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Angelina Jolie had a complete meltdown during her directorial debut
Angelina Jolie's transition from actress to director was not so smooth, as she had a "complete meltdown" while making her directorial debut with wartime film In the Land of Blood and Honey.
Angelina Jolie had to be comforted by partner Brad Pitt after collapsing in the shower in tears.
The 36-year-old star told fans on a live video web chat: "I had a complete emotional breakdown in the shower and Brad found me crying.
"I felt this huge responsibility and I felt very small and, who am I to take this on?"
Angelina Jolie added: "I had a complete meltdown."
The actress took on the daunting project of writing and directing the love story, which is set in the Bosnian war.
Angelina Jolie told fans on a live video web chat that she had a complete emotional breakdown and cried after her directorial debut with wartime film In the Land of Blood and Honey
While Angelina Jolie is determined to tell the tale in order to raise awareness, she is unsure as to whether she will return to her behind the scenes role.
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Polina Polonsky, who claims she had a passionate affair with Lamar Odom, has revealed further details about their alleged relationship. …Read More » | I didn't plan to become a director, and I still have trouble saying I'm a director.
"I just wanted to tell this story and I ended up by default being the director.
"It was a pleasure but I wonder if it would be a pleasure with another cast and crew, and a subject matter that wasn't so special."
Angelina Jolie was captivated by hearing heart-wrenching stories of people's experiences living through the Bosnian war, but says at the time it happened, when she was aged 17, she was unaware of its seriousness.
The actress said: "I knew very little, like most Americans.
"I was 17 so I wasn't very focussed. I was my own form of self-destructive, and it was a bad time."
Angelina Jolie later came back to the subject and added: "I was a punk… you don't imagine you could ever be a role model."
She has clearly proven her directorial ability as the movie, which is released in Europe in February, has been nominated for an award at the Golden Globes.
The subject matter, which is close to her heart, has helped her to realize the importance of teaching her children certain values.
When asked by a fan what lessons she wished to pass onto her children, Angelina Jolie said "compassion and respect".
She said: "I want my children to be aware of the world around them and have respect for all people around the world."
Angelina Jolie added: "From the nature of the make-up of my family, they learn a lot abot each other. They dont see this divide which is dangerous."
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Fun Kitchen is hosted back by Infinite Organizer, a full-service event planning company who has passion and previous experiences in planning and coordination events, corporate event, exhibitions, and weddings. Repeating the success achieved in the previous year, this year,<|fim_middle|> be lots of entertainments and fun-filled stage activities. There is also a chance to participate on fun and educated competitions on F&B, workshops, and many more surprises. | Fun Kitchen 5th will be held on 21st till 26th March 2017, at main atrium Mall Taman Anggrek, Jakarta. A week live event devoted to those who have passion on cook, bake and dessert.
"Temukan Peluang Usaha Makanan & Minuman" becomes major focus of this annual event, because Fun Kitchen 5th provides numerous business opportunities to buyers and spoiling public visitors with mouth-watering delicacies. The whimsical atmosphere is definitely a great way to spend your weekend. With so much food and provisions to indulge in, visitors are sure to be spoilt for choices. Get expert advice from those in the know – our exhibitors will not only help visitors with time saving tools and products, but will share insights to make sure they get the most out of their projects on F&B.
Free demonstrations will be running from stands throughout the show, covering everything from sugar craft skills to baking advice, plus there's a host of interactive features from some of most trusted brands in the industry. While gratifying in good food and good value purchases, there will also | 231 |
Marx<|fim_middle|> in Spain was overturned by Stalinists and their allies. The Popular Front government of Doctor Negrin facilitated the destruction of collectives and permitted the work of Russian secret services, the murder and torture that demoralised workers and peasants.
This book presents a spectrum of contemporary left viewpoints, introduced and annotated in detail.
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Creation, a fragile moment as a winter chill affectionately yielding to the first warm spring breeze. A brief encounter, a wisp of sweet fragrance, an eclipse of radiance, the whisper of a wing, then a return to certainty<|fim_middle|> joys presents me with the responsibility to comfort and offer praise in song and word. If the words can not be spoken, then the music takes me over. If I don't hear music, then the written word will bring comfort. The other half of inspiration is the pure joy of standing in God's wilderness surrounded by only the creation of the Lord. Truth is wilderness. All that our senses embrace is God. How much closer can one be to the Creator than here in creation? The Bible repeats the theme of isolation from Adam to Moses to Jesus. The exhilaration of looking to the Heavens in the wilderness and feeling the complete peace of the green trees contrasted on the blue sky is my heaven on earth. | . The embrace of instrument, soul and Creator welcoming truth, my eternal friend, for a short visit.
Looking ahead is more my style, so this biography is quick to the facts. I started music at the age of ten when my parents purchased a Lowrey organ with two manuals (two keyboards) and foot pedals. This gave me the coordination I needed for that early age. After moving out on my own, I couldn't afford a keyboard so I bought a guitar. I would visit my local University to keep up on keyboards and I discovered a love for the piano.
I started composing when frustrated with the struggles of reading music. Performing other composer's pieces was too much like my full time job as a printer. I was unfulfilled until I started writing my own songs, and soon I found a much greater reward in composing. It was creation! Oh, how wonderful it is to craft something out of nothing with God's hand on my shoulder guiding me on my way! How God loves His creation of earth and children!, In my small way, I try to glorify His creation in word and song.
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For every person who retires, the same question is asked.
"What are you going to do with all that free time?"
Some travel, some spend more time around what they love and some try things they have never gotten to before.
In 2019, David Arms has managed to do all three, all while becoming a pioneer.
The Cache resident retired in 2011 after 32 years doing quality control at Goodyear. And for the next few years, he got to do what he really enjoyed. Namely, he spent time with his family and he fished.
"I fished pretty well all my life, fished in tournaments," Arms said. "Growing up in Oklahoma, I fished Lawtonka a lot, Lake of the Arbuckles, Lake Murray, I fish there quite often."
In addition to going fishing himself, David kept up with the professional circuit. It was less than a year after he retired that the Professional Bass Tour Anglers' Association (PBTAA) and Outdoor Channel partnered up to form Major League Fishing (MLF).
Last year, while perusing the MLF website and message boards, Arms learned the league was seeking officials for a new competition that would be woven into the first half of the league's schedule. Each official weighs the fish, records the weight and then the angler releases the fish. The officials also enforce the MLF rules.
Arms leapt at the opportunity.
Soon thereafter, he was named one of the 40 officials for the inaugural Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour, an 8-stage circuit that pits 80 of the sport's top fishermen against one another at lakes across the country. To the naked eye, he may just be weighing fish. But for a mega-fan of the sport, Arms is living the dream, sharing boats with bass fishing legends like Jason Christie, Mike Iaconelli and Kevin van Dam.
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Cardinal<|fim_middle|> 37th doctor of the church: St. Irenaeus | Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Congolese cleric and statesman, dies at 81
The former archbishop of Kinshasa is remembered as both a church leader and a statesman who fought fearlessly for human rights, and helped guide the nation through a turbulent political transition.
In this Nov. 20, 2010, file photo, newly appointed Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, of Congo, left, is congratuled by other cardinals after being elevated by Pope Benedict XVI during a consistory inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, an influential figure in Congo's Roman Catholic Church, died Sunday (July 11) in Versailles, France, where had been undergoing medical treatment.
The 81-year-old prelate, the former archbishop of Kinshasa, is remembered in the central African country as both a church leader and a statesman who fought fearlessly for human rights, and helped guide the nation through a turbulent political transition.
"I am deeply saddened to announce to the Catholic community and to all people of good will the death of Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo," Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, his successor, said in a tweet. " … Let us intensify our prayers for his eternal rest with God whom he served."
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A biblical theologian, Pasinya was the first African to attain a doctorate in Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
In 2013, Pope Francis appointed Pasinya to the Council of Cardinals, a group the pontiff formed at the start of his period to reform the Curia and assist in governing the church.
Ordained a priest in 1963 and bishop in 1980, Pasinya served as the bishop of Inongo Diocese, auxiliary bishop and then archbishop of Kisangani before moving to Kinshasa, where he served as archbishop for a decade before retiring at the age of 79 in November 2018.
"Cardinal Monsengwo led the church in the DRC to ensure that democratic principles are protected and human rights are respected. He became the voice of the people in Congo," said the Rev. Innocent Maganya, director of the Institute for Interreligious Dialogue and Islamic Studies at Tangaza University College in Nairobi, Kenya.
Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya. (Vatican Media)
But Pasinya served his country as well as his church. While he was auxiliary bishop of Kisangani in the 1990s, Pasinya headed a high council of the republic that was tasked with coming up a framework for a new constitution as dictator Mobutu Sese Seko's rule neared its end.
In 1994, Pasinya was named a transitional speaker of the national Parliament.
"He will be remembered as an example for many for his prophetic role in the difficult periods of the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo," Maganya said.
Maganya said he met Pasinya in 1997, when Pasinya was archbishop of Kisangani and then-President Laurent Kabila had just taken power.
"He was aware of the challenge, that regimes change, but politicians do not. I appreciated his lucid analysis," Maganya said of Pasinya.
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Pasinya's diplomacy helped end the First Congolese War of the late 1990s and helped rein in the armies of Kabila that overthrew Mobutu. From 2001 to 2003, Pasinya chaired the Inter-Congolese Dialogue to restore peace and secure human rights after the fighting subsided.
Pasinya intervened in politics again in 2016, when then-President Joseph Kabila attempted to extend his presidency to a third term. Pasinya led the church in challenging the move. "It's time that the truth won over systematic lies, that a mediocre figure stand down, and that justice and justice and peace reign," Pasinya said in 2018 in urging that long-delayed elections be held.
The cardinal was born in Mongobele, in the west of what was then the Belgian Congo, on Oct. 7, 1939. He belonged to one of the royal families of the Basakata ethnic group.
Of Congo's 87 million residents, 35 million are Roman Catholics, while 20% are Protestants. About 10% are adherents of the Kimbanguist faith, a Christian church founded by Simon Kimbangu, while Muslims constitute 10%. The rest follow African traditional religions.
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Aside from Agostino's insertion, you can notice that Shaw was bumped from the 4th line to the 2nd line while Hudon finds himself back with Peca and Deslauriers. Chances are the penalties taken by Hudon in the last 2 games and that awful turnover against Tampa did not help his case. It's also worth noting that Alzner will be back in the line-up taking over Juulsen's spot which isn't very surprising considering Tuesday was probably his worst outing of the season.
Injury-wise, Claude Julien has confirmed that Armia underwent an MRI on his knee and that they are waiting on the results. He also mentioned that Paul Byron's status will be reevaluated on a weekly basis which means that the injury is perhaps more serious<|fim_middle|>. Of course he's not yet in game shape but the defence has struggled mightily lately...Could Schlemko be part of the solution as everyone waits for Weber's return? Speaking of which, there are some rumours that the newly appointed Habs captain could be back in the line-up by mid-novembre but Julien did no say so himself.
As for Agostino's call-up, it appears to be a bit of message to Nikita Scherbak. When the Habs' 2014 first-pick agreed to go down to Laval for a conditioning stint, he did say to journalist that he considers that he should now be a regular NHLer. Since then, he's played a few games with the Rocket and head coach Joel Bouchard has not been kind with him criticizing amongst other things his implication in the game. One now has to start to wonder if Scherbak's time is running out with the bleu, blanc, rouge... The point is though, his value has never been as low as it is now so trading him doesn't seem like a likely decision right this moment. That being said, Bergevin didn't exactly trade Pacioretty when he was at his peak value and I think we can all agree that he still managed to swing a great deal (Tatar has done well, Suzuki is a points making machine with his junior team and a draft pick is always a good asset to get).
Montreal last played Buffalo on October 25th and lost that decision 4-3. Avenging that loss would surely go a long way towards allowing the fans to get over Tuesday's less than stellar performance. | than first thought. As for David Schlemko he took part in today's practice forming a duo with Juulsen. Perhaps his return is near but it remains to be seen if Julien will want to give him a spot right away | 47 |
De officiële titel: Jaarboekje uitgegeven op last van Z.M. den Koning / door R. Lobatto.
Het jaarboekje verscheen jaarlijks van 1826 tot en met de uitgave van 1849.
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Rehuel Lobatto adjunct-commies bij het Departement van Binnenlandsche Zaken, werd in 1825 belast met het samenstellen van een voor 's lands rekening uit te geven jaarboekje. Dit in navolging van het reeds sinds jaren in Frankrijk verschijnende Annuaire, waarvan de samenstelling was opgedragen aan het Bureau des longitudes.
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Behalve bijzonderheden van de kalender, bevat het boekje ook gegevens betreffende astronomie en wetenschappelijke opstellen over allerlei onderwerpen, tevens vele statistische opgaven voor zover die uit bestaande bronnen konden worden overgenomen en bewerkt.
Voor het eerst komen in alle jaarboekjes staten voor met betrekking op de loop der bevolking voor zowel de provincies als voor het rijk als geheel. Verder zijn in de jaarboekjes voor 1831 en 1832 enkele uitkomsten opgenomen van de volkstelling van 1829 en in het jaarboekje van 1841 van de volkstelling van 1839.
Een opgave van de sterfte in Amsterdam wordt in de jaarboekjes gegeven vanaf 1830. Hetzelfde voor de sterfte in Brussel voor de jaren 1826, 1827, 1828 en 1830.
In het jaarboekje voor 1839 zijn gegevens opgenomen over de gevangenisbevolking die ontleend zijn aan de jaarlijkse verslagen van de Collegiën van Regenten.
Vanaf 1840 zijn er ook tabellen opgenomen betreffende de burgerlijke en militaire huizen van verzekering en huizen van arrest.
Ook komen in verschillende jaargangen gegevens voor omtrent de oppervl<|fim_middle|> en staten betreffende de waterhoogten en peilschalen in Nederland.
Het jaarboekje van Lobatto is voortgezet als het Statistisch jaarboekje voor het Koningrijk der Nederlanden dat voor het eerst in 1851 verscheen. In 1850 is geen publicatie verschenen.
Jaarboek | akte van de provincies, gebaseerd op gegevens van het Kadaster, daarnaast ook gegevens over het onderwijs, het muntwezen, de weduwenfondsen en levensverzekeringsmaatschappijen en verder door de koning verleende octrooien.
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Giving to Florida Southern is a meaningful and lasting decision. It provides opportunity and access, impacts our distinction as an institution, supports our academic programs, and inspires others.
Our generous donors give for many reasons. Read a few of their stories below.
Misan '72
Albert Misan
Believe in Community
Growing up in Brazil, Albert Misan '72 did not have the resources for a college education. According to Albert, "everyone I knew wanted to come to the United States to attend college because it was clearly a higher standard of education." He received offers from three American schools, including Florida Southern College. On the advice of his guidance counselor – who favored Florida Southern for its library and ideal climate – Albert eagerly accepted Florida Southern's offer. Fortunately, he also received tuition assistance from the College, local Rotary Club, and from his high school in Brazil.
Although there were not many South American students in attendance at the time, Albert immediately felt welcomed and a part of a community when he arrived on campus. "I was a foreign, Jewish student, and there were so few of us back when I attended. However, I was in an environment where I was not just getting a great education; I was invited into other students' homes for dinners and for holidays because I could not afford to travel back to Brazil during the school year. Everyone was so nice and welcoming."
After graduating from Florida Southern, Albert enjoyed a successful 40-year career in banking. Today, Albert serves on the National Alumni Board and is a faithful donor to the College. "I made my first donation back to Florida Southern more than 30 year ago. It really feels like it's my time to give back now. Strong education provides opportunities. As a graduate, I recognize the benefits FSC provided for me." Albert's donations include support of the Evett L. Simmons Center for Multicultural Appreciation, an annual scholarship for Business students, and the Florida Southern Annual Fund.
"Florida Southern has evolved so much since I graduated. The school is at different level today from the buildings to the education and even the student body. FSC has gone from three foreign students in my day to a much more diverse school," said Albert. While the Misan family currently resides in Miami, Albert purchased a house in Lakeland 30 years ago so they could always be near his alma mater.
Your investment will help Florida Southern continue to foster learning, engagement, and a<|fim_middle|> Tampa, Florida. He attended Robinson High School where he was an all-star basketball player as well as the second leading scorer in the school's 40-year history. While seeking to advance his basketball career, Cedric transferred to Florida Southern College in the fall of 1999.
An offensive powerhouse, Cedric quickly found success as a guard with the Mocs. One of the many highlights of his career: beating his brother, who played for the University of Tampa. Victory was sweet for Cedric as the Mocs took home the win. His mother, on the other hand, found it particularly difficult to cheer during the game.
Life beyond basketball evolved as Cedric engaged in his Florida Southern education. "Florida Southern gave me the foundation and confidence that I needed to be successful at whatever I put my mind, heart, and soul into," Cedric said. He was mentored off the court by faculty who helped him build that foundation. "Professor Hopkins was a genius in how he taught his student to think outside the box in my marketing class. The late Col. Wiley gave us the vision of what it took for businesses to be successful using his favorite 'Vroom' phrase. Dr. Blythewood gave us practical and real-life applications for financial management. Professor Clements was awesome. She constantly displayed her love for accounting and for Florida Southern," Cedric remembers fondly.
Upon graduating in 2002, Cedric entered the world of wealth management. He now owns a successful practice in Tampa. Cedric serves on Florida Southern's National Alumni Board of Directors and partners with Florida Southern to offer summer internships to current students with his firm. Cedric is married to Dr. Donna Powell. Together, they have three children and reside in Tampa.
Cedric is grateful for his time at Florida Southern and established an endowed scholarship for future students, like him, which he will further fund through a life insurance policy. "I created the Cedric P. Powell and Dr. Donna Powell Endowed Basketball Scholarship because it gives me an opportunity to pay it forward, while giving back," Cedric said. He hopes his scholarship will provide a way for more first-generation, African-American, inner-city students to better themselves. "We want to make a world-class education and athletic experience accessible to everyone, and that is why we give back," Cedric said.
Join Donna and Cedric Powell in giving back to Florida Southern College. Your gift can help make a quality education accessible to all students and inspire others to help students like Cedric realize their potential.
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Claville
Gary Claville
Believe in Family
In 1929, just six months before the stock market crash, Jeannetta Claville (Simmons) was born. Her family did not have much to offer her: Jeannetta's father was blind and her mother was a seamstress. However, Jeannetta was a smart child who was satisfied so long as she had music in her life. In fact, at the early age of nine, she had already learned and started to play the piano in her local church.
Jeannetta attended Mulberry High School, and during her senior year, she participated in a work-study program with the Bank of Mulberry. She graduated a year early in 1946, the valedictorian of her class, and started working at the bank full-time.
At that time, the Bank of Mulberry was owned by L. N. Pipkin. A well-known philanthropist and champion of Florida Southern, Pipkin paid for Jeannetta's Florida Southern education while she continued working at the bank.
At Florida Southern, Jeannetta was a member of the orchestra and continued to shine in her academics. Jeannetta graduated in 1950 the salutatorian of her class. That same year, Jeannetta married Steve Claville. They shared a love for music and even played together at a local church. Jeannetta and Steve had one child, Gary.
Jeannetta passed away in 2013, after working in the banking industry for most of her life. Her love for music lasted her entire life as she was the pianist for multiple churches and even wrote the theme song for the city of Kissimmee, Florida. To honor his mother and family, Gary established an endowed music scholarship in Jeannetta's name through the donation of real estate. According to Gary, "she was a remarkable woman, and never bragged about any of her accomplishments."
Gary hopes to follow Pipkin's example so that future music-loving students may receive the same opportunity for a college education as Jeannetta. "Florida Southern has always been in my life, so I'm just trying to pay it forward," said Gary.
Your gift will give students from all backgrounds the opportunity to receive a world-class education that supports their passions and strengthens their communities.
Bill and John
Buckley '89
Bill and John Buckley
Believe in Gratitude
Twin brothers Bill and John Buckley '89 have always been a package deal. Growing up in Demarest, New Jersey, colleges from across the country recruited them to play basketball, but they would only consider offers that allowed them to play together. After visiting Florida Southern and receiving basketball scholarships, they knew it was the school for them.
Thirty years later, Bill and John are still a package deal. The two live across the street from one another in Haworth, New Jersey. Successful equity traders, Bill works for Virtu Financial and John works for Merus Global Investments. Bill and John developed their career goals as undergraduate business students. "I took an investment class where we had a class-wide, stock-trading competition, and I had the best return on investment. So I thought I might be good at it," John said.
During their time on the basketball team, Bill and John helped the Mocs compete in two final four tournaments. "There's a lot of correlation between sports and what we do. There is a lot of pressure and stress in our field, which we learned how to manage as basketball players. I learned quickly how to take what I did as a student and use it professionally," Bill said. John added, "It's always a challenge to meet all of your goals as a student athlete, but the individual attention that we got from the teachers at FSC made it possible to develop our strengths in the classroom, and take those strengths with us into our professional career." In addition to the valuable skills they developed as athletes, the two also gained lifelong friends through their teammates. John and Bill stay in regular contact with their teammates, reuniting occasionally across the country.
Florida Southern's size and emphasis on engaged learning fuel's Bill and John's affinity for the College. "We never felt lost there, we had connections with all of our friends and teachers, and had a support system at all times," John said. The brothers financially support the Barney Barnett School of Business and Free Enterprise as it helped mold them into the professionals they are today. Additionally, they established an endowed basketball scholarship in 2006. "Our hope is to give a future student the same type of experience and same type of opportunity that we got. We want to say thank you, because we never forgot what FSC and our scholarship donors did for us," Bill said.
Join Bill and John Buckley in donating to Florida Southern as a way to say thank you for the experiences you had at the College.
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Cedric Powell
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Analytics 3.0
Thomas H. Davenport
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Those who study "data smart" companies believe that we've already lived through two eras in the use of analytics—we might think of them as "before big data" and "after big data"—and are entering a third. It is characterized by a far-reaching resolve to apply powerful data gathering and analysis not just to a company's operations but also to its services and products.
This strategic change in focus means a new role for analytics. Companies will need to recognize a host of related challenges and respond with new capabilities, positions, and priorities. Requirements will include:
multiple types of data, often combined
a new set of management options
faster technologies and methods of analysis
cross-disciplinary data teams
chief analytics officers
analytics on an industrial scale
new ways of deciding and managing
These new capabilities can't be developed using old models for how analytics support business. The big data model was a huge step forward, but it will not provide advantage for much longer. Companies must once again fundamentally rethink how the analysis of data can create value for them and their customers.
Artwork: Chad Hagen, Nonsensical Infographic No. 5, 2009, digital
Those of us who have spent years studying "data smart" companies believe we've already lived through two eras in the use of analytics. We might call them BBD and ABD—before big data and after big data. Or, to use a naming convention matched to the topic, we might say that Analytics 1.0 was followed by Analytics 2.0. Generally speaking, 2.0 releases don't just add some bells and whistles or make minor performance tweaks. In contrast to, say, a 1.1 version, a 2.0 product is a more substantial overhaul based on new priorities and technical possibilities. When large numbers of companies began capitalizing on vast new sources of unstructured, fast-moving information—big data—that was surely the case.
Some of us now perceive another shift, fundamental and far-reaching enough that we can fairly call it Analytics 3.0. Briefly, it is a new resolve to apply powerful data-gathering and analysis methods not just to a company's operations but also to its offerings—to embed data smartness into the products and services customers buy.
I'll develop this argument in what follows, making the case that just as the early applications of big data marked a major break from the 1.0 past, the current innovations of a few industry leaders are evidence that a new era is dawning. When a new way of thinking about and applying a strength begins to take hold, managers are challenged to respond in many ways. Change comes fast to every part of a business's world. New players emerge, competitive positions shift, novel technologies must be mastered, and talent gravitates toward the most exciting new work.
Managers will see all these things in the coming months and years. The ones who respond most effectively will be those who have connected the dots and recognized that competing on analytics is being rethought on a large scale. Indeed, the first companies to perceive the general direction of change—those with a sneak peek at Analytics 3.0—will be best positioned to drive that change.
The Evolution of Analytics
My purpose here is not to make abstract observations about the unfolding history of analytics. Still, it is useful to look back at the last big shift and the context in which it occurred. The use of data to make decisions is, of course, not a new idea; it is as old as decision making itself. But the field of business analytics was born in the mid-1950s, with the advent of tools that could produce and capture a larger quantity of information and discern patterns in it far more quickly than the unassisted human mind ever could.
Today it isn't just online and information firms that can create products and services from analyses of data. It's every firm in every industry.
Analytics 1.0—the era of "business intelligence."
What we are here calling Analytics 1.0 was a time of real progress in gaining an objective, deep understanding of important business phenomena and giving managers the fact-based comprehension to go beyond intuition when making decisions. For the first time, data about production processes, sales, customer interactions, and more were recorded, aggregated, and analyzed.
New computing technologies were key. Information systems were at first custom-built by companies whose large scale justified the investment; later, they were commercialized by outside vendors in more-generic forms. This was the era of the enterprise data warehouse, used to capture information, and of business intelligence software, used to query and report it.
New competencies were required as well, beginning with the ability to manage data. Data sets were small enough in volume and static enough in velocity to be segregated in warehouses for analysis. However, readying a data set for inclusion in a warehouse was difficult. Analysts spent much of their time preparing data for analysis and relatively little time on the analysis itself.
More than anything else, it was vital to figure out the right few questions on which to focus<|fim_middle|> a new phenomenon). Companies now employ data hackers, who excel at extracting and structuring information, to work with analysts, who excel at modeling it.
Both groups have to work with IT, which supplies the big data and the analytical infrastructure, provisions the "sandboxes" in which the groups explore the data, and turns exploratory analysis into production capabilities. The combined team takes on whatever is needed to get the analytical job done, with frequent overlap among roles.
Chief analytics officers.
When analytics are this important, they need senior management oversight. Companies are beginning to create "chief analytics officer" roles to superintend the building and use of analytical capabilities. Organizations with C-level analytics leaders include AIG, FICO, USAA, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the Obama reelection campaign, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. The list will undoubtedly grow.
Prescriptive analytics.
There have always been three types of analytics: descriptive, which reports on the past; predictive, which uses models based on past data to predict the future; and prescriptive, which uses models to specify optimal behaviors and actions. Although Analytics 3.0 includes all three types, it emphasizes the last. Prescriptive models involve large-scale testing and optimization and are a means of embedding analytics into key processes and employee behaviors. They provide a high level of operational benefits but require high-quality planning and execution in return. For example, if the UPS ORION system gives incorrect routing information to drivers, it won't be around for long. UPS executives say they have spent much more time on change management issues than on algorithm and systems development.
Analytics on an industrial scale.
For companies that use analytics mainly for internal decision processes, Analytics 3.0 provides an opportunity to scale those processes to industrial strength. Creating many more models through machine learning can let an organization become much more granular and precise in its predictions. IBM, for instance, formerly used 150 models in its annual "demand generation" process, which assesses which customer accounts are worth greater investments of salesperson time and energy. Working with a small company, Modern Analytics, and using a "model factory" and "data assembly line" approach, IBM now creates and maintains 5,000 such models a year—and needs just four people to do so. Its new systems can build 95% of its models without any human intervention, and another 3% require only minimal tuning from an analyst. And the new models address highly specific products, customer segments, and geographies. A test conducted in one large Asian market showed that such models doubled customer response rates compared with nonstatistical segmentation approaches.
New ways of deciding and managing.
In order for analytics to power the data economy in your company, you'll need new approaches to decision making and management. Many will give you greater certainty before taking action. Managers need to become comfortable with data-driven experimentation. They should demand that any important initiative be preceded by small-scale but systematic experimentation of this sort, with rigorous controls to permit the determination of cause and effect. Imagine, for example, if Ron Johnson's tenure as CEO of J.C. Penney had involved limited experiments rather than wholesale changes, most of which turned out badly.
Paradoxically, some of the changes prompted by the widespread availability of big data will not yield much certainty. Big data flows continuously—consider the analysis of brand sentiment derived from social media sources—and so metrics will inevitably rise and fall over time. Such "digital smoke signals," as they have been called, can serve as an early warning system for budding problems. But they are indicative, not confirmatory. Managers will have to establish guidelines for when early warnings should cue decisions and action.
Additional uncertainty arises from the nature of big data relationships. Unless they are derived from formal testing, the results from big data generally involve correlation, not causation, and sometimes they occur by chance (although having greater amounts of data increases the likelihood that weak results will be statistically significant). Some managers may be frustrated by these facts. If the issue under consideration is highly important, further investigation may be warranted before a decision is made.
The use of prescriptive analytics often requires changes in the way frontline workers are managed. Companies will gain unprecedented visibility into the activities of truck drivers, airline pilots, warehouse workers, and any other employees wearing or carrying sensors (perhaps this means all employees, if smartphone sensors are included). Workers will undoubtedly be sensitive to this monitoring. Just as analytics that are intensely revealing of customer behavior have a certain "creepiness" factor, overly detailed reports of employee activity can cause discomfort. In the world of Analytics 3.0, there are times we need to look away.
Creating Value in the Data Economy
Does Analytics 3.0 represent the ultimate form of competing on analytics? Perhaps not. But it seems safe to say that it will be viewed as the point in time when participation in the data economy went mainstream.
The online companies that unleashed big data on the world were built around it from the beginning. They didn't need to reconcile or integrate big data with traditional sources of information and the analytics performed on it, because for the most part, they didn't have those traditional sources. They didn't need to merge big data technologies with traditional IT infrastructures; in their companies, those infrastructures didn't exist. Big data could stand alone, big data analytics could be the only analytics, and big data technology architectures could be the only IT architectures. But each of these companies now has its own version of Analytics 3.0.
One thing is clear: The new capabilities required of both long-established and start-up firms can't be developed using old models for how analytics supported the business. The big data model was a huge step forward, but it will not provide advantage for much longer. Companies that want to prosper in the new data economy must once again fundamentally rethink how the analysis of data can create value for themselves and their customers. Analytics 3.0 is the direction of change and the new model for competing on analytics.
A version of this article appeared in the December 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review.
Thomas H. Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College, a research fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a senior adviser at Deloitte Analytics. He is the author of over a dozen management books, most recently Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines and The AI Advantage.
This article is about ANALYTICS | , because analysis was painstaking and slow, often taking weeks or months to perform. And reporting processes—the great majority of business intelligence activity—addressed only what had happened in the past; they offered no explanations or predictions.
Did people see analytics as a source of competitive advantage? In broad terms, yes—but no one spoke in today's terms of "competing on analytics." The edge came in the form of greater operational efficiency—making better decisions on certain key points to improve performance.
Analytics 2.0—the era of big data.
The basic conditions of the Analytics 1.0 period predominated for half a century, until the mid-2000s, when internet-based and social network firms primarily in Silicon Valley—Google, eBay, and so on—began to amass and analyze new kinds of information. Although the term "big data" wasn't coined immediately, the new reality it signified very quickly changed the role of data and analytics in those firms. Big data also came to be distinguished from small data because it was not generated purely by a firm's internal transaction systems. It was externally sourced as well, coming from the internet, sensors of various types, public data initiatives such as the human genome project, and captures of audio and video recordings.
As analytics entered the 2.0 phase, the need for powerful new tools—and the opportunity to profit by providing them—quickly became apparent. Companies rushed to build new capabilities and acquire customers. The broad recognition of the advantage a first mover could gain led to an impressive level of hype but also prompted an unprecedented acceleration of new offerings. LinkedIn, for example, has created numerous data products, including People You May Know, Jobs You May Be Interested In, Groups You May Like, Companies You May Want to Follow, Network Updates, and Skills and Expertise. To do so, it built a strong infrastructure and hired smart, productive data scientists. Its highly successful Year in Review, which summarizes the job changes of people in a member's network, was developed in just a month. And LinkedIn is not the only company focused on speed. One CEO of a big data start-up told me, "We tried agile [development methodology], but it was too slow."
Innovative technologies of many kinds had to be created, acquired, and mastered. Big data couldn't fit or be analyzed fast enough on a single server, so it was processed with Hadoop, an open source software framework for fast batch data processing across parallel servers. To deal with relatively unstructured data, companies turned to a new class of databases known as NoSQL. Much information was stored and analyzed in public or private cloud-computing environments. Other technologies introduced during this period include "in memory" and "in database" analytics for fast number crunching. Machine-learning methods (semiautomated model development and testing) were used to rapidly generate models from the fast-moving data. Black-and-white reports gave way to colorful, complex visuals.
Thus, the competencies required for Analytics 2.0 were quite different from those needed for 1.0. The next-generation quantitative analysts were called data scientists, and they possessed both computational and analytical skills. Soon the data scientists were not content to remain in the back office; they wanted to work on new product offerings and help shape the business.
Analytics 3.0—the era of data-enriched offerings.
During 2.0, a sharp-eyed observer could have seen the beginnings of analytics' next big era. The pioneering big data firms in Silicon Valley began investing in analytics to support customer-facing products, services, and features. They attracted viewers to their websites through better search algorithms, recommendations from friends and colleagues, suggestions for products to buy, and highly targeted ads, all driven by analytics rooted in enormous amounts of data.
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Analytics 3.0 marks the point when other large organizations started to follow suit. Today it's not just information firms and online companies that can create products and services from analyses of data. It's every firm in every industry. If your company makes things, moves things, consumes things, or works with customers, you have increasing amounts of data on those activities. Every device, shipment, and consumer leaves a trail. You have the ability to analyze those sets of data for the benefit of customers and markets. You also have the ability to embed analytics and optimization into every business decision made at the front lines of your operations.
Like the first two eras of analytics, this one brings new challenges and opportunities, both for the companies that want to compete on analytics and for the vendors that supply the data and tools with which to do so. How to capitalize on the shift is a subject we will turn to shortly. First, however, let's consider what Analytics 3.0 looks like in some well-known firms—all of which were decidedly offline businesses for most of their many decades in operation.
The Next Big Thing, in Beta
The Bosch Group, based in Germany, is 127 years old, but it's hardly last-century in its application of analytics. The company has embarked on a series of initiatives across business units that make use of data and analytics to provide so-called intelligent customer offerings. These include intelligent fleet management, intelligent vehicle-charging infrastructures, intelligent energy management, intelligent security video analysis, and many more. To identify and develop these innovative services, Bosch created a Software Innovations group that focuses heavily on big data, analytics, and the "Internet of Things."
Schneider Electric, a 170-year-old company based in France, originally manufactured iron, steel, and armaments. Today it focuses primarily on energy management, including energy optimization, smart-grid management, and building automation. It has acquired or developed a variety of software and data ventures in Silicon Valley, Boston, and France. Its Advanced Distribution Management System, for example, handles energy distribution in utility companies. ADMS monitors and controls network devices, manages service outages, and dispatches crews. It gives utilities the ability to integrate millions of data points on network performance and lets engineers use visual analytics to understand the state of the network.
One of the most dramatic conversions to data and analytics offerings is taking place at General Electric, a company that's more than 120 years old. GE's manufacturing businesses are increasingly becoming providers of asset and operations optimization services. With sensors streaming data from turbines, locomotives, jet engines, and medical-imaging devices, GE can determine the most efficient and effective service intervals for those machines. To assemble and develop the skilled employees needed for this work, the company invested more than $2 billion in a new software and analytics center in the San Francisco Bay area. It is now selling technology to other industrial companies for use in managing big data and analytics, and it has created new technology offerings based on big data concepts, including Predix (a platform for building "industrial internet" applications) and Predictivity (a series of 24 asset or operations optimization applications that run on the Predix platform across industries).
UPS, a mere 107 years old, is perhaps the best example of an organization that has pushed analytics out to frontline processes—in its case, to delivery routing. The company is no stranger to big data, having begun tracking package movements and transactions in the 1980s. It captures information on the 16.3 million packages, on average, that it delivers daily, and it receives 39.5 million tracking requests a day. The most recent source of big data at UPS is the telematics sensors in more than 46,000 company trucks, which track metrics including speed, direction, braking, and drivetrain performance. The waves of incoming data not only show daily performance but also are informing a major redesign of drivers' routes. That initiative, called ORION (On-Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation), is arguably the world's largest operations research project. It relies heavily on online map data and optimization algorithms and will eventually be able to reconfigure a driver's pickups and deliveries in real time. In 2011 it cut 85 million miles out of drivers' routes, thereby saving more than 8.4 million gallons of fuel.
The common thread in these examples is the resolve by a company's management to compete on analytics not only in the traditional sense (by improving internal business decisions) but also by creating more-valuable products and services. This is the essence of Analytics 3.0.
Some readers will recognize the coming era as the realization of a prediction made long ago. In their 1991 book 2020 Vision, Stan Davis and Bill Davidson argued that companies should "informationalize" their businesses—that is, develop products and services on the basis of information. They observed that companies emit "information exhaust" that could be captured and used to "turbocharge" their offerings. At the time, their ideas gained traction only among companies already in the information business, such as Quotron (stock data) and the Official Airline Guide (flight data). But today banks, industrial manufacturers, health care providers, retailers—any company, in any industry, that is willing to exploit the possibilities—can develop valuable products and services from their aggregated data.
Google, Amazon, and others have prospered not by giving customers information but by giving them shortcuts to decisions and actions.
Davis and Davidson wrote at a time when supplying information was enough. But these days we are inundated with information and have little time to turn it into insight. Companies that were information providers must become insight providers, using analytics to digest information and tell us what to do with it. Online businesses, with vast amounts of clickstream data at their disposal, have pioneered this approach: Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Amazon, and others have prospered not by giving customers information but by giving them shortcuts to decisions and actions. Companies in the conventional information industry are now well along this path too.
Ten Requirements for Capitalizing on Analytics 3.0
This strategic change in focus means a new role for analytics within organizations. Companies will need to recognize a host of related challenges and respond with new capabilities, positions, and priorities.
Multiple types of data, often combined.
Organizations will need to integrate large and small volumes of data from internal and external sources and in structured and unstructured formats to yield new insights in predictive and prescriptive models—ones that tell frontline workers how best to perform their jobs. The trucking company Schneider National, for example, is adding data from new sensors to its logistical optimization algorithms, allowing it to monitor key indicators such as fuel levels, container location and capacity, and driver behavior. It aims to steadily improve the efficiency of its route networks, lower its fuel costs, and decrease the risk of accidents.
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A new set of data management options.
In the 1.0 era, firms used data warehouses as the basis for analysis. In the 2.0 era, they focused on Hadoop clusters and NoSQL databases. Today the technology answer is "all of the above": data warehouses, database and big data appliances, environments that combine traditional data query approaches with Hadoop (these are sometimes called Hadoop 2.0), vertical and graph databases, and more. The number and complexity of choices IT architects must make about data management have expanded considerably, and almost every organization will end up with a hybrid data environment. The old formats haven't gone away, but new processes are needed to move data and analysis across staging, evaluation, exploration, and production applications.
Faster technologies and methods of analysis.
Big data technologies from the 2.0 period are considerably faster than previous generations of technology for data management and analysis were. To complement them, new "agile" analytical methods and machine-learning techniques are being used to produce insights at a much faster rate. Like agile systems development, these methods involve frequent delivery of partial outputs to the project stakeholders; as with the best data scientists' work, they have an ongoing sense of urgency. The challenge in the 3.0 era is to adapt operational, product development, and decision processes to take advantage of what the new technologies and methods can bring forth.
Embedded analytics.
Consistent with the increased speed of data processing and analysis, models in Analytics 3.0 are often embedded into operational and decision processes, dramatically increasing their speed and impact. For example, Procter & Gamble is integrating analytics in day-to-day management decision making through more than 50 "business sphere" decision rooms and more than 50,000 "decision cockpits" on employee computers.
Some firms are embedding analytics into fully automated systems through scoring algorithms and analytics-based rules. Some are building analytics into consumer-oriented products and features. Whatever the scenario, integrating analytics into systems and processes not only means greater speed but also makes it harder for decision makers to avoid using analytics—which is usually a good thing.
Imagine if Ron Johnson's tenure at J.C. Penney had involved small-scale, data-driven experiments rather than wholesale changes.
Data discovery.
To develop products and services on the basis of data, companies need a capable discovery platform for data exploration along with the requisite skills and processes. Although enterprise data warehouses were initially intended to facilitate exploration and analysis, they have become production data repositories for many organizations, and, as previously noted, getting data into them is time-consuming. Data discovery environments make it possible to determine the essential features of a data set without a lot of preparation.
Cross-disciplinary data teams.
In online firms and big data start-ups, data scientists are often able to run the whole show (or at least to have a lot of independence). In larger and more conventional firms, however, they must collaborate with a variety of other players to ensure that big data is matched by big analytics. In many cases the "data scientists" in such firms are actually conventional quantitative analysts who are forced to spend a bit more time than they'd like on data management activities (hardly | 2,881 |
Rose Bowl Media Day Recap: 'Doesn't Get Any Better Than This' for Hawkey<|fim_middle|> among the Hawkeye players and coaches. It was a lighthearted and fun day for the Hawkeyes, as well as the Cardinal, as both teams continue to take everything in during their trip.
For Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz, the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year, it's a return journey after being part of Iowa's coaching staff during their 1981 and 1985 seasons, which both resulted in trips to Pasadena. While he conceded he doesn't recall everything about those experiences so long ago, he did offer one aspect of the tours that has been different.
"My memories of this are so vague, it's 30 years ago," Iowa head coach Kirk Ferentz said. "I can't remember 30 days ago quite frankly. I think the big difference, when we stayed here in 1985 and also the 1981 season, we stayed way outside of the city limits. The one thing I do remember is the long bus rides."
"This (year) has been great, we're staying right downtown so the players are really enjoying that part of it," Ferentz added.
On Sunday, the Hawkeyes dined at Lawry's The Prime Rib, while the Cardinal took their turn on Monday. It's an annual Rose Bowl tradition, and this year marked the 60th Beef Bowl. The players who may have enjoyed it the most were Iowa's lineman.
"The best prime rib I've ever had for sure," Iowa offensive tackle Ike Boettger said. "I'm still full from it honestly, two days later. It was a great experience we all had a great time."
"I saw them at Disneyland, they have some big boys up front," Stanford offensive guard Josh Garnett said. "They have the Big Ten lineman, the big, fast, physical guys. I'm not surprised they can put down so much prime rib."
The Hawkeyes have been loving every part of the events this week in Southern California, but they say nothing will compare to the actual Rose Bowl Game on Friday. The fact that they'll play in perhaps the most historic bowl game in college football isn't lost on them, especially with it being a long time coming for the University of Iowa as a whole.
"Every college football fan growing up knows the history of the Rose Bowl," Iowa defense end Parker Hesse said. "When they chose us, we were extremely excited. Every since we got here, it's been awesome and we've been having a great time here in Los Angeles. The tournament of Roses had some good activities for us. Now it's time to finish the job and complete our mission here."
"It's been a great experience," Ferentz said. "The best thing is still waiting. The chance to go to the Rose Bowl the day before and for the players to see the stadium, and sense the history a little bit. To actually compete in the Rose Bowl against a great team -- a championship team -- it doesn't get any better than that."
For the seniors, like leading-rusher Jordan Canzeri, it's an especially proud moment to play and represent Iowa in The Grandaddy of Them All.
"It can't be painted more perfect than this," Canzeri said. "With this being my last year and to have the oppourtunity to play in the Rose Bowl, I mean just growing up that's the game that you watch."
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In an attempt to escape the past, Sarah, now twenty-seven, is living life hard and fast–and she is flat broke. When her estranged father dies, she travels to the tiny mountain hamlet of Jonah, New York to claim her inheritance. Once there, she learns her father's will stipulates a six-month stay before she can recieve the money. Fueled by hate and desperation, Sarah settles in for the bitter mountain winter, and as the weeks pass, she finds her life intertwining with the lives of the simple, gracious townsfolk. Can these strangers teach Sarah how to forgive and find peace?
I had twenty-three borrowed dollars in my pocket, and the deed to a house in a town I couldn't find on any map. How long ago had I stopped at that gas station to ask for directions? It seemed like hours. The attendant had pointed to the top of the mountain and said, "Keep going<|fim_middle|> turn. Snow appeared, as if growing from the ground. The windows began to fog.
I should have turned around before starting this absurd quest for—what? Revenge? Retribution? Whatever it was, a certain romanticism had crept into the ordeal—being on the road, alone, with just my thoughts and a cooler of Diet Coke. I always imagined myself the tragic heroine. That, and I had absolutely nowhere else to go.
"Cute," I mumbled, turning into the driveway.
There was a story in the Bible about Jonah. My grandmother, a bit of a religious fanatic, had taken particular delight in giant fish and prophets and the complete stupidity of some guy living three days up to his knees in gastric juices. I must have heard it fifty times. "You see, you must always do what God tells you to do," she'd say. As a small child, I would nod and agree, and then ask for a cookie. Finally, when I was twelve, I demanded, "What about adultery? What about murder? What does God say about that?"
Grandmother's eyes had bulged. "Who told you?"
"Aunt Ruth," I said. "Don't you think God wanted me to know the truth about my parents?"
Grandmother didn't talk to me about the Bible anymore after that. She stopped talking to Ruth completely. Lucky Aunt Ruth.
The inn's gray clapboard siding flaked like dead skin onto the front porch. I hoped the bed had clean sheets.
The door unlocked, I entered to a bell chime. A sleepy voice called, "One minute." I heard scuffling from the room to my left, and a woman limped out, hair the same sad color as the house. About fifty years old, she wore a too-big sweater with leather patches on the elbows, and thick fleece socks.
"This is mighty unexpected," she said, but smiled.
"I can go somewhere else, if you're not ready for guests."
Silent a moment too long, the woman realized she was staring. "Sorry, dear. I'm just a little fuzzed up with sleep is all. There's no place else to stay, except here." Pulling a ledger from the desk by the front door, she asked, "What's your name?"
"You a skier, here visiting?"
I cleared my throat. "Just passing through."
Under her flannel pajamas, the woman's bony frame stiffened at my lie. She finished writing my name in the book, and handed me a dusty key.
"I'm Mary-Margaret Watson. Folks here call me Maggie. You're welcome to do the same. That all you have, or do you need to go back out to your car?" She nodded toward my duffel bag.
"This is all I need tonight."
The old stairs creaked in protest, unhappy to be bothered so late at night. Maggie opened the door to my room, pointed at another door just to the left. "That's the bathroom. Towels are in there. You'll need to let the hot water run a bit."
"Yup. Pick up the phone in the room if you need something. You'll get me. Spare blankets are in the closet. Sleep tight," she said, and then disappeared back down the stairs.
I felt oily. I hadn't showered in three days but was too tired to clean up now. I didn't even change my clothes—just shook off my shoes, turned on the bedside lamp long enough to find the extra blankets, and climbed into bed.
I forgot to check the sheets. | up."
So I drove until the sun wilted into the horizon, dropping behind rows of shaggy, towering evergreens. Brown leaves skittered across the road; I swerved around them more than once, mistaking them for toads, or chickadees. Deer-crossing signs blazed yellow in my headlights around each | 68 |
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Hollywood Post Alliance Announces Coveted Engineering Excellence Award Winners
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Highly Anticipated Engineering Excellence Search Brings Top Technology Entrants
September 2, 2009 (Hollywood, CA) The
Hollywood Post Alliance
announced today that three groundbreaking technologies have been honored to receive the organization's respected Engineering Excellence Award. The recipients were chosen following a lively and well-attended presentation and judging session late last month at
LaserPacific
Digital Theater in Hollywood. Created to showcase and reward inventors, manufacturers, vendors and companies for outstanding product or technology application offerings, entries had to represent a significant step forward for the post-production industry and were open to any individual, group or company meeting the submission guidelines. Interest in the awards has grown steadily since its launch, and this year saw a record number of entrants in the Engineering category.
The winner(s) of the 2009 HPA Award for Engineering Excellence are:
DVS DIGITAL VIDEO SYSTEMS
CLIPSTER(r) is a complete hardware and software turnkey finishing system. Its hardware and software tools can be scaled and configured to meet specific digital intermediate finishing, real-time RED workflow, multi-format deliverable, and DCI mastering requirements. CLIPSTER's unique hardware platform combines the flexibility of general purpose computing with custom designed image processing and acceleration hardware. Uncompressed image processes up to 4K resolution can be performed in real time. CLIPSTER is the only single workstation system in the world that offers one step, faster-than-real time DCI mastering, and real-time decoding and delayering of full quality RAW RED files.
Erik Balladares, General Manager, DVS Inc., commented, "The Hollywood Post Alliance is comprised of the most brilliant members of the post community and has served as a longstanding beacon for our industry. DVS is truly honored to accept this year's Engineering Excellence Award for our advancements with the company's flagship product CLIPSTER."
Signiant's Content Distribution Management (CDM) software was developed to centrally manage, secure, accelerate, and automate the movement of rich media content. Through a web-based user interface, all content transfers can be monitored, secured and bandwidth utilization can be adjusted in real-time. Signiant's workflow modeling engine (WME) employs a drag-and-drop method of linking components to create sophisticated, sequenced workflows. Signiant's CDM software was first developed in 2000 and is used by hundreds of companies to manage the movement of rich media content for the Media & Entertainment industry.
"We thank the Hollywood Post Alliance for this wonderful recognition for Engineering Excellence," says Tom Ohanian, Signiant's Chief Strategy Officer. "Signiant is dedicated to delivering world class solutions designed to solve the process automation needs of digital media content owners and we are thrilled to be named an HPA Engineering award recipient."
OB-1 Uncompressed Digital Recorder is a complete system for providing images from digital cameras to Post. Utilizing DPX based<|fim_middle|> on-board recorder for digital cinematography cameras," stated Steve Roach.
In announcing the awards, HPA President Leon Silverman said that "The role of innovative technology in post production simply cannot be overstated; to put it simply, it drives our industry. We saw a marked increase in entrants in the Engineering Excellence category this year and the quality of the competition speaks clearly to a superb caliber of engineering vision and talent in the HPA and in the community as a whole. The HPA Engineering Award honors those individuals and companies who have worked diligently and inventively to do something better and ultimately to support the elegant execution of a vision. Companies like DVS, S2 and Signiant propel the industry forward, and their value is of vast importance to content creation."
Past winners of the Engineering Excellence Award include; Quantel for Pablo Stereoscopic 3D, FastSoft for E Series Internet Accelerator, Panasonic for AVC-intra 100 Video Codec, Quantel for Genetic Engineering, Digital Vision for DVO Image Processing Software, MTI Film for Control Dailies and Sony for HDCAM SR.
The HPA Awards will be held on the evening of November 12th at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The HPA Awards recognize the outstanding contributions of post production professionals working behind the scenes in a number of categories, including color grading/DI, audio post production, compositing and editorial for television, feature films, and commercials. In addition to the Engineering Excellence Awards, two additional special awards will be given during the Awards ceremony; Paul Haggar, one of the best-known names in the post production community, will receive the HPA Lifetime Achievement Award and the Charles S. Swartz Award will be given for Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Post Production.
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About the HPA
Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) serves the professional community of businesses and individuals who provide expertise, support, tools and the infrastructure for the creation and finishing of motion pictures, television, commercials, digital media and other dynamic media content.
About the HPA Awards
The HPA Awards were created to foster awareness of post production, promote creative and technical excellence, recognize the achievements of post production talent, and build involvement in the Hollywood Post Alliance. The HPA Awards will be presented with generous support from Silver Sponsors Deluxe and Thomson Grass Valley; Bronze Sponsors; Autodesk, Avid, DigitalFilm Technology, Panasonic, Sony; and Supporting Sponsor; DigitalFilm Tree.
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The 2010 Hollywood Post Alliance(r) Engineering Excellence Award Call for Entries | file recording using solid-state flash technology with metadata, OB-1 is the smallest, lightest uncompressed recorder. The OB-1 is compatible with all digital cameras that support SMPTE 292M or 372M Single or Dual Link HD-SDI. The system provides for offline editorial deliverables, dual uncompressed redundant archiving and integrated negative pull, all with quality control points fully adaptable to post industry workflows. The D.MAG system for post and archive has been used on Oscar(r) winners, official selections at Cannes and motion pictures around the Globe.
"The team at S.two is proud to be honored by the HPA with an Engineering Award for our ground-breaking OB-1 solid-state | 143 |
Az Auchenoglanis a sugarasúszójú halak (Actinopterygii) osztályának harcsaalakúak (Siluriformes) rendjébe, ezen belül a Claroteidae családjába tartozó nem.
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Retzer, M.E., 2010. Taxonomy of Auchenoglanis Günther 1865 (Siluriformes: Auchenoglanididae). Zootaxa 2655:25-51.
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Az Auchenoglanis-fajok családjuknak az ősibb alakjait képviselik. Számos afrikai folyóban és tóban lelhetők fel. A nagy elterjedési területük a változatos étrendjüknek köszönhető. Táplálékaik között szerepelnek a rovarok, azok lárvái, puhatestűek, halivadékok, valamint magok és egyéb növényi eredetű törmelékek. E halnem fajait táplálkozási célokból halásszák, de akváriumokban is tarthatók.
Rendszerezés
A nembe az alábbi 2 élő faj tartozik:
Auchenoglanis biscutatus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1809) - típusfaj
Auchenoglanis occidentalis (Valenciennes, 1840)
Csád nyugati részén előkerült a fosszilis Auchenoglanis soye Otero et al., 2007; ez a hal a miocén korban élhetett. Néhány egyéb fosszilis maradvány is ebbe a halnembe helyezhető, azonban faji szinten még nincsenek leírva.
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Auchenoglanis FishBase
Geerinckx, T. and E. Vreven, 2013. A re-evaluation of the species-level diversity within the catfish genus Auchenoglanis (Siluriformes: Claroteidae). J. Nat. Hist. 47(47-48):2979-3010.
Risch, L.M., 2003. Claroteidae. p. 60-96 In C. Lévêque, D. Paugy and G.G. Teugels (eds.) Faune des poissons d'eaux douce et saumâtres de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, Tome 2. Coll. Faune et Flore tropicales 40. Musée Royal de | 535 |
ACCIONA to construct two drinking water treatment plants in Nicaragua
Shalini Nair 19th March 2018
Nicaragua's state water and sewage utility ENACAL has selected ACCIONA Agua to construct drinking water treatment plants in the cities of Rivas and El Rama.
This contract is worth $22.4m.
The facilities are financed by the European<|fim_middle|> 19 cities of Nicaragua with a new sustainable management approach.
About 600,000 people will directly benefit from the drinking water system and about 235,000 people will gain access to sanitation.
ACCIONA Agua has been operating in Nicaragua in 2015.
In 2015, it secured contracts to construct the sewer system in Malpaisillo, upgrade and expand the drinking water systems in Chichigalpa and Jalapa, and develop Jalapa drinking water treatment plant – all at cost of €13.6m.
In 2016, the company secured €5m contract to construct sewer system in La Trinidad, a city in northern part of Guatemala. | Investment Bank and are part of PISASH, which is a water and sewerage programme. The facilities will serve around 100,000 people.
The Rivas and El Rama projects will improve access to drinking water in the catchment areas.
This project comprises construction of water mains and distribution network of 62km, with pipes ranging from 50 to 600 mm in diameter; two drinking water treatment plants with a capacity of over 36,000 m3/day; pumping stations and reservoirs.
PISASH intends to improve drinking water and sanitation system in | 125 |
Organizations generally respond to the environment through control and feedback loops using a combination of strategic control (strategy<|fim_middle|> control is fundamental to organizational performance, and improved management control can be a starting point for improving performance, leveraging strategic controls (macro-level), people, action and result controls (micro-level).
This post was originally published on LinkedIn on 28 February 2015. | formulation, planning, risk management), and management control (strategy implementation, people, action and result controls) which also links to result controls.
Strategy is about defining the long term direction to which the organization is going, creating ways to achieve objectives and achieving competitive advantage – the endpoint goal being stakeholder satisfaction. Lack of strategic control may lead to poor operational performance that can be caused by unrealistic or conflicting objectives, poor planning, poor execution of the plan, lack or wrong feedback, limited environment analysis, uncontrollable variables, culture resistance to change, poor communication, inadequate resources, etc.
Management Control is about taking steps to help ensure that the employees do what is best for the organization. It includes sets of routines that translate strategic goals into accounting-based controls. This is typically converted into execution and governed by operational functions.
Classical controls are more or less about obedience and conformity (direct supervision, technical, administrative, self and social), while post-modern controls put a premium on commitment, responsiveness, and flexibility. Management control also includes the use and interpretation of financial data to give feedback on performance and forecasts of resource requirement.
Control cycle, performance and results are loosely coupled. While tools like the balanced scorecard focuses on outcomes, the European Foundation Quality Management (EFQM) model suggests taking a holistic approach to performance improvement and looks at enablers. Other models such as the Tata Business Excellence Model (TBEM) (adapted from Malcolm Baldrige) focus on leading all the components of the organization as a unified whole, managing change; and dealing with data analytics, data integrity, cyber-security, and sustainability.
Effective management | 325 |
Home » MLB » Red Sox ace David Price on pace of play: 'I don't care. I know I'm slow.'
Red Sox ace David Price on pace of play: 'I don't care. I know I'm slow.'
BOSTON — Red Sox ace David Price had a message for those concerned about the length of games, something MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said before the start of Game 2 of the World Series he'd address before next season.
"You're taught ever since you were a little kid to be able to slow the game down and now baseball wants to speed it up," said Price after he earned the victory in a 4-2 decision over the Dodgers at Fenway Park on Wednesday. "I don't care. I'm taking my time. I know I'm slow."
Manfred told reporters that he will again discuss the addition of a pitch clock with the MLB Players Association,<|fim_middle|> from World Series title
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October 25, 2018 MLB Comments Off on Red Sox ace David Price on pace of play: 'I don't care. I know I'm slow.' | an idea the union pushed back against before the start of the regular season. MLB could have pushed the clock into use despite the union's objections, but chose instead to put a cap on mound visits in a bid to increase the pace of play.
"I spent a lot of time between the All-Star Game and here talking directly to (MLBPA executive director) Tony (Clark), trying to map out the things that we'd like to have meaningful conversation about during the offseason, putting him in a position to get prepared to do," Manfred said.
Manfred said he's "always less concerned" about longer games in the postseason. Before Game 2, the 2018 playoffs have averaged 3 hours, 35 minutes –– about a 6-minute increase over the 2017 postseason.
World Series games are starting about 30 minutes later than the last time the Dodgers were in the World Series in 1988. Manfred said MLB tries to "strike a balance" between the West and East coasts, the latter of which has seen games end near or after midnight with regularity.
"Remember I think L.A. is in the (Pacific) time zone." Manfred said. "We are cognizant of the fact that we're trying to serve those fans as well. I understand game times can be difficult, it's hard when games finish late. By the same token, when you start games at 5 p.m. Eastern, it's in the middle of the workday in L.A. That's not quite right either."
Red Sox vs. Dodgers score: Mookie Betts, David Price and Co. two wins away | 343 |
A roof on a home keeps the structure underneath in good condition as well as protects everything inside from the weather elements. That is why a roof needs to be taken care of properly. When a simple roof repair no longer solves the problem then it may be necessary to replace the roof. A roof replacement when needed, should take top priority over any other home improvement task. In order to find out if this is your only option you want to turn to roofing professionals who can provide you with information to help you make the right decision. You can find expert roofers that have experience in roofing in Nottingham. Listed below are<|fim_middle|> missing a lot of shingles and tiles.
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The average life span of a roof can range from around 10 to 20 years. A lot of this will depend on both the upkeep of a roof and the maintenance.
The condition of the interior walls that touch a roof is an important factor to keep in mind. There are warning signs that are visible on the interior walls such as peeling or missing paint. If you have moisture marks on the walls it means water is seeping down and you could need a roof replacement.
Any roof that is hit by weather conditions continuously like direct sunlight, heavy rainstorms, hail and snow are major reasons for a roof to breakdown. If your roof is affected by more than one of these elements it can shorten the overall life span of your roof.
The amount of torn or missing shingles is another important factor to consider. Strong, gusty winds can cause shingles and tiles to become loose. Instead of selecting to repair it in most cases it is best to replace your roof especially if you are | 215 |
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Studio 287 retains its hard techno slot reinforced by d&b
Location is everything in club land; you can have the finest equipment and import the best DJs, but if you station your club in a wasteland people just will not come. Studio 287 has an almost perfect location, it's not downtown Paris but it is close enough not to be an issue. More importantly Studio 287 is in the midst of a media centre, a veritable hive of TV and media production houses crowd this old industrial estate in the north east of the city. So there are plenty of trendy 'creative' types right on the doorstep, however of greater significance is the occupancy time clock. None of the neighbouring businesses function much after 5:00 p.m., thus Studio 287 can leak as much<|fim_middle|>clubs
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"Visiting DJs like it a lot," said Head of the sound Cyril Poirer. "But as always they want more level, they are never satisfied, however we have to respect the law. Signal is sent to a Midas XL42 for line distribution, but the d&b D12 amplifiers maximum level is controlled via their ROPE C control software. There is no way the DJs can access and exceed the levels we dictate. As well as in the room, we also monitor levels on the dance floor by taking several samples across the full 14.6 metres width; we try to be very careful with our customers." As you can tell, Octopussy, the club owners have applied their brand of professionalism throughout every function of the club, which runs normally till 5 or 6 in the morning depending on demand. Despite its lavish furnishing and high quality PA system this is still essentially a techno club, the new owners have fought hard to retain its image in that 'hard techno' slot, and attendance records confirm that they have succeeded.
Originally this venue was owned by the French singing star Jean Luc Lahaie, but for whatever reason he disposed of it and the club is now part of an independent group called Octopussy. They also own five other clubs in Paris, plus two restaurants, and a further three more clubs on the French west coast. "Laurent de Beaucouff is the driving force, he is investing more and more to furnish the club properly", said Didier 'Lulu' Lubin, a respected former live sound engineer, before opening d&b's office in Paris and the man who proposed and designed the current PA install at Studio 287. "The 287 generates a lot of publicity about the PA system to the club goers. Mostly their audience is in the fifteen to twenty-five age range who use the Internet and SMS to communicate with each other, and so does the club. Octopussy have a real desire to own the best scene in Paris."
Despite the installation preceding Poirer's arrival he still influenced its specification "We met at the club, that is me and Lulu" he said. I had ideas about what I wanted to do; the geometry here is strange, it is an old industrial unit, the roof is repeated waves of irregular triangular trusses that would have originally been skylights for the workers below." I needed the sound to overcome the natural compression forced by the roof shape. I also wanted more bass in the second, upper section of the room." When Poirer says 'upper section' it should be understood this is more a raised seating area than another floor; it sits approximately 1.5 metres above the main dance floor. "Up there we can lose a lot of bass from the dance floor PA positioned on and around the stage, yet this is where the top paying customers are sitting, and they want the bass. We started with a set of d&b Ci80s then added Ci90s for more energy; 105dB is what we aimed for."
The club's new PA exclusively comprises products from the d&b audiotechnik catalogue, and features an extensive distributed sound system beyond the dance floor and its conventional concert style PA. In the house we find two C7-TOPs, a multitude of Q-SUBs and Q10s, with Ci90s and Ci80s deployed at various acoustically strategic points on the periphery. To hear it, even at relatively low levels - below 100dB, this is a very muscular system with great emphasis on direct bass power into the seating areas. There are three main sound zones in the room, zone one the dance floor which is naturally the most potent; zone 2 the general seating area and zone three the VIP zones in the upper lounge where more attention is focussed.
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Ferrari sign Leclerc until end of 2024
Dec 23, 2019 | grandprix247 | 0 comments
Charles Leclerc will be a Ferrari driver until the end of 2024 according to a statement released by the team today.
The great Italian team are clearly pinning their future on the 22-year-old-Monegasque who was the team's best driver this year in qualifying and the Championship.
His teammate Sebastian Vettel remains with the team until the end of 2020, whereupon he will be looking to extend with the Reds knowing that Leclerc is the chosen one or look for alternatives.
For now, the team insist they will arrive at the 2020 season-opening Australian Grand Prix with no number one driver, the Scuderia drivers free-to-race.
Ferrari Statement:
Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow is pleased to announce that it has extended its contract with Charles Leclerc.
He has come through the ranks of the Ferrari Driver Academy, which he joined in 2016 and will now drive for the Italian team to the end of the 2024 season.
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Mattia Binotto Team Principal: "With each passing race this year, our wish to extend our contract with Charles became ever more self-evident and the decision means he will now be with us for the next five seasons. It demonstrates that Charles and the Scuderia have a firm future together.
"Charles has been part of our family since 2016 and we are more than proud of the results we are achieving with our Academy. We are therefore very pleased to be able to announce that he will be with us for many years to come and I'm sure that together, we will write many new pages in the history of the Prancing Horse."
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After dogs found in 'deplorable conditions,' Salisbury man pleads guilty to animal cruelty
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A Salisbury man pleaded guilty Monday to one count of aggravated animal cruelty by starvation after prosecutors say two dogs were found in "deplorable conditions" on his property.
A judge gave 41-year-old Ryan Shull a two-year sentence that's been suspended, according to the Wicomico County State's Attorney's Office. He'll spend two years on probation and has been ordered to pay $2,905 in restitution to the Humane Society of Wicomico County.
Shull is also banned from owning<|fim_middle|> to securing justice and keeping animals safe," State's Attorney Jamie Dykes said in a statement. | , possessing or residing with animals while on probation.
A news release shows animal control officers responded to Shull's property June 12, 2020, after complaints from neighbors. Charlie, a brown rottweiler, and Havoc, a gray pit bull, were found in a steel kennel with a doghouse designed to fit one dog.
The kennel was so covered in feces, prosecutors said, that the dogs had started defecating on top of the doghouse. The animals' ribs and hips could be seen from a distance because they were both underfed.
The Humane Society seized the dogs, which were estimated to be about 20 pounds underweight, according to the state's attorney's office. Both dogs have since recovered and been adopted by members of the community.
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Oasis Creates The Ultimate Album To End Every Major Movie With With Dig Out Your Soul!
The Good: Good lyrics, Great sound, Decent vocals
The Bad: Shorter than I'd like!
The Basics: Easily one of the best Oasis albums ever and - by a longshot - the best Oasis album since shaking the band up, Dig Out Your Soul reminds listeners that Oasis still rocks!
"The best album from the band in years" is a backhanded compliment if I've ever heard one. Loaded in that little phrase is the implication that the last few albums have not been all they could be but the band is doing much better now, thank you. As I happily set aside James Taylor's c.d.s for a moment (I have a cache of reviews of his works that will be appearing in the next few days!), I have the opportunity to listen to and review the latest outing by Oasis, Dig Out Your Soul.
Dig Out Your Soul is not the best album from Oasis in years; it is one of the best Oasis albums period. The thing is, I don't go back and re-rate my previous reviews, but in preparing my list of reviews by Oasis (see bottom), I am probably forced to admit that I went a bit lighter on Heathen Chemistry than I ought to have (if I were to get rid of any Oasis studio album, it would be that one). Dig Out Your Soul, though, is the Oasis album I have been waiting for since Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants or maybe even their superlative Be Here Now. Dig Out Your Soul is all big, all rocking and has a quality that Oasis has not achieved since it nixed everyone but Noel and Liam Gallagher.
With only eleven tracks, clocking in at a somewhat anemic (especially for Oasis) 45:56, Dig Out Your Soul finally gels Oasis as a cohesive musical band as a collaborative unit. Early Oasis was defined by the lyrics of Noel Gallagher and the vocals of Liam Gallagher and since the shakeup, Oasis has slowly been evolving to let the two "new guys," Gem and Andy Bell contribute in such a way that their works are as distinctly Oasis. On Dig Out Your Soul, the lyrics from the other three finally come up to the quality of Noel's writing and the music is of such a homogenous quality that there is no doubt who and what Oasis is at this point.
The eleven tracks are still dominated (slightly) by Noel Gallagher's writing. Noel wrote six of the songs, Liam gets in three (including his best-written song to date, "I'm Outta Time"), and Bell and Gem get one apiece. Stick with this formula and maybe you'll retake America, men! Liam provides primary vocals still (and no instruments), though Noel is given a vocal credit as well. Noel expands his instrumental credit to drums on three of the tracks (Zak Starkey picks up the others on his own), keyboard and "electronics." He also takes primary electric guitar, though Gem and Bell also play electric guitar. No one from Oasis is given any production credit, which seems surprising because this is one of the band's more produced albums. Given their level of involvement in every other level, it seems like this is very much the musical vision of the band.
And Oasis rocks on Dig Out Your Soul! Each and every track has the sound and quality of a song that would play over the closing credits to a major Hollywood motion picture. The songs are not anthemic (like on Be Here Now), but they all have that big, bold, "we're making a statement" quality to them that is common among soundtrack closing songs. That is the very best way to define the sound of the songs on Dig Out Your Soul. These are drums and bass-driven rock and roll tracks that have an emphasis still on the vocals and lyrics that make it clear that there is a statement to each song. But still, every song sounds big and brash in a way that makes it seem like the group is sealing some larger work off with their presentation.
Liam Gallagher finally comes into his own as a writer on Dig Out Your Soul. Liam's early songs were entirely lame singsong tracks that made fans of Noel's lyrics cringe. Literally. We wondered what the rest of the band was smoking when they let Liam write for them. But on Dig Out Your Soul, Liam actually has something to say. He still has a slightly less sophisticated rhyme scheme, but he actually muses well on "I'm Outta Time" when he writes and performs, "Here's a song / It reminds me of when we were young / Looking back at all the things we've done / You gotta keep on / Keeping on / Out to<|fim_middle|> Up! Does Exactly What It Claims!
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Similarly, Andy Bell's track sounds like distinctive Oasis. Bell muses about perspective on "The Nature Of Reality" and it is hard to deny that the track sounds like something Liam could have written (he wrote the two songs that surround it). As far as the writing goes, only Gem is still playing with the old conceits. His song, "To Be Where There's Life" has a few good lines, but is mostly bogged down with repetition. To his credit, it is his song from which the title of the album is derived so some points to Gem.
Lyrically, though, the bulk of the album is still carried by Noel and on this album he reminds the listener that he can write! Noel has often had the ability to muse on the nature of existence in a way that still made rock and roll. He does that here on songs like "Falling Down," one of the more mellow tracks on Dig Out Your Soul. There he wrote, "A dying scream / Makes no sound / Calling out to all that / Have ever known / Here am I, lost and found / Callin' out to all / In time we'll kiss / The world goodbye / Fallin' down on all / That I've ever known . . . We live a dying dream . . ." ("Falling Down"). He expresses his absence of faith in a way that makes sense and is musical and compelling.
This is not to say Noel Gallagher has gone all philosophical or dull on the listener. Songs like "Bag It Up" and "The Shock Of The Lightning" rock, both in terms of sound and in their lines. I'm one for whom repetition does not survive my scrutiny well. However, on "The Shock Of The Lightning," Noel writes some more simple lyrics and sells them with the presentation. After all, the obvious and repetitive "come in - come out" and rhymes like "Love is a time machine / Upon the silver screen / It's all in my mind / Love is a litany / A magical mystery . . ." ("The Shock Of The Lightning") could fall flat, but with the overall statement made by the song and the instrumentals backing it, it holds up well over multiple listens.
Musically, the songs are mostly distinctly Oasis. In fact, only "Soldier On," which closes the album sounds like it could have come from anyone else. That song sounds like a track by Gorillaz. While the emphasis on percussion - especially the way drums open "Bag It Up" and "The Turning" - is a bit stronger on this album, the songs still sound like Oasis songs. The guitars and bass are still sublimated just below the lead vocals, which is where much of the distinctive Oasis sound comes from.
On "The Turning," for example, the distinctive drum beats that open the album have an emphatic rest thrown in that shakes the sound up delightfully. Oasis does continue its expansion as musical artists on Dig Out Your Soul, though. They play with a Mellotron on "Falling Down" and there's a tamboura as well. This adds a richer more diverse sound to the songs on the album. In other words, this is not just a simple guitar, bass, drums band. Every song has something added to it be it the emphasis on percussion, different instruments or sampling, like using a clip from a John Lennon interview on "I'm Outta Time." And the band even gets funky with a very rich sound augmented by clapping beats on "(Get Off You) High Horse Lady" and it works for the group!
Vocally, Oasis isn't exactly stretching into new territory on Dig Out Your Soul, but the lyrics are very clearly presented and song to song, the tracks rival the quality of the smash album (What's The Story) Morning Glory? Indeed, the musical scope of the tracks exceeds most of what was on that album and presents a balance that makes Dig Out Your Soul one of the easiest to recommend straightforward rock and roll albums I have heard in quite some time. The songs are hardly monotonous (the psychedelic quality to "I'm Outta Time" breaks up more straightforward rock and roll tracks, for example) and the effort holds up remarkably well on constant replay (which I've had it on for the last two days now!).
Anyone who loves rock and roll will enjoy Dig Out Your Soul, an album that reminds listeners just what Oasis can do and should have been doing for the last few albums!
The best track is "I'm Outta Time," the least memorable track is "To Be Where There's Life."
For other Oasis works, please check out my reviews of:
(What's The Story?) Morning Glory
"Wonderwall" (single)
"Don't Look Back In Anger" (single)
For other music reviews, please visit my index page by clicking here!
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Where to Stream On the Basis of Sex?
'On the Basis of Sex' is a biographical legal drama that focuses on the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The late Supreme Court Justice made waves in her early cases and paved the way for gender equality in the highest echelons of the American justice system. The movie documents Ginsburg's fight for equal rights. Ruth remains an inspirational character even today, which is why several viewers might be wondering where to stream 'On the Basis of Sex' online. We have got you covered and will walk you through the premise too.
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We see Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a young and fiery attorney who teams up with Marty, her husband, to bring a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals. It is groundbreaking insofar as the ramifications might upturn a century of sex discrimination. Naturally, there is a degree of pushback, and Ruth manages to shine in this adverse scenario, making her bones as a formidable woman in the justice system.
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New Monday Night Rocks and Kill Devil Hill at Crown Theater and Nightclub
Updated schedule of events for Crown Theater & Nightclub
inside Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino – concerts and nightlife
WEEKLY ENTERTAINMENT:
– Mondays – Monday Night Rocks concert series. Big name acts perform live. Tickets are free while supplies last by clicking on the Monday Night Rocks icon at http://www.vegashotspots.com/.
– Wednesdays – Latin Libido Night; 10:30 p.m.
– Ladies Night – Fridays – Upscale hip-hop and R&B. Hosted by Mia Amore from Hot 97.5. 10:30 p.m.; Cover $20. Free champagne for ladies until midnight.
– Sinful Saturday – DJs spin upscale hip-hop and R&B with Hot 97.5 resident DJ Dre Dae, along with special guest appearances and performances; 10:30 p.m.; Cover $30.
– Sundays – Closed except for special events which will be listed below.
Crown Comedy Jam
A variety of comedic acts will perform. Tickets start at $39.50.
10:30 p.m. Doors
Upscale hip-hop and R&B with DJs including DJs Mizzy Matt and Dre Dae. The night is hosted by Mia Amore from Hot 97.5. Ladies receive free roses and free champagne until midnight. Cover $20.
Sinful Saturday
DJs spin upscale hip-hop and R&B with Hot 97.5 resident DJ Dre Dae and DJ D-Money, along with special guest appearances and performances. The night is emceed by Mr. B.O.B. Cover $30.
Exxtreme Comedy Show
9 p.m. Doors
Wheels Parise will perform his side-splitting comedy routine at Crown Theater. Recognized for his appearances on HBO and VH1 alongside Geechy Guy and as the opener for Andrew Dice Clay, Parise guarantees a rousing performance. Tickets start at $39.50.
Bruce Kulick featuring Sin City Sinners – Monday Night Rocks
Former lead guitarist for KISS, Bruce Kulick will perform at Crown Theater alongside Sin City Sinners. Kulick has been playing guitar professionally since 1975 and has worked with a variety of bands and artists throughout his successful career. In the early years , Kulick formed the band Blackjack with singer Michael Bolton. Afterwards, he joined the<|fim_middle|> Sin City Sinners. Lewis got his start in the music industry when he formed a glam rock band called Girl, which signed with Jet Records in 1979 under Don Arden's label. The group toured with acts such as Ozzy Osbourne and ZZ Top. Lewis eventually began working with guitarist Bernie Torme, touring and playing to sold-out audiences across England in 1985. In 1987, Lewis auditioned for the band L.A. Guns and was quickly picked up as the lead singer. After much work, the band signed to Polygram Records and released its self-titled debut album in 1988. L.A. Guns opened for AC/DC and Def Leppard, among others, and sold more than half a million copies of the album in America alone. The song, "The Ballad of Jayne," from its second album Cocked and Loaded, was a top 20 hit and the most requested song on MTV for two weeks. Lewis took a break from the band and in 1994 built a recording studio to start producing local bands. During this time, he also recorded his first solo album, More Purple Than Black. Between 1996 and 1998 he showed how multi-talented he was when he worked as the recording engineer/editor for the Fox Sports Network. A year later in 1999, the L.A. Guns reunited to record another album and tour Europe and Japan. In 2005, Lewis worked with producer Andy Johns and another friend to record Tales From The Strip, which received great reviews. He recently released the instrumental album, Green Room, in 2010.
Lewis will join the Sin City Sinners, a band comprised of lead rock musicians that perform at different venues around Las Vegas. Guests must be 21 years or older to attend. Guests can visit http://www.mondaynightrocks.com/ for complimentary tickets.
Dizzy Reed from Guns N' Roses – Monday Night Rocks
Famed member of Guns N' Roses Dizzy Reed will show the crowd how to rock when he performs at Crown Theater. This rocker from Illinois joined Guns N' Roses in 1990 and has been a devoted band member ever since. Guests must be 21 years or older to attend. Guests can visit www.mondaynightrocks.com for complimentary tickets.
Kill Devil Hill – Monday Night Rocks
Kill Devil Hill, a group made up of some of the most experienced and talented musicians in the business, will bring music to life and entertain guests at Crown Theater. Drummer Vinnie Appice has worked alongside famed artists such as John Lennon and Ozzy Osbourne. Bassist Rex Brown is best known for being a member of the Grammy nominated band Pantera and has also worked with KISS, Black Sabbath and other prominent bands. Guitarist Mark Zavon was featured in Guitar Player Magazine for his guitar playing skills and he was also a member of the legendary band WASP. Vocalist Dewey Bragg is the voice behind this talented band and brings the impressive sound of the instruments together with his melody. Guests must be 21 years or older to attend. Guests can visit http://www.mondaynightrocks.com/ for complimentary tickets.
Roller Boogie with DJ Hollywood, DJ Frankie
Crown Nightclub brings a throwback '80s roller skating party with favorites DJ Hollywood and DJ Frankie and special old school guests. General admission is $10 and it is $10 to rent skates. Those in the industry receive free admission.
General Venue Information
All concert tickets are available at http://www.thecrownvegas.com/ or by calling the Rio Box Office at 1-888-746-7784. Additional ticket charges may apply. The Rio Box Office is open daily from 10 a.m. until 11 p.m. All events listed are 21 and over.
About Crown Las Vegas
Crown Las Vegas is the moniker that houses Crown Theater & Nightclub. The company is overseen by attorney and entertainment veteran Darin Feinstein who has owned and operated music venues, nightclubs and entertainment outlets for more than 10 years. In addition to purchasing the world famous The Viper Room from actor Johnny Depp, Feinstein's companies have produced thousands of live shows and events in multiple cities nationwide. http://www.thecrownvegas.com/.
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Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino offers guests a unique all-suite hotel experience. Complete with 2,522 all-suite hotel rooms, the property overlooks the famous Las Vegas Strip, and sits one block west of the famed boulevard. The resort features a variety of entertainment options including headliners Penn and Teller, the world-famous Chippendales and the Show in the Sky. Rio is home to a diverse array of dining and nightlife experiences including, the famous Voodoo Lounge, Martorano's, McFadden's, iBar and VooDoo Beach. Rio also offers the Rio Secco Golf Club. Recognized by USA Today as one of the "Top 10 Golf Destinations in the World," Rio Secco Golf Club is an 18-hole championship course designed by famed architect Rees Jones and home to the Butch Harmon School of Golf. For more information, visit http://www.riolasvegas.com/, find us on Facebook and follow on Twitter.
Rio, along with all Caesars Entertainment Las Vegas resorts, including Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Paris Las Vegas, Flamingo Las Vegas, Harrah's, Bally's, Imperial Palace and Bill's Gamblin' Hall & Saloon, proudly prohibit adding hidden resort fees to hotel guest room rates. For information on No Resort Fees visit www.caesars.com/vegasnoresortfees. | band KISS and continued as the lead guitarist for 12 years, where he won numerous Platinum and Gold awards. After his time with KISS, Kulick went on to focus on other projects, including the development of the band UNION with John Corabi in 1997 and later teamed up with Corabi and Eric Singer to form the Eric Singer Project. Throughout his career, Kulick stayed connected with KISS by contributing to the band's album Psycho Circus and helping Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley launch successful solo careers. Kulick released a solo album in 2001 entitled Audio Dog. That same year, he joined the band Grand Funk Railroad as its lead guitarist. He has continued to make strides with his newest album BK3 in 2010.
Kulick will join the Sin City Sinners, a band comprised of lead rock musicians that perform at different venues around Las Vegas. Guests must be 21 years or older to attend. Guests can visit http://www.mondaynightrocks.com/ for complimentary tickets.
Latin Libido Night
Latin music will heat up the dance floor at Crown Theater. Ladies receive free entry until midnight and half price cover after. Cover $10 for local guys and $20 for out-of-state guys.
Phil Lewis featuring Sin City Sinners – Monday Night Rocks
Singer for the LA Guns and rock guitarist, Phil Lewis, will perform at Crown Theater alongside | 291 |
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Our approach recognizes that valid, reliable, and tailored measures are critical for quick-turnaround studies. AIR content and measurement experts work with partners to identify or develop appropriate measures that are best aligned with the goals of the program or strategy being tested. AIR data scientists have a particular emphasis on unobtrusive measures that do not add burden to stakeholders in the field, such as those based on readily-accessible data and novel measures based on "big data" from web-based programs.
Impact Evaluation of Parent Messaging Strategies on Student Attendance
Absenteeism in even the early school years has been associated with significant long-term risks for students. AIR and our partners from the University of Chicago, the North Carolina State University, and 2M are evaluating the use of text messaging to inform parents about the importance of regular student attendance and to increase parent engagement to reduce student absenteeism in elementary schools. This cutting-edge study, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, uses a SMART design to evaluate the effectiveness of an adaptive text messaging intervention. The intervention is adaptive in the sense that parents whose children miss more school during the school year will receive more intensive intervention. The study will evaluate the overall impact of the two-stage intervention on student attendance rates and student achievement. The SMART design also will allow us to examine the relative impact of the different intervention sequences, for different types of families and children.
Efficacy Study of Online Credit Recovery in Algebra I
Online courses are in wide use to help struggling students get back on track, but evidence is sorely lacking. To test the impact of using an online course for credit recovery, AIR conducted a short-duration randomized controlled trial in the Chicago Public Schools. Our study used a simple lottery to randomly assign more than 1,200 students who had failed Algebra I in ninth grade to retake the course as either an online course or a face-to-face class. The courses were offered during the summer, in three- to four-week sessions—typical for credit recovery. Within a span of six to eight weeks, we randomly assigned eligible students to one of the two types of credit recovery, documented how the courses were implemented, collected data for outcome measures, and conducted analyses, and reported the results to the district. The results were used to inform ongoing decision-making about summer school and other credit recovery options.
Evaluation of Playground Physics
AIR worked closely with the New York Hall of Science, as a research and development partner, to support and inform the development of Playground Physics, a technology-based application and aligned curriculum materials. The program was designed to support middle school students' learning of the key physics concepts of motion, force, and energy. The program is meant to be implemented during the physics units of middle school science courses, typically about two to four weeks in duration, thus readily lending itself to rapid-cycle studies. AIR designed and conducted a series of studies tailored to meet the needs of the developers at multiple stages of | 596 |
Classroom management is hard enough. But when a teacher is faced with a student who flat-out "crosses the line" day after day, then that teacher goes home beaten up and dispirited. The effect is cumulative: the longer it continues, the worse you feel - especially if you're not getting any help from the administration in your building.
That's teacher burnout, and it's what drives new teachers out of the education<|fim_middle|> dealing with elementary discipline. Counselors and intervention specialists are available to help. Here's how to get help.
Helping an oppositional-defiant child control behavior can overwhelm teachers. How to love & assist special-needs students.
What consequences do you implement if poor behavior happened at recess, art or fitness? Sorting out tricky discipline issues. | profession. If this is your situation, you'll find these articles helpful.
Great elementary classroom behavior is built on a foundation of understanding, expectations and follow-through. Your step-by-step guide.
The goal of classroom discipline is to for students to hold themselves accountable for their choices. How to use a "step-aside" process that makes this easier.
Classroom seating is a critical component of student behavior. Desk separation quickly manages a difficult behavior situation if it's done right.
Your classroom discipline approach will be unique to each individual student. These case studies illustrate good responses to tough situations.
Student defiance could be the worst immediate behavior that can happen, aside from safety issues. How to handle it without emotion.
When to involve your school principal in student misbehavior. Sorting out the types of building discipline plans and how they impact your classroom.
Behavior plans or contracts may be called for if poor choices continue for over a month. Here's how to create one that is both effective and enforceable.
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Ryan Test (1)
Three-dimensional organization and dynamics of vortices in multichannel swirling jets
Andrea Ianiro, Kyle P. Lynch, Daniele Violato, Gennaro Cardone, Fulvio Scarano
Journal: Journal of Fluid Mechanics / Volume 843 / 25 May 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2018, pp. 180-210
Print publication: 25 May 2018
The unsteady three-dimensional flow organization of jets issued from a duct with swirl vanes at Reynolds number equal to 1000 and swirl number $S$ ranging between 0 and 0.8 is investigated. Time-resolved tomographic particle image velocimetry returns the instantaneous flow structure and its evolution by visualization of velocity and vortical features. The most relevant coherent motions are identified and characterized with the aid of dynamic mode decomposition. The time-averaged flow topology indicates that the<|fim_middle|> present the results of a series of experiments that explore electron, proton and ion irradiation on Solar System relevant ices such as carbon dioxide (CO2) at different temperatures. Infrared spectra recorded before and after irradiation are used to identify and quantify molecules formed in such irradiation, e. g. ozone. These experiments show that the morphology of the ice plays a critical role in the chemistry. | vanes used to impart the swirling motion have a significant impact on the azimuthal modulation of momentum, with the jet exhibiting four sectors separated by a thin cross-like wake resulting from the boundary layer developed along the vane walls. The flow field is thus characterized by inner and outer shear regions. An increase in swirl, up to moderate levels ( $S=0.4$ ), causes larger jet spreading angles. Further increase of the swirl number is accompanied by the appearance of a central recirculation zone due to vortex breakdown at $S=0.6$ which increases in size and is triggered upstream for increasing $S$ . Although no shear layer instability development is observed at $S=0$ , already at $S=0.2$ the swirling motion promotes the growth of helical vortices appearing as Kelvin–Helmholtz waves that deform the outer axial shear layer. The downstream evolution features successive pairing, which is observed for all the considered swirl numbers. The initial development of the instability is independent for each vane, whereas a mutual interaction between the vanes occurs after the vortex pairing. The reconnection from the four sectors vortices induces a significant increase of azimuthal vorticity, which affects the dynamical behaviour of the precessing vortex core. The latter is visualized by a low-order spatio-temporal reconstruction based on few dynamical modes. At a higher swirl number ( $S\geqslant 0.6$ ), the axial vorticity component dominates the flow field; it interacts with the azimuthal vorticity, which penetrates inward through the meanders of the vane wakes and forces the vortex core precession and breakdown.
Dust formation at cryogenic temperatures
Thomas Henning, Cornelia Jäger, Gaël Rouillé, Daniele Fulvio, Serge A. Krasnokutski
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 13 / Issue S332 / March 2017
The efficiency of dust formation in a variety of environments is an ongoing topic for discussions, especially if it comes to dust formation in the interstellar medium. Although this possibility is discussed in a wide range of numerical studies, experiments on the formation of dust at low densities and temperatures are mostly lacking. This contribution summarizes the main findings of our low-temperature condensation experiments including the formation of silica, complex silicates with pyroxene and olivine stoichiometry, and of carbonaceous refractory materials. Atomic and molecular species to be expected as products of supernovae shock fronts were produced by laser ablation of silicates and graphite. These species were deposited together with a rare gas on cold substrates representing the surfaces of surviving dust grains in the interstellar medium. After characterizing the precursor species, the rare gas matrix was annealed to induce diffusion and reactions between the initial components. We found the production of amorphous and homogeneous silica and magnesium iron silicates at temperatures of about 12 K in a barrierless reaction as monitored by infrared spectroscopy. The 10 μm band of the low-temperature siliceous condensates shows a striking similarity to the 10 μm band of interstellar silicates. Carbonaceous atoms and molecules can also react without a barrier and form an amorphous or hydrogenated amorphous carbon material. The refractory condensate has properties comparable to fullerene-like carbon grains formed at high temperatures.
Observations of mutual phenomena of Galilean's satellites at Catania
Daniele Fulvio, Carlo Blanco
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 6 / Issue S269 / January 2010
The mutual phenomena between Jupiter and Saturn's satellites occur every half orbital period of these planets, when the Earth and the Sun cross their equatorial plane. At Physics and Astronomy Department of Catania University the events between Jupiter's satellites have been observed during the 1973, 1979, 1985/86, 1991, 1997 and 2009 campaigns and the ones between Saturn's satellites during the 1980/81 and 1995 campaigns. An overview of the main results obtained since 1973 is presented.
Electron, proton and ion induced molecular synthesis and VUV spectroscopy of interstellar molecules in the ice phase
Bhalamurugan Sivaraman, Sohan Jheeta, Nigel Mason, Adam Hunniford, Tony Merrigan, Bob McCullough, Daniele Fulvio, Maria Elisabetta Palumbo, Marla Moore
Journal: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union / Volume 4 / Issue S251 / February 2008
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2008, pp. 451-452
Print publication: February 2008
Planets and their moons are constantly subjected to irradiation from both their respective planetary magnetospheres and the solar wind. Energetic particles (electrons, protons and ions) in such radiation may induce complex chemistry within the icy mantles of such bodies, producing many organic compounds. Such processes can be simulated in laboratory experiments. In this report we present recent results from experiments exploring both molecular synthesis and the morphology of such ices.
The morphology of any ice may be characterised by IR and Vacuum Ultra-Violet (VUV) spectroscopy. The latter is particularly useful for studying ices in which infrared inactive molecules like oxygen (O2) are common. We have shown that oxygen forms dimers in typical planetary ices and that, in contrast to previous analysis, many of the chemical reactions within the ice involve such dimer (and larger cluster) chemistry. We also | 1,205 |
Welcome to the Kane Depot's McCleery Lobo Wolves Archive!
The Kane Depot's McCleery Lobo Wolves Archive is a digital library consisting of primary and secondary source materials relevant to Dr. Edward Heber McCleery and his successors' work with wolves.<|fim_middle|>. McCleery's death in 1962, he sold his wolves to Jack Lynch, who continued his work with wolves. The wolves were eventually moved to Washington state, and later to different locations in Montana. Dr. McCleery's successors are still carrying out his work today at the E. H. McCleery Buffalo Wolf Foundation in Montana.
You can browse the archive's collections of documents, photographs, articles, and more by clicking Browse at the top of the page. You can return to this page at any time by clicking Home. | All items in this collection were donated to and acquired by the Kane Depot, the historic preservation society of Kane, Pennsylvania.
This website serves both as a finding aid for the Kane Depot's physical McCleery Lobo Wolves collection, and as a full-text database of the materials in the collection for which no known copyright restrictions exist. We hope to better preserve our collection by offering digital versions of select items to reduce the handling and prolong the life of the physical artifacts. We also hope that offering this information online will help raise awareness of the Kane Depot's collection and generate interest in Dr. McCleery's and his successors' work with wolves.
This digital library is for anyone with an interest in Dr. McCleery's and his successors' work, including students, teachers, researchers, historians, or individuals who want to take a trip down memory lane.
Dr. McCleery of Kane, Pennsylvania worked to conserve a subspecies of wolves beginning in the early 1920s. He eventually established a "wolf farm" along Route 6 (between Kane and Mt. Jewett) which became a tourist attraction that lured visitors from all over the United States.
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Editorial: A wise push to make entire report on Parkland shooting to be public
DIRK SHADD | Times Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, who wants the report made public, knows that state and local officials stand to learn significant lessons from the safety commission's report on the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri chairs the safety commission.
Published September 5 2018
Updated September 5 2018
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri is putting public safety and government accountability at the forefront by calling for a state commission's report on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre to be made as public as possible. State and local officials stand to learn significant lessons from the Feb. 14 mass shooting, which left 17 people dead and another 17 wounded. A full, public release of the report offers the best chance to learn from<|fim_middle|> Jimmy Patronis' office? | Editorial
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement should find out. Look at everything, not one incident.
Let the free market work for medical marijuana | Editorial
An appeals court recently called the current system "unreasonable." Licensees should not have to perform every step, from growing to selling.
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Trump's racist rant requires a collective response | Editorial
The Democrats urged to "go back'' to the countries they came from are already home. Our diversity is a strength, not a threat.
The voters spoke. Time to act on Hillsborough transportation tax. | Editorial
County commissioners should allocate the tax proceeds into specific areas as voters approved and get started.
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Four social media-savvy Democratic members of Congress pull their party to the extreme and toward defeat. | the tragedy, dispel false information and restore public faith in first responders and the safety net.
Gualtieri's comments come at a critical time for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission, which he chairs. The panel aims to help create a better system in Florida for identifying and responding to risks on school campuses and to threats of mass violence more generally. Gualtieri, who is also an attorney, told the Times editorial board Wednesday his goal is to release the entire report with nothing redacted for privacy or security reasons.
Gualtieri acknowledges the balancing act in disclosing as much information as possible while adhering to privacy laws and concerns about protecting school security procedures. But he is right to try to set the public record straight so that the public and policymakers will have a complete, accurate picture of what evolved in the months and years before the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, returned with a semiautomatic rifle to his old high school. "It's imperative we be successful at it," he said.
Being as open as possible is in the best interests of the state and reflects Gualtieri's positive influence as chairman of the commission. Already, he has worked to debunk several false narratives that pointed to gross breakdowns in the social services system. Gualtieri said the record will show that Cruz received extensive mental health services and that a full public report would make that apparent without disclosing Cruz's clinical records, for example. The same careful considerations are possible in noting Cruz's school history, his family's interactions with the police and the response that day by law enforcement. The goal here is to pinpoint gaps in the system, communication failures or breakdowns on the job, not to invade the privacy of Cruz or anyone else.
The panel, which is meeting again today in South Florida, faces a Jan. 1 deadline to report its initial findings to the state in advance of the legislative session in March. A full report would help rally public and legislative support for improvements to the public safety net, from increased funding for mental health and school support services to better communications between police, schools and private providers. A commitment to openness also would send a timely message to local law enforcement and the school system that the public has a right to learn all it can about what happened in the run-up to the mass high school shooting in Parkland. Media organizations should not have to file lawsuits to try to make public reports and records related to the government's response — and the Broward School District should be ashamed for asking a judge to hold the South Florida Sun Sentinel and two of its reporters in contempt for publishing confidential but legally obtained information about Cruz.
Gualtieri is on the right track. This state commission owes Floridians a fair, accurate, complete and transparent account of the tragedy so this state can adopt significant reforms to make its children and its schools safer.
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The season for grown-ups is coming into its own: a new book by a favorite author and a few other pieces that have come across our collective radars.
While I'm not quite through my summer fascination with spies and moles, I'm excited to see a new book out by Edmund de Waal—a follow up to one of my favorites, The Hare with Amber Eyes. Ent<|fim_middle|> is it that I do a big product shout-out, but when a smartly designed piece of handcrafted work comes my way, I absolutely must. The Pot Strainer from Jonathan's Spoons, is beyond genius. Much easier than a colander for straining pasta and veggies, the cherry wood strainer even has two little knobs that help you hold it against the pan, and even support the water-filled pan so you can focus on keeping your face out of the steam. Now isn't that nice? But mind you keep it out of the dishwasher: treat your wooden implements right and they'll take care of you much better.
This entry was posted in Box 1, NOTICED and tagged Art, Barnaby Barford, BBC, cooking, de Waal, Hare with Amber Eyes, installation, London Design Festival, Max Lamb, Pasta, porcelain, sea silk, strainer, tree, White Road, wood, wooden spoons. Bookmark the permalink. | itled The White Road: Journey Into An Obsession, it's a narrative history of porcelain and de Waal's enduring relationship with it. Given his exquisite prose and ability to articulate the relationship of body, mind, and soul with material and craft, I'm looking forward to this one. Hits our shores in early November.
An interesting and heart-tugging piece picked up in a few places about the last woman who makes sea silk—byssus—has me thinking. How many crafts have been lost, how many died out this year alone? And, heretically, does it matter? Do all crafts have to be retained forever? I think I'll explore this one. But in the meantime, take a look at this piece and at least embrace what the weaver, Chiara Vigo, has on her door: "Haste doesn't live here." Words to live by.
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I have always been intrigued by how my friends and clients label themselves in their path of discovery for inner self. Some claim to follow the devout road of spirituality peppered with a dash of mysticism and occult beliefs, while others are mesmerized by everything occult peppered with a spiritual outlook. All being completely intrigued with the path of the unknown, unseen and unlimited potential we have as human beings to look outside our physical boundaries.
I have friends that are deeply into the occult but do not participate in prayer, devotion or quieting meditation. And then there are just the opposite, those that are devoutly spiritual, filled with goddess energy, prayer work and a deep connection to the Oneness of the Divine who wouldn't touch a Tarot deck if their life depended on it.
What I have learned from these different approaches to the unseen and unknown force we have within<|fim_middle|> various ways due to the differences in the religious, social and psychological traditions and these deep beliefs are often considered to be beyond perceptual or intellectual comprehension.
Mysticism is defined to be spiritual in nature but experienced in the perfect consummation of the love of God. The definition of mysticism is so wide that it cannot be limited to any one religious tradition but considered as the origin of many teachings.
In today's definition, the word 'mysticism' is often used for non-rational viewpoints of life and the world in general. Spirituality and mysticism are considered to be interconnected as both deal with the transcendent or rapturous experiences. The approach and the commitment is what defines the difference between the two.
Regardless of what path you take to the awareness that you are more than just a vehicle having a day to day experience, spiritualty is always the key to awaken the process of "being more." Once you become conscious that all gifts, powers and revelations are from One source of divine love, the possibility of expanding what you already are becomes without limitation. | us is that it is always the same energy and desire but effected by the personality, ego and open mindedness of whomever is putting it into practice. Some call it gifts, others call it forces and harnessing the elements.
Whatever approach you take for your soul to become more aware, spirituality is a must have foundation to become all that you are capable of.
In doing a little research, I came up with some interesting definitions of what the difference are between spirituality, the occult and mysticism. One thing they all had in common was that regardless of what your practices were or how you got there, being spiritual made it more.
Spirituality is the sense of connection to something bigger than ourselves and it typically involves a search for meaning in life. It is a universal human experience that touches us all in some form or another. Particularly when it comes to witnessing the miracle of birth and the soul release of death.
Spiritual power is vast and luminous, constantly expanding both the finite and the Infinite. If something is little, a spiritual life will make it bigger. If it is already very big, spirituality will make it bigger still. When spiritual power is used, it is all peace, all harmony.
Spiritual insight involves "remembering something you have forgotten you knew." It is the soul's solitary adventure, dealing with the spirit within, which is the absolute master and controller of the body.
Occultism is the belief in or study of the supernatural or supernormal powers. It involves everything relating to mystical, supernatural, magical powers, practices, or phenomena. Occult power is of a different kind of energy than spirituality or mysticism.
You can say it is a direct, sharp and immediate power like the edge of a sword. In occult power, there is a movement which is almost always restless, always searching for more ways to express that power or gain more. A possessor of occult power without a foundation of spirituality rarely has peace, whereas the possessor of spiritual power is on a path of searching for continuous peace within and without.
When one is on the path of only acquiring more occult powers, there is always a struggle between the ego and the heart. Occultists tend to play up hiddenness, turning it into a kind of cosmic mystery presented in a way that only they understand and you are their audience or participating partner.
Mysticism can be defined as the pursuit of communion with the ultimate Divinity, Reality, Spiritual Truth or God. A mystic is a person who has found the balance of this union. The term has been expressed in | 518 |
Are Japanese auctions a lazy mans tool and what's the fuss?
A Japanese Reverse Auction is an auction type that requires all suppliers to bid at a continuously decreasing price (the value of which is set by the buyer/host). The bidders may choose to either bid at the current value or drop out of the auction. Rather than most reverse auction types which finish in principle when the second-to-last bidder drops out of the auction, a Japanese auction ends when the single supplier left has offered their lowest value they wish to bid or their time limit has elapsed during that individual price level.
The fundamental aspect to a Japanese Reverse Auction is limiting the information available to the suppliers. For example when using Market Dojo software if a bidder drops out of a Japanese Reverse Auction, the only information available to that bidder is; the values that they have bidded on, the value at which they refused (and therefore dropped out of the auction) as well as the time that elapsed while they participated in the auction. Unlike typical auctions types in which they may have visibility to see the winning value of the auction or at the<|fim_middle|> correctly create the specification of the item/service and SLA's. Not to mention getting the suppliers engaged. Meaning that although it might be a simple way to generate competitive bids from both the incumbent supplier and new suppliers, it requires some effort on the part of the host to create the right environment to get the most competitive result from a Japanese Reverse Auction. | very least their rank.
Another important difference to typical auction types, is that with a Japanese Reverse Auction the bidders aren't directly competing against each other's bids. For example in a Ranked Auction, bidder 1 would bid against the value of bidder 2. Whereas in a Japanese Reverse Auction, bidder 1 and 2 would both have the option to bid for value X without the knowledge of each other's bid. Thereby stopping a bidder from directly bidding to oppose the value of another bidder.
What's so special about a Japanese Reverse Auction then?
Japanese Auctions limit the information available to the bidder - Suppliers can't see who they are competing against or know the values that another supplier is bidding. In some cases this could stop bidders from discovering each other's margins, if they know the lowest values that different suppliers can offer then they can calculate the margins that their competitor can supply.
A different form of pressure is put on the supplier to traditional auctions, as they aren't directly bidding against each other's bid. They are pressurised into choosing to bid at each declining value, meaning that if they don't bid at the price level, then their competitor might and they would lose out entirely.
Typically in ranked reverse auctions the incumbent supplier might decide not to partake fully. They may attempt to demonstrate a competitive yet non-leading bid as they don't feel the need to offer the best price. This is because if the difference between them and another bidder is not significant, the buyer is unlikely to change the supplier. It is estimated that 60% of reverse auctions remain with the incumbent supplier even if they don't offer the best value or price in the auction.
But what's the benefit to me?
By limiting the level of information to the suppliers, it encourages suppliers to offer at an affordable price they can supply for. Rather than just offering a value that is better than their competitor. It also stops suppliers from bid shadowing (offering a value within a small margin of the lead bidder potentially still including them in consideration after the end of the event even if they didn't win).
Japanese Auctions are particularly effective in a situation where there might be price fixing between suppliers, especially in a market with a limited number of suppliers. For example if 1 or 2 companies hold a monopoly on your market, a Japanese Auction would encourage them to offer their best value rather than just to offer a value that beats that of their competitor.
Homeserve recently saved £1.4 million through Japanese eAuctions, while shortening their negotiations process from weeks to hours. In this case the eAuctions were for various subcontractor services across the UK and had over 140 suppliers participating.
Has it been labelled as a 'lazy mans tool'?
In the past Japanese Reverse Auctions has been seen as a 'lazy mans tool'. This could be due to Japanese Auctions being able to function with a very limited number of participants.
However Japanese Reverse Auctions require the hosts to set a number of different conditions for the auction. Such as the predetermined price decreases, the time limit of each predetermined price decrease and setting the range for the qualification bid. And as with other eAuctions you need to | 649 |
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Dillon Gee gets back on track
Dillon Gee delivers a pitch during a game against the Washington Nationals at Citi Field. (April 21, 2013) Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
By TOM PEDULLA. Special to Newsday Updated April 21, 2013 10:07 PM
Mets r<|fim_middle|> an outstanding lineup, you should be very happy. Now you know if you make your pitches, you can get anybody out."
Gee had endured months of anxiety and doubt since he experienced numbness in the fingers of his right hand after a 3-1 win in that July 7 game against the Cubs. Doctors at NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital discovered a blood clot in his right shoulder. A catheter was used to break up the clot before surgery was performed July 13 to repair a damaged artery.
Then came the long and treacherous road back. After a solid debut on April 4 in which he suffered a 2-1 loss to the Padres, the Phillies rocked him for seven runs and 10 hits in three innings five days later. He yielded a career high-tying three home runs and was on the losing end of an 8-3 decision in his shortest stint since he broke into the majors in 2010.
A nightmarish start in Colorado followed on April 16. Bone-chilling conditions made it impossible for Gee to get a feel for his pitches, and he paid dearly for poor location in an 8-4 loss. He trudged back to the dugout after being hammered for five runs and seven hits, including a home run, in 42/3 innings.
Game-time temperature was an autumnal 49 degrees at Citi Field Sunday. To Gee, it felt downright balmy. "It was definitely nice to come back and get a little sunshine," he said.
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Improved conditions and a shrewder approach made the difference. He pounded the inside part of the plate with fastballs as part of a convincing 98-pitch effort in which he fired 57 strikes. That allowed him to torture the Nationals' heavy hitters with his changeup.
"The game plan was to mix in a lot of changeups," Gee said. "That is my best pitch, and I've got to get back to it."
The Mets lost seven consecutive series to the Nationals before Gee, slotted third in the rotation, helped swing the rubber match of the three-game series their way.
"If we want to be competitive in our division, we can't just have two starters pitching well," catcher John Buck said, adding, "It's huge for Dillon to pitch the way he did."
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"It was eating at me the last few weeks that I was not going out and doing my job," said Gee, who had dropped his first three decisions, the longest losing streak of his young career. He rebounded by limiting the defending NL East champions to three singles and three walks with six strikeouts.
"It's huge for him," manager Terry Collins said. "When you get to the sixth or seventh inning against the Nationals, who have | 128 |
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by Fernanda M
It wasn't that long ago that presidential candidates spent the majority of their pre-debate time perfecting their messages and worrying about which tie to wear. Now, they have one more concern to think about before the debate – maintaining a good social media presence. Twitter has emerged as one of the power players during this election cycle. From politicians to regular users, a broad range of people are using the network to get their political messages out to the masses. While this might be<|fim_middle|> to Twitter to keep the conversion going. In doing so, the political team delivered some soundbites from the debate.
Twitter has proven that it is the perfect platform to deliver these soundbites to the masses. This is something that businesses can learn from as well. If they have a powerful soundbite, they should take to Twitter. They can get a lot of coverage when they use the platform. That coverage can turn into more followers – and more votes.
Everyone Joins in the Conversation on Twitter
In the past, debates were one-sided. Politicians got to stand up and say what they wanted to say, and everyone else got to watch. Twitter has changed that by turning regular people into active participants.
People take to Twitter to debate along with the politicians. This accomplishes two things. First, it gets the conversation going around certain issues, and second, it gives the politicians a better idea of where their followers stand. This helps them script their message.
Again, the same is true for brands. Whenever people talk about you, you can find out what they want. This is very powerful when creating the perfect marketing message and the right products.
From the Computer to the Moderator
Something else very interesting is happening in regard to Twitter and presidential debates. Sometimes, a person's tweet ends up on the national stage.
Andy Grewal is an example of this. Grewal tweeted a reaction to one of Clinton's statements during a debate in Iowa last November. Although he used the hashtag #DemDebate, he did not think that anyone of importance would see his tweet.
A mere eight minutes later, the debate's moderator read the tweet and asked Clinton for her thoughts. While her apology wasn't surprising, the fact that the tweet was read at all is. This was a watershed moment for social media and live events. It bridged the gap between the two and showed that it is possible to create a fluid experience between the online and offline worlds.
While some people feel that this year is just politics as usual, Twitter proves that is not the case. The social media network is changing the way people and politicians interact in an election cycle. Twitter will likely cement an even stronger place in politics as it continues to evolve.
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Select Languageالعربية简体中文NederlandsEnglishFrançaisDeutschItalianoPortuguêsРусскийEspañol | something new, it's important to understand that it is the new normal, not an anomaly. Twitter has proven itself a force during this election, and it will undoubtedly continue to change the way politicians navigate the election season.
Cross-Party Debates
One of the most interesting aspects of Twitter is that it allows people to send out messages in real time, much like candidates do during a presidential debate. Because of that, candidates from other parties use the platform to join in on debates. This gives them a chance to stay in the news, even when they're not the ones standing at a podium.
Bernie Sanders has done this better than anyone and even received a nice bump in Twitter followers because of it. In fact, he added over 5,000 followers to his Twitter account after live tweeting a debate using the hashtag #GOPDebate last December. That was more followers than any other candidate received during the debate.
He didn't just stumble into this position by accident, though. He live-tweeted a debate last September as well. Using the hashtag #DebateWithBernie, he skewered his Republican opponents on the social media platform. At the same time, he reminded people what they would get with a Sanders presidency.
Of course, it wouldn't be an election season without the other side taking swings as well. Prolific Tweeter Donald Trump stands out among the crowd of Republicans when it comes to live tweeting debates.
Trump manages to keep his Republican followers engaged during the Democratic debates, which is a great way for him to get coverage. In addition, it allows him to remind people that he is different from those candidates.
Politicians' policies and beliefs are usually broken up into small soundbites. In the past, people would see the soundbites on the news, but now they've found new life, floating around Twitter during and after debates.
One example of this is the Democratic debate that took place in Des Moines, Iowa. NPR's political team liveblogged the event and then took | 408 |
Abstract: EVEREST (EPIC Variability Extraction and Removal for Exoplanet Science Targets) removes instrumental noise from light curves with pixel level decor<|fim_middle|>3 pm, edited 1 time in total. | relation and Gaussian processes. The code, written in Python, generates the EVEREST catalog and offers tools for accessing and interacting with the de-trended light curves. EVEREST exploits correlations across the pixels on the CCD to remove systematics introduced by the spacecraft's pointing error. For K2, it yields light curves with precision comparable to that of the original Kepler mission. Interaction with the EVEREST catalog catalog is available via the command line and through the Python interface. Though written for K2, EVEREST can be applied to additional surveys, such as the TESS mission, to correct for instrumental systematics and enable the detection of low signal-to-noise transiting exoplanets.
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Capernaum, by contrast, deals with plenty of cruelty and has moments that literally had my fellow critics and me breaking the sacrosanct Cinema Code of Conduct by verbalising our shock and horror at the latest bombshells coming our way – with a particular revelation towards the end of the film being particularly jaw-dropping – but is, in and of itself, never anything but entirely compassionate.
Labaki gets a lot right as both writer and director but what impresses most is the uncanny and unwavering sense of discretion in how she handles the real-life horrors that are being depicted. Our young hero, Zain (played with impeccable naturalism by Zain Al Rafeea, an utterly untested child-actor who can express more with his eyes than many seasoned actors can with their whole bodies), shares a dingy, unfurnished apartment and a single, ratty mattress with his neglectful parents and more siblings than he – or we – can count and Labaki is unflinching in showing just how untenable such a life is for someone as independently-spirited as Zain but she also never dwells unnecessarily on it.
When Zain leaves home in disgust after his sister is sold off in marriage to the family's unsavoury landlord entirely against her will, Labaki barely draws attention to the fact that no one seems to notice or care but that only makes the neglect feel all the more tangible. Incredibly, it's from this point that things become increasingly dire for Zain, even if he momentarily finds a new home with an illegal immigrant and her undocumented toddler, but because the film is told from the point of view of a child, Labaki ensures that the truly horrific stuff is never entirely grasped by Zain, who isn't just a child but one who knows nothing of a world outside his own miserable existence. This ensures that even though we, the audience, understand exactly how far down the pits of hell depicted in the film truly go, Zain's relative innocence and naivete both cushions the blow by turning the explicit-implicit and makes it hurt all the more by removing any distance between Zain and us.
Such raw, potent emotions combined with brilliant filmmaking and expert performances from a mostly non-professional group of actors (including Boluwatife Treasure Bankole who is, very literally, no more than a baby) almost entirely nullify the film's few weaknesses. But only almost. The framing device of a boy suing his parents for bringing him into the world, in particular, feels sadly under-developed. It's such a fascinating concept that it could do with a film of its own but is relegated to a somewhat contrived plot device in a movie that is otherwise above such things. It also does, it has to be said, drag on a bit because, as it turns out, 2+ hours of suffering can be a bit much at times.
Still, these flaws don't take much away from just how exceptionally good Capernaum is. It may be difficult to recommend too as an enjoyable night out at the cinema, but if you're even remotely in the mood for something more challenging, Capernaum is nothing less than a must-see masterpiece that already ranks as one of the year's very best films.
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Zain Al Rafeea in 'Capernaum'. (NuMetro)
WHAT IT'S ABOUT:
While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, thirteen-year-old Zain sues his parents for bringing him into a world that has done nothing but beat him down. During the trial, we flashback to the past few years that led him to such a dire situation.
WHAT WE THOUGHT:
Capernaum – named after the fishing village in Northern Israel, Kfar Nachum, which, according to the New Testament, played a central role in the trials and tribulations of Jesus Christ – was Lebanon's entry in the foreign language category at this year's Academy Awards and though it ultimately lost out to Alfonso Cuoron's highly acclaimed Roma, it is, frankly, the better film. Of course, by the nature of that particular category, it was up against the best movies the entire world had to offer so the fact that it was even nominated among just five films should tell you something about how good it is.
What it probably doesn't tell you, though, is how tough it is. Its title should give you a hint, as should its basic plot but it is only the film's judicious use of sometimes very dark humour that makes what is basically the story of young children living a life of abject poverty, abuse, human trafficking and, perhaps most damningly, neglect, just about tolerable. Unlike so many films that fall squarely into the sub-genre of "misery porn", though, Capernaum is well worth sitting through – even if only once.
Partly, to be sure, because it is worth being reminded, from time to time, of just how unimaginably awful life so often is for those discarded by society; never more so than for the children who are born, almost en masse, into such a life. More than that, like Schindler's List or 12 Years a Slave before it, it's simply an incredibly powerful piece of cinema, brimming with humanity, that, in spite of its horrific subject matter and unflinching lack of sentimentality, never feels exploitative.
Director and co-writer (with Jihad Hojeily and Michelle Keserwany), Nadine Labaki, clearly cares deeply about her characters and it is this unfailing sense of empathy that ensures that audiences too are drawn into the film, rather than repulsed by it. This is no small feat. Compare it to the recent Galveston, an expertly made film that all too often just came across as needlessly cruel and sadistic | 532 |
USA Truck Names Troy-Based Vance Driver of the Month for March 2013
April 10, 2013 — After less than three months in the trucking industry, the last thing Jeremy Vance expected was to receive an honor<|fim_middle|> in the USA Truck family," said John Simone, President and CEO of USA Truck. "As a driver-focused company, we understand how important our professional drivers are to our customers and to our company."
For his recognition as March's Driver of the Month, Vance will receive company safety awards points (good for validation among a vast inventory of store items), along with a certificate and companywide communication to honor his achievement. | from his employer usually reserved for much more experienced practitioners.
"I was surprised, especially being as new as I am," said Vance, USA Truck's Driver of the Month for March 2013. "I had heard I was being nominated, but I thought it was a joke."
Vance's performance is no laughing matter to USA Truck. Driver Manager Corey Robinson, who nominated Vance for the award, said the 31-year-old Troy, OH resident has proven to be a quick study in his brief tenure with the company.
"Jeremy's performance has been exemplary," Robinson said. "His safety record is unblemished, he provides outstanding customer service, and his overall demeanor and attitude could not be better. He is truly an asset to USA Truck."
Vance was raised near USA Truck's terminal in Vandalia. He said his grandfather and father were both truck drivers and that he always wanted to follow in their tire tracks, but a 12 1/2 year stint in the Marine Corps came first. After speaking with a high school classmate who works at the Vandalia terminal, Vance decided to come on board.
Vance left the Marine Corps with the rank of staff sergeant, having worked as an avionics technician and a recruiter, but the lure of the road was too strong to ignore.
"The most enjoyable part is the driving," said Vance, who is married with five children. "I got tired of being tied to a desk. I like being a hands-on guy and I got tired of sitting around all day."
USA Truck reserves its Driver of the Month honor for driver team members who consistently display their commitment to safety, DOT compliance, customer service, appropriate use of available hours and overall professionalism. Any full-time USA Truck driver team member is eligible and may be nominated by co-workers.
"We are proud of Jeremy, we appreciate his commitment and we are pleased to have him | 386 |
A scary ogre and a huge turtle. Two sphinxes. Dragons, lions and elephants. Women with snakelike tails. A leaning house that gives you vertigo, as if you were caught on a boat in a storm. If you're enticed by strange creatures and strong emotions, come to visit Parco dei Mostri in Bomarzo.
The park was designed by the architect Pirro Ligorio and commissioned by Prince Vicinio Orsini in the 16th century. Bomarzo is just a few miles from Viterbo and therefore the Sacred Wood is a obligatory stop for tourists visiting the City of Popes.
Over the years<|fim_middle|> place is located on private land, but is open everyday from sunrise to sunset (tickets go for €10, €8 for children ages 4-13). I recommend a visit in springtime, the best season to immerse yourself in the wonders of the Sacred Wood. | several directors shot documentaries at the park, perhaps the most famous being from Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the great directors of Italian cinema. More recently, even the American director Terrence Malick used the park, in particular the ogre's mouth, for a sequence of his masterpiece The Tree of Life.
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Carl Edwards focused on winning at Phoenix
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Unlike the three drivers behind him in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup standings -- Brad Keselowski, Kurt Busch and Joey Logano -- Carl Edwards won't be in a must-win situation in Sunday's Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500 at Phoenix.
But don't tell him that.
Sure, Edwards is in fifth place in the standings, one shy of the last transfer position, but he's seven points behind Martin Truex Jr. in fourth, with Sunday's race the cutoff point for the Championship Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint<|fim_middle|>vick so good at Phoenix? » | Cup.
And if any of the three drivers below Edwards happens to win on Sunday and joins Jeff Gordon as an automatic qualifier for Homestead, the number of spots available on points will shrink from three to two.
That's why Edwards is approaching the race at PIR much as Keselowski, Busch and Logano are.
"We feel like, if you look at the scenarios, we've really got to perform here," Edwards said after posting the fourth-fastest speed in Friday's opening NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice session. "We have to win this race - that's our mission.
"We have to qualify well, we have to make good decisions and, really, we have to have some speed. We're approaching this race as a must-win race. That's the only way to guarantee our spot. If one of the guys behind us leap-frogs us and wins, it's going to be a tall order to advance, so we just have to give it all we've got."
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Et samfund er et fællesskab af individer. Etymologisk er det afledt af "at finde sammen". Beg<|fim_middle|> dets nytteværdi, uden nogen form for indbyrdes kærlighed eller venskabelige følelser, når blot de ikke gør hinanden skade".
Begrebsafklaring
Et samfund er et system, der bygger på sociale relationer mellem medlemmerne.
I den klassiske liberalisme og socialisme opfattes samfundet som synonymt med en nation eller stat. I den klassiske konservatisme anses samfundet for at være institutioner, der er underlagt statslig kontrol og udfylder væsentlige funktioner. Samfundets virkefelt har tidligere været analyseret med udgangspunkt i suverænitetsbegrebet, men nyere forskning opfatter samfundet som noget, der både kan være mere omfattende og mere afgrænset end en given stats suverænitetsområde.
Eksempelvis danner de kristne menigheder i Danmark et samfund, som har helt andre dimensioner end den danske stats. Samfund kan også være identisk med subkulturer, hvilket i reglen ikke skaber problemer (jf. det ovenstående eksempel). Kun når småsamfundene begynder at anfægte statens autoritet (retshåndhævelse, suverænitet, grænsekontrol, flagning osv.) kan der opstå konflikter. Hizb ut-Tahrir er et eksempel på et samfund, der både overskrider nationale grænser og har givet anledning til konflikter med myndighederne., blandt andet fordi organisationen opfatter selvmordsbomber som "legitime martyrhandlinger".
Samfundene og deres struktur har ændret sig gennem tiden. Normalt inddeles denne udvikling i faser: det traditionelle samfund, det moderne samfund og det senmoderne samfund. I Danmark betegner det traditionelle samfund tiden indtil industrialiseringen i slutningen af 1800-tallet. Den næste periode er det moderne samfund, som er karakteristisk for det danske samfund indtil murens fald i 1989. Det senmoderne samfund er den samfundstype, som også betegnes som "videnssamfundet", baseret på datateknologi.
Samfund associerer til begreber som: statistik, demografi, politik, økonomi, lov og ret, statsforvaltning, lokalforvaltning, uddannelse, opdragelse, undervisning, kulturformidling, forsikring, forsorg, omsorg, folkekultur mv.
Samfundets institutioner
Den mindste enhed i et samfund er familien. I sociologien kan familien opfattes som grundstrukturen i et samfund, men oftere anses den som en institution i samfundet.
En anden afgrænset samfundsenhed er foreningen, hvor individerne gennem medlemskab udøver en fælles interesse, f.eks. idræt. Lokalt findes der ligeledes en række offentlige institutioner, som er indordnet samfundsstrukturen og løser forskellige opgaver.
Staterne er de lokale samfunds fælles aktør, som bl.a. varetager borgernes fælles interesser og sikkerhed. Staterne kan enten opfattes som et anarki, hvor forskellige magtkonstellationer kæmper om herredømmet eller som en ordnet struktur, der er underkastet fælles spilleregler.Efter afslutningen af 2. verdenskrig etableredes FN med henblik på at skabe konsensus mellem staterne og undgå krige fremover. FN's muligheder for sanktioner overfor medlemslandene er nedfældet i en række konventioner.
Referencer
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Andersen, Heine & Lars Bo Kaspersen (2000): ''Klassisk og moderne samfundsteori', Hans Reitzels forlag
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Statskundskab | rebet ses anvendt om dyr, men refererer hyppigst til mennesker. Ifølge antropologen Maurice Godelier er det menneskelige samfund i kontrast til de nærmest stående biologiske slægtninge blandt primaterne baseret på hankønnets dominans i familien.
Alle mennesker fødes ind i en gruppe, som normalt er en familie, hvor barnet hurtigt knytter sig til sine forældre og søskende. Når gruppen har organiseret sig således, at dens medlemmer i et eller andet omfang deler institutioner, kultur, regler og/eller normer, udgør den et samfund. Samfundene kan operationelt opdeles ud fra lokale, regionale og nationale forhold. I en national kontekst opfattes samfundet ofte som en magt, der udgår fra staten eller kontrollen over statens myndigheder. Efter 2. verdenskrig har begrebet "verdenssamfundet" været anvendt, som regel med henvisning til FN som organisatorisk udgangspunkt for dette samfunds retningslinjer. Den skotske økonom
Adam Smith hævdede, at "et samfund kan bestå af forskellige mennesker, eller af forskellige merkantile interesser med udgangspunkt i | 329 |
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Doctor Who series 10 will feature "a new kind of Ice Warrior"
Peter Capaldi's Time Lord will come up against the classic monsters in one of his final episodes
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"But it has a new twist. There is a new Ice Warrior in it, a new kind of Ice Warrior."
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Mark Gatiss has promised a "new twist" on the villainous Ice Warriors when they return for series 10.
The Martian monsters, who were first introduced in 1967, are making a comeback to face Peter Capaldi's Doctor Who in one of his final appearances.
Gatiss has penned a new episode set on Mars, to air tenth in the series run.
The writer is clearly a big fan of the Ice Warriors, who he previously reintroduced in the 2013 episode Cold War. That was the first time they'd been seen in decades, having been a Doctor Who staple back in the 60s and 70s.
Attention Whoniverse!@Markgatiss has news regarding ssssssome old friends…#DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/t2RDXavxyC
— Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) January 31, 2017
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Andrew Chamberlain, Glassdoor's chief economist, acknowledges that this list isn't for people looking to find success in New York's concrete jungle or San Francisco's tech scene. But, he adds, "It may be worth broadening your horizons beyond famous U.S. cities. You may find a few surprising opportunities that fit your life." | happy about their employment do exist and in its 2017 Best Cities for Jobs report, Glassdoor pinpoints exactly where they are. Glassdoor's research team culled data from sources including postings on its site, the U.S. Census and Zillow housing data. The ranking weighs three factors equally: how easy it is to get a job in that city, how affordable it is to live there and how satisfied employees are working there.
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The biggest immediate challenge for Carroll's successor is likely to be South Africa, where strikes have spread to Anglo American Platinum (AMSJ.J), the world's top producer of the precious metal. The unrest has revived talk of a split or a cut in Anglo's stake in Amplats – something Carroll opposed.
Strikes also hit Anglo's Kumba iron ore (KIOJ.J) unit, which alone accounted for almost half the group's operating profit in the first half of the year.
Kumba's Sishen mine has begun to ramp back up, but Amplats workers have not yet returned to the Rustenburg, Union and Amandelbult operations, which include some of its most labor intensive shafts, and those that have suffered deepest margin compression since 2008.
(Reporting by Clara Ferreira-Marques; Additional reporting by Sinead Cruise, Kate Holton and Brenton Cordeiro; Editing by Jane Barrett)
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Under pressure, Anglo CEO Cynthia Carroll steps down
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LONDON | Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:33am EDT
(Reuters) – Anglo American's (AAL.L) Chief Executive Cynthia Carroll stepped down on Friday after more than five years in the job, under increased pressure from investors over the miner's lagging share price and continued dependence on troubled South Africa.
A geologist by training, Carroll became the first non-South African, the first woman and the first outsider to take the top job at Anglo when she became CEO in 2007.
Brushing aside suggestions she was pressured to leave, Carroll and Chairman John Parker, her long-standing supporter, said the decision was her own, as she entered a seventh year in a "very grueling and demanding role".
Carroll's efforts to streamline what was a sprawling conglomerate, to cut billions in costs and to shift Anglo's centre of gravity away from South Africa initially won support.
But her relationship with investors became more troubled after acquisitions like the Minas Rio iron ore project in Brazil, an early bid to diversify Anglo's portfolio, became mired in cost overruns and delays.
Anglo has yet to give a final cost estimate for the project but analysts say they could rise to $8 billion from current figures of $5.8 billion.
"Institutional pressure has been building for some time to replace Cynthia, so the news will be welcomed," one of Anglo's 15 largest shareholders said.
"Ultimately, running Anglo is one of the toughest jobs around and, although Cynthia made a good start as CEO, the feeling is the company has gone backwards in the last two to three years."
Other investors also pointed to a mixed record at the top.
"Her strategic moves didn't always hit the mark. The acquisition of Minas Rio, promptly followed by a dividend cut, was a particular low point," another of Anglo's 15 biggest investors said.
Crippling strikes in platinum and iron ore mines in South Africa over the last weeks have revived long-standing worries over Anglo's exposure to the country, aggravating concerns about a share price that has underperformed its peers.
Despite cost cuts, analysts at Macquarie say that under Carroll, Anglo has lost one-third of its value on a U.S. dollar market capitalization basis and is now worth $25 billion less.
Other major miners are worth at least the same as they were at the start of 2007.
So far this year, Anglo stock has lagged the sector by almost 20 percent. Shares jumped on news of Carroll's departure and at 0825 GMT were up 1.6 percent at 1887.5 pence, while the European basic resources index .SXPP was down 0.7 percent.
The board said it would not rush to pick a successor for Carroll and that the 55-year-old would stay in place until a replacement was appointed, which could take months.
"For whoever comes in, the challenge of Minas Rio and the challenge of restructuring the platinum industry in South Africa doesn't go away," said analyst Des Kilalea at RBC in London. "To some extent, it's probably the most difficult mining company to manage at the moment."
Industry analysts, industry sources and investors point to at least two likely successors for Carroll – Brazilian Alex Vanselow, the former chief financial officer of BHP Billiton (BLT.L) and South African-born Mick Davis, the outgoing chief executive of Xstrata (XTA.L).
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In this series I am going to take a look at some of the most popular web design software packages in use today. I'll first take a look at Adobe's Dreamweaver CS4 before moving on to Microsoft's Expressions and then Beach Software's Web Studio. I'll take a look at the basics and then highlight some of the best features that each software package has to offer. Once we've taken a look at each package I'll do a side-by-side comparison so that you can easily see which package will best fits your needs.
The goal of Adobe's Dreamweaver is to provide a web design package that makes it easy to create web designs, regardless of what technology you favor. While they do this well, keep in mind that Dreamweaver is not intended to replace other web development tools, only enhance them. For example, while you can easily view and change your ASP.NET pages (.aspx) and controls (.ascx), you cannot create code-behind files or compile an application.
Ever since Adobe acquired Macromedia there have been steady improvements across the board with regards to how all of the Adobe products integrate with each other. Obviously, the goal of Adobe is to sell as many of their products as possible. To that end they have become masters at packaging their products into suites that<|fim_middle|> page source (this part is called Live Code). No more clicking back and forth between preview mode and design mode to see what your changes are really going to look like. It's always there with instant feedback. You wouldn't think would be a big deal but it really is a great time saver.
The Dreamweaver version I tested is version CS4 running on Windows Vista. It's also available for the Mac as well. In the next installment we'll take a look at some more features that Dreamweaver has to offer and see what kind of overall marks it gets. If you want to download and try Dreamweaver for yourself you can download the trial version directly from the Adobe website. Happy designing! | really make sense together. They have also gotten very good at getting each of the pieces in a suite to integrate seamlessly together.
It is a beautiful thing to be able to design an icon in Illustrator, drag it onto an image in Photoshop, move that image to a Flash presentation then port the finished Flash presentation into Dreamweaver and my web page. By the way, they allow you to download and try out the entire web design suite (premium or standard) for 30 days. Also, it should be noted that the learning curve on Adobe products is not nearly as steep as it once was. Don't get me wrong, there is still a climb, it's just not like scaling Mount McKinley anymore.
One of the newest features that I really like about this product is what Adobe calls Live View. This isn't rocket science; it's just a helpful tool. In a nutshell, a Live View window runs next to your design window and updates itself any time you make a change to your | 201 |
CONTRACTORS helping to build Queensland's booming coal seam gas industry are being told to take care after a spate of deaths in the resources industry.
Although there have been no deaths on the state's gas sites in the past 12 months, Mine Safety and Health Commissioner Stewart Bell said it was no time to slack off.
In an industry-wide safety alert, Commissioner Bell reminded workers that a 21-year-old contractor was killed on the Fairview gas fields in June last year.
"Families should be confident when<|fim_middle|> Bell said having well-trained workers and keeping equipment maintained and labelled had to be a priority.
All those on-site should know what they are responsible for, what part they play in ensuring the safety of colleagues and are competent in their work. | a loved one goes to work, in any industry, that they will come home safely regardless of whether they are contractors or mining company employees."
Mr | 29 |
What separates human beings from their animal ancestors? Andrew Buskell examines the concept of "cumulative culture".
There are many traits and behaviours that make humans exceptional. Some of these traits and behaviours are easy to identify. To take one example, humans communicate linguistically in a way that is strikingly different from our great ape ancestors. And while there are other differences between humans and animals, many are hard to identify and quantify. Over the last fifty years or so, however, researchers have developed models, experimental paradigms and tests that provide greater and greater insight into what makes human beings exceptional.
One important difference between humans and animals is the extent to which humans employ huge amounts of knowledge and technology. While it is true that some animals build structures (think, for instance, of beaver dams) and that some use tools (with the New Caledonian crow being an exceptional instance), humans not only have a large and varied tool-kit, but also use this tool-kit to survive in almost all the terrestrial territories of the globe.
A large number of psychologists, primatologists, and biological anthropologists are now attempting to understand how and why humans establish and maintain technology (what I'll call "innovations") and knowledge over time. The label that they use to capture this phenomenon is cumulative culture. Cumulative culture is another interesting difference between humans and animals. But what exactly does "cumulative culture" mean? What is it that is accumulating here?
When we turn to look at what various people working on cumulative culture mean by the concept, we find that they tend to pick out very different kinds of phenomena. But if researchers use different definitions of cumulative culture, it is reasonable to question whether they are also identifying different underlying structures. There is room for philosophy here to help distinguish the various dimensions of cumulative culture, and to make clear, at least in the broad strokes, what different kinds of structures might be at work.
In what follows, I briefly highlight three different ways that the cumulative culture concept has been used by (predominantly) psychologists and biological anthropologists, showing that they don't quite pick out the same phenomena. Demonstrating these different kinds of accumulation is one step towards a more fine-grained scientific analysis of what separates our human psychology from our animal ancestors.
One way in which human innovations seem to differ from those we see in animals is their complexity. Consider Global-Positioning System (GPS) Satellites. GPS Satellites are incredibly complex innovations; an artefact that could not have sprung complete from one inventor's head. Instead, such a complex thing is the result of years and years of tinkering, with gradual improvements to design, telemetry , physics, and material science.
The increasing complexity of innovations seems to be a peculiarly human trait, and one that seems to rely on a special ability for faithful copying. Without faithful copying (the story goes) we would lose accumulated innovations of the past, never being able to add more complex bells and whistles to the artefacts that we have. It seems like humans have a psychology that allows for "ratcheting", or accumulating complexity: we can maintain innovations in our communities and slowly "ratchet" up what these artefacts can do.
Another striking feature of human beings is that as well as our having so many innovations, we also maintain them in our societies for long periods of time. Thus, another way that culture accumulates is in terms of the sheer number of innovations. But how do we explain this ability to grow knowledge – to grow our culture?
There are plenty of capacities that are at play here, but a crucial kind of ability seems to be that of inventing and combining innovations. What is required for these capacities? One interesting feature seems to be the ability to break down tasks and innovations, and to have the psychological capacities to mix and match and repeat various component parts of tasks<|fim_middle|> – others are fungicides. There is some suggestive evidence that recipes, passed down over time, incorporate (tacit) knowledge about these properties. Spices are added in combination to increase their antimicrobial effect and at different times in the cooking process, seemingly sensitive to the heat-resistance of their antimicrobial properties.
How can culture have this feature of increasing adaptiveness, where recipes can have increasingly effective antimicrobial properties? Here, researchers seem to identify two important features. First, the size of one's population is important. The more individuals in one's population, the more likely it is that (a) knowledge about how to make the innovation will be widely distributed, (b) there will be ample opportunities to learn such innovations and (c) new and varied innovations will be generated, with the chance of an even better one coming along.
Second, we need someway of telling when things work from when things don't. Even with widely distributed and variable innovations, unless individuals can tell which innovations are better (or worse) the population is less likely to generate innovations with an adaptive fit. This capacity to tell good from bad is likely to rely on some cognitive machinery – though here there is a serious debate as to what this machinery might be.
Let me sum up. Cumulative culture is something that marks human beings as exceptional from other animals. But understanding this intricate phenomena, and how it came about is complex. I have highlighted three ways individuals interested in cumulative culture have used the term, picking out three broad kinds of accumulation: the complexity of an innovation, the number of innovations and the adaptiveness of an innovation. Each, I've shown, seems to rely on very different kinds of underlying structures.
What does this mean for the term "cumulative culture"? We might think that if it picks out very different kinds of accumulation, each resulting from different underlying structures, that the term isn't very useful. Maybe we should get rid of it.
My own view here is under development, but I think we should keep "cumulative culture". There is something in common between these three senses of "accumulation": they all structure the heritable variation available for subsequent generations. It might be the case that cumulative culture is picking out what evolutionary theorists call evolvability. Cumulative culture might be an investigation into cultural evolvability.
Andrew Buskell is a Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method. His research focuses on philosophical issues surrounding the science of human evolution, particularly the evolution of human psychology.
Richerson, P. & Boyd, R. (2005). Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Darwinism and the Social Sciences. Podcast of an event organised by the Forum, chaired by Andrew Buskell and featuring Prof Tim Lewens, Dr Alex Mesoudi and Prof Christina Toren.
This is an interesting post, I have a keen interest in the subject of the physiological differences between humans and our more primitive counterpart. The question persistent in my mind is are humans capable of isolating our species separate from our animal cousins mentally. The main theme running in mind is the idea the self, humans are to be (act) the part of the 'human' a concept created by ourselves as a guide to individualize ourselves from the animal kingdom as a whole. I guess my question is, are we capable of doing this or do we lack the needed evolvement of our species? | and innovations. This ability to imaginatively, as well as physically, try out the combinations and permutations of various innovations seems to rely on cognitive abilities for decomposing tasks into constituent parts, and manipulating these parts in a variety of ways.
So far, I have only hinted at the use of our innovations and knowledge, only saying that it somehow allows human beings to survive in an extremely wide range of environments. One important aspect of culture that seems to follow from such observations is the way in which culture has helped the human race to succeed, to outbreed other mammals of a similar size. This is to treat culture as something akin to a biological adaptation, as something that can generate a "fit" between populations and their environment.
Take spices as an example. Several spices have antimicrobial properties | 158 |
The Ultimate Travel Guide to Naples, Florida
An affluent seaside community, Naples is an under-the-radar beach town with a wealth of restaurants, shopping, great hotels, and excursions, all adjacent to the sparkling turquoise Gulf—and front row for sunsets.
By Kara Franker
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They don't call it the Paradise Coast for nothing. Located on the southwest edge of the Florida peninsula, Naples is a charming coastal town known for a unique combination of luxe living and laid-back vibes. Think pure white sand beaches, lots of opportunities to get out on the water, and a community that's dedicated to local conservation efforts. And the islands. Oh, the islands. There are so many unspoiled beaches to explore in the aptly named Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, 40 minutes southeast of downtown Naples.
You'll also find a variety of picturesque shopping and dining districts where both the well-heeled and flip-flop-clad come to mix and mingle over common obsessions: happy hour and sunset. And not to be overshadowed by all the outdoorsy diversions, art and culture abound in this upscale beach town. Let's take a dive into all the great places to explore.
Naples Pier
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The Best Beaches in Naples
The Naples area is famous for having some of the most picture-perfect stretches of sand in the country. Pearly white beaches are decked out with plenty of vibrant seashells (the shelling here is spectacular), a plethora of watersports, and that placid aquamarine body of water known as the Gulf of Mexico.
The beach surrounding the Naples Pier is a popular place to park your umbrella. It's walking distance from all the great local shopping and restaurants in downtown Naples, and the pier provides the perfect backdrop for killer sunset photos.
Lowdermilk Park is another stellar public beach with a couple of sand volleyball courts, two playgrounds, and twin gazebos. Or check out Vanderbilt Beach where you can grab a strawberry ice cream cone at Beach Box Café across the street.
Just north of the Vanderbilt Beach entrance<|fim_middle|> upland that's home to native gopher tortoises, named such because they create burrows from three to 52 feet long and nine to 23 feet deep for protection.
Keewaydin Island and the In the Pink food boat
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Keewaydin Island, an eight-mile barrier island that's only accessible by boat or the Hemmingway Water Shuttle, is a must-visit, and it's the only dog-friendly public beach in the region. No worries if you forget to pack a picnic lunch, because food boats like the flamingo-adorned In the Pink and Just Beachy Burgers & More often show up with plenty of crave-worthy eats and sweets.
Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge
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The Naples Boating Culture and Ten Thousand Islands
There's just no getting around it—water is a way of life in Naples, so make sure you take advantage of those balmy days on the Gulf with plenty of time at sea.
Located south of Naples and Marco Island, Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge is a collection of serene deserted islands and secret beaches. An oasis of wildlife, look out for dolphins, manatees, sting rays, turtles, and more. You could spend years combing these waters and still not see all of the incredible hidden gems.
Hop aboard the 105-foot Naples Princess, fresh off a million-dollar renovation. The family-owned cruise company offers daily public yachting excursions. Book a sunset dinner cruise or an afternoon sightseeing adventure. There are special live music nights, wine tasting cruises, and themed parties. You can also reserve the entire yacht for a wedding or special event.
Dolphin Explorer
Or become a citizen scientist for the day and help expert naturalists identify and collect data aboard the Dolphin Explorer. Proceeds from the twice-daily boating excursions help fund the ongoing research of the 10,000 Islands Dolphin Project and includes a trip out to Keewaydin Island's beautiful uninhabited beach.
Fun Things To Do in Naples
The Naples Pier is one of the most iconic hotspots on the southwest coast where crowds gather nightly to watch spectacular sunsets. The concession stand serves beer and wine, so you can toast to another day well-spent on the beach as the sun dips below the Gulf. Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, access to the pier is free and visitors don't have to have a special fishing license if you want to try your luck with a rod and reel.
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To experience a taste of the creative art scene, check out Artis—Naples and their unique range of programs including music, film, dance, comedy, lectures, and exhibitions featuring internationally acclaimed artists. Highlights include comedy legends, Broadway stars, and world-renowned musicians performing with the Naples Philharmonic. Check out the reopening of The Baker Museum, a fine-art institution that houses traveling exhibitions as well as a permanent collection of modern and contemporary works.
There are plenty of opportunities to get outside and learn about the environment and wildlife in Naples. Take a walk through a tropical wonderland at the 170-acre Naples Botanical Garden and learn about the local flora and exotic plants from around the world. You'll see coral limestone water features, fragrant orchids, and a myriad of bromeliads growing in a lush canopy of trees—it's truly a serene paradise for the senses.
Conservancy of Southwest Florida
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Visit the Conservancy of Southwest Florida, an active nature center working to preserve the heritage of the area's land and water. They have a wildlife hospital that treats injured, sick, and orphaned native animals like turtles, pelicans, and bobcats. Head out on a guided nature walk or eco-cruise and learn more about how to protect the local environment.
Northeast of downtown Naples, Audubon's Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary provides a 2.25-mile-long boardwalk through the country's last old growth bald cypress forest, where you can spot hundreds of birds and animals like the American Alligator and the brightly arrayed Painted Bunting. If you're lucky, you might even see the infamous and extremely rare Super Ghost Orchid.
The Naples Zoo is another great place to get up-close-and-personal with a variety of animals and learn about conservation efforts.
The palm-graced streetscape of 5th Avenue South
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Where to Shop & Dine in Naples
The heart of the shopping and dining scene in Naples is the Fifth Avenue South area in downtown Naples with its combination of historic-meets-modern shop facades and pedestrian-friendly promenades lined with royal palms. Find everything from casual beachwear to high-end designers, home furnishings, and more. Enjoy the al fresco ambiance and sip on a cup of jo at the local 5th Avenue Coffee Company. Head out on a food tour with Naples Culinary Walks where you'll sample small plates from five local restaurants and a charming gelato parlor.
Just a few blocks away from downtown, stroll past the colorful cottages and mansions in the fancy Third Street South neighborhood and shopping district. There you'll find a fine collection of art galleries, fashion boutiques, jewelers, and antique shops nestled among the beckoning plazas and courtyards. Instantly amp up your island style at stores like the Old Naples Surf Shop and C. Orrico, a Lilly Pulitzer signature boutique. For delectable Italian eats, dine at Sea Salt, Campiello Ristorante & Bar, or Barbatella. The Old Naples Pub is a neighborhood bistro where you can nosh on American favorites and listen to live music.
Just east of downtown Naples is Celebration Park, a waterfront venue designed specifically for food trucks, with a permanent outdoor dining verandah and a craft beer and wine bar. Take your pick from seafood, pizza, curry, gyros, and bbq. A few blocks away you'll find new microbrewery Ankrolab Brewing Co., serving up a great selection of local beers on tap.
historic Tin City
In the heart of the Old Naples waterfront district is the historic Tin City, an eclectic tin-roofed shopping and entertainment area with nautical and nature-themed gift shops featuring rustic marine souvenirs and casual seafood eateries like Pinchers. The old Florida vibe of Tin City is a throwback to the 1920s when clam, shelling, oyster, and fishing industries were headquartered here. As you explore, sample tropical fruit wines from all over Florida at The Naples Winery.
At the luxurious Waterside Shops, you'll find an open-air mall with lush landscaping, bubbling fountains, and covered walkways where you can shop in style at numerous high-end retailers like Saks Fifth Avenue, and dine at a variety of restaurants like the health-conscious True Food Kitchen.
In north Naples, the Mercato entertainment plaza is home to a movie theater, retail shops, and a variety of restaurants ranging from grab-and-go burritos to high-end steaks. The shopping center hosts a popular happy hour with more than a dozen restaurants participating, and there are plenty of weekly events and live music performances. Nearby, check out Bone Hook Brewing Company, southwest Florida's largest brewpub with more than 20 original craft beers on tap and live music every weekend.
Gulf views from La Playa Beach & Golf Resort
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Where to Stay in Naples
Whether you want to be waterfront or in the heart of elegant downtown, there are plenty of great hotels to choose from.
Front row to the Gulf is La Playa Beach & Golf Resort, which features beach butler service—just raise your flag to request a fresh cocktail, multiple pools with private cabanas, and a nightly sunset celebration—complete with fire pits on the beach in front of the veranda of BALEEN, the hotel's award-winning restaurant, and the ringing of a captain's bell when the sun takes its final bow below the horizon.
If you're looking to stay in style, The Ritz-Carlton, Naples is everything you'd expect from a luxury resort, complete with a pristine beachfront location, lavish spa, and delectable dining options. Check out the casual Gumbo Limbo restaurant with its beautiful sunset and water views.
Naples Bay Resort & Marina
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Here's a major perk for boating enthusiasts: Naples Bay Resort & Marina has daily boat rentals available for both day-trip visitors and guests staying at the on-site hotel. Yes, you can roll out of bed and right onto a boat in the marina that's gassed up and ready to go. It's the launch pad for exploring Keewaydin Island and other hidden gems in Ten Thousands Islands.
Directly on the Gulf of Mexico, you'll find The Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club, a 125-acre tropical paradise that's home to HB's on the Gulf, an upscale seafood restaurant with a romantic ambiance. Or check into the newly renovated Naples Grande Beach Resort. It's connected to the beach via a boardwalk over picturesque Clam Pass.
For a high-end experience in the heart of downtown Naples, check out the ritzy Inn on Fifth and their lavish club level suites that overlook the posh Fifth Avenue South entertainment district.
Summer Jazz on the Gulf
When To Go To Naples
Naples is a favorite destination for snow birds, so winter is high-season, but summer is when you can usually score great deals on hotels and restaurants.
Summer visitors can take part in a popular tradition hosted by The Naples Beach Hotel & Golf Club for more than 30 years: Summer Jazz on the Gulf concert series, where you can sway to the sounds of live jazz on the resort's scenic waterfront lawn.
Foodies love to head south during the 14-day semi-annual Sizzle SWFL Restaurant Week, when you can taste your way through some of the most popular restaurants in the region. The dining promotion features multi-course meals at pre-fixed prices and takes place in June and December.
Stone crab claws from Pinchers
Or check out the annual Stone Crab Festival at Tin City each October. Celebrate the kick off of the season with fresh Florida stone crab claws and live music on the waterfront. Can it get any better than that?
From fancy shopping and dining to discovering deserted islands via boat, Naples is a coastal paradise that should have a spot on your Sunshine State bucket list.
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All Topics in Travel | , you'll find Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park, one of the most gorgeous beach parks in the region. Climb up the observation tower to view rolling sand dunes, natural mangroves, and panoramic vistas of the Cocohatchee River. Explore the park via kayak or stand-up paddle board, or head out on one of the guided ranger tours.
For more of an off-the-beaten-path experience, head to Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park, an undeveloped barrier island. It's a natural | 105 |
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Q: OLS estimator question: using a subset versus using a dummy-interacted variables Suppose that we are interested in the following model:
$$y_i=\beta_1+\beta_2x_{i2}+\beta_3x_{i3}+u_i$$
Here, there is a dummy variable $d_i$.
I am wondering whether the following estimators are equivalent:
[OLS using only the observations with $d_i=1$] versus [OLS $d_iy_i$ on $d_i1,\;d_ix_{i2},\; d_ix_{i2}$]
That is, using the subset versus using the dummy-interacted variables.
When I run the both cases, the former yields a consistent estimator but the latter does not.
(even though the values of the dummy is random assignment)
the example R code is as follows:
x2 <- rnorm(100000, 2, 1)
x3 <- rnorm(100000, 1.5, 1)
x4 <- rbinom(100000, 1, 0.5)
y <- 1+2*x2+2*x3+rnorm(10000)
dt <- data.frame(y = y, x2 = x2, x3 = x3)
est <- lm(y~x2+x3, data= dt, subset = (x4 == 1))
summary(est)
nobs(est)
dt4 <- data.frame(y = y*x4, x2 = x2*x4, x3 = x3*x4, x4=x4)
est4 <- lm(y~x2+x3, data= dt4)
summary(est4)
nobs(est4)
Is there a way to do the same estimation without throwing away some of the data?
Why do they have different results?
Why the latter yields worse results despite the large number of observations?
A: The way that you structured df4 you effectively only included interaction (product) terms between the binary x4 and the original x2 and x3 predictors, while omitting the "main effects." That's generally poor practice, except in very limited circumstances. See this page for extensive discussion. If you structure that regression properly, e.g.:
est2 <- lm(y~(x2+x3)*x4, data= dt)
then all will make sense.
A: The answer:
The two regression should be the same because
$$[\sum_{i:d_i=1} x_ix_i']^{-1}[\sum_{i:d_i=1}x_iy_i]$$
using only the subsample with $d_i=1$ is equivalent to
$$[\sum_{i=1}^N x_id_ix_i']^{-1}[\sum_{i=1}^Nx_id_iy_i]$$.
The reason for the different results from the R code above is that the lm function do not make the interaction in the "intercept term".
see the<|fim_middle|>norm(1000)
d <- sample(c(1,0), 1000,replace = T)
u <- rnorm(1000)
y <- one+2*x1+x2+u
# using subsample
dt <- data.frame(y=y,x1=x1,x2=x2,d=d)
est1 <- lm(y~x1+x2, data=dt, subset = (d==1))
# using interaction
X <- d*cbind(one,x1,x2)
# results
est1$coefficients
solve(t(X)%*%X)%*%(t(X)%*%y)
> est1$coefficients
(Intercept) x1 x2
1.0077684 2.0358979 0.9949592
> solve(t(X)%*%X)%*%(t(X)%*%y)
[,1]
one 0.9547948
x1 2.0125214
x2 0.9677016
````
| following code and results is the same
one <- rep(1, 1000)
x1 <- rnorm(1000)
x2 <- r | 35 |
How do you define a "turn-around"? In my experience, a turn-around is achieved when management creates and sustains positive performance for a business over time. But what exactly takes place before that? This article is about all the work that has to be done to accomplish a turn-around.
What do IBM, Apple, Priceline and eBay all have in common? Each of their management teams have navigated their companies back from the edge of bankruptcy. What was the magic recipe that they concocted to resurrect their businesses? How did they decide what and where they were lacking?
Here are my top 5 recommendations for you to consider as you create an actionable plan to change direction and rebuild your company… like a phoenix!
What is the Current Market Need for Your Product?
Identify the core market need and make satisfying it the mainstay of your business. Some ventures lose sight of this fact and diverge from their original concept launch as they proceed into market. Companies may miss market opportunities or changes in market conditions. They might also have have a strong management direction or even external pressure from financiers or partners that push the venture in a certain direction.
Regardless of the circumstances, it is important to go back to where you started and ask yourself what need you are satisfying in the market. Refocus your venture on this in terms of your full product or service suite, as this is often the fastest way to recover from a misstep in the market. If you are not sure what to do to make your customer feel like they're #1, simply ask them. Word to the wise: When you actually HEAR what your customers are saying and TAKE ACTION based on that feedback and input, it can often make the difference between success and failure.
What do you do if you hear harsh words from some of your customers about your products and services? If you have a larger organization that is unable, unwilling or defensive when these frank conversations occur, this can be a problem. Prepare your team for this potential blow-back and reassure them that their follow-up actions will most likely result in righting your ship. Don't take it personally. Your customers can help take the guesswork out of the equation. Use that information to your advantage!
Another tactic is to examine the areas of your venture where customers spend the most time interacting. This could products, people, processes or other aspects of your venture. This may also end up being a completely different area of your business then you'd ever thought or planned on when you launched this exercise. These areas represent opportunities to enhance, step-up and re-engage to win back your customers.
These could be areas of unrealized value, meaning you could monetize these engagements and find a brand-new product or service-line that is highly desirable and it may even supplant the original direction that your venture is headed. This is often referred to as a pivot. For more information on pivoting, read my blog on that topic here. In any case, it is important to take notice of the areas of interaction that need improvement because they are creating roadblocks to success and may be causing customer frustrations. If they are addressed, your customers may come back quickly and in greater numbers than they left.
Finally, let's consider what else your customers may need that you may not be providing. Consider vertical and horizontal integrations or extensions of your products and services. It could be that your customers' needs may have shifted and your venture may not have shifted along with them and, as a result, it's not where it needs to be to succeed in market.
Another option is to look outside of your venture to potentially acquire a company that is already in the market. For example, Facebook paid what some considered to be incredibly large amounts of money for WhatsApp and Instagram – only to be proven right in its decisions given the movement to mobile for social media. The same can be said for Google's purchase of YouTube – as smart move given the criticality of video in the marketplace today.
in a new market with new customers. This strategy has led to wild success but also abysmal failure, for example Facebook and Myspace. Myspace introduced us to the concept of social networking but Facebook perfected it and continues to listen to its customers and make changes accordingly. Product mix can make all the difference!
In terms of product mix, start by looking at how your customer base has shifted in its consumption of your venture's products. Does this shift point to a new development or "pivot" in your industry or your sector of the market? Take that input and tweak your products to create greater market demand and make your venture more relevant moving forward. The predictive value of gauging customer reaction based on analysis of their response to your venture's current offerings may even be more important than any focus group.
Alternatively, consider migrating customers up the value chain of products and services. How do you do that? By driving down the marginal cost for delivery of products and services, which enables your customers to more easily, quickly and cost effectively moving up the value chain of your products. This creates larger barriers of entry for competitors and "buttresses the moat" around your business and its products and services versus competitors in the market.
Finally, think about how some of your products or services<|fim_middle|>, a market with many overlaps may lead to partnerships with competitors (coopetition) which can help create a better market for all involved. Regardless of the specific set of circumstances that emerge, looking at the market and figure out where others are going and what they are doing and use it to your advantage. Your competitors are inadvertently give you directions on where to go and what to avoid. Use that information!
Clearly every company and its set of circumstances/issues are unique, however by examining the above set of common principles, I hope a plan emerges that will help lead your team through your turnaround.
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A venture's success, or lack thereof, can often be directly linked to its leadership team's ability to execute and deliver in market. The reality is that no venture succeeds without adapting to the rapidly changing business environment. And that requires having the right team and identifying its best core competencies. How do you know what your core competencies are?
Once again, think about how your venture engages with its customers. Think about the individuals who are leading those particular parts of your business. Are they able to provide the guidance and the leadership necessary to succeed in those areas? Do your customers feel the same way? Do these leaders have the ability to respond to market demands and needs quickly…. both now and in the future?
Are they thinking proactively about the business or reacting to changes being thrown at them? If the leadership of a venture and its particular parts is not responding to market changes in a productive and proactive fashion, then that is a true cause for concern.
How to you identify the key talent that may not be delivering what the venture leadership needs? Candidly, identifying these individuals is difficult because of the potential relationship they may have with the venture leadership. They may even be part of the leadership itself. The easiest way to determine who not performing at the level of their peers is to ask others in your organization for feedback.
If you're able to get honest responses from them, you'll find that they always know who is carrying their water and weight and who is not. If someone isn't up to par, you can decide whether they require training or they just aren't a good fit for your organization. Fixing core competencies and core leadership team issues is one of the fastest and surest way to get your venture back on track.
Examine the Balance Sheet and Embrace the Numbers Game!
with substantial dollars flowing through the venture community, paying close attention to this side of your business behooves not only the officers of the company but the board as well. A company's financials can often behave like a compass pointing directly to the key problem areas. While they may not tell you exactly what is wrong, they will give you a good idea of where to look.
For example, an upside-down balance sheet where costs exceed revenues is hard to ignore. Now I understand that in startup ventures this is common, but even that train can't be out-run forever… just look at Twitter or Snapchat. Cost and margin ratios are like beacons in the dark. For those with the intestinal fortitude to look and figure out what they mean for your business, they can sometimes "clear the fog" and open a path to greater success.
Key financial metrics or KPIs for the business, as mapped out by venture leadership and standard industry practices, often can indicate core problem areas as well. One benefit of examining the KPIs and finding an issue is that the resolution for these types of issues is often readily apparent and fairly straightforward. However, that doesn't mean implementing or executing the solution will be easy.
Word to the wise: It is extremely difficult to let people go, obsolete products and/or reduce services to remedy financial situations. Remember no one said pivoting or bringing the phoenix back to life would be easy; they just said it could be done. Having the willingness and ability to do what is required to save your business requires true leadership.
The likelihood of success for any new venture is not high. MANY, MANY things have to go right for your venture to be successful. The good news is that this isn't just true for the venture that you're leading, it's also true for ALL the other ventures in the market. That means that even the ventures that are direct competitors to you or in ancillary or complimentary markets also share these risks and challenges.
Performing a complete competitive market analysis can help you understand which other ventures are out in the marketplace and where they are struggling or succeeding. Pay particular attention to both of these factors. Successful vertical or geographical markets will provide guidance for your venture on where to focus your efforts.
Conversely, be mindful of where these competitors are failing. This may highlight a pitfall to avoid, or perhaps provide an opportunity for you to "do it right" and win market share. For example, Facebook saw what Snapchat was doing and has steadily, over time enabled equal and similar functionality in its Instagram product, which was not an accident.
If there are many players in a small or consolidating space, then perhaps a consolidation play would be best. On the other hand, if there is a rapidly expanding market with a lot of players, perhaps selling out to a larger venture is the right move.
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Peace Corps Service and Finding a Partner in Honduras
– Erica Brien and Camila Fiero, RPCVs
Erica and Camila at Boston Pride
Erica's Story:
Being openly gay as a Peace Corps Volunteer was, for me, impossible. I lived in a community of 300-people in the mountains of Comayagua, Honduras. Upon my arrival, I spent days visiting the homes and getting to know the families that lived in them. I was given incredible amounts of coffee, what amounted to loaves of sweet-bread, hundreds of tortillas and plenty of beans. When I left these homes to head back to my host-family's home, I was given freshly-laid eggs to take with me. As time went on, I spent the majority of my days in my small town simply getting to know these people. They opened up to me. We talked about so many things. I remember having discussions about the meaning of life, the truth of an inevitable death, the importance of family, love and the many existences of god. We obviously talked about the state of the community, the hopes people had for the future. We would talk about the world and where it is headed. Families would invite me over to make bread or tamales, depending on the time of year. Through all of this, I can truly say that I grew close to many of my community members. However, nonetheless, there was one thing that I knew we could never talk about, one thing they could never know: my sexuality.
The people in my community took religion very seriously. All families belonged to either the Catholic Church or the Evangelical Church, and being gay was a horrible sin. There was one openly gay man of 24 years, who I will call Tio, who at times I would verbally defend when I heard other people criticize him. I'd say simple things like, "It's okay that he is gay. It doesn't make him a bad person." After defending him, I would be asked by various community members to step aside to have private conversations. They would tell me, "Erica, I heard that you defended Tio, but love is between a man and a woman. You can not defend this boy for committing such a sin."
After a trip home for the summer, I returned to my community with a new hair-cut. It was short. The Evangelical pastor, a woman who invited me frequently to her house for dinner with the family, told me she would have to pray for my soul because I went against God's will; women are supposed to have long hair. These incidents made me realize the impossibility of being completely honest within my community. No matter how welcoming and friendly the people of my community were, no matter how fond of me they had grown to be, if I told them that I was a lesbian, I truly believe that my work would have ended right there. No one would have wanted to work with me. People would have closed up. I had to pretend I was straight. As a straight person, people accepted me. I was able to work with their kids. I was able to build great relationships, and I will say that in the end, it was worth it. For me, it was worth it to be in the closet for two years. It was worth it to sacrifice a certain part of me in order to truly make the most of a meaningful experience. However, to be able to say that I could have had the same experience as an openly gay person within a culture that does not understand the truth of human-sexuality would be naïve and a lie.
Camila's Story:
As a Peace Corps Volunteer, I was never explicitly told to lie about my sexual orientation. Instead, I was asked to understand the culture and community I was trying to become a part of. It was more difficult than I had anticipated. Although I am from the Mid-West and have very traditional parents, I had spent the last four years at a small liberal arts college in Massachusetts and had finally learned to be proud of my sexual orientation. Thus, Honduran culture, for me, was especially difficult as it is steeped through and through in machismo and intense patriarchy. At the same time, the generosity and amiability of the people almost make up for it. About six to seven months into my service I had to be site changed from my mountain community of 300 people to a larger "rural city" community further south. A community partner had displayed some bizarre behavior that made me feel outed within the community. Thus, I felt I had to leave because the rumor mill would stop short anyone who was at one time willing to work with me. I also felt unsafe. I remember that night before I was set to leave, and I was fighting visions of people busting through my front door with the idea of "corrective rape." I don't personally know of any of these cases happening in Honduras, instead, people would just get killed.
In my new community I felt extremely cautious. I was constantly analyzing myself. Eventually, I got settled in and made a few close friends. I worked with a local Honduran environmental NGO and worked with other volunteers on environment classes, HIV/AIDS classes, and improved stoves projects. However, I never told any Hondurans about my orientation. Miraculously, Erica and I started dating, and I say miraculously because we never considered dating one another until it happened. We were both in the Protected Areas Management Group, which has since been cancelled and lumped together with the Business Program. Sadly, there are no current programs that have a specific goal of addressing issues such as loss of biodiversity and environmental education. We were about one year into our sites when I would go visit Erica and she would come visit me, taking turns doing the 8-hour bus ride. We both feel that we looked somewhat innocent since close friendships between females are not unheard of or frowned upon. Yet, we had no time to confirm or disprove our notions because we were evacuated about seven to eight months before our official completion of service.
The day before I left I came out to my closest friend in my community. She said she already knew and knew within the first month of meeting me! I was surprised and sad that I missed out on a deeper more honest relationship with her because I was afraid. Yet, the real tragedies are the thousands of individuals that are beaten, murdered, and subjugated because of who they love. Honduras has seen an increase in violent hate crimes, although reporting is spotty on the subject. Also, with a friend, we re-started the LGBTQ support group for volunteers in Honduras and were starting to make connections with Honduran "clubs" or support groups. Yet, that too was cut short. There has been straight forward reporting on exactly why the program was cut short: Peace Corps could no longer guarantee our safety due to the ever-escalating drug war. We have since called back to friends in Honduras who have said the situation has only gotten worse, violence is spreading and rural communities are cut off from the larger cities because the roads are too dangerous.
In the end, I think your service is what you make of it. I am proud and happy with my time spent in Honduras. However, I would caution that one shouldn't expect to be out and shouldn't expect understanding.
Erica Continues:
It is hard to say if people in my community ever grew suspicious of the relationship I had with Camila. She came to visit me at my site more consistently than any other volunteer. And<|fim_middle|> at camiximena@gmail.com.
Filed under Challenges, Countries of Service, Honduras | while we tried very hard not to seem suspicious within my small-community, there were times when I questioned certain comments made by my community members. Was it all in my head? Maybe. Maybe not. I remember taking Camila to my host family's house where my host mother gave us coffee and tried to convince me to date the family's cousin who recently came from out of town. My host-mother would describe how nice of a man he was, and how he is different than most men. Camila would play along, saying things like, "wow, he sounds like a catch" as she would throw me a mischievous smile. Camila even took a picture of this man and me standing together outside of my host family's home. They thought it was essential to our future together. When Camila and I would return back to my house, hiding behind the privacy of closed doors, we would talk about the same questions that today we still ponder, such as how much does "respect" and being "culturally" sensitive turn into tolerating intolerance? What is our role as queer Peace Corps Volunteers and allies in educating around sensitive subjects such as sexual orientation? How are we to facilitate change if we, ourselves, are doing our very best to uphold cultural norms? These are the questions we would like to leave with you.
You can contact Erica at ebrien03@gmail.com and Camila | 283 |
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PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FAT (Fresh. Authentic. Tasty.) Brands Inc., parent company of Elevation Burger, Hurricane Grill & Wings and seven other restaurant concepts, today announced the opening of a ghost kitchen, a delivery and takeout-only outlet, in Philadelphia, PA.
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The new ghost kitchen will operate through third party delivery services Uber Eats, Postmates, DoorDash, and Grubhub for both delivery and pickup. Local customers will be able to simultaneously order menu items from Elevation Burger and Hurricane Grill & Wings concepts.
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On the Campus About-Face on Grading?
By Paula Wasley '97
Published in the September 17, 2014 Issue
Faculty to consider ending targets for A's, relying instead on departmental standards
Princeton soon may abandon its controversial policy aimed at curbing grade inflation, following recommendations by an ad hoc faculty committee that the University drop its numerical grading targets and focus instead on providing better feedback for students' work and establishing clearer grading standards at the departmental level.
The current guidelines, adopted in 2004, seek to limit A grades to 35 percent of undergraduate coursework. Though they are recommendations only, the targets are "too often misinterpreted as quotas" and contribute to student anxiety and a culture of competition on campus, the committee concluded in a report released in early August. The group was appointed by President Eisgruber '83 to review the policy.
Eisgruber has endorsed the committee's proposals, which likely will come before a faculty vote in October. "It's my strong feeling that we should be known for the quality of our teaching and the distinctiveness of our commitment to undergraduate education, not for the severity of our curve," he said. "The committee wisely said: If it's feedback that we care about, and differentiating between good and better and worse work, that's what we should focus on, not on numbers."
Since the policy was adopted, the percentage of A's awarded has dropped from 47 percent in 2001–04 to 41.8 percent in 2010–13. As a result, a larger share of grades shifted into the B-range, while the fraction of grades C and below held steady.
Despite student complaints that the "grade-deflation" policy puts them at a disadvantage, the committee found no evidence that it had harmed most graduates' job prospects or success in gaining admission to graduate or professional schools or winning competitive fellowships. (The exception, the committee found, was ROTC students, whose first assignments are awarded based on GPA rankings.)
Nevertheless, the perception that A's were in short supply has turned classrooms into pressure cookers, the committee concluded.
Shawon Jackson '15, president of the Undergraduate Student Government, welcomed the proposals. "I think the shift away from quotas will have a huge impact on the student body," he said. "It will show that you don't have to fight with your peers to get an A or A-minus in a course. If you meet the standards that are established from the beginning, you'll get the grade you deserve."
Fear of low GPAs may deter prospective students from attending Princeton, the report suggested. Coaches reported that perceptions of the grading policy handicapped them in recruiting student-athletes, the report said. Janet Rapelye, dean of admission, told the group that applicants and their parents fixate on the grading targets and that the grading policy was the "most-discussed topic" among prospective students at the Princeton Preview days. "The committee was surprised to learn that students at other schools (e.g. Harvard, Stanford, and Yale) use our grading policy to recruit against us," said the<|fim_middle|> drift," he said. "I don't think we can give students high grades just to lower their stress level."
English professor Esther Schor has long opposed the policy's "one-target-fits-all" model. "Although these targets were not quotas per se, the dean's office clearly intended that department chairs implement them, not simply recommend them," she said in an email. "I feared in particular for junior faculty and graduate instructors, who were most likely to feel pressure (and be pressured) to grade according to targets rather than according to their own best judgment."
"I'll be happy to wave it goodbye," art and archaeology professor Jerome Silbergeld said of the policy. "If all my students deserve good grades, I should be the first one to know that, not somebody else establishing policy from beyond."
Professor Stanley Katz of the Woodrow Wilson School expressed mixed feelings about the committee's proposals. While he agreed that the 35 percent cap on A's was too rigid, he said that grade inflation is "educationally a bad thing" and that if the policy "is to be left to departments, I would describe that as an act of despair — in other words, I think it's giving up."
Many expect that grades will creep upward if the faculty votes to abandon the grading targets, although not everyone believes that's a problem. "I think in the current climate, where our peer institutions have grades that are so far above ours, it's fine if our grades rise a little bit," said Clarence Rowley '95, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and chair of the ad hoc committee.
If grade inflation were to become a problem, Rowley said, it might be corrected by discussions between the dean of the college and department heads. "If it does start to get out of control," he said, "I think those conversations are a better way to rein things in than the numerical targets."
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What's more, the committee concluded, the numerical targets may have been only partially responsible for reversing a pattern of higher grading. After a period of "substantial grade inflation" from 1974 through 2003, the report noted, grades fell sharply in advance of the current policy's implementation in 2005. The fraction of A grades continued to decline a bit for a few years, then increased between 2009 and 2013 as monitoring of the policy grew more lax.
The fact that the steepest drop in grades occurred in the two years before the policy took effect suggests that sustained conversation about grading may be as effective as numerical targets in keeping rising grades in check, the report concluded. It recommended that departments develop grading rubrics — similar to those created for assessing senior theses — to give students a clearer sense of what distinguishes A-level work.
Source: Report from the Ad Hoc Committee to Review Policies Regarding Assessment and Grading
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Rolling back the grading policy would end an experiment that has been hailed in academe as both successful and courageous. When the policy was adopted, Princeton had hoped that other elite schools would follow suit. None of the Ivies did, though Wellesley College in 2004 instituted guidelines that the mean grade for 100- and 200-level classes should not exceed a B+.
An analysis of Wellesley's guidelines published in The Journal of Economic Perspectives found that, although the policy brought down grades, it also widened racial gaps in grading trends and reduced enrollments in departments most affected by the changes. "Any institution that attempts to deal with grade inflation on its own must consider the possibility of adverse consequences of this unilateral disarmament," the Wellesley researchers warned.
Princeton's willingness to take bold actions ahead of its peers paid off in the case of its "no loan" financial-aid policy, Eisgruber said. But in terms of grading, he said, "being out there alone increased the stress around our policy."
If the faculty committee had found that "there are huge pedagogical benefits to numerical targets, we would have stuck with numerical targets," he said. "But what they've said is that this may be unusual, but it's not bold in the sense of improving our education in any way."
"We continue to be bold in doing things that innovate on our campus," he said, citing the bridge-year program and the University's commitment to keep tenured faculty in the classroom.
A survey for the committee showed faculty members split on their view of the grading policy (47 percent in favor, 37 percent opposed, 16 percent neutral), with natural sciences expressing the strongest support and the humanities the widest opposition. But the survey found only minor shifts of opinion in the past decade; when asked about their position at the time it was adopted, 50 percent of faculty who were on campus in 2004 reported they had been in favor of the policy, compared with 35 percent opposed and 15 percent neutral.
; Source: Report from the Ad Hoc Committee to Review Policies Regarding Assessment and Grading
The committee's recommendations are "muddled thinking," said physics professor Daniel Marlow, who said that the targets successfully have steered Princeton away from the inflated grades seen at other universities. "Absent a numerical target, it will be hard to avoid an upward | 708 |
A contemporary bench, the Coopered Bench speaks to the beauty of minimalism: anything in its form is essential – leaving only what's functional to engender its beauty.
The Coopered Bench marks a launching point in Ren's aesthetic: it makes no concession to unnecessary ornamentation. Crafted with<|fim_middle|> seems to be watching.
We've loved every moment with that stool, and now we'd love to share it with you.
Built using solid wood lamination, it not only allows the full expression of a species character, but also saves high quality wood from the burn pile.
Wood availability is based on current and future projects happening in the shop. For stools not in stock, standard lead times of 2-4 weeks can apply. Please contact us to learn what is available.
© 2018 Ren Provey. All Rights Reserved. | four tapered, solid, hand shaped legs, the bench uses wedged double mortise and tenon joinery, which is shouldered to eliminate the need for spreaders – leaving a strong, yet open and uncluttered stance.
The entire bench is crafted from a single piece of timber, ensuring beautiful grain and color matching. The seat joins seven staves at a slight angle, creating a coopered form. The faceted bottom forms a lovely contrast to its uninterrupted smooth curved top.
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With decidedly Shaker roots, the design details of our Blanket Chest allow it to transcend tradition, allowing it to flourish in even more contemporary environments.
Shaker craftsmanship resounds throughout Blanket Chest in structure, form, and detail. The chest employs exposed dovetail joinery, which is as challenging to perfect, as they are beautiful.
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Shortly before our son turned 3, and was becoming too big to sit on the counter and help us cook, I built a small standing stool for him by hand. Cutting individual strips, flattening the top and bottom, and even using a bit and brace to ream the holes for legs.
We've used it every day since; in the kitchen to cook and bake, by the door to put on and take off shoes, changing the smoke detector batteries, and climbing up on the counters to splunk the cabinets for chocolate when nobody | 394 |
Music Week Presents: Vincent Barrea
by Alice Dempsey
November 1st 2019 at 1:00PM
Vocalist, producer and rapper Vincent Barrea has released his brand new single 'Chemical or Love' via Mait<|fim_middle|> of Happiness
Music Week Presents: 5West | re Music. The track follows Barrea's recent successes 'Zoom Zoom', 'Save My Life' and 'I'm Not Afraid' which have reached over a million Youtube views.
Barea's music draws on elements from a plethora of genres and the result is a sound reminiscent of Mykki Blanco, Yung Beef and Zebra Katz. Diversity seems to be a common denominator for the Moscow based artist. His creative background spans theatre, dance, acting and photography whilst his musical output range from club bangers to hot reggaeton sounds.
We are able to share his newest work in the form of a music video and it's a fiery, infectious offering that highlights the artist's new sound direction. Vincent Barrea provides a performance that successfully captures his difficulty or resistance to understand and deal with his feelings.
"This song is a musical transformation of the experiences of a real person. A person who is so strongly in love that he cannot determine whether it is just chemistry occurring in his head, or a very persistent feeling from the bottom of his heart.
These thoughts annoy and create doubt and anxiety, and don't give the opportunity to move further in the relationship - thereby spiralling it to a dead end.", Vincent Barrea explains about his new single.
Artist: Vincent Barrea
Genre: Hip-hop/ R&B
Sounds Like: Mykki Blanco, Yung Beef, Zebra Katz.
Single name: 'Chemical Or Love' video
Release date: 31st October
Link to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vincentbarrea
Link to YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0XO8hnHk7dtp-QVYH5MzQ
Link to Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/vincentbarrea
Link to Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vincebarrea/
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TheBlackApp is billing itself as "the first iPhone consumer network," and by the look of their homepage, which I've been linked to a few times over the past couple weeks by various iPhone fanboys, my first thought was that this was an iMarketingGimick. But<|fim_middle|> convenience of always up-to-date mobile coupons is a strong value proposition for consumers.
The founder of EpicApps, who is remaining anonymous for now, is fairly well-known in tech circles, so I'd expect the TheBlackApp's launch this summer to be fairly high profile. | , I've been able to track down a few, admittedly still vague details about what the company is planning to launch on June 5th.
As you can see on the landing page the company (called EpicApps) has setup, there are three different apps you can register for: black, gold, and silver. Connect the dots (theblackapp billing itself as a "consumer network") and you can figure out what the company is working on: a discount club of sorts for iPhone users. Think discounts from a wide variety of brands, with the quality and selection of offers depending on the exclusivity level (similar to the difference between Green, Gold, and Black AMEX cards). The company isn't disclosing which retail partners they are working with yet, but it sounds like the focus will be on nationwide retail brands.
To me, it all sounds a bit elitist, but then again, this is the iPhone we are talking about, so perhaps it will work. Retailers might jump at the chance to have their brands promoted to the typically high income iPhone user, while the | 217 |
Full recap of the latest Fed rate hike and Chair Powell's market-moving news conference
'No hints of dovishness to indicate the Fed may be poised to pause,' says Brandywine Global's Jack McIntyre
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's comments were quite hawkish, which means the Fed still has a way to go to fight inflation, said Jack McIntyre, portfolio manager at Brandywine Global. The level of interest rates will also be higher than previously expected, he said.
"There were no hints of dovishness to indicate the Fed may be poised to pause," McIntyre pointed out.
The central bank saying it would consider cumulative tightening of monetary policy suggests it is leaving the door open to slow down the pace of hikes, not end them.
"Today was all about—and only about—giving the Fed flexibility or optionality to back off their path of 75 [basis point] hikes," McIntyre said.
"CPI reports, labor reports, and the ongoing impact of China's zero-COVID policy on global growth are all more important than any signal of Fed action. From this point on, we should think slower and steady…until something breaks."
— Michelle Fox
Powell says path to soft landing has 'narrowed'
Powell said that while he believes it is "still possible" for the Fed to achieve a soft landing, the path has "narrowed."
"We've always said it was going to be difficult, but to the extent rates have to go higher and stay higher for longer it becomes harder to see the path. It's narrowed. I would say the path has narrowed over the course of the last year," Powell said.
— Jesse Pound
Powell more hawkish than expected, futures price in higher rate for Fed
Traders bet the Fed could raise the fed funds rates to a high of 5.05%, before stopping its current rate hiking cycle.
The May contract reached that level after dipping to 4.93% after the Fed's policy statement opened the door<|fim_middle|> we expect that Powell will double down on this narrative at the press conference. Therefore, the bullish move has more room to run," Lyngen said in a statement.
— Yun Li, Fred Imbert
Fed says it will 'will take into account the cumulative tightening of monetary policy'
This is the language from the Fed statement traders appear to be keying on:
The Fed said it will "take into account the cumulative tightening of monetary policy, the lags with which monetary policy affects economic activity and inflation, and economic and financial developments."
Stocks jump after Fed rate hike
The major averages jumped after the Federal Reserve raised rates by 75 basis points, as was widely expected. The Dow traded more than 200 points higher, or 0.9%. The S&P 500 gained 0.5%, and the Nasdaq Composite advanced 0.4%.
For a full breakdown of today's market action, check out or live blog.
Investors may need to parse Fed closely for signs of a change in rate hikes
The Federal Reserve's potential move to smaller rate hikes may not be explicit in the policy statement and Jerome Powell's press conference on Wednesday, said James Ragan, director of wealth management research at D.A. Davidson
"Will there be discussion about the potential for 50 basis points in December? Probably not. I don't think he'll want to be that specific," Ragan said.
Ragan pointed to Powell previously saying that the Fed had hiked to the low end of a restrictive range as the example of the type of comment that investors are looking for.
"If they go to 3.75-4%, how restrictive do they view that? I think that's going to be important," he said.
Discussions about the state of the economy will also be closely monitored, Ragan added.
Here's what to expect from the Fed
The Federal Reserve is expected to announce that it is raising its fed funds target rate range by three-quarters of a point.
The Fed is also widely expected to signal that it could slow down the pace of rate hikes, and the market is pricing in a good chance of a smaller 50 basis point hike for December. A basis point equals 0.01 of a percentage point.
If the Fed decides to signal smaller hikes are coming, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell could be the messenger when he briefs the media at 2:30 p.m. ET.
Powell could make such a comment in response to a question, according to Jim Caron of Morgan Stanley Investment Management. But Caron stresses that Powell will not provide a definitive comment.
"He's going to hide behind the data," said Caron. The strategist said Powell will have to be careful in how he crafts the statement because he could raise market expectations for a less aggressive Fed.
"It's very hard for him not to get himself in trouble just in the normal course of discourse to say we are going to step down if the inflation data weakens,'" he said.
The hike would be the fourth 75 basis point hike in a row. A basis point equals 0.01 of a percentage point.
–Patti Domm
Market snapshot heading into Fed decision
Here's a look at where markets stand about an hour before the Fed delivers its monetary policy decision:
BlackRock's Rick Rieder thinks the Fed will lean hawkish
Investor hopes of a dovish Fed pivot have grown recently, but BlackRock's Rick Rieder thinks the central bank will maintain a more aggressive policy stance.
The firm's chief investment officer of global fixed income said he expects Chair Jerome Powell to sound somewhat hawkish at his 2:30 p.m. ET news conference.
"He's got to be really careful not to be seen as easy or pivoting," said Rieder. "I think he's got to draw the line on 'inflation is our objective'… I think he's got to be aggressive about that. If he blinks and financial conditions ease too much…that's not the direction he or they want to go down."
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— Patti Domm, Fred Imbert
There are two words investors want to hear from the Fed
As the Fed delivers its latest monetary policy decision, there are two words investors will be looking for: "step down." As in, Wall Street will be looking for the central bank to "step down" from its current tightening path. The term was used by San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly.
The Fed isn't expected to stop raising rates anytime soon, but hints that this could be the last 0.75 percentage point increase could soothe a beaten-down stock market.
— Jeff Cox, Fred Imbert
New Evidence Against Alex Murdaugh Revealed as Murder Trial Begins – The New York Times | to a potential reduction in the size of interest rate hikes. The Fed raised its target rate by three-quartes of a point Wednesday afternoon.
But a hawkish Fed Chair Jerome Powell, who spoke a half hour after the Fed statement, sent Treasury yields and fed funds futures higher.
"Powell thinks the bias is they should tighten more than they would otherwise think, just so they should take out some insurance," said Michael Schumacher of Wells Fargo. "His quote was that it's very premature to think about pausing. They're not going to pause anytime soon."
Stocks sold off after initially gaining after the Fed statement. Stocks fell as the 2-year yield reach a high of 4.59% during Powell's comments. The 2-year closely reflects Fed policy.
"It's pretty steadfastly hawkish so far. It's not really what I expected. He's hanging in there," said Schumacher.
— Patti Domm
No 'real softening' in the labor market
In discussing recent labor market data, Jerome Powell said, "I don't see the case for real softening just yet" in the labor market.
Powell also said that he doesn't believe there is a "wage-price spiral" in the current inflation data but that the Fed wants to fight against that before it appears.
"Once you see it, you're in trouble," Powell said.
It is 'premature' to think about a Fed pause, Powell says
Jerome Powell clarified that the Fed is not thinking about pausing its rate hikes.
"It is very premature to be thinking about pausing. People when they hear 'lags' think about a pause. It is very premature, in my view, to think about or be talking about pausing our rate hikes. We have a ways to go," he said.
Powell says slowdown in hikes could come in December
Jerome Powell said that the Fed could ease off of its three-quarters-point hike pace in December or January.
"As we come closer to that level and move further into restrictive territory, the question of speed becomes less important. … And that's why I've said at the last two press conferences that at some point it will be important to slow the pace of increases. So that time is coming, and it may come as soon as the next meeting or the one after that. No decision has been made," Powell said.
As speed becomes less important, the terminal level of interest rates and the length that the Fed will need to keep rates there take precedent, Powell said.
Fed 'can afford to slow the pace of rate hikes,' Capital Economics says
Changes to the Federal Reserve's post-meeting statement along with another 0.75 percentage point interest rate hike Wednesday should be enough to indicate that the central bank is getting ready to slow down the pace of interest rate increases, according to Capital Economics.
With the increase that takes the fed funds rate to a range of 3.75%-4%, the Fed "can afford to slow the pace of rate hikes" as it assesses the hikes approved this year, wrote Paul Ashworth, Capital's chief North America economist.
"Barring another upside inflation surprise in the October and November CPI reports, which we can't completely rule out, it looks like the Fed is laying the groundwork to shift down to a 50bp hike in December and, if we're right that core inflation will start to show signs of slowing soon, a 25bp rate hike at the January meeting next year," Ashworth added.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said at his post-meeting news conference that slowing the pace of rate hikes could be discussed at the December or January meetings.
— Jeff Cox
Powell says there's still some a ways to go before wrapping up rate hike cycle
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that the central bank still has "some ways to go" before the current rate hike cycle is over, noting that "incoming data since our last meeting suggests that the ultimate level of interest rates will be higher than previously expected."
The major U.S. stock indexes pulled back from their earlier session highs after Powell's comment during his news conference.
"Our decisions will depend on the totality of incoming data and their implications for the outlook of economic activity," Powell added.
— Fred Imbert
This is 'the start of the endgame' for the Fed, Morgan Stanley Investment Management's Jim Caron says
The Federal Reserve's language "sufficiently above neutral" is key in its post-decision statement, Morgan Stanley Investment Management's Jim Caron told CNBC.
The central bank said, "The Committee anticipates that ongoing increases in the target range will be appropriate in order to attain a stance of monetary policy that is sufficiently restrictive to return inflation to 2 percent over time."
"What the Fed just told us they are willing to get us to a level that is sufficiently above neutral and keep rates there and then wait for inflation to start to come down," said Caron, the firm's senior advisor on the fixed income team.
"So what that really signals today to me is that this is the start of the end game."
He sees the terminal rate at 5%, which would be 250 basis points above neutral.
"From a cost benefit perspective, it doesn't do as much damage to the asset markets and to the broader economy… by just hiking rates and hiking rates and hiking rates in order to achieve your inflation goal," he said.
The Fed's front-loading of interest rate hikes is over, Boockvar says
The Federal Reserve will likely go for smaller interest rate hikes after its latess 0.75 percentage point rate increase, according to Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Financial Group.
The big change in the central bank's statement came when the Fed discussed factors that would influence policy going forward, saying that the committee will "take into account the cumulative tightening of monetary policy, the lags with which monetary policy affects economic activity and inflation, and economic and financial developments."
"That is quite an expansion and refinement in language from the 4th paragraph in September, that they repeated again today, when all they said was 'the committee will continue to monitor the implications of incoming information for the economic outlook,'" said Boockvar.
Going forward, he sees front loading as essentially over as the Fed watches the bigger picture that's unfolding as they fight inflation.
"Rate hikes from here will be more cognizant of the new economic environment we're in with respect to the much higher cost of capital and economic clouds that are circling," he said. "This is the Fed's way of telling us that a slowdown in the pace of future hikes is upon us."
—Carmen Reinicke
What the Fed's latest moves means for you
The federal funds rate, which is set by the Fed, is the interest rate at which banks borrow and lend to one another overnight. Although that's not the rate consumers pay, the Fed's moves still affect the borrowing and saving rates they see every day.
By raising rates, the Fed makes it costlier to take out a loan, causing people to borrow and spend less, effectively pumping the brakes on the economy and slowing down the pace of price increases.
Read more on how on the different ways this latest monetary policy move means for the consumer.
— Jessica Dickler
Fed statement language 'somewhat' surprising, BMO's Lyngen says
BMO capital markets head of U.S. rates strategy Ian Lyngen said he was surprised by some of the Fed's statement language.
"'Cumulative tightening' and 'lagged impact' suggest that this will be the last 75 bp hike and in December the move will most likely be 50 bp. We're somewhat surprised to see the 'soft pivot' in the statement itself and | 1,593 |
Golf's Greg Norman and tennis greats<|fim_middle|> JOBS Act with creating an environment which allowed the creation of Alchemy's portal. Crediting their global network of contacts with being a main reason behind the value they provide, Alchemy also cites the expertise provided by an advisory panel with a ride range of experiences in professional sport.
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♦ Bill Moses worked for both the NFL and NHL. | Boris Becker and Jim Courier are among the backers behind Alchemy Global, a site billing itself as sport and entertainment's first crowdfunding site for accredited investors, and one which just closed its investment round.
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No worries?
"I don't think [the Caps are] worried about, at any point in the game, about defending -- they're thinking about scoring the next goal."
-- Ron Wilson, Toronto Maple Leafs Coach
That observation came after last night's 6-3<|fim_middle|>8 of 19 draws.
- That's a six game points streak for Niklas Hagman (2-5-7, plus-6).
- Toskala, even after getting yanked in the first meeting of these teams this year, is 2-0-0, 2.89, .909 in three appearances. Against the rest of the league, he is 2-5-2, 3.88, .868.
- For as well as the top line played, Alex Ovechkin did not have a shot on goal in the last 19:31, Nicklas Backstrom had one in the last 28:59.
- Two takeaways? Two?? We're not sure if that was a case of the Caps not moving their feet on defense or the official scorer having a pillar blocking his view of the Caps' end of the ice.
- That was only the third time all year (in 15 games) in which the Maple Leafs tallied more than one power play goal at home. They were the first power play goals the Leafs scored against the Caps this year.
- Conversely, it was the sixth straight game in which the Leafs allowed at least one power play goal. But in getting only three man advantages, the Caps could not take advantage of that weakness as much as they could have.
- One of the things that sets veteran goalies apart from youngsters is the ability to focus and deal with adversity. Michal Neuvirth allowed one goal on the first ten shots he faced, one on his next ten, two on the next ten… and two on the last six he faced. That's not a trend you like to see.
As Bruce Boudreau put it after the game, "we played pretty badly," referring to the last half of the game. Now the Caps head out west to Colorado, Vancouver, and Edmonton. The last time the Caps made this trip was in late October 2006. They beat Colorado (5-3), lost to Vancouver in a shootout (3-2), then were blanked in Edmonton (4-0). The Caps are 4-4-1 against these three teams overall over the last three years. We would expect more of this team, but Corey Masisak over at the Washington Times has a disturbing set of numbers to question our expectations…
"The Caps have lost more games than they've won against teams that don't reside in the Southeast Division...the Caps are 8-0-0 against the Southeast and now 12-13 (12-7-6 by official standards, but remind which of those six OT/shootout losses did the Caps feel good about and take momentum from?) against the rest of the league. How can a team be the best team in the league if it is 12-13 against the 5/6 of the league that doesn't reside in the division that has been notoriously suspect in recent years?"
Actually, his entry is one long litany of "beware, this team might not be nearly as good as we think it is." It – not to mention the pasting the Caps endured tonight – is a caution against getting too far ahead of ourselves.
Labels: 2009-2010 postgame, 2009-2010 season, Toronto Maple Leafs, Washington Capitals | Leafs win over the Caps. It betrays an inconvenient truth. If the Caps don't score -- a lot -- they don't win, at least not with any regularity.
The Caps have seven losses in regulation this year. In all of them they scored three or fewer goals. They have shown a lack of ability to prevail in close, low-scoring games. Their overall record in games in which they score three goals or fewer is 6-7-4.
Having to outscore their own defense is not a long-term strategy for success.
Labels: Washington Capitals
A NO-point night: Maple Leafs 6 - Capitals 3
"He's not playing the Albany River Rats."
That was the observation of Alan May in the Caps' post-game show on Comcast Sports Net after the Caps laid an egg on Hockey Night in Canada, dropping a 6-3 decision to the Toronto Maple Leafs. The comment was directed at Caps goaltender Michal Neuvirth, but it could have applied to the Caps, who coughed up a 2-0 lead to allow the Leafs to outscore them 6-1 in the game's final 40 minutes.
One might be tempted to look at the production of the top line of Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Backstrom, and Alexander Semin (3-3-6) and say that they could be absolved of any blame in this, but Backstrom and Ovechkin were on the ice for the game-winning fourth and insurance fifth goals in the Leafs' comeback. Ovechkin could be fairly singled out for not getting back on Lee Stempniak on his shorthanded goal with just under ten minutes left that more or less sealed the deal for Toronto.
But it certainly was a team meltdown. Of the 18 skaters, 15 were on the ice for at least one Leafs goal (Eric Fehr, Chris Clark, and Mathieu Perreault having been spared the grief). You could lean on the crutch of travel problems and the second game of a back-to-back as the cause of the result, but the fact is that the Caps had a 2-0 lead after one period against a weaker opponent and didn't close the deal.
- The Caps came into this game 35-3-5 in games that Alex Ovechkin had at least three points. Make that 35-4-5.
- In all the noise, the game probably comes down to two plays involving the same two players. The first came with the clock ticking toward the 12:00 remaining mark in the first period and the Caps holding the 2-0 lead. Nicklas Backstrom sent a 125-foot pass onto the tape of Alexander Semin breaking in alone on Vesa Toskala. Semin ripped a forehand shot that Toskala speared with his glove to maintain the two-goal margin. If the Caps score there, the game might very well have been over. The other would come later when Semin was sent in again alone on a breakaway. Toskala this time snuffed a backhand attempt that could have brought the Caps back into the game.
- Nicklas Backstrom is one of the most gifted offensive talents in the game, but he really has to improve on his faceoffs. That came into stark relief tonight when Matt Stajan beat Backstrom on a draw in the Capitals' end, then he collected a loose puck behind Backstrom and flipped it over Neuvirth's right shoulder for the game-winning goal. He's been over 50 percent on draws in only 11 of 33 games this year and is at 46.3 percent overall.
- Only three points (all assists) came from the 15 skaters not on the top line, and they were a combined minus-11. Are they still in baggage pick-up at the airport?
- Matt Stajan wins the all-you-can-eat-for-free coupon from the score sheet buffet… two goals, an assist, plus-2, five shots, a shot blocked, a shot missed, a hit, two giveaways, a takeaway, three blocked shots, and he won | 865 |
It is one of those dinners that gets better each time.
I love having easy to prepare yet filling and satisfying meals for weeknights when everyone is on a busy schedule.
This one is super simple because I choose to use store bought dough that I keep in the freezer and thaw overnight in the fridge or for about 3 hours on the counter the day I'm going to use it.
I'm positive you'll have great success with this as a meal too. Go on give it a try.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees for at least 30 minutes before use. Spray a pizza pan (I use the 12" Pampered Chef BBQ pizza pan) with cooking<|fim_middle|>ives, sour cream, hot sauce.
Slice and serve. Mmmmm mmmmm so so good!
This is a new family favorite and I'm sure you will love it too. | spray and set aside.
Cook taco meat and season how you would for tacos. Set aside.
Place the beans (cold) in a bowl and mix in the 1/3 cup salsa until well mixed. Set aside.
On a floured surface roll out the pizza dough until it is almost the size of the pan. Transfer to pan and using a little stretching push against the edge of the pan.
Spread the bean mixture on the dough as if you would the pizza sauce.
Top with the taco meat and cheese in an even layer.
Bake for 20 - 30 minutes or until completely cooked and crispy on the bottom.
Top with your favorite taco toppings. Lettuce, tomatoes, ol | 143 |
The Iowa Legislature > Resources & Civic Education > Tour the Capitol > Video and Pictorial Tours of the Capitol and Capitol Grounds ><|fim_middle|>, stained glass, and chandeliers had to be replaced. During the session, visitors' galleries are open to the public. During the interim, visitors are welcome to visit the chamber. | Capitol Today Print Permanent Link
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Tour Guides | Gift Shop
The Capitol Tour Guides and the Capitol Gift Shop are located in the rotunda of the ground floor of the Capitol. The Capitol Tour Guides provide tours of the Capitol year round and provide educational information on the legislative process, the Capitol grounds, and other specific topics associated with the Capitol as requested by legislators and the public. The Capitol Gift Shop offers items for sale relating to the Iowa Capitol and the State of Iowa. The Capitol Gift Shop proceeds are used to fund educational outreach programs offered by the Capitol Tour Guides.
Inner Dome | Glass Floor | Flag Display Case
The banner, stretched high under the vault of the inner dome, includes a Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) emblem. The banner is a reminder of Iowa's efforts to preserve the Union during the Civil War and was retained as a permanent decoration by order of Governor Nathan E. Kendall in 1922. The glass tile floor of the rotunda was removed from the Capitol in 1915 and a replica was installed in the summer of 2011 as part of the Capitol restoration project. The replica glass tile floor, weighing 19,000 pounds, was created by Circle Redmont Company in Florida at a cost of $311,000. In the rotunda, a rotating flag display is contained in the northwest glassed-in case. The kiosk near the case includes information on the particular flag currently on display.
Capitol History Case
The history display case contains historical photographs of Iowa's Territorial and State Capitols, as well as historical photographs of the Capitol construction and the Capitol interior, including photographs of the 1904 Capitol fire. Tools used in the Capitol construction are displayed. A display of different kinds of wood used in the Capitol is in the lower portion of the case. A timeline of Iowa Governors' portraits is also included.
USS Iowa Model
A model of the battleship USS Iowa is on display in the west wing. The model is 18 feet 7 inches long and weighs approximately 1,350 pounds. It is on loan from the U.S. Navy Department. One of the battleship's two bells is located near the model.
Secretary of State's Office
The Iowa Constitution is on display in the office of the Secretary of State. The Iowa Constitution, signed in 1857, was restored in 1988 and is protected in a specially designed case. The Preamble to the Iowa Constitution, in part, states: "WE, THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF IOWA, grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of those blessings, do ordain and establish a free and independent government, by the name of the State of Iowa . . ."
Capitol Supreme Court Chamber | Judicial Display Case
For nearly 120 years, until the new Judicial Branch Building was completed in 2003, Iowa's justices heard cases in the Old Supreme Court Chamber. The large, elaborately carved mahogany bench, specially built for the Chamber, remains in place. This room now serves as a committee room for the House of Representatives. Outside the Chamber, a judicial display case along the west wall contains both historical and current items provided by the Judicial Branch. Included is a current photograph of Iowa's seven Supreme Court Justices and nine Court of Appeals Judges.
Treasurer of State's Office
The walnut "cage" in the Treasurer's Office once served as the cashier area of the office. This beautifully hand-carved piece had once been removed from the Capitol. In the mid 1970s, the cage was located in a horse barn at the Iowa State Fairgrounds and returned to its original location in the Treasurer's Office. The Seal of Iowa and the federal shield are painted on the ceiling of the cashier's room. The Treasurer's area is a three-room suite. The Treasurer's private office, to the south, is connected to the cashier's area through two doors. The vault no longer holds the state treasury but contains records and unclaimed property information. The State Treasurer also has staff in other areas on the Capitol Complex.
Auditor of State's Office
The State Auditor's Office is located in the south corridor on the first floor of the Capitol. Upon entering the Auditor's Office, one's eye is immediately drawn to the vault door. The vault is one of many in the building and retains its original decoration of a small circular painting and stencil design. The Auditor's business office has a beautifully painted faux wood ceiling and the Auditor's private office was one of the first rooms restored in the Capitol.
Westward Mural
The great mural painting Westward, by Edwin H. Blashfield, a New York artist, is located between the first and second floors at the east side of the Capitol. The mural painting, depicting the migration of early pioneers traveling through Iowa, extends the full width of the wall over the Grand Staircase. This work of art measures 14 feet high and 40 feet wide. The mural, painted in 1905 at a total cost of $10,000, was painted on six pieces of canvass and placed into the frame. In describing his mural painting, Blashfield wrote: "The main idea of the picture is symbolical presentation of the Pioneers led by the spirits of Civilization and Enlightenment to the conquest by cultivation of the Great West. Considered pictorially, the canvass shows a 'Prairie Schooner' drawn by oxen across the prairie. The family ride upon the wagon or walk at its side. Behind them, and seen through the growth of stalks at the right, come crowding the other pioneers and 'later men.' In the air and before the wagon, are floating four female figures; one holds the shield with the arms of the state of Iowa upon it; one holds a book symbolizing Enlightenment; two others carry a basket and scatter the seeds which are symbolical of the change from wilderness to ploughed fields and gardens that shall come over the prairie. Behind the wagon, and also floating in the air, two female figures hold, respectively, a model of a stationary steam engine and of an electric dynamo to suggest the forces which come with the 'later men.'"
State Law Library
The Iowa State Law Library is located on the Capitol's second floor. The law library features four ornamental balconies with spiraled cast-iron railings and circular staircases at each end. The library houses a collection of approximately 100,000 volumes, and is one of the largest combined law libraries in the United States. The public is welcome to visit the library and may also use the books. Original gaslights or reproduction gaslights, now wired for electricity, have been retained throughout the room. The tile floor and stained glass ceiling in the law library date back to 1884. As part of the Capitol renovation project, restoration painters completed work on the ceiling in the law library in 1997.
West Capitol Terrace
The West Capitol Terrace can be viewed from the west doors on the first floor of the Capitol near the model of the USS Iowa or from the west balcony doors in the Law Library on the second floor of the Capitol. The West Capitol Terrace includes walkways and ramps, beautiful flowers, and native grasses. Each bench is dedicated to an Iowa Governor. Although an ongoing development, the project was in its completion stage by 2007. The 10 acres of terraces replaced a 500-space parking lot.
Stairway Statues | Grand Staircase
The marble and granite Grand Staircase connects the first and second floors. The two lighted statues at the foot of the Grand Staircase were originally gaslit. These statues were commissioned for the Illinois Capitol but subsequently given to the Iowa Capitol Commissioners for use in the Iowa Capitol. The newel posts of the staircase are constructed of several types of marble. Each newel post also has an alabaster wreath decorated with various carvings.
Railroad Commissioner's Original Office
The two-room suite was originally the Railroad Commissioner's Office. The Railroad Commissioner was never an executive officer of the state, but the original location of the Railroad Commissioner's Office on the first floor of the Capitol reflected the importance of the railroads in the growth of the state. Water from the 1904 fire damaged the decorative designs on the walls and ceilings. After the fire, T. I. Stoner, a local decorator, was hired to repaint this two-room suite. His unique designs, compared to all other rooms in the Capitol, can still be seen today. This suite is currently used as legislative offices.
168th Infantry Photo | Inaugural Gown Doll Display Case
Hanging on the east side of the south corridor is one of the world's largest reproduction photographs of the time. The photograph was taken by W. T. Showers of the 168th Infantry. It measures 26 feet long and 6 feet high and pictures Iowa soldiers of the 42nd Rainbow Division, 168th Infantry, after the division's return from France in 1919. A collection of dolls depicting Iowa's first ladies in their inaugural gowns is displayed near the Governor's Office. The idea for the dolls was suggested by Governor Robert Ray's wife, First Lady Billie Ray, as a project to celebrate America's bicentennial in 1976. The dolls are porcelain and the faces are created from a profile of Mrs. Ray.
Lunettes | Statues
Eight lunettes, or half-moon-shaped paintings, surrounding the rotunda are the work of Kenyon Cox, a famous 19th century American artist. The lunettes represent Hunting, Herding, Agriculture, the Forge, Commerce, Education, Science, and the Arts. They represent the progress of civilization. Twelve statues, high within the rotunda, beginning north of the library door, represent History, Science, Law, Fame, Literature, Industry, Peace, Commerce, Agriculture, Victory, Truth, and Progress. Seraphin Cottin created these statues in 1885.
Six mosaics in arched panels are located directly above the mural painting Westward, located on the east side ofthe Capitol's third floor. The mosaics were made in Venice, Italy, out of tiles of glass. Frederick Dielman of New York created the mosaics installing them at the Capitol in 1908. The mosaics depict Defense, Charities, Education, and the Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary branches of government. Dielman was paid $10,000 to create this work of art, the last artwork to be installed in the Capitol. The following, taken from the book The Iowa Capitol: A Harvest of Design, was written regarding the mosaics: "The reason for using mosaics instead of paint, was to get as much of an architectural feeling in these panels as possible, and to avoid conflict or rivalry between them and the mural, Westward, directly below. Another reason was to give the Dielman mosaics carrying power enough to overcome the extra distance from the spectator. It will be observed that the mosaics have been made to take up the color and feeling of the architecture about them. . ."
Governor's Office | Governor's Reception Room
The Governor's office is located on the first floor of the Capitol. This office is a ceremonial office as well as a working office for the Governor. This is where the Governor greets dignitaries and holds formal bill signings. The office features the many varieties of marble and wood used throughout the Capitol. The Governor's office at the Capitol was first occupied by Governor Buren Sherman in 1885. The first Governor to occupy the office for a full term was Governor William Larrabee in 1886.
The Iowa Senate Chamber, located on the second floor of the Capitol, was dedicated in 1884. There are 50 members in the Senate. The legislators use this chamber during each session of the Iowa General Assembly. Each General Assembly consists of two consecutive sessions -- one session each year -- for two years. Every session begins on the second Monday in January, extending approximately 100 days in even-numbered years, and 110 days in odd-numbered years. The months between the sessions are referred to as the "interim" period. Each senator holds a four-year term, and must run for reelection, if desiring to continue to serve in the Senate, alternating reelection years between those representing even-numbered or odd-numbered districts. The two legislative chambers and the State Law Library were the first rooms to be completed in the Capitol. It was important to prioritize the completion of these second-floor rooms so legislative business could commence at the Capitol. The Senate Chamber has undergone few changes since first constructed. The ceilings in the Senate Chamber are beautifully painted. The chandeliers, imported from France, are original and were equipped with gas lines. They are made of hand-crafted brass and each weighs 500 pounds. The desks used by senators during the session are original.
The Iowa House of Representatives Chamber, located on the second floor of the Capitol, was dedicated in 1884. There are 100 members in the House. The legislators use this chamber during each session of the Iowa General Assembly. Each General Assembly consists of two consecutive sessions -- one session each year -- for two years. Every session begins on the second Monday in January, extending approximately 100 days in even-number years, and 110 days in odd-numbered years. The months between the sessions are referred to as the "interim" period. Each representative holds a two-year term, and must run for reelection at the end of the term if desiring to continue to serve in the House. Extensive damage was done to the House Chamber during the 1904 fire. (See Historical Look) After the fire, the entire ceiling | 2,968 |
Susan Wright and Jason Cox are not your average pair of siblings. For one, they actually get along. Secondly, they manage to get along while owning one of the more successful local businesses in northwest Corpus Christi.
The two are the founders and owners of S&J Bakery, often referred by customers by the first two initials of that name. Susan and Jason celebrated 15 years in business in November, a milestone they say is due in no small part to the loyalty shown by their customers and the concerted effort they put into being a part of the community.
The duo says they didn't even realize they had reached the 15-year anniversary, partly because of the hectic nature of the business during the Thanksgiving holiday.
"It was crazy busy at that time. Susan and I walked past each other and said, 'Happy Anniversary,' and that's it" Jason says with a laugh.
"It kind of snuck up on us," Susan says of the milestone. "But if it wasn't for our customers, we wouldn't be here."
The siblings first had the idea to go into business together after they "got tired" of their jobs. Susan, the older of the two, was a realtor at the time, and Jason had worked at a variety of places, including the River Hills Country Club.
They got wind of an auction for a Corpus Christi bakery going out of business, where a bunch of equipment would available for people to buy. The pair pooled together some money and made their way to the site of the sale.
"The auction started at 10 a.m., and we walked in about 9 a.m.," Jason says. "The guy opened the door and said, 'Look, you all are the first ones here and I'll be honest with you. I've sold everything out of here that's going to make me any money.' And he locked the door behind us and said, 'You've got everything here to start a bakery, except an oven and a mixer. You come up with $800 and it's all yours, but you have to have it out of here today.' So, we gave him $800 and we had everything in that whole building, except an oven and a mixer."
Having gone to the auction hoping to just come away with some supplies, Jason and Susan, both graduates of Tuloso-Midway High School, now found themselves in possession of an entire kitchen's worth of equipment. The duo immediately sprang into action and called on friends and family to help with the move.
"We called everybody we knew with a truck or a trailer and it took us all day," he says, adding all of the equipment filled two storage units and a garage.
They opened S&J Bakery in a 600-square-foot building near Tuloso-Midway Middle School on Nov. 17, 1995. They started out selling cakes and kolaches, the latter of which wound up being the most popular item on their menu.
"The kol<|fim_middle|> up early in the morning as a kid to cook anything he could think of, while Susan talks about decorating cakes as early as 11 years old.
"I kind of self-taught myself how to decorate, and (Jason) used to watch-" Susan starts.
"Justin Wilson, all the time. The Cajun Cook," Jason finishes. "One day, I think my mom was working, and I was watching Justin Wilson. I called her and said, 'Mom, can I make this dirty rice?' And she goes, 'Yeah, that's fine. Do you have everything there or do you need to go to the store?' I said 'No, I've got everything. I already pulled it all out.' So she said, 'Yeah, you can make it.' Well, I called her back 15 minutes later and I said, 'Mom, I think I need to cut this recipe down a little bit.' She goes, 'Jason, do it exactly the way the man told you to.' I said, 'OK.' When she got home, I had three roasters full of dirty rice."
As children, the family would gather every Saturday night at the home of Jason and Susan's grandmother for a big meal. The pair looks back fondly at the memories of their grandmother forming every hamburger patty by hand and frying it in a pan. Food has always played a central role in bringing family together, and that tradition continues to this day for Susan and Jason.
They lament that more families don't do gatherings like those in today's era of social media and text messaging.
The two siblings are also still very close. They claim to fight very rarely, maybe once a year. Even then, apologies are usually forthcoming within a few minutes after the argument has ended. Their bond can also be seen in the fact that each has been married to their spouses for 10 years, with both weddings taking place mere months apart.
Jason, now 37, has three children with his wife, the oldest of whom is 18. Susan, 42, has two children with her husband. Placing the importance on family has always been a big part of the business, so Susan and Jason close the shop on weekends to give their employees that time with their own families.
The menu has also grown with the building, with various sandwiches and entrees making an appearance.
But the kolaches are still the best-selling item on the list. The morning after Susan and Jason's interview, a line is snaking around the inside of the building and customers are stocking up on the different types of kolaches, which are made with two types of sausage, along with the familiar ham and cheese.
Each kolache is still made by hand, just as they were when the bakery first opened.
Rick Barker, a resident of George West who commutes to Calallen for work, is a regular customer at S&J Bakery. Jason greets him as Rick waits in line.
"You guys getting a little busy in here?" Rick asks.
"A little bit. I hope it gets busier," Jason responds, bringing a laugh from Rick.
"It's good though," Rick says.
"Oh yeah - it's a blessing," Jason responds.
Bob Weatherford, who meets with friends every morning for coffee at S&J Bakery, says Susan and Jason are more than deserving of the success they have earned.
"They treat us like royalty here," he says.
Jason and Susan are grateful to have remained in business as long as they have and hope to stay that way for another 15 years.
The best part of their job comes when they reflect on the fact that many kids have come through the bakery and returned as adults after graduating from college and starting their own families.
"They used to come in and couldn't see over the counter," Susan says. "Now it's their kids who come in and are looking over that counter."
"There's lots of good memories in this place," Jason says. | aches kind of took over," she says. "Nobody else had any when we first started."
Business was tough at first, with the pair not having enough money to advertise in any local media and relying mostly on word-of-mouth. Their mother even worked with them for free, as well, manning the counter. Jason lived with Susan at the beginning, and the two would often struggle to make ends meet.
"We had one lady who had a standing order of 20 ham and cheese (kolaches). At that point, we would always make 24 ham and cheese (daily)," Susan says with a chuckle. "And we ate the four sometimes for dinner at night because they didn't sell. It was terrible."
During the first few years, hours were rough, too. The pair would begin baking as early as 3 a.m. to get everything ready for when the bakery opened at 5 a.m., and would go until closing time at 2 p.m. Then they would have to stay for a bit longer afterwards to clean up and get ready for the next day's shift. The fact that neither Jason nor Susan had families at the time made it a little easier, but not by much, Jason says.
After a while, though, business began to get a little easier. Being located near a school ensured that parents driving past the business would eventually stop in for a kolache or pastry in the morning. Before long, word had spread pretty quickly about S&J Bakery's kolaches and business began to pick up.
Eventually, they moved into a new 2,400-square-foot building, complete with a dining room, that is actually only a few feet away from their old location. Susan and Jason find humor in the fact that customers could not find the new, larger location despite the short distance.
"We made a 40-yard move from building to building and people could not find us," Jason says.
Despite the hours and hectic schedules, though, the two siblings say their love of cooking has always kept them motivated. Jason talks about getting | 420 |
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Q: Script to automate TrueCrypt So I am logging into a windows server and once I login as a administrator a small pop u box of the TrueCrypt comes up and it asks for a TrueCrypt password.Once I provide the password certain files will be mounted.So I am looking for a script which would help me to automate this process.Like every time<|fim_middle|> configure the task to run every time the server restarts.But I am not sure how we can send the password of TrueCrypt using powershell commands.Could you let me know how this can be achieved.
A: within your script you could use the"/p" flag to hand over the password. Also "/q background" and "/s" to suppress all warnings or popup windows might help.
A: Don't.
You should be moving away from TrueCrypt altogether. It is no longer supported, no longer being developed, and per the creators may have unpatched security vulnerabilities. Get away from TrueCrypt ASAP.
| the server reboots I want to set the password to the TrueCrypt automatically so that the files would be mounted.
I was actually thinking of a powershell script which could be set up in windows Task scheduler and then | 44 |
Мохноно́гий каню́к,<|fim_middle|>е в 1763 году | или зимня́к (), — вид птиц семейства ястребиных.
Внешний вид
Общая длина 51—61 см, масса 800—1300 г. Похож на канюка обыкновенного, но нижняя сторона тела у него светлее. Названа эта птица так потому, что у неё цевки оперены до пальцев.
Распространение
Самый северный представитель группы, имеющий кругополярное распространение в Евразии и Северной Америке. Гнездится и на многих северных и средних Курильских островах (Парамушир, Онекотан, Харимкотан, Атласова, Маканруши).
Голос
Голос похож на голос канюка обыкновенного: гнусавое протяжное «хиээ-хиээ…».
Образ жизни
Населяют открытую тундру и лесотундру. Кормятся главным образом леммингами и другими мелкими северными млекопитающими и птицами. Перелётная птица, доходящая на зимовках до Южной Европы, Средней и Центральной Азии и южных частей США.
Размножение
Гнёзда построены из сучьев и расположены на земле, редко на деревьях или скалах. Число яиц в кладке колеблется в зависимости от кормовых условий, в основном от численности леммингов. Обычно в кладке 3—5 яиц, в благоприятные годы до 7, а в плохие 2—3. При отсутствии леммингов и вовсе не размножаются. Насиживает самка в течение 30—35 дней. Птенцы вылетают из гнёзд в возрасте 6—7 недель.
Примечания
Литература
Жизнь животных (ТТ. 1—7). — 2-е изд. — М., 1983-89
Ссылки
Позвоночные животные России: Зимняк
Настоящие канюки
Птицы Евразии
Птицы Северной Америки
Животные, описанны | 603 |
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Though the term, threat exposure management, is new, the<|fim_middle|> and practitioners to discuss, share and discover best practices for addressing the operational challenges associated with work-from-home transitions, cloud migrations, M&A, shadow IT and the rise of ransomware attacks.
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Fri, Dec 2, 2022, 11:00am ET | concepts behind it are not. Threat exposure management is about combining an organization's existing asset and vulnerability management capabilities with a new suite of tools. This process is designed to close gaps and develop a process for determining attackability and reducing risk in a quick and logical way.
This half-day event will bring together thought leaders, subject matter experts | 66 |
The holidays are over and there is a new year upon us. While many are thankful to have gotten through the holidays and get there lives back to a normal routine, many are having that letdown feeling – commonly known as "The Winter Blues". Although that down in the dumps feeling can hit you any time of the year, it is especially prevalent in the Winter months following the Holidays. The combination of post holiday let down, sundown at 5<|fim_middle|> lives.
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The days of the IT department existing in the back office and not communicating with the front of the business are gone. IT professionals need to<|fim_middle|> consistent value to your employer and take initiative when making decisions for the best interest of the company. Employers are more likely to hire and retain workers who carry out multiple technical functions in the business. They value those who understand how to leverage their knowledge to deliver the right technology to achieve company goals.
While there may not be a universal skill or attribute that can guarantee job security, here are five tips on how to position yourself as the indispensible go-to IT professional in your company.
One of the most powerful ways to increase your job security is to understand the strategic direction of your company and how it relates to your position so you can make the most impact on the bottom line. As an IT professional, you are much more desirable if you understand project management, business process reengineering, and can effectively work and communicate with the management team.
These skills allow you to be more self-directed and not only do your job, but make wise decisions on how to tailor your work efforts to directly affect the profitability and success of the company. | take a leadership role, take initiative when making decisions and understand the business. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Rich Milgram outlines the skill sets IT professionals need in order to improve their career and thrive in today's job market.
You're an IT professional. So it's time to become aware of the changes happening in your industry and understand how they could affect your job and your company. You've had it pretty good over the years, but it's no longer enough to simply be a "ticket taker" for your next project, leaving the strategy and big picture company goals to management.
To succeed in your career, it is important to demonstrate | 128 |
I needed to have something healthy on this menu, and these spinach balls fit the bill. They're made with fresh spinach, cheddar cheese, Gluten free panko crumbs, and eggs. But more importantly than being healthy, they have to be delicious – and they are! Makes roughly 24 spinach balls.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Trim and wash the fresh spinach leaves. Place the leaves in a large<|fim_middle|> cookie sheet covered with parchment paper or tin foil.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 15-20 minutes or until golden on the top. Serve immediately or serve later cold.
***These can also be made ahead (not cooked) and frozen easily (for up to 3 months). Then bake them directly from the freezer and enjoy! | mixing bowl and over with boiling water. Cover and set aside for 3 minutes.
Rinse the spinach with cold tap water. Drain using your hands to squeeze all the remaining water. You should end up with about 2/3 cup of packed cooked spinach leaves.
Place on a chopping board, and finely chop the cooked spinach. Transfer into a mixing bowl. Add eggs, cheese, herbs and panko gluten free crumbs. Add a pinch of salt and pepper.
Combine with your hands, until it forms a batter from which you are able to form balls. If too moist add slightly more crumbs until easy to roll as ball with your hands.
Place the balls on a | 136 |
Do you have a skill that you'd like to share with others?
The Royal Voluntary Service are looking for talented older people to join their team of GrandMakers.
To encourage older people to<|fim_middle|> to join their team. If you have a skill that you'd like to share with others, or know someone who would make a good GrandMaker, you can apply at grandfest.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk.
The main GrandFest event will be at Spitalfields in London on Sunday 18th June. In addition, there will be a number of smaller events across the UK.
GrandMakers chosen for GrandFest in London will need to be over 70, but anyone over 60 (by 18th June 2017) can apply to take part in the regional events.
The Royal Voluntary Service is Cosyfeet's charity of the year. We are raising money to help fund the important work they do to improve the lives of older people across Britain, helping them stay active, independent and socially connected. | stay active and pursue their interests, the Royal Voluntary Service have created GrandFest. This is a celebration of skills that older people can pass on to younger generations.
Over the years, the RVS have brought together GrandMakers; a team of people over the age of 60 who have a traditional skill they enjoy sharing with others. These GrandMakers present masterclasses to small groups at their GrandFest events. Past masterclasses have included jam-making, crochet, weaving, dancing, bread making and woodworking.
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Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Can Twitter Save Lives?
FYI: I'm in Southeast Asia Giving Social Media Trainings to Nonprofits!
Preetam Rai, Global Voices Southeast Asia Editor, is helping to send Leng Sopharath to College! Why Not You Too!
Blackbaud has just released the 2010 State of the Not-for-Profit Industry Survey results for the Asia Pacific. It appears that a majority of Asia-Pacific Non-Profits use their website primarily as an engagement and communication tool, with online giving coming in second.
Malaysian not-for-profits to get<|fim_middle|>FTctzAPAC.
Nonprofit Technology, Corporate Social Responsibility, Asia Pacific. technet.com/citizenship_asia_pacific. | a Google leg up | Digital News Asia : "GOOGLE Malaysia has launched a programme that it said would enable not-for-profit organisations in the country to better serve their respective causes by making use of some of the company's tools for free or at "highly discounted" rates.
I just got this email to C3's general inbox: Hello, I´m the webmaster of senate.gov We are moving our website and want to request a change of your outgoing link ( [link] ) to our new website, you would help us very much to make the change sucsesfull.
Even though a large percentage of NGOs in Asia Pacific now regularly use social media in their online fundraising and communications campaigns, few social media practitioners in the NGO sector have been properly trained on how to best utilize sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.
Lately I have been receiving a lot of requests from nonprofits in New Zealand, Australia, and East Asia for recorded versions of my social media webinars.
ComputerPartner - UPDATE - Microsoft donates staff time to charity in Asia : "UPDATE - Microsoft donates staff time to charity in Asia 24 feb 2006 | 08:11 uur Microsoft Corp. will give every employee in Asia three-days paid leave this year to pursue community service projects aimed at narrowing the digital divide in the continent, the company said Friday.
Related Link: Social Media for Social Good: Lessons Learned from Nonprofits in Southeast Asia. Date: To accomodate all schedules, this webinar will be presented twice – Tuesday, April 24 and Thursday, April 26. Time: 12-1:30pm Singapore/Kuala Lumpur.
Date: Tuesday, October 25. Time: 11am – 12:30pm AEDT ( View Time by City ). Cost: Free. How to Register: Sign up! Presented By: Heather Mansfield. In Europe, Africa, the Middle East, or India? Register here! In the United States, Canada, or Latin America? Register here!
Aletha Schelby is Program Manager for TechSoup Asia. Growing from serving just the United States and Canada to now 38 countries (including nine in the Asia/Pacific region) in just under five years offers plenty of opportunity for learning and change. Enter TechSoup Asia , newly launched in 2011 thanks to a generous grant from Microsoft! For now, I invite you to visit TechSoup Asia , like us on Facebook, and tell your friends!
Citizenship Microsoft Asia Pacific is keeping me pretty busy. Most nonprofits in Southeast Asia are in the early stages of using social media and I've been provided the honor and the privilege to help them skip years of making mistakes by providing them the knowledge that the nonprofit sector in the United States, Canada, and the U.K.
Related Link: Social Media for Social Good: Lessons Learned from Nonprofits in Southeast Asia. Date: Thursday, April 26. Time: 12-1:30pm Singapore/Kuala Lumpur. 10-11:30am New Delhi; 2-3:30 Sydney; 4-6:30pm Auckland). Cost: Free. How to Register: Sign up !
It was the perfect storm: we knew it was time to host a meeting of TechSoup Global's partners in the Asia/Pacific region. Last month, I got to attend Ashoka's Tech4Society conference in Hyderabad, India, as a guest writer for the AshokaTech blog.
That's Preetam on the right. He is the third person to contribute and the first donor that I've met face-to-face. That's powerful. I've raised some money from my cause from people who are my friends online, but I've never met offline. Why is that?
mashups » January 10, 2008 Communicaiton Coordination in the middle of Choas While our campaigns will never get to the intensity of the coverage the Tsunami there is lots of interesting ground experience to tease out of Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book. NetCentric Advocacy Advocacy Strategy for the Age of Connectivity. Home Green Media Toolshed Profile Twitter Shared Links Subscribe Archives « Celebrities have favorite issues.
For Nonprofits in Asia Pacific: 17. Charitable Giving in Asia Pacific 2015 :: Download. The reports listed below are a small sampling of the research available to nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide.
For Nonprofits in Asia Pacific: 18. Charitable Giving in Asia Pacific 2015 :: Download. The reports listed below are a small sampling of some of the research available to nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide.
George is a financial mastermind with one foot in Asia and the other in California. He uses the Alliance Forum Foundation as one of his vehicles for making deals along these lines in Asia and Africa. In our conversation, George and his team outlined ways to use this hybrid approach for expanding social impact in Africa as well as new ideas for enterprises for following up on natural disasters in Asia for sustaining positive change after the immediate humanitarian response.
In most parts of the world, however, government's digital capabilities remain a work in progress and as a result, the ability to accept online donations is challenging for most nonprofits in Africa, parts of Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Asia.
But now, in parts of Africa and Asia, drones being flown at night have been able to detect the presence of poachers and give immediate locations that allow wildlife rangers to deploy quickly and stop the horrible killings.
Outside of Russia and most of Asia, Facebook (the blue countries) is now the main player. I recently came across a world map of social media on the Vincos Blog. I really enjoy their post because it shows you the gradual change in social networks in different parts of the world. Only three years ago you can see that there are many different social networks dominating in different countries. As social networks have matured and the weaker networks have faded away, you can see what is left.
I'm just back from spending a week in Bangkok, Thailand at the IFC-ASIA: Ecosystems for Good. IFC-ASIA Program Committee – After Action Review. I'm just back from spending a week in Bangkok, Thailand at the IFC-ASIA: Ecosystems for Good.
For Nonprofits in Asia Pacific: 1. Charitable Giving in Asia Pacific :: Download. The reports listed below are just a small sampling of some of the research available to nonprofits on the subjects of online fundraising and social media.
ET March 18, 2007Nonprofits have found the blogosphere.San Francisco's Asia Foundation is the latest nonprofit to create a weblog to communicate its mission, connect with a broader community and perhaps support fundraising efforts Nonprofits discover power of blogging - Top Stories - MSNBC.com: "Nonprofits discover power of bloggingBy Sarah DuxburyUpdated: 8:00 p.m.
With hundreds of tips swirling through my head it was tough to narrow it down to three on the spot and on camera, but here's how it went: Finally, a special thanks to Microsoft Citizenship for bringing together these amazing young people from all over Asia Pacific – all expenses paid!
In the coming decades as wealth rises in Asia, so will philanthropy and with it a second wave of online activism and giving. A messaging app revolution is happening throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Increased access to online and mobile giving technology in Africa, Asia, and South America will likely grow these numbers significantly in coming years. View: Giving Trends in Asia Data Sheet.
startups – All of the investments would "benefit from working with a mobile messenger and/or have aspirations to expand to Asia." Hotels Embrace Text Messaging – An article in USA Today notes that hotels texting guests is becoming more commonplace.
Microsoft Citizenship Asia Pacific :: @MS | 1,638 |
Once upon a time, long ago, all the animals of the forest were friends, and closest of all were elegant grasshopper and handsome green toad. They loved and admired each other. Toad especially loved grasshopper's beautiful colors — his cape of many colors, his stripes and swirls. And grasshopper was very impressed by toad's flat body and the way he could spend most of his time in the water, with only his eyes and nose sticking out. They shared other traits too — they both were fun-loving and energetic, and sometimes when toad called out to his friends, he sounded almost exactly like cricket sounded when he rubbed his legs together.
Time passed, and each time they saw each other in the bush, they spoke of their affection for each other. One day toad awoke with a marvelous idea, and he called to his wife.
So that evening grasshopper and his wife traveled to the pond to share a meal with toad. Before they sat down to eat, toad announced, "First we shall wash our feet, of course," and he washed his forelegs.
"Of course," grasshopper said, and he too rubbed his forelegs together, and so did his wife. As they did, the silent pond was suddenly full of the sound of grasshoppers' chirping.
"Yes," toad agreed, "making such loud noises before supper is considered rude. Now, let us eat!" He reached for the souffle of spider.
Grasshopper reached too, but soon he discovered that he could not eat without chirping, for to grasp the food, he had to rub his legs together.
"That sounds wonderful," toad said.
The next evening toad and his wife, wearing her favorite necklace, arrived at grasshopper's hut. Once inside they<|fim_middle|>"And I do, too!" said toad.
So toad and his wife hopped away. After that, grasshopper and toad were never again friends. | saw a steaming pot of insect stew, and toad's stomach rumbled with pleasure.
"Before we eat," grasshopper said, "please wash your feet." He pointed out a water jar that sat outside.
Toad quickly hopped back to the water jar, washed again, and returned to the food.
Sure enough, toad's feet were dirty from hopping back across the ground.
"Very well, then! Let us agree never to share a meal again!" toad said.
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How To Clean Jackery Solar Panel
The Jackery Explorer 500 is a handy portable power bank that can provide ample power and port options. It is lightweight, yet it has plenty of power and output. It has almost as many input and output ports as its larger siblings. Like its big brother, the Explorer 1000, it is also durable and small. The Explorer 300 is a great choice if you are looking for a portable battery. It's the perfect size to fit in a backpack, hiking bag or other portable storage device.
The Jackery Explorer 1000 comes with two-year warranties and responsive customer support. It also has a pure sine wave inverter that allows you to use it with sensitive electronic devices. The Jackery is also easy to store and can charge two smartphones simultaneously. The charger also features a USB port that can charge other mobile devices. This is a great option for people who frequently travel. This device offers many positive features, such as a 2-year limited warranty and excellent customer support.
The Jackery's design is both innovative and stylish. Its large, clear LCD display makes it easy to<|fim_middle|> meet your needs and the energy demands of your family and friends.
A Jackery battery charger has a sleek and stylish design that looks great outdoors. The LCD screen is easy-to-read and features clear indicators for input and output. With a 100W solar panel, the device can be charged quickly and continuously. The Jackery unit's charging time will vary depending on the battery type, but it won't take long before it runs low. You can charge the Jackery unit for up to five hours if you plan to use it on the road.
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Jackery Mini External Battery Pack | read, and it displays both the type of input and output as well as the temperature. This allows you to power multiple gadgets simultaneously, regardless of where you are. The jackery also includes a handy wall adapter. The USB port can be used to charge other devices that require electricity. It can store up to 900 mAh.
The Jackery Explorer 1000 comes with a 2-year warranty and is compatible with most smartphones. The company offers excellent customer service and a great warranty policy. The solar panels are portable and fold up when not in use, so they are not a permanent obstruction when the battery is not charging. The 100W solar panel will charge the unit in less than five hours, and it can last for hours. The Jackery is a portable power source that you should consider.
The Jackery Explorer 1000 comes with a 2-year warranty and responsive customer service. Its 100W solar panel is designed for outdoor use and is highly portable. The panels' surfaces are protected by the panel's foldable design. The Jackery's 100W solar panels can charge the device in just five hours. The unit can run for days without interruption. And if you're in an emergency, a few hours of sunlight can provide you with the power you need.
The Jackery Explorer 1000 has a 100-watt solar panel. It is lightweight and portable. A Jackery 100W solar panel can charge a device that uses a lot of power. The charger can be used at work or at home. The temperature and type of device the battery is charging will determine the battery's charge capacity. The device can be safely connected to the grid, making it ideal for traveling.
The Jackery Explorer 1000's sun panel is intended for outdoor use. To protect its surfaces, it folds down when not in use. A 100W solar panel can charge a Jackery unit in just five hours and keep it running for up to one month. The Jackery Explorer 1000 is a smart, portable power station that has a built-in rechargeable battery. The power it provides will be enough to | 457 |
ICOMIA (International Council of Marine Industry Associations) and Southampton Solent University have launched Keel Checker Version 3.0 in response to ISO-12215 Part<|fim_middle|> evaluation version. Codes will be supplied up to June 2014 at which time the position will be reviewed – for more information contact Dr Robin Loscombe. | 9 being published as a full ISO standard on 8 June 2012.
Keel Checker is a free online tool for assessing whether keel designs are within the parameters of ISO 12215-9 (sailing craft appendages) and is intended to serve as a training aid to help with interpretation of the standard.
Keel Checker V3.0 is now available together with an Excel spreadsheet which may be of assistance to users of the commercial programme 'HullScant'; a programme used to determine floor and girder properties for use in Keel Checker.
"Keel Checker V3.0 is freely available so that engineers can see what Part 9 now involves. I'm delighted that ICOMIA continue to make this tool available on their website" said Dr Robin Loscombe, a member of the ISO working group and a senior lecturer at Southampton Solent University, who developed the valuable testing tool.
Users are reminded that they should obtain the six-digit code to unlock the | 204 |
Great Britain Names Roster For European Youth Olympic Festival
Katie Shanahan already took 400m IM bronze in Kazan last week at European Juniors, but she's also now heading to Baku for the EYOF. Archive photo via an MacNicol for Scottish Swimming
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16 swimmers will be representing Great Britain at the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Baku, Azerbaijan later this month. Taking place on Sunday, July 21st – Saturday, July 27th, this year's edition of the festival is hosting 2500 athletes from 48 European nations, competing across 10 Olympic sports.
Leading the way for GBR are Katie Shanahan, the 15-year-old Scot who took 400m IM bronze at the European Junior Swimming Championships in Kazan just last week. She'll be joined by 14-year-old Jacob Whittle, who dipped under the 50 second threshold for the first time while also competing in Kazan.
Edward Mildred is another finalist<|fim_middle|> Qualifying Event Will Be In Fukuoka, Japan
TritonWear Analysis: Impact Of Stroke Rate & DPS On Freestyle Speed » | from the European Jrs who will be taking on EYOF events in Baku.
Leading the Team GB delegation as Chef de Mission at Baku 2019 will be Elaine Skilton, who acted as Deputy Chef de Mission for Team GB at last year's Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires. Of the team selected, Skilton said:
"Wearing the Olympic rings for the first time and competing for your country is always a huge honour and I'm sure today is a proud moment for each of the 44 selected athletes and their families. Baku 2019 is set to be a great event and we have a very talented group of British athletes coming together to form Team GB for this Festival.
"The British Olympic Association is already underway with planning for Paris 2024 and no doubt a number of these athletes will already have their eyes set on those Games. Hopefully Baku 2019 can act as a great springboard for them as they develop and move through their sporting career towards the senior ranks of Olympic sport, and I wish every athlete the very best for the Festival ahead."
Swimmers selected for EYOF:
Jemimah Berkeley, 15, from Robertsbridge
Freya Colbert, 15, from Grantham
Evelyn Davis, 15, from Bromley
Joseph Deighan, 15, from Cheshire
Caitlin Ebbage, 14, from Tonbridge
William Ellington, 16, from Beech
Mark Ford, 16, from Carluke
Sophie Freeman, 15, from Colchester
Pierce Greening, 15, from Cockermouth
Edward Mildred, 16, from Northampton
Katie Shanahan, 15, from Glasgow
Ellie Sibbald-Perkins, 15, from Birmingham
Nicholas Skelton, 16, from Abingdon
Tamryn van Selm, 15, from Orpington
Jacob Whittle, 14, from Derbyshire
Cameron Williams, 15, from Plymouth
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Winter brings not only colder temperatures, but also an increase in coughs, colds, sore throats, tonsillitis, flu, and ear infections.
Cold weather can also cause serious health problems, particularly if you are older than 65, have a long-term (chronic) health condition, are disabled, or live in cold, damp, or over-crowded housing.
You can help to keep yourself and your family well this winter, by reading about common winter illnesses and learning what you can do to avoid or treat them.
Find out about what causes colds and how to manage the symptoms. You can also read about acute sinusitis and whether you should give over-the-counter cold medicines to children.
Coughs are common in children, and more common during winter. Most coughs aren't anything to worry about, but any cough that lasts more than four weeks or happens with other problems (like a fever or difficulty breathing) need to be checked out by a health professional.
Croup is a viral illness that causes inflammation in a child's windpipe, and can cause a cough that often sounds like barking.
Pertussis, or whooping cough, is very serious in children under 2 years, and in particular in babies under 3 months old.
Bronchiolitis is a chest condition that affects breathing in babies. It is caused by a virus that is very contagious and is more common during winter and spring.
Acute bronchitis is a chest infection that is usually caused by a virus and follows a cold or flu. It usually gets better on its own, within one to three weeks. It can sometimes lead to pneumonia, which can be more serious.
Most winter infections and illnesses don't need to be treated with antibiotics as antibiotics don't work against viruses.
Influenza, usually called the flu, is very different to a cold, but people often confuse these two conditions. Both are caused by viruses, but if you have the flu, you become much more unwell. It is especially risky for older people, children, pregnant women, and those with long-term health problems. Even younger healthy people can become seriously unwell with the flu. You can reduce your chance of getting the flu by getting a flu vaccination.
Cold weather can affect people's arms, legs, fingers and toes, causing chilblains and a disorder called Raynaud syndrome (which makes your fingers and toes change colour and become painful).
There are several things you can do to help keep yourself and your family well during the colder months.
Keep warm both indoors and outdoors. Read tips about keeping your home warm<|fim_middle|> be able to get.
Practise good hygiene to avoid picking up and passing on the bugs that cause winter illnesses. Make sure you know how to wash your hands properly, and how to cover your coughing and sneezing.
Get the flu vaccination for you and your family. It makes it much less likely you'll catch the flu or become very sick if you do catch it.
Stop the spread of germs at home – read tips for cleaning, hand washing, and caring for your family when someone is sick.
Eat well and keep active to maintain your overall health.
If you live alone and become unwell over winter, don't be afraid to ask your neighbours for help. | and dry, including information on what financial help you might | 11 |
The Belgian banking system includes about 90 registered credit institutions. KBC, BNP Paribas Fortis, Belfius and ING are the largest banks in the country. More than 50% of the banking sector is owned by foreign financial institutions. Banking hours are usually 9.00 am - 4.00 pm, Monday through Friday.
Argenta – A banking and insurance group operating in Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. It is the fifth largest banking institution in the country. The company was established in 1956 and is headquartered in Antwerp.
AXA Bank Europe (formerly AXA Bank Belgium) provides retail banking services to individuals and SMEs in Europe. It operates through a network of 950 independent bank agents in Belgium, Germany, France the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Switzerland. AXA Bank Europe is located in Brussels.
Banca Monte Paschi Belgio – The only Italian bank operating under Belgian law. It is part of the Monte dei Paschi di Siena group which was established in 1472.
Banque CPH – A cooperative bank with head office in Tournai. It was established in 1930 and employs over 130 people.
Bank J. Van Breda & C – A specialized advisory bank focusing on entrepreneurs and liberal professionals. The client's assets under management amount to over EUR 11 billion.
BBVA Bélgica offers a wide range of financial products and services including current accounts, savings and investments, Visa cards, mortgages, home and car loans, insurance products, online banking and other services.
Ban<|fim_middle|> and merchant banking. It operates as a subsidiary of F. Van Lanschot Bankiers N.V.
VDK Spaarbank N.V. was established in 1926 and is headquartered in Gent. The company provides commercial banking services.
Following table shows the largest banks in Belgium based total assets. | que Triodos – One of the leading sustainable banks. It offers current and saving accounts, mortgages, investment products, private banking and other services.
Belfius Bank (formerly Dexia Bank Belgium) – The third largest retail bank in Belgium by assets with over 3.3 million personal customers. It is a wholly owned by the Belgian federal state. As of June 30, 2016, Belfius Bank had total assets of EUR 188.004 billion and customer deposits of EUR 71.6 billion.
Beobank NV/SA – A leading Belgian retail bank. It operates as a subsidiary of Credit Mutuel Nord Europe, a major bank in Northern France with over 1.6 million customers and 4,400 employees.
BPost bank – An independent Belgian bank established in 1995 under the name Bank van De Post / Banque de La Poste. Currently, it has over EUR 10 billion in assets under management and serves more than 1.1 million customers. The Bank is owned on a 50-50 basis by BNP Paribas Fortis and bpost.
BNP Paribas Fortis – One of the largest banks in Belgium. It is number one in deposits and number two in consumer lending in Belgium. As of June 30, 2016, it had total assets of EUR 296.155 billion, customer deposits of EUR 171.6 billion and customer loans of EUR 169 billion.
Crelan (formerly Landbouwkrediet/Credit Agricole) – A Belgian cooperative bank specialised in the financing of the agricultural sector. It also offers deposit products, car loans, home loans, investments and over services. Crelan serves over 1.2 million customers and controls Europabank, Crelan Insurance and Keytrade Bank.
Delen Private Bank is part of the Ackermans & van Haaren Group, an investment company. Delen manages assets, primarily belonging to private individuals.
Europabank – A Belgian bank founded in 1965 by the American holding company "International Bank of Washington." In 2004, it was acquired by Credit Agricole. Europabank is located in Gent.
Hello Bank! – An online and mobile bank owned by BNP Paribas. It offers traditional savings and current accounts, mortgages, prepaid and credit cards, insurance and more.
ING Belgium (formerly Banque Bruxelles Lambert) – The fourth-largest commercial bank in the country. It offers banking, insurance, and asset management services. The company operates through two banking networks: ING Belgium, a universal bank, and Record Bank, a retail bank.
Keytrade Bank – The leader in online trading in Belgium. It offers all banking and trading services online. Keytrade Bank operates as a subsidiary of the Crelan Group.
KBC Bank – A Belgian universal bank focusing on private clients and small and medium-sized enterprises. It concentrates on its home markets of Belgium and certain countries in Central and Eastern Europe: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria. As of September 30, 2017, KBC Group had total assets of EUR 296.9 billion and assets under management of EUR 209 billion. KBC's market capitalization is EUR 30 billion (May 10, 2018).
National Bank of Belgium (NBB) – The central bank of Belgium established on 5 May 1850. It is a member of the European System of Central Banks. 50% of the NBB stock is freely traded on Euronext Brussels, the other 50% of the shares are owned by the Belgian government.
Rabobank Belgium (Antwerp Branch) provides corporate banking and leasing services. It offers leverage finance, debt structuring, derivatives, syndication, securitization, structured trade & commodity finance and structured finance. Through the internet bank, it also offers financial services to the Belgian retail market including saving accounts, term deposits and investment fund.
Record Bank – A retail bank owned by ING Belgium. It operates more than 700 branches across the country.
Santander Consumer Finance provides lending products and card services in Belgium.
Unico Banking Group – A partnership of 8 banks, which have a cooperative background. The Group includes Banco Cooperativo Español, Crédit Agricole S.A., DZ Bank, ICCREA Holding, OP Financial Group, Rabobank, Raiffeisen Bank International and Raiffeisen Schweiz. Unico is headquartered in Brussels.
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On Location: Ruby slippers, pickle paloozas & the boutique boom. Inside L.A.'s post-pandemic playground
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PAX tours Los Angeles with Air Canada and The Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board. (Pax Global Media)
"There's no place like home."
That famous line spoken by Dorothy Gale (as played by Judy Garland) in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz swirled on repeat in my head while gazing into a dreamy display case containing a pair of glimmering ruby slippers.
Yes, those slippers. The magical shoes, sought after by the Wicked Witch of the West, that sent Dorothy and Toto back to Kansas after she clicked the heels together three times, are one of the most valuable pieces of film memorabilia.
Several ruby slippers were made for the classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical movie, but at least one screen-used pair can be seen up close at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a new attraction dedicated to the history, science and impact of the Los Angeles film industry.
Unbolting its doors in September 2021, this three-floor space, set in the epicenter of filmmaking, unlocks cinema history with<|fim_middle|> has a fantastic California-casual restaurant, The Front Yard (great for brunch), and a general store.
The Brady Bunch house is a couple of blocks away.
Magical ruby slippers, the Hollywood sign, the works of Warhol, dreamy rooftops, epic hikes, the Secret Life of Pets, King Kong, prized pickles and crime-fighting heroes - all within arm's reach.
Dorothy's Land of Oz may have been a wonderful and enchanting place of make-believe, but in the city of Los Angeles, the fantasy is real.
For a "three days of luxury" itinerary in L.A., click here.
Travel advisors that want to roll out the red carpet for their clients can visit L.A Tourism's trade site here.
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Subject : On Location: Ruby slippers, pickle paloozas & the boutique boom. Inside L.A.'s post-pandemic playground
URL : https://news.paxeditions.com/news/tourism-board/location-ruby-slippers-barbie-pickle-paloozas-inside-ls-post-pandemic-playground | exhibits that spotlight Oscar moments, iconic costumes and props, and timeless characters like E.T. and Edward Scissorhands, while contextualizing (and challenging) narratives around moviemaking.
There's even a simulated "Oscars Experience" room where visitors can experience the thrill of winning an Academy Award while holding a real, eight-and-a half pound Oscar trophy.
This Miracle Mile museum at Wilshire and Fairfax is proof there's no place like L.A. (to paraphrase Dorothy Gale), and it was one of many stops PAX made on an exclusive Air Canada FAM to Los Angeles from June 14 to 17.
Air Canada flies direct to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) from Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal, and joining the adventure, hosted by The Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board, were three Canadian travel advisors – Travel Edge's Carolyn Smith and New World Travel's Teri Hwang from the Greater Toronto Area and Direct Travel's Elena Kube from Saskatoon.
The trip unfolded not long after the U.S. lifted its pre-arrival COVID-19 testing rule, which makes travel to America way easier, and as LAX undergoes a $15 billion-dollar upgrade.
This project will touch all nine passenger terminals and build new facilities, including an Automated People Mover (APM) train and a consolidated rent-a-car (ConRAC) facility.
READ MORE: Canadian advisors get the Hollywood treatment with L.A. Tourism & Air Canada
"One of my favourite aspects of Los Angeles is that it is always evolving," Tamy Martelli, regional director, North America at L.A. Tourism, told PAX during the trip.
Just like the movies
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is just one example of how L.A.'s tourism wheels are always turning as the creatively-charged city continues to churn out uniquely-local experiences.
There's new-ish attractions in town, such as The Broad, a contemporary art museum – featuring the works of Basquiat, Koons, Warhol and other local and international stars – that philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad opened in September 2015.
And new film-inspired experiences.
Los Angeles is a metonym for U.S. cinema and, in many ways, ground zero for pop culture moments.
L.A. has served as a backdrop for thousands of films and TV shows, and one could easily build their own itinerary that visits familiar on-screen settings.
L.A. Tourism, in fact, has already curated a dreamy list of things to do in Venice Beach, where the live-action Barbie film, due in 2023, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, was shot.
Barbie and Ken-inspired activities on the list include roller skating on the boardwalk, shopping on Abbot Kinney Boulevard and chilling on the rooftop with your pooch at Hotel June.
But that's just the tip of the California palm tree.
As Martelli put it: "You could visit Los Angeles countless times and still have new things to explore."
The boutique boom
Our four-day adventure revolved around sunny ways to #StartYourComeback – as the itinerary's official hashtag suggested – by showcasing sights both new and familiar.
When visiting L.A., a sprawling area divided into unique neighbourhoods ("88 cities in one city," as some say), and a city of many nicknames (La-La Land, Tinseltown, City of Angels…etc), you're almost always guaranteed to have a funky roof over your head.
There's been a boom in boutique hotels, starting with the Downtown LA Proper.
Located in downtown's South Park District, this hip 147-room property updates an historic Broadway Corridor landmark, blending Mexican and Spanish design. Think cactus chic.
The hotel's gorgeous rooftop, a leafy oasis with an intimate pool and panoramic skyline views, serves fab apps (the white trumpet mushroom with fontina is divine), tacos, oven and grill mains (like spiced lamb ribs) and super sippers, like the Passionfruit Caipirinha.
"We're a looser kind of luxury," said Maureen Leary, the hotel's director of sales and marketing. "We're not a five star, but we're above a four."
Proper, with other locations in Santa Monica, Austin and Portland, attracts well-travelled types who are "looking for something immersive and creative," Leary said.
Back in Hollywood, which is undergoing a revitalization (streaming giant Netflix has moved in), there's the 178-room Dream Hollywood, which opened in 2017.
"Hyper-chic and comfortable," with mid-century architecture and garden elements, this glam hotel (which hosted us) has mixed-media art exhibits in the lobby and a sexy rooftop, called "The Highlight Room," which has a restaurant, lounge and pool overlooking the Hollywood Hills and city.
Come with a fully-charged phone, because epic selfies start here.
Not far from there is the 190-room, 16-suite Thompson Hollywood, which opened in August 2021 and has a high-end residential feel.
The mid-century and modern lobby, which gives off serious Mad Men vibes, is worth the visit. The Thompson, too, has a rooftop with city views, and there are three dining concepts that serve French, Mexican and Italian fare.
Hyatt's footprint in L.A. is growing – there's also Tommie Hollywood, which opened Dec. 1.
This nine-storey building has 212 rooms and is located on the same block as the Thompson, at Selma and Wilcox Avenue, which is a 10-minute walk from the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Pantages Theatre.
Compared to the Thompson, everything is a little more playful at Tommie, which is still upscale and tends to attract clients seeking shorter stays.
Desert 5 Spot is the hotel's rooftop lounge with 360-degree views, live music and a Western-retro Palm Springs aesthetic.
This spot, like the Tommie, is considered an "it spot" in L.A. right now. It's caught people's attention, and quickly.
(Click here for an expansive guide to L.A.'s many rooftop bars).
On the ground, KA'TEEN, with 5,000 square feet of outdoor dining space in a jungle-like setting, is the signature restaurant, serving up innovative dishes inspired by Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
KA'TEEN means "afresh," and the taco fritos, potato taquitos, scallop ceviche, prescado zarandeado (grilled fish), carne asada ribeye and corn chips with guacamole we devoured matched that description deliciously.
Dining at this lush hideaway may require an intervention because it's seriously hard to stop eating. The food and drink is that good.
It's said you need a car to get around Los Angeles (there's truth to that), but locals aren't totally against walking.
Hiking is popular in L.A, which has a vast network of trails with interesting geology, wilderness and high-up perches that offer views of architecturally-diverse homes (Spanish, modern, colonial-style. You name it.) and the city itself.
For us, this meant a visit to Griffith Park, a municipal park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, with Bikes and Hikes L.A., an outdoor tour company.
Our guide, Sarah, who is also a working comedian (in L.A., everyone is linked to showbiz in one way or another!), led uphill, through chaparral-covered terrain and parkland, which encompasses 4,000 acres (five times the size of New York City's Central Park!)
And Sarah just knew things. Like the history of Griffith Park (named after eccentric philanthropist Griffith J. Griffith, who donated a bulk of the land to Los Angeles in 1896) or where Mick Jagger and Cass Elliot used live.
Griffith Park is also home to the Los Angeles Zoo, the Autry Museum of the American West, and the Griffith Observatory.
When hiking, the photo ops are endless. Sarah led us to the best place to snap a pic in front of the Hollywood Sign, the summit of Mount Hollywood, which is not as accessible as one would think.
It's a lot of weaving around cactus-lined roads and dusty paths (at times, it felt like we were trespassing in people's backyards), but the picture-perfect spot we arrived at made the 90-minute journey worthwhile.
"If you want to get a good picture in front of the sign, you have to earn it," as Sarah put it.
Nature turns up the A/C the higher you hike as cool breezes roll in. But dress for hot temps, regardless, when hitting the L.A. trails. And expect to break a sweat.
My rookie mistake was wearing a thick polo tee when I should have worn a light tank.
A city that lives outside
Los Angeles, with near-perfect year-round weather, is a city that lives outside, which makes it a great fit for travellers seeking space, outdoor ventilation, and a connection to nature.
As Direct Travel's Elena Kube pointed out, Canadians don't have the luxury of being able to eat, shop and go to concerts outdoors, 365 days of the year, like people in L.A. do.
Amid the rise in demand for outdoor activities during COVID, "People might feel more comfortable coming here," she said.
L.A.'s Original Farmers Market is another outdoor experience and one that's been enjoyed by locals and tourists since 1934.
An open-air space with more than 100 vendors, from gourmet grocers to sit-down restaurants, the market is a great spot for people watching and soaking up local life.
Market favourites include Magee's Kitchen (known for its corned beef sandwiches), Magee's House of Nuts, Littlejohn's English Toffee House and Light My Fire hot sauce shop.
But it was Kaylin + Kaylin Pickles, a pickle-tasting bar (the market's first) that opened in 2020, that caught our eyes and taste buds.
Frustrated by the shortage of quality pickles on the West Coast, and guided by the belief that "pickles bring people happiness," owner Scott Kaylin set out to create his own New York-style pickles with diverse flavours, like Jalapeño, kosher dill, half sour, horseradish, mustard, spicy dill and honey mustard.
There's happiness in every crunch, as we learned after sampling a small batch, and a local pickle craze appears to be gaining steam.
Shortly after our trip, Kaylin + Kaylin hosted its first annual "Pickle Palooza," a pickle-eating contest that welcomed local talent, foodie and TikTok influencers, chefs, and pickle lovers.
Let's just say it was a big dill, with competitions for feasting on pickles, overseen by judges that crowed winners on both the quantity of pickles eaten and technique.
Directly beside the Farmers Market is The Grove, an outdoor shopping district with mid to high-end clothing stores and restaurants.
"We are lucky to have 300 days of sunshine a year and a large variety of outdoor offerings that make it easy to plan a trip to fit the safety and comfort levels of each traveller," Martelli said. "Whether it be hiking to the Hollywood sign, visiting a botanical garden or taking your family to the beach."
Outdoor dining has also continued to grow throughout Los Angeles, she said, as restaurants expand existing outdoor space.
"We've seen a rise of open-air rooftop restaurants that offer gorgeous skyline views of downtown," Martelli said.
And don't forget outdoor sports - at Dodger Stadium, home to the Los Angeles Dodgers, it's worth joining thousands of fans in catch a baseball game (if only to try the "Dodger Dog," a 10-inch pork wiener wrapped in a steamed bun).
But no trip to L.A. is complete without visiting a movie studio or two.
At Universal Studios Hollywood, there's the famous studio tour, which takes guests on an exciting 60-minute, 13 city block adventure – hosted on video by comedian Jimmy Fallon – that goes behind the scenes of filmmaking and special effects.
There are close encounters with King Kong, a Boeing 747 wreckage site from Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds and even a high-speed chase inspired by Fast & Furious.
New in 2022, visitors can see the original Jupiter's Claim set from Jordan Peele's latest horror film, NOPE.
Inside the theme park, where classic figures like Frankenstein, Dracula, Beetlejuice and the Scooby-Doo cast roam, there are worlds to discover, from Springfield (the Simpsons) to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter to the dino-stomping (and thrillingly realistic) Jurassic World ride, and new attractions, like The Secret Life of Pets: Off the Leash, a super cute, omnimover ride that debuted in 2021 as part of the park's full reopening.
Call it the paws that came after the pause. With 64 robotic animal figurines, Off the Leash has already garnered praise, winning a 2021 Thea Award for "Outstanding Attraction."
Coming soon to the park is famed plumber Super Mario as he takes the Hollywood stage with the launch of SUPER NINTENDO WORLD, opening early 2023.
The Friends couch
Another option is the famed Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Burbank, which offers a deep dive into one of the world's oldest film studios over a two, three-hour period.
Here, guests can see city and neighbourhood templates that have been used for hundreds (if not thousands) of productions, and sets for shows like Friends, Big Bang Theory, and Gilmore Girls.
You can actually visit the original Central Perk set from Friends and snap a photo on the famous couch; Big Bang offers a similar experience.
There's even a Central Perk-themed restaurant for lunch.
There's more of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter (and Fantastic Beasts) with recreated sets, movie props, costumes, and fun experiences (like a tutorial on how to properly hold a magic wand).
This is also the place to connect with the DC universe as authentic costumes, props and vehicles from franchises like Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman are on display in Gotham-like settings.
A great boutique hotel for families that's near Warner Bros. is The Garland, a whimsical, retro-chic California oasis that was opened by legendary actress Beverly Garland, and her husband Fillmore Crank, in the 1970s.
Relaxed and unpretentious, the orange and wood-toned hotel with funky decor is close to many points of interest and | 3,062 |
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Collab Series – San Jeronimo
Yes, we've released the second coffee in our Collab Series! These coffees are part of a project designed to give cafes the chance to take a closer look at the process of sourcing, profiling and releasing a coffee into the big wide world.
This time we've worked with the team at Prufrock Coffee to pick, test roast, taste and launch the San Jeronimo Miramar espresso from Guatemala. This espresso, which, as part of the Collab series is absolutely exclusive to Prufrock, packs in loads of cherry and dark chocolate flavours, with a pleasant gooseberry acidity for balance.
The farm is also one that we've visited a number of times, so here is Anette's report from her latest visit to the San Jeronimo Miramar.
San Jeronimo Miramar
Finca San Jeronimo Miramar is located on the side of the Atitlan volcano and is the coffee producing branch of an old family estate which originally started out as a dairy farm called Finca La Parma. The story of the farm goes back to northern Italy in the late 1800's, when Valentino (great great grandfather to current coffee chief Giorgio) made the tough decision to leave his home, his wife, two daughters and an unborn son, to search for work as a stonemason.
He was offered work in the USA constructing railway tunnels and slowly worked his way across the country from the east coast, all the way up to Colorado. As his contract was expiring he met a man who told him of an opportunity in the Guatemalan railways, and upon his arrival there he immediately fell in love with the country. Again he worked his way from the east to the west coast, and eventually saved up enough money to buy a small property.
Image courtesy of Finca San Jeronimo
While he was working in Guatemala, the distance became too much for Valentino's marriage to bear. His wife, alone in Italy, met another man and eventually moved to San Francisco with him. Valentino, meanwhile, went back to Italy and found a place for his son Cesare – now 7 – in a reputable boarding school in an attempt to ensure he received a good education. Inheriting his father's sense of adventure, however, Cesare fled the boarding school at age 16, and travelled to the UK, via Belgium, eventually finding himself in Stamford, England studying English.
After mastering the language he went on to America to find his father, finally joining him in Chipo, Guatemala. Reunited, and with a new excitement for their future opportunities together, they decided to sell Valentino's property and start over on a new plot of land on the west coast. They bought a herd of cattle and joined forces with a Czech immigrant who knew how to make cheese, launching a gouda making business.
It was by now the 1940's and as the war was breaking out back in Europe, the Guatemalan government decided to side with the allied countries, declare war on Germany and expropriate property from German landowners. This prompted many Germans to sell up and flee Guatemala, and one – Luis Steinberg – approached Valentino and Cesare about buying his coffee farm. Money being tight, Valentino and Cesare didn't have the cash to close the deal there and then, but with Luis keen for a quick sale an arrangement was made; Valentino and Cesare would pay Luis 20% of the value of the farm upfront, and pay the remaining balance using future profits from coffee sales.
Since this meant all income from the coffee farm went to paying off the land, father and son relied on their cattle and cheese business to generate enough cash to maintain operations. In time, dairy production became the family saving grace as the coffee crisis hit. Had it not been for the steady dairy business they may have had to replace coffee as a crop entirely.
To this day the dairy production at Finca San Jeronimo is a vital part of the farm operation.
Nowadays, the coffee side of the business is looked after the by two of the six fourth generation Bressani brothers and sisters, Giorgio and Gina. They have taken the coffee, and the development of the speciality side of the coffee, as their own project for ensuring the future of their land and family heritage.
They have implemented new systems and invented new processes to explore the possibilities of their product, and are continuing to experiment with varieties, processing and drying methods. The family also make honey, grow Guadua bamboo, exotic fruits (a range of jams are in the pipeline) and manage a large section of their land as a natural reserve. Never content to stop innovating, they're even starting up a cocoa plantation and will soon be growing vanilla, cinnamon and sugar cane as well.
Part of the reason why they are able to have such a diverse range of crops and products is not just their history but also their location on the southern slopes of the Atitlan volcano. On the other side of the peak is Lake Atitlan which, with no real exit rivers, drains under and through the mountains around it and creates several natural springs on the Bressani farm. The fertile, mineral-rich soil combined with a steady supply of rain throughout the year is a perfect recipe for abundance, and when you walk the farm you do have the feeling that you could throw anything on the ground and it would grow. But in the face of our changing climate, another important factor is their philosophy and approach to preservation of their unique ecosystem.
This was driven home very clearly as I hiked to the lush virgin forest at the top of the farm a couple of weeks ago. To get back down we crossed through a section of their neighbour's farm, where the visible effects of the dry season were in stark contrast to the conditions at San Jeronimo.
Where San Jeronimo is full of shade trees that shield the coffee and the soil from the scorching sun, rainwater evaporation and strong winds, the neighbouring farm had little shade and consequently, the soil was dry and dusty with clouds of brown dust swirling up around our feet as we walked through. With no soil binding plants along pathways and steep slopes, erosion was crumbling away the earth around many coffee tree roots, exposing them and slowly taking away the very grounds for their survival. It was clear that this neighbour also used herbicides to keep weed growth at bay, further removing the protective layer of the earth and perpetuating a vicious cycle.
Shade is such a vital part of preserving the soil and the wildlife diversity, but even the shade trees themselves can be a secondary revenue stream if you plan carefully. Over the next few years, Giorgio plans to slowly replace many of the existing shade trees with hardwood trees such as oak and cedar, that in 30 years can be sold as timber for as much money as 30 years' worth of coffee harvests would bring in. The hardwoods will be chosen carefully for the mulch they will provide as well as the root systems they will form, adding to the nutrients available to the coffee rather than depleting them.
A lot of the work that takes place at San Jeronimo is about finding ways to create healthy, low impact, closed-loop resource systems that allow nature to have a balance and sustain itself, helped by natural input from its human custodians. The use of herbicides is one element of this.
San Jeronimo stopped using them about a few years ago and have seen the return of both plants and wildlife that hadn't been seen in years, such as wild boars, who help to maintain the natural balance of both flora and fauna. Instead, they cut the weeds back by machete, and while it takes four times as many people to clean the farm this way, the payoff in soil health and organic matter for mulching makes it worth it. An avid bird<|fim_middle|> the cattle, ingredients for custom recipe silage, and they contribute in turn with free manure for soil improvement. Even their compost piles have full traceability, kitted out as they are with temperature and humidity meters that make sure they reach the 160 Fahrenheit and above that they need to maintain for at least a week to kill the rust fungi and any weed seeds. This year they will produce a staggering 3.5 million lbs of their own compost, nearly doubling last year's amount.
The farm has also invested in sophisticated soil analysis machines, and are able to look at both green coffee nutrient contents, soil microbiology and root structure development to best implement their fertilisation programs. There is a wonderful sense of traditional knowledge and cutting-edge science working in harmony to provide the best opportunity for growth on the farm.
The coffee trees themselves are obviously part of this equation. While the majority of the farm is planted with the more traditional Caturra and Bourbon trees, they have around 46 varieties in total on the farm. Not all produce significant volume but all are picked and collected separately, even if the complete harvest is less than 1kg. The experimental plantings are important for developing healthy, resilient, high yielding but also delicious tasting coffee, that will prepare the farm for the future
Giorgio and Gina are experimenting with varieties that include Catuai, Heirloom Bourbon, Bourbon Chocola, Pacas, Bourbon 300, Venecia, Anacafe14, San Juan, Pacamara, Maragogype, Heirloom Typica, Geisha, Java, Ethiopian heirlooms, Catimor , Colombia, Marsellesa, Pache Colis, Rasuna, SL28, Moka, Sarchimor and San Isidro, and the list goes on. At the nursery, they carry out the 'injerto reina' graft that they commonly use, splicing the soldier of an arabica onto a robusta cotyledon root. Or more experimentally, the 'injerto tonales', grafting the tip of a three-year-old arabica tree onto a liberica root. Even the way the delicate sprouts in the nursery are shaded is done with consideration. Instead of plastic nets, they grow sprawling beans as a cover, providing protection for the small plants as well as free food for the nursery staff.
Everything at San Jeronimo is picked separately with detailed day-lot traceability, and it is not uncommon for them to have upwards of 400 different day lots in store during the harvest. Throughout the farm, they have several small collection stations for cherry, so the pickers have less distance to cover in a day and the collection station at the main mill is relieved of some pressure. All these lots are processed at San Jeronimo's own wet and dry mills.
At the wet mill, which is supplied by water from natural springs, daily lots of cherry is sent through six pulpers, fourteen fermentation tanks and three soaking tanks, transformed into parchment and dried on patios or in guardiolas. Recently they commissioned a local carpenter to design and build a greenhouse that houses 396 individual small screens to manage their small and experimental lots. They have even repurposed some old cardamom pod drying beds to experiment with their small batch coffees, circulating fan assisted air through a layer of parchment coffee resting on a fine mesh.
The dry mill that strips the protective parchment layer off the coffee bean and prepares it for sale is also run on energy from the springs, via a water wheel that connects to a generator. Some of the pieces in the dry mill are the oldest working equipment I've seen, such as the wooden screen sorter from1928, and the four original Pepe Guardiola mechanical driers. Pepe was a farmer from the Chocola area in Suchitepéquez, who developed the technology and later sold it to the Germans and Brazilians who developed into the guardiaolas that are still very much in use today.
They even have an impressive range of coffee roasters in every size and shape, as they often used to get paid in machinery for work they'd carry out for their neighbours. They never used to roast and cup their own coffees, relying on the Guatemalan coffee organisation to give them feedback and guide them in their work. But, feeling unsatisfied with the resources made available to them, they recently fired up their sample roaster and built their own cupping lab. Giorgio has now been cupping coffees for about five years, and they have recruited a team of lab assistants and cuppers from their existing field and milling staff.
It takes a lot of people to manage a large and complex operation like this. At San Jeronimo, a whole community has grown on and around the farm, and they currently run three schools for the local kids, as well as provide healthcare, places of worship and financial services. In numbers, a brief summary of the farm would be 600 hectares of land, 200 hectares in coffee, 800,000 coffee trees, 60 hectares of pasture, 8 hectares of fruit and veg, the rest of it virgin forest, crisscrossed by wildlife corridors for deer, ocelot, puma and the aforementioned recently returned boar.
Add to this about 200 full-time employees, rising by anything from another 300 to 800 people during harvest, though there is currently a dramatic shortage of pickers in most coffee producing regions and countries I visit.
Giorgio has an extremely sophisticated system for tracking flowering and maturation rates and volumes across the various sections of the farm, which allows him to accurately forecast how many pickers he needs to employ at any given time, but he can't always forecast how many will be available to hire. As people migrate to cities and leave the countryside behind, there needs to be a willingness throughout the industry to pay more for coffee so that the coffee will be produced at all.
San Jeronimo remains for me one of the most fascinating and exciting farms that I have the pleasure to buy from, even the way the coffee arrives at the roastery is exciting (read more about the New Demin Project here). It's truly a pleasure to learn about the work that Giorgio and Gina do at their farm and to be inspired by their vision and dedication to the land and the coffee industry. It's an honour to share their products with our customers, and we look forward to many more cups of coffee shared!
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Anette Moldvaer is the co-founder and green coffee buyer of Square Mile Coffee Roasters. Since starting as a barista in Norway 18 years ago she has worked in imports, education, training, cupping and roasting. She is a World Cup Tasting Champion, an international coffee judge and the author of "Coffee Obsession".
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RUVUMBU | watcher, Giorgio and his fellow enthusiasts have spotted 213 bird species on the farm, and 9 new ones just last year.
Giorgio and Gina have also been doing groundbreaking work in their parasite lab by breeding a tiny wasp that exists naturally in the environment and is harmless to humans, but deadly to broca, one of the most common coffee pests there is. These micro wasps lay their eggs in the eggs and the larvae of the broca beetle, effectively killing them before they even reach adulthood. To combat adult bugs, the lab also cultivates a local fungus that is harmless to everything other than the broca to use as a diluted spray solution in problem areas
For those broca which evade the spray, there are simple plastic bottle traps filled with methanol and ethanol hanging from trees all over the farm. In the parasite lab, they collect and record the quantity of broca lured into these traps, measuring the effectiveness of their efforts to keep pests away without the use of harmful pesticides.
In every area, San Jeronimo focuses on addition and supplementation of the soil rather than resorting to removal and depletion. The ability to take this holistic approach is helped by the presence of the dairy cows, who both contribute to and benefit from all the moving parts of a farm. As an example their pastures are carefully planted with grasses and flowers for bees, grazing for | 283 |
I started a new form of photography for me a few weeks ago while visiting some pretty famous surf spots off the south and west coasts of Sumatra. Taking advantage of being the only people in the area, along with a quick boat and 400mm worth of lens, I was able to enjoy shooting waves, surfers, and boogie boarders for the first time. The trick was to get the boat in the right place at the right time, not an easy task! But, the boat drivers did a great job resulting in a lot of good photo opportunities. The best way forward was simply putting the camera on Shutter priority and rapid burst to capture the quick movement of the surfers. I experimented a lot and took one heck of a lot of photos, but I think I certainly captured a few keep<|fim_middle|> on. We have a group of anywhere up to 10 people joining us on these rides which can take anywhere from about 2.5 hours to 5 or 6 hours. If you are interested in riding with us then let us know and hopefully can sort something out.
Here is a short video that shows one of the rides in Bedugul. | ers. The experience also got me to thinking that I wanted to finally try surfing, so I have signed up for a one day class this coming weekend, hopefully you are never too old to try something new.
Here are a few photos to look at, thanks to Brett and Walt the two models!
One of the activities I have been getting up to a lot in Bali these days is mountain biking. I bought a good full suspension bike around the beginning of March and have been trying to get out and do some riding quite often when I am in town. For those not too familiar with Bali, it's actually a very mountainous sort of place with lots of hills and off road terrain. The sort of riding that we are doing is what could be described as Cross Country, no major single track downhill stuff (mostly we are too old for that) but rather some very interesting trails through the woods, rice fields, and some gnarly roads found throughout Bali. We have been riding in the areas of Bedugul, Kintamani, Ubud, Tabanan, and the small island of Serangan near Sanur. There are loads of tracks still to be ridden but we are slowly finding more and more fun rides to go | 248 |
Consecration 2010 | New Life Interfaith Ministries, Inc.
The New Life family will focus on holiness and purity in 2010. We will fast and sacrifice unholy things for 31 days, allowing us to hear from God more clearly for direction and guidance for this New Year. Make the daily confessions of purity and holiness.
The New Life family will be focusing on holiness and purity while fasting and praying during our 31 day consecration in January 2010. Pastor Matthews wants us all to petition the Holy Spirit to reveal whatever unholy things need to be addressed in our lives. We will sacrifice those things for 31 days.<|fim_middle|> know what to do, and I experience good success, in Jesus' name – AMEN. Reference Scriptures: Isaiah 65:24, 46:10; Proverbs 12:28; Isaiah 45:2; I Chronicles 12:32; Joshua 1:8. | God promises that as we set aside this time of consecration, we will hear from Him more clearly for direction and guidance for this New Year.
Our January 2010 Consecration will feature services on fasting days. That's every Monday, Wednesday, & Friday 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM at New Life Central. Also, during the month of January, our Tuesday Night Study in The Word service, held at New Life East, and Life Groups Bible Studies, held at the New Life Center of Excellence, will be canceled in deference to the consecration services.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the upcoming 2010 Consecration, please feel free to contact the ministry @ 205.425.4735.
Fast on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from the time you awake until 3:00 PM.
Focus on holiness and purity.
You may have one meal after 3:00 PM on fasting days.
You must drink water only (no other beverages of any kind).
Set aside personal time for prayer 12:00 Noon on fasting days (Monday, Wednesday, Friday).
Daily Prayer of Consecration held Monday – Friday, 12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM at New Life Central (Everyone is welcome to attend).
As I spend time downloading the voice of God in me, before I call, He answers me. While I am still speaking, He hears me. God shows me the end of things from the beginning. He tells me of things that are not yet done. Before anything comes forth, He tells me and reveals to me the ways of life. God goes before me and makes the crooked places straight. I have understanding of the times and seasons. I | 373 |
Light Display Fulfills Holiday Dream for 82-Year-Old Marion Man
By Jill Kasparie (KCRG-TV<|fim_middle|> of work for a lot of people and I want to appreciate it," Schmidt said.
Summit Pointe staff members said they plan to put the lights up every year. They all light up through the use of timers in each unit and turn on at 4 p.m. and turn off at 10 p.m. each night. | 9) - |
MARION, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) - Many got together Tuesday night to celebrate the recent completion of work on a holiday light display at Summit Pointe Senior Living in Marion.
It's all for one man, Russell Schmidt, who dreamed up the display last year.
He struggles with health problems, needing dialysis three times a week.
Staff members at the facility said Russell wasn't sure if he'd still be here to see the big reveal this year. He's definitely around and couldn't be more thrilled to see this project come to life.
Russell is used to his routine with dinner at 4:30 p.m., but Tuesday night it was obvious that things were a bit different.
"With Christmas a couple days away what better of a night?" said Summit Pointe Life Enrichment Coordinator Pam Goodyear.
"Christmas was passed last year. I couldn't make Christmas come back, so I had to wait until next Christmas," Schmidt said.
The 82-year-old said last Christmas his daughter, Rusty Holub, put lights in his window. He thought one display just wasn't enough.
"He said wouldn't that be awesome to light every window in this building, and I just took it from there. He had mentioned it several times. So I just thought, that's something we could do for Dad. It wasn't an outrageous dream," Holub said.
Russell still has the first box of lights from his daughter. She said she purchased the rest of them on sale after last Christmas. From there, with the help of donations and volunteers, many worked to get lights up each one of the 363 windows on the building.
"When they turned the lights on, it was a dream come true. I loved it," Schmidt said.
"It really touched my heart to see people and friends pull together for my dad," Holub said.
Staff members at Summit Pointe couldn't wait to celebrate his dream come true with bus trips around the sparkling building. For a man who's always thinking of others and sharing hugs, Tuesday night was all about Russell.
"He's the type of guy who no matter how bad he's feeling or having a rough day he makes sure he opens the door for you," Goodyear said.
Now, Russell gets to make it part of his routine to enjoy his holiday dream come true every day this holiday season.
"These are his lights and these are his pride and joy," Goodyear said.
"I like them, I love them. To me it's been a lot | 518 |
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