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Robinson & Associates Consulting Services
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Robinson & Associates Consulting Services
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1392 Greendale TerraceOAKVILLE, Ontario
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Robinson and Associates work with companies that believe that people are absolutely essential to the success of their business.
Using Assessments from Profiles International, we help those companies put the right people in the right jobs and use that information as a means to coach, train, manage and motivate all of their people to greater success, greater productivity and greater profitability.
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Profiles Sales Indicator
Customer Service Indicator
Profiles Performance Indicator
Step One Survet 11
Profiles Team Analysis
Checkpoint 360
Skillbuilder
Workforce Analysis Profiles
U002-Personnel Testing
Sector information
Key / Major clients:
Office of the Superintendant of Financial Institutions CanadaSmurfit-MBI
Mariott
Jones Packaging
Compass Group of Canada
Ceridian Canada
Brenntag Chemicals
Loblaws
Canadian Tire
DeVry
3M
Manulife Financial
Levitt Safety
MacKinnon Transport
Peel Plastic Products
Pivotal Intergrated HR Solutions
Moosehead
Bath Fitter
Merck
CIBA Vision
Success stories:
Profiles International is actively servicing tens of thousands of clients around the world. Read on to see what some of our clients have to say.
Employee Turnover, Hiring, and Retention
"We screen applicants and then use the Step One Survey II. We specifically look at integrity, attitudes about substance abuse, reliability, and work ethic. Next, we go to the Profile XT, which helps with questions to ask in subsequent interviews. We've used these products for a while and will revisit them in future recruiting."
- Kip Botkin, Highland Police Force
"At one point we had a turnover rate of 40 percent. With the aid of the Profile XT and the Step One Survey II assessment, we've reduced turnover to 29 percent. Based on the cost of replacing an employee, we have more than paid for the assessments."
- Michael R. Teakell, SPHR
"Our company gets a good return on investment from the Profile XT assessment. We've found the product crucial in helping us promote retention and enhance productivity. Your assessments are an important part of our HR tool kit."
- Tom Rose and Allan Cantor, Sun Life Financial
"A major benefit we continue to see is in the area of driver turnover. The American Trucking Association reported a national average of 109% turnover for medium sized carriers. Turnover for large carriers exceeded 130%. Our Vice President recently attended a trucking symposium sponsored by our insurance carrier. When we reported our 17% from last year, we were met with looks of great disbelief. Did the use of Profiles assessments alone cause 83% driver retention? Probably not, but no doubt, these tools were the main reason. This one benefit continues to save us thousands of dollars in recruitment and training costs."
- James Maloney, United Freight Service Inc.
"In the year we started using Profiles Internationals assessments, we decreased turnover by more than half. How? By using the tool to determine where a person fits best in our company. We are saving both time and money."
- Glenda Smith, the Wizard's Cauldron
"We use the Step One Survey to screen people before we hire. The Step One Survey II gives us more interview questions to use."
- Gwen Frye, King Wholesale
"Idaho Fish and Game has its share of baby boomers within our Conservation Officer ranks, and they are rapidly retiring. We have had to step up our recruitment efforts to fill our increased vacancies. We began looking at ways to identify those talents in our successful officers and find a mechanism to identify those traits in our candidates. We found what we were looking for when we were introduced to the Profile XT offered by Profiles International.
We hired seven officers who have become known as the Magnificent Seven. Every one of them exhibits the behavioral traits identified in our Profiles XT Idaho Fish and Game Officer Job analysis. After two years, all seven continue to excel in their work and have set the bar higher for future recruits."
- Jon Heggen, Idaho Fish and Game
"We've used the Profile XT and Step One Survey for retention and hiring. They help us pinpoint the right questions to ask people so we can find a better fit for the company. Our Client Services Representative is fabulous to work with and we have a good relationship."
- Gambro
"We wanted to reduce turnover of our designers. We used Profiles XT and made better hires. Bill Foster, our sales representative, did an outstanding job. He is very personable."
- Ethan Allen Inc.
"Our Bank was looking for additional tools to assist us in selecting the right applicants. We use Profile XT, Step One Survey II, Profile Sales Indicator, and Customer Service Profile. With these, we are better able to determine who is a good fit for the position and for our Bank. Our customer service representative has been very helpful in meeting our needs."
- Hilltop National Bank
"Since we started using Profiles Sales Indicator for pre-employment screening for sales employees, we've been very happy. Because the test is online, we find it easy to use. We test all applicants and make better hiring decisions, giving us a better workforce. We are very happy with the service."
- Lisa Garnet, Swedish Match North America
"I guess one of the first things that come to mind is the fact that [Step One Survey II] is a measurable guide to determine that all our managers are following through in the same manner in regards to hiring. It also provides the follow up questions which make our Managers take the time to interact and really interview the person. I also like the fact that the questions are provided in a specific format that means we dont have to worry about them overstepping any lines of what can or cannot be asked! We have also found since using this tool it is a much better judge of honesty or integrity than when our managers relied on gut instinct! Easy to use and grade also comes to mind as a definite plus!"
- Cindy Bartholomew, Pour Boy Oil Co
"The Postal Credit Union wanted a product that would help find the best new people. We check aptitude with Step One Survey II. This tool narrows the selection to people who think the same way we do. Everyone at Profiles International is very helpful."
- Tenita Howard, Postal Credit Union
"We wanted to examine the potential ability of entry-level employees. For a while, we used Profile XT only. Now we are also using Step One Survey II. We discovered we could probe a candidate's interests more deeply. The assessments uncover traits and attitudes that would not normally have come up in our regular interviews. Everyone at Profiles International is very helpful and proactive."
- Phil Buckleman, Alfa Laval Inc.
"We have saved a great deal of money using Profiles International assessments because we haven't made a bad hiring choice. I like the variety of the assessments that we can use, and the option to specialize in different areas."
- Jerry Hosko, Redi Carpet
"By implementing the ProfileSelect system in combination with The Profile XT assessment tool, we are now able to quickly and accurately evaluate tens of thousands of candidates' resumes each year. The AMS also provides us the ability to search this extensive database in seconds whereas the previous manual process was administratively onerous. And, the Profile XT assessment tool has allowed us to customize the tool's pattern to more accurately reflect a candidate's propensity for success with OUR jobs in OUR company."
- Chuck LaMotte, White Lodging
"Two recent hiring decisions made our managers feel very confident. They said they feel confident about their selection choices based on the use of the assessment. Your web site is awesome, very accessible and easy to use. And we can always find someone to answer our questions."
- Alice Willmarth, The Mechanics Bank
"I've used the AMS recently while looking for full-time and adjunct faculty members. I think that the AMS is effective in keeping me informed of who is applying and what their status is throughout the application process. I especially like that I can make notes of scheduled interviews and notes about how those interviews went. I find the AMS much more effective and efficient than shuffling paperwork or talking on the phone. At this point, I haven't had any negative experiences with the AMS."
- Amy Patrick, Senior Instructor, Department Chair
English Department, Technical Communications Technology
Texas State Technical College
"In a short time, the assessment we purchased from ProfilesInternational paid for itself because we hired the right people and didn't have to hire again and retrain. We like the ability to assess people without making them feel uncomfortable. Your tools provide great insight and allow me to put people in the right position."
- Dave LeBlanc, The Boiling Pot
"We just went through the Profiles International assessment process to look for a supervisor. We found someone who is doing a great job. Your customer service is good. I never have to wait for a response."
- Linda Burgess, Boring Specialties
"The Profile XT assessment helps us in recruiting. We like this tool to find applicants that fit. Dwight Crain, our Client Service Advisor has been very helpful."
- Cottingham, Butler and Sisco
Over a three and half year period, our company's turnover was reduced by 49 percent, because we used the Step One Survey II. The savings we realized by hiring fewer people saved us almost a quarter of a million dollars.
We started using Step One Survey in January 2001. The first year, turnover was high. The second and third years, it dropped substantially. Overall, we hired 33 percent fewer employees. We calculate that turnover costs $7,100 per employee. Since we hired 35 fewer people in 2002 and 2003, we saved $248,500.
- Rhonda Griffin, Centro, Inc.
"I've been receiving very important feedback from the Step One SurveyTM screening program. It has enabled me to learn insightful information prior to employment about an individuals attitudes as they relate to honesty/integrity, substance abuse, reliability and work ethic that ordinarily wouldn't be discovered until after someone is employed then it's too late! Also, the direct admission portion provides open-ended interview questions that make the interview more structured and effective."
- Judie Posner, Human Resources Manager
"Step One Survey II has proved to be a useful tool in gauging employee work ethic, integrity and propensity to substance abuse. We use the test as part of the interview process. The face-to-face interview, reference checks and Step One test all play equal roles in determining the success of a candidate. We have determined that Step One is very accurate in identifying potential problem areas."
- Margo Stewart, Human Resources Manager
"I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you how delighted we are with the Step One Survey. After interviewing over a dozen applicants we found the Step One Survey to be a useful inexpensive tool to help us screen applicants. The survey is beneficial for asking all the questions we should have and then suggesting follow up questions in areas that need more explanation."
- Ed Boerman, President
"The Profile XT and Profiles Sales Indicator Assessment have enabled our company to benchmark the performance standards in our sales executives so that we can strive to hire the best most productive candidates in the shortest amount of time. It saves us about $45,000 each time we can avoid hiring the wrong person. In addition, the Internet application with onscreen administration, instant analysis and report generation makes administration very easy and efficient."
- Howard Falkow, Director of Human Resources
"In a small company it is absolutely essential that the incoming people have the character and temperament to fit in. Public Relations is pressurized enough without having to sort out internal staff and personality clashes caused by hiring people with the wrong fit. As a small company, I would now never consider hiring anyone without first running them through the Profile."
- Ronnie Simpson, Managing Director
"We have been using Profiles Assessments since 1993 and I want to compliment you and your company on the constant development of new products and the improvements you have made through the years. The Profile gives me information about our people that is not just "on target," it hits the bulls-eye every time. Using The Profile, we are improving productivity and the efficiency of every employee. It is an incredibly effective tool that I wholeheartedly endorse and recommend."
- James M.D. Maloney, President
"We used Profiles' Sales Indicator assessment to help us place new salespeople and coach people already on staff. The tools help us to understand behavioral styles. The hiring products are very helpful. Ron Cerceo, our Client Service Advisor, was attentive and supportive with both individual assessments and large groups of salespeople."
- The Sales Factor
"We wanted to do two things: screen new applicants, and gain expertise in identifying job fit for incumbents. We used Profile XT as a part of our hiring process to determine needs for management. Dwight Crain is awesome, and Anthony Pantaleone in New Jersey is outstanding. Our satisfaction with these two account managers is way above average."
- Brown Shoprite
"Our company uses all the assessments. We want to know if applicants are knowledgeable in their trade. The results are key in helping us determine whether to offer a job. Your products are good."
- Jason Benjamin, AAC Gardner Air Conditioning
"We've created a consistent model that fits our needs in using Profile XT to recruit new employees. Your assessments are easy to use and everyone is accommodating."
- Phillip Green, John Henry Foster Missouri
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Profile XT aids us in choosing the best candidates for our open positions. We think Jennifer Smith, our client services representative, of Profiles International, is wonderful. She is so responsive!
- Denise Shreck, Domnick Hunter
"We use Sales Indicator and Checkpoint 360 to help evaluate personnel. We are trying to make sure the people we hire have the right skills for the job. The assessments also give us an idea of the support our new employees need. It helps us look at weaknesses and other traits, and puts in place the tools to support the people we hire. Our client services representative, Jennifer Smith, does a great job. She has responded every time we've needed her."
- Tomme Stevenson, Snaps, Inc.
Job Fit
"Our company wanted to match sales representatives to the job, so we used the Profile XT. It scores the job candidates within the realm of what managers are seeking, and helps us make the right decision. Our Client Services Representative was always there when we needed her."
- Lil Eikenburg, Advanstar
"Profile XT helps us get a grip on employee turnover. The assessment also helps us get people in the right job. Since using Profile XT, we've decreased turnover in certain areas. We have no complaints and found Profiles' training very useful."
- Misti Merriam, National American University
"Our credit union looked for applicants that matched exactly what we wanted in a prospect. We use Profile XT, which helps in placement. These tools give us more information about prospective employees. Ron Cerceo is always helpful."
- Karen Doyle, Colorado State Employees Credit Union
Professional and Leadership Development
"We use the Checkpoint 360 with doctors and nurses. It has proved beneficial. Ron Cerceo, our Client Service Advisor, is very knowledgeable and most helpful in answering questions."
- Kim Raap, St. Ambrose University
"We find Checkpoint 360 helpful in leadership development. The assessment aids us in identifying strengths and weaknesses."
- Rita Knowles, Holy Family Memorial Hospital
"Profiles XT and Checkpoint 360 are the products we like to use for leadership development. These tools give participants insight into their own skills."
- Michelle Hirsch, Whole Foods Market
"The Checkpoint 360 assessment saves us one-on-one time with our managers. We promote leadership, and the assessments help us to emphasize how to be a leader without repeating it. We get better results and we're saving money, too."
- Cassy Claude, Wink Inc
"Our company always uses the Performance Indicator when hiring new doctors. We've used it hundreds of times to identify whether or not a doctor has the right personality for the job. Now we encourage the company to use it for other leadership positions. Everyone at Profiles has been a joy to work with. Kudos to the company!"
- Richard Nicely, Dental One
Team Building
"Profiles International is first-rate. We are in our third year of using your assessments. In the first year, we replaced every manager, then asked Profiles to step in and help us 'align our compass' with their assessments. Profiles helped us build a team that, for the first time, shares priorities and a focus. And our people are enthusiastic about taking the test -- no more apprehension."
- Patrick Adams, Brazos River Authority
"Since we started using the Profile XT assessment, we've not made any 'wrong' hiring decisions. Our employees fit well into their teams and show job satisfaction. The tool helps us 100 percent."
- Ann Freeman, First National Bank and Trust
"We used the assessments when hiring 141 people in the 18 months after implementing. The end result: An incredible 99.3 percent score in terms of identifying and hiring productive and retainable team members. We find Profiles International and its products tremendously helpful in showing us how to guard our key assets -- our people."
- Michael Owens, VHI Healthcare
"Profiles Team Analysis pinpointed exactly the same challenges as were demonstrated during the teams existence. Had we known before, what we learned after the fact, these teams ability to perform effectively could have been greatly enhanced. As it was, they threatened themselves from within. With a few minor changes, significantly greater performance could have been realized."
- G. Benson Lange, Director of Engineering, Griffin International
"The Profiles Performance Indicator and Profiles Team Analysis gave our leaders and team members clear, measurable team behaviors to increase personal and team effectiveness. In addition, Robertas collaboration on measuring the bottom line impact of our team building created clear measures on increasing team performance."
- Martin Woodrow, Director, KLA-Tencor Corporation
Training and Development
"We recently used the Customer Service Profile as a training tool to help our existing staff better understand their strengths and weaknesses. I found the Survey most helpful in identifying areas that our team members both excel at and can use additional training."
- Aimee Hathaway, Human Resources Manager
"We attribute our increased hiring confidence to Profiles Internationals assessments. Small companies like ours especially need to hire the right person for each job. We save time by training the right people for our company. The assessments give a clear and accurate profile of potential candidates. Our new employees match their job perfectly. Your tools keep us on target."
- Pat Simon, Lehigh Valley PBS
"We are using Profile XT to help us with retention and training. The assessment takes a lot of things into consideration. We want to know if our employees are interested in moving up, and if their aptitude fits the position. We want to know where they might have problems. We adore our Client Services Representative ."
- Sarah Monley, Carmel Partners
"The Checkpoint 360 is the best product in this category that I've used. As you know, this tool replaced another product that we had been using exclusively for almost two years. The managers and executives at Spectrum Healthcare Services (SHS) receive more valuable information in an easy to read, color-coded format, which encompasses everyone's individual learning style. Not only is there validated feedback, but a comprehensive action plan that each person may use to implement change, based on the facts from their customized report."
- Patricia L. Keeley, Director, Training and Development
"We have had extremely positive feedback from participants about the complete and detailed input they receive in their Individual Feedback Report. The data is colorfully presented in multiple formats so that participants can view their management and team competencies first with a wide-angle lens and then progressively narrow the focus all the way down to the survey item level."
- Susan Lupo, Management Development Specialist
Profiles International Customer Service
"I have used Profiles for the last 10 years, including several years at two other companies. I brought Profiles tools with me when I changed jobs. I've never had a problem getting in touch with my account manager. She's provided two 'webinars,' which worked really well, and is always willing to do things at the last minute. I would rate Profiles' overall service a 10 -- and I have always felt that way."
- Karen Campion, Minnesota Diversified
"The assessments are a good benefit that we didn't use previously. It has provided good information. My account manager resolves any technical problems quickly and also helps me interpret the results."
- Joan McVaugh, Laboratory Testing Inc.
"We really like the way the reports are put together and the information they provide us. We get solid information from the layout you use to display the results and the suggestions the reports offer."
- Cassy Claude, Wink Inc.
"I've used Profiles for six years. The web site is very user friendly and it allows me to access to the results fast and easy. Profiles International assessments are extremely effective and accurate. Also Dwight Crain, our customer service representative has provided me with excellent assistance. He knows his customers and their company's needs. He is also able to answer questions and returns phone call quickly."
- The Woodlands
"Your team is easily accessible. My account executive solves all my problems immediately. And the training we got on the assessments was great. Our trainer was very patient and didn't try to rush us through."
- Judy Young, Westminster-Canterbury Richmond
"Your business seems so personal. I feel as if I know my account manager, although I have never met him in person. He is very responsive to my company's needs and does extra work to make sure deadlines are met or to get things done in a rush if necessary. Your products are user-friendly, too."
- Susan Maiden, Darlings Auto Group
"Thomas Barber, our Client Service Advisor, is excellent at helping us learn and use Profiles' tools. We've experienced no problems. Profiles International has provided the highest level of service to our company."
- Ron Meredeith, Lamb's Tire and Auto
"Ron Cerceo, our Client Service Advisor, returns our calls promptly and helps us through any difficulties. We are able to contact him easily. Profiles products have definitely aided us in the hiring process."
- Cindy Robl, Devry-Denver
"Profiles Internationals quick turnaround gives me the ability to get things done. Our president questioned a couple of reports and asked me to get back to him. Dwight Crain, our Client Service Advisor, was able to prepare a profile for us that day. He delivers rapid responses."
- Darrel Tyree, ROM Corp.
"We really like working with Dwight Crain, our Client Service Advisor. He is very responsive and always has backup when he is away. I had difficulty receiving an assessment, and the service team was right there until we got the problem fixed. They were great."
- Jami Dittmeier, Middleburg Financial Corp.
"We started using assessments six years ago. Ron Cerceo, our Client Service Advisor, has been more than helpful, very cooperative and accommodating. We can only say good things about him and Profiles International."
- Dave Medved, Draper Inc.
"My staff and I enjoy working with you and your company. Id also like to thank you for the great service you have given to our company. You make our hiring process much more efficient."
- Pristine Mortgage
"Our company always uses the Performance Indicator when hiring new doctors. We've used it hundreds of times to identify whether or not a doctor has the right personality for the job. Now we encourage the company to use it for other leadership positions. Everyone at Profiles has been a joy to work with. Kudos to the company!"
- Dental One
"We screen applicants and then use the Step One Survey. We specifically look at integrity, attitudes about substance abuse, reliability, and work ethic. Next, we go to the Profile XT, which helps with questions to ask in subsequent interviews. We've used these products for a while and will revisit them in future recruiting."
- Highland Police Force
"Our company uses all the assessments. We want to know if applicants are knowledgeable in their trade. The results are key in helping us determine whether to offer a job. Your products are good."
- Gardner Air Conditioning
"We've created a consistent model that fits our needs in using Profile XT to recruit new employees. Your assessments are easy to use and everyone is accommodating."
- John Henry Foster Missouri
"Profile XT aids us in choosing the best candidates for our open positions. Our client services representative is responsive and wonderful."
- Domnick Hunter
"We use Sales Indicator and Checkpoint 360 to help evaluate personnel. We are trying to make sure the people we hire have the right skills for the job. The assessments also give us an idea of the support our new employees need. It helps us look at weaknesses and other traits, and puts in place the tools to support the people we hire. Our client services representative does a great job and has responded every time we've needed help."
- Snaps, Inc.
"London Transit Commission has used the subject products for approximately three years. We would recommend the products for a number of reasons:
Ease of Administration- on-line entry and administration of the products makes use simple and easy and report generation timely
Ease of Understanding Reports- the reports are useful to us in terms of ease of interpretation and fit with our existing practices with respect to recruitment /selection and employee development
Underlying Logic- the products are well conceived and incorporate up-to-date approaches. As the result, we can use these as off the shelf products avoiding the necessity of developing more costly custom solutions. The products do allow us to identify things such as which skills are more important to our business than others. Both products provide advice through written commentary on reports which can be easily incorporated into our processes, adding value at reasonable cost. Reports such as the Organizational Management Analysis report which is available in conjunction with the Checkpoint 360s is useful to senior management in providing a more global analysis on management development needs
London Transit Commission has had favourable experience with the products, and they have become an important part of the recruitment/selection and development processes here, allowing us to attain our human resource objectives."
- Andy Hynes, W.A. Gilbert & Associates
"By having all of us complete the Profile XT Job Analysis Questionnaire, we were able to agree on the key skills required for recruiting our new Executive Director. This tool became invaluable when we compared the candidates background to the profile established for the position.
The Check Point 360 Assessment is also a valuable tool. The method of gathering group feedback and creating a forum for discussion benefits both the employee and the organization."
- Marlena Myers, Children in Crisis, Inc.
"The Profile XT is powerful and dynamic management tool that helps them place each individual in the job for which they are best suited, and helps ensure TAG can provide maximum safety and service to its clients.
We have found these analytical tools to be much more effective than the standard résumé plus a buddys letter of recommendation, to help ensure that TAG hires pilots who should be."
- Robert Tyler, TAG Aviation USA
"The Profile XT is a regular part of our recruitment process. This assessment is highly beneficial in our selection of quality candidates. We think it is tremendous!
I have presented information on Checkpoint 360 product to our President and CEO.
Both were very impressed with this assessment and asked that I move forward in implementing Checkpoint 360 as quickly as possible."
- Christie Ferguson, Diamond Municipal Solutions
Third-Party Information Liability Disclaimer
Some of the information on this Web page has been provided by external sources. The Government of Canada is not responsible for the accuracy, reliability or currency of the information supplied by external sources. Users wishing to rely upon this information should consult directly with the source of the information. Content provided by external sources is not subject to official languages, privacy and accessibility requirements.
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Product / Service / Licensing
Profiles Sales Indicator
Customer Service Indicator
Profiles Performance Indicator
Step One Survet 11
Profiles Team Analysis
Checkpoint 360
Skillbuilder
Workforce Analysis Profiles
U002-Personnel Testing
Sector
Sector information
Key / Major clients:
Office of the Superintendant of Financial Institutions CanadaSmurfit-MBI
Mariott
Jones Packaging
Compass Group of Canada
Ceridian Canada
Brenntag Chemicals
Loblaws
Canadian Tire
DeVry
3M
Manulife Financial
Levitt Safety
MacKinnon Transport
Peel Plastic Products
Pivotal Intergrated HR Solutions
Moosehead
Bath Fitter
Merck
CIBA Vision
Success stories:
Profiles International is actively servicing tens of thousands of clients around the world. Read on to see what some of our clients have to say.
Employee Turnover, Hiring, and Retention
"We screen applicants and then use the Step One Survey II. We specifically look at integrity, attitudes about substance abuse, reliability, and work ethic. Next, we go to the Profile XT, which helps with questions to ask in subsequent interviews. We've used these products for a while and will revisit them in future recruiting."
- Kip Botkin, Highland Police Force
"At one point we had a turnover rate of 40 percent. With the aid of the Profile XT and the Step One Survey II assessment, we've reduced turnover to 29 percent. Based on the cost of replacing an employee, we have more than paid for the assessments."
- Michael R. Teakell, SPHR
"Our company gets a good return on investment from the Profile XT assessment. We've found the product crucial in helping us promote retention and enhance productivity. Your assessments are an important part of our HR tool kit."
- Tom Rose and Allan Cantor, Sun Life Financial
"A major benefit we continue to see is in the area of driver turnover. The American Trucking Association reported a national average of 109% turnover for medium sized carriers. Turnover for large carriers exceeded 130%. Our Vice President recently attended a trucking symposium sponsored by our insurance carrier. When we reported our 17% from last year, we were met with looks of great disbelief. Did the use of Profiles assessments alone cause 83% driver retention? Probably not, but no doubt, these tools were the main reason. This one benefit continues to save us thousands of dollars in recruitment and training costs."
- James Maloney, United Freight Service Inc.
"In the year we started using Profiles Internationals assessments, we decreased turnover by more than half. How? By using the tool to determine where a person fits best in our company. We are saving both time and money."
- Glenda Smith, the Wizard's Cauldron
"We use the Step One Survey to screen people before we hire. The Step One Survey II gives us more interview questions to use."
- Gwen Frye, King Wholesale
"Idaho Fish and Game has its share of baby boomers within our Conservation Officer ranks, and they are rapidly retiring. We have had to step up our recruitment efforts to fill our increased vacancies. We began looking at ways to identify those talents in our successful officers and find a mechanism to identify those traits in our candidates. We found what we were looking for when we were introduced to the Profile XT offered by Profiles International.
We hired seven officers who have become known as the Magnificent Seven. Every one of them exhibits the behavioral traits identified in our Profiles XT Idaho Fish and Game Officer Job analysis. After two years, all seven continue to excel in their work and have set the bar higher for future recruits."
- Jon Heggen, Idaho Fish and Game
"We've used the Profile XT and Step One Survey for retention and hiring. They help us pinpoint the right questions to ask people so we can find a better fit for the company. Our Client Services Representative is fabulous to work with and we have a good relationship."
- Gambro
"We wanted to reduce turnover of our designers. We used Profiles XT and made better hires. Bill Foster, our sales representative, did an outstanding job. He is very personable."
- Ethan Allen Inc.
"Our Bank was looking for additional tools to assist us in selecting the right applicants. We use Profile XT, Step One Survey II, Profile Sales Indicator, and Customer Service Profile. With these, we are better able to determine who is a good fit for the position and for our Bank. Our customer service representative has been very helpful in meeting our needs."
- Hilltop National Bank
"Since we started using Profiles Sales Indicator for pre-employment screening for sales employees, we've been very happy. Because the test is online, we find it easy to use. We test all applicants and make better hiring decisions, giving us a better workforce. We are very happy with the service."
- Lisa Garnet, Swedish Match North America
"I guess one of the first things that come to mind is the fact that [Step One Survey II] is a measurable guide to determine that all our managers are following through in the same manner in regards to hiring. It also provides the follow up questions which make our Managers take the time to interact and really interview the person. I also like the fact that the questions are provided in a specific format that means we dont have to worry about them overstepping any lines of what can or cannot be asked! We have also found since using this tool it is a much better judge of honesty or integrity than when our managers relied on gut instinct! Easy to use and grade also comes to mind as a definite plus!"
- Cindy Bartholomew, Pour Boy Oil Co
"The Postal Credit Union wanted a product that would help find the best new people. We check aptitude with Step One Survey II. This tool narrows the selection to people who think the same way we do. Everyone at Profiles International is very helpful."
- Tenita Howard, Postal Credit Union
"We wanted to examine the potential ability of entry-level employees. For a while, we used Profile XT only. Now we are also using Step One Survey II. We discovered we could probe a candidate's interests more deeply. The assessments uncover traits and attitudes that would not normally have come up in our regular interviews. Everyone at Profiles International is very helpful and proactive."
- Phil Buckleman, Alfa Laval Inc.
"We have saved a great deal of money using Profiles International assessments because we haven't made a bad hiring choice. I like the variety of the assessments that we can use, and the option to specialize in different areas."
- Jerry Hosko, Redi Carpet
"By implementing the ProfileSelect system in combination with The Profile XT assessment tool, we are now able to quickly and accurately evaluate tens of thousands of candidates' resumes each year. The AMS also provides us the ability to search this extensive database in seconds whereas the previous manual process was administratively onerous. And, the Profile XT assessment tool has allowed us to customize the tool's pattern to more accurately reflect a candidate's propensity for success with OUR jobs in OUR company."
- Chuck LaMotte, White Lodging
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Ease of Understanding Reports- the reports are useful to us in terms of ease of interpretation and fit with our existing practices with respect to recruitment /selection and employee development
Underlying Logic- the products are well conceived and incorporate up-to-date approaches. As the result, we can use these as off the shelf products avoiding the necessity of developing more costly custom solutions. The products do allow us to identify things such as which skills are more important to our business than others. Both products provide advice through written commentary on reports which can be easily incorporated into our processes, adding value at reasonable cost. Reports such as the Organizational Management Analysis report which is available in conjunction with the Checkpoint 360s is useful to senior management in providing a more global analysis on management development needs
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- The suit filed in a court alleges Fiat Chrysler inflicted billions of dollars in damages by bribing United Auto Workers’ (UAW’s) brass for competitive advantages that the union denied to GM
- The illicit payments benefited Fiat Chrysler starting in 2009, when the two companies were emerging from government-backed bankruptcies, according to the suit
NEW DELHI: General Motors surprised Fiat Chrysler Automobiles with a racketeering lawsuit that for the first time implicates late CEO Sergio Marchionne in a years-long corruption scheme that already has landed car executives and labour leaders in jail.
The suit filed in federal court alleges Fiat Chrysler inflicted billions of dollars in damages by bribing United Auto Workers’ (UAW’s) brass for competitive advantages that the union denied to GM.
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Before Change
from django.conf.urls import *
from apps.feed_import import views
urlpatterns = patterns("apps.feed_import.views",
url(r"^opml_upload/?$", views.opml_upload, name="opml-upload"),
url(r"^opml_export/?$", views.opml_export, name="opml-export"),
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from django.conf.urls import url
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urlpatterns = [
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url(r"^opml_export/?$", views.opml_export, name="opml-export"),
]


CHOCOLATE WAR, THE (director/writer: Keith Gordon; screenwriter:from a novel by Robert Cormier; cinematographer: cast: Brother Leon (John Glover), Jerry Renault (Ilan Mitchell-Smith), Archie (Wally Ward), Goober (Corey Gunnestad), Obie (Doug Hutchison), Carter (Adam Baldwin), Frank Bolo (Landon Wine), 1988)
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
Robert Cormier's young adult novel is about Trinity, a boys' preparatory school for low-to-middle-class Catholics. In the film version the hero succumbs to all the violence around him and gets his revenge, as by the film's end he happily wins a fist fight from his nemesis.
This directorial debut by the former actor Gordon (he was a psycho in John Carpenter's Christine), is really a tale about fascism. It is viewed from two sides of school life, one is from the side of the malevolent new head of the school, Brother Leon (John Glover), who is insanely mad, as he wraps his success in the school around how he can get the students to sell more boxes of chocolate in its annual sale for charity than the other head master did in his tenure. This, he thinks, will surely impress the school's trustees. The other story is about how the Vigils, a secret student organization meeting in the school basement, also tries to control the student body of non-Vigils by making them follow given assignments. The assignments might be in the nature of a prank, like unscrewing the seats in a classroom, or they might be more politically motivated, like making students sell chocolates for the school so that their organization can attain more power in the school. Their snake-like leader is a clever bully, Archie (Ward), whose sense of control is challenged by a shy, entering freshman, Jerry Renault (Smith), who refuses to sell the chocolates even after his 10-day assignment by the Vigils to not sell the chocolates is over. They view his rebellious action as a threat to their power and do everything they can to make his life miserable, including a cowardly physical attack upon him.
Everything that could be wrong about this school is wrong with it, as the classroom teachers, the brothers, all have crosses dangling from their robes, as if to remind the viewer that religion was something no one in this school believed in anymore, it was just something to be worn for show. It is so perverse a place, that there seems to be no way to function in it without selling your soul. The non-conformist act by Jerry leaves a sour taste in his mouth, as the Vigils, linking themselves to the new head in an oral agreement that benefits both parties, psychologically challenge Jerry's sanity as they act as gestapo storm troopers trying to make him an example so that there will be no more dissension on campus.
The acting is superb. The story is gloomy and perceptive. The problem I had with the film lies in the sense that the only two decent students in the film, Renault and his friend Goober (Corey), have no recourse but to conform. There seems to be no real voice of reason. The heroes are too dull and without any real conviction to fight these fascists they are up against. All the other peripheral Vigil characters are weak-minded and willing to do anything to advance their own cause in the world. Carter (Adam) is a physical bully, and an all-to-willing strong-arm for the group dictator.   Obie (Doug) is the creepy guy who is a behind the scenes player, currying favor with anyone in power. All-in-all, a pretty disgusting lot, which makes this film a tough watch, with not enough elasticity to its story than to be more than a coming-of-age film that ultimately brings up the wrong lesson in life to learn: that it is sometimes better to conform than to rebel. The film itself lacked any sustaining energy to show that it really cared about the enemy it was fighting. It looked like it was too in love with the evil elite being depicted and invested too much in their presence to properly distance themselves from them and tell the story of the resistance fighter, like it needed to be told.
REVIEWED ON 9/2/99 GRADE: C
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Just so we are clear, $BTC kept a CVE secret since 2017 that $ZEC just fixed in an emergency release. Bitcoin does not trust the shitcoin Zcash enough to share CVEs, just like Zcash doesn't trust other Zcash forks with their precious CVE's.
Keeping secrets benefits the at...
And so we now know, that dozens of $ZEC forks and perhaps hundreds of $BTC codebases have this CVE that hackers are no doubt exploiting to the best of their ability.
This is the norm in cryptocoins. This is fine.
How many CVE's is Bitcoin Core sitting on and not sharing? ...
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> !tip 11 random users 55 hush
[dscrd-hush] <tip.cc> :HUSH: @dukeleto sent @Crypto99, Frontino#7056, @Gordesky1-shooky, @hastrup, @marketing47, @sojo, @sotired, @superman, @Tyanon, @Wahed and @wiitigo 5.00 HUSH (≈ $0.41) each :cloud_rain:.
Use !tip nomention to stop being pinged by tips.
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> mornin' folks
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> I haven't verified if the CVE exists in HUSH yet, it's not critical. It requires localhost access
[dscrd-hush] <S. K. Fiaq> Good day
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> but anybody with localhost access can steal all your money
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> @S. K. Fiaq mornin
Made some nice #atomicswaps $HUSH / $KMD with @CoinCollectHQ test setup @blockbar070 @The_Hague_Tech today! Nice! #AtomicDEX #komodo
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> Morning
I like green dildos on bottomed out coins
#CryptoConfessions
@Bl4ack0ut nothing quite like a green dildo on the bottom
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> Lol
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> Also, i recently learned that Asia uses Red for Up and Green for Down
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> their candles are opposite colors
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> I find this fascinating
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> You can make them whatever color
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> sure, but the "default" that makes sense to people
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> Red up and Green down
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> "green means go" in western cultures, but in asia, it's red that means "positive"
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> it's completely arbitrary
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> seeing another culture makes it clear
[dscrd-hush] <franciscana23> Good price
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> You can piss on the streets in europe and nobody cares
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> You do it in US, indecent exposure
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> The rest of the world has some really good ways of thinking
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> Toilets cost money in Europe
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> In the united states, that is illegal
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> Also, there might not be any free bathroom for 500 miles, lol
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> I never saw a paid toilet lol
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> In large cities, they cost money
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> I lived there
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> oh, maybe it's different in different places
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> in Paris and Berlin, i think i remember toilets costing a coin
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> No paid toilets in Spain or Italy
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[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> Yeah, that is southern Europe, lol
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> the poor part
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> Where the beautiful women are
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> Rich Europe charges for toilets
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> to keep the poor people out
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> it's an anti-homeless measure as well, which I do not support
[dscrd-hush] <S. K.  K. Fiaq> average of 0.70 € per visit is normal for public restrooms
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> So it's a per-country thing, not Europe-wide. Seems like northern europe is more capitalist
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> !tip @S. K. Fiaq 25 hush
[dscrd-hush] <tip.cc> :HUSH: @dukeleto sent @S. K. Fiaq 25.00 HUSH (≈ $2.20).
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> That's where the US gets its strictness
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> now you can go to the bathroom 3 times
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> Germany.. US is a largely German dominated country, in its roots
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[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> whoa, HUSH has more volume than RVN on graviex today
[dscrd-hush] <S. K. Fiaq> thanks i can use public restrooms all day now
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> it's our largest BTC vol day on graviex, i think. 0.76 BTC
[dscrd-hush] <Crypto99> Hmmmm
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> @Crypto99 what do you see?
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> looking at our historical USD volume is not as interesting, since Hush and BTC was so much larger in USD vol. I like to look at BTC vol


Kandi Burruss Shares The First Look At Her And Todd Tucker’s Daughter, Blaze
November 24, 2019
Kandi Burruss Shares The First Look At Her And Todd Tucker’s Daughter, Blaze
Kandi Burruss recently shared the first public photo of her and Todd Tucker’s daughter, Blaze Tucker.
The youngest member of the Tucker family was born on Friday, November 22. Burruss decided that her 7 million Instagram followers were ready to see Blaze for the first time. The Real Housewives of Atlanta star’s daughter is seen holding onto her brother Ace’s hand while she still has her hospital badge on.  Tucker is also seen in the photo, as his hand is gently placed on his daughter’s elbow.
In her caption, Burruss announced that Blaze is already “doing so well” in having effective skills for newborns. Burruss also shared that she predicts that her daughter will be great at anything that she sets her mind to.
At the time of writing, the adorable post of Blaze received more than 400,000 likes. The photo also received more than 20,000 comments under the post.
“Congrats!!! I’m so excited for you guys. I cannot wait to meet my beautiful niece,” Burruss’ co-star, Cynthia Bailey said.
“I’m so happy for you guys!  I can’t wait to meet @blazetucker,” another fan shared.
“Congratulations OMG,” another fan said.
“Hi STINKA STINKAAA,” another fan wrote.
Burruss and Tucker first confirmed that they were having a baby via surrogate on the Season 12 premiere of RHOA. Burruss shared that the two were expecting a girl, and were originally expecting twins. However, the viewers soon learn that Burrus and Tucker lost one of the twins while their surrogate was in utero.
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Since deciding to go the surrogacy route, Burruss has been as open as possible about the changes that need to be made in order to ensure their child has everything that they need. The Xscape singer told Hollywood Life that she had to go through psychological exams to ensure that she was in a healthy mental state when deciding on different issues that would come up in the pregnancy. She shared that her potential surrogate would also have to go through the review in order to check and see where her mental health space is.
This is Burruss and Tucker’s second biological child together. The couple welcomed Ace into the world back in 2016. The two also have two older daughters from previous relationships, Riley and Kayla.


There are 800,000 children who experience foster care in America. 12,000 live in Massachusetts. Children in foster care have been separated from everything familiar: their homes, their parents, and their neighborhoods. More than half have also been separated from their sisters and brothers.
In September 2005, Sibling Sundays was launched to provide siblings with year-round opportunities to strengthen their sibling connection. This October we began our sixth year of programming.
On a beautiful fall day, kids and counselors met at the Treehouse community. They played cooperative games, participated in animal therapy, made Sibling Scarves, and had lunch together before heading over to McCray’s Farm to pick pumpkins and sample homemade ice cream.
Sibling Sundays offer sisters and brothers, who don’t live together, regularly scheduled opportunities to connect in a safe environment. Kids learn that the sibling relationship is a viable family bond. The program reduces potential isolation associated with being in foster care. It provides examples of positive life coping strategies essential to dealing with the difficulties of family separation and severed family relationships.
October 15th – Sibling Sunday West
October 22nd – Sibling Sunday Boston
November 5th – Sibling Sunday Lowell
December 3rd – Sibling Sunday Lowell and Boston – Holiday Party
December 10th – Sibling Sunday West – Holiday Party
January 7th – Sibling Sunday Lowell
January 21st – Sibling Sunday Boston
February 4th – Sibling Sunday West
March 11th – Sibling Sunday Lowell
March 18th – Sibling Sunday Boston
April 15th – Sibling Sunday West
April 22nd – Sibling Sunday Boston
May 6th – Sibling Sunday Lowell
May 20th – Sibling Sunday West


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--- layout: post title: Python Course for Beginners, January 2012 categories: courses tags: --- Al Salamu Alykum , I am giving a Python Course in Mansoura at mid-year vacation (January 2012), the course will cover the following.
*Note: There is a bonus Mercurial introduction and a team project depending on the students, If we could finish the course before the schedule.
Course duration will be 50~60 hours (10 lectures, each from 5 to 6 hours) including hands-on labs (other that the team project)
The price of the course will be 600 LE, and there is 200 LE discount for Nozom-NGO members


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NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE STUDIES OF ICOSAHEDRAL CARBORANES AND SELECTED
ICOSAHEDRAL CARBORANE DERIVATIVES
by Thomas E. Fielding
A.B., Franklin and Marshall College, 1964
Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh
1971


Provisional Programme
Sunday June 23rd, 2013
- All day (9am – 6pm): Registration (see the conference registration page, and here for information on accommodation and transport).
All day (9am – 5.30pm): Datathon workshop- Morning (9am – 12.30pm): Tutorial: Reading the Web.
- Afternoon (2pm – 5.30pm): Workshop: Privacy in Semantic Technologies
- 5.30pm – Welcome reception
Monday June 24th, 2013
- 9am – Opening
- 9.30am – Invited talk: Mark Greaves.
- 10.30am – Coffee break
- 11am – Research Session 1
- a2: Loris Bozzato, Chiara Ghidini and Luciano Serafini. Comparing Contextual and Flat Representations of Knowledge – a Concrete Case about Football Data (full paper)
- a12: Andreas Scheuermann, Enrico Motta, Paul Mulholland, Aldo Gangemi and Valentina Presutti. An Empirical Perspective on Representing Time (full paper)
- a10: Alan Rector. Axioms & Templates: Distinctions & Transformations amongst Ontologies, Frames, & Information Models (full paper)
- 12.30am – Lunch
- 2pm – Research Session 2
- a4: Angela Finlayson and Paul Compton. Run-time validation of knowledge-based systems (full paper)
- a5: Daniel Garijo, Oscar Corcho and Yolanda Gil. Detecting common scientific workflow fragments using execution provenance (full paper)
- a7: Yolanda Gil and Varun Ratnakar. Knowledge Capture in the Wild: A Perspective from Semantic Wiki Communities (full paper)
- 3.30pm – Coffee break
- 4pm – Research Session 3
- a1: Daniel Borchmann. Axiomatizing EL^\bot-Expressible Terminological Knowledge from Erroneous Data (full paper)
- a9: Yue Ma and Felix Distel. Concept Adjustment for Description Logics (full paper)
- a17: Vojtch Svátek, Martin Homola, Jan Kluka and Miroslav Vacura. Mapping Structural Design Patterns in OWL to Ontological Background Models (short paper)
- a15: Srecko Joksimovic, Jelena Jovanovic, Dragan Gasevic, Amal Zouaq and Zoran Jeremic. An Empirical Evaluation of Ontology-based Semantic Annotators (short paper)
- 5.30pm – Panel: Open Data, Linked Data – where are we
and what are the main challenges – how important is semantics for this?- Nigel Shadbolt
- Hjalmar Gislason
- Jose Manuel Gomez
- Viktor de Boer
- Mathieu d’Aquin
- 8pm – Conference Dinner
Tuesday June 25th, 2013
- 9.30am – Invited talk: Nigel Shadbolt.
- 10.30am – Coffee break
- 11am – Research Session 4
- a6: Anna Lisa Gentile, Ziqi Zhang, Isabelle Augenstein and Fabio Ciravegna. Unsupervised Wrapper Induction using Linked Data (full paper)
- a3: Victor de Boer, Johan van Doornik, Lars Buitinck, Maarten Marx, Tim Veken and Kees Ribbens. Linking the Kingdom: Enriched Access To A Historiographical Text (full paper)
- a14: Thomas Gottron, Ansgar Scherp, Bastian Krayer and Arne Peters. LODatio: Using a Schema-Level Index to Support Users in Finding Relevant Sources of Linked Data (short paper)
- a16: Jeff Z. Pan, Yuan Ren, Honghan Wu and Man Zhu. Query Generation for Semantic Datasets (short paper)
- 12.30am – Lunch
- 2pm – Application Track Session
- a19: Takahiro Kawamura, Akihiko Ohsuga. Flower Voice: Virtual Assistant using LOD
- a20: Albert Weichselbraun, Arno Scharl and Heinz-Peter Lang. Knowledge Capture from Multiple Online Sources with the Extensible Web Retrieval Toolkit (eWRT)
- a18: Will Francis, Rob Atkinson, Paul Box, Terry Rankine, Stuart Woodman and Laura Kostanski. Model-driven data harvesting to publish provenance for geospatial references
- 3.30pm – Coffee break
- 4pm – Poster and Demo Session
Wednesday June 26th, 2013
- 9.30am – Invited talk: Hjalmar Gislason.
- 10.30am – Coffee break
- 11am – Research Session 5
- a11: Jihee Ryu, Hwon Ihm and Sung-Hyon Myaeng. Automatic Organization of Human Task Goals for Web-scale Problem Solving Knowledge (full paper)
- a13: Alfan Farizki Wicaksono and Sung-Hyon Myaeng. Automatic Extraction of Advice-revealing Sentences for Advice Mining from Online Forums (full paper)
- a8: Mahdy Khayyamian and Jihie Kim. Capturing Programming Content in Online Discussions (full paper)
- 12.30am – Closing


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Bayern Munich in talks with former Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger
The idea is to offer him a role until the end of the season after sacking Kovac
by SPORT.esBayern Munich's search for a new manager has led them to former Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger after they sacked Niko Kovac this week.
Wenger, 70, has emerged as the top candidate after the Germans saw their advances for various other coaches turned down.
A move for the French coach is seen as a short-term solution to fix the problems they have had this season and which led to the dismissal of Kovac.
The idea is to offer Wenger a contract until the end of the season with the objective of then appointing a younger coach next summer to lead their project for the coming years.
According to Bild, the details of the contract will be negotiated in the coming days, although there has already been a phone call between Wenger and Bayern's CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.
Bayern want a new man in place before Nov. 15 with the aim of him then being able to take charge after the international break.
Before Wenger, Thomas Tuchel (PSG), Ralf Rangnick (ex-Leipzig) and Erik ten Hag (Ajax) had all been linked, but none of them were prepared to take the job on at this stage of the season.


A Short Introduction To Using The (bash) Shell
pwd
Prints the path to the current working directory
ls
List files and their properties
ls -l
Long listing
ls -lh
Long listing with human readable file sizes
ls -a
List all files
cd
Change directory
cd
With no arguments will return to the home directory
mkdir
Make directories
cp
Copy files and directories
cp -r
Copy files recursively
mv
Move files and directories
rm
Remove files and directories
rm -i
Prompt for confirmation before file removal
rm -fr
Forcibly remove files recursively
rmdir
Remove empty directories
*
Matches any character
less
View the content of a file
man
Access the manual pages for a command
Recap
pwd
: Prints the path to the current working directory
ls
: List files and their properties
cd
: Change directory
mkdir
: Make directories
cp
: Copy files and directories
mv
: Move files and directories
rm
: Remove files and directories
rmdir
: Remove empty directories
*
: Matches any character
less
: View the content of a file
man
: Access the manual pages for a command


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This is a small history of my Achievements since I started interracting with the whole World. A bit of my Educations , Job experiences and lastly my hobbies.
The project is about a guest lodge which also provide , accomodation and transpot services to tours IKAZE
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I have choosen and decide to join Moringa School because I would like Moringa to take me to the next step ; to use software programing in solving so many IT quiries in using software development skills and programming.


Each document has the following fields:
| Property Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name | String | The full name of the element |
| symbol | String | The chemical symbol of the element |
| number | Number | The atomic number of the element |
| group | Number | The group number of the element in the periodic table |
| period | Number | The period number of the element in the periodic table |
| series | Number | The series number of the element in the periodic table |
| block | String | The block of the element in the periodic table |
| eleconfig | String | The ground state electron configuration of the element |
| description | String | A brief description of the element |
| mass | Number | The relative atomic mass of the element (Ar) |
| density | Number | The density of the element in g/cm3 at 295 K |
| oxidation states | String | The comma-separated oxidation states of the element |
| tmelt | Number | The melting temperature of the element, in K, at 1 atm |
| tboil | Number | The boiling temperature of the element, in K, at 1 atm |
| eleneg | Number | The electronegativity of the element, on the Pauling scale |
| eleaffin | Number | The electron affinity of the element, in eV |
| ionenergy | Array of Numbers | The ionization energies of the element, in eV |
| covrad | Number | The covalent radius of the element (rcov), in angstroms |
| vdwrad | Number | The Van der Waals radius of the element (rw), in angstroms |
| isotopes | Array of Objects | An array of objects that have the following properties:
|
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