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Sunday, June 11, 2017
Trump articulates mgmt view of the board: director (added as a “favor”) contributed “nothing” + showed “disloyalty” by opposing CEO #corpgov Location: Salt Lake City, UT Quoted tweet from @riotwomennn: @realDonaldTrump Trump in 1992. Sounds like the guy described by Comey. Trump has always been obsessed with loyalty & revenge https://t.co/Z6WQFqTyug
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Trump articulates mgmt view of the board: director (added as a “favor”) contributed “nothing” + showed “disloyalty” by opposing CEO #corpgov
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
@realDonaldTrump Trump in 1992. Sounds like the guy described by Comey. Trump has always been obsessed with loyalty & revenge https://t.co/Z6WQFqTyug
June 11, 2017 at 07:32PM
https://twitter.com/greg_shill/status/873909038777475072
from Greg Shill
SAPVoice: Digital Transformation Is Not A Technology Makeover. It’s A Business Revolution.
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Digital transformation brings an incredible potential for growth and profitability. Technology, without a doubt, plays a critical role in enabling such change, but this journey must embody our vision for the future of our organizations and the core values ingrained in our leadership and talent.
June 11, 2017 at 07:24PM
from Kaan Turnali, SAP
Compensation Goals and Firm Performance bit.ly/2sR3EzN
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Compensation Goals and Firm Performance bit.ly/2sR3EzN
June 11, 2017 at 07:32PM
https://twitter.com/SeattlesBanker/status/873908727774138368
from Seattle’s Banker
Deputy finance minster implicated in more corruption claims – eNCA
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Deputy finance minster implicated in more corruption claims
eNCA Deputy Minister of Finance Sifiso Buthelezi has also recently been accused of improperly benefiting from R150-million in Prasa tenders, a claim he has denied. JOHANNESBURG – The Deputy Finance Minister Sifiso Buthelezi is under the spotlight again, … |
June 11, 2017 at 07:29PM
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Joe Kirchner retweeted: #Tech Teams Rush to Catch Up on New #RevRec Accounting Rule buff.ly/2raU7GP @CFOJournal #corpgov #CEO #CFO #Board #AuditCommittee
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Joe Kirchner retweeted:
#Tech Teams Rush to Catch Up on New #RevRec Accounting Rule buff.ly/2raU7GP @CFOJournal #corpgov #CEO #CFO #Board #AuditCommittee
June 11, 2017 at 07:32PM
https://twitter.com/joekirchner1/status/873907967472660480
from Joe Kirchner
Thursday, June 8, 2017
IDG Contributor Network: Why Google might lose the enterprise AI wars
“Google has never understood enterprise,” asserts Chris Nicholson, CEO of Skymind. By contrast, Nicholson gets how businesses think. His company builds Deeplearning4j, the leading open-source enterprise-ready library for deep learning. “You can do anything you want in consumer, because people aren’t paying. In enterprise, your customers hand you eight figure checks and expect top-notch professional service along with golf games and steak dinners.”
The three current leaders in cloud computing services – Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure), and IBM (IBM Cloud) – understand this dynamic very well. While Google is widely acknowledged as the defacto leader in AI research with DeepMind and Google Brain, winning the “Machine Learning As A Service” (MLaaS) wars is much harder than simply releasing free tools like TensorFlow.
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June 08, 2017 at 07:36PM
from Mariya Yao
IDG Contributor Network: Why Google might lose the enterprise AI wars
“Google has never understood enterprise,” asserts Chris Nicholson, CEO of Skymind. By contrast, Nicholson gets how businesses think. His company builds Deeplearning4j, the leading open-source enterprise-ready library for deep learning. “You can do anything you want in consumer, because people aren’t paying. In enterprise, your customers hand you eight figure checks and expect top-notch professional service along with golf games and steak dinners.”
The three current leaders in cloud computing services – Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure), and IBM (IBM Cloud) – understand this dynamic very well. While Google is widely acknowledged as the defacto leader in AI research with DeepMind and Google Brain, winning the “Machine Learning As A Service” (MLaaS) wars is much harder than simply releasing free tools like TensorFlow.
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June 08, 2017 at 07:32PM
from Mariya Yao
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Access to Justice (司法公正)
Chinese labor activist who probed Ivanka Trump supplier “meets with accident” in detention
Radio Free Asia, June 6, 2017
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Related:
U.S. urges China to free labor activists who investigated Ivanka Trump’s shoe factories
Associated Press, June 6, 2017
http://ift.tt/2sxpsQRChina rejects U.S. call for release of labor rights activists
Reuters, June 6, 2017
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Prominent Chinese rights activist charged with subversion after being held six months
Reuters, June 6, 2017
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June 06, 2017 at 06:27PM
from noreply@blogger.com (HRIC)
South Africa falls into recession for second time in a decade
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June 06, 2017 at 07:36PM
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Omaxe sales down 43 percent at Rs 946 crore
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June 06, 2017 at 07:36PM
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Two Grown Men Had A Toddler-Like Meltdown On ‘The Bachelorette’ And It Was Amazing
For two consecutive weeks on “The Bachelorette,” audiences have suffered through a bewildering and deeply uninteresting feud between contestants Lucas and Blake E.
Coming on the show, it appeared Lucas planned to endear himself to Rachel Lindsay through yodels of “Whaboom!” and other rejected Jim Carrey bits, while Blake E. aimed to woo her with his aspirations of drumming and his sexual genius. As it transpired, the two had a troubled history that pre-dated the show, which Blake repeatedly and ineptly attempted to explain to Rachel and the other guys. (In summary, he and Lucas appeared together on a reality show called “Ex-Isle,” and then he was roommates with Lucas’s ex-girlfriend, because of course.)
Lucas attempted to save himself during the cocktail party that began this week’s episode, suggesting to Rachel that Blake had slandered him because he “has a crush” on him. As evidence, he presented the following ludicrous scenario:
Rachel took it to Blake, who had a calm and rational response: Do I look like a guy who’d eat a banana over a sleeping man’s bed? I’m on a carb-free diet.
Fortunately for us all, Rachel’s patience finally ran out on this less-than-dynamic duo. Both contestants were eliminated during the ensuing rose ceremony ― teeing up the two gentlemen for their one moment of glory. Perhaps for the first time ever, two feuding suitors left the mansion together and treated us all to a massively douchey bro fight on the way out.
It began when Blake wandered over to Lucas’s exit interview taping to salute him with a hearty “fuck you,” but somehow the situation managed to devolve from that very low point. Accusing Lucas of dragging him down and ruining his chances with Rachel, Blake attempted to drop the mic with, “I’m going home. You win, Lucas.”
“It’s not about winning,” Lucas shot back. “It’s about the world, brother. And you have no idea what the world needs.” Blake didn’t stand for that, rejoining,“You’re the ‘whaboom’ clown. I’m the nice gentleman.” (Note: That is a false binary, especially on “The Bachelorette.”)
Everyone in my life: Why are you still single??
Watch this video of 2 single “men” and then we’ll talk… #TheBachelorette http://pic.twitter.com/GVc7YQqGkm
— BabeWilliams (@babewilliams) June 6, 2017
Perhaps because of their longer acquaintance, the barbs soon got uncomfortably real for “The Bachelorette,” as Lucas told Blake to “go back to his protein shakes.”
Blake taunted Lucas as a washed-up, failed comedian. “Get back to your garbage, clown life,” he sneered.
“My clown life?” shouted Lucas, suddenly enraged. “I’m a clown? Because I can be funny?! You don’t even know what funny looks like!”
“Funny is not ‘whaboom,’” Blake responded. “’Whaboom’ is like, wocka wocka, pie in the face, wocka, wocka, honk, honk, fart joke.”
The argument limped to an end with Lucas accusing Blake of being jealous and Blake mockingly mimicking Lucas every time he spoke, a fitting goodbye for both men which sent “Bachelorette” Twitter into raptures.
Actual footage of the argument between Lucas and Blake #TheBachelorette http://pic.twitter.com/Y405UX0jul
— Cassidy Blakeman (@CassidyBlakeman) June 6, 2017
America, this is the gif you were looking for to explain the Blake/Lucas fight. Thx @cath_hoffman #TheBachelorette http://pic.twitter.com/3qKggWOJl7
— adrienne____elise (@Sheeg_) June 6, 2017
Lucas: Stupid workout person!
Blake: Pshh wawa fart poop!#TheBachelorette http://pic.twitter.com/zjPIVgaxU5— Nick Peterson (@NickPetersonTV) June 6, 2017
I’m walking down the aisle to the audio of Whaboom and Blake fighting #TheBachelorette
— naomi (@OmiScott) June 6, 2017
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June 06, 2017 at 07:31PM
from Claire Fallon
The Bookish Magic Of Black Women Is Getting A Literary Festival
The Well-Read Black Girl has come a long way in just a couple of years.
Founded by creative strategist Glory Edim, the digital book club started as a way for her to talk about books with her friends. She took the name from a custom T-shirt her boyfriend gave her ― a nod to her bookishness ― and began posting book recommendations on Instagram. Now it’s an online community of more than 20,000, and Edim has begun regularly hosting in-person meetings as well.
Next up: A conference and festival held in Brooklyn, New York, which will be all about celebrating black women authors and creating a space for black women to share their literary passions and experiences.
The timing and location of the festival is telling ― just one week before the annual Brooklyn Book Festival. On a practical level, the choice will likely make things easier for authors to appear at both; the Well-Read Black Girl has already arranged meeting discussions with major writers such as Angela Flournoy and Margo Jefferson, and asks potential festival attendees to “Imagine the world’s best book club featuring an array of outstanding authors and writers, including Tayari Jones, Naomi Jackson, LaShonda Barnett, Tiphanie Yanique, Tia Williams, Jenna Wortham, Doreen St. Félix, and more.”
More important, the book world still frequently fails to make its spaces welcoming and inclusive of people of color, especially black women, or relegates them to token events addressing diversity or race in literature. Preceding the established festival with an event for black women provides a counterbalance to the whiteness of most shared literary spaces, an opportunity for black girls and women to celebrate their nerdy sides in a sisterly atmosphere.
In addition to author panels, talks and networking events, the festival promises special treats like a VIP kickoff party featuring a screening of author and filmmaker Kathleen Collins’ seminal, and rarely shown, 1982 film “Losing Ground.”
The festival addresses a long-neglected group of book readers, so it should be no surprise that Well-Read Black Girls has seen a surge of demand. Edim launched a Kickstarter on June 3 to support the event, and as of Tuesday morning had been funded to $17,000, exceeding its $15,000 goal.
HuffPost reached out to Edim about the project via email and will update the article accordingly. In the meantime, check out our past interview with Edim, for which she suggests 10 new books by women of color you should add to your 2017 TBR list.
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June 06, 2017 at 07:31PM
from Claire Fallon
Saturday, May 27, 2017
The one-time office of a millionaire railroad executive has been reborn as one of New York’s hottest bars
Tucked inside New York City’s Grand Central Terminal, away from the gazing tourists and hurried passengers, is a commuter’s refuge called The Campbell. The newly opened bar and restaurant, run by The Gerber Group, serves classic cocktails in an old-timey space. The decor is an ode to the bar’s storied past as a private office to millionaire and railroad executive John Williams Campbell in the 1920s.
Before it became The Campbell, the space was run by Mark Grossich under the name The Campbell Apartment. It was more exclusive, with a dress code and less signage, and the bar was more difficult to find within the massive train station. Under that name, the bar hosted famous guests like President Bill Clinton, George Clooney, and Liam Neeson.
When The Campbell Apartment’s owners lost their lease in 2016, having been outbid by The Gerber Group, Grossich unsuccessfully tried to sue the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the terminal.
Of the reopening, which now includes three separate, easy-to-find bars within Grand Central, Scott Gerber told the New York Times: “We want people to know about it.” Ahead, take a look at the gorgeous bar during one of its busiest times: commuter rush hour.
The interior of the main area, called The Campbell Bar, is a New York City landmark, so legally, the Gerber Group couldn’t change much. Its massive windows — there since the 1920s — along with its overall thirteenth-century, Florentine-inspired design, have remained.
The hand-painted ceiling has also remained intact, thanks to $2 million renovations done back in 1999.
Source: The New York Post
As a sitting member of the New York Central Railroad Board of Directors, John Campbell used to host parties in the space. His safe is still there, tucked under the fireplace mantle.
See the rest of the story at Business Insider
May 27, 2017 at 07:32PM
from Sarah Jacobs
Friday, May 12, 2017
Do Vitamin Supplements Really Work For Colds?
The Question: Will supplements really prevent a cold or shorten one from lingering?
The Answer: Dietary supplements aimed at cold prevention, like Zicam or Emergen-C, sound miraculous in theory. But do they actually help to eliminate that nasty bug? The answer from experts is a resounding “no.”
Zicam promises to be a “cold shortening” homeopathic remedy. It is available in a variety of forms, all of which use zinc at the major active ingredient. Emergen-C is a popular dietary supplement made from vitamin C which claims to provide extra support to the immune system. Another variation of the dissolvable powder includes melatonin for sleep and relaxation.
“Nothing cures the cold,” Kathleen Duggan, an adjunct professor at the School of Nursing at the University of San Francisco, told HuffPost. “They’re trying to promote the antioxidant capacity of vitamin C…and there is not much in the literature that supports vitamin C preventing a cold.”
Research suggests that a vitamin overload will do very little to prevent a cold or help you out once you’re in the throes of one. But not only that, taking too much can have consequential health effects.
How natural supplements could backfire
Just one serving of Emergen-C provides 1,000 milligrams of vitamin C, which is well above the recommended daily dose. Adult men should get 90 milligrams a day, and adult women should get 75 milligrams per day, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Most people meet these requirements through their diet because it is easy to do so ― for example, just a half cup of red peppers is enough to get your daily values. And statistically, most American men and women meet the recommended daily intake, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
The mineral is responsible for helping the body’s immune system, but the upper limit for vitamin C is 2,000 milligrams per day. While vitamin C is a low-toxicity mineral, it is important to note that consuming above the 2,000 milligram limit could possibly lead to diarrhea, nausea and abdominal cramps, according to the National Institute of Health.
Zinc, on the other hand, is actually dangerous if you overdo it. Your body requires only a minimal amount of the supplement to reap its healthy benefits, which includes helping the immune system fight of viruses and bacteria. Men need just 11 milligrams a day, women just 8 milligrams, according to the Institute of Medicine. Most people get enough zinc through their diet.
“I would definitely not recommend people taking individual supplementation of zinc,” Duggan said. “There’s just not enough research to support that [zinc supplements prevent illness]. There just isn’t ― and there’s a lot in the literature to support [the toxicity].”
The upper limit for zinc for adults is 40 milligrams per day. Beyond that, people can experience nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite, stomach cramps, diarrhea and headaches. And, ironically, too much zinc over a long course of time can actually decrease immunity, according to the National Institute of Health.
Furthermore, some zinc nasal sprays and gels have been linked to losing the ability to smell.
Skip the nonsense and eat your nutrients instead
“I am extremely in support ― especially in terms of diet and nutrients ― of doing things the most natural way possible,” Colin Robinson, a clinical instructor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, told HuffPost. That means instead of taking supplements, you should aim to get zinc and vitamin C from a healthy, well-rounded diet of fruits and vegetables, he explained.
Oysters are high in zinc. Red meat, crab, lobsters and fortified breakfast cereals will also do the trick. Beans, nuts, whole grains and dairy products provide a bit of zinc, too, according to the National Institute of Health.
Research shows to eat more sweet red peppers, orange juice, grapefruit juice and kiwi for vitamin C. Broccoli, Brussels sprouts and strawberries are good sources as well.
Eating this way will help you hit the recommended levels of each nutrient, as well as contribute to your health overall.
Additionally, here’s surefire way you can effectively and safely lower your risk of getting a nasty bug ― and it’s free: Scrub those hands. Research shows it’s one of the most foolproof ways to halt germs from getting into your system.
“You know the best way to prevent a cold? Wash your hands three to four times a day. And get plenty of sleep,” Duggan stressed.
It’s age-old advice from someone with nothing to sell. Sounds right to us.
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May 12, 2017 at 07:36PM
from Allison Fox
WholeBoardDevelopmnt retweeted: CFOs on the Move: Week Ending May 12 dlvr.it/P7Fljy #CorpGov #InternalAudit
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May 12, 2017 at 07:35PM
https://twitter.com/WholeBoardDev/status/863035951395852288
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