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YapStone Selects Couchbase to Scale its Multi-Billion Dollar Global Payments Platform
Engagement Database Technology Provides Flexibility and Scale to Support Accelerated Growth in Payments Technology and Drive World-Class Customer Experience
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF.—April 5, 2018 YapStone, provider of online and mobile payment solutions for global marketplaces, has selected Couchbase, Inc, to accelerate the growth of its multi-billion dollar payments platform for global shared economies and marketplaces. The cloud-native Couchbase Data Platform will enable YapStone to easily organize large amounts of data with varied formats that change over time.
As regulations and compliance related to payments processing continue to expand and become more complex at a global scale, data assets become increasingly valuable and hard to leverage. With Couchbase, YapStone will be able to use data as an asset more quickly and efficiently to drive additional value for end users and partners, while YapStone customers will gain the agility to easily and efficiently respond to change. These benefits are also extended to end users who will enjoy a more seamless and secure payments experience.
“The introduction of Couchbase’s NoSQL technology into our micro-services based product platform allow us to significantly accelerate our transformation initiatives and foster a competitive edge in the payments marketplace powering shared economies,” said Sanjay Saraf, CTO at YapStone. “We’re always looking for ways to better serve our customers, and Couchbase will enable us to provide the best customer experiences possible. Specifically, Couchbase will be a foundational technology for our enhanced merchant onboarding, underwriting, and trust & safety related micros-services.”
Over the past 17 years, Yapstone has delivered online and mobile payment solutions across a variety of industries including apartment rentals, vacation rentals, homeowners associations and hospitality. Last month, the company announced its closing of $71 million in Series C funding to “Take on PayPal, Stripe in Marketplace Payments,” according to TechCrunch.
Couchbase provides the YapStone platform with –enhanced flexibility and scale to expand YapStone’s growing ecosystem of new verticals and global marketplaces.
“As a partner in YapStone’s digital transformation initiatives, we’re helping to grow the company’s dominance in the global payments marketplace,” said Ravi Mayuram, Senior Vice President of Engineering and CTO at Couchbase. “The Couchbase Data Platform is built for requirements of innovative companies like YapStone, who is developing applications with agility and deploying at global scale to provide customers more efficient and secure payment experiences.”
For more information, please visit YapStone.com.
YapStone is a provider of online and mobile payment solutions for global marketplaces, software, and large vertical markets, powering electronic payments for sharing economy marketplaces, such as HomeAway® and VRBO®, and thousands of apartment and vacation rental companies, homeowners’ associations, self-storage companies, and many other markets.
YapStone processes over $18B in payment volume annually and has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies for ten consecutive years, as well as San Francisco Bay Area’s Best and Brightest Company to Work For by the National Association for Business Resources.
The company has raised over $120 million from investors including Premji Invest, Accel, and Meritech Capital. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, YapStone has additional offices in Santa Monica, California, Austin, Texas, and Ireland.
About Couchbase, Inc.:
Couchbase’s mission is to be the data platform that revolutionizes digital innovation. To make this possible, Couchbase created the world’s first Engagement Database. Built on the most powerful NoSQL technology, the Couchbase Data Platform includes open source Couchbase Server and Couchbase Mobile. The platform provides unmatched agility and manageability — as well as unparalleled performance at any scale — to deliver ever-richer and ever more personalized customer experiences.
Couchbase customers include industry leaders like Amadeus, AT&T, Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Concur, Disney, Dixons Carphone, DreamWorks Animation, eBay, Marriott, Neiman Marcus, Rakuten/Viber, Tesco, Tommy Hilfiger, Verizon, Wells Fargo, as well as hundreds of other household names.
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Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh explains his decision to leave the NFL to return to Ann Arbor.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- On the plane back to Michigan -- a journey that took a few hours or almost three decades, depending on your perspective -- Jim Harbaugh looked at his kids.
“They had some stocking caps from my kids from the ‘M Den,’” he told SI.com. “My daughter Addie was wearing a scarf. We had a gift bag of some hats and things. When I saw my kids in the maize and blue, it was a terrific feeling. It took me back to a place …
“I remember going to Moe’s Sporting Goods, and I’m looking at my kids with their stuff, their scarves, their Michigan gloves ... I would have loved to have that as a kid. You would hope you would get something like that for Christmas.”
This is the pull that lured Harbaugh back to Ann Arbor -- indefinable, and ultimately undeniable. It was not an easy decision, and it was not a quick one. Jim’s father, Jack Harbaugh, told SI.com he did not believe Jim would go to Michigan until one week ago.
They were talking about the possibilities: The NFL was still out there, with the promise of more money than Michigan would offer, and a chance to win the Super Bowl that barely eluded Harbaugh in San Francisco. Michigan people believed they would get their man, but the truth was, nothing was signed. Like many who know Jim well, Jack believed that once his younger son went to the NFL in 2011, he would never go back to college.
But then Jim started talking about all the places he went as a kid, when his father was an assistant coach at Michigan -- about St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Tappan Middle School and Pioneer High School. He talked about his time spent in Bo Schembechler’s office and his memories of growing up in Ann Arbor. He imagined what that would be like for his own children, walking the same streets and eating in the same ice cream parlors.
“Then I kind of sensed this was something realistic,” Jack said, “something he really, truly wanted to do.”
You hear so many coaches talk about doing what’s best for their families when they are really trying to fulfill their football dreams. Harbaugh found a way to do both. His young children can have the Ann Arbor childhood he had, and he can shoot for Michigan’s second national championship since 1948, which would mean as much to him as a Super Bowl.
Harbaugh said the decision came down to “several reasons, but it’s a decision I made with my heart. I’m very humbled, very honored. And ready to work and do my part. I want to do a good job. I want to be good at it. I want to be good for Michigan. That’s really the things that I really feel …
“I can barely hold a thought, I find I’m so excited.”
He leaves a situation in San Francisco that got needlessly ugly, with the owner, Jed York, ultimately forcing him out. There were stories about players hating him and him being impossible to work with, even though anybody who watched his San Francisco finale could see that the 49ers played as hard as any team in the league for their coach, to the very end.
I floated this theory to Harbaugh: When you are painted as something you’re not, you want to go where people know who you are.
“There is probably something there,” he said.
Make no mistake: This journey does not end now. It begins. As a Michigan player, Harbaugh famously guaranteed a victory over Ohio State, for the simple reason that he had always dreamed of leading Michigan to a Rose Bowl as a kid, and Michigan needed to beat Ohio State his senior year to do it. As a coach, he is wiser, and less impulsive.
“We’re not making predictions,” he said. “It’s not about describing what we’re going to do. It’s going to be doing it. We will have very high expectations for day one. Have a great first day. See if we can’t be better tomorrow than we were today.”
I asked about his reputation as a short-timer, a coach who makes teams better and then gets out. He said: “Criticism is ... it can wear some people out. It doesn’t [do that] to me. Somebody is always going to say something. I don’t want to go down the road.”
The simple truth about Harbaugh and this short-timer business is that there is precious little evidence of it. He won at the University of San Diego and left for Stanford. He turned around Stanford and left for the NFL. Ninety-five percent of coaches would have made those same moves. The only unusual line on his résumé is his exit from San Francisco after an incredibly successful four-year run. But Harbaugh wanted to stay with the 49ers until ownership left him no choice.
Yes, there are those who say his style grates on people, but there are many who say it wins, and he is far more approachable and likeable than his critics would like to admit. The brash young quarterback has become a savvy, veteran coach, and Michigan will win big on his watch.
There is no reason to worry about Harbaugh leaving for the NFL, just as Ohio State did not worry about Urban Meyer’s health when it hired him in 2011, and Michigan State did not panic when Mark Dantonio had a heart attack a few years ago. Tomorrow is promised to nobody. Why worry? Michigan is a better, more exciting program now than it was last week. Harbaugh won’t leave until he has his alma mater where he wants it.
He coveted the job in 2011, but Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon botched it, and Harbaugh decided to try the NFL. He was happy there, and people who know him well expected him to stay in the pros. But there were moments, looking back, when you could see him on the road back home, even if he didn’t realize it then.
Two years ago, Michigan held an alumni meet-and-greet “practically in my neighborhood, five houses down,” he says. Harbaugh went to hear men's basketball coach John Beilein speak. He did not know Beilein, but says he “was so impressed with him. That guy is a stud.” Beilein only talked for 15 minutes, but in that moment, Harbaugh was not a pro coach or potential Michigan savior. He was just an alumnus.
“That’s all I was,” he says, “getting fired up, listening.”
That feeling never left him, and understand: If he were single, or if his kids were all grown up, maybe he doesn’t make this move. Then it would be mostly about a job, and the NFL has a lot of appealing jobs. This was about a way of life, winning at Michigan while his kids drop by the office, the way he did when his dad coached under Schembechler. It is not just about beating Ohio State, but about doing it with his whole family along for the ride, in the town where he first dreamed of doing it.
People don’t like to think of Harbaugh this way. They see his face on the sideline, his deliberately poor fashion choices and imagine him as some crazed, hyper-intense, football-only zealot. He describes his interests as “faith, family, football,” but in truth, he converses just as easily about politics or books, and this week he told me he feels like Morgan Freeman's character in The Shawshank Redemption: I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel -- a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.
“Red” Redding was going toward the Pacific; Harbaugh is leaving it. He hopes he is free now, free from the political games he doesn’t like to play. He isn’t, really.
Michigan can be an extremely political institution, even in athletics. But Harbaugh is already more appreciated in Ann Arbor than he ever was in San Francisco, even in his best days there. Michigan, unlike the pros, and unlike many colleges, craves stability.
As a senior at Michigan, Harbaugh sat in Schembechler’s office, and the coach relaxed for a moment, talked about all that Jim had accomplished, and said, “Your dad must be so proud of you.”
Years later, Harbaugh told me he remembered sitting there that day and “feeling so warm.” I asked if he felt that way now. “Yeah, in a way,” he said. Jack Harbaugh is so proud, and so happy. Jim Harbaugh is back. Michigan will be, too. | <urn:uuid:366bb8ac-4951-4e50-adb3-c76e9a17b28f> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.si.com/college-football/2014/12/30/jim-harbaugh-michigan-wolverines-head-coach | 2017-11-18T14:09:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934804965.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118132741-20171118152741-00642.warc.gz | en | 0.990242 | 1,929 |
This blog post was originally written a few weeks ago shortly after my arrival in Chile. I finally have access to a laptop with functional wifi at my hostel in Valparaiso. The network card no longer works on my ancient MacBook Pro and I can’t afford to fix it right now. Just another day in the life of a digital nomad… In the words of the late great Steve Jobs, “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” If you’re inspired by the content I’m putting out on a regular basis, please support my fundraiser campaign for the travel documentary from South America. Your name will be in the closing credits of the finished documentary. The first part is already available for viewing on GoFundMe! I’m also releasing an online course to teach others how to travel the world on a budget. It will be available on SkillShare, Udemy, and Gumroad. Stay tuned…
Now that we’ve got the sales pitch out of the way, let’s commence with the blog post proper. I arrived in Chile on September 4th after a 21 hour bus ride from Lima, Peru. I will save those stories for another time. You can read my previous blog post about the trials and tribulations of getting my Peru and Ecuador passport stamp here. I’m currently typing this blog post at my hostel in San Pedro de Atacama. This is one of the most unique and surreal towns of all my travels so far. It’s a like a mirage in the middle of the driest desert in the world. I’ve enjoyed hanging out with my friend Marlene from France most of the day after arriving late last night on the bus from the nearest city Calama. There were no seats available so I sat on the steps until reaching my destination. It wasn’t comfortable but at least I got a discount on bus fare. Every cloud has its silver lining. I was walking through the dirt streets at night admiring the starlight, shining brights like diamonds. I couldn’t find my hostel so I asked for directions and a friendly woman about my age gave me a ride in her bite-sized car to Aji Verde. We exchanged a kiss and parted ways. Customary social etiquette in Chile. I checked in and slept on the couch for a few hours before leaving to find another place to rest my weary head. My current plan is to say in the Atacama for 3-4 days before continuing onward to the salt flats in Bolivia and Argentina on my way to the famous Igazu Falls at the intersection of Paraguay of Brasil. I’m trying to decide whether to rent a camper van to explore the Atacama Desert for 2 days. The only problem is I can’t drive stick shift. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and I can’t think of a better place to learn the art of the clutch. After all, the majority of rental cars in South America are manual transmission and maybe someday I will own a Porsche or Ferrari… not holding my breath. I was able to work out a 30% discount with the owner of Wicked Campers in exchange for professional photos and social media influencer status. There’s just so many beautiful destinations to see in this part of Chile. It would be a shame not to experience and capture them in photos. The Atacama Desert is also one of the best places in the world for stargazing. The elevation, weather, and moisture level are ideal for appreciating our pale blue dot floating in an infinite Universe.
After exploring the Atacama for a few days, I will most likely catch a bus further south through Antofagasta towards Santiago. The timing is perfect since I would prefer to stay in Chile for Independence Day beginning on September 14th. Apparently all the stores shut down for the celebration. It’s kind of a big deal! FOMO. Also, I met a brilliant woman named Victoria at Pachamama Hostel in Putre. She’s studying indigenous cultures for her doctoral thesis. We’re going to meet up in Santiago. I’m already gaining so many new experiences and meeting so many amazing people in Chile! Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. I encourage everyone to explore the world rather than living in your “city little bubble”. You will gain so much wisdom about what’s truly important in life. For example, I consistently run out of money during my travels, but guess what, I always find a way to make more…
No rent, no car, no boss = FREEDOM
NOW I want to tell you about my adventure to the salt flats in northern Chile, an exotic landscape called Salar de Surire. It’s located far off the beaten path, about 3 hours southeast of the small town of Putre. I met a research team of about 8 people at Pachamama Hostel. We started talking, one thing let to another, and I graciously accepted the opportunity to join them on a daring research expedition. I had every intention of visiting these salt flats in the highlands along the border of Bolivia but wasn’t sure how to get there. Ask and ye shall receive! I recently discovered that hitchhiking is easy and safe in Chile. Me and a friend caught a ride from town to a checkpoint, then hopped on a semi-truck to Lake Cotacotani. Take a look at the beautiful photos from those locations.
In the afternoon, we loaded up the 4x4 truck with all the scientific equipment, grabbed a few supplies, and hit the dirt roads. This was by far the most incredible off-roading experience of my life! Volcanoes and mountains surrounded us on all sides and went further and further off the beaten path. The journey is the destination. After 3 hours, we arrived at Salar de Surire just in time for a magnificent sunset. I quickly hopped out of the truck and ran to the salt flats like an excited child and took high-speed photos as the sun sank below the horizon. Pink flamencos dotted the pristine clear waters and flew into the distance as I tracked their motion with my camera. This is what you may call a Holy Moment. As a photographer, it’s often difficult to stay in the moment while also capturing it. It all depends on whether you want to preserve the memory in posterity or record it with your own optical mirrors called eyes.
It wasn’t long before we arrived at the research facility. I was expecting a hotel or something. Of course it was nothing of the sort. This was a barebones rustic shipping container with metallic walls. Just to put it into perspective, you had to flush the toilet by pouring water into the bowl from a bucket. We unloaded supplies and ate dinner in dingy house next door. There was one fluorescent bulb to light the tiny room which included a fire place, television, and kitchen with table. I laboriously helped cut tomatoes, peel avocados, and drain the beans. The whole process was making me nauseous due to the extreme elevation. This was the highest altitude (5300 m) I’ve been at since hiking Rainbow Mountain in Peru. As we sat around the table, I started to feel dizzy and lethargic, fingers numb, my stomach was churning, and appetite very minimal. I was able to choke down part of a tortilla and black beans before retiring to my bed. I wasn’t prepared at all. Luckily, my friends left some warm winter pants and heavy coat. I was running a fever before we left town. Now it was only getting worse. I took a pill for elevation and fever before hitting the mattress. Waking up several times in a shivering fright, freezing feet, trying to get comfortable; I was still just happy to be here living on the edge. This too will pass, I kept reminding myself.
I struggled to get out of bed at 5am in the morning due to aches and pains. After a light breakfast, we piled into the mobile research station and hit the road again. It was still dark outside as we climbed to higher elevation. Michael Jackson’s Greatest Hits was our soundtrack, thanks to our DJ Melanie. Definitely a memorable moment. After about 45 minutes, we reached the research site at 5500m. At this point you are probably wondering what was worth all the effort to reach this exact spot? Surrounding us were the highest growing trees in the world. A few of them were covered in scientific instruments and tinfoil for analysis. I started taking photos as the sun came up over the salt flats and the team unloaded equipment to test for photosynthesis and other things I didn’t fully understand. We headed back to the “agricultural center” to analyze the results. Not me. I passed out teeth chattering until a few nice ladies from Belgium brightened up the room. I woke up dazed and confused but played it cool. After another hour, we piled into the truck (the girls sitting in the back) and drove to collect our friends at the testing site. I mostly sat in the truck listening to podcasts for what felt like hours. This is one of the main reasons I prefer to travel alone. I can’t stand waiting on other people to get ready. But I force myself to be patient. Afterwards, we soaked in the natural salty muddy sulphur hot springs surrounded by mountains. I was feeling like a new man and fully rejuvenated. The girls from Belgium went with another group to a party in a nearby town. We drove back to the research facility, packed up all the belongings, and took off for Iquique on the coast. They dropped me off and I walked the streets for about 3 miles searching for my hostel. I was so relieved and exhausted that I passed out immediately after a hot shower.
Thanks for taking the time out of your busy day to read my blog post! Hopefully it inspires you to take more risks and say yes to new opportunities! Enjoy my favorite photos from road tripping with a few of my favorite allies, to quote the famous Red Hot Chili Peppers song. | <urn:uuid:82db2a7a-3d31-4ee9-b63c-527140384cdf> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://www.holpphotography.com/blog/red-hot-chile-peppers | 2019-02-16T12:28:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247480272.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216105514-20190216131514-00585.warc.gz | en | 0.958541 | 2,119 |
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Tiziano Crudeli Was An Emotional Wreck During AC Milan’s Champions League Victory Over Barcelona (Video)
When it comes to sports fandom, no one bleeds the colors of their favorite team quite like Tiziano Crudeli bleeds the rossoneri of AC Milan. So, as you might expect, no one was more excited than Tiziano on Wednesday after AC Milan emerged with a very unlikely 2-0 victory over Barcelona in the first leg of their Round of 16 UEFA Champions League match-up.
But it wasn’t all smiles and happy times for Crudeli. The first 55 minutes were filled with tension as the game remained deadlocked at nil-nil. Then, in the 56th minute, Kevin-Prince Boateng got Milan on the board, and Tiziano went bananas. Twenty-five minutes later, it was Sulley Muntari scoring a second goal for the Rossoneri, leading to an even more emphatic celebration from the AC Milan superfan. And finally, when the final whistle blew, Tiziano Crudeli unleashed his emotions on the rest of the DS 7Gold crew, hugging some of them, and kissing others.
Check it out:
After watching that, I don’t even want to think about what we might see from Tiziano Crudeli should AC Milan blow their 2-0 aggregate lead when these two teams meet again for the second leg in Barcelona two weeks from now.
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We were able to celebrate Lily's sixth birthday this past weekend. I suppose every parent feels this way about their first, but seeing Lily turn six, putting her squarely in the big kid numbers, was kinda hard to swallow. Makes holding little Mags even more precious.
This year Lily was all over the map on her choice of party theme. First it was safari, then "wild girl," then Hawaiian Hula. After all the jumping around on things she wanted, Lily finally decided on her theme: Things I Really Like. Seriously.
Well, I had already purchased the grass skirting when I thought it was going to be a Hula party, so we had to use that. She was determined to have a pool at her party and she wanted fish to be incorporated. So, I present you with a Hula/Pool/Fishy party!
The cake had to carry the fishy theme all on its own, from its sandy top to the fish under the sea.
The crabby sandwiches were my favorite! They were filled with cashew chicken salad.
One little lady didn't want a sandwich, so the mister turned her hot dog into a deep sea crab.
The pool was a huge hit as you can see! It's the simple things, folks.
We have a lovely little hill in our back yard where I set up Addy's birthday tent from last year. The girls dried off and then ate their food up there. They seemed to really love having their own little hangout away from the adults.
Happy Birthday to Lily!
One picture to prove I was there! All the Hickok girls together.
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This chili is thick, hearty, and full of flavor. It’s loaded with beef, beans, tomatoes and absolutely delicious and so simple to make.
2 tbsp of bacon fat or canola oil
2 small-medium onions medium diced
2 medium bell peppers medium diced
2 pounds ground beef
1 1/2 tablespoons Chili powder
1 1/2 tablespoons smoked paprika
3 teaspoons granulated garlic
3 teaspoons granulated onion
3 teaspoons cumin
1 teaspoons dried oregano
1 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
3 tablespoons lime juice
1 cup beef stock
3 (14.5 oz) cans diced tomatoes
2 (14.5 oz) cans kidney beans drained and rinsed
Season to taste with salt
- Add bacon fat to a medium to a large stockpot and place it over medium-high heat for two minutes. Add the onion. Cook, stirring occasionally until browned.
- Add the bell peppers. Cook, stirring occasionally until browned.
- Add chili powder, smoked paprika, granulated garlic, granulated onion, cumin, dried oregano, black pepper, and cayenne pepper to the pot. Cook, stirring occasionally until the spices become fragrant. Deglaze pan with lime juice.
- Add ground beef, breaking up pieces. Cook until no longer pink and just beginning to brown.
- Add diced tomatoes with their juices. Season to taste with salt.
- Pour in beef stock and bring the liquid to a low boil. Cook chili uncovered for 20 – 25 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Lastly, add kidney beans.
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High-End Spirits Continue To Drive Off-Premise GrowthJanuary 11, 2013
Distilled spirits sales rose 2.4% by volume last year (52 weeks ending December 30), in SymphonyIRI channels. Off-premise growth was even better on a dollar basis, up 4.5% to $4.1 billion. The data represents roughly 15% of the total U.S. spirits market, as estimated by Impact Databank.
High-end brands continue to drive the market, as ultra-premium and luxury-priced spirits, with an average price of just under $32 per 750-ml. bottle, combined for 12.8% volume growth last year. On the other hand, the value- and popular-priced segments (under $7 a bottle on average), combined for a 1.7% decline.
Among the 100 largest-selling brands ranked by dollar sales in SymphonyIRI channels, triple-digit growth was recorded last year by Cîroc, New Amsterdam vodka, RumChata and Dr. McGillicuddy’s. Among the top 25 brands, Jameson (+27.6%), Maker’s Mark (+18%), Svedka (+15%) and Jack Daniel’s (+10.1%) had the fastest growth.
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NAGA CITY — The Sangguniang Panlungsod here has passed City Ordinance No. 2010-053 which appropriated the amount of P983,000 to cover the purchase of some 4,000-plus compact fluorescent lights (CFL) to replace the energy-guzzling old-fashioned mercury bulbs used in the city’s streetlights.
The city’s council decision came after City Councilor Nelson S. Legacion delivered a privilege speech urging for the immediate replacement of the city’s 2,496 pieces of 160-watt and 1,961 pieces of 80-watts mercury bulbs with the more economical and environment-friendly 24-watt compact fluorescent lights.
Legacion in his privilege speech said that his urgent call came after he had close discussions with the city’s General Services Department chief Arthur Abonal.
He said given certain projections and assumptions, they came up with a computation that showed how much savings the city would realize if it uses compact fluorescent lights instead of the traditional mercury bulbs that are currently used in the city’s streetlights.
Legacion said that by doing so, the city stands to gain annual savings of as much as P31.9 million, which is equivalent to P2.3 million a month, or a daily savings of P87, 318.90 on streetlights. “The investment cost [that the city council will appropriate] is recoverable in a matter of only ten days,” Legacion said, adding that “It is this same amount we will be losing in the event that we do not act immediately in favor of the course of action that I am proposing.”
He underscored that given the average daily savings of P87,318.90, “it will only take 9.69 days for us to be able to say that we have already recovered the said total investment cost of P846,830.00.”
The amount appropriated by the Sanggunian during last Tuesday’s session will cover the purchase of 2,496 pieces of 160-watt and 1,961 pieces of 80-watt mercury bulbs, respectively, and the rest of the amount for the replacement of 800 more pieces of 100-watt incandescent lamps with the CFL that altogether would raise the total savings to P35 million per year.
The country is moving to phase out incandescent and/or mercury bulbs by the end of 2010 in favor of more energy-efficient fluorescent lights to help cut Greenhouse gas emissions and household costs. Such measure is now being followed in Canada and Australia, as well as in Ireland and Japan.
An Associated Press report said fluorescent bulbs need just 20 percent of the electricity that incandescent lamps use to produce the same amount of light. They also last six to ten times longer than the average incandescent bulb.
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What would Sergeant Dixon (originally of Paddington Green but killed there in “The Blue Lamp” and resurrected for the Dock Green nick) have said about this report?
The Press Association tells us [not, apparently, on line] of a curious conclusion a new report by Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary (HMIC) has come to. Looking at vetting procedures in police forces in England and Wales, the report has found 40 loopholes, which means that, in effect, those vetting procedures are worth very little.
Smaller police forces, it is said, are finding the whole process particularly difficult, time-consuming and expensive. They are sternly enjoined to put national procedures into place by next April at the latest. Presumably, this is another step towards those mergers, so dear to the heart of our politicians and civil servants.
Actually, it seems a little pointless to put national procedures into place if there are these 40 major loopholes. The most interesting ones relate to EU nationals who might want to work in the British police force. I wouldn’t have thought that is a terribly good idea at the best of times but even less so because it is impossible to carry out proper checks in a number of countries.
“In effect, current policy means that forces can reject a United Kingdom applicant with a caution from three years and a day ago, but they can accept a war criminal from a country where checks are not possible.”That seems a little over the top. One can hardly envisage WWII war criminals still being spry enough to get into our police, unfit though many of its members are. On the other hand, of course, there are the French officers who are serving in Côte d’Ivoire or with the UN in DR Congo.
There are the former secret police officers from the Baltic and other former Communist states. Not necessarily war criminals (how their minds do run on that category) but frequently guilty of humanitarian crimes.
The real problem is considerably less dramatic. A number of the EU member states have inadequate central criminal records and it is next to impossible to find out whether a certain applicant has a record or not.
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The Influence of Ideology on Congressional Voting
AbstractThis paper investigates the influence of ideology on congressional voting. The conceptual framework is based on the assumption that the congressman's objective is the maximization of the expected value of his office. A comparative analysis of voting on two proposed floor amendments to the U.S. House Administration Committee's 1974 Federal Election Campaign Act bill indicates that congressman will ignore ideological considerations when the opportunity cost of not ignoring them is sufficiently high. Voting on one of these amendments is found to be consistent with shirking as broadly defined. Copyright 1991 by Oxford University Press.
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Barring last-minute surprises in the election count, the Noynoy-Nognog tandem will lead the next casting at Malacañang Palace in the next six years, according to funny-boned Filipinos.
Nognog, dark-skinned Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay in real life, will also be installed as the country’s “first black vice president,” they say.
But before he could become president, Noynoy, who goes by the full name Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III, may need to convince closest rival Joseph Estrada to concede.
Estrada can’t and won’t, supposedly because when he voted, his victory had been guaranteed. Proof of this, and so the tale is told, was that after Estrada fed his ballot into a PCOS machine, it popped this message: “Congratulations!”
In the most serious moments, trust Filipinos, acclaimed to be among the world’s happiest peoples, to joke and pun and laugh at themselves.
The last elections, a historical moment for being the country’s first national automated balloting, sparked a bumper harvest of humorous tricks and treats across media old and new. The jokes have been played most often on the candidates for national office by jokesters of all political persuasions.
It is not that poverty and politics are a laughing matter. On the contrary, these are matters so serious with implications so grave hence the resort to humor by some Filipinos.
For one, through jokes anyone could fire off sharp commentary without inflicting real or serious injury. For another, because jokes are made to provoke laughter, the jokester is allowed to submit the most acerbic opinions with minimal accountability, or even complete anonymity.
Criticizing in a painless, faultless manner – that could well be the reason why Filipinos resort to jokes in the era of elections or other acute political debates, according to anthropologist Dr. Clemente Camposano, director of the Institute of Political Economy in the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P).
Jokes, he says, allow people to talk about real problems “in a manner that does not create tension.” In a sense, the lightness of jokes allows Filipinos, deemed to be generally non-confrontational, to engage in political debate with minimal complications.
And because hard political talk is the acclaimed domain of the intellectual, the affluent, and the elderly jokes have turned into an accessible platform for political discourse for those much younger and with less money and education. The problem emerges, however, when to the average Juan and Juana, the joke remains just a joke, a laughing matter.
Dr. Maria Rhodora Ancheta, who has studied patterns and images of humor, says, “the comic’s object… as people will remember it is really just (to elicit) laughter. Parang as soon as I laugh, okay na ’yung joke na ’yan.”
But political jokes in particular are an important public conversation, except that its content values are too often eclipsed by facetious form, she says.
For instance, she says comedians tend to always play on the periphery to mask the seriousness of politics, leaving to their audience a big burden: how to sift the serious messages from a comic rendering of the big issues.
Ancheta, a professor at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, also studies the cultural context of images in literature. Sometimes, she says, political jokes veer away from folk precepts well established in literature.
She says: “Sabi nila, ’pag may dwende sa bahay, swerte raw at masagana ang buhay. Eh bakit may dwende sa Malacanang pero mahirap pa rin ang ’Pinas?” [They say that a house where a gnome dwells is a lucky and blessed house. But there is a gnome at Malacañang, so why is the Philippines still so poor?]
”Dwende sa Malacañang” is a moniker that some Filipino comics have bestowed on outgoing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, in reference to her Lilliputian frame.
In this instance, Ancheta notes that the joke suggests that Malacanang Palace and the home are parallel concepts, poverty is the problem, and that Arroyo is to blame for the people’s destitute state.
Yet aside from Arroyo, those who seek to succeed her have found themselves too often at the receiving end of jokes.
Bigo, C-5 at Tiyaga
Online, jokesters have christened administration candidate Gilberto ”Gibo” Teodoro Jr., who championed the campaign ”Galing at Talino,” as ”Bigo” Teodoro.
Nacionalista Party candidate Manuel B. Villar Jr. had proclaimed himself as the aspirant with ”Sipag at Tiyaga.” In the jokesters’ book, that reads as ”C-5 at Taga,” in reference to a controversial road project that supposedly benefited Villar’s real estate project and earned a huge right-of-way payment for his family-owned company.
Liberal Party candidate Benigno C. Aquino III, thrust to national prominence by his pedigree as son of democracy icons Cory and Ninoy Aquino, did not have a personal pitch. He got this from the comics: ”Mama at Papa.”
Impersonator and satirist Willie Nepomuceno likens jokes amid a heady political exercise to popping candies because “it perks you up a little, pass it on and delete and it’s just a thought.’
Nepomuceno has parodied nearly all male Philippine presidents from strongman Ferdinand E. Marcos to Fidel V. Ramos to Joseph Estrada. These days, Nepomuceno parades on television as “Noynoy Palaboy,” his comic styling of winning presidential candidate Aquino.
While candies offer a sugar fix or a virtual adrenaline shot, Nepomuceno says jokes amid the confusion and noise that mark elections are also “a way of letting off steam… of (making) you think.” This seems especially true, he notes, for two groups of citizens – the most politically aware and the most unhappy about the country’s state of affairs.
Decade of jokes
The past two decades may well be considered the halcyon years of political jokes in the Philippines, judging by the volume and speed of spread of jokes, across old and new media platforms, vented at political personalities.
And it is probably not only because Filipinos have gotten funnier. Greater assertion of freedom of speech, text messaging, as well as blogging, social networking, and a slew of freeware applications on the Internet have all allowed a downpour of comic content online.
What used to be the domain of trained professionals, online publication has become accessible to anyone with message or content to push in a jiffy, thanks to Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and blogs.
Without any firm standards of quality, the Web has allowed everyone to post or upload funny or serious commentary, and instantly, it spreads virally — exponentially, unpredictably — through networks of readers across the globe. This is also the route that has been charted by the untraceable, if virtually unstoppable, group text.
The May 2010 elections yielded jokes of varying shades of green, black, brown and dark. During the campaign period, social networking sites and popular blogs meshed caustic commentary with piping pranks.
On Facebook, fan pages poked fun at the presidential candidates. One of the most popular was the anti-Villar fan page called “Sige MANNY VILLAR ikaw na ang MAHIRAP.” It has enrolled 126,082 members.
Other popular pages include the “Sige Noynoy, Hindi ka na Magnanakaw at Anak ka na ni Ninoy at Cory,” and the “If Erap Estrada is elected president again, I’M LEAVING THE COUNTRY!”
On these fan pages, the edited images of the candidates have been uploaded beside which fans could post their own quips and status messages.
Twitter has also become a playground for political satire.
On Election Day, tweets by an anonymous twitter account named “PCOS machine” started to draw traffic. It posted tweets on the glitches and mishaps in the automation process such as, “Please don’t blame us PCOS machines. We’re doing our best. Just shade the bilog na hugis itlog and I’ll do the rest for you.” Another read: “@CF card – I’m not talking to you. You almost ruined my career.”
Three days after the vote, the authorities found 60 PCOS machines at the house of a technician in Antipolo City. The incident sparked this tweet from the “PCOS Machine”: “f I find out that they’re actually having an outing in Antipolo and I wasn’t invited, somebody gonna get a hurt real bad.”
Political humor has become a staple fare of bloggers. “Professional Heckler,” a popular blogger, has become an even bigger name on the web for his relentless bashing of politicians. YouTube has hosted a smorgasbord of funny video clips, including spoofs of the candidates’ political advertisements. Villar’s “Dagat ng Basura” ad has morphed into various jocular versions.
But it is not only the candidates who have commanded top billing on the humor mill.
Toward the end of the campaign period, Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra grabbed the punters’ attention after he issued a resolution absolving two members of the Ampatuan clan from the Maguindanao Massacre. For his action, he became the “Agra-vating” or “Agra-byado” weekly special on the web.
Aquino’s youngest sister, television star Kristina Bernadette Aquino, earned her fair share of jokes as well. This happened after Kris’s younger son Baby James Yap blurted out the name of “Villar” when asked at a campaign rally about his choice of presidential bet. An abundance of online jokes has also focused on a supposed plan by Aquino to hire Kris and showbiz buddy Boy Abunda as Cabinet members.
The top TV networks that are incessantly locked in a ratings war were not spared, too. The so-called hologram technology that ABS-CBN Channel 2 and GMA7 separately claimed to be their cutting edge in the coverage of the elections triggered this comment from “Professional Heckler”:
“GMA News and Public Affairs ushered in a first on Philippine television. Howie Severino became the first Filipino to be beamed in ‘a hologram’ on live TV. But rumors say it wasn’t really Howie but his boss, Jessica Soho, who was supposed to be beamed first during the coverage. There wasn’t just enough ‘beam’ to make it possible.”
Always with zing
Truth is, according to impersonator Nepomuceno, political jokes, while meant to entertain, “always offer purposeful commentary, message or comic object.”
As a matter of course, he says he puts a light touch to important news so he could help raise awareness without alienating people. “I’m just a facilitator… More or less okay na sa akin basta may naiwan na akong seed of thought.”
While all media platforms have been invaded by jokes during the elections just concluded, Nepomuceno says text jokes are his favorite because these are “simpler and raw, easily digestible, nothing fancy.”
“I’m not a techie, and (gets) easily bored with too much text copy. They’re too fancy for me,” he says, adding that “too much jokes in one serving gives you an overdose and makes the whole thing bland.”
They are fun and light but there is a downside to jokes, according to UP’s Ancheta. Sometimes, after a good laugh, she rues that ”nobody thinks about thinking.”
Camposano of the University of Asia and the Pacific says that as much as Filipinos love to laugh about politics, they also take politics seriously. “People die for their candidates. People kill for their candidates. People spend billions [on] their campaigns…. Why would you invest 220,000 pesos for a 50-second spot on TV? It’s serious.”
Still and all, he sees a need to distinguish between a serious discussion of politics and the way Filipinos take politics seriously. “Elections are very much a personal enterprise,” he says. Whether it is some kind of reward, relationship, or opportunity, elections affect the future interests of individuals, she notes.
In her published studies of the hugely popular comic strip Pugad Baboy (Swines’ Nest) of cartoonist Apolonio “Pol” Medina Jr., Ancheta illustrates why the fictional Pugad Baboy community appeals to Filipinos. In the comic strip, “distant things are internalized, we share our personal struggles with the community, the micro and the macro are deeply intertwined,” she says,
Adds Ancheta: “Remember the parallelism within the Gloria-dwende joke? Apparently, in the Filipino mindset, we liken any space we occupy or value to our concept of home. Thus, politics matters to us.”
Camposano laments, however, what he calls the lack of a civic culture, hence the lack of “inclusive and serious political discourse,” in the Philippines. To candidates and voters, politics seems to be built largely on selfish interests,” and this, he says, may explain why many Filipinos end up trivializing politics rather than becoming involved.
In Ancheta’s view, it’s a chicken-and-egg situation. It is said that Filipinos should consider themselves “lucky” if they could get honest public officials elected. If luck remains the arbiter of elections, how is anyone supposed to trust the public sphere enough to do more than laugh, and finally work for change? “We have yet to see a reward for good citizenship,” she says.
“Much of the laughter that we have is really a lack of space. We laugh a great deal because we need to survive… to cope with pressure,” adds Ancheta.
“[And because] we’re not a talk-about-it people… we’re the culture that says, ‘Sorry, yeah, hayaan mo na lang, bahala na, bahala na s’ya’… given the misery of our situation, joking becomes our outlet.” - PCIJ, May 2010 | <urn:uuid:56d36d6d-c648-4c35-b624-4006002ca7a9> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://pcij.org/stories/joke-the-vote-pun-the-bets/ | 2013-12-11T12:08:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164035500/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133355-00024-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946865 | 3,245 |
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FIRE and many others continue to criticize the vague requirements of California’s new law requiring the state’s university and college students to obtain verifiable, ongoing “affirmative consent” for sexual activity. Among other problems, supporters have not clearly explained just how often one must explicitly ask for permission in order for consent to be considered “ongoing.”
On a KPBS Radio segment on the issue earlier this week (and featuring my colleague Joe Cohn), host Tom Fudge asked victims’ attorney Jessica Pride whether the bill “mean[s] that a person has to ask not one, but many questions? Now may I touch your breasts, now may I take off your clothes … .” In response, Pride called that interpretation “silly.”
It’s evident that not all advocates for the law agree, though. UltraViolet, which describes itself as a “new and rapidly growing community of women and men across the U.S. mobilized to fight sexism and expand women’s rights,” recently released a video called “Consent Porn” that they say “perfectly illustrates how [affirmative consent] works.” It features two couples—a pizza delivery guy and a female student, and two men in a laundromat. In the first vignette, Pizza Guy indeed stops mid-kiss to ask the female student if it’s okay for him to touch her clothed hip. This would appear to conflict with Pride’s interpretation of the law as not requiring such questions.
In the second vignette, after one laundromat fellow (let’s call him “Serious”) asks the other (let’s call him “Smiley”) if he can kiss him, both lean in and open their mouths at the same time. Then Smiley stops and playfully mocks Serious, implying that he didn’t say “yes” yet. And indeed, he didn’t verbally say yes, but one could reasonably determine that he had expressed yes by leaning in with his mouth open and his head tilted. (He does verbally say yes a few seconds later.) Viewed in the context of the repeated reassurances offered by affirmative consent advocates that spoken consent is unnecessary—the bill was even amended to remove a statement that nonverbal cues might not be adequate—the law’s application to this interaction is uncertain. Was Serious about to commit sexual assault? It’s not at all clear.
Another interaction depicted in the video is similarly confusing. After Pizza Guy expresses regret at apparently having brought the pizza to the wrong room, Student is so overcome with emotion at his consideration that she grabs him by the shoulders and kisses him. Only then does she ask, “Is this okay?” But under California’s new law, she’s already committed sexual assault. She is unambiguously the initiator of this contact. She did not obtain consent before kissing him. He didn’t have time to resist or to protest, but of course, even if he did, the law states unequivocally that “[l]ack of protest or resistance does not mean consent.”
By the same standard, Smiley assaults Serious in the video, too. They consent to kissing, but after a few seconds Smiley removes Serious’s shirt and pushes him back against the dryers, touching his head, neck, and chest. He didn’t ask permission to do any of those things. Consenting to kissing does not mean that you have consented to being disrobed by your partner; per the law, consent has to be ongoing.
If supporters of the affirmative consent standard can’t agree about what’s required under the law, and the purported “perfect” illustration of consent in fact depicts what is plainly not consent under the law, how can supporters still argue that the affirmative consent standard will be easily understood by students and fairly administered by universities?
As Jonathan Chait observes today in New York Magazine, some supporters of California’s new law don’t seem to be concerned about the law’s impracticability:
Indeed, the law’s advocates don’t uniformly believe its written standards will actually be followed at all. This defense by Amanda Marcotte is telling: “The law has no bearing on the vast majority of sexual encounters. It only applies when a student files a sexual assault complaint.” So the law will not come into play because nobody will actually try to enforce it. Instead, it will technically deem a large proportion of sexual encounters to be rape, but prosecutors will only enforce it if there is an accusation. And since most, and possibly nearly all, sexual encounters will legally be rape, then accusation will almost automatically result in conviction.
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Sony rolls out 3D TVs, players in earnest
Sony today pushed 3D in huge fashion by setting ship dates or posting updates for most of its capable devices, including the PS3. The company's 3D-capable Bravia TV updates promised at CES are now up for pre-orders at the company's online store and should ship along with other devices in July. As an incentive to buy in early, every set will have copies of 3D Blu-ray movies Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and Deep Sea as well as download codes for 3D-aware PS3 games Super Stardust HD, Wipeout HD, a partial version of Pain and a demo of MotorStorm: Pacific Rift.
The 3D TVs are split into three distinct lines and are led by the XBR LX900 series, which comes in 52- and 60-inch models with bundled 3D glasses, edge-lit LED backlighting and built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi for access to online services, including Sony's online Qriocity media store. The XBR HX909 line omits the glasses and comes in smaller 46- and 52-inch sizes, but uses full backlit LED lighting. At the relative entry level, the HX800 omits the 3D transmitter as well and switches to edge LEDs but should cost considerably less with sizes between 40 and 55 inches.
Prices start at $2,100 for the 40-inch HX800 and scale up to $5,000 for the 60-inch XBR LX900.
Sony's new 3D-capable home theater systems should be available at the same time, and certain already-shipped home theater receivers like the STR-DH810 and STR-DH710 should get updates for 3D later in June.
Blu-ray players are getting their own firmware upgrades. The E550 and E770W can already get the update through a download to the player or through USB, adding DLNA in the process.
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DJ Eva Shaw is incredibly striking, but we don't need to tell you that. You might've already seen her in runway shows, fashion magazines, and ad campaigns. But, after spending her teenage years posing for the camera, she wanted to get out, move around, call the shots. Now, she's commandeering sweat-inducing DJ sets behind the turntable, and the spinning life is proving to be more her thing.
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November 2015 was quite a pivotal point in my life, a rather extreme decision was taken: I got married. It looked a bit scary in the beginning, but I thought it was time to start a family after spending three good decades being single. So I went to Indonesia in early November 2015, received the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony and registered the marriage in Bojonegoro on November 16th, and had our first wedding reception on the same day. 500 invitations were distributed, and around 1000 guests arrived. My legs were a bit tortured for standing, shaking hands and taking pictures with the seemingly unending stream of arriving guests. Another wedding reception was held in Jakarta on November 22nd, and around 400 invitations were sent. It was another round of legs-torturing, but with better preparation, taking into account some lessons learned from the first event. I also silently publicized the wedding events online, accessible at http://www.dafferianto.info/wedding/.
We also ordered a short clip of our wedding moments in Bojonegoro (which we preferred more than a full-length video). Seriously, I am not sure if I would ever want to watch a 3+-hour wedding video (unless I am forced to do so, of course).
After done with the wedding formalities both in Bojonegoro and Jakarta, we stayed in Jakarta for a week, mainly to start my wife’s Norwegian residence permit (family immigration) application. The process was not so straight-forward since we had to visit a sworn translator to translate our marriage certificate and my wife’s birth certificate, then we had to ask for some stamps to legalize them from two different government institutions. We stayed in one of the top-floor rooms of a high-rise apartment building in one of the central parts of Jakarta to get a feeling how it feels to live in central Jakarta.
On December 1st 2015, I traveled back to Stavanger, Norway, alone, since my wife had to wait for a couple of months before her family immigration permit was issued (and since I hold a Norwegian permanent residence permit, the case processing time was even longer compared to regular work visa, which motivated us to apply for a temporary D-type visa). That also meant I celebrated Christmas and New Year alone (well, I went out with my office colleague during the New Year’s eve to watch fireworks show). But luckily, her D-type visa application was issued in a relatively fast manner, and I fetched her in Oslo airport on February 5th 2016. We spent a day walking around in Oslo city center with a friend, and took a night train to Stavanger. It was snowing hard in Oslo.
In mid March 2016, we visited Sverd i fjell since the sun was (surprisingly) shining brightly (it was like early spring to me).
We visited the oil museum in mid April 2016, and visited the (outdoor) botanical garden a week later.
We went to Stavanger city center on May 17th 2016 to see the Norwegian Constitution Day celebration and parades.
I took my driving test in late June 2016, and luckily I passed. Honestly speaking, I prefer to travel using public transport since I can enjoy the view or read Kindle books (or simply rest/sleep). But having a driving license in Norway will provide us more flexibility as a family, especially when more family members are added to the equation in the near future. I have always been using public transport since I came to Norway in late 2010, so I can somehow claim that my carbon footprint has been quite low 🙂 We then decided to buy a used car from a kind old lady. She gave her bike to my wife as a bonus for purchasing her car 🙂 And we enjoy the panoramic roof, by the way (natural light is always nice to have, especially when the sun is a bit shy to shine). To minimize my carbon footprint, I will do my best to use public transport to work at least 2 working days per week. I will see if this goal will be achieved.
In mid July we visited Flor og Fjære, an artificial tropical garden in an island not far from Stavanger. The dinner was nice (albeit a bit time-consuming) and the garden was awesome.
We visited the gladmat festival in Stavanger city center a week later, and tasted burgers and waffels (we went there twice). We visited Sverd i fjell again during the same week when the weather was really good. Summer has always been nice 🙂
We attended the celebration of Indonesian independence day and met with fellow Indonesians in late August 2016.
My wife wanted to visit Månafossen during the first week of September 2016, so we went there for a short hike. The terrain was quite demanding, but the trip to reach the waterfall’s viewpoint was quite short.
After living for more than 2 years in the previous apartment, we decided to move to a new one. The apartment is quite new, and is located on top of a shopping mall. I was initially surprised to find out that there is a children playground on the roof with synthetic grass. I also found the automated underground parking space quite cool.
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User acceptance testing is the final stop on the way to software release.
Who do you work for?
Hint: It isn’t your company.
No, the person you work for is, above all else, the customer.
So when you’re testing the software the customer has commissioned you to create, you better make sure it works like it’s intended. . Because there are many types of software testing. And they all perform different functions.
In this post, we will discuss user acceptance testing, sometimes called beta testing or end-user testing. It’s the kind of test that puts the customer front and center. We’ll show you what it is, why it matters, the various user acceptance testing methods, and much more.
Let’s get into it.
What is User Acceptance Testing?
Before we can define user acceptance testing (UAT), we have to define its individual parts.
The “user” is either the client who hired you to build them a software product or the consumer you’ll be selling to. And “acceptance” means agreement or approval.
Software testing is, therefore, performed by the user or client to establish whether it’s approved for release or not. UAT is typically the very last test a software undergoes after integration testing, end-to-end testing, and every other form of testing.
Why Does User Acceptance Testing Matter?
When you perform functional tests (which are usually undertaken by quality assurance engineers), you validate the software against functional specs. These are specifications that no one outside of developers fully understands or cares about.
But just because the software functions properly doesn’t mean it will be well-received or enjoyed by its intended audience.
Certain business requirements and processes are only understood by clients or users. That’s why user acceptance testing is so important. Developers tend to develop tunnel vision when working on the same app for long periods of time and can’t evaluate and assess everything, especially the front-end.
The other issue UAT solves is post-release bugs, errors, or bad user experience. These bugs may not show up in other tests but they may become apparent in the app design or flow of features.
Fixing these before the software is released will reduce initial negative impressions or reviews of your software.
What Is the User Acceptance Testing Process?
There is a specific process all software go through in user acceptance testing.
Different DevOps teams will have slightly different processes, but we’ll give you a general 5-step process that most teams loosely follow.
The 5 steps are:
Let’s dig into each one at a time.
The first step in the user acceptance testing process is planning.
First, establish your UAT schedule and the QA agents and testers you’re going to need for the duration of the project. A helpful exercise is to draft a concept of what your testing group should look like and work off of that.
Then sit down and decide who exactly will be involved in the execution of UAT, including their roles and responsibilities.
Once that’s done, bring your UAT team together. Make sure everyone understands their responsibilities. Establish clear communication guidelines. And prep them for testing.
During the UAT process it’s important to follow a specific workflow so you can effectively manage bugs, errors, and other defects or problems.
So ahead of time, settle on how you’re going to document problems and how testers will communicate the problems you want documented.
There are a variety of ways you can handle the execution of UAT. One way is to bring the testers to your facility and have them perform the testing there. However, if you’re selling the software to end users around the globe, then you probably won’t be able to meet your testers in person.
In that case, conduct one-on-one sessions with them via Skype or Zoom or some other online telecom software. This will give you tons of quantitative and qualitative data from users.
You’ll discover insights that you’ve never considered, you’ll gain a better understanding of how savvy your end user is already, and you’ll be better positioned to change or tweak all the necessary aspects of your software to make it excellent.
While executing UAT, you should also be documenting your progress. Make sure whatever you use allows you to record bugs, user feedback, abnormalities, and any other significant observations.
And keep in mind the objectives of UAT when documenting progress:
- Confirm the software performs business functions (as intended).
- Confirm the software is useful and usable from the end user’s perspective.
- Confirm the software is compliant with regulatory and other legal requirements.
- Certify that the software is ready to move to production.
It’s at this phase you need to evaluate whether or not the criteria has been tested and met.
This is the most extensive phase of UAT because you’re collecting, aggregating, and analyzing data.
You should strive to answer the following questions:
- Which tests failed (if any)?
- What problems occurred?
- Who is responsible for the problems and can they be resolved?
- How many testers completed the test case?
- What was the rating of the test cases?
- What was the state of mind of each tester?
- What emotional state was each tester in?
The reason these questions need to be answered is because it gives you context for the results of the tests. That context tells you how your real end users will interact with and experience your software in a variety of mental and emotional states.
This is the phase where you evaluate the bigger picture of UAT. The lessons learned and insights gained. It’s this data, after everything is said and done, that allows you to improve future test cases and optimize your UAT workflow.
What are the Roles and Responsibilities of the User Acceptance Testing Team?
A typical UAT team consists of a business program manager, UAT test manager, and UAT test team.
We’ll cover each one below.
Business Program Manager
The business program manager is responsible for reviewing and approving the UAT test strategy and plan. They’re also accountable for ensuring that the UAT process is completed on schedule and on budget. They also monitor the progress of the project and work side-by-side with business operations.
UAT Test Manager
The UAT test manager will actually formulate the UAT strategy and plan. They’ll also review and approve test scenarios, test cases, and deliver weekly status reports.
And if you’re using a new or improved workflow, they’re in charge of driving metrics collection to measure the benefits of the testing methods, tools, and environment.
UAT Test Team
The UAT test team prepares and executes the UAT test plan, including test scenarios, test cases, and test data. It’s their responsibility to verify and validate business if requirements are being met and defects are being reported. They also create test logs and test summaries.
System Testing Vs User Acceptance Testing
You may be confused about the difference between system testing vs user acceptance testing.
We’ll clear up your confusion by walking through the exact differences below.
|System Testing||User Acceptance Testing|
|Used to check if the software meets business requirements.||Used to check if the software meets user requirements, user story, user needs.|
|Performed by developers and testers.||Performed by independent testers, end users, stakeholders, and/or clients.|
|Incorporates functional and non-functional testing.||Is purely functional.|
|Tests how the software performs as a whole.||Tests the usefulness and usability of the software.|
|Performed with demo data.||Performed with real-time, production data.|
|Comprises system testing and integration testing.||Comprises alpha and beta testing.|
|Performed before acceptance testing.||Performed after system testing.|
|Involves performance, load, and stress testing.||Involves value analysis, equivalence partitioning, and decision table testing.|
|Contains more negative test cases.||Contains more positive test cases.|
|Defects found can be fixed based on priorities.||Defects found are taken as the failure of the software product.|
|Tests the software for possible dummy inputs.||Tests the software for random inputs.|
User Acceptance Testing Methods
Now that you know what acceptance testing is and what it’s not, let’s take a look at the various types of UAT tests you can run.
We’ll dive into the following:
- Alpha Testing
- Beta Testing
- Contract Acceptance Testing
- Regulation Acceptance Testing
- Operational Acceptance Testing
Alpha testing is performed to find all the possible bugs and errors in your software before you release it publicly.
The purpose is to simulate real users, so testers are tasked with carrying out normal tasks that regular users will be doing. These tests are typically conducted in a lab environment by the development team.
Beta testing is performed by real, regular people. Actual end users of the software in a “real environment” - meaning, outside of a lab in the environment(s) the software would be used normally if it was commercially available.
A limited number of users will be allowed to access and use the software for a specified period of time. You’ll gain valuable feedback from them about the product’s quality and functionality.
The purpose of beta testing is to reduce risks of failure and provide a high quality product through customer validation. This is pretty much the final test before releasing the software.
Contract Acceptance Testing
Contract acceptance testing is when software is tested against particular specifications and criteria agreed upon in your contract. The development team defines the criteria for acceptance for the contract itself to establish the specs they’ll need to meet in the final product.
Regulation Acceptance Testing
Regulation acceptance testing, otherwise known as compliance acceptance testing, examines the software to make sure it complies with regulations governing your industry.
Operational acceptance testing
Operational acceptance testing, also known as production acceptance testing, helps ensure that workflows are in place to allow software to be used effectively.
This includes backup plans, user training, maintenance processes, security checks, and so on.
Best Practices of User Acceptance Testing
Here are the best practices for conducting a successful UAT:
- Know your target audience: Always determine your target audience; know their expectations and problems. It is crucial that you choose actual users for UAT as the developers shouldn't be party to it. Feedback received in this manner is therefore unadulterated and goes a long way towards future upgrades.
- Form a test plan: Your testing procedure must have a guide. The test plan fulfills this role by elaborating on the scope, objectives, and schedule of the UAT. Focus on minimizing roadblocks to the testing process and ensure all user problems and queries are responded to promptly. Keep your technology partners on standby to facilitate rapid resolution of issues.
- Prepare a test case: A test case functions as the base documentation that defines the procedure conditions and inferences that a tester needs to check. The purpose here is to ensure the application is working as expected. With a comprehensive test case, testers will be focused on the right areas. Remember it is critical for test cases to be meticulously structured and detailed for clarity.
- Bug reporting: Bugs are common in even the best-tested software and as such, the most effective way of minimizing them is to keep proper records as and when they occur. This helps developers to avoid them in future applications. Screenshots are a good way of keeping track for reference.
- Definitive acceptance criteria: Approval criteria must be clear and transparent to prevent confusion and unnecessary rework, leading to missed deadlines and/or confusion.
How to Make User Acceptance Testing Work for You
You know you need to run user acceptance tests. But it’s not as simple as just running the tests we just covered.
If you don’t have the right people running the tests, you won’t get the best results. Finding and hiring the right in-house developers and testers is a headache (and cost) that you probably don’t want to deal with.
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APC Document 37: Change to Middle School Licensure Requirements
Effective Date: Fall 2003
Delete: On pg 101, the entire section under Middle School Licensure (6-9)
On pg 101, in place of deleted entry:
All students must complete a major in an appropriate academic discipline, and must complete specific coursework for licensure in two of the following areas: Language Arts, Mathematics, Science or Social Studies.
I. Required courses in Education--24- 30 hours including EDUC 310, 311, 314, 320, 396, 455, 496. In addition, Language Arts Students must take EDUC 313 and 380; Mathematics Students must take EDUC 383; Science Students must take EDUC 322; and Social Studies Students must take EDUC 130 and 380.
II. Required courses outside of Education: Every licensure student is required to complete PSYC 101 and 318 (7 hours).
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Mathematics--14 hours: MATH 191, 215, 216, 251; STAT 185.
Science--16 hours: BIOL 105; CHEM 111, 132; ENVR 130; PHYS 131.
Social Studies--9 hours: ECON 101 or 102; HIST 315; POLS 220.
III. Other departmental requirements as outlined above for all licensure students.
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Learning how to write an Executive Summary is an important skill for anyone in the business, higher education or academic fields. Executive Summaries are short summation pieces use for essays, book reports, topic proposals, presidents reports and company breakdowns that are longer than 4-5 pages. Follow along with this documentation written up by Pubdweller Productions Business Specialist that breaks down a step by step process teaching you how to write a proper Executive Summary that is sure to impress. This has been a Pubdweller Production. | <urn:uuid:3dd6e206-fc26-4232-ade4-cf02bc09fd1f> | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | https://jobs-resumes.wonderhowto.com/how-to/write-executive-summary-350671/ | 2017-02-27T09:13:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501172775.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104612-00491-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964744 | 155 |
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Three of Saturn's small moons straddle the rings in this image. From left to right are Pandora, Prometheus and, near the top right, Epimetheus.
Pandora (81 kilometers, 50 miles across) and Prometheus (86 kilometers, 53 miles across) are closest to Cassini. Epimetheus (113 kilometers, 70 miles across) is on the far side of the rings.
This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane. The shadow of Saturn is cast upon the rings, darkening the middle of the image from left to right.
The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Nov. 27, 2009. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 2.4 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) from Epimetheus and 2.2 million kilometers (1.4 million miles) from Prometheus and Pandora. Image scale is 14 kilometers (9 miles) per pixel on Epimetheus and 13 kilometers (8 miles) per pixel on Prometheus and Pandora.
The Cassini Equinox Mission is a joint United States and European endeavor. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team consists of scientists from the US, England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team lead (Dr. C. Porco) are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. | <urn:uuid:35aa262a-0e74-421c-a68d-98c494fb83cb> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://ciclops.org/view/6047/Tiny-Trio | 2016-12-08T07:47:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698542455.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170902-00002-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880066 | 345 |
SALLY SIMPSON 1970
From the World Premiere of the Who's TOMMY Seattle Opera
In 1970 Richard Perlman and Ronald Chase were asked to create a production of The Who's TOMMY for the Seattle Opera.
SALLY SIMPSON was a song rendered by Bette Midler (one of the cast) behind the curtain. The film was made in San Francisco and Chase collaborated with a friend, Wilfred Satty who had gained a reputation for illustrations of rock posters. Satty was one of San Francisco's most colorful personalities, a German artist who lived near Bay street, and would throw extravagant parties in the basement of his studio. He died prematurely, cracking his head when he fell off a ladder in his studio. His memorial was held in the rotunda of the Palace of Fine Arts and attended by over 400.
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This Bassani Catalytic Y-Pipe fits your 1993-1994-1995 5.8L SVT Lightning with stock exhaust manifolds or direct replacement shorty headers. These pipes feature all stainless steel construction with 2.5” diameter CNC mandrel bent tubing to ensure maximum flow and horsepower. These pipes will give your 5.8L SVT Lightning an aggressive new exhaust tone.
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Removing the Factory Cats will be more work then installing the Bassani Mid-Pipe. The Bassani Mid-Pipe installed and fit with no problems and no leaks. I also installed this using the stock Lighting Headers and the Bassani Stainless Steel Muffler setup, all the hanger location lined fine, it looks better then what the factory installed.
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Sometimes I just love the simplicity of a pencil skirt and a blouse. Not a lot of accessories or fuss-- just simple, sleek and out-the-door I go. I actually consider pencil skirts one of the staples in my wardrobe. In the summer, I can tuck in a button down for the office and when it starts to get cooler, a little cardigan twin set is just perfect. Along those lines, a pencil skirt looks just as cute with some knee-high boots in the fall as it does with strappy sandals or heels in warmer temperatures. You can get your money's worth out of these guys. This Zara blouse is just a dream – – it is whisper thin and such a beautiful color. My skirt is from Nordstrom and it's the first time I've tried this line called Halogen. I really like it so far. And it is super reasonably priced. If you don't have a few pencil skirts in your closet, you should consider investing in a few.
I am getting ready to head back to Chicago this weekend for a wedding and I'm having such a hard time deciding what to pack. The forecast calls for thunderstorms, which would make me think to pack warm clothes, except it will be in the 80's, which is just confusing! In the best circumstances, I am an over-packer but with a wedding and rehearsal dinner and my daughter to worry about, I might just have six suitcases! Even though I've read the articles and seen the YouTube videos about how to pack lightly, I'm just not the kind of person who will bring four articles of clothing and make them work for a week. Are you? Do you like to bring everything you own or pack just the necessities?
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“More than the disrespect for me as a man and as a player, the frivolous way that my future is covered in the media is disrespectful to all the clubs involved in these rumors, as well as to their players and staff,” Ronaldo wrote in an Instagram post on Tuesday.
“My story at Real Madrid has been written,” added Ronaldo. “It’s been recorded. In words and numbers, in trophies and titles, in records and in headlines. It’s in the Museum at the Bernabéu Stadium and it’s also in the minds of every fan of the club.
“And beyond what I achieved, I remember that in those nine years I had a relationship of deep affection and respect for ‘merengue afición,’ an affection and respect that I retain to this day, and that I will always cherish.
“I know that the true Real Madrid fans will continue to have me in their hearts, and I will have them in mine.”
‘I remain focused on my career’
On Tuesday, Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti tweeted that although Ronaldo was “a Real Madrid legend and he has all my affection and respect,” he never considered signing the forward.
Nonetheless, since joining Juventus on a four-year deal for a reported $117 million transfer fee in 2018, the 36-year-old has been unable to lead the Italian team to a Champions League title, a competition he won four times with Real Madrid.
“As well as this most recent episode in Spain, there have been frequent news and stories associating me with a number of clubs in many different Leagues, with nobody ever being concerned about trying to find out the actual truth,” Ronaldo said in his Instagram post.
“I’m breaking my silence now to say that I can’t allow people to keep playing around with my name. I remain focused on my career and in my work, committed and prepared for all the challenges that I have to face. Everything else? Everything else is just talk,” added Ronaldo, who has 12 months remaining on his Juventus contract.
Despite Juve’s stuttering form last season, Ronaldo was Serie A’s top scorer with 29 goals.
“He’s the best in the world and we’re holding on to him,” Juve’s former managing director Fabio Paratici said of Ronaldo in March.
“Some seasons go better than others, but the word transition doesn’t exist. Seasons are important even if they’re about growth that yields results in the subsequent years,” added Paratici, who is now Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur’s managing director of football.
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|Tina Frundt’s efforts are honored by Ken Morris, of the Frederick Douglass foundation.|
Her name was “Elizabeth London,” she said. And, shivering in a short, white skirt and tottering on huge, acrylic heels too big for her little feet, she was standing on a corner in Northwest Washington, about four blocks from the White House, “waiting for a friend.”
She was a child, about 15, I guessed. Her makeup was clumsy and clumpy, her long, blond hair was limp. The detective with me agreed that she was a kid, but she had no I.D., so he couldn’t prove it.
He took some notes about her, “a new one,” he mumbled, who was probably imported from somewhere far from the city. “They bring them up the Interstate, 95, through the big cities. D.C. is on that circuit,” the detective explained to me as we cruised around the District’s open-air, prostitution hotspots back in 2002 for a story I was writing.
Human trafficking right here, in the nation’s capital, seemed improbable. Women couldn’t possibly be “trafficked” in America. That happens in exotic countries, where they are held in bamboo cages and forced to service dozens of clients a day, right?
“Ha. Try Leesburg. Ballston Common Mall. Tysons Corner. Those are all spots” where girls are meeting clients under the watchful eye of their pimps or being recruited into the sex trade with flattery and flashy clothes, Tina Frundt told me this week.
“Yes, it’s happening here. Now. Right in our neighborhoods, right where no one would believe it happens,” she said.
I thought of “Elizabeth London” when I met Frundt this week.
That frightened girl — with raccoon-eye liner and too-bright lipstick — is the face of slavery in America today, Frundt contends.
Frundt was once a slave herself, forced into prostitution in the District when she was 14. She was a rebellious teen who blossomed in the attention showered upon her by a 24-year-old man. When he told her he was going to take her to Cleveland to meet the rest of his family, she was thrilled. But his family turned out to be the three other girls working for him. She had to bring in $500 a night. When she brought in just $50, he beat her in front of the other girls and broke her arm with a baseball bat.
She was locked in a closet, shunted from city to city and monitored constantly. Eventually, she escaped, recovered and is now a champion of the movement to equate American prostitution with contemporary slavery.
The detective I talked to almost a decade ago was certainly onto this. But few called it slavery back then. It was “a network” and “runaways” and “groups of people traveling from city to city.”
But over the past several years, detectives in our region began seeing younger prostitutes, girls promised excitement and glamour, lured from small towns and trapped by violence and manipulation. In 2004, the District organized the D.C. Human Trafficking Task Force.
The cops are now part of that task force, and they identify about 100 juveniles each year forced to work in the District.
So if “Elizabeth London” is the face of a modern-day American slave, Frundt is the embodiment of a contemporary abolitionist.
She has “saved” more than 500 kids from their lives as sex slaves. She founded an organization, Courtney’s House, to give them shelter and counseling and to help them recover their lives and their humanity.
She is just a couple of months away from opening a safe house with beds and rooms, on a leafy green street in an undisclosed Northern Virginia suburb, not too far from the places where minors are forced to work the suburban streets.
Frundt has worked with other local organizations to reach out to the kids — mostly girls, but there are some boys, too. With the Polaris Project, a District-based organization that works to end domestic human trafficking, she created tiny compact mirrors with her group’s hotline number hidden inside. They recently worked to get stickers with the hotline number in the doors of hotels that the prostitutes often use, lifelines to young people living in fear.
She stood outside the Frederick Douglass home in Anacostia this week, where she received an award from the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation. The group, headed by Douglass’s great-great-great-grandson, Ken Morris, gives awards to leaders of abolition movements throughout the world.
They’ve honored heroes in Pakistan, Cambodia and India.
Morris, who was working in the travel industry in California when he read a National Geographic article about contemporary slavery, and it inspired him to rededicate his life to bringing attention to modern-day slavery.
We talked about the recent arrests of three suspected pimps and rescues of young women — as young as 15 — who were being trafficked and used at prostitutes in Montgomery County. One was found beaten in a Rockville hotel, a place many of us drive past on the way home.
“Rockville. I used to live in Rockville,” Morris said.
It’s going on right here. Slavery in our own neighborhoods.
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Monday is business. That's how i view it eversince. I have lots of work and few stuffs to attend to. Im actually still sleepy because we had a long chat last night with my man and i just watched him while he was doing something. He started ironing his office suits until he was eating his breakfast. In fairness, my honey is expert in ironing, from side to side he knew it. I told him that i can do it for him and he told me to save it for that day.hehehe. He is sometimes naughty and last night i was teasing him to death. Now, he is still at work and go home late, he needs to work hard. I missed him already and because it pretty expensive on our part to communicate every now and then, im planning to send him a roaming sim for our daily usage. Hayst, its pretty hard for long distance couples. | <urn:uuid:8bbc8ddc-30c2-4da1-8132-391844ba8964> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://getitfresh.blogspot.com/2012_02_20_archive.html | 2015-08-04T17:53:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042991076.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002311-00047-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.995013 | 186 |
VANDERCOOK LAKE – Apparently, the great storybook candy maker Willy Wonka needs a sensational new treat to produce, and Dylan Hayslip has just what he’s looking for.
Dylan’s invention, which creates a chocolate, caramel, peanut and whipped-cream concoction, is part of a lesson at Townsend Elementary using a little imagination and a lot of reading, writing and art.
Teacher Rene Smith came up with the idea of using Willy Wonka and the 1964 Roald Dahl novel “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” that he appears in as the school’s theme for March is Reading Month.
Students in kindergarten through fifth grade are writing out descriptions of their candy-making inventions before making renditions of them out of art supplies. They’ll hang on “Willy Wonka’s Wall of Greatest Inventions” in the school, and the students’ names will be entered into a drawing for two bikes.
“The kids really took off with this idea,” Arcaro said. “They get going on this project and they really don’t want to stop.”
Townsend Elementary kicked off reading month with an elaborate Willy Wonka-themed assembly on Feb. 29. Since then, a book fair has been launched in the library, the school’s PTO has given every student a book, Principal Diane McQuillan has read to students during lunch and teachers take 15-minute impromptu reading breaks in their classrooms.
“Reading is important all year long, and it is a lifelong skill, but it’s nice to do something like this to give it an extra push and let the students have a little fun with it,” McQuillan said. “They remember things like this.”
Dylan’s pretty sure Willy Wonka would like his invention.
“He has a creative mind and so do I,” he said. “The worst thing about this is it just makes you hungry.”
Across the room, though, 10-year-old classmate Zach Keranen is giving Dylan some competition with his All-Star Bar, produced on the “All-Star Bar Makeanator 8000.”
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Philanthropy Driving the Fashion Industry
(Illustration by Iman Geddy)
Here at Limitless La Vie, we have been inspired by the great examples of philanthropy demonstrated by the businessmen, sports players, and actors who have used their fame and money to make the lives of others better. Warren Buffet, Denzel Washington, Paul Newman, Mark Zuckerberg, Carmelo Anthony, Lebron James, and Bill Gates may have taken different career paths, but in the end their success has not just enriched their lives, but the lives of the many that they have reached out to help.
The Button Down Oxford offers classic value without being flashy, making it a perfect choice for the investor and philanthropist Warren Buffet, whose business savvy delivers not just dividends but diversified support of a plethora of causes. In 2006 he pledged to give away more than 99% of his massive fortune to charity, and since then has been living up to that goal by donating 4% of his Berkshire Hathaway stocks every year. In 2017 alone, he gave away $3.17 billion dollars, following the simple principle that “If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%”.
The men’s Button Blazer is a perfect fit for the award-winning actor Denzel Washington, whose philanthropic actions off-screen are just as noteworthy. He’s been an active supporter of the Fisher House Foundation, which provides welcoming homes near army base hospitals for the families of injured soldiers to stay in while their loved ones undergo treatment. As well, he is a founding member of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, and in 2018 donated one million dollars to the Wiley College debate team after starring in a film about the early days of the team. Perhaps his most notable philanthropic endeavor has been his long-standing relationship with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA). He credits the organization that he joined when he was 6 years old with being a powerful influence during his formative years, and he has striven to pay that helping hand forward, serving as the national spokesperson for the BGCA since 1992. He shares this life-long connection to the BGCA with the co-founders of Limitless La Vie, who also joined the organization as children! Whether it’s support for injured soldiers, education, or children around the world, Denzel lives by the philosophy “At the end of the day, it’s not about what you have or even about what you’ve accomplished…It’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better, it’s about what you’ve given back.”
Relaxed but elegant, our men’s Chino pants match the timeless appeal of the late, great actor Paul Newman, whose legendary philanthropy lives on in Newman’s Own, inspiring companies like Limitless La Vie to make a lasting difference. From the very beginning, Newman was committed to using 100% of the profits from his company to help others, including the establishment of many children’s camps where more than 350,000 children suffering from serious medical conditions have been able to, as he put it, “Raise a little hell.” By 2015, the Newman’s Own Foundation had donated $450 million dollars to a variety of organizations helping people to improve their lives. Similarly, Limitless La Vie uses all its profits to help others also, reflecting his philosophy: “I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don’t see it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.”
Our men’s Zipper Pullover is easy to wear but also stylish, perfect for a busy computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur like Mark Zuckerberg, who also dedicates a large share of his time and money to helping others. He and his wife Priscilla Chan have formed the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to use technology to work to solve problems in health, education and social inequality across the globe, pledging to devote 99% of their Facebook shares to that goal. Zuckerberg believes that “Our society has an obligation to invest now to improve the lives of all those coming into this world, not just those already here.”
The men’s Ikat Trim Long-sleeve Polo Shirt is a sporty fit for NBA star Carmelo Anthony, who has proven himself both a leader in basketball and off the court in his philanthropic endeavors. In 2005 he founded the Carmelo Anthony Foundation, which provides funds for disadvantaged children to improve their lives and futures through both education and recreation. He feels that he is just paying it forward, saying: “I am a product of people’s giving and sacrificing… It’s important for people around the world to recognize that we all have something we can give.”
The comfortable and flexible men’s Ikat Trim Polo Shirt is a perfect casual look for the off-court style exhibited by NBA star Lebron James, whose philanthropic endeavors are built on the promise to never forget where he came from. While he donates money to a variety of worthwhile children’s causes across the country, his home town of Akron, Ohio holds a special place in his heart and philanthropy. Especially notable is the huge commitment he’s made with his “I Promise” program, which will pay four years of college tuition for up to two thousand disadvantaged students from Akron. Lebron and his mother had a hard life while he was growing up, and now says: “Mom and I wanted to create a foundation that, regardless of where I was playing, would be dedicated to giving back to the community by enriching the support system that helped us along our journey.”
The versatility of the V-Neck Sweater gets right to the point, pulling together a comfortable fit for a business leader, entrepreneur and philanthropist like Bill Gates. He’s applied the same skills that made him the richest man in the world to giving away much of his wealth to try to solve some of the biggest problems facing people today. While still working on the global goal of eradicating polio by 2020, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has also started a campaign to fight against malaria, a major killer in many third-world countries. Meanwhile, they have decided to redirect their efforts to improve education in the United States and focus instead on the pervasive problem of poverty. He’s proven that he can succeed in both making and donating wealth, saying
“Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity—the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.”
Our menswear capsule collection lets you select comfortable, classic clothes which are both relaxed and elegant, and manufactured in an ethical fashion from high-quality textiles. Long-lasting and versatile, they take the worry out of clothing selection, letting you focus on the things that really matter- much as these remarkable men have done with their philanthropic efforts! | <urn:uuid:f6014bd9-e1cd-4174-b352-ade05a7bab14> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://limitlesslavie.org/45804-2/ | 2022-11-27T02:18:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710155.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20221127005113-20221127035113-00655.warc.gz | en | 0.972734 | 1,500 |
Durham Maps and Orientation
(Durham, North Carolina - NC, USA)
Located on the northeastern quadrant of North Carolina and directly east of Greensboro (roughly 33 miles / 53 km away), the city of Durham serves as the seat for Durham County. However, its spreading boundaries also include areas of both Orange County and Wake County.
Together with nearby Chapel Hill and Raleigh, Durham makes up North Carolina's important Research Triangle area, where three prestigious research universities are based. Of note, Durham resides on the northeastern side of the Triangle.
This medium-sized city is greatly influenced by its high concentration of students. The downtown district can be a quiet spot by day, and then full of activity the next, particularly when a baseball game is underway at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park (DBAP) on Blackwell Street.
Maps and Orientation of the City
Many tourists exploring Durham city center are naturally drawn to Brightleaf Square. This plaza is situated on the eastern side of the downtown district, where it is known for its wealth of shopping and dining opportunities, often housed within converted warehouses. Maps are available at the Durham Visitor Center, which is to be found on East Morgan Street, within the Warehouse District and close to North Mangum Street, the City Hall Plaza and the First Baptist Church.
Lying on the northeastern side of Durham is the Duke University campus and the lively Ninth Street area, where so many students are based.
- Bennett Place - 7 miles / 11 km (12 minutes, west)
- Burlington - 33 miles / 53 km (50 minutes, west)
- Cary - 21 miles / 34 km (30 minutes, southeast)
- Chapel Hill - 11 miles / 18 km (20 minutes, southwest)
- Eno River State Park - 11 miles / 18 km (20 minutes, northwest)
- Green Level - 31 miles / 50 km (45 minutes, west)
- Hillsborough - 15 miles / 24 km (25 minutes, northwest)
- Jordan Lake State Recreation Area - 29 miles / 47 km (45 minutes, southwest)
- Leesville Forest - 11 miles / 18 km (20 minutes, southeast)
- Mebane - 23 miles / 37 km (35 minutes, west)
- Morrisville - 15 miles / 24 km (25 minutes, southeast)
- Raleigh - 28 miles / 45 km (40 minutes, southeast)
- Research Triangle Park - 8 miles / 13 km (15 minutes, southeast)
- Treyburn - 13 miles / 21 km (25 minutes, northeast)
- Woodcroft - 7 miles / 11 km (12 minutes, south)
Map of the United States
Map of North Carolina
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Hey there! I'm just posting a couple more Halloween cards.
I used my Silhouette to cut out the haunted house and the fence. They are images from one of Kerri Bradford's kits.
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A New Jersey woman was indicted by a grand jury yesterday for allegedly forcing her 7-year-old daughter to undergo "unnecessary and potentially harmful" surgeries and tests, the Star-Ledger reports—and authorities say the 36-year-old started the abuse while she was pregnant with the girl, per the New Jersey Herald.
Malinda Lugin is facing a charge of endangering the welfare of a child for making doctors think her child was sick from the time of the girl's birth in November 2007 to April 2014.
While authorities haven't detailed the litany of exams and surgeries the girl was allegedly made to undergo, the Star-Ledger cites a criminal complaint that states the girl had a feeding tube inserted into her stomach that pumped only infant formula into her body.
The charges against Lugin revolve around what's commonly known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a mental illness in which a caretaker reports fake symptoms for a child's "illness" or actually causes them to gain attention for themselves.
Lugin "was portraying this child as an invalid," an assistant prosecutor said, per the Herald, adding the abuse was happening to the girl "since she was in utero"; the girl was ultimately determined to be perfectly healthy, save for a "small" allergy to strawberries.
Lugin posted bail a couple of weeks after her June 11 arrest, which was reportedly prompted by physicians who contacted authorities. If she's convicted, she faces between five and 10 years in state prison.
(Another Munchausen syndrome by proxy case involved a mom who poisoned her son with salt.)
This article originally appeared on Newser: Mom Accused of Forcing Surgeries on Child for Years
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Punky Brewster: Season One V.1
- Rated TVG
- Genre: TV Comedy
- Release Date: 5/6/2008
Punky Power lives on in the very first episodes from the hit TV show, Punky Brewster. Soleil Moon Frye stars as the little girl with an indomitable spirit who, with her faithful dog Brandon, brings light and laughter into the life of a grumpy, old photographer (George Gaynes). Both a touching portrait of her makeshift family and a joyful ride through her childhood adventures, Punky Brewster was a 1980s benchmark in fun, innocent television for kids.
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St John’s Gate, Clerkenwell has been a London landmark for many centuries. From medieval priory to Georgian coffee house and Victorian pub, the building is now a museum exploring the history of a military order of ancient origins from its beginnings in Jerusalem to its present day role with the St John Ambulance Service. Combining historic weapons, medals, hospital equipment, art and a cannon given by Henry VIII, the Museum of the Order of St John spans 900 years of history and a fascinating story.
The St John Ambulance logo of a white eight-pointed cross on a black background is recognised around the world where it appears on the sides of ambulances and on the uniforms of its volunteers. Although the charity has only been around since 1877, the symbol dates back almost 1000 years. The Brother Knights in the ancient hospital in Jerusalem were also recognised by the symbol on their robes.
The History of the Order of St John began shortly before Pope Urban II (d.1099) declared a crusade to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslim Arabs who had been in control since AD 638. In 1080, a hospital was established in the city by a group of monks under the instructions of Brother Gerard (c.1040-1120) who would shortly become the founder of Order of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitaller), which was officially recognised by the Church in 1113.
The purpose of the hospital was to care for the many pilgrims who had become ill on their travels to the Holy Land. The Hospitallers, as they were then recognised, took in people of all faiths and race, treating everyone equally. It was only after the fighting in the Crusades that the hospital workers became known as the Knights of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.
From the description of the hospital provided by the museum, the Hospitallers/Knights were ahead of their time in terms of care and treatments. Brother Gerard combined traditional Muslim practices with those used in the western world in order to improve medical care. He was also concerned with healthy eating, emphasising the importance of fresh fruit as an aid to recovery.
During the 11th and 12th century, only rich people could afford to sleep in a bed, however, Brother Gerard insisted each patient should have a bed “as long and as broad as is convenient and each should have a coverlet and its own sheet.” The wards were also well-aired and clean and workers, both male and female, were encouraged to pray for the speedy recovery of the sick.
In some ways, the hospital was a combination of a hostel and a hospice with clothing, shoes and money provided to those who needed it as well as beds. The Hospitallers also looked after orphaned children and provided an ambulance service for the injured. Typically, the hospital could house 1000 people but at times of need could find space for double the number.
Unfortunately, the antagonism between Christians and Muslims, in general, meant the hospital in Jerusalem could not last forever, especially after Emperor Saladin (1138-93) led a Muslim military campaign against the Crusader states in the Levant. Jerusalem was captured in 1187 and the Knight Templars moved their Order and hospital to Acre in the north of Israel. Yet, by 1291, Muslim forces had succeeded in recapturing the entire Holy Land, forcing the Order of St John to seek refuge in Europe.
The Order briefly moved to Cyprus before settling on Rhodes, the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece, in 1309. Another hospital was set up and the Knights remained here for 213 years until the Turkish Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent (1494-1566), conquered the island. The Museum owns a copy of the Rhodes Missal, an illuminated manuscript printed in 1504 that contains the services for a Roman Catholic Mass. In another display case, the Museum shows two handwritten letters from brothers Rostand and Claude de Merles to their father whilst on their journey to Rhodes to join the Knights.
Forced out of Rhodes in 1532, the Knights were, temporarily, without a home. Fortunately, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V (1500-58) offered to rent them the island of Malta, which they eventually settled on in 1530. Again, they quickly set up a hospital for “pilgrims and to all the sick that happened to come to Malta from all parts of the world.” Once fully established, the knights began to build a fortified city, now the capital of Malta, Valetta.
The capital city was named after the military commander Jean Parisot de la Valette (1494-1568). Born into a noble family in south-west France, Valette joined the Order of St John at the age of 20, thus being present at the Great Seige of Rhodes. Later in his career, he became the Master of the Galleys then, in 1557, the Grand Master.
During his time as a knight, Valette was captured by Muslim pirates and forced to be a galley slave for a year. Although slaves were required to row for 12 hours a day on very little provisions, Valette beat the odds by living three times as long as most slaves before his rescue.
The city named after the military commander was where many of the knights were housed on the island. It was also the location of the Order’s religious centre, the Church of St John the Baptist.
The Order of St John remained on the island of Malta until the 18th century, when, as fate would have it, their home was once again invaded. On this occasion, it was General Napoleon Bonaparte who ousted the knights from their location, thus ending their rule over the Mediterranean.
Although patients of all faiths were treated at the hospital, the Hospitallers like to treat each individual as though he or she were Christ, the Son of God. Only the best possible supplies were used including silver plates and decorated medicine containers, which can be seen on display in the museum. Many other items belonging to the Knights are also preserved in glass cases to offer insight into their lives.
As well as objects, there are a few paintings, such as panoramas of Jerusalem, however, one artwork initially appears out of place. This is The Cardsharps by the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). Whilst the painting does not add any further insight into the lives of the Knights Templar, Caravaggio was a Knight of the Order. Accused of murder in 1606, Caravaggio fled to Malta where he was made a Knight; unfortunately, he later upset another member of the Order causing him to flee back to Italy.
Down the road from the museum is the remainder of the Order of St John’s English priory. In 1144, the Order was gifted 10 acres in Clerkenwell to establish its religious community. The English Knights of the Order of St John remained at St John’s Gate until 1540, when Henry VIII abolished all monastic orders. Since then, the church has changed many times, particularly after extensive damage by an incendiary bomb during the Second World War. Although the church was rebuilt in 1958, the majority of the original architecture has been lost. Nonetheless, the Order of St John Museum offers guided tours of the church and crypt on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. When not open for tours, a small gallery and garden are available to the public.
The Knights of the Order of St John of Jerusalem lives on in the St John Ambulance Association set up in 1877. The founders wanted to reflect the Order’s ethos of caring for the sick and revolutionising health care. First Aid classes were given to the public, which encouraged a large number of “ordinary” people to sign up to become part of a trained St John Ambulance Brigade. By training volunteers, more people were on hand to help the injured and the sick, thus saving more lives that could have perished whilst waiting for a doctor.
The Brigade also provided medical resources during the wars of the 20th century, the first being the South African War (1899-1902). Over 2000 members of St John enlisted, with the army’s medical staff, the medical orderlies making up approximately 25% of the volunteers. Later, during the First World War (1914-18) St John, along with the British Red Cross organised Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs), which provided nurses, ambulances and hospital supplies for wounded soldiers. A similar feat occurred during the Second World War (1939-45) in which they also provided food parcels, clothing and provisions for prisoners-of-war, particularly those stranded on the Channel Islands.
The museum has a number of resources, photographs and medals belonging to past members of St John Ambulance. These include examples of old medical objects, such as a triangular bandage, tourniquet and first aid kits. Interestingly, the majority of the photographs are of women of whom 100,000 had served in VADs by the time the Armistice was called in 1918. One of these volunteers was Veronica Nisbet who joined the John Ambulance Brigade in 1915 when she was 28-years-old.
As part of a project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Veronica Nisbet’s scrapbook from the years 1916-19 can be viewed by the public. The museum details a little of her life but her incredible story is best viewed through the photographs in the online version of her scrapbook. As a VAD Nurse, Veronica was taught the basics of first aid, nursing and hygiene in order to volunteer during the First World War. After enlisting to work abroad, Veronica was sent to the St John Ambulance Brigade Hospital in Étaples, northern France, the largest of the British voluntary hospitals. Veronica’s scrapbook shows pictures of the insides of the hospital, which could contain 750 patients at a time, and the nurses’ accommodation. There are also photographs of other St John Ambulance Brigade members and the activities provided to entertain the injured soldiers.
Throughout WWI, the Hospital Étaples cared for over 35,000 patients and was run by 241 members of the St John Ambulance Brigade. Despite the expert care, the building was constructed from several wooden huts, which was not the best conditions for patients recovering from serious injuries. Nonetheless, many soldiers survived due to the medical aid they received from the volunteers. Unfortunately, in 1918, the hospital was struck by a bomb on two occasions, the first killing five members of staff and the second a further eleven. The building was too damaged for the hospital to continue, however, the staff moved what they could to the coastal town of Trouville where they operated for the remainder of the war.
St John Ambulance is still going strong today and has members of all ages and backgrounds. The association has spread throughout the world with divisions being formed in other countries. Its primary aim is to be the difference between a life lost and a life saved and has been a valuable service to the modern world.
Since the association’s conception, branches have been formed to include younger people with the leading First Aid training provider. St John Ambulance First Aiders support local communities and emergency services and is determined to work with schools and develop youth programmes. As early as 1922, the St John Cadets was founded for teenagers to attend and get involved with all their great work. This also provided training for the future, either within St John or in other medical professions. Eventually, in 1987, a group for younger children was formed. The St John Badgers cater for 6 to 10-year-olds, providing them with basic first aid knowledge and the chance to earn badges to sew onto their uniforms. Finally, in 1989, LINKS units were opened at universities to provide opportunities for students to be part of a unique team of lifesavers. In total, over half of St John members are under the age of 25.
St John Ambulance relies mostly on volunteers and donations in order to keep running its expert service. To help with funding, the St John Fellowship was formed on St John’s Day 1983, which raises a generous amount of money every year. Supporters help to set up and run exhibitions, displays, concerts and competitions as well as assist at many national events.
The Museum of the Order of St John is an excellent place to visit in London for those wishing to learn more about the original Knights of St John and the St John Ambulance. A concise timeline helps to make sense of the mass of objects displayed within the gatehouse that date back several centuries and the information about St John Ambulance is very fitting with the anniversary of the end of the First World War. It is also reassuring to know there are so many kind and caring people in the world, despite the many conflicts.
For children, some of the details may be beyond their comprehension, however, the museum provides a fun sticker trail with simple questions to keep youngsters entertained. There are also colouring sheets and simple, child-friendly first aid tips to take away.
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Golf fashion is making its way from the greens to the catwalk. And then it hopes to sashay right into the boardroom.
At Gurgaon’s Golden Greens Golf & Country Club, the venue of The Expat Golf Cup, professional models plan to hit the ramp on 28 October, showing off the latest range of the Greg Norman Collection of apparel and accessories that made its Indian debut earlier this month.
It’s believed to be the first time that a golf brand will be displayed at a fashion show at a golf event, says Rahul Singh, chief executive of Better Than Before (BTB), the sole licensee of the Greg Norman Collection in India. Usually, these end-of-tournament shows feature ethnic wear, are more tilted towards glamour than the sport itself, and few, if any, sports apparel brands see promotion.
But with golf in India becoming a lifestyle statement, Singh says the catwalk becomes the ideal vehicle to showcase apparel designed for the sport, by one of its greatest practitioners. “The players will bring their wives at the dinner that follows the prize distribution ceremony,” Singh says. “Everyone has a good time.”
Rahul Singh, chief executive of Better Than Before, sole licensee of the Greg Norman Collection in India
The fashion show will feature shirts, shorts, caps, sweaters, jackets and gloves, ranging from Rs800 to Rs10,000.
The Greg Norman range isn’t the first golf apparel and accessories brand to hit the Indian shores. Puma Sports India Pvt. Ltd took the lead earlier this year, using brand ambassador Kiran Matharu, a British teenage golfer of Indian origin, to launch its products. Reebok India Co. announced its line a few weeks ago.
But BTB wants to be seen and counted among golfers of all shades. On Friday, it showcased the Greg Norman range at the country’s first golf exhibition, the Asia Golf Industry Show, in New Delhi. It’ll follow this up with the ramp walk in Gurgaon.
The exhibition is basically a window to newcomers and “aspirational” golfers, who want to take up the sport, but have no clue about how to go about it. The Expat Cup, held in Singapore, Malaysia and Dubai apart from India, opens up new audiences, too: embassy staff, chiefs of missions and heads of various United Nations departments and world organizations, including business enterprises, participating under the flag of their respective countries. “Expatriates are a global community, they travel all over…we, too, are a global brand, selling in over 21 countries,” says Singh.
BTB, which plans to set up 10 exclusive Greg Norman Collection outlets by July 2008 in India and increase this to 50 over the next five years, has also signed an agreement with the PGA European Tour to outfit golfers such as international star Ernie Ells at the Indian Masters, scheduled for next February. Earlier this month, players at the Bilt Open 2007 similarly turned out in the Greg Norman range.
BTB has also begun tying up with corporate houses for kitting their teams or the events and initiatives they sponsor. Among these are Optima Sports, marketers for the Indian Golf Union, publishing company Living Media India Ltd for driving Golf Digest subscription, the Indian Oil Corp. Ltd golf team, kitting of the Hewitt Associates (India) Pvt. Ltd team, DLF Golf Resorts Ltd for the DLF Masters and RN Golf, for the Ballantines invitational golf event in Mauritius.
Singh reckons the Indian sportswear market is growing 20-25% annually, with the sports lifestyle sector “significantly”. But what worrieshim is that the fastest growing sport in India requires high investment, and is not really accessible to everyone; India has under 300 courses compared with about 25,000 in the US.
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The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA), a peak lobby group for the oil industry and an opponent of strong government action on global warming, has awarded the JN Pierce Award for Media Excellence to the editor-in-chief of The Australian newspaper, Chris Mitchell. (The Australian is published by News Limited, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.) The media release announcing the award stated that "over the past twelve months The Australian's in-depth coverage of a range of public policy issues affecting Australia’s upstream oil and gas industry has been of a consistently high standard." Journalist Paddy Manning, who worked at The Australian between 2004 and 2007, scathingly comments, "Gobsmacking. A disgraceful admission." He notes that "despite a spectacular about-face on climate change in 2007 by News Corp's chairman Rupert Murdoch, no media group can match the Murdoch press for consistently fomenting global warming skepticism and arguing against climate change mitigation measures."
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Yorkshire have recruited the services of the dangerous Australian duo Aaron Finch and Glenn Maxwell for the 2015 season.
Finch joins the White Rose for a second successive season after spending part of last year with the current County Champions and is expected to play in all formats for Yorkshire after he has fulfilled his IPL duties.
The big-hitting opening-batsman played in just five County Championship matches for Yorkshire last season before New Zealander Kane Williamson replaced him as their overseas player.
Maxwell will play for the Vikings alongside countryman Finch in the Natwest T20 Blast, boosting Yorkshire’s hopes of achieving a maiden T20 trophy. Maxwell has had previous spells in English cricket with Hampshire as a T20 specialist and he played at least one game across all three formats for them last season.
Renowned for his ability in the shortest format of the game, Finch gave some eye-catching performances in the Natwest T20 Blast, but a return of 256 runs in 10 matches was an underwhelming effort by the Australian.
Finch smashed 88 runs in 55 balls against Lancashire Lightning, but his highest score of 89 in 46 deliveries against Nottinghamshire Outlaws was unable to secure the Vikings a place in the quarter-finals.
Maxwell was also guilty of underachieving in last year’s Natwest T20 Blast, accumulating a meagre 127 runs from 11 matches. However, his recent run for the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash and return to the tnternational set-up suggests a return to form which Yorkshire will look to benefit from.
Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie said: “As a club we’re absolutely thrilled to bits to be able to secure the services of two very exciting players in world cricket.
“I spoke to Glenn a little while ago and just enquired as to whether he would be interested in representing Yorkshire and outlined how well he could fit into the dressing room and the role we wanted him to play.
“Aaron is a great leader, he has a lot of leadership and captaincy experience and having a player like that in the dressing room gives the younger players the opportunity to learn off him.”
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Obama considers J.P. Morgan's Daley as senior aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is considering tapping J.P. Morgan Chase executive William Daley for a senior role in the White House, possibly chief of staff, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.
Daley is also a former commerce secretary. If he were chosen, the move would help satisfy a clamor in the business community to have greater representation for private industry within the administration.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, cautioned that no decision had been made. Obama, on the last leg of his Hawaiian vacation, has been considering an array of staffing decisions during his break.
One of the biggest decisions confronting him when he returns on Tuesday is a replacement for top White House economic adviser Larry Summers. Democratic sources say senior Treasury official Gene Sperling has emerged as the leading candidate for that job.
In another staff move, Obama is weighing whether to elevate the role of auto czar Ron Bloom to a broader manufacturing post at the White House. The leader of Obama's automotive task force is currently focused on overseeing the restructuring of General Motors Co and Chrysler Group.
Longtime Obama aide Pete Rouse is currently serving as interim chief of staff. He replaced Rahm Emanuel, who left the administration in October to enter the race for mayor of Chicago.
Many businesspeople had hoped Obama would fill Summers' job as director of the National Economic Council with a chief executive. While Sperling has done consulting work for Goldman Sachs, his career has been heavily focused on public policy.
Daley served at Commerce during former President Bill Clinton's administration.
Daley would bring a breadth of experience in business, not just in the financial sector. He serves on the board of Boeing Co. and has served in the past as director at Merck and Co. He is also a past president of SBC Communications.
J.P. Morgan spokesman Joe Evangelisti declined to comment.
Obama's Democratic party suffered what he called a "shellacking" in the November midterm elections. Since then, the president has sought to mend frayed ties with the business community, which views his new healthcare law and other policies as burdensome to private industry.
Fixing the economy is crucial to Obama's hopes for re-election in 2012 and boosting business confidence could help fuel the recovery by encouraging firms to step up their hiring and investing.
Obama is considering a push to streamline the corporate tax code, an idea that is popular with businesses.
In addition to his business experience, Daley would bring a long resume of political experience and a connection to Obama's hometown, Chicago shared by other close aides to the president. Daley is a brother of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley.
In 2000, Daley served as chairman of Democrat Al Gore's presidential campaign.
(Additional reporting by Elinor Comlay in New York and Karey Wutkowski in Washington; Editing by Todd Eastham)
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The quarterfinal round of the 2015 Miami Open is completed following action on Wednesday and Thursday. Semifinal match-ups are set and the Masters Series event in Florida could lead to a blockbuster final.
Firstly, on Wednesday, both Andy Murray and Tomas Berdych advanced to the final. Murray faced the challenge of Dominic Thiem, a player who appears poised to start challenging for a higher ranking on tour. The Scot, after dropping the first set, came back and defeated Thiem, claiming the match 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.
Berdych, in other action, enjoyed a fairly tidy win over Argentina’s Juan Monaco. The Czech No. 1 claimed his quarterfinal contest in straight sets without the need for a tiebreaker 6-3, 6-4. Berdych and Murray will now meet in the semifinals having already met this year at the Australian Open.
On the top half of the draw both Novak Djokovic and John Isner advanced on Thursday. Djokovic defeated David Ferrer 7-5, 7-5 while Isner, seeded 22nd in Miami, eliminated Kei Nishikori in what was an upset. The line score in that match was 6-4, 6-3.
Most will now be expecting a Djokovic vs. Murray final at the 2015 Miami Open however there is good reason to believe that either Berdych or Isner might spoil that blockbuster match-up.
Firstly, Berdych holds a winning record against Murray as the Czech No. 1 is 6-5 against the Scot. Secondly, Isner, who remains the only American alive in the Miami draw, has played strong tennis in the USA before.
Besides his titles from Atlanta, Newport, and Houston, Isner has played well in both Cincinnati and Indian Wells in the past. Back in 2013, Isner made the Cincy final through Djokovic and back in 2012 Isner also made the Indian Wells final – once again through Djokovic.
That the service giant plays higher than his ranking in front of a partisan American crowd is very clear: it’s almost a trademark of his tennis career. Therefore Djokovic, despite all his success so far in 2015, cannot be considered a lock against Isner, especially if the American is serving well.
The first match up on Friday will be the Murray/Berdych contest. Women’s matches will be played on stadium court as well with Djokovic and Isner set to meet in an evening affair.
SCHEDULE – FRIDAY, 3 APRIL 2015
STADIUM start 1:00 pm
ATP – A. Murray (GBR) vs T. Berdych (CZE)
ATP – N. Djokovic (SRB) vs J. Isner (USA)
• FINAL FOUR: The 96-man draw has been whittled down to just four players, who are all in action on Day 10. The semi-finals feature three of the world’s Top 10 players and the American No. 1:
Andy Murray vs. Tomas Berdych
Novak Djokovic vs. John Isner
Murray and Berdych last met in this year’sAustralian Open SF with the Brit prevailing in four sets. Berdych, however, leads their FedEx H2H series 6-5. Djokovic and Isner clash for the ninth time, with the Serb winning six of their previous eight contests, including the last three in a row.
• WHAT’S AT STAKE:
Djokovic is aiming to reach his 32nd ATP Masters 1000 final (21-10) & his 74th overall (50-23)
Murray is aiming to reach his 13th ATP Masters 1000 final (9-3) & his 47th overall (31-15)
Berdych is aiming to reach his fourth ATP Masters 1000 final (1-2) & his 27th overall (10-16)
Isner is aiming to reach his third ATP Masters 1000 final (0-2) & his 19th overall (9-9)
• #MARCHMASTERS: Djokovic is bidding to become the first player to complete the Indian Wells-Miami title sweep on three separate occasions. Since 1991, seven players have achieved back-to-back success at these events – Jim Courier (1991), Michael Chang (1992), Pete Sampras (1994),Marcelo Rios (1998), Andre Agassi (2001), Roger Federer (2005-06) and Djokovic (2011, ‘14). The World No. 1 is chasing a fifth Miami crown. He lifted the title in 2007 (d. Canas), 2011 (d. Nadal), 2012 (d. Murray) and 2014 (d. Nadal), and was a runner-up in 2009 (l. to Murray).
• HOME FROM HOME: Murray has the comfort of staying at his Miami home during the tournament. He is bidding to reach his fourth final here, after winning the title in 2009 (d. Djokovic) and 2013 (d. Ferrer) and finishing runner-up in 2012 (l. to Djokovic). The Brit clinched his 500th career win en route to the SF, defeating Kevin Anderson in the 4R. He became the first player from his country, the ninth active player and the 46th man in the Open Era to achieve the feat. At 27 years and 10 months, he was the 16th youngest to reach the milestone.
• BIG FOUR DOMINANCE: At the last 44 ATP Masters 1000 tournaments (since 2010 Monte-Carlo), the Big Four have accounted for 40 titles. The only exceptions came at Paris-Bercy in 2010 (Soderling) and 2012 (Ferrer) and last year in Monte-Carlo (Wawrinka) and Toronto (Tsonga). During that stretch, Djokovic has won 16 titles, Nadal 12, Federer 7 and Murray 5. Djokovic and Murray have combined to win six of the last eight Miami crowns and were the only former winners to start the tournament.
• CARRYING THE FLAG: Isner is the first American to reach the Miami Open SF since Mardy Fish in 2011 (l. to Djokovic). The last home player to reach the final was Andy Roddick, who won here in 2010 (d. Berdych). Isner’s win over Milos Raonic in the 4R ended an 11-match losing streak against Top 10 opponents. Prior to this week, his last Top 10 wins came in Cincinnati 2013, when he reeled off three consecutive victories over No. 10 Raonic, No. 1 Djokovic and No. 7 Del Potro before falling to Nadal in the final.
• ISNER’S SERVE: Isner is just the third player since 1991 to reach the Miami Open SF without having his serve broken, after Federer in 2002 and Djokovic in 2011. The American has fired down 60 aces in his four matches, fending off five break points in 48 service games.
• BERDYCH CLIMBING: Berdych’s 4R victory over Gael Monfils saw him take sole ownership of 43rd place on the Open Era wins list, moving him ahead of Jim Courier (506). Next in his sights is Wayne Ferreira (512). The World No. 9 is bidding to reach his fourth ATP Masters 1000 final and his first since Madrid three years ago (l. to Federer). All five of the Czech’s losses this season have come against Top 10 opposition.
DAY 10 FEDEX ATP HEAD2HEADS
Andy Murray (GBR) vs Tomas Berdych (CZE)
FedEx Head2Head: Berdych leads 6-5
• Murray advanced to his 22nd ATP Masters 1000 SF and his fifth in Miami, finishing strong to see off 21-year-old Dominic Thiem 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.
• Murray became the first British player to hit 500 wins, beating Kevin Anderson 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in the 4R. He saw off Santiago Giraldo 6-3, 6-4 andDonald Young 6-4, 6-2 in his opening two matches.
• Murray defeated 185 different opponents from 50 different countries en route to 500 wins. Most of his victories came in the United States (139) and against French players (71). Murray has beaten six players at least 10 times:Gilles Simon (12), Roger Federer (11), Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (10), Marin Cilic(10), Feliciano Lopez (10) and Fernando Verdasco (10).
Murray’s Landmark Wins:
No. 1 2005 – London/Queen’s Club d. Santiago Ventura 6-1, 6-2
No. 100 2007 – St. Petersburg d. Fernando Verdasco 6-2, 6-3
No. 200 2009 – ATP Masters 1000 Monte-Carlo d. Fabio Fognini 7-6, 6-4
No. 300 2010 – Barclays ATP World Tour Finals d. Robin Soderling 6-2, 6-4
No. 400 2012 – Roland Garros d. Tatsuma Ito 6-1, 7-5, 6-0
No. 500 2015 – Miami d. Kevin Anderson 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
• Murray is making his 10th appearance in Miami. He has reached the final three times, winning the title in 2009 (d. Djokovic) and 2013 (d. Ferrer) and finishing runner-up in 2012 (l. to Djokovic).
• Murray is bidding to reach his 13th ATP Masters 1000 final (9-3 in finals) and 47th overall (31-15).
• Last week at Indian Wells, Murray advanced to an ATP Masters 1000 SF for the first time in two years with wins over Vasek Pospisil, Philipp Kohlschreiber, Adrian Mannarino and F. Lopez (l. to Djokovic).
• Murray’s victory over Lopez last week was the 497th match win of his career, giving him sole ownership of the British Open Era match wins record, putting him clear of Tim Henman (496).
• Murray opened his season by reaching the Australian Open final for the fourth time (l. to Djokovic). He fell to 2-6 in Grand Slam finals.
• In February, Murray lost in the QF of Rotterdam (l. to Simon) and Dubai (l. to Coric).
• In 2014, Murray finished in the Top 6 for the seventh year in a row after extending his run of winning at least one title to nine straight years. He advanced to the QF or better 15 times, winning three titles.
• Berdych advanced to his 17th ATP World Tour Masters 1000 SF with a 6-3, 6-4 defeat of Juan Monaco. The Czech overcame Gael Monfils 6-3, 3-2 ret. in the 4R, Bernard Tomic 6-7(4), 7-6(3), 6-1 in the 3R after saving four MPs and teenager Hyeon Chung 6-3, 6-4 in his opening match.
• Berdych’s victory over Monfils saw him take sole ownership of 43rd place on the Open Era wins list, moving him ahead of Jim Courier (506).
• Berdych is contesting the Miami Open for the 11th time. He was a beaten finalist here in 2010 (l. to Roddick) and a semi-finalist in 2008 (l. to Nadal) and 2014 (w/o vs. Nadal).
• Berdych is bidding to reach his 27th tour-level final (10-16) and his fourth at ATP Masters 1000 level (1-2). His previous final appearances at this tournament level came in Madrid 2012 (l. to Federer), Miami 2010 (l. to Roddick) and Paris 2005 (d. Ljubicic).
• Berdych arrived in Florida after a QF defeat to Roger Federer at Indian Wells.
• Berdych finished runner-up in Doha in the opening week of the season (l. to Ferrer) before putting together a SF run at the Australian Open, where he defeated world No. 3 Nadal in the QF, ending a 17-match losing streak against the Spaniard (l. to Murray).
• In February, Berdych advanced to the final in Rotterdam (l. to Wawrinka in 3 sets) and the semi-final in Dubai (l. to Djokovic in 3 sets).
• All five of Berdych’s losses this season have come against Top 10 opposition.
• In 2014, Berdych finished in the Top 10 for the fifth year in a row, winning two titles – Rotterdam and Stockholm – in a career-best five finals.
Novak Djokovic (SRB) vs John Isner (USA)
FedEx Head2Head: Djokovic leads 6-2
• Djokovic advanced to his sixth Miami SF with a hard-fought 7-5, 7-5 win over David Ferrer, extending his winning streak against the Spaniard to eight matches.
• Djokovic defeated Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-7(3), 7-5, 6-0 in the 4R, Steve Darcis 6-0, 7-5 in the 3R and Martin Klizan 6-0, 5-7, 6-1 in his opening match.
• Djokovic is back at the Miami Open for the 10th time. He is a four-time champion, winning the title in 2007 (d. Canas), 2011 (d. Nadal), 2012 (d. Murray) and 2014 (d. Nadal). He finished runner-up in 2009 (l. to Murray). The Serb’s last loss in Miami came against Tommy Haas in the 4R in 2013.
• Djokovic is bidding to reach his sixth final in Miami (4-1 in finals), his 32nd ATP Masters 1000 final (21-10) and his 74th overall (50-23). On the five previous occasions he has reached the QF here, he has gone on to reach the final each time.
• Djokovic is chasing a 22nd ATP Masters 1000 title this week. He is third in all-time titles won at this tournament level, behind Rafael Nadal (27) andRoger Federer (23).
• Djokovic clinched a fourth Indian Wells title last Sunday, bringing his career haul to 21 ATP Masters 1000 crowns and 50 titles overall. He became the 11th player in the Open Era to win 50 titles, surpassing Rod Laver and coach Boris Becker, who both finished their careers on 49.
• In early March, Djokovic helped Serbia reach the Davis Cup World Group QF with victory over Croatia. He beat Mate Delic before teaming up withNenad Zimonjic to clinch the doubles points.
• In January, Djokovic became the first man in the Open Era to win fiveAustralian Open titles, defeating Murray in the final. It was his eighth Grand Slam crown, putting him level with Agassi, Connors, Lendl, Perry and Rosewall in eighth place on the all-time list for most major titles.
• Djokovic also reached the Dubai final in February (l. to Federer in final).
• This is Djokovic’s 140th week at world No. 1. On Monday, he will tie Nadal for the sixth-most weeks at the summit of the Emirates ATP Rankings (since Aug 23, 1973). Federer leads the way with 302 weeks spent at the top.
• In 2014, Djokovic finished the season at No. 1 for the third time in four years, winning an ATP World Tour-high seven titles in eight finals. His season was highlighted by capturing a second Wimbledon crown, four ATP Masters 1000 titles and the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London.
• Isner clinched a second Top 10 win in succession, overcoming World No. 5 Kei Nishikori 6-4, 6-3 in 71 minutes to reach his first Miami SF. It was his second ever win over a Top 10 opponent without facing a break point. The other came against No. 9 Gael Monfils at Indian Wells in 2009.
• Isner defeated World No. 6 Milos Raonic 6-7(3), 7-6(6), 7-6(5) in the 4R, No. 9 seed Grigor Dimitrov 7-6(2), 6-2 in the 3R – the 250th win of his career – and junior world No. 1 Andrey Rublev 6-3, 6-4 in his opening match.
• Isner is yet to have his serve broken this tournament, fending off five BPs in 48 service games. He is six for 10 on BP opportunities of his own. He also wasn’t broken in doubles this week (23 of 23).
• This is only the third time since 1991 a player has reached the Miami SF without being broken, after Federer in 2002 and Djokovic in 2011.
• Isner now has a 16-35 record against Top 10 opposition. He came into this tournament on an 11-match losing streak against the Top 10.
• Isner is the first American man to reach the SF here since Mardy Fish in 2011 (l. to Djokovic). The last home player to win the tournament was Andy Roddick in 2010.
• Isner is making his eighth appearance in Miami and this is his first visit to the SF. Prior to this year, he had reached the 4R twice, in 2011 (l. to Anderson) and 2014 (l. to Berdych).
• Isner improved to 6-0 in ATP Masters 1000 QFs with his win over Nishikori. He is bidding to reach his third final at this tournament level and 19th overall (9-9). His two previous final appearances at ATP Masters 1000 events came at Indian Wells in 2012 (d. No. 1 Djokovic in SF; l. to Federer) and Cincinnati 2013 (d. No. 10 Raonic, No. 1 Djokovic, No. 7 Del Potro; l. to Nadal).
• Isner arrived in Florida off the back of a 4R loss to Novak Djokovic at Indian Wells.
• Isner went into Indian Wells on a four-match losing streak having fallen in the Memphis QF (l. to Querrey), the 1R at Delray Beach (l. to Matosevic) and in both his singles rubbers at Davis Cup (l. to Ward 15-13 in the 5th, Murray).
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Exotix has entered into a strategic partnership with TLG Capital, a private equity investor in sub-Saharan Africa and frontier markets. Headquartered in London, Exotix is a market investment banking boutique.
Exotix, the leading frontier markets investment banking boutique announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with TLG Capital Limited, the leading private equity investor in sub-Saharan Africa and frontier markets. The agreement will see Exotix provide strategic advice and capital raising support to TLG Capital. It will also enhance Exotix clients’ access to opportunity rich markets in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to the strategic partnership, Exotix management will also be personally investing in the platform.
TLG Capital brings together regional and sector specific funds under a single platform for the benefit of investors and fund managers alike. This centralised platform offers a more stable framework through which to invest in the region, especially for growth capital funds (with less than $100m AUM). TLG Capital’s focus on secondary Private Equity opportunities enables investors to access mature deals at relatively low entry prices, resulting in a portfolio with an attractive and exciting risk return profile.
As an experienced player in frontier markets, with a proven track record working in sub-Saharan Africa, Exotix is uniquely positioned to advise TLG Capital. In addition to providing fund raising support, the strategic partnership agreement mandates Exotix to introduce its broad investor base to attractive opportunities in defensive sectors such as healthcare, water, agriculture and food.
On the agreement, Peter Bartlett, Managing Director, Exotix, commented, “We see deep value in sub-Saharan African secondary private equity and believe that TLG Capital are best placed to deliver the most attractive proposition for growth investors. We look forward to working with them and help them grow their footprint in the region.
“After carefully studying this landscape we recognise that TLG Africa represents a quality route for our clients to capitalise on the opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa. This agreement marks the latest step we have taken to increase international access to under-tapped regions, evidencing our commitment to help investors unlock value in frontier markets worldwide”.
Zain Latif, Founder and Principal of TLG, said, “By the end of Q1 2013, TLG Capital will have had three liquidity events, including two full exits, in each of which we have achieved IRRs of over 35%. The commitment and confidence in our business shown by Exotix will allow us to build on the success and track record of our primary deals and focus on the secondary space which is largely dormant in SSA. We look forward to unlocking this value with Exotix given the global footprint and access which is important for TLG Capital to continue to scale up and grow.”
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Established in 1999, Exotix is the world’s leading frontier market investment banking boutique. Headquartered in London, Exotix is one of the fastest growing brokerages globally with offices in New York and Dubai. Exotix is a specialist in illiquid bonds and loans, equities, structured finance, asset management, research and capital raising, delivering expert insight into esoteric products. Exotix is a pioneer of frontier market investment, offering expertise across sub-Saharan Africa, Argentina, North Korea, Cuba, the Balkans and other key frontier market geographies.
Winners of the EM Research Award for the Middle East (Emerging Markets Achievement Awards 2010), Best Boutique Investment Bank in Africa (emeafinance Banking Awards 2010) and the Most Innovative Boutique of the Year (The Banker Investment Banking Awards 2009). Exotix continues to expand across all market segments, delivering an unparalleled depth of liquidity and local market knowledge. Exotix is an independent business owned by its employees and Michael Spencer, CEO of ICAP plc, together with his family trusts. www.exotix.co.uk
About TLG Capital
TLG Capital is an award-winning investment holding company focusing on growth capital investments into consumer-driven, high-growth sectors in Frontier Markets. TLG employs a unique and effective deal structuring technique that enables it to deploy capital innovatively across the entire capital structure to optimise returns while minimising risk. Specifically, TLG typically aims to incorporate a debt element to provide security and yield for investors on an on-going basis, and to incentivise disciplined management. TLG’s track record as a pioneer in Frontier Market investing was recognised with the award for “Landmark Deal of the Decade” in the 2012 inaugural Private Equity Africa awards as well as in 2010 by a Brewin Dolphin and Red Ribbons joint initiative for contributions rendered towards socially impacting investments.
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"We are heading upriver today to see a church planting movement in the villages near Calcutta, India that has reached 100,000 people in the last 10 years. This should be very interesting!"
That was Dave's status on FB yesterday. He's in India!
He's there with four other JV men, joining the Global Youth Initiative Forum, along with 34 leaders from 16 countries and 6 continents! They're spending this week together in India to discuss leadership multiplication and to talk about movement leadership.
They're also meeting and hearing stories from Indian believers, particularly about the church planting movement he wrote about on FB, that has resulted in a hundred thousand coming to Christ and many churches being planted.
Thanks to Mel Ellenwood for a few photos off of FB...they are praying for some of their Indian brothers who are at the forum in this shot.
Today they are flying from Calcutta to New Delhi. He'll be back home late Monday night.
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You may choose to end your coverage at any time. Take the following actions to end your coverage:
- Log on to milConnect and follow the instructions to "Disenroll"
- Complete the Reserve Component Health Coverage Request Form (DD Form 2896-1)
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A 12-month purchase lockout will apply, which means you won't be able to purchase TRICARE Reserve Select again for up to one year.
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- Follow the steps above to end your coverage within 60 days if you become eligible for or enrolled in the FEHB program.
- No purchase lockout will apply.
- If you fail to end coverage as required, your Reserve component may drop your coverage, and you're responsible for any health care received after date your coverage ended.
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When ActivatedClick to closeCalled or ordered to active duty service for more than 30 days in a row.
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- Submit your completed Reserve Component Health Coverage Request Form (DD Form 2896-1) with a premium payment postmarked no later than 60 days after the loss of the TRICARE coverage.
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Denver teacher talks with U.S. Secretary about ed policy
She was selected as part of a handful of teachers from across the country to talk with Duncan and advisers about local, state and federal educational policy initiatives.
“The perspective I have gained from being on the ground as a KIPP teacher influences my view on education policy,” she said in a statement. “Programs like Teach for America and KIPP have created a generation of teacher leaders who understand public education and are committed to making a difference.”
Allen was also selected for her achievement with her students.
A spokeswoman for KIPP said that according to NWEA MAP exams, Allen was able to help her students catch up and grow three years, within one school year.
“In the 2010-2011 school year Liz’s sixth grade students began the school year performing at the same level as students finishing fourth grade. After a year of Liz’s instruction, they finished performing at the same level as a student finishing seventh grade,” KIPP spokeswoman Katie Gonzales said. | <urn:uuid:2039fe06-1033-4088-885e-c1104402c0f3> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://blogs.denverpost.com/coloradoclassroom/2011/08/17/denver-teacher-talks-with-u-s-secretary-about-ed-policy/1480/ | 2014-10-21T12:54:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507444385.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005724-00335-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982906 | 221 |
View from the Top: Kishore Seendripu: An accidental entrepreneur: My journey from Berkeley to Wall Street
Lecture | March 20 | 12-1 p.m. | Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium, 3rd floor
Kishore Seendripu, Co-founder, president & CEO, Maxliner
In this talk, Kishore will share his experience and learnings as an entrepreneur and a cofounder of MaxLinear, a modern communications IC company, from its inception in 2003 to its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010. He will cover the gamut of topics that an entrepreneurs journey entails, which include the challenges of building a cohesive team, germinating product ideas, navigating a treacherous competitive landscape, working with venture capitalists, dealing with investment bankers, and most importantly, embracing the role of leader of a public company.
All Audiences, Faculty, Friends of the University, General Public, Staff, Students - Graduate, Students - Undergraduate
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|Volume No. 1 Issue No. 86 - Monday JAugust 28, 2006
|Dr. Eric Buffong Dies in Car Accident |
The Dominican.net News Desk
A Dominican physician practicing in Columbus, Georgia and who pled guilty earlier this year to sexual battery has been killed in a car accident.
Dr. Eric Buffong and his daughter were killed in an early morning car crash on Saturday August 26 in Clayton County, Georgia.
According to authorities, the car Buffong and his 22-year old daughter were traveling in crashed into the back of a tractor trailer. It happened around three am on Interstate 285.
Both victims were thrown from the car on impact, killing them instantly.
Buffong, who was a Columbus gynecologist, made headlines when he was arrested and charged with sexual battery and aggravated sodomy. He was sentenced to 2 years probation in a plea deal with prosecutors.
It was in an office building off Talbotton Road where a victim visited Dr. Eric Buffong to ask him to speak to her church youth group... The DA's office says Buffong told her she wanted to have sex and she should. Attorneys say when the victim tried to leave, the door was locked and that's when Dr. Buffong sexually assaulted her.
Days later she returned with a police wire on, but never in any conversations did investigators get Buffong to admit the sex wasn't consensual. Assistant DA Richard Mobley says, "The statements made undercover, at no point in time did they ask her to get the doctor to admit, okay, I said stop and the doctor said yes, you did but I did not stop."
For that reason prosecutors say the rape trial was over before it started. The agreed plea bargain, reduces four charges to two. Originally the doctor was charged with rape, sodomy, aggravated sodomy and sexual battery. Mark Shellnutt, Buffong's Attorney says, "just because you hear the word rape doesn't mean there is a rape that can be proved in court and we felt like we had a good defense."
Buffong pleaded no contest to two counts of sexual battery. In a prepared statement, the victim was not in favor of the bargain and said Buffong was leaving a trail of rape and injured women behind...concluding he was a predator and threat to the female population. Mobley says, "If he had gone to trial and found not guilty he could be out practicing medicine within weeks and this prevents that from happening for 2 more years."
Buffong who was 55 years old was born in Roseau and spent his early childhood in Dominica before migrating to the United States.
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So. It's been a while since I last managed to draw anything that wasn't Feral Gentry. You probably know how it goes. Or not.
I'm gonna be at Tampere Kuplii selling the print version of Feral Gentry Chapter One! It's a full 122 pages A5 paperback with exclusive extras that will not be put online outside the pdf, ever. I'm pretty happy with the finished product and I hope anyone buying will be too! After Kuplii we'll sell it online both as a physical and digital version (which will btw be very affordable), we'll try to sort this out as soon as possible after the con. I have a table with , come buy, come buy!
As a sidenote, I'm a lot more active on Tumblr these days. It's not much said but still true.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Avalanches engulfed a mountain pass in Afghanistan, trapping hundreds of people in their buried cars and killing at least 64 people, authorities said yesterday.
Rescuers brought in bulldozers, ambulances, and helicopters in a massive effort to reach victims stuck along the 12,700-feet-high Salang Pass, which links the Afghan capital, Kabul, with the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
Search and rescue teams recovered the bodies of 24 people but feared 40 others remain trapped and may have died, Interior Minister Hanif Atmar said at a news conference in Kabul. About 2,500 people were rescued from their snowbound vehicles, including more than 400 injured.
The avalanches struck Monday, burying vehicles along several miles of road under heavy snow. Atmar said the highway tunnel had not been closed off earlier because there had been little warning.
Military helicopters were dropping food packages to people stuck on snow-blocked roads, said Zemerai Bashary, Interior Ministry spokesman. Earlier, Afghan reports said some 300 cars and buses were trapped on the mountain pass.
Afghan and coalition forces evacuated about 430 injured, with 180 taken by coalition helicopters to Bagram air base for medical treatment, said General Abdul Rahim Wardak, the defense minister.
Atmar said authorities were unable to locate the parents of 24 children who had been evacuated and were being treated for injuries at hospitals.
Some of the injured were taken to Charikar Hospital in Parwan Province. One injured eyewitness, Abdul Shakor, said he saw more than 100 vehicles still trapped in the snow.
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Ms. Indigo Li moved in but a few days ago, I met her briefly in Loki's bar with her friend Mr Zero Qi and suggested she speak to Mr Sprockett about rental accomodation. It seems that she took that advice and moved in the next day, in the row house just behind my own plot.
I had popped round to check that she was OK after having had to leave her at the party where I had found her sitting alone. She was relaxing, after the night's events.
"You know I found a letter?", she ventured.
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"Yes, it fell to the ground when I purchased the painting".
I asked to see the letter and the painting once more. I spoke nothing of my meeting with Prof. Nishi, these are just names to Ms. Li right now. What a way to make an entrance in Babbage though!
"What are you going to do with it? Have you let the autorities know?"
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I did not disagree with the sentiment of Ms. Li's adviser back at the bar. It is likely she will be dismissed out of hand but the news will travel fast, the letter will be in the paper in no time, and the honed minds of the constabulary will want to know why Ms. Li had not come forward and will have a new "witch" on their books.
I offered to escort her to the police station by the railway station and we wandered south beneath the railway viaduct. When we got to the police station noone was around, no obvious way of leaving a note for the police either; so Ms. Li sent her deposition straight to Mr Sprocket.
In the corner of the Police station stands a small display with a domed top, inside is the device; the device that Mr Sprocket claims was retrieved from a forger. He almost seems to consider the case closed with that. If this is indeed the device how did the forger come to have it? None of this makes sense. With a device apparently so powerful why leave it on display? The bait for a trap? In many ways I could care less. I knew nothing of Mr Alexander Eliot two weeks ago, I know precious little more now. But the children... How can I in good conscience turn my back on them again? The beast that is Jason Moriarty taunts them and abuses them, the fear in the eyes of poor young McKay in the gallery yesterday was real, complete and utter fear. How can we allay that fear when the very device lives in Babbage, it needs to be destroyed removed from play. Prof. Nishi is my best hope in this. I know not what she is about, there is too much to that lady to summarise her in a short precis, and Miss Paine, what power does the professor wield over her? When I have met Ms. Paine in the streets she has been like another person to the Miss Paine that I met last night.
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Once you’re reached the Prophecy mission in Far Cry New Dawn and headed to the island, one of the trickier puzzles in the game is when you have to align the amulet with the Eden’s Gate Symbol pieces. In the following guide, we’ll show you how to complete this part of The Prophecy Mission, investigate the beams and line up those amulets correctly.
You can tackle the three beams in any order, which may depend on which side of the island you arrived on.
The first amulet we discovered was on the small mooring platform. You can take out the pink amulet by pressing up on the d-pad, and you need to align it to make a complete amulet. You’ll get a hint with this puzzle when Joseph says: “To walk the path burn away what is necessary.”
The Prophecy Mission – Align Amulet 1
Stand on the wooden mooring, and notice in the screenshot the large piece of the amulet protruding behind some netting or greenery. You need to burn it. Use a weapon from a distance and aim at the exploding barrels.
Now that the path has been cleared, check out the small platform behind the mooring platform.
You’ll see some blue vine on it, indicating you can climb up. Dive into the water and jump up. You’ll notice there’s a pink glowing lantern here too. Essentially, this lantern is exactly where you need to stand in each area in order to align the amulets correctly.
Get the amulet out and line it up.
The Prophecy Mission – Align Amulet 2
The second puzzle that we’ll look at sees part of the larger amulet protected by wooden boards.
Smash the boards with your fist. There’s three sets of boards to smash in total. Then turn around and head back to the bottom of the hill where you see the pink blowing lantern.
Stand by the lantern, take out your Eden’s piece and align in with the other pieces.
The Prophecy Mission – Align Amulet 3
The final amulet sees you outside of a wooden hut. There’s a rope that you can pull that turns the big amulet. To solve this puzzle, pull it twice.
Then head into the hut and look above you. Here you can see another two pieces that you’ll need to align.
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One of the main challenges in the world of photobooks is that there is no such single entity called “photobook.” Instead, there is a fairly large conglomerate of different types of books that all rely on photography to varying degrees. Take Laia Abril‘s On Abortion. Probably the best way to describe the book would be to place it into the larger context of research-based journalism. Having previously produced The Epilogue, this photographer has demonstrated the power of such books, establishing herself at the forefront of its makers.
I’m writing this review as on social media debates are raging over World Press Photo (WPP) and the many problems swirling around picking one news photograph as the best one for some year. Actually, this year, they changed things and presented a shortlist of six pictures, emulating the Oscars and other awards (thus prolonging WPP Outrage Season on social media). Of the many of the problems the identity of photojournalism is one: what does it do? What does it not do? What does it show? What does it not show?
From what I can tell, for many people its shortcomings are a focus on a (sensationalist) “what?” instead of “why?” Whether this particular problem is at all solvable in the context of photojournalism I don’t know. My hunch is: no, it isn’t. The sensationalism and Western myopia for sure should be tackled, though.
Back to On Abortion. The book does exactly what many of the critics of photojournalism demand of that profession. Abril dives deeply into the subject abortion and, in particular, what happens when access to it is restricted (as is the case in countries such as Poland, for example). No words are being minced: the book is presented as the first chapter of “A History of Misogyny.” And the case is being made very clearly and forcefully why prohibiting or limiting access to abortion is enormously harmful for women. So here is a book that deals with the “why”.
The book does this by relying on the full arsenal of tools available. There is a variety of photographic materials, some taken by Abril, some appropriated from a large variety of backgrounds. There is ample text, varying in length and type between a very documentary approach (with pieces of text very tightly tied to particular photographs in a section), captions, and slightly longer texts without any pictures. The book contains a set of distinct sections that use different approaches to shed light on aspects of abortion. And lastly, in terms of the book production, just the right amount of “trickery” is being used, such as different types of paper and shorter pages that when turned reveal something hidden.
On Abortion is about as good as it can get, and I hope that more photographers will start working along this line of photobooks. With a world of photojournalism mired in what looks like a morass of problems (gender, diversity, Western-centric views, various photography problems), from which it is unable to extricate itself, another world is possible. And that is what Abril presents with On Abortion: she establishes the new gold standard of the research-based photographic book.
On Abortion; photographs and text by Laia Abril (with contributions by Rebecca Gomperts and Christian Fiala); 196 pages; Dewi Lewis; 2018
Rating: Photography 3.0, Book Concept 5.0, Edit 4.0, Production 5.0 – Overall 4.2
Possibly my first discovery in the United States was the fact that its cities all are Potemkin villages: there might be a grandiose facade in front, but right behind there usually is something derelict. Actually, Donald Trump’s hair is a very good stand-in for what I’m talking about here: it’s designed to look grandiose, but it betrays its owner’s desperate attempt to literally and especially metaphorically cover up the many flaws barely hidden underneath. In addition, it must be the “not my job” attitude that results in things getting barely patched over: someone gets tasked with, let’s say, painting over a spot, so that spot, and only that spot, will get painted over, however ridiculous the result might look. Doing more would already be beyond the assigned task.
If you’re used to such an environment you will not notice. You will have become eyeblind to it — just like when you get exposed to an odious smell, with time you will become noseblind as you simply stop smelling it (while it’s still there). (I’m aware of the fact that the word “blind” means not being able to see, but what I mean by “eyeblind” is not seeing while physically being perfectly capable of doing so.) If you’re not used to it, you will simply be bewildered.
I suppose Stephan Keppel found himself in such a bewildered state, and he made a book out of it: Flat Finish. It’s a curious book. At first sight, it doesn’t look like a New York photobook. Instead, you might be tempted to mistaken it for a catalog of strangely assembled samples of building materials. But it also says “New York” right on the very first page, plus you’ll find ample visual clues such as a section with pictures of the top of the Empire State Building.
Where books about New York City tend to focus on its people, its city life, or possibly its attractions, Flat Finish literally just looks at the city’s many surfaces. This is not a pretty sight as you’re made to look at things that you’d prefer you would have become eyeblind to already. The strangest thing is that with time, the book becomes oddly compelling. You don’t become eyeblind. Instead, you’re made to develop a sense of heightened awareness that lets you look past the neglect, the lack of care, the notmyjobisms.
It’s a bit like listening to music that requires a bit of time from an audience or maybe an abandonment of preconceived ideas of what sounds good. I recently developed an appreciation of black metal, especially the more esoteric kinds. I think I had a similar experience with this book: you can only enjoy it if you accept its terms. While that’s true for most good photobooks, this one’s especially tricky. I suspect that many viewers might simply lack the patience or interest to invest their time. But as I always tell my students, you want to make books for reasonably attentive viewers. Flat Finish for sure takes this approach to its logical conclusion.
Flat Finish; images by Stephan Keppel; 400 pages; Fw:Books; 2017
Rating: I don’t know how to rate the photography in this book. So no rating.
Humans have been inflicting vast changes on the land they have been living on (and from) for a very long time. The land thus bears traces of humanity’s past endeavours, some of which are obvious, some of which become only visible when they are being pointed out. For example, when I visited Masada in the Judaean Desert around 25 years ago, a siege ramp built by Roman engineers in the year 73 was still clearly visible. While I had seen other changes to the land, this one in particular struck me: it’s sole purpose had been the destruction of human beings, and it must have used a huge amount of labour to build.
A few years ago, I came across Donovan Webster’s Aftermath: The Remnants of War, a book that describes the impact of warfare on the land. The book discusses examples of the most destructive of all human activities and how they affected the land in ways still visible. Examples include World War I battlefields in France and the World War 2 battlefields around Volgograd (previously Stalingrad). The land might as well remind us of our human foolishness by making us face its scars and modifications. But not all of these scars are necessarily clearly visible — or even easily approachable.
Donald Weber‘s War Sand is the most recent photobook dealing with this particular subject matter. Where Peter Hebeisen‘s 20th Century European Battlefields only adopts conventions of painting, showing the larger landscape (albeit obviously without its battling participants), Weber expands this view by literally looking at microscopic traces of war. The book focuses on the sites of the 1944 D-Day invasion in Northern France, without which Paris would probably been liberated by the Soviet troops that at the time were overrunning the German troops whose power they had broken.
A little more than halfway through the book, a chapter entitled Microarcheology discusses minute traces of war materials that can be found in the sand, tiny grains of nickel or steel, produced during the fighting itself and then subjected to decades of further erosion through the combined effects of sand and sea water acting upon them (apparently, some of these little grains are bone fragments). Think of it as a variant of sea glass. “Shrapnel grains,” the text says, “range from very fine to coarse sand size (0.06 to 1mm), and all display a remarkable variety of shapes and roundness, just like snowflakes.” (p. 209)
For me, this particular section of War Sand is where Weber is able to offer something not just genuinely new but also something that expands the viewer’s possible experience beyond what has been covered in the literature quite a bit: if you were to walk these beaches of Northern France, you would probably literally walking on the minute traces of bones and steel, deposited in 1944. I don’t know why, but that idea haunts me in ways that, for example, the seascapes taken by Weber don’t.
And it’s strange, because while I feel there simply is too much somewhat repetitive information in the other sections (do I really have to know all that weather information or which commander was active on each section of the beaches?), here I can’t read enough. I’m no microarcheologist, so there clearly is the attraction of that. But it’s also that of all the things that strike terror into my heart it’s the idea of human beings pulverizing each other, of grinding each other into the dust (or here sand). What’s wrong with us as a species?
Seeing the many pictures of the beaches has me think of the kind of awe that the invasion might instill in people, an awe that ultimately ends up celebrating more destruction. These little grains don’t do that. They can’t. Instead, they speak of the repercussions of the destruction, of people losing their lives for the right or wrong reasons.
Again: What’s wrong with us as a species?
War Sand; photographs by Donald Weber; text by Larry Frolick, Kevin Robbie and Donald Weber; 372 pages; self-published; 2018
Rating: Photography 3.0, Book Concept 4.0, Edit 1.5, Production 4.0 – Overall 3.3
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A method of cooking foods that are high in fat, eg bacon or ground beef in a non-stick pan where only the melted fat from the meat is used. To dry fry place the meat in a cold non stick frying pan, over a low heat cook until some fat runs out, increase the heat and fry the meat for the recommended cooking time. After dry frying the meat can then be used in your recipe as required.
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During these uncertain 'Coronavirus' times we will be listing treats that can be collected from us pretty much straight away. Much of what is listed can also be posted using Royal Mail 1st Class post. Please note that treats listed are subject to change as are our working days and hours.
We can't promise but we will always try and help. If we have cake available for quick collection, this could be same day or next day, we will list it here. Items in this section cannot be combined with other orders, this means no adding cupcakes or brownies as an add on (unless they are listed here in this section).
We bake everything from scratch and by hand, cakes listed here have been baked potentially for our own counter early in the day but we are happy to share with you if it helps get you out of a fix.
Order today for collection today between 10-4
We have a standard 2 day policy for bespoke orders, this gives us time to collate, bake, decorate and box before you arrive, if you were to add something outside of this 'Last Minute' section, your entire order will default to a two day collection. Quick collection is for bakes listed in this section only. We will not be held responsible for orders that do not follow this protocol - apologies. Items listed are for COLLECTION ONLY. Items cannot be posted | <urn:uuid:29adf4fc-3775-4cb4-8067-6df3abcd4ad6> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://www.victoriayum.com/collections/last-minute-coming-soon | 2020-04-01T16:04:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370505731.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20200401130837-20200401160837-00090.warc.gz | en | 0.959498 | 283 |
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Vulee Tours by Best View Imaging is a real estate imaging company that was looking for an efficient system to upload images and map them to home layouts to provide customers with 2D property tours.
I delivered Vulee Tours a content management system that provides drag-and-drop positioning for the location of high-resolution images in relation to floor plans as a supplement to the traditional real estate listing.
A fully responsive tool allowing clients to photos of a property with an added superset of the home layout.
Best View Imaging had been offering virtual walkthroughs for 5 years and we had multiple people work on the product over those years to improve functionality and visual appeal of these walkthroughs but each time we updated it the process became more and more complicated and time consuming.
We contacted Brian in hopes of simplifying the process to create them as well as improving the ease of use for viewers. I sat down with him to show our current product and share ideas on things we would like to do and features that seemed like they would help. After that we gave Brian free range to work his magic. A short time later I met with Brian again to see what he had created and it was far above and beyond what we had even imagined.
We went from a creation process that took a skilled employee over an hour to a program that would allow any employee with basic training to create a virtual walkthrough in just 20 minutes, and even better it looked amazing and was easy for viewers to navigate and understand. We discussed a few additional tweaks before launching the new program. Our clients love it and we are able to make 3 walkthroughs in the time it used to take to make one. Brian was readily able to understand what we needed to do and used his wide variety of skills to create a program above and beyond our greatest dreams. | <urn:uuid:8a9dcb43-08e8-445a-b0df-b94521305740> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://briancorey360.com/work-example/vulee-tours | 2022-05-22T08:34:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662545090.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220522063657-20220522093657-00301.warc.gz | en | 0.981018 | 375 |
Glamping In New York Rated Among The Best In The World
Believe it or not Spring begins this Saturday! That makes me think of busting out of the house! Breaking this cabin fever and getting in the car with the family and going for a long drive. Who knows where we will end up?
If we go far enough we will need to stay overnight and my girlfriend will want a hotel. BORING! Camping would be cool but she might not go for that unless it's "glamping" and it just so happens that we have 2 of the coolest glamping sites in the world right here in New York.
There is a travel site called boundlessroads.com and recently they listed the "coolest glamping spots in the world" and New York made the list! Twice!
Catskill Domeo is about an hour south of Albany in Windham, NY. Before you go you should know this is not located in the woods. This dome is actually on someone's private property. There is a ton of hiking, biking and waterfalls nearby and Woodstock in about 45 minutes from this site.
- Accommodates up to 4 people
- Hot water
- DVD player
- No pets allowed
- Shoes aren't allowed inside this dome
- No cooking inside dome
Geo Dome at the Outlier Inn seems to be more for me but a little further away at 2 hours from the Capital Region in Woodridge, NY. Set on a 12-acre farm in the Catskill mountains near Bethel Woods. Love that they have sheep, goats, alpacas, and chickens on the property.
- A claw foot bathtub
- Outdoor double hot showers
- Complete outdoor kitchen
- Big fire pit
- High-speed internet
- Only 1 full bed
- Additional guests must bring air mattresses
I've never tried glamping but if that's what it takes to get my girl to go camping, count me in and apparently we have the best in the world right here in New York! | <urn:uuid:96f98bb6-7656-489c-bf93-3b648a556597> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://q1057.com/glamping-in-new-york-rated-among-the-best-in-the-world/ | 2021-04-13T13:20:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038072366.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20210413122252-20210413152252-00327.warc.gz | en | 0.94976 | 420 |
A severe Status Orange weather warning has come into effect in Waterford and Cork.
"In the 48-hour period from Saturday evening to Monday evening, a spell of heavy rain through Saturday night and Sunday followed by a second spell of heavy rain later on Sunday night and Monday will give large rainfall amounts," Met Eireann warns.
Flooding and hazardous driving conditions are likely in many areas of both counties.
Rainfall amounts will be highest along the south coast and in mountainous areas, making Waterford most vulnerable.
The warning is valid from 6pm on Saturday, April 13 until 6pm on Monday, April 15.
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River of Goods is pleased to announce their exclusive collaboration to bring lighting to Poetic Wanderlust by Tracy Porter, a collection by the globally-inspired bohemian designer. The collection will debut at AmericasMart in Atlanta Tuesday, July 12-19, 2016.
“My soulful collection of lighting from River of Goods adds a delicious layer of enhancement to every home. The mouthwatering kaleidoscope of colors and textures are inspired by my love of nature and wanderlust. In addition to having a vision, finding the right partner is essential. And with River of Goods we have created the quintessential collaboration – from thoroughly understanding my thoughts to making designs a reality- we have found a kindred spirit in River of Goods,” said Tracy Porter.
The bold new lighting collection will feature eclectic lamps to fit anywhere in the home, including floor lamps, table lamps, accent lamps, chandeliers and hanging lamps. Rich jewel tones will create a warm, inviting glow for any home. Also featured are mercury glass accents including candleholders and ginger jars with LED lights. Tracy’s signature touches can be found in each piece, with details such as hanging crystals and beads, as well as her own trademark fabric prints. The collection will debut to retailers during the AmericasMart Atlanta market in July in River of Goods’ showroom located in Building 2, Suite 1135. The partnership was brokered by Jewel Branding & Licensing, the licensing agent for Tracy Porter.
About Poetic Wanderlust by Tracy Porter
Tracy Porter’s signature globally-inspired, emotionally engaging designs capture a spirited blend of modern + soulful. From home decor to fashion, Tracy has stirred an emotional surrender among her enthusiasts, bringing them enchanting yet attainable fantasy. Her exuberant color and pattern combinations always offer an element of surprise as they are layered with whimsical flirty touches, vintage and folkloric elements all kissed with a bit of bohemian elegance.
As a style expert, Tracy has appeared on numerous television shows, including Oprah, HGTV and E!Style. Tracy has also been featured in multiple magazines including O, House Beautiful, ELLE, Traditional Home, Better Home & Gardens, Family circle and many others. Tracy also written nine lifestyle books and is currently writing her next home design book. She has been a contributing editor to multiple blogs, including to iVillage, Women Magazine and others. As a successful designer, Tracy has been honored to receive many industry awards including Better Homes & Gardens “Better By Design” award, AMFAR Gift for Life Award, and from Internet Retailer Magazine, a coveted 2010 “Hot 100” award. For more information on Tracey Porter’s Poetic Wanderlust, please visit: www.poeticwanderlust.com.
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River of Goods is a national leader in sourcing, designing, and developing unique lighting and home décor products at an exceptional value. Our experienced product development team travels the world to be inspired and to find unique products rich with history and stories. We proudly serve specialty retailers, lighting retailers, home décor and furniture retailers, department stores, catalog buyers, corporate buyers, TV shopping networks and more. For more information, visit www.riverofgoods.com. | <urn:uuid:b70e4da2-1a92-4158-a448-665f4e380bc1> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://www.jewelbranding.com/branding-and-licensing/river-goods-debuts-poetic-wanderlust-lighting-collection/ | 2021-11-27T00:08:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358074.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20211126224056-20211127014056-00175.warc.gz | en | 0.939416 | 672 |
I recently removed the old flooring(about 1 inch), down to the sub floor and then installed hardie backer and tile. Now the pipe sticks slightly abouve the tile, which causes the toilet to rock slightly and not seal. Any ideas?
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You are probably not going to meet the proper deflection rates for tile with only the sub floor and some hardi as the hardi does not add any support at all. Keep an eye on your tiles for cracking or grout cracking..... You may just be pulling them back up in the near furure to add that extra sub flooring back down and then you toilet drain will be to short. | <urn:uuid:5e03720d-5c2f-4cd0-9016-679f869d03f0> | CC-MAIN-2015-11 | http://www.diychatroom.com/f7/toilet-pipe-rises-above-new-tile-floor-84782/ | 2015-03-06T14:24:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936469016.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074109-00246-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909654 | 152 |
Razor is a pyramidal mountain in the Julian Alps and the sixth-highest mountain in Slovenia. First ascended by Otto Sendtner in 1842, it is now frequently ascended, with numerous mountain huts available for climbers.
Postojna Cave is a 24,340 m long karst cave system near Postojna, southwestern Slovenia. It is the second-longest cave system in the country as well as one of its top tourism sites. The caves were created by the Pivka River.
The Pokljuka Plateau is a forested karst plateau at an elevation of around 1,100 to 1,400 metres, located in the Julian Alps in northwestern Slovenia. The plateau is known for its forests, mountain pastures, and winter sports facilities. It is also a common starting point for mountain hikers.
Pohorje, also known as the Pohorje Massif or the Pohorje Mountains, is a mostly wooded, medium-high mountain range south of the Drava River in northeastern Slovenia. According to the traditional AVE classification it belongs to the Southern Limestone Alps.
Planica is an Alpine valley in northwestern Slovenia, extending south from the border village of Rateče, not far from another well-known ski resort, Kranjska Gora. Further south, the valley extends into the Tamar Valley, a popular hiking destination in Triglav National Park. Planica is famous for ski jumping.
Ljubljana Zoo is a 19.6-hectare zoo in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It serves as the national zoo of Slovenia and is open year-round. The zoo is situated on the southern slope of the Rožnik Hill, in a natural environment of woods and meadows about a 20-minute walk from the city center.
Lake Bohinj, covering 318 hectares, is the largest permanent lake in Slovenia. It is located within the Bohinj Valley of the Julian Alps, in the northwestern Upper Carniola region, and part of Triglav National Park.
Lake Bled is a lake in the Julian Alps of the Upper Carniolan region of northwestern Slovenia, where it adjoins the town of Bled. The area is a tourist destination. The lake is 35 km from Ljubljana International Airport and 55 km from the capital city, Ljubljana.
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Starting a Business in Shenzhen, China - 5 Reasons to Do SoShenzhen, China is the centre of the country's economic miracle. In just over 30 years Shenzhen has been transformed from a tiny little fishing village to the most prosperous "Special Economic Zone" in China. Because of this many companies look to open their first Chinese office in the city and there are certainly many good reasons to do so. So here are five of the best to get you started. Proximity to Hong Kong Hong Kong is only a few miles away and there are multiple easy to access crossing points dotted around the city. The busiest border point is Lohou where tens of thousands of people sally back and forth every day. For expats this means it's both convenient and cheap to get into Hong Kong with a round trip journey on the island's MTR system costing around 100 HKD (around $13 USD), and station hopping between points after crossing the border is good value too (usually no more than 10 HKD). For businesses that mea
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West may be keeping baby North West hidden from the public but they had no problem taking her to a July 4th party. The 3 week old joined her mom’s side of the family and some friends at Bruce Jenner’s Malibu pad to celebrate Independence Day.
In what is being reported as the newborn’s first outing since leaving the hospital, North made an appearance at of course a Kardashian party. Despite her over-bearing daddy, Kanye, who wants to keep her out of the eyes of the public, little Nori has been let out to spend time with her family. It is amazing that considering how the paparazzi follows Kimye everywhere, that they managed to sneak the baby to the festivities at Grandpa Bruce’s house. That must have been one heck of a covert operation, considering not a camera caught even a glimpse of the parents or baby going into or out of the party.
Despite all the hoopla surrounding the first photos of North, it is actually normal to not have a newborn out and about all the time. In fact I am a little surprised that they would take her to the beach at only 3 weeks old, that seems like it might not be the best place for a newborn. Sand, dirt, germs don’t exactly seem like the best things to have a baby around, just sayin. Then again with a slew of people hired to look after the kid she was probably placed in her very own sanitary section of the house, where only those who had been hosed down and placed in hazmat suits could see her.
Nori may have had her first outing but don’t expect to lay your eyes on her anytime soon. This kid is going to make a grand entrance into the public eye thanks to her famewhore mother and her father who claims to not be a celebrity. Tell us what you think about all the news surrounding North West?
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This unit explores the concept of 'community' and its applications in Australian society; the theory and practice of the various community work models (social planning, community development and social action); the role of community work in social work activities; and the skills involved in the practice of community work.
Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- Understand and evaluate different perspectives on the nature of community.
- Understand and evaluate the different models of community work, their ideological bases and the skills they involve.
- Apply this knowledge to the practice of community work within a social work setting.
- Develop and apply a range of appropriate ethical behaviours and standards to community work.
- Understand and evaluate the range of roles and strategies in community work.
- Explore and apply a variety of community work skills.
- Using an approved guideline, conduct an interview with community development worker or attend meeting of community group or forum (1,500 words) (40%) (hurdle)
- Essay on social action campaign or community project (3,000 words) (60%) (hurdle)
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Mandatory attendance is required by off-campus students for a 1 day workshop which is held at the Caulfield campus in September.
This unit applies to the following area(s) of study
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If you were lucky enough to score tickets to the Rijksmuseum’s acclaimed Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam, you’re in for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It’s the first and likely last time this number of the Dutch master’s paintings will be displayed together (28 of 37 known works) and demand is so high the entire run sold out two days after opening. That means this already bustling destination is about to get even busier—especially with warm weather and a host of seasonal events around the corner.
To make the most of everything that’s on offer, we recommend planning and reserving your hotel and activities as far in advance of your holiday as possible. So, what’s available now, what’s coming up, and where should you start when you’re here for Vermeer? We’ve got you covered.
Must-See Exhibition and Museum Highlights
Several paintings in the Vermeer exhibition are on loan from international museums and galleries and not all of them will be on display for its full duration. For starters, don’t miss The Girl with a Pearl Earring (on loan from Mauritshuis, The Hague) which returns to its home on 31st March. You can also catch Woman Holding a Balance (on loan from The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC) as well as Girl Reading a Letter at the Open Window (which has never been on public display before).
When you’re finished with Vermeer, the rest of the Rijksmuseum has more than 8,000 pieces and 80 galleries to explore (though it’s a lot to cover on a single visit). If you’re pressed for time, we recommend the “Best of the Rijksmuseum” guided tour for 5€ per person. Alternatively, you can delve into their digital collection to curate a list of what you want to see. Renowned works from Rembrandt, Cuyp, Steen, and other icons of Dutch painting are all on view in breath-taking spaces like the Great Hall and Gallery of Honour.
Credits:Max van den Oetelaar
Upcoming Festivals, Holidays, and Events
The Vermeer exhibition is well timed with other major events happening in Amsterdam and The Netherlands. Adults travelling in March can enjoy the Amsterdam Wine Festival from the 23rd to 26th, which includes masterclasses, tastings, and food pairings. For families, tulip season [link to other blog when published] starts in mid-April and runs until early May. King’s Day celebrations take place on 27th April, while Molendag, or National Mill Day on 13th May, will see 950 watermills and windmills across Holland open to visitors.
There are also plenty of opportunities to supplement your Rijksmuseum experience with more of Amsterdam’s incredible art offering, including the Van Gogh Museum, Moco, and the Stedelijk which are all conveniently located around Museumplein park.
Credits: Jean Carlo Emer
Where to Stay
If you prefer to stay close to the museum but outside of the busiest parts of the city, Park Plaza Vondelpark is just an 18-minute walk away and directly beside Amsterdam’s most attractive park. Or, if you like to be in the heart of the action, Park Plaza Victoria Amsterdam is 11 minutes from the Rijksmuseum by transit and a two-minute walk to Central Station. Whichever you choose, we look forward to welcoming you on your next visit and would be happy to assist you with making reservations for any of your desired activities. Book your stay today. | <urn:uuid:f911fe7d-9be7-42b0-9cf3-23bcf30216b4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.parkplazamoments.com/vermeer-exhibition-travel-tips/ | 2023-09-22T17:27:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506421.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922170343-20230922200343-00345.warc.gz | en | 0.937269 | 774 |
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Good morning! Here's the tech news you need to know to start your week.
1. Facebook's managing director in India is stepping down. As The Wall Street Journal notes, the move comes after a Facebook project was banned in the country, though the company says she wasn't involved.
2. Apple is being sued over its use of 3D Touch. A Californian firm called Immersion claims that the touch-sensitive tech violates its patents, The Next Web reports.
3. Hackers managed to swing the price of the Russian Ruble by 15% with a new malware. The Register reports that attackers broke into a bank and made $500 million (£345 million) in orders, swaying international currency markets.
4. French prosecutors aren't trying to get Uber executives jailed. Two of the startup's executives are on trial in the country, though they won't face prison time, The Wall Street Journal reports.
5. Instagram and Pinterest are killing traditional retailers like Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, and J.Crew. The rise of social media has changed how teens shop.
6. App-only bank Mondo is valued at £30 million in an oversubscribed £6 million fundraise. It hasn't launched to the public yet or secured a banking license.
7. Yahoo is ditching a plan that caused turmoil within Tumblr. CEO Marissa Mayer had integrated both units' sales teams, but is now reversing that decision.
8. Kanye West has removed the download link for his album and made it a Tidal exclusive. The rapper originally released it to buy on his website, but changed his mind and is now making users sign up to streaming service Tidal to listen.
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"The most likely development I think we can expect will be the coexistence of two (…) “legal worlds”. On the one hand, an inter-State law brutally regulating political relations between human groups whitewashed by nationalism; on the other hand, a transnational or “a-national” law regulating economic relations between private as well as public interests. There are, I believe, two obvious victims (…) of this foreseeable evolution: the human being on the one hand, the certainty and effectiveness of the rule of law itself on the other hand.”
Values and Power Relations. The "Disillusionment" of International Law. 2019.
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A tough year for the industry and promising digital future, these are some of the topics Munich Re’s CEO of reinsurance discussed with Global Reinsurance
This has been a challenging first half for Munich Re, what intentions are there to counter this to the end of 2016? Or will Munich Re be weathering the storm and keeping its sights on longer-term solutions?
Indeed, the first half-year was challenging not only for Munich Re but for the whole (re)insurance industry. Losses caused by natural catastrophes in the first half of 2016 were significantly higher than the corresponding figures for the previous year. In total, losses up to the end of June came to $70bn (previous year $59bn), of which $27bn ($19bn) were insured. The main loss drivers were powerful earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador, storms in Europe and the US, and forest fires in Canada.
Furthermore, the persistent low interest-rate environment is exerting pressure on our business and the oversupply of capacity is fuelling competition in some business segments. Nevertheless, Munich Re is well positioned to succeed in the current market environment. Our capacity, expertise and customised solutions are in demand. At the same time, we maintain active cycle management and offer our capacity only where we are able to obtain risk-adequate prices, terms and conditions. And Munich Re is also fully capable of successfully adapting its business model to market changes. We are experiencing continuous growth in tailor-made capital relief reinsurance and our expertise-driven specialty niche business, for instance.
Germany experienced severe flooding recently, is Munich Re paying any additional attention to flood coverage moving forward? Could there be room for a flood pool, similar to Flood Re that has been established in the UK?
The severe weather in Europe in May and early June was primarily triggered by a persistent low pressure system over central Europe. The overall loss from the storms in Europe totalled €5.4bn, of which €2.7bn was insured. Losses in Germany accounted for €2.6bn of overall losses and €1.2bn of insured losses.
In Germany, the very slow-moving thunderstorms caused powerful flash floods in many areas, while in France, the storms brought floods on the Seine and its tributaries. In most countries, flood is an underestimated peril and insurance penetration is low. Therefore this topic is high on our agenda but no one solution can be applied throughout the world. In Germany, insurance protection against flood losses can be acquired in a dedicated natural hazard insurance that amends the standard homeowners insurance. Though more widespread than a few years ago, average penetration across the country is still only around 40%. Almost all of the buildings affected by the recent flash floods were in risk zones in which affordable natural hazard insurance would undoubtedly have been available. A pool is not necessary to cover those risks.
With an excess of capacity in the reinsurance space, is it fair to say the days of the cycle are over? What new dynamic should the market be mindful of: will it remain flat, or is the market leaving itself open to a sudden spike?
Pricing cycles have become less volatile and, in addition, pricing developments differ across the various regions and lines of business. But, of course, the overall available capacity and the capitalisation of the market players have an influence on the rates. Prudent cycle management is therefore key to maintaining the profitability of a portfolio. I think it is unlikely to be one single large event that will turn the market, but rather a series of losses and other incidents such as further consolidation or even insolvencies, a worsening of results, etc. From a regional perspective, however, huge amounts are not always necessary to temporarily affect pricing.
With the capital markets now being accepted at part of the industry’s norm, what are the three key disrupters challenging the status quo of the reinsurance industry today?
I think the biggest potential for disruption in the (re)insurance industry is the digital transformation. Firstly, it will change the risk
landscape and, secondly, it will change the insurance business itself: from the way customers buy insurance and the insurance products themselves to risk assessment, claims handling, loss prevention and internal processes. We want to be at the forefront of this development in our industry. We cooperate with relevant partners in order to understand and assess new technologies and develop innovative insurance solutions. And we support our clients to compete with new players and grow their business. Thus we stay relevant in the changing environment.
Will automation and digitisation always mean a burning platform and loss of jobs, or could it lead to a new value-offering approach within the reinsurance workforce? Could it in fact lead to an increase in specialism?
I am convinced that big data and data analytics will have positive effects on risk assessment, loss prevention and claim handling. Allow me to give you some examples. Improved risk assessment: The increased availability of risk-related data, especially types of data that are currently not considered in risk assessment, can improve the accuracy of risk modelling and pricing.
Innovative analytical techniques can considerably outperform traditional models used in the insurance industry. For instance, GPS sensors monitoring the movement of vehicles provide significantly more information about driving habits, and require advanced analytical techniques to extract additional value for risk assessment. Better loss prevention: Modern sensor technology in combination with data communication and storage capabilities make it possible to monitor the environment much better than ever before. If insurance companies manage to tap into this opportunity, significant progress in the area of monitoring insured assets and actively preventing losses can be achieved. Typical examples of this development include predictive maintenance of industrial machines. Improved claims handling: The ultimate cost of claims incurred by insurance companies often depends on how fast losses can be detected and evaluated. Here, again, access to the right data and the ability to effectively analyse it is key. It accelerates decision-making processes, improves the accuracy of loss estimation, and detects fraud. For instance, advanced geospatial imaging combined with object detection is being rapidly adopted by insurers. Munich Re already offers a data analytics-enabled early loss detection service for its clients.
“I think the biggest potential for disruption in the (re)insurance industry is the digital transformation”
Is the reinsurance industry innovating enough?
It is true that the insurance and reinsurance industry has to increase its relevance. In a more and more digitalised world, the risk landscape is changing and our industry has to find solutions to respond to this. Munich Re fosters innovation throughout its global organisation. We have built up a structure including innovation scouts and labs and we cooperate with important players. We further enhance our data analytics abilities and tools, and we have an agile IT set-up. Based on that, we are developing new (re) insurance products, new business models and new risk-related services. And we work to identify new clients and new demands.
Attracting talent is vital for the preservation of the industry; what advice would you give a graduate entering into the reinsurance industry?
I can only stress from my own experience that reinsurance is fascinating: it is related to so many different topics that it never gets boring. This is all the more true now that we are experiencing a shift towards a digitalised world, because this will also change the risk landscape and the (re)insurance industry dramatically. Digitalisation and innovation are the key to future success in our industry. Harnessing talent has always been extremely important for reinsurers. The future talent profile will change. We need more people that speak the language of IT and understand technologies developing at an ever-increasing pace.
What do you feel should be the leading topic of conversation for Monte Carlo 2016 and why?
Rates, terms and conditions will of course be discussed in Monte Carlo, although I do not think this is the most important topic. In my opinion, the most important subject is where our industry is heading and how it will cope with future risks and demands in a digitalised world. To cope with future challenges, innovation is crucial for our industry. Digitalisation and new technologies will have an impact on the risk landscape. Large amounts of previously unavailable data and sophisticated methods of analysis will improve risk assessment, loss prevention and claims handling. Customer expectations and behaviour will change regarding product design, services and sales. These innovation trends offer opportunities for growth, but also throw up challenges for the insurance industry. | <urn:uuid:bb4d414e-6d8b-4096-9204-e10aacf1ae2c> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | https://www.globalreinsurance.com/torsten-jeworrek-embracing-the-digital-age/1419723.article | 2018-09-19T01:32:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267155814.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20180919004724-20180919024724-00534.warc.gz | en | 0.953768 | 1,725 |
Change Management Certificate
Facilitating change is more critical now than ever as organizations are affected by economic conditions and are driven to improve efficiency, productivity, and service quality. This program establishes a comprehensive change model that can be immediately applied to your current situations through application exercises, case studies, and interactive program modules.
Designed for ATD by industry expert Elaine Biech of ebb associates, the Change Management Certificate Program contains application exercises, case studies, templates, and interactive program modules. You will learn a comprehensive, six-step change model that can be applied to your current situation.
By the end of the program, you will be able to:
- Implement a change process using the six step CHANGE model.
- Apply tools and techniques to support a change intervention.
- Describe and model the role of a facilitator of change.
- Assist clients to assess, design, and implement a change intervention.
- Establish sponsorship, ownership, and involvement in change efforts.
- Evaluate change results.
Day 1 Topics
- Introduction to Change Management
- Six Step CHANGE Model
- Change Agent Characteristics
- Data Collection
- Organizational Readiness
- Qualities of a Change Leader
- Creating Visions for Change
- Developing Communication Plans
- Using Teams to Design an Implementation
Day 2 Topics
- Reactions to Change
- Overcoming Resistance and Increasing Commitment
- Establishing Metrics
- Conducting a Risk Assessment
- Implementation Tools
- Importance of Short-Term Gains
- Building Momentum
- Evaluating the Effort
- Making Change Stick
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Find out why facilitator Peggy Greenberg values the Change Management program.
May 04-05, 2018
Jun 05-Jul 17, 2018
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Aug 06-07, 2018
Aug 21-Oct 02, 2018
Sep 13-Oct 18, 2018
Oct 09-Nov 13, 2018
Nov 01-Dec 13, 2018
Nov 15-16, 2018
Dec 03-04, 2018
- Technical Requirements:
Online programs: The online version of this program is conducted in the WebEx Training Center. Special software is not required. You only need a standard web browser and telephone or VoIP capability to participate. In addition, it is strongly recommended to use a desktop or laptop computer as using a tablet or mobile device severely limits your ability to fully and actively participate in the program. Active participation is a completion requirement of ATD and includes, but is not limited to, participating in virtual classroom activities, discussions, breakout sessions, and intersession work.
This program is designed for learning professionals who are currently responsible for managing change efforts or those who want to be ready for this challenge in their current or future positions.
ATD Education programs are designed primarily for learning professionals—trainers, instructional designers, and organizational development practitioners—but also greatly benefit anyone within an organization who is responsible for developing others, from managers to human resources specialists.
After this program, you will be able to:
- Conduct diagnostic assessments and other forms of data gathering to define the change efforts needed.
- Analyze data to provide feedback to help clients clarify outcomes, establish expectations, and identify realistic boundaries.
- Understand change management theories, such as systems thinking and open systems theory, chaos and complexity theory, appreciative inquiry, action research, communication theory, and motivation theory.
- Select an appropriate change model and design a strategic plan for change that minimizes the impact on people and maximizes buy-in.
- Create implementation designs that involve and inspire formal and informal leaders.
- Develop communication plans that raise awareness, build commitment, and ensure understanding.
- Manage consequences that may occur, such as conflict, resistance, negativity, and complacency.
Face-to-Face: 2 days
Online: 6 sessions, 12hours total
On-Site: Flexible dates & duration
Earn 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) upon successfully completing this program.This program may be eligible for up to 14 CPLP recertification points for the face-to-face version and 12 CPLP recertification points for the online version. This program may be eligible for up to 14 APTD recertification points for the face-to-face version and 12 APTD recertification points for the online version.This program has been pre-approved for 14 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute . This program is valid for 12 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrm.org/certification.
Participation in all originally scheduled days of the program is mandatory in order to receive the certificate of completion and 1.4 CEUs. Participants who miss more than two hours of the entire program will not be eligible to receive the certificate. Participants who fulfill the attendance requirement will receive a certificate at the end of the program.
Participation in all online sessions at their currently scheduled day and time is mandatory to receive a completion certificate and any applicable credits.
ATD requires active participation through the program to receive credit for the class. Active participation includes, but is not limited to, participating in virtual classroom activities, discussions, breakout sessions, and intersession work. Please note that using a tablet or mobile device severely limits your ability to fully and actively participate.
For programs with five or more sessions, one missed live session can be made up by listening to the session recording in full. Participants who miss more than one live session will not be eligible to receive the certificate. For programs with four or fewer sessions, attendance at all live sessions is required to receive a certificate. If you meet the eligibility requirements, a certificate will be issued to you through the ATD Learning Portal at the end of the program. All sessions will be recorded and available for participants to review throughout the program for your reference.
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ok i will tell you the true story
of cathy martin and the tunnel of fire
ok when i was about 9 yrs old my best friend was cathy martin
and she came over and we went up the hill past the cotton field thru the woods past the abandoned house to the pond
to pick blackberries.
the dog came with us. the dog's name was Ticketty.
so we waded to the blackberry island and picked berries and skipped rocks and counted tadpoles in the sun.
then the dog comes blazing over the hill YIPE YIPE YIPE
we're like, ok dog whatever.
she is all like DAMMIT I SAID YIPE!
so we follow her back up the hill
past the abandoned house
over the crest of the hill
which is where we see the tunnel of fire.
we are 9 years old
and there is fire everywhere.
um WHAT THE FUCK?
we would have said, but we were 9.
it was a drought
it might have been a cigarette thrown out on the highway a mile away
or just the sun
but the dry fallow cotton field was basically full of nothing but tinder
and it caught
and spread to the woods
which trees overhung the road
hence, tunnel of fire.
YIPE YIPE YIPE means Your world is ablaze and you should follow me cause there is no other option.
so we did.
Dog led us down the tunnel of fire which seemed nuts but with our 9 yr old logic
we figured a dog would not lead us into mortal danger
so we ran through the tunnel of fire
blackberries and pots long dropped and scattered
ran through trying to hold our breath
coughing brown sour smoke
to the other end, fresh air and light, out of the falling blaze branches we were safe and we ran all the way home choking
and gave the dog a hamburger. | <urn:uuid:223c880c-6aa2-4b31-95e6-c2d05c618571> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://everything2.com/title/Cathy+Martin+and+the+tunnel+of+fire | 2022-09-25T10:55:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334528.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925101046-20220925131046-00317.warc.gz | en | 0.956729 | 434 |
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