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Centre-Loire > Reuilly
Location: Reuilly is located southeast of Bourges in two departments; Indre and Cher. The production area includes communes Reuilly and Diou in Indre and Cerbois, Lury-sur Arnon, Chéry, Lazenay and Preuilly in Cher.
- 200 hectares / 494 acres
Soil: The vines are planted on gentle slopes of Turonian chalk limestone and on high sand and gravel terraces.
Climate: The temperate climate has a pronounced continental influence, with a wide temperature range. Frost, though rare, is a concern in spring. With average rainfall of 700mm per year, Reuilly is one of the driest and hottest vineyards in the Central Loire and so harvest begins first in this appellation every year.
- White: 4,800 hl / 126,803 gallons
- Red: 3,100 hl / 81,893 gallons
- Rosé: 600 hl / 15,850 gallons
- 65 hl/ha white (translate to gallons/acres?)
- 63 hl/ha rosé (made in very small quantities)
- 59 hl/ha red
- White: Sauvignon Blanc
- Red: Pinot Noir
- Rosé: Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir
- Appearance: Bright, pale straw yellow
- Nose: Intense aromas of citrus fruit, minerals and grassiness
- Flavors: Refreshing and dry with fresh fruit and mineral notes and its hallmark crisp acidity
- Appearance: Garnet or ruby red
- Nose: Notes of cherry and limestone
- Flavors: Light to medium bodied with brambly fruit and cherry flavors, refreshing acidity and softer tannins.
- Appearance: Pale salmon pink
- Nose: Strawberry, herbaceous notes
- Flavors: Fresh and fruity with lively acidity.
- Fried fish sandwich with jalapeno-tomato relish
- Grilled vegetable pasta with cumin
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My concern about the Bideford Town Council ruling which bans prayer from meetings is not because it is anti-faith. It is more because it is undemocratic.
The judge ruled that the Local Government Act 1972 didn’t give the Council power to have prayers. But surely in a democratic society groups and bodies are free to choose to do something as long as it’s legal and does not cause harm?
The judge’s decision is undemocratic because Bideford Town Council has voted to maintain prayers at the beginning of its full Council on two occasions. A vote is an indication of the collective will of a group of people which they all then agree to abide by. We protect minority groups by agreeing that no collective decision should violate individual human rights.
And the judge in this case expressly said that in this case there was no breach of anyone’s Human Rights. Just like the rest of the meeting, Clive Bone, the Town Councillor who brought the case was not forced to agree with any part of what was being said. It did not make him unsafe, restrict his freedom of conscience or freedom to practice any other religious beliefs he wanted to.
I do not say this because I believe that Christianity has a God-given right to special privileges. Just because historically Christianity has been the dominant religion in the UK it does not necessarily entitle Christians to special rights in today’s world. We should not pretend that we still live in the age of Christendom where State and Civic powers aligned themselves unquestioningly with Christianity as the national faith.
In this ‘post-Christendom’ age, it is up to Christians to explain, debate and display why our beliefs and practice contribute towards the health and wellbeing of the nation. In many ways this is no bad thing – with the loss of privilege comes a missional challenge to people who are really committed to the faith to stand up and live out their faith without the protective covering that institutional privilege gives.
But none of that should affect the right of a Council to have Prayers before a meeting should they chose to do so. If we cannot make the case why prayers shouldn’t remain then we should respect a local democratic decision to have them.
I find prayers and reflection at the beginning of meetings hugely beneficial. They help me to give what I’m doing back to God, reminds me that I’m not there for my ego, but there to serve and protect others and helps me ensure that my planned actions and words are aligned with my conscience.
Each person responds to prayer times in different fashions, but a well led reflection can help a group consider the wider context of their decisions, focus on the issues at hand and set a more collaborative tone to a meeting. It is these benefits that help explain why the tradition of prayers has survived back to Elizabethan times.
Open and confident
In multi-faith environment like modern Britain we should encourage a varied approach to prayer and reflection times. Each Councillor in turn who so wishes should be given the opportunity to lead a reflection rooted in their own worldview or faith, but which seeks to connect to all. As a Christian I can benefit from a Muslim, Jewish, New Age or humanist perspective without having to agree with it all.
The secularist approach of the National Secular Society (NSS) which tries to ban anything ‘spiritual’ in public life risks robbing us of the positives of both the Christian tradition and other faiths which have enriched our public life for centuries. Adopting a respectful, open and confident approach allows us to collectively benefit from our faith traditions without giving undue privilege to any of them.
Service and sacrifice
Christians should not fight for traditions and privileges for their own sake – it makes us look self-serving and focused on protecting our own interests. Christianity at its best remembers its roots in Jesus’ outward looking love and manifests its faith through service and sacrifice. Traditions which grant us undue privilege should sit uncomfortably with us.
If we’re not bringing refreshment, depth and insight to others’ lives then long may we be outvoted. But when an elected Council body believes that Prayers are beneficial to their meetings then they should be allowed to hold them. The outlawing of them is undemocratic and signs of a militant secularism that will only harm our public life. | <urn:uuid:6851bfc9-4067-4212-81ba-f4d9a2a2b7e5> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://gracetruth.blog/2012/02/12/prayer-ruling-is-undemocratic-not-anti-religious/ | 2019-03-22T07:25:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202635.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20190322054710-20190322080710-00486.warc.gz | en | 0.954412 | 901 |
Diesel tax, benefits & five other law changes you need to know about in 2018
Here we run down six laws including motoring, tax workplace and home regulation changes which could affect you in 2018.
New rules on road tax
Changes to car tax will make charges based on CO2 emissions, meaning that your tax in the first year of tax could be nothing, or as high as £2,000 depending how much of a pollutin’ gass guzzler or an eco friendly efficient model you drive.
For the second and following years thereafter, the amount of tax paid is a flat £140, or £130 for hybrids of LPG cars, or zero if your car has no emissions, ie fully electric, so long as the vehicle cost no more than £40,000, then there’s a £310 levy from years 2-6.
These changes came in last year, but this year many drivers who bought new in 2017 will see the new second-year charges apply to them for the first time. New rules will mostly affect drivers of new diesel cars.
Diesel cars will be pushed up a band from April 1, if they fail to meet the latest Euro 6 emissions standards in real-word testing.
The rise for a Ford Fiesta could be as little as £20-30, but a Porsche Cayenne would be hit with a rise in the hundreds of pounds.
The changes don’t apply to commercial vans or vehicles, only cars. Cars with emissions of 1-50 g/CO2/km will pay £25, those with emissions of 51-70 will pay £105, and so on up the brackets.
At the top of the scale drivers will pay a whopping £2,070. Then, everyone will revert to the flat rate of £140 in the second year.
All cars that cost more than £40,000 outright will attract an extra premium fee of £310 for years two to six of ownership, regardless of emissions. Simple, right?...
The gender pay gap
All employers in Great Britain (so England, Scotland, Wales) with at least 250 employees will be required to publish information about the differences in pay between men and women in their employ, based on a pay bill date of 5 April 2017, under the Equality Act 2010.
The first reports must be published by April 4.
The cost of a passport is going up and you’ll also have to pay extra to apply by post.
A standard adult passport will go up from £72.50 to £75.50 for online applications and £85 for postal applications.
Children’s passport charges will rise from £46 to £49 or £58.50 in the post.
Universal Credit changes
Universal Credits are set for sweeping changes.
The four key benefit cuts coming in to force on April 9 are: A 3% real terms cut in working age benefits this year, set to be by far the biggest of the four-year benefit freeze.
Year three of the four-year cash freeze in working age benefits, affecting almost 11 million families. A two child limit for benefit claims, costing up to £2,780 for a family having a third child.
Withdrawal of the family element of support for new tax credit and universal credit claims from families with children, costing up to £545. The rollout of Universal Credit, saving £200m this year due to lower entitlements than the existing benefit system for long term sick and working families in particular.
Employment Allowance changes
The government plans to introduce a further deterrent to the employment of illegal workers.
From April 2018 , employers will not be able to claim the Employment Allowance for one year if they have hired an illegal worker or been penalised by the Home Office (including the exhausting of all permitted appeals).
Minimum energy performance ratings for homes
From April 1 2018 , there will be a requirement for any privately rented properties to have a minimum energy performance rating of E.
The government has announced it will be illegal to rent out a property which doesn’t meet this minimum rating.
A fine of up to £4,000 will be imposed for landlords who do - meaning properties which fall in the F or G category will no longer be rentable and will need to be fixed up with improved insulation, double glazing, more efficient heating, etc, in order to boost its rating. | <urn:uuid:42baa92c-20c7-4b90-8b6d-7b1860c0b8a3> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/lifestyle/cars/diesel-tax-benefits-five-other-law-changes-you-need-to-know-about-in-2018-316701 | 2024-03-05T07:37:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948223038.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305060427-20240305090427-00836.warc.gz | en | 0.94778 | 906 |
In 1934, the year after her 30th birthday, Charlotte Perriand won second prize in a contest, run by French magazine L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, to design an affordable vacation home. Her sketches for a "maison au bord de l’eau," or beachside cottage, show a simple, square structure built of wood panels and glass doors, the rooms arranged around an open-air terrace with ocean views.
Its breezy elegance and graceful utility are characteristic of the work of the young Parisian architect, who by then had already been a member of Le Corbusier’s studio for several years. Despite the charm and cleverness of its design, the house was never built—until now.
Nearly 80 years later, Louis Vuitton, whose spring-summer 2014 women’s collections are inspired by Perriand’s legacy, has brought her maison to life. The house makes its debut this week at Miami’s Raleigh Hotel as part of the Design Miami festivities, during which it will be for sale through Sotheby’s.
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If you’re planning on visiting New York City soon (or sometime in the future), we just found out about two exclusive must-see sightseeing tours that you may want to check out. Be one of the lucky people to experience the Statue of Liberty up close (only a limited number of visitors are permitted per day). Feel like a VIP – get early access to the top of the Empire State Building before the tourists arrive. No need to wait in line at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum to see the Space Shuttle Enterprise – skip-the-line and get into the exhibit before the crowds. Visit the 9/11 Memorial and spend time at the twin reflecting pools that sit exactly where the Twin Towers once stood.
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Hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 8 through 11, tuberoses (Polianthes tuberosa) are known for their spectacular display of fragrant blossoms in summer and early fall. Grown from underground root structures called bulbs, tuberoses can be planted in fall or spring in climates where they are hardy. With proper care, they will produce 3- to 4-foot-tall show-stopping flower spikes the first year.
Turn the soil about 8 to 10 inches deep in an area that receives at least six hours of sunlight a day. Incorporate 3 to 6 inches of organic matter, such as compost, to improve water drainage and fertility.
Plant tuberose bulbs 2 to 4 inches deep with the tips facing up. Gently pack the soil on top of the bulbs. Space bulbs 4 to 6 inches apart, staggering them rather than planting them in even rows, for a more dramatic effect.
Sprinkle approximately 1 tablespoon of a bulb fertilizer or a low-nitrogen fertilizer, such as 5-10-10, on top of each planting hole. Do not use blood meal, advises University of California, which can attract pests that dig up bulbs.
Spread 2 inches of mulch, such as shredded bark, on top of the entire planting bed to help resist weeds and conserve soil moisture. Mulch is also a must in USDA plant hardiness zone 8 for the bulbs to survive the winter. Give the planting bed 1 inch of water.
Things You Will Need
- Tiller or spade
- Organic matter
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To achieve a healthy body and also free from various diseases, we must be able to care for our body with a healthy lifestyle and also a complete nutrition for the body. To treat various kinds of disease, in addition to a doctor, we can treat the body we with a variety of medicinal plants that grow and easily we get around us. This medicinal plant has many health benefits as well as the interests of curing diseases.
What are the benefits of medicinal plants? Then, what are the important benefits of medicinal plants? The following are some of the important benefits of medicinal plants :
- Maintaining Body Resistance – The benefits of the first medicinal plant for our body is able to maintain our immune system. With the immune system is more awake, then we will be protected from various diseases.
- Enhance Stamina and Refresh the Body – The second benefit of medicinal plants, medicinal plants are very nutritious to maintain stamina and also refresh your body that feels tired after the day and require extra energy to continue the activity.
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I got dropped!!! LOL Like a bad habit!!! That's what I get for riding with the fast kids. Sunday came and I picked up Charles and headed to Sherman Branch. We got there and ran into Chris W, I knew then I was screwed!
So there I am pedaling along and trying to act like I had it under control. Behind me Charles and Chris are riding along talking and laughing like we are on a Sunday social! Oh, wait we "where" on a Sunday social! To be honest they weren't killing me so it was fun. But anyhow, the second lap was the same pace I just ran out of gas. I cut the course here and there to stay with them but I still ended up being dropped!
I am a big boy it didn't hurt my feeling to bad! Actually it was kinda fun pushing myself that hard. I have been on a different training schedule, one that does not require me to kill myself on every ride. I am shooting for more of an endurance pace than I am a race pace.
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Dave Halverson — Shapelifter
((Not on label) no#, 2019, DL)
by Jon Davis, Published 2020-11-06
I first encountered guitarist Dave Halverson with his band Trance Lucid back in 2013. On Shapelifter, he’s on his own with an eccentric set of instrumental tunes presenting vignettes utilizing various instruments, most of them fairly brief, and many featuring only a few different instruments. “Lurch’s Harpsichord” is a bouncy synthesizer outing; “That Sinking Feeling I” and a few others set an electric guitar over long keyboard washes; “Metafizz” has splashy chords punctuating phrases from acoustic guitar; “Mourning Doves” is a pedal steel solo; “Subroutine” has a random-sounding piano, an acoustic bass sample, and some odd synth chords. Other tunes are more fleshed out, like “Put Your Trust in Fairy Dust,” which has multiple guitar parts, bass, keys, and drums, along with a slew of sampled voices. “India” is backed, oddly enough, by a distant-sounding sample of bagpipes, adding guitars, drums, keys and more into a slowly-building wall of sound. On the whole, Shapelifter is an enjoyable journey that shows an artist having fun exercising his creativity. Where human playing rather than programming is the focus of a track, it’s always some kind of guitar in the spotlight, and Halverson is up to the task with his tasty playing.
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Audion Is Back in Business – Our esteemed colleague Alan Freeman has restarted Audion Magazine after a seven year hiatus. The new incarnation is available online on their Bandcamp site. Audion's history goes back to 1984, and included 58 issues up to 2013. Issue #59 is available now, and #60 is in the works. » Read more
Romantic Warriors IV – Krautrock (Part 2) Is in the Works – Zeitgeist Media, the people who have brought us the great series of documentary films chronicling the history of progressive rock, are working on the second installment of their examination of German music. Krautrock 2 will focus on artists from Münich such as Guru Guru, Amon Düül II, Xhol Caravan, Kraan, Witthüser & Westrupp, and Popol Vuh. » Read more
Simeon Coxe RIP – Simeon Coxe, best known for his experimental electronics in the band Silver Apples, has died at the age of 82. The band's 1968 debut album set the stage for both German electronic music and experimental punk music a decade later. Coxe died on September 8 from pulmonary fibrosis. » Read more | <urn:uuid:52259649-98e1-4f47-a515-a8222a3b9499> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/dave-halverson-shapelifter-2.html | 2020-11-27T20:05:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141194171.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20201127191451-20201127221451-00623.warc.gz | en | 0.952258 | 590 |
The Town of Georgina's Property Standards By-law No. 98-106 (BU-1) regulates the maintenance and occupancy of lands. It also sets out enforcement standards to ensure owners of properties comply with the by-law. The enforcement of this by-law helps to create a safe and attractive enviornment for everyone.
The Property Standards By-law is enforced on a complaint basis and all information is kept confidential.
Among the most common complaints are those dealing with junk and debris in yard area such as garbage, litter, tires, old appliances, derlict or unlicensed vehicles or old furniture. It can also be used to address a number of other issues. It sets out a minimum standard of maintenance for any building on a property including houses, garages, and sheds both inside and out as well as for driveways, walkways and lighting. This by-law is also used to ensure the securement of any vacant buildings. | <urn:uuid:66fedc3d-26c4-460e-8132-d6a8e641ba3f> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://www.georgina.ca/living-here/municipal-law-enforcement/property-standards | 2018-08-16T11:55:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221210735.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20180816113217-20180816133217-00686.warc.gz | en | 0.953654 | 193 |
TAF plays a central role in enabling PIDG to initiate multi-company programmes and centrally-driven initiatives that are not specific to a particular company and that align with PIDG strategic objectives.
The UFPF was established in November 2009 for investment co-financing and technical assistance for urban environment infrastructure that benefits the poor.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a new global fund created to support the efforts of developing countries to respond to the challenge of climate change.
The Infrastructure Development Collaboration Partnership Fund (DevCo) is a multi-donor facility managed by IFC AND DevCo is part of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG).
IFC InfraVentures is a $150 million global infrastructure project development fund that has been created as part of World Bank Group’s efforts to increase the pipeline of bankable projects in developing countries.
The Access to Energy Fund is jointly initiated by the Dutch government and FMO in 2007 to support private sector projects aimed at providing long-term access to energy services in developing countries.
CIO is designed to combat the detrimental effects of climate change by accelerating the delivery of renewable energy projects in developing and emerging markets.
With DRIVE, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs facilitates investments in infrastructural projects that contribute towards a good business climate and entrepreneurship in the priority sectors: water, climate, food security, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
Develop2Build (D2B) is a Government-to-Government programme. It offers governments in 37 developing countries and emerging markets direct assistance in setting up infrastructural projects.
The PPF is designed as a complimentary facility to TAF with a distinct role in financing of project preparatory activities.
The World Bank Group and the Government of Japan established the Quality Infrastructure Investment (QII) Partnership with the objective of raising awareness and scaling-up attention to the quality dimensions of infrastructure in developing countries.
GEEREF is an innovative Fund-of-Funds catalysing private sector capital into clean energy projects in developing countries and economies in transition.
In June 2016, under Japanese presidency, G7 Leaders endorsed “G7 Ise- Shima Principles for Promoting Quality Infrastructure Investment,” which has crystalized as definition of quality infrastructure investment.
The paper “Partnering to Build a Better World: MDBs’ Common Approaches to Supporting Infrastructure Development” presents a brief description of how MDBs work with their Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) .
The Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub), working with the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), conducted a scenario-planning exercise to understand how a collection of 25 transformative trends—megatrends—could reshape the infrastructure industry in the future. The exercise involved surveying more than 400 practitioners across 70 countries on the certainty of direction, scale of impact and level of preparedness for the megatrends. The output of this exercise resulted in three scenarios and a set of implications for the infrastructure industry. | <urn:uuid:d5b402b4-d9c4-4a21-aa25-d872a847d08a> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.gihub.org/infrastructure-knowledge-exchange/?country=brazil%2Cegypt&quality-infrastructure=building-resilience_disaster-risk-management%2Cenvironmental-considerations_environmental-impact-mitigation | 2020-07-11T23:13:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657129257.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20200711224142-20200712014142-00149.warc.gz | en | 0.926583 | 633 |
Role of government: what should it be?
It’s official: when we choose a President this fall, we will also
choose a theory on the role of government. The putative President and
the Mayor of New York both said it this week. Voters need to hear and
understand exactly what they said and what this means.
What Obama and Bloomberg said
Yesterday, Barack H. Obama traveled to Cleveland, Ohio. He gave a
rambling and almost petulant speech in this historic “battleground”
State. Mostly he said, “It’s all Bush’s fault,” or something amounting
to that. (Maybe he had read this Gallup Poll. Katie Pavlich has some other numbers that should set that record straight.)
But Obama said one thing worth hearing. The New York Times had two reporters on the ground to hear it:
Your vote will finally determine the path that we take as a nation — not just tomorrow, but for years to come.
In other words, Obama said that you will vote for more than a
President (or to be technical, Presidential Electors). You will vote for
a role of government. You will vote whether government will be your
nanny or your monitor and arbiter.
If you doubt that, Mayor Mike Bloomberg should remove that doubt.
Last week he made a rule that no convenience store, movie candy counter,
etc., could sell you a drink larger than 16 ounces. Soft drink bottlers
then took out a full page ad in the Times showing Bloomberg as “The Nanny.” (Or maybe as the title character in the Robin Williams movie Mrs. Doubtfire.)
What’s next? Limits on the width of a pizza slice, size of a hamburger or amount of cream cheese on your bagel?
If [the role of government] isn’t to improve the health and longevity of its citizens, I don’t know what [that role] is.
The mayor then contradicted himself. He told his TV host that he
didn’t mean to tell people what to do. But he and his Board of Health
are doing just that!
Excuse me, Mr. (putative) President. Excuse me, Mr. Mayor. Obama is half right, and Bloomberg is totally wrong.
The proper role of government
To “improve the health and [long life] of its citizens” (and lawful residents) is not the role of government. The Framers of the Constitution
never saw it that way. Nor is the role of government to guarantee you
an income, no matter what Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven said 56 years ago.
The role of government is to manage force. This role derives from a basic social principle: so long as humans live together, no one may start using force against another. But humans will
start using force, unless some other humans stop them, or deal with
them when they do. That is the proper role of government. That is why we
But the Progressive movement began with a new view of the role of government. They
first said that government must “improve the health and [long life]” of
those who live under it. And they didn’t stay with the Democratic
Party, or even start there. The first Progressive President was Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican.
So what does the role of government break down to? Three things:
And that's it.
But what say you? Is Mayor Bloomberg right to say that the role of government is to "improve" your life, whether you think it could stand improving (and in that way) or not? Or do you believe, as I do, that your life is your own, and government's job is not to interfere with it, but instead to stop others from interfering?
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I am sounding a bit like a skipping record and am WAY over using the word GORGEOUS. Perhaps I need to switch things up a bit word-wise. But the weather in Belize right now is just perfection. Yesterday my friend and I took an early afternoon boat ride over to Caye Caulker.
Everyone seemed to be laying around just enjoying the sun. Even the potlickers…
Here are some pictures around Caye Caulker. Every time I go…which now seems to be about once a week…I take the same pictures over and over. But the caye is just SCREAMING to be photographed. Everything just looks so perfect to me.
A frozen coffee drink and bag of hot sugary donuts should be everyone first stop. At Ice N Beans. Licking my fingers, I headed down to the Split.
They have some EXCELLENT new floatie additions to the area.
I could enjoy the water and the breeze here all day but I headed out to find some lunch.
And I was drawn in by this very pleasant sitting area at Paradiso Cafe.
I sat back in a comfortable seat…enjoyed a MASSIVE roast beef sandwich, heavy on the mustard and veg just like I like it and chatted with an Australian who works on the rigs in Alberta, Canada and is travelling around for a month.
Here’s the sandwiches close up.
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The final (74) verse was an addition by Erumbiappa disciple of Swamy Mamuni that the fortunates heads who seek the holy feet (Sandals) of Sri Manavala Mamunigal are certain to be touched by Amanava at Srivaikuntam . This contact would cleanse the emancipated soul of the last traces of karma and render it pure to enter the land of Bliss.
The most revered Acharyar in Srivaishnava sampradayam was Swamy Srisailesar . Srisailer was disciple of the legendary revered saint Swamy Pillai Loka Acharyar.
( The most respected and adored saint who played a very important role in Lord Ranganathar’s safety during the Turks invasion few hundred years back )
Check the appended post for more details ..
Swami Srisailesar appeared in a illustrious village kunthinagaram near Madurai. His parents named him as “Thirumalai azhwaar”.
A very intelligent and highly talented young lad who assimilated all types of knowledge including administration with dedication was loved by one and all . He had samashrayanam (initiation ) done from his Acharyar Swamy Pillai Lokacharyar and was given a name as Satagopa dasar.
Those were the times when the illustrious Pandyan Kings were ruling Madurai. King Kulasekhara Pandyan had two sons Sundara Pandyan and Veera Pandyan. Contrary to tradition, the king proclaimed…
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Thursday, 27 November
New solo edition from long time Room40 associate Ueno Takashi, also known as a member of Tenniscoats. Ueno’s work, both solo and with groups, spans an eclectic range of musical interests and styles. On "Variations Of Weeds" Ueno charts out a series of harmonic and timbral micro-universes for guitar.
"Synth-Heavy Score from one of the Industry's most creative composers; Craig Safan's music to the 1985 Thriller WARNING SIGN Famous for his score to the timeless classic The Last Star Fighter, as well as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part IV and (amazingly) the hit series Cheers! Safan's film music is notable for its clever use of electronics, and Warning Sign is no different. Recorded using a Synclavier Synthesizer - an incredibly expensive piece of kit at the time - the score is fully electronic but no less effective than his orchestral work, and provides an entertaining an… Read more
Thursday, 20 November
*Epic 7 CD box set packaged in a hardcover slipcase with a pull ribbon, 20 page booklet and more* In 2012 Ideologic Organ released the 2LP set '12 Stationer VI' featuring the last part of a large scale work by the Hungarian-Swedish composer Ákos Rózmann. They now present the complete version of Rózmann's epic masterpiece presented for the first time in its entirety as a deluxe 7CD set. Ákos Rózmann (1939-2005) was born in Budapest where he studied organ and composition at the Liszt Academy. From 1971 to 1974 he studied composition at the Royal College of Music in Stoc… Read more
*6 panel digipak showcasing photographic artwork by Nicholas Hughes and with art direction by David Sylvian* David Sylvian returns to his own Samadhi Sound label with this excellent new longform composition clocking in at just over an hour and featuring Christian Fennesz on Laptop and Guitar. In the fine tradition of his work over recent years, this is Sylvian at his most experimental, slowly building a tapestry of sound narrated by American Pulitzer Prize winning poet Franz Wright and augmented by Fennesz’ delicate touch, as well as Piano … Read more
*12 Track compilation (inc some previously unreleased gems) compiled for Mike Patton's Ipecac label* "Nottingham's Sleaford Mods are a duo that need little introduction, having fiercely penetrated people's consciousness on a large scale with their sixth album Austerity Dogs in 2013. Since then they've garnered critical acclaim with their subsequent work and now they're joining forces with Ipecac Recordings to release a physical version of their previously released digital compilation Chubbed Up, which shall be released on October 28th. This version will include three previously unreleased tra… Read more
One of the most important ambient releases of all time, Jon Hassell and Brian Eno's 'Fourth World Vol.1 - Possible Musics' deservedly receives the prime reissue treatment for the benefit of a new generation. Originally issued in 1980 ℅ Editions EG, it converges the paths of two musical pioneers who were mutually searching for ways to consolidate world musics with the possibilities of tape, electronics and jazz-wise improvisation. Across five sweetly concise pieces and the 21-minute dreamscape of 'Charm (Over "Burundi Cloud")' Hassell expresses gorgeous, conside… Read more
Exquisitely glacial longform composition from the modern master of minimalism. 'Trouble' marks quite possibly the quietest, concentrated levels in Drumm's catalogue. More placid/unnerving than even his 'Imperial Distortion' / 'Imperial Horizon' couplet, or practically anything else for that matter. It's a purified exercise in immersed listening, encouraging the participant to give it their undivided attention in return for a discreetly tactile and beautifully liminal experience, "neither ambient nor drone but a more complex investigation into the deep recesses of sound." We strongly recommend your submission to 'Trouble'.
Lawrence returns with a new album for Mule Musiq, produced on the road over the last couple of years and then edited back in his backyard studio in hamburg. It’s a sweetly ambient affair in the fine tradition of classic Artificial Intelligence productions, with the title track itself providing a knowing nod to the iconic Selected Ambient Works material. Elsewhere, 'Nowhere Is A Place’ harks black to classic B12 and early Black Dog productions, while ‘Simmer’ situates itself somewhere between the sort of thing the 12k label were releasing back in the mid noughties and Pete Namlook’s most hea… Read more
*Murcof returns with a new collaboration with Erik Truffaz, with a special artwork by Enki Bilal* Swiss trumpeter Erik Truffaz has worked with Mexican born sound artist Murcof (originally Fernando Corona) since 2006 when they worked as a trio with Talvin Singh. That fruitful relationship brought together Truffaz’s investment in modern jazz (he has been that archetypal thing, a Blue Note artist), a sharp ear for the new discoveries of contemporary composers like Giya Kancheli and others in the eclectic world of new music, and developed a creative conversation with the world of noi… Read more
"If there’s one thing Jonas Kopp has proven over the last decade is that he can turn his hand to just about anything. Since debuting on Pfirter’s revered MindTrip Music back in 2006, the Buenos Aires native has managed to rack up a rich and compelling discography, coursing with ease through electronic music’s various forms. From warm Chicago house through to deep, dark and driving techno on labels like Deeply Rooted House, Stroboscopic Artefacts and more, Kopp’s hypnotic and heady sentiment has remained the red thread throughout, which has allowed him to flourish as one of techno’s more l… Read more
*Audio on two CD's plus the critically acclaimed documentary film which captures the multidimensional concert centred on Björk’s eighth studio album, titled ‘Biophilia Live’. The film documents the intimate ‘Biophilia’ performance at London’s Alexandra Palace where Björk was accompanied by unique musical instruments, collaborators and visuals. Shot by directors Nick Fenton and Peter Strickland and produced by Jacqueline Edenbrow / Gloria Films, the film also features science and nature archive and found footage inspired by the themes of the album, as well as animation which has been augmented with the music of ‘Biophilia’.
Heidi Lord - Wife of Rephlex/WeMe artist Jodey Kendrick. Three of Heidi's tracks are featured on the famous "EDM" Compilation Albums This is the Debut album from Heidi Using a unique pallet of sounds from MRI machines to modular synthersizers to conversations in a supermarket to her own processed voice Co produced by her Husband "I could describe what the album means to me, But i would much rather leave it to listener to experience and feel and to interpret how they see fit"
*Chronicling three years of intermittent audio communications between English and Vitiello...* "Lawrence English and Stephen Vitiello are creators of mythology. Their mythology renders a series of acoustic spaces, haunted by narrative and hinting at happenings unseen, but certainly heard. With Fable, we are presented with their second duet. It chronicles three years of intermittent audio communications in search of new collaborative approaches. The results focus on the pair’s joint interests in modular synthesis, field recordings and the blurry boundaries between acoustic instr… Read more
"Flower & Water began with an offer to work with the first Dragon’s Eye release – a flexi-disc with a recording of George Winston playing a blues piano composition called “Medley: Bread Baker’s Stomp” – as source material. Since I am not a true remixer, I decided to modify the track via physical manipulation. Most of the material began with cutting up some of the flexi’s and taping back together in ‘wrong’ ways. I then played (or tried to play) the broken records that had been taped back together, and also putting objects onto the surface of the record while being played with a cheap record p… Read more
"Hi Records was founded in 1957 by a group of partners that included former Sun rockabilly artist Ray Harris and two other Sun alumni, Bill Cantrell and Quinton Claunch. The company would become identified with hit instrumental records from the likes of Elvis’ former bassist Bill Black’s Combo and saxophonist Ace Cannon. After a period recording and producing for Memphis’ Home Of The Blues label, Willie Mitchell hooked up with Hi Records. Mitchell’s band would back Black and Cannon, and he began turning out a series of soulful singles and albums of his own, starting with 1962’s ‘The … Read more
“Just Us” is the new album from legendary Hamburg band Faust. Founder members Jean-Hervé Peron and Zappi Diermaier have laid down twelve musical foundations which are intrinsically typical of Faust in their own right, yet offer enough space for completely different works to develop. Which is exactly what they hope will happen. Whilst Diermaier largely remains true to his habitual handiwork—drums and percussion—Peron, as we might expect, incorporates all manner of unusual sonic sources alongside his bass, various string instruments and piano, even using a sewing machine as a metronome. Tracks like “nur n… Read more
**Includes a bonus DJ mix by Parris to download from your Boomkat account** Killer skool of 2014 survey from Dusk & Blackdown's Keysound Recordings. 14 heavyweights in the dance touching on all manner of new sounds from the weightless iMax flex of Logos' 'Metropolis' to the juicy tropical synthuality of Murlo and E.M.M.A or the gutted grime mutations of Wen and Parris. It also introduces a stack of new names to the label with bullets like Caski's dark garage grine 'Tunnel Music', Aphix's icy 'Sin King' and the nice/nasty grime shades of DLVRY's 'Guilt' or t… Read more
Daniel Ansorge aka Barnt backs up a deeply unique swathe of singles with his debut album, 'Magazine 13' for the eponymous label he started with fellow Köln types, Crato and Jens-Uwe Beyer. Since 2010 he's released a steady stream of records which brought back a sense of kosmiche wonder and electronic enigma that was arguably lacking in German house and techno sounds. And most crucially, he did it without sacrificing the fundamentals of big bad kicks and minimal percussion, resulting absolute bewts such as 'All Worlds All Times' and more recently with the staggering chops of 'Chappell' for Joy O & Wi… Read more
*Die-cut Digipak containing a second sleeve housing rare images as well as brand new liner notes by Devo founding member Gerald Casale* "Spuds rejoice, for the Miracle Witness Hour is at hand! In 1977 DEVO played an intimate show to an eager handful at biker bar turned total dive The Eagle Street Saloon in Cleveland, Ohio. Unbeknown to those canny onlookers, they were to testify to the healing power of DEVO! But what of us now? Beautiful mutants fear not, FUTURISMO are here to rectify your late party syndrome. Televised through the antennas of time we give you DEVOs’ most i… Read more
"'My Ghost Comes Back' sees the return of Tujiko Noriko after a hiatus exploring worlds beyond those we regularly inhabit. The results of these travels provided the formula for this, her most accomplished record to date. As rich in ambition as it is skewered in it's melodic stance, the album is a decidedly more acoustic affair in which a host of guest musicians incorporate mandolin, viola, musical saw, optigon and other such wares into the exotic environment where her unique songwriting now resides. Furthering an exploration of unorthodox arrangements, rhythm and melody Noriko concoc… Read more
Honest Jon's return to Kenya with this spellbinding suite of Dodo songs sung by 70 year old Ogoya Nengo. A legend in her country, Ogoya is the most prominent exponent of the vanishing Dodo artform - a musical means of spreading messages and social commentary, much like Indo-European bardic traditions and the griots of Mali. Following his work on the Mkunguni, New Recordings from Coast Province, Kenya, Stefan Schneider again had the pleasure of recording Ogoya's spellbinding performances, and those of local percussionists and her ex… Read more
"After Chris Clark had passed some of Gajeks sheer endless output over to Modeselektor, quite a few listening sessions followed. Ranging from postrocky electronica to complex and moody renderings of intricate introverted beat structures to a mutant dance music, a whole audioscape had to be discovered. There were songs and tracks and experiments there, morphed vocals and reverberated non human instruments, complex percussion patterns and sweet athmospheres, but in all these different paths and moods, a penchant for working with a leitmotif could be traced. As an introduction to expose his particu… Read more
*Includes sticker and hand-drawn poster* "Run The Jewels, the super dynamic duo of El-P and Killer Mike, two of the most distinctive and celebrated names in rap, release their sophomore album, Run The Jewels 2, featuring Zack de la Rocha and Travis Barker among others.
"A playful electronic musical journey evocative of Brian Eno’s ‘Music For Films’, Oneohtrix Point Never, 8-bit soundtracks and prog-infused 70s synth epics and executed with a rigorous conceptual framework worthy of John Cage or the radical film experiments of Lars Von Trier. ‘Solarispellis’ is the follow up to Arandel’s 2010 debut album ‘In D’ and similarly continues to be entirely in his signature key (a nod to minimalist godfather Terry Riley). From woozy electronica to emotive techno and the most vertiginous Krautrock, the tempos, moods and subjects are intertwined, covering an array of musi… Read more
Two radically contrasting composers work out their differences in this 2004 collaboration commissioned for Singhur's Suite in Parochial festival, now released by Line and Volume. The results manifest two extended pieces consolidating Roden's signature, scuttling small sounds with Bretscheider's super crisp, crackling tones and pulses.
"Gayna Florence Perry and Robin Surtees are perhaps best known for their work with cult 80’s band Shiny Two Shiny. Signed to Red Flame Records, they released one mini LP entitled ‘Halfway Across The Rainbow’ and one single ‘Waiting For us’ c/w ‘Ritual Hate’, in 7” and 12” formats. A mixture of bright and breezy synth pop with some darker undercurrents both records made a dent in the indie charts gaining positive reviews in the music press for releases and live appearances and acclaim from John Peel as well as daytime airplay on Radio 1. They also toured Europe and appeared on TV. A… Read more
Thursday, 13 November
*First CD pressing comes in a deluxe oversize 6-panel Digifile* Faith In Strangers’ was written and produced between January 2013 and June 2014, and was edited and sequenced in late July this year. Making use of on an array of instruments, field recordings, found sounds and vocal treatments, it’s a largely analogue variant of hi-tech production styles arcing from the dissonant to the sublime. The first two tracks recorded during these early sessions bookend the release, the opener ‘Time Away’ featuring Euphonium played by Kim Holly Thorpe and last track ‘Missing’ a contribution by Stott’… Read more
Machinedrum brings the 'Vapor City' epoch to a close with this final chapter of 'Vapour City Archives'. Over the last 12 months he's animated a rich sonic fiction informed by psychogeography, Afro-futurism and and new technology over the course of an album, a string of 12"'s and via his subscription series. The hyperstitious results have marked him as a producer apart from the pack thanks to his mercurial meld of footwork, jungle, hip hop and electronica with etheric soul vocals that caught the attention of a lot of listeners looking for a sort of colourful romance and disciplined ener… Read more
llum Sphere makes moves with a Fabric selection repping for his quarterly Hoya:Hoya events at the London club. Ticking off stacks of vintage box-ticklers beside their modern analogs, these 24 tracks perhaps better represent Ryan Hunn's more recent and personal tastes, rather than the wonky hip hop and colourful electronica that his Manchester-based Hoya:Hoya club night is putatively known for. Starting up with the cold, Kölnisch ambience of E.M.A.K.'s 'Sein Und Schein', he leads a calculated tour between industrial, post punk, acid and dub touchstones, sparking runs of aces lik… Read more
Om Unit cracks the glass on Goldie's DAT archive to present 'Inversion', his stunning follow-up to debut album 'Threads'. It's a Metalheadz album from nose to tail, chasing echoes of the label's past to reflect their present position, repping for new mutations of jungle, halfstep D&B and footwork with a timeless, atmospheric soul. There's gotta be few producers that Goldie would allow into his DAT and samples archive - we're imagining a massive oak chest embossed with lions and a Metalheadz logo - but Om Unit is clearly one of them and coolly lives up to the task, combinging his own sounds with Gold… Read more | <urn:uuid:86d0b641-692c-48ab-84e2-3dd6fc2f8fec> | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | http://boomkat.com/cds/recommendations/page/4 | 2015-01-26T06:25:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422120394037.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124172634-00212-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941845 | 3,862 |
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Give your family the best. Fruits and veggies provide great taste and nutrition. Providing the highest quality produce available is our objective. To achieve this standard, we purchase from local growers, as well as growers around the world. Stop in and add some color to your next meal. Be sure to check out what is in season right now.
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Pranu Muttedu Archaeological Park
The Parco Archeologico di Pranu Muttedu is located in the heart of a magnificent copse of cork oaks. The megalithic tombs and menhirs (there are around 50 in total) of this Italian Stonehenge form a superb whole. Objects excavated here date from two periods, one running from 3200 to 2880 BC and the other from 2800 to 2600 BC.
Address:SP 23 Senorbì-Goni Pranu-Muttedu
Price:4 € €
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SARATOGA SPRINGS -- The chief operating officer and executive vice president of the New York Racing Association will leave the not-for-profit corporation at the end of this summer's Saratoga meet.
Hal Handel, who received a 3.4 percent pay raise to earn $455,000 in 2010, announced Wednesday that he would step down from the job he has held since September 2007.
"I have been managing racetracks continually for more than 25 years, and the time has come to do some different things," Handel said in a news release.
His resignation comes after State Budget Director Robert Megna, who is also chairman of the Franchise Oversight Board, demanded that NYRA disclose its executive's salaries.
Handel said that he had decided to resign before this year's Kentucky Derby in May, and "the timing was agreeable to NYRA."
Handel, 63, previously held executive positions at Monmouth Park and the Meadowlands in New Jersey and at Philadelphia Park.
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a simple trick I learned from a yogi.
Inhaling and exhaling is a process that comes naturally. We do not have to tell the body to breathe. There exists a system within us that seems to operate on a deeper level, beyond of what we can grasp with our mind. Becoming more conscious about the breath can have a revelating effect. Yogis use a method called ‘pranayama’ (=lifeforce/extension of breath) to control and enhance energy.
A trick I use to relief stress or to gain more focus and calm the mind and get in tune with the deeper layers of my existence is called ‘nadi shodhana’ (=alternate nostril breathing). An easy yoga technique which I will be posting about in more detail soon. Whenever we practice breathing excercises we must prepare the body. This process is an essential part of the hatha yoga method. One can only gain from a practice if it is utilized properly.
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Walking is our only means of transport, now. This means that our boundaries are much tighter than ever. If we discuss travel, we simply propose the distance we can travel, by foot, between sunrise and sunset.
Families are spread out so much, these days, unlike before when your children would live in the same village, they were born in.
Food and other necessities have to be local, as there is no system for transporting goods around the country. This makes our lives simpler and less demanding. As long as we have food to eat, wood to burn, water to drink and air to breathe, we are content.
Our horizons are just that, naïve and uncomplicated. If you can’t see it, it isn’t there, if you can’t touch it, it doesn’t exist. If you can survive without it, you didn’t need it in the first place.
We have brought back our compassion for the community, caring for those less fortunate than ourselves and who are close to us. No need for outside influences to be involved, we look after our own.
Simplicity replaces sophistication, taking pleasure in little things and not constantly looking for the next thrill. The satisfaction of being able to create something useful from items around you, without using power or artificial means. Re-using objects, or re-purposing them, becomes essential, when the opportunity to ‘buy new’ disappears.
We sleep when the sun sets and work when the sun rises. We eat frugally but more healthily. We don’t constantly chase the unobtainable.
Sounds like paradise to me.
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“The Presidential Primary Campaigns have created an atmosphere of confusion on both the right and the left. The popularity of Socialist contender Bernie Sanders has certainly taken Liberal Hillary Clinton by surprise in the Democratic races. For Republicans, the search is on for the candidate who is the real Conservative,” according to Dan Weber, president of the Association of Mature American Citizens.
AMAC doesn’t endorse candidates but it does endorse the concept of Conservativism “and after eight years of an ultra-Liberal administration, the country appears to want to steer the ship of state to starboard, to set us on the right course.” But it may not be so easy to tell who the real Conservatives in the 2016 field are, he says.
Robert Charles, a veteran of both the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, recently published an essay at Townhall Magazine entitled How Should a Conservative Vote?in which he offered his views on how to sort out the Republican candidates.
Charles, who is a senior consultant to AMAC, believes that you can’t go wrong by taking the advice of Russell Kirk whom, he says, is the Father of Modern Conservatism. In 1953, when the Conservative Movement in the U.S. was in its infancy, Kirk published his book, The Conservative Mind, which “described the existence of a coherent, connected tradition of conservative thinking, going back at least two hundred years, according to Lee Edwards, Ph.D., a prominent historian.
Based on Kirk’s philosophy, Charles suggests that we ask ourselves these questions to determine whose ticket you’ll be punching at the ballot box: “Are you thinking hard about what you are doing, not just feeling the satisfaction of slashing at what is despised? Are you thinking about who can work within our complex constitutional system, to thoughtfully change what we do not like? Are you thinking about who personifies prudence – not the mad dash to a seemingly simple answer? Are you a real conservative, drawing your convictions from faith and duty, patience and history? Or are you just another French Revolutionary, willing to take the boat over the falls, destroying what we all value in the process? In short, are you thinking about who may lead wisely, not just with passion?”
Weber says that his colleague’s advice is sound, particularly in this year’s primary campaigns marked by “bombast and name-calling” and little in the way of thoughtful positioning. As Charles put it in his article, the AMAC chief noted, “keep your eyes on ‘long run consequences’ and not just ‘temporary advantage or popularity.’ Why? Because ‘liberals and radicals … are imprudent.’ You will know their nature because ‘they dash at their objectives without giving much heed to the risk of new abuses worse than the evils they hope to sweep away.’ | <urn:uuid:488abd06-2290-476f-92da-8c84627a89eb> | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | https://www.galioninquirer.com/opinion/9006/theres-confusion-left-and-right-among-primary-voters-this-year | 2019-08-21T05:01:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315809.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821043107-20190821065107-00195.warc.gz | en | 0.954247 | 607 |
Questions & Feedback
Understanding the Ups and Downs of Auto Insurance Premiums
What Can Cause Auto Insurance Premiums to Be Adjusted?
Claims costs have a direct impact on your premium. Over the years, we have seen an increase in auto repair and medical costs. Patterns of catastrophic weather, specifically the increasing number of occurrences of wind, hail, snow and ice claims and the significant resulting damages, can lead to increased claim costs as well.
Your driving record can impact your premium. If you have been in an accident, especially if you were at fault, your auto insurance costs are likely to be higher than someone with several years of accident-free driving. The severity of the accident and the cost of damages may result in a rate surcharge for a period of time. This surcharge typically decreases gradually each year you go without another accident.
Depending on the type of infraction, tickets and violations may impact your insurance premium as well.
Discounts that you no longer qualify for may lead to a higher premium.
Changes in your household can also impact your premium. The type of vehicle you drive, the drivers that are using your vehicles, even where the vehicles are parked are all factors that have a bearing on the cost of your insurance premium.
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Enterprises can use the Cloud to create simulation environments for the initial phases - Development, Functional Testing and System Testing. The DevOps process will ensure that these environments on Cloud are created from scratch for each deployment, eliminating environment residue side-effects. Technologies like Service Virtualization can help address the dependency on legacy systems - which is a major bottleneck while executing parallel projects. Though these parallel projects will eventually get serialized during User Acceptance Testing (UAT), this approach can significantly increase the number of releases for the organization annually.
Further, within each project, DevOps enables the Development and Testing teams to execute their tasks without waiting on the Operations team to make the environments available. As the developer checks in the code changes, the development builds are triggered. Each build automatically creates the artifacts and deploys it into the target development environment. Periodically, builds can be scheduled to deploy artifacts into the Test environments, where automated tests can be executed to test the sanity of the environment and application. Testers can be assured that environments are ready for them to execute their test cases. Through DevOps automation, most of the time consuming manual steps in the release lifecycle gets automated, which significantly accelerates the application lifecycle. To quote an example, for a large global bank, automation through DevOps brought down the provisioning time from 21 days to 2 hours.
Organizations must have dedicated teams who own the 'DevOps' responsibility. They should not only put the tools in place to automate the release management process, but they also take ownership of running this process providing a single touch point to the Development, Test and Operations teams.. This centralized DevOps approach works particularly well for large organizations where there are multiple projects being deployed in parallel.
The Development, Test and Operations teams must collaborate extensively throughout the application lifecycle. Since DevOps is an extension of the Agile Manifesto, it mandates shared ownership, building a culture of innovation, and encouraging collaboration across teams. Further, the success of each group must be measured with respect to the success of the entire development-to-operations life cycle. This represents a true shift from a siloed to a collaborative approach, and will drive the individual and the respective groups appreciate their role in the larger business context.
Once DevOps is in place, enterprises can focus on improving their customer experience and building their market share, while their IT is ready to respond to the changing needs rapidly. By adopting this transformational model, enterprises can embrace the digital business
Hemanth Kumar heads Cloud Solution Development at Wipro, with strong professional experience in Cloud Computing and excellent understanding of the business and technology driving the cloud services market. He is the author of a patent in the area of SaaS enablement and delivery awarded by USPTO. He is a cloud evangelist and has been actively involved in promoting the cloud computing at a group level and the company level.
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Summer camps are good for teens because they offer a good use of their time instead of being left alone at home. During school days, most of young people’s time are occupied with school work. During summer break, parents are faced with the thought of leaving their teens at home while they work, which in some cases may not be a good idea.
Wilderness programs for teens is a kind of summer camp that could be really helpful as well as fun for your teen. Why should you consider looking into it? Here are some reasons:
1. It keeps them away from trouble and bad company – “Out of sight, out of mind” becomes very real for parents who are having difficulties keeping their teens away from bad company. Summer camps and wilderness programs for teens could be a great way of keeping them out of trouble and exposing them to positive peer groups and better role models.
2. It’s better than spending all that time on computer games – If children don’t have anything else that’s productive to do at home, chances are they’ll spend their time playing too much video games and spending too much time on the internet.
4. It’s a great way to meet new friends and learn new things – Most wilderness programs for teens make it a point to hire international staff in order to bring diversity into the program. Your child would also be able to interact with other teens from other states and communities. It gives them a wider perspective about life and encourages them to get out of their shell and meet a diverse kind of people.
5. It teaches them responsible risk-taking – In a wilderness camp environment, teens can take responsible risks and learn how their actions affect them and the people around them. The beautiful natural surroundings give them a lot of space to explore and enjoy, all the while learning ways on how to keep themselves save and learn what kind of risk taking is healthy and which ones are not. Parents tend to be overprotective of their children, which only contributes to their need to act out. Removing this restriction during camp would be good for them too, for a change.
6. It’s a lot of fun – Wilderness programs are a great way to encourage teens to adapt a healthy lifestyle. During summer camp, they sleep early, wake up early, eat healthy, and have a lot of healthy physical exercises during the day.
For struggling teens who have other needs, or needs that would be best addressed by therapy, trying a wilderness therapy program would also be a great alternative. They do all the activities that kids usually do at wilderness camp and benefit from that, but there’s also the benefit of getting individual and group therapy throughout the program. For some teens, simply going to camp isn’t enough. Getting therapy while they’re learning from nature and interacting with other teens is something that could truly help them with their issues especially after camp is over. | <urn:uuid:13cc5620-48a8-4421-9ff1-c2d344c7b8d5> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | http://teenwildernessprograms.org/summer-camps-a-wilderness-programs-for-teens/ | 2021-10-18T07:03:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585199.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20211018062819-20211018092819-00301.warc.gz | en | 0.976061 | 602 |
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Home projects can be daunting ... and can seem endless!
Now that I have one of mine under my belt by completing my bathroom renovation...
but what is next?!
How do you get a handle on your never ending list and make it actually happen??
Here are our tips to help you take the first step!!
1. Take Inventory:
Look around and see what needs to be completed and prioritize the situation.
2. Take a look at yourself:
Some might forget about this step. Figure out how "motivated" you currently are in order to decide what project you tackle first!
3. Money Money:
Many projects will cost you money. Take a look at this too in order to know which might be more feasible at the current time.
4. Figure out how to execute things:
Do you want to start small and work up, go room by room or tackle the project as a whole?
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Dragon Age Inquisition Treasure Maps Locations Guide
The Dragon Age Inquisition Treasure Maps Locations Guide will take you through all the spots where they are located in the game and provide you with clues where in the map they are located. You will need to use the search ability to scan the area and when you get close to it you will uncover the treasure in the tame. Follow the Dragon Age Inquisition Treasure Maps Locations below to provide you on how to get find them in each mission that they are located in the game.
TOC: Walkthrough | Astrariums Locations | Bottles of Thedas Locations | Crafting Weapons and Armor Guide | Oculara and Shards Locations | Camps Locations | Landmarks Locations | Mosaic Locations | Glyphs Locations | Song Lyrics Locations | Focus Abilities Guide | Metal Crafting | Cloth Crafting | Cloth Masterwork Guide | Leather Crafting | Cloth Masterwork Crafting | Runes Crafting | Herbs Crafting | Merchants Guide
Waterfall Hidden Treasure
Follow the River from the broken bridge which will lead you straight to the treasure. You will find the treasure which is located behind the waterfall and you will complete the side quest. If you need additional reference, please see the video below that shows you how to access the Hidden Treasure by the waterfall. | <urn:uuid:53bb587e-0467-4cc9-bd7b-fe6c5fed9f48> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | https://www.gamerfuzion.com/dragon-age-inquisition-treasure-maps-locations-guide/ | 2021-09-25T09:40:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057615.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20210925082018-20210925112018-00191.warc.gz | en | 0.91125 | 256 |
I think the thing that makes the nudity in this shoot so beautifully artistic is that they went for natural and innocent rather than raunchy sexuality. Nice change of pace in the fashion world. I always appreciate a model who is willing to ‘bare’ the truth without all the glam and airbrushing. Thanks Natasha!
Photographer: David Hamilton
Model: Natasha Poly
Magazine: MUSE – Issue #19, Fall 2009, United States
ERES LINGERIE/ SWIMWEAR has long been known internationally for its unique designs, body flattering cuts and high quality production. This coming spring/ summer (2010) ERES will welcome back international super model Lara Stone as the face of their campaign. In my opinion, they could not have picked anyone better suited to represent their image. Not only is she unique and quirky, but she has one of the most amazing bodies out there, and a bombshell quality that many models never achieve. Rather than projecting a 13 yr. old giraffe child, Lara Stone truly brings the heat that so many areas of the fashion industry are lacking these days. This girl really is a beautiful woman. Good choice ERES! Thanks for bringing sexy back;) | <urn:uuid:2e78d912-bda9-4857-af54-7f2d81172480> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | https://thelibertineezine.com/2009/12/ | 2016-08-26T23:20:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982296721.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823195816-00194-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95065 | 245 |
Back on the market as of November 23rd at 8:44am, this home was originally listed on November 22nd in 2021. The property is being listed at a price of $620,000 , the same as its original list price. This 3 bedroom, 1 full bath residence is located on Caminito Obra, a prime area in .
With a total floorspace of 1,188 square feet, this beautiful home comes in at $521.89 per square foot. That's 15.69% higher than the neighborhood average. There are also 0.00 garage spaces available for parking.
Originally built in 1973, this home sits on a 302,396 square foot lot.
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I need to move data from one organization to another.
1. I exported data from Organization 1
2. I removed data from Organization 1
3. I was trying to import exported data to Organization 2 but was failed. Because the exported data didn't contain all the necessary columns.
How should I know about it?
Can export data always contain default set of data? Or Can you add some kind of notification before the export process which says something like "Current view contains only a part of data. Should I continue?". Or maybe you will invent another solution. But It will help a lot. Thanx
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For some time now, I have been making the case that a sign of QE2 success would be rising yields rather than falling yields. Yes, interest rates may initially fall, but if QE2 is successful in raising expectations of real growth then interest rates should start to increase. For example, back in December, 2010 I said the following:
If QE2 is successful, then we would expect treasury yields to rise! A successful QE will first raise inflation expectations. This alone will put upward pressure on nominal yields. However, expectations of higher inflation are in effect expectations of higher nominal spending. And higher expected nominal spending in an economy with sticky prices and excess capacity will lead to increases in expected real economic growth. The expected real economic growth should in turn increase the real yields. It is that simple.
Here is an updated graph from a more recent post that indicates this is in fact happening:
Given this understanding, it has been frustrating to watch the Fed sell QE2 to the public as working through the lowering of interest rates. This marketing of QE2 creates the false impression it will only work if yields remain low. It gives critics of QE2 more ammunition and ultimately undermines the effectiveness of the program. Thus, I was please to see Bernanke say this today in his speech:
A wide range of market indicators supports the view that the Federal Reserve’s securities purchases have been effective at easing financial conditions… Yields on 5- to 10-year Treasury securities initially declined markedly as markets priced in prospective Fed purchases; these yields subsequently rose, however, as investors became more optimistic about economic growth and as traders scaled back their expectations of future securities purchases. All of these developments are what one would expect to see when monetary policy becomes more accommodative.
It is about time.
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Carrigaline United Win Ted Healy U17 Cup
Carrigaline United 3 Douglas Hall 0
Writes John Cotter
Carrigaline United continued their run of being a cup team this season, by defeating Douglas Hall in the Cork Youth League Ted Healy U17 Cup final played in Turners Cross last Friday, April 21st.
Victory was all but guaranteed in the opening 11 minutes as Carrigaline found the net twice, leaving Douglas with a mountain to climb. On five minutes Glen Sexton rose highest to head past Matthew Dawson in the Hall goal. Five minutes later a long looping shot from 40 yards from Jack O’Mahony beat Dawson to double the lead.
Douglas Hall, currently on course to win the Daly Industrial Supplies U17 Premier League, battled back bravely and they had a few half chances but nothing to really trouble the Carrigaline defence. However, they were dealt a blow on the stroke of half time when Killian Hayes linked up with David Sexton to play a one two that allowed Hayes to finish from close range.
The second half saw Hall reduced to ten men, following the dismissal of Aaron Twohig, but that wasn’t to have much of a bearing on the result as Carrigaline ran out convincing winners.
Carrigaline had qualified for this stage of the competition by beating Lakewood Athletic in the semi-final, while Hall qualified for this round by defeating Leeside.
The opening five minutes of the game were played at a breakneck speed, as both sides set to impose themselves on the game. Yet Carrigaline, in their home strip of yellow, took the lead through Sexton, who would end up winning the Gary McCarthy Trophies man of the match for a superb performance at centre half. A free kick from out near the half way line was hit in by David Crotty to Sexton, who headed past Dawson from 10 yards.
Douglas went close to pulling back a goal 50 seconds later when a long ball up front found Robert O’Mahony, who saw his shot saved by Niall O’Leary with the aid of the post for a corner.
But Carrigaline bounced back from nearly conceding a goal to score a second. A ball was played back to O’Mahony who saw his looping shot deceive Dawson in the Hall goal and fall into the net to loud cheers from the large Carrigaline support.
Yet the Carrigaline defence was standing firm, with Sexton and Crotty in particular impressing while the midfield of Hayes and Dylan O’Flaherty were doing very well in stopping the Hall midfield. Brian Holland and Ben Healy impressed for Hall in the centre of the pitch.
Hall impressed with their attacking plays as the half wore on, but they were to fall further behind on 47 minutes when Hayes and David Sexton linked up, allowing Hayes tap home into the Shed end, to make it 3-0 at the break.
Hall knew they were going to have to get something early in the half to claw something back but they were dealt a setback on 63 minutes when Aaron Twohig was sent off for a second bookable offence.
Liam Ross had probably the best of the chances for Douglas Hall in the second half but it was at the other that it was more likely for a goal to be scored. Hall kept on pressing forward but they struggled to get past the defence and a comeback never looked like happening, with Carrigaline captain Glen Sexton lifting the trophy.
Carrigaline United: Niall O’Leary, David Crotty, Josh Manning, Glen Sexton, Christian Buttimer, David Sexton (Tim Cronin 85), Dylan O’Flaherty, Killian Hayes (Dean Farrissey 78), Dylan O’Flaherty (Nikita Zigonov 74), Jack O’Mahoney, Shane Lowney (Adam O’Driscoll 60); Stephen Darcy (Nills Tab 85).
Subs: Calum Finnegan, Valdo Lawson.
Douglas Hall: Matthew Dawson; Sam Gallagher, Brian Murphy, Aaron Twohig, David Sahm (Evan Donlon 24); Ben Healy, Liam Ross, David Malone (Shane Downey 53), Brian Holland (David Hanley 74), Robert Cregan (Evan O’Sullivan 80); Robert O’Mahony.
Subs: Andrew Cotter, Luke Horgan, Ben Lucey
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Idle thought... I wonder if this would be a worthwhile mod on my Native.
This is a discussion on Endura with "wave"mod. (video) within the Defensive Knives & Other Weapons forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Just got my Enduras in the mail. Wow. All I can say is this is another quantum step from Spyderco. ROCK SOLID, no shimmy, shake ...
Just got my Enduras in the mail. Wow. All I can say is this is another quantum step from Spyderco. ROCK SOLID, no shimmy, shake or flex, in an "economy" model.
hey george love the site how do i join ?
Just saw this thread. I talked to Sal (owner of Spyderco) over a year ago and he told me about the agreement with Emerson to make the "wave" feature in the Endura.
I was lucky enough to get one of the first run, and the last word I had was that it was a limited run and that they would not be a production model. I love mine but I typically carry my Emerson CQC-7 that I've had for many a many year. The Endura will stay in my gun safe and become a cherished collectors item.
As for the closing of the blade. Whats with the fingers under the blade? I must have missed something as my fingers never go under a blade when I close it and Spyderco and Emersons have a reputation for not closing accidentially.
"Respect all ... Fear none!!!
Originally Posted by fed_wif_a_sig
spyderco must have changed their position on that, because the new waved enduras and delicas are in mass production.
I have not handled a Native (handle/blade profile doesn't suit me), but I would see no reason not to. Because of the profile, you might be shaving more off the spine of the blade than you would with a "higher" thumbhole model. Just a thought.......Originally Posted by George Hill | <urn:uuid:098baa76-965d-4b18-b20e-69a75af7e09a> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.defensivecarry.com/forum/defensive-knives-other-weapons/9648-endura-wave-mod-video-2.html | 2015-03-27T17:34:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131296587.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172136-00276-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957478 | 431 |
Steelers Claim CB Antwon Blake Off Waivers From Jaguars; Waive CB Isaiah Green
The Pittsburgh Steelers were busy on Labor Day as not only was punter Zoltan Mesko signed to the roster, but free agent cornerback Antwon Blake was claimed off waivers as well.
Blake, who was waived by the Jacksonville Jaguars, led the Jaguars special teams units in 2012 with 12 tackles.
In order to make room for Blake, cornerback Isaiah Green was waived. Green very well could wind up replacing cornerback Devin Smith on the practice squad later this week.
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I have been through some very tough stuff in my life (as have we all). In several of those situations, I was surprised at what I could survive. And in retrospect, I’ve been able to see how tough those moments made me.
I’ve come to understand that there is a difference between the limits we create for ourselves and our true capabilities. I know that there is sometimes a very long distance between what I am willing to do and what I am able to do.
Today was one of those days.
I am a risk taker. I always have been. But by and large, the risks I’ve been willing to take in my life have not been physical ones. For some reason, I’ve always been able to leap into mental and emotional challenges. But I’m no thrill seeker, and I’m no athlete. In fact, I’m kind of a couch potato. Hate to admit it, but it’s true.
Over the last year, I’ve been trying to get into better shape. Or, I should say, I’ve been trying to burn more calories, because I’m trying to lose weight. In fact, I’ve lost 81 pounds so far, and I’m proud of that. In the process, I’ve steadily increased my fitness. Now I can walk further, lift more weight, and do some workouts that would have been inconceivable to me just a year ago.
As part of this effort, I’ve started occasionally taking my dogs and heading out to a local county park to take some short hikes. And somehow, without trying, I’ve come to crave those hikes. I have developed a longing to spend time alone away from the ubiquitous Silicon Valley cars and people. Santa Teresa Park is the perfect antidote.
When I say “short hikes,” I really mean short. Before this weekend, I think the furthest I went was about 45 minutes. Two miles or less. Small potatoes for other folks, but pretty challenging for me, although I’ve been able to go further and further as time has gone on.
When the sun came out yesterday, I decided to hit the trails. It was pretty hot, so I left the dogs at home.
One thing to know about me is that I’m perpetually lost. I seem to be missing a sense-of-direction gene. Thank God for my trusty navigator.
I also am really crappy at reading maps. So it was no wonder yesterday when I got lost on the trails. I had studied the map for a long time before heading out, and I thought I had the route down. Regardless (and somewhat predictably), I got lost pretty quickly. Of course, this doesn’t throw me off my game too much, since I’m so used to being lost. At this point, I take it in stride. A couple helpful folks along the way pointed me in the right direction, and I made it back ok.
It was hot yesterday, and because I went the wrong direction, I ended up having to go up a pretty steep hill. Ultimately, I expended more energy and went significantly further than I’d planned. I was tired and sore this morning. So, I don’t know what possessed me to go back again today.
“I’m only going to be gone for a little bit,” I told Andrew. “No way am I going to take a long hike, like I did yesterday. I’m going to cut it short.”
Famous last words.
This time I decided to park in another location and go in a direction I hadn’t gone before. I picked a route on the map, determined not to get lost. The route looked pretty straightforward, and relatively short. It also looked easier than the hike I’d taken the day before.
Did I mention that I also have absolutely no idea how to read a topographical map? Yeah. Whoops.
The route I took was straight up a very challenging hill. It was also about 85 degrees outside, which made it extra hard. I figured that this would be the only steep part of the hike. I pushed myself. “You can make it,” I told myself. “Challenge yourself.”
More famous last words.
The good news was that I didn’t get lost. The bad news was that it was way more difficult than I thought at the outset. That first big hill was only an appetizer. I had no idea what was to come.
Finally, I got to the ridge top in the blazing sun. I stopped to drink some water. The trail sloped down beneath me. “Cool,” I thought. “It’s all downhill from here.” I was pretty beat by this time.
Well, it did go downhill. Like vertically downhill. It quickly became treacherous. The path was loose gravel, and there was no room for error. I was wearing my lightweight running shoes. (I don’t even own hiking boots, although I plan to buy some very soon, after this experience!).
I got scared. Really scared. I thought, “Man, if I fall, I’m going to be in a world of hurt.” I was wearing shorts. I knew I’d get super scraped up if I slid down that hill. I turned sideways and went down excruciatingly slowly. I was really wishing I hadn’t gone alone. There was *no one* on that trail. (Probably because they could all read those topo maps and knew it was a ridiculously tough trip.)
I texted Andrew to tell him I was going to be late. I had no idea if he’d get the text, because I had no cell phone bars. I became even more frightened. If I hurt myself out here, how would anyone find me?
Finally, I made it to the bottom of that ridiculous slope. And then, to my horror, I looked up and saw that I was faced with…The. Biggest. Damn. Hill. I’ve. Ever. Climbed.
I despaired. “How the hell am I going to be able to climb up there,” I thought. I had to rest every 20 feet. At least I knew I wasn’t going to fall going uphill.
Somehow I made it to the top of that hellish hill. And then I looked down. You guessed it—another nightmare downhill slope. I wanted to cry. This was ridiculous. I didn’t know how on earth I was going to make it back.
Lather, rinse, repeat. The same scenario, over and over again.
When I came over the last hill and saw the parking lot in the distance, I almost got down on my knees and kissed the ground. It was still pretty far away, but at least I could see it.
Twenty minutes later, I arrived back at my car, sweating and panting. I got into my little Mini and sat there breathing and blasting the air conditioner. I could barely believe that I’d made it.
I told Andrew that I’d gone way beyond what I could handle. And then I realized that no—I hadn’t. I had gone way beyond what I was *willing* to handle. Way beyond my limit. But I hadn’t gone beyond my capability, as evidenced by the fact that I made it.
Did I feel a sense of happy accomplishment?
NO. I felt traumatized. I cursed my inability to read topo maps (which would have shown me how steep the route was). I kicked myself for setting off on a hike like that alone.
But it’s over, and I lived to tell the tale.
Would I do it again? Hell, no. I don’t even know if I ever want to go back to that park again.
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Unfortunately, Heather has a health issue which requires her to cancel the webinar. We hope to reschedule it again soon when she is doing better.
Explore the heart of the chart through the Moon’s condition, Lunar myths, and magical timing.
The Moon describes the emotional prime directive with which we walked into this life, the energetic river running underneath all we do, the rhythms we need to feel understood. The sign, house, phase, sect, nodes, and aspects of the moon encapsulate how we perceived our primary family dynamics and how we project this perception onto our family of choice, and also give us a map to evolve that pattern. But we need to approach the Moon, the heart of the chart with our soul and much as our mind. Rumi “ Close the language door and open the love window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window”
As an astrologer we can draw down the Moon to help our clients feel seen and heard. When we give advice contrary to the nature of their Moon, no matter how well it fits the rest of the chart, they may mentally agree, but their heart won’t be in it. When we speak to their Moon we can help them align with their underground rivers of comfort and passion to build momentum. We’ll take a look at the mundane and magical uses of a detailed lunar calendar and use that reflection, along with nuance from the rich cannon of lunar deities, to get to the heart of the natal chart.
Bio: Heather Roan Robbins www.starcodes.us is a ceremonialist, spiritual counselor and astrologer with +35 years’ experience. Her active practice specializes in the astrology of relationship and of the spiritual path. She was president of the Minnesota NCGR chapter for the last 4 years and has written Starcodes, a weekly mundane column for The Santa Fe New Mexican and other websites for 20+ years, writes the yearly overview for WeMoon calendar, co-authors (with Anne Ortlee and Mark Wolz) the weekly radio blog Access Astrology, and authored Moon Wisdom from Cico Books, 2015. | <urn:uuid:20aa2dfd-431f-49f9-bd77-422d7b79cc5b> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://keplercollege.org/index.php/events/246-free-webinars/640-drawing-down-the-moon-with-heather-roan-robbins | 2019-05-21T06:39:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256281.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521062300-20190521084300-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.929978 | 443 |
Bandai Namco just pushed back the release of Get Even, its upcoming psychological horror game, after yesterday’s devastating terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, United Kingdom. The company said, “Given recent events and out of respect, we have decided to postpone the commercial release of Get Even to June 23. We would like to express our deepest condolences to everyone concerned.”
Get Even revolves around suicide bombs and features a teenage pop star from what we’ve heard, so it’s understandable why Bandai Namco decided to delay the title by a month. The game is a tense and disturbing tale which may not sit well in this current climate.
In Get Even, Black, an ice-cold mercenary and hired gun, awakes in a mysterious old asylum with no memory of his past. Under the guidance of his anonymous captor, Red, Black embarks on a form of treatment, facilitated by unique technology: a headset that allows the user to relive their memories and experience them again in the present. And so Black tries to remember. With the help of the Pandora headset, he travels into the depths of his own mind to explore the truth behind the only thing he can remember: the rescue attempt of a teenage girl with a bomb strapped to her chest. | <urn:uuid:cf2b561f-b853-4460-93a1-cecc8a97f687> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | https://mspoweruser.com/bandai-namco-delays-psychological-thriller-get-even-following-manchester-attack/ | 2017-08-16T19:46:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886102393.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170816191044-20170816211044-00577.warc.gz | en | 0.947251 | 266 |
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#CCS1WeekWorkout – The Center for Cartoon Studies one week online challenge day one
It was a tempest this time. Dane and Ysolde had been seeing each other for two years. It had not been an easy courtship. They were in the middle (they thought) of their worst fight ever.
“You haven’t given me a ring yet, but if you had I’d be giving it back”, said Ysolde.
“Oh no”, thought Dane. What he said was: “Well you needn’t .”
“What does that mean?” Ysolde was now furious.
“Give it back, if…”
“You’re impossible. Please leave.”
Bye Outtahere such as a Cowboy would be wont to say. Dane left Ysolde’s apartment and was on the road.
Dane walked the streets of London. It was a time when the air was thick with smoke and dirty mist. People already knew to call it smoke and fog: smog. He breathed in what almost felt like a cold version of a coal furnace. Cold like revenge should feel.
Dirty like revenge could feel.
Dane shook it off. He didn’t want that feeling. He felt like making a break, changing the scene, surroundings. He would still be the same. No he wouldn’t! Everyone said that a trip aboad was good for all kinds of heart conditions. Dane had one.
What’s the quickest? A flight to France.
And so he did. He had the cash, because he had planned on a expensive weekend for them both. He flew as far away from England that was not French Algeria or Tunisia. Marseille.
His Upper Five B French stood him in good stead. He got a cheap room. He could hear the gentle waves. He did not sleep.
He had brought his sketchbook with him and he drew Ysolde from memory. Her face got angrier with each hurried sketch and soon he was lacerating black scrapes across them. Well that was instructive, he thought.
The next day he sent a telegram to the ‘paper to see what he could write for them from Marseille. He could write reviews anywhere the paper would accept them from. It was worth a try.
While he waited for a return telegram he wrote:
What’s past is
Imagined, just a vision.
Albeit in that past, they wore clothes
Ate, drank and were merry.
Solemn or derision.
If you have to have dreams,
You’ll want those dreams to be familiar
Not fairy stuff – there’s enough of those
On children’s bookshelves
Not a shop blur but precision.
What’s past is faded.
What’s future is a swipe of the hands.
Replacing each last guess
With a new one.
Safety unknown (don’t), labeled, paradisian.
There. That’s not about Ysolde is it?
He decided to try his hand at reviews on spec. He started by finding a listing of galleries. Hmmm, Antigona, Galerie Evrard Audet, Doa-Mamede (Portuguese?), Galerie Louis CinqMars, Galerie Bellemare ,Gradiva. On name alone, Dane picked Gradiva.
There were watercolor landscapes. The English knew landscapes. Few artists in England were tempted by abstraction at this time. This woman Abrielle Marcheterre was competent, she had the local light as an inspiration – the south of France – drawing a little weak. As he was turning back for a second look at the works, there she was. Bohemian didn’t begin to describe her. Pre-Raphaelite hair! Dane recognized it before her registered her face. And what a face it was.
She saw he had been writing in a notebook.
“Are you a critic?” she asked in French.
“For the papers?”
“The illustrated London news.”
“You are English”
“Can’t you tell from my accent?”
“And mine?” she spoke in English.
“Charmant. May I ask you a few questions?”
“For the review?”
They had a glass of wine at the bistro next door. They walked into and out of the gallery a few times to clarify some of what Dane was looking for to write the article. Abrielle came with him to the telegraph office to see if he had gotten a reply. He paper’s reply was cautious and did not promise they would run any of his reviews. At least they would take them into consideration, but he would pay for the wire. He could mail them, but that increased the chance they wouldn’t run and he wouldn’t be paid.
Two people at loose ends. One of the most romantic countrysides in the world. A picnic. A dalliance.
As time went on Ysolde was also at loose ends, but not in a pleasurable way. She soon missed Dane. She changed her mind. She called the ‘paper and they told her he was on assignment in Marseille.
She booked a berth on a liner. She packed. In Marseille she went to the British consulate and found out where Dane was staying.
Dane answered the door. She was surprised, but realized she shouldn’t be. The French were promiscuous. Artists even more so. She looked like one.
He was abrupt.
“You had your chance”, was all he said.
“Who is this bitch?” thought Abrielle.
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A long sleeve knit crew made from a super soft, extrafine merino wool and cotton blended yarn. Ideal layering piece. This is quality comfort.
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We offer quality à la carte dining for lunch and dinner Wednesday – Friday. Our culinary team crafts delicious seasonal menus which are complimented by a quality wine list.
A bar menu is also available for a quick meal if you’re in a rush or just not that hungry.
Limited meal service is also available Mondays.
Lunch: 12pm – 3pm
Dinner: 5pm – 9pm
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At Kelvin Club our Members and guests can enjoy a range of traditional and contemporary cocktails, wines, spirits, and fine liqueurs. Our bar boasts a broad selection of libations from all corners of the earth – Members and guests will enjoy simply perusing the bar and discovering something new. Not sure what to drink? – our capable bar tenders will customise your beverage to your heart’s contentment.
The Members Bar is open from 11am – Monday to Saturday.
Club closes December 21st 11pm and re opening January 7th 2019 11am.
Saturday trading in January 2019 will only be subject to major functions, otherwise the club will only be trading Monday - Friday.
Members and Guests are politely reminded that dress codes apply to the Club.
Members Bar – Smart Casual Attire.
Pants or skirt, collared shirt or sweater. Smart jeans, preferred with Blazer.
Dining Room – Business Attire.
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Paul Moody – Chair
Paul is from Leeds, West Yorkshire and has a wife and three children including Ollie who has MPSVI. Paul has been in engineering since leaving school and has worked his way up to being Managing Director and owner of an engineering automation company for over 21 years. Paul disposed of the business in 2012 and became a business development consultant recovering and managing companies for a large group of manufacturing and automation outlets.
Wilma Robins – Vice Chair
Wilma has been involved with the MPS Society since its founding in 1982. Her son Gethin was diagnosed with MPSI Hurler disease in 1980 and, having experienced two years of near desolation, the introduction of the MPS Society in 1982 transformed her and her husband’s lives. Gethin died in December 1984 at the age of five and a half, and thereafter Wilma became involved in the work of the organisation, fulfilling the varying supporting administrative roles and becoming a Trustee in 1990. Wilma’s background as a Civil Servant throughout her working life and her experience in devising and implementing policies, especially in the area of HR, has been particularly useful to the Society. Wilma was born and raised in West Wales and Welsh is her first language.
Jessica Kafizas – Vice Chair
Jessica is a Trustee for The Society of Mucopolysaccharide Diseases and MPS Commercial. Jessica had an elder brother, Daniel Reid who was born in 1986 and diagnosed with Hunters disease at the age of 3. Daniel sadly passed away in 1997. Jessica has been involved in the Society since she was little and an avid fundraiser through her road cycling. Jessica is a family solicitor practicing in Reading and London.
Tim has been a trustee for the MPS Society since 2005 and lives in Hertfordshire. He first got involved with the MPS Society in 2001 when his daughter was diagnosed with Sanfilippo in 2001 at the age of 3.
Tim is an enthusiastic and self-motivated IT professional with extensive experience in the financial services industry, IT consultancy and shipping, he brings to the board a wealth of experience in audit, governance and risk management.
Bryan Winchester is an Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the UCL Institute of Child Health at Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College London. He has taught Biochemistry and carried out research on various aspects of lysosomal storage diseases at London University for 40 years. In particular he worked closely with the Enzyme Diagnostic Laboratory at Great Ormond Street Hospital from 1988-2006. He was chairman of the European Study Group on Lysosomal Diseases from 1997-2007. On retirement in 2006 he became a Trustee of the British MPS Society.
Sukhi is from Wembley (London), where she lives with her husband and two children. She joined the MPS Society in around 2002, after her daughter Simran was diagnosed with MPS I. She became a trustee for the society in March 2017.
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Originally Posted by sspolo
This doesn't make sense to me! If an LS3 makes as much power as an LS7 BUT with supercharges, wouldn't a LS7 make more power with superchargers? If so why would the GM engineers discontinue the LS7?
Also, from what I understand the ZL1 has the LS3, just as the SS has it, with the exception of the supercharger. Shouldn't the ZL1 should have had the LS7 from the beginning?
Gosh! So many questions.. I'm going to read the threads mentioned below to see if that clears up things a bit.
By the way, I'm not like many of you that are die hard Chevrolet/GM fans, although I do respect and admire you all! So I don't know much about the history, or the reasons behind whatever they are doing. (but I am learning more about it!)
The ZL1 has the LSA not the LS3. The LSA motor is designed to handle the rigors of Forced Induction(FI) The LS7 has a higher displacement (427 c.i.) and is a motor that is geared towards being naturally aspirated, and from what I understand is a common engine used for road course racing since it can rev at higher speeds and not suffer from heat soak and loss of power like a FI engine can. | <urn:uuid:76f554fc-bb2e-42c9-b2e1-42213cb21cc9> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5945318&postcount=346 | 2016-10-22T18:07:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719033.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00068-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979732 | 287 |
Big Data and Machine Learning Are Transforming B2B Marketing
A key reality for B2B marketers: more than half of future buyers exhibit early stage intent to buy software or technical services by doing research online---before they start to talk to vendors.
Big Data and Machine Learning are at the heart of new techniques that are transforming B2B Marketing and Lead Generation--especially for software and technical services companies. Big Data semantic tools have developed to a point where they can parse massive volumes of content and data. Machine Learning algorithms can learn over time the subtle nuances of how audiences define and associate business topics. These algorithms can evaluate, for example how important legal/regulatory compliance concerns are to a company’s software requirements.
Intent Marketing enables early sales cycle interdiction. It works like this.
- A Big Data/Machine Learning engine analyzes downloads from repositories that aggregate premium content (white papers, webinars etc.) from sites of the most trusted technology information publishers and evaluators.
- The engine spots companies that seem to be in the early stages of seeking guidance about the market for software and/or services—a sign that they may have launched a corporate buying initiative.
- The marketer then contacts these self-qualified buyers.
- Contact early in the buyer’s evaluation cycle gives the marketer an opportunity to have more control over how the prospect defines their requirements as well as over pricing.
- Predictive filters allow for elimination of many “false positives” i.e. students, job seekers etc.—as well as bogus names.
- Over time a marketer can train a Machine Learning engine to analyze these early stage prospects to refine the nuances of its target customer profile.
In 80% of corporate software purchases, company personnel download trusted advisory content within three months of the purchase. These prospects are four times as likely to buy within the ensuing 90 days than those acquired through lists or databases. The next step is to contact them via a multi-touch, multi-offer email campaign that builds brand awareness and starts a dialogue with them.
These intent marketing techniques are being used by most of the top global software companies. Specialized lead generation research firms are using Big Data to help emerging tech companies and middle market companies use the same techniques, leveling the playing field.
Many companies are beginning to use intent marketing to boost their lead generation. Failing to take advantage of this new technique could put your company at a competitive disadvantage.
July 10, 2018 at 10:24 pm
George, congratulations ?
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The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service is regarded by many as the equivalent of an MBE for voluntary organisations.
It is the highest accolade bestowed on volunteer groups in the UK and to receive it is truly a phenomenal achievement.
I am proud to say that several voluntary organisations in our area have been recognised in this year’s awards.
Established in 2002 to mark the Golden Jubilee, the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service acknowledges the outstanding work and impact volunteer groups contribute to their community.
Recipients of the award are chosen by local assessment panels, who evaluate all nominations and produce a shortlist to send to the National Award Committee.
The committee then makes recommendations to the Cabinet Office, which sends a final list to the Queen for her approval.
In 2014, 111 such awards were granted to volunteering groups, nearly one fifth of which were awarded to charities in the South East.
ABC to Read, celebrating its 10th year, works with schools across Berkshire to raise literacy standards.
Primary school children who struggle with reading are mentored by volunteers, who help them to develop their self-confidence and reading abilities.
In a survey conducted by the organisation last year, 98 per cent of pupils who had support from ABC to Read experienced an improvement in reading performance.
Volunteers and beneficiaries of organisations who have received the Queen’s Award span all ages.
Crowthorne Old Age to Teen Society (COATS) is a charity whose objective is to promote the service of senior citizens within Crowthorne and the surrounding area.
Young people actively contribute to the society by assisting in COATS’s centre and shop to deliver companionship, lunches, teas, activities, entertainment and services for local elderly people.
Likewise, Berkshire County Blind Society offers support to more than 2,000 members, ranging in age from four to 103 years old. The work of the volunteers helps to ensure its members can enjoy full, active and independent lives.
I have been fortunate in meeting with some of our local award-winning organisations.
During a visit to Kerith Community Centre I witnessed first-hand the fantastic work of the Bracknell based organisation.
Incorporating hundreds of members, Kerith’s work is enormous in both scope and impact, ranging from monetary advice, special needs support, single-parent groups and a Foodbank.
I also met Sebastian’s Action Trust earlier this year and was extremely impressed by the support the charity provides to families of children suffering from critical or debilitating diseases.
The trust was established 10 years ago and has a purpose-built house in Hampshire which welcomes families for respite holidays.
I would like to pay tribute to the thousands of people across our region who work for the benefit of others.
The scale of the voluntary sector in the UK is monumental and something we should be very proud of; it is estimated that 15 million people volunteer at least once a month.
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Welcome to that part of the world that I call mine. Could it be that what I've seen and heard, lived and felt contribute to that world you call yours? I don't know. That's certainly for you to decide. I'm hoping it will and you are welcome to share with me and others your decisions about such things.
What I'll be attempting to do in the following blog articles is to provide my readers with valuable information regarding criminal laws, procedures and defenses that apply in the State of Georgia and perhaps even in your life or the life of a loved one.
While there are literally hundreds of criminal statutes that are in the law books, A quick review of the actual docket books (think computer records) you will likely find that the majority of crimes being committed these days are only a small minority of all the crimes a person could commit. I say that, because I thinking it more important for readers to be familiar with and understand what crimes we might come into contact with most often.
I'll try to keep a simple, clear, and concise order and protocol in these articles. By "simple", I mean short. By "clear", I mean a common language explanation of the law and by "concise", I mean easy linkage to the actual statute itself for you to access, read and consider. By following such a procedure or protocol, you can take notes and write questions when you come face to face with your choice of lawyer.
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Grow Your Business for a Better Deal
Mergers and Acquisition (M&A) firms are specialists in helping you navigate the complexities and increase the money you put in your pocket when you sell your business. But are you big enough? Most won’t take you on unless your business is generating greater than $2 million in free cash flow or adjusted EBITDA*. Some boutique firms will go as low as $1 million but that’s about the limit.
If your business is below $1M the challenges mount up:
- A “lifestyle business” may feed you and your family, but won’t get the attention of Private Equity firms, or savvy investors/serial entrepreneurs. Prospective buyers are limited.
- It is actually harder to sell a small business than a big one. It takes a lot of work for both you and the M&A firm. Most won’t even start unless you commit to a minimum payment that may take a serious chunk of your proceeds. Still, if they choose to take you on, it’s probably worth it because without them you may get nothing. A business broker told me that smaller companies have less than a 20% chance of finding a buyer.
- Let’s say you think your business is worth $1 million. Ask yourself, would you invest that to purchase this business? Would you recommend it to someone you love? Remember that with a million to invest, you could get 8-10% or approximately $90k in free cash flow each year from the stock market without lifting a finger. Will your business double or triple that?
- You probably run lean and don’t have a GM. Selling a business takes a lot of time from the owner and it’s not the time to take your eye off the ball of managing it.
- Your ‘multiples’ will be lower. Businesses vary, but you might get two to four times adjusted EBITDA for a small business. If yours is $250k for example, do the math. The higher the EBITDA the higher the multiple you will attract. Fortune 500 companies have much higher multiples as their size and maturity makes them far less risky than your business in the eyes of investors/acquirers. The best way to increase your multiple is to start a bidding war, not an easy task when you have few prospects.
Selling your business is hard work. It’s surprisingly complex and has potential tax liabilities (that can be minimized given the right advice and time). So, grow your business as much as you can during the lead-up to your transition and then find someone you like, trust and respect who can help you sell it.
*Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization
September 1, 2021
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The internet has found Spider-Man: Homecoming actor Tom Holland guilty of one of the worst pop culture nerd crimes on the books: Not having seen the original Star Wars trilogy. Holland blatantly committed the offense of not having seen films that came out 19, 16, and 13 years before his birth, despite the fact that his character explicitly references The Empire Strikes Back in last year’s Captain America: Civil War.
Holland made his confession while talking to Yahoo, admitting, “I just for some reason skipped the original Star Wars.” While he did present evidence in his own defense, calling The Force Awakens and Rogue One “dope,” he then doubled down on his self incrimination by stating that he loves the prequel trilogy, a.k.a. the Star Wars movies he actually grew up with.
“And I’m even more embarrassed to say that I love those movies when I was a kid,” Holland said. “Everyone’s like, ‘What? You liked those movies?!‘ But I thought they were great.” He promised that he would watch A New Hope at some point, but then basically admitted he was lying, because he’s tremendously busy slinging webs and starring in movies and whatnot. It remains to be seen whether Holland will soon be sentenced to a lifetime of FAKE NERD-dom, or whether the mitigating evidence—i.e., that he’s a guy, and not one of those awful fake nerd girls—will grant him leniency from the court. | <urn:uuid:d08fc6a6-ff77-4af0-bb48-947d4a1e22a6> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://news.avclub.com/the-internet-finds-tom-holland-guilty-of-never-having-s-1798260354 | 2019-07-18T11:31:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525627.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20190718104512-20190718130512-00552.warc.gz | en | 0.970926 | 328 |
"Hotel was well appointed with excellent location."
We were extremely pleased with the hotel, and made full use of the leisure facilities, including the steam room, sauna, Jacuzzi, swimming pool, which were all well maintained and clean. The Receptionist endeavoured to upgrade our room upon discovering that we were on honeymoon having married on the previous Saturday. Sadly the hotel was fully booked and she was unable to carry out the upgrade. The food was superb based on the set menu as part of the deal and waiting staff very efficient and helpful. We would not hesitate in recommending the hotel and would really love to stay there again, perhaps as an anniversary treat! Location was good in relation to the various popular Peak District towns, and Peak District activities.
From the start to leaving the Hotel we felt at ease with the very friendly owners and staff. The beer was great, evening meal was excellent and the breakfast was of quality food. A nice touch in the bedroom was a glass of sherry and a sweet. Well done for making our experience very enjoyable. Peter & Maureen
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Your headline about Bono's video message to the Conservative party conference (Endorsements: Et U2, Bono? Singer crosses divide, 9 October) suggests a political endorsement of the party by Bono. This is not the case. Bono contributed a video message to both Labour and Conservative conferences for one reason: to urge whichever party is in power after the next election to maintain Britain's admirable recent performance on aid delivery for the world's poorest and most vulnerable people.
At the Labour party conference in Brighton, he praised Gordon Brown, under whose leadership Britain has become a world leader on development and has delivered on the promises made at the Gleneagles summit. At the Conservatives' conference this week, he urged party members to stand by their pledge to ringfence development assistance should they form the next government.
British aid has played a key role in the development successes of the past decade – 34 million more children in school and more than 3 million people on Aids medication in Africa alone. The only message from Bono, and ONE, the campaign group he cofounded, is that the next British government, of whichever political colour, needs to keep up this record.
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For the most part of it, ‘Crayon Shin-chan’ is the kind of anime that a lot of people would call “stupid’ and honestly, it is kind of stupid. But it’s this stupidity that makes it so enjoyable and once you’re hooked on to it, there is literally no going back. Now it has been here for a very long time, so it’s not possible for you to watch it all the way from the beginning. But that’s the beauty of these Japanese family fun anime shows — you don’t really have to watch the entire thing to understand what’s going on. Just pick it up at any point of time and have fun. ‘Shin-chan’ can often get very repetitive with its humor, absurdity and the flanderizations of the main character; but then what more can you expect from a comedy anime that has been here since the past three decades?
One look at it and you’ll probably assume that it’s nothing more than a kids show and I can totally understand why someone would jump to that conclusion. From its animation style, to its characters, to its overall innocence, everything suggests that it has nothing for grown-ups. But only when you stick around for a while you realize that many of its jokes are actually targeted towards adults. There are other aspects that will remind you of your own childhood; so it is for all age groups. Apart from being funny, the anime also has a few tear-jerking moments that contribute to its overarching plot. But to truly connect with these moments, you’ll have to be an avid viewer of the show.
If I could use one word to describe ‘Shin-chan’, I would just call it “weird” because it is unlike any other anime show out there. The characters are not at all perfect and you can make a long list of all of their flaws just by watching a few episodes. But what makes this anime special is its grounded nature. Despite being flawed and eccentric, the characters are human and all the nonsensical antics that they pull off are not only hilarious but also relatable in some ways. It is a long-running series with no fixed underlying story and that’s one big reason why it has a mixed bag of episodes. But if you’re patient enough to watch at least 50 episodes, you’ll be able to see a better side of it that might get you hooked on to it. It may not be for everyone because of how ridiculous it can get sometimes, but if you enjoy watching comedy anime, then you should definitely give this one a try.
Crayon Shin-chan Release Date:
‘Crayon Shin-chan’ premiered on April 13, 1992 and is still airing. It has aired more than 1000 episodes to date and it seems to be one of those endless anime franchises that keeps coming out with new seasons, movies and even spin-offs.
Crayon Shin-chan English Dub:
Unfortunately, ‘Crayon Shin-chan’ is not available on any well-known anime streaming platforms and was recently removed from Funimation as well. You can still purchase the original DVDs of the anime if you really want to watch it.
Crayon Shin-chan Plot:
Shin-chan is a little boy whose life is full of funny moments. These moments are usually a consequence of his rude behavior and use of profane language. He enjoys every moment of his life by doing the silliest of things and somehow manages to keep himself out of trouble. One of his crudest gags is known as the “elephant” gag which never gets old and can put a smile on anyone’s face. With a very dysfunctional family and an eccentric group of friends, Shin-chan will deal with every single problem that comes in his way and while he does this, he’ll make sure that he remains true to himself, even if it makes him the laughing stock of his town.
Crayon Shin-chan Review:
Starting off with the story of the show, it has a strange charm to it that will slowly make you fall in love with it. Being a long-running show with more than 1000 episodes, the story starts off somewhere and later leads to something entirely different. There are times when the anime also brings in fantasy elements to its story and even this part of it is quite enjoyable. Almost all of its humor revolves around the main character’s lingual disabilities, his infamously lewd butt dance and the childish acts that often get him into trouble. It can be sort of a “cultural-heavy show” but can still be enjoyed by pretty much anyone.
The characters are all very unique and explored really well. As mentioned earlier, the protagonists might be flanderized a little but even then, they manage to shine because of how natural they appear to be. Each episode seems to be divided into 2-3 different segments that are probably written by three different members of its cast. This actually gives it a more lively variety and also keeps its content quite refreshing.
The art and animation have never been great, but over the years, its technical aspects have improved substantially. There are still some noticeable inconsistencies in its animation, but for the most part of it, it’s watchable. Sound effects include those typical old school slice-of-life sounds that have been excessively used in many other shows. And occasionally, some memorable songs are also thrown in the background to compliment certain scenes.
Overall, ‘Crayon Shin-chan’ is one of these cringy comedies that can be strangely enjoyable. Even if silly humor is not exactly your thing, just try giving this one a shot as it might just change your mind. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give it a weak 7 and nothing more than that. The reason why I’m not giving it a high rating is because of its numerous evident imperfections and simply for the fact that it just isn’t for everyone. | <urn:uuid:a1b5aa95-4dbc-4a65-9fa8-6542dc7d9806> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://thecinemaholic.com/crayon-shin-chan-review/ | 2022-05-26T21:32:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662625600.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220526193923-20220526223923-00215.warc.gz | en | 0.977239 | 1,267 |
Good morning stampers,
Here is a card I made for my daughters soccer coach. I know the season is not over yet....but we are having a very tough season and I just wanted to let the coach know we appreciate him. Plus its never to early to get those thank you cards ready for the end!
Anyway this is what the inside looks like.
Stamp sets:Just soccer, I love soccer (retired), sporting
paper: black, green galore,whisper white, Sherbert DSP (retired)
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Para el Mundo works to develop new community projects, and to increase the capacity of existing services, in the areas of community medicine, social services and education.
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posted September 01, 2002 09:01 AM
DJ MYERS COMES FROM 15TH TO WIN MCBEE/HAYS MEMORIAL AT HAGERSTOWN
Starting 15th in the field, D J Myers of Greencastle, PA gradually picked
his way through the field to take the lead from Rodney Franklin on the 36th
lap to win the 44-lap Ronnie McBee/Ron Hays Memorial for the ITSI late models
at the Hagerstown Speedway Saturday night. It was Myers' second McBee
Memorial win in three years and second of the year at Hagerstown.
"This was pretty awesome from where we had to start from," said Myers
Victory Lane after pocketing $2,500 for his efforts. "I didn't think I was
going to get going starting so far back."
In other action, Richard Walls of St. Thomas PA is hot as he won both
Hoosier Tires Mid Atlantic late model sportsman features and Allen Stone
Hagerstown won the 15-lap Ernie's Salvage Yard pure stock feature when Eugene
Conley lost his drive shaft on the final lap. Kevin Durst of Hancock won
30-lap enduro dash.
Mike Atherton grabbed the early lead from the pole in the McBee/Hays
Memorial as D J Myers started deep in the field in the 15th starting spot.
Atherton quickly pulled away from the field leaving Paul Crowl and Doug
Burkholder to battle it out for second. On the 14th lap, Andy Anderson joined
the battle for second and a lap later ninth starting Rodney Franklin joined
in as the cars raced two, three and four wide. As the four drivers battled
out, they began to close in on the leader and at the half-way mark, Myers
Gary Stuhler were in the hunt as the top seven cars were bunched close
together. Franklin took over the lead on the 24th lap as Myers passed Stuhler
for fifth as the first caution was waved on lap 28. Myers dropped back to
sixth after the restart, but regained his composure and passed Anderson,
Stuhler and Atherton to move into third behind Franklin and Stuhler by the
32nd lap. Two laps later, Myers went to the outside to get around Stuhler
second and continued his forward momentum easily passing Franklin for the
lead on lap 36.
Once in front, Myers was able to pull away from the field, but a red
on lap 41 for Frankie Plessinger who hit the fourth turn guard rail hard
Franklin and Stuhler another chance at the leader. The red flag period lasted
longer than expected as one of the two trucks towing Plessinger's car back
the pits turned over on its side. The delay didn't affect Myers as he pulled
away to win by 12 car lengths when the race resumed in an awesome display
driving. Myers also picked up the Timber Wolf/Ernie's Salvage Yard Hard
Charger Awards. Franklin settled for second with Stuhler following in third.
Marvin Winters came from 14th for fourth and closed in on points leader
Nathan Durboraw who had mechanical problems mid-way through the race and
finished 13th. Anderson, Atherton, Jeremy Miller, Tom Myers, Charlie Schaffer
and Burkholder finished out the top ten. J&K Toys heat winners for the 32
cars were Atherton, Anderson and Durboraw. Les Hare won the consi.
In the regular 20-lap late model sportsman feature, Richard Walls pulled
out in front from the outside pole position as Terry Lescalleet followed
second. Lescalleet tried to stay with Walls, but had to settle for second
holding off the hard charging Dave Rice Jr. at the end. Rice, after starting
21st, received the St. Thomas Towing/Checker Flag Lube Center Hard charger
award for third and was followed by Scott Palmer and Rusty Sites. Finishing
out the top ten were Daryl Kendall, Fred Harden, Mike Spangler, Tim Fedder
and Will Fair. Heat winners were Sites, R. Walls, Palmer and Eric Ohler.
won the consolation.
In the rescheduled 20-lap late model sportsman feature, Richard Walls
took the lead from the outside pole with Daryl Kendall and Rusty Sites in
pursuit. Sites took over second on the sixth lap but was unable to keep pace
with the leader turning second over to 10th starting Tim Fedder on lap 15.
caution on the final lap for Mike Walls set-up a one lap shootout, but Walls
had no problems holding off Fedder for the win.
Rusty Sites, Johnny Smith, Scott Palmer, Will Fair, Dave Rice Jr., Eric
Ohler; Scott Daniels and Fred Harden completed the top ten. Heat winners
the 42 cars were Ohler; R. Walls; Smith and Sites. Kendall and Glenn
Ninninger won the consolations. Tyler Armstrong was the St. Thomas
Towing/Checker Flag Lube Center Hard charger award winner.
Rick Stouffer set the pace from the pole in the pure stock feature as
Allen Stone started back in 12th. Eugene Conlee quickly threaded his way
through the field from his sixth starting spot to take over the lead on the
fifth lap as Stone moved into the runner-up spot a lap later. Stone kept
pressure on Conlee, but it looked like Conlee would pick up his fourth win
the year when he lost his drive shaft on the final lap coming for the checker
flag turning the lead and the win over to Stone. Hans Stamberg finished
second after starting 11th for the A&E Machine Shop Hard Charger Award with
Mike Warrenfeltz third. Conlee managed to drift across the finish line for
fourth with Jim Snyder rounding out the top five. Stouffer, Conlee and Ramer
were the heat winners for the 22 cars.
Fourth starting Kevin Durst led the 34 car enduro dash field the first
laps before losing the lead to Richie Miller on a restart following a red
flag for the overturned car of Charlie Pennsinger. Miller's lead was
short-lived as Durst regained the lead on the 15th lap and led the rest of
the way for the win over Larry Harley, Kenny Thomas, Russ Moseley and Derrick
Next Saturday, the pure stocks will be in action with a 20-lap Ernie‘s
Salvage Yard Pure Stock Championship. Also on the program will be the Tommy
Thompson Demolition Derby and the 100-lap Championship Enduro. Race time
RONNIE MCBEE/RON HAYS 44-LAP ITSI LATE MODEL FEATURE: 32 Cars: (Lap Leaders:
Atherton, 1-23; Franklin, 24-35; Myers, 36-44) 1. D J Myers; 2. Rodney
Franklin; 3. Gary Stuhler; 4. Marvin Winters; 5. Andy Anderson; 6. Mike
Atherton; 7. Jeremy Miller; 8. Tom Myers; 9. Charlie Schaffer; 10. Doug
Burkholder; 11. Scott Andrews; 12. Mark Elksnis; 13. Nathan Durboraw; 14.
Paul Crowl; 15. Kirk Ryan; 16. Tim Wilson; 17. Mike Lupfer; 18. Brent Smith;
19. Frankie Plessinger; 20. Travis Dillman; 21. Donnie Farling; 22. Les Hare;
23. Timmy Booth; 24. Buck Johnson. DNQ: Scott Cross; Wesley Bonebrake; Matt
Sponaugle; J.R. Isner; Scott Sipe; Scott Lupfer; Faryl Hills; Brian Station.
20-LAP HOOSIER TIRES/MID-ATLANTIC LATE MODEL SPORTSMAN: 38 Cars: (Lap
Leaders: R. Walls, 1-20) 1. Richard Walls; 2. Terry Lescalleet; 3. Dave Rice
Jr.; 4. Scott Palmer; 5. Rusty Sites; 6. Daryl Kendall; 7. Fred Harden; 8.
Mike Spangler; 9. Tim Fedder; 10. Will Fair; 11. Johnny Smith; 12. Eric
Ohler; 13. Laudan Seigfried; 14. Kirk Baker; 15. Gary Potts; 16. Jeff Friese;
17. Jamie Lathroum; 18. Glenn Ninninger; 19. Steven Koup; 20. Scott Daniels;
21. Melvin Muir; 22. Travis Beaver; 23. Todd Bowers; 24. Sterling Kinard.
DNS: Tyler Armstrong; Pete Weaver: DNQ: James Mongan; Barry Lear; Mike Walls;
Charlie Hageage; Ray Fisher Jr.; Wesley Workman; Robert Moore; Danny
McSherry; Larry Baer; Coleby Frye; Ty Shatzer.
20-LAP HOOSIER TIRES/MID-ATLANTIC LATE MODEL SPORTSMAN (08/30): 42 Cars:
Leaders, R. Walls, 1-20) 1. Richard Walls; 2. Tim Fedder; 3. Rusty Sites;
Johnny Smith; 5. Scott Palmer; 6. Will Fair; 7. Dave Rice Jr.; 8. Eric Ohler;
9. Scott Daniels; 10. Fred Harden; 11. Daryl Kendall; 12. Tyler Armstrong;
13. Mike Spangler; 14. Gary Potts; 15. Travis Beaver; 16, Laudan Seigfried;
17. Glenn Ninninger Jr.; 18. Kirk Baker; 19. Sterling Kinard; 20. Jeff
Friese; 21. Larry Baer; 22. Terry lescalleet; 23. Mike Walls; 24. Darin
Younker; 25. Melvin Muir; 26. Jamie Lathroum. DNS: Ty Shatzer; Doug Hardy;
Danny McSherry; Alan Sagi; Roy Miller; Andy Holmes; Leo Nichols; Wesley
Workman; Steve Koup; Charles Potts; Bobby beard; Scott Woolford; Dallas
Wenrick DNQ: Pete Weaver; Craig Guidd; Kenny Day.
15-LAP ERNIE'S SALVAGE YARD PURE STOCK FEATURE: 22 Cars (Lap Leaders:
Stouffer, 1-4; Conlee, 5-14; Stone, 15 ) 1. Allen Stone; 2. Hans Stamberg;
Mike Warrenfeltz; 4. Eugene Conlee; 5. Jim Snyder; 6. Keith Reed; 7. Ronnie
Dennis; 8. Mike Sanders; 9. Kenny Dillon; 10. John Huber; 11. Paul Rice;
William Bryd; 13. Bill Reitober; 14. Corey Oberholtzer; 15. Rick Stouffer;
16. Bruce Leibowitz; 17. Kim Ramer; 18. Pete Gems. DNS: Greg Hockensmith;
Jesse Coleman; Ken O'Connor; Jeff Johnson.
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Pronounced with a slight British accent, Deauville’s boardwalk, Wang Lin’s working title “Double Entendre” – produced in residence before summer, takes on an extra layer of exoticism to the obvious visual discordance when one discovers that these images have been created by a former Chinese stewardess. Taking advantage of the Deauville airport, Wang Lin found herself on familiar ground to...
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Middle School Climate: A Study of Attitudes. Fastback 455.
Gold, Joshua M.; Rotter, Joseph C.; Holmes, George R.; Motes, Patricia S.
This fastback document presents the results of an opinion survey of middle-school students, parents, and teachers in South Carolina. Because no surveys in the literature had combined responses from these three groups, researchers asked 4,940 students, 735 teachers, and 2,576 parents about their attitudes toward school, students, and teachers. The results show that all three groups held significantly different opinions about school climate, about students, and about teachers. These different opinions were also evident within the groups themselves, with female and male students, for example, holding significantly different views on all items. The responses also revealed that the organization and management of schools made more sense to parents and teachers than it did to students. In fact, many students failed to see what relevance school had for them, and this pointed to a discrepancy between teachers and students, suggesting a poor working relationship. These findings indicate that schools should make a whole-school commitment to becoming student-oriented by developing prevention programs, by viewing students as consumers, by encouraging family participation, by using peer mentoring, by making schools smaller, and by challenging gender stereotypes. Teachers should also work on self-awareness, should strive to make learning relevant, should recognize individuality, and should practice collegiality. (Contains 39 references.) (RJM)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Policy, Educational Principles, Middle Schools, Parent Attitudes, School Policy, Student Attitudes, Student School Relationship, Teacher Attitudes
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Goldie's Cherry BallsFrom shellyh430 8 months ago
How to make it
- Cream the above together, add enough water till it looks like pie dough.
- Drain the cherries good. Make a little ball out of the dough and roll a cherry in it.
- Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. DO NOT grease pan.
- Glaze mix some powdered sugar and cherry juice
- Dip each ball in glaze and drain on rack
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It’s Still About the Experience
“Those businesses that relegate themselves to the diminishing world of goods and services will be rendered irrelevant. To avoid this fate, you must learn to stage a rich, compelling experience.”
These words were written over 18 years ago by Joe Pine and James Gilmore in their book The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre and Every Business a Stage, and they are even more true and important in today’s business environment. It’s still about the experience. My new ChangeThis manifesto, It’s the Experience, Stupid!, explains why experience remains the frontier on which companies compete and win today. Please check it out.
The manifesto is only one of many new articles, reviews, and interviews that have been published in support of the launch of my new book, Extraordinary Experiences: What Great Retail and Restaurant Brands Do. Here’s a few more that will stimulate your thinking about customer experience, the retail and restaurant industries, and what great brands do:
- MIchele McGovern recaps my book in this post on Customer Experience Insight, 7 Things Great Customer Experience Companies Do Better Than You
- CB Whittemore asked me “Tell me more about the difference between brand as marketing asset and brand as central organizing and operating idea of an organization” — and other great questions in this interview
- “Stop Making Excuses and Start Building a Great Brand” is a guest post from me on The Buzz 101, thanks to Maria Elena Duron for posting | <urn:uuid:f845533b-1486-44a7-9f8c-120f4f8864f8> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://deniseleeyohn.com/its-still-about-the-experience/ | 2020-08-15T19:37:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439741154.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20200815184756-20200815214756-00589.warc.gz | en | 0.928062 | 315 |
Participation of plant hormones in determination and progression of somatic embryogenesis
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Jiménez García, Víctor
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In vitro culture protocols have been developed for many species, mainly using empirical approaches, to induce somatic embryogenesis from various explant types. However, the underlying biochemical mechanisms governing induction, expression and maturation during somatic embryogenesis are still poorly understood. Among the signals that participate directly in the regulation of the different phases of this process, plant hormones emerged as candidates of choice. In this chapter, studies concerning the role of exogenously added plant growth regulators in somatic embryogenesis are reviewed. In addition, we discuss possible relationships between hormonal contents in starting explants and in cultures derived from them with their embryogenic competence. Moreover, information on evolution of endogenous plant hormone levels during induction and progression of somatic embryogenesis is presented. Finally, an overview of interactions between exogenous plant growth regulators and endogenous hormones in embryogenic systems is also included.
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“Explore the fascinating history of the human endeavor to organize our lives in accordance to the sun and stars.” That’s the intro for this web exhibition on calendars. Isn’t it neat? Well so is the exhibit.
Hit the Next button to start your journey. You’ll find yourself in “Our Year” which defines how our calendar is setup, how astronomy plays into it, the history of our calendar, and when countries changed their calendars.
Then you can go onto “Various Calendars” which will show you calendars from all over the world. Both used and unused calendars so you can check out calendars from the past, as well. I highly recommend checking out the unused section. The Mayan calendar was wildly fascinating.
You can also check out the origin of the seven day week in the “Our Week” section. You’ll also learn the meaning of the names of the days of the week and their origin, as well as how they differ from country to country.
There is also the “Timeline” which shows interesting calendar facts.
A very nifty site. I’d like to point out that there is a lot of lovely artwork on these pages. It’s amazing how some people’s minds work to interpret things like days, weeks, and seasons.
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Justin Bieber now has yet another testament to just how loyal his legions of fans are: A lawsuit.
The 17-year-old pop heartthrob is being sued by a woman who says she suffered hearing loss and severe tinnitus as a result of all his fans' screaming — and an unusual stage set piece — at one of his concerts.
In the suit she filed in Oregon federal court on Thursday against the pop star, his label, the show promoter and the arena, Stacey Wilson Betts blames her injuries on a Bieber show she took her daughter to in Portland two years ago.
"Justin Bieber climbed into a heart-shaped, aluminum/steel gondola and was pulled out over the crowd. Mr. Bieber created a wave-like effect of screaming by pointing into various sections of the arena, then enticed the crowd into a frenzy of screams by continuously waving his arms in a quick and upward motion," her suit explains.
"The gondola that Justin Bieber was suspended in acted as a sound conductor, creating a sound blast that permanently damaged both of my ears," she added.
Betts is asking for a whopping $9.23 million in damages for her medical expensises, pain and suffering, disability and loss of quality of life.
No word on her daughter's experience at the show.
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In the two years since Apple (AAPL) first released the iPad, the device has become an overnight hit with school students and teachers, and schools have been trying to figure out how use the tablet in innovative ways to improve the classroom. Bloomgberg Businessweek reports Apple is shifting its strategy of selling schools laptops and desktop computers to selling them iPads instead. The Bloomberg report says that maintenance and cost are the two key reasons behind the switch. An iPad mini that costs half as much as a full-sized 9.7-inch iPad would be able to provide two students with a tablet compared to just one. It’s also rumored that Apple will provide an update to iBooks and iBooks Author.
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Bronze medallists in 2010, Araz Naxçivan are hoping to make it to the finals again and experienced goalkeeper Andrey Tveryankin is confident that his side can challenge FC Barcelona.
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The year 2010 was a real breakthrough for Azerbaijan in futsal terms, with the national team finishing fourth at the UEFA European Futsal Championship and Araz Naxçivan taking UEFA Futsal Cup bronze three months later.
Experienced goalkeeper Andrey Tveryankin, who played in the second edition of the UEFA Futsal Cup for MFK Norilsky Nikel in 2002/03, was a crucial part of that 2010 success and, having missed out on last season's club finals to ASD Città Di Montesilvano C/5, he and Araz are back again in the elite round. However, he knows it will be tough in a Group B hosted by FC Barcelona and also featuring FK EP Chrudim and Club Futsal Eindhoven, Araz's first opponents on Thursday.
UEFA.com: Can Araz Naxçivan get to the finals?
Andrey Tveryankin: Why not? There are no invincible teams. We will not go there as tourists.
UEFA.com: What emotions did you feel when you were unable to make it to last year's finals?
Tveryankin: We had opportunities but we didn't manage to make it. We can only blame ourselves. And it was my fault too.
UEFA.com: What did it mean to you to play at the previous year's finals in Lisbon?
Tveryankin: We won bronze and that says it all. It was a big event for us.
UEFA.com: How strong are Barcelona?
Tveryankin: The tournament consists of three games and all the teams at this stage are strong. I have watched many videos and made some conclusions.
UEFA.com: Your national team colleagues Biro Jade and Serjão play for the Ukrainian club Uragan Ivano-Frankovsk. Would you like to face them in the finals?
Tveryankin: I have played against them a lot in training! We must get through to the next round and then we will see. Of course it would be interesting.
UEFA.com: What did they say in Azerbaijan about the success of the national team and Araz in 2010?
Tveryankin: I can't speak for the whole of Azerbaijan, but I felt it myself. People began to recognise me in the streets.
UEFA.com: You played in the UEFA Futsal Cup for the first time nine years ago. How has the tournament changed since then?
Tveryankin: The level of the game and the organisation have definitely improved. Playing in the UEFA Futsal Cup is a memorable event for clubs and for players. It's a big celebration. Also, you can see how the standard of the UEFA Futsal Cup has improved a lot due to futsal's development around Europe. | <urn:uuid:4818b262-ffea-44a3-b759-089324db5f85> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.uefa.com/uefafutsalchampionsleague/news/0257-0deece981592-8eee7187b2df-1000--tveryankin-bolsters-araz-in-barcelona/ | 2022-01-24T06:42:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304515.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220124054039-20220124084039-00326.warc.gz | en | 0.96765 | 650 |
Commissions of Inquiry and National Security: Comparative Approaches
A number of high-profile commissions of inquiry have recently been conducted in a range of countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Additionally, the events of the Bush and Blair administrations' "War on Terror" are expected to yield further controversial commissions of inquiry.
For some time, commissions of inquiry have been common to the politics of the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. However, recent years have seen a much wider range of states establish commissions of inquiry into intelligence and security issues, and they have also played important roles in transitions in Latin America and Eastern Europe. Commissions of inquiry are no longer even the exclusive preserve of states, as transnational institutions such as the United Nations and European Union have begun to convoke them.
This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive examination of commissions of inquiry around the world at a time when they have become important and increasingly invoked tools to discover truth, curb abuses, and reconcile national security
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Commissions of Inquiry and the Australian Intelligence Community
Making Espionage Organizational Culture Wrongdoing and Mass Murder More Transparent
4 The Politics of Commissions of Inquiry into Security and Intelligence Controversies in Britain
A Huge Smokescreen of Humbug?
6 The Role of Judges
7 The Politics of US National Security Commissions
Promise and Performance
The Cases of Norway Sweden and Denmark
12 Commissions of Inquiry in South Africas Intelligence History 19602005
The Cases of Argentina and Chile
14 European Parliament and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Inquiries into Intelligence and Security Issues
15 The United Nations Iraq OilforFood Inquiry
The AspinBrown Commission at Work
9 Commissions of Inquiry as Agents of Change in the Israeli Intelligence Community
10 Legislative Commissions of Inquiry in Spain
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Charities to donate to and other ways to aid the hurricane victims
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“I hope that people are talking about education and expanding education, putting more money and time into schools. I hope that mentors or coaches or people who never thought about being mentors or coaches are having conversation to get involved with someone, because if you reach only one person, there’s no telling how many lives may change or be impacted.”
– Gari “Coach G” McIntyre
“It always excites us to share a story that doesn’t feel super developed in our culture and in our narratives on our screen, I feel like it’s also really nice to tell stories about women and for women…I think that I like making art for us and not for them. I’m not trying to divide genders here, but I do feel like the stories that I gravitate towards are stories about women.”
– Gillian Robespierre
“They’re not trained journalists. They wouldn’t necessarily even call themselves journalists. You know, they’re media activists, or citizen journalists. But they’re filling a void where ISIS has completely blacked out all information coming in and out of that city. If it wasn’t for them, we’d have no idea what’s happening there.”
– Matthew Heineman
Lady Macbeth strikes hard and digs deep, Pugh’s performance alone a superlative bit of ruthless magnificence that lives up to the title character’s Shakespearean namesake with unforgettable viciousness.
The Midwife ends up delivering on all fronts, making it a drama all involved should feel vast amounts of pride assisting in the birth of.
A Ghost Story is about patience, it is about resilience, it is about who we are as human beings on levels physical, spiritual, practical and metaphorical, about how we drift through the minutes of our lifetimes not ever truly realizing how precious a single second is until it is possible too late to matter.
“I made [A Ghost Story] so intuitively and so quickly and organically that I never had a thesis statement prepared when I went into it. I still don’t. I still watch the movie when I see it as an audience member.”
– David Lowery
“I’ve had people write parts for me. But I’ve never had anybody even think about writing a script for me. It’s pretty incredible.”
– Sam Elliott
“I just love that Jeff made a movie like this right now. I think it’s rare that people are making stuff like this, taking such risks when making movies. After watching this and seeing that, I hope that more people will be inspired to go crazy and make weird stuff. That would be great.”
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PD3. I am running my application on all my devices. From time to time I have to update some settings in my applications .ini file. I don't want to send the entire .ini file each time, is there a better way?
Please click here to see the system requirements needed for MobiControl.
Yes, you can use MobiControl on a Windows Vista or a Windows 7 computer. If you are connecting your device via USB to your computer, you need to download and install the Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center on your computer first. Please visit Microsoft's website at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/devicecenter.mspx to download Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center.
In MobiControl Manager, from the menu bar, click Help, and then click About MobiControl Manager to view the version and build information. Also listed in this window is the licensing information, displaying the number of servers and devices licensed and how many devices are in currently used within your license.
MobiControl has several settings that allow you to optimise the Device Agent behavior to minimize battery drain.
(Right-click on the Deployment Server in the Deployment Servers view (tab) and select Deployment Server Properties). You can set the Send Test Message to Devices parameter to a higher interval to reduce the communication between the device and the server. This will increase the time it takes for the server to recognize a device as online or offline.
(Right-click on the device, select Configure Device, and then Advanced Settings. Set the device retry interval to a higher number. The lower the number, the more aggressively the Device Agent tries to connect to the Deployment Server. For example, if it is set to 300 seconds, when the device is offline, it will try to connect to the Deployment Server every five minutes.
You can increase the time interval after which the device checks the server for updates, packages, or file synchronization (when it is online and connected to the server). For the device update schedule, right-click on the device, select Configure Device and then Update Schedule. Typically, in a test environment, the update schedule is set to a shorter interval to quickly see the results of test packages, etc. In a production environment, the devices may not need to download updates for hours/days. Similarly, the file synchronization schedule can be changed by editing the file sync rule under the Rules view (tab).
(Right-click on the device and select Configure Device and then Advanced Settings.) By default, the MobiControl Device Agent runs in the "Persistent" mode in which the Device Agent tries to maintain its connection to the Deployment Server whenever a data network is available. You may maximize battery life by changing the connection mode to "Scheduled" or "Manual" (depending on your environment), so the Device Agent only connects to the server within a limited time window (to download updates, synchronize files, for support, etc.). Adjusting the connection mode would achieve the highest battery consumption efficiency.
We recommend that you do a backup as often as possible. If you are running MobiControl v2.06 or earlier, you need to backup your file store and your database. If you are using MobiControl v3.00 or later, you only need to back up your database. To back up your file store, use the Microsoft File Explorer to copy the contents of the file store to a backup folder. To back up your database, if you are using the lightweight Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE) you may need to purchase a third-party tool to backup your database. If you are running the full Microsoft SQL Server, you can back up your database using the tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Manager. Most database back up tools provide an automated back up system so that your database will be automatically backed up at regular intervals.
The device name is considered the user-friendly name for the device. It is not the unique identifier for the device in the MobiControl system (that is the role of the device ID). It is possible to have more than one device with the same name, although that is not recommended because it will lead to confusion. From the device list, right-click on the mobile device icon of which device you want to rename. A menu of device options will appear. Select Rename Device and enter your desired name for the mobile device. Note that you can also change the device name from the MobiControl applet in the General tab in the configuration options that runs on the actual device.
You can also have the mobile device have its name based on a custom data value. For more information, please see Q3. How do I use "custom" information to name my mobile devices (e.g. the device owner's name)? in the Tips and Tricks page.
When your devices are connected on an external network (GPRS/CDMA) they require a Public IP in order to communicate with your Deployment Server. In most situations companies have a corporate firewall on their Public IP address. You must configure your corporate firewall to allow devices to connect to the Deployment Server. Set up your firewall to port forward from Port 5494 publicly to Port 5494 internally. Port 5494 is used for Windows and Android device communication and is fully customisable by opening the MobiControl Manager, and going to the Deployment Server tab, right click on your deployment server, and select server properties.In the server properties window, you will be able to set a custom port for device communication as well as the public IP addresses the devices must use.
For example, if your Deployment Server has an Internal IP of 192.168.1.184 and your Public IP is 22.214.171.124 all incoming traffic on 126.96.36.199:5494 must be forwarded to 192.168.1.184:5494.
Open the MobiControl Manager, go to the Deployment Server Tab, Right Click on your Deployment Server and select Server Properties. In the Server Properties dialogue box place a check mark in the "Override Default IP" box, and the "Alternate IP Address" box. Enter the Public IP Address or Hostname in the Alternate IP Address box. When finished entering the new information, click on OK. The devices will receive this information upon a device update schedule or as they come online. This change instructs the device to attempt connecting to the deployment server using the Alternate IP Address/Hostname if it fails to connect at the IP Address originally provided. These settings get stored in the device agent and will take effect from now on. Each device MUST connect to the deployment server for these settings to get updated on the device.
During the MobiControl installation, when you get to the Select Features option, there are three options listed: MobiControl Manager, MobiControl Web Console and MobiControl Deployment Server.Checking all of these options will install all the components of MobiControl, including the Deployment Server. The checking only one option is used to select the exact components you wish to install on the computer. Click MobiControl Manager and click Next. Select MobiControl Manager and click Next. The next process is to enter the database data in the Data Link Properties dialog box to finish the installation.
For existing MobiControl users, it is necessary that you exchange your current registration code with a new registration code for MobiControl v6.00.
If you haven't obtained your new MobiControl v6.00 registration code, please contact us to exchange your registration code. (You will need to provide the company name and person to whom the product is licensed.)
You need to ensure that the Device Agents installed on the devices are updated with this information before you move the Deployment Server. To do this, add the IP address of the new Deployment Server as the Secondary External IP Address in the Deployment Server properties, while keeping the address of the old Deployment Server as the primary external IP address. Allow the settings to be propagated to the devices. Typically, these settings would be refreshed when a device disconnects and reconnects to the Deployment Server. Once all the devices have the new settings, disable the old Deployment Server (right-click on the Deployment Server and select Disable or Shutdown). Now, when you enable the new Deployment Server on the new server, the devices would be able to connect to the new Deployment Server (after they fail to connect to the old Deployment Server). After all your devices have connected, you can specify the IP of the new Deployment Server as the primary external.
If you are moving from your test server to a production server, we recommend that you create a brand new database:
The most common reason why a MobiControl Device Agent cannot connect to a MobiControl Deployment Server is because there is a firewall between the device and the Deployment Server that is blocking the connection attempt from the device. By default, MobiControl Device Agents open TCP/IP connections to Deployment Servers on port 5494. If this port is being blocked by an intermediate firewall—personal or corporate firewall—then the device will not be able to connect to the server.
A personal firewall is one that on the computer that is running the Deployment Server. For example, the Windows firewall (typically running by default) blocks several TCP/IP ports including port 5494. If you are running a Windows or other firewall on a computer that is running a MobiControl Deployment Server, make sure that TCP/IP port 5494 is not being blocked.
If your devices are external from your corporate network and need to go through a corporate firewall to get to MobiControl Deployment Server(s), you will probably need to configure external IP address(es) for Deployment Server(s) and then set up firewall rules to map the connections from devices to internal Deployment Server IP addresses. The following steps describe how to configure external IP addresses for your Deployment Servers:
If you have multiple Deployment Servers, you need to configure a different external address for each server. Once you have configured external addresses, you need to generate new MobiControl Device Agents and install them on your mobile devices. The Device Agents will now use the external addresses to connect to Deployment Servers. To be able to establish remote control sessions to external mobile devices or devices whose IP addresses are not public, you need to set the MobiControl remote control profile for your devices to TCP/IP (SERVER). (The default remote control connection profile setting is just TCP(IP).) You can set the default remote control connection profile when creating device configuration rules or by right-clicking on a device group or device in the MobiControl Manager device tree and selecting the Configure Device(s) menu option.
MobiControl Deployment Servers always listen for connections on TCP/IP port 5494; this "internal" port is currently fixed. The Deployment Server properties dialog box in MobiControl Manager allows you to change both the external IP address and the external port for Deployment Servers. If you do assign external IP addresses and ports for your servers, you must create a firewall/proxy server rule to map the external address to the internal IP address and port (5494) of your Deployment Server computers.
If you have configured a
Deployment Server as follows:
Deployment Server External IP:Port = 188.8.131.52:2000
Deployment Server Internal IP:Port = 192.168.1.11:5494
You will need to configure a firewall rule to map the external TCP/IP address 184.108.40.206:2000 to the internal TCP/IP address 192.168.1.11:5494 of the Deployment Server computer.
Here is how to test if the MobiControl Device Agent that is installed on a device can connect to a MobiControl Deployment Server:
If you have multiple Deployment Servers configured, you can repeat the above test for each Deployment Server in the list.
You can set the device connection sensitivity Send Test Message to Devices Every value to 60 seconds in the Deployment Server tray applet. This setting is used to control how often the Deployment Server is to check connections to devices to see if they are working properly. The Deployment Server does this by sending a test message to the device. When the device receives the test message, it sends the message back to the server. If the server does not receive the test message back within a certain time, it will terminate the connection to the device.
Another setting that will help slow connections is one that reduces the colors sent in images, which consequently reduces the amount of data that needs to be sent. You can change the remote control connection settings to view the device display in 16-color grayscale or 4-color grayscale instead of the default full-color display. Please see R1. What settings should I use to remotely manage and establish remote control sessions to devices over cellular (e.g. GPRS) or dial-up connections? below for more details.
A dynamic IP address automatically assigned to a host by a DHCP server is not a problem for MobiControl.
Once the MobiControl Device Agent has been installed on your mobile device, click the MobiControl Device Agenticon on your mobile device. In the pop-up menu, select Configure. When the Device Agent menu comes up, on the General tab, you will see the Status field. If it says disconnected, click the Connect button to establish a connection with the MobiControl Deployment Server.
If the status shows "Connected," check MobiControl Manager to see if your mobile device is showing up or not. Once the connection is made, it can take a few minutes for the mobile device to show up in MobiControl Manager.
If the status shows "Disconnected" and nothing happens after clicking the Connect button, then the mobile device is not being able to connect with the Deployment Server. Click the Servers tab to verify that the server information is correct. If it is correct, select that entry and click Test. The test should complete successfully. If it does, go back to the General tab and click Connect. If the Deployment Server test fails, verify the Deployment Server information and make sure that the Deployment Server is running. If the Deployment Server information is not correct, please correct it.
MobiControl supports two forms of time synchronization: Sync Time with MobiControl Deployment Server and Sync with SNTP/NTP Time Server.
Sync Time with MobiControl Deployment Server: When you enable this option, the MobiControl Device Agent will synchronize the device clock with the Deployment Server clock each time it connects to a Deployment Server. To use this option, you must enable the device time synchronization settings for a device (or group of devices). In the device tree, select the device or group, then select Configure Device(s) from the Device menu, and then select Time Synchronization.
Device Time Synchronization Settings
Sync with SNTP/NTP Time Server: This option uses the SNTP/NTP time synchronization protocol to synchronize the clock on your mobile devices with a public or private SNTP/NTP time server. You can configure this option using the MobiControl Manager. The most common problem with this form of time synchronization occurs when there is a personal or corporate firewall between your mobile device(s) and the time server. To correct this problem, please make sure that connections from your mobile device(s) through UDP port 123 are not being blocked by a firewall. Please see the Device Time Synchronization page for more information on this topic.
The Device Agent is not changing the host name/IP address information on its own. It is the MobiControl Deployment Server that is sending what it believes is the correct address information to the device and asking the Device Agent to update its address information.
When a device connects to a server, the server sends the device what it believes to be the addresses of MobiControl Deployment Servers. The MobiControl Device Agent then stores the server address information it receives and overwrites the previously configured address information. In order for changes to the host name/IP information to stay, you need to configure this with MobiControl Manager:
You can use MobiControl to manage your laptops, tablet PCs, and even your workstations. You can have the Device Agent installed on these devices and manage them as you would manage your other mobile devices with MobiControl Manager.
You can create the Device Agent using the Device Agent Manager as you would for any other mobile device. When you are creating the Device Agent, select Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/ Embedded (computers/laptops/thin clients)as the device manufacturer.
Microsoft Windows-based Device Agent
Once this is selected, you will notice that you have now skipped some steps in the Device Agent Manager. The next screen will ask you for various software settings.
Microsoft Windows-based Device Agent
Follow the remaining steps and once the Device Agent has been created, you are now ready to have it pushed out to your computer, laptop, or tablet PC.
The MobiControl Device Agent for Microsoft Windows PC's cannot be installed on the same machine as the MobiControl Deployment Server.
The Device Agent and Deployment Server processes (McAgent and McDeplSvr) both listen on port 5494 for activity. This will cause a constant conflict as each process attempts to use the port.
Cellular and dial-up connections are typically low bandwidth (slow) connections. The information in this section applies to low bandwidth connections but also to other forms of connections such as Wi-Fi.
Two of the main factors that affect battery consumption on mobile devices are the device screen and the device radio. Most devices include a control panel applet to adjust screen power consumption. We recommend that you adjust the screen settings to minimize power consumption based on your usage patterns. To limit the amount of power consumed by Wi-Fi and/or cellular radios, you need to minimize the amount of data sent and received by radio(s). The information in this section describes how to minimize the amount of data sent and received by MobiControl Device Agents.
Carrier charges can also be an issue. If you are using a cellular connection (e.g. GPRS/EDGE), your carrier may be billing you based on the amount of data that you send or receive through their network. The information provided below describes various MobiControl settings that can be tuned to minimize the data transmitted on cellular networks.
MobiControl Deployment Servers send test messages (32 bytes) to devices periodically and then wait for the device to send the message back. If a Deployment Server does not receive a test message back within a specified time, it concludes that the connection is not functioning properly, and closes the connection to the device. For slow connections or when you are being charged based on your amount of data you send through the network (e.g. some cellular plans) we recommend that you set the Deployment Server Send Test Message to Devices Every option to 300 seconds in the Deployment Server Properties dialog box.
MobiControl provides three connection mode settings that allow you to control the time period during which MobiControl Device Agents are connected to servers. In order to conserve battery power or to reduce cellular data charges, you can reduce the time period that devices are connected to server(s). The three connection modes provided are Persistent, Scheduled, and Manual. By default, the MobiControl Device Agents use the Persistent connection mode and try to maintain a connection to a Deployment Server whenever network connectivity exists. The Scheduled connection mode allows a connection to a server to be maintained only within a specified time window (e.g. 09:00 to 17:00). Scheduled mode can also be used to take advantage of a cheaper or higher bandwidth network that is only available during specific hours. The Manual connection mode does not maintain a connection to the server. In this case the device user needs to explicitly initiate a connection from the mobile device when required. This mode can be used in situations where connectivity is only required to support users. In this case, when an end user needs support and wants the help desk to remote control the device, the connection can be initiated from the device at that time.
The update schedule determines how often server(s) check devices to ensure that they have the required software packages and configuration settings installed. The update schedule is also used to refresh the information shown in the Info panel in the MobiControl Manager Devices view (tab) (e.g. battery or memory indicators, custom data). By setting the schedule to be less frequent network traffic and device battery consumption can be reduced. Typically the update schedule should be set for once a day at an off peak hour, or once every two or three days.
A file sync schedule is used when a file sync rule has been configured for synchronizing data files between devices and the server. A file sync schedule determines how often data files are to be synchronized with mobile devices. The file sync schedule can be used to control when large files are transferred. File sync schedule can be configured to take advantage of high-bandwidth Wi-Fi connections and avoiding GPRS data usage during peak hours. It is important to note that even when all files are synchronized, the activity involved in checking to see if files need to be synchronized generates some data traffic. Typically, a file sync schedule should be set to synchronize once a day at an off peak hour, or once every two or three days.
For remotely controlling devices over slow networks, MobiControl provides options to reduce the amount of data that is sent over these networks. A second characteristic of these sorts of connections is that the IP address of the device is often private, meaning that MobiControl remote control desktop software will not be able to initiate a TCP/IP connection to the device. To deal with the private device IP address issue MobiControl has a TCP/IP(SERVER) setting which allows MobiControl to use a connection initiated by the mobile device for remote control purposes.
The following table summarizes the various options available for establishing remote control sessions to mobile devices over slow connections and also devices that have private IP addresses:
|Field Name||Recommended Setting||Description|
|Type||TCP/IP (SERVER)||GPRS or dial-up connections often have private addresses for mobile devices connected over these networks. When the addresses for devices are private you need to set the Connection Type field to "TCP/IP(SERVER)" in the remote control profile you are using.|
|Broken Connection Sensitivity||Low||This field reflects the responsiveness of the connection. Setting the field to "Low" indicates to the software that the connection is generally slow and to expect lags in waiting for responses. Since GPRS and dial-up connections are generally slow, setting the value of this field to "Low" is usually appropriate. The software will in this case wait extra long periods of time waiting for responses.|
|Connect Timeout||45||Since GPRS and dial-up connections are generally slow, setting the value of this field to 45 seconds allows extra time for a connection attempt to complete.|
|Color Reduction||2 bit (4-shade grayscale)||Reducing the colors sent in images further reduces the size of the data that needs to be sent on slow networks. You can change the remote control connection settings to view the device display in 16-color grayscale or 4-color grayscale instead of the default full-color display. Although the amount of data transferred will be reduced, CPU usage on the device will increase.|
You can edit one of the existing remote control profiles and make the changes listed above or create a new profile. The MobiControl installation software creates a remote control profile called TCP/IP (SERVER) by default. It can be edited.
Once the changes have been made, right-click on the device or device group (if you want to use the profile for a group of devices) in MobiControl Manager and make sure that the remote control profile you just edited is configured for use.
When attempting remote control sessions to devices from outside a firewall (i.e. device located on the inside) or to devices on cellular networks that assign devices with private IP addresses, the MobiControl TCP/IP (SERVER) connection type must be used. The TCP/IP (SERVER) connection type allows devices with private IP addresses to be remote controlled by using connections initiated by mobile devices for remote control purposes. If the devices and the MobiControl Manager console are both on the same network the TCP/IP (DIRECT) remote control profile can be used.
The MobiControl desktop software does not need to initiate connections to devices, instead the MobiControl device software connects to servers. If the MobiControl Device Agent software is installed on a mobile device, it will attempt to connect to a Deployment Server and maintain that connection. In this way the desktop software does not need to connect to the device, it just uses the connection that the device software maintains to the server. Since the desktop software does not need to initiate connections to devices, dynamic device addresses are also not a problem.
MobiControl also allows external IP addresses and ports to be assigned to Deployment Servers. In this way devices can connect to external addresses that then get mapped to internal addresses and ports by firewall or proxy software. When initiating remote control sessions to devices with private addresses you need to use the TCP/IP (SERVER) connection profile. TCP/IP (SERVER) remote control sessions use device-initiated connections to provide remote control, in this way remote control sessions go through an intermediate MobiControl Deployment Server. In situations where devices do not have private addresses, using regular TCP/IP remote control profiles allows direct connections to devices with no intermediate servers. If a regular TCP/IP remote control profile is used, the connection is initiated from the desktop software.
If your mobile device is not showing up as online in MobiControl Manager and you want to establish a connection, you can do so with MobiControl's Send SMS (to initiate connection to MobiControl) feature. (Please see the Sending Messages / Scripts page.) It may be that your mobile device is in a suspended state (sleeping), or the data connection is not active. With the Send SMS (to initiate connection to MobiControl) feature, you can wake up the mobile device, activate the data connection, and have the mobile device connect to MobiControl.
Rapi Connection Error
When you receive the connection error "Rapi initialization timeout error" while trying to connect to your mobile device, it means MobiControl cannot communicate with Microsoft ActiveSync or WMDC and your mobile device. To resolve this error make sure you have your mobile device properly connected to your computer and to ActiveSync or WMDC.
Lockdown menus are based on HTML template files. When you install MobiControl several sample template files are installed into the system. To create a lockdown menu screen with your own custom look and feel, open up one of the existing template files, and save it to a different file name. You can then edit the saved HTML template file and give it your own style. If you want to display images in the menu, then you need to make sure that the image files are located in stable storage on your mobile device. MobiControl does not automatically copy images referenced in template files to mobile devices. You can copy the images to your mobile devices either manually via a File Explorer tool, or you can get the images to your devices by using deployment rules or file sync rules. The destination location for images needs to be in stable storage. The image files can be referenced by their absolute path on the mobile devices that they reside on. Once you have finished creating your HTML template file, add the new template to MobiControl and then use it to configure lockdown rules. Please see the Device Lockdown page and the Customizing Lockdown Program Menu Templates page for more information about creating and customizing template files.
MobiControl includes a security system that integrates with your existing Windows Domain security system (Microsoft Active Directory). You can configure permissions for your domain users, and MobiControl will allow or disallow access to specific functionality based on the permissions configured for the currently logged in user. Please see the Manager Console User Security page for more information.
To deploy software, data or settings to your mobile devices, you need to
create a package and then create a MobiControl deployment rule to send the
package to your devices. To create a package, to use the
MobiControl Package Studio tool, accessible from the
Tools menu in MobiControl Manager. (Please see the MobiControl Package Studio page.) To initially generate the registry file
that you want to deploy, open a MobiControl Remote Control session to a
device that has the proper registry settings, then, using the remote
control Registry tool, export the registry settings to a
.reg file. Once
.reg file has been created, create a package using Package Studio,
browse to your registry file and add it to your package, and then build
the package using the Package Studio Build menu open. Package Studio
recognizes certain file types such as registry files and sets these files
to auto-execute by default when they are installed onto mobile devices.
Once the package is built, in MobiControl Manager create a deployment rule to deploy the package to your mobile devices.
There are three reasons why you may want to add an additional MobiControl Deployment Server:
When you are running multiple Deployment Servers, MobiControl will distribute the load among functioning servers. This means that if your existing server(s) are getting too loaded down, you can add additional servers to distribute the load amongst the servers. When connecting to servers, devices will distribute themselves amongst servers in order to balance the load across the servers.
When you are running multiple Deployment Servers, if a particular server fails, or a server is down for maintenance, MobiControl will automatically move devices that were connected to the disabled server onto other functioning servers. When the server is available again, the system will start balancing the load to move load off other servers onto the available server. This feature means that all devices can be fully manageable even while one or more servers are not operating.
In situations where an organization has remote sites, each of which has several mobile devices, placing Deployment Servers at each site can mean less bandwidth consumption between the head office and the remote sites and an overall increase in performance of the system. If there is only one centrally-located Deployment Server, each package delivery must be sent from the central server over the slow connection to each remote mobile device.
Imagine a company with ten remote sites, each with one hundred devices, and the connections between the central office and the sites being very slow or having limited bandwidth availability. To deliver a package, there would be 1000 deliveries from the central location to the remote devices over the slow connection. This would be very slow and would consume available bandwidth between the sites and the central location. However, if there is a server at each site, the package will be sent once to each site (i.e. 10 deliveries over the slow connection instead of 1000). Then, the Deployment Server at each site will cache the package and transmit it to each of its local devices over the fast local network.
Our general recommendation is that you do not need to run more than one Deployment Server if you are managing less than 1500 devices, but you need to consider the information provided above, as well as any other network, infrastructure or other requirements your organization may have.
When you deploy packages with MobiControl, you can insert scripts into
your packages. The MobiControl scripting language contains commands that
allow you edit
.ini files. So instead of sending an entire
.ini file, you
can just put in script commands to edit an existing
.ini file and
add or remove entries as needed.
The following command will edit
mov.ini file and set the Color value to "Red" in the "Video"
section of the file:
Video Color Red
Please see the Script Command Set page for more information about MobiControl script commands.
To test your scripts before putting them into a package, open a remote control session to your mobile device, and then click on the DOS Screen tab on the right edge of the remote control session window. If you copy your script to the mobile device file system you can run it by typing in the name of the script file at the prompt. When the script is executed you will see each line of the script execute in the DOS window. You can also test out individual script commands by typing them at the prompt.
For added fault tolerance, MobiControl provides the capability to add multiple Deployment Servers to ensure high availability and minimize downtime. With multiple Deployment Servers, you can set different Deployment Server priorities for your devices. If the priority 1 server is down, the devices would automatically connect to the priority 2 server. The multiple Deployment Servers can run in an Active/Active or Active/Standby mode, configurable from within MobiControl. You can even specify multiple external IP addresses for the devices to connect to. If the devices are not able to connect to the first IP, they would try to connect to another IP where a backup Deployment Server can service the requests. An additional server license is required for Deployment Server fault tolerance.
Yes, you can call a MobiControl script from a
custom application; you need to use
Commloader.exe with a switch to
execute scripts. Please see the Tips and Tricks page for more information.
We recommend that you do a backup as often as possible. If you are running MobiControl v2.06 or earlier, you need to back up your file store and your database. If you are using MobiControl v3 or later, you only need to back up your database. To back up your file store, use the Microsoft File Explorer to copy the contents of the file store to a backup folder. To back up your database, if you are using the lightweight Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE), you may need to purchase a third-party tool. If you are running the full Microsoft SQL Server, you can back up your database using the back up tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Manager. Most database back up tools provide an automated backup system so that your database will be automatically backed up at regular intervals.
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WASHINGTON, December 18, 2018—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$8.2 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to support China’s efforts to improve efficiency and reduce carbon emissions from the freight sector, a major consumer of energy, with the highest growth rate of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions among all sectors in China.
Freight transport accounted for over half of total transport CO2 emissions in 2013. As one of the most freight intensive economies in the world, for China to maintain healthy economic growth while fulfilling its commitment to global carbon reduction and environmental sustainability, developing a competitive, efficient and green freight transport system is a national strategic priority.
“This GEF project will contribute to China’s efforts in meeting or exceeding its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement well before 2020. It aims to improve the efficiency of multimodal freight transport, so that long-distance freight will be shifted from roads to greener transport modes such as railways and waterways. It will also promote green urban logistics to reduce emissions,” said Tan Hua, World Bank Senior Transport Specialist and task team leader of the project.
The GEF Efficient and Green Freight Transport Project will seek to improve institutional capacity by focusing on two priority areas at the national level: promotion of multimodal freight transportation system, and optimization of urban freight distribution. The project will also pilot key policy, strategy and analytical tools at the local levels in two provinces (Guangdong and Hubei) and three municipalities (Yantai, Weifang and Xiamen). The project will engage key industry players in the formulation of sector policies at both national and local levels.
“This project will introduce and pilot innovations in the development of China’s first macro-logistics freight model, applying big data analytics to inform policy formulation, and piloting of public-private partnerships to facilitate better rural-urban freight distribution and accelerate rural economic development,” added Yang Yi, World Bank’s Operations Analyst and co-task team leader of the project.
Knowledge and experience gained from the project will be disseminated within China and in World Bank’s client countries through TransForm, a knowledge platform jointly developed by the Chinese Ministry of Transport and the World Bank to learn and spread China’s experience and good practices in transport development and transformation.
The GEF was established on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems. Since then, the GEF has provided over $17.9 billion in grants and mobilized an additional $93.2 billion in co-financing for more than 4500 projects in 170 countries.
For more information on GEF, please visit: https://www.thegef.org/
For more information on this project, please visit: www.worldbank.org/projects
For more information on the World Bank program in China, please visit: www.worldbank.org/china
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Spencer thought the house might be haunted.
Mitch knew it wasn't. And he knew why.
The whole time Spencer and Mitch hung out together at Bird Lake that summer, there were secrets keeping them apart.
And maybe a secret knowledge keeping them together, too—together like members of the same tribe. Like friends.
About the Author
Kevin Henkes is the author of Junonia, Sun & Spoon, Bird Lake Moon, and the Newbery Honor Books The Year of Billy Miller and Olive's Ocean. He also writes and illustrates picture books, and among his many titles are the national bestsellers Little White Rabbit, My Garden, Old Bear, A Good Day, and Kitten's First Full Moon, for which he was awarded the Caldecott Medal. Mr. Henkes is also the creator of a series of books starring mouse characters, including the Penny books for beginning readers, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Chrysanthemum, and Owen, for which he was awarded a Caldecott Honor.
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Experiments with a three-man defence have brought mixed success for Roberto Mancini so far but a move back to what the champions know best paid dividends against Sunderland
By Russell Stoddart at the Etihad Stadium
Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini did not spend his summer break in Sardinia enjoying the reflective glow of his club's first league title in 44 years.
One thing that the 47-year-old has learned in his glittering football career is that dwelling on yesterday's glories is a recipe for tomorrow's misfortune. Perhaps it might explain why he has been so quick to try and rip up the blueprint for that title success last May.
The Italian was only too aware that, but for Sergio Aguero's injury-time winner against Queens Park Rangers on the last day of the season, he would have presided over the most expensive flops in the history of the English game.
But City owner Sheikh Mansour did not spend over £350m of his vast fortune on just winning the Premier League – even if it is the toughest league in the world. Winning the title no longer offers you immunity from the sack.
|MANCHESTER CITY 3-0 SUNDERLAND
|MATCH REPORT: Kolarov, Aguero and Milner get Premier League holders back on track|
|TOP OF THE MATCH: Aguero lifted City coming off the bench in the second half
The secret of his domestic success last season was having a settled side with everyone knowing their roles. Almost forgotten in the deluge of goals scored by City was that they conceded the fewest in the Premier League - for the second season in a row.
The cornerstone of that success was the central defensive partnership of skipper Vincent Kompany and Joleon Lescott. Yet this term, Mancini has tried nine different defensive formations, with last year's key pair appearing on the same teamsheet just four times.
The 47-year-old wants to break away from the rigid 4-4-2 system that won the league title last season. His blueprint for Champions League success includes a more fluid system with three central defenders and two full-backs pushing on.
The problem is that Lescott is not regarded as being quick enough to be part of a three, while Kompany does not seem to be the same player without the England international alongside him.
On Saturday, against a strangely subdued Sunderland, Mancini reverted to a flat back four. The reward was not just their biggest win of the season but a first clean sheet of the campaign.
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|13/8||Manchester City are 13/8 with William Hill to win the Premier League title
Having an embarrassment of riches can be a blessing or a burden depending on whether you know your strongest team and how to utilise them. It might be that the Italian needs to go back to basics and stick to the formula that won the Premier League title.
At the other end, you cannot just expect any combination of Sergio Aguero, Carlos Tevez, Mario Balotelli and Edin Dzeko to outgun the opposition.
What has become clear is that City is stronger with the Argentine duo as the main strikeforce. If they had both been available throughout last season, the blue half of Manchester would have won the title at a canter.
Mancini's men struggled to score the killer second goal against Sunderland until Aguero replaced the ineffectual Balotelli. Four minutes after coming on, the former Atletico Madrid striker got his goal and from then on the Black Cats were put to the sword.
There is an energy in the play of Aguero and Tevez that is as dynamic as it is enthralling. They feed off each other and the crowd feed off them. Until Aguero's introduction yesterday, the Etihad Stadium's atmosphere was muted. Minutes later the City faithful were doing the Poznan and shouting Aguero's name.
Last season, his first at City, the £38 million signing scored 30 goals in all competitions – 23 in the league – and, having time to get used to the English game, he can be expected to score the same again if he stays fit.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said it was not prepared to withdraw President Joe Biden’s pick for budget director, Neera Tanden, whose nomination stalled on Capitol Hill on Wednesday after controversy over tweets that upset lawmakers.
Two Senate committees postponed scheduled meetings to consider Tanden’s nomination, a clear sign she was struggling to get the votes to be approved and could thus become the first high-profile Biden nominee to be rejected.
But Biden, a Democrat, still supports Tanden, an Indian American who would be the first woman of color to lead the agency.
“Neera Tanden is a leading policy expert who brings critical qualifications to the table during this time of unprecedented crisis,” his press secretary, Jen Psaki, wrote on Twitter.
Asked later at the White House whether Tanden had offered to withdraw her nomination, Psaki said: “That’s not the stage we’re in.”
“It’s a numbers game, it’s a matter of getting one Republican to support her nomination,” Psaki said.
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told MSNBC “we’re fighting our guts out” to get Tanden confirmed but if the effort fails, “we will find some other place for her to serve the administration that doesn’t require Senate confirmation.”
Tanden has apologized for harsh tweets about Republicans and ran into trouble after a moderate Democratic senator, Joe Manchin, said he would not vote for her. Two moderate Republicans seen as potential “yes” votes also said they would vote “no” over past tweets.
Republican Senators Susan Collins and Mitt Romney both cited concerns that Tanden, 50, would be too divisive to lead the Office of Management and Budget which manages the $4 trillion federal budget.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee postponed a morning meeting where Tanden was going to be discussed, with the chairman, Senator Gary Peters, saying “people needed a little bit more time to assess” her nomination.
The Senate Budget Committee postponed a similar meeting. “It didn’t look like she had the votes,” said the panel’s chairman, Senator Bernie Sanders.
Tanden has made critical comments on Twitter about Republicans and Democrats, and in 2016 about Manchin’s daughter, the chief executive of pharmaceutical firm Mylan, after the company raised prices for its anti-allergy EpiPen.
Tanden’s advocates have brushed off the concerns, noting that Republicans backed former President Donald Trump, who often used Twitter to harangue political opponents.
“For four years, I’ve heard senators walking around saying ‘I don’t read the tweets,’” Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat, told reporters. “Now, all of a sudden, tweets seem to be driving a particularly important appointment.”
With the Senate divided 50-50 between the Republican and Democratic caucuses, and Manchin’s refusal to back her, Tanden will need the support of at least one Republican to win confirmation in the Senate.
Senator Lisa Murkowski was seen as one of the last remaining moderate Republicans but has not announced how she will vote.
Tanden, who served in the administrations of Democratic former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, runs the liberal Center for American Progress think tank.
She has vowed to work with Republicans if confirmed.
Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt, Susan Cornwell and Andrea Shalal; Editing by Heather Timmons, Alistair Bell and Lincoln Feast.
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IDS Scheer expands ARIS platform to support BPMN 2.0
- ARIS Platform is one of the first software products on the market to support Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 from the Object Management Group (OMG).
- Free software ARIS Express provides BPMN 2.0 support for beginners.
IDS Scheer, the top international provider of business process management (BPM) solutions, continues to promote open standards by supporting the BPMN 2.0 modeling language for process models, and highlights its leading position and methodology.
With the release of its Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) 2.0 Beta version, the Object Management Group (OMG)a computer industry consortium that works to develop standards for nonproprietary crossplatform objectoriented programminghas taken the next step toward the future of modeling notation. Users can describe business processes and workflows in different BPMN models with the help of semantic elements. New features include a standardized export format and mapping to other XMLbased software products. Executing BPMN process models in workflow and process engines is yet another improvement. For the first time, special models for collaborative processes support representing crossfunctional and departmental processes within a company.
IDS Scheer has supported BPMN in its ARIS product line since the notation's initial release and is updating its products to the newest BPMN 2.0 specifications. This places all the leading notations for describing business processes and workflows such as eventdriven process chains (EPC), value chains, BPMN and UML at the ARIS user's fingertips. Business and technical processes modeled in ARIS can be seamlessly transferred and implemented in execution platforms such as Software AG's webMethods BPMS.
ARIS Express for beginners, available free of charge at http://www.ariscommunity.com/..., has also been expanded to include BPMN and contains models and objects to describe processes using this method. All content generated there can be used and edited later with professional ARIS platform products. The ARIS Community offers a series of free BPMN sample models and a forum moderated by BPMN experts.
Executive Board member Dr. Wolfram Jost (responsible for products and development) states:
"By supporting the latest BPM notation, IDS Scheer is demonstrating its defined approach to market leadership as a key player in the BPM market. For our customers, this offers investment security for the future and the certainty that IDS Scheer and ARIS will remain their reliable partners. We are further ensuring that processes defined by different departments are also implemented on the IT side, which in turn helps companies improve their performance and flexibility."
About IDS Scheer
IDS Scheer is part of the Software AG Group and a leading provider of Business Process Management (BPM) software, solutions and services for corporations and public organizations worldwide. With the ARIS Platform for Process Excellence, the company offers an integrated, comprehensive solution portfolio for the strategy, design, implementation and controlling of business processes; allowing companies to continuously improve their overall business performance. Utilizing the ARIS Value Engineering (AVE) approach, IDS Scheer consultants bridge the gap between corporate strategy, business processes, IT solutions and process controlling | <urn:uuid:45ca99ad-96c8-41b6-89f7-1ef0e5d5f3e7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.pressebox.de/pressemitteilung/software-ag-en/IDS-Scheer-expands-ARIS-platform-to-support-BPMN-20/boxid/345608 | 2016-10-20T21:23:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717954.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00488-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929524 | 673 |
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
It reminded me of something I was talking with Jason about recently: I get really annoyed when I remember song lyrics incorrectly, especially when my head's version is notably different from the real thing. Worse, rather than correct myself on future listenings, I tend to just reinforce my incorrect lyrics with every subsequent hearing. The best example of this that comes to mind is from Somewhere Only We Know by Keane. There's a line "...sat by the river and it made me complete" that I sing every time as "...sat by the river and admitted defeat." My version is just about the opposite of the correct lyrics, and I know I'm wrong, and I try to sing them correctly, but despite my efforts, I get it wrong constantly, and I'm not really improving. It's frustrating. (I have a playlist of songs for which I want to learn the lyrics and be able to sing along, and that one is on it. It's my driving/Segwaying playlist.)
Thursday, June 25, 2009
I think the man talking to me may have been based on the doctor from Arrested Development. I don't remember what he looked like, but I was thinking about that character the day before. (It's not the same joke, as the doctor in that show always gives factually accurate but misleading information, whereas this was simply wrong.)
As it turns out, even in a dream, hearing that someone you care about is dead only to find out seconds later that they are not is very upsetting.
(Usually I'm just really pissed off.)
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
I got spam from an address I've only ever given to S&K Menswear before. I ordered my coat from them nearly five years ago, and I just started getting spam to that address this month. That is some very stale spam. As it turns out, the company has gone bankrupt. Apparently a good way to make money when you go bankrupt is to sell your customer database.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
I worked at the Burger King in the university student union during my junior year in high school. During that year is when I first started growing facial hair. It came in pretty evenly, but rather blonde and fuzzy compared to what my hair looks like today. One evening, a week or two after it had started coming in, the manager on duty was my favorite one—the one I could have conversations with about technology and games and things relevant to my interests (he helped me decide on my first domain name, in fact). He walked by me, and said roughly the following to me:
Manager: Travis, tonight when you go home, I want you to shave your beard fuzz.
Manager: You just should.
Me: Why's that?
Manager: We're all excited for you. You have your first facial hair. You've proven that you can grow facial hair. Hooray! But it looks terrible, and if you shave it off it will grow back faster and look better. Don't worry, you'll get more. Get your dad to show you how.
I was really embarrassed for a moment, not because he was intending to embarrass or annoy me, or because he told me this around the other employees, but because he was completely right and I hadn't even realized it for myself yet. I was avoiding shaving simply because I wanted people to notice that I was all manly and stuff.
(Historical note: I didn't make facial hair a standard part of my appearance until a couple years ago or less.)
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
It makes me wonder if this business model is intentional, or the pricing just wasn't thought through very well. It's possible that this works so that people who are price-conscious can get a shake for a slightly more reasonable $5.30, but the majority of people won't be willing to go to the effort (or even find out that such a deal is available), so most people will still give them $6.60. Or, maybe 50% off is a really easy thing for their system to do and they don't care or realize that there's a price discrepancy.
Monday, June 1, 2009
I just spent a whole dream being bitched out. In this dream, I had previously sent Scott Baio a short letter informing him that some devoted fans had created an entire website full of crossword puzzles about him and his Arrested Development character Bob Loblaw. He sent me a very lengthy letter in return through his agent, and included an advertisement for the latest stop in the tour for his book "My Real Life Is Boring," which happened to inconveniently be on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. (Incidentally, if this letter is how he writes, he must have had a good editor for his book.) According to his letter, my transgressions for sending this letter included:
- Wasting the time of an important TV star
- Wasting his precious touring time
- Obsessing about him an unhealthy amount (these weren't my crosswords; I was just passing the information)
- Posting very factually inaccurate information about him online
- Failing to understand the distinction between Scott Baio the actor and Bob Loblaw the character
- Failing to focus on other aspects of his career, such as a writer
- Wasting his time in general
There were other complaints, but those are the ones I recall. I was pretty annoyed at the mild irony in him writing me back with factually inaccurate information and failing to understand the distinction between me and the people writing crossword puzzles about him, but for some reason I decided to write back a curt apology and send him back a golf club as a gift. I don't know why I was sending a golf club, or why I thought that tinfoil would be an appropriate wrapping paper for it. Once I had wrapped my letter and the club, I realized I didn't have an address—my original letter was an email. How did he (or his agent) get my address anyway? And then I woke up. | <urn:uuid:8e949549-da92-435b-afcc-1151f13a6e7a> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://blog.travisspomer.com/2009_06_01_archive.html | 2017-03-27T18:26:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189495.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00271-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98714 | 1,255 |
Dr. Tom Burns is the co-founder and partner at Presario Ventures, specializing in new construction apartments. He is also the author of the upcoming book “Why Doctors Don’t Get Rich.”
Tom has accomplished this all the while, running an active orthopaedic surgery practice. Presario Ventures has earned a reputation in Texas for building top quality apartment complexes. They routinely construct hundreds of units each year.
You can connect with Tom and get a copy of his book at http://richdoctor.com.
To learn more Presario Ventures, visit https://www.presarioventures.com. | <urn:uuid:c4c0bd2a-2ee0-40f7-aa04-b28ec519ffaf> | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | http://www.victorjm.com/2020/05/dr-tom-burns/ | 2021-09-23T06:40:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057417.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923044248-20210923074248-00388.warc.gz | en | 0.928916 | 130 |
The Milwaukee Bucks (24-20) continue their four game in five night stretch tonight as they visit the Big Apple and the New York Knicks (28-15). Milwaukee split the first two games of the stretch winning at Detroit Tuesday before falling at home at Chicago.
This is the second of three meetings between the two teams this season. The Knicks won in Milwaukee 102-88 back on November 28th. Bucks Head Coach Jim Boylan knows it will be tough to get the Knicks in Madison Square Garden:
If the playoffs started today, the Bucks would have the 7th seed in the East and would draw the 2nd seeded Knicks. Tonight’s tip-off is 6:30. After tonight’s game, Milwaukee returns home Saturday to take on Orlando. | <urn:uuid:2b98b9a1-f681-4a43-8aee-cbddcdb2ac69> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.wrn.com/2013/02/bucks-in-new-york-friday/ | 2016-05-03T08:43:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860121090.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161521-00043-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946108 | 157 |
Subject: packages help
To: None <email@example.com>
From: Justin Heath <firstname.lastname@example.org>
Date: 11/01/2000 23:08:51
I am installing the package 'antiword'. This package seems to have
dependencies to packages that have more dependencies and so on. Packages
have been building non-stop. Is there a way to see these dependencies
before I start building a package? Can I go back and see what packages
installed to satisfy these dependencies? Is there a way to set the
dependencies to 'no auto' and prompt me to satisfy dependencies?
Also this is on the same subject but off the topic of dependencies. If I
have been building a package and the ftp server is slow as hell, can I
stop the build cleanly and tell it to use a different ftp server? Sorry
for all of the questions. If these are answered in a document somewhere
please point me there also. Thanks. | <urn:uuid:d29c3565-a528-4874-884b-fd77cd5b5b27> | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2000/11/01/0001.html | 2015-10-06T02:20:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443736678190.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001215758-00168-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.858831 | 216 |
TORREVIEJA GIVEN LAND TO PLAY CRICKET BY THE LOCAL COUNCIL
TORREVIEJA’S NEW CRICKET CLUB
They say that all things come to those who wait and such is the case for Torrevieja Cricket Club who last week were granted an area of land behind the Sport Complex in Torrevieja on which to play cricket.
The area was surveyed by members of Torrevieja Cricket Club, Cricket Espana, Graham Knight the Director of the Foreign Residents Office, Councillor for Sport Daniel Plaza and members of the Town Hall and a plan of action put into place to enable cricket to be played and practiced in the zone provided.
Work is already underway in turning the former sand football pitch into a cricket field, netting being put up to stop stray cricket balls damaging anything and other necessities. To action plan is to develop cricket at all levels in the town, from youth to senior teams.
The first attempt at a get together at the new facility will take place at 10.30 am on Saturday 28 November which anyone is welcome to attend. It is hoped that club officials will be able to organise both a limited overs game and net practice for those who wish to partake.
With Torrevieja’s diverse population base, interest has been expressed by expats and those from former British territories, especially India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Australia, in forming a team. The next step for those interested is to contact the club who shall then provide you with details of meeting times and start to put together the genesis of the first Torrevieja Cricket Club. Those interested should contact: George 610 006 783 or Ben 677 335 707. | <urn:uuid:3bc407f6-b081-4bb8-acbb-402a7dd924ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://cricketspain.es/torreveija-cricket-club-in-the-local-press/ | 2022-09-25T13:53:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334579.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925132046-20220925162046-00770.warc.gz | en | 0.953509 | 357 |
Mary Ellen Crabb Ledford writes:
Henry R. Green, who was born 1853 in Alabama, was living in Winnsboro, Wood County, Texas circa 1900. Who were the parents and siblings of Henry R. Green?
Henry's wife was named Sallie and his sons were Arthur, J., Ennis, Barney/Boney (married D. E. Henson) and Ector. His daughters were Myrtie and Floy (born 1895) and an infant daughter born 1900 in Texas.
A James Jefferson Green was born 1834 in Marengo County, Alabama, and died circa 1904 in Hopkins County Texas. Was Henry R. Green related to this James Jefferson Green?
I would appreciate any information.
Mary Ellen Crabb Ledford, 702 Fouts Drive, Irving, Texas 75061-4126; phone 1-469-223-9030; email: email@example.com.
- The Tristan de Luna Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution will be available on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the Mobile Public Library's Local History and Genealogy Department to assist researchers in their family history quest from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. The library is located at 753 Government St. Call 251-208-7093 for more information.
- Andrew J. Dunar will present "The Space Race in Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s" from noon until 1 p.m. at the monthly ArchiTreats: Food for Thought lecture on Thursday, Oct. 18, at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave. in Montgomery.
Dunar is professor of history and chair of the Department of History at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is co-author of "Power to Explore: A History of Marshall Space Flight Center, 1960-1990," which won the 1999 History Book Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His most recent book is "America in the Fifties," published by the Syracuse University Press.
The public is invited to take a sack lunch and enjoy a bit of Alabama history. For more information, call 334-353-4726.
- As part of the History Is Lunch monthly series, the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Miss., will present a preview of "Present Meets Past: Voices from Mississippi History" from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17.The Old Capitol Museum is at 100 South State St. in Jackson. For more information, call 601-576-6998.
A reminder that the West Florida Genealogical Society will present a Megan Smolenyak seminar on Saturday, Nov. 3. For information regarding the seminar, go to the website rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flwfg and click on 2012 Calendar. For questions, contact Cynthia Dean at 850-432-7072 or email her at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Climbing the Family Tree is designed to help our readers who have come to dead ends in family tree research. If you need help from our readers, write: Climbing the Family Tree, c/o Eugenia Parker, P.O. Box 9136, Mobile, AL 36691; or email email@example.com. Parker is affiliated with the Mobile Genealogical Society, National and Alabama Societies Daughters of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy and the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century. | <urn:uuid:1d76ca8f-e3a2-4433-9bc8-ee55678cfbb0> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://blog.al.com/pr-community-news/2012/10/eugenia_parker_reader_seeks_in_4.html | 2016-05-01T21:41:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860116929.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161516-00171-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938122 | 729 |
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PowerPro is authorized to sell, install, and repair all of the previously mentioned brands in Quogue, NY 11959. | <urn:uuid:32dc1600-518f-4524-9752-63d7ab1e8b7d> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://www.powerproservicecompany.com/quogue-generators-sales-installations-repairs/ | 2020-11-27T13:35:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141193221.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20201127131802-20201127161802-00703.warc.gz | en | 0.909246 | 459 |
USC football: Devon Kennard moves from middle linebacker to defensive end
Devon Kennard is returning to where he began his USC career.
Kennard, a 6-foot-3, 240-pound junior who started at middle linebacker last season, will enter fall camp as a defensive end.
“They wanted to see me off the edge again, so I’m doing that and excited about it,” Kennard said Thursday after the Trojans’ first players-only workout of the summer.
Kennard, from Arizona, came to USC as an end and impressed former Coach Pete Carroll and his staff with his pass-rushing skills and overall athleticism. Kennard was an oft-used reserve for most of his freshman season before starting the ninth game against Arizona State. The next week, he started at strong-side linebacker and held the spot the final four games.
Lane Kiffin and his staff moved Kennard to middle linebacker last season and he started the first eight games. But Chris Galippo, the 2009 starter, regained the spot for the final five.
Kennard sat out spring practice while recuperating from hip surgery and was listed as a linebacker on the end-of-spring depth chart. He said coaches informed him of the switch to end a few weeks ago.
"It’s just another opportunity to show my versatility" he said, adding that he hoped to "do some of the things" that NFL All-Pro Clay Matthews did when he played defensive line for the Trojans in 2008.
Kennard bolsters a line that includes ends Nick Perry and Wes Horton. USC is still awaiting word on the status of Armond Armstead, who has played end and tackle. Armstead had tests on his heart in the offseason and did not participate in spring practice.
Kennard said his hip "felt pretty good" during Thursday’s workout.
"I don’t feel that I’m at full speed yet," he said.
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Known buyers with brand loyalty simply cannot be bought. For this reason, many businesses view their B2B marketing contact list as the lifeblood of their sales machine. A new product/service is launched and the list is contacted.
1) Pay Attention to Quality not Quantity
So, we know that in-house databases work really well, but as marketers we should always be striving for more.
When did you last review your contact list? I mean REALLY look at it. Probably not for a while. Do you know how many names on your list have ‘gone away’ or haven’t responded to the last 3 campaigns you’ve sent out? Email databases degrade by 22.5% every year.
You could be doing yourself a disservice. You see, if you remove the deadwood from your list your costs will decrease and your conversion rates will automatically increase. If you need help figuring out how to go about cleaning and updating your file a List Broker can help you.
They have connections with vast databases - some of which offer data cleansing services. So, if you have a huge database of contacts and you’re not sure where to start your housekeeping, an external data comparison is a good option.
This doesn’t mean a jump in sales numbers necessarily but it will give you more accurate results to test and measure. You can start to analyze who your target audience is and how to go out and connect with them.
2) Finding Your Target Audience
Any level of housekeeping will leave a space in your database. Will your management team lose confidence if your prospecting database suddenly drops from 10,000 contacts to 7,000? You know that the data is no less effective, after all you’ve only removed the unresponsive records, but the perception could be that your database is insufficient.
Now is time to start finding your Target Audience so you can grow your database with the right people that you can nurture into becoming buyers. When you start to show management that with this tight audience you are able to bring in NEW buyers thus increasing sales, they will not be as concerned about the size of the database.
Get a clear picture of the Target Audience - Title, Industry, Geographical Area and Buying Influences, Then figure out what they read, what shows they attend and what marketing channel they look at.
With that information find specific quality b2b sources that you can use to reach new people to fit the profile of your audience.
These sources usually have different channels you can utilize -
- Postal List
- Email List
- Banners - Website, Newsletter
- Social Posts
If you need assistance doing this time intensive research work, you could consider working with a reputable list broker that has been meeting and working with publishers/conference companies for years. They will be able to save you time by only recommending files that are can-spam compliant and have work for other clients.
3) Seize the Position for a Perfect Opportunity
Make sure that on every website page and with every promotion you send out there is a Call-to=Action at the top that gives the recipient a opportunity to sign-up to be on your promotional database The CTA should stipulate the benefits for signing up - Example:
- Sign-up to hear about future auction announcements
- Stay current with new marketing information to improve your next promotion
- Subscribe to receive New tips on selling manufacturing equipment
Place the CTA in the top right hand corner so that it is one of the first things they will see and take action. We have seen clients increase their database by 7% with targeted quality leads in a few months.
Also, make sure you put a CTA on your Facebook company page. (sign-up).
Bonus Tip: You Should Not Always Be Selling
Remember to offer educational content that offers value -
- 10 Tips For Social Media Success
- Target Audience Worksheet
- 30 Greatest Lead Generation Ideas
It is very important to concentrate on building a relationship instead of making a sale. If you gain trust with a recipient they will eventually buy when the time is right.
In house database is extremely valuable. It’s quick, cheap and effective. Make sure your database health is on your priority list and keep your go-to resource running at an optimal level.
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Curcumin is the essential bioactive substance in turmeric, and has calming properties and respectable proof for signs from ongoing agony to sorrow. It has helpless bioavailability alone, requiring exceptional definitions to be effectively ingested.
What is curcumin?
Curcumin is a yellow color discovered fundamentally in turmeric, a blooming plant of the ginger family most popular Curcumin as a zest utilized in curry. It’s a polyphenol with mitigating properties and the capacity to expand the measure of cancer prevention agents that the body produces.
Curcumin and the curcuminoids found in turmeric can be removed to deliver supplements that have a lot higher power than turmeric. Nonetheless, curcumin is assimilated ineffectively during processing, so a horde of various definitions have been made to work on its bioavailability.
What are curcumin’s advantages?
Supplementation of curcumin dependably lessens markers of aggravation and builds the degrees of endogenous cell reinforcements in the body. More examination is require for some spaces of wellbeing, yet what research there is upholds a little to direct improvement in the manifestations of gloom and uneasiness, an torment and capacity in osteoarthritis. A decrease in LDL-cholesterol, blood glucose an circulatory strain is conceivable, yet the examination is not so much reliable but rather more is require.
What are curcumin Benefits incidental effects and disadvantages?
Portions of as much as 8 grams of curcuminoids aren’t related with genuine antagonistic impacts in people. Notwithstanding, long haul contemplates that are more far reaching in their appraisals are require. High dosages of curcumin may deliver queasiness and gastrointestinal protests. Utilization of curcumin with piperine might cause antagonistic medication responses, as piperine extraordinarily increments intenstinal penetrability. The various definitions of curcumin have not all been trie d for security in a similar way.
What is the distinction among turmeric and curcumin?
Turmeric is a well known root/zest, an curcumin is a profoundly powerful substance in turmeric, however barely the one to focus on. Curcumin capsules and the curcuminoids are available in turmeric at around in the rhizomes and tuberous roots, so turmeric is less strong as a wellspring of curcumin than a concentrate and mitigating. Nonetheless, a few investigations propose that turmeric has advantages, an d it’s conceivable that it has benefits that curcumin alone doesn’t, yet more exploration on this is require.
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Our Enhancement Guides give you unprejudiced suggestions — in view of exploration — that you can promptly apply to work on your wellbeing.
You can discover curcumin 95 in our Joint Wellbeing and Temperament and Misery Supplement Guides.
Turmeric is a characteristic calming
Irritation is a fundamental cycle in the body, as it wards off unsafe trespassers and fixes harm brought about by microbes, infections and wounds. In any case, long haul aggravation has been embroiler in most constant conditions like coronary illness and malignancy, so should be control, which is the place where calming intensifies come in. The curcumin in turmeric has demonstrated, solid mitigating properties that block the activity of provocative atoms in the body.
Turmeric is an amazing cell reinforcement
Curcumin has been demonstrate to be a vigorous scrounger of oxygen extremists, which are artificially dynamic atoms that cause harm to the body’s cells. Free extreme harm, alongside irritation, is a critical driver of cardiovascular illness, so curcumin can have an influence in forestalling and overseeing coronary illness. Notwithstanding cell reinforcement impacts, turmeric has likewise been display to bring down cholesterol and fatty substances in individuals in danger of heart disease, turmeric 95 curcuminoids and may further develop circulatory strain.
Curcumin can support mind determined neurotrophic factor
Before researchers had a superior comprehension of neurons, it was accept that they couldn’t isolate and increase after youth. Nonetheless, they presently realize that isn’t the situation.
Neurons are fit for shaping new associations, an d in specific spaces of the min they can duplicate an d expansion in number.
One of the fundamental drivers of this cycle is mind determine neurotrophic factor (BDNF). This is a quality that is associate with making a protein liable for advancing the existence of neurons.
The BDNF protein assumes a part in memory and learning.
And it very well may be foun d in spaces of the mind liable for eating, drinking, and body weight
Joint pain patients react well to curcumin supplements
Joint pain is a typical issue in Western nations. There are a few distinct kinds of joint pain, the majority of which include aggravation in the joints.
Given that curcumin is an intense calming compound, it’s a good idea that it might assist with joint inflammation. Indeed, a few examinations show that there is an affiliation.
In an investigation in individuals with rheumatoid joint pain, curcumin was much more powerful than a mitigating.
Curcumin has benefits against misery
Curcumin has shown some guarantee in treating despondency.
In a controlle preliminary, 60 individuals with despondency were randomize into three gatherings. One gathering took Prozac, another gathering took 1 gram of curcumin, and the third gathering took both Prozac and curcumin 95.
Following a month and a half, curcumin 95 had prompted upgrades like those of Prozac. The gathering that took both Prozac and curcumin fared best.
As per this little examination, curcumin is just about as successful as an energizer.
Misery is additionally connect to decreased degrees of BDNF and a contracting hippocampus.
A cerebrum region with a job in learning an memory. Curcumin 95 can assist with boosting BDNF levels, conceivably switching a portion of these changes.
It further develops skin wellbeing
Utilized topically, turmeric can assist with skin conditions like dermatitis, ulcers, psoriasis, and wounds, says its cancer prevention agent, antimicrobial.
And mitigating properties make it a well known skincare fixing, frequently connected with lighting up or evening.
Turmeric incidental effects
“Flavors like turmeric can be high in weighty metals, particularly.
In case they’re source from a country with high ecological contamination,” says Dr. Paul. Hefty metals are handle by both the kidneys and the liver.
So supplement buyers shoul d connect with their item maker about test results.
In case they’re worries about the items they’re taking.
Turmeric might cause issues for those with gallstones or bile channel issues, says also, high portions of turmeric concentrate.
Can bring about kidney stones for the individuals who are incline to the condition. Converse with your primary care physician on the off chance that you plan on utilizing turmeric every day.
Primary concern: Does Curcumin truly work?
Turmeric can possibly work on a large group of conditions.
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A Florida law that sets an IQ test score of 70 as a minimum in determining who's eligible for the death penalty is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court says. In a reversal of a state court's decision, the justices say Florida's rule ignores norms in the psychiatric profession, reported NPR. The opinion also cites the Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment.
"Florida set a hard-line rule that the death penalty could not be imposed on convicted felons whose IQ is 70 or below," NPR's Washington desk says in its summary of the case.
The plaintiff, Florida death row inmate Freddie Lee Hall, was found to have an IQ score of 71. Arguing before the court in March, his attorney noted that all such tests have a standard risk of error.
The case centered on the question of whether absolute rules such as the one in Florida give enough protection that was established by an earlier case, Atkins v. Virginia. In that case, the justices said it was unconstitutional to execute people who are mentally disabled, but they left open the question of how to determine that condition.
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Minter Ellison has acted for Parmalat S.p.A on its sale of its operations in Thailand to Dutch dairy company Campina International Holdings BV. Parmalat Thailand Ltd employs about 170 people and is focused on pasteurised and long-life milk.
Craig Carracher, managing partner of Minter Ellison’s Bangkok office, led the team, which also included Ruengrit Pooprasert and Kristen Edmonds.
Carracher said they were formally instructed in January to begin work on the sale, but it took only about two months between the opening and closing of the deal, with shares transferred on 8 April.
Minters also acted as agent for Parmalat Australia, who were also shareholders in Parmalat Thailand.
Campina is a cooperative of Dutch, Belgian, and German farmers. When announcing the deal earlier this month, the company said the acquisition of Parmalat’s Thai operations was its first venture in Asia and provided it with an opportunity to quickly build its presence in the rapidly expanding Thai market.
Under the deal, Parmalat S.p.A — a subsidiary of Parmalat Finanziaria S.p.A — sold its 89.79 per cent share in Parmalat Thailand to Campina for a “symbolic consideration” of US$1 ($1.37). The parent company said this represented a capital loss of 4.1 million euros ($6.6 million) for the Parmalat Group. The remaining 10 per cent is in the hands off a local partner.
Campina said dairy consumption in Thailand is low compared to that of Western European countries, but there was strong growth in consumption. The acquisition allowed the company to quickly build a presence in the market and meant it was assured of professional local management that is well acquainted with the local market and culture.
There were also a number of “innovative product concepts” that were geared entirely to the local market, and fitted in well with the Campina brand.
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DIY Stained Glass and Three Common Patterns used
The DIY stained glass is the decorative glass window style that can be used for increasing the beautiful appearance of the window itself. Since the window has the significant role from the whole house design and décor even if it has the small dimension in general, its composition then must be constructed based on that consideration. People must be aware that composing it can be something as important as composing the whole design of the house itself.
Choosing the DIY stained glass must be done based on the consideration about its pattern used. The DIY stained glass window has some pattern that can be noticed as its main point to make some effects from its appearance. People can use the natural pattern for example to make the special characteristic of its appearance through the connection with the nature. That can complete the appearance of the modern house to avoid the boring appearance in general.
Some Types of the DIY Stained Glass
The idea for using the DIY stained glass window must be started by considering the stained glass design while the main point can be noticed from the design itself is the pattern used. To choose the appropriate style of this furniture, it will be wiser and better for people to understand the types of the pattern itself. So, that can be the starting point where people can choose one of them. There are three styles of the patterns for the stained glass today.
The first type of DIY stained glass can be mentioned is the religious type of the pattern. It can be found commonly in the church design. The style of the pattern itself is presented in the form of the saints paintings. The use of this style can increase the religious sense because its artistic appearance is combined with the religion culture especially from the Christian culture. You must think more and more to choose this style.
The next type of the DIY stained glass can be noticed is the type of natural pattern. This type can take the form of the animal or the plants as the object of paintings. Its use can be combined with the modern house design and décor perfectly. It can give the sense of the colossal touch into the design. Then the last style of the pattern is the pattern of the decorative style. The decorative style is interesting because of its artistic appearance in general. | <urn:uuid:3cb30bbb-62b4-4dd5-9267-878b55207776> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://www.oaksenham.com/he-diy-stained-glass-and-three-common-patterns-used/ | 2018-11-14T05:28:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039741628.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20181114041344-20181114062902-00021.warc.gz | en | 0.952584 | 450 |
22 February 2021
Visiongain has published a new report on Pharmaceutical Excipients Market Report 2021-2031: Forecasts By Product (Organic Chemicals, Inorganic Chemicals, and Other Chemicals), By Functionality (Fillers & Diluents, Suspending & Viscosity Agents, Coating Agents, Binders, Flavoring Agents & Sweeteners, Disintegrants, Colorants, Lubricants & Glidants, Preservatives, Emulsifying Agents, and Other Functionalities), By Type of Formulation (Oral Formulations, Topical Formulations, Parenteral Formulations, and Other Formulations), By Patient Demographics (Adults, Geriatric, Pediatric, By End User (Hospitals, Homecare, Specialty Clinics, and Others), By Distribution Channel (Hospital Pharmacies, Retail Pharmacies, Online Pharmacies) PLUS Profiles of Leading Manufacturing Companies and Regional and Leading National Market Analysis. PLUS COVID-19 Recovery Scenarios.
Global Pharmaceutical Excipients market was valued at US$ xx Million in 2020 and is projected to reach at a market value of US$ xx Million by 2031. North America dominated the global Pharmaceutical Excipients market and is projected to witness CAGR of XX% during the first half of the forecast period i.e. 2021 to 2031.
COVID-19 Impact on Pharmaceutical Excipients Market
COVID-19 impact through different recovery models such as V-shaped, U-shaped, W-shaped, and L-shaped; has been taken into consideration while estimating and forecasting the Pharmaceutical Excipients market. Different recovery scenarios are also included in the report for all the segments and regions/nation. The recovery scenarios based on which market has been forecasted and analysed herein the report are mentioned below:
Rapid Surge in the Generics demand
There is a very rapid increase in demand for generic drugs around the world. Generics drugs are medications manufactured as same as pre-existing branded or patented drugs in safety, dosage form, strength, quality, route of administration, intended use and performance characteristics; Which makes generic drugs work as same as its brand-name version. Generic drugs are very cost effective as compared to their branded version which makes it more preferable. Recently, the market has reported a sudden rise in the demand of generic drugs along with increasing regulatory approvals for it. Various manufacturers have increased their research and development activities for generic drugs and on the other hand many manufacturers have launched their product portfolios in generic drugs which have helped to fulfil demand and to work as a driver for the market. Rapid surge in the generics drug is increasing demand of pharmaceutical excipients products due to this reason the factor is working as a driver for the market.
Increasing Geriatric Population around the world
Geriatric population is increasing very fast around the world from the last few decades. All regions are facing a huge increase in the number of geriatric populations. For instance: According to the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Population Division geriatric population (persons aged 65 or over) was 702.9 million in 2019. Geriatric populations are at high risk of developing chronic diseases due to decreased immune systems. Rapid increase in the number of the geriatric population around the globe is also increasing demand for pharmaceutical excipients for development of drugs around the world. Due to the increasing geriatric population around the world is working as a driver for the pharmaceutical excipients market.
Increasing therapeutic Advancements in Pharmaceutical Excipients
Increasing demand of generic drugs and orphan drugs has led various leading manufactures to increase their research and development activities for pharmaceutical excipients. Research and development activities for new advanced pharmaceutical excipients in the order to improve the manufacturing process, cost of the product and availability of the product. New research and development activities for therapeutic advancements in pharmaceutical excipients are expected to increase demand of pharmaceutical excipients in the forecasted period.
Top companies (Dupont De Nemours, Inc., Roquette Frères, Ashland Global Holdings Inc., and Evonik Industries AG) constitute more than XX% share of the global Pharmaceutical Excipients market. Other companies profiled in the report include: BASF SE, Kerry Group PLC, Croda International, Associated British Foods PLC, Archer Daniels Midland Company, Lubrizol Corporation, Innophos Holdings Inc., WACKER Chemie AG, Air Liquide S.A., Colorcon Inc., DMV-Fonterra Excipients GmbH & Co. Kg Others are some of the key developments are listed below:
● In 2020, Evonik has launched RESOMER, which is a precise platform for custom functional polymeric excipients to facilitate pharmaceutical manufacturers to control parenteral drug products profile. The launch of the new product will help the company to increase revenue generation from a market focused product portfolio.
● In 2018, Pfanstiehl launched L-Arginine, which is a new high-purity, low-endotoxin, and low-metal. The new product is specifically developed to meet US Pharmacopoeia (USP), European Pharmacopoeia (EP), Chinese Pharmacopoeia (ChP) standards and Japan Pharmacopoeia (JP). The launch will help companies to increase their market share in the pharmaceutical excipients market.
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Global liposomal drug delivery devices market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 10.69% by 2032.
21 June 2022
The global nanotechnology in drug delivery market was valued at US$53.0 billion in 2021 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 18.7% during the forecast period 2022-2032.
20 June 2022
The global respiratory drug delivery technologies market was valued at US$59.51 billion in 2022 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 7.31% during the forecast period 2022-2032.
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Adults living on a financial knife edge
Independent research commissioned by Callcredit Information Group has revealed that this age group, typically adults with a young family to support, appear to be a hard hit group by the continuing recession, with one in four (25%) saying that a drop of just £300 in monthly income would cause them to default on their mortgage payment.
Commissioned by Callcredit, the YouGov research also shows that more than one in eight (13%) adults in this age bracket has deliberately over-inflated their income when applying for credit in order to help them secure a higher credit limit, compared to less than one in ten (9%) of the overall population. Ten per cent of those aged 35 – 44 have also taken out credit in the past, knowing that they might not be able to meet the repayments.
The research also showed a noticeable reduction in the proportion of people paying off their credit card bills in full each month with one in twenty (5%) people who previously paid their bills in full now paying just the minimum or a fixed amount. This rises to one in fourteen (7%) people aged 35 – 44 years.
“These statistics are extremely alarming,” said Graham Lund, managing director, Callcredit Information Group. “A significant proportion of people aged 35 – 44, many of who may have families to support, are living on a financial precipice, where just one negative event, such as a reduction in paid overtime or an unexpected expense could have disastrous financial consequences.
“What is of real concern is that some people are deliberately over-inflating their income when applying for credit in order to increase their credit limit. Credit limits, which are determined by individual lenders, are assessed on how much an applicant can realistically afford. If the borrower is inflating their income significantly and then maxes out their high credit limit, they are running a serious risk of getting into financial difficulties and being unable to repay the debt.” | <urn:uuid:4640fafc-2d04-4fc8-bf6d-0fe0fd7543d6> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | https://www.mortgageintroducer.com/adults-living-on-a-financial-knife-edge/ | 2019-12-11T18:29:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540531974.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20191211160056-20191211184056-00018.warc.gz | en | 0.97721 | 403 |
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes
Release Date and Country: 1965, United Kingdom
Director: Ken Annakin
Movie or TV Series Plot: In 1910, Lord Rawnsley, owner of the most important new paper in England, organises a unique competition: an air race from London to Paris. The impulse comes from of his daughter, Patricia, and her fi... | <urn:uuid:7da93473-3403-4668-bd69-f6f951bf0189> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.movieloci.com/person/view?id=19716-Tony-Hanc | 2020-07-05T04:18:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655886865.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20200705023910-20200705053910-00580.warc.gz | en | 0.868585 | 102 |
by Chris Durst Oct. 29, 2016
- Employee role, not independent contractor
- Customer Service, Tech Support or Sales positions
- Paid training
- $9.71 – $11/hour depending on which position
- Hiring in many, but not all, states. Please check this page to see if they are hiring in your state.
- Landline required, but it does not need to be a second line (so your hard-wired home phone is fine)
- After you have been hired, you must submit to and pay for a background check. The cost is $31.95 and is not reimbursable.
Alorica employ thousands of home-based agents located across the country and they are growing in leaps in bounds. They are always looking for talented new work from home customer service agents.
Alorica At Home Agents are responsible for receiving and processing various incoming phone calls for numerous clients in accordance with policies, procedures, quality standards, and federal laws and regulations. Additional responsibilities pertaining to call and sales function are (but are not limited to):
- Receive and process incoming phone calls for clients, which includes obtaining, entering, and verifying customer information (e.g. names, addresses, credit card numbers, etc.), answering questions, resolving issues, providing customer service, adhering to scripts, and attempting to make up-sells.
- Ensure that calls are processed in strict adherence to established policies, procedures, and quality standards, as well as any federal laws and regulations.
- Successfully complete initial on-the-job training, as well as any new product or on-going training.
- Process incoming calls manually in the event of computer system failure; and ensure quality or customer issues are escalated using established procedure and brought to resolution (e.g., chat, email, message boards, phone, etc.).
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UVLT Nature Walk at Frost Forest
Saturday, May 18, 1:00-3:30pm
Frost Forest, off of Route 113 in
UVLT Stewardship Coordinator Jason Berard and Certified Ecoforester
Ehrhard Frost for a walk around Ehrhard’s conserved land in Thetford,
is a FREE workshop open to the public - while registration is not
required, it is much appreciated. Click here for more information.
Paddle the Border
Sunday May 19, 9:00am – 5:00pm
celebrate the river that unites the communities of the Upper Valley
at the 10th annual spring Paddle the Border!
is looking for a few volunteers to assist with put ins at the
Woodsville fields (we'll paddle afterwards, too!). We'll also be
staffingHarkdale campsite as a rest stop along the way.
Just follow the music, which will be provided by UVLT's VP of
Stewardship Pete Helm and friends!
UVLT Stewardship Coordinator Jason
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Developers and other technical users who are interested in Google's Android smart phone but don't want to be locked into the lackluster T-Mobile wireless service now have another option: Google is selling unlocked versions of the phone for $399. The device is described as the Android Dev Phone 1 and is aimed at programmers who want to gain experience with the new platform.
"The Android Dev Phone 1 is carrier independent, and available for purchase by any developer registered with Android Market," a Google statement reads. The software on the device includes Web browsing, a customizable home screen, one-touch Google search, access to the Android Market, full-featured Google applications (including Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, and Google Talk), SMS and MMS functionality, and a media player.
The Android Dev Phone 1 can use any cell phone SIM card, so it will work on virtually any cell phone network, and it appears to be mostly identical to the T-Mobile G1. It's available to users in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, India, Canada, France, Taiwan, Spain, Australia, Singapore, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Poland and Hungary.
To purchase the phone, you have to join the Android developer program, which adds an additional $25 fee. You can then purchase the device via Google's online Android Market. Only one phone is available per user.
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As some of you will be aware the original UK mono mix is previously unissued on CD outside of Japan, where it was included on a pricey box set and as a standalone CD with bonus tracks back in 2008. The mastering used in Japan was by Jon Astley, from Shel Talmy’s original mono tapes.
Universal Music have confirmed that this is NOT Jon Astley’s remaster and so will be different to what appeared on those Japanese releases. This new release appears to be a new remaster, with the tapes from Universal’s tape library ‘baked’ recently for the playback and mastering process. We can exclusively reveal that the image above is one of the actual tapes used for this new mono CD, although it is not yet clear who did the new remastering.
From the image we can see that this tape was created 32 years ago (almost to the day!) and is a copy, rather than the very original master tape.
The Who / My Generation mono CD is out on 19 November 2012 and is available to pre-order (in the UK) for only £5.00.
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Seventy eight-years-young referee Henrietta Apodaca still plans to get back on the pitch
Henrietta Apodaca has been involved in soccer most of her adult life. She discovered the sport watching her nieces compete in Colorado in 1969 and quickly became an addict.
Nearly four decades later, Apodaca has a laundry list of accomplishments culminating with her reception of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado Soccer Association and her induction into the Colorado Soccer Hall of Fame for her work as a board member of the Cherry Creek Lightning, coach and – perhaps most impressively – as a referee.
“I saw the linesman standing on the side of the field the entire game and thought, ‘I can do that,’” Apodaca said regarding her decision to become a referee.
The choice would have been a remarkable for a 30-year-old woman today, but Apodaca’s decision came at the age of 60.
“For me it’s really interesting that someone took up refereeing later in life,” said Apodaca’s niece Angela Davidson herself a former soccer player at the University of Northern Colorado. “She didn’t just referee young kids. She was pulling centers as well as working the sidelines for high school games and in the men’s Mexican soccer league.”
Cancer and forced absence
Apodaca patrolled the sidelines and ran the pitch as a center referee for 17 years, until an unexpected diagnosis truncated her career.
“For the longest time she thought it was kidney stones,” Davidson said. “The pain became pretty intense and that’s when she finally went to see a doctor and they found a mass on her liver.”
This wasn’t Apodaca’s first battle with cancer as she had overcome a breast cancer diagnosis earlier in life as well, Davidson added.
“Up until I got my illness I was able to run the length of the football field,” said Apodaca, who was also the oldest female referee in Colorado prior to her diagnosis.
At 78 years of age now, Apodaca carries the same slight built she had during her 17 years on the soccer field and has been placed under hospice care; according to Davidson, however, Apodaca does not let on that she is ill.
“You wouldn’t know it,” Davidson said.
Much of that resiliency Apodaca accredits to her faith.
“It didn’t bother me in the least bit,” Apodaca said of learning that her cancer had spread to her liver. “I’ve had so many accomplishments in my life and I’ve done so much and I’m 78, so basically it really did not bother me at all and I guess it has to do with my faith.”
Apodaca grew up catholic and is still involved with her church community, including her support at the St. Rafka Maronite Church in Denver.
“I did everything there,” Apodaca said. “I took care of the church, I took care of the house. I did everything, but mass.”
One of Apodaca’s more gratifying experiences came in 2014 when she received her Hall of Fame induction.
“It was a big surprise to me when I was nominated and when I was inducted into the hall,” she said. “I had just come out of the hospital, so it lifted my spirits up like you wouldn’t believe.”
Remembering the past, planning for the future
As far as her experiences on the pitch Apodaca added that there are several that stand out for her, but most of the gratification comes from knowing she did a job well done.
“For my 75th birthday I was reffing in a three-day tournament, and some of the coaches have gotten to know me over the years, so after my last game the coach from Fort Collins came up to me and said, ‘the girls would like to take their picture with you,’” Apodaca said. “And then both teams came up to me and sang happy birthday to me.”
Though under hospice care, Apodaca said she is not ready to give up on being a referee just yet.
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By CRAIG MURPHY
Of the Keizertimes
Just a bit later than expected, the final phase of the Chemawa Road North construction project should be restarted next week.
Completion of the project, which was originally slated to be done in 2012, could happen in July, according to an Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) official.
ODOT is in charge of the project, which has an estimated price tag of $3.5 million.
Both project manager Shane Ottosen with ODOT and Keizer Public Works Director Bill Lawyer said the resumption of the project depends upon the movement of utilities. Delays in that process last year led to only part of the project being done before work was shut down for the winter.
If the utilities get moved this week as planned, Ottosen and Lawyer expect work to pick up again next Monday, April 7.
“It’s tentative, but it could,” Ottosen said of work starting that day. “We’re still waiting on utility issues. There’s some work they want to get done.”
Lawyer said on Monday afternoon Century Link was expected to be done with their relocating that day, with others to be done later in the week.
“The relocates are due to be completed Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning we will be looking them over to see if there are any surprises,” Lawyer said.
Utilities were supposed to be relocated by June 1 last year, but that timeline was missed by a couple of months, in turn pushing back everything else.
“It was a surprise,” Ottosen said. “It’s been a tough one. This long for such a small overall project, that’s usually not the norm. But we’re trying to work with it. Then we can get after it.”
Last year’s work went from the Keizer Rapids Park area east to the four-way stop sign at Windsor Island Road and included new curbs, drainage and sidewalks along that stretch. Ottosen said this year’s work on Chemawa would be split into two parts.
“Hopefully we can start early next week,” Ottosen said. “We’ll try to get it completed in the next three months. We’ll do curbs, drainage and sidewalks, then top it off with a nice lip of asphalt. We’ll go from Windsor Island first. We’ll do the south side (of Chemawa), then pick up the north side. We want to get | <urn:uuid:af9f0843-10a7-4687-8791-2a44dcc8df26> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.keizertimes.com/2014/04/04/chemawa-project-restarting/ | 2017-10-19T23:53:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823482.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019231858-20171020011858-00437.warc.gz | en | 0.970494 | 547 |
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Chrysiptera springeri is an amazing species of damselfish which we’ve long admired. Over the last couple of years we’ve seen at least two color forms of damselfish being offered up as C. springeri: one all blue form with a clear tail and some funky markings on the head and a nearly black form with lots of incredible blue markings including blue scribbles on the flank, a blue outline to the body and fins and starry blue spots on the head. We’ve long had our suspicion about the true identity of either fish, as we’ve seen both listed as C. springeri in books by Rudie Kuiter and Scott Michael.
About two years ago we helped to transplant four specimens of both the blue form and black form of C. springeri into a 1200 gallon reef aquarium. The quattro of the blue and black color morphs initially segregated themselves into different three foot coral bommies but they have sinced learned to tolerate each other over their large six foot territory. This past weekend we took a good long at this nearly mature populations of both forms and it’s pretty clear these are different fish. Not only have the color differences remained very pronounced, all of the black and blue C. springeri have grown a good centimeter larger, and they are much deeper bodied than their blue counterparts.
The startling differences between the blue and black damselfish rekindled our suspicions about which one was the real C. springeri so we tried contacting all the major fish heads we know. After a few back and forth question and answering we received confirmation from Jerry Allen via Rudie Kuiter who replied “The dark Chrysiptera is an undescribed species from the Philippines that is closely related to C. springeri“. He went on to add that he and some colleagues are in the process of describing the black and blue Chrysiptera species. So there you have it, the blue fish is the true C. springeri and the other morph is in the process of getting a name of it’s own. Huge thanks to Rudie Kuiter, Gerry Allen and Hiroyuki Tanaka for helping to unravel this little damselfish mystery. Lots more pics after the break. | <urn:uuid:49ffda13-f4a6-4b29-8dec-64b282273cb2> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | https://reefbuilders.com/2010/08/19/chrysiptera-springer/ | 2018-10-15T17:57:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583509336.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20181015163653-20181015185153-00212.warc.gz | en | 0.951084 | 463 |
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