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Oh dear. The rather obscure title of this blog, is causing me to have visits from poor folk searching for bara brith.
I bought some in a new tea shop in Borough Market for my Dad and it was very good but quite stunningly expensive. I've also had it sent from a shop in Llanrwst - very nice and still fresh on arrival. Failing that, Delia Smith's latest how to cook series book 1 has a recipe for tea bread which involves soaking the fruit over night in sweet tea and my Dad 'thoroughly enjoyed' it, which is a very firm recommendation.
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Tonight’s episode of Counting On, “Jana’s Secret Backyard,” Jana was stunned with a greenhouse from her household. Different highlights embody: all the women making lactation cookies and pure child cleaning soap, Jana, Abbie, and John go to Tennessee for a bit getaway and conceal Jana away to allow them to shock her in a while with the greenhouse. Jana and John take a woodworking class, and Jana is completely satisfied to be spending extra time along with her twin. At residence, there’s drama over the greenhouse, as a result of issues hold going awry.
Aside from Jana’s greenhouse, there are extra urgent issues. Within the preview for the subsequent episode, we discover out that 18-year-old Justin appears to be courting somebody (form of), and there is plenty of hypothesis about who. There have been rumors about Justin courting a lady since January, in accordance with FlickPrime. Sadly, there hasn’t been plenty of details about Justin’s alleged courting, however Reddit has been popping off about it.
Who’s Justin Dugger courting?
“..Justin with a lady we do not know but in accordance with the preview on the finish of Jana’s Secret Backyard!” one redditor posted 10 hours in the past. However all of the preview reveals Justin saying is, “I truly do have some information for the household…” as somebody cries out “What!” There is no point out of a lady. Nevertheless, one other redditor say they’ve details about the woman Justin is allegedly courting. The redditor says they’re conscious of the woman’s title, however they don’t seem to be certain if she’s over 18, and that she’s appeared in Counting On earlier than (together with the present season).
“Mod workforce (and at this level, some customers) are conscious of the complete title of the woman in query, however we aren’t certain if she is over 18. Because of this I’m eradicating feedback that state her full title. She has appeared (unnamed) on Counting On on a number of events, together with this season, and has been proven in pictures right here. I’ve referred to her as ‘C’ prior to now, so I am superb wit others doing so too. She is the woman featured within the photograph with Justin that somebody posted some time in the past.”
Others suppose Justin’s “courtship” is only a solution to pull in viewers. One redditor (mgomes12) wrote, “Conspiracy concept: since they’ll’t have an enormous marriage ceremony proper now, they organized one of many youthful ones to courtroom to allow them to have a protracted courtship/engagement and have a marriage when corona restrictions ease up. Gotta get these views. No manner they may have a 1200+ visitor occasion within the subsequent few months.”
One other redditor believes that Justin goes to announce that he is a dad. “he’s in all probability going to be a teen dad :(,” cxx510 wrote. One other redditor concurred, writing, “Virtually 100% certainty of that, except they name off the courtship or his wife-to-be has some hassle conceiving. They’ve clearly already been in a relationship for awhile now, in order that they’ll be married with the subsequent few months. And he would not even flip 18 till November. Madness.”
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j.maxuel at gmail.com
Sat Apr 29 23:57:35 ADT 2017
Excellent! See you Monday.
"One should strive to achieve, not sit in bitter regret."
- Ronan Harris / Mark Jackson
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 10:23 PM, Richard Bonner <ak621 at chebucto.ns.ca>
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2017, Joel Maxuel wrote:
> I was cleaning up my basement of old parts and boxes today, and have come
>> across a few pieces I have no use for.
> *** Unless someone has a burning need for any of the items, I will take
> all. I expect to be at Monday's meeting and will drive you back home, so
> you can leave them there and I will pick them up at that point.
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Made in the USA
So much of the world you know was made possible by Intel founder Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated circuit.
Robert Noyce: "Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention." We have a lot of necessity in our society today.
Michael Malone: What we're going through now is a fundamental cultural shift. We're handing over more and more responsibilities for life, and our society, and civilization to our machines.
Transportation, communications, health, the infrastructure of our world. We're talking about A.I. now where the robots are thinking for themselves even to the brink of consciousness.
Genevieve Bell: I always want to know where's the human going to be in the story. What's it going to be like to be human in a world where the machines now act without asking us?
Michael Malone: We've made this incredible technological jump in one human lifetime. All because of Bob Noyce and the integrated circuit.
Narrator: Father of Silicon Valley is a term I hear used to describe Bob. How do you feel when you hear that term?
Robert Noyce: A little humble, little proud, what can I say?
Narrator: A new day has dawned. The integrated circuit gives us capabilities that couldn't have been imagined just a decade ago. One question which we might ask is, "Why do people care about integrated circuits?"
Michael Malone: The integrated circuit is the most important invention in Silicon Valley history.
To understand the importance integrated circuit, we need to back up and look at the vacuum tube.
Genevieve Bell: The very first computer at scale ran on valves.
narrator: The heart of all these electronic systems had been in the vacuum tube.
Valves were big and fragile.
Michael Malone: The breakthrough? The transistor. The transistor made it much more sturdy and durable.
Narrator: These tiny transistors are destined to play a big part in our electronic age.
Michael Malone: The year is 1959. Bob Noyce is running a company called Fairchild Semiconductor.
Initially Fairchild was going to be a transistor company. But Bob Noyce, he had an idea for taking that solid state transistor and making it flat.
You take a sheet of silicon and then you print the circuitry on top of it, metal. It turns out you can take that and supercharge it. Reproducing it by the dozens and by the hundreds. And now we do billions.
Narrator: Integrated circuits now perform critical tasks in almost all areas of health care.
It is in your wrist watch.
Modern transportation systems.
Your pocket calculator.
Communication that is instantaneous and global.
Automatic street lights and space shuttles. It is everywhere.
This tiny piece of silicon is revolutionizing the way we live.
Michael Malone: Fairchild gets rich making the integrated circuit.
But it was just volatile.
The parent company Fairchild back east didn't really support it. They were seen as a cash cow, and took the money out of it. So everybody quit. Noyce leaves with Gordon Moore and Andy Grove to found Intel.
Within a decade. They were being called the most important company in the world.
To understand Robert Noyce and why he was such an important historic figure, you first need to understand the boy. Growing up in Grinnell, Iowa.
Son of an itinerant preacher. This was a world of tight community.
Robert Noyce: I grew up in small town America, which had to be self-sufficient. If something was broke you fixed it yourself.
Michael Malone: And he brought that to Intel.
Genevieve Bell: When they started to build Intel, in addition to making integrated circuit technology, they also wanted to make a company that was like nothing that had ever existed. It was everything from saying, "There won't be any corner offices. Everyone will have the same space."
Michael Malone: The senior executives were just in other cubicles. I remember going into Noyce's office — indistinguishable from anybody else's. But on the wall he had the National Medal of Science.
Narrator: United States' highest civilian award.
Genevieve Bell: He also believes that everyone should have a piece of the company.
Michael Malone: The idea of giving out stock options to employees, even like secretaries.
Genevieve Bell: That was, circa 1968, pretty radical.
Michael Malone: That just wasn't done on the east coast.
The revolution of Silicon Valley is as much cultural as it is technological.
Robert Noyce: You know in some senses we didn't see what the impact of the integrated circuit would be when that first came out. Its effect has been revolutionary.
Michael Malone: 1965. Gordon Moore is the chief scientist at Fairchild. He's asked to write an article for an electronics magazine.
He sits down with a sheet of graph paper. It's only like the fourth or fifth generation of memory chips. And he plots out those for generations in terms of capacity. And he realizes they're already going off the top of the page.
So it gets some logarithmic paper and he plots it again. And he gets a straight line.
Gordon Moore: He made a prediction for 10 years, a thousand-fold increase in complexity. That was a wild extrapolation of very little data.
One of my colleagues dubbed this Moore's Law.
Michael Malone: It basically said either the size is going to get smaller, the capacity is going to get greater, or the price is going to get cheaper by a factor of two every two years.
Genevieve Bell: I always thought that Moore's Law is a promise, right? The promises that every generation will be better than the one that came before.
Michael Malone: By a factor of two.
Genevieve Bell: And every one will offer more possibility and more potential.
Michael Malone: By a factor of two.
Genevieve Bell: And that that cadence will continue.
Michael Malone: There is no precedent in the history of mankind for anything like this.
By a factor of two.
So he writes an article, he says, you know what this is going at this pace, by the 1980s we're going to have that sum, by 2000 we're going to have this… and it all comes true.
Gordon Moore: "That was far more accurate than I could have anticipated."
Michael Malone: The amazing thing is, Moore's Law has held up now for 50 plus years. And there's no indication that it's really going to end. We talk about every few years about Moore's Law slowing down, and has slowed down a little bit.
But human innovation keeps coming up with replacement technology that maintains Moore's Law, which is why now we're talking about quantum technology.
Instead of the ones and zeros of traditional computing, in quantum computing you still have ones and zeros, but you also have superposed states, where it can be both 1 and 0 at the same time.
Quantum computers may be a million times even a billion times faster than today's fastest supercomputers.
So there's always doubt that Moore's Law will keep going. But so far they've managed to punch through every time they hit a wall. They've never stopped advancing the technology, making it smaller and smaller.
Robert Noyce: As we look on into the future, we're going to find that we can in effect put ourselves wherever we want to be without moving. We can create the environment that we want around us.
Michael Malone: The great contribution of Moore's Law in the big picture is that it brings intelligence to everything. The age of statistics is over. We don't need to sample anymore. We can just measure everything. We can measure every bird in the sky, every fish that goes by the coast of Australia. We can do all of those things because of Moore's Law has brought us to the point that intelligence can be embedded in anything.
How do I feel about those changes? A combination of exhilaration and terror. Exhilaration because, boy we've got a lot of cool toys now… medical technology we're expanding lifespans we're curing diseases that were traditionally fatal. Those are wonderful things.
By the same token, smart machines robots 24/7 365 surveillance of our lives? Those are deeply worrying things about what it means to be a human being. But I have tremendous faith in human nature.
We humans have survived an awful lot for a couple of billion years. I think the lesson that Bob Noyce is that no matter how advanced the technology gets, you have to stay human. It's very easy to become stratified and lose that sense of "we're all in this together."
Narrator: To get a sneak preview of things to come we spoke with a pioneer of the electronics industry Dr. Robert Noyce played a pivotal role in developing the integrated circuit, the solid state memory, and the microprocessor.
Robert Noyce: Where Do We Go From Here? Where is the limit? Well I don't see any stopping. And I think the time is here for inventing new approaches. New solutions to these various problems.
For all of those who will be the achievers of the future. Thanks very much.
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- Ever wondered how Moore's Law came about, and who it's named after? Gordon Moore, Intel's other founder and the law's namesake, explains the remarkable growth and improvements to quality of life made possible by the integrated circuit.
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Considered the first Italian songwriter to reach international success. He reflects on the light-hearted and lush historical period of the post-war resurgence. This song has been reinterpreted by prolific artists such as David Bowie, Frank Zappa, Barry White, and Ray Charles.
Gino Paoli — “Il chielo in una stanza” — 1960
Considered the master of the Italian artistic sensibility. He wrote “Il cielo in una stanza,” recorded by Italian singer Mina, launching her career as one of the most popular and successful artists in Italy.
Fabrizio De André — “La guerra di piero” — 1964
Influenced by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Georges Brassens, and the medieval tradition, De André is ironic, authentic, and a unique spokesperson of a crowd of misfits and lost souls.
Luigi Tenco — “Ognuno è libero” — 1966
Trailblazer for a generation of political songwriters and forerunner of a musical genre: deeply melancholic, introspective, and neo-realistic.
Mina — “Se telefonando” — 1966
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Francesco Guccini — “Il sociale e l’antisociale” — 1967
An extremely prolific political songwriter par excellence, Guccini is the composer of genuine and scathing lyrics that have been recognized as poetry.
Giorgio Gaber — “Com’è bella la città” — 1970
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Mia Martini — “Minuetto” — 1973
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Gabriella Ferri — “Remedios” — 1974
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Harisree Residency, Kollam-Quilon The residency is sprawled over cityscape of Kollam and features easy access to some of the famous tourist places like Thirumullavaram Beach 18 km (approx.), Thangassery and its Beach 18 km (approx.), Mahatma Gandhi Beach and Park 16 km (approx.), Ashtamudi Lake 29 km (approx.), Karunagappally 37 km (approx.), Kulathupuzha 55 km (approx.), Amritapuri 45 km (approx.), Neendakara Port, 16 km (approx.), Punalur 35 km (approx.), Rameshwara Temple 20 km (approx.) and Sasthamcotta Lake 17 km (approx.).The variety of in-house services offered by this hotel includes 24 hour reception, travel desk assistance, health club, dining facilities, sports facilities, banquet hall and board room. The hotel includes two restaurants namely, Multi Cuisine Restaurant and Blatina - Thai Restaurant. While the Multi Cuisine Restaurant is known for its mouth-watering dishes, the Thai Restaurant, Blatina offers a range of culinary delights to satiate the appetite of guests. The health club consists of the latest equipments which make the vacation more fun for all the fitness freaks.Harisree Residency, Kollam is a beautifully constructed property that welcomes its guests with a warm hospitality. With an aim to please all kinds of tourists, it offers impeccable services and wraps the guests stay with comfort. In addition, the hotel features excellent infrastructure and has modern interiors to make this lodging house worth staying for a vacation.
All the hotels rooms are equipped with facilities like, tea/coffee maker, LCD color television, direct dial telephone, channel music; attached washroom with shower and twenty four hours room service .It offers Double Bedded, Triple bedded & four bedded rooms to match each and every type of clientage. All rooms are tastefully decorated to be able to make your memories here. | <urn:uuid:7d882387-8315-4faa-bce1-ce4ce7624c23> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://travelvacanza.com/hotel-details.php?hid=MTQyMjg= | 2017-05-25T08:58:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608058.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170525083009-20170525103009-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.924685 | 426 |
Online Homeschool Programs: Time for Learning
by april smith
Online Homeschool Programs Review
We are new to homeschooling with three children. I researched online homeschool programs since May and chose Time for Learning for my two youngest children, ages 9 and 14.
My 9 year old now loves school. The lessons are easy for her to understand and complete. Her first day her scores on the quizzes were 80 and 90.There is a quiz for every completed lesson.
There are lesson planners, online groups for parents and a game playground for students that the parents can control how much time is spent there. Time for Learning also has worksheets you can print out to go along with the lessons.
My older son is in the upper level so his lessons aren't animation geared, but look more like a textbook. And best of all you can sign up for a free 30 day trial (in exchange for blogging about it on your personal web page) I did mine on facebook. This has made the transition to homeschooling so much easier on us. And if you don't want to blog about it you can still sign up for a two week trial. Either way try it is awesome.Thanks for the Time for Learning information – parents researching online homeschool programs will find your experience helpful. Blessings, Heather :)
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Brokerage Firms and Email Marketing
By Dan Forootan, President of EZ Publishing
When investors are looking for a brokerage firm they can trust with both their short-term and long-term goals, the vetting process for both the brokerage firm and the client can be time-consuming. After all, as a brokerage firm, you are being entrusted with most if not all of a client’s hard-earned money. This requires a sensible and proactive approach: and as a brokerage firm, why not demonstrate both of these qualities through effective email marketing?
Email Marketing is a professional and efficient way to secure the trust of prospective clients. With email marketing software, this revolutionary marketing strategy far surpasses other, outdated marketing tactics such as advertisements in flyers or television commercials.
Email marketing strategically employs technological advancements to tailor your brokerage firm’s approach to your clients. Effective email marketing strategies are conducted through:
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Email marketing newsletters will allow the brokerage firm to reach out to clients in a more informative way, by giving recent market statistics, sharing the brokerage firm’s recent achievements, providing a forecast of the short-term market and sharing the firm’s upcoming events. Email newsletters allow clients to see examples of the firm’s continued success over a length of time, and help clients stay informed. When clients feel like they are up to date on the latest market trends, they will naturally be inclined to build a partnership with your brokerage firm.
Email newsletters are only one of the many ways in which email marketing software opens up a new dimension of marketing strategy. There are many other email marketing tools specifically designed to help brokerage firms establish a lasting relationship with their clients. For more information on how StreamSend can help your brokerage firm reach the next level through email marketing, visit our website today!
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Website bet sees man streak Obama
That's naked ambition - a streaker bared all before Barack Obama to win a million dollar challenge by a British businessman.
Juan J Rodriguez stripped off at a rally by the US president in Philadelphia as part of the dare by Londoner Alki David.
Rodriguez, from New York, was arrested after meeting the 42-year-old's £600,000 bid to anyone willing to streak while advertising his website.
Mr David, who sold his shipping business for £600 million and is in the top 50 of the Sunday Times Rich List, promised to meet his side of the bargain - provided the White House confirms that Mr Obama saw and heard the stunt.
"We are delighted someone has taken up our challenge and he'll get the money if it all checks out," said Mr David, from Knightsbridge. "We are just waiting to hear from the White House before writing the cheque."
He defended the decision to launch the bet, despite Rodriguez's arrest. Mr David insisted the decision was not a waste of money, adding: "How could the money be spent better? It is a very well-planned marketing strategy."
The streaker stood in front of Mr Obama with Battlecam.com written on his chest and and shouted "Battlecam" six times to complete the bet.
Rodriguez will receive a cheque if the Obama camp confirms the president was within "eyesight and earshot", Mr David said.
Mr David added that there would also be a cash payout for anyone who did the same before the Queen.
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Dying Light…a survival game full of zombies, thugs and terrors of the darkness. You are a GRE operative tasked with retrieving a stolen file and you get caught up in the middle of the quarantined and infected city of Harran. But…what does this have to do with mental health? I’ve talked about how I love video games, but this is different. Take a walk with me as I bring a refreshing and surprising twist on this amazing video game!
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omg i <3 mr. moore.. he is the best teacher ever & he makes fun of me all the time
Well he is really young... but class is fun because you get to move around.... but i have to say the homework he gives is soooo hard. It couldn't just be like normal stuff???uncool
whas every1 talkin about, he's so kool and its good he acts young cuz he is! i started learn'n all this spanish stuff cuz of him, so thx mr. moore!!! ^ ^ man, he's cool
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- 1 When can I play outer worlds?
- 2 How do I get started in the outer world?
- 3 What is the first thing to do in the outer world?
- 4 How many hours does it take to play the outer worlds?
- 5 Is The Outer Worlds worth buying?
- 6 Does The Outer Worlds have romance?
- 7 Are flaws good outer worlds?
- 8 What is the best weapon in The Outer Worlds?
- 9 Do companions care if you steal outer worlds?
- 10 Is outer worlds too easy?
- 11 What should I spend bits on outer worlds?
- 12 Why is outer worlds so short?
- 13 Is outer world as good as new Vegas?
- 14 Will outer worlds get DLC?
When can I play outer worlds?
The Outer Worlds Recommended Requirements The Outer Worlds received official system requirements recently and just in time too! Obsidian Entertainment’s new RPG is set to release next week on October 25, 2019 and will be a one year long exclusive on the Epic Games Store.
How do I get started in the outer world?
Below, we’ve boiled down what we learned into six tips that give you a head start on making and playing your perfect space settler.
- Emphasize the lockpick and hack skills early.
- Explore everywhere for surprisingly good loot.
- Dialog skills let you control the flow of the game.
- There’s every reason to fast-travel.
What is the first thing to do in the outer world?
10 best starting tips | The Outer World The Outer Worlds guide, walkthrough
- Gaining experience fast.
- Develop the Lockpick ability.
- Collect everything.
- Quick way to unlock a companion.
- Use skills in conversations.
- Choose your build character.
- Use Tactical Time Dilation (TTD)
- Take care of the condition of your equipment.
How many hours does it take to play the outer worlds?
The Outer Worlds is likely to take players at least 24 hours to beat, and that’s on the very low end of the estimates. To be done within 24 hours, players would need to skip numerous side quests and likely duck out of quite a few dialogue options as they play. However, 24 hours total play time is doable.
Is The Outer Worlds worth buying?
Yes, it’s worth buying! I bought it on release, I’ve played it non-stop since. Yes! Yes, it’s better than Fallout 4 and WAY better than Fallout ’76.
Does The Outer Worlds have romance?
Unfortunately, there are no romance options in The Outer Worlds. Although you can recruit Companions to join your crew aboard The Unreliable, there’s no way you can engage in any sort of serious relationship with them.
Are flaws good outer worlds?
In some cases, taking the negative effects caused by the flaw appears to be worthwhile for the reward, but it should be noted that the effects of a flaw are permanent and cannot be removed in The Outer Worlds. Perks are earned every two levels, but as you progress further, levelling up takes longer.
What is the best weapon in The Outer Worlds?
When it comes to the best melee weapons in The Outer Worlds, the Plasma Cutter wins by a long shot. This one-handed melee sword can be swung rapidly and as you’d expect, it deals some severe Plasma damage.
Do companions care if you steal outer worlds?
They do not, no. They have no care about crimes you make, and cannot themselves be seen while you’re in sneak mode at all.
Is outer worlds too easy?
It’s just way too easy. Its way easier than New Vegas, definitely easier than the old fallout games. Some of you might say “play on supernova then”. I would, if it wasnt for my party companions risking perma-death and me missing out on their story content.
What should I spend bits on outer worlds?
Bit Cartridges are used to buy weapons, armor, healing items, repair stuff, or purchase key items in the story. You can buy or sell items at vending machines or merchants in The Outer Worlds. Some quests reward you with Bit Cartridges, but you can explore the planets and other hub worlds to find more.
Why is outer worlds so short?
The small scale of The Outer Worlds was meant to encourage people to replay it, to experience the branching narrative options, but it definitely felt like there was something missing. “We had to make one cut too many. All through the project we were making cuts. We told our story.
Is outer world as good as new Vegas?
But which game is actually better? The Outer Worlds improves upon many of New Vegas’ downfalls, but it also doesn’t quite hit the same highs. At the end of the day, they are both great works from Obsidian Entertainment, so fans will get a fantastic gaming experience no matter what.
Will outer worlds get DLC?
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There are numerous computer science programs that teach students the latest and widest-used programming languages for desktop, mobile and web applications. Unfortunately, these courses and certifications can cost students anywhere from a few hundred to several thousand dollars.
Realizing the high price tag for a formal education in programming, many talented developers and designers have published a wealth of free content to help ordinary users become full-fledged programmers at a fraction of the cost. Whether you’re looking to build a solid foundation in Ruby or venture into more advanced territory by specializing in Apple iOS-friendly Objective-C, you’ll find a wealth of free, reputable resources for learning programming on the web.
Codecademy is a free online resource for learning basic and advanced coding skills. The website encourages new programmers to start with its “Web Fundamentals” course, where users learn the basics of HTML and CSS by building real websites, social profiles and resumes.
Launched in April 2012, Coursera was founded by Stanford Universityprofessors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Coursera has since grown to include 107 partner universities, which offer 540 free online courses across a wide range of subjects.
Online courses are self-paced and include video recordings by professors, homework assignments and interactive discussion boards where students can collaborate on group projects. In addition, most courses offer a certificate of completion.
As of January 2013, the American Council on Education has approved five of Coursera’s courses for college credit. A quick search on Coursera will yield programming-related courses such as:
- Computer Science 101 (Stanford University)
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As a prerequisite, students must install Python on their computers before moving to the “Python Introduction” and “Python Strings” sections of the class. The coursework, which was created by Google engineer Nick Parlante, comprises an intensive 2-day class.
Coaches, teachers and other instructors are encouraged to use Khan Academy as a teaching aid to monitor and track students’ progress. In addition, Khan Academy offers dashboard features where teachers can view student data and determine problem areas that need attention in the classroom.
Instructors are also invited to leverage LearnStreet’s free interactive courses, code “garages” (e.g. games and algorithm tools) and practice exercises to help their students learn how to code effectively. Like Khan Academy, LearnStreet even provides a teacher dashboard that displays real-time analytics to monitor individual student progress.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a higher institution that ranks among the world’s most prestigious universities, also boasts one of the country’s best computer science programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Luckily for non-students, MIT OpenCourseWare posts nearly all of its course materials online for free. You can access over 2,100 videos, audio recordings, simulations, textbooks, exams and assignments on subjects including electrical engineering and computer science.
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They're finally here! Following years of preparation, the U.S.Geological Survey (USGS) has released the 2014 National Seismic Hazard Maps. These display earthquake ground motions for various probability levels across the conterminous United States, and replace the previous versions published in 2008. They are important because they are applied in seismic provisions of building codes, insurance rate structures, risk assessments, and other public policy. As such, they also impact catastrophe models.
The new hazard maps are based on an assessment of the best available science and incorporate a broad range of models and parameters. Information on potential earthquakes and associated ground shaking was obtained from science and engineering workshops involving hundreds of participants, including myself and several of my colleagues. The research behind the new maps was also review by several scientific organizations and state surveys. Expert panels and a steering committee were consulted.
Behind the maps lie new earthquake catalogs and seismicity-based source models developed by the USGS. What follows is a highly condensed overview of significant updates:
- For the Central and Eastern U.S., scientists have implemented anew moment magnitude catalog and completeness estimates, modified the sizes and occurrence rates of New Madrid Seismic Zone earthquakes, and considered induced earthquakes, for example by underground fluid injection, or "fracking."
- In the Intermountain West, they implemented new smoothing algorithms, fault geometries for normal faults, multiple Wasatch fault alternatives, and fault slip rates based on models obtained by inverting geodetic and geologic data together.
- For the Pacific Northwest, new Cascadia fault rupture models have been developed to incorporate additional earthquakes in the southern end of that zone.
- For California, the new UCERF3 (USGS Open-File Report 2013-1165) provides a more complete inventory of fault ruptures based on new deformation models, magnitude-area equations, and seismicity input parameters.
With four times as many logic tree branches than the UCERF2, the epistemic uncertainty is carefully considered.
(Source: USGS (PDF))
The USGS has also applied several new published ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs) for shallow crustal earthquakes, subduction interface, and deep earthquakes. These have resulted in small changes across most of the country, but have caused significant changes in localized places.
In the Central and Eastern U.S., three of the eight GMPEs used are new or have been modified, but the main changes are due to the modified weights applied in the construction of the mean ground motion. Compared to the 2008 seismic hazard maps, the new GMPEs and updated weights tend to decrease the probabilistic ground motions in the 2014 hazard maps by 10-20% across most of the region.
In the Western United States, new GMPEs developed by Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center are used for shallow crustal earthquakes in active tectonic regions. In general, the combined effects of lower medians and higher standard deviations in the updated GMPEs cause only small changes.
In the Pacific Northwest region, updated GMPEs for interface and intraslab earthquakes are included, and the overall changes due to updated equations in this region are less than 5-10%.
Well, that was a brief introduction to some of the most significant changes coming to the U.S. Seismic Hazard Maps and you'll be sure to hear much more from us over the coming months. If you're interested, data and the maps themselves are available for download from the USGS website. | <urn:uuid:6ea14312-a5e6-4529-ba3c-99d29839c617> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.air-worldwide.com/blog/posts/2014/8/from-catalog-to-ground-motion-the-2014-usgs-national-seismic-hazard-maps/ | 2021-12-01T02:29:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964359082.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20211201022332-20211201052332-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.934209 | 722 |
Corinne is setting up pieces of blown glass on her stand, inside which are nestled funny little objects. Figurines, jewelry, everything is likely to take place inside these bubbles that will serve as gifts. At Phocaean glassblowing, the customer is king. You easily adapt to your request. “We still have a little work to do, but we will be ready for the start of the Christmas market,” promises this pleasant shopkeeper who watches, with love, over these miniature creations that she makes with Gilbert, a glassblower. She wants everything to be ready for the start, today, of this Christmas market which almost did not take place, given the delicate health situation.
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This is my technical blog, so I'll try to avoid getting too theological--but when I'm talking about what's closest to my heart, my true passion, it really does border on incoherence, spirituality, and insanity. That's probably as it should be, because it's our creative minds that see what's beyond our current perception of the universe. Without this borderline insanity, how would we be able to change the is to the could be? So please bear with me, and leave comments to help me see where my ramblings aren't clear.
Recently I made the difficult decision to return (with my family) to my home in Philadelphia, after a 2-year adventure working in France. So, I've got big changes ahead--an international move and a new job. It's making me nostalgic, question my values, and reflect on what I've done. An essay by Paul Graham recently triggered even more reflection on my values: he talked about Addiction. It really made me wonder whether I'm addicted to anything. The most likely candidate for me is the internet--but as I read from Wikipedia:
The American Society of Addiction Medicine has this definition for Addiction: Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in the individual pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use and other behaviors. Addiction is characterized by impairment in behavioral control, craving, inability to consistently abstain, and diminished recognition of significant problems with one’s behaviors and interpersonal relationships. Like other chronic diseases, addiction involves cycles of relapse and remission. Without treatment or engagement in recovery activities, addiction is progressive and can result in disability or premature death.Furthermore, addicts often are in denial--saying they choose, and like, the activity, to the extent that even when something catastrophic happens they still insist they want it--but in reality they have no control. I find this definition problematic, because if clinicians can't diagnose addiction until something bad happens, it doesn't do us a lot of good in preventing these accidents.
A Totem, in pre-historic times, was an animal with a spiritual connection to an individual. When that person was in trouble, the totem often showed up to help. Many cultures have used totems or icons of human form in various ways, leaving traces behind in the form of statues, idols, and carvings in temples, churches, roadways, and homes. Imagine traveling by foot for hours, coming around a corner and seeing a huge statue or relic like this, pictured right. It is inspiring, centering, and powerful. Even today many people use descendants of totems in the form of physical charms, to keep them centered. Take, for example, Jerry Weinberg's consultant's kit--a box full of simple tools to remind him what to do when he has a problem.
As you may have noticed, though, the prevailing use of totems has evolved from the mystical to the symbolic. Consider how in ancient times people considered that the animals would come to us, then there were statues that happened to be along our route, and now there are charms we bring with us or place lovingly at an alter in our homes or places of worship. All are powerful, but there's something especially magical about the kind that show up before we know we need them, instead of when we turn to them. That kind of magic, I believe, is real, and can still be integrated into our lives today. It may be easier to explain this as the subconscious telling us to notice when something isn't right. Or if you're inclined to have fun with the mystical explanation--let me tell you I actually have a totem. I didn't pick it--but sometimes when things are out of balance in my life, I start seeing spiders. It's scary to admit it--I think it's a bit crazy even--but I'll be getting ready for work one morning, and there will be a spider in the shower. Then there will be one at the badge swipe at the front door of my office. Then one will drop down from the ceiling over my desk. Of course it could be chance--but when this happens all in one day--I get a bit freaked out. Don't get me wrong--I love the beauty of spider webs, the way they trap nuisance bugs, the metaphor of web-weaving and the internet--but I am also irrationally scared of spider bites. Or maybe I could say I have a healthy respect for spiders. This makes them a great totem for me. Maybe there's nothing supernatural going on here--maybe a neurologist could explain these sightings as a desperate attempt of my subconscious mind to be creative when I'm overly focussed on a project--and maybe that is why I notice spiders more when my life is out of balance.
Regardless of any logical, mystical, or even insane explanation of totems--when I see spiders, it's a wake-up call. Maybe I forget most sightings, because nothing in particular is going wrong. Yet when I'm starting to head into potentially addictive territory, and a spider crosses my path, it helps me get back in balance. So in response to Graham's search for early warning signs of addiction, I think we need to capitalize on totems. At my office in Philly, I put a big 5-foot round Halloween spider web in the window; in my garage I keep a web-shaped wind chime. Whenever I see a web or a spider, I step around it in respect for the work it's done--and I also ask myself if I'm in balance. So I have to admit that I like a combined approach--a belief in the kinds of totems that come to me, and the integration of physical charms into my daily environment.
Another kind of totem that works for me is mantra:
- Give 'til it hurts.
- Anything with value is hard to do.
- Too much of anything is a bad thing.
This blog is part of the way I try to give until it hurts. I try to find something that's on my mind each week to write about--it challenges me to keep reflecting on the work I'm doing, it forces me to have some discipline.
There's something more important about giving though. It's personal, really. One who gives, gets. When I write here, people comment, or e-mail me, or mention it at a conference. People give back to me. They help me see my shortcomings, they center me. They help balance my perspective.
Hmmm. Addiction comes from overuse of one activity or substance. Wake-up calls, in the form of totems or gifts, re-center us, put us in balance.
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The online sports gaming brand FanDuel has announced a three-year partnership with thoroughbred horse racing venue Kentucky Downs.
This announcement came last week ahead of the race track’s annual six-day meet, which runs Sept. 5-6, 8-9, and 11-12.
FanDuel strengthens ties with Kentucky Downs
FanDuel Group operates as the parent company of TVG, the official racing network and advance deposit wagering (ADW) platform of Kentucky Downs.
With this deal, TVG was named the exclusive television partner for all Kentucky Downs races, and the upcoming event will be known as the FanDuel Meet at Kentucky Downs.
In addition, Sept. 8 is now referred to as “TVG Day,” and the network sponsors the races during the day.
Marc Falcone, the co-owner and manager of Kentucky Downs, is eager for what this partnership means for the brands.
“FanDuel and TVG recognize our value, and we’re immensely proud that Kentucky Downs has been added to their sponsorship portfolio that includes the Breeders’ Cup, Keeneland, and Del Mar in horse racing, as well as FanDuel’s association with the NFL, NBA, MLB, and PGA Tour. That’s impressive company to be keeping.”
NBC, the traditional television partner of the Breeders’ Cup, will still broadcast the two Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series races on Sept. 11.
Every other race, however, will be available via TVG.
FanDuel sponsors Challenge Series race
Two Challenge Series races are are also incorporated into the lineup. One is a race that transitioned from being named the Tapit Stakes to the FanDuel Turf Sprint.
Originally a $400,000 race, it is now a $1 million Grade 3, and its winner will advance to the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint.
Andrew Moore, the FanDuel Group’s vice president of racing, also commented on the new partnership.
“It is very exciting to sponsor the FanDuel Turf Sprint. Any owner of a classy turf sprinter is going to be attracted to a Breeders’ Cup Challenge race with a purse of $1 million, and the race is sure to be a top-class event. The FanDuel brand will be exposing the Kentucky Downs product to millions of sports fans nationally.”
The second Challenge Series race is a $1 million Grade 2 Calumet Turf Cup. The winner of this race will advance to the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf.
Kentucky Downs sustains races with HHR revenue
Kentucky Downs operates only six days each year. Its track, a 1 5/16-mile European-style turf design, is the only track of its kind in the US.
Thanks to the revenue generated off Historical Horse Racing (HHR) games each year, the track is able to offer especially competitive purses to its contestants.
The track’s 16 stakes-races offer a record-breaking $10 million in prize money.
The track’s six graded-stakes races each feature a purse of $600,000 or more.
Moreover, three of those races offer $1 million purses:
- FanDuel Turf Sprint
- Calumet Turf Cup
- Grade 3 WinStar Mint Million
Kentucky Downs co-owner Ron Winchell said the partnership felt like a natural progression for the brands.
“TVG is America’s undisputed leader in television horse racing, and Kentucky Downs has developed arguably the best betting product in the industry. That includes the largest purses and field sizes in the country, combined with takeout rates that are very horseplayer-friendly.”
Wagering on Kentucky Downs races in Tennessee
Wagering on horse racing has always existed in a legal grey area for Tennessee residents.
The Racing Control Act was approved in 1987, legalizing pari-mutuel wagering in the state. However, in 2015, lawmakers eventually repealed the Racing Control Act.
For now, it is up to operators whether or not to offer horse race wagering in the state. While both FanDuel and TVG offer horse wagering for bettors throughout the US, neither currently offer it in Tennessee.
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Wow, it’s funny, for all the bitching I did about how marathon training was cutting into my social life, I guess on some level, I didn’t realize how much of my life it was really taking up. Not just the actual training, but the being constantly aware of it, wondering if I’d slept enough, ate the right combination of foods and was it too much or tool little and did I get enough yoga in to counter all the muscle tightening from all the running…. It took up a huge chunk of my brain power. But it also gave me purpose and direction. My running was all of a sudden focused on an end result. A solid goal. So with the marathon has been completed (hold applause, thank you), now what?
I literally don’t know what to do. Should I get up to run? All of a sudden, it seems weird to run, just to run. Pre-marathon training, this was not an issue. All I ever did was run, just to run. Now it seems…off? There’s no goal? I have no schedule to follow? How do I know what to do? Should I run hills? Intervals? Distance? What distance? This is weird! This is how race directors suck you back in! They know you’ll be flailing to find purpose and direction again. This is why I keep getting emails from RunDisney. They’ve got me. I don’t know how to stop. All of a sudden I’m not only considering the Princess Half Marathon at the end of February, but also another full. On February 12, my brother’s birthday. I ran one on my birthday, how cool would it be to run one on his birthday in the same year. It would be touching. It would be EPIC. What the fuck is wrong with me? Yikes. Ok, I need to get control of this before I end up dead smack in the middle of marathon training again.
Step 1. Breathe in.
Step 2. Breathe out.
Step 3. Repeat as necessary.
Here are some other things I might try…
Practice yoga. Whoa. I wonder what my body could do without all that running tightening up my hips all the time.
Go swimming. That’s right, there are other types of exercise out there. Remember that? Swimming was fun. It made my arms look good. Also, nobody yells at me for holding my breath.
Ride a bike. I’m sure that I remember how. It’s just like … riding a bike. Sure, I can do that.
Go running. Wait, how did I end up back here? Yeah, I’m admittedly a little afraid to lose my newfound endurance. Plus running still presents so many challenges. New distances, like the Gasparilla 15k and the Ragner Relay from Miami to Key West. Plus, I could certainly put in an effort to get faster.
Maybe it’s time to try a tri? Definitely a new challenge.
Sit still. Uh, scary. Really, really scary. You know what happens when I sit still? My brain goes on a crazy bender. It’s not pretty in there.
Well, I guess the truth is, I don’t know yet. It’s really only been three days since the marathon. I’m not quite feeling totally wound up yet. I’ll take a few more days off to think about it. In the meantime, I’m open for suggestions…
It’s already under consideration! Tough Mudder FL is in December, so that still leaves me quite a bit of time!
I love your blogs! Warrior Dash! Metro Dash 🙂
thank you susy! I’m not familiar with Metro Dash… googleing now. 😀
Any obstacle course run will kick your tail! But super fun & full of laughs especially if you can do it w/ friends. Are you doing Ragnar – Miami to Key West 2013?
Yes, I am leaning towards more fun/obstacle type events versus the monotony of marathon training. Looks like I’m definitely doing Ragner Miami-KW 2013. Considering trying to make it an all women group. (I know several men who will be disappointed with this decision…) Are you in FL? You want in?
Yes, you should focus on team events that aren’t as time consuming to train for. You have the post-wedding depression, once the planning and big event is over – now what?! Tough Mudder, Spartan, Warrior Dashes, GoRuck Challenge. You did one marathon, that’s all you need to tell people, no one is going to care after the first one – they’ll just think you are a bit crazy if you continue them. It’s more impressive to do these other events which are more life risking 😉 | <urn:uuid:022ee55c-60c0-49e1-b29c-8e6bbf18e281> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://tatumann.com/2012/01/11/so-now-what/ | 2023-05-30T08:32:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224645417.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530063958-20230530093958-00298.warc.gz | en | 0.960658 | 1,064 |
Amongst the dozens of young sailors heading out to the start line in Falmouth Harbour this morning is the as yet unknown next Caribbean Dinghy Champion. By Sunday she or he will have triumphed over some of the region’s most promising sailors in one of the RS Feva, Laser, Laser Radial or Optimist classes.
Confidence is running high: Adrian Coppelman, aged 9 and from St Maarten started sailing Oppies a year ago. He’s already won the Sportsmanship Award in Anguilla. “I’m going to do as well as I can,” he says modestly. “My biggest rival is Emma (Lennox), so I hope to beat her.” Others are playing their cards close to their chests. Summer Jean Morton and Sahil Khatnani, also from St Maarten, are sailing an RS Feva. The CDC is also their Caribbean Regional RS Feva Championship, so the stakes are high. “We are hoping for a good result,” says Summer, “but we’ve got some competition so it’s going to be tough. Asked about her strategy for handling the courses in Falmouth Harbour she hesitates “Well we aren’t giving anything away!”
Also keeping mum about his plan is Rhone Kirby . The young Antiguan is racing a Laser. “Well, my secret for success is a secret!” he laughs. “But I’m confident of success or at least doing reasonably well.”
A maximum of 15 races over the next three days will run, finishing Sunday. We’ll keep you up to speed with daily results. | <urn:uuid:21f44380-4063-4b11-86d3-45afeb70f938> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | https://caribbeansailingweek.com/2019/10/caribbean-dinghy-championships-head-for-the-start-line/ | 2020-12-03T22:59:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141732835.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20201203220448-20201204010448-00693.warc.gz | en | 0.958192 | 358 |
Park City Lodging
All Seasons Resort Lodging offers the largest selection of hotel, condo, townhome, vacation rentals, and group lodging in Park City, UT. From modestly-priced condos to luxurious ski-in/ski-out lodging, you’ll enjoy an exceptional resort property experience, every time. Be sure to learn about our seasonal Park City lodging specials for your next stay.
Park City is best known as a ski town but there is no shortage of ways to explore the mountains in summer and fall. Hike, bike, fish, horseback ride, or even zipline. As the weather cools in fall and the mountainside turns shades of red, orange, and yellow, hike a trail from the top all the way back to town and enjoy the views.
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Metal flower garden created for Sandy Hook shooting victims in Lillian.zip
Saturday, January 12, 2013 6:48 PM
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Spencer Lundgren, 15, listens as artist Shelley Smith talks about her metal flower installation at Lillian's Cafe in Lillian on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. Smith, 40, of Perdido Beach, created a flower garden made from 55-gallon metal oil drums in honor of the Newtown shooting victims. Lundgren was one of more than two dozen people who attended the ceremony. Many who attended released white balloons in honor of the 27 victims of the Newtown shooting. (Brian Kellyemail@example.com) | <urn:uuid:5f956db4-1629-4d9c-a61d-5d782f7c88c1> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://photos.al.com/alphotos/2013/01/metal_flower_garden_created_fo_6.html | 2014-04-20T05:48:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609538022.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005218-00655-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939148 | 145 |
Duck and Stanford
The Oregon Ducks men’s basketball team will be on the court in Stanford this evening to take on the Cardinal. Stanford is 10-7 in Pac-12 play but struggled against the Ducks in early January. Pregame on KCST begins at 6:30
Beavers and Cal
The OSU men’s basketball team will be in Berkeley for a bout with the Bears tonight. The Beavers beat Cal at home 73-64 january 2nd and Cal has continued to struggle on the court with only 3 wins in the Pac-12 conference. Pregame on KCFM is at 6:30 from Haas Pavillion.
The Oregon State Beavers men’s baseball will begin a 4 game series against Grand Canyon University in Phoenix today through Sunday as part of OSU’s spring training. The Beavers are 3-1 so far.
The Oregon Ducks are scheduled to be on the diamond against Seattle in Eugene at PK Park.
Volleyball Matches Cancelled
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Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.
PhD thesis title: Towards Technologies for Promoting Nutritional Health in Older People with Dementia Living in Their Own Home
Utilising research methods embracing the qualitative descriptive design, the PhD thesis argued the need to explore technological needs for promoting nutritional health in older people with dementia by understanding perceptions of care workers recruited from the aged care industry. Reliable insights for designing such technologies emerged in eight categories from synthesising care workers' voices. Stakeholder views are crucial for technologies to be effective and accepted by users. Based on these findings, eleven considerations for developing effective technologies for older people and care workers are proposed. These two technology demonstrations involved fluid intake gesture recognition system and a smart home system for nutrition and mealtime activity support.
Date Position Institution name 2017 Lecturer and course coordinator The Univeristy of Adelaide 2013 - 2014 Reserach Assistant The University of Adelaide 2013 - 2014 Tutor The Univeristy of Adelaide 2011 - 2012 Lecturer and course coordinator Kotelawala Defense University (KDU) 2011 - 2011 Assistant lecturer and teaching team coordinator Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) 2010 - 2011 Business Analyst The DirectFN (PVT) LTD 2009 - 2009 Research Assistant The National e-learning Centre
Language Competency English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
Date Institution name Country Title 2014 - 2017 The University of Adelaide Adelaide PhD 2010 - 2011 University of Colombo School of Computing Sri Lanka Bachelour of Science in Computer Science (Honours)
Based on approximatly three years of university-level, teaching experience in Australia and Sri Lanka, I see myself as a facilitator supporting students to actively pursue knowledge in the field of Information Technology.
Current teaching commitments:
Introduction to Software Engineering (ISE) (course coordinator)
Previous teaching commitments:
Networking systems and Applications (2013, 2014)
Software Engineering (Course coordinator, 2012)
Data Modelling (Course coordinator, 2012)
Databased Management Systems (Course coordinator 2012)
Computer Communications (Teaching team coordinator, 2011)
Software Architecture (2011)
Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2020 Co-Supervisor Developing and evaluating a data fusion framework and tools for supporting Cyber Common Operating Picture (CCOP) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Roland Lloyd Croft 2019 Co-Supervisor Human-AI Collaboration for Securing Organizational Systems: A Case of Software Security Patch Managment Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Nesara Madugoda S. Dissanayakege
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This recipe is quite dear to me as it was my first published recipe in Olive Magazine.
I had originally written it as a starter but I recently served the beef in canape form and they were gobbled up within seconds.
TIP You can make the sauce the day before, as you can the roasted cherry tomatoes. The beef can be made on the same day, a few hours ahead of serving.
Don’t use a cheap soy sauce. Kikkoman’s every time.
300gr fillet steak in one piece
16 cos lettuce leaves
1/2 red onion
16 roasted cherry tomatoes (see recipe within the label edible gifts)
6 tbs Kikkoman’s soy sauce
Juice of 2 limes
1 tbs rice wine vinegar
2 tbs fish sauce
Large handful of coriander leaves, very finely chopped
1/2tsp of caster sugar
1/2 tsp grated ginger
2 medium red chillies. finely sliced
10 pepper corns
2tbs rapeseed oil
A large serving platter
Pre-heat the oven to 190oC
Smash the pepper corns in a mortar and pestle. Place the steak in a bowl and pour over the fish sauce. Press on the pounded pepper and let that sit for half an hour
Meanwhile, make the roasted cherry tomatoes, slice the red onion very thinly, wash and pat dry the salad leaves. Place the soy sauce, lime, vinegar, coriander, sugar, ginger and chillies into a screw top jar. Shake vigorously and set aside. Before you pour over the sauce, check for taste and if it’s too salty for you, add a few tbs of water.
Heat the oil in a medium frying pan. Sear the beef on all sides till nicely browned. Loosely pack the steak in a foil packet and cook for 8 minutes in the oven. Remove and let it rest till you can collect all the lovely juices and add them to the sauce. Slice the beef thinly – you should easily get 16 slithers for the salad leaves.
Assemble the canapes by placing a piece of beef in each leaf, topping with a tbs of sauce, a cherry tomato and finally 2 slices of red onion. If you’re afraid of spillage, you can spear the lettuce with a tooth pick but frankly, gobs will be opened wide enough to devour these fantastic morsels in one fell swoop. | <urn:uuid:fcab7f44-cab5-473b-b876-18d0bf4cdf98> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://mindingbellieswell.co.uk/2015/10/11/seared-thai-beef-canapes-by-m-kuehn/ | 2021-04-10T19:18:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038057476.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20210410181215-20210410211215-00586.warc.gz | en | 0.901461 | 514 |
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Workplace for CAD-CAM work. Consisting of PC place with cabinet for printer and place for scanner.
Freuding technical workbenches have been proven workstations for dental technicians for decades. The different models are constantly being developed and adapted to the working methods of today.
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Everything at it’s place. Ergonomically thought out, clear and tidy – this is how Freuding casting rooms present themselves.
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The Oscars came and went but we didn’t forget how they came to sweep the world with their winners. We just fell in love with the most unique and peculiar styles and shapes this year’s Oscars brought to the world. So, today we’re going to show you how you can have the best movie interior design 2018! Come with us and get inspired!
THE WINNERS ARE: And the Oscar for Best Living Room Design Goes To…
Meet the Stock Exchange Palace in Budapest’s Liberty Square. While the sequel to the iconic movie Blade Runner was a hit, this dystopian sci-fi Oscar-worthy movie while mostly shot in purpose-built sets, used the incredible cinema worth place in Budapest. And we couldn’t be gladder.
The winner of best picture, the latest fairytale by Guillermo Del Toro features one of the most iconic places in the world. The Edwardian stacked Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres was the chosen one to picture the peculiar love story that captured the world. We couldn’t be happier. With sets like these, we would also fall in love quickly!
The winner of Actor in Leading Role as Winston Churchill, the director and production designer wanted the picturesque scenes of Wentworth Woodhouse in South Yorkshire. The English Baroque and Palladian style stately home is the largest privately-owned residence in Europe.
The rich interiors of the mid-century romance of Paul Thomas Anderson were filmed in and around an old townhouse situated in London’s Fitzroy Square. The New Year’s party scene was shot inside the Blackpool’s opulently appointed Tower Ballroom. Rich, supreme and opulent, this is the one you surely want to visit.
We couldn’t escape this incredible picture even if we wanted to. The Oscar winner and nominee brought that incredible rustic and classic interior decor that only the eighties could get around to and transformed it into the icon of style that is today. An around of applause to the set designer, Violante Visconti di Modrone!
The opulence of the black Sinatra floor lamp wasn’t missed. Truly a oscar winner in the lighting world, this mid-century lighting design was the one to capture our eye. They say beauty is the eye of the beholder so, why not get your hands on this fabulous lamp?
THE WINNERS ARE: Now You Can Have The Italian Villa Home of The Oscar Nominee!
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He was born in Italy and raised in Montreal, but former boxing champion Arturo Gatti always insisted that he be introduced as having come from Jersey City.
"That's what I really admired about Arturo," said legendary St. Anthony High basketball coach Bob Hurley, who was close to Gatti. "He was so proud to say he was from Jersey City."
Gatti, 37, was found dead in his hotel room Saturday in Brazil, and his wife, Amanda Rodrigues, has been charged with murdering him.
A poster promoting the second of three memorable slugfests with Micky Ward hangs behind the bar at the Ringside Lounge on Tonnelle Avenue, where Gatti was a fixture.
"He used to eat here every day when he was coming up," said Nunzi D'Lia, a bartender at the Ringside.
The bar's owner, Mario Costa, took Gatti under his wing while he was an up and coming fighter, and Gatti's brother, Joe, garnered the bigger headlines.
Fernando Branco, the chef at the bar, said he would often cook for Gatti, and that the boxer had an appetite for seafood.
Manny Rodriguez, a regular at the bar, said he used to spar with Gatti when he was younger.
"I was just with him like three or four months ago," he said. He called Gatti's death "a great loss to the community."
Gatti participated in St. Anthony golf outings to raise money for the school, Hurley said, and the two became close.
"He was the poster child for never giving up," Hurley said. "He gave everything he had in the ring. When Arturo fought in Atlantic City, the boardwalk was full of people from Hudson County. Everyone rooted for Arturo."
Gatti, who retired from boxing in 2007, lived on Ogden Avenue in the Jersey City Heights and then spent a couple of years in the Tea Building in Hoboken, friends said. About 18 months ago he moved back to Montreal.... | <urn:uuid:8df427d2-683a-4be7-9fc1-f8184a27dace> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/jerseycity/index.ssf?/base/news-8/124755273922070.xml&coll=3 | 2016-05-05T11:33:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860126502.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161526-00112-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987474 | 466 |
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Told by Dr. Hastings, MHO, in his report on slum inspection
22 People Live in cellars; water on the floors
MHO would have city expropriate land around city for future city planning
From the Toronto Star, July 5, 1911
Dr. Hastings, Medical Health Officer, in his report to the local Board of Health, cited three things that are necessary to solve the problem connected with the slums of Toronto. The three things are:
1. a good housing bylaw, with provisions for its adequate enforcement;
2. suburban garden cities, with rapid transportation facilities at single fare;
3. city planning.
The report is based upon the results of visits made by the Medical Health Officer’s inspectors to 4,693 houses in the city, which was divided into six districts. A special appropriation of $800 was voted by the Board of Control some months ago to secure the report, which contains much valuable information.
“The assessed value of land in the central district of Toronto is from $100,000 to $150,000 per acre, and in the Niagara street district from $30,000 to $40,000 per acres,” says Dr. Hastings.
“From an economic standpoint, is it reasonable to think that the mechanic and the labouring classes can be housed to as good advantage on land of this value as on land in the suburbs which is assessed at from $1,000 to $2,000 per acre?”
Buy Up Suburban Land, Says He
Dr. Hastings, in advocating the expropriation of the area surrounding the city for about five miles, gives the following comparable table:
Toronto: 17,920 acres
Buffalo: 26,880 acres
Cincinnati: 27,840 acres
Detroit 23,040 acres
Minneapolis 34,080 acres
Indianapolis: 19,840 acres
“The following conditions, peculiar to great cities, are found to be present to a lamentable extent,” says Dr. Hastings. “High rents are being collected for small houses, dark rooms, tenement houses, houses unfit for sanitation; inadequate water supply; impaired and filthy yards and lanes; sanitary conveniences, which, by their position or for various other reasons have become a public nuisance, a menace to public health, a danger to public morals, and an offence against public decency.”
In speaking of the visits made to slum homes by his inspectors, Dr. Hastings says:
“Some houses were so inaccessible that they were at first missed, even by experienced inspectors. One house could be reached only by a curious tunnel-like passage from the street, down a dark and precipitous stairway, and up again into a back yard. Two houses were found built over stables with no evidence of any drainage.”
Conditions in “The Ward”
He finds that the district lying between Yonge, College, and Queen streets and University avenue is the most densely populated part of Toronto. Of the 2,051 families visited in this section, 1,275 families lived in four or more rooms, 348 families in three rooms, 227 families in two rooms, 139 families in one room, 61 families in basements, and one family in a cellar; 108 of these houses were pronounced to be unfit for human habitation.
The report states that overcrowded, unsanitary lodging houses are increasing in Toronto. From ten to thirty foreign men are crowded into a small house. Each pays from 75 cents to $1.25 per week, for lodging and washing, while each earns from $1.75 to $3.50 per day.
“Their ways are not ours,” says Dr. Hastings. “Every effort must be made to familiarize our new citizens with our sanitary standards.”
Living in Cellars
He reports that there are 92 tenement houses in Toronto; 447 people in the city are living in basements, and 22 in cellars. One dwelling near Niagara street had four inches of water in the cellar; another, in the centre of the city, which rented at $20 per month, had four feet. In the cellars and back kitchens of many houses, hens, ducks and dogs are kept.
In one basement 12 people live. Some of the houses do not even keep out the cold and wet. In one the bedroom floor and a couple of inches or more of water on it. Two boards were laid down and the man and his wife got into bed without wetting their feet by walking on these boards. In one house of five rooms, five families lived. They kept two sewing machines and conducted a tailor shop.
390 Houses Condemned
Altogether the Medical Health Officer’s inspectors condemned 390 houses: 77 in the Eastern avenue district, 108 in the Central district, 9 in the Niagara street district, and 197 in other districts. In these condemned houses, 2,133 people are now living, amid unsanitary conditions. Forty-eight houses with dark rooms were discovered. In one of these dark room seven people slept.
There are 1,348 dwellings in Toronto without drains; 619 of these are near the City Hall. In most of these the waste and slop water is thrown into the yard. Five hundred and fifty-nine families have no water in their houses, although the rent is high enough to provide for a good supply. A row of ten houses was discovered where there was only one outside water tap for the whole ten, yet the landlord receives $960 annually in rent.
Two hundred and forty-six “rears,” or houses built on back lanes, were discovered. Some of these, being next to another house or a stable, have no access to fresh air.
Would Reduce Rents.
Dr. Hastings states that Toronto must solve the following problems connected with her slums: the lodging house evil, the tenement house, dark rooms, back-to-back houses, basement and cellar dwellings, unsanitary privy pits, lack of drainage, inadequate water supply, overcrowding, and exorbitant rents.
“Inasmuch as there is a legal rate of interest permitted to be collected, why should anyone be permitted to charge rent which is out of all proportion to the returns?” asks Dr. Hastings, “simply because he is dealing with a foreigner who is not familiar with conditions, and who is entirely at his mercy.”
From the reports of his inspectors, Dr. Hastings estimates that 10,000,000 gallons of water is wasted daily simply because penurious landlords will not provide proper plumbing.
The Board of Health received the report, and Aldermen Graham and McCarthy were appointed representatives on a general committee which will consider it. ♦
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Collaboration — both within restaurant companies and with suppliers and industry peers — is crucial to ensuring a food supply that’s safe from farm to fork, agreed attendees at the eighth annual Food Safety Symposium held in Denver this month.
During the two-day conference, sponsored by Ecolab and produced by Nation’s Restaurant News, nearly 40 food safety professionals discussed the many ways they build systems that encourage collaboration and vigilance, especially among employees.
Food safety “needs to be part of your core values,” William Moore, director of safety and security for Eat’n Park Hospitality Inc., the Homestead, Pa.-based parent of the 75-unit Eat’n Park family-dining chain, said during his keynote speech. “If it’s not in your core values, your mission statement, then it’s not a priority.”
The symposium occurred against the backdrop of a Cyclospora outbreak that had sickened 642 people in 25 states, leading to 45 hospitalizations but no deaths, throughout the summer. The cause of the outbreak was still under investigation at press time, although a salad mix from Taylor Farms de Mexico served at Darden Restaurants Inc. in two states had been implicated in about 240 of the illnesses.
In discussing the outbreak during the symposium, William Marler, an attorney specializing in food safety cases with Seattle-based MarlerClark, said he too was perplexed by the situation and had yet to file any lawsuits. The scope and complexity of the outbreak, however, underscored the responsibility of each player in the farm-to-fork chain.
Here are some other top takeaways from the symposium:
1. Make food safety training engaging. Hand washing and proper holding temperatures — the basics of food safety — have not changed in 30 years, said Moore of Eat’n Park. The key is keeping the message fresh so that employees pay attention.
With a workforce largely under the age of 25, employers need to make sure their messages are quick and easy to grasp. Moore said he relies on lots of colorful visuals, and customized posters, comics, video clips featuring celebrities, games like Pandemic 2, and stuffed-animal germs and microbes are among his favorites.
Tugging at the heartstrings doesn’t hurt either, said several attendees. Al Baroudi, Ph.D., vice president, quality assurance and food safety for The Cheesecake Factory Inc., the Calabasas Hills, Calif.-based operator of 175 upscale casual-dining restaurants, shows his audiences an image of the hundreds of children and adults that have died during foodborne illness outbreaks to drive home the point that lives are stake. | <urn:uuid:5bf2a37a-7e4c-46b3-9063-ff9d2e8f0a51> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://nrn.com/food-safety/7-steps-ensuring-restaurant-food-safety?eid=forward | 2014-08-01T12:58:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510274979.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011754-00145-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960257 | 561 |
In 2010, Congress passed a new law for America’s schools, the Healthy, Hungry Free Act, which has affected school lunch menus as well as the price families must pay for these lunches. A section of the Federal law mandates that all school districts across America must review their paid lunch prices annually compared to the federal lunch reimbursement. The goal being that eventually the average “paid lunch price” (charged by the school district) will be equal to the federal free reimbursement rate.
In the past two years, Lapeer Community Schools has made small price increases to move closer to the Federal mandated level. Paid lunch prices have increased again for the 2013-2014 school year by 25 cents to comply with federal law. The majority of school districts that surround Lapeer have also raised their lunch prices for the same reason. With this increase, Lapeer Community Schools is very optimistic we can avoid raising paid lunch prices next year and potentially the year after while still complying with this mandate.
This fall we will continue to offer free breakfast to all students and continue to eliminate the .40¢ paid charge for reduced qualified lunches. | <urn:uuid:aeb46267-d706-489b-bf61-ca2e1f0cc349> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://lcsblog.com/2013/07/11/paid-lunch-prices-to-increase-due-to-federal-mandate/ | 2023-02-08T21:00:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500904.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20230208191211-20230208221211-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.96803 | 230 |
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Last Sunday I ventured to Glendale to Brand Bookshop, one of my favorite used bookstores, for its 30 percent off sale. (Which continues through June 1.) The new Grove-like outdoor mall, Americana at Brand, turns out to be just three blocks south on Brand.
Thus, I left my car in the parking garage and hoofed it down to Americana to check it out.
My initial impression was positive, although I didn’t spend much time there. The $400 million Americana seems to be modeled on early 20th century downtowns. At least one streetcorner has an antique-like clock jutting from the building, as if it were the town bank. A residential tower maybe nine stories high has a glass elevator fronting the central plaza; gears and a counterweight on the elevator exterior rise and fall with the cars. Again, it’s a visual reminder of long-past times.
Plenty of families were enjoying the plaza’s lawn and massive pool-like fountain as a rock band played.
I noticed a kiosk selling pizza by the slice and a small round building modeled on a ’50s diner, both of which bear culinary investigation. A Good Humor ice cream wagon was parked, apparently permanently, and employees sold treats from its freezer compartment.
Like the Grove, there’s not a lot of shops that appeal to me, but there is, like the Grove, a three-story Barnes and Noble.
The buildings are several stories taller than at the Grove but Americana does repeat some elements, including the trolley (although I never saw it, just the tracks). The movie theater has more screens than the Grove — 18 vs. 14 — but lacks the limited-release arty movies the Grove usually includes. Glendale must be considered the boonies.
I’ll go back sometime…while visiting the Alex Theater or downtown’s two used bookstores (the other one is Bookfellows). To me, downtown is the real reason to visit Glendale. Americana just adds another element of interest. | <urn:uuid:a966334b-dcf9-4bcf-83b3-6a9cf9b46286> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.insidesocal.com/davidallen/2008/05/31/a-glitzier-glendale/ | 2014-12-21T04:55:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770686.106/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00043-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958446 | 434 |
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[Seminar] Perceptually guided animation of humans and crowds.
2012년 10월 23일 화요일 PM 4:00
Research in the field of Visual Computing has contributed greatly to increasing the realism of
virtual objects, scenes and characters, by drawing on fundamental mathematical, scientific and technical principles to create stunning visual effects. Ultimately, however, the realism of a virtual world is in the eye of the beholder, so human perception must also be considered as an integral part of the creative process. In the field of computer animation, a major goal is to create virtual humans with emotion, personality and individual style using a variety of methods. In our work, we use perceptual insights to help with the task of simulating objects, humans and crowds. In this talk, I will discuss some of the technical and perceptual challenges of creating compelling dynamic scenes, from simple colliding spheres to a complex Metropolis, populated with realistic crowds
Carol O'Sullivan is the Professor and Chair of Visual Computing in the school of Computer Science
in Trinity, where she leads the Graphics, Vision and Visualisation group (GV2) and is the Director of the Centre for Creative Technologies. She is currently also a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University. After receiving a B.A. in Mathematics from Trinity College in 1988, she worked for several years as a software engineer in industry (mainly in Germany), followed by a Masters degree from Dublin City University in 1996 and a PhD in computer graphics from TCD in 1999. She has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers and supervised over 20 PhD students to completion. She was elected as the first Irish Fellow of the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics) in 2007, and as a Fellow of Trinity College in 2003. She is the co-Editor in Chief of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, and the Associate Editor in Chief for Special Issues of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. She has chaired several international conferences, including Eurographics 2005, and has been a member of many international program committees, including the SIGGRAPH and Eurographics papers committees. | <urn:uuid:2b02070b-922e-4249-91aa-3615a01528a2> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://cse.snu.ac.kr/node/5104 | 2017-03-24T10:22:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218187792.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212947-00395-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958018 | 437 |
The attack on the FAA’s UAS policy has opened up a second front, this time before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The challenge was brought by Texas EquuSearch, a search and rescue organization, over a cease and desist letter they received from the FAA in February. The organization has used UAS’s in their search efforts since 2006.
The suit claims that the FAA is currently without authority to regulate UAS use below 400 feet in the United States due to the Administrative Law Judge’s decision in the FAA v. Pirker case. The FAA has appealed that decision to the NTSB, and briefing will not be concluded until late next month.
While there are many who are looking to the Texas EquuSearch suit to resolve the legality of commercial UAS operations, it appears more likely that the suit will slip into a morass of procedural issues. The District of Columbia Circuit has jurisdiction to review final actions of the FAA Administrator. It appears likely that the FAA will argue that the “order,” an e-mail from an Aviation Safety Inspector (“ASI”), is not final and therefore not reviewable.
The e-mail states:
As I have told you before, UAS operations that are not authorized violate part 91 (and some others) and hence are illegal. You, through NIST, have a COA to operate that particular UAS in the prescribed airspace, and that’s it. SAR operations outside the COA airspace that meet the Emergency COA (ECOA) criteria, can be requested and approved in short order, even on the weekends & holidays. I have not heard of you requesting and ECOA, or anyone having trouble getting an ECOA within a day or so. Have you had troubles applying for and getting one? If so, I can help fix that. On the other side of the fence, if you are operating outside of the COA provisions, stop immediately. That is an illegal operation regardless if it is below 400ft AGL, VLOS or doing volunteer SAR.
I understand the pressure to get UAS integrated into the NAS is mounting, but it must not be at the sacrifice of what is right or safe.
The e-mail does not state that Texas EquuSearch is forbidden from conducting all operations of any kind. In addition, it suggests that there is a procedure in place to get authorization on short notice if there is an emergency. The ASI states he can help get approvals if there are any problems. While the lawsuit says that Texas EquuSearch has not operated the aircraft since receiving the February e-mail from the FAA, it does not state that approval was asked for and not received from the FAA. On this record, Texas EquuSearch has an uphill climb to get to get a ruling on the merits of their case.
The issues raised in the action are serious, and have strong implications for public safety. The balancing of the need for aerial services such as those offered by EquuSearch against the risk to persons and property on the ground, as well as other aircraft, are the types of administrative decisions the FAA has made for decades. The current confusion in UAS regulation obviously leads frustrated operators to the court for relief, particularly since we are still many months away from a final UAS rulemaking. However, in the absence of a final action by the FAA, the courts are reluctant to short circuit the review process. Moreover, even if the D.C. Circuit is inclined to act, a final ruling on the merits could easily take until the fall, and might even take until next year. As a result, and consistent with what we have said before, nothing short of a comprehensive rulemaking, with the full participation of all stakeholders who operate in the National Airspace, will end the confusion.
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I knew I was frustrated.
Two things gave it away. First, I was clenching my teeth. Second, I was procrastinating. The worst part was I couldn’t seem to do anything about it. Essentially, I was on vacation and I was miserable.
Some things we do so often, or at least often enough, that we can work through the process without much thought or effort. Other times, when we are learning something new, it requires mental energy, physical energy, and self-control.
This week I had been on both ends of that spectrum. While relaxing in the mountains of beautiful North Carolina we had the opportunity to do a fair amount of hiking. Having grown up in the mountains hiking and being in the woods is where I find myself, where I get centered and collected. It doesn’t take much energy. It just seems to happen effortlessly.
We also had the opportunity to try out the Stand Up Paddle boards. It was on our bucket list and the calm waters on Lake Lure were an ideal place to test it out. It took determined focus and physical energy to keep our balance on the SUP board. It took focus and self-control to transition from kneeling to standing. Once upright, I felt my body adjust as I looked around and behind. It was a delightful experience because I could manage my focus. My husband found it a little less delightful. It was difficult for him to balance and look around simultaneously. He practiced the kneeling-standing exercise several times. It was like mind-body multitasking and eventually we conquered the SUP and had a blast in the process. Next time will be a bit easier, and as time goes on, it will require less effort.
The third experience wasn’t as easy but it left the insight in my mind and heart. I was working on my current book, staring at the computer screen. I struggled. I scrolled facebook, instagram, and junk mail repeatedly. Finally, I ask the Lord what on earth was going on. I told Him about not being able to focus. The conversation sounded more like an echo than a conversation. In His loving way He repeated back to me that I was having trouble with focus. Yes, that’s what I said. Again, my heart heard, “Yes, you are having trouble with focus.” Eventually it sunk in. I had my topic, but I hadn’t focused on my audience. I was indeed having trouble with my focus.
Focus is vital in life for peace and productivity.
Without it we will be challenged to accomplish things. We will most likely end up discouraged, frustrated, and loose our joy.
A simple turn around for losing our focus is to remember our purpose. Our purpose is much like a company mission statement. It keeps us on track with what is most important. It helps us know when to say yes and when to say no. Purpose is foundational in life and in understanding our identity. Purpose is vital for managing ourselves.
Discovering purpose is one of the key goals of our Growing In Your Identity workshop. If you’re interested in more, email me to sign up for the fall 12-week session. | <urn:uuid:ec13d721-e0fb-4726-9ef7-f06aa8632e7c> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | http://www.annebsay.com/blog/2016/10/22/frustration-and-focus | 2019-03-21T23:47:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202588.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20190321234128-20190322020128-00189.warc.gz | en | 0.984965 | 657 |
American Indian Art from the Fenimore Art Museum: The Thaw Collection (Traveling Exhibit)
May 9 – October 8, 2017
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
This exhibition highlights 38 masterworks from the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York. It features landmark creations in a range of media by gifted artists across North America—from the Arctic to the Southwest and the Eastern Woodlands to the Pacific Northwest—and encompasses close to 1,200 years of artistic tradition and innovation.
More at The Met's website. | <urn:uuid:1065f201-a178-4bc5-ac38-b0da134589fe> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | http://collections.fenimoreartmuseum.org/on-loan-to-other-museums?f%5B0%5D=field_skpublishedin%3A/On%20Loan%20to%20Other%20Museums&f%5B1%5D=f_format%3AOutfit | 2020-07-03T12:29:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655882051.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200703122347-20200703152347-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.888653 | 123 |
Kaduna — The 19 Northern states governors, under the aegis of Northern Governors Forum (NGF), yesterday deliberated on the continued absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua from the country, declaring that the President does not need to write the National Assembly about his absence, since the issue of assigning Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as Acting President can either be verbal or in writing.
Rising from an emergency meeting at the Government House, Kaduna, the governors argued that it was not mandatory for Yar'Adua to transmit any letter to the National Assembly on his absence or the relinquishing of power to Jonathan.
They said the position of Acting President could be transmitted either verbally or in writing, stressing that the Vice President has been performing well since the President left the country over 70 days ago.
In a communiqué read at the end of the meeting by the Chairman of the Forum and Niger State governor, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu, they called on all arms of government to continue to give the Vice President total support pending the return of the President.
The Forum condemned the recent crisis in Jos, Plateau State, insisting that it was more political than religious and asked the federal and Plateau State governments to take proactive steps to nip the crisis in the bud in the interest of peaceful coexistence and development of the country.
The governors called on the government to direct the full implementation of various investigative panels on the recurring crisis in the state, pointing out that there was the need for sustained and deliberate campaign to abrogate the settler/non-indigene syndrome in the overall interest of peace in the country.
The communiqué stressed the need of strengthening the security apparatus by way of proactive and pre-emptive measures towards securing the lives and property of the people as a fundamental constitutional responsibility and to forestall future occurrence of such crises in the country.
The governors however, denied recent media reports that the Bauchi State House of Assembly had passed a resolution asking all indigenes of Plateau State to leave the state, claiming that there was no truth in the reports.
In his address, Aliyu lamented that the problems and challenges facing the north today were more daunting than at any time in the nation's history as a region and as a people, adding that governors as political leaders have the responsibility to defend the constitution and the nation's nascent democracy by ensuring that the current unprecedented constitutional challenges were handled with utmost caution, maturity and patriotism in the overall interest of the nation.
"History and posterity will be harsh on us if we failed to do what is appropriate to save the situation in the interest of the nation.
"We should learn from our recent history and be more vigilant so that some people do not hijack the situation and sow the seed of disharmony in our body polity by claiming to protecting or speaking for the north.
"Some of us may recall a situation during the era of late General Sani Abacha when he was kept out of public view for whatever reasons for a prolonged period and some officers took advantage to be running the affairs of state while creating the impression that the General was in charge.
"We should therefore be circumspect and very appreciative of the circumstances that we are in and indeed champion the course for respect for the constitution and the rule of law. We should therefore discourage creating divisions along ethnic and religious lines, but rather continue to encourage unity, self reliance, collaboration, cooperation and understanding for the overall interest of our people.
"We should realize that as governors, we are the legitimate voice of the people and therefore, we should be forthright on issues that concern the security and welfare of the people," he said. | <urn:uuid:7bb3f618-5ebe-49e1-8112-3fe5a5f57c11> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://allafrica.com/stories/201002050043.html | 2015-04-01T14:39:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131304625.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172144-00064-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967719 | 764 |
The war against Gold sellers in WoW just got hotter, as Blizzard has sent notice to sellers through PayPal claiming their actions are “intellectual properties violations.”
Last week, Blizzard contacted PayPal over the Gold selling issue, and now PayPal has sent word to the sellers, stating they must cease and desist what they are doing or they will no long be able to use PayPal for as a payment method.
Here is PayPal’s letter:
You were reported to PayPal as an Intellectual Properties violation by Blizzard Entertainment Inc. for the sale of World of Warcraft Merchandise.
If you feel your sales do not infringe upon the intellectual property rights of the Reporting Party, please complete the attached Objection to Infringement Report by January 21, 2011.
The completed form should be faxed to the attention of the Acceptable Use Policy Department at [number removed] or emailed to [email removed].
Should you choose not to object to the report, you will be required to remove all World of Warcraft Merchandise from the website [url removed] in order to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy.
This is one of the easiest ways to nip it in the bud, we reckon, and good for Blizzard too. Damn Gold sellers, spamming up the game chat lines and all that.
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Wheel of the Infinite
by Martha Wells
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0380788152, Mass Market Paperback)With her previous novel The Death of the Necromancer, Wells established herself as a skilled fantasy world-builder with the ability to blend mystery and intrigue with plenty of buckle and swash. Here she departs from more familiar pseudohistorical European settings for the Celestial Empire, a land where life moves in eternal circles and the wishes of departed ancestors can have as much influence as the living on day-to-day life. Itinerant ex-priestess Maskelle was once the Voice of the Adversary, vessel to a spirit created by the Ancestors and given the task of punishing injustice and evil. When a false message from an interfering evil spirit led her to commit murder, Maskelle left the faith, only to return now, years later, answering the summons of the Celestial One. Someone--or something--has corrupted the great Wheel of the Infinite, distorting the sacred patterns which must be faithfully recreated at the end of each year to ensure the continual existence of the world. The only way to repair the pattern is to find the being responsible for disturbing it, and so the Adversary's Voice is needed once again, despite the past. Assisted by the swordsman Rian, a lordless bodyguard from distant Sitane, Maskelle uncovers an intricate plot whose roots were set into motion long ago--a plot responsible for the murder which forced her to leave the faith. Engaging characters and a convincing setting make this novel of ancient schemes and twisted magic an excellent and memorable read. --Charlene Brusso
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It seems like just yesterday we were writing about the best of the Wordsmithie blog for 2015. How time flies! Now its time to review the best of the Wordsmithie blog for the first half of 2016. There are some great pieces in here, folks, so hold on to your hats and jump right in to reading the best of our best!
If you’re a writer, you won’t want to miss our post on must-have resources for writers; everything from reference guides to inspiration is included, and it’s the most comprehensive guide I’ve seen in a while. Speaking of comprehensive guides, we did our first blog series earlier this year, all around writing for various industries. If you’re interested in writing for the real estate, technology, startup, beauty, food, education or NGO sectors, these pieces are not to miss.
We were also lucky enough to get Spanish content strategist Bastiaan Ellen to write about why companies- all companies- need to get going when it comes content marketing. Look out for a more tactical piece about how, coming soon!
We’ll post another best of toward the end of the year. And if we missed out on any pieces you liked especially, you can always reach out via social media to let us know! | <urn:uuid:b6355498-1467-41f6-83f2-167f3df7f218> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://www.wordsmithie.com/best-of-the-wordsmithie-blog-2016/ | 2019-05-23T03:01:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257002.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523023545-20190523045545-00161.warc.gz | en | 0.939908 | 269 |
When I think of my blogaversary, I always think of Mary Janice Davidson! MJ hasn't missed one yet, and this year is no exception! this year she brings us an exclusive sneak peek from the next Betsy book, due out in July, UNDEAD AND UNWARY! So...here's MJ!
Hello, ROCCO! Happy blogaversary!
I’ve been working on edits for the next Betsy book, UNDEAD AND UNWARY, and with the hideous winter weather we’ve been enduring, thought I’d share a clip from the book. And yep, the St. Paul Winter Carnival is a thing.
(For readers who haven’t read through UNDEAD AND UNSTABLE, Eric Sinclair, king of the vampires, can now stand sunlight for the first time in almost a century. To say he’s giddy would be a vast understatement.)
“Dammit!” He’d literally swept me off my feet and plunked me in the middle of our bed. As I reared up on my elbows in prep to escape, he then plunked himself in the middle of the bed, right on top of me. What little air there was in my lungs (I sometimes gasped or yawned or breathed out of force of habit) whooshed out. “Gggnnnn!”
“Ah, darling, your sexy moan sets my libido aflame.”
“Ged. Gedduh. Gedduh huck offme.” I groaned and tried to elbow him away as he pressed me further into the mattress. “Gnnn. Dyin’.”
He was giggling against my neck and marking me with little nibbling kisses and all at once I cared a lot less about Jessica’s mysterious errands and more about getting out of my underpants.
“What’s got you all sexually charged? Besides being a man and being conscious.”
“Don’t generalize, darling,” he chided.
“Yeah, yeah...answer the question.”
“It was so wonderful.” He pulled back until our faces were inches apart, his eyes—a brown so deep they were almost black—gazing into mine. His dark hair was only slightly mussed, thick with a tendency to curl under at the ends, and his skin was utterly pale, not the slightest sign of a flush. So he hadn’t been feeding. It had to be something else.
“No.” I shook my head so hard I made myself dizzy and my hair was everywhere. Sinclair jerked back so the ends wouldn’t tickle his face, and laughed at my, “No-no-no.”
“The only thing marring its perfection was your absence, my own.”
“Never. I told you. Never again. I’m not doing it ever again. It’s dumb and it’s cold. Horribly horribly cold.”
“It is enchanting,” he corrected me, now mouthing the tender, shivery spot just behind my ear. “Horribly horribly enchanting. I was enchanted.”
“Are you drunk?” I asked, staring at the ceiling while the tips of his dark hair brushed the side of my jaw. “I know it’s impossible but we’ve done the impossible before and it would explain a lot. I would actually wish you were drunk over what you were really doing. That’s what a bad idea I think that is.”
“The fairyland spectacle of the St. Paul Winter Carnival enchanted me. It was all so wonderful,” he moaned, pressing a kiss to the hollow of my throat. “How could you resist the sensual allure of the Moon Glow Pedestrian Parade?”
“Not to mention the Snow Slide.”
“Sinclair, it’s a carnival celebrating the fact that Mother Nature tries to kill us every winter. Why the hell would I ever—wait, Snow Slide?”
“They should rename it the Sublime Slide,” he said and oh God I think he was serious.
“You went on the Snow Slide?” And why the hell wasn’t I there with a camera? And a video crew? He was right, I should have gone if only to have the means to make a looping video of the vampire king riding down a hundred foot snow slide over and over and over, maybe shoving various children out of the way as he repeatedly cut in line. Baring his fangs at their avenging mamas. Then up and down and up and down again. My kingdom for that gif. “Okay, you’ve made the impossible happen. Fine. But I still don’t regret not going to the cold weird sleet rodeo, or whatever they’re calling it this year.”
“I also indulged in the Beer Dabbler. Did you know they have over a hundred and fifty breweries plying their wares?”
“But you hate beer.”
“And they have a blood drive.”
“But you love—aw, nuts,” I groaned. “Tell me you stayed away from the blood drive taking place in the middle of the day at an outdoor carnival celebrating the things water does when it gets below freezing.” In fairness to them, how could they expect a vampire to take over the Snow Slide, sip beer, and then rob their blood drive?
“Of course I refrained,” he said, pulling back and looking offended. “You know I only drink from you or ruffians we subdue.”
“Okay, I know you’re an old man, but really—ruffians?” I yelped as his sharp teeth grazed my neck and his tongue followed, soothing the sting.
“Ninety is the new thirty,” was his muffled reply.
I snorted. “What this all boils down to is, ice sculptures make you horny.”
“Well, yes,” he admitted.
“I remember when I made you horny.”
“An ice sculpture of you would satisfy all my sexual needs.”
I laughed as I shivered; I couldn’t help it. The mental image was just so hilarious and gross and cracked. “I hate you.”
“In fact,” he replied, lips ghosting over mine, “you adore me.”
“I’m pretty sure I can do both.”
“Did you know?” He pulled back and gazed down at me. “Ice is much more beautiful in sunshine,” he said in a low voice, a serious tone, like it was a delicious secret he wanted only me to know.” “It’s like light made solid.”
This. This right here. That’s why. That’s the answer to everything, every time. “I love you,” I sighed.
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With the coronavirus pandemic forcing many businesses to adopt work-from-home policies, the demand for video conferencing programs appears to have increased. Indeed, by late April, video conference app Zoom was seeing 300 million daily meeting participants, a 50% rise from the 200 million recorded at the start of the month.
Amid its growing popularity, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed significant privacy flaws with Zoom. SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, even reportedly banned employees from using the software on account of these vulnerabilities.
Blockchain projects are now getting into the video conferencing arena, looking to leverage the novel tech for providing more robust privacy and security features. The trend is coming amid a period when internet censorship is a major talking point given the recent actions by Twitter in labeling certain content.
Decentralized social media appears to be a major component of Web 3.0 — the third generation of the internet touted to promote data-driven applications and a semantic world-wide web. Critics of centralized social media say instances of shadow-banning and other forms of censorship are stifling free speech.
On the other side of the debate, there is an argument to be made that an unmoderated social media ecosystem would lead to themass dissemination of misinformation. Critics say the mix of anonymity and zero moderation would allow some users to spread potentially dangerous rhetoric.
COVID-19 and the spike in demand
With the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a pandemic back in mid-March, public and private establishments began shutting down. Governments of different countries effectively closed down their economies, meaning workers have had to perform their duties from home and video conferencing programs like Zoom soon shot up in popularity. From serving just 10 million participants back in December 2019, Zoom was already claiming over 300 million by late April.
Indeed, the Zoom stock price is up more than 160% year-to-date. Its positive performance in 2020 has well exceeded the decline seen by the company in the second half of 2019.
Apart from virtual meetings, apps like Zoom have been used for hiring, firing and even controversially, handing court judgments. Back in May, a court in Lagos, Nigeria sentenced a man to death in a conference call, with Human Rights Watch saying the judgment “inherently cruel and inhumane.”
The increase in video conference use, though forced, highlights the swift pace of improvements in communication technology over the internet. With companies expanding their operations across the globe and the workforce becoming more international, it has become necessary to hold virtual meetings rather than having employees make unnecessary commutes.
Indeed, some tech companies in the U.S. have created policies allowing workers to perform their duties from home even after the end of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Zoom’s position in the emerging video conference ecosystem may be increasingly under threat with the likes of Facebook and Google making upgrades to their video chatting platforms. Some of these upgrades include increasing the number of participants per session and better end-to-end encryption for greater security and privacy.
Concerning privacy and security
Amid the growing popularity of the Zoom app came reports of privacy and security vulnerabilities within the program. Zoom-bombing — the unwanted intrusion of individuals into a Zoom virtual meeting — soon became a norm, causing disruptions to multiple sessions taking place on the app.
According to the FBI, these Zoom-bombings have been known to include criminal activities like child pornography. The FBI has since deemed the activity to be a violent crime, with the Bureau urging users to implement more robust security features. Apart from Zoom-bombings, reports also exist of phishing attacks, identity theft, foreign spying and account hijacking, among others. In the absence of robust end-to-end encryption, rogue agents are able to access meeting recordings.
Never ones to miss out on a popular internet trend, cryptojackers have also reportedly bundled Zoom installers with malware that will force compromised computers to mine cryptocurrency. Some security experts claim that it is easy to corrupt Zoom software, as the program’s anti-tamper protocols do not employ robust mechanisms to prevent external manipulation.
Zoom is set to introduce end-to-end encryption on its software, with its previous security infrastructure differing significantly from the industry standard. End-to-end encryption usually entails encryption from one endpoint device to another. However, the previous encryption protocol employed by Zoom regarded servers as an endpoint location.
Enter blockchain-based solutions
With centralized video conferencing solutions proving to have significant security and privacy vulnerabilities, perhaps the stage is set for blockchain-based projects to leverage the novel tech in providing safer virtual video chatting platforms. As previously reported by Cointelegraph, Brave has already added an in-browser feature with end-to-end encryption.
The privacy-centric crypto-powered browser platform revealed that its new service, called “Brave Together” allows users to make unlimited encrypted video calls for two participants. Brave will expand the feature to allow more people with the planned upgrade already being tested on its development environment called Brave Nightly.
Brave is also reportedly using the Jitsi open-source encrypted software for its web-based video conferencing feature. Back in 2017, famed NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden vouched for Jitsi saying it was his platform of choice for daily communication.
Commenting on the suitability of blockchain-based video conferencing apps, Reuben Yap, project steward at Zcoin, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency, told Cointelegraph that the novel tech will not do much in mitigating the vulnerabilities seen in the likes of Zoom:
“Blockchain’s main benefit is that there’s no central authority but alone, it does nothing to secure communications which is the main issue that Zoom is facing. You don’t really need immutability either in communications and in most cases this is an undesirable thing. The key issues are scalable end to end encryption (which is tough) but perhaps more importantly, implementations that are designed with security in mind but remain easy to use.”
For Yap, end-users hardly care about the specifics of the technology, adding that “people will use what is easy and what is secure (encrypted communications). Blockchain doesn’t solve either of these issues.”
The social media decentralization dream
Brave’s video conferencing feature announcement came amid a flurry of developments concerning crypto and blockchain projects involved in social media applications. Theta, an esports and crypto conference streaming app, announced the likes of Binance and Google Cloud as validators on its network.
Days before the Theta announcement, Sensorium — a blockchain-based VR-powered social media platform — revealed that it has joined the Global Blockchain Business Council. In an email to Cointelegraph, Sensorium chief communication officer Brian Kean highlighted the usefulness of blockchain as a base layer for decentralized social media platforms, stating:
“The blockchain is wonderful because it will help discern who I am really talking with. Fraudulent accounts will be a thing of the past and people will really be who they are. Sound odd, being ‘real’ virtually but that is where we are today in this era of ‘fake news’ and hiding behind fake accounts.”
With incentivized blockchain social media platforms emerging, there seems to be a push toward decentralizing the social media space. According to Yap, fully blockchain-based social media networks are not possible at the moment, arguing: “Blockchain isn’t really suitable for storing large amounts of data though they can serve as pointers to outside sources.” Apart from operating at scale, Yap says the incentivization aspect of blockchain social media also brings up other issues, adding:
“A big issue is also making a tokenomics model that makes sense. Most of the current social media platforms on blockchain have their own token which can be used to tip and pay for things but many also give power to these tokens to upvote and increase visibility of posts. This actually can create a sort of oligopoly where early large holders have a disproportionate say in what content is displayed which may limit the growth of the platform. Despite the challenges, I am pretty excited at seeing blockchain power social media done right.”
Some of the support for the development of blockchain social media is due to the apparent censorship seen in centralized platforms. There is an argument that blockchains can theoretically deliver social forums that allow for free speech. But technical considerations aside, matters relating to free speech also tend to have a human angle.
Social forums like 8chan are living examples of how unmoderated platforms can devolve into rampant displays of hate-speech. Concerning the balancing act between censorship and moderation, Yap remarked: “The reality is that you cannot have a platform that cannot be censored to be moderated since moderation involves some sort of censorship.”
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6 keys — and a caveat — to winning bigger contracts
Contractors lured to task-order contracts by the promise of a big payoff
- By David Hubler
- Jul 01, 2011
In sports parlance, it’s known as going for the gold. The term also applies in government contracting, as more and more companies are seeking the gold to be found in the large federal indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract vehicles.
“Come July and August, the IDIQs light up like Christmas trees,” said Paul Strasser, senior vice president and general manager of Dynamics Research Corp.’s federal group. “There are task orders going out like crazy because, with the continuing
resolutions, agencies are trying to spend the money they have allocated. The IDIQ has become by far the vehicle of choice. So you have to prepare.”
“The smarter smaller companies are looking at the vehicles earlier and seeing what resources it’s going to take to win,” said Mark Amtower, co-founder of the Government Market Master certificate program at the George Mason University School of Management and a Washington Technology contributor. “The large companies have two avenues. They can buy a company that owns the IDIQ or wait until the recompete and try to win it. However, there are no guarantees for the recompete.”
1. Consider M&A to open doors
Paul Bell, president of Dell Inc.’s Global Public and Large Enterprise sector, makes no bones that Dell is taking the mergers and acquisitions route.
He said Dell is still in the early stages of its M&A activity even though the giant hardware and services company has acquired nine companies in just 18 months.
“We think this has been a really good approach for Dell,” Bell said. “Our integration of our very biggest platform, Perot Systems, is going incredibly well compared to a lot of people’s experience in that [government provider] space.”
Dell’s marketing strategy is to serve its federal clients with the unified face of one company, Bell said. “That won’t change even if we add 25 more companies, which is likely in the coming years,” he said but declined to go into specifics about future M&A targets.
DRC’s capture strategy always includes IDIQ contracts. “If you’re not playing on certain IDIQ contracts, you’re really left out in the cold,” Strasser said.
Next: Focus on key markets
2. Focus on key markets
Strasser said DRC has been successful because it concentrates on its five core market segments: homeland security, health, cybersecurity, intelligence and Defense Department strategic programs, and financial and regulatory agencies.
Its IDIQ wins include the Internal Revenue Service’s Total Information Processing Support Services contract, General Services Administration’s Alliant contract, the Army’s Program Management Support Services and Homeland Security Department’s Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions (EAGLE) contracts.
Strasser said DRC identifies new targets at twice-yearly strategic planning sessions during which the company determines the government’s needs and its funding levels.
Company executives also attend independent analysis sessions and participate in a number of industry associations.
“We have people in key positions to not only be aware of changes in the industry, the legislation and how the money is being budgeted but also to sort of influence those [groups],” Strasser said.
DRC’s fastest-growing market is health care, an area in which the company had virtually no business just five years ago.
Next: Invest wisely in targeted sectors
3. Invest wisely in targeted sectors
Strategic investment discussions, off-site company assessments and peer reviews that began about five years ago led to action plans for DRC to target federal health care contracts.
“Today in the federal group that I manage, we’re going to do over $30 million this year in health-related services and solutions,” Strasser said.
As an example, he cited the $19 million Tricare Evaluation, Analysis, Management and Support, a Military Health System Category 2 acquisition contract that DRC won last year thanks to its management consulting expertise. DRC is helping the Walter Reed Army Medical Center manage its Base Realignment and Closure movement.
“We identified that [opportunity] three or four years ago,” Strasser said. “We said we’re committed to that market. We identified a vehicle we thought we had an opportunity to win. We put resources and investments against that to identify the capture of that vehicle. Once we won that vehicle we invested additional resources to pursue task order opportunities there.”
Although DRC does not have a chief medical officer, its staffing does include clinicians and doctors.
Next: Plan ahead
4. Plan ahead
About a year ago, American Systems Corp., which historically sought smaller contracting vehicles, introduced a plan to create a business development system and pursue some of the larger prime contacts, including IDIQs, President and CEO Bill Hoover said. “And the good news is we’ve actually followed through on that plan.”
Hoover said that after he joined the company in 2006, ASC instituted an infrastructure investment plan to strengthen its five key market targets: command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; acquisition and logistics; readiness; homeland security; and national intelligence.
“We also expanded our recruiting function significantly as well because we knew that was going to be important, too,” Hoover said.
“I would say that probably our back office, which really is the infrastructure side of the business, was probably about 60 or 70 people. And we’ve probably increased that by about 50 percent or so,” he said.
Another goal was to strengthen ASC’s capture management program and establish a project management office to oversee the company’s IDIQ contracts and meet the needed quick turnaround on task orders.
“Although the bulk of the investment was probably back in the 2006-2007 time frame, we continue to invest in our infrastructure to make sure that we can be as responsive as we can possibly be on these opportunities,” Hoover said.
Next: Hire the right people
5. Hire the right people
In addition, ASC is aggressively expanding its pipeline of individuals “so that we have a living and breathing database of candidates for a variety of opportunities in the focused business opportunity areas that we’re interested in pursuing,” he said.
ASC uses that database to strengthen its proposals whether it is pursuing an IDIQ or a large single-award prime contract. To keep the database current and growing, executives attend job fairs and conduct informational seminars.
“We have that database of [potential contract and current] employees that we can very quickly pull together because, on the IDIQ side, you have a very rapid turnaround of proposals, and we can then provide the résumés to go after those faster-turnaround opportunities,” Hoover said.
“We’re constantly looking for individuals with the requisite experience, the requisite customer focus, the requisite capabilities,” he said, adding that this is particularly true when going after an IDIQ or task order from the intelligence community in which background checks and security clearances are critical.
“The name of the game has changed with the government predominantly using some of the larger vehicles,” said Shiv Krishnan, chairman and CEO of Indus Corp., who recently hired Terry Fitzpatrick as vice president to oversee business development and growth.
Next: Build your infrastructure
6. Build your infrastructure
Indus emerged from the small-business program about 10 years ago and positioned itself to go after large contracts, including governmentwide acquisition contracts, known as GWACs, he said.
“If you do not bid on these GWACs, then you’re shut out of opportunities coming through those [awards] and those [represent] billions of dollars of opportunities for the next seven or 10 years,” Krishnan said.
Indus set up the infrastructure to compete for GWACs by meeting government requirements, such as having an earned value management system, a government-approved purchasing system, Capability Maturity Model Integration certification, and positive past-performance evaluations.
“You need to be positioned; you need to be close to the customer,” he said. That’s what Fitzpatrick’s business development team does two to three years in advance, Krishnan added.
Indus was successful in 2009 when it bid for a spot on the 10-year, $50 billion Alliant contract. “That was a feather in our cap and the beginning of our [capture] strategy,” Krishnan said.
For several years Indus tracked the planned EAGLE II, Network Centric Solutions II and National Institutes of Health’s 10-year, $20 billion Chief Information Officer — Solutions and Partners 3 awards. When they finally were announced in 2010, the company was ready to bid on all three, Krishnan said. The company also is adding health IT capabilities.
GWACs and agency-specific enterprisewide acquisition contracts have been popular, he said, because the government does the upfront work of selecting qualified contractors, and the competition to perform the task orders is limited only to those companies.
Next: A word of caution
A word of caution
However, Kevin Plexico, vice president of research and analysis services at Deltek Input., a market research and intelligence firm, cautions against relying too heavily on GWACs, including Alliant and NASA's Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement.
“We haven’t seen them trend up in five years,” he told a gathering of contracting executives last month. “They’ve been relatively flat while those agency-specific task order-based contracts have been taking off.”
“What we’re seeing is larger agencies are establishing their own task-order based contracts,” he said. “We see that all the military branches have moved this way.”
That trend is expected to continue, effectively reducing the number of prime contract opportunities, Plexico said.
For example, he said, about half of DHS’ IT services go through the EAGLE contract.
“If you don’t have a position on EAGLE, you can effectively think about your opportunity inside DHS as being limited to the other 50 percent that’s outside the EAGLE contract,” Plexico said.
In addition, the growth of task orders has greatly reduced the time frame in which to pursue them compared to the traditional 30-, 60- or 90-day response time for traditional requests for proposals.
Plexico said a Deltek Input study of about 11,000 task orders from 18 contract vehicles found that more than half of them required contractors to respond in less than two weeks.
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When traffic returns to the railroads in a post-recession economy, it may not come from the old familiar places, suggests CP Rail Chief Executive Fred Green.
Talking with reporters following the company's annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, on May 22, Green said changes in public policy as well as in the financial markets may require a re-examination of long-term investments in railroad infrastructure.
As examples, he mentioned the possibility that the volume of container imports (a greatpre-recession source of revenue for intermodal carriers) may find new shipping lanes. He also said that shifting mandates in how energy is provided could affect such proposals as that to build a new coal-hauling line into the Powder River Basin coalfields (an option that CP acquired with its purchase ofthe Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern, which had won regulatory authority for sucha buildout but not the necessary financing).
If changes occur, said Green,"I wouldn't predict that there will be a net negative to the company, but jus ta net difference to the company ... it's something we have to keep oureyes wide open for." For instance, he said, a change in trade patterns between North America and China "could cause a completely different set of logistical needs: We'll still be involved, but in a different lane, a different corridor."
As for building the new coal line, Green commented: "We're not any closer than we were 18 months ago to making a decision on that--and until such time as those stars line up, it’s just an option." | <urn:uuid:d6ad412b-daea-4125-8984-11c8e732a95e> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/news/will-changing-traffic-patterns-alter-investment-guidelines.html?channel=00 | 2016-07-29T12:46:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469257830066.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723071030-00261-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964268 | 324 |
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WESTFIELD, Ind. – With the countdown under a week to go until the start of Colts' training camp, security is beginning to take shape at Grand Park.
The 2018 season for the Indianapolis Colts begins Thursday, July 26, with training camp. It marks the first of a 10-year agreement with the NFL franchise and the city of Westfield to hold camp annually at the large sports complex.
Westfield's mobile command center, called Command Vehicle 308, to match similar vehicles in the county, is now parked at the facility and is scheduled to stay there throughout camp, which ends August 18.
The command center is owned by Hamilton County, and was recently the backup dispatch center, according to Westfield Fire Department Deputy Chief Joe Lyons. The city has been given the recreation vehicle for three years and will be responsible for maintaining it.
Lyons said the city has already invested several thousand dollars in installing updated equipment to get the mobile command center up and running. It's only been used for training purposes up until training camp.
"Allows us to monitor communication with the people who are outside the facility and allows us to dispatch personnel to the correct location to the correct field," Lyons said.
Lyons said the mobile command center will be used by firefighters, police and EMS throughout the next few weeks.
Westfield police are also preparing for the thousands of fans expecting to come to town. Fans can already print free tickets to camp here. City of Westfield Director of Communications, Vicki Duncan Gardner, said latest figures have tickets printed range between 50,000 and 59,000.
Lt. Mike Seagraves said fans should expect security checks, just as if they were going to an NFL game.
"The Colts have requested, and I believe it’s an NFL policy, for clear bags within the practice area," said Seagraves. "A fan may go to a game on a Sunday and they are required to have that same clear bag here at the practice."
Fans are also not allowed to bring water bottles or outside food. No pets are allowed at the park.
Seagraves said police will have a presence throughout Grand Park, and volunteers who have graduated from the police department's citizens academy will be on hand to help fans get around the park.
There are also free parking options for camp. While a vehicle can park at Grand Park for $5, a free shuttle is available for anyone who wants to park nearby at Shelby Materials, located near S.R 32 and Spring Mills Road. | <urn:uuid:ff66ec34-95b5-4b83-951b-8d248a2972b1> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://fox59.com/news/security-setting-up-for-first-colts-training-camp-in-westfield/?shared=email&msg=fail | 2020-05-29T20:21:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347406365.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20200529183529-20200529213529-00110.warc.gz | en | 0.97431 | 514 |
Lullabies for my Father
Albuquerque's Tricklock Company is known for creating new work that combines physicality, poetry and artistic risk. Lullabies for my Father, part of the company's Excavations New Work Series and performed at The Box Performance Space in downtown Albuquerque, is no exception. Drawn from interviews in the Albuquerque community about fathers, and developed through improvisation, Lullabies incorporates authentic stories (what Tricklock calls "verbatim theatre" but other practitioners call personal narrative, documentary, or ethnographic performance) intercut with choreographed sequences and music to set up a multi-prismed focus on fathers and fatherhood. The show opened for a short run (June 17-20) in the Excavations Series to get feedback from audiences, and, after more workshop, will be presented in a slightly longer version in May of 2011 according to Tricklock company member and Managing Director, Dodie Montgomery. In spite of being labeled a work in progress, the June run was polished and provocative, and its young, talented cast crackled with energy and enthusiasm.
Directed by Kevin R. Elder and performed by Summer Olsson, Alex Knight, Dodie Montgomery, Davey Rogulich and Hannah Kauffmann, Lullabies for my Father is structured around several personal stories, but one, an account of a father dying of colon cancer, forms the spine of the production. Performed by Dodie Montgomery, the story focuses on the teller more than the subject, and expresses the mounting cost of pain and deterioration for both the caretaker and the dying parent. The story, while an absorbing one, made me curious to know more details about the quality of the relationship between the teller and her subject before the illness began. Additionally, this show has room for more than one extended story, which will take the pressure off the cancer narrative as an archetype of father-offspring relationships.
This longer narrative is intercut with other shorter stories, abstract choreographed sequences, and sizzling presentational moments about fathers, for example a collage of comments from the Facebook fan pages of I Hate My Dad and My Dad's The Best Dad in the World. The show fluidly alternates moods and rhythms, movement and stillness, humor and pathos. The pacing and staging maximize audience engagement. The amount and energy of comments during Sunday's talkback (appropriately on Father's Day) spoke a loud affirmative that the subject matter has resonance.
One of the show's most affecting scenes is a wordless sequence in which the actors, playing various children, approach "Dad"asking for affection or validation perhapsand the actor playing the father (Hannah Kauffmann) interrupts her reading the newspaper and dispatches them each time with a dollar bill. The scene escalates into a frenzied choreography of angst and denial of authentic contact.
Gender is fluid in the production with each actor wearing a white or cream long-sleeved shirt, brown pants, and a tie. The stage is bare except for chairs that serve multiple functions and locations; the sound and light cues are run at what looks like Dad's workbench up stage left. Workshop productions like this one weave the audience into the genesis of the production, creating loyal theatregoers as well as a superior product through extended development. Lullabies for my Father exemplifies Tricklock's ingenuity and facility, and will only grow more affecting in its next iteration.
For more information, visit www.tricklock.com.
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Although the first episode opens with a Nene Leakes scene, there is not a lot of Nene on the first episode. She has two scenes just like everyone else. I’m saving Kenya and Cynthia for last for a reason. Those are the exciting scenes of the upcoming season. Kenya Moore’s behavior makes Nene’s worst day seem civilized.
Am I the only one that thinks they could have done better than this short black dress for Nene’s intros? It doesn’t seem to fit right on her. Maybe it’s just too short? It looks like a tall person in a petite cut dress to me.
Gregg and Nene have a couples scene where Nene is wearing some kinda longish wig with a headwrap. Gregg pretends to be bringing in the mail on a visit to the house where we all know he stays with Nene. I really don’t get the point of this. I get that the divorce was a way for Gregg to go bankrupt with Nene’s money left untouched by creditors, but how long must this charade go on? During the time this was filmed Nene was on twitter denying Gregg was cheating on her despite the fact they were divorced. These two are closer than they have ever been. Gregg is full of compliments and Nene responds with school girl giggling. They try to do a quick rehash of the marital issues and Gregg makes it clear he wants to reconcile. Whatever, Bravo.
I do like the orange dress Nene wears in the talking head scenes on the new season.
Nene’s second scene is in LA with Ryan Murphy. The two go to lunch and Nene asks how his Obama fundraiser went at his house. Last June, Ryan had an intimate garden party as his home for 70 of his closest friends. The fundraiser was $40K per couple. It seems that despite Nene tweeting support for Obama that little soiree was too rich for her blood. Nene attempts to call her very good friend Tyler Perry during lunch. Hilarity ensues.
The final sneak peak will be about Cynthia and Kenya. Kenya is already telling everyone who will listen she is the shit stirrer this season. So far she’s not really shit stirring, she’s just making a fool of herself. Stay tuned. | <urn:uuid:d14c4138-cefa-4573-8e62-ce9e0827c2dd> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://tamaratattles.com/2012/10/28/sneak-peek-at-nene-leakes-on-rhoa-season-five/ | 2017-10-22T20:59:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825464.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022203758-20171022223758-00645.warc.gz | en | 0.976463 | 488 |
Project Citizen is a program for youth, young adults that teaches them the process of public policy.
Public Policy: A law, regulation, or procedure enacted by a governing body that impacts the community.
Steps in Project Citizen:
- Students identify public policy issues within their community they would like to address. As a class, they need to determine which problems are of the greatest interest to the entire class. They may wish to do research on their questions over a period of time. Ideally, the class will come to consensus on their chosen topic.
- Select a problem for the class.
- Students research the issue learning the history related to the issue and perspectives of other communities and their "constituents" on the issue.
- The class develops a "portfolio" that takes the form of a poster. The poster must explain their problem, provide alternative policies, the student-selected proposed solution, and suggestions for implementation.
- Students deliver a presentation to a "public" audience.
- Students reflect on their experience.
Marcia also introduced us to the They Had a Dream, Too video (available online) and curriculum, inTime Classroom's All But My Life, and two books:
- Public Policymaking in a Democratic Society: A Guide to Civic Engagement by Larry N. Gerston
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Top Female Professional Wrestler : Joseline Navarro
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Local & Regional
Thu February 6, 2014
Eight More Oklahomans Dead from the Flu
Influenza continues to take its toll on the Sooner State. Figures released this morning show eight people died of the flu in the last week in the state. That brings the Oklahoma death toll, since the first of October, to 33.
The figures from the state health department indicate 156 people were hospitalized with the flu last week in Oklahoma.
If you drill down into the stats, you'll find one of this week's deaths was here in Tulsa County, where 21 people were hospitalized in the last week.
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PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 4, 2014--
NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG) intends to commence an offering of $1,000
million in aggregate principal amount of senior notes due 2024 (the “New
Notes”). The notes will be senior unsecured obligations of NRG and will
be guaranteed by certain of its subsidiaries.
NRG intends to use the proceeds from the offering, together with cash on
hand, to repurchase any and all of the $298,548,000 in aggregate
principal amount of its outstanding 8.50% senior notes due 2019 (the
“8.50% Notes”) and $708,522,000 in aggregate principal amount of its
outstanding 7.625% senior notes due 2019 (the “7.625% Notes” and,
together with the 8.50% Notes, the “2019 Notes”) and to pay fees and
expenses related to the offering of the New Notes and incurred in
connection with the repurchase of the 2019 Notes.
The notes and related guarantees are being offered only to qualified
institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) or, outside the United
States, to persons other than “U.S. persons” in compliance with
Regulation S under the Securities Act. The notes and related guarantees
have not been registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws
of any other jurisdiction and may not be offered or sold in the United
States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the
registration requirements. This notice is issued pursuant to Rule 135c
of the Securities Act, and does not constitute an offer to sell the
notes, nor a solicitation for an offer to purchase the notes.
NRG Energy, Inc., a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Princeton, New
Jersey, and Houston, Texas, owns and operates one of the country’s
largest and most diverse power generation portfolios and serves almost
three million retail electricity customers.
This communication contains forward-looking statements that may state
NRG’s or its management’s intentions, beliefs, expectations or
predictions for the future. Such forward-looking statements are subject
to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions, and typically can be
identified by the use of words such as “will,” “expect,” “estimate,”
“anticipate,” “forecast,” “plan,” “believe” and similar terms. Although
NRG believes that its expectations are reasonable, it can give no
assurance that these expectations will prove to have been correct, and
actual results may vary materially. Factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those contemplated above include,
among others, risks and uncertainties related to the capital markets
generally and whether NRG will offer the notes or consummate the
offering, the anticipated terms of the notes and the anticipated use of
Source: NRG Energy, Inc.
NRG Energy, Inc.
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WWE is planning to do a spin-off of the Donavon McNabb and his mother soup commercials. As noted earlier in a post, WWE is looking for someone to play the role of Shelton’s ‘Mamma’.
An commercial on the FX channel last night featured promotional material for the upcoming New Years Revolution. John Cena, Kurt Angle, Big Show, Kane, Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Carlito, and Edge are all rumored to be in the match.
On Tuesday, SmackDown Superstar Ken Kennedy underwent surgery to repair a tendon that was ripped clean off a bone in his back. WWE.com caught up with Kennedy convalescing at home to find out how he’s doing now. WWE.com: How did the surgery go, and how are you feeling now? Kennedy: I’m pretty achy, pretty sore. But the surgery went even better than they thought it would. The doctors said they got it really tight; the tendon re-attached perfectly to the bone, and they didn’t have to cut me open as much as they thought they’d have to cut me open. The full interview is at WWE.com.
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For starters, this is a private blog – not some corporate shell of a blog masquerading as a real person’s blog. I am not affiliated with any corporate interests, nor am I employed by any corporation or entity responsible for the creation or commercial availability of any products mentioned in this post.
What I am is stubborn. I try to flow with change, and sometimes it’s easy, but sometimes these corporate sculptors of society just seem determined to move in directions somewhat cliffward if you ask me; somewhat in a direction not parallel to correct; the wrong damn way! is where I’m trying to say they?/we? are headed.
I have just returned from a trip to the (famed) Fifth Avenue Apple Store in Manhattan [linked to only to see if I can get anyone from Apple to pay attention to my grievances – not actually encouraging anyone to shop Apple – you shop where ever you want or not at all, for all I care. FAO Schwarz is nearby if Apple isn’t your cup of tea]. Synchronously, (meaning with synchronicity, just to be clear in case I’m making up words here or using existing ones incorrectly) the main entrance was closed for some kind of maintenance (it was 2 in the morning – they have to do these things sometime!) and we had to use a bowel-like back entrance past the smelly toilets to enter the shop. I used to love visiting Apple stores. I’d head straight for the latest laptops and download Firefox. Then I’d tool around to my heart’s content and eventually convince myself I couldn’t live without it. Prime example of Apple’s genius, if you ask me. But that was in the past. This evening (morning, technically) I discovered that along with this newfangled Mountain Lion crap they’re pushing, all the computers are locked down. No more Firefox installs for me. [Although I did have fun setting several precisely timed (and aptly named) alarms with the new Clock feature on all the iPad minis in the store – more on that later.]
Now, here’s the actually semi-relevant part: I actually did want to acquire knowledge about the new operating system – I don’t want to Luddite my way through life, and I figured I’d open my mind with knowledge so that I could eventually open my heart to this new-yet-strangely-inferior operating system. One of my (admittedly minor) annoyances when playing with friend’s laptops is the loss of the comfortable three-finger swipe to go back when browsing online. I’ve read here and there about work-arounds, and, not wanting to be embarrassingly obstinate, figured maybe I’ll even learn to live with some new gestures… But I can’t even download Firefox in the store to have the otherwise helpful employees show me the ins and outs of the new system. The psychology experts Apple (formerly?) employed knew about letting grown children play in the stores – no better way to make the toy an indispensable part of one’s life. This trip felt like a trip to fascistLand – total lock-down, like Mommy and Daddy weren’t letting me have any fun at all. Not a great way to sell your toys. I left the store feeling completely frustrated and not at all like parting with several thousand dollars for a laptop that may very well end up giving me grief at every step. [I’ve left out a lot of grievances I have with Mountain Lion – just take my word for it: if Mountain Lion is fine for you, so would be iOS. If you truly utilize the Mac’s capabilities and power, Snow Leopard is almost a thousand times better. No hyperbole;) ]
I asked about the no-Firefox thing and got some nonsense about competitor browsers blah yadda blah. No one in the history of Apple ever bought a Mac for Safari and Firefox is a free, open source browser unaffiliated with any particular platform, so where competition comes in is beyond me. Then something else was mentioned about Firefox add-ons being security hazards… Yeah right. Threats to corporate interests, maybe. Anyway, I can sort of see why you might not want members of the public randomly downloading and installing software on demo computers, but realistically speaking, the freedom and joy of unlimited access to the computers is what has always sold those computers to the otherwise unsure. They are only demo computers after all… and supposedly secure ones – what are you so afraid of, Apple? Set up the demos with permissions to download and install software like before – let us enjoy our computers!
The only bright spot was having my first hands on experience with the new iPad mini. It truly is impressive to behold. Perfect weight and size. Just a true joy.
Now, those of you who read my blog regularly know better than to actually expect any holiday gift review from me. Go buy your loved ones whatever the hell they want and don’t be stingy! It’s not about you – make them happy! Merry Happy Holidays and be well 🙂 | <urn:uuid:bede69ed-1fa8-46c6-bfe9-fbfaaa382df3> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://stupidityflowering.com/tag/technology/ | 2019-04-23T07:51:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578596541.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190423074936-20190423100936-00290.warc.gz | en | 0.940381 | 1,074 |
Title Efficiency Measurement of Lifelong Learning, using of Balanced Scorecard Concept
Project Number 510007-2010-LLP-CZ-LEONARDO-LMP
Product Dissemination strategy
Title Dissemination strategy
Product Type others
Description We designed dissemination strategy and built up a professional knowledge network on national and international level to share the results and experience gained in EMOLL project with identified target groups.
Target group From the short-term view we focused on our EMOLL expert team, pilot organizations and their staff, involved in the implementation process. From the long-term view we target at organizations, companies from all different sectors and their staff, i.e. top managers, HR managers, line managers, trainers, consultants, etc.
The main material outcomes of the dissemination and networking activities are:
- EMOLL dissemination strategy
- EMOLL knowledge network concept (national and international level)
- EMOLL conference on “Good Practices, Issues and Innovations in Quality and Efficiency Management of Vocational Training”
- Project website www.emoll.eu (information about the project, partners, objectives, outcomes, activities)
- EMOLL Facebook account http://www.facebook.com/pages/Efficiency-Measurement-of-Lifelong-Learning/199856160145103
- EMOLL discussion group on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/groups/EMOLL-group-4468741?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr
- Articles on EMOLL approach and experience
- Workshops, seminars, round tables, panels
- Brochure, pads, calendars, pens
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Hello everyone. I’ve been reading some interesting marketing articles this week, but the one that struck a chord the most was about branding. The article I read mentioned about updating your branding/author brand every three to four months. What do you think about that? Do you follow this idea for your own writing or business?
The article didn’t mean to change your logo or pay for new author photos for your books, but to update your social media headers, ads, tweets, posts and book photos regularly. I updated mine when my latest book came out in July, and do change it with every book release, but am now thinking that I might give the headers etc an overhaul. I do however, update my social media graphics/book posts each week and interact with my followers there regularly.
Here are some of my branding concepts that follow through for book launches and author talks. You can see how it changes for each book, but stays within my theme of romance.
Ninja School Mum book launch:
If you love me, I’m yours book launch:
My Author branding:
It’s good if your business or writing page reflects what you do or the genre you write in, otherwise it’s confusing to customers. Whichever way you go forward, keep in mind that you are telling a story about who you are as a business/person/writer and you can do this very well with images and text. Get it right and it will help people understand what you are all about and help them to decide to visit again. Have a fabulous week everyone. From Lizzie.Be the first to know when my next book is available! Follow me on social media for updates. | <urn:uuid:6d479093-e934-4ac5-ae98-906f533ea74c> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://lizziechantree.com/2018/11/19/monday-marketing-2/?replytocom=3382 | 2020-07-08T13:55:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655897027.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20200708124912-20200708154912-00174.warc.gz | en | 0.95208 | 351 |
Communication is the core to a Successful Companion Parrot Lifestyle™; I invite you to join in the conversation and be a part of helping every parrot, everywhere, have a happy home.
We've gathered and continue to gather wonderful Companion Parrot Advocates from around the world to write their stories and experiences. These are Advocates who are making a difference by working tirelessly in Advocacy itself, Parrot Rescue and Sanctuary and Avian Veterinarian Care. These stories, and real life experiences are here for you to read, share, learn and apply not only to your own flock, but to your own efforts inside your own companion parrot advocacy.
I hope you'll find ideas and inspiration while reading through these Advocate Articles. Remember, your thoughts and comments are important, they are integral to the success of our prime directive here; To give every parrot, every where, a happy home. | <urn:uuid:7d0396e0-9983-4504-b336-88f11743ac2c> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://flockcall.com/advocate-center/the-library/?page=%7B%7Bpage-num%7D%7D&categories=-Musings&tags=Parrot+Advocate | 2021-10-24T16:10:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323586043.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20211024142824-20211024172824-00012.warc.gz | en | 0.946837 | 185 |
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Emmett, Idaho (Sweet, Idaho)
Roy Stone Hot Springs
The full-featured, family friendly, year-round Roy Stone Hot Springs is located in Sweet, near Emmett, Idaho.
7880 Highway 52Sweet,
Roy Stone Facilities
The property features a
natural hot spring fed pool and hot tub in addition to adjacent
outdoor recreation and private lodge. All can be reserved
individually or combined. Also on the grounds are metal sculptors
created by artist, Ward Johns
accommodations are currently available, check for lodging in nearby Emmett,
Video: Roy Stone Hot Springs
Roy Stone Hot Springs is a commercial Idaho hot springs located in Sweet, Idaho. Roy Stone features a hot tub, swimming pool, event center and more.
Just 40 miles from Boise, 10 miles
west of Horseshoe Bend and 12 miles east of Emmett. From Home Depot
on west State Street, travel north on Hwy. 55 to Horseshoe Bend.
Turn west onto Hwy. 52 and go 10.1 miles. Look for the blue roofs.
See below map...
No Soap, Shampoo or BIO-Soap/Shampoo
Allowed in Hot Springs! Avoid Being Fined!
Public hot springs are not bathing facilities
and do not have 'plumbing' like that of commercial, improved hot springs. Soap and shampoo (including biodegradable soap and shampoo) do not completely breakdown
naturally. This pollutes our water systems (ingested by fish, animals, humans)
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When your AdWords success is measured in terms of cost-per-acquisition (CPA), all of your activities support optimizing for CPA. CPA works well for businesses that are interested in capturing as many leads as possible. But for eCommerce companies, it is not the right way to measure and grow your PPC efforts. We have looked at hundreds of AdWords accounts and we repeatedly see four ways the CPA model stalls your AdWords growth and success.
1. CPA takes your eye off the ball
As an eCommerce business, AdWords is a channel for you to sell your products and generate revenue or profit. When you measure your PPC efforts in a CPA model your attention is shifted from profit to optimizing the cost of acquisitions. This distraction leads you to make tradeoffs between costs and traffic instead of improving the performance of your business. This distraction ultimately misaligns your goals with the goals of the rest of your company, making it harder to justify budgets and prove the impact on the business.
The majority of PPC vendors and experts have exceptional credentials about how to drive CPA costs down and volume up. They are armed with charts and dashboards about how fantastic your campaign performance will be. However, as an eCommerce company, CPA is an irrelevant metric for you. You are generating sales, not leads, and each sale brings in a different amount.
Solution: Keep your focus on profit and revenue, centering all of your activities around optimizing for revenue and profit. You know the ability for each keyword to generate profit. Use it when you decide to what bid for the next click. When bidding, make regular adjustments based on the profitability of individual keywords, rather than some average number everyone in your industry is using.
2. CPA simply makes you a part of the flock
Using the CPA model will make you a part of a flock of sheep, err, competitors. In any given industry, the common CPA target is roughly the same across all competitors, conversion rates are roughly the same, and the core keyword bank is about the same. The end result is a flock of sheep all doing roughly the same thing which only drives up CPC. When your company is stuck in this group-think method it’s impossible to stand out and effectively rise above your competition.
Solution: Stand above your competitors by optimizing your AdWords account on profit, rather than the same metrics your competitors are using. Conversion rates matter, but profit (or at least revenues) matter more when deciding where to spend your ad budget. You have the data on the value of each customer, use it to drive your keyword bank and adjust your bids.
3. CPA hides your real business performance
CPA creates a separation between an acquisition and the value returned to your business by focusing on the cost of getting a customer to your site, rather than how much the customer purchases. In this situation, you could double the number of conversions at a lower CPA and it could be devastating for your business. When you create separation between acquisition and profit, it creates a scenario where you are no longer able to quickly adjust your AdWords efforts to match your business goals.
Solution: Measure and optimize based on the profit returned to you. When optimizing for profit you can exponentially increase traffic without having a negative effect on your business. When you have a direct correlation between ad spend and profit, you can easily decide the target profit you want to achieve and adjust your bids accordingly.
4. CPA forces decisions according to averages
The CPA model creates an AdWords account structure that supports your CPA target. When assembling keywords and ads into groups that match your site structure or product categories, the CPA model adjusts only to changes in the averages, rather than individual changes. For instance, an ad copy change can have a positive effect on one keyword and a negative effect on another, but when you have keywords lumped together these effects get lost in the averages.
Solution: Separate each keyword and each bid, recognizing the individual contribution to profit differently than the rest. Control, accuracy and leverage are your favorite tools to buy the best and most profitable clicks, you need all you can have of all three. Averages = Bad, Real data = Good. It is there, use it!
As you know, online competition is fierce and the competitive landscape changes on a daily basis. The most reliable way to win on AdWords is to leverage every advantage in your favor. Get a free AdWords audit to see how moving from the CPA model will help drive more profit and revenue for your business. | <urn:uuid:209fa17e-4648-416f-8170-369ce7f429c8> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://www.finch.com/fi/blog/10381-4-reasons-the-cpa-model-is-stalling-your-ecommerce-adwords-performance | 2018-03-17T06:39:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257644701.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20180317055142-20180317075142-00654.warc.gz | en | 0.941879 | 938 |
You either are or love someone who is a “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” fan. For me, it’s my best friend AJ who once wrote “Buffy” fan-fiction and will never live it down. But in saying you’re a Buffy fan, everyone agrees it means you love the TV show, not the 1992 movie. (Which I argue was amazing purely on the basis of Luke Perry.) Yesterday, it was announced that a second “Buffy” movie is in the works—magical words fans of the show have been waiting to hear since it ended six years ago. But they were chagrined to discover that “Buffy” scribe Joss Whedon is not at all involved in this new project. Instead, the remake will be the brainchild of Fran and Kaz Kuzui, who produced the original movie. Oh, and Sarah Michelle Gellar will not be starring in this new flick. Nor will their be any Angel, Willow, Xander, or Spike in this new slayer universe. [HollywoodReporter]Fans are already up-in-arms over these new revelations. But even though Whedon is the mad genius behind the franchise, the Kuzuis own the rights to the concept since they bought them off Whedon when he was a nobody. The Kuzuis say they haven’t ruled out the idea of involving Whedon—even a million years later, he’s still churning out best-selling “Buffy” comic books. Since “unto each generation, a slayer is born,” the idea for the movie is to pick a new slayer and group of friends who help her fight off vampires. The look and feel of the movie will be darker, and they hope to make into a series of flicks, a la “Spiderman.”
All I can say is, if these vampires are sparkly, I’m gonna bite a biotch. The same applies if Hayden Panettiere is cast as Buffy…cause that just seems like something they would do. Don’t the Kuzuis realize that they might be the emperor, but Joss is the clothes? People actually own t-shirts that say “Joss Whedon Is My Master.” Seriously, there will be a giant goth-geek riot if precious “Buffy” memories are tarnished. What do you guys think, is there any way this movie is not going to be a disaster? Will you go see it regardless or adamantly refuse out of loyalty to the show? | <urn:uuid:a7c86bce-a77a-4ce6-a26d-d79e6612246e> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://www.thefrisky.com/2009-05-26/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-movie-remake-in-works/ | 2014-07-24T13:25:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997888972.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025808-00185-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95548 | 543 |
Saddles & Spokes takes cyclists through the scenic rolling hills of Northern Davidson County of North Carolina. You’ll enjoy the fully-supported routes, a silent auction, and a delicious post-ride spaghetti lunch. Come see why our riders and volunteers claim this to be one of the best charity rides in the Triad supporting Hoof and Paw Therapeutic Riding and Activity Center, a non-profit that provides horseback riding to children and adults with cognitive, physical, and/or emotional disabilities (a Special Olympic partner).
Event details and schedule
Select between the 50K or 100K route options – neither will disappoint! Both clearly marked routes depart from Friedberg Moravian Church. Enjoy fully-stocked rest stops manned by smiling volunteers. SAG support is provided as well as police and volunteer fire departments along the route for increased traffic control.
- 7:00am On-Site Registration & Breakfast Begins
- 8:00am 100K Route Rides Roll Out
- 8:15am 50K Route Rides Roll Out
- 10:45am Spaghetti Lunch Begins, Silent Auction, & Complimentary Rider Massages
Take advantage of the early bird pricing. Register for the ride before May 21st, 2022 for only $30 (a $5 savings), registration will then increase to $35. Event t-shirts are only guaranteed to pre-registered cyclists.
This event supports Hoof and Paw Therapeutic Riding and Activity Center (www.hoofandpawtrac.org), a non-profit that provides horseback riding to children and adults with cognitive, physical, and/or emotional disabilities (a Special Olympics partner).
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Thompson Lightning Protection, Inc.
Address: 901 Sibley Highway, St. Paul, MN
Business Type: Manufacturer
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Hemorrhoids, although not dangerous, can be terribly painful and annoying. By using these essential oils for hemorrhoids, you can help your body put them away safely.
Essential oils have a wide variety of health uses and are perfect for when you prefer a natural, non-intrusive solution. Besides, you can get all the amazing benefits of essential oils for overall health.
There are many medications for hemorrhoids, but you’ll be surprised by all the effects essential oils can have on them.
They work as anti-inflammatories, pain soothers, antibacterials and even help digestion. All these functions are crucial when treating hemorrhoids since the most important thing is to reduce swelling and pain.
What Are Hemorrhoids?
Hemorrhoids are the swelling of veins around or inside your rectum. It’s a common condition and it isn’t dangerous, but it can get to be very painful, especially while pooping.
Other symptoms include swelling, itching, and irritation around your anus. The most common sign is bleeding during bowel movements, although this usually doesn’t cause any pain.
The most common causes of hemorrhoids are:
- Pushing or straining during bowel movements.
- Chronic diarrhea or constipation.
- Straining while doing a hard physical effort.
Internal hemorrhoids are those where the swelling of the veins happens inside the rectum. They usually don’t hurt, since there are little pain-sensing nerves there. They can still produce bleeding due to the irritation of that swollen vein.
External hemorrhoids happen under the skin surrounding your anus. There are much more pain-sensitive nerves in that area, which makes them more painful.
Sometimes hemorrhoids can grow big enough to be pushed outside of the anal opening, looking like pink bumps around your anus. This is known as a prolapsed hemorrhoid, and they are especially painful and uncomfortable.
They tend to fall back inside on their own, but you can push them back gently if necessary.
Hemorrhoids tend to go away on their own in a few weeks, but if you have one you should still see your doctor to be sure it’s not a sign of a more serious condition. A doctor can also remove hemorrhoid that won’t.
How to Prevent Hemorrhoids
You can prevent hemorrhoids by having these tips in mind:
- Don’t strain while pooping. Straining and holding your breath puts more pressure on the veins in your lower rectum.
- Don’t hold it. Go to the bathroom as soon as you feel the urge to poop and don’t wait to pass it out. Otherwise, your stool could become drier and harder, increasing chances of irritation.
- Eat fiber and drink water. Fiber and liquid help to soften the stool, which will reduce the need for straining. If you have hemorrhoids, be sure to increase your liquid intake and consume extra fiber. You can find fiber in beans, broccoli, wheat and oat bran, whole-grain foods, and fresh fruit.
- Exercise. Moderate exercise will keep your blood moving, which will reduce pressure on your rectum’s veins. It will also increase bowel movement. Sitting for long periods of time can increase the risk of hemorrhoids, so be sure to keep yourself active.
Top 4 Essential Oils for Hemorrhoids Treatment
This essential oil is great for treating both internal and external wounds. Cypress oil has antiseptic properties that promote blood clotting and can improve blood circulation around the hemorrhoid. It does this by helping the contraction of blood vessels.
Cypress oil can also relax muscles and inhibit spasms, which can help with bowel movement. It even helps reducing anxiety on some people, which might help you if you have constipation.
Apply it topically after diluting it in a carrier oil. You can also try taking a bath adding 5 drops to the tub and let it soak for a while.
This essential oil has incredible anti-inflammatory and pain-soothing benefits. Several ancient civilizations had frankincense in high esteem: it has been seen in Egyptian murals and was used in Hebrew rituals.
Frankincense’s acids can inhibit inflammatory molecules, thus reducing inflammations relieving pain. It will also protect the irritated area from infections, thanks to its ability to kill harmful bacteria. And there’s more: it helps stimulating bowel movement by increasing the digestive enzymes and relaxing the muscles of the digestive tract.
You can dilute frankincense in a carrier oil like coconut oil or jojoba oil. To apply it topically, warm the oil between your fingers and massage it on hemorrhoids one or two times a day until the swelling recedes.
This essential oil has a long history of usage in folkloric medicine from Europe to Africa. Helichrysum promotes the secretion of gastric juices crucial used by our bodies to break down food, which decreases chances of irritation in the rectum.
It works as a desinflamatory if applied topically. Just as frankincense, it lowers swelling and improves bloodflow through the inflamed area. Helichrysum will also prevent irritation thanks to its antifungal and antibacterial properties.
This oil is best applied topically directly into the hemorrhoid.
Tea Tree Oil
This oil is an excellent desinflamatory, helping reduce swelling and pain, and its antiseptic properties hill fight irritation and itching. Tea tree oil being an antibacterial, it will also prevent the formation of infections in the area. This way, tea tree oil will help with the healing of possible tearing wounds in the skin around the hemorrhoid.
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Fall Lecture Series with Yaron Deckel, Regional Director for Canada of the Jewish for Israel, Regional Director for Canada
Presented by the Vered Israel Cultural & Educational Centre in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Ottawa and the Soloway Jewish Community Centre
Wednesday, October 19 – Friday, October 21 • 7:00 pm
Yaron Deckel, now the Regional Director for Canada of the Jewish Agency, and well known, long time, Israeli political commentator, will discuss the issues and share his knowledge, and experience in this three-part lecture series.
Israel in a Time of a Turbulent Middle East
A discussion about current affair concerns and challenges in a region which never suffers from a dull moment. Israel is facing its fifth general election campaign in three years. What will be the outcome of this round, and what influence will it have on Jewish communities in the diaspora? Will any power in the world stop Iran in the nuclear race? What are the prospects for another violent circle in Gaza strip? Is there any future for the Israeli/Palestinian peace talks? And what is the future of the new, unusual Israeli government?
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The Panthers and Eagles last played in Week 12 of 2012, when Carolina mounted a fourth-quarter comeback to win 30-22 on Monday Night Football at Lincoln Financial Field. This year, the two will once again square off in Philadelphia on Monday Night Football.
Cam Newton and
Cam Newton continued his ascent in 2013, completing 61.7 percent of his passes for 3,379 yards, 24 touchdowns, 13 interceptions and an 88.8 quarterback rating, while adding 585 yards and six touchdowns rushing. Whereas the Eagles' offense thrived on quick strikes and plays that ripped off 20-plus yards at a time, the Panthers' offense relied on a methodical approach to matriculating the ball down the field, churning out yards, chewing up the clock and averaging 31:54 of possession time per game (fifth highest in the NFL). Each team relied on running the football but were complete opposites stylistically from an offensive standpoint. The Panthers might have to rely on running the ball even more in 2014 after losing wide receivers Steve Smith and Brandon LaFell, though the offense will attempt to replace them with first-round pick Kelvin Benjamin, Jerricho Cotchery, Tiquan Underwood and former Eagle Jason Avant.
Really, however, the Panthers' defense was the story of their 2013 season. The unit, led by reigning Defensive Player of the Year Luke Kuechly, was as physical and intimidating as any in the NFL and quickly rose to an elite level. It ranked second against the run (86.9 yards per game), sixth against the pass (214.3 yards per game), second in total yards (301.3 yards per game), second in points allowed (15.1 per game), tied for fifth in takeaways (29) and led the league in sacks (60). The Panthers added more ammo to their pass rush with second-round pick defensive end Kony Ealy to complement Charles Johnson and Greg Hardy. | <urn:uuid:0d2cfbf3-c313-4247-97ea-805a86491bf5> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/article-1/Week-10-Preview-Battle-Of-Pro-Bowl-QBs/85478338-7ca7-43ab-b413-ef6bbc9d9f9f | 2014-09-01T18:40:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535919886.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20140909051737-00325-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966667 | 396 |
ABSTRACT: This paper considers whether the use of individual informant rewards or bounties is a viable cartel detection tool. Rewards have the potential to enhance enforcement by revealing infringements that would otherwise go undetected. In order to be effective they should be made available to individuals directly involved in cartels because they may be the only viable source of information. Mere protection from retaliatory measures of employers does not create an adequate incentive to report misbehaviour. The personal costs and risks associated with whistleblowing are so significant that effective rewards may need to amount to a lottery win in order for reporting to be worthwhile. Reward systems pose some dangers to the enforcement system, but these can be managed.
KEYWORDS: Cartel enforcement; whistleblower rewards
CITATION: Stephan, A. (2014) "Is the Korean Innovation of Individual Informant Rewards a Viable Cartel Detection Tool?", CCP Working Paper 14-3 | <urn:uuid:d36b671f-80dc-430d-b46e-e66ec596fe2a> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://competitionpolicy.ac.uk/publications/working-papers/working-paper-14-3 | 2017-09-24T06:37:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818689897.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170924062956-20170924082956-00293.warc.gz | en | 0.904652 | 184 |
Luxury Designer Chameleon
The Luxury Chameleon is a perfect table for any interior. The models curved lines can be customized to the highest level.
There are many options of finishes on beech hardwood. Such as mahogany, oak, cherry-tree, wedge, natural. Even matt, gloss or satin in black white or grey.
It has tubular designed legs that are a standard finish. However there are different leg shapes to choose from such as round, squared, quarter circle or elongated.
The table has professional rubbers and authentic Italian slate. It also has quality cloth for the preferred game of your choice. The table is available in American pool, snooker or English pool.
Size 7.5ft. Playing area 190 x 95cm. External size 224 x 129cm. 3 piece slate.
Size 8ft. Playing area 210 x 105cm. External size 244 x 139cm. 3 piece slate.
Size 8.5ft. Playing area 230 x 115cm. External size 268 x 153cm. 3 piece slate.
Size 9ft. Playing area 254 x 127cm. External size 280 x 153cm. 3 piece slate.
Table comes with cues, 4 triangle, chalk, balls and cue rack.
Bucket pockets standard.
Dining / conference top in 2 or 3 pieces to transform your pool table.
Mother of pearl silkscreen sights on rails as an option.
Benches built to match upon request.
Storage kit for dining top an option.
Prices start from £6500.
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2022 Week 35 – We’re Listening
Some of you might remember back in the early 2000’s IndyScan.com used to be a resource page for Radio Scanner enthusiasts. We started small with the Central Indiana area and eventually grew to cover the entire state. We even had a monthly newsletter and conducted regular surveys to get feedback from our visitors. That was a lot of work and before kids. The site went dormant for several years before I brought it back, creating the Blog you’re reading today.
Working from home during Covid-19 and the civil unrest in Downtown Indianapolis last year rekindled my interest in Amateur radio and police scanning.
A LOT has changed in the years since I was active. Then, there were independent radio systems for every agency, and it took a lot of effort to understand how it all worked. Now the State of Indiana has a massive statewide digital system (Called SAFE-T) that’s very impressive and well documented. In addition, Marion, Hamilton, and Madison Counties have combined their own police/fire radio system into a shared digital system that can interface with the State system.
These days all the system details are published online at a site called Radio Reference. When I got out of the hobby years ago, I remember taking my entire database of information and sending it to the guys at Radio Reference, hoping they could use it to help others in the hobby.
That old database of frequencies is all but useless now with the implementation of the digital wide-area networks. New systems mean new requirements for listening. In order for me to get back into the hobby, I needed to purchase a Digital Scanner. After some research, I decided on the Uniden SDS100 handheld digital scanner. They also make the SDS200 desk/mobile unit, which I purchased shortly after the SDS100 (I was hooked again).
Since I have my Amateur Radio License, I can legally travel with a scanner. So I’ve taken the SDS100 on many road (and camping) trips and enjoyed the optional GPS unit that auto-tunes the local systems as you travel. Of course, you must program all of this, but that’s part of the fun! The SDS200 stays in the home office, where it can be remotely accessed using the ProScan software I have online and connected to the Web. When you connect to the SDS200, you’ll listen to the same thing I am in real-time.
It’s been great to once again follow along with the local police and fire departments and the state agencies as they do their job protecting the public. A lot has changed in the past 20 years, and the new technology is nothing short of amazing. I’m glad I got back into the hobby!
Keeping with the listening theme… Life in Indy has released three public playlists on Spotify.
These are excellent playlists with a nice mix of Central Indiana artists. Check them out, and let me know what you think!
And finally… Last week I mentioned the Tom Bihn Synic 30 backpack. Well, it was delivered last week, and I’m in the process of giving it a proper shakedown. Initial thoughts are good, very good, and I can honestly say it’s exceeded my expectations thus far. I’ll report back with a more detailed review in a few weeks. Stay tuned!
First Impressions – Apple AirPods
After purchasing Christmas presents for everyone on my list this year I decided to get myself a gift. After 3-weeks of waiting the package finally arrived… Apple AirPods!
I love listening to music (mostly Spotify) whenever I can and after seeing the AirPods announcement last fall I was curious about how they performed. Thanks to a lot of media outlets getting advanced units the reviews were out there before the AirPods were even available for order. For the most part they were very positive.
I’ve tried the inexpensive Bluetooth earbuds connected with a cord that is supposed to go behind your head and I’m not a fan. The cord gets caught up in your clothing and makes the entire process rather uncomfortable and annoying. Now, with the AirPods, you can actually go completely wireless and it addresses all the issues I was frustrated with.
The AirPods sound better than the EarPods that come with the iPhones. They are just slightly larger and, in my case, fit very comfortably in my ears. The bass is noticeably improved and the overall sound is very nice. Battery life and bluetooth range is very impressive too.
These are not going to replace my Bose noise canceling over-the-ear headphones that I use when I want to tune the world out but they will be part of my daily carry for those times where I need a little music to make the day go a little better.
It’s to early to say if they were worth the $159 asking price but so far I haven’t regretted the purchase!
Belkin Qode Ultimate Pro Bluetooth Keyboard Case for iPad Air 2
Wow, that title is long! I’ve used the Belkin Qode Ultimate Pro Bluetooth Keyboard Case (Qode for short) since last December and it’s been put into service on a daily basis.
I get pulled into a lot of meetings at work and client sites and I always grab my iPad to take notes in Evernote. Having a fully functional keyboard makes that task so much easier. I can type pretty well with the on-screen iPad keyboard but the physical alternative is so much better.
The Qode offers good protection of the iPad, front and back. One of the things I really like about the keyboard is it’s a separate piece so you can easily detach it and use the iPad on its own. You can also attach the Apple Smart Cover as an alternative while leaving the back of the iPad covered and protected.
As with any portable device there are usually some compromises. The only one I can think of with the Qode is the keys are a little on the small side, but nothing drastic. Switching back and forth between the MacBook Pro and the Qode is pretty effortless.
The Qode offers multiple backlight levels as well as two angles of viewing for the iPad screen. Battery life is rated at 1-year with normal use and I can honestly say that claim is conservative. 9-months of regular use and I’m sitting at around 50% battery capacity.
When activated (by propping the iPad into one of two magnetic slots) the Qode instantly connects to the iPad. It has a lot of shortcut keys you can program as well as dedicated keys for cut/copy/paste/volume etc. You can even pair it up with a second device (phone?) and toggle back and fourth with dedicated buttons.
All in the Qode ads about 1-pound of additional weight to the iPad. not bad when you consider you are getting a nicely padded rear shell and a fully functional backlit and aluminum clad keyboard on the front.
This has been an awesome addition to my daily carry and you can pick one up yourself for around $100 on Amazon.
Every Day Carry – P-7 Suspension Clip
The P-7 Suspension Clip by TEC Accessories is one of those EDC accessories that makes a lot of sense once you see how well it works. I try to keep a small key chain but even what I carry can be a little bulky in some situations. The P-7 helps keep your keys and accessories from bunching up in the bottom of your pants pocket.
By clipping the P-7 to the edge of your pocket the keys can hang vertically and all but disappear. It also keeps your keys from falling out of your pocket accidentally.
When I received the P-7 in the mail it was even smaller than I expected and adds very little bulk to your key chain once installed. The clip is very sturdy and all but impossible to bend during normal use.
If you have more items on your key chain than you want, and hate the way it gathers at the bottom of your pocket, give the P-7 a try!
Need a Little Light?
Light is something we all need. Whether naturally or artificially generated light is necessary for humans to discern distance, color and motion. For years I’ve carried some form of light or another, normally in the form of a small flashlight on my key chain.
My key chain light of choice for the past 10 years was a Photon light. Small, inexpensive and very durable the Photon has been useful in countless situations throughout the years. Recently while reading the Every Day Carry blog I stumbled upon a new light that I just had to try.
The Streamlight Nano has some pretty impressive specs:
- Up to 8 hrs. run time
- Machined aircraft-grade aluminum with anodized finish
- Powered by 4 alkaline button cells (included)
- 100,000 hr. lifetime high-intensity LED
- LED available in white (10 lumens)
- 1.47″ x .51″
- .36 oz.
But I think the most impressive spec is the price! This light can be purchased for less than $10 on Amazon and it’s worth every penny.
Now 10 lumens does not seem like a lot of light, especially when compared to other lights like the $40 Quark Mini 123 which can pump out 180 lumens, but it’s perfect for everyday tasks like looking under a desk, or simple task lighting. I’ve used it for lighting up a dark hallway and changing the air filter on my car at night. The tiny size all but guarantees it’s going to be with me at all times.
Operation is simple. Twist on, twist off. That’s all there is to it. No special functions or flashing patterns with this one. Compared to the Surefire 6Z and Quark Mini the Streamlight is practically non-existent.
The unit comes with button cell batteries (4 of them) as well as a split ring and spring-loaded clip. Once installed on a key chain it’s not even noticeable.
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About the Books
On the eve of her high school graduation, proper socialite Francesca “Frankie” Fairholm rebelled against her elitist and controlling family to pursue the dark lifestyle of a contract killer for the enigmatic Osiris Corporation. Years later, with her training complete, she believes she's doomed to the life of a sociopathic lone gun until a botched hit brings two unlikely allies, her cousins Addison and Katharine.
Using Katharine’s etiquette school, Elegance, Inc., as a front, the trio weave through Frankie’s dark underworld, carrying out contracts, drinking too much wine, and trying not to get each other killed.
Trouble follows the team home when the death of the cruel Fairholm matriarch reveals more than they ever wanted to know about their family. As the funeral preparations play out, the trio begin to realize there is much more to their employer than meets the eye and their family connections run deeper than they ever imagined.
Elegantly Wasted: Amazon | Goodreads | Series Website
“I needed to learn to be less melodramatic, but it was hard in this family.”
It’s been a year since Francesca Fairholm met the rest of the Osiris team and the company heads, her two half brothers Nero and Lex. As they groom her for leadership, it’s all Frankie can do to keep her cynical sarcasm in check as she starts training two new Strikers, avoids the romantic advances of Spark Dawson, and does her best to pry a little family history from her cold, distant Aunt Alexa.
With the pressure of her secret dual life building and her mother acting strangely, Frankie’s sanity is pushed to the brink when she makes a grisly discovery that shakes the young Striker to her core. Despite her cousins’ fear that her panic attacks signal a full mental breakdown, Frankie is positive she’s not crazy. Finding clarity in her personal investigation into Osiris’s origins, she uncovers more about the company than she would rather know.
As her life starts to unravel, things get deadly and, before she knows it, she’s facing down an old target’s pissed-off widow, an unstoppable mercenary, and the one thing she’s most terrified of admitting to herself. It’s possible the whole situation won’t explode in her face. Yeah, like Frankie has that kind of luck.
Uncontrollably Wasted: Amazon | Goodreads | Series Website
Inside the halls of Osiris, the men and women who make the contract killing agency tick polish their weapons and hone their skills. But how did they start working for Nero and Lex in the first place, and when did they find out they were destined to kill people for a living?
Before Frankie Fairholm let you into her crazy, dysfunctional world of murder for hire, the lives of these men and women were already in danger. Their training was put to the test alongside their morals.
A troubled Catholic school girl with a penchant for murder, a naive con-woman in over her head, a driven socialite with a bad day that keeps getting worse, an assassin second-guessing his sworn oath... being a contract killer doesn’t mean you aren’t human, it just means your humanity is hard to find, and probably a bit tarnished.
Wasteland: Amazon | Goodreads | Series Website
Welcome to family therapy, Fairholm style.
When Osiris headquarters fell, Frankie ran away with Spark Dawson, hoping the open ocean would wash the chaos of her life away. The Nameless, and her own primal urges, soon intrude and before Frankie knows it, she and Spark are traveling to Hong Kong to face what’s left of the company.
There she finds her entire family under the protection of the Sha Lù. Kat and Addi are pissed, Nero has given up, Judah won’t let anyone leave, and her mother and aunts are getting along for once in their lives. Things are weird.
Because Frankie’s life is never complicated enough, Spark becomes dead set on uncovering the deadly secrets Judah hid from him–and gets more than anyone bargained for in the answers he discovers.
Tensions are high and morality is low as Frankie starts unraveling the threads that bind them all together. As old ghosts haunt her thoughts and new enemies dance just outside her reach, she has choices to make that determine the future of everyone she knows. Now all she has to do is convince everyone she knows what she’s doing.
After all, if Osiris doesn’t fight the Nameless, they’ll all have to hide behind the Sha Lù for the rest of their lives...and the wine supply is running out.
Totally Wasted: Amazon | Goodreads | Series Website
Top Ten Movies about Assassins/Contract Killers
9. You Kill Me: Dark comedy really hits the mark… haha see what I did there? Great cast, great acting. If I had to pick a movie that mirrors concepts in the Wasted Series, it would be this… alcoholics anonymous meets Hitman.
8. Collateral: this movie triggered a concept for me in my own writing… what happens when a psychopath crosses paths with an ordinary dude who has to help him? Action, suspense… and Tom Cruise in probably one of his better roles.
7. Kill Bill: in a world with minimal female assassin leads, this movie reigns in a super powered punch. Not one, but a whole cast of killer women is a movie after my own heart. The bride on her revenge spree is one of the best stories Tarantino has told… and hey, the concept isn’t entirely his- it’s also the brainchild of Uma Thurman herself.
6. The Killers (1946): Film noir is what it’s all about here. While this movie has been remade a few times, the original is worth the watch. Two hitmen show up in a small town and hold a diner hostage waiting for a mark… based on a short story by Hemingway, the movie branches out where the short story ends and digs into the story of the target…
5. Bangkok Dangerous (2000): I’ve always been a fan of this film about a deaf assassin… super interesting concept that’s stylish and well acted. The imagery is beautiful, and while it has some flaws, I enjoyed the plot. Note: this is the original, not the Nicolas Cage version.
4. Léon: The Professional: I’m a major Luc Besson fan (hello, Fifth Element), and this movie is a favorite for obvious reasons. Little girl befriends a hitman after her family is killed. If you like watching wounded souls heal… this is the movie for you. Gary Oldman is also the best psycho there is.
3. In Bruges: This has been a steady favorite of mine for years. A movie I will always remember my little sister calling “in broojes.” Great storyline, great dialog, funny with good characters.
2. John Wick: I was super surprised to fall in love with this movie. While I’m a confessed Keanu Reeves fan girl, I had a feeling it would be just another pointless action movie that, while fun, wasn’t much for content. I was wrong. THIS MOVIE. It sent me through the ringer of emotional trauma, and Reeves is pretty much my perfect assassin.
1. Grosse Pointe Blank: I will always have a spot in my heart for this movie, and it’s been my solid number one since I first saw it back in ’97. I believe this is why I was inspired to write a book about a contract killer who ends up developing a conscience. Martin Blank, the self-improving assassin, is the glue for my construction of a more unique contract killer: more vulnerable than threatening.
About the Author
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Check out the video premiere of Taylor Swift‘s latest single “Safe & Sound” featuring The Civil Wars. The acoustic ballad will be included in the soundtrack of the upcoming movie adaptation of The Hunger Games. The video was filmed in the middle of nowhere aka Tennessee (I kid). The video is pretty simplistic throughout but it works with the song. I’m still surprised by how much I like this song. What do you guys think?
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Speaker: Linnea Hirst
Coordinator: Deb Olson
In response to the cries of election fraud from the past year, particularly because of mail-in voting, the State League of Washington has started a project to review and report on this. The project on Election Credibility or Mis/Dis information in the state of Washington began this summer with interviews and discussions with the Secretary of State’s Office. Already we have some results. The League in conjunction with the Spokesman Review produced “Your Vote” tabloid (September 5th) which includes over 30 of the mis/dis information and related facts based on that discussion with the Secretary of State. The project is continuing.
On October19 from noon to 1 pm, the project chair, Linnea Hirst (Seattle-King County League) discussed the project (where we are and where we are going) over zoom for the Pullman League of Women Voter Brown Bag series.
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alt: “Be a Voter logo, a quote saying we want people to be confident as they vote and a picture of the Spokesman Review insert called Your Vote and date and time of the upcoming elections misinformation brown bag lunch meeting”
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hp per liter
(from Mansory Press
Release) MANSORY Zapico custom bike
It's not only for four-wheeled luxury vehicles that the top-quality
range from high-end manufacturer MANSORY has received awards; its
genuine custom bike is famous too. This is shown most impressively
by the MANSORY bike Zapico, developed in collaboration with bike
customiser Thomas M. George.
The hand of company boss Kourosh Mansory is plain to see: the finest
carbon, most lavishly processed, decorates the impressive-looking
cruiser while the front mask, bug spoiler, seat module, primary
shield and silencer as well as the applications on the fuel tank,
the frame, fork, wheel rims and airbox all originate from the
MANSORY factory in the town of Brand in the Upper Palatinate region
of Bavaria. The bike's leatherwork is further testament to the
exquisite craftsmanship applied – unmistakeably MANSORY.
The custom bike is driven by a powerful 124 cubic inch (around 2,080
cm³) V2 engine made by the well-known American engine manufacturer
S&S. This large two-cylinder engine delivers a full 160 hp to the
extra-large rear tyres and can accelerate the 340 kg bike from 0 to
100 km/h in just 3.3 seconds.
Company owner and namesake Kourosh Mansory and his team have been
customising exclusive car brands like Aston Martin, Bentley,
Ferrari, Porsche and Rolls Royce since 1989. MANSORY stands for
high-tech production combined with master craftsmanship and the
finest materials. Harmoniously designed aerodynamics packages,
ultra-light aluminium wheel rims and powerful engine performance
upgrades form the basis of the company's technology range.
Top-quality accessories and stylish interiors complete the range.
With a workforce of over 80 people, MANSORY can fulfil almost any
motoring wish for its discerning customers. In Germany, Switzerland
and, through its select sales partners, all over the world.
Key technical data:
Front: 3.5 x 18" carbon disc
Rear: 10 x 18" carbon disc by Mansory
S&S T 124 V2 (spring-loaded vibration), the only one of its
kind found in this suspension worldwide
Capacity: 124 cubic inches (ca. 2,080 cubic cm)
Power: 160 hp at 5,200 revs per minute
Gears: 5 gears
CFRP by MANSORY:
Design by Thomas M. George
Front mask, bug spoiler, seat module, primary shield, silencer
applications, fuel tank, frame, fork, wheel rims, airbox
Aluminium applications on the fuel tank, spoiler and rear fender
Around 340 kg with the tank filled up
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An aromatic sticky rice dessert flavored with pandan leaves, finished with roasted sesame seed topping. A Vietnamese treat!
Sriracha Buffalo Chicken Wings
Classic Seven Layer Bars
Summer Shrimp Succotash
Brioche Bread, crazy delicious!
Cheesy Ravioli and Italian Sausage Skillet
Lemon Dill Kale Chips...made with clean ingredients and they're raw, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and paleo-friendly too!
This bourbon glazed salmon with perfectly balanced sweet and savory flavor is an easy and delicious dish for the whole family!
There is nothing better than fresh lemonade during the summer. Try this bubbly twist on the classic!
Kellogg's Good. Night. Snack. Limited edition cereal packaging - basically telling people it's ok to eat cereal at night.
Whipped Coconut Cream: A great dairy free alternative to standard whipped cream that's just as easy to make and twice as delicious!
Fig Zucchini Pasta with Hemp Seed Crumble is a raw, vegan, and gluten free pasta dish using fresh summer produce topped addicting crumble.
Baked Beans with Brown Sugar & Pineapple
Cinnamon stuffed brioche bites
Tequila Paloma. A wonderfully refreshing summer cocktail!
Delicious mouth watering roasted carrots. The fresh rosemary adds a sweet pine flavor that is mellowed by the rich buttery texture of roasted garlic.
Crispy on the outside & fluffy on the inside, these Creamy Greek Zucchini Patties are so delicious, you better make a double batch!
German sausage, filled with Swiss cheese and jalapeño, wrapped in Manuka smoked bacon… Definitely not your average hot dog!
Ahi Tuna, sweet onions, and seaweed marinated with sesame oil, soy sauce, topped with inamona.
Sweet & Spicy Pineapple Grilled Pork Chops
Almond Cranberry Bundt, laden with tart dry fruit, healthy nuts, spiced with cinnamon, dusted with confectioner's sugar
Chili Garlic Spring Stir Fry, flavor filled, comes together in 15 minutes!
Caramelized Pecan Banana 'Ice Cream' with Chocolate Hazelnut Swirl, made from frozen banana amped up with caramelized pecans & nutella!
Quinoa Chicken Parmesan, with an amazingly crisp quinoa crust
Banana, Strawberry and Pineapple Steel-Cut Oatmeal. Tastes like summer!
Spanakopita Bites with Goat Cheese and Artichokes
Sweet Potato Salad with Charred Corn and Miso. Vegan, mayo-free alternative to typical potato salad!
Maple glazed donuts topped with crumbled, crispy bacon: the complete breakfast.
Whole Chicken in a Slow Cooker
Lazy Fruit Pie, Blackberry with White Chocolate, crust lined with white chocolate, filled with pastry cream, topped with favorite fruit, done!
Jalapeño Cornbread Poppers, jalapeño halves filled with cornbread, perfect appetizer, with high altitude baking instructions
How to Make Marzipan, or Almond Paste
Kale and Almond Salad with Lemon and Parmesan
Blueberry Basil Syrup, brings the best of summer together in a rich and silky syrup for making sodas, topping ice cream, drizzling on pancakes, you name it!
Tuna Crudo with Pickled Eggplant and Fiery Roasted Tomato Puree
Coffee Chili Ribs, slow roasted for hours, hint of sweetness, tender, smoky, with 4-ingredient dry rub
Orange olive oil pound cake and trying new things
Moroccan spiced carrots are roasted to perfection then topped with a cooling herb yogurt sauce and dukkah! It's a great make-ahead, gluten free, and vegetarian dish!
Sriracha and Lime butter drizzled over pan fried chicken
Sweet Chilean Dulce de leche with Dutch spheres. A delicious toppings, thick creme caramel on a whole wheat bun. Every bite tastes like more.
Corned beef hash / Shepherd's pie
Cold smoked trout pizza tart with lemon, pesto and pine nuts.
Garlic Sautéed Skillet Zucchini
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FULL TIME OPPORTUNITIES
There are currently no full time positions available at HOPE for Hyndman Charter School.
The HOPE for Hyndman Charter School is currently accepting applications for a Part Time Americorp Position. All PA clearances are required! Please submit Letter of Interest, Resume, Copy of PA Certificate, and 3 current letters of Reference (within a 5 years period) to Carey Ohler at firstname.lastname@example.org.
The HOPE for Hyndman Charter School is currently seeking substitutes for the 2017-2018 school year. Substitutes are needed in the following areas:
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The Nokia Asha 200 (Aqua) is a Symbian Series 40 OS phone supporting dual-band GSM. The device features dual-SIM support with Easy Swap slot, QWERTY keyboard. This is not a smart phone, but a feature phone with the ability to download and run Java Applications and Games.
I like one thing in this phone(high sound quality) only that.But it have many problems such as NO STREAMING,NO 2G/3G,MANY APPLICATIONS DOESNT SUPPORT.And other many problems.
The phone features a 2 MP camera with 4x zoom. Video recording and playing is also possible in multiple formats. One of the notable features in the Asha 200 is the memory storage. The internal memory is only 10 MB but the external memory can be expanded up to 32 GB through microSD card. Once the battery is fully charged, the phone offers talk time up to 7 hours. The standby time of the phone is 888 hours.
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Nowadays, it seems like real estate agents are everywhere, literally. Your best friend’s wife is an agent, your neighbor’s nephew is an agent, your tennis coach is a part-time agent, it seems like everyone either is or knows an agent.
Well, believe or not, I sometimes get calls from people asking me questions about their own agent. Some of them picked the agent they knew and they are now having doubts. Knowing someone doesn’t make this person the right choice or the perfect fit for your needs. If you are questioning your decision, here are a few things you should consider.
My first tip may seem like an obvious one: never underestimate the importance of setting your boundaries, even if it is someone you know and trust. Be clear in terms of what you want, what you expect from this important transaction whether you are selling or buying a property. Once that’s done, you will feel more relaxed and if something unpredictable happens, your agent will know where you stand. And remember – communication is key throughout the entire process.
Another important factor when choosing the right real estate agent is MARKETING. Does your agent have a marketing plan? We live in a world where we are bombarded by marketing, everywhere we go, online and offline. Social media ads, newspapers, magazines, billboards ads, google ads, you name it! Having great pictures of your house is one of the most crucial element of your broker’s marketing strategy. If you are not completely satisfied with the pictures your agent took, don’t be shy to advise him. This will make or break your entrance on the housing market! Trust me…it could change everything!!! Don’t settle for the good old agent that will just sit and wait. With all the tools available today, you must find a proactive agent that will create a buzz around your property.
You need to feel comfortable with your broker, meaning that you are able to talk freely and know that your agent actively listens to you. A good broker knows the market and is an excellent listener; he or she is aware of your thoughts and needs, and will seek to find the right solution for you. Your real estate agent will be in your life throughout the entire sale or purchase process. That person will become your new BFF. Trust me, you will be talking almost everyday!
All agents have a code of ethics to follow. I recommend that you familiarize yourself with it : 2018-code-of-ethics-standards-of-practice. Your agent must be there to open the door to your property, it’s his JOB! He or she acts on your behalf. Your broker is excepted to be there to greet the visitors and to answer all their questions. Your real estate agent should know all the details and characteristics of your property, and be aware of all the documentation.
A lot of people make the mistake of choosing a real estate agent solely based on his commission.
Some brokers have perfectioned there own marketing techniques and dedicate a significant amount of money on your property’s advertising budget. Dealing with an agent that has a large advertising budget might allow you to gain greater exposure and get in front of more buyers. On the other hand, if the only benefit an agent brings to the table is a cheap fee, ask yourself why. Is the agent desperate for business or unqualified? Does he or she have enough market knowledge to counsel you? A good agent works hard to earn his commission!
Don’t settle for less, find the right real estate agent for your needs. Call me if you wish to put your house on the market or buy a new property, I will be glad to advise you!
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(Editor’s note: At the time of the specialized reporting institute, Public Narrative’s name was Community Media Workshop.)
CHICAGO – By the time the 20 working journalists from across the country, and all types of media, converged in Chicago for a marathon 20-hour, two-day workshop on covering police, race and community, Freddie Gray was already dead.
The 25-year-old Baltimore man’s death while in police custody on April 19 would spark yet another protest — and riot — in an American city. But not just yet.
So it was almost prescient that the workshop opened April 23 with an introduction by Peter Moskos, an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, who began his research by becoming a beat cop for the Baltimore Police Department.
“The reason they dislike the media so vehemently,” Moskos would tell the group the following day about police, “is because they think you don’t get it.”
It was the kind of insight that underscored much of the workshop’s nine sessions, which included an on-the-record opportunity for the journalists to listen and talk to people intimately tied to one of the most pressing questions confronting this country today: Where does race and policing intersect? And how is the media covering it?
Over the course of those two days — put together and hosted in Chicago by Community Media Workshop in connection with the Poynter Specialized Reporting Institute and funded by the Robert R. McCormick Foundation — an underlying theme developed. The actors on either side, the referees in the middle, and even the researchers peering in from the outside, asked that the journalists always strive for the “full story.” Just what that means, of course, took many shapes.
“Don’t hide behind your newspaper,” said Chris Mallette, executive director of the Chicago Violence Reduction Strategy, which aims to take a holistic approach to combat crime in the inner city, pulling in social services and trying to understand why young people turn to crime in the first place.
Reinaldo Rivera, who works in the U.S. Justice Department’s Community Relations Service — what he called the “peace-making arm” of the federal department — urged the journalists to find the “counter narrative.”
“The absence of urgency is what I call complacency,” he said. “And complacency is an impediment to change.”
The workshop took reporters from the lecture halls of Columbia College Chicago, to the University of Chicago Law School, to a community group in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood.
For their own part, the journalists came from Spokane, Wash.; St. Louis; New York City; Austin, Texas; Pittsburgh, Penn.; San Jose, Calif.; and Boston. Chosen by application, this class writes stories about crime and about many of its root causes, through print, video and radio. They represented The New York Times, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, St. Louis Public Radio, the Austin American Statesman, ProPublica, the Des Moines Register, and Time Magazine, among other organizations, including nonprofits like the Southern Poverty Law Center.
They heard directly from police, lawyers, academics and other journalists, including Cheryl Corley, of NPR; Gina Barton, of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel; Cheryl Thompson, of The Washington Post; and Angela Caputo, of the Chicago Tribune.
“I’m scared of y’all,” said Chicago Police Department Deputy Chief Patricia Walsh, a 29-year veteran of the force. “We read what you say. We care what you say.”
For many of the participating journalists, the workshop was encouraging as much as it was humbling.
Beatriz Alvarado, a reporter in Corpus Christi, took a bus down into Chicago’s South Side at the end of the first day’s sessions, and came across a police stop that was, she would later say, somewhat unfamiliar to her in Texas. Still, she said, “I wasn’t really surprised because we had just talked to those kids.”
The work was already sinking in. And the journalists were already considering their next steps when they left the conference and headed back home. They returned home with two ebooks, written by Stephen Franklin, Community Media Workshop’s ethnic and community media project director — one more than 60 pages on how to cover violence, and another 20 pages on best practices for covering police.
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CHICAGO – RagLite, the inventors of the world’s first lightweight and portable LED lighting systems for consumer, commercial and professional use, today announced that it has kicked off an Indiegogo campaign to bring its wide range of versatile lighting solutions to market. RagLite aims to raise $100,000 to manufacture and launch its Fusion and Cine product lines. The Fusion line is designed with the everyday consumer in mind, and the Cine line is designed for professional cinema lighting and video production use.
“We developed RagLite out of a need of our own. As film production veterans my co-founder and I found large and heavy lighting equipment to be painfully cumbersome, so we set out to make the most versatile, portable and practical light the world has ever seen,” said Chad Soderholm, co-founder and CEO of RagLite.
RagLites are made from flexible LED light strips that are sewn into fabric in a variety of sizes. The long-lasting, energy efficient light sources are water-resistant, low-heat emitting and virtually indestructible. RagLites can be held, hung or mounted to any object, and their lightweight, flexible design enables them to be rolled up for easy transportation and storage. RagLites have many applications from film and photography to gardening, camping, and everyday use.
RagLite Fusion will be available in 3 sizes and will be offered as a basic wall-powered unit or as a kit with accessories:
• RagLite Fusion Mini (Four 4-inch LED strips) 320 lumes output – Basic $95, Kit $145
• RagLite Fusion Rugged (Eight 8-inch LED strips) 1280 lumes output – Basic $175, Kit $245
• RagLite Fusion Original (Twelve 12-inch LED strips) 2880 lumes output – Basic $275, Kit $395
RagLite Cine will be available in 3 sizes in both Tungsten and Daylite and will be offered as a kit with accessories:
• RagLite Cine Mini (Four 4-inch LED strips) 435 lumes output; 3200K Tungsten or 5600K Daylite – $295
• RagLite Cine 1X (Sixteen 12-inch LED strips) 5232 lumes output; 3200K Tungsten, 5600K Daylite or 3000K-6000K Hybrid Models – $1,450
• RagLite Cine 2X (Sixteen 24-inch LED strips) 10464 lumes output; 3200K Tungsten, 5600K Daylite or 3000K-6000K Hybrid Models – $2,450
Though the Indiegogo campaign will focus on RagLite’s Fusion and Cine lines for consumers and professionals, stretch goals met within the 40-day campaign will unlock additional product lines such as Chroma, Grow, Medi and Commando. Backers that pledge within the first 48 hours will receive a 25% discount on any RagLite unit. Contributors may also pledge $5 or more to support RagLite’s Love & Lite Foundation, a non-profit organization designed to bring light to the poorest communities in the world.
“In creating RagLite, we realized we could do something even bigger – bring light to the world,” said Lori Allen, co-founder and managing partner of RagLite. “There are over 1.3 billion people living without electricity. We want to change that by establishing RagLite’s Love & Lite Foundation that will provide RagLites to those in need.”
Through RagLite’s “Lite Up The World” referral program, up to 6 percent of all RagLite proceeds contributed during the campaign will be donated back to the Love & Lite Foundation. The RagLite Indiegogo campaign will run through Dec. 1, 2014. To view more about the project and to be one of the first to get your own RagLite visit: theraglite.com.
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The hexadecimal color code #860020 is a medium dark shade of pink-red. In the RGB color model #860020 is comprised of 52.55% red, 0% green and 12.55% blue. In the HSL color space #860020 has a hue of 346° (degrees), 100% saturation and 26% lightness. This color has an approximate wavelength of 630.62 nm.
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Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Black & White Border Stripe Table Runner - by Now Designs/Danica
Protect your table from scratches, scuffs, and spills with Now Design's Border Stripe Table Runner! This product is designed with 100% cotton for quick absorption and easy washing. The boarders are designed in blue and white, making it ideal for natural-colored dinner sets for a classy look or festive colors to accommodate any party! Now Design's Border Stripe Table Runner will preserve your tabletops and dinnerware while adding a fun look for any kitchen!
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Mount Tempest Lookout is a 2.5km, grade 2 Return hike located in Moreton Island National Park Queensland. The hike should take approximately 2hrs to complete.
Moreton Island is the most natural of the large sand islands located in Moreton Bay’s sheltered waters. At 285 metres high, Mount Tempest is the highest stabilised sand dune in the world. The walk to the top of Mount Tempest is a memorable one, with sweeping views of Moreton Bay and the island’s length a spectacular experience. Enjoy the wildflowers in spring and look for migrating humpback whales in late winter and spring.
About the region
Moreton Island National Park is a national park which covers 98% of Moreton Island in Queensland, Australia, 58 km northeast of Brisbane. It has three main townships, Bulwer, Cowan Cowan and Kooringal.
The island is home to Queensland’s oldest operating lighthouse located at Cape Moreton on the northern tip of the island. The township of Cowan was home to the Australian soldiers during WWII and many relics remain on the island. Access to the park was restricted during a clean-up of oil from the 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill.
Activities such as bushwalking, fishing and watersports are popular in the park. Humpback whale can be seen in surrounding waters between late winter and spring.
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