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How do you go from making no money to earning a six-figure-plus income in 12 months — without using any online leads or referrals?
Meet Joe Hartsell, who did it and talked about how he did it with Katie Maxwell on stage at Inman Connect New York.
Valuation insanity: What is your business' true value? | 2019-04-24T22:47:30Z | https://www.inman.com/2017/02/15/a-rookie-story-from-0-to-100000-in-12-months/ |
Featuring free WiFi, 5th Ave Apartments offers pet-friendly accommodation in Tijuana. San Diego is 23 km away.
The accommodation has a flat-screen TV. All units feature a kitchenette equipped with a fridge and stovetop. Towels are available.
Rosarito is 19 km from 5th Ave Apartments. Tijuana International Airport is 6 km from the property.
This entry was posted in Tijuana and tagged 5th Ave Apartments, Baja California, Centro, hotel, Hoteles, México, Tijuana. | 2019-04-26T14:03:55Z | http://hoteles-mexicanos.com/5th-ave-apartments/ |
Due to Supermec's global presence, we are able to source for manual valves that are of the highest quality to meet our customers' needs. We ensure that our manual valves can be successfully integrated into our customers' projects.
As part of our extensive network, Supermec is a proud partner and distributor of Chaoda Valves. Founded in 1984, Chaoda Valves is one of the top 5 valve manufacturers in China today, producing and supplying pristine quality and premium valves to the global market.
Over 500 employee with 130 of them being engineers and technicians specializing in valve design and construction.
Chaoda's own foundry located at Qingtian since 2007, enabling high standards of quality control.
Wide range of Manual Valves available for the petrochemical industry and hazardous areas. | 2019-04-18T10:22:22Z | https://www.supermec.com/en/solutions/manual-valves |
Welcome to the reaccreditation process. We will initiate this process with your organization and we are here to help you successfully achieve reaccreditation. Please contact info@accme.org if you need assistance.
Your organization’s designated primary contact will be notified by the ACCME approximately 15 months in advance of your current accreditation expiration. Providers should use the ACCME’s Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS) to ensure that contact information is current and accurate. Login to PARS here. If you have questions about the PARS login process, please contact the ACCME.
The ACCME’s notification will inform your organization that your reaccreditation decision cycle is open and the materials for your organization are available in PARS. Coincident with the notification, provider timelines, important milestones and other tools and resources will be posted on the ACCME website.
You will be asked to complete a form in PARS that will confirm that your organization intends to seek reaccreditation and to attest to your intent to continue to follow the ACCME’s Accreditation Criteria, Standards for Commercial Support, and policies (accreditation requirements) and agree to fulfill the responsibilities associated with being an ACCME-accredited provider.
If your organization cannot meet the ACCME’s accreditation process deadlines, you may request a one-time extension of your current accreditation term. If your request is approved, your current accreditation term will be extended approximately four months to the next ACCME decision cycle, and your accreditation review will be conducted in the subsequent decision cohort. You will be required to meet the administrative deadlines applicable to the new decision cohort. Requests for extensions must be completed in PARS. The standard extension fee will apply (see Accreditation Fee Schedule). | 2019-04-23T18:42:13Z | http://www.accme.org/about-accreditation/get-reaccredited |
The Tissot Powermatic 80 has an incredible 80 hours power reserve. Cased in a 40mm Hypoallergenic Titanium case with a Titanium link bracelet, black arabic numerals and baton dial and 50m water resistant. The Tissot Powermatic 80 offers a stylish yet sporty look without compromising durability, elegance and comfort. | 2019-04-26T14:56:54Z | https://www.leonarddews.co.uk/watches-c15/powermatic-80-40mm-automatic-watch-p1635 |
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Written by Shankar Anant, IMEC Technical Specialist.
In most businesses, the one common but fundamental skill that is much needed, yet mostly lacking, is the skill of Problem Solving. Where this becomes rather apparent is within those companies pursuing a continuous improvement journey. It isn’t a stretch to say that all continuous improvement tools/practices are built around some form of problem solving. Ironically, many of these companies have devoted time and resources to the task of training their associates but pervasive success is elusive.
Two Illinois companies are working together to provide consumers with an exceptionally useful product. Technical Publication Associates (TPA) from Morton, Illinois and Plano Synergy (Plano) from Plano, Illinois are working together for the benefit of the consumer. Plano manufactures molded plastic cases to hold and protect a variety of sporting and/or hunting goods. TPA develops simple, yet effective, consumer instructions on how to use a product. “Our two companies working together has resulted in a high-quality product (Plano) with simple, effective instructions (TPA) on how our gun case can be customized, used, and maintained”, says John Whalen, Plano Engineer. | 2019-04-18T13:52:50Z | http://blog.imec.org/tag/problem-solving |
Coffee and it’s relationship with health. Good or bad? When we consult the Internet and it’s news, we can find anything and everything. Obviously, the pessimists see coffee as the last tool sent by dark forces to destroy humanity: insomnia, anguishing, impatient, headaches, and irritability… Everything is there! A study conducted by the European Agency for the security of products also has demonstrated that the consumption equivalent to four espressos per day could be harmful to the health of an individual.
Stop everything and put down your mug. Shop is closed!
Now, on a serious note, obviously, we need to go deeper to properly understand the studies brought forward. The French newspaper « le Nouvel Obs » underlines that in May of 2015 that other variables come into consideration before we can say that coffee is harmful for our health: « There are other setting to take into consideration, knowing the age, lifestyle, individuals food habits or even the consumption frequency ». The daily newspaper adds: « it is not because coffee can be harmful to a certain threshold that we must cease it’s consumption ».
The most recent study to this day comes from the prestigious Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Finished at the end of November 2015, by the daily « La Presse », this study demonstrates that « people who drink 3-5 cups of coffee a day apparently have a lower risk of premature cardiac diseases, diabetes or Parkinsons disease and suicide rate ». The study was based on a sample of people that didn’t drink or barely drank coffee, compared a group of individuals who moderately drink, to upwards of 5 cups per day. 300 000 nurses and health professionals answered questionnaires on their own health and their life habits at regular intervals on a period of 30 years.
Without confirming irrefutable causal links, the researchers have apparently spotted a strong link in the traditional previous studies. The professor Frank Hu, co-author of the study, nutrition and epidemiology professor at Harvard, even goes to say that « a regular consumption of coffee can be included into balanced and healthy diet ».
Briefly, as confirmed by the study from « la Presse », you can consume coffee without fear. It is without a doubt that we will come back to this question, early or late, to supply a full reflection. While we wait, would you like a bit more coffee? | 2019-04-26T02:36:16Z | https://en.cafeliegeois.ca/blogs/blog/81101123-your-coffee-and-your-health-the-last-findings |
Soo how many times a week does the "Dang it's really five and I have to make dinner again" blues, hit you square in the face.Yeah welcome to my world Grandma,and I have ten people sitting down at my dinner table. UGH.
Well a SURE fire dinner at my house is "Dip-Dip Night", more highly regarded then even "Pizza Night", not kidding!
See the before and after....yeah ...try it, love it...thank me later.
I clicked for Pesto and Questo and there was no link?
I like this idea. Thanks.... Only the darned vegie trays are so expensive, I'll have to clean and cut....still, that's easier than most things! And, meatless for Friday! | 2019-04-25T01:45:36Z | http://feedingabunchamunchkins.blogspot.com/2010/07/dip-dip-nightread-on-i-promise.html |
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Routinely, success has a lot to do with your resourcefulness in how you respond to what is fated in life.
Don’t believe in fate? After reviewing many of the circumstances in your life that you can’t control, you may reconsider.
Due to long-term observation of the circumstances in many people’s lives, along with simultaneous predictive analysis, I believe I’m in a position to offer an educated viewpoint on the topic of fate.
My long-term findings show that the general inclination of your future is fated, along with many of the core particulars. The overall framework of life circumstances involving money, love life, family, partnerships, career, and much more is fated in life.
What’s that you say? People can choose a much better life if they want? Only to a point, no matter how many inspirational books they read. But what they can do is respond as constructively as possible to that which they can’t change. There’s nothing limiting about embracing the notion of personal fate.
Considering all the various ways people “choose” to behave, when you identify distinct patterns in the comprehensive charts time and time again symbolizing that “chosen” behavior, you realize it’s not choice, but fate.
Please note: my philosophy is that you should always assertively work toward your goals and that fate usually necessitates that you do so. Consider personal fate and free will partners. However, fate (rewarding or challenging) does show up at your doorstep without warning, at times.
Understanding which situation you’re in—just leaving, about to encounter, or currently encountering problems—allows you to take appropriate action. Dialing in to the specifics and timing of your personal fate allows you to minimize your overall risk and maximize the rewards, no matter what is fated in your life.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 5th, 2013 at 4:03 am and is filed under Astrology, Miscellaneous, Numerology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | 2019-04-24T07:54:11Z | http://scottpetullo.com/blog/2013/11/what-is-fated-in-life/ |
Aquarium Liberty was established in 1975 with a very small workforce. At the year 1980, the company was restructured into a Private Limited company with Mr. Albert Tsia as the Managing Director and Mdm Elsie Ang as its Director.
Together with a team of experienced workers, the company has relocated to the present premises with good packing and quarantine facilities. With many years of experience and knowledge of the United Kingdom ornamental fish market, Aquarium Liberty is known by the trade to be specialized in exporting to Europe. | 2019-04-22T12:59:11Z | https://www.interzoo.com/de/ausstellerprodukte/interz18/aussteller-34562001/aquarium-liberty-pte-ltd |
I use Debian since several years (it was when Sarge was the stable version). I really like to use Free Software both at home and at work.
In 2006, I started to contribute to Debian by improving french translations during several years. Today, I don't work anymore with the French Team because I try to help on others fields.
I updated the CSS of the popcon website to fit the last CSS of debian.org (december 2013-february 2014).
Currently, I help Osamu Aoki to add CSS styles on the Debian documentations. For example, you can see it on the maintainer guide or the Jessie installation guide.
I attended to DebConf 13 and 14. I will be in Heidelberg for DebConf 15 too. I was at mini-DebConf Lyon too (2015). | 2019-04-21T11:18:09Z | https://nm.debian.org/person/sblondon |
Historic Somerville Inc. - Mr. Allen's Tidal-Powered Rope Walk on the Miller's River Saturday, Oct. 25th, 3-5PMlecture by Richard Duffy, tide mill historianat the Somerville Museum, One Westwood Road$8 nonmembers, free to members.
$8 nonmembers, free to members.
To contact us for more information, email info@historicsomerville.org or call 617-666-8910.
Richard Duffy is a regional historian, a past President of the Arlington Historical Society and member of the Tide Mill Consortium. He is widely acknowledged as an expert on tide mills and highly regarded as a speaker. His lectures are visually engaging and break the technical subject matter down to understandable bits. Don't miss this chance to learn about the green energy technologies of days gone-by and the society that used them. | 2019-04-21T10:41:31Z | http://historicsomerville.org/pictures_and_past_events/saturday_oct25th_3-5pm_mr_allens_tidal_powered_rope_walk |
JUAN SAYS: Yes we know what we’ve promised. We said we would be celebrating women. But we came across this link on our timeline that made us think that some women just celebrate their femininity way too too much that we couldn’t possibly equate it to femininity anymore. Hey girlfriends! What are you wearing? No, that is not a dress! | 2019-04-20T09:28:48Z | http://juan.com.ph/fashion/womens-month-and-9-women-who-didnt-get-it/ |
Your admission request will be pending for approval when you first register and create a member profile. After the verification of your qualifying score, you will be invited to complete your profile in order to become a member of NOUS High IQ Society. Applications without proof of qualifying score will not be accepted and the temporary profiles will be deleted. Potential members of NOUS High IQ Society are advised to send proof of their qualifying IQ scores on any of the accepted IQ tests (especially for the supervised tests the proof should be accompanied by the contact information of the psychologist who administered the test) to the following e-mail address: admission@nousiqsociety.org.
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Rules, rights and obligations are explained in a brief and comprehensive way and request only some minutes of reading. Before sending your admission requests, you will have to provide some data for ID verification and fraud prevention purposes: Full name (mandatory), age (optional), nationality (optional), gender (optional) and IQ scores on supervised and/or unsupervised IQ tests (mandatory). Your name and surname must be proven through photo copy of your ID card or driving license or student card or national passport. Every other data on these documents must be covered under your own responsibility.
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Members who are accepted in this website have to prove their real identity. For this important reason, name and surname (personal data) are requested. Rest of data asked (age, gender, nationality and scores) are exclusively used for admission purposes in this website and its related social media pages. None of the aforementioned personal data are shared with any third parties. This website does not cooperate with any other organizations or companies.
If anyone at any time wishes their data to be erased, they may contact the administrator using the above email and request it in writing. Data will be deleted instantly.
Summary - Disclaimer: Since an admission request is sent, it is taken for granted that you have read all information and instructions stated above and that you proceeded with your own and free will. Since this website offers entertaining services only, it is strongly suggested that one does not request admission in case of doubt. | 2019-04-23T08:20:12Z | https://www.nousiqsociety.org/admission |
Rosalind Kathleen Burtonshaw, https://corporatedir.com/uk/officer/6151330. and work as an Secretary at Bb Tankers Limited.
Barry Burtonshaw, https://corporatedir.com/uk/officer/6151331. and work as an Director at Bb Tankers Limited.
Bb Tankers Limited Located at 95 High Street, Gorseinon, Gorseinon. https://corporatedir.com/uk/company/04831542-bb-tankers-limited.
Bb Tankers Limited was registered on 14 July, 2003. Bb Tankers Limited's Corporate Identification (Company) Number is 04831542.
Their registered address on file is 95 High Street, Gorseinon - , Gorseinon, .
Bb Tankers Limited currently have 2 Officers / Partners: Rosalind Kathleen Burtonshaw,Barry Burtonshaw, and there are no other known Officers / partners in the company except these 2 officials at this time.
Bb Tankers Limited is currently in Active Status. | 2019-04-24T06:04:07Z | https://corporatedir.com/uk/company/04831542-bb-tankers-limited |
The 5 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center shows an official change in the track of Hurricane Irma, shifting West over Jacksonville as a Category 1.
Irma is predicted to maintain strength over the next few days before weakening, according to the NHC. The path of the storm is not a certainty.
The strongest impacts of the hurricane are expected midday Monday on the First Coast.
As of 5 p.m. Thursday, the storm remains a Category 5 with sustained winds of 175 mph making it’s way to South Florida Saturday and early Sunday.
Classes and all other activities at UNF are canceled Friday Sept. 8 and Monday Sept. 11. All residential communities besides the Osprey Fountains will be closing as of 2 p.m. on Sunday. Limited space will be available for shelter on campus and students are strongly encouraged to find off-campus options for the storm.
Mayor Lenny Curry is advising Jacksonville residents in Zones A and B to evacuate early if they can. Mandatory evacuations will likely begin Friday morning, according to Curry.
UNF is not in an evacuation zone. For information on evacuation zones, click here.
Please tell me when Irma is going to start effecting Jacksonville,and how strong will the winds be? Should we evacuate ? We live between Blanding and Roosevelt off of Timuquana Road.
Effects will be felt in Jacksonville Sunday and the worst of it Monday. If you don’t know your zone, you can find it using your address here. Click search by address and enter your address. Then click layers in the top left screen, from the drop down select emergency, then select evacuation zone. Zoom out to see a bigger picture. If your address, which is indicated by a black circle, is not highlighted by a color, it’s possible you are not in an evacuation zone. The website works better using a web browser to a mobile browser.
Mission Springs? Zone D. Get ur pool floaties ready. | 2019-04-24T20:31:06Z | https://unfspinnaker.com/60215/news/category-5-hurricane-irma-predicted-to-weaken-as-it-shifts-west-towards-jacksonville/ |
The Contemporary Tax Journal is produced and published twice annually by the San Jose State University Masters of Science in Taxation (MST) Program in the Lucas Graduate School of Business. This is a peer-reviewed, student-managed online journal featuring work of SJSU MST students, as well as original articles from tax practitioners, academics and graduate students.
The journal launched in 2011 to offer SJSU MST students an avenue for enriching their graduate tax learning by engaging with tax compliance, planning and policy areas through writing, editing and researching. The Contemporary Tax Journal also enables students and the MST Program to provide a community service through broader understanding of the tax law. Two sections of each journal provide this service - "Focus on Tax Policy" and "Tax Enlightenment." "Tax Enlightenments" explain current tax topics for readers of all levels of tax knowledge. Additional student-authored sections are “Feature” with summaries of one of the MST program’s four annual tax conferences, and “Tax Maven” where a student interviews a well-known person in the tax world. We hope students, practitioners and policymakers will find these articles insightful and helpful. | 2019-04-19T17:08:37Z | https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sjsumstjournal/about.html |
In module settings, you can enable / disable play sound or message display.
Also, any of the events can be enabled or disabled.
You can assign a different audio for each event.
To check the demo, First login to admin demo, then in another browser tab, or with a different browser or different device do one of the mentioned events in front (place an order, sign up or write a review) Then you will hear a ring bell and will see a message related to the event, no matter on which page you are in admin panel. | 2019-04-21T02:52:21Z | http://digitcart.ir/admin-ajax-notice?version=2.0.3.1 |
Celestial Mistress tells the tale of Nadia, a Soviet Cosmonaut/KGB agent who landed on Mars in 1971 only to discover an ancient, buried civilisation.
Celestial Mistress is a mature and carefully thought through concept EP, all wrapped up in the heaviest of riffs. We can ensure you that it won’t leave anyone who’s interested in Doom, Stoner, Fuzz orientated music disappointed, this EP won’t pass by unnoticed. Just the fact that Esben Willems from Monolord/Berserk Audio is the guy behind everything from recording to mastering should assure anyone that the end result is nothing else but top notch.
Let’s just say that Cities of Mars have just made a pretty big dent in the world of heavy riffs!
Recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Esben Willems/Berserk Audio. | 2019-04-26T14:36:30Z | http://www.suiciderecords.se/albums/celestial-mistress/ |
At this week’s National Association of Broadcasters expo, AJA Video Systems (http://www.aja.com) announced the Ki Pro Quad, a new solid-state portable video recorder. Its can capture high-quality edit-ready files in formats including 4K (4096 x 2160), Quad HD (3840 x 2160), 2K (2048 x 1080), and HD (1920 x 1080)with 10-bit 4:4:4 and 10-bit 4:2:2 color support.
AJA has been working very closely with Canon Inc. headquarters in Japan to optimize performance between Canon’s upcoming Cinema EOS C500 digital cinema camera and the Ki Pro Quad, according to Nick Rashby, president, AJA Video System. He adds that the Ki Pro Quad offers some new ways of working; by creating post-friendly files to removable SSDs, moving the original camera RAW files to a Mac, and allowing 4K monitoring all at the same time. The Ki Pro Quad will be available later in 2012 through AJA’s worldwide network of resellers for a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of US$3,995.
AJA has also unveiled the Ki Pro family, Ki Pro Rack, which enables recording of high-quality, edit-ready files in a 1RU rack mount form factor. It uses the same SSD or spinning disk storage modules as the Ki Pro with recording capacities scaling up to 500GB.
The Ki Pro Rack simplifies the acquisition-to-edit workflow by creating high-quality Apple ProRes 422 or Avid DNxHD files which can be used directly in most standard professional editing systems without the need to import or transcode files, says Rashby. It’s available now for $3,995.
Also new from AJA is the $249 T-TAP, a small, bus-powered device that utilizes Thunderbolt connectivity for high-quality 10-bit SD, HD and 2K output through SDI and HDMI. | 2019-04-20T03:32:23Z | https://www.mactech.com/2012/04/17/nab-aja-announces-ki-pro-quad-supporting-4k-2k-recording/ |
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We are venerated company engaged as manufacturer and supplier of Handloom Banarasi Sarees in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. The offered sarees are manufactured using high grade fabric and latest machines. The offered product is appreciated for quality, design and durability.
Established in 2012, DEEN FABRICS has been a leading name in offering top notch Sarees. Located in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, we offer the best quality Handloom Banarasi Sarees to our customers at best prices in the industry. | 2019-04-22T11:16:28Z | https://www.tradeindia.com/fp5499290/Handloom-Banarasi-Sarees.html |
Your Holy Shock criticals deal an additional 10 damage, or an additional 15 healing, over 3 sec.
Holy Shock leaves a Glimmer of Light on the target for 30 sec. When you Holy Shock, all targets with Glimmer of Light are damaged for 1898 or healed for 2799.
Your damaging abilities have a chance to grant 62 critical strike rating for 5 sec. This effect stacks up to 5 times.
Holy Shock leaves a Glimmer of Light on the target for 30 sec. When you Holy Shock, all targets with Glimmer of Light are damaged for 1812 or healed for 2672.
Equip: You champion the cause of the Argent Crusade. All reputation gains while in level 80 dungeons will be applied to your standing with them.
Equip: Falling below 1% health grants you a shield that absorbs 220 damage for 6 sec. This effect may occur once every two minutes.
Reduces the cooldown of your Divine Shield, Divine Protection, and Lay on Hands by 30%.
Whenever you cast Judgment upon an enemy, a nearby ally within 40 yards is healed for 4,968. | 2019-04-18T20:39:50Z | https://prod.worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/character/us/kelthuzad/puanani |
If you have lost teeth—any number of them—you need to replace them right away. Even if you just have a few missing teeth in different areas of your smile, getting dentures in Deer Park can change your smile for the better. Learn more about the different types of dental prosthetics that can help you complete your smile again.
Dentures are prosthetic teeth that are attached to a gum colored plastic base. They are designed to look and feel like your natural teeth. Dentures can be fixed or removable, and they replace teeth in the upper and/or lower jaw as needed. Each person’s level of tooth loss is different, and these dental prosthetics are highly customizable.
Dentures have been a tried and true way to replace teeth at any level of tooth loss. Today’s modern methods and materials help dentures look and feel natural for the most effective, stabilizing solution available.
A partial denture replaces teeth that are missing sporadically in your smile. Partials are the perfect fitting, customized puzzle piece to complete your smile again.
A complete denture replaces an entire arch of missing teeth. They can replace both arches if you are completely edentulous (missing all-natural teeth).
Patients who are eligible for dental implants should strongly consider an implant-retained denture. This is a restorative option that combines dental implants and dentures for the ultimate, permanent tooth replacement solution.
To begin any dental work, you need to schedule an appointment to meet with your dentist. This presents an opportunity to evaluate the current state of your smile, discuss smile goals, and develop a plan to fix your dental concerns.
To create a traditional denture, your dentist will take x-rays and an impression (or mold) of your teeth. If you still have healthy teeth remaining, your denture can be created to match the color of the surrounding tooth enamel. Your treatment plan information is sent to the lab, where the denture is crafted according to your specific needs.
It takes a couple of weeks to prepare the denture, but you’ll have a new, complete smile sooner than later when you give us a call today! Don’t hesitate to reach out to our friendly office team now. | 2019-04-22T18:41:48Z | https://www.deerparkdentistry.com/dentures-and-partials.html |
A 1950s five-bedroom, three-bathroom home in West Islip, on the market for $975,000, comes with a detached two-story, 20-by-40-foot boathouse and garage. There is also a covered boat slip on the property, which provides access to Great South Bay and Fire Island Inlet from a wide river canal.
The main house, on an acre, features stone, brick, slate and copper. "It has all the warmth and charm of yesteryear but has been well maintained," says Carolyn Matherson of Eric G. Ramsay Jr. Associates, who is listing the property with Bill Vonnes.
There is a new heating system. | 2019-04-22T08:03:12Z | https://www.newsday.com/classifieds/real-estate/a-house-and-a-boathouse-in-west-islip-1.10174143 |
Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt in this pulse-pounding thrill ride directed by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias). Lured back into action by his agency superiors (Laurence Fishburne and Billy Crudup), Ethan faces his deadliest adversary yet – a sadistic weapons dealer named Owen Davian (Oscar® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman). With the support of his IMF team (Ving Rhames, Jonathan Rhys Meyes and Maggie Q), Ethan leaps into spectacular adventure from Rome to Hanghai as he races to rescue a captured agent (Keri Russell) and stop Davian from eliminating his next target: Ethan's wife, Julia (Michelle Monaghan).
The world's greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year, M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they'll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in.
When the daughter of veteran 911 call center operator Pamela (Mischa Barton), and her estranged husband Jeremy (Luke Goss), a Senior Police Officer, is kidnapped and held hostage, they are left desperate, with no choice but to follow the kidnapper's rules: send messages through dispatch for all police and fire units to scatter to remote locations throughout the city where they are met with chaos. Not knowing who or why, the one thing they do know is if they fail to discreetly collaborate with one another – they will be solely responsible for facilitating the biggest crime in the city's history. Now they must race against the clock to make the choice of their lives – save the city – or save their daughter.
Kevin and Bruce are best friends and co-owners of a failing home security company in a town with no crime. As a last ditch effort to drum up some business, they start robbing the neighbours to instill fear and create a need for their services. Bullets fly when they unwittingly rob the wrong guy.
Lilo is a lonely young Hawaiian girl who adopts a small ugly 'dog', whom she names Stitch. He would be the perfect pet if he wasn't a genetic experiment that escaped from an alien planet and crash-landed on earth. Through her faith and unwavering belief in "ohana", the Hawaiian concept of family, Lilo helps Stitch to unlock his heart. This gives him the one thing he wasn't designed for – the ability to love!
The true story of James Burns who, as a teenager goes from the suburban street gangs of Denver to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. In this unlikely setting, James ultimately emerges with hope and a brighter future.
"Force of Execution" is the story about a crime lord torn between his legacy and his desire to get out of the life of crime that has built his empire, when a new player to the scene tries to use the town anti-hero's network to climb to power. The only friend the crime lord has is his assassin protégé who has troubles of his own. An epic battle of under bosses and crime lords. Only one will come out alive.
To avoid a potentially explosive scandal when the U.S. President goes into a coma, an affable temp agency owner with an uncanny resemblance, is put in his place.
In a desperate attempt to save his rapidly failing used car dealership, Ben Selleck hires a crack team of "car mercenaries" to ramp up sales during the Fourth of July weekend. Led by the fast-talking, foul-mouthed, self-assured Don "The Goods" Ready, the group has three days to sell over 200 cars. But as Don undertakes his newest mission, and quickly falls for the boss's daughter Ivy, he realizes he'll have to trust more than his cars and his crafty skills in deceit to make a success out of the daunting weekend.
It's the 70's and criminal boss Renzo and his crew wreak havoc across the streets, leaving bodies wherever they go. Detective Womack will stop at nothing to bring these thugs to justice, even if it means breaking the law, Starring Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, Robert Patrick, and Persia White, MAFIA delivers justice one bullet at a time.
Dramatizes the events in 1955-1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, when blacks boycotted public transport becuase they were forced to sit at the back. Odessa works as a maid for the Thompsons, and as well as she is treated, she feels it is her duty to walk to work, even if it means she is exhaused, and gets to work late.
Frank Pierce is a paramedic working Gotham's Hell's Kitchen. He's become burned out and haunted by visions of the people he's tried to save.
Convicted cop-killer Carl Lucas, aka Frankenstein, is a superstar driver in the brutal prison yard demolition derby known as Death Race. Only one victory away from winning freedom for himself and his pit crew, Lucas is plunged into an all-new competition more vicious than anything he has experienced before. Pitted against his most ruthless adversaries ever, Lucas fights to keep himself and his team alive in a race in South Africa's infernal Kalahari Desert. With powerful forces at work behind the scenes to ensure his defeat, will Lucas' determination to win at all costs mean the end of the road for him? | 2019-04-24T05:53:47Z | http://hd4fun.com/tag/ving-rhames/ |
BioASQ is a series of challenges that bring together semantic experts to improve the indexing of large-scale scientific data sets. Atypon’s team took two-second place wins in the September 2015 competition, after several first and second places win in the 2014 and 2013 challenges.
Participants must classify new PubMed documents in English as they become available online before PubMed curators annotate them manually. Funded by the European Union, BioASQ’s aim is to help biomedical researchers find highly specialized information through the development of precise biomedical information retrieval systems.
Atypon houses more scholarly websites, journals, and articles than any other platform. | 2019-04-19T22:34:04Z | https://www.atypon.com/news/atypon-wins-3rd-bioasq-semantic-indexing-challenge/ |
HiWatch by Hikvision is the global leader of video surveillance products. Hikvision HiWatch series is geared towards a broad portfolio of surveillance solutions for small-to-medium-sized enterprises. These HiWatch products are cost-effective, yet still benefit users with high-quality monitoring, ease of use, and ease of installation – a perfect choice for home and business monitoring. | 2019-04-22T22:25:23Z | https://www.exvision.co.uk/hiwatch-system-kit-149-c.asp |
The name Katie is a diminutive form of Kate. The table below indicates the number of times the name Katie has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.
The table below indicates the number of times the name Katie has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.
During the last 125 years, parents have used Katie as a girl's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a boy's name. | 2019-04-24T08:43:10Z | https://www.baby-girl-names.org/k/katie.htm |
Are you looking for a complete course in Hindi which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Hindi will guarantee success! Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course. The course is structured in thematic units and the emphasis is placed on communication, so that you effortlessly progress from introducing yourself and dealing with everyday situations, to using the phone and talking about work. The course is available as a book (9781444106091), as a pack comprising the book and double CD (9781444106831) and as a double CD (9781444106930). | 2019-04-21T20:10:42Z | https://allforeignlanguages.com.au/p/indian-language-resources-complete-hindi-teach-yourself-book-cd-pack |
No band this week. A few observations instead.
I knew that scanning flyers and digitizing tapes would take a while. What I wasn’t prepared for was the emotional toll involved in embarking on a nostalgic venture as colossal as this. I have a pretty good memory, but like anyone else I don’t tend to know where its flaws lie. When, facing the task of telling a logical and chronological story, I find myself staring at indisputable evidence like names and dates on flyers, release dates on CDs, postings at other websites, and handwriting on cassette labels, I realize that the stories I’ve carried around for years about my own life are, to a shocking extent, wrong. Nothing earth-shattering—I don’t have a first wife I’ve forgotten about—but the cumulative weight of all these small corrections is daunting.
Folks, this is where I will no doubt lose a few readers. The last post saw me playing catchy odd pop on national TV. Now we’ve got my first band as a bassist, formed when I was 14 and was just learning to play.
Some folks out there may have been cool when they were 14. They may have been talented instrumentalists and singers. They may have had good taste. Not me.
From left: John Wilson, Ron Benbassat, Mark Lerner, Stephen Lewis, Dana Hinton. | 2019-04-25T12:23:00Z | https://everyband.wordpress.com/2012/04/ |
Nip U men's hockey coach Mike McParland is getting ready for the Lakers debut in the OUA next season.
"I've always played drums, so I've got really strong hands. I've played drums for about eight years and getting that snap, getting it off quick, has been key to my shot."
Great, now minor hockey parents will have to start buying little Taylor a drum kit, just to work on that snap shot.
There is skepticism about how competitive Nipissing will be right off the hop. Carleton played exhibition games for two seasons and the Blackbirds are 6-2-1 in their second full seasons. Ontario Tech, 2-6-1 so far under former University Cup-winning coach Marlin Muylaert, also played an exhibition slate. Both those teams also come from major population centres (Ottawa-Outaouais and the GTA), while Nipissing is in North Bay. It's an uphill battle. | 2019-04-21T10:51:03Z | http://www.cisblog.ca/2008/11/hockey-few-nuggets-about-nip-u.html |
These cordial microphone cable types cover the technical specifications of the recording and broadcasting studios. Due to the long conduction paths, larger cross sections are preferred, phantom power reaches the consumer almost without losses. The finest tinned braided single wires ensure good flexibility and easy assembly.
ID: 188131 © 1996–2019 Thomann GmbH Thomann loves you, because you rock! | 2019-04-26T02:04:37Z | https://www.thomann.de/be/cordial_csf_250_sw.htm |
As an author, journalist and editor, Jill Bobrow has had many years experience in the superyacht industry. She regularly contributes to Yachts International.
Douglas Barrowman is the Scottish owner of the 55.4m motoryacht Turquoise, built in 2011. | 2019-04-26T06:02:39Z | https://thesuperyachtlife.com/author/jillbobrow/ |
The length of time required to complete the Master of Arts in Organizational Communication degree depends on whether a student is full time or part time and how the student performs in classes. A full time student taking the minimum course load of 9 graduate credit hours could possibly complete the Master's degree in approximately 5 semesters (21 months) if the student registers for classes during the summer semester. A minimum of 36 graduate credit hours is required to complete the degree.
The Master of Arts in Organizational Communication degree program has a limited number of graduate assistantships available. Assistantships are awarded on a competitive basis and are available for every academic semester of the year. Other aid may be available depending on your financial status. Visit (Web site) to learn what is available.
Starting salaries vary widely by experience, setting, region, and state. The approximate salary range is $40,000-$50,000. | 2019-04-20T00:17:59Z | http://www.southeastern.edu/acad_research/programs/grad_school/programs/org_comm/faqs/index.html |
The lure of salt draws a special group of elephants to a place they are rarely found — deep underground. For thousands of years, Kitum Cave at the base of Mount Elgon in Kenya has been the personal salt mine for these African elephants. One generation teaches the next the secrets of the cave, despite the horrific memory of poachers who attacked their ancestors at the very mouth of this sacred place, reducing their herd from over 1,000 to just over 100. So under the cover of night — out of sight and fearful of harm at the hands of humans — the elephants journey to the cave to cure their salt cravings.
One scientist has made it his mission to help the cave elephants regain their trust and help humans understand the beauty of these majestic and extremely endangered creatures. Following in the footsteps of former colleague Dian Fossey, Ian Redmond hopes to do for the cave elephants of Mount Elgon what Fossey was able to do for the mountain gorillas of Rwanda: by raising the profile of these unique animals he hopes to save them. Redmond assembled the MEEM (Mount Elgon Elephant Monitoring) Team to track the elephants' movements and protect them from poachers and traps set by bushmeat traders. He has even taught the team the low rumbling language of the elephants to help bring them closer to the elephants and, hopefully, allay the animals' fear of human contact.
Listen to our audio interview with Redmond to learn more about the cave elephants and his work with these amazing creatures.
Q: How long have you been studying these animals and what drew you to them?
A: Redmond couldn't resist returning to feel and hear these elephants rumble.
Q: Why do elephants crave salt?
A: For many of the same reasons we do, according to Redmond.
Q: How do elephants get their salt?
A: Usually from plants, but if there is not enough, they will seek it anywhere, Redmond says.
Q: What makes these elephants so unique?
A: Redmond says it's their extraordinary culture that takes the deep underground.
Q: Is it true that the Mt. Elgon elephants created the caves where they get their salt?
A: Redmond rules out cave erosion by humans and water, leaving erosion by elephants.
Q: What is the status of these animals?
A: Redmond says their status is critical, but recovery is in sight.
Q: How do you get close to an elephant that fears human contact?
A: Learn to rumble like the best of them. Just listen to Redmond.
Q: What do you hope the learn from these elephants?
A: Redmond hopes to understand the mysteries of these animals and hopes to help others experience the natural wonder of these animals as well. | 2019-04-26T10:00:09Z | http://www.animalplanet.com/tv-shows/wild-kingdom/about-animals/cave-elephants-field/ |
The Craft Club is a student organization designed to promote interest in a wide range of skills or hobbies with hands-on experience. Members will develop into a community of crafters with common interests. The mission of craft club also includes using crafting and social skills to develop relationships with and assist others in our community.
We used either felt or foam for the noses.
This tissue holder looks like the pieces are interwoven, but it's a very simple project.
How Do You Cross Stitch Anyway?
Patterns and techniques selected for Craft Club by the craft club sponsors/teachers.
A collection curated by Craft Club sponsors, with suggestions from members.
A collection of cupcakes that looks like a turtle, teddy bears swimming on a cupcake, and many more fun ideas.
Wilton is well-known for making many cake decorating supplies as well as publishing many books and booklets on the topic of cake decorating. Their YouTube channel offers many different cake decorating techniques. | 2019-04-22T02:31:11Z | http://www.vanburenschools.net/o/belleville-high/page/craft-club |
“From 1781 to 1789, the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with an effective government;” a bold statement considering the fact that the Articles lasted only 8 years. Although, I suppose the case could be made that the Articles of Confederation provided the means for a temporary government, only acting as a first-time attempt for the colonies in creating a more perfect representation for the colonies as a whole. This is true in some ways and in some ways it’s not; for instance, just the fact that the Articles lacked the necessary provisions for a sufficiently effective government.
There was no president or executive agencies or judiciary, nor was there a tax base or even a way to pay off state and national debts from the war years. However, there is also evidence that the Articles did, for a time, provide the newly formed American colonies with the means to govern themselves in the manner that they wished to be governed, and set the rules for operations of the United States government. Based on this, the Articles were largely ineffective because of their limited scope and the inability of Congress to enforce any of the decisions that it made.
What this statement is merely saying is that the Articles of Confederation provided us, as a newly formed nation, with a temporary government with which to govern ourselves, even though it only lasted for about 8 years. You see, after the Revolutionary War, the United States signed the Treaty of Paris which ended all hostilities with Great Britain. The treaty left the U. S. independent and at peace, but with an unsettled governmental structure. The Articles of Confederation were weak and did not give a strong political or economic base for the newly formed nation.
Another way in which the Articles were weak was the fact that the colonies weren’t, in a sense, even united or even considered a nation as evidenced by the following excerpt: “Does not call the United States a ‘nation’, but instead says: ‘The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever. ”(Article III) Yet another way the Articles of Confederation were weak was the fact that there was only one representative body for the colonies called the Congress of Confederation. Under the Articles, Congress was given the powers to do that which the executive and judiciary branches of government of today can do, except the power of taxation and the power to enforce the decisions that it made. This was mainly due to the fact that the majority of law-making authority rested with the states, and, as a result, the central government was kept quite limited.
By 1783, with the end of the British blockade, the new nation was regaining its prosperity. However, trade opportunities were restricted by the mercantilism of the British and French empires. Political unrest in several states and efforts by debtors to use popular government to erase their debts increased the anxiety of the political and economic elites which had led the Revolution. The apparent inability of the Congress to redeem the public obligations incurred during the war, or to become a forum for productive cooperation among the states to encourage commerce and economic development, only aggravated a gloomy situation.
In 1786-87, the Shay’s Rebellion, an uprising of farmers in western Massachusetts against the state court system, threatened the stability of state government. Thomas Jefferson, who was serving as an ambassador to France at the time, refused to be alarmed by Shays’ Rebellion. In a letter to a friend, he argued that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing stating that “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. In contrast to Jefferson’s sentiments, George Washington, who at the time was urging many through letters about forming a better, more energetic national government through the union of the states, wrote a letter to Henry Lee in regards to the rebellion, stating that “You talk…of…influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found, or…that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured, or let us know he worst at once. ” This conflict would become the turning point in the Articles of Confederation’s legacy, and would lead to the eventual reevaluation of the document itself in 1787. Ultimately, the uprising was the climax of a series of events of the 1780s that convinced a powerful group of Americans that the national government needed to be stronger so that it could create uniform economic policies and protect property owners from infringements on their rights by local majorities.
The limited scope of the Articles of Confederation and the inability of Congress to enforce any decisions that it made were two of the most prominent reasons as to why the document itself was deemed ineffective. Although, in theory, the Articles were groundbreaking and a good idea at the time; in reality, the events that were brought about in the 1780s throughout the duration of the document’s legacy showed its authors that it fell short of their expectations. | 2019-04-19T08:43:08Z | https://graduateway.com/the-articles-of-confederation-provided-the-u-s-an-effective-government/ |
After pedaling through the night last night, Austin cyclist Andrew Willis is now about 200 miles from the finish line of the grueling Race Across the West.
Willis started the California-to-Colorado race at about 12:30 on Tuesday. About 500 miles into the 900-plus-mile adventure, he stopped because of severe foot pain caused by gout. After taking a 9-hour break Wednesday night, he returned to the race and has been riding strong ever since, according to crew chief Joni Tooke.
At 11:10 a.m. this morning, he’d just passed Tuba City, Arizona, and was headed toward Kayenta.
Crews are treating his foot and saddle sores with topical medication. Since returning to the race, Willis has paused only for pizza and ice cream, and to update his social media account. | 2019-04-26T12:36:58Z | http://fitness.blog.austin360.com/2016/06/17/andrew-willis-now-just-200-miles-from-finish-of-race-across-the-west/ |
Through Living Discipleship: Exploring the Bible, you will discover anew the wonderful, rich, extraordinary, sometimes mysterious story of the Bible: the story of how God creates, redeems, and sustains us, a story of hope. As people join in reading the Bible together, as the whole Church listens for what God has to say to us, we deepen our life together and live more fully into the people God intends us to be. Scripture is God’s word, God’s communication to us. Through Living Discipleship: Exploring the Bible, our church engages in a faithful act of listening: listening to the story of salvation, told from the beginning of time; listening to what God has said to faithful women and men around the world and through the ages; and listening to what God is saying to us, here and now, through these most holy stories.
Download the full course for free or review a sample.
*See below for a family-friendly version of this course, to be used in conjunction with the Adult/Youth course, or on it’s own.
The story of the Bible, excerpted from the New Revised Standard Version so that it is clear and easy to read. Follow the path of God’s love all the way from the beginning to the end, from Adam’s creation to John’s revelation.
The Path is available for purchase here.
Explore the greatest stories of all as a family. This storybook recounts the major stories of the Bible, from creation to revelation, in a way that engages children (and those who love them).
The Path: Family Storybook is available for purchase here.
*Congregations and families with younger children can still participate in the Exploring the Bible course, using The Path: Family Storybook and free downloadable facilitator’s guide. Each session corresponds with the Adult/Youth course, but on an interactive level better suited for younger children. This ensures that the entire family can participate and go home having “learned the same thing in Sunday school.” Download the free family facilitator’s guide here, or review a sample.
A coloring book for all ages—but especially for adults who may have forgotten the simple joys of creating. Relax and restore as you spend time coloring these original illustrations that capture the amazing stories of the Bible and God’s love for us.
Pathways of Faith is available for purchase here. | 2019-04-20T10:51:53Z | http://www.livingdiscipleship-fm.org/exploring-the-bible/ |
3/11 - Check out the new videos on the media page! See the most recent test, technique of the week and more!
2/5 - The registration page for summer camp is up! Register early - this is going to be HUGE. The doshu will be making the trip from Japan. Click here to go to the registration page. If you have questions about the details, or want to setup a carpool click here to see visit the discussion panel on this event.
1/28 - There will be a kyu test on Thursday, February 21st at 6:00pm. Let your sensei know if you plan on testing - train hard!
12/17 - There will be no class the week of 12/24 - 12/28. We will also be closed for New Years. Class will resume Wed. January 2nd. Happy Holidays!!!
10/8 - A big thanks goes to everyone who participated in the Octoberfest demo. It seems to have gone over very well. It seems we turned a couple of heads and got some people interested in Aikido so... Mission accomplished!
8/01 - The adult and children's test requirements are now available in the about section for adults and children respectively.
4/25 - Mark is back from Nicaragua! We look forward to seeing him back on the mat!
3/15 - Saturday classes will be temporarily be put on hold until we can get something more solid set up. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Formerly known as Pinole Aikido, we here at WCA have been teaching Aikido since 1985. We are a non-profit organization and use Aikido to promote non-violent conflict resolution. Our chief instructor, Louis Decena has been practicing Aikido on and off since 1963 and started teaching upon opening Pinole Aikido in 1985. We are affiliated with Pacific Aikido Federation headed by Shiohira Shihan in San Francisco. We have always had a very successful children's program and offer an experienced instructing staff for adults.
We are a not-for-profit organization. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation you can do so here via PayPal.
Aikido was founded by Morihei Ueshiba (Sometimes reffered to as O'Sensei) who created a martial art that is purely defensive in nature. An attack is redirected in a controlled manner which leads to a pin or a throw. The object is not to injure an attacker, but to redirect the mind as well as the body towards peaceful solutions to conflict. Aikido means "the art of peace".
Do you know the technique?
Post your answer in the forum. | 2019-04-20T10:35:40Z | http://westcountyaikido.org/ |
Is Sarah Palin’s resignation a sign that she’ll run for the presidency in 2012, or does she just need a break from the media circus that is the Republican party these days? There’s no way to know right now, but either way, we’re likely to see less of the Alaskan spitfire for a few months. As a shoe fetishist, I have to say that I’m going to miss her. Even if her fashion overhaul was funded by her party, I approve of her taste in shoes. Sarah’s shoe choices mirror her personality– she likes to be polished and powerfully in control.
Peep-toe heels with buckles and other adornments are a good idea– as long as your French manicure is spot-on.
If you can’t wear red pumps, select black pumps.
Here are a few Shoefly selections that I believe the formal governor of Alaska would approve of.
Happy Independence Day to all Shoefly mavericks!
This entry was posted on Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 8:00 am and is filed under Celebrities, Charles David, Dolce Vita, Fashion Icons, Main, palin shoes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | 2019-04-25T16:33:36Z | http://www.shoeflyer.com/2009/07/how-to-choose-shoes-like-sarah-palin/ |
"Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You," from 1915. Unfortunately, it is human nature to resent one's benefactors. Thank God dogs aren't like that.
It always seemed to me that new immigrants have a better chance of appreciating the uniqueness of America than do those of us who have been here for many generations and tend to be spoiled and to take it for granted. However, my family has been here since the 1600s, and I take this blessing not at all for granted. Freedom from the State (and my genes) are my most precious heritage.
Barrister, my friend ... It was a delight to hear this old song again. My Daddy taught it to me when I was very young, and it sticks tightly in my memory. And how appropriate it is today! "So don't act like the cur in the story, and bite the hand that's feeding you!" But a lot of them do.
Gratitude is not a prominent feature in today's immigrants, many of whom immediately go about trying to change our country into the one they just fled from. Last week the Houston Chronicle reported on one Mid Eastern refugee who had been admitted because he was fleeing "persecution" in his homeland, and was whining to a credulous young reporter, that the Texas Department of Transportation was dragging its feet on renewing his driver's license, thus forcing him to take the bus to work. My, my -- you have to take the bus, young man? At least you can pretty much count on it not being blown up while you're on it.
You see this happening in Europe every day. It's especially noticeable in England. The immigrant parents know how bad it was in old country, but their kids, who grew up in England, have no memory; just stories. And what teen believes their parents?
All the boys know is that Kerry Katona and Charlotte Church won't sleep with them, and they don't have a way cool job running a hedge fund. Then the guy from the mosque says, "hey, it's not your fault. It's THEM who are the problem. You just need to get right with God and everything will be fine." | 2019-04-24T05:11:12Z | http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/10402-A-song-for-immigrants.html |
The Federal Inland Revenue Service FIRS says henceforth, every tax defaulter will get the lawful treatment they deserve.
Babatunde Fowler FIRS boss while on a courtesy visit to the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC in Abuja yesterday said a joint body of both institutions will as matters of urgency go after individuals and organizations who do not comply with tax payments.
While calling on taxpayers to take advantage of the Federal Government’s Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) to offset their tax burdens, he reiterated the agency’s resolve to go after defaulters.
“There are some issues of non-remittance of withholding tax, Value Added Tax (VAT) and Personal Income Tax.
“The EFCC has shown support before. When tax defaulters are invited to your office (EFCC), we see result. I don’t know how you do it but we see result.
“Recently, two banks came forward to comply on their own. I think that they must have heard words. We want joint assistance with EFCC, especially now that VAIDS is over, to make sure that all tax defaulters get the lawful treatment.
“I want to let every taxable person in Nigeria know that we are ready to deploy all powers within our disposal to ensure that every tax defaulter is punished according to the law,” he said. | 2019-04-20T06:16:43Z | https://nigeriatoday.ng/news/every-tax-defaulter-will-be-punished-henceforth-firs-blows-hot/ |
I don't mind so much when your kids make noise in restaurants. It usually brings a little smile to my face because I know you're raising a family and hopefully, in some small way making the world a better place by trying to be good parents.
I do mind when you smack your five year old kid across the face and proceed to tell him "I hit you so you'll know who's in charge". | 2019-04-25T00:05:22Z | http://owengary.blogspot.com/2006/01/on-kids.html |
This is right outside Cantt Station, Karachi. Ironically, it's a home for many. It's also the place where there are best masseuses (so I have heard), and also the perfect amalgamation of all kinds of people. For me, that's Karachi.
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From the large wild spaces of the Altiplano to the green expanse of the Amazon and the highest mountains of the Andes, Bolivia offers spectacular nature and colourful traditions. Its population, largely Quechua and Aymara, adds a unique character to the country. Experience an epic voyage from West to East while discovering incomparable landscapes.
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"Electrochemical impacts of sheet-like hafnium phosphide and hafnium di" by Mayilvel Meganathan, Taizhong Huang et al.
Meganathan, M. D., Huang, T., Fang, H., Mao, J. & Sun, G. (2019). Electrochemical impacts of sheet-like hafnium phosphide and hafnium disulfide catalysts bonded with reduced graphene oxide sheets for bifunctional oxygen reactions in alkaline electrolytes. RSC Advances: an international journal to further the chemical sciences, 9 (5), 2599-2607.
Non-noble metal-based catalysts with efficient catalytic activities for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are critical for energy conversion devices, including fuel cells and metal–air batteries. In this work, novel hafnium phosphide-reduced graphene oxide nanosheets (HfP-rGO NS) and hafnium disulfide-reduced graphene oxide nanosheets (HfS2-rGO NS) were synthesized and investigated as bifunctional electrocatalysts for OER and ORR. The prepared HfP-rGO NS and HfS2-rGO NS catalysts showed nanosheet structures, where the HfP or HfS2 nanosheet was closely packed with rGO. A unique methodology was adopted to lodge the non-metal oxide catalytic sheets (i.e., HfP and HfS2) over the rGO sheets, which positioned the oxide layer on the catalytic sheet surface for instant oxygen evolution. Low intensity X-ray diffraction patterns and Raman spectra confirmed the sheet-like structure of HfP-rGO NS and HfS2-rGO NS. Scanning electron microscope mapping images revealed that all elements (i.e., Hf, P, C and O for HfP-rGO NS and Hf, S, C and O for HfS2-rGO NS) were equally distributed in the synthesized heteroatomic nanosheets. Moreover, both the HfP-rGO NS and HfS2-rGO NS demonstrated excellent durability for both ORR and OER. This outperforms the most state-of-the-art non-precious-metal-based bifunctional catalysts, which is attributed to the synergistic effect of rGO and Hf-based catalysts. The different ORR and OER reaction potentials in HfP-rGO NS and HfS2-rGO NS likely result from the influence of HfP and HfS2. | 2019-04-20T23:01:34Z | https://ro.uow.edu.au/aiimpapers/3463/ |
Quite a few people who couldn’t make it to Xen Summit 2011 this year asked me to write a post summarizing my takeaways from the event. I’m not generally one to back down from peer pressure, so read on if you’re interested about the discussions at this year’s Summit.
The feeling I had at last year’s summit is that Xen was on the verge of losing traction in the market. Very few distributions still had Xen support going forward and much of the discussion was around the lack of dom0 support in upstream Linux kernels. Distribution vendors were hesitant to drag patches forward into modern kernels and this made it much more difficult to get Xen working for many people.
This year was quite different. The number of attendees was up, the venue was much better, and there was an obvious buzz of energy in the room. As many of the presenters noted, this excitement stemmed from the upstream dom0 support in Linux 3.0. This inclusion is a huge win and it helps to drive Xen forward since the developers don’t have to worry about dragging patches forward. They can focus on improving performance, adding features, and tightening security.
Many of the discussions this year focused on security and performance. Ian Pratt discussed Xen’s ability to view memory pages of virtual machines via an API to detect malware running inside the instance. Memory pages could be identified and marked as not executable or applications could be triggered when a VM attempts to touch a particular memory page. Also, the whole VM could be frozen if needed.
There’s also a big push to bring code out of the dom0 and push it into utility VM’s. Driver domains could manage the network or I/O infrastructure and this would further reduce the amount of privileged code actively running in dom0. There is already very little code required for the Xen hypervisor itself (much much less than the Linux kernel - I’m looking at you, KVM) and this reduces the attack surface for potential compromises of the hypervisor. Some projects even aim to restart driver domains multiple times per minute to ensure that any malicious code injected into those virtual machines can’t exist for long periods.
Pradeep Vincent from Amazon talked about how Amazon uses Xen and the pain points they have with its current architecture. Much of his discussion was around scaling problems (and we see many of the same issues at Rackspace). Higher performance could easily be gained by multi-threaded operations in dom0 when attaching block devices and creating virtual network interfaces. He also saw some areas for performance gains in the pvops I/O code.
Quite a few of the talks centered on the ARM architecture and what Xen is able to do on those systems after Samsung published their port in 2008. HVM is on the way for ARM and it might even show up in Xen 4.2. Some demos of Xen on mobile phones from Samsung were amazing. They showed how an attacker could compromise the web browser on the phone with a keylogger, but that application was running in a VM. Once the user switched back to the phone’s main menu, the keylogger couldn’t access the keystrokes any longer. After that, a simple close of the browser killed the VM and destroyed the malicious code.
Xen 4.2 should be available in early 2012 and the feature list is staggering. Improvements to libxenlight, pvops performance (even in HVM), and guest memory sharing should be available with the new release. Nested virtualization (run a hypervisor inside a hypervisor) is also coming in Xen 4.2 and I’m sure Xzibit will be a huge fan. This should streamline hypervisor testing, allow for embedded hypervisor options and extend the capabilities of client hypervisors. Remus should be available in 4.2 as well, but it might be marked as experimental. OVMF will be added as a BIOS option for UEFI (along with the standard SeaBIOS) and this should allow for Mac OS X guests. UEFI allows Windows to boot faster since it switches to PV mode sooner and it allows for simpler platform certification for software vendors.
Mike McClurg’s presentation on XCP was pretty important to me since Rackspace is a big consumer of XenServer. If you’re not familiar with XCP, it’s basically open-source XenServer which runs on bleeding edge (and sometimes unstable) components. XCP 1.5 and XenServer 6 should be available in November with Xen 4.1 and Linux 2.6.32. GPU passthrough, up to 1TB RAM, and disaster recovery will be available. Another goal for the XCP team is to work closely with OpenStack via Project Olympus. Mike’s vision is to have XCP become the configuration of choice for open source clouds. Project Kronos was also extremely interesting. It’s essentially XCP’s XenAPI stack running on Debian and Ubuntu. You’d be able to install either OS on a physical server and run XCP’s services on it for a fully OSS hypervisor.
Konrad Wilk gave an update on Linux pvops and it appears there is a shift to get Xen working well on a desktop. This includes 3D graphics support, S3/hibernate capabilities and various bug fixes. There’s also a push to get PV functionality into HVM and get HVM functionality into PV. Driver/device domains were discussed again in Patrick Kolp’s talk and he had plenty of graphs showing performance changes when regularly restarting device domains. The performance dips were almost negligible with 10 second restarts and the security gains were significant. | 2019-04-19T15:17:25Z | https://major.io/2011/08/08/xen-summit-2011-my-takeways/ |
This work has been devoted to study TSP, PM10 and PM2.5 in the atmosphere of Makkah and the Mina valley during the Ramadan and Hajj periods, 1424 and 1425 H. On the occasion of Hajj, about 2.5 million persons gather in Makkah and move to Mina valley (4 km2), 7 km outside east of Makkah. Pilgrims spend 3 nights in the valley. Congested traffic and the high rates of emissions in such a valley of small area coupled with severe weather conditions, make the area ideal for the accumulation of air pollutants. The present investigation shows that the diurnal cycle of PM10 in air coincides with the pattern of traffic movements. Particulate matters (PM10) daily concentrations in the atmosphere of the Mina valley ranged between 191–262μg/m3 during the presence of the pilgrims in Mina compared to the European standard of 50μg/m3. These concentrations represent 34%–40% of TSP. These high PM10 concentrations are due to the massive transportation movements at Mina valley. Moreover, TSP concentrations reached 665μg/m3 in the Makkah atmosphere during the last ten days of Ramadan compared to the Saudi standard of 340μg/m3. Chemical analysis of PM10 indicated high levels of sulphates, ammonium, nitrates and chlorides. For example, the concentrations of nitrates and sulphates of PM10 were about 4.9% and 6.1% respectively, compared to 2.1% of nitrates and 2.7% of sulphates in TSP. Health dangers that might be encountered by pilgrims due to these pollutants were estimated. It is recommended to set a well planned air quality management program to protect the air of Makkah. Keywords: Makkah, Mina, particulates, PM10, PM2.5, pilgrims, transportation. | 2019-04-25T13:49:18Z | https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-ecology-and-the-environment/147/22808 |
Unfortunately, there were few tools available for identifying and researching personas. Instead B2B marketers focused on building segments that approximated their personas for marketing campaigns while product managers posted persona profiles in meeting rooms during road mapping and feature definition exercises but failed to use these tools beyond the early product definition stage.
Recently, three vendors have begun to address the B2B persona problem. Zoominfo focuses on amongst a company’s best customers. These personas capture enough information about the attributes of their best customers to help identify similar prospects at other companies. Such a tool operates as a next generation customer cloning tool as it looks at both firmographic and functional information around leads. The tool can also be used to evaluate attendees at conferences or webinars to help tailor discussions.
Avention also recently rolled out its OneSource DataVision platform for enrichment, segmentation analysis, and Look-alike prospecting.
Who are your top performing customers?
Who are your best leads?
What were your biggest deals?
This information that can be gathered from the CRM, marketing automation platform, webinar attendees, and trade show lists. It can also be gathered from your sales reps, the CFO, and customer conversations.
While Zoominfo can assist with answering Who, they fail to provide insights into What or Why. In short, Zoominfo’s personas are basically the next generation of peer listings; they are a starting point for the persona process, but they do not assist with identifying persona needs; determining whether the cluster contains economic buyers, influencers, or users; or specifying what kind of content would be of interest to them. They also do not assist product management in determining product roadmaps and future capabilities.
There are also several vendors that recently launched tools for defining and maintaining buyer and user personas. Cintell and Akoonu offer marketers tools for defining personas in a centralized platform that collects survey data and research alongside the profiles. Both of these services were launched about a year ago so will be evolving quickly. The two services are cloud based hubs for collecting persona information and sharing it with both platforms (e.g. Marketing Automation and CRM) and employees. They are ongoing intelligence gathering services for continuously refining and updating personas and then disseminating this intelligence to marketing, sales, and product management.
Cintell personas cover professional insights, social insights, content trends (intent data), and personality data.
They also promise to immediately map leads to personas, helping inform messaging, campaigns, and targeting within the marketing automation platform and segmentation and analytics in the CRM. When tied to a well-researched persona, sales reps would have a better understanding of the prospect’s role, needs, and informational requirements. Personas provide sales reps with a summary of buying habits, preferences, and motivations along with market research reports, customer interviews and surveys, and persona specific articles. As living documents shared across the organization, they would also assist product management in identifying latent needs and customer pain points and marketing communications in tailoring content for the persona.
I don’t see these persona definition platforms as long-term standalone offerings as their functionality is a tight fit for marketing automation. They will likely be folded into marketing automation platforms once the technology has matured. It is also possible that predictive analytics companies fold these tools into their products as persona assignments would inform lead scoring and messaging. Furthermore, several of the predictive firms aspire to becoming recommendation engines, a feature that persona platforms could easily support. Conversely, business signals would be valuable in building out a fuller understanding of personas.
I recently had the opportunity to interview Avention’s SVP of Product Lauren Bakewell concerning their new OneSource DataVision service. The full interview can be found in trade publication Jinfo (FKA FreePint). The new service provides a centralized data enrichment hub with visualization and segmentation tools to assist with business planning, territory planning, and account based marketing (ABM). DataVision also assists with TAM analysis and offers similar companies and contacts.
Avention continues to build out its Global Content Live reference file built from over 100 data providers. Vendor content is fused to create a “golden record” which selects the most reliable vendor at the field level. International coverage has recently been tripled with a goal of covering 80% of GDP in their served markets by the end of 2016.
DataVision will soon be announcing connectors with the major marketing automation platforms. They are also “looking towards a more guided approach to help you get to the most meaningful segmentation, as well as areas to explore for growth. We want to move forward by providing more market analytics as part of the offering, helping you understand your data in an even more actionable way,” said Bakewell.
The full interview is available to Jinfo subscribers.
This morning, sales and marketing intelligence vendor Avention unveiled a survey and set of recommendations on implementing Account Based Marketing strategies. ABM is quickly moving from a buzzword to an actionable strategy for strategically targeting your best customers and prospects. If you are considering an ABM strategy or researching how to move forward with ABM, Avention’s “Account-Based Marketing: The Art of the Start – Leveraging a Strong Data Foundation to Fuel ABM Success” guide is now available.
The Avention Survey of over 100 top level B2B executives (e.g. CEO, CMO, VP of Sales) found that ABM strategies require “careful data-driven planning, execution and monitoring.” Furthermore, the lack of data access and quality are “fundamental impediments” that need to be resolved for ABM strategies to succeed.
90% of the surveyed B2B execs believe that ABM is relevant to their organization and 86% are confident that ABM will drive growth; however, 75% are having trouble finding the appropriate contacts for selling deeper into target organizations, and more than fifty percent of B2B marketers lack an ability to monitor and adjust programs directed towards ABM accounts due to a lack of real-time intelligence.
ABM Survey of B2B Executives republished with permission from Avention.
Avention noted that ABM is a long-term strategy that requires continuously updated account and contact intelligence if campaigns are to remain relevant. For example, messages and offers may need to be adjusted due to key events such as executive changes.
Almost two-thirds of the marketers responding to our survey report not having access to a single source of truth for customer data. This obviously impedes starting an ABM program and running it to successful conclusion, as such programs demand access to accurate and continually updated market and account data. ABM offers enterprises the opportunity to quickly fuel their customer acquisition, growth and retention strategies.
Marketing: “Consolidation and visualization of in-house customer data for sophisticated segmentation.” (For more on these capabilities, see my February blog on the launch of their DataVision platform).
Sales: Strategic intelligence concerning companies and contacts along with predictive indicators.
Sales Operations: CRM and Marketing Automation ecosystem connectivity.
Finally, I would note that traditional approaches to marketing data quality which involve annual data cleanses are insufficient to meet ABM and predictive marketing needs. Marketing data, particularly contacts, ages quickly. The lack of a continuous data quality strategy will result in a drop-off in sales and marketing productivity as contact and company data decays.
Full Disclosure: I broadly advise companies across the sales intelligence space including Avention. While I periodically write commissioned blogs for Avention, none of my commentary on my own blog or social media accounts is commissioned. | 2019-04-21T04:32:15Z | https://gzconsulting.org/tag/datavision/ |
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One morning in the early 1960s, Malaysian biscuit manufacturer Chew Hoo Han was having breakfast with his family when he realised food, beyond fulfilling hunger, could also promote health. He had a vision that food consumption trends would evolve from a focus on taste to an emphasis on taste, health and nutrition. Armed with this foresight, Chew ventured into the manufacturing of oats and Federal Oats Mills was born, setting a trend by offering and creating awareness of this healthy food choice.
Its flagship brand Captain Oats is now marketed in S.E.Asia, Greater China, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Having obtained the National Mark of Malaysian Brand award and the ISO 22000, HACCP and HALAL by JAKIM certifications, the brand successfully cements its credibility among international buyers and consumers. | 2019-04-21T17:00:39Z | https://ntde.com/en/distribution-brand/captain-oats |
Scones may conjure up images of fancy pastries and afternoon tea parties, but they are actually just glorified biscuits. These simple, vegan cranberry orange scones are one of our weekend morning favorites.
To create an allergy friendly treat for our kiddo, I adapted this scone recipe from King Arthur Flour by making them egg and milk free. If you are unable to use dairy free margarine, I would suggest trying either coconut oil or a shortening such as Spectrum instead.
Preheat oven to 425°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. (That's a 10" by 15" sheet in the photos, but use what you have.) Measure dry ingredients into a medium bowl and whisk together. I cheat and use my pastry cutter to stir for fewer dishes. Slice margarine into small cubes and work into flour mixture with a pastry cutter or a large fork until the texture resembles corn meal.
Add cranberries and zest and toss them in the flour mixture until evenly distributed. Pour orange juice into mixture and stir. Initially the liquid may not appear sufficient, but persevere until the ingredients are combined into a firm ball, kneading together if necessary.
Lightly dust hands and work surface with flour, move dough onto it, and gently pat the dough flat. Another cheat: I work the dough right on the baking sheet. Fold dough in half, pat flat, and repeat five or six times, dusting hands and surface with flour again as needed. Round dough into a ball again and move onto the baking sheet if not already there.
Cut the dough into 8 wedges and move them apart. If the dough is too thick or the slices too close together, the scones will not cook all the way through and will be gummy in the center. Brush orange juice on the top and sprinkle with sugar. You can make it a light dusting or a thick crunchy coating if you prefer. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve hot or cold. They are best eaten the same day they are made.
Food Geeks unite! Oh this recipe looks wickedly good! Im on it! I've actually been craving scones. I'm craving pretzel sticks...any good recipes on those?
Hi Caroline, thanks! I've played around with hard pretzels, but don't have a finished recipe. If you already have a cracker recipe you like, you can "pretzelize" it by brushing the crackers with a water/baking soda mixture and sprinkling kosher salt on them. I'll bump that project up to the top of the list! | 2019-04-18T18:17:38Z | http://www.allergickid.com/2015/01/cranberry-orange-scones.html |
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Join Love INC of Albuquerque for the 2nd annual Spaghetti Western on Friday, April 6th from 6-9 PM at the Jewish Community Center. This FUNdraising event will feature a full spaghetti dinner and country western dancing. Great for the whole family, this event provides an opportunity to grab some grub and hit the dance floor. This year, we are excited to welcome one of Albuquerque's top line dance instructors, who will be giving an hour long line dance lesson. Afterwards, you can 2 step and swing your way through the rest of the evening. Your generosity towards the ministry of Love INC is greatly appreciated.
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the loss of a loved one (parent, child, sibling, spouse, friend…).
another in the healing process.
The Roman Catholic Funeral Ritual, with its three distinct moments, is the preferred way to celebrate the death of a baptized Catholic. Each of the moments of the Ritual has significance.
It is customary to celebrate the memory of the deceased within the context of a Wake Service the night before the Funeral Mass. A eulogy for the deceased is often delivered the night before the funeral in the Funeral Home as part of the Wake Service.
Either the casket or cremains are brought to the Church for the Funeral Mass. The Roman Catholic Funeral Ritual is celebrated for any Catholic who has died recently and was an active parishioner. All requests for a Funeral Mass are scheduled, based on the availability of a priest and of a time, in the Chapel or Church.
Arrangements are customarily made with the Funeral Coordinator and the Parish Office staff. Generally, Funeral arrangements are made with the assistance of a Funeral Home and its services.
The Parish has a list of nearby Funeral Homes. The Funeral Mass is preferably accompanied with music and hymns. Music and singing at the Funeral Mass is arranged with the Parish Director of Liturgical Music who has sole responsibility for these services. These arrangements are made separate from those made with the Church.
The Rite of Internment or Inurnment is celebrated in the cemetery with the family gathered either in the cemetery Chapel or at the gravesite.
These are all great questions and the answers to them all come from our Catholic understanding of life, death, and life after death. As you probably know, Catholics believe in the value of all human life. We believe that God created each one of us, with the collaboration of our parents. He created us individually and with dignity. Therefore, everything we do in this world should promote the dignity of all human life and the associated vessel of that life, the human body.
God not only created each one of us, but He also made each one of us in His image (Gen. 2:2). The part of us that is most in His image is our life-force, our soul. In death, our soul leaves the body, but that does not destroy the dignity of the body that God created. Therefore, we are called to treat the body with dignity, even after death.
Finally, as Catholics, we profess in our Creed that we believe in the resurrection of the body. What we are professing at this time is that we believe that one day, at the end of time, our souls will be reunited with our bodies and God will raise us up to a new and glorified body, much like the body of Jesus after His Resurrection.
It was for the above reasons that the Church originally was not in favor of cremation. However, as our understanding of God’s omnipotence and work in our lives has grown, we better understand that God can not only reunite the soul with a cremated body but can indeed raise that body up to a new and glorified body.
However, we are still called to treat this body, even in its cremated form, with the dignity that the body should deserve. Therefore, the cremated remains (now commonly called cremains) of the body should be handled in the same manner as the body. In other words, the cremains should be buried or entombed, wholly and completely, shortly after the Funeral Mass.
Certainly, as we’ve discussed before, one of the main reasons that we celebrate the Funeral Rites is in order that we may pray for our deceased relative or friend. We wish not only to honor them and to celebrate their life, but also to pray for their soul. In several places throughout the Funeral Rites we pray, “Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.” This is our hope and this is our faith – the faith we have in Jesus Christ, who is “the Light of the World” [Jn 8:12], as well as “the Resurrection and the Life.” [Jn 11:25].
However, the Funeral Rites are also celebrated for the bereaved – the family, friends and loved ones of the deceased. Through our prayers for our deceased loved one, we begin to find the healing we need for the loss we feel. There is a sense of completion, or closure, that comes with the celebration of the Funeral Rites. We gain comfort from the fact that we have done for them as they would have wanted us to do. Our faith teaches us that burying the dead is a corporal work of mercy and that praying for the dead is a spiritual work of mercy. Should not the one for whom we have love and affection also be the one for whom we make these great acts of mercy?
Different from a Funeral Mass, a Memorial Mass is a Mass requested to remember a Catholic when the funeral and burial have already taken place elsewhere.
A Memorial Mass is requested sometime after the burial and is meant to provide a way of remembering the deceased locally with those who knew them and wish to gather in prayer with other family or friends of the deceased.
The Memorial Mass does not replace the Roman Catholic Funeral Ritual.
An Anniversary Mass is celebrated for a Catholic who has died some time ago, and whose funeral and burial have already been celebrated.
An Anniversary Mass is often celebrated one month or one year after the death of the deceased, and can be celebrated each year on the Anniversary of the person’s death.
It is a great tradition of our Catholic faith that we pray for our deceased brothers and sisters. Certainly that is one of the reasons that we celebrate the funeral rites mentioned above. However, our prayers for the deceased may also include Masses said for the repose of their soul. Unlike Funeral, Memorial or Anniversary Masses, Mass Intentions are requested for our regularly scheduled Masses. These Mass Intentions can be requested by anyone. [By the way, Mass Intentions can also be requested for the living and for other occasions – such as birthdays, anniversaries, healing or thanksgiving.] Please contact our Parish Office to arrange for a Mass Intention.
A pamphlet, entitled “Guidelines for Catholic Funerals,” has been developed by the Diocesan Liturgical Commission of the Diocese of Palm Beach. This pamphlet is available from the parish office and may be helpful in further explaining Catholic Funeral Rites. | 2019-04-25T22:49:44Z | https://stjoan.org/ministries/church-related-ministries/funerals-bereavement/ |
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US President Donald J. Trump after a group photo on the second day of the G7 Summit at the Hotel San Domenico in Taormina, Sicily, Italy, 27 May 2017.
Remember when Trump vowed, ‘We’re not going into Syria’?
In April, shortly after ordering a missile strike against a Syrian airbase controlled by the Assad regime, Donald Trump said in an interview that “we’re not going into Syria.” Even at the time, it was a strange thing for a sitting president to say.
After all, not only had he just launched a new military offensive against Bashar al Assad’s government – putting the United States on more than one side in Syria’s civil war – but there’s also the fact that American troops are already serving in Syria.
On Monday, Russia condemned that strike as a “flagrant violation of international law” and said its forces will treat U.S.-led coalition aircraft and drones as targets if they are operating in Syrian airspace west of the Euphrates River while Russian aviation is on combat missions.
The circumstances are as stunning as they are treacherous. Syria is in the midst of a horrific civil war, which Donald Trump said he wants to stay out of, except he’s now targeting the Assad regime’s forces and its ISIS enemies – both with increasing frequency. Assad’s Russia allies, meanwhile, are now threatening to target American forces.
The crisis, in other words, is intensifying in ways the American president may not fully appreciate or understand.
The irony is, Trump’s pre-election concerns are wholly at odds with his post-election policy. In late October 2016, just a couple of weeks before Election Day, the Republican said he was convinced that Hillary Clinton’s approach to U.S. policy in Syria would “lead to World War III” because of the likelihood of a confrontation between American and Russian forces.
In other words, the GOP candidate warned of the dynamic that he may now be creating.
In the preceding years, Trump insisted, over and over again, that he saw greater U.S. intervention in Syria as a terrible mistake. “We should stay the hell out of Syria,” he declared at one point. “I would not go into Syria,” Trump later added.
For those who voted for him, assuming his rhetoric reflected how he’d govern, I’m afraid I have some bad news.
Remember when Trump vowed, 'We're not going into Syria'? | 2019-04-24T13:47:05Z | http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/remember-when-trump-vowed-were-not-going-syria |
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No, I’m not a military kid, I’m a professor’s kid. We moved as my dad changed jobs. The confusing question for me is where did I grow up. I spent ages 4-14 in Alaska, but 14-21 in Kentucky. So where did I grow up?
Alaska in many ways feels like home. My formative years were there. I got my first driver’s permit there and it’s just cooler (literally and figuratively) to be from Alaska than from Kentucky. It took me two years in Kentucky to stop saying I was from Alaska, but I still felt torn. Now, it generally depends on the occasion whether I say I have ties to Alaska, but I rarely say I’m “from” there.
At the St. Paul Winter Carnival in 2007. It was about -30F.
I’ve never felt like I’ve been without a homebase, because my parents have always worked hard to make where ever we lived be home. It’s only when I get asked “where are you from?” that I get flummoxed. I’ve been yearning for Alaska today because my hometown ‘hood, as it were, made the NYTimes travel section. I’ll write about that tomorrow, but it brought up some intense homesickness and longing for home. While I know that Alaska isn’t my home anymore, seeing the pictures and hearing the stories made me remember a time when it was. And that makes me smile.
them in a later post when I actually fill them with pastry cream or other goodness.
in, “Katie should make red velvet cupcakes in the shape of brains for cranium night” and then the three people who didn’t know me asked if I played games. Which amused me. I then tried to explain the plethora of games I have at my house. Then they asked if I was a geek. I laughed.
Big pile o’ games and miscelany on the floor. This is the “popular” pile. If this were high school, these would be the first games asked to the prom. They would definitely wear letter jackets, even when it was 90 degrees out. They are THAT cool.
Carcassonne – Build a monestary. Farm. Rob. Knight. Screw up other people’s cities.
Carcassonne Inns & Cathedrals – The above but with cathedrals!
Settlers of Catan – Make Ben lose. Put the robber on his best tile. Ruin his road.
Settlers of Catan (Collector’s 3D edition) – Admire the pretty pieces.
This is the 3D edition of Catan. In the fancy chest. But you can only play with four players, so we never use it. But it sits on the shelf and is pretty. It is VERY good at that.
Starfarers of Catan – Curse the broken rocketship.
Settlers of the Stone Age – Try to figure out how in the world this is related to Settlers of Catan.
Settlers of Catan Card Game* – Play Catan, but with fewer pieces.
Catan Traders & Barbarians – No memory of this.
Dominion – Get more cards. Shuffle. Play cards. Get cards. Shuffle. Shuffle. Shuffle. Loose.
Agricola – Plant stuff and buy animals. Before the other players do. Otherwise you starve to death (not in real life though).
Eurorails – Build trains and carry stuff across Europe. Make money.
Robo Rally – Program robots. Realize you don’t know left from right. Get shot. Fall in Pits. Repeat.
Corsari – The PIRATE game! 12 colors, but it only looks like 8, especially if you have bad lightening or eyesight. Make the best fleet before anyone else can and set sail.
Ignore the large stack of casette tapes on the right. They stack well with boxes of playing cards.
Chez Geek – Played once. Thought it was stupid. You can be a slacker. That’s all I remember.
Set (x 2) – Any trait has to match every card or be different on every card. Then it’s a set (if there are three). Yell set and grab them.
Zar – Uno on crack. Especially if you play with two decks. Which you should.
Uno – Who doesn’t know uno?
Fluxx – A game where the goal of the game changes. Like the goal could be to have the milk card and the cookie card. Then it’s to have the love card and the peace card.
Scrabble – Again, who doesn’t know Scrabble?
Friends – Scene It? * – I’m guessing this is some sort of game where you put in a dvd and then have to answer questions about clips from the tv show friends.
and at least 6 decks of playing cards – WAR. Spoons. Egyptian Rat Screw. So many choices here. If you want to be classier there’s also cribbage, bridge, gin rummy, and many, many more.
y given 6 month period, there is general preference for one or two of them. Where one of the preferences is always for Robo Rally. So if people come over to play games they will want to play ____ or Robo Rally. Right now the popular choices are Dominion & Robo Rally. Dominion is the new favorite because a) it is new and b) it is short. Every once in a while someone will suggest Agricola, because Agricola is also new, but, unlike Dominion, Agricola takes several hours, so it is always shouted down.
Contrary to popular belief the XO laptop is not infact a game. The “book” to the right of it is scrabble, and the book to the right of that is the large German manual to Settlers of Catan. I’ve never read it because it’s in German. And Ben and I don’t know German. But we have it, so if you come to vist and want to play Catan and know German, you can read ALL about the variations. The Atari Flashback 2 is also not a board game, but it was on the shelf and I was lazy. | 2019-04-23T13:09:10Z | http://katieblogs.panciera.net/tag/home/ |
I’ve come to really enjoy finding new YouTube channels like A Booktube Book, The Loftus Party, Eat Your Kimchi, Meejmuse, Two Hearts One Seoul, Life Where I’m From. These people clearly work hard and create high quality videos that YouTube doesn’t pay to produce.
Google makes an estimated $8.5 billion USD. They don’t pay for production or development of content. They offer a well known site, but it’s nothing that can’t be replicated. No one is going to go to the site if it’s an empty void with a Red and White logo.
One solution is described above with the idea of sponsorship. The problem is that I can’t see sponsoring each channel I like. It’s as if you didn’t just pay for each cable channel you wanted but you had to pay for each show. Do people want to subscribe to cable, Netflix, Hulu, and each YouTube channel. If you subscribe for $4.99 per month for each channel (and with YouTube you don’t know if how much programming you’ll get in a month because life happens and sometimes the channels don’t have new content for weeks).
Cutting revenue by 80% by a multi-billion dollar company is pure greed from a company that’s got trouble with free speech issues.
Now that’s another problem with YouTube. It’s censoring or restricting videos with content it disagrees with.
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Yesterday Stephen bought the kids some gardening tools. Our garden is still in the building stages so Zoey has decided to “garden” the pile of gravel in front of the barn. Our garden fence is almost done to keep the animals out, and Stephen is making some raised beds so we’ll hopefully be ready to start planting soon. Meanwhile, Zane is eagerly practicing his gardening skills by learning to walk while trying to rake.
One of our contractors gave us this boat and some life vests on Friday. We took it out on the water this afternoon. Zoey was a little scared at first but held my hand and then seemed to be okay. Zane, however, was not pleased to be stuck in his life vest. I’m sure you can tell by his reaction below.
Back when we lived in Carmel, we took Zoey out on a kayak at a small lake at the Preserve when she was around the same age as Zane is now. She had the same reaction except that she cried the entire time. Thankfully Zane settled down once I was holding him, but he kept frowning the entire trip around the lake.
I haven’t been writing very much lately, and I feel a bit out of practice. Next weekend I’ll be back at Motherland Botanical Sanctuary for the second month of my 9-month herbal class. This month we’ve been focusing on learning how to do infusions and decoctions. Later this week, hopefully, I’ll share an herbal infusion I’ve enjoyed drinking the past few days. More updates soon on our shop/shed/guest room and garden.
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What beautiful Pictures. I’m so envious of your perfect patch of land and the kids look so adorable. Thanks for sharing.
Ah don’t be envious, just come up to visit us! The shed guest room should be done by summer (fingers crossed). | 2019-04-21T08:56:29Z | https://mayacamamama.com/2015/04/11/a-saturday-in-april/ |
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Bold Control? What are you smoking?!
Welcome back to VectorSigma.info for our third and final part of our BOLD trilogy. I will try and post some updates to my other decks as time goes on, especially the aggro-BOLD Dinobot strategy since the entire set has come out since the design of that deck. The version of BOLD I am going to cover today is going to seem odd, since it is not really using BOLD as its intended use to add to your offense, but instead to simply get cards into your scrap pile to power up your heavy hitter: Nemesis Prime.
Now I know what you are thinking: why would a blue icon based deck want to focus on BOLD and not focus on Tough? Well, first of all there is some Tough in the deck because it simply makes sense to include it (and you will see later that based on the math of the deck that Tough is very good). Second, the main issue you run into with Tough is that it competes in the Armor slot with Forcefield which is generally superior to it in most situations (see below). Third, as the active player, the attacker, YOU chose who attacks, when, and how (with your choice of Upgrades and Action Cards) so you have control over BOLD flipping more cards. Compare this to Tough, where either your opponent can chose to ignore the Character with Tough on it, or you need to upgrade/attack with a character you may not want to early simply to force them to attack the Tough one. I just think BOLD offers more control over when and how many cards you are flipping each turn, and ultimately that is the goal of this build.
Now, I know you may be thinking that some of these scenarios are “Cybertronian Christmas Land” types, but I am not so sure. “Cybertronian Christmas Land” is a term adapted from other TCGs which basically means you get the ideal hands/draw/flips/etc. when you need them and glean all information from only the best possible angle of anything. I do not want to go into the individual card choices of the Battle Deck until later, but since the entire basis of the deck is getting Nemesis Prime to 10 attack before he attacks, the deck concept falls apart without proof that his idea will work.
EV stands for Expected Value, which takes the percentages to Flip X cards and multiplies by the amount of cards flipped. So if you look at a “Normal” scenario, you have a 42% chance of getting a White Combat Icon which flips you four cards and a 58% chance of not getting a White Battle Icon, netting you only two cards. So we take .42(4) + .58(2) and that gets us an Expected Value of any normal attack netting us 2.84 cards off the top. This logic follows through for different scenarios as above. I will come back to this chart later, but know that this is ONLY combat calculations and does not count the card drawing OUTSIDE of combat.
The point of all this is that you can see it is not very difficult to get Nemesis Prime to 10 attack before he attacks, giving him the largest base attack in the game. Now, he may not be swinging for a lot given that 10 attack, since so much of your deck is defensive, but his massive health pool combined with the different defensive options should keep him alive long enough to continuously build up this attack each round cycle, especially if your other characters can stay alive, or you get a Body Armor into play on your opponents attack target.
His Transform to Alt mode ability is not irrelevant, but should only be used when you have a Rapid Conversion in hand, as he loses the attack bonuses. This is why the deck cannot run any “Truck dependent” cards. On a turn where he can get a “free flip” off of Rapid Conversion, it may set up a larger Barrage attack or simply a “free two damage” in the late game.
Demolisher does exactly what this deck is looking to accomplish: Flip more cards while attacking and keep characters on the board. His Bot mode defense of four is the highest base in the game, and his built in “Bold 4” without adding any armor is only bested by characters such as Kickback in an all Insecticon build. The amount of cards flipped will be assisted as the chart above, but since this deck has an average defensive buff of 1.86 without the benefit of Tough (and a massive 4.228 when you are wearing Body Armor for Tough 3), Demolisher should shrug off the first SIX incoming damage immediately and potentially an average of EIGHT?! For a six cost Transformer who is furthering your main strategy this is hard to pass up.
The choice of the third character was a difficult decision between four choices: the starter deck Optimus Prime: Autobot Leader, Dinobot Snarl, Insecticon Skrapnel, and Barrage. Each has their own set of positives and negatives. Snarl gives you access to Dino Chomp! which is clearly insane in the deck, but has a limited window when you can play it. His Bot ability actually HURTS you to use unless you put a White on top of your deck, but even then you are only netting three cards. Skrapnel is obviously a defensive specialist, but cards like Body Armor and Blast Shield are dead cards to play on him. He will eat three attacks from your opponent, but has no chance of furthering your plans through innate BOLD. Optimus Prime: Autobot Leader brings some potential Truck synergy to the deck, along with card draw in the alt mode and Bold 1 in the bot mode. This guaranteed Bold 1 is more reliable in the early game to Barrage’s pseudo Bold 2, but the issue with this version of Optimus is that he is not Melee in any mode, meaning he cannot wield Power Sword OR Body Armor. This is an issue for the build, but I feel he may warrant more testing as a viable partner that opens up the possibility of playing Team Up Tactics to heal both he and Nemesis, and would change some of the build to prioritize more Transform effects.
This leaves us with Barrage. He is normally found in aggressive decks, because he has the highest damage to star ratio of any character if his Bold 2 is active (easy to do in said aggressive strategies) but has a home here as well. His 11 health is the largest of the options, though he will not survive as long as Skrapnel in isolation. He has a melee mode that you can easily attach the upgrades to early and if your opponent allows him to attack a damaged character early, he opens up a lot of “easy options” to get the Nemesis Prime deck recycling online faster. Overall at first glance, Barrage seems to have the most going for him given the synergistic needs for the deck and his inborn Bold ability.
If any of you try and different character above, or even a 5/6 cost I did not mention that you found works well as a third teammate, let me know!
As you can see from the Defense chart above, this deck is a defensive monstrosity! Without adding any tough to your characters you are getting almost a two defensive boost per defense, drastically reducing the amount of damage you take each turn. I know most people tend to focus on offense, since you have more control over it with current turn Actions and Upgrades, but a defensive buff will “trigger” more often. This is why defensive buffs tend to seem “less powerful” on the surface compared to attack ones.
So let’s start with the other defensive battle cards. I believe the discussion of “Flamethrower vs. Power Sword” that I wrote in the Dinobot Aggressive Bold deck would hold true here as well, comparing Body Armor to Reinforced Plating, but this deck actively WANTS to flip more cards at all times, regardless of the outcome. I believe the desire to get Nemesis online as fast as possible and the redundancy that Body Armor adds to Power Sword in the world of “Flip 3 extra” cards is more desired. With Tough 3 you will be blocking over 4.2 damage on average. A Body Armor on Nemesis will thus block over six damage per attack, that is massive! On Demolisher you are looking at turning away over EIGHT damage..that is huge!
There are also two Blast Shields in the deck, to combo with Demolisher’s Bot mode, but this could be the slot you have a more permanent armor like Reinforced Plating. Tough 2 in this build adds an average of 3.4 damage reduction, much higher than the “+2” that Blast Shield gives, but as I said Blast Shield can do double duty with Demolisher. Time will tell which is more important, but to start I want to continue to push the Nemesis ability theme.
Force Field is an auto-inclusion with its White combat icon, which you want to see every single combat, and its ability to keep your guys alive longer. I believe in this build that Body Armor is actually the better long term play, but in certain matchups that will try in put one huge attack on you, Forcefield will be a lifesaver. As the game is mostly “shades of aggro” instead of a traditional aggro-control-aggro/control type of rock-paper-scissors setting, I cannot see starting any decklist currently without three Forcefields.
So the rest of the deck is set up to get Nemesis’ ability off as soon as possible, so involves a lot of card draw/sifting.
The Power Sword and Handheld Blaster (yes, it may actually be advantageous to actually play out this little guy at times) both give you BOLD as upgrades. Supercharge gives you BOLD 3 as an ability as well, and there is potential to add in a full playset of this given its natural synergy in the deck. I think more often you are better suited playing an action that draws you more cards given the low amount of Orange battle icons in the deck so it really just here as another Nemesis enabler.
Data Bank draws you more cards each turn from the Utility slot, and as long as you draw two cards off it thoughout the turn cycle it is a better option than Data Pad. Backup Plan is another White Battle Icon card that draws us cards, and I would rather draw one less card than System Reboot than allow my opponent to draw four cards. There are extreme corner cases where drawing that fourth card will allow a Nemesis flip before he attacks to occur where he otherwise would not, but I feel it just helps your opponent too often without comboing with someone like Shockwave. Inspiring Leadership draws three and scraps 2, improving out hand quality while allowing us to remove cards from the deck. Even though we only net drawing one card from the deck with Incoming Transmission it allows us to set up a White battle icon on top of the deck to ensure we have an ideal attack. Treasure Hunt has a similar function to the above two cards but also allows us to smooth out our turns by digging deeper for the Upgrades we need to equip.
There is a lot of redundancy in these Action cards and that is intentional. You need to “draw three cards” (sift, extra through BOLD, etc.) each action phase to get Nemesis flipped in time for his first attack, ideally. This is why you do not see many of the “typical” action cards you may find in normal builds like Grenade Launcher or The Bigger they Are.. The Nemesis ability is the equivalent to getting a “free” Leap into Battle every turn cycle on your highest health character, turning him into a one shot machine.
The last few cards in the deck are pretty basic. Security Checkpoint is in there for its double Blue icons when defending, but since you are a defensive deck you oftentimes do not need to horde upgrades in your hand, so playing an upgrade then playing this should be a net positive against most of the field you will face off against. It is certainly more playable than its double orange action card counterpart. Rapid Conversion allows for a corner case Barrage play as I stated earlier, and can be seen as a “mini Supercharge” because of it. It is likely the first card to be cut, but you will want to replace with cards with White battle icons to keep the deck balanced. I can see running a System Reboot and a third Backup Plan in their place, and could even make a case for a Swap Parts for when you only draw one Power Sword but want to use it on multiple characters in one attack round. It would act like a fourth Treasure Hunt in this case as often on attack you will be digging for another Power Sword, but it requires you to have one initially.
Drill Arms is here for when Nemesis is online, especially once he hits the 13 or more mark for base attack. Opposing Force Fields are your biggest weakness, so you need to make sure you get them off of the table. Nothing else upgrade wise is really a concern, so getting a weapon out, even if you are replacing a Power Sword, and +1 attack is superior than running an Orange card like Ramming Speed.
Leap into Battle is a blue card so does not hurt us defensively and is simply a “good card” that can put us over the top in combat.
Above is again the all-important turn 0-3 charts to stress the importance in planning out these scripted turns. If you can get Nemesis online during the first turn cycle he is the highest base attacker in the game with increasing potential each turn cycle.
Can control decks exist in the Transformers TCG? This deck certainly tries to be one with its emphasis on Blue battle icons, card draw, and single focus of character attacking. Unlike other defensive decks, such as Tanks, your characters do not lack in the Hit Point department (Nemesis has the second most in the game after Cosmos) so Pierce should not ruin your day as easily as it does say Darkmount.
Do other Nemesis builds exist? Sure. His 12 star cost and massive combat stats give him a lot of two character build options, though you will likely not get him online as quickly given one less turn each cycle. He may have other interesting three character parings, but I feel this is the build that will get him online the quickest and most consistent. | 2019-04-21T17:07:17Z | https://vectorsigma.info/article%3A-bold3 |
HELP! New Moto X Won't Activate No Matter What!
I’ve just powered on my brand new RW Moto X 1st Gen for the first time ever (life events got in the way).
The first time, it automatically began updating the profile by itself. After about 3-5 minutes it then vibrated and rebooted itself.
After that, the phone automatically entered the RW activation sequence. I got as far as selecting my language, wifi network (with password). Then the screen transitions to a grey screen that says “Loading” with a spinning icon and stays there indefinitely for hours.
I have that tried multiple reboots and factory resets with no effect. Often times, I can’t even get to the grey “Loading” stage anymore. The phone just hangs at the the “Republic Wireless: This will take a few minutes screen”.
Can anyone help me? I’m completely phone-less until I get my Moto to — at the very least — boot into the OS and past the activation phase.
Is this a new never activated phone or is it a new to you second hand phone? When and where was it purchased because that phone is 3 yrs old. You are sure it is a Motorola X 1gen phone?
If this actually is a brand new Moto X (1st Gen) that has been sitting in the drawer for a long time it is very likely the upgrade from KitKat to Lollipop is getting in the way. If that is the case I’d factory reset the phone, log into WiFi, log into Gmail, and then go to Settings and check for updates. If an update is available install it and then go to the Play Store and update all of the native apps. After doing those things I’d attempt to activate the phone.
Hi bocepheous. Correct, this is a never activated phone. It was bought new online from RW and never turned on until now for reasons out of my control. I’m aware it was an older phone even when I bought it. I am absolutely sure it is a Moto X 1st Gen phone.
Hi billg. I appreciate your quick response. You are correct, it has been figuratively sitting in a drawer for a year and a half. The issue is that I can’t even get past the activation phase and boot into the OS to do anything. Therefore: no settings, no apps, no Play Store, no Gmail. When turning on the phone, all I’m allowed to do is choose my language and wifi network, then get shunted to the grey “Loading” screen (with a swirling circle) where it hangs forever.
I’m aware there is an upgrade to Lollipop to be applied if I can ever boot into the OS. Is this what it is doing in the “Loading” screen? I’d think I would at least get a notification and option to upgrade without the phone attempting it itself with no warning without even properly booting up first. But I’m new to RW.
Regardless, the phone hangs in the “Loading” state no matter if I leave it alone overnight or not. I’ve searched the forums and seen this is not supposed to happen. Something is not working right.
As my good friend @billg has pointed out that phone has gone through a couple updates since launch. Follow his instructions earlier in this thread. Think of the phone as a tablet and it needs updated.
Hi @bocephous. If I could boot into Android, I would do as you and @billg said. Do you know a way to skip the activation phase and somehow get into the operating system? If so, I would very much appreciate it. As it is, I have zero options to do so.
I ran into this on one occasion but I’m not sure I remember how I got around it. I think I skipped the login to WiFi and maybe a few things after that to get out of the activation routine and then went to settings and connected to WiFi from there.
Thank you very much @billg for the suggestion to “Skip Wifi”. I did attempt this before but was scared off by the serious-looking “this will incur extra carrier data charges” warning, so assumed wifi was a necessary first step for RW phone setup.
At least I’m in the OS now. Will tackle the later steps tomorrow. Cheers.
I’m glad to read that this got you into the OS. Don’t worry about the extra charge warnings. RW never charges extra for anything so there are no surprises which is more than one can say for other carriers.
Like I said, when I ran into this before and managed to get into the OS my old brain has forgotten the details. In my case an update to the OS wasn’t necessary but I did need to update all of the native apps. As I recall when I went to the Play Store to do so I had to log in with my Gmail account because it wasn’t on the phone at that point. I did so, updated the apps, and somewhere along the line the phone prompted me to add my Gmail account and asked me if I want to restore that which had been previously backed up.
Now that you are in the OS you can probably go to Settings, Accounts and add your Gmail account before you go to the Play Store since your phone is working as a tablet. I believe there is an important update to the Play Store that will appear in your notification shade and after that update the Play Store will work just fine. When the OS and the apps have all been updated all you have to do to activate the phone is open the Republic app and follow the screen prompts. | 2019-04-24T18:50:24Z | https://forums.republicwireless.com/t/help-new-moto-x-wont-activate-no-matter-what/653 |
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ACCRINGTON Stanley have confirmed the capture of experienced striker Gary Taylor-Fletcher on non-contract terms.
The 35-year-old, who has played for Blackpool in the Premier League as well as Huddersfield Town and Leicester City, has been brought in by Red boss John Coleman to provide cover for players out with injuries and suspensions.
Taylor-Fletcher, whose last club was National League side Tranmere Rovers, goes straight into the squad for tomorrow night's Checkatrade Trophy group match at Chesterfield.
Coleman said: “Gary has plenty of experience and has played at the highest level. | 2019-04-22T00:10:24Z | https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/accrington_stanley/news/14778683.accrington-stanley-sign-taylor-fletcher-on-non-contract-deal/ |
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Welcome to the future at West Point, New York on October 19, 2017. It dawns a dark cold day. The clocks are striking thirteen and nothing but. This day, West Point hails George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States. West Point’s alumni association claims that George W. Bush embodies all that the United States Military Academy stands for. Specifically, George W. Bush has the “character, accomplishments, and stature that draw wholesome comparison to the qualities for which West Point strives.” In short, George W. Bush is the apotheosis of the West Point motto: Duty, Honor, Country. Moreover, through the Sylvanus Thayer Award, Bush’s “outstanding character, accomplishments and stature will be forever associated with West Point.” A vile, gritty wind sweeps over The Plain engulfing the Superintendent’s quarters built by Sylvanus Thayer in 1820. Perhaps Thayer, the “Father of West Point,” is outraged.
In 1817 President James Monroe assigned the 32 year-old Thayer to revitalize a slack, party-boy West Point. Thayer established a rigorous engineering curriculum, demanded strict military discipline and emphasized personal accountability that adhered to the highest level of honorable behavior. To Thayer, integrity of character was all. From him came the West Point Cadet Honor Code—“A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do.” This was Thayer’s greatest legacy—the indelible hallmark of being an honorable “West Pointer.” Others agree.
A trillion-dollar illegal war with millions of casualties—the dead, dying, wounded, dispossessed and otherwise destroyed. A war begun on-the-cheap with an under-equipped, poorly protected ground force. A war where military coffins came home under cover of darkness and news-blackout. A deceitful, illegal criminal escapade that remains unpunished. A war premised on lies, all tolerated and enhanced by George W. Bush.
George W. Bush shamelessly mocking his own lies about WMD at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
A macho, cake-walking “Mission accomplished!” victory strut, premature, immature and tawdry.
Abu Ghraib and CIA Black Sites.
Guantanamo, orange jump suits, torture and starvation.
And much more, sadly so much more.
At West Point, a single lie by a cadet, regardless of its significance, warrants expulsion. So?....?
The sins of the elders, the lies and deceit of George W. Bush and his regime, have indeed been visited upon the children. Thanks to their illegal, preemptive destruction of Iraq, as darkness follows darkness so death, destruction and displacement has been visited upon this suffering world. Today, pick a place on this planet not affected by the decisions and criminal behavior of Bush and his regime. Now, courtesy of West Point, a new “honorable” Bush has been born.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…. | 2019-04-23T11:59:34Z | http://www.brighteningglance.org/west-point-to-honor-dishonorable-george-w-bush.html |
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The group treatment programme for binge eating problems is intended to facilitate understanding and reduction of binge eating, and improve health and wellbeing.
During the programme, clients will be provided with information that will help them to better understand their eating difficulties, and develop specific skills to help tackle problem eating behaviours.
Sessions will cover information about binge eating (e.g. causes of binge eating and what keeps it going), nutrition, healthy weight control behaviours as well as specific activities to address shape and weight concerns, unhelpful thoughts, dealing with mood, and developing problem solving and mindfulness skills.
The primary focus of the group programme is to address the problem of binge eating. As dissatisfaction with body weight and ‘dieting’ are common problems in people who binge eat, information and guidance about healthy weight loss will be included towards the end of the programme. It is important, however, to acknowledge that treating binge eating does not automatically lead to weight loss and that reducing or eliminating binges is a first step to controlling weight.
There will usually be 3 to 4 clients with similar eating problems per group. Sessions will run from 5:00pm to 7:00pm fortnightly on Thursday evenings and will include a break of approximately 15 minutes. Sessions are held in a relaxed and informal environment. After the 12 group sessions, an individual meeting will be arranged giving each client the opportunity to meet with the course facilitators. This meeting will last 1 hour and be arranged towards the end of the programme.
Although attendance is expected at all sessions to gain maximum benefit, we understand that this may not always be possible. Participants are advised to discuss with the group leaders in advance about difficulties attending.
Group participants will be asked to complete a number of different questionnaires at agreed times throughout the course, including some at every session. This is to help monitor any changes that are occurring during the programme and to give clients the opportunity to provide feedback.
Data from this course may be used for research purposes and will be anonymised and subjected to strict confidentiality processes. If you have any concerns about this, please speak to the course facilitators.
Although the group programme is intended as a treatment intervention, it is not a ‘therapy group’. If required, on completion of the course and depending on individual needs, there may be opportunity to access a one-to-one therapy, and/ or one-to-one sessions with a dietitian. This will be arranged in the individual meeting, where applicable. | 2019-04-18T18:54:46Z | http://www.freedbeeches.org.uk/binge-eating-group |
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An metaphysical exercise attacking the assumptions underlying society and seeing Christian Platonism as central in the Christian understanding of the world. | 2019-04-20T00:34:04Z | https://www.lutterworth.com/category/religious-titles-philosophy-of-religion/page/2 |
PJM’s market proposal may unfairly benefit expensive and inflexible power plants, ACORE President and CEO Gregory Wetstone says.
The following is a Viewpoint by Gregory Wetstone, president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE).
Next week, FERC will act on the much-ballyhooed Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) issued a few months ago by Energy Secretary Rick Perry. The NOPR would provide out-of-market compensation, effectively a bailout, for coal and nuclear generators, mostly in the PJM region.
This brazen effort to help economically uncompetitive participants in the energy market place has been criticized by a remarkably diverse group of stakeholders that include not just renewable energy groups like the one I lead, but also the oil and gas industry, environmental organizations, and numerous states.
Most observers expect that FERC will not issue the rule as proposed by the Department of Energy, but will shift to focus on a market-based approach. That would be welcome news, marking the beginning of a crucial next phase.
In looking ahead to that likely outcome, it’s imperative that FERC’s new approach not trade one uneconomical bailout for another. Right now, two significant market reform efforts are underway within PJM, the electrical region serving 65 million customers in the Mid-Atlantic to Great Lakes states that is the focus of the DOE proposal. These two reforms are intended to improve the economics for generation plant owners. Both would raise electricity prices for consumers and businesses – and do so without a clear basis in efficiency or reliability.
The first proposal is called “capacity re-pricing,” which aims to adjust prices in the capacity market upwards to try to undo the potential price-reducing effect of certain state policies.
Crucial questions surrounding which of the myriad state incentives and subsidies could be subject to this treatment are now being debated, with no apparent driving economic policy principle underlying the effort. A central concern, in a nutshell, is that PJM might file this proposal without any exemption for popular state policies such as Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) — and FERC could quickly approve it.
In such a scenario, consumers in affected RPS states would then be forced to pay twice for capacity — once for the resources the state chooses, and another time for the additional resources that PJM and FERC designate. Effectively, ratepayers would pay for subsidized uneconomical generators, despite the reality that they aren’t providing the types of power that consumers and states want.
The second proposed reform goes to the energy market itself, where PJM proposes to allow inflexible units to set the price. That would raise the price in many times and places, typically by 2% to 5% according to PJM. During these higher-price hours, the old inflexible units will operate and be paid.
To avoid over-production, other more economical units would need to be paid to not produce. The result would be double payments in the major Mid-Atlantic power markets. The benefiting units are the same ones that received stranded cost payments with restructuring, and very high market prices in the years when gas prices were high.
It should be added that this does not suggest opposition to mechanisms that raise prices where circumstances warrant. For example, higher prices during times of scarcity (i.e., “shortage pricing”) can efficiently and appropriately compensate flexible sources such as storage and demand response resources.
The key point here is that, if ratepayers are going to be paying more, they should be getting something valuable in return, such as energy when it is scarce. This is the area where pricing reform should be focused if we are to ensure that consumers are getting more when paying more.
Looking ahead, FERC should first focus on defining needed services for reliability and resilience. In doing so FERC can focus on technology-neutral markets to procure any needed services. In contrast, the alternative now under consideration appears to involve choosing a solution in the form of preferred technologies, and then looking for a problem it might solve.
If the PJM market were a residual spot market only, and market participants conducted most of their transactions bilaterally, as in most markets across the economy, then the market rules would be less vulnerable to stakeholder and policymaker political meddling. Capacity markets, which are a poor means of attracting the flexibility needed in today’s power systems, would become far less important.
FERC and RTOs should resist temptations to intervene in wholesale power markets. A better course is to allow states and customers to choose the power they want, and pursue only those changes needed to improve efficiency and reliability. | 2019-04-22T12:23:49Z | https://www.utilitydive.com/news/maintaining-a-fair-market-through-price-formation-reform/514067/ |
Five riders have been provisionally suspended by the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) after their respective horses tested positive for banned substances.
The Indian trio of Sarvesh Singh Pal, Apurva Dabhade and Raj Kumar, along with Argentina's Daiana Chopita and Waad Nadim Bou Moghlbay of the United Arab Emirates, have all been given provisional bans by the worldwide governing body.
Chopita has been sanctioned for two separate breaches of the FEI's anti-doping rules.
A sample provided by Chopita's horse J C Cahuel returned a positive test for trometamol at an endurance competition in Abu Dhabi on November 9.
Another horse ridden by Chopita, HLP Gadafi, tested positive for the substance at an event in the same city the following month, held on December 23. | 2019-04-19T23:20:16Z | http://news.endurance.net/2018/01/fei-provisionally-suspends-five-riders.html |
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CHICAGO — A federal judge sentenced an Oak Brook doctor to two years in prison for illegally receiving benefits in exchange for referring elderly patients to Sacred Heart Hospital on Chicago’s West Side.
DR. VENKATESWARA R. “V.R.” KUCHIPUDI was convicted in March on one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, and nine counts of illegally soliciting or receiving benefits in return for referrals of patients covered under a federal health care program.
U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly imposed the sentence Friday in federal court in Chicago.
Dr. Kuchipudi, 69, was one of ten defendants convicted in the multi-year investigation of the now-shuttered hospital at 3240 W. Franklin Blvd. in Chicago. From 2001 through April 2013, Sacred Heart executives conspired to pay kickbacks and bribes to physicians to induce them to refer patients for services that would be reimbursed by Medicare and Medicaid. The scheme earned Sacred Heart millions of dollars in reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid.
The prior convictions include EDWARD NOVAK, the hospital’s owner and chief executive officer; ROY PAYAWAL, the chief financial officer; CLARENCE NAGELVOORT and ANTHONY J. PUORRO, chief operating officers; and four other physicians. Sacred Heart closed in 2013 in the aftermath of a federal law enforcement search of the hospital and the arrests of principal executives and Dr. Kuchipudi.
The investigation was carried out by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which is part of the Health Care Fraud Prevention & Enforcement Action Team, a joint initiative between the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to prevent fraud and to enforce anti-fraud laws around the country. Dozens of defendants have been charged in numerous fraud cases since the strike force began operating in Chicago in 2011.
Evidence at Dr. Kuchipudi’s five-week trial revealed that he was one of Sacred Heart’s most prolific sources of patient referrals. In exchange for his referrals, Sacred Heart provided Dr. Kuchipudi with free labor in the form of a physician, physician assistants and nurse practitioners. The free labor was provided not only inside Sacred Heart but also in Chicago-area nursing homes where many of Dr. Kuchipudi’s patients resided. Sacred Heart allowed Dr. Kuchipudi to bill Medicare and Medicaid for the services of the physician assistants and nurse practitioners as if he employed them himself.
The conviction was announced by Zachary T. Fardon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; Lamont Pugh III, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Region of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General; and Michael J. Anderson, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The government is represented by Mr. Hammerman and Assistant U.S. Attorneys Diane MacArthur, Kelly Greening and Brian Wallach. | 2019-04-19T21:05:09Z | https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/oak-brook-doctor-sentenced-two-years-prison-connection-kickback-scheme-sacred-heart |
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Our goal is for stroke survivors to lead fulfilling lives and continue to be active in their families and communities. At MedStar NRH, we focus on the whole person, helping individuals meet the challenges they potentially face medically, physically and socially.
Patients in our Stroke Recovery Program benefit from our role as a teaching facility and access to new medical and therapeutic interventions. The Stroke Recovery Program is accredited by the Joint Commission and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in line with our constant goal to provide the highest standard of care.
Patients in the Stroke Recovery Program benefit from a highly comprehensive continuum of care fostered by the hospital’s partnership with acute care hospitals and community resources throughout the region.
For more than 30 years, the MedStar NRH program has emphasized continuity of care by providing inpatient, outpatient, and day rehabilitation to patients in the Stroke Recovery Program.
Care is provided by a multidisciplinary team of doctors, nurses and therapists that have specialized skills.
Patients benefit from the hospital’s role as a teaching facility with resident training in rehabilitation medicine, as well as internships in nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, recreation therapy and speech-language pathology.
The team works hand-in-hand with patients and families on improving the quality of their life, preventing secondary conditions, and enhancing their ability to participate in meaningful activities.
Individualized treatment plans are developed to facilitate patients’ maximum function, wellness and community reintegration.
Patients benefit from the latest technology and sophisticated therapeutic equipment.
Patients participate in community outings to learn how to navigate in the community.
After discharge there are opportunities for continued activity such as Upper Extremity Support Group, Kickboxing, and Open Gym.
The Stroke Recovery Program is accredited by the Joint Commission and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). | 2019-04-25T00:54:27Z | https://www.medstarnrh.org/our-services/stroke-recovery/why-choose-us/ |
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Undeniably one of the most harrowing American films of the 20th century, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer hits Blu-ray with a restoration that cements its reputation as a shocking, thought-provoking nightmare-plunge into the depths of the human soul.
Henry, a psychopathic drifter who has left a trail of bodies in his wake, settles for a while at the dilapidated Chicago apartment of ex-prison mate Otis. Into this toxic environment comes Otis’s younger sister Becky, who’s fleeing an abusive marriage and looking for a place to stay. Deflecting her brother’s incestuous advances, Becky finds herself attracted to Henry and sees him as a potential lover and herself as his possible savior. What she doesn’t realize is that Otis and Henry are now killing together, sinking to ever more terrifying depths of depravity. As Becky tries to get her life back on track, she looks to Henry for a way out. But is redemption even possible for a man like Henry?
In celebration of the film’s 30th anniversary, Dark Sky Films is proud to present Henry in a brand new 4K scan, restored from the 16mm original camera negative and approved by director John McNaughton and producer Steven A. Jones, featuring a new 5.1 mix restoration from the stereo 35mm mag reels. Sure to send shivers of mortal dread through a whole new generation of filmgoers, this new presentation puts Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer firmly back into the vanguard of contemporary cinematic horror. | 2019-04-24T15:49:19Z | https://www.mpihomevideo.com/products/henry-portrait-of-a-serial-killer-30th-anniversary-edition |
Midwifery or Obstetrics is the branch of the health sciences dealing with the care of women throughout pregnancy, including before birth, during birth, and in the period following birth. The health professionals specializing in obstetrics are the obstetrician-gynecologist, the midwife (obstetrics), and the nurse midwife.(read more at wiki) Here we introduce best colleges in the field of nursing-midwifery where Oregon Health & Science University is ranked top and University of Pennsylvania is positioned on second place.
We briefly compare those top colleges with various factors such as tuition, admission, graduation, enrolment, and more. The full comparison for each factors with tables and charts is described at nursing-midwifery colleges comparison page.
First, we compare the best nursing-midwifery schools with general characteristics.
Next, we compare the tuition and other costs at best Nursing-Midwifery colleges. Tuition is an amount of money charged to students for instructional services. Tuition may be charged per term, per course, or per credit. In-state tuition rate applies to students who meet the state's or institution's residency requirements and out-of-tuition rate is for students who do not meet the ins-state residency requirements.
This page contains comparison data on the number of full-time, first-time undergraduate students and all undergraduate students who receive different types of student financial aid, including grants and loans, from different sources at each best Nursing-Midwifery school.
This paragraph compares the number of students enrolled in best Nursing-Midwiferyschools. Next table counts total students headcount by school level and attendance status. Undergraduate full-time student is a student enrolled for 12 or more semester credits , or 12 or more quarter credits, or 24 or more contact hours a week each term. For graduate students, it includes students enrolled for 9 or more semester credits, or 9 or more quarter credits, or a student involved in thesis or dissertation preparation that is considered full time by the institution.
Next, we compare the graduation rate between best Nursing-Midwifery schools. The graduation Rate is calculated as the total number of completers within 150% of normal time divided by the revised cohort minus any allowable exclusions. For example, 6 years rate is applied for 4 year schools. For detail information of your desired school, follow links on the school name.
Once again, we note that the full comparison for each factors with tables and charts is described at nursing-midwifery colleges comparison page. | 2019-04-26T15:39:36Z | http://compare.univstats.com/2014/06/best-nursing-midwifery-programs-comparison.html |
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Project 1 : Drinkable water for the health centre in Muhungu.
Location : Muhungu is one of the 23 hills of Mabayi.
Context: The community clinic is built by the inhabitants. Due to lack of financial means the nurses and the workers get water from the well at the foot of the Hill. However there is a source which could provide the dispensary with drinking water. Providing the health centre with drinking water would be a very positive thing.
Responsible for the micro-project: Bararwendera Josephine.
Project 2 : Lighting for the health centre in Muhungu.
Project 3 : Micro project Equipping with plastic chairs.
The association D.A.B. needs chairs that would serve for all residents and this on days when many people gather for the meetings. The income from the rental of the chairs would serve for the formation and guidance of the farmers' wives.
Purchase of the material for electricity installation and the amenities for the supply of drinking water for the health centre of Muhungu. Transport of the equipment from Bujumbura to the beneficiary hill.
Installation of lighting equipment and photos.
Digging the channels for placing the tubes for the application of tap water to the health centre. The excavation of the trenches was accomplished by the local population as an expression of their participation in the development of their hill Muhungu.
For the time being we are looking for a skilled plumber for the connection of the drinkable water. End of January 2013 the health centre would be provided with potable water.
Ultimately, the health centre is since the month of October 2011 equipped with lighting.
At the bank we could not collect more than the sum of 2300 euro. So we had to wait to pick up the remaining sum.
An error was detected with one of the solar panels. The panel has been returned and restored.
In the attachments you’ll find some pictures of the work already carried out.
The population of the hill Muhungu and the surrounding hills are pleased with these improvements and thank you for the wonderful gift that was offered them. The residents will express this when you’ll come over to visit the realisations.
In the course of this quarter, the tubes were placed in the channels, but the water pressure was very large so that the small tubes 16/32 cm had to be replaced by larger.
While for the best solution, another benefactor, the Italian co-operation, has a made a reservoir and replaced the piping by larger ones. The Italian co-operation did this work in addition to the construction of a maternity ward they build.
For the moment the water gets to the health center but the starting place is in poor condition and must be repaired. We are discussing with the parties concerned, the beneficiaries and the technicians to provide drinking water at a residence occupied by vulnerable people such as widows and orphans, using the lines that are not used by the health center. If you want to make a different proposal for the use of these lines, we gladly accept it.
Concerning the lighting there is no problem: the maternity ward and the health center are illuminated.
I am sure that the remaining work will be ready in the course of the 3rd quarter, so against the month of June. At that time I will take pictures as proof of the final finish of the project 36 Muhungu 2012.
We repeat our sincere thanks to your organization committed to address the issues which keep on hurting our population.
The project 36, health centre Muhungu, consists of 2 parts being lightning based on solar energy and providing drinkable water.
The lightning part was implanted smoothly without any problems.
The part to provide drinkable water just has been completed, on another place as originally proposed though (see first report).
The attached pictures shows the implementation of the drinkable water tap, close to the primary and secondary school and the church. The children in school, students and habitants are very pleased and relieved that they don’t have to walk big distances daily to collect drinkable water at the base of the mountain. They are very grateful and wish all of you a long life. Thanks to the clean water there is a slow but clear improvement in the health of the habitants.
The whole team of Vleugels van Hoop can congratulate themselves and be proud on the positive and well-doing results of this project.
‘Gira ivyo mutanga n’ivyo musigarana’ : Although have something to give and make sure your wealth is never ending. | 2019-04-21T06:16:20Z | http://vleugelsvanhoop.be/EN%20Muhungu%20Burundi%202012.html |
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Saturday, March 12 – This island was a tender port and once again, the weather was hot and humid. We decided to explore it on our own and after arriving in the town, we did the walk through all the cab drivers waving maps in our faces, which is of course to be expected.
Seasoned travellers that we are, I have found the best way to get through is not to make eye contact and just keep walking!
So we grabbed a map and walked through town so we could buy some souvenirs and get our bearings and do a bit of bargaining before deciding where to venture to. Once out of the melee, we found a lone cab driver and began bargaining for what we wanted to see. It worked well. Pen and paper is good to write down the price you agree on, making sure it covers two people and very importantly, is a 2-way fare! The driver’s wife was there too, as her English was not too bad and she and their little daughter came along for the ride.
I thought the town a bit shabby but then we drove through beautiful scenery – this island is 90 percent virgin rainforest, surrounded by great granite mountains and lovely stretches of white sandy beaches. Very popular with backpackers, Kho Samui (or Samui to the locals) also has many resorts, restaurants and shops.
Our aim was to visit the Na Muang waterfall, very pretty with water cascading down a natural rock staircase, Big Buddha (Wat Phrayai), a massive 39-foot sitting Buddha and Wat Plain Laem which is home to a superb statue of Kwan Yin, the 18-armed Buddhist avatar of Mercy. Along the way, we stopped at a market and our very friendly cab driver bought us a cold drink each (it was pink, no idea what it was) and a bag of a crunchy fried treats – some were banana and others were sweet potato. Delicious!
Considering that we had never heard of this island before, we had a memorable day and great value for money! The islanders also enjoyed it, as our sister ship, the “Sun Princess” came in at the same time, so the island was inundated with tourists.
Posted on March 20, 2016 by Jill • This entry was posted in Asia, Cruising, Travel and tagged Big Buddha, cruising, Koh Samui, Na Muang, sea princess, travel, vacation, Wat Phrayai, Wat Plain Laem. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-23T01:25:24Z | https://quiltscatsandme.com/2016/03/20/koh-samui-thailand/ |
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I currently have a Piotroski screener which I update weekly or so as well as a free Piotroski spreadsheet that makes use of the excellent SMF excel plugin.
I have gone through in detail the Piotroski criteria and backtested the results to see whether it really did achieve what the academic papers claim. My conclusion? It has resulted in outstanding performance.
While all my other value strategies did poorly in 2011, the Piotroski 2011 performance was very respectable at -1.3%.
The Piotroski score is a great mechanism for filtering stocks, but I want to see whether better results can be achieved. So I am going to share with you my test results of numerous combinations utilizing the 9 point scoring system derived by Piotroski. My goal is to try and nail down the best combination that will outperform the standard Piotroski screen.
I did something similar with Graham’s stock selection checklist. Graham originally had a 10 item checklist which I felt were not all necessary. By going through the list and eliminating criteria such as a stock having to be priced at 2/3 of NCAV, the modified screen turned out to be much better.
With 9 criteria, there are hundreds of possible combinations, but there is no way of testing each one.
In order to cut the time and labor, I back tested one criteria at a time against the past 5 years – from 2007 to 2011.
Then I sorted the criteria based on the return it made. If you look at the image below, criteria #6, the latest current ratio being greater than the prior year current ratio, performed the best.
But using a single criteria as a screen itself is too broad and results in far too many stocks in the final output.
Using the findings from above, I tried combinations such as the top three, top five, positive only, bottom three etc, but results were not what I expected. Thus, the process of elimination began.
Rather than wasting your time explaining every thought process, I’ll just dumb it down.
I started with the best two criteria as the foundation and added one criteria at a time. If the new combination beat the previous combination, I continued with the new combination. If not, then the criteria was eliminated and so on.
The combinations were back tested over a one year, 3 year, 5 year and 10 year period and then ranked. The lower the total rank, the better.
As you can see, the best combinations (#6,9,1) and (#6,7,1,2) both tied for first place. However, I am awarding combination (#6,9,1) first place as it protected the downside better in 2011.
The original Piostroki screen placed 10th place and is the only one that posted positive numbers across all time periods. Impressive indeed.
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In the end though, the best Piotroski combination is a very simple selection criteria which doesn’t resemble Piotroski at all.
The results adhere to the rule of keeping it simple.
I’ve enjoyed reading your company analysis posts but this article is excellent and very informative. Thank-you!
Great job testing these various Piotroski components…very informative! One question though..In Piotroski’s research, did he not start the entire process with a basket of stocks that are in the bottom decile (or some similar metric) of P/B values…then use the “Piotroski” criteria to find the best stocks out of this group?? It may be interesting to add such a criteria to this screen (ie. P/B<0.8) or even a similar tangible book value criteria. Thanks again for the great work Jae!!
Oh right, I forgot about that. Will have to try some things again on the side.
Very informative information Jae. I’d like to see an article written by you concerning your techniques in back-testing. What devices do you use to accomplish the task and such.
Remarkable study to separate the winners from the loser’s criteria.
I things the 4th criteria is quite interesting, haven’t you test combination such as 6,9,4 or 6,9,4,1.
A different weighting of each criteria should also improved the performance.
6 and 9 are at the bottom of the list here. So I wonder how much of this is a product of the particular 4 year period you looked at compared to the different period Piotroski looked at.
Part of it will also be due to the fact that the above Piotroski info focused on high book to market stocks whereas I’m assuming you’re looking at a much broader universe.
Great post! Why don’t you use Discriminant Analysis or Neural Network to find the best combination of those variables. Relatively easy if you use a statistics program.
Going to have to disappoint you in how I go about doing this but I think there is a commercially viable solution. I’m going to test it out and if it is good, I’ll do a review on it.
I’m sure I did try that combination as I tried the remaining 7 possible 3 criteria combination starting with 6,9.
Interesting feedback. I wonder whether the results are so much better because of the fact that is is less correlated.
I forgot all my math from 7 years ago lol. I had to look up the formulas for permutations, let alone try to remember how to go through statistics again.
if you need help just send me a mail with the data…the good is that with Discriminant Analysis that I have used, you get also different weights for the different variables.
I love your breakdown, pretty informative. One thing perplexed me though, why is there a difference between 6,9,7 and 6,7,9 in the results? Aren’t they the exact same thing? Or there’s a real practical difference in implications of searching for companies meeting criteria 7 in the universe of those meeting 9 versus the other way around.
Send me some numbers and I’ll see what I can do. Maybe a followup would be good.
Good catch I didn’t notice. They should definitely both be the same though.
Jae, that’s fair enough. I do back testing but it’s very tedious. Was just wondering if you had an easier way. Take care.
Very interesting article – I really admire your work. I liked the original piece by Mr. Piotroski however not the part where he shorts the lowest scoring stocks found. That’s not possible for me to do. I am looking into your findings and combining them with an indicator to get me out of the market if it is in a downtrend – something like Mebane Fabers work. That would have gotten you out of the market already 1½ year before the financial crisis. That strategy has been proven to return about 100 per cent in 3 years. Cheers and keep up the very good work.
Hi Jae, it’s really awesome what you are doing on your site. I am still at awe. I always thought there was a way to backtest fundamental strategies, but you’re not only backtesting it but optimizing it.
May I know what program you are using to perform these backtests and optimization? I would like to point out also that the criteria for Shares Outstanding in Piotroski’s F-Score is awarded not only when there is a reduction, it is also valid if the number of shares stays the same with the prior year. Or at least that’s what I got from the other articles I have read on it.
Hi, can you tell me what your holding period, rebalancing, and how many holdings you applied in your backtesting? Thanks.
If Gross Margin > Previous Gross Margin = -22.9%, then Gross Margin < Previous Gross Margin = +22.9% ??
Why only 5 years? Some of the trends you found on individual factors were extremely interesting (current gross margin> prior gross margin=-20%) and I would like to see how they perform over different period.
just not enough data used for the backtest. Getting more than 5 or 10 is extremely expensive and difficult.
Portfolio rebalance is once a year.
The op 20 is based on a rank that I use. Won’t be disclosing that anytime soon.
I was wondering if both your Piotroski Screen and Piotroski Best Screen were sorted by the bottom quintile of price to book stocks.
Also, when I read Greenblatt’s book, in the appendix he stated that Piotroski’s return decreased if one used the entire universe of stocks versus limiting them to small- and mid-cap stocks.
Do you filter for this or have you noticed a difference in the returns depending on market cap?
These were not sorted based on P/B and the universe wasn’t limited to market cap.
I haven’t tested out the market cap filter but dont think it’s necessary.
Unless you are going 100% quant, these returns and the ideas provided in the screen should do well. | 2019-04-26T04:02:41Z | https://www.oldschoolvalue.com/blog/investing-strategy/best-piotroski-screen-combination/ |
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