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The Space Negros  was a late 1970s experimental rock band that disbanded, and regrouped in the early 1980s.

History
Space began as an avantgarde four-person Boston-based group in the late 1970s. Composer-pianist Erik Lindgren was the Majordomo|major domo]] of this ensemble, which used a DECtalk voice synthesizer in their 1986 song "Robot." One of the band's records was actually a reissue of a 1980 release.

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Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC) ("New York State's Senior Prescription Plan") was designed so that "the state shares in the medicine costs of those participating in the program."

RH5782: The Sfas Emes explains that after the sin of the Golden Calf, the children of Israel were restored to HaShem's good graces on Rish Chodesh Elul, the first Elul that we experienced as a nation. This is when Moshe went up Mount Sinai for his final 40-day stay there. It culminated on Yom Kippur, thereby granting us the second tablets. This time is known to us as days of Divine goodwill.

May we all be written for a healthy and happy Jewish New Year.

History
Initial public response to the program, when introduced by New York State, had a "low level of public participation." EPIC was established in 1986 to help income-eligible seniors with the high costs of prescription drugs; Paul E. Harenberg, Chairman of the New York State Assembly Committee on Aging, held hearings. It soon became obvious that recent retirees faced a double problem: "sticker shock not only because you are at that age when you start to need more medications, but also because your insurance is picking up less of the cost."

As introduced, eligible seniors pays 40% of a medicine's cost, up til a specified level; beyond that, "the state pays 100 percent of the drug costs." Unlike managed care plans, "it helps people with their prescription drug costs without making them leave their current doctors and join H.M.O.'s." By 2003, 33 other states had introduced "state pharmacy assistance programs," partly to avoid what ''The New York Times called the "murky" choice of buying "from Canada and Mexico online or in person."

Medicare-based pharmaceutical coverage is "delivered by private plans that can establish lists of preferred drugs and can steer patients to selected pharmacies" in contrast to how EPIC and some other states "pay for almost any prescription drug and allow beneficiaries to use virtually any pharmacy."

In 1987, Mario Cuomo budgeted "$70 million in part-year funding to begin this program by October" for an estimated 1.2 million elederly. In 2021 the program was still running, with his son as governor.

Nearshoring
When the New York Times headlined "Near Source of Supplies the Best Policy" their main focus was on "cost of production." Although transportation cost was addressed, they did not choose among:
 * transporting supplies to place of production

Nearshoring or Nearsourcing is having business processes, especially information technology processes such as application maintenance and development or testing, in a nearby country, often sharing a border with the target country. Commonalities usually include: geographic, temporal (time zone), cultural, social, linguistic, economic, political, or historical linkages.
 * transporting finished goods to place(s) of sale
 * cost and availability of labor

The term Nearshoring is a derivative of the business term offshoring. The hybrid term "nearshore outsourcing" is sometimes used as an alternative for nearshoring, since nearshore workers are not employees of the company for which the work is performed. It can also be a reversal, by contracting a development partner in a different country but in close proximity (same or nearby time zone), facilitating communication and allowing frequent visits. This is a business strategy to place some or all of its operations close to where its products are sold. Typically, this is contrasted with the trend to outsource low-wage manufacturing operations to developing nations (offshoring), and reflects a reversal of that trend. Sometime, the work is done by an outside contracted company rather than internally (insourcing), but unlike offshore outsourcing, the work is done in fairly close proximity to either the company headquarters or its target market.

In Europe, nearshore outsourcing relationships are between clients in larger European economies and various providers in smaller European nations.

Major centers are Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Portugal, Slovakia, and the Baltic. The attraction is lower-cost skilled labor forces, and a less stringent regulatory environment, but crucially they allow for more day to day physical oversight. These countries also have strong cultural ties to the major economic centers in Europe as they are part of EU. For example, as of 2020 Portugal is considered to be the most trending outsourcing destination as big companies like Mercedes, Google, Jaguar, Sky News, Natixis and BNP Paribas opening development centers in Lisbon and Porto, where labor costs are lower, talent comes from excellent Universities, there's availability of skills and the time zone is GMT (the same as London).

In the US, American clients nearshore to Canada and Mexico, as well as to many nations in Central and South America.

Culture
Cultural alignment with the business is often more readily achieved through near-sourcing due to there being similarities between the cultures in which the business is located and in which services are sub-contracted, including for example proficiency with the language used in that culture.

Communication
Constraints imposed by time zones can complicate communication; near-sourcing or nearshoring offers a solution. English language skills are the cornerstone of Nearshore and IT services. Collaboration by universities, industry, and government has slowly produced improvements. Proximity also facilitates in-person interaction regularly and/or when required.

Other Advantages
Software development nearshoring is mainly due to flexibility when it comes to upscale or downscale teams or availability of low cost skilled developers. The nearshoring of call centers, shared services centers, and (Business Process Outsourcing) rose as offshore outsourcing was seen to be relatively less valuable.

The complexities of offshoring stem from language and cultural differences, travel distances, workday/time zone mismatches, and greater effort for needed for establishing trust and long-term relationships. Many nearshore providers attempted to circumvent communication and project management barriers by developing new ways to align organizations. As a result, concepts such as remote insourcing were created to give clients more control in managing their own projects. Nearshoring still hasn't overcome all barriers, but proximity allows more flexibility to align organizations.

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Tachash (or Tahash or Takhash; תַּחַשׁ tāḥaš) is first used in the Hebrew Bible as the name of a person. Subsequent uses refer to one or more colors, an animal, or the skin thereof. The latter are for constructing the outer covering of the Tabernacle, in some cases is used in the plural form.

Abraham's nephew
Abraham's brother Nahor's concubine gave birth to a son named Tachash (or Tahash; Genesis, 22:24).

Details about the Tabernacle's outer covering
The word Tachash (plural: tchashim) appears regarding a covering for the Tabernacle in both Exodus (6 times) and Numbers (7 times). It also appears once in Ezekiel, 16:10. Both Artscroll and Samson Raphael Hirsch simply Anglicize as Tachash without translating the word. Various land and sea animals have been listed in Bible translations and commentaries; multiple color possibilities thereof have been discussed.

Material for high-end shoes
Ezekiel (16:10) has a prophetic allegory in which a Husband, whose beloved wife has strayed into the wilderness, shoeless, is gifted with footware made from the finest material.

Etymology
Other than being a person, Tachash (/Hebrew) can refer to:
 * a process of attaching beads to leather
 * the name of a "violet blue to bluish purple" color, used to dye an animal's skin, but not the blue color of Tzitzit, the ritual fringes of a 4-cornered garment.
 * the name of an animal
 * one that is not kosher, which though considered by the Talmud, leads to the conclusion of it not being usable, since it would make impure the entire Mishkan (Tabernacle)
 * one that is kosher
 * one that we can still find, such as sheep or goats
 * one that may still exist somewhere, though not commonly seen
 * one that only existed then, made available to the Jews during the early portion of their 40 year wandering in the desert
 * one that resembles a non-kosher animal
 * one that appears to be mythical, such as a Unicorn

Among the non-kosher animals considered as candidates are:
 * seals
 * badgers
 * dolphins