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I am in LOVE with a book.
I am in LOVE with a non-fiction book full of infographics and data.
And my students are in LOVE with it, too.
The Works: Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher is a book we have had on our kids’ bookshelf forever. Adam would occasionally pull it out and read it to them when theyexpressed even a smidge of interest about the subway, where water comes from, or how our toilet works. Even though it was a book he had studied during his architecture degree at Virginia Tech, the book is full of diagrams, infographics, and tables and charts that make it visually accessible, even to little kids. This book, chapter by chapter, breaks down the infrastructure of New York City. It is divided into sections of what the author calls the “most interesting but least visible” components of New York City’s infrastructure: Moving People, Moving Freight, Power, Communications, Keeping it Clean, and The Future. Within these sections are multiple chapters that highlight the most important component parts. For example, under the chapter Keeping it Clean the three component parts are Water, Sewage, and Garbage. Although the book focuses on New York City, much of it’s information is meant to be read as applicable to major metropolitan cities around the globe.
This semester in our freshman seminar course entitled City Seminar they are studying Consumption, Waste, and Recycling. The clever title some of my colleagues came up with while writing this curriculum last year was “From Transaction to Trash.” Love that. The first six-weeks of the semester we studied what it means to be a consumer, what kinds of consumers we are, and our consumption habits. The six weeks at present we are studying what happens to our “stuff” after we are done with it. Therefore, my students read Sewage and Garbage (34 pages of text) to explore what happens to our organic and inorganic waste in New York City.
1. It is a non-fiction text, therefore it’s golden for the implementation of the Common Core Standards for College Readiness.
2. It is broken neatly into chapters and the chapters are broken neatly into sections. While this might sound elementary, it’s been a great model text to explain to students how to break down larger papers into smaller, more manageable sections when writing. It is also already broken down for you to divide the class up to work with parts of the text in small groups. Gold.
3. The infographics! The data! The charts! As a visual learner, I am in heaven in this book. Keep in mind, my engineering brain is probably equivalent to that of a rat’s. I was actually told via an aptitude test in 10th grade NEVER to become an engineer and to stick with journalism, teaching, or being an artist. As you can tell, either I listened, they were right, or both. But I GET THIS BOOK! I can understand complex concepts about sewage and landfills because there are awesome illustrations with clearly written captions that explain multiple parts. I have found myself telling folks about Combined Sewer Overflow. No joke. Solid gold for a visual learner, an emerging reader, or a slow-to-compute-when-thinking-of-abstract-engineering-concepts brain like mine.
4. Each component section provides a small amount of text (maybe 4-6 paragraphs?) which is great for students to practice finding the main idea. Again. And again. And again. Gold for a basic reading skill applied to a more complex text so the students don’t feel insulted when I ask them to do it. It’s also been great to practice annotating.
5. Relevance: As New Yorkers, could there be a more relevant book? We coincidentally started reading Sewage right after Hurricane Sandy, and page after page related to issues that emerged in the wake of the storm. We learned that NYC has a combined sewer system, meaning that the storm water and the wastewater all travel the same system to sewage treatment plants. Did you know this overflows 50% of the time it rains? And with a hurricane…as we would say in Brooklyn, fuggedaboudit. Total sewage treatment mayhem. Poop going untreated into all our waterways. Here is a good homemade video of this happening right near my house in the Gowanus Canal here after the tornado of Fall 2010. I showed this in class and my students were gagging when watching it. EVERYTHING we learned related to us. Golden!
I cannot recommend this book enough. Buy it for your friends, your kids, for any New Yorker or New York lover, and/or for your classroom.
We also read the Issac Asimov short story “Strikebreaker” from his collection Nightfall and Other Stories when we studied sewage.
“The Story of Stuff” is a great short film and website for resources on our consumption practices and the afterlife of the objects we consume.
Steven Mallon’s photo series, “Next Stop Atlantic,” of old subway cars being tossed into the ocean to become reefs is stunning. | 2019-04-26T14:00:26 | https://readwriteteach.org/2012/12/04/the-works-anatomy-of-a-city/ |
“We turned the former front office area into a cool and cozy taproom,” Hovley says.
Corrugated metal panels were added to the walls, set off by plenty of wood trim, giving the diminutive space an industrial-meets-rustic feel. A large photo of the Sawtooths dominates one wall. The wood tables and bar top were made by local artists.
Barbarian, as the name suggests, prefers to do things the primitive way when it comes to making beer. Wood barrel-aged beers are all the rage in the world of brewing right now, and this new microbrewery favors the deep flavors that wood barrels impart.
But aging beer in wood barrels obviously takes time, and Barbarian won’t be releasing those brews for a few months. No worries, though. The brewery offers plenty of non-aged brews (made by James Long) to get things going.
“We are starting right out of the gate with six beers,” Hovley says.
Barbarian’s opening lineup includes Little Wolf IPA, The Commoner (a California common, aka steam-style brew), Saison, Dark Saison (fermented in Merlot barrels), Big Bad Wolf (imperial IPA fermented in Chardonnay barrels) and PostFunk, a dry-hopped sour beer.
When the time comes, the brewery will offer its more mature, barrel-aged brews in 750-milliliter (24 ounce) bottles.
Barbarian Brewing’s taproom, at 5270 W. Chinden Blvd., is open 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday-Friday; noon to 9 p.m. Saturday; and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
It’s hard not to miss Powderhaus Brewing Company’s beautiful new building at 9719 W. Chinden Blvd. near the corner of Maple Grove Road.
The handsome 8,000-square-foot building — with its big grain silo out front — really stands out along this quiet stretch of Chinden Boulevard.
The brewery and stylish taproom opened the first week of November.
Owners Mark and Lisa Schmidt made their son Tyler’s dreams come true when they decided to invest in a brewery. Tyler Schmidt and Tyson Cardon, both beer geeks and avid skiers, run the day-to-day operations at the brewery, which draws inspiration from the mountains that surround us.
Tyler Evans, a former brewer at Edge Brewing, was hired as the head brewer at Powderhaus.
Expect to see four flagship brews, including First Turns IPA, Hinterlander Robust Porter, Dead Fall Ale and Prusik Pilsner, and various seasonal beers that will make appearances throughout the year.
County Line Brewing (www.countylinebrewing.com) debuted earlier this year in the former Kilted Dragon Brewing spot, at 9115 W. Chinden Blvd, just down the way from Powderhaus Brewing.
Owners Zack and Laura Kiehl have transformed the small taproom into an attractive space for people looking to unwind on weekends with a few pints of handcrafted brews.
Flagship beers include Shade Tree IPA, Blushing Bride White IPA, Barnwood Brown Ale and Porch Swing Porter. Also expect to find seasonal brews such as RIP Russian Imperial Stout.
County Line Brewing is open 4 to 10 p.m. Friday; noon to 10 p.m. Saturday; and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Two Boise breweries garnered medals for their stouts at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver on Sept. 24-26.
Boise Brewing (www.boisebrewing.com), a community-funded microbrewery in Boise’s Central Addition district, brought home a silver medal for its Black Cliffs American Stout — made by head brewer Lance Chavez.
10 Barrel Brewing Co. (www.10barrel.com) secured a bronze medal for the second year in a row for its Power to the People (P2P), an American-style stout made by Boise head brewer Shawn Kelso.
It’s also worth noting that Barley Brown’s (www.barleybrownsbeer.com) in Baker City, Ore., scored a gold medal for its Ratchet Strap IPA.
Interested in taking a tour of Boise’s breweries without having to drive all over the place?
Well then, let Boise Brew Bus take care of the driving. This newish service shuttles folks around to the various breweries in a bright-green short bus.
The tours ($45 per person) include a free beer flight at one of the breweries, brief brewery tours and, most importantly, safe passage to and from the breweries.
Expect to stop by Haff Brewing, Crooked Fence Brewing, Edge Brewing and County Line Brewing, to name a few.
Boise Brew Bus tours depart from the Same Day Electric parking lot at 4299 W. Chinden Blvd. in Garden City.
To see the tour schedule and make reservations, visit www.boisebrewbus.com. | 2019-04-23T02:19:14 | https://www.idahostatesman.com/living/treasure/article41996808.html |
In its essence, a bail bond is a sort of guarantee or a written promise that you will attend the court hearing at the specified date. It is at this bail hearing that the judge sets the bail amount. In such a difficult moment, you first need to calm yourself, think straight, and go for the most effective solution: Contact a bail bondsman who can help a lot in getting you out of jail.
Depending on the charge, the amount of bail can be steep. Not many defendants are able to post the bond. There’s a reason why the correctional system is overburdened. But there’s a legal way to earn your temporary freedom even when your case is ongoing. Head on over to our website and get in touch with bail bond agents in Raleigh who you can trust to bail your loved one out. What Exactly is a Bail Bond?
A judge imposes a criminal bail bond not as a punishment for your alleged crime but only to secure your agreement to show up in court for your hearing. For instance, the judge will look at your criminal record, the severity of the crime you are accused of, whether you are a flight risk and if you can afford the bail.
Using a bail bondsman is one of the most cost-effective ways of getting out of jail. Unfortunately, not many people can afford it, which is why the bail bondsman is crucial to anyone who wants to await their trial while still having a sense of normalcy in their lives. It therefore makes it smart to look for a bondsman in your city if you need to bail a loved one out without having to spend a lot of money for his or her release. Your most immediate concern is to get yourself out of jail, and a trusted bondsman can make that happen.
The amount of bail will vary. The process is simple, easy, and foolproof, and it begins with a call to the bail agent during which time you give the desired information concerning the person up for bail, and the company takes care of the bail for you. The next thing you know, you are back in the care of your family. This is assuming, of course, that your case is bailable.
While you do not necessarily need to look angelic before a judge, you certainly will want to look responsible at the very least. Moreover, the judge hearing your case will tend to have a more positive impression of you, rather than if you were to arrive in court wearing a jail attire, looking like you’re already guilty of the crime you’re accused of even before the judge could make a ruling. You can thank your bail bondsman for this.
You need to get in touch with a bail bondsman right away. Whether you choose to go online to do this or not totally depends on us. Given the strict adherence to professionalism, a bail bondsman will gladly walk you through the bail process and iron out any reservations that you might have. Upon your approval of the deal, the bondsman will take care of handling all the formalities to secure your release.
Once the bail agent answered all of your questions to your satisfaction, the bail agent will handle all of the formalities necessary to get you or your loved one released from jail.
Always make sure to provide the bail bondsman with accurate information of the defendant’s name, date of birth, and the place or the city where the arrest happened. The bond will continue to be in force until the court hands down its ruling, or if the defendant is arrested for another offense or dies.
As you can see, it does not take a lot to get your loved one out of jail when you have a reliable bondsman behind you through this. The bail agent has the authority to bring the defendant back in.
Yes, the bail bonds process can be overwhelming, especially if it is your first time and you have absolutely no idea how it works. The good thing is they help simplify the whole process for you. That will greatly help ease up the burden as you fight for your life. | 2019-04-26T01:55:18 | https://www.trustedbail.com/nc/bail-bonds-raleigh/ |
I’ve been picking peppers by the peck! Or so it seems. I’ve searched the internet for ways to use them all and combined a few ideas into two new recipes. Roasted Jalapeno-Tomato Salsa with Fresh Cilantro is more intense than your common grocery store condiment. It took a bit of tweaking to get the balance of peppers and fresh cilantro just right, and that’s still a matter of personal preference. When you make this recipe, I suggest you start small with those two ingredients and work your way up.
The second new recipe was for Jalapeno Cornbread Poppers, They were fun to make and fun to eat. I don’t think the peppers would freeze well, but I wonder how they would turn out on the grill? We may need to grill something this week just to find out. I’ll have to check my freezer inventory to see what’s available. Some sort of pork might go well with the Poppers.
Michael and I have both been working overtime. Working overtime, you ask? Aren’t you retired? Well, yes, we are both retired from paying jobs, but we’ll never stop working. Anyway, while I’ve been playing with produce Michael’s been busy laying flooring. He finally finished the last room, and I must say he’s done an excellent job. Do you think I could get away with handing him a paint brush next?
All this work hasn’t left much time for day-to-day cooking, but we’ve managed. We took the day off last Sunday, just to relax. New York Speidies took no time to grill, and since they came from my freezer stash they took no time to prepare. While I was poking around in the freezers I came up with some Cauliflower Baked Shells and Cheese. I had frozen our two portions in a foil container, so all I had to do was pop it in the toaster oven. With the combination of pasta and cauliflower, this was the perfect side for that night’s dinner.
For Meatless Monday another round of my Roasted Vegetable Medley went straight from the garden to a sheet pan in the oven. The eggplant was so fresh I didn’t even bother with the pre-salting and rinsing business. There was none of the bitterness that eggplants tend to develop in storage. More Homemade Marinara Sauce and some Cheese Grits also came out of the freezer to complete the meal.
Tuesday I went back into the freezer and pulled out My Best Meatloaf. That provided us with leftovers for the next couple of days, which we didn’t mind at all. By the time we finished working it was too late to cook a meal from scratch.
By Friday Michael had finished all but the trim on his flooring project and I was at a stopping point in processing the produce. It was time to start cooking again. I decided to try a new recipe that was published by one of my grocery stores. Now usually, recipes from the stores that push their products are pretty good. They want you to purchase that product again. Not this time! Bayou Shrimp, Beans, and Rice was a definite flop! Sadly enough, the recipe made a huge pot of the stuff and I’m afraid it will all go to waste. It was that bad. Maybe if I had left the shrimp out….
Oh well, this coming week will be less busy, although the tomatoes are picking up again and the peppers haven’t quit. Now I just have to pull a few stickies and put them on the calendar for my Sticky Menu Plan.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2017 by lizziesmom2012. | 2019-04-26T01:40:18 | https://thestickymenuplan.com/2017/07/29/im-not-peter-piper-but/ |
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A man was arrested Monday in the shooting death of a journalist who worked for the newspaper El Heraldo de Chiapas, and authorities were searching for three other people suspected of having ordered the killing.
Luis Alberto Sanchez, a homicide prosecutor in the southern state of Chiapas, said in a video statement posted online that the detained man is believed to have acted as a lookout outside the home of reporter Mario Gomez.
Sanchez said the man allegedly belonged to a local drug gang and identified the gang’s leader, his right-hand man and the lieutenant’s wife as the purported intellectual authors of the murder.
State and federal police in the town of Yajalon, where Gomez was slain, were under investigation by anti-corruption prosecutors to see if any might be implicated, Sanchez added.
Surveillance camera video captured the moment Friday afternoon when two people rode by Gomez’s home on a motorcycle and the one in the rear fired at him. Neighbors went to his aid, but he did not survive. According to Chiapas prosecutors, he was struck by four bullets, and six shell casings were recovered at the scene.
Gomez, who had worked for El Heraldo de Chiapas for nearly a decade, was a general assignment reporter who covered a variety of topics including crime, security and political violence during the recent campaign for Mexico’s July 1 nationwide elections.
Two years ago, the media advocacy group Articulo 19 documented that Gomez had received death threats after publishing an investigation linking a congressman and an alternate lawmaker to purported corruption.
Mexico is one of the deadliest countries for journalists, with at least 10 slain so far this year and more than 30 killed during the six-year term of President Enrique Pena Nieto, whose term ends Dec. 1.
Jan-Albert Hootson, Mexico representative for the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, urged authorities to determine whether Gomez’s killing came in retaliation for his work.
“Journalists in Mexico will continue to fall victim to deadly violence when the killings of reporters linger in impunity,” Hootson said in a statement.
Over the weekend, Chiapas prosecutors said Gomez’s journalistic work was the main line of investigation.
Chiapas was home to the 1994 uprising by Zapatista rebels, and political violence and conflicts over land are common in the state.
It is currently governed by the Green Party, but is set to come under control of the leftist Morena party of President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, after the Greens lost the gubernatorial race two months ago.
This story has been corrected to reflect that Gomez worked for the newspaper for nearly a decade, not more than a decade. | 2019-04-18T20:23:18 | https://wtop.com/latin-america/2018/09/mexico-alleged-lookout-nabbed-in-murder-of-chiapas-reporter/ |
Preheat oven to 350 F. Coat bottom of a glass baking pan with the olive oil, then place the pan in the oven while it’s preheating.
In a medium bowl, mix all if the rest if the ingredients together until well combined. I just used my hands to do the mixing (it’s fun to get dirty once in a while).
Then divide the mixture into 6 even portions, and form into golf ball sized balls.
Pull the glass baking pan out of the oven (hot!), and place the sweet potato balls into the pan. Cover the pan with aluminum foil, return to the oven and let bake for 25 minutes.
Remove the pan from the oven, serve the (un)meatballs with pasta primavera or an avocado remoulade or just eat them as is on a bed of baby spinach. Enjoy! | 2019-04-24T06:58:25 | https://tiffanymmull.com/2015/02/19/started-the-day-out-coaching-my-early-crew-at/ |
The 21º Full Round Head 3-1/2" Framing Nailer (model AN924) combines durable construction and robust performance with ease-of-use features for wood framing applications. The AN924 is engineered for a range of applications including framing walls, floors and roofs, as well as construction of roof and floor decking, floor and wall sheathing/siding, and sub-flooring. It is ideal for framers, roofers and carpenters.
The AN924 drives 21º plastic collated framing nails from 2" to 3 1/2" in length and .113 to .148 in diameter. It has a 2-mode selector switch (bump, sequential) for increased convenience. The AN924 has a lightweight design (only 8.3 lbs.) with durability features that include a heat-treated S7 steel driver blade, a solid aluminum top-loading magazine, and a nail lock-out mechanism that protects the tool and work surface from dry-fires. Added features include tool-less depth adjustment for flush or countersink nailing, added tool hook, and an ergonomic rubberized grip.
Lightweight design at only 8.3 lbs.
Dimensions (LxWxH) : 22" x 4-5/8" x 13-3/4"
Net Weight : 8.3 lbs.
Shipping Weight : 11.75 lbs. | 2019-04-23T00:16:34 | https://www.makitatools.com/products/details/AN924 |
Find Me A Job!!! | Enough Talk, More Writing!
Job hunting in LA for something cheap and cheerful is turning out to be nigh on impossible. After trying the old reliable Irish bars that seem to be run by Mexicans who couldn’t understand my Irish accent, I branched out to other bars in Hollywood. However, still to no avail. I was told to try everything on Craigslist. So after a while I started finding jobs for nightclub promotions, I thought, wuu duu, something I can do. Applied for a job, got a reply setting up an interview.
Threw on my best shirt and went to their Beverly Hills office, group interviews. Myself and a 19 year old punk rocker with a Mohawk went in. I knew something was dodge straight away when the girl interviewing us, said she was interviewing us together because we had the same look and would work well together. Sure. Next she told us how impressed she was with both of us, even though neither brought our CV, or knew anything about the company. Felt something was dodge but I was distracted by her tales of being VIP in the clubs, the people we’d meet, etc… I bit the bait.
Great day, I got the job, on the spot. We were asked to go to an event that night, mingle and get to know people. I was tired, so told her I would hold off until the Saturday, she said no problem. Then an hour later I get a text saying she’s sorry, family emergency in Texas, she had to leave the company, here’s the owner’s number, he’d sort me out, apologies we couldnt work together. Very odd, text was sent at close to 1 in the morning too.
Next day, I rang the owner’s number, then sent a text, no reply to either. The girl who hired me was still sending me strange texts like “I cant tell you now but Ive more info for you in the morning, Ill reveal all”. Eventually, after a head wrecking few days, she left a voicemail confessing all. She had only been hired two weeks previously. The owner hadn’t paid her or the 180 other promoters that worked for the company and had just disappeared. She was sorry she had gotten me involved, they were suing him and the company, did I want to be part of the lawsuit. Bunch of spoofing nutters.
At least I found out the proper story. Although, I wished they had scammed me (or at least tried!) out of money, my head wouldnt have been as wrecked then for the few days. I suppose she did tell the truth in the end. The only good thing is that they logged me onto their system when I was supposedly hired. So now I can log on, put my name on the VIP list, plus whoever I want, for savage clubs in LA. Duu duu.
Song of the day Ce Jeu (Cool Kids Cant Die Remix) by Yelle. Cool as funk!
The owner’s name is Peter Kingston… He now runs a club in Cork called the classic… Spoof City!! | 2019-04-20T14:15:30 | https://trickaduu.com/2009/02/19/find-me-a-job/ |
In the town where I was born lived a man who sailed to sea and he told us of his life in the land of duty-free.
Note: Apologies on behalf of Prestige Magazine for the grammatical error in the first line of the printed version.
The Beatles’ classic is actually a children’s song – not, as many would believe, a cryptic drug anthem. It overflows with an unbridled, childlike enthusiasm, which I wanted to reference here right now, because it’s how I feel, as I’m sure does any lover of fine spirits, whenever I step into the duty-free liquor wonderland. The expression “like kid in a candy store” has never been more apt. You may think that this sounds like an overblown infatuation, perhaps a contextual attraction – after all what else is there to do in airport whilst you wait for a flight? If you did you would be wrong. There are several rational, emphatic reasons why duty-free (sometimes referred to as travel retail) is as good as it gets when it comes to buying booze.
The original (and on-going) purpose of a duty-free store is to offer for sale goods that are exempt from certain taxes and duties which would otherwise be levied within that jurisdiction. This doesn’t always guarantee good pricing – as with all retail businesses it depends on the individual operator. It does however confer a significant advantage, and, given an efficient retailer, a nexus where competition, good purchasing, and effective management have satisfactorily come together, the results can be astounding, so much so that many of these duty-free retailers have become redistributors as well. It’s cheaper for many in the trade to buy from them because of the volume discounts that they command than to buy directly from official distributors or even the suppliers themselves. My regular port of call is Dubai Duty-Free, one of the muscular superheroes of this milieu. I’ve taken the liberty of noting a few random examples, adjusted for bottle size, alcohol content and exchange rate, and comparing them to local pricing (as represented by Makro, our most cost-effective retailer, to further make the point).
The extent of the advantage varies from product to product but the general trend is unmistakable. An average discount of 25% across this basket speaks for itself.
I don’t have access to any data but common sense suggests that frequent travellers would be wealthier, and have a tendency to command more disposable income than less frequent travellers or non-travellers, in a very general sense of course. They are also a focused and entirely captive audience. Travel retail has thus evolved into a highly prestigious shopping ambit. Airports accommodate many of the world’s most exclusive luxury brands, the Cartiers and Louis Vuittons, the Dom Perignons and Cohibas, precisely to capitalise on this phenomenon. In the sphere of distilled spirits this translates into a benefit that I find particularly interesting. The latest, premium offerings are almost always available in duty-free before they’re launched anywhere else. Suppliers often use travel retail outlets, specifically those in busy high-profile airports such as Heathrow, CDG, Changi or Hong Kong, as a showcase for their brightest stars. As a result the duty-free shopper will invariably have immediate access to the best-of-the-best, and at the best pricing to boot.
A well-stocked duty-free shop is a veritable Aladdin’s cave. You may not find the sheer volume of variety that you would in a wholesaler or liquor superstore, especially in the budget categories, but there is always broad range of quality, international brands on offer. You’re likely to find products that may not be available at all in your home country, or limited edition duty-free exclusives that are unavailable anywhere other than duty-free. I recently came across a Yoichi 20 year-old Japanese whisky, the 2008 World Whisky Award winner for best single malt. Good luck finding this in South Africa. The duty dynamic, the fact that many countries allow repatriation of duty-free purchases calculated by bottle instead of volume, has also led to the proliferation of unusual sizes in duty-free, most commonly the 1l bottle, but 3l and 4.5l bottles, rare everywhere else, also abound.
In case the preferential price isn’t enough motivation, suppliers tend to reserve a big chunk of their promotional budgets for duty-free. The most popular is the buy-two-get-something-free deal. And the something-free can be significant indeed – a high-quality bag or case, or a 350ml bottle – especially when you consider that the pricing is already razor sharp.
The idea of a duty-free shopping was conceived by Irishman Brendan O’Regan who opened the first store at Shannon Airport in Ireland 1947. I’m already grateful enough to the Irish for inventing whiskey, but this really puts them over the top. I think I’m going to wear green permanently in tribute. | 2019-04-23T00:11:33 | https://indypat.com/2012/11/20/the-ultimate-liquor-shopping-experience/ |
Construction permits dipped for the first time in about a decade according to a recent report from the New York City Department of Buildings, signaling a potential slow down of a recent climb that brought building to historic levels.
According to the analysis, citywide there were 165,988 construction permits in 2018, down from 168,243 the year prior.
Even with a slight dip in the number of permits, levels of construction have still continued at a heightened clip, however. Data from the report shows that in 2018, the number of demolition and new building permits still represents a 44 percent increase over 2013 — this year’s construction alone will add a whopping 46 million s/f of new floor space to the city.
The permits that were issued, according to the report, fell primarily in Manhattan which accounted for a little more than 74,000 permits last year — about 43 percent of all construction that took place in the city as a whole.
As construction shows signs of easing up, according to an annual report by the firm Turner & Townsend, in 2018 New York City once again took the title for most expensive city to build in, clocking in at an average of $362 per s/f. Union wages for construction workers were a main contributor, falling in at the second highest on the annual list under Zurich, Switzerland.
In a report forecasting the spending for 2019, the New York Building Congress estimates that 2019 will bring $50 billion of spending overall. | 2019-04-19T22:22:05 | https://rew-online.com/2019/01/nyc-construction-dips-decade/ |
Getting the flower packs for special occasions may not be the easiest job as there are many things to consider when ordering flowers. The event itself can have several logistical hurdles that make ordering flowers difficult. That’s why when there’s a chance to order items like flower garlands, it's important to jump on the opportunity.
Why Buy Flower Packs at Sam's Club?
Sam’s Club® offers lots of the best wedding flowers, including wedding garlands. These flower bundles add much elegance to any occasion. Having fresh flower garlands is the perfect decorative touch, especially in venues that are large. Flower garlands breaks up the monotony of the venue and draws the eye to the different areas within a space. There are so many different uses for garland flowers and having a skilled florist help create magic with flowers is priceless.
Using packs such as garland for wedding flower arrangements is very smart. This is an easy way to get a lot of flowers while keeping the budget a bit more economical.
How Can Floral Garland Get Used Elegantly in a Wedding?
Few things add elegance and color to weddings like flowers. Floral garland weddings takes his idea up a notch. There are several different ways that floral garlands can be used. One of the best ways to accent where the couple are exchanging vows is to have floral garlands outlining the altar area or on a pergola above the couple.
Floral garlands can also work as a centerpiece for long tables at weddings. If instead of using round tables there are long rectangular tables being used, then it is the perfect way to make the table seem more intimate. This type of wedding garland is quite useful in other ways too.
One of the best ways to use floral garlands is as bunting throughout the reception hall. The floral garlands add depth to the space and the couple can arrange the garland to create different focal points. The eye will follow the garland and where the garland ends is naturally where the eye is drawn to. This is the perfect place to seat the married couple.
However floral arrangements are finalized, the wedding garlands will feature prominently. These floral arrangements are elegant and bring a higher level of refinement to this once-in-a-lifetime event.
How Does Seasonal Garlands Affect Flower Arrangements?
Seasonal garlands are the perfect way to tie in thematic elements. Spring is the ideal time to plan a wedding because the season symbolizes the blooming of new things. Just the way flowers are coming into full bloom, so too is the romance of two people. Seasonal garlands of springtime flowers is perfect for this.
Likewise, other seasons have different representations and can be effectively used for the same purposes. These floral garlands are the best way to bring the natural world into a wedding or another type of event. Because flowers are available on a seasonal basis, this makes seasonal garlands perfect for whatever time of year the event takes place in. | 2019-04-19T21:09:35 | https://www.samsclub.com/sams/wedding-flower-packs/1640107.cp?xid=cat1256-wedd_vnav_2_5 |
I had a miscarriage recently, and I’m actually OK.
I’ve tried sitting down and writing many, many times since we moved here, but it’s been awhile since I had something concrete that I could actually process from start to finish. Something defined. Black and white. Easy to process.
For some reason, this miscarriage has been that for me.
Most of you probably didn’t even know I was pregnant. I was only 7 weeks or so. While it definitely wasn’t planned, we adjusted quickly and welcomed the news. I knew I was pregnant for about a week before the miscarriage started, and there have been some gloomy and wistful days. Not just for the loss of life, but also for the loss of another plan.
Since leaving CO we’ve watched so many plans come and go. Living life completely open-handed is not easy. Holding out everything to be redistributed, redirected is exhausting at times. We’ve left nothing behind for a Plan B. Moving forward into the things that are before us is often… Daunting. Exciting, for sure. We’re both adventurous people. But everything’s turned out just so darn different than what we had planned or consciously hoped for. There are so many factors that are up in the air right now. So many unknowns in the midst of walking out the path we find ourselves on. When we found ourselves expecting a child again, we accepted that as another factor to consider as we move forward. Because of the pleasant surprise of Ellis (we weren’t exactly the most enthusiastic parents-to-be before Ellis), we knew this child would be the same; an absolute joy.
So you’d think that when I experienced miscarriage, peace wouldn’t be the primary experience. But it was. And I’ll tell you why. Or I’ll try to, without offending anyone.
When I was in labor, I made the controlling, Type A part of me (the part that wants to know what is going on, why it is going on, and what I can do about it) chill out. I trusted my body. I let my body do what it needed to do. And it did.
Side Note & Disclaimer: I 100% realize that this cannot be the case each and every single time. There are things that go wrong where medical intervention is absolutely necessary. For those times, I’m so grateful for the medical professionals trained to right the wrongs happening in our bodies. But the majority of the time, our bodies are created to operate a certain way and they are fully capable of doing so.
The point is that I gained a deep respect for my body through the experience of labor and delivery.
And in the same way that my body can, when operating correctly, sustain a life for nine months, my body knows when it cannot.
Of those miscarriages, most of them occur because of chromosome abnormalities. See here & here.
Also, most women report feeling emotions like shame, isolation, and guilt as a result of a miscarriage.
Maybe this is common knowledge to most people. It was new information for me and instead of experiencing extreme sadness and shame that most women report feeling when experiencing a miscarriage, I experienced peace.
I just deeply respect the order of things that is set up in our bodies. In a weird way I feel like this miscarriage has broken through a cloud of confusion around me. In our life right now with so many unanswered questions, plans that constantly change, constantly weighing the pros and cons of a new decision – a concrete thing happened. Definitely not the outcome I would have chosen, but I’m OK because I know that my body is operating as thousands and thousands and millions of other women’s bodies have operated since the beginning of time. Being apart of something solid, something bigger than myself feels grounding in a way that I’ve been craving. Even through the midst of a dealth, I feel such light and peace.
The opportunity to have this perspective shocked me.
And of course we’re sad. This was a precious life. And we would have loved and cherished him/her regardless of any abnormalities present. And granted, I haven’t been trying to have a baby for years, I don’t have any past traumatic experience with having a baby, not to mention I was only 7-8 weeks along. All that to say, there are so many factors that go into my emotional response. If you’ve had a miscarriage and had a very different experience, I’d love for you to feel free to share that experience. Everyone is different and this is not my attempt to write a trendy post to contradict what everyone says about something standard like being emotional when there is a death.
I guess I just wanted to share our experience in the small chance there someone out there who needs to hear a story of how we went through a miscarriage and were OK.
And maybe this perspective can bring this converstaion out of the realm of only emotions, (all of which are valid) to also include facts, which are just as valid.
Maybe it really just helps me to write it all out, document and process it in some way.
Either way, that’s what has been going on with us lately.
That and many other things.
Maybe those will be in the next blog post. | 2019-04-25T12:15:18 | http://restoringsimple.com/ |
With the equinox behind us, we are now fully entering into longer and warmer days as spring arrives. Spring is associated with rebirth, regrowth and renewed energy. It is normal to feel slightly sluggish after emerging from the cold winter months of hibernation; so we have put together some health tips to help you bound into the new season feeling energised and rejuvenated.
Begin to move away from comforting winter root veggies like swede and potatoes, and switch to lighter foods such as salads and raw food. Spring is an exciting time for seasonal produce, so head on down to your local organic grocers and stock up on broad beans, salad leaves and courgettes.
Take the opportunity to get out in nature and enjoy the seasons’ change. Research has shown that being in nature helps to reduce anxiety, depression and cases of SAD (seasonal affective disorder).
Starting your day with a fresh juice is a wonderful start to the day, and helps to detox the liver and refresh the body. You can even add wild seasonal ingredients like nettles and cleavers (goosegrass) for that extra kick of nutrients.
This super green blend has the full spectrum of minerals including potassium, calcium, zinc, magnesium, manganese, selenium, iron, phosphorus and copper. This blend is also rich in vitamins, containing vitamins A, C, E, K and B vitamins, 1, 2, 5, 6 and 12. The perfect addition to your morning smoothies to help you feel revitalised.
Maca is the perfect addition to our daily supplements. This amazing root also helps to provide additional energy and vitality, whilst also helping to balance hormones and also acts as a powerful adaptogen.
Blueberries are extremely rich in antioxidants, which are known to reduce the effects of oxidative stress. Blueberries also have a high level of potassium and magnesium which are known to lower stress and fatigue. | 2019-04-20T12:27:16 | https://www.detoxtrading.co.uk/spring-energy/ |
La Palma has an excellent public bus service connecting the main centres and the villages. The two "hubs" of the bus routes are Santa Cruz de La Palma and Los Llanos and there is regular service between the two towns, usually once per hour. Bus services from these two centres vary but in general about once every 2 hours.
The self-catering holiday homes listed below are all within a short walk from a bus stop and as such are suitable for people wanting to visit La Palma without hiring a car. Please check the times carefully as your route to and from your holiday accommodation may involve one or changes, which may not be possible when arriving with an evening flight, or leaving with an early morning flight. An alternative would be to get a taxi to and from the holiday home on the first and last day.
A hire car will help you to reach some of the more attractive natural areas of La Palma but our clients who are unable to drive tell us that they have really enjoyed La Palma. | 2019-04-20T06:38:19 | http://www.islalapalma.com/holiday/holiday-with-public-transport.html |
Smashwords – Books Tagged "healing from the past"
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Just out of prison Mick Stonehouse seems full of trouble. With military training to back it up. But he does not want trouble. What he really wants is to leave the pain of his childhood behind and move on with a woman he loves that has disappeared twelve thousand miles away. Easier said than done. Will he ever reach any of his goals? Chronicling his memories and journeys.
In this book, I take the reader on a journey through my life. Throughout my life I have experienced being sexually abused, living in a domestic violence relationship, being born to a teen mother and later becoming one, alcoholism, divorce and more. In spite of my life’s circumstances, my faith in and relationship with God has allowed me to survive and move past the pain.
Does a problem keep returning? Are you looking for change in your life? Removing the symptoms of an illness or problem isn’t enough; we need to know the root cause for it to be cleared completely.
What do you do after life has handed you a wake-up call? How do your reconcile everything that has happened and is happening in your life with the one you truly want? The good and the bad, the joy and the hurt, the wins and the losses - all those parts form the experience of your life and your identity. WHOLE literally answers the question "What was I thinking?" | 2019-04-24T22:19:56 | https://www.smashwords.com/books/tags/healing_from_the_past |
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Congratulations to Marc Justin Tee for winning Php 500,000 worth of kitchen showcase at the recently concluded Cucina Idol held at the GalaStars Culinary Studio of renowned Chef Sylvia Reynoso Gala in Pasig City.
The 26-year old Justin Tee is UP Diliman graduate. He started tinkering in the kitchen when he was barely six years old.
His mom is his inspiration.
A total of seven finalists battled it out in the cook off last March 16, 2013. Each finalist cooked one chicken and one seafood dish that they prepare on site. The finalists are required to use Melawares, Perfect Dining, Bestware, Urban Kitchen, Rosseto and Loveramics Products in the plating of their dish.
Prior to selection, the finalists all went through a rigorous screening process after a single receipt purchse of Php 500.0 worth of Melawares, Perfect Dining, Bestware, Urban Kitchen, Rosseto and Loveramics Products. | 2019-04-23T20:56:40 | https://www.travelonshoestring.com/2013/03/cusina-idol-2013.html |
Got a dysfunctional or non-productive team? Need to improve morale and collaboration? Want them to be a high-performing team? We offer a variety of prescriptions for your team’s ailments, whether you are looking for something light and fun or thought-provoking and transforming. Either way, they will become a more cohesive, more effective team as a result.
Dawn considers team development a comprehensive approach to building your team effectiveness. Team building sessions are generally a one-day event, while team development is an ongoing process. We conduct team development a few ways and will adjust according to your goals. Below are a few sample approaches to team development.
We look at leveraging each team member’s personality, work styles and problem solving approach using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator as a baseline. Learning to leverage each other’s strengths rather than battle over differences is the primary goal of this team session.
We use EI sessions to increase self and social awareness of how team members engage best, building empathy to achieve team effectiveness. Coupled with coaching, it also enables team members to eradicate misperceptions of their peers, as well as understand how their own behavior impacts others. This is especially helpful if your team is stuck in the ‘Storming’ stage.
If trust is the last thing on everyone’s to-do list, chances are the team is not performing to standards. We provide a laser focus on the behaviors that create trust and mistrust and share the language and behaviors necessary to increase trust in team relationships.
Using Patrick Lencioni’s book as a starting point, this is an excellent tool to help executive teams learn to eliminate silos and put their executive team first, above the goals of their individual functional areas or divisions.
If your team is performing to standard but either needs direction or inspiration, team visioning is an amazing exercise to achieve this. Working together, they design their future and set goals that support the organization’s vision.
If you are looking for something on the lighter side, games are a good way to engage team members and begin to build camaraderie. Whether you are trying to inspire trust and form relationships or just help team members get acquainted and build rapport, challenge and mystery are excellent tools to assist in the process. However, we must offer this disclaimer: You will be subject to having major fun!
Contact us. We’re happy to listen and see what we can do to help. | 2019-04-25T19:53:40 | https://daybreakeq.com/solutions-2/team-building/ |
Looking for Advanced Java (J2EE) Software Engineer.
Candidates must have the knowledge and programming skills in JAVA, Servlet, JSP. Freshers who completed Advanced Java training in reputed Training centre can apply.
Celestial V Solutions is a Human Resource training division turns out to be a complete software qualities professionals through specially designed Instructors. Our services model is simple. And we even provide out of house expertise to our clients who need to reach beyond their in – house capabilities or accelerate the progress of the project before deadline, and we work to gain our client’s confidence as our team or leased personnel will provide a rock-solid benefits for planning and complete projects in time and on budgets.
Celestial V Solutions recruiting Trainee Software Engineer candidates nearby Bangalore(Indiranagar , Jayanagar , Vijaya Nagar, Yelahanka ).Celestial V Solutions vacancies for Trainee Software Engineer is recruited through Written-test, Face to Face Interview etc.
Celestial V Solutions Company recruits a lot of candidates every year based on the skills . The candidates with BE/B.Tech, BSc, Diploma(CSE, ECE), MCA, BCA are selected to full fill the vacancies in IT Software-Engineer job field. The candidates nearby Bangalore(Indiranagar , Jayanagar , Vijaya Nagar, Yelahanka ) can apply for Trainee Software Engineer position in Celestial V Solutions. All candidates should have a degree or post-graduation in the required field based on the requirement mentioned. The jobs are available in Full Time basis. When it comes to the Celestial V Solutions recruitment, candidates are mostly chosen for the department of IT Software-Engineer . To learn more about the current jobs and other details, it is better to go through official site of Celestial V Solutions and Freshersworld. Find the latest jobs near you and near your home. So, that you don’t need to relocate. The Freshersworld is a leading employment portal that researches the official site of Celestial V Solutions and provides all the details about the current vacancies, the application process, selection process, interview test details, important dates and other information. Search and apply for the top job positions in Celestial V Solutions and near your city and get a secured career. | 2019-04-22T05:00:23 | https://www.freshersworld.com/jobs/trainee-software-engineer-jobs-in-bangalore-celestial-v-solutions-597813 |
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The Bozeman Sports Parks Foundation is taking part in the 2016 Give Big Gallatin Valley event on May 3, 2016. This 24-hour day of giving, hosted by the Bozeman Area Community Foundation, is a fabulous way to get involved, make a gift, and make a difference by helping build the Bozeman Sports Park. Stay tuned for more information!
Don't forget to show your support of Bozeman Sports Park Foundation on Facebook! You'll get access to great highlights and updates about the park, the people supporting it and more.
Did you catch it? We were highlighted in a recent Bozeman Daily Chronicle editorial. The contributor shared about out the Sports Park saying "The Bozeman Sports Park, an 80-acre facility adjacent to Meadowlark Elementary, is being designed now through public meetings and along with the Bozeman Sports Park Foundation. The Park will be able to host regional tournaments and will serve as community open space in addition to the fields. Infrastructure work is planned to begin in 2016, sports field and amenity work in 2017, and the first phase of fields will be playable for the 2018 season."
Thanks to the folks at the Bozeman Daily Chronicle for highlighting the great work we're doing in bringing more recreation and development to Gallatin Valley! | 2019-04-22T20:19:16 | http://www.bozemansportsparks.org/updates |
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Bold & Brutal. Luscious & Loud. WARRIOR WOMEN.
This entry was posted on May 5, 2015 by coochiecrunch in Coochie Crunch Blog. | 2019-04-24T01:54:46 | https://coochiecrunch.com/2015/05/05/coochiecrunch-presents-warrior-women/ |
At petition [etc.], COMMISSION, by mainprize of Oliver Lees and Richard Rolley of co. Limerick, to Thomas fitz Gerot of custody of the manor of Andesshe, together with the advowsons, knights' fees, rents, services and demesnes pertaining to it, in the K.'s hand by reason of the minority of the heir of Lord FitzWalter and lord of Haryngtoun, to have for as long as it is in the K.'s hand. | 2019-04-25T12:35:07 | https://chancery.tcd.ie/document/patent/10-henry-iv/39 |
I’m trying again the Riot Games creative contest 2017 illustration this year, since the previous one help me to improve some of my skills.
This year I choose Kled. I really like his personality because even if he is really funny he still a strong warrior.
Also his teammate Skaarl is very inspiring.
I decided to make a new skin for him.
I was thinking and searching about something more dark, between a ghost and a zombie but as a wandering knight.
For Skaarl, I just wanted to make something totaly new for him, it’s why I decided to make a raptor following the same rule as Kled by making a something between the ghost and the zombie.
It might look a bit halloweenish because it’s something that is very inspiring for me. It will not be a skin/splash dedicated to halloween but the mood of the background might have some similarity.
The bluish colors of the draft number 1 fit a bit more with the "regular" soul and spirit tones.
It's also why I decided to go with the orange tones, because it's not very common.
I adjusted the design and I chose 1 !
The teamate is done ! | 2019-04-25T06:02:51 | https://artofkoni.com/projects/eNmnZ?album_id=1161503 |
eEye Digital Security has announced a new end-point security product that it says will help organisations stop attacks launched from the Internet that use previously unknown or "zero day" software vulnerabilities.
Blink is an intrusion prevention software (IPS) client with vulnerability scanning as well as network-based and host-based firewall features. It uses intelligence about software exploits, developed by eEye, to spot an attack, even before security companies have formally identified the attack and issued a "signature" to guard against it, according to Firas Raouf, eEye's chief operating officer.
Blink works at the network layer, reconstructing calls for network services such as FTP and HTTP and comparing that traffic to eEye's lexicon of different methods of exploits. The approach gives Blink an advantage over competitors that work at what Raouf calls the process layer by analysing interactions between applications and the operating system. This, he claimed, allow companies to drop malicious traffic before it even reaches critical applications such as Web servers.
The Blink client will work on Windows servers, workstations and laptops. The clients are controlled from a central management console in an organisation's data center. It is designed for large enterprises and can be deployed, managed and updated from a central location.
For companies with mobile workers, Blink's integrated firewalls will also isolate outbreaks caused by malicious code obtained outside of a corporate network. For example, Blink can recognize activity associated with a virus or worm and shut down the infected application on a machine, protecting other network hosts. At the same time, Blink allows other, unaffected applications to keep running, he said.
Continental Airlines has been evaluating Blink on a mixture of desktop and server systems since January, according to Andre Gold, director of information security. The company is testing Blink's IPS and scanning features but doesn't intend to use the network or application firewalls, he said.
Though the airline has not used Blink in production, Gold said he was impressed with the amount of protection Blink provides with little or no configuration. "It's a chore to manage [host intrusion prevention] across hundreds or thousands of machines. You have to go in and say, 'This box is a Web server and this box is a SQL server'," he said.
In contrast, Blink allowed Gold to simply "turn on" the IPS feature and get protection from virus and worm outbreaks on systems running the product. At the same time, Gold didn't have to waste effort creating policies for every application on those systems. "I don't really care whether Notepad is running or not," he said, referring to the Microsoft text editing program. "I just want to stop Slammer or Blaster."
With competing IPS products, Gold said he had to spend hours creating different policies and rules for each of Continental's many applications. Gold gave Blink lower ratings on reporting and on the management interface, which he said were not as fully developed as some of its more mature competitors. He also said Continental would eventually need a product that can work with Unix and with Linux, which the company is increasingly using on its network - platforms Blink does not currently support.
"Windows only isn't a problem when you're trying to stop things that are occurring today, but tomorrow the attack vector could shift," he said.
Blink is available immediately and is sold on a subscription basis, starting with packages of 10 licences for $56 per device for an annual subscription. For servers, eEye has combined Blink with its Secure Internet Information Services (IIS) product and is selling annual subscriptions for $600 per server. | 2019-04-18T23:13:26 | https://www.techworld.com/news/security/eeye-launches-new-security-software-3577973/ |
Tian Lin, a Han settler and former monk, is one of the most influential Xinjiang-based photographers. His work centers around his Buddhist practice, Xinjiang identity and Uyghur migrants in the city of Ürümchi. He’s quite unusual in the Xinjiang scene because of the way he combines his aesthetic practice with an interethnic politics. Over the past 14 years he has been documenting the lives of Uyghur migrants in the city. Due to his deeply-situated practice in the Uyghur community he has built strong ties with Uyghur families and has assisted many as they adjusted to harsh policing and control following the violence of July 5, 2009.
In Tian Lin’s images we see the way Uyghur bodies interacted with homes that they had cobbled together by hand. We see people sorting through rubble; children playing with feral cats and salvaged toys. The images show us people who are connected to the landscape around them; they show us how people eke out a living by recycling scrap metal and survive off the grid. They show us the intimacies and triumphs of precarious life. But most often we see a lack of affect. We see the faces of young men who stare directly into the camera with blank expressions – refusing to let us read their emotions.
Tian Lin’s Uyghur migrant images are images of detachment from the norms of contemporary Chinese social life; they are images of staying alive by holding onto life in a community. They are images of staying committed to life on the margins of a city. His images collapse public spaces of ad-hoc paths and private spaces of homes that have been assembled out of earth and found objects into a lifeworld. They help us think about this community of wanderers as a complex whole made up of particular stories and occupations. They make us think of the stories of kids whose lives are lived on the streets. We imagine stories of strong women chopping vegetables on the floor while stoking a fire with scrap wood, just so, while listening to tinny music on Uyghur call-in radio show. Tian Lin’s images help us think about the feelings of the place; the ways that caring for each other helps people survive.
Tian Lin is attempting to make visible what has been excluded from normal through his practice of witnessing as a wandering Buddhist. He is attempting to pull himself into a particular Uyghur orbit and along the way document his experience and activate fellow Han artists to see their own commonalities with Uyghur migrants. He is trying to see what life is made of and how it could be re-imagined. | 2019-04-20T05:14:57 | https://livingotherwise.com/imagery/tian-lin/ |
Uplift your evening look, with the Three Floor State of Mind dress. This stylish piece features mesh lace and crochet detailing, with cap sleeves and a v shape neckline. Finished with a delicate tier this dress is perfect for that evening occasion. | 2019-04-24T10:51:13 | https://rs.sportsdirect.com/three-floor-of-mind-dress-650745 |
A great way to experience the amazing scenery surrounding the Shotover River Canyons combined with an adrenaline packed adventure!
Experience the thrill of the Shotover Canyon Swing, with over 70 jump styles available, this 109m cliff jump is sure to get that pulse racing! Follow this with the Shotover Canyon Fox, an adrenaline packed zip line ride with a twist. Standing at 182m high, the Canyon fox is the highest flying fox in New Zealand.
If that’s not enough excitement for one day, you will then take to the skies on a roller coaster helicopter ride to see the Shotover River from above, before landing in the remote Skippers Canyon. Top it all off by taking on the white water of the Shotover River as you raft down the rapids to end your adventure! | 2019-04-23T16:37:55 | https://www.combos.co.nz/raft/swing-fox-heli-raft.52/ |
The writing is on the wall. Online pet product sales are here to stay, and they will almost certainly continue stealing market share from brick-and-mortar stores. But will the competitive threat from online outlets overwhelm and ultimately sink the traditional pet stores that have long been the backbone of the pet care industry? It all depends on how well they can leverage their own competitive strengths to respond to those of their counterparts in cyberspace.
While online sales still represent a relatively modest portion of the overall pet care market—most industry experts estimate that they account for about five percent of pet product sales—they are expected to grow to comprise 20 percent or more of the market within the next several years. That could potentially spell big trouble for pet specialty stores, which are already battling competition from other retail channels such as food, drug and mass.
Among those top companies, says Nelson, are Amazon, PetSmart.com and Petco.com, as well as web-only pet specialty retailers like Chewy.com and PetFlow.com.
Interestingly, despite their success in the brick-and-mortar world, PetSmart and Petco have been somewhat behind the curve when it comes to capturing a share of online pet product sales. According to IBISWorld, a New York-based global market research firm, PetSmart earned an estimated $45.1 million through online sales in 2014, compared to Petco’s estimated $76 million during the same period.
Both companies’ online divisions performed significantly below some of the other major Internet players. For example, IBISWorld estimates that Rhinelander, Wis.-based Foster & Smith, Inc.—which operates several pet product retail websites, including DrsFosterSmith.com—earned approximately $222.8 million on the web in 2014. Meanwhile, Pompano Beach, Fla.-based PetMed Express Inc.—which also operates several retail websites, including 1800PetMeds.com—reported $184.4 million in online sales. While it should be noted that prescription medications account for a significant portion of both companies’ online sales (PetMed Express reports that these products represented about 44 percent of sales in FY2014), they still outpaced Petco and PetSmart even without accounting for that segment.
Tired of playing second fiddle to other Internet players, last year, the big-box pet specialty retailers set out to change that dynamic with strategic acquisitions. Petco bought Foster & Smith, and PetSmart gobbled up Plymouth Meeting, Pa.-based online retailer Pet360 (which operates several retail websites, including PetFoodDirect.com) for a reported $130 million. These moves are obviously indicative of the importance that both pet specialty superstores place on the future of online pet product sales.
Having an Internet presence is particularly important, as the Millennial generation has become a force in consumer spending. “Millennials are now the largest pet-owning population, and they are a generation that has grown up on the Internet, so the trend [toward online shopping] is just going to grow,” says Maria Lange, senior product manager for GfK, a New York-based market-research firm that specializes in the pet specialty channel.
Of course, it is not just the big-box pet specialty retailers that need to be mindful of the growing impact of online sales. Small, independent pet specialty stores are also subject to encroachment from cyberspace; and what makes this form of competition particularly dangerous is that, unlike more traditional competitors, online retailers often have access to brands that were—and often still profess to be—exclusive to the independent channel.
“[Manufacturers are] looking at how they can maintain strong growth rates, but for some of them, that growth has slowed down a bit, so they’re looking for alternative channels,” says Korngiebel. “It is opening up a lot of gray areas in what it means to be exclusive to the pet specialty channel, and, in some cases, what makes independent pet stores different [in terms of product selection] is starting to go away.
Puntillo goes on to note that if a supplier fails to enforce its MAP policy, it is not immediately grounds for removing that brand from Mud Bay’s stores. However, “If keeping our pricing comparable means bringing our margins down too low, it becomes harder and harder to justify shelf space for those items or the introduction of new items within that brand,” he says.
While pricing is often a big competitive advantage for online retailers, it is not their only weapon in stealing share from brick-and-mortar pet stores. In fact, Vito M. Mileo, brand- and vendor-relations manager for PetFlow.com, a New York-based online pet product retailer, says that pricing is not even his company’s biggest selling point for pet owners. “We are very competitively priced, but we’re not looking to be the low-cost provider online—it has never been a priority for us,” he says.
While the ability to offer a broader and deeper selection of products is a big advantage for online retailers, which often operate out of large warehouses or have suppliers drop-ship orders to customers, brick-and-mortar stores can approximate this breadth and depth by working closely with their vendor partners—particularly the pet specialty distributors that focus on servicing independent retailers.
Mud Bay is a great example of how retailers can extend their product selection beyond what can reasonably be stocked in a brick-and-mortar store. While the chain typically carries anywhere from 3,500 to 4,200 SKUs in its outlets, it also offers customers a robust selection of about 2,500 special-order items. “These are items—mostly consumables—that are extensions of product lines that we are already carrying in the store, but maybe it’s a particular size or variety that we don’t regularly stock,” says Puntillo, noting that the chain’s special-order items are limited to products that are sold through one of its distributor partners. And given the fact that these suppliers often make deliveries to Mud Bay stores up to three times a week, it is not usually difficult to fill special orders expeditiously.
However, Nelson says that stealing a page out of online retailers’ playbook shouldn’t begin and end with special orders. “Leverage the power of location as a competitive advantage, but also do as the online retailers do, and track your customers’ behavior to make better decisions about products and inventory,” he says.
Korngiebel agrees that this type of data collection is essential for competing in the digital age, but notes that it is not a particular strength of independent pet retailers. “They should be collecting more data about their customers and their purchasing habits, and they should be more creative in how they use that data,” she says, pointing to category management and customer engagement as areas in which such information can be an invaluable resource. | 2019-04-20T22:55:14 | http://www.petbusiness.com/June-2015/Cyberspace-Invaders/ |
In the end, the law didn’t have much effect on smoking. In 1984, the federal government passed another law they wouldn’t even vote on now, Comprehensive Smoking Education Act. But really, what we needed and still need are the kind of packaging that Australia has. Despite what libertarians and conservatives would tell you, companies are just fine with killing off their customers — especially if they are “free” to get kids addicted. Regardless, the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act was an important step in combating the plague of cigarette smoking on this nation. And it stands as an example of how much worse our politics have become.
Happy anniversary Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act! | 2019-04-21T14:45:10 | https://franklycurious.com/wp/2015/04/01/anniversary-post-cigarette-warning-labels/ |
There’s little evidence of UK retirees panicking and returning to the UK, according to official data.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show the number of UK citizens overseas in receipt of the state pension in European Union countries (excluding Ireland) has held steady post the decision to vote for Brexit.
There are around 247,000 British citizens aged 65 plus living in other EU countries (excluding Ireland), and 85,000 people aged 65 plus from other EU countries (excluding Ireland) living in the UK.
The ONS stated that some media reports have claimed that British pensioners are “rushing to settle in EU countries ahead of Brexit”, while others report pensioners considering returning to the UK because of the falling value of the pound and uncertainty over their rights after the UK leaves the European Union.
“In fact, the number of state pension recipients living in other EU countries has risen steadily over the last five years, continuing a long-term trend,” the government statistician said in a statement.
Tom Selby, senior analyst at AJ Bell, said that the “mass exodus some had feared has yet to materialize”.
He said: “It may be that those considering returning to the UK are awaiting clarity on how the final deal will affect them, although for many retired expats whether or not their state pension continues to rise in line with the triple-lock will be just one of a number of factors to be considered.
“The value of annual increases in the state pension should not be underestimated, however, and could run into tens of thousands of pounds over the course of a person’s retirement.
Many fear that tens of thousands of pensioners living in countries like Spain and France will return to the UK after Brexit, especially if there is no deal which would guarantee state pensions paid to UK expats living in the EU are not frozen.
There are also concerns about the cost of healthcare.
More than half a million British pensioners live in EU countries outside the UK, with most based in Ireland, followed by Spain, France, Italy and Germany.
Brian Hill, from financial advisers Jones Hill, advised those pensioners wanting to repatriate to be wary of timing the market when repatriating cash.
He said: "Many people want to try to get the best time for doing this, and my advice to them is to set an acceptable band for selling and try to be emotionally detached." | 2019-04-18T14:49:31 | https://www.ftadviser.com/pensions/2017/09/05/expat-pensioners-aren-t-rushing-back-to-uk/ |
Robert and Stephen Anderson are the most active peer mentors involved with GOGA in Fife, supported by Spirit of 2012. Both are active sportsmen and fully committed volunteers. At the 2018 Disability Sport Fife Annual Awards, Stephen was the first recipient of the prestigious new GOGA volunteer of the year award.
At the recent Kirkcaldy and Central Fife Sports Awards, the Anderson brothers were recognised for their commitment to GOGA in Fife by being awarded Service to Sport awards. The young men attended with their proud grandparents and received their awards from Rona McCraw from the Scottish Association of Sports Councils. | 2019-04-18T12:50:42 | http://www.getoutgetactive.co.uk/news/358-goga-in-fife-peer-mentors-win-award |
Warren Elsmore has recreated the Seven Wonders of the world and more using only standard LEGO® bricks.
The show includes over 70 LEGO brick models showcasing new wonders of the world, along with treasures from the past millennium that remain standing today.
Whether you are an adult fan of LEGO bricks (an ‘AFOL’), or just fascinated by the use of LEGO bricks as a modelling medium, this exhibition will take you on a unique journey through history and around the globe.
LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the Brick and Knob configurations are trademarks of the LEGO Group of Companies. ©2016 The LEGO Group. Brick Wonders is not sponsored, endorsed or otherwise supported by The LEGO Group. | 2019-04-23T22:23:32 | https://www.artrabbit.com/events/brick-wonders-ancient-modern-natural-wonders-made-in-lego-bricks |
In a project organisation with matrix structure you can identify three roles, all identified by ‘PM’. What we mean are the PM as People Manager, the PM as Project Manager and the PM as Process Manager.
The three “PM’s” work closely together in a kind of triangular affair. We call this triangle “the competitive triangle”.
It is of great importance to distinguish between the three different roles and to make clear agreements on ‘who does what’ and on ‘whom is responsible for what’. This is the only way to keep the PM-triangle in balance. Imbalance will lead to friction and loss of efficiency, ultimately leading to failure of projects, increase of cost and budget overrun.
Improvement Works will support you and your PMs to specify the three roles in your situation to reach a good and clear collaboration within the “PM-triangle”. The simple awareness that these roles exist and clear agreements on the contents and scope of these roles leads to prevention of misunderstanding and saves you time and effort. Moreover: this will result in increase of productivity and more pleasant collaboration between the subsequent teams as well as between all individuals involved.
For process (re-)engineering it is advised to arrange for a group session with all involved. The theory of process management is explained in one combined training/workshop and subsequently the team actively works on engineering the process. The process outlines are designed and documented based upon the brought input data: entry criteria, exit criteria and customer expectations. This method perfectly fits into the Lean Six Sigma approach (DMAIC). | 2019-04-24T02:35:05 | http://improvementworks.nl/en_oo_procesmanagement.php |
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There are any number of ways that a person can secure their home from intruders. The idea here is to keep them from making it as far as the house by securing your yard from burglars. If they cannot reach the valuables, there is no need to worry about them being stolen.
If the house you live in is surrounded by trees and shrubs, get rid of them. There is nothing a thief likes more than objects they can use to hide behind. Keep flowers that grow close to the ground. There are many flowering shrubs that are embedded with long, painful thorns. These things add ambiance without providing cover.
Other homeowners will build a privacy fence between themselves and a neighbor. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this, even the burglars will love you for it. Now they can commit a crime because they cannot be seen by neighbors.
The main deterrent is securing your yard from burglars. Just turn on some outside lighting. It does not have to be so bright that the neighbors file complaints, but enough to light up the presence of an intruder. When they know they can be seen, they will go elsewhere. In the meantime, you can enjoy after dark activities that you never could before. You have just expanded your living area to the outdoors.
This topic cannot be expressed too often. A home with a nice lighting system installed around its exterior is a safe home. It is a way to afford you a good nights sleep, free from worry. There is only one other thing you might add to the existing system.
A number of people have installed motion sensors. They are fairly inexpensive but you should invest in one of good quality. A well made unit cannot be tripped by pesky squirrels. You can choose either an audible or silent alarm. The audible alarm will send everyone running including the robber. The silent alarm alerts the authorities to check out the premises.
Don’t waste your money on electric fences and invisible moats around the house. A thief becomes good at his trade by knowing how to bypass these things. When securing your yard from burglars, one thing they cannot bypass is all the lights. A smart thief will not attempt a robbery when there is a chance they can be seen. They will avoid apprehension at all costs.
With Gold Coast fencing and fencing Brisbane you’ll be keeping that property safe from those annoying Intruders who like to come in and take things.
It is something you may not often think about or consider but almost everything you see around you is not where it is by chance. It is there as a result of market research surveys. These are often conducted by product manufacturers, service providers, marketers, governments and other stake holders.
These are done by investors like product manufacturers, marketing firms, service suppliers as well as governments and others who have a stake in the market. They undertake to have market research surveys done with the aim of getting the highest possible returns in their outlay.
These evaluative surveys can be divided into two broad categories. One is quantitative researching which is done to evaluate peoples thinking in regards to how they perceive products and services in terms of how much they purchase in terms of quantity, how much they spend on these purchases and how often they will spend. The other is qualitative investigation which is concerned with the whys of consumer behavior. In most cases, the two are done hand in hand so that a complete report is done.
Quantitative researching is often done through questions that are answered in questionnaires which can be administered face to face, by written or electronic mail or on phone. This is because all the participants are required to answer the same questions. A lot of care is taken to prepare easy to understand and precisely worded questionnaires.
The other side it, qualitative researching is all about drawing peoples opinion so it is done with pre-set questions. It depends on the skills of interviewers to get people talking and sharing their views on a certain service, product, place, person or other subject. It can be done one-on-one or the researching can be done through a selected focus group.
It is important that the sample or participants of a market research survey be drawn from far and wide and that they are randomly selected. Interviewers should also be impartial and not persuade people towards one opinion or the other.
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Many companies spend large amounts of money in an effort to find new customers. For existing customers, the same amount of money is not spent to keep their business. New customers provide opportunities to grow a business, but existing customers provide the most money through sales. A great way to gain insight, into how new and existing customers feel about a company is through conducting phone surveys.
Customers will remain loyal to a specific company, as long as the company is giving them all the things they want. Investing in phone surveys is a great way to learn exactly what it is your customers are wanting.
Market research is the most effective method for learning abut your customer base. It allows individuals to share their honest opinions with a company, knowing it will be given consideration to. The information gathered during a telephone based research study can be used to create new ad campaigns as well as work on improving business practices.
In person interviews, for the sake of gathering market research data, are often preferred over most other methods. In person interviews, however, are often difficult to conduct on a large scale. In addition, some customers do not feel comfortable enough to share their whole opinion with a company in an in person setting. A survey over the telephone is less pressuring, and many individuals are able to open up about how they really feel.
Gathering information over the telephone, is also significantly cheaper than many other market research methods. The cheaper cost can allow for more individuals to be contacted. When a company can survey a larger amount of customers, they are able to gather more data that can be used to improve all aspects of a business.
Market research through any method is an important part of developing a business. Phone surveys are one of many excellent approaches to gathering valuable data that can be used to grow a business and make customers happier with their experience.
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Color image sensors use color filter arrays (CFA) to capture information at each sensor pixel position and require color demosaicing to reconstruct full color images. The quality of the demosaicked image is hindered by the sensor characteristics during the acquisition process. In this work, we propose a bandelet-based demosaicing method for color images. To this end, we have used a spatial multiplexing model of color in order to obtain the luminance and the chrominance components of the acquired image. Then, a luminance filter is used to reconstruct the luminance component. Thereafter, based on the concept of maximal gradient of multivalued images, we propose an extension of the bandelet representation for the case of multivalued images. Finally, demosaicing is performed by merging the luminance and each of the chrominance component in the multivalued bandelet transform domain. The experimental evaluation of the proposed scheme shows beneficial performance over existing demosaicing approaches. | 2019-04-20T18:23:41 | https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/181856?ln=en |
Digital Advertising Specialist Matthew Abad works behind the scenes here at Illuminati Studios to perpetually monitor, strategize, and optimize your digital campaigns for maximum performance and results. He pours his heart and energy into everything he does both in and out of the office, and we feel fortunate not only to have him on our team but also just to know him. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Matt attended school at Florida International University, where he pursued a range of interests from history to film but honed in on communications with a focus in advertising. The common thread in his interests was storytelling, and that’s what he loves about his work in digital advertising: the challenge of finding that perfect formula to tell a brand’s story in a way that’s compelling enough for the prospect to take action. A self-proclaimed movie buff, Matt was obsessed with filmed stories ever since he was little, when he used to bring VHS tapes with him to watch while visiting relatives. Matt hesitated to name just one favorite movie but agreed to share his top three picks: Back to the Future, Pulp Fiction, and Ferris Beuller’s Day Off. For the past few years, he has hosted his own podcast where he talks about movies. Now he’s working on his first short film, which he will enter to be featured at a local film festival—writing, filming, and producing a piece that explores a unique cultural character in the melting pot that is South Florida: the traveling knife sharpener.
Matt shares his South Florida home with his fiancé, Steph, who handles traditional marketing for a law firm, and their standard poodle, Indy. Best friends since college, Matt and Steph have been together for 6 years and plan to get married in May 2017. We always love listening to their engagement story. After closing on their townhouse, Matt suggested a toast at their new home. When they arrived, Steph saw what Matt had painted on the wall: “Will you marry me?” After tears of joy, they crossed the street to their favorite local bar, where all their family and friends were waiting to celebrate with them.
Indy (named after movie icon Indiana Jones), came next. We’ve played with him here in the office when he was a tiny puppy, but now at 9 months old, he’s almost as big as us! Known as “the troublemaker” by his vet, Indy’s favorite foods are socks and underwear. Matt, on the other hand, prefers pizza topped with pepperoni and green peppers. From posting Indy’s story on Instagram to film production to digital campaign performance management, Matt is no stranger to technology—but even he encourages everyone to take an occasional day off from their smart phones and emails. He experienced exactly that on a recent trip to the Grand Canyon, where he spent five days hiking, rafting, and camping along the Colorado River. His trip looked and felt surreal, and one of his favorite parts was looking up from the bottom—especially at night, when there was so little light pollution that he could see the glint of satellites passing overhead.
Matt is an open book, always eager to share and collaborate, complete with high fives around the office and friendly reminders to “Keep up the good work!” He even shares his hidden talents with us, like flipping over a plate of food on one hand without spilling it, and doing “the worm” (which he learned and perfected in third grade because all the girls thought it was cool). So if you have any questions for him, don’t be shy—just ask! | 2019-04-22T16:31:22 | http://www.ilumaagency.com/2017/01/10/matt-works-behind-the-scenes-to-optimize-your-digital-campaigns/ |
"It was a nice win," captain Greig Laidlaw told the BBC. "We scored 43 points and a lot of good tries against a tough Georgia side.
"I am pleased with our attack and the way we are scoring points and causing teams problems."
"It was hard work," said man of the match Ryan Wilson. "We knew how tough it would be. It's great to get the win in front of a great crowd.
"The first two games against Australia and Argentina have been so tight, things started to come together today and it's a tribute to the hard work the boys have put in.
"There is plenty more to work on but there is some brilliant stuff there and we want to take it into the Six Nations next year." | 2019-04-23T06:51:41 | https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/sports/update-1-rugby-vibrant-scotland-end-good-year-with-big-win-over-georgia/articleshow/55642074.cms |
We all want the best for our children from the first day we hold them. We want to wrap them in the softest and best blankets, and have the softest toys so they will love what we buy for them. Well Zubels is here to help.
Zubels products are all hand knitted with 100% soft cotton (some organic) yarn. They use eco-friendly low-impact dyes and reduce packaging to have less environmental waste. Each toy is hand stuffed which makes for sure they are huggable and loveable. They come in great colors and details to make each one a distinct personality your child will love for years to come.
This is a family owned business and they are committed to creating eco-friendly toys. They have been in business for over 30 years. They offer hand knitted toys, gifts, accessories, and apparel, which sells at various boutiques and online retailers.
This is their Cheerleader in Pink & Red. She has a rattle on the inside. She loves to cheer for the home team!
She is made from 100% cotton yarns. She is 7 inches and perfect for babies and toddlers. She is also available in 12 inch size without the rattle.
She is so adorable and soft!
I wanted to show you some close-ups so you could see the stitches and how well it is made.
Even the pom-pom is super soft.
Next they offer the handsome 12 inch football player. They have him in lots of colors so you can pick your favorite.
He is really soft. The one I received does not have a rattle. It is amazing the details and the beautiful colors these have.
Zubels were born of a creative group working together to bring smiles to children (and to us). There was a need for an eco-friendly yet purposeful toy whose only need was a little love and imagination. | 2019-04-19T09:03:49 | https://www.michigansavingandmore.com/zubel-football-and-chearleaders-zubels/ |
Code lines are added at high speed? Too many developers? How do you see the big picture? What processes are going on with your large code base? This presentation shows how to leverage existing code analysis tools (Gource, D3, Git and others) to make at least some sense out of millions of code lines and their history.
During his consulting work, the presenter often meets unfamiliar and at the same time large code bases that need quick analysis and input for decision making. That is where visualizations come to into play by helping mining important knowledge directly from the code statistics. | 2019-04-22T00:11:18 | http://www.softdevtube.com/2016/11/09/visualizing-codebases/ |
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Join us for this special annual Eden event held at North Way Church.
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If you are bringing a forgotten or special lunch for your child, please check-in at the office and drop the lunch there. We'll make sure is delivered to your child!
Parents are welcome to visit for a special lunch with their child during their assigned lunch time. After you report to the office to sign-in and pick up your child, you're welcome to eat in the front atrium of the church or on the benches outside Eden's field house and front entrance.
At Eden, learning isn't always from a textbook.
Students are developing creativity, collaborative and problem-solving skills as they dive in to projects in Eden’s MakerSpace and Imagination Station. Project-based learning activities are purposefully developed to provide cross-curricular integration and life skills for today and the future. | 2019-04-25T01:47:02 | https://myemail.constantcontact.com/September-17---Wexford-Campus-Update.html?soid=1125509168481&aid=ocgNQXA1CEo |
When life is falling apart, God will carry you through.
It has been said that everyone is either entering, in the midst of, or just exiting a trial. Popular author and pastor Max Lucado has discovered that at any given point, almost everyone is dealing with something. Whether the loss of a loved one, marriage issues, illness, job loss, or the stress of everyday life, people everywhere need the assurance that God will carry them through.
Through decades of betrayal, abandonment, and false accusations, Joseph never gave up on God or His purpose. And Joseph continually trusted the sovereignty of God as Master-weaver of his life. InGod Will Carry You Through, Max invites readers to do the same—to let God’s message through Joseph guide His children through tough times today. Laced throughout Joseph’s story are personal testimonies by everyday people who discovered for themselves that “God had carried them through” as well as quotes and Scripture passages for meditation. This book is rich in hope for finding peace and reassurance through whatever challenge you face. | 2019-04-18T12:48:29 | http://myocmommy.com/473651-download-max-lucado.html |
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Below are comments from amazinGRACE® students about the training, the healing results from their volunteer clients and a heartwarming story of a cat.
Manuela is a practitioner of amazinGRACE® and also a teacher at the École San Esprit in Bavaria. Last year she visited friends just before Christmas and their cat was very sick. The doctors could not find a cause and could not help and suggested they put it down.
Manuela wanted to try to save the cat and took the video to document the results. She worked twice while she was there, the cat got better and they decided to let her live to see if she might even get well completely. In January at the next visit Ina worked again with amazinGRACE® and in February the cat is super healthy and happy!
Click on the image below and watch 10 amazing Healing Miracles. | 2019-04-22T08:43:47 | http://greatmystery.org/Programs/amazinGRACEresults.html |
I believe coaching is more than just a question and answer session between two or more people.
Coaching is defined as the process to focus on the ‘here and now’, to distract the mind from it’s sometimes negative inner dialogue, getting the instincts to take over, and to allow the coachee to focus on the stuff that needs to get done.
The role of the coach is not that of a subject expert, but that of a facilitator of learning. It is my role to assit you to improve your performance: helping you to learn. Whether this is learning a new skill, or learning the true boundaries of your abilities.
Coaching is unlocking a person’s true inner potential, helping them discover their ultimate abilities, to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn, rather than teaching them.
I also include a component of mentoring within the service.
Coaching focuses on the Present, asking the Question ‘How?’ with the aim of Improving Skills to Raise Competnece.
Mentoring focuses on the Future, asking the Question ‘What?’ with the aim of Committing to Learning Goals to Open Horizions and Opportunities.
Complete the form below, and I will contact you for a initial 15 minute discussion, where we will have a quick introduction to confirm if we are a good fit.
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We will teach you skills and competencies that are necessary while using a computer and other computer applications. You will create your ICDL profile through taking tests in the modules that are most relevant to their educational and professional requirements. ICDL offers you the skills that you need to succeed whether you are working, in school or in University.
Create your ICDL Profile today by joining other ICDL candidates at Institute of Software Technologies and choose from our flexible time schedule depending on your flexibility. Our State of the art facilities and hands-on training will gear you towards certifying your computer skills to the international standard.
Our ICDL programmes are suitable for anyone who wants to become fully competent in the use of computers and common applications. Computer Proficiency helps people to use technology at their respective field to improve their lives. Standard ICDL Course offered provides a practical programme of up-to date skills and knowledge which are validated by a test to students who want to get introduction to Computer Proficiency.
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Manage basic desktop settings and manage files and folders.
Create, save, edit and format a word processing document.
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Search for information on the web, create and edit bookmarks.
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Understand computer concepts around hardware and software.
Identify health, environment and security considerations when using computers. | 2019-04-21T22:17:46 | https://www.isteducation.com/courses/icdl/?tab=tab-instructor |
Transparency International, the global anti-corruption organisation, released its 22nd annual Corruption Perceptions Index on 25 January 2017. The index ranks 176 countries/territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. The Corruption Perceptions Index is the leading global indicator of public sector corruption, offering a yearly snapshot of the relative degree of corruption by ranking countries from all over the globe.
The FYR of Macedonia ranked 90th with a score of 37, indicating a serious corruption problem in the country.
Transparency International and its chapter in the FYR of Macedonia fully support the findings of the 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index.
Following reports in the FYR of Macedonia that have painted a wrong picture of the Corruption Perceptions Index’s methodology, Transparency International would like to clarify how individual country scores are constructed.
The Corruption Perceptions Index is a composite index, a combination of different international surveys and assessments of corruption, collected by a variety of reputable institutions. The index draws on 13 surveys from independent institutions specialising in governance and business climate analysis covering expert assessments and views of businesspeople. None of these surveys were commissioned by Transparency International.
The score for the FYR of Macedonia was aggregated from seven data sources, including the Economist Intelligence Unit, the World Economic Forum, Freedom House and Global Insight Country Risk Rating.
The index is independent, non-political and non-partisan. Transparency International Macedonia has no influence on the data or the scores and neither do any of the donors who support Transparency International.
Transparency International emphasised that the results of the Corruption Perceptions Index 2016 show there are strong warning signs around the world that the move to crack down on freedoms, including the space for civil society, can have negative effects on the fight against corruption.
“Only where there is freedom of expression, transparency in all political processes and strong democratic institutions, can civil society and the media hold those in power to account and corruption be fought successfully,” said José Ugaz, Chair of Transparency International.
“The poor score for Macedonia indicates a need to strengthen and protect the space for civil society not weaken it. This is the message of the Corruption Perceptions Index,” said Slagjana Taseva, Chair of Transparency International Macedonia.
Links to the underlying data sources and a description of the methodology can be found here.
Transparency International is a global movement sharing one vision: a world in which government, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption. Through more than 100 national chapters worldwide and an international secretariat in Berlin, we work with partners in government, business and civil society to put effective measures in place to tackle corruption. We are politically non-partisan and place great importance on our independence.
The work of Transparency International is funded by a variety of governments, foundations, private sector and individual donors. You can see a list of all donors here. | 2019-04-21T12:40:35 | https://www.transparency.org/news/pressrelease/explanation_of_how_individual_country_scores_of_the_corruption_perceptions |
Slides 1, 2, 3 and 5, 6, 7 (teach) - Slide 1 shows children how easy it is to add fractions when the denominator is the same. Slide 2 shows how to simplify and answer when adding. Slides 3 shows the same as above but when subtracting fractions. Slides 5, 6 and 7 show how to add and subtract fractions when the denominator is different. Examples are given.
Slide 4 and 8 (practise) - Slide 4 allows children to practise adding and subtracting fractions when the denominator is the same. Slide 8 asks children to add and subtract fractions of a different denominator. Answers are provided.
Slides 9 - 13 (extend) - On slide 9 children are asked to use the above skills to solve word problems. Slides 10 - 13 give the answers with explanations given. | 2019-04-24T15:03:09 | http://www.primaryresourcecentre.com/ourshop/prod_4034245-Adding-and-Subtracting-Fractions-with-different-Denominators-Year-6-Powerpoint-Teach-Practise-Extend.html |
2.How to setup front page as shown in the demo?
3.How to manage Site Title, Logo, Tagline, Show and Site Icon?
4.How to manage Color Options?
5.How to manage Theme Options?
5.1.How to manage Header Options?
5.2.How to manage Slider Options?
5.3.How to Get a Quote?
5.4.How to manage Home Sections?
5.5.How to manage Post Sections?
5.6.How to manage Copyright Text?
6.How to manage Header Image?
7.How to manage Background Images?
8.1.How to create a Menu?
8.2.How to change Menu Locations?
10.How to manage Static Front Page?
After you download your theme from Rigorous Themes, you can choose either of the approaches given below to install your theme.
Click Browse Locate business-hub.zip Theme in your computer.
Select business-hub.zip and click Install Now.
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Using an FTP client to access your host web server, go to /wp-content/themes/ and upload your new copy of Business Hub Theme.
Now the theme will be activated and go through the following options to set up the theme step wise.
Top Header Section: This section is setup from Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Header Options. Refer below How to manage Header Options? for more details.
Site Identity and Primary Menu Section: The Site Identity section is setup from Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Site Identity and for Primary Menu section you need to setup from Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Header Options. Refer below How to manage Header Options? for more details. Refer below How to manage Site Title, Logo, Tagline and Site Icon? and How to manage Menus? for more detail.
Featured Slider Section: This section is setup from Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Slider.
Refer below How to manage Slider Options? for more detail.
Get A Quote Section: This section is setup from Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Get a Quote.
Refer below How to Get a Quote? for more detail.
Our Services Section: This section is setup from Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Home Sections.
Refer below How to manage Home Sections? for more detail.
Why Choose us Section: This section is setup from Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Home Sections.
About/Welcome Section: This section is setup from Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Home Sections.
Our Works Section: This section is setup from Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Home Sections.
Our Blogs Section: This section is setup from Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Home Sections.
Footer Widget Section: This section is setup from Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Widgets.
Refer below How to add Widgets? for more detail.
Footer Copyright Section: To setup this section you need to go to Admin Panel / Appearance / Customize / Theme Options / Footer.
Refer below How to manage Copyright Text? for more detail.
Site Title:It changes the main site title of the site.
Tagline:It changes the tagline (i.e:Description) of the site.Just below site title.
You can check any of the above options as per your requirement.
Site Icon:The Site Icon is used as a browser and app icon for your site.Icon must be square, and at least 512px wide and tall.
1.From Customize section, go to Color Option..
2. Under Color Options you will see Background color option. Now change the color as per your need.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Header.
Enable Sticky Header: To check or uncheck whether to make header sticky or not.
Show top header bar: To check or uncheck whether to show or not the top header bar.
Top bar left element: To display either Social links or Menu in Top bar left part of the site.
Top bar right element: To display either Search form or Menu in Top bar right part of the site.
Enable Social Icons on right top bar: To check or uncheck whether to enable Social Icons on right top bar or not.
Enable Opening Hours on right top bar: To check or uncheck whether to enable opening hours on right top bar or not.
Address: To enter the Address.
Telephone: To enter the telephone number.
Email: To enter the email.
Opening Hours: To enter the opening hours.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Slider.
Enable Slider or Banner: To check or uncheck whether to display slider or not.
Display Slider Excerpts: To check or uncheck whether to display the slider excerpts or not.
Show Read More button: To check or uncheck whether to display Read more button or not .
Slider Type: To choose slider type either slider or banner image.
Category for Slider: To choose which category to display in the slider.
Transition Delay: To set transition delay.
Transition Duration: To set transition duration.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Get a Quote.
Enable Quote Section: To check or uncheck whether to enable quote section or not.
Get a Quote: To enter the ID of post to use in Get a Quote section..
Button Text: To enter the text to display in button.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Home Sections.
Show Home content: To check or uncheck whether to display Home content or not.
Our Services: To select any category from the drop down to display in this section.
Why Choose Us:To enter the Id of any post to display in this section.
About/Welcome Section: To enter the Id of any post to display in this section.
Our Works: To select any category from the drop down to display in this section.
Our Blogs: To select any category from the drop down to display in this section.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Post Sections.
Sidebar: To choose between left sidebar and right sidebar.
Check to hide meta data below title: To check or uncheck whether to hide meta data below title or not.
Read More Text:To enter the text to display in Read More Text.
Excerpt Length: To choose the length of words.
2. From Theme Options, you will see Copyright Text.
Copyright Text: To enter the copyright text.
Disable Scroll to top: To check or uncheck whether to disble scroll to top or not.
2. Select the image for Header section available on media library or upload from the other location.
3. If the preview is fine, click on “Save and Publish to apply recently uploaded logo.
Note:The theme recommends a Header Size of 1000px X 250px.
2. Select the image for Backgroud available on media library or upload from the other location.
3. If the preview is fine, click on “Save and Publish to apply recently selected/uploaded image as Background Image.
After you select any specified image,you will see Preset section.
In Preset section, you will see various options for adjusting the image size.
Image Postion: You can adjust the image position according to the arrow.
Image Size: You will be able to choose various options from the dropdown. (Fit to screen , original , Fill Screen) you can chose any as your requirement .
Scroll with Page: You can check this option to scroll the image with the page .
Background Color: You will also see different color options for Background Image. Now change the color as per your need.
3. Now, click Add Items while adding pages and Remove to remove pages according to your requirement to the specified Menu.
4.You can create more menus in a similar way.After creating and adding pages to the Menu, you need to set location to that menu.
1. From Customize section, go to Menus and inside it you will find Menu Locations.
2. In those Menu Locations, You can add Menus.Here, you will see those before created Menu in the drop down of each Menu Location .
You can also see different display locations inside each specified Menus.You can check or uncheck it as per requirement. | 2019-04-24T15:46:56 | https://themepalace.com/instructions/themes/business-hub/ |
This week’s blog was supposed to be Part 2 of last week’s “The Emotionally Intelligent Brain, Part 1.” However because of the passing of a historic man, I decided to digress for one week.
Nelson Mandela’s greatness was of historic proportions. He was also—in my humble opinion—emotionally intelligent. Now mind you, I do not believe that all great people are emotionally intelligent. Steve Jobs was a great man. He changed the world. I am not sure if we could say that he was emotionally intelligent—ask his employees. Nelson Mandela was.
By the end of the story, Dorothy pulled her inner Team together and with equanimity was able to move fluidly in all three dimensions so that she could eventually melt the Wicked Witch of the West. Tin Man was no longer frozen, but with some oil was able to move with passion and compassion steadfast in the mission. Scarecrow was no longer ineffective and indecisive. When he found his knowing, he was able to mindfully and persistently see how to move forward with self-control and wisdom. And yes, Lion (finally) found his nerve and was willing to march into hell (the castle) for a heavenly cause to face the most dangerous witch. This, my friend, was Nelson Mandela. Mandela eventually and consistently pulled together his inner Team—like Dorothy—to melt the wicked regime of Apartheid. This is why we love and admire this giant of a man.
Courageous Lion: He spoke truth to “Power” (not unlike Jesus, Gandhi and Martin Luther King). And what courage he exhibited, to confront the green-faced hag of Apartheid and then survive an oppressive and impossibly prolonged imprisonment!
Heart-filled Tin Man: His compassion for his people and his passion for the mission was unshakeable. His life was a life of service. But the thing that I admire most about Mandela was his capacity for forgiveness. He was once asked if he forgave his jailers who brutalized him for nearly 3 decades. His response was profound. He said that he was their prisoner for 27 years and if he did not forgive them he would still be their prisoner.
Mindful Scarecrow: He was a man of patience and self-control. Prison allegedly taught him the benefits of silence and solitude, attributes of mindfulness. One of the sub-categories of EI is what is called “political savvy.” Mandela had political savvy. He knew when to fight (Lion) and when to forgive (Tin Man).
His ability to move freely and dynamically in all three dimensions is why I consider him a notably emotionally intelligent person and a model and inspiration for all of us—on whatever stage we live out our personal and work lives. Emotional intelligence is an intelligence that he lived by. South Africa is grateful; the World is grateful. Rest in Peace.
An interpersonal neurobiology view of well-being holds that the complex, nonlinear system of the mind achieves states of self-organization by balancing the two opposing processes of differentiation and linkage. When separated areas of the brain are allowed to specialize in their function and then become linked together, the system is integrated. Integration brings with it a special state or functioning of the whole, which has the acronym of FACES: Flexible, Adaptive, Coherent, Energized and Stable. This coherent flow is bounded on one side by chaos and on the other by rigidity. In this manner we can envision a flow or river of well-being, with the two banks being chaos on the one side, rigidity on the other.
This is how Siegel describes a mentally healthy brain-mind. It is a mind that “flows” optimally between chaos (disorganization) on one side and rigidity (over-organization) on the other. What I find compelling is that these five (FACES) brain-mind functions aptly describe an emotionally intelligent leader (partner, parent, friend) as well. Emotionally intelligent people apparently have healthy, integrated brain-minds.
Who would not like to be married to (or have as a parent or friend) a person who is Flexible, Adaptive, Coherent, Energetic yet Stable–in other words, emotionally intelligent? Likewise, who wants people in their organization–not the least of which a leader—who possesses the opposite attributes of being inflexible if not rigid, unable to adapt, incoherent (confused, unclear and illogical), depressed, unmotivated or unstable? Having someone like this to follow (be married to, parented by and/or friends with) would be at best unpleasant and at worst damaging.
We can’t choose everyone in our life, of course. We get to pick our partners and friends. (Unfortunately we do not get to pick our parents.) We don’t always get to choose our workmates, but organizations can choose employees and leaders. So if emotionally intelligent leaders have healthy or integrated brain-minds and these integrated brain-minds make for transcendent leaders, how do we get a few of these brains into our organization?
I often argue that it is easier to hire a star employee rather than develop one. That is why I spend a good bit of time in my consulting practice helping organizations hire best-fit (emotionally intelligent) people. It is relatively easy to find someone who has the right education, training and even experience–especially in this current “buyers” market. It is much harder to find someone who is Flexible, Adaptive, Coherent, Energized and Stable . . . someone who has a healthy brain-mind, someone who is emotionally intelligent.
But it is not possible to hire an entirely new company full of integrated emotionally intelligent people. We have to work with the employees (and owners) that we have. This begs an important question: Can we retrain the brain? Fortunately the answer is YES, however it is a qualified yes. It is not easy, and not everyone is willing or capable of retraining his or her brain. Siegel and other neurobiologist agree that the brain is “elastic.” What they mean by that is that—although difficult—we can recondition the brain: build new and better brain-mind integration. How does one do this?
The better question might be “where do we do this?” We do it in the Middle Prefrontal Cortex. It is the at the crossroads between the emotional limbic system and the thinking cortex and it has to do with things like emotional balance, empathy, insight, fear extinction, intuition and morality. One key way to effect and eventually develop this part of the brain-mind is through awareness. When we raise people’s awareness we increase the proper functioning of this important region of the brain.
There are different ways to raise awareness in a business environment: the use of assessments, targeted workshops and especially one-on-one coaching. But there are other ways to affect this region of the brain-mind. Stay tuned, I will discuss them further in part two of this article. For now, I hope you are encouraged to understand that we really can increase emotional intelligence and thereby improve relationships with everyone who crosses our life path.
Please let us know your experiences with emotionally intelligent (or lack thereof) bosses or leaders, as it pertains to FACES. And remember, EI is intelligence you can live with.
One of my friends is now in Europe, all his expenses paid by his employer. (Oh yeah, did I tell you that he went with his wife and they are paying all her expenses too?) Another friend just released a book which is well on its way to becoming a national best seller (see Back to Normal: Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior Is Mistaken for ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder, by Dr. Enrico Gnaulati). I have two friends who just retired in their 50’s and will never have to worry about money again. So do you think I am happy for them? To be honest, the envious part of mind wants an all-expense paid trip to Europe with my family. I want to have a bestseller so I can retire and never have to worry about money again.
What do you envy? Do you envy your friend who can eat anything she wants and is still as skinny as a rail? How about the guy at work who used to report to you who was just promoted again? Or how about your friend who is (apparently) happily married and expecting her first baby and you have not had a good date in months (okay years)? Do you envy those people who have the Midas touch—everything they do turns to gold? We can envy anyone who has more (money, looks, happiness) than us; we can envy anyone who has less (body fat, bad luck, marital troubles) than us. The list of things that we can be envious about is as long as things in the world that we can possess or acquire or experience—but don’t. And the list is long.
Envy Happens! Envy is a basic human emotion—a state of mind to be exact. It is reflected in some of our earliest literature, for instance religious texts. In the well-known Judeo-Christian story of Adam and Eve, the author of Genesis writes that eating of the forbidden fruit would make the couple like God. Embedded in this narrative is a story of envy. They envied God and who would not?—Which of us would not want to be described as all powerful; all knowing? But what really seemed to piss them off was that they needed God. According to British psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, we are prone to envy anyone on whom we depend. Why? Because we are not all powerful and all knowing and we do in fact need others.
Envy unchecked is very destructive. Envy hates. Envy wants to hurt if not destroy the envied. This is also seen in the Genesis story of Cain and Abel. If you remember the story, Cain envied his brother Abel and as a result murdered him. Sometimes the expression of envy is huge; many wars have been started because one group wants what another group has. However, more often the expression of envy is more “civilized” showing up as resentment, backbiting and passive aggressive behaviors. And when we envy, there are often serious feelings of inferiority lurking in the shadows of our self-concept.
I have struggled with envy my whole life. I grew up in a very poor family and often heard my father talk about all the rich people who had it easy. I still struggle with being content with what I have and where I am in life. However, as I have worked through issues in my own personal therapy and lately in my mindfulness practices, I find myself more content and yes—even at times grateful—for my life as it is now. I want more and will get it. But gratitude is not about the future; gratitude is about the NOW. So I choose to be happy for my friends who are retired at 50, traveling in Europe, and a successful author. I am truly glad for them, as I am glad for all the good things in my life. And I hope that you find that quiet, sober place in your mind and heart that appreciates what you have NOW this Thanksgiving and for the other 364 days of the year.
If you have a moment, please share with us what you find yourself envying and/or what you are personally grateful for. Happy Thanksgiving!
In the previous (maiden) blog on EI, I introduced some initial ideas on this most important concept, emotional intelligence. If you remember, in the first article I featured Daniel Goleman’s four basic factors of EI: Self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness and relationship-management. Well I have another way to cut the EI pie, taken from my book (Follow the Yellow Brick Road: How to Change for the Better When Life Gives You Its Worst). It is also the subject matter of my new book coming out in 2014 and I am pleased to present it to you now.
Over a half-century ago Karen Horney, M.D. enhanced the psychological world with her book, Our Inner Conflicts. The now-classic book introduces the three primary ways people relationally move: we move toward, move against, or move away from others. Across the ocean in England—and independent of Dr. Horney—Wilfred Bion, M.D., used three different terms to describe how we emotionally “link” or connect to each other. He said that people interpersonally connect either through love, hate (Power) or knowing. Although the terms differ, in essence, these two psychoanalytic giants—independently of each other—identified the three fundamental ways in which we interpersonally move or connect to others.
Over the years, I have relied on these tripartite concepts to guide me as a therapist, a teacher and an organizational consultant. As I have worked with these concepts, I’ve gradually developed a model that I call the Interpersonal Triangle. The Interpersonal Triangle is strongly confirmed throughout psychological literature, as well as in other places such as systems theory, biology, organizational psychology, philosophy, religion, literature and even pop culture (too many to speak of in this article). But what does all this have to do with the Wizard of Oz?
Early in her journey Dorothy meets three companions—Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion. Each of these companions has some characteristic that is underdeveloped and in need of fulfillment. Remember Tin Man who cares about having a heart? He represents “love,” or “moving toward.” Lion, who battles for courage, represents “power,” or “moving-against.” Finally, Scarecrow, preoccupied with having a brain, symbolizes knowing, or “moving away”—mindfulness, if you may. Each of the movements can either be negative or positive in their impact, as we will soon see in the example below.
So what does this have to do with EI? I maintain that an “effective, mature and decent” human being is someone who relates to others in a dynamic yet flexible way, integrating the positive aspect of all three dimensions at the same time. And when we are not able to respond in a positive way in one or more of the dimensions, we are thrown out of kilter. Let me give you an example.
Mary owns her own small firm. Ever since she was a little girl she had a hard time with Tin Man. She believes that all the “touchy feely stuff” is a display of weakness. Because of that, she tends to overdo Scarecrow (being cold and distant) and Lion (being impatient and domineering). I was hired to help Mary find out why she was having such a difficult time retaining talent in her company. A quick (anonymous) survey of the employees, along with some personality testing, soon brought the answer clearly into focus.
Based on the feedback that I gave her, she reluctantly agreed to a series of coaching sessions (after all “needing” coaching—moving toward—is a sign of weakness). Based on the theory of the Interpersonal Triangle, we did not focus on her overdone cowardly Lion behaviors (her impatience and micro-management) nor did we consider her overdone Scarecrow (her cold disposition toward employees). Instead we focused on Tin Man–her least favorite dimension. At first we experimented with safe Tin Man behaviors; for example, giving compliments to employees who did a good job. Later we worked on more difficult Tin Man behaviors, like seeking input from the project managers on how to run a project.
Even though I focused mostly on Tin Man, my goal in this coaching assignment was to move her toward full positive functioning of ALL THREE of the characters. As she began to improve in her Tin Man behaviors, a wonderful thing began to happen. Not only did she begin to exhibit more positive Tin Man behaviors, which was most welcomed by all employees, BUT she no longer manifested the overdone negative LION and SCARECROW behaviors. Instead LION transformed into effective leadership and candor; and SCARECROW showed up more as wisdom and patience. Mary was learning to more effectively move through the three dimensions of her interpersonal world. She was exhibiting Goleman’s self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness and relationship-management. Mary had become more emotionally intelligent.
In this very brief introduction of the Interpersonal Triangle, it is enough here to raise awareness of the three ways we can relationally move—positively or negatively. And to know that if we are weak in one mode, we will go out-of-balance in the others—making us less effective in how we relate to and impact others. And when we find the “synergy” of all three we can move powerfully and effectively through the three dimensions of the interpersonal world.
Dorothy’s weakest link was Courageous Lion. When she finally found her mojo, she was able to pull the inner team together and melt herself a witch and fire a wizard (more to come on Wizards and Witches). Which character do you have the most trouble with in your life . . . as a manager, a parent, a spouse? (We are often different in different settings.) Don’t bother working on your weaknesses, work on the strengths that are underdeveloped and you will be more emotionally intelligent. And emotional intelligence is intelligence you can live with. | 2019-04-23T12:39:10 | https://theemotionalintelligencepsych.com/category/work/ |
Check out ArtsATL's review of Bravo! - the Atlanta Ballet dancers' newest cookbook that they put together to support the Dancers' Resource Fund.
Full of personal, delicious, and international recipes, Bravo! makes a great gift for the foodie in your life. You can still purchase copies at the Atlanta Ballet Boutique at the Michael C. Carlos Dance Centre in West Midtown (1695 Marietta Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA 303018). Email boutique@atlantaballet.com or call 404.873.5811 x1101 to confirm Boutique hours.
Recipe by Atlanta Ballet dancer Jacob Bush. Photo by Atlanta Ballet dancer Zachary Alden.
The Dancers’ Resource Fund supports dancers as they prepare for second careers after dance. Upon retirement from the stage, dancers have used the funds for everything from college tuition to videography equipment for their career transitions. | 2019-04-22T08:57:36 | https://www.atlantaballet.com/news/artsatl-reviews-atlanta-ballet-dancers-bravo-cookbook |
The results of the UK stage of the International Property Awards 2015-2016 have just been announced and 2-move is justifiably proud to be among the winners.
2-move competed against a number of the region’s most accomplished real estate agents to receive this recognition. The level of award will be revealed when the official announcements are made at a gala presentation dinner at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square in Mayfair on the evening of Friday, October 9th.
The company may even go on to represent the United Kingdom in the final stage of the competition later this year. If it has attained the highest score in the real estate agent category, 2-move will compete against other winning companies from Asia Pacific, Africa, Canada, the USA, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Arabia and Europe for the coveted crown of World’s Best Real Estate Agent (Property Consultant of Lettings Agency).
The award is a major achievement for 2-move as entrants are judged against a strict set of criteria. Judging was undertaken by a panel of over 70 experts from all over the world and chaired by two active members of the House of Lords: Lord Caithness and Lord Best.
as we are getting great testimonials from our clients.
In December 2013 we were proud to be awarded with the Silver Award for best small South East Estate Agency, at the prestigious ESTATE AGENCY OF THE YEAR AWARDS. This accolade was equalled by our Lettings team in June 2014 at the TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES LETTINGS AGENCY OF THE YEAR AWARDS.
These awards are regarded as the pinnacle of achievement within the industry and being part of the process, let alone being honoured with an award, was a privilege for us and a great sense of pride to the entire team. Many Estate Agents can appear the same; offering a ‘one size fits all’ approach but few companies operating locally will match our innovative marketing, professionalism, experience and expertise.
http://estateagencyoftheyear.com/judges_report/index.html the 2-move report is on page 22.
http://estateagencyevents.com/ the 2-move report is on page 20. | 2019-04-24T14:30:40 | https://www.2-move.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&Itemid=175 |
The Scorpion-3 motorcycle is a high-tech aircraft based on a quadcopter. It is an electric propulsion vehicle that combines a motorcycle seat with quadrocopters drone technology that gives us agility, speed and stability of flight.
Scorpion-3, has been created by the Russian company Hoversurf. Its premiere took place at the GITEX technology fair, which was held in Dubai between October 8 and 12.
Hovesurf / Scorpion-3, the next flying motorcycle of the Dubai police.
The high temperatures and desert dunes are huge efforts for police vehicles in Dubai. Scorpion-3 may be very useful for such adverse terrain.
Scorpion-3 is perceived at first glance as an instrument of extreme sports, however its potential for transport in the future is very evident.
Born as a Scorpion-3 crowfunding project, it is part of a series of projects that include Jetpack by Malloy, Aerofex, A. Duru, E-Hang, Bye Gravity, E-volo.
The aircraft has been designed for extreme conditions and uses internal custom software for total manual and automatic control.
The design of the Scorpion-3 platform has been inspired by the chassis of heavy-duty sports utility motorcycles and the concept was combined with flying qualities that provide speed and maneuverability.
The machine basically navigates through the air changing altitude and direction.
Scorpion-3 is equipped with a security system with state-of-the-art flight controllers, special logic programming and passive elements with computer-aided speed and altitude limitation.
It can be piloted or controlled as a quadcopter from its own control panel remotely up to a distance of 6 km.
The maximum load of the vehicle is 150 kilograms and its battery allows a flight of approx. 30 minutes at an average speed of 70 kilometers per hour.
It can support a load of up to 300 kg of weight.
Its price will be around 70,000 euros. | 2019-04-26T05:58:22 | https://www.espaciorobot.com/2018/02/21/hovesurf-scorpion-motorcycle-dubai/ |
Muhammad Manzur Alam’s research focuses on exploring issues of political ecology in South Asian novels. He has made conference presentations and publications on areas such as South Asian literature, political discourses, ecocriticism and the Indo-Caribbean writer V.S. Naipaul.
Bryan Alukonis’ work broadly examines the literature of the American 19th and 20th centuries. Narrowly it examines the ways that print and popular cultures intersected to reify and expand the imperial project of the United States; how print was (and still is) used as a means of resistance within imperially exploited communities; and how this intersection anticipated the rise of meme/reproduction culture by some 160 years.
His current teaching is focused on objects, sites, and hierarchies of waste in 19th and 20th century literature. He and his students consider what is waste, what is not, how the world can be/is constructed by what is thrown away, and how literary hierarchies of garbage construct our opinions of “good” and “bad” culture.
While working toward his B.A. and M.A. degrees, Bryan also managed a pizza shop, worked as a line cook, and was a full-time carnie at an amusement park outside of Pittsburgh.
“Three Hundred Years of Terror: A Discourse on the Imaginative Scope of Fear.” College English Association Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, Spring 2015.
Bhushan’s dissertation places the written constitution in radically different contexts such as the eighteenth-century United States, the nineteenth-century Cherokee nation, and twenty-first century Nepal; and examines what purposes the users found in developing, appropriating, and deploying the genre in their historical contexts.
Bhushan has taught College Composition, Professional and Technical Writing and Early American Literature at WVU. He served as WVU Undergraduate Writing Program Assistant Coordinator in 2012-13. Before coming to WVU, he taught several graduate and undergraduate courses in English such as Business/Technical Writing, Translation Studies, Discourses in Disciplines, Postcolonial Theories, Survey of British Literature, and Critical Theory in Nepal. As a content-expert on critical theory, he also trained hundreds of college English teachers of Tribhuvan University and Nepal Sanskrit University in 2008-2011.
“A Case of Difficult Textuality: Queer as Everyday Normal in Edward Albee’s The Goat.” The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, September 2015, pp. 116-125.
“Being a Man: Rethinking Vulgar Masculinity in Boyz N the Hood.” Literary Studies (Nepal), vol. 29, March 2016, pp. 3-7.
My current project brings much-needed attention to the city poetry of modern American women. I reveal a common state of urban exile: my term for a state in which women living in cities are restricted, endangered, and physically and psychologically harmed by urban life. My project also redresses the canonical exile of two important, yet overlooked American modernist women, Evelyn Scott and Lola Ridge, and expands existing scholarship on Millay and Lowell by considering their representations of body and the urban environment.
“Revising Relations to Poetry and the Nonhuman: A Study of Marianne Moore’s ‘An Octopus.’” Modernism in the Green. Eds. Julia Daniel and Margaret Konkol. Rutledge, forthcoming.
I’m interested in how diseases act as material and historical agents; how diseases’ agencies affected and were thought to affect diverse human bodies; and how disease agents inscribe themselves not only into bodies, but also into language, metaphors, and texts.
“Design Principles for Health Wearables.” With Catherine Gouge and John Jones. Communication Design Quarterly 5.2 (2017): 40-50.
“Material Disability: Creating New Paths for Disability Studies.” The CEA Critic 78.3 (2016): 306-311.
“Drawing Disability: Superman, Huntington’s, and the Comic Form in It’s a Bird….” Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives. Eds. Chris Foss, Jonathan W. Gray, and Zach Whalen. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
My core scholarly focus is centered on the intersection of the modern weird tale (from Lovecraft and Machen to Mieville, Kiernan and Barron), American and British science fiction of displacement and the uncanny (Ballard, Le Guin, Delaney and Wolfe), American and French 20th-century post-modern literary experimentalism (Pynchon, Barth, Barthelme, Queneau and Perec) and 20th-century German and French existentialist-phenomenological theorizations of embodied alienage/alterity (Merleau-Ponty, Harman, Trigg) and the ontological uncanny (Heidegger, Thacker, Withy).
I hope to bring all these elements (and a few more) to bare on what is at the moment a much-needed clarification of the genre tentatively titled “the weird” as a genre. I plan on accomplishing said task by identifying a core set of affective dispositions relevant to Lovecraft’s synesthetic of the weird, which will, in turn, provide a fuller and more productive understanding of what I feel to be weird fiction’s (both the old and the new) genre-defining uncanny cosmicist ontology.
I have also pursued my interests in all things “weird” through the teaching of two sections of E257 Science-Fiction and Fantasy Literature and Film, along the way gathering a veritable cult of followers (i.e., students) willing to plumb the dark abysses and psychological ambiguities of everything from Lovecraft’s Innsmouth, Gene Wolfe’s shapeshifting abos, Blade Runner’s and Ghost in the Shell’s hybrid beings, The Dark Knight’s ethical ambiguities to China Mieville’s steampunk nightmare city, New Crobuzon, and beyond. I hope to carry on this “experiment” through a variety of other teaching opportunities offered me during my time with WVU’s English department.
My other scholarly interests include American, British and German Gothic literature; British and German Romanticism; German Idealism, Kantianism, and Pessimism; Continental aesthetics and epistemology (from the pre-Socratics to the post-modernists), Theory of the Sublime (from Kant to Deleuze), Japanese weird tales, science fiction and post-modern cinema, silent film comedy, British alternative comedy (e.g., Monty Python, The Mighty Boosh) and the French, Italian, Czech and American “new wave” cinemas of the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
I am currently interested in Appalachian murder ballads, specifically the intersection between history and memory within the songs. I have also done work on Eudora Welty and Charles Chesnutt. I have worked in and operated a writing center at a community college.
Balladry.” Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association, Jacksonville, FL, November 4-6, 2016.
“Come Home, Come Home, My Little Ones”: The “Ballad of the Lawson Family” and Community Control and Power. University of Pittsburgh Film Graduate Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 1, 2016.
My writing explores the connections between literature, agriculture, and economy across the globe, but especially within the American agrarian tradition. Performed within the broad perimeter of ecocriticism and informed by my work as a market gardener in Preston County, West Virginia, my research seeks to elaborate and interrogate an agrarian vision for the 21st century.
My rhetoric and composition courses use a frame of Appalachian Studies to offer practical lessons geared toward the type of writing my students will likely encounter in their future careers, but with the critical insight offered by rigorous literary-cultural study. Students may expect discussion-based classes organized around daily readings, and to write three essays: a literary-rhetorical analysis of Appalachian fiction, a research report presenting a plan for ameliorating a local problem, and a concise op-ed.
I also teach American literature survey courses and introduction to literary studies. My literature courses are writing-intensive; students may expect to write and revise a number of literary-critical and creative essays and to discuss drafts in individual conferences.
“Planting-out after Blithedale: Transcendental agrarianism and ecocritical economy.” Resilience. 4.1 (2017): 44-59.
“Agrarian and Industrial Ecologies in Faulkner’s Fugitive Vision.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Detroit, Michigan, June 2017.
“Recalling the Cosmic Economy in Sandburg’s Cornhuskers.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Raleigh, North Carolina, November 2015.
“Sympathetic Violence in the Agricultural Poetry of Robert Burns.” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Moscow, Idaho, June 2015.
“The Choiring of the Trees in Donald Harington’s Biogea: Posthuman ethics in an agrarian landscape.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2014.
“Community, Civilization, and the Fall of Crevecoeur’s American Famer.” American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Williamsburg, Virginia, March 2014.
“A Reassessment of Working Class Outcomes in the Politicized Introductory Composition Classroom.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Vancouver, Washington, October 2013.
Adrienne Izaguirre has an undergraduate degree in biology and an MFA in creative nonfiction. She worked as managing editor and production editor for Autumn House Press, a small independent literary publisher, and then as the editor of Squirrel Hill Magazine, a neighborhood quarterly published by a local nonprofit. She also worked for years as a freelance writer, publishing essays and articles ranging from profiles to travelogues to memoir, and collaborating on various book projects. Her ongoing obsession is with decluttering household objects and possessions, and she’s pleased to see there are finally academic fields that address this.
Frank Izaguirre’s primary research interest is to bring ecocritical attention to the wealth of exploration and natural history narratives of the Neotropical rainforest. He is also interested in examining and expanding what is considered the canon of American nature writing. Most recently, he published an article on Thoreau’s use of the senses in Walden and its impact on American nature writing. He also regularly publishes in birding magazines like Birding and Bird Watcher’s Digest and is an active member of the community. Outside of academia, he has recently become interested in learning to identify moths by sight and orthopterans by call.
My current work applies the historical and theoretical framework of my dissertation project to the Showtime television show Penny Dreadful to evaluate its pairing of queer sexualities with occult magic and other metaphysical phenomena.
“Bradley, Cooper, Sappho: Three Generations in Michael Field’s Long Ago.” British Women Writers Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, June 21-24, 2017.
“Women’s Rights through Women’s Education: A Lesson from Gloriana.” Victorians Institute Conference, Raleigh, NC, October 14, 2016.
“Science and Magic: Experimental Work.” Victorians Institute Conference, Spartanburg, SC, October 3, 2015.
“Rowling the Storyteller and Teachable Beedle.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Harrisburg, PA, April 6, 2014.
“The Queer Orientalism of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.” Queer Studies Conference, Asheville, NC, April 5, 2013.
“Battlestar Galactica and the Madwoman in the Attic: The Interruption of the Apparition.” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, FL, March 23, 2013.
Known as “Augee” to his friends and colleagues, Augustine Kim has the perhaps regrettable tendency always to choose the path of greatest resistance. After earning a BA in History, Augee accepted a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Cavalry, and deployed to Afghanistan in the Fall of 2007 as Cavalry Scout Platoon Leader in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, conducting over 350 combat missions. In 2010, Augee deployed to Afghanistan a second time, this time being injured during a vehicle accident while working as part of a Joint Special Operations Task Force.
It was while assigned to the Warrior Transition Unit at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., that Augee decided to continue his education. However, Augee’s studies were interrupted in 2012 by another deployment, this time to Kosovo as part of the NATO peacekeeping mission. In Kosovo, Augee served as the Operations Officer for Joint Regional Detachment-East, a multi-national task force responsible for operations covering 12 municipalities spanning 2,491 square kilometers including a 107 kilometer stretch of the Administrative Border Line with Serbia, and with a population of over 485,000.
While in Kosovo, Augee also served as the Senior U.S. Gender Advisor (GENAD) to NATO, working in cooperation with NATO security forces and the government of Kosovo, as well as local women’s organizations, NGOs, and IGOs, such as the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to improve gender equity and representation throughout Kosovo.
Upon returning from Kosovo, Augee resumed his studies, earning his MA and teaching at Trident Technical College. At WVU, Augee’s research has focused on interdisciplinary explorations of transnational/postcolonial ideologies and the Global South, as well as gender, sexuality, and intersectionalism; and he has completed a graduate certification in Women’s and Gender Studies. Some of his main topics of interest include hybridity, transgression, subversion, separatism, violence, insurgency, and revolution. Some of his projects have involved the re-assessment of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland saga, feminism in ALIEN film series, and intersections between race, neo-liberalism, imperialism, and violence in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, as well as works of creative non-fiction.
Augee is also the Veterans Outreach Coordinator with the WVU Libraries Veterans Outreach Program, serving Student Veteran needs at WVU, and continues to actively serve in the South Carolina Army National Guard, assuming command of Company D (Heavy Weapons), 1st Battalion, 118th Infantry Regiment (Light), in Marion, South Carolina in July of 2016.
Over the years, Augee has worked as a research assistant, freelance writer, editor, artist, and illustrator, and tutor, and has written for the Charleston City Paper, and has given conference presentations at The College of Charleston, Pennsylvania State University, and the Ohio State University.
“Nightmare Fuel: [Dis]embodied Violence in ALIEN, with Thanks to H. R. Giger.” The Ohio State English Graduate Organization 2015 Conference – Violent Bodies. Columbus, OH. October 2015.
Tabitha Lowery’s research interests include cultures of literary circulation for print and manuscripts, canon formation, and African American literary history. She is currently working on a project that reevaluates the ways mainstream anthologies have reprinted mainly the slavery-based works from Phillis Wheatley’s, Frances Harper’s, Olaudah Equiano’s, and George Moses Horton’s oeuvres, and how that bears on our interpretations of these key figures. Tabitha’s work sets out to trace the circulation histories of these authors’ works to develop a better understanding of the writers and their reading publics.
“Coloring the Black Subject and Visual Language: Richard Ligon’s Color Rhetoric and the Black Subject’s Resistance.” Society of Early Americanists Conference, Tulsa, OK, March 2-4, 2017.
“Anticipating the Past: Timelessness and Liminality in Silko’s Ceremony.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Durham, NC, November 13-15, 2015.
“‘I Am a Citizen of Somewhere Else’”: Anglo-American Identity and Present Absence in The Scarlet Letter.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Durham, NC, November 13-15, 2015.
In her M.A. program, April McGinnis studied aesthetic responses to mountain landscapes in Romantic poetry. As a doctoral student, she is particularly interested in the ways in which the unique characteristics of landscapes influence the actions and responses of those who inhabit them.
I study modern and postmodern U.S. fiction and the environmental humanities. My research asks how stories, taxonomies, daily routines, popular culture, and art mediate our relationship to complex ecological issues.
“‘Then, What is Life?’: Vitality, Veils, and Questions that Must Remain Unanswered in the Writings of Percy Shelley.” Allures 3 (2014): 122-141.
Katherine Richards’ dissertation examines the intersection of the professionalization of medicine and the rise of the modern celebrity in the eighteenth century. Her interests include celebrity culture, medical humanities, drama, theater history, fashion studies, queer theory, and gender studies. In addition to teaching surveys of British literature, Katherine has also taught literature and pop culture focusing on queer themes in modern and contemporary fiction, fashion influence on American popular culture, poetry, and drama.
“The Middle Shore.” With Lara Farina. Digital Medieval Literature and Culture. Routledge Handbook Series, forthcoming 2017.
“The Middle Shore.” Co-edited with Lara Farina. Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures. Electric Press, forthcoming 2017.
“‘Her Mind Had the Happy Art’: The Creation of Alternative Space and Performance in Ann Radcliffe’s Romance of the Forest.” SLI: Studies in Literary Imagination 47.2 (Fall 2014).
I’m interested in how women have made contributions to the way we perceive white ethnic identity in America today. If you look back over the scholarship that's been produced about American ethnicity, you’ll notice that most of it focuses on men's experiences, mostly because those are the most easily accessible. So I’m excited to explore what women have done in literary and folkloric ways to shape the way we think about ethnicity today.
I served as president of the Slovak Heritage Association of the Laurel Highlands from 2009 to 2013. Our mission is to preserve, study, celebrate, share, and teach the Slovak traditions, focusing mainly on west-central Pennsylvania.
“Rebecca Harding Davis as Local Color Writer.” American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 25-28, 2017.
“Touring the Mountain Folk in Woolson’s ‘The French Broad’ and Davis’s ‘The Yares of Black Mountain.’” Conference of the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society, Charlotte, NC, Mar. 2-4, 2017.
“Creating Monsters from Mothers in Charles Perrault’s “Little Poucet.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, Mar. 31-Apr. 3, 2016.
“Escaping Slavery and Liminality in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 4-8, 2015.
“Cather’s Environmental Ethos: Finding a Home Space for Immigrant’s in O Pioneers!” American Literature Association, Boston, MA, May 21-24, 2015.
“Gender Bending at the Start of E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand.” Conference of the Constance Fenimore Woolson Society, Washington, D.C., Feb. 19-21, 2015.
Hannah Rubenstein has a dual degree in English and secondary education, and hopes to encourage an appreciation of literacy as a teacher. She recently presented a paper at a Queens College colloquium on her research of science fiction and dream theory, and assisted in a Teachers College project on Youth-led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) groups.
Christopher’s research and instruction are broadly connected to his interests in cross-cultural exchange and social justice, stemming in part from his experiences in the United States Peace Corps and AmeriCorps’ VISTA programs, where he served with distinction. His endeavors in education have ranged from teaching ESL at Fairmont State University, to managing testing administration at Pierpont Community & Technical College, to working for US Army Child & Youth Services. In addition to teaching undergraduate writing and literature, he has taught English at the middle and high school levels, in both West Virginia and North Carolina. His work as a Teacher-Counselor in West Virginia’s juvenile placement system earned him the honor of “Teacher-Counselor of the Year,” from the American ReEDucation Association.
Christopher’s scholarship centers on the long nineteenth century in British Literature. His projects have centered on intersections between text, image, and gender in Romantic and Victorian works, where he is particularly interested in investigating the operation of a dialectic sublime. Christopher currently serves as the Editorial Assistant at Victorian Poetry, and has recently begun work updating Rare Books Pedagogy, an on-line resource established by Dr. Marilyn Francus, extending teaching methods for archival materials to the classroom.
“‘The Parley of Eyes’: Space, Place and Gender Mapping in Behn’s Oroonoko.” Aphra Behn and the Burney Society. Pittsburgh, PA. November 2017.
“Capital Pulp: Lily’s Annihilation and the Commodity of Gender in Penny Dreadful.” Console-ing Passions. Greenville, NC. July 2017.
“Art & Anarchy: Wilde’s Ekphrastic Sublime.” ALSCW. Washington D.C. October 2016.
“Damned Image: Ekphrasis and the Gothic in Lewis’ The Monk.” ICR. Colorado Springs, CO. October 2016.
“Coleridge’s Female Sublime: ‘Christabel’ through Wollstonecraft’s Eyes.” ICR. Colorado Springs, CO. October 2016.
Katie Vogelpohl has been teaching literature and writing at the university and high school levels for the past 8 years. While at West Virginia University, she has taught classes in American Literature, Business Writing, and Composition. Her Short Story and Novel course for the spring 2018 semester is titled Narrating Madness and examines the techniques used by classic and contemporary authors experimenting with “abnormal” voices.
Katie’s current project focuses on postpartum narratives, investigating the physical changes, as well as societal and emotional influences that effect new and soon-to-be mothers in American literature. This project is supported by her work with the Appalachian Prison Book Project, a non-profit organization that sends books to incarcerated peoples, where she is honored to be able to assist with the book club at the local women’s correctional facility. Working on their first manuscript of collected writings from the group, there is an overwhelmingly number of narratives composed to or about either absent parents or children, as these women await their return to both society and family.
When not at school, Katie is probably reading terrible mystery stories or watching British cooking competitions with her husband, Jacob; pup, Branwell; and tortoise, Ichabod.
“‘She Didn’t Kiss Me When She Said Goodbye.’” Midwestern Modern Language Association Conference, Cincinnati, OH, November 2017.
“Improving Student Motivation and Combating Learned Aversion.” Midwestern Modern Language Association Conference, Cincinnati, OH, November 2017.
Kelli Wilhelm is currently interested in portrayals of women’s silences in 19th-century Britain, as well as silent heroines found in 18th- and 19th-century fairy tales and their contemporary rewritings. She is additionally interested in studying contemporary American popular culture and is subsequently working on an essay that examines food in the popular television series Supernatural.
“Once Upon a Mother” (panel), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, March 31-April 3, 2016.
“Seeing Red: Cultural Awareness of Little Red Riding Hood through Eighteenth-Century Periodicals.” English Graduate Student Union Conference, West Virginia University, April 2015.
“Rejecting Nostalgia During Revolution in Charlotte Smith’s The Old Manor House.” English Graduate Student Association Conference, University of North Carolina–Charlotte, January 2015.
My dissertation project surveys literary representations surrounding the debate about the professionalization of medicine in 19th-century America. It especially investigates how the politics of professionalization shaped numerous literary genres, including the gothic, realism, naturalism, and satire. Beyond my dissertation project, most of my research has covered John Steinbeck and Cormac McCarthy.
“Just Remember that the Things You Put into Your Head Are There Forever’: The Influence of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road on the Playstation Videogame The Last of Us.” Carrying the Fire: Cormac McCarthy’s the Road and the Apocalyptic Tradition. Ed. Rick Wallach. Miami: The Cormac McCarthy Society, 2015. Forthcoming.
“The Letter Arrives at its Destination: A Zizekian Analysis of Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men.” The Cormac McCarthy Journal. Forthcoming.
“The Social Mind: John Elof Boodin’s Influence on John Steinbeck’s Phalanx Fiction: 1935-1942.” The Steinbeck Review 10.1 (Spring 2013): 31-46.
“How This World is Given to Lying!”: Orson Welles’s Deconstruction of Traditional Historiographies in Chimes at Midnight. Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference 4 (2013): 80-94.
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The sun is out. The birds are singing. The flowers are blooming. So you can’t explain why you’re feeling low. Something just isn’t right.
It could be the food you’re eating. May Simpkin, a leading nutritionist in the United Kingdom, says people who consume a lot of processed foods and sugar are more prone to depression. which affects an estimated 350 million people around the world. Simpkin herself has seen this for herself in the course of her work. She has seen how diet deficiencies lead to mood swings and mental imbalance.
The brain works 24/7, she says. So this key organ in controlling moods need the proper nutrients to function well.
Simpkin’s statement is supported by a report from the Mental Health Foundation which said that mental health problems go hand-in-hand with an unhealthy diet. A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that consuming lots of fruit, vegetables, fish, and whole grains reduced the risk of depression.
This only means one thing. We can help prevent depression by making some dietary changes that will lift our mood and keep us from running to the nearest psychologist’s office.
Simpkin suggests the following dietary musts.
Protein — Serotonin and dopamine, substances that make us feel good, are made up of amino acids or proteins. The body can manufacture some amino acids, some of which are more essential than others. Other amino acids must come from the food we eat. This is why we need adequate amounts of food that produce the feel-good substances. These include meat, chicken, fish, quinoa, beans, and pulses.
B vitamins — Chemical processes that occur in the body often need help from B vitamins, which converts amino acids into feel-good neurotransmitters. Food items rich in vitamin B include whole grains, spinach, kidney beans, chickpeas, lentils, quinoa, salmon, tofu, and pecan nuts.
Healthy fat — Oily fish like salmon, sardines, and mackerel as well as avocado and walnuts are examples of foods rich in healthy fat.
Fiber — About 95 percent of serotonin is produced in the gut or gastrointestinal tract. Gut flora play a key role in keeping your digestive tract healthy. Make sure you have a healthy gut by consuming lots of fiber that promotes good bacteria. Fiber also reduces sugar, which feed on bad bacteria and promotes inflammation. Fermented foods like kimchi, miso, sauerkraut, and pickles are sources of good bacteria. You may also consider a good probiotic that promotes a healthy digestive tract and strengthens the immune system.
Complex carbohydrates — Eat more whole grains, sweet potato, and starchy greens like carrots, parsnips, and butternut squash, along with protein sources like fish, chicken, eggs, or quinoa.
Depression should not let you down. With a healthy diet and the will to be happy, you can kick this source of stress out of your body… for good.
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Former national player Gerald Asamoah (left, with microphone) presents the Schalke jersey.
The jersey presentation of FC Schalke was one of the highlights at the ISPO Shanghai. Gerald Asamoah, former Schalker striker and former German international, presented Umbro's new jersey, which follows Adidas. A look at the fans in China shows why the German runner-up chose Shanghai of all places for his presentation.
Schalke has four million social media followers in China. Thus almost half of all Social Media fans of the Schalker comes from China - altogether it is approximately nine million. The Tmall event (China's largest online shopping platform) was broadcast online directly on the online shop's homepage via live broadcasting.
The fans, online and offline, saw Gerald Asamoah in the new jersey, accompanied by the Schalker mascot "Erwin". The new jersey is light grey and has the Schalke claim "We live you." printed on the back of the neck.
For the first time the Schalker have already played in light grey dress. The match against Southampton FC ended 3-3 in Kunshan. It is the first of their three jerseys, which the Schalker presented so far.
This was the first day of ISPO Shanghai!
"We are very happy to present the new away jersey together with ISPO and Tmall", says Ashkan Maleki, Senior Director Digital & Content at Schalke at the ISPO Digitize Forum in Shanghai. Schalke is on a China trip for ten days.
The country is gaining more and more strategic importance for the Bundesliga football team. In 2016 the Schalker presented themselves online to the Chinese fans for the first time. While at the beginning it was two Chinese social media channels, the football club now serves eleven networks with growing success. | 2019-04-21T02:47:30 | https://www.ispo.com/en/trends/fc-schalke-and-umbro-present-new-away-kit-ispo-shanghai |
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I’ve been traveling around the world as a touring musician for most of my adult life. In recent years, I’ve compiled an eclectic list of songs that I occasionally turn to. Whether I’m on a plane, getting ready for a show, or simply hanging in my hotel room, these songs have become my go-to touring tunes. There’s no complex reason behind the song selection other than these specific songs make me feel good. Touring can sometimes be tough on the body and mind. When I’m homesick or feeling tired, good vibes are essential to surviving life on the road.
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Other Minds magazine is a completely free, volunteer based regular publication dedicated to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Tolkien enthusiasts, scholars and those who like to role play in Tolkien's imaginary universe.
This is the first issue of Other Minds Magazine. It has been edited from it's original release under the GFDL (Gnu Free Documentation License), to our change to the CC (Creative Commons) license. | 2019-04-20T06:16:45 | http://www2.omzine.org/?b_start:int=30 |
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Evolution can be defined as "change over time." But does change over time really mean evolution? How would you define it? Download the resource document in "Related Items" below to record your definition of evolution as well as data from this resource so you can determine for yourself whether or not there is evidence for evolution.
To get started, play Cell Phone Evolution in this first activity.
Now that you've sequenced the cell phones in chronological order, would you consider the changes in cell phones over time to truly represent the concept of evolution? What evidence would you look for to determine if real cells have evolved? Start by reading the section below, which considers a theory of cell evolution.
You may have heard of the endosymbiotic theory. It's based on evidence that suggests eukaryotic cells evolved from larger prokaryotes internalizing smaller prokaryotes and forming symbiotic relationships. Because they have their own DNA and share similar characteristics with today's eubacteria, both mitochondria and chloroplasts are believed to have come from those smaller bacterial ancestors.
Click the cell image to open a link to access additional information about endosymbiosis and evolution. The link opens in a new window. Close the window when you are finished reading about the endosymbiont theory to return to the resource.
Explore/Explain 1: Are Cells Evolving Now?
When Charles Darwin was thinking about how to express his thoughts about species changing over time, he used the phrase "descent with modification" and sketched his ideas out on a page in his journal. Notice the number 1 circled at the bottom of the sketch. What do you think that means? What message was he trying to get across with the connected lines that branch? What about the labels of A, B, C, and D?
Does his sketch fit your ideas of evolution? Could you recognize evolution in a modern-day example?
Read through the cards below. They tell the story of how MRSA, a methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus, developed. The story won't make sense, though, until you arrange the cards in the appropriate sequence from bottom to top on the timeline.
Is Staphylococcus aureus diverging into a new species? How can you tell when evolution is taking place? What evidence should you look for? Click the image below for additional information about antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The link opens in a new window. When you have finished reading the page and watching the video, simply close the window to return to the resource.
This image is in the public domain courtesy of the CDC and Matthew J. Arduino, DRPH. Photo credit: Janice Haney Carr. Image # 11157 downloaded from //phil.cdc.gov/phil/details.asp.
Other populations of organisms, like bacteria, are also affected by environmental pressures. The organisms that survive or thrive under those pressures reproduce to pass their successful traits to the next generation. Scientists study fossils, compare genomes, and analyze relationship patterns of organisms to their environment and to one another to see if there is additional evidence for evolution. In the next section, you get to be a paleobotanist examining fossils for evidence of environmental pressures on plants.
Scientists examine and analyze fossils for various types of information, including evidence for evolution. Fossils alone may not provide a complete picture, but often patterns are observed that lead scientists to ask questions that, in turn, provide avenues for further research.
One such question might be "Does the environment provide selection pressure that determines which traits of a population contribute to survival and therefore to reproductive success?" Click the image of the fossilized leaf to investigate evidence of population success due to environmental change. You will need a calculator in order to analyze the data.
Note - Click the image to open the link in a new window. When you have completed the investigation, simply close the window to return to this site.
The fossil investigation is provided by the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies © 2012 Smithsonian Institution.
Humans, like plants, have a fossil record, too. Do fossils of human species provide information about evolutionary change? You decide!
Click the image above to view a video about research on the human record.
Note - Clicking the image a new window. When you have finished watching the video, simply close the window to return to this site.
The image and video are provided by Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies © 2012 Smithsonian Institution.
Explore/Explain 3: Putting Evolution on the Map!
The three photos pictured here are in the public domain courtesy of CDC and downloaded from //phil.cdc.gov.
Could having the trait for sickle cell be an advantage in the game of survival of the fittest? Let's use the maps and information below to help answer the question.
Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite transferred into humans by the Anopheles mosquito. Part of its life cycle takes place in blood.
Anopheles mosquitoes are prevalent in warm, moist environments.
Sickle cell is a blood disorder that causes red blood cells to become misshapen.
Sickle cell is an inherited trait that represents a mutation where a single nucleotide base change, known as a point mutation, changes the genetic code for hemoglobin in red blood cells.
People who are heterozygous (Tt) for sickle cell are carriers of the trait but don't have the physical issues that a homozygous recessive (tt) person does.
People who are carriers of the sickle cell trait are resistant to malaria.
For more information about malaria, mosquitoes, or sickle cell, click on the images above.
Is having the sickle cell trait an advantage in areas where malaria is prevalent? First analyze the areas on the map where malaria is prevalent, and then drag the smaller map representing sickle cell frequencies on top of it. Analyze the data and form your own conclusion about mutations as evidence for successful evolution.
Biogeography is a scientific field often used to study patterns of disease associated with different cultures, migration outcomes, and relationships between living organisms and their environments. For an interesting article about a genetic disease prevalent in populations along the Silk Road, click "Related Items" below.
Simply put, homologies are similarities. Homologies in organisms could mean similarities in bone structure, DNA sequences, or anatomical structures. Scientists believe that homologies indicate evidence for evolution.
Image courtesy of the University of California Museum of Paleontology's Understanding Evolution (//evolution.berkeley.edu).
Click the image to analyze data scientists have gathered to see if you agree that homologies are evidence of evolution. Once you are on the website, click through the four screens that focus on homologies. Use the questions below to guide your analysis of the data.
Which examples of anatomical homologies provide evidence of evolution? Explain your reasoning.
What do a hummingbird and whale have in common? Is this evidence for evolution? Explain your reasoning.
Why do scientists hypothesize that today's snakes have an ancestor with legs? Is this evidence for evolution? Explain your reasoning.
Are there homologies in cells and genes? Do these homologies provide evidence for evolution? Explain your reasoning.
Click "TEKS B(7)(A) Data Sheet" to download and/or print the document in order to record your observations and justifications as you research homologies.
University of California Museum of Paleontology's Understanding Evolution (http://evolution.berkeley.edu).
Now that you've had a chance to look at the evidence, it's time to see what you remember. Take the self-check quiz below to match the areas of evolutionary study with the evidence cited by scientists. | 2019-04-23T18:04:00 | https://www.texasgateway.org/print/11896/all-content |
Student enrollment in traditional colleges continues to be strong as colleges offer students the in-person experience that online courses till cannot.
Three years ago, MOOCs were cited as a significant higher education disruptor. Finally, people worldwide could sign up for classes taught by elite professors and scientists from institutions like MIT and Harvard.
But MOOCs do not seem to have affected enrollment in traditional colleges, the primary reason being that MOOCs still don’t offer, “official college degrees, the kind that can get you a job. And that, it turns out, is mostly what college students are paying for,” writes Kevin Carey in The New York Times.
With the majority of companies setting a bachelor’s degree as the absolute minimum prerequisite for employment, students take out loans so that four years later they can hold in their hands the valuable piece of paper that validates their skills and competency — in effect, a ticket of admission into the job market.
But initiatives such as those by the Mozilla Foundation and its Open Badges program that offer badges to students successfully completing online learning programs seems to be catching on. This type of online accreditation of one’s online-acquired skills may be the missing piece of MOOCs’ broader adoption.
Carey warns, however, that it will take time before government regulators, companies and even the public can accept these “verified credentials” as equal to a conventional college degrees.
Financial Times’ Adam Palin has a different interpretation, arguing the revolution has already taken place. Citing AACSB International, Palin argues that by 2013 and early 2014 online MBA degrees accounted for 11% of the total courses.
MOOCs have proven to be a priceless learning opportunity for working professionals and people with families. The inability to attend on-campus classes but participate in them while at one’s home office is part of what makes MBA and other online degrees so popular.
Financial and geographical barriers are not an issue for online class enrolled students — a welcome development for those without funds or in remote areas. Technology is making it easier to collapse time differences and bridge physical distances, and even extensive funding and scholarships is now available to online students.
Massive open online course providers like Coursera and Udacity are teaming up with technology giants so that students can acquire the skills and knowledge necessary for working at a particular company. | 2019-04-19T17:21:31 | https://www.educationnews.org/online-schools/online-education-popularity-growing-but-traditional-college-stays-strong/ |
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Tuscany plus an A Brand as Petti, for a new Premium Red Tuscan tomato product. Following the success of wine tourism, history and landscape that have made the Tuscany region a brand that is known worldwide, in 2013 the Petti Group decided to invest in the enhancement of the brand with the Petti line - the tomato as the focus product - only tomatoes from Tuscany worked at low temperatures, with sales that are growing by 8-12% per month.
“The line is placed in the premium segment -says Pasquale Petti, CEO of the Group- and is produced in the Livorno plant by Italian Food SpA”. Not only for the territoriality of the raw materials, it is distinguished by the innovation process and by the packaging: unlike many industrial products, the 100% Tuscan tomato is worked at low temperatures (cold break processing), a procedure which gives a lower yield, but it allows you to maintain the organoleptic qualities and the bright red color of freshly picked tomatoes.
“We used a transparent label on the packaging to emphasize the focus on the tomato so that it can be seen from every side of the bottle”. Currently the exports of the Petti product -with the tomato as the focus- amount to 20% (70% of the total exports of the Group) and are mainly come from Northern Europe, the UK and France, markets that can enhance the quality of their products and are historical references for the Group. “The positioning of the product in the top of the range, in an area like tomato-based products also helps limit the price pressure exerted by the big supermarket chains, which invests primarily in private label products”. | 2019-04-25T06:38:19 | https://www.italianfoodexcellence.com/the-unexpected-made-in-italy-premium-red-tuscan-tomato/ |
Water Magic is an activity book with a magic reveal water brush. The colors magically appear when brushed with water. I designed the North Pole logo, characters, and the activities in this book. | 2019-04-23T04:48:12 | http://www.jennifermarcum.com/packaging/water-magic/ |
On Thursday 11 February 2016 after the success of last year Great Bentley Pre-School has arranged another Psychic Night with Stephanie Carr. This year we also have Kitty-Rose coming along. Kitty-Rose is a gorgeous boutique in West Bergholt which stocks the most beautiful clothes, accessories, jewellery, gifts, home accessories, etc.
This is a ticket only event with tickets costing £10, it will be held at Great Bentley Village Hall. Doors open; 6:45pm for 7:30pm.
If you would like tickets please come along to Great Bentley Village Hall, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday between 9:00 and 4:00.
We are pleased to notify you that Highways England has today launched a public consultation on proposals for a Lower Thames Crossing, a new road crossing of the River Thames connecting Kent and Essex.
The proposal is for a new road which would connect the A2/M2 in Kent with a tunnel crossing east of Gravesend and Tilbury, before joining the M25 between junctions 29 and 30. There are three route options north of the river in Essex and two south of the river in Kent.
Find out about one of our events where members of our team will be on hand to answer your questions.
Find out where you can view the proposals at a location in your area where copies of consultation materials, maps and questionnaires are available.
Alternatively, you can call us on 0300 123 5000. Please provide your response by 24 March 2016.
Three organisations have joined forces to encourage the vital movement of wildlife across the Tendring District – and they want your help!
The County Council has programmed a number of temporary road closures over the next three months. Did you know you are able to track the schedule of roadworks by visiting www.roadworks.org. You can even set up an email alert at a frequency to suit yourself.
Local residents are invited to one of the Big Care Debate engagement events that are taking place in March. The purpose of these events is to find out from the public about their experiences of accessing health and social care across north east Essex and how they believe communities could further support local people to make healthy lifestyle choices.
Follow the links to view the stakeholder letter and event poster; Stakeholder letter – Big Care Debate 2 and Big Care Debate Poster.
Do you have a burning question for the Police & Crime Commissioner or the Chief Constable?
Essex residents who want to quiz PCC Nick Alston or Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh are being given a unique chance to put forward their questions as both men take part in a live webchat. In recent months the PCC and Chief Constable have made major announcements about the future of Essex Police. These announcements have included changes to local policing including a reduction in PCSO numbers, the proposed closure and sale of police stations and changing and modernising how the public contact police. The live webchat will be taking place on Monday January 25 from 6pm to 8pm and people can join in by logging on to http://essex.police.uk/talkbacklive.
Bentley Green Players are preparing for the May production of Abigail’s Party. They are looking to cast 3 females and 2 males. Auditions will be held in the Church Vestry on 8 February 2016.
This photo showing a glistening village hall was taken just after sunrise this morning by one of our commuters. Let’s hope, said commuter parked in Station Car Park and not at the Village Hall.
Welcome to Great Bentley Parish Council website. | 2019-04-23T10:37:17 | http://www.greatbentleyparishcouncil.co.uk/wordpress/page/49/ |
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Find more about her artistic career in the world of tango.
And it writes the first page of the next history..."Every night 21 artists on stage invite you to share a unique night.
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Do you have exceptionally swollen or bandaged feet? These matching strap extensions lengthen the fastening straps on your footwear to give you even more room.
This is the summery, Cotton-mix version of our popular Skye style. Lightweight yet supportive, it’s soft and seam-free at the toe to keep you comfy on days out and holidays.
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Kawa no Nushi Tsuri 2 is a Sports game, published by Pack-In-Video, which was released in Japan in 1995.
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In this paper a novel methodology is presented to optimize an active chatter control system based on piezoelectric actuators in a centerless grinding machine. With the proposed modeling procedure, a compact and efficient control system is obtained, perfectly adapted to the specific characteristics of the machine. First, the previous theoretical and experimental works done in the centerless grinding machine under study are presented briefly, with emphasis on the development of a validated finite element (FE) model capable of predicting the behavior of the machine controlled actively.
Afterwards, making use of this FE model, a theoretical procedure is developed to optimize the control system. Concretely, the piezoelectric actuators are redesigned to achieve a solution oriented to the specific characteristics of the machine and the control algorithm is adapted to the new design, leading to a highly integrated mechatronic solution. The new active control scheme is simulated using a reduced order state space model, verifying the effectiveness of the proposed solution. Finally, in line with the new design, a prototype is manufactured and integrated in the machine, and the experimental results obtained from different operating conditions are shown.
The study of the theoretical and experimental results makes it possible to verify the improvements in the chatter stability of the process once the control system has been applied, as well as to confirm the theoretically predicted performance. This way, the work carried out in this paper shows the satisfactory use of a validated FE model to deal with the optimization process of an active vibration control system. | 2019-04-18T10:48:27 | https://www.ideko.es/en/publications/scientific-articles/redesign-of-an-active-system-of-vibration-control-in-a-centerless-grinding-machine-numerical-simulation-and-practical-implementation-2 |
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> 16) What is your current age?
> 18) How much would you say you enjoy life overall now?
procedure or a difference in the population. | 2019-04-20T11:19:48 | http://cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=27746 |
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Watch out for whiplash when you see the cover of Secrets from Chuckling Goat: How a Herd of Goats Saved My Family and Started a Business that Became a Natural Health Phenomenon. You know immediately that this book demands further attention!
Crafted from her diary entries, Shann Nix Jones shares an incredible story of how love, hope, and guts combine powerfully to create a life of miracles. Her big-city background and 180-degree turn resulting in transplanting to Wales serve as background for her further adventures with raising goats, creating a business, and saving her husband’s life. Packaged here with skin care products and probiotics, deep gifts of life and love abound.
This book is not to be missed–for those living in cities, on self-sustaining farms, and for all homestyles in between. The message of showing up for your life and allowing for miracles to unfold is universal. | 2019-04-25T15:58:20 | https://ginadrellack.com/2015/05/04/secrets-from-chuckling-goat/ |
C Gallery (466 S. 500 East, 359-8625) - "B is for Blackburn: Spacescapes & Serigraphs" through May 30.
Art Access Gallery* (339 W. Pierpont Ave., 328-0703) - "Tiritiri O Te Moana (Gifts of the Seat)," featuring work by Mataumu Alisa, Les Calles, Taniela Niu, Edwin Napia, Lupe A. Niumeitolu and VaiMoana Niumeitolu, through April 8. Opening reception Friday, March 20, 6-9 p.m. during monthly Gallery Stroll.
Art Barn/Park Gallery* (54 Finch Lane, 596-5000) - Mixed media work by students from Rowland Hall/St. Mark's Middle School through April 3.
Lamb's Restaurant (169 S. Main, 364-7166) - Photographs by Michael D. Bush, through March.
Dolores Chase Gallery* (260 S. 200 West, 328-2787) - Monotypes by Brian Kershisnik, through March 21.
Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery (Southern Utah University, Cedar City, 586-5432) - "Formulation: Articulation," featuring 66 silkscreens by Josef Albers, through March 27.
Alliance for the Varied Arts (43 S. Main, Logan, 753-7058) - "The Rural Landscape," featuring work by Jill Bliesner, Shelley Hoffman, Jeannie Millecam and Lorraine Randle, through March 28. Opening reception Friday, March 6, 6-8 p.m.
Eccles Community Art Center (2580 Jefferson Ave., Ogden, 392-6935) - Egyptian tapestries "Harvesting Dates," "Work Days in the Village" and "Rain" will be on exhibit through March 28.
Kimball Art Center (638 Park Ave., Park City, 649-8882) - Main gallery: Figurative art by Brian Kershisnik, Alex Bigney, Marcelino Stuhmer and Laura Lee S. Bradshaw, through April 12. Badami gallery: Paintings by Karen Horne, also through April 12. Opening reception for both exhibits Friday, March 6, 6-8 p.m.
Myra Powell Gallery (Union Station, 2501 Wall Ave., Ogden, 629-8444) - Watercolors by members of the Cache Valley Chapter of the Utah Watercolor Society, through March. Opening reception Friday, March 6, 6-8 p.m.
Petersen Art Center Gallery (1025 E. 2100 South, 467-5444) - Watercolors by Carollyn Daye through April 2. Opening reception Saturday, March 7, 6-8:30 p.m.
Alpine Art and Frame (430 E. South Temple, 355-1155) - Contemporary abstract works by Steve Larson and paintings by Julie Jacobsen.
Anderson-Foothill Library (1135 S. 2100 East, 524-8278) - "Character & Characters: Watercolors and Children's Illustrations by Kelly Hansen," through March 3.
Antelope Island State Park Visitors Center (Exit 335 off I-15, west on Antelope Drive) - "Images of Gunnison Island: Utah's Galapagos," featuring photographs by Bruce Anderson, through March.
Aperture Gallery (307 W. 200 South, No. 1003) - "Alternative Processes," featuring a group exhibit of alternative photographic process print, through April 14.
Art Barn/Finch Lane Gallery* (54 Finch Lane, 596-5000) - Paintings by Cassandra Barney and ceramics by Jeffrey A. Goodsell, through April 10.
Arts of Utah Gallery (2226 S. 700 East) - Exhibit featuring work by Gene Stark and other pieces by newly represented artists.
Artspace Artists Association (337 W. Pier-pont, California Rubber and Tire Building) - New works and works in progress.
Atrium Gallery (fifth floor, Salt Lake Public Library) - "Once Upon a Page: The Art of Children's Books," featuring art from the Meridian International Center's traveling exhibit, through March 14.
Bibliotect Architecture/Art Bookstore and Gallery (329 W. Pierpont Ave., 236-1010) - "Views of Italy," featuring paintings by Jean Arnold, through April 24.
Chroma Gallery (170 W. 2950 South, 487-4316) - Acrylics/serigraphs by Darryl Erd-mann. Exhibit ongoing.
Cordell Taylor Studio/Gallery (575 W. 200 South, 355-0333) - Recent work by New York artist Vikki Michalios through March 15.
Day-Riverside Branch Library (1575 W. 1000 North, 524-8287) - "Richard Hsieh: Chinese Fine Art," featuring Chinese brush painting, through March 6.
Don Brady Drive Through Gallery (1301 S. 2100 East, 582-4500) - Paintings by Richard Murray, through May.
Glendinning Gallery (617 E. South Temple, 533-5895) - "Group of Nine Exhibition," featuring work by Bevan Chipman, Marian Dunn, Carole Evans, Wilamarie Huelskamp, Jossy Lownes, Dottie Miles, Woody Renzetti, Steve Sheffield and Sue Valentine, through April 10.
Holladay Library (2150 E. 4800 South, 943-4636, Ext. 334) - "Visual Textures," featuring watercolors by Lisa Scopes Oliver, through April.
King's Cottage Gallery (2233 S. 700 East, 486-5019) - Ongoing exhibit of Utah landscapes and cityscapes by Susan Gallacher, Rick Graham, Rob Adam-son, Linda Curley, Trent Ellis, John Hughes and Brad Slaugh.
Light Spot (1043 E. 900 South) - "GI-GAN-TI/DRAGHGLI/EROI" (the Giants, the Dragons, the Heroes), featuring glass from Murano, Italy, by artisans Noti Massari, Renato Toso and Roberto Pamio.
Moonbird Studio (353 W. 200 South, Studio #301, 322-3816) - Kids art from "Bad Dog Rediscovers America," urban kids mentoring project. Exhibit is ongoing.
Museum of Church History and Art (45 N. West Temple, 240-2299) - "Tell Me a Story: Truths from the Old Testament," featuring 22 illustrations created for children's Bible stories, through April 26.
Nativo (353 W. 200 South, 531-8555) - Contemporary interpretations of antique Victorian jewelry by Cheryl Elliot.
Petersen Art Center Gallery (1025 E. 2100 South, 467-5444) - "2 For the Show," featuring paintings by father and daughter, Leonard and Rachel Romney, through March 7.
Phillips Gallery* (444 E. 200 South, 364-8284) - "At the Still Point," featuring work by Mary Ellen Hogle and Kent Wing, through March 13. Also, in the Dibble Gallery: New work by Will South, also through March 13.
Robin Grey Gallery (430 E. South Temple, 355-1155) - "Contrasting Colorers," featuring work by Martha Klein, Karl Pace and Ted Remington, through March 13.
Salt Lake Art Center* (20 S. West Temple) - "ME WE," featuring sculpture by Amie McNeel and Tre Arenz, through April 5. Also, "James Castle: A Voice of Silence" in the Street Level gallery, through Mar. 29.
Salt Lake City-County Building (451 S. State) - Photographs by Kent Miles, celebrating 150 years of ethnic pioneers in Utah.
Sweet Avenues Branch Library (455 F St., 524-8276) - "Frances ReMillard/Gwen Peine: Recent Works, through March 14.
Twiggs & Moore Art Gallery (Gardner Historic Village, 1095 W. 7800 South, 255-3004) - Works by Arnold Friberg, Eric Dowdle, Robert Duncan, Thomas Kincade and Alan Maley. Exhibit ongoing.
University Hospital (Medical Drive, 2nd floor) - Paintings by Leconte Stewart and art by Navajo children, through March 20.
Utah Museum of Fine Art* (University of Utah, South Campus Drive, 581-7332) - "Close Relations: Works of Art, Their Preparatory Studies and Alternative Versions," featuring work that explores art of similar composition but made from different media. The exhibit runs through April 5. Also, "Directors Choice," featuring works of art from the Museum's collection, and "Exploring Multi-Culturalism," featuring masks, beaded work, textiles, costumes and sculpture from different cultures. Both exhibits run through March 22. Also, "The Val A. Browning Memorial Collection of 500 Years of European Masterworks," featuring paintings by Brueghel, Gainsborough, Fragonard, Corot, Van Dyke, Vigee Le Brun and many others. The exhibit will run indefinitely.
Utah State Historical Society (300 Rio Grande, 533-3500) - "A Woman's View: The Photography of Elfie Huntington (1868-1949)" through June 30.
Williams Fine Art* (Main Lobby, Eagle Gate Plaza, 60 E. South Temple, 534-0331) - Works by early Utah artists including John Hafen, J.T. Harwood, LeConte Stewart, Howell Rosenbaum, Maynard Dixon and others, through March 31.
Bountiful/Davis Art Center (745 S. Main, Bountiful, 292-0367) - A juried exhibit by Utah artists, featuring all forms of media, through April 4.
The Coda Gallery (804 Main, Park City, 655-3803) - "Group Show," featuring David Dornan, Chris Young, Brad Aldridge, Paul and Silvia Davis, Ray Hare, Patty Kimball, Ron Richmond, Doug Himes, A.D. Shaw, Dennis Smith and many more. The gallery also shows jewelry, glasswork and fabrics.
Eccles Community Art Center (2580 Jefferson Ave., Ogden, 392-6935) - Third Floor gallery: "Textures in Art," featuring work taken from the Art Center's permanent collection, through May 31.
Fairview Museum of History & Art (85 S. 100 East, Fairview, 427-9216) - Works by Theodore Milton Wassmer, Avard Fairbanks, Lyndon Graham, Norman Rockwell, Ella Peacock, Lee Udall Bennion and others.
Kimball Art Center (638 Park Ave., Park City, 649-8882) - Main gallery: "La Vecia," featuring photography by Cort Tramotin. Badami gallery: Oils and graphics by Kim Whitesides. Both exhibits run through today.
Museum of Art (Brigham Young University, North Campus Drive, Provo, 378-2787) - "Questioning Context: A Spectator Sport," featuring 12 works of art, through June 7. Also, "That He Who Runs May Read," featuring 42 Book of Mormon-theme mural paintings by Minerva Teichert, through May 16. Also, "From Heart and Hand: Religious Folk Art," featuring Polish folk art, through July 21. Also,"The Hands of Rodin: A Tribute to B. Gerald Cantor." Also, "150 Years of American Painting," artwork from BYU's permanent collection, on display through August 1999.
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (650 N. 1100 East, Logan, 797-0163) - "Video Video Video: Productions by Alan Hashimoto" Also, American 19th century paintings, drawings and sculpture from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Both through March.
Park City Gallery (592 Main, Park City, 649-4514) - Oils by Gary Smith and Steve McGinty, and pastels by Yugoslavian artist Marinko Cetvei.
Springville Museum of Art (126 E. 400 South, Springville, 489-2727) - "The 26th Annual All-State High School Show," featuring artwork by high school students from around the state, through March 15.
St. George Art Museum (47 E. 200 North, St. George, 634-5942) - "Imagine: An Exhibition of Fantasy Art," featuring the work of James C. Christensen, James Gurney and the Brothers Hildebrandt, through March 21.
Weber State University (visual arts department, Ogden, 626-6445) - The annual exhibition of student art from all of Utah's universities and colleges, through March 13.
Finch Lane Gallery announces that applications are available for artists who would like their work considered for exhibition in the gallery in 1998. Completed applications accompanied by slides of artist's work are due at the City Arts Council by Monday, March 16. For more information, call the Council at 596-5000.
The Utah Watercolor Society announces a call for entry for its annual juried Open Spring Show, to be held at the Tivoli Gallery in Salt Lake City. Slides of work are due by Tuesday, March 3. The exhibit will be only display through May. For more information or prospectus, call 842-2069. | 2019-04-24T07:48:43 | https://www.deseretnews.com/article/615552/Galleries.html |
Author, editor, and creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly.
In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.
Science is the only news. When you scan through a newspaper or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same sorry cyclic dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness, and even the technology is predictable if you know the science. Human nature doesn’t change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly. | 2019-04-18T10:35:50 | http://yquotes.com/quotes/stewart-brand/ |
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How To Use Positive Affirmations To Change Your Life!
When you know how to use positive affirmations properly it can really change the way you see the world.
Did you know quantum physics proves that every thought in your mind has a vibrational charge attached to it? Thoughts have specific frequencies based on how much emotional energy is tied to them and if that energy is positive or negative. The subconscious mind is like a broadcast antenna. It is programmed to put out frequencies that will then attract like frequencies to you.
So now you know how to use positive affirmations to change your life for the better, and the 3 P's to powerful affirmations. Now go create your own affirmations and repeat them every morning when you wake up. Try to repeat them aloud as much as possible. Then make a list and keep them with you so that you remind yourself to repeat them throughout the day. Soon you will have a subconscious mind that is programmed to do exactly what it should be doing- attracting everything you love into your life. | 2019-04-20T08:34:57 | http://www.daily-motivational-quote.com/howtousepositiveaffirmations.html |
Today's weather is turning out to be sunny. The visibility is going to be around 20 km i.e. 12 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1015 mb . The daytime temperature is going to reach 19 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 6 °c at night. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 0% of the sky, the humidity will be around 20%.
Tomorrow weather is forecasted to be partly cloudy. The visibility is going to be around 20 km i.e. 12 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1016 mb. The daytime temperature is going to reach 19 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 6 °c at night. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 2% of the sky, the humidity will be around 27%.
On Friday weather will be partly cloudy with daytime temperature reaching 21 °c. Night time temperature are expected to be 10 °c.It will be dry with no precipitation. The visibility is going to be around 20 km i.e. 12 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1014 mb. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 15% of the sky, the humidity will be around 24%.
Saturday seems to be partly cloudy. Bardsir, Iran visibility is going to be around 20 km i.e. 12 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1015 mb. The daytime temperature is going to reach 21 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 9 °c at night. It will be dry with no precipitation and cloud covering 12% of the sky, the humidity will be around 24%.
Patchy rain possible will be the weather pattern for the Sunday. The visibility is going to be around 19 km i.e. 12 miles and an atmospheric pressure of 1013 mb. The daytime temperature is going to reach 22 °c and the temperature is going to dip to 11 °c at night. It will be mostly dry with little or no precipitation and cloud covering 30% of the sky, the humidity will be around 25%.
Looking at the weather in Bardsir, Iran over the next 7 days, the maximum temperature will be 22℃ (or 72℉) on Sunday 28th April at around 12 pm. In the same week the minimum temperature will be 6℃ (or 42℉) on Thursday 25th April at around 3 am.
The national weather service for Bardsir, Iran is reporting Sunday 28th April to be the wettest day in the coming week with around 0.10mm (or 0.0 inches) of rainfall. Make sure to carry an umbrella if you are out and about in Bardsir, Iran.
The windiest of all days will be Sunday 28th April as wind will reach 23mph (or 37kmph) at around 3 pm.
Please also visit Bardsir Historical Weather, Text Weather and Weather Charts pages. Historical or past weather forecast page provides historical weather forecast from 1st July, 2008 till now in 3 hourly interval. Text weather page will allow you to get a weather text summary for next 14 days and weather chart page displays weather pattern like temperature, wind speed, gust, pressure, etc. in graphical mode for next 14 days. We hope you like it. | 2019-04-24T02:06:49 | https://www.worldweatheronline.com/bardsir-weather/kerman/ir.aspx |
In its annual report submitted to Congress and posted to the IRS website December 13, the IRS Whistleblower Office said that out of over 5,000 cases it received in fiscal 2009, 460 cases might qualify for a higher payout amount under a new framework instituted under 2006 legislation. But the report failed to acknowledge several sensitive issues that have not been resolved internally, are awaiting public guidance, or have been criticized by practitioners.
There is a sense among tax practitioners handling whistleblower claims that the IRS will be making section 7623(b) awards soon. "We believe that the IRS is on the verge of making payments under the new program, and when they do, informants will rush into the marketplace," Gregory S. Lynam, a tax partner at the Ferraro Law Firm, told Tax Analysts. "Anyone who is coming forward now, before the potential rush, will be in a better position to get an award."
Although the fiscal 2009 submission rate showed a slight decline from the 476 cases submitted in fiscal 2008, Lynam predicted that the IRS could have a hard time handling all of the submissions it will receive soon. "Once the awards start getting paid, the floodgates will open," he predicted.
George M. Clarke III of Miller & Chevalier said the report's statement that informants were offering the agency inside knowledge of corporate transactions along with extensive documentation should worry companies, because it shows that "these are corporate taxpayers with moles inside providing information to the IRS."
The report indicated a new administrative wrinkle that could delay the payment of awards to informants. In the past, the IRS made sure that the unreported tax liabilities mentioned in the whistleblower claim had been collected before it processed an award determination. However, the agency is now waiting until the time a taxpayer has to file an appeal seeking a refund has passed, which is generally two years after the last tax payment made. That change likely resulted in lower fiscal 2009 award payments, the report said.
Bryan C. Skarlatos of Kostelanetz & Fink LLP said that the added wait time is probably sensible on the IRS's part, but he added that "at the same time, it means that it will take many years -- perhaps six to 10 years, or longer -- from claim to award, in many cases." That delay could discourage some whistleblowers, he said.
Still, Skarlatos agreed that big payments under the higher award provisions could capture the public's attention. "When the Whistleblower Office pays the first large award next year, whistleblower claims will increase dramatically as whistleblowers perceive that there is real money to be made -- in some cases," he said.
Skarlatos said the annual report incorporates the judicial decision by making a distinction between whistleblower determinations, which can be appealed to the Tax Court, and tax administration decisions, which the IRS will argue cannot be appealed to the Tax Court.
"This is a logical distinction, but more importantly, if the Tax Court agrees with this distinction, it will prevent taxpayers from appealing the IRS's decisions on whether or not to audit a taxpayer or assert a deficiency," Skarlatos said. It would be difficult for the Tax Court to review the IRS's decision on whether to audit a taxpayer or assert a deficiency, and it would be difficult to maintain taxpayer confidentiality while allowing whistleblowers to litigate whether or not the IRS should have asserted a deficiency, he said.
"Yet, in the qui tam context, these are precisely the types of issues that are litigated by the whistleblower," Skarlatos said. "One of the most important issues to be resolved as the whistleblower program matures is how much these cases will follow traditional qui tam type procedures and how to reconcile those procedures with issues surrounding taxpayer confidentiality."
Skarlatos said that the IRS's decision to allow the Whistleblower Office to take into account any refunds or credits that the taxpayer may have to reduce the amount of the ultimate tax payment in determining the amount of the award would likely be challenged in the Tax Court. The provision is "very unfair because the IRS benefits from an underpayment, whether the tax is paid currently or is used to reduce an otherwise available NOL or credit," he said.
An additional problem is that appealing an award determination will likely require the informant to have access to taxpayer information that is withheld under section 6103. "That is something that requires more attention and guidance," Skarlatos said.
The IRS paid out over $5.8 million in whistleblower awards in 2009 in 110 cases, from $206 million collected. In 2008 the agency made award payments of $22.3 million in 198 cases from $155.6 million collected.
In revealing that the IRS received a total of 5,678 submissions covering both section 7623(a) and (b) claims, of which only 8 percent (460 cases) met the 7623(b) criteria, the agency indicated that a majority of the claims are not likely of high value in ferreting out significant tax underpayment activity.
The Whistleblower Office reported that it increased its staffing level to 17 employees, up from 14 the previous year. Several of its top internal operating priorities for fiscal 2010 include developing better performance measures and improving communications among IRS employees who work on whistleblower issues. | 2019-04-23T19:49:47 | https://www.tax-whistleblower.com/articles/irs-whistleblower-office-reports-high-submissions-omits-controversial-issues/ |
I sent Ariana Grande a letter November 24th, 2012. I received this signed (authentic) picture April 3rd, this year. I used this address: Ariana Grande 265 S Federal Hwy Suite 331 Deerfield Beach, Fl 33441 USA - Zoomed in on the autograph. - The picture with autograph. - The letter, picture and a sticker with her Twitter username ( at ArianaGrande). I sent it in a normal envelope and received a normal envelope (same size as the letter) back with a "Do not bend" stamp, my address (written on it), and Arianas address. | 2019-04-26T16:43:45 | http://fr.fanmail.biz/111969.html |
This chapter provides tutorial examples and notes about sending emails. Topics include setting up Windows IIS as a SMTP mail server, configuring PHP to use SMTP servers, write PHP scripts to send out emails.
IIS (Internet Information Services) can be used as a local SMTP mail server.
PHP can be configured to use SMTP servers.
The built-in mail() function can be used to send out emails. | 2019-04-22T19:25:34 | http://herongyang.com/PHP/Mail-Configure-and-Send-out-Emails.html |
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It’s cherry season in Dalian now. Everywhere we look, the fruit sellers’ boxes are overflowing with the tart red fruit. Because our street is lined with fruit sellers, the passage of our time is marked in the seasons of fruit. When we first arrived, it was strawberries and pineapples, there was a brief interlude of oranges, and now it’s watermelon and cherries. We buy a kilo of cherries from our fruit lady every day or so, and eat them with breakfast, for an afternoon snack, after dinner, while watching a DVD… Spring in China tastes like cherries.
Spring here is also noisy and smelly. The sewer is still overflowing and cascading down the steps and onto the street. The apartment below us and the apartment next to us are both remodeling, and it seems that all the work is being done with hammers. We wake up to pounding and it continues unabated throughout the day. The pile of bricks and mortar outside grows daily. We peep into the doors when they are left ajar, so we can measure progress and how much longer we’ll have to listen to hammering at 7am.
One of my adult students, Robert De Niro, invited us to his house one day. Robert is a student who is going to Australia in July to get his masters in accounting, so he is free during weekdays like us. He met us and we took the bus to his parents’ condo. It is common for most people live with their parents until they are married, and some even continue to live with parents after they are married. The condo was huge, with two floors and at least five bedrooms (both of his parents work for the government). He gave us the tour, and we marveled at his DVD collection. Then he and Zac played video games for a while. For lunch, he made “hot-pot” which is a popular meal here. Basically, in the center of the table there is a boiling pot of flavored water. (I asked what he flavored the water with and he said, “medicine”.) Into the water you drop various things, such as fish balls, dumplings, lettuce, and thinly sliced mutton. They cook in the water for a minute or two, then you fish them out with your chopsticks and burn your mouth eating them. It was quite delicious. After lunch, we watched a DVD called “Shawn of the Dead” which was a parody horror movie. Zac and I thought it was hilarious but Robert didn’t like it too much. Then we watched an hour or two of Friends episodes on DVD.
The movie we watched last time is wonderful! Also, you are very hospitable and your flat looks nice despite a small one. I feel more exercise is needed to improve my body situation after we did hiking last Tuesday.
Although I take great effort to understand the whole matters in movies, I find it unavailable to me. luckily, your help give a little encouragement to me. Thanks, really. In order to learn a lot , i know clearly that i should watch more, which maybe a test of your patience. what about another movie at the same time?
ok, i would like to take you to all of the places you like to visit when we are free. Wait for your answer.
Later in the week, one of Zac’s students, Linda, invited us to go to the zoo that is in Dalian. Linda is a senior high school student, but she finished early, and so she is free during the day. So on Thursday, Linda, her mother, and a soldier in the navy, picked us up at the museum near our house and drove us to the zoo. Linda’s mother is pretty high up in the navy, and apparently that entitles her to a soldier chauffer when needed. We’d wanted to see a Chinese zoo for some time, and it was every bit as gaudy as we hoped, but luckily not quite as cruel as we feared. The cages were less plush than in a U.S. zoo, but the animals seemed well cared for. The zoo is called Forestry Zoo, because it is located amongst these beautiful green hills in the center of Dalian. Once inside the zoo, it was like we weren’t in a city anymore. The beginning of the zoo was filled with dinosaur statues and large bird cages. The Chinese love to take photos, mainly of themselves. Therefore, random statues are quite popular here since they make a good backdrop for a photo. They must have thought we were crazy for taking photos of just the real animals.
China’s famed panda was a let-down. It’s head was behind a rock, and the cage was pretty sad. The best part was the bears. They had a pair of Sun Bears that were trained, and really looked like a person wearing a bear suit. We went to the bear show, where, amongst other things, they had the two bears in a boxing match. It was so twisted, so wrong, and so hilarious. Another oddity about the zoo was that they had a whole section for dogs. People weren’t supposed to feed any of the animals, but of course they did. Even I pitched in when I found a cherry lying near the monkey cage. I tossed it in, and it was immediately snatched up and eaten.
We asked more about Linda’s mother’s job, and it turned out she is the one who shoots missiles for the navy. I joked that I wondered what she did all day since there is no war right now. She said she had to practice every day, because, you know, Japan….Taiwan…. So, if there ever is a war over here, we know the lady who’s going to be shooting missiles at the U.S. ships that intervene to defend Taiwan or Japan.
After the zoo, we went to meet Felicia, one of the Chinese teachers from school. Like Zac, she also loves Japanese anime. She took us to a shop she knew of where they sell the DVDs with English subtitles, which is rare since in China, most of the anime just has the Chinese subtitles. Afterwards, we finally broke down and went to Pizza Hut. Although we had no qualms about eating American fast food in Korea, so far we hadn’t crossed that line in China. But after the day at the zoo, we were hungry and pizza sounded great. We justified it though because Felicia had never been to pizza hut and we could treat her to an American restaurant. Pizza Hut in China is decorated like a fancy restaurant. For a large pepperoni pizza and a pitcher of orange soda, we spent Y100 (or $12) which is really expensive for a meal here.
Q: Hi Jane, how are you?
A: I’m seven years old.
A: The weather likes cats.
A: Today I drank milk.
A: Tomorrow I’m going to do the zoo.
Q: What color are these?
Q: Who cooks dinner at your house?
On Friday, we had our last class with our adult students. After 36 two-hour classes, I felt like they were my extended family here in Dalian. They gave me advice, explained things, brought me medicine when I was sick, shared DVD’s and books, and gave me insight into their lives. Instead of sitting in the classroom and discussing a topic like normal, we had decided to go to a restaurant for our last class. So on Friday evening, we met at school and then walked a block to the famous spring roll restaurant. Kelly and Robert had booked a room in advance. Most big Chinese restaurants have private rooms above their common dining area. It is perfect for having a small group party, because you have the privacy of your own dining room, with all the convenience of a restaurant and waitresses. Since all meals in China are eaten family-style, it took about 15 minutes to order because everyone had to agree on everything (except me because I’m hopeles s when it comes to food). We ended up with all sorts of weird things like deep-fried octopus tentacles, shredded potatoes, noodle-lettuce-peanut salad, fish-flavored pork strips, sweet potato noodles, fish ball and seaweed soup, etc. All the dishes are placed on a lazy susan in the middle of the table and round and round it goes while your chopsticks reach out to grab a bite of food as it goes by. It’s actually a wonderful way to eat, and I enjoyed it immensely. The conversation twirled around me, half in Chinese out of habit, and half in English for my benefit. I sat between Darwin and Eva, and if there was too much Chinese they would translate for me. Although most rooms come equipped with Karaoke, this one didn’t have it. That didn’t stop them from singing though. The teapot on the lazy susan indicated whose turn it was to sing. Most were pretty bad, as they were laughing so much, but three of the women were excellent singers so that I wished we did have karaoke. They asked me to give a toast, and I wished I was better prepared, but I managed to make a short speech about how much I enjoyed teaching them and how I hoped we would stay in touch.
It’s hard to believe we’ve been here three months; we’re already a quarter of the way through our contract. In Namibia, with a two year contract, we could be idle knowing that everything would come again. But with a one-year contract here in China, we are reminded that time is actually linear, we have each day only once, and we have to eat our Dalian cherries while we can. | 2019-04-22T00:55:44 | http://serasphere.net/dalianletters/2005-06/cherries.htm |
Sometimes in entertainment we get remakes, cover versions, call them what you will, of things. With varying degrees of success. For instance, Johnny Cash recorded that cover of Nine Inch Nails' “Hurt”. There was that remake of Ocean's Eleven, originally a Rat Pack movie, but with George Clooney and Brad Pitt, there's an endless list of them.
And that's exactly what's happened here, in gaming form. And much like that cover version, and that movie, DotEmu and Lizardcube have unleashed a gaming equivalent of a cult Master System classic in Wonderboy and The Dragon's Trap.
Yes, in short that does mean that in terms of quality, style, presentation, and feel the game is as good as that Johnny Cash cover, and that George Clooney movie. So, it needs to be checked out, played with, and loved by all.
The game is quite a simple affair, in that it's a 2D side scrolling adventure from the 8bit era, that sees you as Wonderboy (or Wondergirl if you like) trying to cure a curse put on them by the evil Meka Dragon. This curse sees you starting off as a fire breathing lizard person, battling through a landscape of evil plants, creatures and clouds, finding your way towards that cure via a few transformations into other creatures along the way.
Throughout the game, you'll become a mouse, lion, weird fish thing, and a hawk, and all of those transformations have their own abilities that will help you along the way, and allowing you to access various parts of the game that other creatures cannot reach.
The game was largely unknown outside of Europe where Sega's Master System was the console of choice back in the late 1980s-early 1990s. And for those of us old enough to remember the days of playing it first time around, there's the option to play the game with original sound and graphics at any time, at the touch of a button. The game has also received a modern update in graphics and sound, with beautiful, cartoon-like graphics, and toe tapping music that feels joyful and reminds us all of a happier, easier time.
On top of that the game also goes back to its old school roots by retaining the original password system to mark progression throughout the game, which again is a great reminder of a simpler time. This does mean that if you die in a dungeon you have to do the whole thing over again, which can be a little jarring for those who've never played games like this, but does add to the fun, and that “one more go” feeling which was for me, the cause of many a late night and missed homework assignment, from when I was a kid in the early 90s.
The game has taken an “If it ain't broke” approach to the gameplay mechanics, everything you'd expect from endurance over tactics boss battles, through to fast fingered dodging of projectiles is there, as it should be, and presented in a lush, beautiful, hand painted style.
It's a game you really can't go wrong with. And if you want further proof, check out the first 10 minutes of gameplay below.
You can download it now on PS4/Xbox One/Nintendo Switch. And if you do, you'll be the proud owner of one of the best retro remakes ever made, and the gaming equivalent to the most magical of musical cover versions. | 2019-04-24T06:55:55 | https://siradio.fm/news/Wonderboy_and_the_Dragons_Trap_Review |
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Many have thought of coloring only as an activity for children however research has shown that this activity can provide tremendous benefits for adults.
Adults who suffer from anxiety or depression have much to gain from investing in a coloring book.
I was out shopping for puzzles with hubby and I said I want to get a coloring book. He laughed and said really? I then said yeah it’ll be cool, I hear it’s therapeutic and stuff.
The end result is we got one and it worked. Sometimes we color together and other times I colored alone. I’ve used it a few times and I am sold on it. I keep it right in my writing space because that’s where I spend a lot of my time. It was so comforting to just sit and color, I just had to share along with some facts!
Clinical Psychologist Scott M. Bea says that coloring is an activity that takes you to another world. It allows you to be in another mindset where your focus is not on yourself but instead on creating.
This space that you’re in is centered around the flower and trees that you are coloring or the intricate lines that make up your piece. There is no time for thinking about the bills that are due or worrying if your classmates or coworkers are still thinking about the answer you gave today in class or at work. Your mind is free and you are creative.
Sometimes is good to do things that are not stressful. Things that are basic and simple. Things that allow you to escape.
These feelings are feelings that everyone should have. Especially if you are stressed or suffer from anxiety and/ or depression. Sometimes a little extra use of our imagination can do a lot of good. Coloring allows expression which in itself is a release of negative emotions.
Other than the health benefits coloring is an activity that will allow you to take a break from social media and this is something we can all benefit from doing.
Consider coloring as one of the many self-help activities and give it a try.
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I have great fun coloring and It definitely helped me to escape some of the more stressful things that can occur each day. Do you or did you like to color? Tell us all about your coloring experience as a child or adult in the comments below.
My teenage daughter and I color together to reduce stress and anxiety. It’s a great activity!
I’ve heard people say that coloring was a good stress-reliever before, but I didn’t know there was so much research behind it! Very cool! Unfortunately, I don’t think coloring will help me very much…too many bad memories of angry art teachers!
Awwww wow! I know what that’s like. Don’t wanna do anything that triggers those.
That’s a great idea! Let me know if it works! | 2019-04-25T02:34:57 | https://faithnturtles.com/2019/01/27/reduce-stress-by-getting-a-coloring-book/ |
Nano-technology is emerging more and more with many new technologies and products of diverse importance and impacts in daily life (http://www.nanoid.co.uk/nanofoods.html).
Among new technolgies and products are those related to nanofood. According to a definition in a recent report, emanated from “Nano-technology in Agriculture and Food”, food is “nanofood” when nanoparticles, nanotechnology techniques or tools are used during cultivation, production, processing, or packaging of the food and does not necessarily mean modified food or food produced by nanomachines. Nonofood is coming more and more in our fridges and food producers promise potential benefits where world largest food manufacturers are, already, blazing the trail of investment in food industries. However, the ongoing debate over nanofood safety and regulations has slowed the introduction of nanofood products. The needs for research and development will continue to increase and thrive. So far, most of the larger companies are keeping their research activities and news rather quite (http://nanowerk.blogspot.se/2009_01_01_archive.html?m=1).
Nano-food production is very much related to the management of natural water resources, by being the main factor for food production, though food-processing is also very important (http://sustain-earth.com/2015/03/small-is-beautiful-nanosystems-for-water-management-strategies/). Nano-technology is, also, equally important for water treatment (http://nanowerk.blogspot.se/2009/01/nanotechnology-in-water-treatment.html?m=1).
The nexuses water-energy-food is growing in complexity with enormous expansion of the global needs for sustainable socio-economic developments of our environmental systems http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781439829271).
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Before I came to SSTC, I was unable to write and solve simple mathematic questions. However, now I can solve complex math questions and constantly score distinction in my math.
Today, I am a student of Outram Secondary School where I am part of the OSS Peer Support Leader Committee.
SSTC has helped me to improve on my academics and has supported me through obstacles. They have also help me realise that the key to success is persistence. I will be forever indebted to SSTC.
When I first came to Singapore, I could hardly write a complete essay. I had various types of problems with my English which made it even more difficult to solve math questions. I was not confident of myself although my teachers in SSTC were. They encouraged me to work hard towards my goals and guided me throughout tough times. Through them, my dream of attaining a placement in a government school became a reality. Today I am a student in Hougang Secondary School.
Many have asked me what my secret was to success. It is persistence and endeavour. With persistence and endeavour, one can overcome any obstacles and achieve your goals. In addition, being surrounded by supportive people was another factor that contributed to my success. I will never forget to show my gratitude to them.
Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the teachers in SSTC Institute who had always been there for me. Thank you for your hard work, helping me with my studies. I wouldn’t be here without them. Thank you! | 2019-04-23T08:29:37 | https://www.sstc.edu.sg/international-academy/testimonials/ |
championships and have made more appearances than any other senior hockey team at the Allan Cup in the past decade, but the championship itself has eluded them more times than they would’ve liked.
On Monday, they’ll begin their quest to fix that, seeking their fourth national title as they host the 2019 Viking Projects Allan Cup at the Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex in Lacombe.
On Sunday, they officially earned their way in as the Alberta provincial champions, despite being given a berth into the tournament as hosts, and they’re hoping that will help them finally capture that title.
“It’s been a long time coming. I think with this team, the Allan Cup has been a goal every year and guys are chomping at the bit,” said Generals Captain Brennan Evans. “I think we’re doing exactly what we need to do…We’ve been doing things the right way for the most part.
Generals General Manager Jeff McInnis says losing the past few years has stung, but he’s unsure of anything tangible or within their control they could change to make sure the team does capture that championship.
“When you’re talking about beating everyone and anyone, it comes down to the finest of wires. We were up 4-3 in the third period in last year’s final, and they scored two in the middle of the period and that was it,” he said. “I don’t have the answer beyond what it takes to build a team and we think we’ve built a very good team.
That said, he believes they’ve done everything they could to set themselves up for success.
“I’m 100 per cent confident that our group couldn’t have worked any harder or been more diligent,” he said. “There’s nothing more we could do.
The Generals previously hosted the tournament in 2013 in Red Deer, but they feel this tournament will be even better, given their experience, and the fact the tournament is being held in a place they can call home.
As such, the tournament will act as somewhat of a housewarming party for the team.
It was just four years ago that the then-Bentley Generals announced they would leave the community of Bentley in December 2015, due to attendance, and finished their 2015-16 season playing in Lacombe, where it became clear they’d found a new place to take root.
In the spring, the move, and a change of name from the Bentley Generals to the Lacombe Generals took place. Renovations commenced on the Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex, and half way through the first season they officially stepped onto the ice for the first time in their new home.
It took a couple of seasons to fully settle in – the most recent of which saw the Generals paint the bleachers in their characteristic blue and gold – but they’re happy with the way the community has embraced them.
Not that there aren’t still changes they’d like to see in the area of support.
Senior hockey is always a struggle financially, given the leagues are “working mens leagues” and they’re not able to play as many games or promote themselves in the way major junior teams and other levels might.
Even this year, the Generals played at the start of March, and didn’t take the ice at home for fans until March 31, which he said is “devastating” in terms of keeping them relevant.
However, the 2019 Viking Projects Allan Cup promises to have packed stands every night, and they’re down to about 150 tickets left per game, so those looking to purchase at the door ahead of the games may want to get there early if they don’t want to purchase in advance.
“It’ll be down to slim pickings. There’s not a lot left,” said McInnis.
Fortunately, should any games be sold out, the Molson Canadian Hockey House, which will be located in the Freightliner of Red Deer Curling Complex next door to the arena, will have three large projection screens displaying the broadcast of the games and the TSN final.
For more details, visit www.allancup.ca.
The Innisfail Eagles are making history, appearing at the Allan Cup tournament for the first time in the franchise’s 71 years.
And they’re looking to make up for both their Allan Cup Hockey West finals and Hockey Alberta Provincial Senior AAA finals losses which came at the Lacombe Generals.
Innisfail finished third in ACHW standings in the regular season with a 9-8-0-1 record, and made it to the ACHW finals where they were swept by the Generals 3-0 in a best-of-five series.
Innisfail then had to duke it out with the Stony Plain Eagles in a best-of-seven provincial semifinal, where they bested their opponents four games to two, including a 5-4 overtime victory in Game 6 to secure an Allan Cup berth. In the provincial final, however, they came up short, losing by an aggregate score of 7-4 to Lacombe (See Page 13 for more).
The team may not be on home ice, but they’re sure to have a numerous fans in the stands at every game – especially considering their roster features a pair of Lacombe brothers in Blair and Taylor Mulder.
The Eagles will be forced to practice in Red Deer ahead of the tournament, as the ice is being taken out in their home arena. They will play in the opening game of the tournament on April 8 against the Rosetown Red Wings at 4 p.m.
A year ago, the Rosetown Red Wings were the hosts of the Allan Cup tournament and came up short with a 0-1-2-0 record that saw them fall in the quarterfinals.
This year, as the Saskatchewan representatives, they’ll look to not just improve upon that, but go all the way and win their first Allan Cup.
In the regular season, the Red Wings and Lacombe Generals fought for first place in ACHW standings all year, with their 11-7-0-0 record and +10 goal differential being edged by Lacombe’s 10-6-0-2 record and +12 goal differential for top spot.
In ACHW playoffs, the Red Wings were bounced in the first round by the Innisfail Eagles 3-0 in a best-of-five series.
Rosetown last made the finals in 2012 where they were defeated 4-1 by the South East Prairie Thunder, and they also participated in the 2013 tournament hosted by the Bentley Generals in Red Deer.
The South East Prairie Thunder, like the Lacombe Generals, are also no strangers to the Allan Cup, making their seventh straight appearance at the tournament, and so it’s only fitting the two teams will play each other first in the tournament on April 8.
The Prairie Thunder, who are based in Steinbach, Man., have made nine total appearances at the tournament. Their first was in 2009, where they made it all the way to the final, but were bested 4-3 in double overtime to the then-Bentley Generals.
They won their first Allan Cup in 2012 where they defeated the Rosetown Redwings 4-1. Their second Allan Cup came in 2015, where they shutout Bentley 2-0.
They were also finalists in 2016.
This year, they punched their ticket to the tournament by sweeping the Ste. Anne Aces in their best-of-three Hockey Manitoba Provincial Senior AAA finals series, including a 4-3 double overtime victory and a 4-0 shutout.
The Stoney Creek Generals, who hail from a community in Hamilton, Ont., are just six years old, but already are trying to do what no team has done in over 30 years – win the Allan Cup in back-to-back years.
Last year, the team won the Allan Cup for the first time, defeating the Lacombe Generals 7- 4 in the final.
This year, they’ll make their fourth consecutive appearance at the tournament after winning the Allan Cup Hockey league’s regular season with an 18-5-1 record, and sweeping the Whitby Dunlops 4-0 in a the best-of-seven Roberston Cup finals series.
Stoney Creek’s first game of the tournament will be on Tuesday, April 9 against the Innisfail Eagles at 4 p.m. They will play the Rosetown Redwings at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10.
The Haut-Madawaska Panthers will not only be representing their own community of St. Francois de Madawaksa in New Brunswick, but the entire Atlantic region at the Allan Cup as Newfoundland and Labrador chose not to send a representative this year.
The team plays in the Circuit de Hockey Senior Roger-Lizotte, and were the 2017-18 playoff champions. This year, they fell in semifinals to the St. Quentin Castors four games to three in a best-of-seven series, but had a 21-5-0-2 record in the regular season.
The Panthers have no prior Allan Cup tournament history.
For more information on the tournament and schedule, visit www.allancup.ca. | 2019-04-23T01:11:04 | https://www.lacombeglobe.com/sports/local-sports/generals-aiming-to-win-it-all-at-2019-viking-projects-allan-cup |
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Cops Driving Academy Inc. was founded in 1995 by Doug Sorgat, an Ontario Provincial Police Officer. Since that time, "Cops" as it is locally know, has provided continuous, high quality education to thousands of our local residents. Steve Hart, the current owner of Cops Driving Academy brings a former career of over 20 years in the Canadian Armed Forces as well as another 17 years as an Ottawa Police Officer. Steve's contemporary real life experiences combined with Doug's foundational influence, combine to make Cops Driving Academy an unmatched educational opportunity.
Located originally in Manotick and now in the village of Osgoode, Cops Driving Academy specializes in providing MTO certified driver education courses to both young and mature adults.
"A driver education course is probably one of the most important life saving skills you may ever take" - founder, Doug Sorgat.
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