EU bears special responsibility for this enabling. Ever since Belarus’s independence almost 30 years ago, it has offered plenty of carrots but few meaningful sticks. President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said that ‘harassment & violent repression of peaceful protesters has no place in Europe’, but statements alone are inadequate. The Belarusian people are risking their freedoms and their lives on the streets of Minsk while the EU simply ‘calls on’ the Belarusian authorities to respect the democratic process.

Never too late

There is plenty that can be done. Sanctions are a much-touted first step and they have been proven to change the calculus, if not the character, of a regime. The EU, the UK and the US should act decisively and in unison to impose them immediately. Included in this would be the immediate halting of direct EU support to state entities.

But — as with Russia — it is lazy to limit responses to sanctions alone. Expulsion from international groups and values-based organizations should also be expedited. The EU’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) project with Belarus and five other countries is a prime example of supposedly conditional offers of financial assistance having been accepted, claimed and then defaulted on, time and again. It is time to make an example of Belarus and expel it from the EaP since it is abundantly clear it has no intention of adopting the values demanded of it.

The OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) was invited by the Belarusian authorities too late to observe last Sunday’s vote-rigging, so why, in the face of such obvious obstruction, is Belarus even a member? The OSCE often claims its strength is its inclusivity, but this has rarely stood up to scrutiny. Inclusivity may have advantages, but one should also acknowledge its propensity to dilute effectiveness. Belarus should be expelled from here too.

The same goes for the IMF, the World Bank group, and its WTO observer status. It is time to make an example of this regime.

There should be less diplomatic nicety. It is natural that foreign service officials are hard-wired to want to make things better through their undoubted skills of sensitivity and tact, and sometimes this is the right answer. But not always. It would be better in some instances, such as this one, to give a tougher message — making it clear this regime is no longer seen as legitimate and that, where possible, western countries will seek relationships with more representative figures. This is neither easy nor especially pleasant, but it is not the same as breaking off diplomatic relations entirely, which is not wise as sometimes the organs of power must be dealt with.

And in terms of immediate practical help, the EU has an obligation to open its borders to Belarusian refugees who will surely come its way as conditions deteriorate. Lithuania is already showing the way in this regard.

Belarus is not one of the more difficult countries. It has no influence, no natural resources and therefore no leverage. It could resort to even more brutal repression of its citizens, but it should be made clear that such a desperate move by the authorities would entail even greater sanction. A common argument against a tougher approach is that it will drive Belarus into the arms of Russia. But this is to fall into the same trap — blackmail in reality — that we have seen for 20 years. In fact, it would be a good litmus test for a similar policy towards other ‘abuser countries’, such as Hungary.

Russia is certainly watching closely right now, and the last thing it wants is another colour revolution. The probability is that it will get this wish for now, as the demonstrations will surely cool off and key opposition figures not already in jail have been forced to flee. But western quiescence, as it always does, encourages Russia to act with further impunity. No invasion needed this time though if it already has most of what it wants — Union State notwithstanding — and the West stands aside.

A Chinese proverb maintains that ‘the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now’. This holds true for dealing with Belarus. It is not too late to act decisively and play hardball. In doing so, the EU would help repair its reputation for hand-wringing and the people of Belarus might look at the EU with a respect they have lost.




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Phosphorylation of SMURF2 by ATM exerts a negative feedback control of DNA damage response [DNA and Chromosomes]

Timely repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) is essential to maintaining genomic integrity and preventing illnesses induced by genetic abnormalities. We previously demonstrated that the E3 ubiquitin ligase SMURF2 plays a critical tumor suppressing role via its interaction with RNF20 (ring finger protein 20) in shaping chromatin landscape and preserving genomic stability. However, the mechanism that mobilizes SMURF2 in response to DNA damage remains unclear. Using biochemical approaches and MS analysis, we show that upon the onset of the DNA-damage response, SMURF2 becomes phosphorylated at Ser384 by ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) serine/threonine kinase, and this phosphorylation is required for its interaction with RNF20. We demonstrate that a SMURF2 mutant with an S384A substitution has reduced capacity to ubiquitinate RNF20 while promoting Smad3 ubiquitination unabatedly. More importantly, mouse embryonic fibroblasts expressing the SMURF2 S384A mutant show a weakened ability to sustain the DSB response compared with those expressing WT SMURF2 following etoposide treatment. These data indicate that SMURF2-mediated RNF20 ubiquitination and degradation controlled by ataxia telangiectasia mutated–induced phosphorylation at Ser384 constitutes a negative feedback loop that regulates DSB repair.




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In Response to Federal Feedback, N.J. Seeks Testing Waiver From ESSA

The state wants to test its middle school students in the mathematics courses in which they're enrolled, rather than with the state tests created for that each student's particular grade.




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This Tool Can Help Identify 'STEM Deserts.' But It Needs Your Feedback

The National Math and Science Initiative's new tool aims to help the field look for patterns in STEM data, so educators and policy folks can fill in holes.




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Penn Staters invited to share feedback on draft Strategic Plan proposal

A draft proposal of Penn State’s institutional strategic plan has been unveiled and shared with the community for feedback and discussion. All faculty, staff and students at all campuses are encouraged to visit the Strategic Plan website to review and provide feedback on the draft plans for four goal areas.