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Westmanstown Tagger’s, The First School of Tag Rugby in Ireland was founded on Sunday 2nd of September 2012, in Westmanstown Sports Complex, Clonsilla, Dublin 15. Home grounds of the GARDA RFC.
The launch and endorsement of the new Tag Rugby program for people with Special Needs was done by The Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport, Dr. Leo Varadkar TD. The back bone of this School is formed by players from St. Vincent’s-Navan. Road. Which Jorge (The Coach), working with theme’s since 2009. Our major achievement with these players was wining 8 matches of io on three International Tournaments in Belfast-NI; Swansea-Wales and Bristol-UK.
Due to this sport success with St. Vincent’s, I decided to expand this “sport idea” and right away started to work on this -School-. Thing’s didn’t happen as quickly as I though. Took two years until a Club came forward in 2012. This was the GARDA RFC/Alfie Ancheson-President, that open the door’s to us. We thank enormously the GARDA RFC, our home today and Philip Lawlor – Provincial Development Manager – Leinster Rugby for their support.
Our School is open to all members of the Society with Special Needs that want to learn playing Tag Rugby.
We used the word F.I.R.S.T. that stands for: “Fun” + “Individualism” + “Rules” + “Simplicity” + “Time Management”, method of training. Our players are comprised by Jr’s (U-15) and Sr’s (0-15), we have both sexes’ players, the ages are from seven years old to thirty five years and we also cater for wheel chairs. The Coach Co-ordinator and the Coaching Staff working on MOTOR SKILLS -TEAM WORK and CO-ORDINATION INDIVIDUALLY.
On the 15th of December 2012, Saturday, the eve of Leinster Vs. ASM Clermont Auvergne, The Westmanstown Tagger’s were invited together with another 3 Teams to parade around the AVIVA pitch – Stadium. The 12th of January 2013, The Westmanstown Tagger’s played a Tag Rugby match against “Greystones Seagulls” at half time in the RDS. And on the 5th of May 2013, we were invited by TERENURE RFC, to play an “Exhibition Match” before the final of “European Youth U13 Rugby Festival”. Great honour for our School, Player’s and Coaching Staff, to be recognised for our hard work in such a short time. lAie are all really look forward to participate in any competition, such as “blitz”, “domestic” or the annual International Tag Festival.
Tag Rugby presents a fantastic opportunity for participants to interact with new friends in a team sport environment, helping to build social skills and boost confidence in a warm and safe environment. Our School have the door’s open to any one individual with Special Needs that would like to learn and enjoy Tag Rugby. | 2019-04-19T02:23:49Z | http://www.gardarfc.com/history/ |
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Watch this video and see a day in the life of Disco Dion!!! | 2019-04-23T19:54:16Z | https://www.discodion.co.uk/AboutDion/ |
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The growth of e-commerce in recent years has opened up new trading avenue for enterprises. The websites are playing an important role as the medium of information dissemination. Many studies have shown that 2-D representations of products are no longer impressive on websites than before, since demands for custom-designed products are rapidly increasing. Due to arrival of high-speed network and advance in computer graphics, the Virtual Reality (VR) technology emerged as alternative way to resolve problems. The VR concept will improve presentation ability and thus improve customer interactions. Virtual Reality is a general term for computer generated, or computer displayed, depictions of real spaces or objects.
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Here’s a little journey in time back to the day we purchased a Dayclox (pictured) to assist Mom in being able to more easily figure out what day or time it is. It was one of our best caregiving purchases ever. There are different versions of this clock available for sale on the web. One that I think would be particularly helpful in this stage of mom’s dementia is the Hurrah HDLC003 – which spells out whether it is morning, afternoon or evening (the abbreviations “a.m.” and “p.m.” are starting to lose their significance). Others have audio features for the vision-impaired. There is even one called “MemRabel 2”, a similar clock which allows the caregiver to program in up to 20 helpful reminders – particularly useful if your loved one is in earlier stages of dementia and spending time on their own. I share this post and links in the hope that it will give ideas for helpful memory aid resources to caregivers who have noticed their loved one struggling with measuring time.
Time seems to slip through your fingers when you don’t have a schedule filled with meetings, committees, tasks and work routines. Retirees often comment that it is sometimes hard to keep track of the days when you no longer have a job to go to. Momma wasn’t one of those retirees. When Mom took early retirement from her nursing career, she found myriad ways to fill her time with meaningful volunteer activities. Spring Creek Church benefited greatly from mom’s organizational talent. In the words of one appreciative Awana director, she became an “indispensable organizational right arm” in this weekly children’s ministry. Mom and Dad also belonged to Kings Men and Daughters (now known as King’s Class), a life group (an adult Bible fellowship the size of my current church congregation, mind you!) for seniors at her church. Being a friendly, detail oriented person, Mom was perfect for making sure new guests to the class were introduced to others, their contact information was obtained, and that welcome letters were sent out. If you were a “regular” and absent for any length of time from that class, she knew it and would make sure that your caregroup leader noticed too.
Another recipient of Mom’s generous gift of time was Shepherds Ministries, a non-profit ministry in Union Grove, Wisconsin whose goal is to help those with intellectual disabilities “turn disabilities into abilities.” A volunteer group of seniors from Spring Creek would go down on a regular basis to help the organization with mass fundraising and newsletter mailings. Mom could be counted upon to be one of the members of that group. The ministry so touched the heart of my mother that she agreed to play a very special role in the life of one Shepherds resident in particular. Mom became Carolyn’s advocate, stepping into a guardianship role when Carolyn’s family could no longer serve in that capacity. To Mom, Carolyn became almost another daughter, with mom as often as she could attending her special functions, celebrating her birthdays, taking her to doctor appointments, helping her with financial decisions, and all the things you would expect a mom to do.
Time flew by in those days, but there came a day when Momma knew she could no longer reliably do these ministries. One by one, she resigned from the responsibilities of the ministries she loved and reluctantly stepped down from being Carolyn’s advocate. Now, without deadlines and appointments to keep, time often stands still. For a person whose memory is failing, order of days, weeks and months is lost. Over the summer months, we noticed Mom struggling to remember what day it is more often. She was so confused on one day that she found it necessary to walk across the street to visit a kind neighbor and ask for help in knowing what day it is.
Wayne and I recently purchased something for her that seems to help. It’s a special clock. Mom can see its bold face from her favorite chair. In addition to telling Mom what time it is, it is also her visual cue as to what month and day of the week it is so that she can more effectively keep track of things on her appointment calendar. The clock was a bit pricey, but the investment essentially restored a small measure of dignity.
We realize that not too far down the road, as this wicked disease progresses, time will be lost in Momma’s mind. But for now, we have joy in knowing she has the restored dignity of being able to measure time once again. | 2019-04-24T12:46:16Z | https://barefootlilylady.com/2017/03/26/when-time-stands-still/ |
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The Iverk Show Launch 2017 – gathering of organisers and sponsors at Kildalton College, Piltown, Co. Kilkenny. The show is on in the Showgrounds in Piltown on Saturday 26th August, 2017.
Photo: William Maher WMCM Photography.
At the launch of the Show and sponsors reception in Kildalton College chairman Robert Dowley thanked everyone for their input into the preparation of the show again this year. We look forward to another great show.
He thanked all the sponsors for their continued support without whom it would not be possible to hold the show.
Robert paid a special thank you to the landowners who generously give their land year after year. While the show owns the main area the surrounding fields are essential for some competitions but also for parking. | 2019-04-25T05:59:43Z | https://www.iverkshow.ie/latest-news/launch-show-2017/ |
On Monday, April 11, The Academy of the Holy Cross held its fourth annual Hair Donation Drive, in which students donated eight inches or more of their hair to make wigs for cancer patients. As part of the event this year, Miss America 2016 Betty Cantrell visited campus to share her experience as Miss America and about donating her own hair.
Holy Cross had 38 students donate their hair during the drive, which is organized by the Christian Service office. Students donated at least eight inches of hair, with many of them donating more. The donated hair was given to Pantene Beautiful Lengths, which provides free real-hair wigs to the American Cancer Society’s wig banks.
The event began with an all-school assembly where Betty Cantrell spoke about her path to becoming Miss America. She shared her personal story about how the experience provided her with a much-needed scholarship to complete her education. Her message to the students was one of perseverance. Betty told the students to pursue their dreams and goals, no matter what obstacles might get in the way. She also shared about donating her hair in December 2015–something unusual for a Miss America to do. “Miss America is known for having long, beautiful, flowing hair!” she said. But she felt compelled to give of herself in this way. Following assembly, Betty posed for selfies and photos with students and posted about her visit on her Twitter and Instagram feeds.
As Miss America 2016, Betty Cantrell is currently on a national tour to educate her audiences on her platform – Healthy Children, Strong America – encouraging children to make healthy choices and to stay physically active. She will also continue to entertain the nation with her remarkable vocal performances, as well as serve as National Goodwill Ambassador for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
The students’ hair was cut by the owners of Eivind and Hans of Georgetown salon and spa. They have participated in the Holy Cross hair drive since its inception. Holy Cross current parent Hans Kalset and his father-in-law Eivind Bjerke, have generously donated their time for over 20 years to the cause of helping women with cancer look and feel good about themselves. Working with the organization Look Good Feel Better, Mr. Kalset and Mr. Bjerke train cosmetologists to provide skin care and beauty techniques to patients in hospitals undergoing cancer treatment. Additionally, they clean and restore donated wigs to be donated free of charge to patients in need through the organization EBeauty. They have both been recognized nationally for their generous efforts by organizations such as the American Cancer Society. During the assembly, Lisa Burris, Director of Look Good Feel Better spoke about the generosity of Mr. Kalset and Mr. Bjerke and congratulated the students for their act of generosity. | 2019-04-19T03:15:55Z | http://wcacsports.com/information/in-the-community/releases/2016-4-16_HC |
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It is time for the final square for Last Dance on the Beach CAL and completely fitting the beach theme the last square has lots of waves. The square for week 12 is designed by Tammy from Canadutch Crafts and is made using mostly slip stitches. Because of all those slip stitches, gauge is very important for this week.
I combined a lot of leftovers this week to make the squares, all those half-balls that I know will otherwise be left unused. And because I can never seem to throw yarn away it will go back into my yarn stash and most likely stay there for a long time. So, to prevent beautiful yarn from not being used, I am using small bits this week. All of the colors are from my Merino Soft Dancing in the Sea, my Color Crafter Dancing in the Sea squares are still working solo-colored.
Regarding hook sizes for this week, I used my ‘standard’ hook size this week. So I used the same hook as for my gauge swatch, which is a 4.5mm hook for my Merino Soft squares and a 4.0mm for my Color Crafter squares. But be ware; it can be hard to keep your stitches loose enough with all those slip stitches, so if you have a tendency to work a bit tight, you might want to go up a hook size.
I also worked the waves in different color combinations. The square on the left is changing colors every two rows, the square next to it every four rows, the next squares has a combination of 3 rows in color A and 1 row in color B, and the final square has 2 rows in color A and then 1 row in a random color to use up smaller bits of yarn.
For those of you that are left handed I have the video for week 12 available in English and Dutch. There are also available on the English and Dutch video pages. Again, please note that the English videos use UK crochet terminology.
I hope to see you next week for part 13 when we are joining all of our 48 squares to make one blanket. | 2019-04-21T05:17:05Z | https://itsallinanutshell.com/2016/07/06/video-tutorials-last-dance-on-the-beach-week-12/ |
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In 1997 I had just finished my undergrad and was planning to go to a PhD program. Due to timing (Georgia Tech was on the quarter system, which I loved, but since changed to semesters) I had a gap and ended up doing a follow-on master’s at Georgia Tech, but decided to start seeing what my life might be like with the PhD by doing a summer at Xerox PARC, my dream research job.
A number of us from Tech where there that summer: Josh Marinacci (now an O’Reilly Java author and Sun evangelist, moving on to Palm), Jason Ellis (who did continue down the PhD and research path and is now doing very interesting work at IBM Research on leveraging mobile technology in Africa), Rob Orr and others. And who can forget the inspirational tale of “Mike Netscape and Nicole HP”?
Back the my total savings was probably $500, so finding an apartment and transportation were a pretty big ordeal. For housing, Josh’s aunt and uncle in San Jose generously put us up (well, I guess they would do it for him, but generously let me stay as well 🙂 ) for our first month while we looked for a place, which we eventually found in Mountain View. Renting a car for 3 months was exhorbitant, so I ended up buying a bike for $200 and biking a few miles from Mountain View to Palo Alto, which ended with a killer hill –Hillview Ave. to Coyote Hill Road– to the PARC campus. Sometimes the hill was just too steep and I would go up a third of the way and then into the Fuji labs and walk the rest of the way up.
The place we landed at in Mountain View was Village Lake Apartments, 777 West Middlefield Rd. As Rhonda Dean said in White Men Can’t Jump, “We live in Vista View but ain’t no vista and ain’t no view.” But it was a nice, quiet place for the summer. It was a sweltering hot summer, and to make it through I would walk to the Fairway nearby and get a freezing-cold ice cream pop. You know those ice-cold-beer commercials where people are stuck to the couch and all of a sudden a magic cold front sweeps through and they’re free and refreshed? Yeah it was like that. Only with a chocolate-covered vanilla popsicle instead of brewski (I was still a teetotaler at that point 🙂 ).
The part that tickles my memory now is that we were a mile from the Googleplex- except Google didn’t exist yet, they would incorporate later that year. However the G-boyz had already come out to PARC to give a talk about Pagerank. I remember thinking “yes, this definitely makes sense to me, and the recursive authority approach seems better than the current purely textual search engines.” Back then I had no idea the level of influence across the Valley and the world would follow.
Many other memories from that summer -of course working with Keith Edwards; the amazing feeling of history at PARC’s Computer Science Lab with Mark Weiser’s presence permeating as an aura of inspiration throughout the place; the site visits to Sun, IBM Almaden (where I first met the inimitable and unforgettable Ted Selker); and most of all the amazing night sky near Yosemite with a density and brightness of stars like I had never seen before or since.
I’ve been an entrepreneur, in one capacity or another, for over 15 years. I’ve been fortunate to develop a network of fellow entrepreneurs (David Cancel, Nabeel Hyatt, Andy Payne …), co-founders (Rebecca Xiong, Geoff Menegay), board members (George Bell, Bob Davis, John Pleasants …), advisors (Coach Wei, Eric Silberstein …), team members (Brian Morgan, Dr. Raymond Lau, Evan Schumacher …) among myriad others that has helped me learn, question and grow.
I have advised dozens of fellow entrepreneurs starting out, and have always found it very rewarding (and, I’m told, usually helpful to them as well). Now that AOL has acquired Going and I’ve had some time to reflect, I’m very excited to begin sharing some of what I’ve learned -face plants, sweet successes, the whole gamut- with a broader community.
how2startup – Entrepreneurial Learnings is just getting going but I hope to make it a real resource and community for entrepreneurs, collecting a lot of knowledge and tools that are dispersed by the sharp bloggers out there and doing what I can to further innovation, creativity and more people taking the bold leap that is, as David Cancel puts it, “making something from nothing.” Please join me there.
Hi there, welcome to my site. Although most of my blogging and social media activity is taking place elsewhere, I may occasionally post more personal commentary here. For now the only content is the About Me page which probably borders on the ludicrously long, but hopefully has enough entertaining nuggets to justify itself.
Why is this blog called The Roadshow?
I have had many nicknames over the years, especially ones around the alliteration in my name. My favorite without doubt, though, was The Roadshow. I believe it was Paul Souza, now at Google, who came up with it while we were colleagues at iPhrase. Roadshows have a few meanings, from finance meetings for a new offering, to PR tours, but in this case it referred to all the sales calls we were doing. Paul was the bag-carrying sales guy and I was the product manager, out evangelizing, getting real-world feedback, and -oh yes- selling with the credibility that not being officially in sales affords. We made a good team.
Since those days I could never wait to get in front of real people -users, clients, investors, doesn’t matter who as long as they aren’t on the payroll or otherwise at risk of groupthink- to learn from, evangelize, and interact with them.
I was born in Argentina and have lived in Brazil, Mexico and Germany, and in the US since 1992.
I used to be a hacker, but was always interested in the humanities as well. Probably that is what took me to grad school at the MIT Media Lab, to do research in social media before the term was common as part of the Sociable Media Group.
After grad school I worked in engineering, usability, product management, marketing and then general management.
I’ve been involved with startups one way or another most of my life, and most recently co-founded Going -a user generated local events company for people looking for cool things to do in major cities, as well as for venue owners, event promoters and ticket sellers- which AOL acquired in June 2009.
Startups are still my passion, as I work toward my longer-term interests in furthering education, international cooperation and other goals. | 2019-04-23T14:12:25Z | http://royrodenstein.com/ |
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The GAA has confirmed that Clare’s National Hurling league clash with Cork will now be played in Pairc ui Rinn.
It comes as a statement has been released condemning the surface at Pairc ui Chaoimh, labelling it as unacceptable.
The playing surface at Páirc Uí Chaoimh for last weekend’s Allianz Leagues games was unacceptable.
The heavy pitch-side traffic, associated with the construction works for the new stadium build, has had a detrimental effect on the pitch.
As was evident yesterday, in winter conditions, the surface is likely to cut up badly. However, as weather improves the grass roots will develop and playability will improve dramatically.
The stadium team have engaged the Sports Turf Research Institute, who are international pitch specialists, to advise on the best way forward.
Their preliminary results suggest a pitch replacement, later this year, will be required.
In the short term, we will continue to use best endeavours to ensure the surface is kept to an acceptable standard.
Our primary concern is player safety, and if an acceptable standard cannot be achieved we will not risk player injury by fixing games in the stadium.
The Cork v Clare Allianz Hurling League game scheduled for February 16th will now be played at Páirc Uí Rinn.
Thereafter, we will assess the pitch each Monday, in advance of the upcoming Allianz League games, and advise CCCC accordingly. | 2019-04-25T01:49:12Z | https://clarechampion.ie/clare-v-cork-nhl-clash-switched-to-pairc-ui-rinn/ |
The following are details of how to take care of the 78s which I have used to take care of 100’s of my own 78s.
Place the record between two sheets of plate glass (or any completely flat surface of moderate weight).
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A few months ago I posted some questions stating I have been getting a ".Net Server is not running" error in the Portal trying to use the PDK. We still have not gotten it working (even with an OSS note), but I have a lot more details now. I'm going to write what I know and see if anything comes to anywone.
First... Portal is EP6 ss11 on a unix box. .Net is running on Windows 2k server sp4. We're running Patch 2 of PDK.
Second, and most importantly, the PDK iviews often work.
Here is the scenario (Internet Explorer v6 is being used where not otherwise specified).
We have 2 developers and a sysAdmin who the iviews do not work for (persons A,B, and C). There are about 6 others who have helped us test it and it works for all of them.
Dev A: Does not work on own machine. DOES work on own machine with Firefox. Does work on Dev B's machine. Does work on 3 other random machines.
Dev B: Does not work on own machine. DOES work on own machine with Firefox. Does work on Dev A's machine. Does work on 2 other random machines.
What on earth could cause the PDK to not work in the above scenarios that it does not work in??
I am guessing that each of you uses it's own portal?
If so, I am guessing that each uses it's own PDK.NET runtime instance?
What kind of errors do you get?
Are you able to see the "Hello World" tutorial in the documentation with either browser?
What was different with the other 6 people for which it did work?
No, we are all browsing to the same PDK iview in the same portal. The iview I created just has the word Test on it so it's effectively Hello World.
I will post the logs a bit later when we do some more testing.
As far as what is different, that's the stumper. There is precious little different (we recently all got new computers in our department). Anything we've been able to identify as different, we've disproven as a cause. The biggest difference is that we have Visual Source Safe and Visual Studio .Net on the 3 people's machines that don't work. But we've disproven that as a factor because I (one of the people it doesn't work for) have logged into several other machines with those tools, and it works fine.
I'm wondering if anyone knows, what does the portal pick up from my machine when I browse to it, that could be causing this problem? My machine should be largely independant of what the portal does with very few exceptions.
.NET server is not running.
There is nothing new in the portal log file, it says the same thing.
We figured it out. Geesh, took long enough.
Our language in our browser was set to en-secureid. It appears that our remote connect software set the IE language to that. Changing the language to en-us fixed it and the PDK worked.
While we are unsure why one earth the software changed our language to that, I also feel <b>that this is a bug in the PDK</b>. The PDK should be able to react to a language it doesn't understand.
I feel a lot better knowing what the issue is, but what an odd issue! Thanks to everyone who has helped, in my other posts as well as this one. | 2019-04-25T22:21:03Z | https://answers.sap.com/questions/934864/index.html |
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Choosing to study Music Education at the Bob Cole Conservatory will prepare you for an exciting career teaching music. Our experienced music education faculty has extensive K-12 teaching experience, and will be able to provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully teach music and build your own comprehensive music program. Earning a BM in Music Education from the Bob Cole Conservatory will give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to be a successful teacher.
The music education program at California State University, Long Beach is designed to prepare future K-12 music teachers. Our undergraduate music education majors are encouraged to begin Pre- and Co-requisite coursework for the California Single Subject Music Teaching Credential in their junior year.
Students who wish to become teachers in K-12 schools should audition as music education majors.
Students who wish to be studio teachers or who plan to go directly to graduate school after their undergraduate studies would be better served with a performance degree.
Each year we recruit a select group of musicians (4-6 students) with unique, specialized performance skills who desire to become music teachers. Graduates of the ConneXion Cohort will study traditional (band, orchestra, choir) and alternative ensembles styles and pedagogy (e.g., popular music, mariachi, technology, music production, etc.).
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The Subject Matter Program in Music is designed to provide students with a foundation in music (theory, history, literature, performance, applied music, conducting, and music education including the academic and creative aspects of music learning and performance), while also providing the training and experiences necessary for a successful teaching career in the ethnically and culturally diverse California public schools. Prospective teachers in the program are exposed to a variety of teaching styles, including cooperative learning, project-based instruction, and expository, activity-based, and interactive teaching styles. The music faculty believes that a skilled teacher provides engaging, meaningful, and intellectually challenging learning opportunities for all students by drawing on a strong foundation in music and the liberal arts for a broad understanding of the historical, aesthetic, spiritual, and political condition; a deep knowledge of subject-specific content, a range of pedagogical strategies to utilize appropriate teaching contexts; and a sensitive understanding of students from different backgrounds with diverse social, emotional, and intellectual needs.
Upon completion of their degree (a four-year program), music education majors receive a Bachelor of Music in Music Education (pre-certification), and may choose to apply to the Credential Program through the College of Education. During this fifth-year of study, students complete a series of courses and a directed teaching (student teaching) experience, leading to the California Single Subject Teaching Credential in Music. | 2019-04-20T20:55:55Z | https://web.csulb.edu/depts/music/areas/music-education/ |
However, two neighbors’ fig trees survived the winter unscathed. This recent wet weather means they had fat figs with split skins that had to be picked before the birds or the bugs got to them. And so now my neighbors and I have freezers packed full of figs.
Eventually, I’ll make fig preserves out of that frozen stash. I’ve been joking that I’ll be giving away jars of fig preserves and fig jams in triplicate this holiday season.
But the figs keep coming. My daughter and I love eating them whole, fresh off the tree.
There are so many that I’ve been looking for what else I can do with these figs.
My neighbor, Cheryl Whisenant, makes a fig cobbler similar to one that appeared in Relish magazine earlier this month. I share an adaptation of her recipe below.
But my favorite way to eat them currently is a recipe I developed last summer. I cut fresh figs in half and drizzle them with mascarpone cheese thinned with some heavy cream. I add a few drizzles of honey and some toasted pecans or whatever other nuts I have on hand. It makes a delicious breakfast or dessert.
My recipe makes more of the mascarpone cream and nuts than you will need for two servings. But since figs often only ripen a few at time, I like to have those on hand for future treats.
I’m looking for more fig inspiration. Send me your favorite fig recipes and I’ll share a few next week. | 2019-04-20T16:25:48Z | https://www.newsobserver.com/living/food-drink/article10035050.html |
There are many ways to train people to use complicated new software. You could sit down with each new user individually and show them what to do. Because you have 300 people on staff full-time to do that. The training might be a live demo of some of the processes, or one of those movies. It could be a series of online modules that take the user through various steps of various workflows. There might be a quiz at the end. Everybody likes quizzes.
We chose a variety of training approaches. This is a nice way of saying we didn’t really have a coordinated training approach. Our training started out with the best of intentions, of course. Unfortunately, our system was pressed into service before it was really finished, so the training program was REALLY not really finished.
Our first attempts at training involved the time-honored “live demo in front of a group of people” technique. I wonder if there’s anything more useless. Imagine a group of 20 people who don’t really know what’s going on, in a darkened room, staring at a projection of a completely foreign UI, listening to some dork (me) droning on about “tagging” and “attributes” and whatnot. For an hour. And at the end, being told to go back to their desks, and the software would be installed within the next couple weeks, and there are no handouts or manuals, but when you get the software, start using it all day as this is now your new way of working. We didn’t even offer snacks.
So that having predictably failed to impart all the vital skills they needed, the next step was to sit down with them individually or in very small groups and, with one of the users driving, talk them through the tasks they needed to do. “Click on the File menu . . . no, the Documentum file menu, not the Netscape file menu . . . good!” This actually worked pretty well. The only downside is the “trainer” has to spend all day doing it. And the trainer is never really “the trainer”, they’re more like the project manager who’s dropping everything to train people as they have questions.
To try to organize the random training and ensure that everybody in the group was getting the same information, we decided to hold weekly meetings to go over any questions that came up. Emergencies would still be handled as they occured (an emergency being an “I can’t do any work until you explain to me how to do this” situation). Unfortunately, or maybe inevitably, no questions ever came up in these meetings. I’m not kidding. “So how’s everything going?” “Fine.” Then an hour later 15 phone calls come in asking for individual help.
Then there’s the problem of “rogue training.” There’s always somebody who kind of gets it, assumes they totally get it, then trains their colleagues on their own. It is, after all, easier to ask the person sitting next to you than calling the person who caused all this pain and inconvenience in the first place. This caused no end of issues for everyone involved. Someone determined a simple 35-step procedure for creating a page and printing it out for further editing. The problem: the same thing could be accomplished in 3 steps, which had of course been covered in the original dark-room demo, but everybody forgot about that. And even better, the page didn’t really need to be printed out every time as it was after all a PDF file which could be viewed onscreen. But that rogue trainer had shown everyone their technique, everybody started doing it, and hours upon hours were wasted waiting for pages to process and print. And even after we discovered this and showed everyone the “right” way, many people still did it the “old” way because that’s what they were comfortable with.
When it finally became obvious that our ad hoc training program wasn’t going to cut it, we assigned someone to be a trainier and come up with a hands-on training program. And it wasn’t me. That was one of the happiest days of my career. It was one of the users, who knew what the users were going through, and spoke their language, and had credibility within their ranks. O joy! I just peeked in on the first couple sessions to make sure they weren’t talking crazy talk. And they weren’t. And everything went pretty smoothly from then on. Imagine that. | 2019-04-19T11:11:20Z | https://pubtech.wordpress.com/category/xml/ |
This project will apply advanced visualization and analysis research to the massive quantities of data produced by water internet connected sensors. Managing precious water reserves is a key challenge facing the world. The company we will work with is a world leading developer of sensors for the water industry producing products that measure water flow, pinpoint leaks, monitor flood risk from rivers, etc. All of these devices are connected to the internet allowing real-time monitoring of the environment and water distribution to a customer level. They are currently in a major infrastructure project to install leak, pressure and flow sensors throughout water distribution network.
Application deadline: Friday 25th November 2015. Start date: January 1st 2016. Further details and application.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2015 by Mark.
Congratulations to Farhan Mohamed, who today, successfully defended his PhD thesis: Metaphoric Visualisation.
Phil Grant was the supervisor, Mark W. Jones the internal examiner, Roy Ruddle (Leeds) the external and Ulrich Berger the viva chair.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2014 by Mark.
Dr. Xianghua Xie was appointed as an Associated Editor of the IET Computer Vision journal. The vision of the journal is to publish the highest quality research work that is relevant and topical to the field, but not forgetting those works that aim to introduce new horizons and set the agenda for future avenues of research in Computer Vision.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Computer Vision, Medical Image Analysis on January 10, 2012 by Xianghua Xie.
BBC report the Welsh Rugby Union’s use of our Matchpad ipad visualization software.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged BBC, Sports Visualization, Visualization on September 29, 2011 by Mark.
New Scientist make an online article about our research helping biologists to understand their complex animal motion data collected from accelerometers.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Biology, New Scientist, Visualization on June 18, 2009 by Mark.
Congratulations to Ed Grundy on winning the Best Paper prize at Eurovis 2009. The paper Visualization of Sensor Data from Animal Movement explores how visualization can inform biologists about animal motion through data collected from accelerometry tags. We worked with Rory Wilson’s smart tag group here at Swansea.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Award, Eurovis, Visualization on June 12, 2009 by Mark. | 2019-04-19T02:52:34Z | http://cs.swansea.ac.uk/visualcomputing/?cat=1 |
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The inequities of the cash bail system are something Orange County officials have long understood.
The county is one of dozens across the state that support pretrial services — a jail alternative system that identifies poor people who are low risks for violence and likely to show up for their court dates and allows them to be released on very low or no bail.
But for more than a decade, the county wasn’t fully committed.
The county saw the problem: A county jail filled to capacity, housing people at a cost to taxpayers of $110 a day. The prospect of needing to build a new jail to hold even more people at greater cost.
But it wasn’t really committing the resources necessary to treat the disease rather than the symptoms.
So instead Orange County got serious about reforming its system.
In 2015 it created the Criminal Justice Resource Department. It began as a division of the county manager’s office and last year became its own department.
“We had the great fortune of getting county funding and being given the mandate that we want to see Orange County incarcerating fewer people and doing that the right way,” Fenhagen said.
Bringing together a pretrial release case manager, drug treatment coordinator and criminal case assessment specialist, the department works closely with law enforcement, the district attorney and judges. Its goal: to reduce overall rates of pretrial detention, reduce the numbers of individuals with mental illness in custody, reduce recidivism and address racial and economic disparities in pretrial detention.
Fenhagen has worked as a public defender in Orange County and a defense attorney with the Capital Defender’s office in Durham. She appreciates how crucial pretrial buy-in is from every part of the criminal justice system.
Orange County’s experience is the sort of evolution that can happen in all 100 of North Carolina’s counties, said Orange County Commissioner Renee Price.
Realizing that the existing system is expensive and works poorly is a good first step, she said. But realizing just how unjust it is to the most vulnerable and doing something about that should be the ultimate goal.
Last month, price brought a resolution to her fellow commissioners unanimously supported the 3DaysCount campaign.
The campaign, organized by the national Pretrial Justice Institute, is raising awareness of the shortcomings of the cash bail system. It highlights the terrible impact even short term incarceration can have on those who remain jailed before their day in court because they cannot afford bail.
Price first encountered the campaign at a meeting of the National Organization of Black County Officials, which is helping give energy to a national movement on pretrial justice.
Getting caught up in a poorly functioning justice system can be devastating, Price said — even if someone is ultimately cleared of charges.
If Charles Dickens were alive and writing today, Price said, this would be his subject.
“What we’re doing is re-creating debtor’s prisons,” Price said.
Orange County is very lucky to have a degree of reform buy-in from every part of its criminal justice machinery, Price said. But as the state and the nation begin to rethink various aspects of the criminal justice system — from how veterans and those experiencing addiction are treated to raising the age for charging defendants as adults, it’s increasingly clear that the current default system of cash bail is due for a change.
In the same way, Price said, more people across the political spectrum are beginning to realize people in their own lives have been harmed by a criminal justice system that privileges wealth and access while creating greater racial disparities.
Public opinion is already heavily in favor of reforming the system along the lines of Orange County’s evolution, Price points out.
Next article North Carolinians want the legislature’s judicial attacks to end. It’s time for lawmakers to listen. | 2019-04-20T22:43:00Z | http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2018/05/02/orange-county-part-of-the-changing-face-of-pretrial-justice/ |
Family Secrets? Yes, they are often hidden behind UNEXPLAINED behavior, such as unexplained anger, depression or anxiety.
The method I use is very helpful to reveal quickly where the problems are hidden or emanating from. Often we discover hidden dynamics, that no one was aware of and are bothering your child. That can cause unwanted behavior that is not understood. Some other revelations lead to traumatic experiences that we, our parents, our grand parents or other family members in the past have gone through.
As clinical psychology science shows: unhealed traumas can reverberate through generations. The information obtained by revealing those entanglments, can be life changing, for the child, the parent en the family.
Ella is 8-years-old. At age 4, while being very extrovert, she suddenly decided not to talk anymore to anyone outside of her family but not to teachers , strangers and friends. She did not answer any questions. Her parents had tried all possible solutions. Ella came to me for a session after 4 years of maintaining this behavior. The constellation showed that her grandfather L. was 4-years-old when he moved from America to Haiti with his parents, who were medical professionals. He was left in the hands of helpers who didn’t speak English, and L. didn’t speak French. While his parents were traveling in the country, L. was physically punished by the helpers for not obeying them. L. married in his twenties and had a son, M. When M was 4-years-old, his parents divorced. L said to his son M, “Don’t call me dad anymore, I am not your dad from now on.” M’s daughter is Ella. The constellation revealed inherited trauma: Grandfather L experienced the trauma of abandonment and a language barrier (“can’t speak”). His son M experienced abandonment and disconnection. His granddaughter, Ella, carried the trauma of non-expression, not being heard, and not able to speak. It looks as if the shock of the experiences of her grandfather silenced Ella. Resolution: After two private sessions with constellation work, Ella now speaks more freely and answers questions 80% of the time.
Gary is 18 years of age. He doesn’t want to go to school, sleeps during the day, only wants to smoke pot, and has no desire or passion for the opportunities in life. His recent outbursts of anger, a new behavior, are an area of concern for the parents. Only a year ago, he was a totally different person. An on-line session with his mom made it clear that Gary was carrying the traumas of his grandfather, who was sent to war at a young age. He came back from war a different person, angry and violent with his kids, and never received any help for his presumed PTSD. The grandfather died over a year ago. Gary carried what belonged to his grandfather, without being aware. Two sessions made a difference and today he is attending college.
Ann has two daughters, Lily aged 9 and Sophie aged 16. From birth, Sophie behaved distant and aloof towards her mother, and showed no affection. Lily was the opposite. When Sophie was 3-years-old, Ann visited a psychiatrist for help. Other than medication, and blaming the mother, not much help was provided. Setting up a family constellation revealed that Sophie’s father was married when he had an affair with her mother. In that marriage were 2 young daughters. One of them was very angry at her father, for abandoning them, and for hurting their mother. Sophie took on this anger from the first wife and one of her daughters. She resented her own mother subconsciously, who was the cause for the break up with the first family. Resolution: Sophie had subconsciously taken on anger and identified with her father’s wife and daughter. Given her the rightful place in the family, without entanglements, the anger and traumas were totally released, and the relationship between Ann and Sophie improved significantly.
Eitan’s dad passed when he was 5 years old. A few years later, the mother’s boyfriend who became a father figure to her 2 boys, was completely rejected by Eitan. It gave a lot of stress at home.
A group constellation with the then 7 year old boy and 8 adults (strangers for Eitan) learned that when Eitan “received permission” from his deceived father he felt free to embrace and allow the new partner of his mother in his heart. The special process in the constellation made visible and possible what just by speaking alone didn’t work. Several years later, they are still enjoying each others company.
The footprint method used in private sessions.
With his grandmother, 9 year old Jimmy came for a session to my office. I was the last therapist to try before they would put Jimmy on medication for ADHD and hyperactivity.
Grandma was the caretaker for Jimmy and his sister because their parents were divorced and unable to take care of their children. Grandma spoke very negatively about her ex-daughter in law. “She‘s a horrible mother, a drug addict. She’s not even paying child-support.” Jimmy looked away while she spoke. For me the task was to elicit some empathy from grandmother for Jimmy’s mother, who was seemingly immersed in her own problems. Being addicted to drugs never occurs because of happy reasons.
Grandma was not open to hear any other vision than her own.
I asked Jimmy to “map his family” with colored footprints he would choose from, and to put them in the open space on the floor that we call “the field”. Spontaneously he put the footprints wherever he felt like. He chose a pair of footprints for himself, his mother, father, sister and grand- parents. We added the dog too.
I asked Jimmy to put shapes that are representing feelings next to the footprints where ever he would feel comfortable. Those feelings would then be seen as belonging to the footprints of that person.
Jimmy put next to everyone “love” but not for himself. He put “sadness” to his mother’s footprints and also to his own. He put “anger” next to his father’s prints.
The mapping shows the inner picture of how Jimmy perceives his family and ultimately his world. He was obviously feeling lonely, disconnected from his parents, but supported by grandparents, and had no love for himself (!).
The way he positioned his own feet showed a deep longing for his mother. It became clear how he was connected to his mother, which was with sadness and pain. He peeked from the corners of his eyes to his grandmother, almost afraid of what she would think from all this and he saw that she was tearing up.
This picture made her realize that it is detrimental for the boy when she speaks negatively about his mother. His feelings need to be respected. Even a troubled mother wants to be loved by the child, and deserves respect for wherever and whatever she is going through. Most importantly, regardless of the situation, the child will love his mother. The child needs to have positive feelings about his parents. which can be very difficult and conflicting. Tearing natural family ties apart can cause restlessness and depression.
It is our judging that can hurt others so much. One session seemed to be enough to have Jimmy‘s behavior change. The need for medication was gone.
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The homeland is a complex idea riddled with contradiction. On one level, it is the point of origin and return that validates cultural identity. More of an abstract space than a clearly defined reality, it is closely associated with the concept of countries and nationhood, weaving together ethnicity, language, history, politics and culture. As a belief system, it infers a shared sense of belonging and community, of pride and sentimentality. Within geo-political terms, it is the locus of patriotic nationalism in need of preservation and protection from outside threats. However, the homeland/nation is not a fixed concept but as Benedict Anderson states in his seminal text Imagined Communities, a social construct imagined by the people who are part of it, and therefore in a constant state of expansion and contraction around the shifting nature of politics, cultures and economies. Inevitably, human failure by those in governance, also sow the seeds of doubt for this idealistic construct. When politicians mislead their people or when communities dissolve due to economic manipulation, the perception of the homeland or nation becomes bitter sweet and filled with doubt.
Malaysian artist Phuan Thai Meng explores the construct of the homeland and Malaysia through his signature brand of photorealist painting laced with local socio-political commentaries in Mapping the Homeland: We Are Proud of You (?_?). Highly conceptual in nature, his skilful illusions purposefully articulate the artifice and cracks of nationalism propagated by cultural campaigns and political gesturing. Texturing his observations with installation and performance, he reveals the constantly changing game of Malaysian politics whose outcomes sometimes lead to less than glorious results. Rejecting the enduring Malaysian dilemma of race, class and religion Thai Meng instead looks at a more abstracted version of the Malaysian nation and ideas of Government bound by a responsibility towards its people but riddled with weakness and contradiction. For the exhibition, he lifts and translates images from the media: state run newspapers, social marketing campaigns as well as national unity schemes such as the prevalent but vaguely defined 1 Malaysia scheme to develop entry points into the Malaysian condition.
Already established within the Malaysian art world as an artist, educator and founding member of artist collective Rumah Air Panas, Phuan Thai Meng is known for painting an unsettling picture of our contemporary experience. His photorealistic paintings of objects and everyday spaces communicate notions of consumerism, urban decay and the impotence of politics with the Malaysian landscape. Executed over a period of weeks and months, his painstakingly slick, flat and gleaming surfaces are an exhaustive exercise in mimesis. However, audiences are always aware of the mirage, which quickly shifts into a brittle imitation on the verge of collapse. This highly contrived ‘fakeness’ thus serves to put into sharp focus the illusion of politics and the potential failure of the Malaysian dream. By removing all forms of articulated physical gesture and brush stroke, he stretches the potential of painting beyond the personal and romantic connotations of the artist in the studio to produce a searing social commentary on the world around him.
His network of images bring together faceless politicians gesturing during tokenistic publicity appearances for social regeneration campaigns, designed posters for cleaning up water supply systems and monumental billboards that reveal goals of national aspirations and prosperity. Epic in both scale and aesthetic treatment Thai Meng highlights the formulaic nature of these forms of social and political marketing through various media outlets. In this way he echoes Anderson’s belief that community/nation is a result of media communication and capitalism extolling a common but nevertheless imagined discourse for people to put their faith into. His politicians are from all races and lifted from various newspapers such as The Star, New Straits Times and Berita Harian, each with their own political leanings. However stripped of their individuality they morph into the generic official, dressed in dull and inspiring uniforms of white shirts and dark trousers. Categorised into actions, each monochromatic man squats, stoops, stands, spreads their hands or pinch their noses to illustrate hollow gestures of engagement during various publicity outings to lobby support for political parties or show commitment to the needs of various communities. Brought to life during performance on opening night, Thai Meng further develops his critique into a curious game of football. In Blue’s Game, a cast of uniformed officials play the beautiful game as governed by a constantly changing set of rules dictated by the referee. It is a cynical take on the puppets of politics who compete for public popularity. But who benefits from such exercises in the end? Who is controlling who and what of the passive/active spectators/citizens? Where is the pride in the homeland now?
Thai Meng’s curious exhibition title is repeated in We are proud of you (?_?) a large scale four panel work depicting a decaying collage of lesser known Malaysian landmarks bound together by glittering fireworks, kitsch rainbows, and a ominous hand in a thumbs up gesture. Footnoting the painting is the phrase Rakyat Didahulukan Pencapaian Diutmakan (People First Performance Now) a slogan from Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak’s 1 Malaysia campaign that began in 2010. Designed to encourage greater racial harmony through a series of marketing strategies and efficient governance, the campaign has received mixed responses. Although 1Malaysia health clinics and grocery stores for lower income groups and NGO’s supporting youth projects in line with the scheme appear positive, a solid defence of their implementation and further clarification has been less than forthcoming. The emoticon at the end of the Thai Meng’s four panel piece and exhibition title, expresses this sense of confusion by the rakyat (people) with the two question marks acting as perplexed eyes reacting to such ambiguity. The Eye on Malaysia Ferris wheel -- relocated from Kuala Lumpur to Melaka and Malaysia’s version of the Singapore Eye -- the locally manufactured Proton car and government building in Putrajaya all conveys a mixture of secondary success and/or decay. The glittering pomp and circumstance erupting around this moulding collage injects an uncomfortable tension heightened by a raw and bruised hand forced to endorse this parody of national success.
So who are the bearers of pride in Thai Meng’s exhibition? Who is the ‘We’ in this menagerie of signs, slogans and images? Constantly preoccupied with community on a grass roots level Thai Meng is often concerned that the public has an incomplete set of knowledge on current political strategies due to a type of government deception/manipulation. Fact and Factor a hyper realistic depiction of a wrapped water filter poster calling for clean water supplies subtly provokes the monopoly on infrastructure by specific companies who make such basic human needs more difficult. These social problems are compounded by the inability of local government and politicians to improve these situations. This emphasises his belief that no matter the race or political loyalties all politicians are the same, nameless and faceless tokens to a larger game that does not take into account the needs of community as its main priority. In this light, perhaps the ‘We’ is not the Government or the people but the symbolic voice of universal corruption, that pride is not a positive sentiment but a negative vice that leads to avarice and blind progress.
As a whole, Mapping the Homeland: We Are Proud of You (?_?) is more of a mapping of ideology than physical landscapes, Phuan Thai Meng nevertheless creates a visual representation of Malaysia through a series of loaded signs and symbols that reflect his personal vision on the status of the country or homeland. Although his photorealist surfaces are laden with the weight of social commentary importantly, his work is not without humour or light hearted kitsch. Through his use of wry and knowing titles, text and language he presents a Malaysian comedy of errors filled with tragedy and farce that consider the relationship between individual and country. | 2019-04-22T01:34:53Z | http://phuanthaimeng.blogspot.com/2011/12/mapping-homeland-we-are-proud-of-you.html |
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Here's another handy learning tool for the Cisco ASA: You can run the ASDM in demo mode. You must first download the ASDM demo software from Cisco using your Cisco login. Make sure to download the appropriate demo version for the version of ASDM software you're running. For example, I recently downloaded and installed asdm-demo-621.msi. Once the demo software is installed, you can run it by starting the ASDM launcher and checking the box to "Run in demo mode". ASDM demo mode provides a great way to explore the ASDM and familiarize yourself with its extensive capabilities. | 2019-04-23T23:58:16Z | http://blog.soundtraining.net/2009/08/ |
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Fred’s Incorporated has announced that it will be closing 159 stores across the country, including the one in Cedartown on North Main Street.
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Jim Nelson went through several different spellings and pronunciations of his Russian gimmick character before eventually settling on Boris Zuhkov. It was alternately spelled Zurkoff and Zurkov early on... Super Olympia (Arn Anderson) lost his mask on January 23, 1984 to Jacques Rougeau in a hair verses mask match. The Midnight Express, Inc. is done. Dennis Condrey left months earlier to go to Memphis and was replaced by Ron Starr. Norvell Austin struck a pedestrian with his car and left the area (it was said he injured his shoulder but this was a cover story for his leaving) and was replaced by Wayne Farris. Ron Starr beat up an underage fan who hit the ring and was arrested but ultimately exonerated at trial but left the area afterward to go to Stampede.
Notes from January Wrestling Observer Newsletter: The Southeastern belt was held up after a bout between champion Jos LeDuc and Robert Fuller and a tournament was held 12-03-1983 in Dothan, AL won by Bob Armstrong. Bob dropped the belt during Christmas week to Jerry Stubbs, the unmasked Mr. Olympia. Bob also lost a few no DQ matches with (NWA) World champ Ric Flair including January 2, 1984 in Birmingham with Pops (Bob) losing by DQ. Bob and son Brad have now left for Georgia while son Scott is still around. With both Robert Fuller and Jimmy Golden returning and Bob Armstrong leaving apparently the Fuller-Welch family is back in control. Ken Lucas beat Rip Rogers for the U.S. Junior title then won a rematch where he got possession of Rogers valet Brenda Britton for a week. The following week Lucas wrestles Les Thornton for the NWA World Junior title and Les was disqualified when Rogers interfered. Super Olympia (Arn Anderson/Marty Lunde) turned on partner Jacques Rougeau and is now a villain. The two first met on 12-03-1983 in the Southeastern title tournament and their bout turned into a brawl. Super Olympia apologized and to make up for it agreed to team with Jacques against tag champions Ron Starr & Wayne Farris on TV and ended quickly when Super O refused to tag Jacques and then joined in on a triple team on him. Super O then defeated and "injured" Jacques brother Armand Rougeau. He is only in the area for one week and I'm (Dave Meltzer) am told he is really bad. Newcomers are Boris Zurkoff and Charlie Cook.
Notes from March Wrestling Observer Newsletter (related to January 1984): Ric Flair was in the area and pinned Bob Armstrong on January 2, 1984 in Birmingham. Bob Armstrong has left for Georgia Championship Wrestling then was injured in a car accident or a brawl very seriously (this would be the weight lifting accident that nearly killed him- Karl)... January 9, 1984 Birmingham, AL saw Charlie Cook win the Alabama title from Jerry Stubbs. The main event on that card was scheduled to be Robert Fuller verses Jos LeDuc but neither man showed up. They did show up on January 16 for a loser leave town cage match which Robert Fuller won sending LeDuc back to Memphis... In November 1983 this group had announced that loser leave town matches were banned and anyone who lost one could return. Charlie Cook pinned Jerry Stubbs in the semi-final that night which drew 900. Jacques Rougeau beat Super Olympia (Arn Anderson) also... January 23 saw Jacques Rougeau beat Super Olympia in a hair verses mask match. Super Olympia was revealed as Arn Anderson or Marty Lunde if you wish... Ken Lucas beat Rip Rogers. Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden & Charlie Cook beat Jerry Stubbs & Boris Zurkoff & Wayne Farris. While newcomer David Morgan (is he the very good English wrestler? (yes)) beat Franklin Hayes who is billed as Michael Hayes brother (and really may be (he wasn't, it was John Tatum, one of Michael's best friends) and was so bad in Memphis he was let go after a week)... Sonny King is also new to the circuit... The NWA Southeastern tag team titles haven't been mentioned since Ron Starr who co-held the belts with Wayne Farris disappeared a month ago. (They were filled this month by the new team of Arn Anderson & Jerry Stubbs).
Notes from April Wrestling Observer Newsletter (related to January 1984): Jerry Stubbs & Arn Anderson, formerly Mr. Olympia & Super Olympia, and feuding with one another won a tag tournament January 15, 1984 in Montgomery, AL. The tournament was necessary when Ron Starr, who held the titles with Wayne Farris, left the area. Starr is now in Calgary, by the way.
January 1, 1984 (Pensacola, FL): NWA World heavyweight champion Ric Flair verses Bob Armstrong in a no DQ, no time limit match... Brad & Scott Armstrong & Robert Fuller & Jacques Rougeau verses Ron Starr & Wayne Farris & Jerry Stubbs & Jos LeDuc... Ken Lucas verses Rip Rogers in a street fight... The Superstar (Ray Harris) verses Larry Hamilton... Boris Zurkoff (Jim Nelson) verses Wendell Cooley.
January 2, 1984 (Birmingham, AL): NWA World heavyweight champion Ric Flair defeated Bob Armstrong by DQ... Robert Fuller & Ric McCord & Jacques Rougeau defeated Jerry Stubbs & Super Olympia (Arn Anderson) & The Superstar (unknown)... Wayne Farris & Boris Zurkoff defeated Brad & Scott Armstrong... Ken Lucas defeated Rip Rogers by DQ... Boris Zurkoff defeated Larry Hamilton... Ric McCord battled The Superstar (Ray Harris) to a draw.
January 3, 1984: No results.
January 4, 1984: No results.
January 5, 1984: No results.
January 6, 1984: No results.
January 9, 1984 (Birmingham, AL)(Boutwell Auditorium): Scott Armstrong defeated The Superstar (unknown)... Wayne Farris & Boris Zurkov defeated Larry Hamilton & Ric McCord... Jacques Rougeau defeated Super Olympia (Arn Anderson) in a boxing match... Ken Lucas defeated Rip Rogers in a southern street fight... Charlie Cook defeated Jerry Stubbs to win the Alabama title.
January 10, 1984: No results.
January 11, 1984: No results.
January 12, 1984: No results.
January 13, 1984: Bob Armstrong suffers a near fatal weight lifting accident, crushing his face and requiring extensive surgery.
January 13, 1984: No results.
January 15, 1984 (Montgomery, AL): Complete results no available... Super Olympia (Arn Anderson) & Jerry Stubbs defeated Jimmy Golden & Jacques Rougeau to win the vacant NWA Southeastern tag team titles in a tournament. Titles vacant when Ron Starr left the area to go to Calgary Stampede wrestling. Ron Starr & Wayne Farris had been the tag team champions.
January 16, 1984 (Birmingham, AL)(Boutwell Auditorium): Scott Armstrong battled Ric McCord to a draw... David Morgan defeated The Superstar (unknown)... Rip Rogers & Boris Zurkov defeated Ken Lucas & Larry Hamilton... Jimmy Golden defeated Wayne Farris by DQ... Charlie Cook defeated Jerry Stubbs... Jacques Rougeau defeated Super Olympia (Arn Anderson) in an I Quit match... Robert Fuller defeated Jos LeDuc in a loser leave town match.
January 17, 1984: No results.
January 18, 1984 (Pensacola, FL): Jerry Stubbs & Wayne Farris & Super Olympia (Arn Anderson) & Jos LeDuc verses Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden & Jacques Rougeau & Charlie Cook in a street fight... Ken Lucas verses Rip Rogers... Boris Zurkov (Jim Nelson, now with different spelling) verses Larry Hamilton... Scott Armstrong verses Ric McCord... David Morgan verses Wendell Cooley.
January 19, 1984: No results.
January 20, 1984: No results.
January 22, 1984: No results.
January 23, 1984 (Birmingham, AL): Robert Fuller & Jimmy Golden & Charlie Cook defeated Jerry Stubbs & Wayne Farris & Boris Zurkov... Jacques Rougeau defeated Super Olympia by DQ in a hair verses mask match. Super Olympia unmasks as Arn Anderson... Ken Lucas defeated Rip Rogers... Sonny King defeated Ric McCord... David Morgan defeated Franklin Hayes (AKA: John Tatum).
January 24, 1984: No results.
January 25, 1984: No results.
January 26, 1984: No results.
January 27, 1984: No results.
January 30, 1984 (Birmingham, AL)(Boutwell Auditorium): David Morgan defeated Rick McCord... Robert Fuller defeated Franklin Hayes (John Tatum)... Charlie Cook defeated Boris Zurkov by DQ... Wayne Farris defeated Sonny King by count out... Ken Lucas defeated Rip Rogers... Jimmy Golden & Jacques Rougeau battled Arn Anderson & Jerry Stubbs to a double DQ. | 2019-04-19T02:34:50Z | http://www.whenitwascool.com/se-continental-198401 |
Amid frustrations over decreasing quality of Genuine Mahogany and problems with sourcing African Mahogany, new markets for other African species such as Utile have emerged. Here at J. Gibson McIlvain, we’re glad this species is finally getting the attention it deserves. Although Sapele may be a more popular choice, we actually believe Utile to be the closest match to Genuine Mahogany and highly recommend it to any of our valued customers. As you might suspect, Utile’s relative anonymity means lower prices for you, as a customer.
African Mahogany and Sapele are both comparable to Utile. In addition to the availability issues currently plaguing the African Mahogany market, another detractor from that species is the vast number of species actually categorized under the “African Mahogany” heading. The variation of color, density, and working qualities makes buying African Mahogany, even when it’s available, pretty tricky business.
Sapele is harder than Genuine Mahogany but also denser and more stable. Like Genuine Mahogany, the Sapele tree grows to be quite large, and thus it produces many large boards in many thicknesses. Its hardness, along with its highly interlocking grain, make it hard to work. Tear out is common, so milling Sapele requires special care. On the positive end, Sapele’s highly prized ribbon-like striping has led to an increased interest in that species in its own rite (instead of simply as an alternative to Mahogany). That new market has led to increased demand for Sapele accompanied by rising prices — which makes Utile an even more attractive solution, in our opinion.
Also known as Sipo, Utile is in the same genus as Sapele. With similar characteristics but without as pronounced of an interlocking grain, Utile offers the possibility of easy working, without the high potential for tear out. Utile is heavier and harder than Genuine Mahogany but lighter and softer than Sapele. For furniture and millwork applications, it works similarly to Genuine Mahogany.
Quartersawn Utile offers a less pronounced version of Sapele’s ribbon striping, and flatsawn Utile is nearly indistinguishable from flatsawn Genuine Mahogany. To the well-trained eye, dark medullary ray lines in flatsawn Utile can give it away, but many believe that those lines are a positive feature, adding visual interest to the board.
The large Utile tree can yield a remarkable number of wide, thick boards, and its low density makes it even more stable than Sapele. Regardless of the source of Utile, you’ll find it to offer greater consistency than the many species labelled under “African Mahogany.” When compared to Genuine Mahogany, it’s quite a steal, and even compared to the other alternatives to Mahogany, it offers a lower price without sacrificing quality or beauty.
Be sure to check out 2 other excellent Mahogany alternatives: Plantation-Grown Fijian Mahogany and Sapele. | 2019-04-18T22:34:18Z | https://www.ipeoutlet.com/excellent-alternatives-to-mahogany-utile/ |
Take pictures in a photo booth. 17. Pretend to be tourists in the hotspots of your city. 18. Go to a bar together and introduce yourselves with fake names and life stories. (Name tags make this even more hilarious.) 19. Relive your first date. Go on a date and act like you�ve never met before. See how long you last without laughing. Category 2: Power couple status. 20. Make a bucket list... Take your girlfriend out with your friends. Kneel down in front of her and take her by surprise. Have your friends arrange themselves behind you with the proposal spelt out on white boards or T-Shirts.
Find the latest photos of you and your girlfriend from Instagram and Facebook and *gasp* print them. Then go to a local crafts store and buy an album or create your own. Then go to a local crafts store and buy an album or create your own.
Find out how to break up with your girlfriend without hurting her. There are many ways to break up with a girlfriend. And none of them are easy, well, except for the coward�s way.
How To Take Great Pictures Found this great presentation for us all to learn from made by Rachel Boyd a teacher from New Zealand . Have a look and let me know what sort of pictures you would like to take.
How to Take Great Photo with Your Android Phone By Elsie Wesley , Wednesday, March 30, 2016 Android phones like Samsung, HTC, Sony, LG, Motorola and more are not only a smartphone that people use to contact their friends, send text messages etc. | 2019-04-23T02:22:14Z | http://mobiistock.com/northwest-territories/how-to-take-great-pictures-of-your-girlfriend.php |
Lecturer waiting room is one of the supporting facilities. This place became one of the favorite room for lecturers, in addition as a place to prepare the lecture materials, this place is also a point of discussion between lecturers and students. The facilities provided are quite complete as televisions, lockers, refrigerators, dispensers, computer, desk chair for discussion, and a sofa. | 2019-04-19T14:16:21Z | http://vokasi.ui.ac.id/web/en/fasilitas-2/ruang-tunggu-dosen/ |
It is an on-line real time multiplayer text based role-playing game. Think D&D without a DM or EverQuest without graphics.
Because it’s challenging. Because its fun. Because its rewarding, and will make you a better typist than you ever thought imaginable.
But why MUD and not D&D or EverQuest?
D&D is a great game, but requires tons of preparation, coordinating schedules, and plenty of Mountain Dew to keep the DM’s attention focused. EverQuest is also a great game but it and its descendants require increasingly expensive PC hardware, monthly fees, and you get very little input into the world you inhabit.
Text though, I.m just not sure I can deal with that.
You’ve been watching too much TV and have no faith in the power of your own imagination. Once you are used to reading the screen you will find that TFE is incredibly exciting, richly textured, and thoroughly enjoyable. I would further submit that the lack of graphics frees you to imagine the world in more detail. It’s almost like getting a brain massage.
Ok, I’m willing to give it a shot. How do I get started?
Uh, whats this account thing?
Each player needs an account to create a character so that there is accountability for the players. Some MUDs allow people to play more than one character at once . this is called multiplaying. This is NOT one of those MUDs. The TFE administrative staff asks players to only play only one character at a time. Each player should have only one account, and each account may have as many characters in it as the player wants to play. The TFE administrative staff enforces a 5 minute wait rule when switching between characters, so that there is no question about whether a person is multiplaying. Having an account also allows you to manage your characters and recover character passwords. Do NOT lose your account password.
Ok I made an account. What kind of character should I play?
Well, that’s up to you. Play something that sounds fun. I suggest that you don’t have any stats below 11, for your first character. You should know that most new MUD players do not stick with their initial character. After a few levels, it is common for a player to decide that he or she wants different stats, or a different class.
OK I made a character and now I can see an old elf (or an old troll) … what now?
There are many, many, many, many commands. Sometimes there are special commands that are used only in one room to do something special like “move bush” which, when executed in the correct room opens a previously hidden exit into a cave.
Right now would be a great time to type help newbie.
Holy cow! Do I have to read all of these room descriptions?
amazing amount of detail in almost everything in the game.
sellable) pop (are auto-generated) every few minutes in the room where you first start on the mud.
What should I do to get my first level? I.m not sure where to go.
kill some rabbits. If you are evil, you start in a place with no rabbits, but you can kill bats instead.
Walk into a room with a rabbit. Type .kill rabbit.. If your hit points start getting low, type .flee..
remains of your victim. Repeat. | 2019-04-26T07:56:15Z | https://theforestsedge.com/whats-a-mud/ |
Whether it’s driving a refrigerated truck, sorting perishable food, or harvesting carrots on the farm, volunteers are the heartbeat of Clark County Food Bank. Each year, we have over 3,000 individuals who donate more than 27,000 service hours. Every volunteer provides something unique and important to the food bank, and we could not serve our community without the support of neighbors like you! If you are interested in joining the fight against hunger here in Clark County, explore some of our volunteer opportunities below.
During the summer and fall growing seasons, Heritage Farm is open for volunteers during designated weekdays and weekends. Whether pulling weeds, planting seeds, harvesting fresh produce or leading groups of volunteers, we are in constant need of people to care for our crops. If you love working outside and getting your hands a little dirty, then come on out to our farm!
Every day at the food bank, we sort through thousands of pounds of donated food. We need volunteers to help sort through and inspect donations, repack bulk food into smaller packaging, and even drive and deliver truckloads of food. Volunteering to sort and repack food is a perfect opportunity to serve for both individuals and groups.
If you have a passion for healthy living, nutrition, and teaching people the skills to shop and cook on a budget, then volunteering with our Nutrition Education Program is the right fit for you! Learn more about the programs we offer and ways you can get involved to help create a healthier Clark County.
In addition to volunteering in our farm, food, or nutrition ed. programs, CCFB has other areas for volunteers to serve in. Whether helping to staff events, providing general maintenance, running our front desk, or driving one of our delivery trucks, dedicated volunteers make our everyday operations possible.
2018 Volunteer of the Year: Sarah Markwood!
Since 2015, Sarah has logged nearly 1,000 hours here at Clark County Food Bank. Sarah donates her time weekly by answering phone calls at reception, leading community groups in afternoon repacks, providing support at special events, and helping with data entry.
A sincere “Thank You” for all the time, energy, and enthusiasm you give to help alleviate hunger here in Clark County!
Clark County Food Bank has many opportunities to give back to your community. For more information on volunteering, please fill out our volunteer interest form below.
Thanks for your interest in volunteering at Clark County Food Bank! One of our volunteer coordinators will get in touch with you soon. | 2019-04-23T04:53:55Z | https://www.clarkcountyfoodbank.org/volunteer |
Ok now it just hit me that I've been a runner for 3 weeks now.... feeling very excited but always nervous to start a new week as that means increased distance and an increase in running and less walking.
Yes it is as scary as it looks and yes my body was still screaming at me to stop and telling me I'm crazy. Our running group has now decided that we want to run our 1st 5km race on July 1st. OK now I am feeling scared but excited to be thinking of actually doing it. | 2019-04-22T09:00:52Z | https://www.running-momma.com/my-blog/may-8-2012-week-4 |
"CCN Saturday on 'Halloween" - Come join us as we will be out preaching the gospel; expanding the Kingdom of God! Join us as we share the gospel in the local community of Freehold, NJ to witness one-to-one after a time of group worship, prayer, and the Word of God! Then, share a meal with us and fellowship!
Planned Special Speaker: Pastor Andrew Rappaport of Striving for Eternity Ministries.
You must RSVP: Call 973-928-7707 before Saturday or email Jonathan@changeyourcampus.net before Saturday. | 2019-04-19T22:54:30Z | http://www.changeyourcampus.com/ccn-saturday-on-halloween-reformation-day |
It used to be that community activists, politicians and developers would fight over allowing the gentrification of city neighborhoods. If you eliminated affordable housing and replaced it with housing that was not as affordable, most people agreed it was at least the start of gentrification.
These days, the battle is apparently a little more nuanced.
On Nov. 5, for example, Mayor Bill Peduto tweeted: “So far Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood has avoided gentrification while reducing crime & improving investment,” with an accompanying study by local analytics firm Numeritics.
The study claims gentrification is “obviously not the case in East Liberty” because all new market-rate development happened on vacant land, and because neighborhood demographics from 2010 to 2013 remained the same.
However, Pittsburgh filmmaker Chris Ivey feels differently.
“The [report authors] certainly knew the story they wanted to tell and chose to ‘back up’ that story with the facts that happen to support it,” wrote Ivey, who documented the demolition of an East Liberty housing project in 2006, in an email to City Paper.
Another statistic foregone by the study was homeownership. According to statistics compiled by Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG), from 2011 to 2014, East Liberty saw 55 homes purchased by whites, while only three homes were bought by blacks.
So while some may argue whether what’s gone on in East Liberty and other city communities is gentrification, one fact is uncontroverted: African Americans are leaving some of their long-time Pittsburgh neighborhoods in droves because they can no longer afford to live there, and that urban flight could get worse before it gets better.
With thousands of residential units slated for development, the city is seemingly poised for growth for the first time more than 50 years. But will Pittsburgh’s black population grow with it?
Historically, many African Americans came to Pittsburgh in the years between World War I and World War II. During this era of black migration, African Americans settled in the city neighborhoods of South Side, Garfield, East Liberty and Homewood, with the Hill District becoming the preeminent black neighborhood.
The United Auto Workers union won its first organizing vote at a foreign-owned auto assembly plant in the U.S. South on Friday, in a groundbreaking victory after decades of failed attempts.
About 71 percent of skilled trades workers who cast ballots at Volkswagen AG’s (VOWG_p.DE) factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted to join the UAW, according to the company and the union. The skilled trades workers account for about 11 percent of the 1,450 hourly employees at the plant.
If the UAW victory, as expected, survives an appeal by Volkswagen to the National Labor Relations Board, the 164 skilled trades workers will be the first foreign-owned auto assembly plant workers to gain collective bargaining rights in the southern United States. While the unit of skilled trades workers who maintain the assembly machinery are a fraction of the hourly work force, observers said the victory was significant and could serve as a launching pad for the union’s efforts to organize other foreign-owned plants in the south.
“It gives the UAW a significant new tool in trying to organize the foreign automakers in the south. Symbolically, it’s going to be huge,” said Dennis Cuneo, a former automotive executive who has dealt with the UAW in past organizing campaigns. Gary Casteel, UAW secretary-treasurer and head of the union’s organizing efforts, downplayed the significance of the vote and its influence on the UAW’s attempts to organize workers at southern plants including those owned by Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) and Daimler AG’s (DAIGn.DE) Mercedes-Benz.
“To the overall grand plan of the UAW it’s probably not monumental, but to those workers, it’s a big deal,” Casteel said in an interview on Friday.
The union narrowly lost a February 2014 ballot in which all of the Chattanooga plant’s hourly workers were eligible to vote.
People don’t just visit Uncommon Grounds Cafe in Aliquippa for the food. But, let me tell you, the food is delicious.
Panini’s made with fresh cut bread, homemade soups, made-to-order breakfasts, fresh desserts baked daily, plus a variety of drinks – hot and cold, coffee and tea, milkshakes and smoothies. And then there are the daily specials – pulled pork, chili, lasagna, ribs, mac n cheese…did I mention its all homemade?
Food this good can’t be this cheap. But it is, because the food isn’t the point.
The main point of the Cafe, the reason it opened its doors in 2001, was to serve people.
Uncommon Grounds Cafe is a cooperative venture of the local people of Aliquippa and local churches working together to provide a safe place for anyone and everyone. A place to be heard, to be known, to be appreciated and accepted.
It’s so much more than a place to grab a quick meal or drink. It’s a ministry. It’s a place where the lonely, the outcast, the hurting can come together and find a friend who will listen. It’s a place where people of all ages and races can walk through the doors, create together, and change Aliquippa.
Aliquippa, like so many other towns along the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, was an ideal location for industry. When Pittsburgh was emerging as a major steel making hub in the late 1800s, Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. sought to expand downriver and purchased a huge lot of land along the banks of the Ohio River to build one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world.
Thousands of immigrants flooded into Aliquippa to find jobs and the area experienced an era of prosperity – businesses lined Franklin Avenue, housing developments where built all over the area, generations of families were living in Aliquippa and life was good.
But like all good things, the era of big steel came to an end. Like many towns in Pennsylvania and throughout the Rust Belt, Aliquippa went into a depression. J&L was gone. As were the stores on Franklin Avenue. With nowhere to work, many families packed up and left to begin life elsewhere.
For many years some would say Aliquippa lost its hope and its creativity.
Then John Stanley, a Church Army officer from Australia, moved to Aliquippa. He purchased an old store front and with the help of many volunteers from local churches, remodeled the old building into a cafe.
After 14 years of service in Aliquippa, Stanley felt called to return home and left the Cafe in the hands of current Ministry Director, Herb Bailey. Bailey, along with Operations Director Scott Branderhorst and many volunteers, continue the work what Stanley started.
“We are a place of respite for the weary neighbor, a place of encouragement for the local entrepreneur who dreams of being their own business owner, a place where people that want to give back whether it is court-mandated or soul-mandated and are allowed to engage others in a safe environment. We are a hub of opportunity and a bastion of hope, joining others who also are looking for hope. We hope to offer dignity in a way that says we recognize that no matter your story, you are precious in the site of God,” said Bailey.
Dec 1, 2015 – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has announced a plan for infrastructure investment. How does her plan stack up against that of her chief competitor, Bernie Sanders?
● $250 billion dollars in infrastructure investment, spread out over five years as additional spending of $50 billion each year.
● An additional one-time $25 billion to seed a national infrastructure bank. The bank will support up to an additional $225 billion in direct loans, loan guarantees, and other forms of credit enhancement. These are loans to states and cities which will require tolls, fees, etc. to pay off.
Clinton’s $275 billion infrastructure plan offers modest spending and contains few specifics. Contrast that with candidate Bernie Sanders, who has proposed a highly detailed, $1 trillion plan. | 2019-04-23T02:15:36Z | https://beavercountyblue.org/2015/12/ |
Wedding tree kits include a Tree In A Box tree kit in your choice of tree species with a personalized seal placed on top.
TREE IN A BOX green wedding favors are ideal to commemorate your new beginning in the minds and hearts of your family and friends. They will grow a tree that will mark your day in their memory every time they appreciate its shade, its beauty, its color, the Oxygen it breathes into our air.
Custom Seals: Wedding Favor seals are available in two sizes/shapes: 1.5” circle and 2” sunburst. Select from one of our standard seal styles (shown to the left) or submit your own image/design. If you are using a custom image, we will help you lay it out with text and email a proof to you before printing. Standard style seals will not be sent for proofing unless requested.
Calculate the Carbon Footprint of your wedding here!
Give your party favors out in a cotton drawstring gift bag. Each bag holds one tree kit.
Orders of up to 8 trees will be shipped with the kit placed in the gift bag, larger orders will be shipped with the gift bags in the box with tree kits for the customer to assemble upon arrival.
International Orders: Tree In A Box currently ships only to US and Canadian addresses. We have some capabilities to ship to other countries, please contact us if you are outside the US or Canada and we will look into regulations for shipping our product to your location.
Tree In A Box has no control over the length of time it will take for it to clear customs. Please order with plenty of delivery lead time to account for any shipping/customs delays.
i loved this item- we handed them out as wedding favors, and everyone loved them! Brian does an amazing job with communication, support, and making sure that they're designed well. His packing is super efficient- and I'm really glad we came across him and tree in a box for our wedding favors! we love them!!! thank you Brian for making this so easy! | 2019-04-20T20:48:03Z | https://www.treeinabox.com/wedding-seal-kit |
The IOC President Thomas Bach has welcomed the United Nations Resolution on Sport as a Means to Promote Education, Health, Development and Peace: “The IOC welcomes the resolution and thanks the United Nations and all its Member States for the confidence in the power of sport to bring about social change. The resolution is another expression of the close cooperation between the IOC and the UN, based on our shared values of contributing to a better and more peaceful world through sport.” With this Resolution, the UN reiterated its recognition of the independence and autonomy of the IOC. Adopted by the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly, the Resolution followed up on the one initially adopted in 2014. Obtaining a consensus from all the Member States, which transcended political divisions to uphold the values of sport, the Resolution reiterates the main areas in which sport contributes to social development and peace. It also underlines the challenges faced by the world of sport and governments, and to which the IOC is determined to respond. Read the full press release here.
As part of the implementation of Olympic Agenda 2020 (Recommendation 1), the IOC President met representatives of the Sport and Rights Alliance (SRA), which includes Transparency International Germany, UNI World Athletes, Terre des Hommes, the International Trade Union Confederation, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The members of SRA were asked for their input into the new text for the 2024 Host City Contract, which now includes a new section designed to strengthen provisions protecting human rights and countering fraud and corruption related to the organisation of the Olympic Games.
Following its global partnership to provide innovative and sustainable mobility solutions for the Olympic Movement in line with Olympic Agenda 2020, Toyota, the newest Worldwide TOP Partner, delivered hybrid cars for the IOC. The vehicles use Toyota’s latest hybrid technology, combining the benefits of petrol engines and electric motors to provide sustainable mobility solutions. IOC President Thomas Bach received the cars from Philippe Rhomberg, CEO of Toyota Switzerland AG, at the IOC’s Headquarters in Lausanne. For the IOC President, “this is another step in this exciting partnership, and I am particularly delighted about the new hybrid cars, which is another clear demonstration of the IOC’s commitment towards sustainability.” Read the full press release here.
The President had a meeting with International Fencing Federation President Alisher Usmanov, and spoke with him about the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 and the Olympic Channel.
With Morinari Watanabe, the newly elected President of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), who will take office next January, the President discussed relations between the two organisations, the recent opening of the FIG’s new headquarters in Lausanne and the upcoming Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
President Thomas Bach met with Jan Dijkema, who was elected President of the International Skating Union (ISU) in June 2016. They discussed preparations for the skating events at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022 as well as the McLaren report.
Sabatino Aracu, the President of the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS), spoke to the IOC President about the addition of skateboarding to the Olympic programme for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, following the approval of its inclusion at the 129th IOC Session in Rio in August.
With Francesco Ricci Bitti, President of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF), the discussions were about the excellent cooperation with ASOIF, the reforms of the World Anti-Doping Agency, the preparations for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 as well as the question of good governance in the IFs.
A meeting was held with Raffaele Chiulli, the President of the Association of IOC-Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF) with whom the excellent cooperation with ARISF and the Olympic programme were highlighted.
At a meeting with Isidoros Kouvelos, the President of the International Olympic Academy (IOA), the President underscored the key role played by sport in education and the cooperation between the IOC and the IOA in this area.
At their meeting, President Bach and IOC Executive Board Member Ching-Kuo Wu, also President of the International Boxing Federation (AIBA), discussed various subjects including good governance, the fight against doping and the Olympic Games Rio 2016.
With IOC Member Mario Pescante, the President discussed the United Nations (UN) Resolution on Sport as a Means to Promote Education, Health, Development and Peace, adopted by the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly. Mr Pescante, who is also the IOC’s Permanent Observer at the UN, represented the IOC at the General Assembly.
Attending a farewell reception held in honour of Wilfried Lemke, the UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, President Bach thanked Mr Lemke for the important role he has played and the efforts he has invested in making sport an integral part of the work carried out by the United Nations in a large number of areas. Held in Geneva (Switzerland), the reception was organised by Ambassador Hans-Joachim Daerr, Germany’s Permanent Representative to the Office of the United Nations and to Other International Organisations in Geneva.
The President also met Dennis Jönsson, the President and CEO of Tetra Pak, whose head office is situated next to the IOC’s in Pully. The two leaders discussed the UN’s Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which both their organisations support.
On 15 December, the IOC, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) and NBCUniversal (NBCU) announced that they have entered into a comprehensive Olympic Channel content and distribution partnership in the United States. In the second half of 2017, the partnership will launch a new U.S. television network under the “Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA” brand. The network will offer fans Olympic-sport programming from around the world 365 days a year, with content focusing on their favourite American athletes and teams. Read the news: here.
Broadcast on the Olympic Channel, Camps to Champs is an inspirational and moving new series in which Olympic athletes meet refugees and displaced people and show viewers how sport can change lives for the good. Each of the four episodes that make up the series is filmed in a different refugee camp and narrated by an Olympic athlete, who explains the impact of outreach programmes and grassroots sports activities. The four-episode docu-series is available exclusively on the Olympic Channel digital platform. Read the news here.
It was with great pleasure that The Olympic Museum took receipt of South African swimmer Cameron van der Burgh’s kit (pictured). Van der Burgh won Olympic gold in the 100m breaststroke at London 2012 and silver in the same event in Rio four years later; and his kit now forms part of the Museum’s collections.
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has revealed the names of its first Integrity Ambassadors, whose job it will be to promote clean, fair and honourable sport. The five ambassadors in question are all leading players: Christinna Pedersen and Viktor Axelsen of Denmark, India’s Saina Nehwal – an IOC Athletes’ Commission member – and Japanese women’s double pair Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi (all pictured above). The quintet were presented to the media by BWF Deputy President Gustavo Salazar Delgado on the eve of the World Superseries Finals in Dubai (UAE). The launch of the Integrity Ambassadors’ campaign is the latest step in the BWF’s integrity programme, i am badminton, which was launched last season. The five ambassadors will represent and promote the campaign’s values, serving as role models for the badminton world on and off the court. More ambassadors will be announced in 2017. Read the news here.
At its extraordinary meeting on 19 December in Montreux (Switzerland), the AIBA Executive Committee, chaired by Ching-Kuo Wu, unanimously agreed upon technical and AOB (AIBA Open Boxing) rules, financial updates and the calendar for the new Olympic cycle to Tokyo 2020 (see photo above). The meeting was the first step on the road to Tokyo 2020, and the decisions approved will be adopted by the Continental Championships held between June and July next year and the 2017 Men’s World Championships in Hamburg (Germany). The coming 12 months will also see the continuation of the HeadsUp initiative and a broad education programme of training and workshops for referees, judges and coaches, as well as the 2017 Year of Africa. Read the full press release here.
The International Equestrian Federation (FEI) was named International Sports Federation of the Year for 2016 at the International Sports Convention (ISC) in Geneva on 8 December. Recognising the work carried out by the FEI, particularly the integrity and quality of the governance it provides, the award rounded off a successful year for the body, which was praised for the initiatives forming part of its “#TwoHearts: Billy to Rio” Olympic campaign, and the video Hoofloose. Info at: www.fei.org.
The International Judo Federation (IJF) has just published a series of new regulations that will be applied during the next Olympic cycle. The goal is to simplify and promote the rules of judo and make them easier to understand. A final document will be prepared and circulated before the end of the year. Read the news here.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has announced that Great Britain’s Andy Murray and Germany’s Angelique Kerber are the 2016 ITF World Champions, a first for both players. Murray won nine titles in 2016, among them the men’s singles title at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, while Kerber lifted two Grand Slams and won silver in the women’s singles at the Rio Games. Click here for the winners in the other categories: doubles, wheelchair and juniors (men’s and women’s). The winners will receive their awards at the 2017 ITF World Champions Dinner on Tuesday 6 June, in Paris, during the French Open.
Back in 1999, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) launched a development programme called Dream Building, the aim of which was to make the world a better place through table tennis. Click on this video link to find out more about a programme that has had a positive impact on the lives of many people, helping communities deal with the effects of war, poverty and natural disaster through education and community engagement, and using table tennis as a vehicle for promoting peace and other values. Info at: www.ittf.com.
The International Triathlon Union (ITU) has named Edmonton as the host city for the ITU World Championships Grand Final in 2020. This will be the third time that Canada has hosted the World Championships, with Edmonton having organised them in 2001 and 2014. The 2017 World Championships will be held in Rotterdam (NED), with Gold Coast (AUS) and Lausanne (SUI) respectively hosting the 2018 and 2019 editions. Read the news: here.
Following its decision to move its 2017 World Championships from Sochi (RUS), the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) selected the German resort Königssee as the new host of the competition which will be held from 13 to 26 February. Read the news here.
On 16 December, the World Curling Federation (WCF) and the Chinese Curling Association signed an MoU that will see the two organisations work together in developing the sport in the People’s Republic of China and across the world. Their partnership will play an important role in preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. Read the news here. The WCF has also unveiled new trophies for its World Men’s and Women’s Curling Championships. The trophies will be contested for the first time at the World Men’s Curling Championship 2017 in Edmonton (CAN) from 1 to 9 April and at the World Women’s Curling Championship 2017 in Beijing from 18 to 26 March 2017. Read the news here.
As part of World Snow Day 2017, the International Ski Federation (FIS) has released a promotional trailer that will be shown during FIS World Cup broadcasts. World Snow Day is the second phase of the FIS’s Bring Children to the Snow campaign. The first phase, entitled SnowKidz, was launched in 2009 with the aim of encouraging the FIS’s national member associations to promote snow sports in their respective countries. Watch the trailer: here. The trailer is available in six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese. Info at: www.fis-ski.com.
The NOC of Albania organised a ceremony to mark the agreement between the Albanian Skiing Federation (ASF) and three Olympic scholarship-holders, Erjon Tola, Suela Mëhilli and Marsel Biçoku (see photo above). For the NOC President, Viron Bezhani, this high-level collaboration with the ASF will follow the preparation for the qualification cycle of these athletes for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. Over the years, the participating team has grown from one at the Olympic Winter Games Turin 2006 and Vancouver 2010 to two in Sochi 2014. For PyeongChang 2018, the ASF is expecting three or more athletes to qualify. The programme will be operational from 1 November 2016 to 28 February 2018. More info on www.nocalbania.org.al.
The Argentinean NOC has held its traditional awards ceremony, paying tribute to individuals and institutions for their engagement and work for sport and the principles of the Olympic Movement. During the ceremony, NOC President and IOC Member Gerardo Werthein presented the “Women and Sport” award to Alicia Masoni de Morea, in recognition of her contribution to sport (photo above). She holds numerous positions, being NOC First Vice-President and a member of the IOC’s Culture and Olympic Heritage Commission, the ANOC International Relations Commission, the WADA Education Committee and the International Tennis Federation’s Olympic Committee. The prizes for the 34th edition of the national drawing and literature contest were also presented. This contest is aimed at promoting the Olympic values among school pupils and students aged from 6 to 19. More details here.
After being awarded an Olympic Solidarity grant, Special Olympics Cyprus joined forces with the Cyprus National Olympic Committee and the Cypriot Ministry of Education and Culture in organising a Sport For All seminar entitled “Unified Sports – Inclusion Seminar” (photo above). More than 120 physical education teachers, coaches, students and volunteers attended the seminar, which sought to promote the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in Cyprus. It is hoped that the teachers who took part in the seminar will now be better equipped to create unified teams in a range of sports, such as basketball, volleyball, handball and football, and thereby promote social inclusion, acceptance and respect for intellectually disabled students in schools. Info at: www.olympic.org.cy.
Bogota provided the venue for Colombia’s Olympic Sport Gala on 12 December (photo above), with the Colombian National Olympic Committee and Coldeportes presenting the Altius Awards to 47 sportspersons representing the national federations affiliated to the NOC. NOC President Baltazar Medina conducted the gala and was joined by his Executive Board. Also in attendance were Coldeportes CEO Clara Luz Roldán, the heads of the country’s national sports federations and the Colombian Olympic Academy, representatives of the NOC’s leading sponsors and a number of journalists. Seven of Colombia’s eight medallists at the Olympic Games Rio 2016 were also present. Read the news here. In other news, Caterine Ibargüen, who won gold in the women’s triple jump at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, was voted Athlete of the Year by the newspaper El Espectador, her fourth such award of the year. Read the news here.
Organised by the El Salvador Olympic Committee (COES), with the support of the IOC, the latest workshop in the national athlete career monitoring programme was held at the Corinto Club on Lake Ilopango. The opening of the event was attended by COES President Eduardo Palomo; Mónica del Real, a member of the Mexican NOC’s Athletes’ Commission: and Carlos Santiago, the Chairman of the Puerto Rican NOC’s Athletes’ Commission. Taking part in the workshop were nearly 15 athletes from a number of sports federations and the El Salvador University Sports Association (ADUSAL) (photo above). Info at: www.teamesa.org.
Jointly organised by the Nepalese government and a number of non-governmental stakeholders, the 2nd Sports Congress was held in Kathmandu on 16 and 17 December (photo above). Following a programme put together and developed by the Nepal Olympic Committee, the event sought to create a sports development synergy with the Olympic Movement, with the participation and support of the Nepalese government. Opened by NOC President Jeevan Ram Shrestha, the Congress ended with its more than 150 participants adopting a declaration.
Anton Siekel was elected President of the Slovakia Olympic Committee (SOC) at its 51st elective general assembly on 26 November. The 47-year-old Siekel is the Honorary President of the Slovak Judo Federation and the President of the SOC’s Foundation. The assembly also elected new members of the SOC Executive Committee, of which IOC Member Danka Bartekova, and Matej Toth, the new Chairman of the SOC’s Athletes’ Commission, are ex officio members. For his part, two-time Olympic canoe slalom champion Michal Martikan was elected as an individual member of the SOC. Elected Honorary President of the SOC, Frantisek Chmelar joined Anton Siekel in paying a visit to IOC Honorary Member and Honorary SOC President Vladimir Cernusak on the occasion of his 95th birthday. Pictured from left to right above: Chmelar, Cernusak and Siekel. Info at www.olympic.sk.
On 8 December the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee and the Mongolian Olympic Committee signed a bilateral cooperation agreement in Taipei. The agreement was signed by the respective presidents of the two NOCs: Hong-Dow Lin and Demchigjav Zagdsuren (photo above). The two nations’ NOCs first began cooperating in 1994 and entered into their maiden bilateral cooperation agreement in 2001, which was followed by further agreements in 2003 and 2006. In renewing their ties, the two NOCs intend to send athletes to each other’s countries for training in sports in which they are strong, such as wrestling, judo, taekwondo, archery and cycling. The agreement is designed to provide a framework for the organisation of joint national-team training sessions and exchange visits between NOC officials and staff, and to also encourage cooperation in medicine and anti-doping, to name but two areas. Info at: www.tpenoc.net.
The Togo National Olympic Committee (CNOT) organised the second Avé Track and Field Meet in the town of Kévé. Held on 8 and 9 December, the competition saw an equal number of boys and girls from 20 high schools and sixth-form colleges in the Avé prefecture take part in a number of track and field events (photo above). The events were supervised and monitored by officials from the Togolese Athletics Federation and the Red Cross. The meet gave the Federation the opportunity to identify talented young athletes and arrange for them to be monitored and receive support. The youngsters showed plenty of enthusiasm and commitment, and there are plans to expand the event to other prefectures. Read the news here.
In the framework of the IOC Athletes’ Career Programme, the NOC of Uruguay and Adecco Uruguay have signed a cooperation agreement. The agreement aims to address the needs of the athletes during their transition from sporting life to professional life. Adecco Uruguay will provide them with training sessions to facilitate access to employment as well as their integration into the work environment. Leading sports authorities were at the ceremony, including the NOC President, Julio César Maglione, who is also an IOC Honorary Member (centre of photo), and the athletes who took part in the Olympic Games Rio 2016. More info on www.cou.org.uy.
The Gangneung Ice Arena was officially opened ahead of the ISU Short Track World Cup event held from 16 to 18 December, which also doubled up as a test event for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. Among those attending the opening of the venue was Gunilla Lindberg, the Chair of the IOC’s PyeongChang 2018 Coordination Commission (photo above). In addition to short track, the 12,000-seater arena, which took two-and-a-half years to complete, will also host the figure skating competitions at the 2018 Games. Located in Gangneung Olympic Park, the Ice Arena is one of the six new venues built for PyeongChang 2018. It is the first ice venue to be completed at Gangneung, with three more due for completion in the city by the end of 2016. Read the news here.
A ceremony was held in Tokyo on 11 December to mark the start of construction of the new National Stadium. Among those in attendance were the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, and the Governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike (photo above). The stadium will be the main venue for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The launch ceremony ended with a video revealing how the stadium will look on completion in November 2019. The stadium will host both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2020 Games and the athletics events. Read the news here.
The second Four-Party Political Working Group meeting took place in Tokyo on 21 December. The meeting confirmed that volleyball would be held at the Ariake Arena, as originally planned, with a new legacy concept for the entire region supporting the development of the venue. When added to the revised venue designs that were agreed for Sea Forest and the Aquatics Centre at the first Working Group meeting in November, an additional amount of around USD 400 million in savings has been made to the revised construction budget. This comes on top of the approximately USD 1.8 billion saved last year following the extensive masterplan review. During the Working Group meeting, Tokyo 2020 also presented the first versions of the OCOG and Other Entities budgets. The four parties - the IOC, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Government of Japan and Tokyo 2020 – committed to working towards optimising the budgets even further. Tokyo 2020's commitment to deliver Games at the highest level, on schedule, and with the best experience for athletes and fans alike, remains at the forefront of all decisions made in relation to the budgets for the Games. Read the Tokyo 2020 news release here.
Marking the first anniversary of the UN Security Council’s resolution 2250, Generations For Peace has reaffirmed its support for the resolution, which is designed to give young people more of a voice in decision-making at all levels, the idea being to counter violent extremism and build peaceful communities around the world. On 21 November, Generations For Peace was accepted as an associate of the UN Department of Public Information. NGOs play a key role in achieving the UN’s goals, and contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of agendas agreed by its 193 member states. Read the news here.
On their recent visit to Birmingham, Alabama (USA), IOC Member and International World Games Association (IWGA) President José Perurena and IWGA CEO Joachim Gossow met representatives of the Birmingham Local Organising Committee for the World Games 2021 and Chester Wheeler, the United States Olympic Committee (USOC)’s Head of Marketing and Media. Together they drew up the framework for close cooperation in the lead-up to the Games. In a separate meeting with the Mayor of Birmingham, William A. Bell, the IWGA President discussed the city’s involvement in the preparation and staging of the Games. Read the news here.
A special issue of Olympic Highlights will appear at the end of 2016. We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy holiday season. | 2019-04-23T07:10:42Z | https://www.olympic.org/news/olympic-highlights-90 |
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Coming to Vietnam, you will soon realize, that this is a land in transition, not really sure, what to target, where to head for. Though development in urban areas is slowly picking up, the country seems to be a place to hold its breath.
All over the world, Vietnam is still remembered by its latest war, which ended more than 30 years ago and left many visible and invisible wounds.
But despite all this: What you will see and experience makes you forget everything, you still have in your mind! You will find the Vietnamese people extremely friendly and highly cultivated, running their small enterprises like Restaurants and Cafés efficiently. Sit down for a rest or quench your thirst or satisfy you hunger on any road stall and see for yourself: People do not seem to be bitter, nature is fighting in many areas … wounds seem to heal slowly.
Vietnam is a land of utmost beauty; a masterpiece of green rice paddies; a coastal line, that stretches for more than 3000 km with unspoilt beaches; carst formations in Halong Bay creating a bizarre wonderland; cool and rugged mountains; fertile Red River delta in the North and Mekong in the south.
Come and enjoy! I will prepare a menu, that suits your taste! But bear in mind: Vietnam is stretching over different climate zones. The best months to get the most out of your visit will be the months of October to December. Then, you should have the best weather in both zones! | 2019-04-26T07:58:44Z | http://www.thelastfrontiers.com/vietnam.htm |
eCycle Solutions of Ohio - Recycling of Electronic and Computer Related Equipment and More!
Ecycle Solutions of Ohio offers recycling services for electronic, e-waste and computer recycling. Examples are, but not limited to, Computers, Printers, Scanners, Modems, Routers, Cell Phones, CRs, DVD Players, Game Consoles, Stereo/Audio Equipment, Copiers, Fax Machines, Medical Equipment, Lead Acid Batteries, Lithium Ion Batteries, Nickel Metal Hydride, Nickel Cadmium, (this does not include Alkaline batteries), LCD/Plasma Screens, CRT Monitors, Televisions and much more!
After each computer or electronic device is disassembled for recycling, we make sure we remove all heavy metals and inspect each board for hazardous components such as batteries, mercury relays, etc. and recycle them safely and properly.
In order to make sure all private data is destroyed, all hard drives are removed and destroyed! We can also provide a "Guarantee of Destruction" certificate.
ABS/PC plastics are other materials that we recycle. It is our commitment to help develop recycling avenues to handle everything our customers have. We do our best to prevent anything from being dumped into the landfills of America and to be the one stop for all your recyclables.
Cardboard is another material that we recycle. Although we do not actively go after cardboard, it is our commitment to help recycle everything our customers have. We do our best to prevent anything from going to the landfills of America and to be the one stop for all your recyclables.
Ecycle Solutions of Ohio offer a site clean up of that old closet, room, garage or even warehouse that houses your old and obsolete computers, printers and electronics. Call us or visit us and talk over the different options available.
You have it, we want it! Call us for a pick up of your recyclables.
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Before joining 3D Engineering Solutions, I worked for Texas Instruments and 3M. Currently at 3D Engineering, a lot of the projects I’m working on involve industrial CT scanning, 3D laser scanning, structured light scanning, reverse engineering, CAD modeling and long range laser scanning.
What is additive manufacturing? Additive manufacturing is the process of taking a powder generally of a metal, for example for aerospace, and using lasers to center the powder together and build a part up layer by layer. | 2019-04-23T05:03:02Z | https://www.3d-engineering.net/author/rglassburn/ |
Hi there, new kid in town from the Netherlands. But kid from 57 years young and married for about 25 years.
Driving motorcycle almost from when it was allowed tot drive en since never stopped riding. At the beginning more touring, then a couple of sporting bikes.
In 2008 my best looking and driving bike ever: Suzuki GSXR 1000 with a lot of carbon stuf like Blackstone carbon wheels etc.
But in 2013 broke my leg (with mountainbike) very heavy and after many months is was not possible to sit anymore on that bike and bought the Hayabusa (yes, the sporting bike for old men). Bike was OK, more relaxed sitting and i was hoping for a new model of the Busa, but not in 2018 etc.
Then some pic's on the internet and 2 weeks later possible to see and feel the bike in real. Immediately in love with that bike and a late later bought the H2 SX. Both like the bike and my wife will join me as usual (since 1986 passenger on all bikes).
For now waiting a couple of months and hoping for a lott of fun with the H2.
Greetings Fred and DeRox. Good to see a mix of international members on the site.
That's quite the list of bikes you've had. Welcome!
Today i was in Utrecht for the exhibition which is held every year. As usual, i don't need anything but buy still some stuff.
But first visit was at Kawasaki (what else) and who was sitting on my bike?
Today i was drinking coffee at my dealer, he told me to aspect the bike at the middle of March. I think i will go immediately after my 11 days Gran Canaria pik up the bike, can't wait.
Hey Fred. Noticed your 2nd bike. That was my 1st. A 1980 Honda CB650C. Rode the crap out of that thing for 20 years. Welcome!
1980 CB650 Sold to an older guy in CT to "tinker" with.
2007 Bandit 1250 Traded in for the 2012 C14.
2012 Concours 14 Traded in for the 2015 C14.
2015 Concours 14 Traded in for the SX SE. | 2019-04-20T22:19:31Z | https://h2sxriders.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36 |
SRINAGAR, Oct 15: Light to moderate rain or snow could occur on Tuesday in the summer capital, Srinagar, where minimum temperature was below normal though the maximum temperature on Monday was slightly above normal.
A Met department spokesman said here this evening that light to moderate rain, snow or thundershowers could occur in Srinagar during the next 24 hours.
The maximum and minimum temperatures would be around 15 degree, over six notches below normal, and 4 degree again two degree colder than normal respectively.
He said despite cold breeze the maximum temperature in Srinagar on Monday was 22.6 degree, 0.4 notch above normal. However, the minimum temperature was 4 degree, two notches below normal. | 2019-04-23T04:02:48Z | http://www.earlytimes.in/newsdet.aspx?q=245314 |
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Provide snacks, supplies, and materials for art, music, and entertainment.
Feed teens through the Rocketown food plan. Without this plan, many of our youth would either go without food or steal.
Feed children and teens during weekly Potluck Bible Study, allowing those without financial ability to volunteer, eat and be a part of the discussion.
Give youth purpose through the Gearheads program (working on engines or detailing cars).
Keep youth on track and engaged through Girls Group/Men’s Night. We provide opportunities for members of each group to express themselves creatively while addressing issues of self-esteem, trust, and respect.
Feed Skate Church youth. Tuesday evenings we come together, talk through part of the Bible, and pray for each other. Skatechurch is free and open to everyone. We create a nonthreatening environment for young people to ask spiritual questions and find support.
Provide a low-income teen with a helmet, skateboard and yearly membership to Sixth Avenue Skatepark. Many who receive scholarships come to Sixth Avenue every day. If not for the scholarship, they tell us they likely would be involved in gangs, drugs, or other delinquent activity.
Summer can be a dangerous time for older children and youth! Being home all day without plans or purpose can lead to experimentation with drugs, sexual activity, gang involvement, or a variety of other delinquent activities.
Support a young person to participate in Summer Sessions and ensure he or she has a safe place to go, new skills to learn and new friends to make.
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Want to stay in touch and updated on all that is happening at Rocketown? | 2019-04-22T11:06:50Z | https://www.rocketown.com/support |
Something Bigger Than Yourself has devoted its energy to passionately advocate for the less fortunate children living in resident homes throughout the United States. Find out how you can contribute to the future of someone in desperate need through donations of money, music, sports, and your time.
Raising awareness and helping less fortunate children by providing musical instruments, sports equipment, and special events to enhance the lives of those living in children's homes throughout the United States.
Dec 10th, 2017 will mark the 10th Annual Something Bigger Than Yourself Music Benefit located in Alton, Illinois. Many musicians, artists, and stage performers give of their time and talents.
There are so many children living in this world that do not have the same opportunities as others. Even the smallest of donations make the greatest impact in a childs life.
Something Bigger than Yourself is dedicated to help as many children's homes possible by providing their in-house children with adequate resources for a better quality of life. Currently, we have worked with 9 children homes and 7 retirement communities throughout Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, and Colorado. | 2019-04-24T11:55:13Z | http://www.somethingbiggerthanyourself.com/ |
You know who you are, and thanks to the Google Doc scam yesterday, so do all of your contacts. You clicked on that Google Docs email, didn’t you?
It’s okay. You can fix it, and forgiveness is just around the corner.
First a lesson: never click on a suspicious email, especially if it has an attachment or looks familiar yet a little bit off. This was a pretty sophisticated attack, and if you clicked on the doc, you probably gave the scammers permission to access contacts and your drive. Which can be a larger problem if you have your taxes or other personal docs stored in Google Drive and not protected.
So here are some steps to take, although even they are not perfect. You are your own best defense from hacker attacks, so be vigilant.
Almost every email system, banking system, or other secure app offers you the option for multi-factor authentication: use it.
In fact, if you do not have it activated on your accounts, go do it now. I’ll wait. All multifactor authentication means is if you sign in from an unfamiliar computer, you will either need to get a text message or an email to a backup account before you can get access.
Is this inconvenient? It can be. It is also very inconvenient to criminals who do not have access to your phone or the other email address and can save you from a serious security breach.
Go to your Google account. https://myaccount.google.com/permissions. Scroll down to Google Docs, and revoke access.
This denies the app access to your docs and contacts, things you gave it permission to view by clicking on the email you received. This won’t change what the hackers may already have seen, but it will keep them from getting any more information.
When was the last time you did this? If the answer is anytime before Christmas, you should be ashamed anyway, but I forgive you. I’m here to help.
Change your password now, and change it every quarter. Set up a calendar reminder, a phone alarm, something. But change your passwords often and make sure they are strong ones.
You do know that you can secure documents, right? You can require a password to access them at all, or even limit copying and pasting and editing. This is easy to do with both PDF, Word, and other documents.
This is the security equivalent of locking your front door: an experienced burglar (or hacker in this case) can unlock your files or pick a lock. However, not locking down sensitive files is the same as leaving your door open. It’s like an invitation, and your identity and personal information become fair game.
If you get a phishing scam, report it to the company it supposedly came from, in this case, Google. The company and others use this information to fix problems and bugs. For instance, if you get a fake email that appears to be from PayPal or Microsoft, report it to them.
Don’t assume someone else will report it. The broader picture the company gets of the scam, the more quickly they can move to fix it.
If you did click on the doc, and thousands of your closest friends got hacked too, apologize. The best way is often with a bottle of fine whiskey.
In fact, I got emails from at least 20 of you yesterday. I am waiting. Email me if you need my mailing address to ship it to me.
Just don’t send your request in a Google Doc. | 2019-04-23T02:00:53Z | http://unboundnorthwest.com/clicked-google-doc-scam-next/ |
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Cloud computing is a revolutionary computing paradigm, which enables flexible, on-demand, and low-cost usage of computing resources, but the data is outsourced to some cloud servers, and various privacy concerns emerge from it. Various schemes based on the attribute-based encryption have been proposed to secure the cloud storage. However, most work focuses on the data contents privacy and the access control, while less attention is paid to the privilege control and the identity privacy. In this paper, we present a semi-anonymous privilege control scheme AnonyControl to address not only the data privacy, but also the user identity privacy in existing access control schemes. AnonyControl decentralizes the central authority to limit the identity leakage and thus achieves semianonymity. Besides, it also generalizes the file access control to the privilege control, by which privileges of all operations on the cloud data can be managed in a fine-grained manner. Subsequently, we present the AnonyControl-F, which fully prevents the identity leakage and achieve the full anonymity. Our security analysis shows that both AnonyControl and AnonyControl-F are secure under the decisional bilinear Diffie–Hellman assumption, and our performance evaluation exhibits the feasibility of our schemes. | 2019-04-21T02:10:03Z | http://www.mumbai-academics.com/2018/02/cost-aware-secure-routing-caser.html |
Headed To Mars? Watch Out For Cosmic Rays : Shots - Health News The dose of radiation an astronaut would experience on a trip to Mars is higher than the annual limit set for workers at nuclear power plants. But Mars enthusiasts say the radiation threat isn't high enough to cancel the trip.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) to measure radiation exposure on the way to Mars. Now, it's recording similar data on Mars' surface. This image is a composite self portrait taken on Feb. 3, 2013.
There was great fanfare when the Mars Science Laboratory launched in November 2011, and again when its precious cargo — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity — touched down on the red planet in August 2012.
The eight months in between had drama of their own. Curiosity was constantly bombarded with radiation as it traveled through space — high-energy protons thrown out by the sun, and galactic cosmic rays slicing through the solar system from distant supernovas.
Here on Earth, the magnetic field and atmosphere shield us from most of this radiation. But out in the void of space, high energy particles would rip into an astronaut's DNA, slowly increasing the risk of cancer.
That's a problem for NASA and the handful of private companies that have pledged to send human explorers to Mars. For a long time, they've been trying to figure out just how much radiation an astronaut would experience on the journey.
Enter Curiosity, which was handily equipped with RAD — a Radiation Assessment Detector. The monitoring device was intended to gather radiation data on the surface of Mars.
"But about two years before launch we started to realize the fact that RAD was tucked inside the belly of the spacecraft sort of in the same location that a future astronaut might be on a future mission," says Don Hassler, the physicist who led the Southwest Research Institute team that designed RAD.
The researchers reasoned they might as well turn the device on during space flight. A few days after launch, RAD powered up and started collecting data.
A small portion of the radiation — about 5 percent — came from brief but intense solar storms. Astronauts would be able to avoid this source of radiation by retreating to a sheltered area of their ship. Just ducking down inside a room lined with food supplies would do the trick.
Fluctuating solar activity controls radiation in the solar system. The sun produces solar flares, like the one captured in this NASA video, flinging high energy protons and radiation out into the solar system. High solar activity suppresses galactic cosmic rays — high energy ions cast off by distant supernovas. When solar flares die down, cosmic rays are more prevalent. The solar cycle, from maximum to minimum activity and back again, is approximately 11 years long. Right now, we're approaching a solar maximum.
The bulk of the radiation was caused by galactic cosmic rays — beams of high energy ions that we don't know how to shield against. Hassler says there's really only one way to minimize the damage caused by these rays: "Go quickly."
The shortest possible trip to Mars with current technology would take about six months. During that time an astronaut would experience about four times more radiation than someone on the International Space Station.
"An astronaut on ISS for, say six months would receive on the order of maybe 80 millisieverts, compared with the 330 we receive on our way to Mars," Hassler says.
The average American is only exposed to about 6 millisieverts of radiation per year. An abdominal CT scan subjects a patient to 10 millisieverts. The dose from a long journey through open space is much higher. Calculating cancer risk from radiation exposure is tricky, but basic estimates suggest a trip to Mars would increase your risk of getting cancer by about 1.5 percent.
Double that number for round trip visit, and you quickly approach the limits recommended by the National Council on Radiation Protection.
But that doesn't discourage Robert Zubrin, president of The Mars Society and author of The Case for Mars.
"Radiation is not a showstopper," he says. "It's not something that the FDA would recommend that everyone do. But we're talking about a mission to Mars here."
Zubrin says there are plenty of other risks involved in a Mars mission — and they're risks many would be willing to take. He notes that about 1.5 percent of space shuttle flights ended in disaster.
"And yet there are millions of people that, if they had been offered a chance to fly on the shuttle and knowing that, would have jumped at the chance," Zubrin says.
The average person already has about a 20 percent chance of dying from cancer. A 40-year-old astronaut who dreams of setting foot on the red planet, might not be bothered by bumping that risk up a few percentage points.
"What this paper does is place foursquare in front of the NASA leadership [that] there's no cause for delay, at least as far as radiation is concerned," Zubrin says. "We should now set our course for Mars."
Scientists still have questions about radiation on Mars itself. They need more data to better understand the cancer risk for Mars settlers on the surface. But don't worry. Curiosity is working on that too. | 2019-04-20T07:25:42Z | https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/05/30/187164731/Headed-To-Mars-Watch-Out-For-Cosmic-Rays |
Who does not like the softness and taste of a good cake? This is one of the world delights that is hit wherever you go. They mark great moments of life, such as celebrations of victories, birthdays, weddings, among many others.
But for a cake to become differentiated and beautiful it takes some cake supplies that make all the difference.
Cake supplies can be as diverse as possible, but some rely heavily on the creativity of the confectioner. A true artist stands next to a great cook, so see what tools he can use.
Beads: Beads, or polka dots, that are used to finish the cake. They can be sweet and edible, usually being sugar or chocolate. The most commonly found sizes range from 2 to 8 millimeters.
Dyes: Food colors are those responsible for giving all kinds of colors to the final product raising the level of creativity of the confectioner.
Confectionery Gel: Gels are edible and palatable while keeping the flavored product fresh for a longer period of time. They are famous for making writings about cakes.
There are supplies for cakes focused on decorations that depend on a computer and a machine for the process, as is the case of the plotter, which are printed images that are usually placed on the part to finalize the product. The surface is almost smooth and the paper is edible and tasty.
There are also other types of printing that become popular over time.
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Is there a list that notifies when Microsoft patches have been recalled?
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We have been learning about our community and the world around us through Postman Pat.
We have found out about different occupations and also how to keep and stay healthy, with a visit from the Life Bus and fruit smoothie making! We also found out it was the year of the Monkey and learnt all about Chinese New Year, as well as making our own Monkeys.
Our traditional tale this half term has been 'The Gingerbread Man', where we have thought of great ideas to help him cross the river safely and also why he shouldn't have spoken to the fox- stranger danger! We have also challenged ourselves with our weekly independent tasks, where we had to either make a Gingerbread Man, a house for him or write a healthy shopping list. I wonder what our Goldilocks challenges will be next half term?
Chinese New Year- The Dragon!
Chinese New Year- The year of the Monkey.
We chose a fruit to draw and paint.
Healthy food we like the most.
Instructions to make a smoothie. What did we do?
Creating our own maths games with a dice.
Drawing a road for the cars.
A bag for the Gingerbread Man.
A house with a chimney for the Gingerbread Man.
Making a house for the Gingerbread Man.
Making a bridge to help the Gingerbread Man. | 2019-04-25T02:32:52Z | http://www.robinhoodprimary.co.uk/spring-term-1-8/ |
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What is the Role of Civil Law in Addressing the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis?
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gathered from over five states and two continents and, in these years, we have seen new Widows Fellowship Groups formed.
Meets at 9:30 AM on the 3rd Friday of the month in the Parish Library.
For more information about widows fellowship opportunities at Our Lady of Grace or how to start your own group click here.
Of all of life’s stresses, losing a loved one to death is at the top of the list. Would you like more support? A listening ear? People who understand you? Our Lady of Grace is a member of the Edina Coalition for Grief Support and we meet every Thursday from 4:30 - 6:00 PM. This is a program for adults. We meet from 4:30-5:00 PM as a large group to hear a speaker, then break into small groups for spouse loss, child loss and other losses. Facilitators have experienced the same kind of loss as the group they are facilitating. No pre-registration is required. The support group changes church locations each quarter. For locations and more information, click here.
If Thursday afternoons doesn’t work with your schedule or you are looking for a group to support a specific type of loss (like the loss of an infant or loss through suicide), below we have complied a list of area grief support groups.
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Serving seniors in transition and their family caregivers to support health in spirit, mind and body since 1998. The Normandale Center for Healing & Wholeness (the Center) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of Normandale Lutheran Church that is dedicated to serving individuals in and around the Twin Cities metropolitan area. We have been serving seniors age 60+, their caregivers, family members and companions since our founding in 1998. We do so with generous support from partner and corporate contributions, individual gifts, and grants including funding via the Federal Older Americans Act and the Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging.
Fairview’s Youth Grief Services offers grief support series for youth, ages 4 -18. Parents are also supported through this series and attend their own groups while the children/teens attend theirs. There is no fee to attend, but participants need to pre-register by phone. For more information visit their website at www.fairview.org/youthgrief. | 2019-04-19T22:15:15Z | https://www.olgparish.org/support-groups/ |
There are two approaches towards the translational problem. Sometimes the term translation is considered to be literally a verbal interpretation from one language into another, or in a broader way- an interpretation is a synonym of translating the same information within one language.
The two ways are completely rightful – the first one described by Antuan Berman in his work «The experience of accepting other language» - suggests that there are many languages. The other was studied by John Steiner in his work «The song of Bable», it links to the phenomenon briefly described by himself as «To comprehend means to translate».
I’ve made up my mind to start with the 1-st approach which puts in the 1-st place the relation between native and foreign. Then I focus on another aspect – studying difficulties and paradoxes that occur during translation from one language into another.
So, we have come to a conclusion that there are many languages and they do vary. Though, it is worth mentioning that it’s the necessity for translation that makes people speak different languages. At the same time, the phenomenon of languages being different (the term invented by Wilhelm Humboldt) is covered with mysteries. Why are there so many languages? According to calculations of ethnologists there are 5 to 6 thousands of them. The Darwin theory of evolution with its mechanism of adapting to the habitat during the nature selection, doesn’t explain anything, for the existence of a lot of languages not only doesn’t help the humanity, but on the contrary – makes the situation worse. If one studies this situation within only one linguistic group it would be obvious that the quality of lingual exchange within its boundaries depends on the development level of the whole mother tongue. When it comes to going on a broader stage, here any lingual waste (as Steiner says) is of no importance and becomes a barrier.
Moreover, the main riddle lies somewhere different. The reasons causing misunderstanding between people are not that mysterious (the Bible myth about Babylonian pandemonium deals with the history of blend of languages and them being scattered around the world). What really matters is the common understanding among people who speak different languages, which doesn’t care for obstacles.
It is worth mentioning that a language is an all-embracing phenomenon (all people cooperate with each other). That is the human’s peculiarity, similar to the ability to use tools, create facilities and bury the dead. When talking about a language we mean the usage of signs not being objects or phenomena. They are corresponded conditionally for the language is a sign exchange. The language plays the key role in the development of a certain lingual community.
But here is the controversial thing. The fundamental qualities of any language – generalities and universalities being a mean of interaction are always endangered by its independent development as separate, local languages. The language universality thesis is vanished by the fact of its diversity and inconsistency into many separate aspects. That’s the source of numerous rumors about inconsistency of languages – fist, on the level of a myth, then the philosophy of language. For instance, the myth about Babylonian pandemonium is too short and complex in its literal version is making us believe in the ancient language. This language is the Heavenly one, once forgotten, but still capable of leading the people out of the maze. On the other hand, the myth depicts the inconsistency of languages as a total world disaster. But, I am to give you a little bit different, in some way more polite version on the humans’ situation in this very case.
Though, I would like to pay your attention to one more reason which shouldn’t be confusing the fact of languages being so different. It is vital to remember that the translation did always exist. Professional translators were preceded by travelers, merchants, ambassadors, spies who often spoke several languages. Polyglots could be met at those times.
So, here we have come to another language peculiarity, just as perfect as its sad imperfectness being a mean of communication. Just because there is such a thing as translation there is a possibility to say that every person has the ability to comprehend a foreign language. That is why we are pondering over some secret language qualities that are connected to the lingual practice. We will continue discussing this very topic at the end of our research when translation within one language is mentioned. We will be talking about a reflexive ability of the language, the one that allows us to ponder over the language, to look at it from a different angle, to make a research pattern of it by comparing the mother tongue with the other ones. For now I will talk no more about the analysis of reflexive and mental language function. I just want to focus on the fact of translation only.
So, languages differ greatly, but people still can learn foreign languages along with their native one. This mere fact has generated lot theories, which state a sad alternative in its conclusion. Some think that various languages are completely different that is why the translation from one language into another is unreachable. Others say that theoretically translation is possible owing to the general base of all languages. The second supposition leads to a new dilemma – either this general language base should be recreated which would lead to a more thorough search of the ancient language; or this general language base should be logically built which actually means the creation of a new, universal language. But whatever language is the base – the ancient or the new universal one – it should be completely represented phonetically, lexically, syntactically and rhetorically.
I suggest paying no attention to the translational/non-translational theoretical alternative and switch it with another one. The one that comes from the practice of translation or the alternative true/false translation that doesn’t exclude the fact that translation is a tricky deal always requiring the theoretical roots. At the end of the lecture we will see for ourselves that the difficulties of the inner translation (or the translation within one language) only support this sad statement. Recently I have taken part in the international colloquium on the difficulties of translation. I was listening to «Theoretically difficult, practically easy» report of a philosopher – analyst Donald Davidson. I stand the same ground (when talking about the two ways of translation – from one language into another and within only one language). Though theoretically the translation is impossible it is still done practically. The price we pay is our doubts of it being either relevant or non-relevant according to the original text.
Before we drown deep in the relevance/non-relevance dialectics of the problem according to the original text, I would like to say a few words regarding the reasons that influence the translational/non-translational dilemma of a text that leads nowhere but a maze.
Ethno linguists are the very people who created the conclusion on the text lack of translational ability. The works of B. Lee Bourf and E. Shapyr emphasized the non-correspondences between the lingual equations in different languages. First of all we mean the articulate and phonetic levels based upon the phonological system of this language (vowels, consonants et cetera). Then there comes the conceptual level of the language, or the notion system that the vocabulary comprises of (dictionaries, encyclopedias etc). | 2019-04-23T19:03:20Z | https://glebov.com.ua/translation-paradigm.html |
At New Zealand Aviation, we pride ourselves on taking a personalised approach to helping you gain your Private Pilot Licence (PPL). Not all students learn at the same pace. Some will breeze through certain aspects of the necessary skill and knowledge requirements but need additional coaching on other parts. That’s why we employ experienced instructors who are not only focused on helping you meet all the requirements of a Private Pilot Licence (PPL), but are also passionate about helping you become an Aviator, not just a pilot.
A Private Pilot Licence (PPL) permits the holder to fly as the pilot-in-command of an aircraft in a private capacity, but not for financial gain. International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) set the requirements for this course but the actual implementation varies widely from country to country. To obtain a Private Pilot Licence at New Zealand Aviation, you will need to satisfy the criteria set by the New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority. Importantly, this level of certification is directly recognised in other countries such as India, China and Indonesia with minor local certification steps in each of these countries.
This qualification is the basic foundation for any flying pursuit and trains a novice learner for recreational flying as well as being a gateway to higher qualifications.
The minimum age in New Zealand for a Private Pilot Licence (PPL) is 17 years. A dedicated learner can complete the Private Pilot Licence (PPL) in 8 weeks.
Those that want to take up aviation as a career go on and do their Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL), once they have attained their PPL.
Candidates must pass both a practical assessment and the ground theory exams before they can gain their PPL.
An external organisation – Aviation Services Ltd. (ASL) conduct the practical assessment and theory exams. | 2019-04-22T14:13:22Z | https://www.newzealandaviation.com/private-pilot-license/ |
Super Bloo Bros. Vs The Blue Blur: Right Back At Ya!
The gameplay is incredibly enjoyable as you will quickly find out the game uses mechanics from many 90's platformers including Super Mario Bros., Sonic The Hedgehog, Alex Kidd, and Kirby. The overall mixture is perfect with Mario-like physics, Alex Kidd-style item collecting, and blatant enemies and bosses ripped straight from Kirby and Sonic games! In-fact the first boss is for all intents and purposes Whispy Woods from the Kirby titles!
The game has you collect items, defeat all enemies, speed-run, etc. as goals, if you complete all goals in every level something special will occur! The stages themselves, despite being heavily influenced in-terms of their themes are quite clever in design and still feel completely unique which is not only a good thing, but is highly surprising considering the amount of outside influence this game possesses.
Another thing worth mentioning is that the developer has announced that there will be fifteen new stages added as dlc in the near future which will add even more content to this superb title! The update will fix several bugs as well, though we didn't experience any during our playthrough of the game.
The controls are silky smooth and very easy to learn, while the game's level of difficulty starts off easy, but becomes fairly challenging later in the game.
Visually the game looks great, but you won't be blown away by the graphics. The character model and enemy sprites are quite detailed and look nice and the game's soundtrack is catchy and enjoyable. You'll definitely be humming some of the tunes after playing the game! Overall on the audio-visual side of things you may not be wowed, but you will definitely enjoy it nonetheless!
With great gameplay, flawless controls, and a solid audio-visual presentation, Bloo Kid 2 is a superb game that any fan of the platforming genre should highly enjoy, however we do have to dock some points due to the lack of originality, however we still highly recommend this game to all 3DS owners!
It's time to take on Wyspy Wuds!
The copyrights that this game has broken lol.
I sense a pending lawsuit.
Looks good, but I agree that it's pushing the limits as to what is allowed through copyright laws. | 2019-04-23T21:13:41Z | http://www.wiiwarewave.com/t4978-review-bloo-kid-2-3ds-eshop |
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We have listed all of the Oconto food pantries that we have found. With help from users like you we have compiled a list of some. If you know of a food pantry that is not included here, please submit new food pantries to our database by going to the ADD A LISTING link on the header of our website.
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Due to the low number of listings in Oconto, we have added area listings below. | 2019-04-26T05:45:08Z | https://www.foodpantries.org/ci/wi-oconto |
More than $4.7 million is going to local programs that help homeless individuals and families who deal with challenges such as mental illness, disabilities and domestic violence. In East County, projects funded include Crisis House and Kurdish Human Rights Watch.
The County of San Diego Department of Housing and Community Development applied for funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Supportive Housing Program on behalf of community organizations.
December 3, 2010 (San Diego) – A new program is proving effective at helping chronically homeless people in San Diego County find permanent homes, get medical care and other support services needed to rebuild their lives.
Facilitated by United Way of San Diego County, the San Diego County Plan to End Chronic Homelessness (PTECH) has found permanent homes for 177 chronically homeless San Diegans in the past 17 months, including people in East County--and actually saved taxpayers money. | 2019-04-25T10:39:31Z | https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/taxonomy/term/6580 |
It’s been a while since I’ve posted about all the tidbits of data I’ve been reading.
Here’s a special Health Blurbs for the Brain.
Introversion got you down? Act like an extrovert! Wall Street Journal article here.
The taller you are, the greater the risk of cancer. NYTimes blog post here.
I am loving this blogger’s series Surprising Things about Parenting in Foreign Countries. Here is an American’s perspective about parenting in Japan.
Omg, my doctor would have killed me if I even thought of eating sushi, drinking coffee or gasp alcohol!! Seriously, I was on a strict diet from the moment I found out I was pregnant. Granted he is a high risk doctor, but still very interesting to see the difference in culture on this alone!!
I know, isn’t it insane? One of the professors from my business school is coming out with a book in a couple weeks that talks about the myths and the facts of what to do and not do during pregnancy based on scientific research. I am dying to read it so I can relay the truth on my blog. Stay tuned.
Yes I am determined to get to the bottom of the ambiguities of what to do/not do during pregnancy. Although I have to admit I personally will be so cautious that I’ll adhere to everything any doctor says.
It’s interesting to see all the different theories from different places. How about moderation? My doctor did tell me have a glass of wine towards the end of pregnancy, I think because I wasn’t sleeping at all.
Michelle, yes, I think that’s right. It’s all about moderation. I really want to understand it more so that I have facts to back up what is correct.
Great post and I can’t wait to read your follow-up about your professor’s book!
Yes, Charlotte, I’m going to be all over her book as soon as it’s released. It’s called Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong-and What You Really Need to Know.
i am definitely interested in the series on being pregnant in other countries- I find topics about cultural differences fascinating.
Kate, check out this blogger’s series. I searched for it and here is the link. Japan and Norway so far.
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BENGALURU: Academic experts, innovators, start-up founders, ministers and bureaucrats said the country is witnessing exciting times. They were speaking at a full-day meeting of innovators in the city on Saturday. The event — InnoFest 2015 — a gathering of the best minds in the country was held at the Indian Institute of Scicence.
Union Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha and Minister of State for Urban Development Babul Supriyo spoke on the need to solve challenges in India and its need to have innovations.
There was a short question-and-answer session during the programme when youngsters spoke about their dreams for India. Some said, they dream of an India where parents don’t push their children, while others said they dreamt of an inclusive society. Some outlined the need for better teachers. | 2019-04-19T21:32:15Z | http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2015/aug/23/Best-Minds-of-the-Country-Meet-at-IISc-Tech-Fest-803598.html |
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In the previous post in this series I described how to use Conditional Formatting to create a neat and simple Gantt chart alongside a simple Excel-based project plan. In this post I’ll describe how to use dates in addition to the day numbers that were featured in the previous post. The picture alongside (right) shows the result from today's post.
As with the previous case, I’m going to describe a quick and simple method. This method also takes weekends into account as non-working days. We ended the last post with what you see alongside (left).
So, with very little effort, we have a Gantt chart with day numbers and dates.
In one further posting I’ll describe how to add groups of tasks and how to summarise them. | 2019-04-19T05:06:28Z | http://www.notecolon.info/2010/02/project-plans-in-excel-adding-dates.html |
Antarctic sea ice is one of those things in the climate system that seems to confuse people. Antarctic sea ice, on average, is increasing. How can there be global warming if sea ice is increasing in the Antarctic? Some have gone so far as to average the Arctic sea ice loss with the Antarctica sea ice gains, and imply that globally sea ice isn’t changing. That’s just silly. Even so, it’s fair to say that most of the popular explanations for Antarctic sea ice expansion haven’t been very convincing.
In this essay, I’ll try to explain where the confusion about Antarctic sea ice changes comes from, and to highlight a few recent papers in the scientific literature that add important new clarity to the picture. The bottom line is that scientific understanding Antarctic sea ice trends is actually pretty solid.
Antarctic sea ice trend for March (late summer), 1979 through 2014. Areas where sea ice is expanding are shown in red. Source: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC.org).
First, let’s talk about what determines how much Antarctic sea ice there is. As with Arctic sea ice, it’s a combination of thermodynamics and dynamics: the rate of cooling to the atmosphere vs. the delivery of heat from the ocean below, and the movement of sea ice by the winds and by surface ocean currents. In general, Antarctic sea ice forms near the coastline, where upwelling waters cool to the atmosphere. It melts when the winds and currents push it into areas of warmer water to the north. In the summer, it melts pretty much all the way back to the coast; the 24-hour sunlight provides plenty of energy to make that happen.
The importance of the winds in controlling Antarctic sea ice leads to the obvious idea that changing winds can explain the increase that has been observed over the last several decades. In particular, it follows from the above discussion that if either the katabatic flow from the Antarctic continent, or the westerlies were to increase, we would expect Antarctic sea ice to expand. There has indeed been a substantial increase in the circumpolar westerlies; this is very well established from observations and is associated with the oft-discussed increase in the “Southern Annular Mode” (SAM) index2. Averaged over the year, the SAM index has increased nearly monotonically since the 1970s (e.g., Marshall et al., 2003).
So at first glance, it really is very simple: the westerly winds have increased, so sea ice has increased too. Furthermore, there is good evidence that the increasing westerlies are a response to anthropogenic climate forcing from CO2 and other greenhouse gas increases in the troposphere, along with ozone declines in the stratosphere (Thompson and Solomon, 2002; Thompson et al., 2011). This would suggest that the observed increase in Antarctic sea ice extent is anthropogenic in origin, just like the Arctic sea ice decline, but for very different reasons.
It sounds pretty good right? Reduced ozone in the stratosphere, and increased CO2 in the troposphere — both climate forcings that are unequivocally anthropogenic — cause increased westerly winds, which cause Antarctic sea ice to expand.
Of course, it’s not that simple. For one thing, the average increase of Antarctic sea ice is actually a small number that is the difference of two big numbers — modest increases over a large area, mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere, and very large decreases over a smaller area in the Western Hemisphere. The map below, showing change in the length of the sea ice season over the last 30 years, illustrates this point well. In spite of the average increase, there are very rapid declines in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen Seas, comparable to sea ice declines in the Arctic.
Trend in the length of the sea ice season, 1979-2010. Blue and purple areas show areas where sea ice is declining, orange and red where it is increasing. Source: Maksym et al., 2012.
Another problem with explaining Antarctic sea ice expansion in terms of the circumpolar winds is that the only season is which there is a significant trend in the westerlies is austral summer. There is a weak positive trend in fall, but both spring and winter show no trend; the SAM trends in these seasons may even be slightly negative, depending on which data are used (Ding et al., 2012). Yet the pattern of sea ice change is quite similar in all seasons: decreasing along the Pacific coast of West Antarctica, and increasing around most of East Antarctica, and in the Ross and Weddell Seas.
Another problem is that modeling studies that have examined the relationship between the westerly winds and Antarctic sea ice have come up with results that appear to be in direct opposition to the observations. When fully coupled climate models are run with increased CO2 and decreased stratospheric ozone, the westerly winds increase as has been observed, but sea ice decreases around most of Antarctica. In fact, in at least one study (Bitz and Polvani, 2012), the pattern of trends is the mirror image of the observations, with increases, rather than decreases in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas3!
Annual mean response of sea ice concentration to ozone depletion in a fully coupled climate model (CCSM3, and 1° resolution). Thick black contour shows the marks the winter edge (15% concentration); thin black lines show areas where the change is statistically significant. Note that in this figure, red means a decrease in sea ice. Source: Bitz and Polvani, 2012, Figure 1d.
So what’s really going on? Before I get to that, I want to note a couple of other ideas that have been suggested but which probably don’t provide the key answer. One idea is that model resolution might be a problem. Big climate models are generally run at relatively low spatial resolution, typically at about 2° latitude and longitude. That’s very high compared with a decade ago but is insufficient to resolve key processes such as ocean heat transport by small scale eddies. Bitz and Polvani looked at this using a very high resolution model (0.1°). Their results show only a somewhat weaker response to the ozone forcing experiment but with the same (incorrect) sign. Another idea is that changes in ocean stratification might be important. One way to increase sea ice growth is to increase the amount of fresh water getting into the Southern Ocean, which could happen from increased rainfall or from glacier melt. The latter is happening, of course, in spades (see the latest data from Sutterly et al., 2014 for example). Fresh water forms a sort of buoyant lid on the ocean, limiting the ability of heat from the warmer water below to get to the sea ice and melt it. A study by Bintanja et al. (2013) showed that it was a least plausible that this explains the Antarctic sea ice change. A basic problem, though, is that the greatest discharge of meltwater is occurring in the Amundsen Sea, exactly where sea ice is declining.
So, do we get the right answer if we take into account all of the wind changes that have occurred over the last few decades? The answer is yes. This is nicely illustrated in a study by Holland and Kwok (2012), who showed that wind, ice motion, and ice concentration changes match each other remarkably well. Where the wind has been increasingly northward, concentrations are increasing; where wind and ice motion changes are toward the continent, ice concentrations are decreasing.
Trends in sea ice concentration (colors) and ice drift (arrows) at top, compared with trends in sea level pressure (bottom) and wind speed near the surface (arrows) at bottom. From Holland and Kwok (2012).
Modeled vs. observed changes in sea ice, 1992-2010. Source: Holland et al, 2014.
Taken as a whole, these results show that there is no significant contradiction between our understanding of Antarctic sea ice and the observation that it is, in average, expanding. We can explain sea ice trends in the Antarctic rather well if we take into account the full range of changes in winds that have occurred. The average expansion of Antarctic sea ice was not anticipated, but it hardly represents any sort of existential threat to our fundamental understanding of the climate system as a whole. It’s merely an interesting scientific challenge.
Of course, predicting how sea ice will change in the future is another matter. Turner et al. (2013) show that “hindcasts” of the late 20th and early 21st century, using the latest-generation fully coupled ocean-atmosphere models, generally get the trends wrong. Our track record, in other words, isn’t very good. But the uncertainty here lies not so much in our understanding of sea ice per se, but rather in our ability to predict the details of the wind and ocean changes that drive sea ice change. Various model imperfections, and in particular the representation of the tropical atmosphere, can result in wind biases and therefore sea-ice biases around the Antarctic continent (e.g. Song et al., 2011). We aren’t going to get projections (or hindcasts) in the Amundsen Sea area right if we don’t get details of the tropical Pacific right — and that’s a notoriously difficult problem and an active area in climate dynamics research.
Featured Image: “NASA’s DC-8 Flying Over the Weddell Sea” (11/17/2011) by NASA GISS via Flickr.
1This is not to say that winds don’t matter in the Arctic – they do. It does not, however, appear to be as dominant a factor. See for example Lindsay et al.’s (2009) paper on the 2007 Arctic sea ice anomaly.
2The SAM index can be defined a number of different ways, but essentially a measure of the pressure or geopotential height difference between the high and mid latitudes. For example, the commonly used Marshall SAM index is based on the difference of sea level pressure (SLP) between 40°S and 65°S. Since winds flow clockwise around regions of low pressure in the Southern Hemisphere, an increase in the SAM index — which means decreasing pressure at high latitudes relative to low latitudes — has to be associated with increasing westerlies.
3Whether the mirror image character of Bitz and Polvani’s (2012) results is just chance, or might tell us something fundamental, is an interesting question that, as far as I’m aware, has yet to be addressed.
4Call me a skeptic, but I think that the results of Marshall et al. (2014), which suggest that eventually sea ice will start to shrink in response to wind-driven changes in the ocean, needs further evaluation. It’s one thing to bring more warm water upwards towards the surface. It’s another thing for that heat to diffuse through the stratified upper water column, and melt sea ice.
5Some researchers talk about the variability in the Amundsen Sea as being part of the “asymmetrical response of the SAM” but I find this terminology misleading. Changes in the ASL may sometimes be associated with changes in the overall circumpolar westerlies, but they may also occur quite independently. Further, changes in the ASL can change the SAM index, even when there is no change in the circumpolar westerlies per se. Ding et al., 2012 estimated that 25% of the variability in the SAM index is due to tropically-forced variability in the ASL, entirely independent of CO2 and ozone forcing (see also L’heureux and Thompson, 2012 and Seager, 2003).
6These wind changes may also figure prominently in the thinning of West Antarctic glaciers, but that’s a subject for another essay, which I’ll write up for RealClimate.org. For those that are interested, see Steig et al. (2012) and Dutrieux et al., (2014).
7 The full magnitude of average sea ice increase modeled by Holland et al. (2014) is not quite as large (about 70% as big) as the observations suggest, but this is hardly a reason for concern. Some recent results suggest, in any case, that errors in the observations have led to an overestimate of the trend (Eisenman et al, 2014).
Author: Eric Steig Dr. Eric Steig is a Professor of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, where he teaches courses in glaciology, isotope geochemistry and paleoclimatology. His primary research focus is the development of ice core records, and their use in studying polar climate and ice sheet change. He also develops instrumentation methods in isotope geochemistry. Throughout his distinguished career, he has conducted research with support from the DOE, NSF, NOAA, CFCAS and private foundations, and has been a leader in multiple interdisciplinary science programs at the University of Washington and internationally. Dr. Steig chaired the 2000-year sub-group for the International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences (2008-2013), served contiuously as a working group memer of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Working Group (NSF) since 2000, and also served on the Paleoenvironmental Arctic Science committee (NSF) (2002-2004). He directed the Quaternary Research Center from 2008-2013, was an Associate and then Senior Editor of the journal Quaternary Research (2001-05, 2005-08), and is currently a Review Editor for Science. Just this year, Dr. Steig was awarded Outstanding Researcher of the Year by the College of the Environment at UW. He's also a co-founder of RealClimate.org.
Wouldn’t it be accurate to say that most experts have been confused by the growth of Antarctic Sea Ice? It wasn’t predicted. Even now, the Marshall et al. paper, the only one you mention that provides an explanation for the inability of equilibrium models to produce a larger sea ice extent, is one you regard as needing further substantiation.
Meanwhile, since you attribute the winds that drive the Antarctic Sea Ice growth largely to AGW, would it be reasonable to consider this growth as a negative feedback, at least during the early non-equilibrium stages of warming? Has anybody attempted to calculate the size of the sea ice negative feedback under that assumption?
First, let me emphasize that I am not making an argument that the sea ice trend is anthropogenic; nor am I arguing the reverse. What I was trying to do was to explain what I think has become a sort of “standard answer” (westerly winds) and then point out the various problems with that idea (doesn’t explain the seasonal changes; doesn’t explain the decline in sea ice in the Pacific sector; appears not to work in models). The most recent work from Marshall et al. (2014) addresses only the last of these.
That said, there is no question that changing winds as a whole – not just the westerlies, but everything — go a very long way to explaining what we have observed. The major point I am trying to get across here is that there is absolutely no reason why we’d expect, a priori, that the winds would change in a way that would lead to sea ice decline. It is true that the increase was not anticipated, but nor should anyone with a basic understanding of the processes controlling Antarctic sea ice have expected decline, either. Simple one-cause answers for observed changes in the system are all too easy to make. Even among experts it’s perhaps a little too easy to think only about thermodynamics (warming earth = warming ocean = sea ice loss) and forget about dynamics. It’s equally easy to go with the “it’s all winds” idea, and ignore the other processes going on. But most important to my point: it’s also too easy to assume that just because some model experiments don’t match observations that we “can’t model” or “don’t understand” Antarctic sea ice. The Holland et al. (2014) makes it clear (at least to me) that we can, and do.
As for they question about feedbacks, I think you pose an interesting question, but one I don’t feel qualified to answer at the moment. Perhaps this is a good theoretical study someone could do. Of course, there are certainly papers that look at the magnitude of climate feedbacks expected from the Antarctic sea ice response to climate forcing, but I’m not very up to speed on that literature. In any case, the answer may change quite a bit, once the recent discovery that Antarctic sea ice may actually be quite a lot thicker than once thought, is taken into account. See Maksym et al., 2014). There’s also a reasonable write up on this, here: http://www.livescience.com/48880-antarctica-sea-ice-thickness-mapped.html (but please ignore the statement about “the mystery” of Antarctic sea ice; this is exactly the kind of misleading reporting that I’m responding to with my essay!).
There’s a general tendency in science to assume that you understand the reason for something happening if the outcome agrees with your prediction. I see this in particular with some physicists (no offense intended) who think they understand atmospheric dynamics. Occasionally a completely off-the-wall cause-and-effect statement will appear in print, completely wrong but stated confidently by a physicist who in most other circumstances is probably much smarter than I!
In that spirit, my impression as an interested non-expert has been that the experts assumed that Antarctic sea ice would probably decline (the thermodynamic mechanism) and was surprised that wind changes would be large enough to dominate the thermodynamic mechanism.
Meanwhile, in the Arctic, when the dramatic 2007 summer ice loss took place (also unexpected in GCM projections at the time), the message that seemed to emerge was that the thermodynamic explanation is correct, it’s just a lot stronger than we thought. Still at the time it was apparent that winds accounted for most of the interannual variability in summertime Arctic sea ice extent, and that winds were particularly important in 2007. This quickly polarized (no pun intended), with skeptics arguing that winds were the cause and mainstream scientists criticizing skeptics for pretending or imagining that short-term variability equalled long-term variability.
So, at the science end, have there been any studies that address long-term sea ice loss in the Arctic (wind vs temp) the same way that the studies you discuss above address long-term sea ice loss in the Antarctic (wind vs temp)? Ideally using the same model? From first principles, I would expect Arctic winds to play less of a role overall, since during winter the Arctic fills with sea ice and the winds can’t blow ice away to expose additional open ocean to freezing.
At the public end, we seem to be in the following position. I’m oversimplifying, but the public won’t get the nuances.
It’s so easy for a critic to say that scientists are picking whatever answer serves their purposes. On the other hand, if a theory is correct, every correct answer WILL be consistent with that theory. The trap that scientists need to avoid is the converse: assuming without thinking too hard about it that an answer that’s consistent with the theory is the correct answer.
They noted that ” It is also qualitatively consistent with the counterintuitive prediction of a global atmospheric-ocean model of increasing sea ice around Antarctica with climate warming due to the stabilizing effects of increased snowfall on the Southern Ocean.” How does the more recent research evaluate this sentence?
Jimmy Hansen (real name?) in the open comments section seems to have missed the point of the post, which is precisely that although the Antarctic sea ice growth has been presented as a “contradiction”, it isn’t. It only appears to be a contradiction if one sticks with a very simplistic conceptual model of how the planet work.
John notes that “if a theory is correct, every correct answer will be consistent with that theory” This is of course true, but not very useful. A more subtle but equally accurate statements is that if a theory is incomplete (which it will always be, for as complex a system as our planet), then observations will often appear to be in conflict with the theory, even when they are not (and similarly, observations will often appear to in agreement with the theory, when they are not). This is applied physics, not elementary particle physics.
Eric – I agree. It’s in scientists’ interest in papers and press releases to maximize the extent to which their results are new and unexpected. Then the press, which needs to tell a story if it wants to engage most of the public, plays up the surprise angle even more.
The net result of all of that is the the public receives a false picture of science dealing with a whole lot of surprise and conflict when usually (not always) everything just gradually makes more and more sense (the normal science of Kuhn).
I should add that skeptic blogs treat everything that doesn’t fit with their imagined view of consensus science as being contradictory. Few such blogs seem to care about how things actually work.
John, regarding your last comments on “skeptic blogs”, your comment about “normal science” in the Kuhnian sense is interesting. What explains the “skeptic” view, then, is the belief that there is a scientific revolution underway — that the scientific understanding of climate is about to undergo a paradigm shift. In that context, it makes perfect sense that each and every small thing that seems, at first glance, to be a contradiction to the paradigm must actually be a contradiction. Most scientists, on the other hand, don’t think such a revolution is likely. (Of course, one could also argue that we have recently undergone such a revolution — until the mid 20th century, most scientists didn’t really think we could have such a huge impact on the atmosphere as we are clearly having. Some still hold to that view, because they are stuck in the pre-revolutionary paradigm. In other words, the “skeptics” (and I use that word advisedly) think they are revolutionaries, but really they may be reactionaries. Only time will tell for sure of course.
Thank you for this very helpful and clearly-written post. Sorry to be late to the comment thread, but I see this as helping to clarify the processes as well as dispel common misconceptions. I certainly plan to refer to this in my teaching.
My reading is that the very common misconception you’re dressing is that simple “thermodynamics” controls the extent of sea ice. That is, we simplistically assume that sea ice extent is all about “freezing and melting.” But actually a lot of the year-to-year and even decade-to-decade variations are controlled by “dynamics,” which means much greater variability.
Unfortunately, the distinction between “dynamics” and “thermodynamics” is part of climate scientists’ jargon, and these phrases are usually gobbledygook for a lay reader. But almost anybody can understand the idea that when wind pushes ice away form the frozen coast, more ice can form behind it; and alternately when ice is pushed into warmer waters at lower latitudes it is likely to melt.
A key and very helpful distinction you make is the interesting asymmetry between the Arctic (a polar ocean surrounded by land) and Antarctic (a polar continent surrounded by ocean), which is really an accident of geography. Arctic sea ice is confined to the highest latitudes by the surrounding coastline, whereas Antarctic sea ice is frequently buffeted around by winds.
In addition to the “corralling” presence of Arctic Canada, Greenland, and Eurasia, Arctic sea ice is subject to the very strong positive albedo feedback when bright polar ice is replaced by dark ice-free ocean. In Antarctica, by contrast, the pole will remain white for many centuries or millennia even under catastrophic warming because it’s covered by thousands of meters of land ice. There’s also a very important but less-recognized long wave feedback due to increased water vapor (and maybe clouds) in the Arctic winter as the ice-free area expands (Melissa Burt presented this last week at AGU). Neither of these strong radiative feedbacks can operate poleward of about 70 S, but both are very powerful north of 70 N.
Again, thanks for the time and effort you invested here in explaining and summarizing an interesting and technical literature so that nonspecialists can understand it!
Thanks for the comments. I agree entirely with your comments.
Many readers — particularly on my RealClimate post on this — seem to have thought I was arguing that the sea ice trends are clearly anthropogenic phenomena. I am not.
There *may* be a forced component to the sea ice increase, but it’s too early to tell. | 2019-04-19T05:23:29Z | http://climatechangenationalforum.org/making-sense-of-antarctic-sea-ice-changes/ |
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Nearly 100 awards were given to outstanding student-athletes at the 2015 TFA Athletics Awards Ceremony last night, capped off by the presentation of the Kroy and Kelly Crofoot Lifetime Service Award, Coach of the Year and Male and Female Royal Athlete Awards!
Congratulations to Dr. Matt and Loni Hurbanis for earning the 2015 Kroy and Kelly Crofoot Lifetime Service Award!
Congratulations to track & field head coach Ricky Argro for earning the 2015 TFA Athletics Coach of the Year!
Congratulations to Teahna Daniels for earning the 2015 Female Royal Athlete Award! She will be continuing her track & field career at the University of Texas next year.
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Seth Mosley and his Nashville-based Full Circle Music, took top honors at the 46th Annual GMA Dove Awards, garnering four wins, including Producer of the Year, Songwriter of the Year (non-artist), Pop Contemporary Album of the Year for Run Wild. Live Free. Love Strong. (producer) by for KING & COUNTRY and Inspirational Album of the Year for Above It All (producer) by Phillips Craig & Dean.
Mosley was a five-time nominee for the sold-out evening, which took place on October 13 at Lipscomb University. In it's 46th year, the show will air on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) on Sunday, October 18, 2015.
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A man was shot Saturday afternoon in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
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i'd say that's a pretty nice looking week would'nt you?
i think the important one there tho is leaving THAT job. i'm very, very happy about that. i suspect that my boss would've wanted me to stay on for another month but enough is enough - especially when i've already work 2/3 weeks past my notice period - and i HATE it. it's going directly behind me.
ahead of me is another job which is almost exactly what i had in mind. hours are good, pay is good, they look after me, train me, dont patronise me, follow occupational health and safety guidelines, and is not in the slightest bit boring. woo hoo. i could REALLY enjoy this job.
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This is a tutorial with detailed explanations on how to solve equations with rational expressions. The main idea is to multiply all terms of the equation by the lowest common denominator.
Mutliply factors and group like terms.
conclusion:The solution to the above equation is x = 5 / 3.
Find all real solutions to the equation.
This is an equation with two rational expressions. Multiply all the terms on the left side of the equation and all the terms in the right side of the equation by the lowest common denominator (x - 2)(x + 2).
multiply factors and group like terms.
factor left side of equation.
2 values make the LS zero.
this value of x is not a solution because it makes each of the denominators in the given equation equal to zero.
conclusion:The solution to the above equation is x = -1.
More references and links to equations.
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Are Your Clients Turning into Customers?
What’s the difference between a client and a customer? Lawyers, like other professional service providers, consider the term client to be more prestigious and most eschew any reference to clients as customers. But it may just be time to reconsider. First, clients are beginning to act more like custmers and second, law firms could benefit greatly by emulating best practices from companies who know how to build the most satisfied and loyal customers.
The word client is derived from the Latin word “clientem” or “cliens” meaning follower or “person seeking the protection or influence of someone powerful.” It also may be a variation on the word “cluere” which means to listen, follow and obey. Surely no lawyer in 2014 believes their clients will just follow and obey — and do most clients really need their lawyers to protect them? A few may, but in general that seems patronizing.
Customer, on the other hand, derives from the Latin verb “consuescere” meaning “to accustom,” and to purchase as a habit. Customers more often are associated with those who buy products and consumer services. Lawyers do not consider what they do to be in any way similar to a commodity or product that could be easily replicated or sold by multiple vendors. Traditionally, the value of good legal representation could not be measured or quantified.
A person who buys goods or services from another person or company. A person who engages a professional (lawyer, accountant, architect, consultant) for knowledge, advice or representation.
Short-term, transactions-based. An ongoing relationship involving interpersonal interaction and trust.
Tend to comparison shop and base initial decision on value for the price, brand awareness, convenience. Selected on basis of relationship, referral, prior results, and expertise.
In the “New Normal,” Are Clients Behaving More Like Customers?
As noted in a recent article in The Economist, “Price-discounting tends to be associated more with used-car lots than with posh law firms.” Even as law firms continue to raise their hourly rates, some as high as $1800 or more per hour, clients push back on certain charges and frequently require substantial discounts. Most firms raise their rates because they know that their “customers” are going to insist on a steep discount. It is the reason that the realization rates in law firms dropped from 92% in 2007 to 83.5% in 2013.
They more frequently buy services on a transactional basis, often putting out RFPs for each new matter.
Procurement officers in many companies play an important role in screening and selecting law firms.
Companies require firms to adhere to strict vendor guidelines both in submitting proposals to do work and after they are selected to do the work.
Like their internal peer departments who have approved vendor lists, legal departments frequently have approved panel firms, many of whom were selected based on pricing.
They have exerted substantial pressure to reduce rates, provide discounts and provide some advice for free as they increasingly consider many legal services to be of a routine or commodity nature.
They increasingly turn to technology-solutions, legal process outsourcers and lower cost providers for lower end, routine work.
While long-term or personal relationships and loyalty still play a role in some inside-outside counsel engagements, this advantage has diminished significantly and in some instances has become an impediment.
Management guru Peter Drucker’s theorized that “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” This seems almost too simple but at a time when lawyer supply greatly exceeds demand, finding, landing and retaining good, profitable and loyal clients is very challenging. Law firms can learn a lot from those companies/brands that have built highly profitable companies on the basis of exceptional customer service and loyalty by putting customers at the center of their mission and culture, companies like Amazon, Apple, Nordstrom, Mercedes, Zappos, Ritz Carlton, LL Bean and many others that routinely are at the top of best customer service surveys. Most of these did not build their customer loyalty by being the cheapest. Below are some examples of the customer service approaches and philosophies of service leaders. Should your law firm be establishing similar values, practices and policies as some of the ones below?
Automatic refunds, no questions asked. Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, said in a letter to shareholders “We build automated systems that look for occasions when we’ve provided a customer experience that isn’t up to our standards, and those systems then proactively refund customers,” he noted.
Provide a customized beneift/solution that appeals to the customer’s emotions. When Steve Jobs first started the Apple Stores he asked, “How do we enrich people’s lives?” not how do we maximize our profits.
Listen to customers and act on what you hear. After reviewing multiple surveys and research reports that showed that customers will abandon a purchase if they cannot get free shipping, LL Bean decided to offer year-round, no-strings-attached free shipping. The company also listens to customers by involving customer-facing, front-line employees including those who handle customer calls and many of whom have long tenure with the company, in marketing and new product roll-outs and decisions.
1. Deliver Wow! through service.
At a time when clients have many more choices than they need to find great lawyers who can get the job done, and when they are pushing hard on pricing and value because they believe that many of their legal needs can be well-attended to by many lawyers, firms must really focus on putting the customer front and center in every way they serve them, interact with them and innovate to deliver optimal value and results. | 2019-04-25T16:13:04Z | http://www.rainmakingoasis.com/are-your-clients-turning-into-customers/ |
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Philadelphia, Pa--714 Mckean St. B/C-1 reported heavy fire on the 2nd floor of a 2 story M/O/R, 15x45 with one trapped. Placed 2&2 in service and requested the box filled out. Firefighters rescue the victim, a 10 year old girl who was transported to the hospital with reported burns and smoke inhalation. | 2019-04-19T16:50:57Z | https://www.northeastbravest.com/2013/02/philly-firefighters-rescue-one-from.html |
You’ve already outlined a budget, researched your demographic, and determined the exact goals your company wants to achieve by diving into Twitter Advertising. If not, take a little detour and head to this blog post and then come back this way. In our last Twitter ads blog post, we covered a brief overview of the different types of Twitter Ad Campaigns you can choose from. Now, we’re going to dive a little deeper and focus specifically on Followers and Tweet Engagement campaigns.
2. Give it a name and set the dates.
When naming your followers campaign, make sure the name you choose easily identifies the campaign. Eventually, you will have dashboard full of campaigns and you will want to be able to tell each campaign apart. You may also want to include targeting information and identify whether the campaign is desktop or mobile.
3. Get your creative hat on.
This is the part where we get to have fun, while also conveying your messaging properly. Tell your future twitter following why they should follow you in a way that captures their attention. And remember, you must do so in 140 characters or less. Devote the majority of your time to the creative efforts of your campaign. A creative ad can make or break your cost-per-click. Take off your business hat, and think about what makes you want to follow a brand on Twitter. Then use that inspiration to craft a killer tweet that will have them hooked! Also, be sure to have an image that supports your perfectly crafted tweet.
4. Target like you mean it!
Twitter ad targeting can get as granular as you would like. It can even get a bit overwhelming when you’re trying to choose from all of the targeting options. The most important thing to remember is to refer back to your demographic research.
Below is a sample Twitter Target Audience for a new ice cream company in VA. We have chosen our main target area as Virginia, females-only, and English Speaking. Then, we wanted to attract followers who were already following some of our competitors. So, we chose: Dairy Queen, Cold Stone, Skinny Dip, Sweet Frog, and Baskin-Robbins. Last, but not least, we included their buying behaviors and interests. We want to make sure our followers are in the market for our product, our delicious ice cream.
What’s the point of having a robust twitter following if your audience isn’t noticing the content you’re generating? That’s where a Tweet Engagement campaign comes in handy. Tweet Engagement campaigns allow you to promote your tweets to your audience and beyond. You only pay when someone engages (retweets, favorites, expands, clicks on, follows, or replies) with the tweet.
When you set-up a Tweet Engagement campaign you will follow the same steps listed above for a followers campaign. The major difference between the two types of campaigns is that with a Tweet Engagement campaign your objective is a little different. Instead of encouraging people to follow your account, your goal will be for them to engage with your content. When deciding which tweets to promote, you may want to visit your Twitter Analytics Dashboard to see which tweets on your timeline are getting the most engagement organically.
You will then access a dashboard that will break down all of your tweets by impressions, engagements, and engagement rate. Go through your list of tweets and determine which tweet has the highest engagement rate (the number of engagements divided by the total number of impressions). Engagement rate will give you an excellent indication of which tweets will be worth supporting with a budget.
Below is a sample of a Tweet Engagement campaign set-up to promote Customer Magnetism’s best preforming tweets.
When targeting this Tweet Engagement campaign we wanted to reach people who are interested in our industry and who may be decision makers for businesses that could benefit from CM services.
For username targeting we included the Twitter handles of the two women we honored on #WCW in hopes that people who follow them would agree with our decision to feature them and engage with our tweet.
Under interests, we targeted people who are interested in advertising, business, marketing, entrepreneurship, and small business.
Under behavior targeting we chose to target people who are college educated, employed in the sales/marketing industry, and fit the demographic of corporate execs, corporate moms, business travelers, and big city moms.
After outlining a target audience, be sure that the audience is large enough for the tweets to be seen and small enough that you’re reaching the desired audience. For example, if the audience is less than 2,000 people you may want to consider making the targeting less niche. Niche targeting can be effective if you have an absolute understanding of who your audience is. However, it may take experimenting with a few different audiences to determine the success of your niche target audience.
Now that we’ve narrowed down our audience to reach the people we think our tweets will resonate with, it’s time to set a budget and launch the campaign. Let us know how your first follower and tweet engagement campaigns go, and in the meantime we’ll be working on Part II: Website Clicks/Conversions and Leads on Twitter. Happy Tweeting! | 2019-04-25T00:45:42Z | https://www.customermagnetism.com/twitter-ads-intro-part-i-followers-tweet-engagement-campaigns/ |
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The First Sunday in Lent.
Posted on March 5, 2017 | Comments Off on The First Sunday in Lent.
On the Utility of Fasting.
To-day, my soul, contemplate in imagination the picture portrayed to view in to-day’s Gospel, which opens with the words: “When He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards He was hungry.” (St. Matt. iv. 2.) What an instance of self-denial! How long a time to abstain from taking any nourishment, to live without food or drink! What a signal conquest over the strongest craving of human nature! Now contemplate the emaciated, the wasted form of your Redeemer; see how He, of whom the Psalmist says: “The eyes of all hope in Thee, Lord, and Thou givest them meat in due season” (Ps. cxliv. 15), Himself now feels the pangs of hunger. Most assuredly our Lord had some design in enduring this extraordinarily severe fast. He intended to encourage us to fast in like manner, for this mortification of the body is most profitable, as the Fathers of the Church concur in asserting.
1st. Consider that fasting is the most powerful weapon whereby to resist the devil. The first Adam ate and was conquered; the second Adam fasted and conquered. Fasting, St. Basil says, provides man with a weapon whereby he may vanquish all the hosts of hell. Fasting, St. Jerome tells us, is a truly glorious thing; it is glorious for man, since it cleanses him from sin and renders him acceptable to God and to the angels, and it is terrible for the devils, because it smites them as with a keen, sharp-edged sword and confounds both them and all their devices. The might which fasting imparts, St. Athanasius declares, is one which all the demons dread. Wherefore if, according to the unanimous testimony of the Fathers, fasting is a weapon of such great potency against the enemies of our salvation, gird on with joy, my soul, at once, at the very outset of the ecclesiastical fast this excellent means of defence, and be assured that the more valiantly you employ it during the solemn season of Lent, the more certainly will you have cause to rejoice in the happy Easter-tide in the victory you have gained over the devil.
2d. Consider that fasting is nourishment for the soul. Just as material food is necessary for the growth and development of the body—to quote St. Chrysostom’s words—so fasting makes the soul stout and strong, and gives her wings wherewith she may soar aloft and contemplate divine mysteries. Fasting, St. Athanasius tells us, is the refreshment of the soul, nourishment to the heart, a salutary medicine and the source of chastity. Prove the truth of this from your own experience, my soul; when have you the happiest inspirations, when are your meditations most profitable and your devotional exercises most sweet to you, when can you raise your thoughts with greater facility and dwell on the joys of Heaven with more rapture; at the time when you have eaten a full meal, or when you are fasting and your body is no hindrance to you? You have given your body food, abundance of food, long enough already; now the time has come for your soul to receive the nourishment she needs.
3d. Consider that our Lord’s prayer is not granted by His heavenly Father. O great and wondrous mystery! Never Consider what an attraction fasting gives us in the eyes of the angels. We read that after our Lord had fasted forty days, “Angels came and ministered to Him.” (St. Matt. iv. 11.) This is no wonder, for fasting is an angelic food, and those who fast are counted among the angels. St. Basil says that the angels go about in the churches, and write in their books the names of those who fast; and this doubtless they do because they consider such persons to be more worthy of their celestial company and they defend them mightily in all dangers temporal and spiritual. St. Basil even goes so far as to say that Almighty God calls together all the denizens of the heavenly courts that they may look upon those Christians who fast. Why indeed, since the fallen angels took a malicious pleasure in seeing Adam eat, should not the good angels take delight in seeing the sons of Adam fast? Wherefore, my soul, fast in such a manner as to cause annoyance to the devil, to give refreshment to your soul and joy to your holy angel; and thus you will obediently follow the teaching of the Fathers and of the Gospel for to-day.
This entry was posted in Lent Devotions and tagged fasting. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-22T09:02:51Z | https://holycrosspublications.net/2017/03/05/the-first-sunday-in-lent/ |
My goodness we woke up early. Before the alarm. Before daylight. Before the temperature outside or anything else was civilised, but we had places to go, things to do, people to see, to say nothing of people to hug and once again to wish a very fond farewell with lumps in our throats.
We don't think too much about our commute back to our other home, but it always starts with big butterflies tromping around our stomachs as we lock the boat and hop in to Maggie's car for the ride to the station. Once we are actually on the first train, the one that takes us from Luneville to Nancy, things settle a bit and we are in commuting mode, which is just as well, as we are taking a roundabout way home through London, Canada and the USA and our rough count says that we have another twenty or so connections to make before we sleep in our own bed again.
But that is for the future, tonight we are in Paris once again, having shared a splendid lunch with our friend Eric, even stumbling with him down a street he hadn't found before, and for a bloke who's been taking a photo of Paris every day for a decade, that's no mean feat.
Late in the evening we pinch ourselves as we often do, grateful for the opportunities that have brought us along the paths we travel and the people we have been so privileged to meet on them.
We are only in Paris for a night, but we are in Paris, and it's cold and wet and windy.
We are in Paris. How good is that? | 2019-04-25T17:58:05Z | http://fadingmemories.peterhyndman.com/2013/10/on-way-lagarde-to-paris-18th-september.html |
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