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Speaking of blog carnivals, the new science blog fest Philosophia Naturalis #7 is live at Geek Counterpoint. There are several blog entries about Supernova 1987A listed there, including mine. Why do I always get notified about these within minutes of posting about a different one?
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Stinnett: Henderson floral shop marks 90 years
HENDERSON, Ky. - In late 1977, Larry Dixon was a journeyman union bricklayer who had also been trained in welding and blueprint reading. He had a good job with a company in Evansville.
He was not intending to go to work for his father-in-law’s florist shop, Shaw’s Flowers.
Except that the Tri-state was in the midst of one of two historic back-to-back winters that dumped prodigious amounts of snow, making outdoor construction work temporarily scarce.
Walter Shaw, father of Dixon’s wife, Cynthia, needed help and promised him a steady paycheck. “He said, ‘Cindy someday is going to take over the business. You need to learn it.’ ”
Dixon agreed to try it, but said if the work didn’t suit him, he wouldn’t stay.
More than 40 years later, Larry Dixon is still working at the shop with his wife (who started there full-time in 1972) and their veteran staff.
But even that doesn’t begin to touch the full history of Shaw’s Flowers, which traces itself back to 1928 and this month celebrates its 90th anniversary, making it the oldest florist — and one of the oldest businesses — in Henderson.
The Shaw history of gardening and selling flowers goes back at least six generations to 19th-century Germany, when the family name was spelled Zschau.
Three Zschau brothers who had learned the trade immigrated to America in the early 20th century, finding work as gardeners for wealthy Chicago families and eventually each owning his own greenhouse.
One of the brothers’ sons, Walter R. Zschau (who changed his last name to Shaw as he became an American citizen and enlisted in the Marines during World War I), worked in and owned greenhouses before moving to Henderson in 1928 to lease the Fernwood Greenhouse, launching the Shaw family’s florist heritage in Henderson.
Shaw in 1930 bought out the Henderson Floral Co., which grew its own plants and flowers in greenhouses at Second and Clark streets.
In 1941 he established a new business, Shaw’s Flowers, at 222 Second St. Soon, America was immersed in World War II, and Henderson changed dramatically, in part because of the thousands of soldiers stationed just down the road at Camp Breckinridge. Shaw’s benefitted from the line of G.I.s who would line up around the block to send flowers home for Mother’s Day — the orders would be rushed across the street to the Western Union office in the Kingdon Hotel to be fulfilled via FTD — and, later, from German prisoners of war at Camp Breckinridge— as passionate about flowers as the Zschau family had been — who would pool their money to buy memorial flowers when a fellow prisoner died.
It usually fell to the family’s patriarch’s teenage son, Walter R. Shaw, to haul the flowers down to Morganfield in the family’s little delivery truck.
After the war, the younger Walter Shaw went to college, became an electrical engineer, married Jean Poole and found work with electronics manufacturers Western Electric and Potter & Brumfield. But, Jean Shaw said in 2003. “He never got the flower business out of his system. Any vacation, any weekend, this is where we were,” helping his father at the flower shop.
Finally, Walter R. and Jean came back to Henderson to operate Shaw’s Gardens, a landscaping and wholesale/retail greenhouse business that his father had opened on 10 acres on U.S. 41–North in 1950.
There, the Shaws grew enormous mums and carnations for cut flower arrangements, raised gladiolas in the summer, grew evergreens from cuttings and more.
That’s where the next generation of Shaws got their initiation in the flower business as Walter and Jean’s daughters, Cindy and Debbie, began working at Shaw’s Gardens as kids, carrying flats of petunias out to customers’ cars by the time they were five or six. “She told me she was in business before I was out of diapers,” Larry Dixon said.
Shaw’s Flowers relocated to 423 Second St. in 1962. Four years later, the elder Walter Shaw retired and sold the business to his son in 1966, while Shaw’s Gardens –– where business had been hurt by construction related to the widening of U.S. 41–North –– was closed. (The Ramada Inn hotel later was constructed on the site.)
Cindy Dixon credits her father, Walter Jr. (as he was popularly but inaccurately known), with inaugurating, in the 1960s, the Christmas retail open house tradition in Henderson on the weekend after Thanksgiving, originally on Sundays.
“He brought an organ in and they played music, and people lined up around the block,” she said. “My grandmother cooked cookies and homemade bread,” and Shaw’s gave a carnation and a calendar to the ladies who came in after church to gaze at the decorated store and holiday gifts.
So many people showed up, Larry Dixon said, that his father-in-law “would lock the door, allow the people to mill around, then let that crowd out and let a new crowd in.” It grew into a tradition on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving for Henderson retailers before settling into a Friday and Saturday affair. (With the growing popularity of Black Friday at big-box retailers several years ago, Henderson’s local-shop holiday was switched to two weeks before the Thanksgiving weekend.)
While helping continue the family heritage hadn’t been in young Larry Dixon’s plans (nor was being regularly called “Mr. Shaw”), his fate swiveled when his father-in-law was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in 1978. Walter Shaw underwent surgery in Louisville, and much of the family went to be with him, leaving Dixon behind as what he called the “so-called manager.”
But Dixon is emphatic in saying he couldn’t have done it without employees Dolly Messamore and Goldie Stewart, who each spent more than 40 years at the shop.
“They were the columns that held this company up,” he said.
In time, he learned the craft of floral design through hands–on training.
Walter Shaw’s initial surgery appeared successful, but the cancer returned; he died in 1980. “Mother (Jean Shaw) took over,” Cindy Dixon said.
In 1994, Jean turned operations over to Cindy, with Larry serving as manager. Jean still worked holidays and one day a week to give Larry a day off, although they sometimes still had to work seven days a week.
Jean Shaw — who Dixon still calls “Mom” or “Mother Shaw,” and sometimes “Mrs. Shaw” — kept a close eye on the business and the books. “She worked up ’til (several months) before she died” on Nov. 22, 2017 at age 85.
In those final months, she wasn’t coming to the shop. “But she kept in touch,” Dixon said. “She may not have physically been here, but she asked all along” how things were going.
After Mrs. Shaw died, employee Joette “Jojo” Hay stepped into the role as shop manager. “She has been like my own child, and is family,” Larry Dixon said.
“I’ve always considered this a family business,” Cindy Dixon said. “If you work for us, you’re family.”
As for his own role, Larry Dixon said he is “boss” (using air quotes) “until somebody says I’m doing something wrong.”
“I never said I was a florist,” he insists.
But he certainly understands the changes in the business over the past two generations, such as flower shops buying all their flowers from wholesale growers. Thirty or forty years ago, “If you couldn’t grow flowers, you weren’t a florist,” he said.
Then there is the internet.
“A lot of people want to use the internet to send flowers,” Dixon said.
You can run a Google search for “Henderson KY florist,” and while you can find local shops, you’ll also find other companies that purport to be local florists. In fact, they often are “order gatherers” that might be located in Atlanta or Los Angeles; they take orders, forward the order to a real local florist and charge a marked-up fee to the customer.
“You can spend $70 for a thing you could have picked up the phone and gotten for $35” from a genuine local shop. One red flag: a web page for a florist that claims to be located in Henderson but doesn’t provide a local address.
In the past couple of years, the number of florist shops in Henderson has dropped in half, from six to three, as some other florists have retired from the business. That is keeping Shaw’s busy.
“We added four employees since O’Daniels (Flower Shop) closed,” Dixon said.
There are still the busy seasons, like Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day, when the staff swells from eight” — some with 30 to 40 years of experience — to a corps of about 20.
“Our son Josh is a fireman,” Cindy said. “We love firemen to deliver on their days’ off. They know the city.” Their oldest son, Jason, also helps with deliveries during busy seasons.
Something else that hasn’t changed much is Shaw’s approach to floral design.
For years, the mantra at Shaw’s Flowers was, “How would Walter have done this?” Dixon said.
While tastes and trends in floral design change, “We’re considered an old, traditional florist,” he said. “So we have not changed as much as others. We have customers who still want (an arrangement) to look like grandma’s.”
“We’re old school,” he said. “If you don’t like something, we’ll try to make it right. If we can’t make it right, we’ll give you back your money.”
The 90-year-old tradition continues. A prized object at the Dixon home is a flared basket in which Cindy Dixon’s grandfather sold his first flower arrangement. A customer who bought it in 1928 when her mother died brought it to Cindy some 65 years later. It was nice, the woman said of the arrangement, “but she said it was a little expensive” — $3.50 or $4.
“The basket would cost more than that today,” Larry Dixon said.
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When you start your own business, you are already confident in the product or service you are offering, but the next step is convincing others to believe and invest in your idea - and this, more often than not, is the hardest part of launching a business.
From the early stage of thinking of the idea; from the product or service to the design of the packaging, you are portraying an image of your company to the outside world. Therefore, the ability to tell the story of what you’ve created is something that should never be undervalued.
My idea of creating a Wi-Fi-enabled kettle that could be controlled from your phone was viewed as bizarre to my friends and family at the time. While it can be hard to filter out the criticism and stand your ground, my ability to explain to them the thought process behind the product ultimately won them, and later investors, over.
But how can you tell the perfect business story to win over your audience?
Read the room
A key aspect of any pitch, whether it is to your close family or a room of full of bankers, is reading the room. It’s a skill that comes over time and from practice, but learning to recognise what certain expressions mean will help you shape your story. With the huge array of information available online about people, there is really no excuse for not knowing who you are pitching to and what their interests and hobbies are. You will quickly see that a room of creatives might not be interested in the hard tech behind the product, while a bank will only need to know the financials to make their decision.
Learn your key messages
There are contradicting messages on whether you should change your pitch and messaging when faced with a new audience, but I found that by keeping with the same messages it is easier to stay on track and maintain consistency. Before going into a meeting, outline a handful of key messages you want to express and stick to those. It is important to remember that it is your vision of the brand that you are selling and they are buying into, therefore most of the content should be consistent.
People don’t want to gamble their investment on someone who seems naïve, so it will work in your favour to be upfront about challenges you may face on the way and don’t try to obscure any potential issues that might crop up. Demonstrating an awareness of pitfalls and how you intend to overcome these will show potential investors that you have considered your market properly and have anticipated any future bumps in the road.
Keep it short and sweet
With the best will in the world, everyone has a tendency to waffle when they are under pressure or nervous. Try and pin down your vision for the brand or product into one sentence. If someone was to ask me to describe my company, my one-line response would be: “Smarter is at the forefront of inventive solutions for a more connected life, with plans to revolutionise the heart of the home.” Simple and to the point.
When I went into my first pitch, I wish someone had reminded me to enjoy myself. You only get one shot at a first impression, which is nerve racking but remember- you know more about the product than anyone else! As long as you demonstrate your passion, you are halfway there to convincing them that you are the company for them.
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I upgraded to Zotero 5.0 and now my data is missing! How do I get it back?
When you first start Zotero 5.0, it attempts to migrate your data directory to a new default location, a “Zotero” directory in your home directory. (See Zotero Data for the default location on your platform.) If you previously used both Zotero for Firefox and Zotero Standalone and chose not to share a data directory, you may have a Zotero database in both profile directories, and Zotero will automatically use whichever database was modified more recently.
In some cases, Zotero may not copy the correct directory and instead either create a new data directory or migrate the data directory from the wrong profile, potentially leaving you with an empty or outdated database.
If Zotero 5.0 then syncs with your online library, it will update that database, but if your online library is out of date — for example, if you haven't synced in several months — you could still end up with missing local data.
Restoring Your Data
If you used Zotero for Firefox at any point in the past, your data may be stored in the Firefox profile directory, and you may need to temporarily disable security software so that Zotero can access that directory on startup and offer to restore your data.
Otherwise, to restore your data manually, first identify your current Zotero data directory from the Advanced → Files and Folders pane of the Zotero preferences. (Again, this will generally be “Zotero” within your home directory, but it could also be 'zotero' within your Zotero profile directory.)
Then find your Zotero profile directory and/or Firefox profile directory and look for a 'zotero' subdirectory. If you find one, check the timestamp of the zotero.sqlite file and confirm that there's a 'storage' directory with other directories below it, corresponding to the range of dates that you added items to Zotero. (These are your attachment files.)
If you recently used Firefox's “Refresh Firefox” feature, you can also look for your Zotero data in a 'zotero' folder folder located in the “Old Firefox Data” folder on your desktop. See Restore after Firefox Refresh for more details.
To restore the data directory you located, follow these steps:
- Close Zotero
- Rename your current data directory in your home directory from “Zotero” to “Zotero-Old”
- Move the 'zotero' directory from the profile directory (or from “Old Firefox Data”) to your home directory and rename it to “Zotero” (with a capital “Z”).
- When you then start up Zotero 5.0 again, you should see your previous data.
If there isn't a 'zotero' directory within either profile directory or in the “Old Firefox Data” folder on your desktop, it's possible you were previously using a custom data directory location, which Zotero 5.0 also wouldn't be able to locate automatically if it was blocked from accessing the Firefox preferences file. If you know the location, you can simply point Zotero to it from the Advanced → Files and Folders pane of the Zotero preferences. Otherwise, open the prefs.js file in your Firefox profile in a text editor and search for
dataDir to see if a custom path was set.
If you're still having trouble locating your previous data, post to the Zotero forums with the following information:
- Your current data directory location from the Advanced → Files and Folders pane of the Zotero preferences
- The timestamp and sizes of zotero.sqlite* files within that directory
- Which version of Zotero you were using previously
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Who knows what another stage product information need test to ensure safety? Was George Orwell accurate about the thought arrest? They didn’t seem to use any firewall blocks or performance testing.
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RFC 19: Migrate project repository from svn to git¶
Migrating from Subversion to git and in the process also switch from Trac to github.
(Credit: Inspired by MapServer’s RFC 84 at: http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-84.html)
While svn suits our needs as a collaborative source code version management system, it has shortcomings that make it difficult to work with for developpers working on multiple tasks in parallel. Git’s easy branching makes it possible to set up branches for individual task, isolating code changes from other branches, thus making the switch from one task to another possible without the risk of loosing or erroneously commiting work-in-progress code. Three-way merging of different branches means that merging code from one branch to another becomes a rapid task, by only having to deal with actual conflicts in the code. Offline committing and access to entire history make working offline possible.
There is already somewhat of a consensus that the migration from svn to git is a good move. Discussion remains as to how this transition should be performed. This RFC outlines the different options available for hosting the official repository, and the different options available for our ticket tracking.
Current investigation has retained two majors options that we could go down with:
- Repository migrated to github, use github provided issue tracking. This option will be referred to as “Github hosting”.
- Repository hosted by EOX, current trac instance migrated to hook on the new repository. This option will be referred to as “EOX hosting”
This option consists in moving our entire code+ticket infrastructure to github. The current trac instance becomes nearly read-only, new tickets cannot be created on it. Existing tickets are migrated to github with a script taking a trac postgresql dump (once the migration starts, our trac instance becomes read-only).
- Code hosting:
- No need to worry about hosting infrastructure
- Can be up and running with a short delay
- Support for pull requests, allowing external contributions to be rapidly merged into our repository
- Online code editing for quick fixups
- Github visualization tools, for example to check which branches are likely to contain conflicting code sections
- Code and patch commenting make collaboratively working on a given feature very lightweight, i.e. just add your comment on the code line which seems problematic to you
- Documentation contributions highly simplified for one-shot contributions
- Issue tracking:
- Integration of ticket state with commit messages (e.g: “fix mem allocation in mapDraw(), closes issue #1234
- Email replies to ticket notifications
- The free-form label tagging of issues might open up some interesting usages
- Versionned text-base attachments (gists), with commenting
- Hosting by a private company, which might become an issue if their TOS evolve or if they go out of business. The source code availability is not an issue as is possible to maintain a mirror on any server, and each developer has a checkout of the full source control history. Ticket migration would be an issue, but there are APIs available to extract existing tickets.
- Issue tracker is in some ways less feature full than trac. The only hard coded attributes are the assignee and the milestone. All the other triaging information goes into free formed labels, a la gmail.
- No way to automatically assign a ticket owner given a component
- No support for image attachments, can be referenced by url but must be hosted elsewhere.
- No support for private security tickets
- Administering committer access will be done through github, old credentials do not apply. Git does not support fine-grained commit permissions per directory, there will be a separate repository for the docs to account for the larger number of committers there.
This document outlines a workflow for fixing bugs in our stable branches: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Git_Workflow I believe it is a very good match for our stable release management:
- pick the oldest branch where the fix should be applied
- commit the fix to this oldest branch
- merge the old branch down to all the more recent ones, including master
Instead of freezing development during our beta cycle, a new release branch is created once the feature freeze is decided, and our betas, releases and subsequent bugfix releases are tagged off of this branch. Bug fixes are committed to this new stable branch, and merged into master. New features can continue to be added to master during all the beta phase. http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ is an interesting read even if it does not fit our stable release branches exactly.
Upgrade path for svn users¶
For those users who do not wish to change their workflow and continue with svn commands. This is not the recommended way to work with git, as local or remote changes might end up in having conflicts to resolve, like with svn.
Checkout the project
git clone firstname.lastname@example.org:EOX-A/eoxserver
git pull origin master
git add [list of files] git commit -m “Commit message” git push origin master
Fix a bug in a branch, and merge the fix into master
git checkout feature-branch git add [list of files] git commit -m “Commit message” git push origin feature-branch git checkout master git merge feature-branch git push origin master
- import svn to git
- assign github users
- split into sub-projects:
- document release process
- migrate website scripts
- switch trac site to read-only
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Bathroom Fabrics and Rugs
Many people dismiss the idea of having a fluffy rug in their bathrooms. But, if you are sensible with your rug, you can ensure that it doesn’t become susceptible to mould. Make sure that you opt for a non-slip mat if you are placing it over tiles. This can be an excellent way to make your bathroom look inviting without overspending. What could be more luxurious than getting out of the shower and squidging your toes beneath a fluffy rug? It’s a cheap and cheerful way of adding warmth to your bathroom setting.
Radiators don’t have to be boring. On the contrary, there are some radiators on the market that look like pieces of modern art. You can attach them to the walls of your bathroom, either at height or at a low level. It all depends on what look you want to achieve. Opt for unusual designs and bold colours to change the look of your bathroom. Add a red cast iron or bold chrome. Panelled radiators are more popular than ever as they offer a clean, chic look. Think about your interior design and how you can complement it with a new radiator.
Heated Towel Rails
Heated towel rails have become an excellent feature in most homes. You can make sure that your small bathroom is heated to capacity. But, it also provides a functional space to dry wet towels. The great thing about heated towel rails is that they often come in bold and unusual designs. Opt for Chrome to maximise the aesthetic quality of your bathroom. Do make sure that you have a dual fuel rail fitted. Ensure that you have a ductless heat pump installed too. This will ensure that you save money for the long term on your heating bills. You don’t have to spend a small fortune to make your bathroom look appealing. On the contrary, you can maximise your overall savings.
Under Floor Heating
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Another round of fantasy baseball cheatsheet updates is here today! The three available 2012 cheatsheets are powerful Excel files made for your roto draft, roto auction or point-based league drafts. They each pull in data from projection systems, expert rankings and ADP sites and let you choose what you want to display so you can make the cheetsheet unique to you. For roto leagues, the spreadsheet also has the neat feature of showing you the expected roto points gained (WERTH value) in each stat based on your individual league settings and the projections you select.
The following blog posts about the initial release of the cheatsheet have much more of the basic information about what to expect out of these: Point Leagues, Roto Draft, Roto Auction. When opening up the spreadsheet, you may be asked to enable macros… Please enable macros as that is the only way this spreadsheet can work!
The latest updates to the cheatsheets contain eight new roto categories for the roto sheets and include new ADP data (from Yahoo), expert rankings and projections (ZiPS). For hitters, the new roto categories are Total Bases, Total Bases + Walks, Doubles, and Triples. For pitchers, the new roto categories are Innings Pitched, Strikeouts – Walks, Hits Allowed, and Walks Allowed. Aside from those big updates, the most important change here is getting the ZiPS projections and Yahoo ADP added into the sheets. At this point, we’re just waiting on the Marcel and Steamer projections before I can add in the Combined projections for the final release.
In addition to those features, any ADP or projection data that was previously in the cheatsheets has been updated with whatever updates were available.
Download the 2012 Roto Draft Cheatsheet or
Download the 2012 Roto Auction Cheatsheet or
Download the 2012 H2H Points League Cheatsheet
Data included for this release:
- CAIRO projections
- RotoChamp projections
- Fangraphs Fan projections
- ZiPS projections
- MockDraftCentral ADP data
- Yahoo! ADP data
- ESPN staff rankings
- ESPN (T. Cockcroft) rankings
- RotoChamp rankings
- Roto Summit rankings
- Yahoo! rankings
- Clubhouse GM rankings
- Combined rankings (average of available rankings)
New features for 2012 version compared to 2011:
- Team Summary tab added (as explained above)
- Live Standings now only based on team’s starters as opposed to all drafted players
- Draft Central tab is redesigned to be easier to read and follow
- Customize button added to have more control over what is shown and not shown
- Ability to sort by position now added so you can more easily target a specific position when needed
New features in this version compared to last:
- Four new roto categories for batters and four for pitchers
- Added ZiPS projections to the available projections to choose from
- Added Yahoo! ADP data and rankings
- Updated Fangraphs Fan projections and MockDraftCentral ADP data
- Updated any expert rankings that have changed
- Added 3 new expert rankings and updated combined rankings
- Added a few extra players to the default draft pool
So, that’s the latest update to the sheets. There will be additional updates in the near future as additional projections become available. Any major updates to the cheatsheets may be tougher to do at this point but let me know if there any features that might be worth adding. I still haven’t addressed problems for Mac users or those with Excel 2003 or earlier. I’m going to look into the possibility of doing AL and NL only versions of the cheatsheet as well, if the demand is large enough.
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Nind, M. and Lewthwaite, S. (2019) A conceptual-empirical typology of social science research methods pedagogy. Research Papers in Education. DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2019.1601756
Nind, M., Holmes, M. M., Insenga, M., Lewthwaite, S. and Sutton, C. (2019) Student perspectives on learning research methods in the social sciences. Teaching in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2019.1592150
Rogers, R. & Lewthwaite, S. (2019) Teaching Digital Methods: An Inverview with Richard Rogers. Diseña. 14. (tambien en español).
Nind, Melanie & Lewthwaite, Sarah (2018) Methods that teach: developing pedagogic research methods, developing pedagogy, International Journal of Research & Method in Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2018.1427057
Nind, Melanie & Lewthwaite, Sarah (2017) Hard to Teach: Inclusive pedagogy in social science research methods education, International Journal of Inclusive Education. DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2017.1355413
Lewthwaite, Sarah and Nind, Melanie (2016) Teaching Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Expert Perspectives on Pedagogy and Practice. British Journal of Educational Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2016.1197882
Nind, Melanie, Kilburn, Daniel. & Luff, Rebekah. (2015): [Editorial] The teaching and learning of social research methods: developments in pedagogical knowledge, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2015.1062631.
Melanie Nind, Daniel Kilburn & Rose Wiles (2015): Using video and dialogue to generate pedagogic knowledge: teachers, learners and researchers reflecting together on the pedagogy of social research methods, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2015.1062628
Kilburn, Daniel and Nind, Melanie and Wiles, Rose (2014) Short Courses in Advanced Research Methods: Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching and Learning. Project Report. NCRM. (Unpublished)
Nind, Melanie and Kilburn, Daniel and Wiles, Rose (2014) The Teaching of Research Methods: Fostering Discursive Pedagogic Spaces in Capacity Building.In: European Conference of Educational Research, 2-5 Septmeber 2014, University of Porto. (Unpublished)
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Space Merchants: Arena is an online multiplayer part of our Space Merchants: Days of Glory game, where futuristic spaceships engage in intense dogfights or tactical play.
The year is 2510. Time of exploration and colonisation of new planets, bringing chance for new life for many people.
Humanity entered the second half of the millennium with hope to end long-lasting conflict between federal Army of Seven Stars and pirates of Black Flags fraction. In the last decades both sides suffered terrible losses in mutual fights and now the Black Flags members are scattered in the outer parts of the galaxy.
We will yet lose many lives, colonies and planets before the war will be over. Join the heroes of Army of Seven Stars and become a respected legend among your peers!
The game supports cross-platform play, Steam players (Windows+MacOS+Linux) can compete with iOS, Android or even WebGL. The game can run in normal 3D or in virtual reality cockpit view (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive).
- iOS App Store itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-merchants-arena/id1153305312
- Android Play Store play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Playito.SMArena
- Mac App Store itunes.apple.com/us/app/space-merchants-arena/id1153317498
- Ad-supported WebGL version www.pacogames.com/links/space-merchants-arena.php?1
(working in major desktop browsers, less functions than full version from app stores)
360 degree Virtual Reality video
After each battle player gains experience (to increase his/her skills and stats) and money (to buy and upgrade ships and equipment). Player can play against opponents on all platforms. Best players are shown in leaderboards and their glory persists to the end of days (obviously ;-)).
1) Battle – Free for all, 2-10 players, kill and avoid to be killed.
2) Team Battle – Blue vs Red team, 1 vs 1 to 5 vs 5.
– Faarlands map – Teams gain points just for killing opponents.
– Tristar map – There is a central “mining” place where your team can gain a point for each 15 seconds you survive there.
– Jupiter map – Capture the Artefact mode, steal your opponents’ artefact and deliver it to your base.
3) Training – Training arena, player vs AI player (bot). Experience and money gains are lower than in normal play against human opponents.
Red bonus adds temporary damage (till the end of the battle).
Green bonus repairs your armor.
Blue bonus adds experience.
Yellow bonus adds money.
[Ship’s Artificial Intelligence Skills]
Each skill increases automatically when used. E.g. when aiming at enemy Accuracy skill increases, when collecting bonuses bonus gain effect increases.
Turrets in game maps can be hacked using Turrets communicator tool obtainable from the shop. Hacked turrets will fight for you and destroy your opponents. You can also hack you enemy using Hacker Tools. If the hack is successful (depends on your enemy’s AI Firewall skill) he will lose control of movement and firing.
[Achievements (23 total)]
For everything the player does in the game he/she gains points to achievements table. There is also special everyday reward (experience and money) when starting the game.
[Reward points (RP)]
For Team Battle victory each player of the winning team receives one Reward Point. Additional Reward Points are given to Best player (most kills) and Best assistant (most assists). Player can exchange Reward Points for special rewards such as Upgrade Tools (see below).
Player can use Upgrade Tools to improve existing weapons, shields or armors.
Player can build and upgrade his/her outpost which can then be attacked by other players. Player can also choose to crush enemy’s outpost (chosen randomly). Winning player is awarded with Reward Points.
This function enables player to move his/her game profile from existing device to other device or even different platform. Export will save current game profile on our server and wipe it completely on current device. The player will receive secure PIN for import operation.
Import will load game profile from our server and overwrite current profile on the device. This is one-time operation, can not be performed with the same PIN second time.
Player can choose preferred language using Main menu, Settings, Languages. Player can choose from English, Russian, Czech and Slovak at the moment.
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When Christ appeared as a resurrected being to the people who were gathered as a faithful body on the American continent and showed them the wounds in His hands, in His side, and in His feet, He told them, Ye are they of whom I said, Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; [I must go to them] and they [must] hear my voice, and there [should] be one fold and one shepherd (3 Nephi 7:3). He explained that the disciples at Jerusalem didn’t ask Him about it, and they didn’t understand who He was talking about. They wrongly supposed that Christ meant He would speak to other sheep through the ministry of the people in Palestine, as they spread the message outward. Instead, He meant that He, Christ, would go, as a resurrected being, to scattered remnants of the House of Israel; that He would let them hear His voice, see Him, and He would minister to them. And that included, within the body of those that Christ intended to minister to, the people who were writing the Book of Mormon. And then He extended that and said, “I have still other sheep, in addition to you, and I’m going to go visit with them, also.”
“And so, from the record of the Book of Mormon, in just one example, if you want to understand the obscure statement that Christ made, preserved in the New Testament, that He has other sheep to whom He’s going to go minister, in order to understand that prophecy, you go to the last in time, the later to interpret the earlier, and the Book of Mormon supplies you that interpretation and explains : yes, Christ meant as a resurrected personage that He would go and He would appear. The record of Christ’s appearance in his post-resurrected state in Palestine includes appearing first to two women. Then He spent the better part of the day walking on the road to Emmaus with two disciples — Cleopas and an unidentified other who wrote the record, Luke. Then He appeared to the twelve. Still later, He would appear to the apostle Paul. And then when He ascended, there were above 500 gathered together at the time that He ascended from the mount. And so there were multiple sightings, multiple witnesses, and multiple audiences to whom He ministered as a post-resurrected being. Then in the Book of Mormon He does exactly the same thing. He appears as a resurrected personage and He ministers.”1 Christ would like mankind to have this information. He wants all to know He is the God of Israel and, indeed, the God of the whole earth. He not only ministered in Palestine and visited the Nephites, but He visited all of His sheep, wherever they were located throughout the world. This is what the Book of Mormon was to prove. Although it is only a record of a single group of the “other sheep,” it establishes there are “sheep” throughout the world to whom He paid a visit after His resurrection. In the title page of the Book of Mormon (now known as the Dedication in the Restoration Edition of scriptures), it says it was written to shew unto the remnant of the house of Israel how great things the Lord hath done for their fathers, and that they may know the covenants of the Lord, that they are not cast off for ever. And also to the convincing of the Jew and gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations. This reference to “all nations” confirms the meaning of the term “other sheep,” as Christ elaborated to the Nephites. The term was intended to cover multiple groups of believers who had been separated from Palestine and not just a single third group of believers. Christ’s ministry after His resurrection, therefore, may have involved many groups who both saw Him and heard His voice and, thereby, became part of His sheepfold.2 The third chapter of Jacob, although an allegory, may be the most detailed account of these “other sheep.”3
1 500th Year Reformation Talk Five, 3, Sandy, UT, Sept. 7, 2018, transcript of recording.
2 The Second Comforter, 95–96.
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Artur Menezes – Keep Pushing
CD: 10 Songs, 38:21 Minutes
Styles: Contemporary Electric Blues Rock, All Original Songs
Brazil’s Artur Menezes is a delightful digital-age cross between Carlos Santana and Rod Stewart. He’s got the former’s spicy musical style and the latter’s hardworking, down-to-earth vibe. His current self-produced album, Keep Pushing, displays this balance perfectly. He may not be an icon yet, but he’s well on his way. He won the Albert King Award for Best Guitarist and placed third in the Band category at this year’s International Blues Challenge. Artur also shared the stage with Joe Satriani recently, performing at a festival in Brazil for a crowd of twenty thousand. His commanding stage presence is telegraphed on the cover photo of his latest release. It’s pitch-black except for minimal lighting of his face and frame, depicting him in shades of gray. Edgy it is, and so are his ten original songs – fantastic examples of contemporary blues rock. Artur can switch moods as quickly and seamlessly as he switches guitar strings, which I’ll prove later. This CD is perfect for a forty-minute car trip, but it’ll leave listeners craving more.
Not only is Menezes fluent in the ways of music, but technology as well. According to his little corner of the Web, Artur was a speaker at TEDx, an annual convention licensed by TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) in 2013. At this event, personalities share their experiences and knowledge in presentations which are broadcast live on the Internet and later released on video. With the TEDTalks accessible to billions of people worldwide, Artur will never lack for an audience, whether at his concerts, at home, on the road, or in cyberspace.
Performing along with our leading man on vocals and guitars are Daniel Aged on bass; Gary Novak on drums; Carey Frank on Hammond organ and keyboards; Jamelle Adisa on trumpet and flugelhorn; Dan Boisey on tenor and baritone sax, and producer Josh Smith on rhythm guitars.
It’s hard to pick the three tastiest selections in this box of chocolates, but these’ll sate one’s appetite:
Track 02: “Keep Pushing” – Not only is this what we all have to do in life, but it’s one of a touring musician’s key job requirements. A Chicago-style thriller, the title track will make traditional blues fans strum air guitar and sing along if they can. “Now I go breaking the rules. Ain’t nobody’s fool. You’re throwing tips in my hat; I can even buy me a flat. I’ve got to keep pushing, yeah…” Put this on your playlist for getting up in the morning if it starts to be a drag.
Track 03: “Come With Me” – Jimi Hendrix fans will love this. Others might not, because it doesn’t fit the pure definition of our favorite genre. Never fear, because a killer guitar solo appears. The first line is hilarious, familiar to boyfriends and husbands everywhere: “I know I’m wrong, but let me talk.” This is a low-down, throw-down growler for barrooms, not nightclubs.
Track 04: “Any Day, Any Time” – Channeling Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and other melodic blues guitarists, Artur presents a slow burner that’s perfect for slow dancing. Carey Frank’s understated Hammond provides an atmospheric glow, as does Menezes’ voice. This may very well be the crown jewel of the album, and it should hit Sirius XM playlists pronto.
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Yesterday, in an exparte filing with the FCC, TiVo revealed potential future product plans. The first part of the filing covers the Tuning Resolver solution for Switched Digital Video.
Pursuant to this arrangement, TiVo and the cable industry have developed an external adaptor that will allow certain one-way CableCARD devices, such as TiVo Series3 and TiVo HD DVRs, to receive all switched digital signals without a cable set-top box. A key component to this solution involves the cable industry’s commitment to ensure that installation of CableCARDs and the external adapter will be easy and seamless for consumers.
That’s simple enough, and doesn’t reveal anything we didn’t already know. However, then the filing gets quite interesting:
In this proceeding, TiVo had expressed concerns about the cable industry’s OpenCable Application Platform (“OCAPâ€) specifications and license terms. In response to TiVo’s concerns, the cable industry has agreed to work with TiVo to make clarifications or adjustments to OCAP that may be necessary to enable TiVo to build what TiVo believes can be a viable retail DVR with OCAP. We explained that a TiVo DVR with OCAP would have a “TiVo mode†displaying all linear channels (including switched digital video enabled by OCAP) with the TiVo user interface and full DVR functionality as well as a “cable mode†running OCAP and displaying all cable programming services with the cable user interface without DVR functionality.
So this is a compromise – and I’d be happy with this. Consumers would get the full benefit of TiVo for most applications, only switching to the cable company’s software, and therefore UI, for things like PPV and VOD, and any special services offered by the cable provider. That seems to be the best compromise possible, and it is certainly better than the existing stalemate where everyone suffers. I do wonder if this is something that could be introduced in software to use the Tuning Resolver developed to handle SDV, or would this require new hardware – a ‘Series4′? I suppose only time will tell.
It is interesting that TiVo has broken with the consumer electronics industry, which has been opposed to OCAP in general and has been pushing a counter proposal – DCR+ (Digital Cable Ready Plus – unidirectional CableCARD devices, like TiVo, are based on the DCR spec. DCR+ would be an evolution to add bidirectional functionality instead of implementing OCAP).
We also expressed our belief that this refined version of OCAP was a preferable solution to DCR+ for a variety of reasons, including time-to-market and the ability to receive all of cable’s two-way services. Manufacturers, cable companies, and consumers will benefit most from an OCAP-based solution that enables the creation of differentiated retail devices such as TiVo DVRs and allows all of cable’s two-way services to reach the consumer within a reasonable time. In contrast, a DCR+-based solution would take longer to implement and result in devices with more limited functionality that would not enjoy the full support of the cable industry.
If this works for TiVo, I expect we’ll see more consumer electronics vendors dropping the push for DCR+ and adopting this OCAP compromise to bring products to market. I’d be happy to see that, since my main issue with OCAP has been the requirement to use the cable provided software for all functionality. This compromise would seem to allow product differentiation while still allowing end users access to advanced functionality. | <urn:uuid:1b31ce7a-340c-416f-9344-3320b007298f> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.gizmolovers.com/2007/11/28/tivo-to-embrace-ocap-on-their-hardware/ | 2019-07-23T03:04:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.939601 | 781 |
A colleague and friend, Dion Manastyrski, is currently running an Indiegogo campaign to fund the printing of his first book 'Prairie Sunset: A Story Of Change'. The book will be printed at Friesens in Altona, Manitoba - a place I know very well as I have published all of my books with this great printer. Indiegogo is a crowd-sourcing mechanism for people all over the world to join forces to make ideas happen. Dion has been working hard on his idea to produce a quality book about the vanishing prairies for some 10 years now.
I had the privilege to meet Dion this past summer as he traveled to Manitoba to gather information from The Manitoba Archives and to create a few more images for the project. We also spent a day together photographing in the Pembina Valley. 'Prairie Sunset: A Story of Change' is a book of beautiful photographs of the Canadian Prairies to be sure but it's also a book about how the prairies have changed. Based on more than 70 interviewers that Dion has conducted himself with 'prairie settlers', this book will be one to cherish for years to come.
“In my search for understanding, as I roamed the homesteads of a vanishing era, I photographed the abandoned structures, and talked to the people of the prairies. I listened to their memories of the past and their feelings about the changes, and gathered some of their thoughts and anecdotes. In these writings and photographs, the story of the homesteaders emerged. Collectively, they have a remarkable story to tell, and I would like to share this with you in an upcoming book” says Dion.
“In 1938, my dad drove a horse and sled to the nearest phone, 4 miles away, and phoned the doctor. The doctor came by snowplane, which is an enclosed cabin on skis, powered by a gas engine with a large propellor at the back. I remember being afraid of the noise when the snowplane approached the house, and I thought the noise and blown snow might break the windows” remembers Helen Manastyrski of Ponass Lake, Saskatchewan.
If you're interested in the prairies, consider supporting Dion's venture by pre-ordering a book or making a donation.
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Rockets try for rare home win with Hornets in town
(Sports Network) – The Houston Rockets try to reverse their fortunes at home
this evening when they conclude a two-game homestand against the New
Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets at the Toyota Center.
Houston dropped its fifth straight game at home on Wednesday, as it was on the
wrong end of an 88-80 decision to the Sacramento Kings. Juwan Howard had 24
points and 15 rebounds and David Wesley scored 17 points for the Rockets, who
have lost four consecutive games overall and have not won at home since
beating the Boston Celtics back on December 6.
Rafer Alston contributed 15 points in the loss.
Houston was again without star forward Tracy McGrady, who missed his second
straight games since being taken to a hospital with severe back spasms.
McGrady, though, like forward Stromile Swift and guard Jon Barry, will be a
The Rockets are 0-10 this season without McGrady, who had gone for more than
30 points in five straight games before leaving Sunday’s tilt with 11 points.
Houston, which will head to Atlanta on Monday, is a dismal 3-11 in its
building this season.
The Hornets, meanwhile, come into tonight’s encounter on a winning note after
David West scored 19 points and had five steals to lead New Orleans/Oklahoma
City to a 90-76 victory over the Sacramento Kings at the Lloyd Noble Center.
Rasual Butler added 16 points and six rebounds and Kirk Snyder chipped in with
13 points and five rebounds for the Hornets, who stopped a small two-game
New Orleans/Oklahoma City, which will wrap up a brief two-game road trip in
Charlotte on Monday, has dropped four in a row on the road and is 5-12 away
from home this season.
Houston has already lost twice this season to the Hornets, but has won nine of
14 and 10 of the last 16 meetings. The Hornets are also just 3-5 in their last
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Peter Hately Waddell
(15 Dec 1881 – 1956)
It's a little bit odd that my Uncle Alexander (Sandy) Waddell did not include a biography of his Uncle Peter in the document WADDELL LINE WHO'S WHO. But maybe there were family sensitivities to be respected. It's a pity, really, because Peter's life was evidently one of high academic and professional achievement – excellent grist to the narrator's mill.
I have a very hazy early memory of being introduced to him, a genial and kindly figure, who rather took to my own infant bonhomie (as my mother recounted many years later). But there is virtually no other family tradition concerning his personal qualities, and only two solid facts – that he attended Balliol and that he went on to a very successful career in the ICS (Indian Civil Service). I have had to work both forwards and backwards from these by means of good old Google.
Actually, I have exaggerated slightly, as there is a certain amount of useful information to be found in Sandy's biography (qv) of his father Robert. Peter was born in Singapore, and the family repatriated to Glasgow in early 1892 when he was about 10 (Sandy's arithmetic seems slightly askew). He was then successively educated at Allan Glen's school, Kelvinside Academy and the University of Glasgow (not Edinburgh as stated by Sandy). He had a bent for the Classics (ie Latin and Greek) – continuing the tradition of his Uncle, William Wardlaw Waddell. Presumably these were the focus of his studies at the University, where the story now enters the public arena ...
University of Glasgow
Graduate Record for Peter Hately Waddell
Forename: Peter Hately
Degree Information: MA (1901)
Further information from the University records:
Registrar's Handwritten Roll of Graduates gives the date of birth as 15 December 1881
Note that there is now a nice new profile of him on the University website:
In that year, he was also awarded the annual Snell Exhibition, a highly prestigious scholarship awarded each year to just one student of the University of Glasgow to allow them to undertake postgraduate study at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
Balliol College, Oxford
The following link connects with a textual transcript of the Balliol College register
of which this is an extract relating to Great Uncle Peter, whilst he was still serving in the ICS (Indian Civil Service):
1881; s. of James Waddell, of Glas-
gow. Educ. Kelvinside Academy;
Glasgow Univ.; Balliol 1901-5
(W.H.F., A.W.P.C, J.L.S.D.,
H.W.C.D.); Snell Ex.; 1st
Cl. Mods. 1903; B.A. 1905;
Torpid. Union and Arnold (Pres.)
Socs. I.C.S., Bengal, 1905; Sub-
Divisional Officer in Bihar; trans-
ferred to E. Bengal and Assam
1908; Assist. Settlement Officer,
Jalpaiguri; Sub-Divisional Offi-
cer, Karinganj, Assam, 1909;
additional District Magistrate,
Mymensingh, 1912; Collector of
Khulna 1913. Recreations: Tennis,
polo, bridge. Address: Ramna
P.O., Dacca, Bengal, India.
However, there is another link that connects to a photographic archive of the volumes themselves:
Click here to view an image of his contextual pages in this version of the Register (very much more up-to-date, taking us through to his retirement and wartime service in the Home Guard).
And this is a cutting of his actual entry in that volume:
I was baffled initially (ho ho) by the various abbreviations W.H.F. and so on, but eventually realised that they might signify the various Balliol tutors under whom he studied. And so it proved – by following up links such as
it transpired that
- WHF = William Henry Fremantle
- AWPC = Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge
- JLSD = James Leigh Strachan-Davidson
- HWCD = Henry William Carless Davis
The last-named of these was the Regius Professor of Modern History at that time, and it is noteworthy that in 1903 Gt Uncle Peter achieved a First Class in Mods (the second-year exams for people on the Classics side). So did he then switch to Modern History?
Torpids are apparently a fairly light-hearted annual University inter-collegiate rowing event, or series of events, in which he evidently took significant part. The Arnold [& Brackenbury] Society, of which he became President, also seems to have been light-hearted, specialising in rather less serious debates than in the Union itself.
What with rowing, tennis and polo he appears to have been the first member of the Waddell line ever to have shown an active interest in sport, which would have stood him in very good stead on taking up his career in India. He seems to have escaped the malarial recurrences which so badly undermined his younger brother Robert's health over a lifetime, unless of course his early retirement in 1932, at the age of only 51, indicates some health problem had finally caught up with him. But this is all pure speculation on my part, and so there I must bid him adieu.
Except to say that, according to his grandson David, he spent his retirement reading Westerns (Zane Grey being his favourite author) and day-dreaming of becoming an apple farmer in New Zealand. Strangely incongruous that a highbrow classical scholar and ICS grandee should develop a taste for Wild West paperbacks. But, oddly, after reading Erewhon (set in a fictionalised New Zealand) as a teenager I had a similar urge to seek my fortune there, but it never came to anything – the Lord of The Rings films brought it back again, but I'm too creaky now in any case. | <urn:uuid:35697a54-2792-4245-87a1-bc69d8a8847f> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.ornaverum.org/family/waddell-peter.html | 2019-07-23T03:08:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.97513 | 1,296 |
Lazarus, which features new songs specially composed by Bowie as well as new arrangements of previously recorded songs, is scheduled to run through Jan. 17, 2016, at New York Theatre Workshop following an initial sell-out and extension.
Don't Miss These Haunting First Pics of Michael C. Hall, Cristin Milioti and Cast in David Bowie's Lazarus
The Off-Broadway production is helmed by Obie winner Ivo van Hove, who returns to NYTW following his acclaimed staging of Scenes From a Marriage.
The cast also includes Krystina Alabado (American Idiot), Sophia Anne Caruso (The Nether), Nicholas Christopher (Whorl Inside A Loop), Lynn Craig (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), Bobby Moreno (Year of the Rooster), Krista Pioppi (Spring Awakening national tour), Charlie Pollock (The Wild Party) and Brynn Williams (Bye Bye Birdie).
The production features scenic and lighting design by Jan Versweyveld; costume design by An D'Huys; video design by Tal Yarden; sound design by Brian Ronan; choreography by Annie-B Parson; music direction by Henry Hey; dramaturgy by Jan Peter Gerrits; stage management by James Latus; and casting by Telsey + Company.
Lazarus is inspired by Walter Tevis' best-selling 1963 novel "The Man Who Fell to Earth," about a human-looking alien who comes to Earth seeking a way to bring water back to his dying home planet. It was also adapted into a film in 1976 starring Bowie in the lead role of Thomas Newton.
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Microsoft and General Electric have recently announced a partnership that will allow GE’s platform for the Industrial Internet available on Microsoft Azure cloud for industrial businesses. Through these technologies companies worldwide will be able to bridge the divide between the operational and information technologies that make up the Industrial Internet of Things.
Predix is an operating system and platform for building applications that connect to industrial assets, collecting, analyzing data and delivering real-time insights to optimize industrial infrastructure and operations. Industrial companies use Predix to manage and optimize GE and non-GE assets, driving new levels of efficiency in their operations.
“Connecting industrial machines to the internet through the cloud is a huge step toward simplifying business processes and reimagining how work gets done,” says Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE. “GE is helping its customers extract value from the vast quantities of data coming out of those machines and is building an ecosystem of industry-leading partners like Microsoft that will allow the Industrial Internet to thrive on a global scale.”
Bringing Predix to Azure will give companies greater flexibility to harness the power of data from machines and systems of intelligence. Microsoft’s cloud-based platform includes leading technologies such as Azure cloud, Azure IoT Suite, and Cortana Intelligence Suite.
Microsoft’s official note is available here.
GE (NYSE: GE) is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized around a global exchange of knowledge, the “GE Store,” through which each business shares and accesses the same technology, markets, structure and intellect. Each invention further fuels innovation and application across our industrial sectors. With people, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for customers by speaking the language of industry. www.ge.com
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) is the leading platform and productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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Princeton Protestors, Experts at State House Press Peace Agenda
“NO U.S. WAR ON VENEZUELA!”: About 30 demonstrators gathered on Nassau Street in Palmer Square Monday afternoon, calling for a prohibition on unauthorized military action in Venezuela. Earlier in the day Princeton physicists Zia Mian and Frank von Hippel and Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) Executive Director the Rev. Robert Moore testified in Trenton in support of an anti-nuclear Assembly resolution sponsored by Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker. (Photo by Anna Savoia)
By Donald Gilpin
Calling for the option of U.S. military intervention to be taken off the table completely in Venezuela, about 30 demonstrators gathered on Nassau Street in Palmer Square on Monday, carrying signs reading “No U.S. War in Venezuela!”
The event, sponsored by the Princeton-based Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) in collaboration with Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), started at 5 p.m. and lasted about an hour.
Demonstrators urged passers-by to write to members of Congress asking them to sponsor the Prohibiting Unauthorized Military Action in Venezuela Act. They also distributed fliers, which stated: “The U.S. is trying to overthrow the Maduro government with military threats, economic warfare, and diplomatic isolation. But the solutions for the problems in Venezuela are for the Venezuelans to decide. The peace movement must oppose U.S. intervention and support a resolution through peaceful dialogue!”
CFPA Executive Director the Rev. Robert Moore applauded the collaboration with the DSA, which he called “an important force for progressive causes.” He added, “It’s important to seek synergy and do activities collaboratively. We all need each other.”
Earlier in the day Moore, along with Princeton University physicists and nuclear weapons experts Zia Mian and Frank von Hippel, testified in support of anti-nuclear Resolution 230 at a hearing before the New Jersey State Assembly Science, Innovation, and Technology Committee.
Resolution 230, which urges the federal government to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and pursue other measures to reduce the danger of nuclear war, passed the committee, which Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker chairs. He will be requesting that it go before the full Assembly later this month.
“As a scientist who has colleagues who work on nuclear nonproliferation issues, this is a topic that deeply, deeply concerns me,“ Zwicker said. “I’m aware of the horrible destruction, devastation, loss of life, and change of environment that would occur if anyone were to use nuclear weapons.”
He continued, “Also I’ve been frustrated by the partisan gridlock in Congress. As a state legislator I felt an obligation to try to do something. I’m working with world-renowned colleagues, Mian and von Hippel. Highlighting the importance of our country entering into a treaty that calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons is critical.”
Moore noted that “arms control has taken a turn south, undermined by the Trump administration. There are definitely alarm bells going off in the expert community, and they should be going off in the general community.”
Moore pointed out that Resolution 230, even if it passes the full Assembly later this month, is not binding. “But it’s valuable in generating grass roots democracy,” he said, “using the tools of democracy as an engine to advocate for disarmament and peace.” | <urn:uuid:2ababf7f-4b9b-47b7-8913-cbc72439a3ea> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.towntopics.com/wordpress/2019/03/13/princeton-protestors-experts-at-state-house-press-peace-agenda/ | 2019-07-23T02:35:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.938835 | 747 |
Welcome to San Diego Blog | September 4, 2018
Thinking of Buying at Savina?
Bosa Development recently recognized me as one the top sales agents for their newest project, Savina. I have been excited for this new condo building since I first heard about it last year. So excited in fact, that I bought a home there for myself and cannot wait to move in next year. Since they went on sale, I have helped several buyers find their perfect home at Savina. With over 90 different floor plans to choose from, having someone like me help navigate you to the right one is your best bet. As of August 2018, Savina is over 50% sold and they are expecting completion by the first half of 2019. With some of the best amenities downtown San Diego has ever seen, you will not want to miss your chance to call Savina home. Please reach out to me at 619-643-2099 or firstname.lastname@example.org
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Arefa Tehsin was shortlisted for The Hindu Young World-Goodbooks Best Author Award 2017 for her book Wild in the Backyard. Her picture book The Elephant Bird was read at over 3000 locations across India from the slums to the Presidential Library on International Literacy Day 2016. It has been translated into 25 languages. She is also the author of several fiction and nonfiction books on wildlife. She was appointed as the Honorary Wildlife Warden of Udaipur and has relentlessly pursued nature conservation through her writings and columns.
The Hindu, July 2018:
The Asian Age, July 2018:
Shortlisted for The Hindu Young World-Goodbooks Best Author Award 2017
Outlook: A Liar’s Journey:
Sweden TV: Interview (#JLF2017. Story starts at 32:20 minutes.)
The Globetrotters Publisher: Puffin (Penguin Random House)
Wild in the Backyard Publisher: Puffin (Penguin)
Do Tigers Drink Blood and 13 Other Mysteries of Nature Co-authored by Raza H. Tehsin. Publisher: Red Turtle, an imprint of Rupa & Co.
The Land of the Setting Sun & Other Nature Tales Co-authored by Raza H. Tehsin. Publisher: TERI Press
The Elephant Bird Picture Book in 6 languages – Hindi, English, Urdu, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu. Publisher: Pratham Books
Iora & the Quest of Five First novel of a rainforest based fantasy series. Publisher: Fingerprint, am imprint of Prakash Books
The Steed of the Jungle God Co-authored by Dr. Raza H. Tehsin. Publisher: National Book Trust (NBT)
Tales from the Wild – Co-authored by Raza H. Tehsin. Publisher: Unicorn Books, an imprint of Pustak Mahal.
Urban Shots – Bright Lights Contributed a story in the short-story anthology. Publisher: Grey Oak
Articles & Columns in:
The Indian Express, The Hindu, Outlook Money, The Wire, Deccan Herald, Hindustan Times, JetWings (magazine of Jet Airways), The Times of India and TERI’s Terra Green.
1. Daughter of Saraswati – on a project funded by Australian Geographic. Director – Himalay Tehsin
2. Rediscovery of Buddhism in India – Contribution of Sinhala Buddhists (Director/Producer – Himanay Tehsin). Broadcasted on Rupavahini, Channel Eye and The Buddhist channels (Sri Lanka) and shown in India and UK. Screened in Vesak Film Festival, Sri Lanka where it won a Merit Award. | <urn:uuid:228fb61a-bf67-4cda-820f-8a4da996c711> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://arefatehsin.com/about/ | 2019-07-23T03:24:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.876694 | 571 |
A couple of decades ago the most advanced technology to appear in an average classroom was a mini-cassette recorder and a calculator. For most students, however, typical classroom technology ran the gamut from yellow legal pads to theme books, from pencils to ballpoints.
Computers were restricted to the computer lab. There, the green blinking DOS cursor would excite and intimidate. Most of the thrill of the computer lab, aside from a few basic computer games, came from the fact that you could type up a paper without using Wite-Out.
For those excited by the possibilities in the new medium, the hyperlink was king. The disappointment, of course, was centered on the fact that few professors outside of the Computer Science Department would consider taking a paper electronically.
Within a few years, the Mosaic browser would make the weird world of the Internet more accessible. As more information found its way into more hands on campus, as more students gained access to the early Apple computers and their competitors, access itself started to change the way students interacted with information, often in conflict with instructors who did not trust the easy barriers to entry.
As an indicator, the National Center for Education Statistics found that in 1994, only 35 percent of American public schools had computers. By 2002, that number had climbed to 99 percent.
Today's students, comfortable with the tools of their trade, might see the university classroom of 1991 as being not terribly different from the classroom of 1891.
Adjusting to new tools
Today, it is not unusual to see students armed to the teeth with laptops, web books, tablets and smart phones. Instead of merely recording the audio of a lecture, students can video it. They can also chat, read Pitchfork, post photos to Facebook and, time allowing, collaborate with their fellows on in-class projects in real-time.
Students today have access to as much data from their portable devices as was in existence for the students of the first universities.
"The students I'm teaching now," one professor of the European history of ideas told Ars, "can get infinitely more information so much quicker than earlier classes ever could. But they are capable of doing less with it. They seem stunned in the face of analytical demands." This intellectual alchemy is more difficult, he seemed to think, in an era with an emphasis on data and speed.
"I'm glad that it takes me about two split seconds to find an image on the Internet, a painting, say, and two more seconds to import it into a PowerPoint presentation for lecture," said University of Oregon comparative literature professor Ken Calhoon."But I don't much like it when students write papers this way. My biggest beef with tech in the classroom is the energy it costs me to compete with the iPhone or Facebook for my students' attention."
Andre Chinn, instructional technology coordinator for the university's School of Journalism and Communications, does not believe that data-over-knowledge imbalance is a continuing trend. He believes that we are starting to clear a kind of "wow hump" in technology. He is seeing an emphasis on teaching process, not tools.
"I get the distinct impression in the last two years," he said, "that the panic has washed away." Discussions of which program or tool to teach is less urgent these days. There are no definitive tools the students must learn.
"We want students to understand the grammar of technology. If you understand the concept of what you're doing in a video editing program, for instance, it's relatively easy for a student to switch to a different [editing] app because they're familiar with the concepts."
Professors do sometimes require a computer for a specific in-class project or event, but that is easy enough to arrange. Five years ago, University of Oregon's housing department completed a computer ownership survey. Even at that time 96 percent of students owned laptops; the figure is probably higher now.
Web space and hardware
Chinn's vision of the classroom at Future U is "pragmatic," as befits someone currently struggling with the renovation of the school's physical spaces.
"I would argue the classroom twenty years from now will be a space reconfigured and repurposed for different needs," he said. "No more 'tablet armchairs.' The classrooms may look more like living rooms. We're going to see classrooms moving away from lectures to a more collaborative environment, heavy on group projects. I could see a student's tools all contained on one device, sharing wirelessly on a common screen or with each other, device-to-device, and much more web-based."
The devices they use will also continue to shrink. Students are already showing a preference for tablets and web-books over laptops.
"The social web has enforced a powerful notion of collaborative knowledge creation," Jim Groom, instructional technology specialist and adjunct professor at Virginia's University of Mary William told Ars. "How can a classroom in this moment ignore the shape of the web?" he asked. His university is planning a pilot program to give 900 new students not just their own blogs, but a complete domain and space in which they will work, archive, sandbox, rant and play, and over which they have complete control.
"All students will have their own spaces, that they control and they produce and syndicate. One big question in higher ed is FERPA (the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act). If you give students keys to the spaces they build on, it defuses privacy fears." The blogs and domains are built with common tools like WordPress, so they cost less than the ubiquitous learning management systems (LMS).
Because of the interconnectivity and syndication, "the university starts to replicate the Web, open and transformative—transformative, in that you don't see the classroom as isolated space any more."
The elephant in the room when talk turns to technology in higher ed is the LMS, specifically like Blackboard (a kind of educational Sharepoint). Teachers can use it to manage teaching plans, lectures, grading, materials hand-offs and so on.
"The LMS is a great management tool, but we don't see it as a teaching and learning tool," said Groom. "Spaces determine how you think and learn. Blackboard as an example doesn't exist on the Web. You wind up accessing it through an abstract login. It's a kind of cockroach motel, locked into a space outside of time, outside of the Web. Divorce the learning and collaboration from the Web and you're separating it from where most people are doing their learning."
Brian Whitmer, co-founder of LMS company Instructure, has a variegated picture of what our Future U classroom will look like. In some cases, it will not be a classroom at all.
"Some people believe we'll be able to automate the whole process (of education)," he said. "That's scary to me. I don't believe the teacher is going anywhere. But I do see the teacher's role shifting somewhat. The teacher will become less of a drill instructor and more of a facilitator."
In a way, Whitmer's vision of the future classroom is modeled as much on the Web as Groom's or Chinn's. His, however, sees the institution itself as distributed.
"Do universities provide long-term value or do we distribute the process?" he asked. "Mini-certification might be the futuristic equivalent of a college degree. Institutions are looking ways to remain relevant already. Look at MIT's online course offerings, how Coursera is gathering together online classes. Look at Western Governors University—you don't have to even take classes. You can. But you can also just take the exams and, if you pass, receive the certification. This is degree-granting without physical presence."
Teaching the universities
The classroom of the future is less a matter of fancy gizmos and more of a transition into a more transparent, controllable, syndicated and shared space. Institutions, especially slow-moving behemoths like universities, always defend their status quo—sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly, but always zealously. They value the slow move over the fast and the no move over the slow. So, adding or subtracting a doodad from a classroom is not really the point.
What is likely to make a difference is changing the institution's attitude toward those elements that underpin the technology. Teaching students to use technology as a whole, to understand and apply the processes behind the tools themselves so that they are not hamstrung by a change in brand or version is the key.
Tech-based changes may be more frequent and more threatening than some of the changes that have come before. And those changes aren't simply cosmetic. But technology itself must be neither dismissed nor fetishized.
Just as most of education lies ahead of us, so does most of the Future U series.
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Here’s how one manufacturer explained it.*
“We find lots of good candidates to represent our line in MANA’s RepFinder® database.
“But once in a while we also find a rep member profile that is a real turn-off. It’s what I call the ‘I sell everything to everybody everywhere’ profile.
“One turn-off is when the rep claims to sell every one of the RepFinder’s 100+ product categories. Everything from Advertising Specialties to Veterinary supplies.
“Great rep firms focus on a few key markets and have great relationships with decision-makers in those markets. A rep who claims to sell in every market has no focus and will never get an interview to rep our line.
“Sometimes it gets even worse. Sometimes the rep claims to sell all of the product categories in all 50 states, and perhaps even in Canada and Europe. A pretty bold claim for a rep firm with just one or two salespeople.
“That’s why I said, ‘If you say you sell everything to everybody everywhere, you sell nothing to anybody anywhere.”
Want to be sure your MANA rep member profile isn’t a turn-off? Keep these rules in mind and update your MANA member profile today:
- Manufacturers look for reps with focus. Choose only categories where your rep firm really shines.
- Choose the product categories you sell, not the markets you sell to. If you sell castings to the pump industry, choose “castings” not “pumps.”
- Your sales territory should make sense compared to the number of your firm’s salespeople.
- Update your MANA member profile annually. Starting soon, manufacturers will be able to see if a profile has gone untended for more than year.
- Seventy-seven percent of MANA rep members have a website. Don’t be one of the 23 percent who don’t.
Update your profile today in the member area of www.MANAonline.org.
Sound like too much trouble? Schedule a free telephone profile coaching session with Jerry Leth or with me. We’ll walk through the steps together.
Let manufacturers know that your rep firm’s profile says what you do, and you’ll do what it says. Update your MANA member profile today!
* Comments from more than one manufacturer have been combined and edited for clarity and brevity.
I have been to so many manufacturer training sessions that the phrase, “Thank you for coming, we understand that time is your most precious asset” is ingrained in me.
I can’t disagree with that statement; however, I believe principals and their reps can use this as an excuse as to why not to get together for anything.
As an independent manufacturers’ rep, I always have an appetite to train further and to become the best possible rep when it comes to product knowledge and business acumen. I expect and appreciate training from my principals, but I also love to pay … Read the rest
As detailed in the 1992 film A League of Their Own, when men were shipped overseas to do battle during World War II a number of the jobs that were left vacant because of their absence were filled by women. Hardly exempt from that predicament was the world of baseball. In the 1940s the owners of baseball teams, not wanting the sport to be dormant indefinitely, decided to form teams with women. As a result, scouts were sent across the country to recruit women athletes to populate a four-team league.
A bit of a recollection of that time took place … Read the rest
Do you invest in the stock market?
If so, you’re probably aware of the constant waxing and waning that characterizes the life cycle of the stock market. What goes up eventually goes down and what goes down eventually goes up.
If you’re a long-term investor, you tend to wait out the market cycles and instead count on the long-term growth that has always happened in the market over extended periods of time. If you’re a short-term investor, you may be playing the cycle, hoping to buy or sell at precisely the right time.
Either way, the stock market goes up … Read the rest
How to get prospects to find you.
Twenty years ago, salespeople were expected to get in front of prospects. Today, those doors are sealed shut. Voice mail and e-mail messages are ignored. If all that isn’t enough, few customers are willing to stick their neck out and make referrals.
All of which makes prospecting frustrating and, unfortunately, bordering on useless. No wonder salespeople across the board plead for leads and, hoping to get lucky, keep their fingers crossed.
If you’re looking for an easy, quick way to find prospects, forget it. No matter what anyone may say, it doesn’t exist. … Read the rest
Avoid Sales Gimmicks
Over the past week I’ve been inundated with e-mails for webinars, classes and courses telling me that sales and business building is easy. They claim that you don’t have to work hard, just listen to the webinar and you’ll get the magic bullet to working a fraction of the hours you’re currently working while closing 90 percent of the people you talk to. Oh, and don’t worry about the fear and discomfort that usually stop you; with their secret formula those will magically disappear. It will be all sunshine and rainbows.
Unfortunately people still fall for schemes … Read the rest
During the summer they dig up streets, repave roads, and repair bridges. That leads to epic traffic jams, long commutes and tremendous amounts of frustration. And you’re late! I’ve been doing my best impression of the digging, without the paving and repairing. Several of my recent articles have been based on Objective Management Group’s (OMG) data from the evaluations of 1.8-million sales professionals, and like the road work, we’re gonna continue to dig!
In this article, we will look to determine whether there is a correlation between sales percentile, sales pipeline, and sales performance.
OMG includes a pipeline analysis as … Read the rest
In most organizations, sales managers are the essential bridge between the company’s sales goals and the realization of those goals. The gritty day-to-day interactions between the salespeople and their customers are frequently filtered through the perspective of a sales manager on their way up the ladder. The aspirations and strategies of the company’s management must be imprinted by the realism of the sales manager as they come down from above. Sales managers are the conductors who carefully orchestrate the tentative entanglement of the salespeople with their management.
It’s an incredibly important and difficult job. Unfortunately, it is often the most … Read the rest
This is the second in a number of articles serializing The Sales Force — Working With Reps by Charles Cohon, MANA’s president and CEO. The entire book may be found in the member area of MANA’s website.
Jim had hoped that Buchanan’s enthusiasm for his call-forwarding idea would catapult him into contention for Edgeworth’s old job, but if that was Buchanan’s intent, he was keeping his cards pretty close to his vest. The only hint Jim got that Buchanan was thinking of him as a manager was when Buchanan tapped him to stand in for Edgeworth at a meeting of
… Read the rest
First let me clarify the value of quality service. I believe that great service retains the customers you already have, attracts more customers, and develops a reputation that encourages customers to do business with you in the future.
Are You Guilty of the Following Customer Service Crimes?
Too many firms worship at the altar of IVR: Push two for English, four for Spanish, push six if you want etc. and push eight to go to be ignored. For years I have been saying this is the most expensive piece of technology you will ever buy and you will … Read the rest
A manufacturer recently related to Agency Sales magazine how when one of his best performing reps erred in a personnel decision, a potentially disastrous situation was quickly defused.
Here’s how he described what happened: “A one-man operation that I’d describe as one of our very best reps had reached a growth point where he had to hire another rep to take some of the load off himself. Unfortunately, he made the wrong decision. From the first day the new rep started working, there was a falloff in performance from the rep firm. We noticed it right away when we didn’t … Read the rest
Stop it already! I don’t have time for yet another blog, news story, article, podcast, video on the Net, social networking meeting, blah, blah, blah. Yikes! I am inundated with so many choices that it drives me nuts.
Maybe you can relate.
We’re all swamped with so many things going on. Your customers are in the same place. They are swamped and can’t keep up with all the new information. Then you, as an aspiring new vendor of theirs, come bouncing in the door with your new Wonder Widget and they can’t handle any more. You call it rejection. They … Read the rest
One Size Does Not Fit All
When using contract templates, sales agencies tend to think of them as one size fits all: Just insert the agency’s name, the other party’s name, the effective date, names in the signature blocks, and voila! You’ve created a ready-to-sign contract!
If Only It Worked That Way!
Contract templates are valuable; they address the issues important to a sales agency and incorporate “time-tested” language that defines what happens in case of a legal dispute.
However, the very definition of a “template” is that it is a standard form; and when one ponders this, … Read the rest
Aaron Johns has joined Fremont, Indiana-based, Coatney Sales, Inc., as a sales representative for Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. The independent manufacturers’ rep group specializes in OEM and aftermarket marine, RV, trailer, specialty vehicle, power sports, and sporting goods.
With a strong background in sales and engineering, and a bachelor’s degree in agricultural business from Missouri State University, Johns is an ideal match for Coatney Sales. Most recently, he was regional sales manager for Moeller Marine. Prior, he worked for Johnston Industrial Supply and North American Composites. Active in his community, he serves on his local school board and volunteers … Read the rest | <urn:uuid:9e990003-6d3c-4846-a2cb-249c09210a74> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://asm.manaonline.org/2018/11 | 2019-07-23T03:26:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.959046 | 2,289 |
If you've read our articles on the benefits of sales and customer service alignment, you likely understand the importance of a customer success strategy that leverages cross-departmental collaboration and integration.
And we feel no differently about the relationship between marketing and customer service teams -- they should be in lockstep, too.
The need for a symbiotic marketing and customer service relationship is only more important now, with consumers increasingly turning to social media as a way to communicate with businesses. In fact, social media is most customers' preferred method of contacting a brand -- preferable to live chat, email, or the phone.
Determining clear swim lanes and designated responsible individuals so marketers and customer support reps can use social media to achieve both of their goals is just one of the ways marketing and customer service teams need to collaborate. Keep reading to learn the ten ways marketing and customer service can work together to achieve mutual goals and solve for the customer every step of the way.
10 Ways Marketing and Customer Service Can Work Together
1. Social Media Customer Support
Many marketers use social media to provide customer service -- and not just to engage with their audience and promote content. But is your marketing team's social media manager really capable of handling these customer service issues as effectively as someone on your team? Probably not.
Your customer support team has been given the proper training and resources needed to assist customers and resolve issues -- meaning you are the best people for the job.
While it absolutely does make sense for your business' social media account management to be a function of your marketing team, that doesn't mean people from other departments can't be involved. Why provide your customers with a subpar customer service experience just for the sake of keeping social media management solely under the marketing team?
Luckily, there are a number of tools available to marketers to make this possible -- and easy. Using a third-party social media management tool, such as HubSpot or Hootsuite, marketers can easily collaborate with the customer support team to route customer-related questions to your team, making it easy for communications to be handed off to the most appropriate person.
Coming up with a system that enables members of your customer service team to participate in customer service-related inquiries via social media will only make for a better customer experience.
2. Content Creation Ideas
Successful marketers understand how important regular and consistent content creation is to their marketing strategy. Unfortunately, regular and consistent content creation means marketers also need a steady flow of ideas about which to create content, and even the most experienced content creators can sometimes suffer from the struggle to come up with remarkable content ideas that their audience will find valuable.
This is where your team can save the day.
As people who are constantly communicating with customers and learning about their problems, interests, and needs, your team is an untapped goldmine of viable content ideas -- you just might not know it yet. After all, marketers are trying to create content that helps solve their audience's problems, and your team knows best what those problems are. You can also probably provide the marketing team with real-life customer examples and successes to use in their content, which is always an added bonus.
Open the lines of communication between the content creators on the marketing team and your team. Consider meeting regularly to teach them about the problems your customers are facing, and brainstorm about the types of content they can create to address those problems. For example, our blogging team uses a page on HubSpot's internal wiki as a way for members of the sales and customer teams to submit blog article ideas based on their communications with customers and prospects.
Simultaneously, as a customer support rep, share ideas for content that you think would be especially helpful for customers and prospects -- from step-by-step instructions for how to use a certain software or tool, to a bigger explainer guide of how best to employ a new social network.
3. Buyer Persona Development
How well do you really understand your buyer personas? They're fictional representations of your target customers, but you might learn over time that you don't really understand your customers as well as you thought you did. Or perhaps you haven't even developed well thought-out buyer personas in the first place.
Truly understanding the inner-workings of your ideal customers can provide you with a number of business, customer support, marketing benefits, such as a better understanding of customer needs, problems, and interest, knowledge of where customers spend time on your site, better-quality leads, consistency across your business, richer closed-loop analytics, and better product development.
The great thing is, your team is talking to customers all the time, meaning you probably know more about them than any other department within your company. So, because understanding buyer personas is so critical for creating effective marketing campaigns, it behooves marketers to work more closely with your team to help them truly understand customers' needs and thoughts. Marketers can sit in on customer team meetings and join in on customer calls for better insight into the personas you're marketing to.
4. Customer Expectation-Setting
One very telling indicator of an effective marketing team is when leads have clear expectations for how your business' products and services will help them. And when leads have clear expectations, the transition from lead to customer, as well as that customer's subsequent experience as a customer, can go much more smoothly. This is how the marketing can help prevent customer churn, since that is often the result of misleading expectations that can be attributed back to misleading marketing campaigns.
So how does customer service factor into this? When the two teams are better aligned, the customer service team can notify the marketing team of instances when inadequate or misleading expectations have been set, since members of your team will likely be the ones to stumble across these inconsistencies.
Then, marketers will be able to modify campaigns to better set expectations for potential customers. For example, if your marketing team was relying heavily on the messaging that the indoor paint you sell dries in minutes, but in reality, customers report that it takes hours, your marketing team could rectify the false expectations they were setting in their marketing campaigns.
5. Unified Messaging
When prospects and customers have questions about a promotion your marketing team is running, who are they gonna call?
Customer support, of course.
The reason is simple: it's the easiest phone number to find on most business' websites. But if your team knows nothing about that live webinar your marketing team is currently holding, and a prospect calls looking for the webinar link they forgot to bookmark when they signed up, the customer support rep will have no idea what they're talking about.
That's why it's so important for the customer support to be in the know about what promotions the marketing team is deploying -- so you can be well-equipped to answer any questions that pop up from prospects and customers alike. You should know where on the website to find that ebook, how to log in to that webinar, and where to enter that contest.
Marketers should arm the customer support team with the resources they need to be successful. At HubSpot, for example, we keep a shared Google Doc where our support team can access the links and log-in information for every upcoming webinar we host. This eliminates the wasted time and effort of customer support reps trying to contact the marketing team while a caller waits on hold, making for a happier caller and a more efficient support process.
6. Sharing Customer Stories
Customer problems aren't the only discussion topic your customer support team shares with the marketing. They are also often the best equipped and first to identify cases of customer happiness and success.
Better customer service and marketing alignment enables your marketing team to more easily pinpoint the customers that make great case study candidates, especially if they're looking for specific examples of customer success and your team knows about these preferences in advance. Your team can also be on the lookout for customer testimonials and examples of customer happiness, as well as encourage those happy customers to provide those online reviews that marketers love -- and want to share widely.
Be sure to let your marketing team in on these instances of customer delight so they can more easily source customer successes and happiness to support PR outreach and other customer-centric marketing initiatives.
7. Customer Loyalty Programs
Building a customer loyalty program is a key way to keep loyal customers engaged with your brand. And whether you're rewarding them with points, discounts, or exposure on your social media or other marketing channels, your customer success team can collaborate with Marketing closely to sweeten the deal for customers -- and bring your program more exposure.
A valuable customer loyalty reward could very well involve your marketing team -- like a social media share of your customer's resources, or a featured guest post on your blog, or a co-marketing opportunity. A brainstorm between the marketing and customer success teams could bring about a loyalty program that customers are clamoring to join -- without creating too much of a heavy lift for the marketers.
8. Product Marketing
The customer success team is likely the most in tune with understanding how customers actually use your products and services. And to many marketers' surprise, sometimes the way customers use a product doesn't exactly line up with how marketers have been marketing it.
Regular meetings between members of marketing and customer success teams will help avoid situations where marketing is promoting a product feature that is underutilized by or unsatisfying to customers. Or, perhaps your customers are using your product or service in a way that wasn't originally intended and that your marketing team never thought to promote. This collaboration will help inform future, more successful product marketing initiatives and collateral.
9. Shared Goals
As different as everyday job responsibilities may be, marketing and customer teams have similar and shared goals: to attract new visitors, convert them into customers, and retain those customers with excellent service.
Both teams have a lot of insights to offer the other about how they capitalize on the work the other does in order to get their job done. For example, Marketing could pass along to Customer Service the blog posts that are the most popular, so they could share valuable insights with customers. Alternately, Customer Service could pass along to Marketing what topics their customers are regularly asking questions about for inspiration for future webinars, ebooks, or blog posts.
Regular meetings and communications where teams can share insights and learnings with one another, as well as share unique perspectives about the strategies each team employs at different parts of the customer lifecycle.
Service marketing refers to marketing for B2B or B2C companies that sell services to customers and other businesses. Services are usually intangible and time-based, and occur multiple times over the course of a relationship -- such as a house cleaning services, or a consulting services. Service marketing is rooted in value creation for prospects and customers that isn't as tangible as the value created from purchasing and using a product.
This is another, less traditional way customer service and marketing can work together: if both teams work in the service marketing industry. In this industry, marketers have to work in customer service, and customer service reps double as marketers in order to attract and retain services customers. In addition, the people performing the service serve as marketers in their own right to try to encourage the customer to re-purchase additional services.
To learn more, read about the advantages of using live chat for customer service next.
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I ran into a colleague from another department the other day. Someone whom I’ve known for years. Someone whom I consider a friend. She greeted me, “Hey Hector, how are you doing…” It’s not the first time that this has … Continue reading
A couple of years ago, I committed to giving a series of lectures (a sort of mini-course) on measure theory at the Universidad de El Salvador. Not a big deal except for two challenges. (1) Teaching at a primarily undergraduate … Continue reading
Learning From & Addressing Negative Comments in Student Teaching Evaluations I think it’s safe to say that most math Ph.D.s do some teaching sometime in their lives. Even if one’s career path ends up being non-academic, it’s likely that a … Continue reading
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Read the Boring Parts
A common resolution amongst the Christian community is to read the Bible cover to cover in a year. This goes well until one reaches the boring parts; a genealogy filled with ancient names that sound like you have marbles in your mouth when you pronounce them or a tedious list of details on how Israel is to build a tent. Inevitably this means that our resolve fails us either in late Genesis or mid Exodus; which in calendar time equals early February. Although many may consider the genealogies and tedious instruction passages of the Bible to be boring, this does not mean they are unimportant. In fact, they are some of the most critical pieces of material in the story. These passages are unexplored theological goldmines that convey to us some of the obvious themes of Scripture. This is why. This is how. This is who.
When it comes to books we often begin with chapter 1 and end punctually on the final period of the final chapter. We do this because we neglect to read the boring parts; the preface, the introduction, the notes, the bibliography. Yet these are the portions of the book that convey to us the most critical information of the author’s work. This is why. This is how. This is who.
In my previous post I discussed the importance of reading the notes. Books without notes are little more than 240 page blog posts. They are unsubstantiated, un-researched opinions. I am not saying books without notes have no merit, but I am saying that we should be discerning in our choice of them. While the notes help us find the path to other authors and other works, the preface and/or the introduction is the place where we find our path toward purpose. What is the thought that holds the book together? What is the outline? What is the author trying to prove, argue, or convey? Why did the author spend so much time writing a book? Why is it worth your time to read? And if I may add any bit of nerd advice here, it would be that when you are searching for a book, don’t read the endorsements on the back cover; take some time to read the intro. Force the author to convince you that his or her book is worth the money and the effort.
As you read the preface/intro you are searching for the theme of the book. As I said above, the theme is this thought the holds the book together. Mark it. Great books are not about 3 things or 10 things. Great books are about 1 thing. There may be 15 chapters, but each chapter should be a supporting argument for the 1 thematic idea the author is trying to convey or prove. Once you find the theme and mark it, refer to it often. Make sure you have it squarely in view throughout the entire book. As you read be constantly asking these questions: 1) How is the author supporting his/her argument? 2) Is the argument logical? You may need to modify these questions based on the genre of the text, but generally these principles hold true for most any non-fiction work.
Be sure to read the boring parts. The boring parts give us the most important information of the book. The intro/preface indentifies the theme. The notes tell us from where the information comes.
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This lovely apartment is located in the iconic Cedofeita Street filled with shops, cafes, restaurants,supermarket ...
All major touristic points are walking distance so no car needed! ;)
The apartment is spacious w a big open space that is prepared to be divided by a smart curtains system into living room and bedroom!
W a big comfortable double bed and a double sofa-bed so its perfect for uo to 4 friends or a couple with kids!
Closest metro station -direct from the airport-"Lapa"-5min walk
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A family apartment in Mumbai strikes a dynamic balance
A family apartment in Mumbai has been given a glamorous facelift by architect and tastemaker Ashiesh Shah. Located in a high-rise tower with stunning views out across the city and beyond to the sea, the expansive 1000-square-metre sunlit space is home to a family of six.
The brief to Shah was to design a space that was versatile and dynamic. The couple, in their 40s, wanted space where they could entertain and yet somewhere that was comfortable and relaxing. Added to that were the couple’s four children, ranging in age from their teens to early 20s and each with an opinion about how their own spaces should be designed.
The level of luxe in this home is immediately evident upon arrival. A bespoke mosaic floor by SICIS paves the way to the public areas, where much of the entertaining is enjoyed. An L-shaped dark blue sofa by De La Espada offers an intimate spot for conversation and is juxtaposed against artworks by Sandeep Mukherjee and Minam Apang. The adjacent dining room is much more graphic in its styling, featuring a mirror work by Rajorshi Ghosh. While more relaxed, the master bedroom still has hints of pizzazz with its graphic silk starburst motif curtains by Jim Thompson.
Creating a home that was seamless while catering to everyone’s taste was the goal, and Shah has risen to the challenge.
Text / Suzy Annetta
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Exploring the Rhetoric and Reality of Performance Management Systems and Organisational Effectiveness - Evidence from Australia
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Human resource management (HRM) theorists and professionals alike have in recent decades attempted to identify the ways in which particular HRM functions (or ‘bundles’ of such functions) influence and contribute to desired overall organisational outcomes. Many have suggested that performance management, in its broadest perspective, may hold the key to such linkages. This paper draws on survey data to explore the links between performance management systems and perceived organisational effectiveness. The study canvassed the opinions of senior, line and HRM managers in a variety of organisations and industry sectors in Australia. Executives/senior managers in this study were the most supportive of a strategic approach to the PMS-organisational effectiveness relationship, followed by HR professionals, whilst middle and line managers were clearly more focused on operational and implementation perspectives. Accordingly, executives/senior managers might be characterised as the sponsors of PMS; HR professionals as their advocates; and middle and line managers as the end users of such systems and their links to organisational effectiveness.
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Well, I just reached over the 1000 sub mark and I've been posting there since May 2017. The people who reach 1000 in the first week aren't doing it by luck, they've achieved it by years of hard work, getting their names out there, collaborating with other artists, asking for feedback and striving to improve wherever they have a weakness. There are the rare comics out there that suddenly get 1000 subs immediately even if the artist is unknown, but it's the exception, not the rule.
As a whole, Webtoons does have a bigger used base, but it's hard to get noticed immediately because there is such a large volume of art being uploaded all the time. If you are making your comic purely to get noticed, then you need to maintain a regular update schedule, be very patient, use social media to your advantage, try to do a collaboration or art trade with other artists and, most importantly, put out the best art that you are capable of creating. If it's not good enough, practice, learn through videos provided for free on youtube or sites like Clip Studio that has a lot of great resources to help you.
The story that I share with my readers is my passion, but even if nobody subbed, that wouldn't matter. I love my characters and I love to draw. It makes me happy. I don't think you'll be happy with any sub number until you figure out WHY you're doing what you're doing. It's totally fine to have getting 1000 subs as your goal, but you can't be jealous of other people's seemingly quick success. You need to work very hard, it's not magic. It's practice, it's repeating motions thousands of times over, it's understanding everything from anatomy to perspective to how colours work together.
We all get agitated when we're criticized, but we need to take that criticism, learn from it and improve. We all need to be patient with ourselves and see how our art has grown rather than focus on how it's not as good as someone else's or that we're not as popular as someone else.
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Making the list of Top 100 best schools is a source of enormous prestige, and universities battle it out across many criteria to improve their rankings. However, there’s an equally important metric for success—a school’s Google rankings.
How your higher education institution ranks on Google according to different keywords will make a decisive difference in whether you attract new students or not. A student hoping to attend the university with the best agricultural sciences program is first going to search Google for “best ag university.” If your university doesn’t show up on the first page, that student will likely be spending 4 years somewhere else.
If your university wants to improve your Google rankings, here are some tips and tricks that will help.
Conduct an SEO Audit
First, your university has to determine what’s working and what could be improved. An SEO audit is a health check for your website – its ultimate goal is to assess the technical infrastructure of your website, the on-page elements and off-page essentials to optimize Search Engine visibility, usability and conversion.
SEO audits are used to handle variety of things that impact your search visibility – everything as basic as identifying broken links as well as more complex tasks like finding phrases that should be indexed but aren’t. An SEO audit will tell you how your site is performing and other indicators of overall user experience. If you want to improve where your school’s ranking on Google, you need to start with an SEO audit.
Optimize Your University For Local Searches
30% of searches across the Internet are for local information. Though you may not think this applies to your university, the majority of college students remain within 100 miles of their hometown. An easy—and necessary—way to improve your school’s Google ranking is to optimize for local searches. This includes creating Yelp and Foursquare pages, and using Google Webmaster Tools to target your local area, and making sure that up-to-date information is listed across local directories. Optimizing for local searches is a quick way to see big results in your university’s Google rankings.
Regularly Update Your Blog
Some bad news: Google doesn’t index Facebook pages. No matter how many likes or shares a popular post receives on your Facebook page, it won’t have any effect on your university’s Google ranking. Content that’s popular on Facebook should go on your university’s blog, so that the popularity of your content will improve your Google ranking.
After all, your university should be updating its blog regularly. A commitment to updating shows prospective students that your school has a vibrant online presence—as well as factoring into improving your school’s Google ranking. The content your university creates for its blog should reflect your status as an esteemed institution: external and internal links, guest posts, and focus on appropriate terminology.All these components of a substantive, authoritative blog post are factored into your university’s Google ranking.
Optimize Your Site Content
Adobe Flash makes very cool animation, which has made it a very popular plugin for websites. Unfortunately, Google didn’t index Flash until relatively recently, it’s still in its infancy. Search engines still prefer text, so your institution’s website should be primarily text-based.
Your university is competing for ranking based on keywords. A university’s most-visited site is its homepage—does yours say “homepage?” If so, that’s precious space that should be occupied by a better keyword, rather than a non-descript keyword like “homepage.” The same principles of good, evocative titling apply to the rest of your website. Most experts believe that title keywords carry more weight than keywords in the body, so make sure all your university’s pages are titled properly.
Optimized site content should take into consideration what keywords students are searching for. When a student starts entering a search phrase and Google auto-completes it, that’s an expression of Google’s determinations about which keywords are most popular. Your site should be aimed at prospective students, not search engines, but knowing what keywords and phrases are popular makes a search engine’s job easier.
There’s enough literature online about Search Engine Optimization that anyone can educate themselves on the basics with enough time and searching. We’ve told you some basic steps to improving your school’s ranking on Google, you can find much more information the more you search. Has your university found a tactic that improves your Google ranking? Let us know what worked for you. | <urn:uuid:ce7e02e2-c58d-4467-b80c-1b6aa8369f35> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://hop-online.com/seo/importance-school-rankings-rank-google/ | 2019-07-23T03:29:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.918668 | 963 |
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
Fish and Wildlife Service
Folkston, GA 31537
As of this afternoon, the Compartment #1 Fire is 98% contained. Fire personnel are continuing to patrol and monitor the fire each day, as there will continue to be areas of smoke within the fire perimeter until the area receives sufficient rain. With no rain in the forecast and a hot and dry holiday weekend approaching, fire personnel will also be ready for any additional fires that may occur due to the drying conditions. Fire personnel and equipment from area refuges are also onsite to assist with monitoring the Compartment #1 Fire as well as being available for any new fires that may occur during this forecast increase in fire danger. The Compartment #1 Fire was caused by lightning and is estimated at 185 acres.
|Current as of|
|Date of Origin||Sunday May 19th, 2019 approx. 12:00 PM|
|Location||.5 mile east of Okefenokee Swamp Park - Waycross, GA|
|Coordinates||31.055 latitude, -82.255 longitude|
|Percent of Perimeter Contained||100%|
Hot Dry Trend forecasted for the area, possible thunderstorms
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Love the Fisker Karma but hate saving the environment? Love the Fisker Karma but hate the risk of a possible fire burning your garage in the night? Love the Corvette ZR1 but wish it had two more doors?
Lucky for all 17 of you, Maximum Bob Lutz has a solution. Say hey to the Destino.
The Destino is literally what I just described. Take a Fisker Karma. Make a little bit of a switchola on the front end. Throw out the ridiculous batteries and add a 638 horsepower supercharged V8. Then you build it in Michigan.
Badda bing badda boom. Destino.
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City of Baytown West District Wastewater Treatment Plant Expansion
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Houston, TX 77099
About LEM Construction
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Fiesta Corn Recalled in NY Over Botulism Concerns
The Food and Drug Administration is recalling tens of thousands of cases of Fiesta Corn due to contamination concerns.
The FDA announced the recall, stating that concerns over "under processing" led to the decision to pull 64,242 cases of Del Monte's Fiesta Corn Seasoned with Rad and Green Peppers from store shelves. The cans are being recalled in several states, including New York.
Canned goods are routinely processed to keep them free from pathogens. Under processed goods can lead to illnesses including botulism.
The FDA says that no one has become ill from the Fiesta Corn to date.
The products subject to recall are 15.25-ounce (432g) cans with the following UPC number printed on the label: 24000 02770. The product will also have one of the following “Best if Used By” dates stamped on the bottom of the can:
- August 14, 2021
- August 15, 2021
- August 16, 2021
- Sept 3, 2021
- Sept 4, 2021
- Sept 5, 2021
- Sept 6, 2021
- Sept 22, 2021
- Sept 23, 2021
If consumers have any product with the indicated UPC code and “Best if Used By” dates, they should return it to the place of purchase for a full refund or exchange. Consumers with questions may contact the company by calling the toll-free hotline at 1-800-779-7035, Monday-Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Eastern Time or by logging onto www.delmontefoods.com | <urn:uuid:b1a722f4-0129-47c9-b0d5-36898423b716> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://lite987.com/fiesta-corn-recalled-in-ny-over-botulism-concerns/ | 2019-07-23T04:22:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.931837 | 338 |
How to wear Topman Dark Brown Marl Crew Neck T Shirt
For something on the casual end, consider pairing a brown crew-neck t-shirt with navy print shorts.
A Topman brown crew-neck t-shirt and red chinos paired together are a savvy match. Feeling venturesome? Change things up a bit by finishing with tan leather oxford shoes.
Why not choose a Topman Dark Brown Marl Crew Neck T Shirt and black ripped skinny jeans? Both items are very practical and will look amazing matched together. To give your overall outfit a sleeker spin, introduce a pair of black suede chelsea boots to this getup.
Why not try pairing a Topman Dark Brown Marl Crew Neck T Shirt with grey chinos? These two items are totally comfortable and will look great married together. Complete your ensemble with black leather dress boots to avoid looking too casual.
A Topman brown crew-neck t-shirt and dark green chinos are a pairing that every stylish gent should have in his off-duty wardrobe. For maximum style, complement this look with white leather low top sneakers.
For a relaxed outfit, try teaming a Topman Dark Brown Marl Crew Neck T Shirt with blue jeans — these items fit nicely together. Bump up the formality of this ensemble a bit by rounding off with brown leather casual boots.
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Student Branch Officer Responsibilities and Administration
Specific responsibilities of Student Branches, Branch Officers, and Counselors are described below. However, an Officer's responsibility is not limited to points outlined below. If your Branch is to succeed, it requires that you be willing to reach beyond the customary roles defined here. Choose a role to learn more.
- Executive Committee
- Student Branch Chair
- Student Branch Vice-Chair
- Student Branch SecretaryStudent Branch Secretary
- Student Branch Treasurer
- Student Branch Counselor
- Operating Committees
The Branch Executive Committee is responsible for administering Branch operations and traditionally consists of the Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer. However, you can increase your support by including as many people as possible in your team, including your Counselor. The Executive Committee should meet regularly to develop programs plans, review progress, and maintain good communication. Two requirements of the Committee are to ensure that the Annual Activity Report and Officer Reporting are completed.
Annual Activity Report - Due 1 November annually
The Annual Activity report can be found at: https://sbr.vtools.ieee.org/. It must be submitted no later than 1 November annually.
By working toward defined goals, your Branch is able to measure and evaluate its effectiveness during the course of the year. To encourage you to complete the Annual Activity Report, IEEE Headquarters provides an incentive allotment of US$100.00 (if your Branch has more than 50 members), or US$50.00 (if your Branch has less than 49 members). Additionally, IEEE provides an incentive rebate of US$2.00 per student member at your Branch (based on your membership on 31 December of the previous year).
Each time a new Chair or Counselor is elected, IEEE Headquarters must be notified. The report can be found at: https://officers.vtools.ieee.org/.
The Student Branch Chair is the key to effective student leadership. He/she is responsible for the overall management of all Branch affairs. Some specific duties of the Branch Chair include:
- Preside at all meetings of the Student Branch.
- Hold regular meetings of the Branch Executive Committee.
- Appoint Program, Publicity, and Membership committee Chairs promptly.
- Complete the annual Activity Report - due no later than 1 November (https://sbr.vtools.ieee.org/).
- Arrange for the election of new Officers annually and report via vTools Officer Reporting (https://officers.vtools.ieee.org/).
- Ensure smooth transition of information and materials to newly elected Officers and arrange an orderly transfer of Student Branch records.
- Coordinate activities with local Section and Region volunteers.
- Communicate frequently with local University IEEE Student Branches.
The Student Branch Vice-Chair is the junior Executive Officer. He/she should help the Branch Chair with the workload, oversee some of the subcommittees, and manage some of the activities throughout the semester.
Some of the suggested duties include:
- Chair the Program and Membership Committees.
- Organize field trips or special events beyond regular program efforts.
- Assist the Branch Chair in following up on assigned committee responsibilities.
- Perform all functions of the Branch Chair in his/her absence or upon request.
The Student Branch Secretary serves as the record keeper and historian of the Student Branch. He/she is responsible for maintaining all records.
Some of the specific duties include:
- Keep detailed minutes of each meeting.
- Maintain the membership roster and committee assignments on the Branch website (http://sites.ieee.org/hosting/)
- Be responsible for all correspondence.
- Post a calendar of events.
- Ensure that the Branch Constitution and Bylaws are adhered to.
- Arrange for an orderly transfer of all records to the incoming Secretary.
The Student Branch Treasurer is responsible for maintaining the financial accounts. It is imperative that all records be kept current and as accurate as possible.
The specific duties include:
- Maintain the appropriate financial accounts. Your bank account should be interest bearing and require two signatures; the faculty counselor should always be one of those signatures.
- Prepare an annual budget for inclusion in the Annual Activity Report (due 1 November annually - https://sbr.vtools.ieee.org/).
- Prepare the final Financial Statement for inclusion in the Annual Activity Report.
- Oversee all fundraising efforts.
- Arrange for an orderly transfer of all financial records to the incoming Treasurer.
The Student Branch Counselor is a University or College faculty member, and active IEEE Member, who serves as an adviser to the Branch. The Counselor lends a sense of continuity and is a key individual whose participation is vital to the success of a Branch.
The Branch Counselor is appointed by the local Section Chair, upon the recommendation of the Student Members and the Regional SAC Chair (RSAC), and serves with the approval of the Department Head. The appointment (or re-appointment) is normally for two years, commencing July 1. Once a new Counselor is elected, report via https://officers.vtools.ieee.org/).
In addition to a vibrant and good working rapport with the student Officers, the Counselor should be in frequent contact with the Section SAC Chair. He/she should act as a liaison with the Section, the Region, and IEEE Headquarters, and should be familiar with all aspects of Branch operations.
Some specific duties include:
- Ensure that information (via email generally) from IEEE Headquarters is transmitted to the student Officers.
- Attend Executive Committee meetings and assist the committees.
- Participate in Regional Activities Committee meetings.
- Consult with the Section SAC Chair, Regional SAC Chair, or Region Director about activities or problems.
- Promote IEEE Student Membership (www.ieee.org/join).
- Foster good relations with the local Section and encourage students to establish regular liaison with the Section SAC Chair.
- Promote student awareness of awards, contests, and benefits of IEEE Membership.
- Establish industrial contacts for programs and activities.
- Assist with promoting activities to other faculty members.
Having different operating committees can help sustain a balanced, broad-reaching program of activities. By having several committees, you can also involve more of your student members in the planning and leadership responsibilities.
Some recommended committees are:
- Program Committee: responsible for planning activities for the year.
- Publicity Committee: responsible for advertising activities.
- Membership Committee: responsible for recruiting activities.
- Finance Committee: responsible for helping the Treasurer plan fundraising activities.
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Veins are Blood Vessels
Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart. carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues back to the heart. Prior to placement of a fistula or consideration for a graft you are likely to undergo a venogram. A venogram requires the placement of an IV and then contrast is injected under a real-time X-ray machine to make sure the veins are open and big enough to use for a fistula. This “mapping” will then be used by a surgeon to create an appropriate access.
Occasionally veins in the arms/neck or legs/groin can become blocked or clotted requiring a procedure to re-open. This is safely done in an outpatient setting with minimally invasive techniques without general anesthesia. | <urn:uuid:789cce6b-6708-4fc0-9f04-b90b799efcea> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://midwestvascularcare.com/venography-and-treatment/ | 2019-07-23T02:58:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.913365 | 159 |
Uganda’s First Private Online University Kicks Off Fundraising Campaign
June 11, 2019
The Virtual University of Uganda, which bills itself as Sub-Saharan Africa’s first exclusively online private postsecondary institution, has launched a new fundraising campaign. Their ambitious but not unobtainable goal is to raise $1 million to support future bursaries and scholarships for a growing cohort of graduate students.
Since launching in 2011, the Virtual University of Uganda has grown rapidly. It now has students from 15 countries on its roster and employs instructors from 13 countries. While most of the university’s students and faculty are based in Africa, it’s not an exclusively African institution. Indeed, current students hail from three different continents.
What matters most to the leadership of the university is offering programs that directly respond to labor gaps in Uganda’s and Africa’s established and emerging industries. To date, the Virtual University of Uganda has launched nine master’s degrees to accomplish this goal. The degrees include a master of public health. Targeting working professionals and anyone else with an interest in public health, the program is designed to support the development of leaders in community and public health, including directors of health care organizations. Another popular program offered by the online university is their MBA in oil and gas management program. This program covers a range of topics such as strategic management, environmental assessment, and contract negotiations.
Other master’s programs offered by the university focus on international development, environmental management, and tourism and hospitality. The university also offers an MBA targeting women in finance.
Finally, in addition to their masters-level programs, the Virtual University of Uganda offers a wide range of certificate programs, including certificates in fleet management, project management, entrepreneurship, and energy management.
The Virtual University of Uganda’s Scholarship Program
As a fully online institution, the Virtual University of Uganda caters to many adult learners, including those already juggling family commitments and full-time jobs. Unfortunately, coming up with the funds to pay one’s tuition isn’t always easy. Their funding campaign, which launched in late May, is designed to support precisely this demographic.
At the campaign launch, a member of the Virtual University of Uganda’s board of trustees, Dr. Patrick Bitature, gave an address. As reported in East Africa Business Week, Bitature made it clear to the guests who attended, “Wealth is nothing without purpose.”
The Virtual University of Uganda’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Everd Maniple also spoke at the campaign launch event in late May. As Sub-Saharan Africa’s first online university, Maniple emphasized that the university is not only forging into new and uncharted territory but also facing challenges online universities don’t face to the same extent elsewhere in the world. Offering substantial scholarships is the best way for the university to support the region’s poorest students.
Notably, this isn’t the Virtual University of Uganda’s first scholarship program. In 2018, the institution launched the Elimu Scholarship Fund to support some of their most needy students. To date, the fund has provided 76 students with scholarships and awardees have hailed from Uganda and nations across the African continent.
In many respects, the Virtual University of Uganda stands as an exemplary model for education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The university is a fully licensed institution that is directly responding to Africa’s growing need for postsecondary programs and specifically, programs that can meet specific labor gaps, including the need for graduate-trained managers in fields such as health, international development, environmental protection, and energy. To continue successfully scaling the university, however, funding for students is essential. There is hope that the Virtual University of Uganda’s current fundraising campaign will help create more bursaries and scholarships for students and drive the university’s growth moving forward.
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Razer BlackWidow Chroma Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
MULTI-AWARD WINNING RAZER™ MECHANICAL SWITCHES
Designed specifically for gaming, the Razer Mechanical Switch actuates at an optimal distance, giving you speed and responsiveness like never before. The Razer Mechanical Switch has been lauded as the new standard for all mechanical gaming keyboards since its introduction.
ENGINEERED FOR DURABILITY
No matter how intense your gaming marathons get, each Razer Mechanical Switch is engineered to withstand up to 80million keystrokes, so you’ll enjoy the Razer advantage for years to come advantage for longer.
CHROMA BACKLIGHTING WITH 16.8 MILLION CUSTOMIZABLE COLOR OPTIONS
The Razer BlackWidow Chroma features individually programmable backlit keys with 16.8 million color options, all easily set through Razer Synapse.
- Razer™ Mechanical Switches with 50g actuation force
- 80 million keystroke life span
- Chroma backlighting with 16.8 million customizable color options
- Razer Synapse enabled
- 10 key roll-over anti-ghosting
- Fully programmable keys with on-the-fly macro recording
- 5 additional dedicated macro keys
- Gaming mode option
- Audio-out/mic-in jacks
- USB pass-through
- 1000Hz Ultrapolling
- Braided fiber cable
- Approximate size: 475mm/18.72” (Width) x 171mm/6.74” (Height) x 39mm/1.54” (Depth)
- Approximate weight: 1500g/3.31lbs
- PC or Mac with a free USB port
- Windows® 10 / Windows® 8 / Windows® 7 / Mac OS X (v10.8 - 10.11)
- Internet connection
- 100 MB of hard disk space
- Razer Synapse registration (requiring a valid e-mail), software download, license acceptance, and internet connection needed to activate full features of product and for software updates. After activation, full features are available in optional offline mode.
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Modern technology has contributed greatly in introducing a variety of cosmetic procedures to their patients that are available on a regular basis.
The vast variety of treatment makes it possible for just about anyone to be able to find one that caters to their preference and needs.
It is important to note that not everyone has the time to spend with these types of procedures and that is why convenience is something that is sought after.
Dermal fillers offer just that by helping save their clients a fair amount of time and resources as a result.
Face fillers today are used to help smooth fine lines and wrinkles while at the same time, add volume and fullness to the skin resulting to a more youthful look. One of the strongest attribute of cosmetic fillers is that they offer no downtime at all.
Treatment can be completed in as little as ten minutes which is dependent on how many areas are to be treated. This procedure is also non-invasive as it does not include any form of surgery making patients feel safer and secured as a result.
Fillers and their potential side effects are known to be very minimal with just redness or swelling around the target area. With that being said, the success of this procedure lies greatly on the practitioner themselves.
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2017 Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice – Queensland University of Technology
2009 Doctor of Philosophy (Visual Arts) – Creative Industries Faculty, QUT
1998 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) with Honours – Queensland University of Technology
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2018 Artist Residency (Level), Doing Feminism – Sharing the World, Curated by Anne Marsh, Norma Redpath House Melbourne
2016 R&M McGivern Art Prize (Finalist), Artpsace at Maroondah Gallery, VIC
2015 Vida Lahey Memorial Traveling Scholarship (Finalist), Queensland Art Gallery|Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
2013 Martin Hanson Memorial Art Awards (Finalist), Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, QLD
2011 Artist Residency (Level), The Lock-Up Cultural Centre, Newcastle, NSW
2010 Deans Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching, QUT
2010 Churchie Emerging Art Award (Finalist), Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
2005 Australian Postgraduate Award, PhD Research Scholarship, QUT
2001 Melville Haysom Memorial Scholarship, Queensland Art Gallery
1998 Eddie Hopkins Memorial Drawing Prize, Queensland College of Art
RECENT EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
Solo Exhibitions & Projects
2019 Hero – Public Art, William Jolly Bridge Projection, Commissioned by Brisbane City Council
2019 I think with my body – FELTspace, Adelaide
2018 Affirmative Action – Kuiper Projects, Brisbane
2017 Troubling Language – Bus Projects, Melbourne
2015 Like a Burden – Metro Arts, Brisbane
2015 Unthinkable – Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
2015 QuickDraw – Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2014 Stand and Deliver – FirstDraft, Sydney
2013 Studio Remix – Current Projects @ Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane
2012 I build my dwelling – Metro Arts Galleries, Brisbane
2012 Muscleflex – KINGS ARI, Melbourne
2012 A BIG IDEA transmitted pathetically – Bus Projects, Melbourne
Collaborative Projects/ Events
2018 We need to talk – Sharing the World (Level), event – Carlton Gardens/Norma Redpath House, Melbourne
2014 We need to talk – Recipe for a Revolution (Level), event – GOMA, Brisbane
2013 We need to talk (Level) Re-school event – MCA, Sydney
2012 Food for Thought (Level) – Roji to Hito Gallery, Tokyo
2012 Food for Thought (Level) – Footscray Community Art Centre, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
2017 Unfinished Business: Perspectives on Art and Feminism (Level) – ACCA, Melbourne
2016 Vexations – The Soylent Spot, Brisbane (with Brooke Ferguson and Erika Scott)
2015 f generation: feminism, art, progressions (Level) – George Paton Gallery, Melbourne (curated by Veronica Caven Aldous, Juliette Peers & Caroline Phillips)
2015 Quaternary – QUT Art Museum, Brisbane (curated by Courtney Pedersen)
2013 BEAF13 – Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane (curated by Rachael Parsons & Stephen Russell)
2013 [Q] ARI (Level) – Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane (curated by Naomi Evans & Pia Robinson)
2012 SEXES (Level) – Performance Space, Sydney (curated by Bec Dean, Deborah Kelly & Jeff Khan)
2012 Going South – Screen Space, Melbourne
2012 Passages – Current Projects, Brisbane (curated by Brooke Ferguson)
2011 Straight and Narrow – The Lock-Up Cultural Centre, Newcastle NSW
2011 The feeling will pass – FirstDraft, Sydney (curated by Georgie Meagher & Brianna Munting)
2018 Converse (with Simone Hine) – Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space. Featuring Archie Barry, Barbara Cleveland, Hannah Raisin, Nina Ross and Mandy Quadrio.
2017 Presentism (with Christopher Handran) – Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space. Featuring James & Eleanor Avery, Anastasia Booth, Sam Cranstoun, Kinly Grey, Caitlin Franzmann & Kate Woodcraft, Daniel McKewen, Sarah Poulgrain, Tyza Stewart and David M Thomas with Suzanne Howard.
2017 Project for Future Alternatives – Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space. Featuring Joseph Breikers, Simone Hine, Archie Moore and Erika Scott.
2016 Your Space or Mine – Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, with Sa Sa Art Projects (Phnom Penh), Videotage (Hong Kong) and Art Space Pool (Seoul).
2016 Homeground: Brisbane Artist Run Activity, Today and Tomorrow – Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, with Clutch Collective, Cut Thumb, FAKE Estate, In-house ARI and The Laundry Artspace.
2016 Summer School – Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space. Featuring Zanny Begg, Keg de Souza, Kym Maxwell, Archie Moore, Leen Reith, Sarah Rodigari and Sunday School (Kelly Doley & Diana Smith).
2015 Alone Together (with Brooke Ferguson) – Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space. Featuring Karike Ashworth, Alrey Batol, Tayla Haggarty and Sancintya Mohini Simpson.
2014 THIS IS NOT THE WORK (Level) – The Block, Creative Industries Precinct, QUT, Brisbane.
2014 Extended Conversation Pieces – MAF Project Rooms, Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne.
2014 Material Matters – 2014 Brisbane Experimental Art Festival (with Jenna Baldock) – Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Art, Brisbane.
2014 Conversation Pieces – Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane. Featuring Catherine or Kate, Courtney Coombs & Caitlin Franzmann, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Hannah Raisin, Alex Martinis Roe, Scott Ferguson (Erika Scott & Brooke Ferguson).
2014 Earth, Wind and Fire – Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane. Featuring Tom Brooks, Kinly Grey, Grace Nevill-Davies and Sarah Poulgrain.
2013 Offsite (with Katherine Dionysius & Amy-Clare McCarthy) – Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane, with Current Projects, LEVEL, David Creed & David Spooner, inbetweenspaces and Accidentally Annie Street Space.
2011 Object Relations – Level Art Space, Brisbane. Featuring CamLab, Simone Eisler, Chantal Fraser, Michelle Knowles and Alice Lang.
2010 Invitational (with Courtney Coombs and Alice Lang) – Level Art Space, Brisbane. Featuring Sandra Selig, Rebecca Ross, Simone Hine, Fiona Lee, Catherine Brown, Catherine Sagin, Elizabeth Willing, Louise Bennett and Nicola Smith.
Haynes, R. & Pedersen, C. 2019. ‘Acting Out: Performing Feminism in the Contemporary Art Museum.’ In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism. Edited by Tash Oren and Andrea Press. Routledge.
Haynes, R. & Pedersen, C. 2018. ‘To Care for Self and Others: A Collaborative Conversation.‘ In Women Activating Agency in Academia: Metaphors, Manifestos and Memoir. Edited by Alison L. Black and Susanne Garvis. Routledge.
Haynes, R. 2017. ‘Artist-Led: The Role of Artist-Run Activity for Visual Arts Graduates.’ NiTRO: Non Traditional Research Outcomes Issue 9. The Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts.
LEVEL 2016. ‘Recipes and Revolutions: Consciousness Raising and Feminist Picnics.‘ Feminist Review Issue 114 (1): 130-138.
Haynes, R. & Pedersen, C. 2016. ‘Acting Out: Performing Feminisms in the Contemporary Art Museum.‘ Journal of Australian Studies 40 (2): 203-214.
Pedersen, C. & Haynes, R. 2015. ‘Double Blind: Supervising Women Creative Practice-led Researchers.‘ Journal of Educational Philosophy, 47 (12): 1265 – 1276.
LEVEL 2018. ‘RIGHT NOW! Feminism, Art and Activism.’ Women, Art and Feminism in Australia since 1970 Symposium, Victorian College for the Arts, Melbourne.
Haynes, R. 2017. ‘Performing the Archive.’ FRANFest Symposium: Feminism, Art and Activism, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
Haynes, R. & Pedersen, C. 2017. ‘Curatorial Conversations: Personal Histories of Feminist Art.’ Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Gender and Sexualities – Hofstra University, New York.
Haynes, R. 2016. ‘Homeground: Artist Institutions and Ethics of Care.’ The Work of Art – AAANZ Conference, Australian National University, Canberra.
Haynes, R. & Pedersen, C. 2016. ‘The Long Lunch: Interstitial Spaces between Creative Practice, Social Learning and Radical Pedagogy.’ Adaptation ACUADS Conference, QUT Brisbane.
Haynes, R. 2016. ‘Acts of Resistance: Feminist Exhibitions with/in/without Art Institutions.’ De-storying the Joint, Australian Women and Gender Studies Conference, QUT Brisbane.
Haynes, R. 2015. ‘Object Relations, Transformational Encounters in the Studio Archive.’ Transversal Practices: Matter, Ecology and Relationality, Conference on New Materialisms, Victorian College for the Arts, Melbourne.
Haynes, R. 2014. ‘Performing, Lecturing, Exhibiting: the Archival Impulse and the Feminist Lecture Performance.’ Geocritical AAANZ Conference, Tasmanian College of the Arts, Launceston.
LEVEL 2014. ‘THIS IS NOT THE WORK – Feminist Collectives, Collaboration and Curating.’ Contemporary Art and Feminism Symposium: Curating Feminism, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney.
Haynes, R. & Hine, S. 2018. Converse, Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane.
Haynes, R. & Handran, C. 2015. Cigdem Aydemir: I won’t let you out of my sight. Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane.
Haynes R. & Baldock, J. 2014. Material Matters – Brisbane Experimental Art Festival 2014, Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Art, Brisbane.
LEVEL 2014. THIS IS NOT THE WORK, The Block Creative Industries Precinct, QUT, Brisbane.
Handran, C. & Haynes, R. 2014. The Origins of Humanity, an exhibition of paintings by Peter Alwast, Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space, Brisbane.
Haynes, R. 2012. ‘Judith Kentish – Unnamed’ in Expost, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane, pp.45-48.
Lecturer (Visual Arts), School of Creative Practice – QUT (2016 – current)
Gallery Director – Boxcopy, Brisbane (2012 – 2018)
Lecturer in Creative Practice (Visual Arts) – Deakin University, VIC (2014 – 2015)
Member, Board of Directors – Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane (2012 – 2014)
Founding Co-Director – LEVEL (2010 – 2018)
Sessional Academic (Visual Arts) – QUT (2004 – 2013)
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Leaf Collection Notifications
Crews work a daily assigned route and cannot take special requests or special arrangements. Loose leaf piles should be placed behind the curb or edge of pavement without blocking the sidewalk or street. Do not rake or blow leaves into the street as this violates city code ordinance and presents a safety hazard and a flooding concern when leaves are washed into storm drains.
Please separate tree limbs and shrubs from your loose leaf piles, these items can damage our vacuum equipment and create a safety hazard for our crews.
Please keep leaf piles in an open area, away from obstructions such as parked vehicles, fire hydrants, mailboxes, fencing, landscaping, water meters, utility poles and guy wires. Our crews need room to work and do not want to damage our equipment or your property while collecting loose leaves.
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When I took over as CEO of Rustici Software 10 months ago, I had a handful of items that I put on my list of “Most Important Work”. The majority of that list is pretty uninteresting; it’s all of the things you’d expect. However, one item appears much higher on that list than you might imagine.
Make sure Rustici Software continues to be an unbelievably great place to work.
We recently learned that we once again made the Nashville Business Journal’s list of Best Places to Work and we couldn’t be happier. This annual award is one of the many ways we measure ourselves to make sure we, as a business, are doing the right things. One of the most important things is continuing to be a company where great people want to work.
Many of us came to Rustici Software looking for a place that valued us as people; a place that cared about our well being as well as our work. Creating and maintaining that kind of work environment is difficult and requires buy-in from everyone. It’s not something a leader creates on their own nor does it occur overnight. Over the years, Mike Rustici and Tim Martin built the foundation that is the core of who we are and I’m proud to say their legacy lives on by receiving this award for the 10th time.
I can’t thank all of the people that work here enough for their efforts in making sure we continue to be a “Best Place to Work”. | <urn:uuid:8d92a696-623f-4247-81d6-6b987174fd86> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://rusticisoftware.com/blog/best-place-to-work-10th-time/ | 2019-07-23T03:00:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.980781 | 314 |
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The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) of North Carolina has now posted the dates and requirements for their 2014 Natural Talent Design Competition.
Students and young professionals from around the country are challenged to share their design ideas for projects that better their communities and promote development in green building.
The competition is designed to broaden environmental education, along with providing an applied learning experience through the principles of integrated design, sustainability, innovation, and social consciousness.
Registration to participate in the 2014 Natural Talent Design Competition closes on March 24, 2014 and deadline for submission is April 14, 2014. Judging and awards will be handed out at the Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh, NC on April 26th.
Winners will receive a stipend to attend the Greenbuild 2014, USGBC’s Annual Green Building Conference and Expo.
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if you’re looking for a place to go on a vacation this summer, but would want to avoid the huge crowd bathing under the sun, i highly recommend the beaches in Pangasinan. . one of my ever favorite is the Patar Beach in the town of Bolinao.
after approximately 4 hours travel from Manila via commute route, without any reservations, we scouted for a cheap accommodation. we hired a tricycle to bring us to Patar and luckily we spotted a nice nipa hut for just 1000php per night. . not bad!
what i really admire in Patar beach is the sugar-like fine white sands and crystal clear water. the view of the sky and the South China sea is just breathtaking. . ❤ ❤ ❤
we also had a chance to visit other tourist spots in Bolinao such as the Cape Bojeador Lighthouse and the Enchanted Cave. here are some of the sneak peaks of the hidden gem in Pangasinan.
Patar Beach at its finest. . wink wink!
Pangasinenses should be very proud of their oh so clear waters. . love love love. .
fell in love with the sands. . beautiful!
it’s just sad i cannot go upstairs. . it’s closed. . hehe. .
though i’m not into caving, i still find the enchanted cave so amazing. . i enjoyed the cold water of th underground spring. . just be careful when you swim as the rocks including the floor under the water are quite sharp.
the sunset is so stunning. . it really blew me away. . lovely!
kudos to the photographer. . he deserves a “thank you” for joining this trip. .
truly Bolinao is a hidden paradise. visit the place and be stunned. . enjoy the summer. . sand, sun and the salt water. . mwah mwah! | <urn:uuid:049480cc-4c21-4823-8974-9a962c5d6f7b> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://therestlessfirefly.com/2012/06/08/summer-lovin-bolinao-pangasinan-philippinessummer-lovin-bolinao-pangasinan-philippines/ | 2019-07-23T03:02:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.93699 | 407 |
Spring 2013/Vol 15 #4
The Spring 2013 issue features include:
- Four Mile Grouse by Burton L. Spiller
- Notes from the Road: Honey Lake Plantation Resort and Spa by Tom Keer
- Mixed Bag in Africa by Charles Jordan
- Getting Their Wings Clipped by Glen Hoch
- A Master Storyteller by Glen Blackwood
- A Kingdom for a Spare Set of Keys by Lindsay R. Mohlere
- Hunting with Mike by Alan Liere
From The Upland Kitchen, this issue features "Hen of the Woods - Grouse with mushrooms and apples" by Nancy P. Adams, Hancock, NH.
Also in this issue are all of your favorite departments including Greetings from the Publisher, Flushes & Noteworthy Points, The Healthy Dog, The Upland Kitchen, Conservation Viewpoint, For the Birds, Tailgate Review, Lock, Stock & Barrel, In the Swing, The Check Cord, Classic Guns, From Our Mailbox, Classifieds, and Tailfeathers.
The Spring 2013 Cover is called "Afternoon Nap" by Christie Knight Coombs. Original Watercolor, 29.5" X 33.5". $4,000. Giclee reproductions available. For information about the artist and additional paintings, visit www.coombsartgallery.com. | <urn:uuid:7b543552-430f-49a5-aa84-442ac3851740> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://uplandalmanaconline.com/products/vol-15-num-4-spring-2013 | 2019-07-23T03:08:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.889967 | 278 |
Facing the truth about abortion led Sandoval into three years of drug addiction, homelessness, and anorexia. At her lowest point, she sat on a curb sobbing. She remembers looking up at the sky, recalling her love letters to God and praying. Minutes later, a woman came out of a nearby restaurant, hugging her and telling her about Christ’s love and forgiveness. She gave Sandoval a meal and a ride to her father’s house. Soon after, Sandoval attended a post-abortion healing retreat, where she experienced Christ’s forgiveness. She also made a promise to be a voice for the unborn.
In 2007, Sandoval began telling her story. She has since written a book and shared her testimony more than 400 times across the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Last year, she traveled several times to Argentina and El Salvador and participated in media campaigns as these countries battled attempts to legalize abortion. In January, she’s slated to speak in both Spanish and English at the West Coast Walk for Life in San Francisco.
But Sandoval has paid a price for speaking out. She often has people walk out of her presentations, or call her a murderer. Family members have cut her off, even those who initially encouraged her abortion healing process. Sandoval says, “It is a very shameful thing in Hispanic culture to have an abortion, but it is even more shameful to talk about it. I’m known in my family as the girl who had three abortions.”
For this reason, many Hispanic women stay silent about their abortions, or they only share anonymously. Two post-abortive Hispanic women I interviewed said they have experienced healing and even engage in pro-life activism, but they still have not told family members about their abortions.
Hispanics have long-held cultural and religious opposition to abortion. More than 60 percent of Hispanics, and 54 percent of Latino millennials, think it is “morally wrong,” according to two recent Public Religion Research Institute studies. More than 50 percent think it should be illegal in “all or most cases,” a 2014 Pew Research Center study found.
For this reason, some refer to Hispanics as “the sleeping giant” of the pro-life movement.
But pundits err in referring to Hispanics as a “monolithic voting bloc,” said Tim Edson, the national field director for the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA). In the 2016 elections, SBA successfully targeted Latinos in states like Florida and Arizona with paid advertising and door-to-door campaigning, Edson said. The group surveyed Hispanic voters before and after engagement and saw an 11-point voter preference shift in favor of pro-life candidates in these states.
But in California, even as pro-abortion groups maintain a tight hold on state politics, many see emerging pro-life support, especially in conservative areas like the Central Valley. “The sleeping giant is waking up,” said Samuel Rodriguez, a Sacramento pastor and president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. He predicts, “There’s about to be a significant pushback against California’s abortion-on-demand, and it’s coming from the Hispanic community.”
‘There’s about to be a significant pushback against California’s abortion-on-demand, and it’s coming from the Hispanic community.’ —Samuel Rodriguez
Within the last decade, pro-life groups and crisis pregnancy centers have made a concerted effort to reach Spanish-speaking women. Many now have bilingual staff, “Español” website tabs, and Spanish-language resources. In 2008, a Hispanic pro-life group and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui reproduced a widely circulated Spanish video originally made in the late 1980s titled “Dura Realidad,” or “Hard Truth,” which depicts fetal formation and contains graphic abortion images.
Some see a correlation with these efforts and a declining abortion rate among Hispanic women. Between 2007 and 2015, the abortion rate dropped by 30 percent, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But the battle is still raging. In Los Angeles, nine Planned Parenthood centers operate within a 1-mile radius of a predominantly poor Hispanic neighborhood. Astrid Bennett Gutierrez grew up in this neighborhood, and in 2006 she opened the first pro-life clinic within that radius, called Los Angeles Pregnancy Services. She says the abortion industry “targets poor, vulnerable Latino women who feel pressured and shamed into abortion.” Gutierrez has become a key Latino pro-life voice, speaking regularly on the Catholic television network EWTN and at pro-life gatherings.
Two years ago, Gutierrez launched the Vida Initiative outreach. The group is targeting second- or third-generation Hispanic millennials with pro-life messaging, mentoring, and workshops on public speaking and sidewalk counseling. Gutierrez said the greatest challenge is “undoing the indoctrination that happens in schools and in mainstream media.”
Much of California’s Hispanic population lives within the Central Valley’s 450-mile stretch of flat and agriculture-rich land. In Visalia, one of the valley’s major farming outposts, Maricela Lupercio, 36, runs Latinos4Life, a Hispanic outreach of the Tulare-Kings [Counties] Right to Life (TKRL), with the goal of helping families “communicate about important topics like dating, sex and abortion.” | <urn:uuid:b518282d-1945-4478-927e-b4d2e64bf4c9> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://world.wng.org/2019/01/living_pro_vida | 2019-07-23T03:27:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.952039 | 1,156 |
Women of all ages gather at the chapel on Monday evenings and/or early Tuesday mornings for a vibrant Bible based study, enjoyment of friendships, and a time of prayer.
This fall, the Women's Bible Study groups will be working through David Jeremiah's study, "A Life Beyond Amazing": Are you ready to become the person God has called you to be? Dr. David Jeremiah uncovers God's strategy for change, and challenges you to make nine important decisions that will transform your heart, your life and your world.
We are offering two study times... either Monday evenings from 7-9pm or Tuesday mornings from 6:15-7:45am (whichever one works best for you!)
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What To Do When Your Partner Is In The Closet
The struggles you face when you are out, but your partner is still in the closet, and how to deal with your relationship.
Why You Should Come Out
Don't be a hidden entity, speak up and join the LGBT community and help us fight for equal rights to be married, have a family, be in a hospital room with the person you love, and much more.
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I agree, the fast days have been haaard. I’m looking forward to day 4 tmrw when I can have some protein snacks. I’m really enjoying having less carbs and like the 2 cups of veg with dinner!
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Today the Deputy Commissioner of Police had addressed the parents of students studying at Ryan International School, Bhondsi. A meeting had been organised at the school premises in the course of which parents apprised the top cop about the safety and security issues of the school.
The meeting also informed the anxious parents about all the latest initiatives that have been taken by the authorities to fortify the security of the students. The DC reassured the parents that all lapses in security have been corrected and that the school is ready to re-open.
“We have been told that 40 CCTV cameras are installed in the school and the ones which were not operational have now been rectified” said Aksha Raghav, a parent.
The school had opened on Monday. However, owing to low attendance (below 20 percent) it had to remain shut from the very next day.
Speaking to City Spidey another parent said, “The boundary wall has been repaired and new ID cards shall be issued.”
The Deputy Commissioner has urged parents to trust the realigned security arrangements and let children resume school.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 7, 2016
Crystal City (Arlington, VA) – Synetic Theater’s award-winning ensemble takes on the classic tale of a princess, an evil sorceress, and a centuries-long sleeping curse in this darkly elegant adaptation of Sleeping Beauty, one of the Grimm Brothers’ most beloved stories.
Season subscriptions for Synetic Theater’s much anticipated 2016/2017 line-up are also available.
As a center for American Physical Theater, Synetic also offers an exciting array of classes not just for professional artists, but anyone interested in cultivating an active and creative life, appealing equally to adults, teens, and kids. Synetic’s Studio Violet in the Crystal City Art Underground hosts a series of Adult Fitness Classes, Kids Acting Classes, and spring and summer kids camps.
About the Crystal City Business Improvement District
The Crystal City Business Improvement District (BID) is a public-private partnership established in April 2006 to promote the vibrant Crystal City business, retail, restaurant and residential community. The BID is committed to showcasing the area as a world-class destination for visitors, employees and residents. Crystal City is INNOVATIVE, ACTIVE, ARTFUL, ACCESSIBLE, and GREEN. For more information, visit crystalcity.org.
About Synetic Theater
Founded in 2001 by the husband and wife team of Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili, Synetic Theater is a center for American Physical Theater, fusing dynamic art forms—such as text, drama, movement, acrobatics, dance, and original music. Synetic has received a total of 116 Helen Hayes Award nominations and 27 Awards for directing, choreography, acting, costume design, and best play. For more information, visit synetictheater.org. | <urn:uuid:de6052e1-4715-43de-8f48-395a98c33128> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.crystalcity.org/item/synetic-theater-presents-sleeping-beauty | 2019-07-23T02:57:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.894853 | 377 |
CalExotics expands its male collections Apollo and Pumps. This expansion gives male shoppers new products to enhance their pleasure alone or with a partner.
Apollo is a collection of rings, pumps, strokers and wearables. Two new rings and four new strokers have been added to the collection. Both rings feature powerful, USB rechargeable motors that offer seven functions of vibration with a sturdy, silicone body.
- The Rechargeable Power Ring has a standard design, while the Rechargeable Support Ring includes a built-in scrotum ring for added support.
- The Apollo Stroker and Dual Stroker are life-like PureSkin masturbators featuring a reversible design for dual textured sensations.
- Offering users a different type of sensation is the Wireless Grip Stroke Masturbator. This stroker features an open style grip allowing it to accommodate any size man. The chamber is textured and a two-speed, removable stimulator adds vibration.
- The Rotator Stroker is a male stroker with a self-contained wireless design. With seven functions of intense rotation from a textured chamber, this stroker is built for pleasure.
The Pumps is a collection of male enhancement products and accessories:
- The Silicone Vibrating Oro Stimulator. This male masturbation system offers 10 powerful functions of vibration with a premium silicone sleeve.
- The Silicone Executive Oro Stimulator offers the same design with an added inflation feature to create a tight sensation.
- Pumps now offers two, fully automatic pumps with LED displays that measures the PSI inside the cylinder. The Automatic Power Pump is a full-sized pump, and the Automatic Head Pump is smaller, for more targeted use.
- Two accessories were also added to the collection: the Silicone Erection Enhancer XL and Set of Two. These are stretchy, silicone rings designed to be used with any size pump cylinder.
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Clarinetist Amy Chen '19, saxophonist Michael Bai '20, and trombonist Thomas Kan '21 performed at the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA) District 12 Band Festival held at Owen J. Roberts High School.
Amy and Michael re-auditioned and earned positions in this year's PMEA Region VI Band Festival, which will be held on March 7 at Central Bucks West High School.
PMEA Region VI consists of all public and independent schools in Philadelphia, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Bucks counties. Both students will have the opportunity to audition for All-State Band.
The band festival took place on Saturday, January 26. Dr. Will Rapp, Professor Emeritus at Kutztown University, was the conductor. | <urn:uuid:cf157acd-f949-44c4-84f7-915fca538b72> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.episcopalacademy.org/news-post-details/~post/regional-band-festival-20190130 | 2019-07-23T03:01:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.952003 | 157 |
I have another Thinking Inking class for you today HERE. I love Distress Crackle Paint and all you can do with it.
Here is the page and the video…
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Over the weekend I attended the memorial service for a long-time volunteer of KCB--Brent Webb. Calvary Baptist's sanctuary was packed full of hundreds of people whose lives were impacted by Brent. Pastor Ken opened up the service for people to share a memory of Brent... and after 10 people shared he had to cut it off because half the room had a story about how Brent had helped them out and prayed with them in their deepest time of need.
It got me thinking...
If Brent was so busy helping hundreds of his friends from Cider House, Celebrate Recovery, and Calvary Baptist, how did he and Michelle have time to help lead our Teen Bible Study & Dinner on Eucalyptus back in 2008? How did he have time to help us with plumbing emergencies at Margaret's House when it first opened? How did he have time to hang out on Saturday mornings at Homeless Breakfast & Showers for so many years? How did he have time to work with our team as we moved a storage unit on his property to keep furniture to use when a homeless neighbor got moved into their own home?
How did he have time?
Phillip Marshall, a close friend of Brent and one of the founding members of the KCB Homeless Task Force, got up and spoke during the service. He urged us all to take Brent's lead and pick up where he left off. If one man can be such an encouragement to hundreds, imagine if we were all a little more intentional with our time. Brent lived life to the fullest as an extension of God's hands and feet. He loved like Jesus loved. Bellflower lost one of it's most compassionate and dedicated neighbors. Let's do our part to fill in the gaps! | <urn:uuid:41227b18-6434-41bf-a4f7-36add17bd0bb> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.kcbellflower.org/blog/2016/09/brent-webb.html | 2019-07-23T03:19:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.985488 | 354 |
MLS® ID: 72481962
23 Shore Dr
Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, 02739 $959,000
Summertime & the living is easy in this bright and airy post & beam home directly across the street from a sandy swimming beach. Enjoy sweeping water views from your living room & decks showcasing all angles of Buzzards Bay and eastward to Aucoot Cove, Bird Island and the Falmouth coastline. A flowing open floor plan from kitchen to dining & living areas invite family & guests to linger by the sea. 2 ample sized bedrooms look out onto the blue Atlantic and a 2nd floor family room includes drop-down wall cots the kids will love for sleepovers. The home has 2 full baths and a laundry room. Outside, enjoy an expansive deck looking over a grassy lawn & the beach. Have a drink on your rooftop deck after a day of work or play & watch the sun set. Special features include an outside shower, shed storage for kayaks & beach gear, plus covered seating areas under the house to continue the party when it rains. Possible mooring for your boat. Savor the joys of seaside living without leaving home! | <urn:uuid:ff4f1a21-3ecc-42ef-8f5a-84f3dc240ae7> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.mapropertiesonline.com/property/23-shore-dr-mattapoisett-massachusetts-72481962 | 2019-07-23T02:46:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.9062 | 244 |
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Apr 25, 2019
PaxOcean Shipyard Singapore has successfully redelivered the Water Injection Dredger Giovanni Venturi to Jan De Nul Group safely and on schedule.
Giovanni Venturi was converted from an Offshore Supply Vessel and undergone removal, conversion and repair works while in the shipyard. The newly converted vessel will be capable of a maximum operating depth of 27.5m and water jet pump flow rate of 16,000m3/hr.
“We are pleased to deliver the first conversion for Jan De Nul Group to their satisfaction,” Tan Thai Yong, CEO of PaxOcean Holdings said. “This project is a great example of excellent teamwork and cooperation between PaxOcean Shipyard and Jan De Nul Group. Together, we have achieved on time delivery without compromising safety.”
Frederik Deroo, Director Technical Division at Jan De Nul Group said,“Jan De Nul Group would like to thank PaxOcean Shipyard for achieving this redelivery. The conversion of the first Offshore Supply Vessel to a Water Injection Dredger has been a complex and challenging project for both shipyard and owner. Through mutual assistance and fruitful cooperation, we can celebrate a successful completion. We look forward to the delivery of the two sister vessels. With the addition of these state of the art Water Injection Dredgers, to its fleet, Jan De Nul Group positions itself even more as a leader on the international dredging market.”
The second and third WIDs that PaxOcean Shipyard Singapore is converting for Jan De Nul Group, Henry Darcy and Henri Pitot, are on schedule for redelivery in 2Q 2019.
About Jan De Nul Group
Innovation, expertise and sustainability. This is the strength of Jan De Nul Group. Thanks to the passion and commitment of its employees and the hypermodern fleet, the Group is market leader in dredging and maritime works, as well as in specialised services for the offshore market of oil, gas and renewable energy. The Group is also a leading company in civil engineering and environmental activities.
The professional and innovative solutions are trusted across the industry. Whether it concerns the construction of new locks, the installation of the offshore wind farms or the redevelopment of polluted industrial sites, together with its clients Jan De Nul Group contributes to further economic development in a responsible way. – www.jandenul.com
A subsidiary of Kuok Singapore Limited, PaxOcean owns and operates 6 shipyards located in Singapore, China and Indonesia. First established in 2007 in Singapore, PaxOcean offers a wide range of services covering offshore engineering, rig building, ship and rig repair, maintenance and conversion.
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Latin cuisine that offers excellent fish tacos, tamales, empanadas, and other highly authentic dishes.
Pig & Turnip
German inspired cuisine including schnitzel, bratwurst, pretzels and more!
Open Daily 11Am
100 MILE BAKERY
Cafe and bakery that features locally made breads, sweets and produce sourcing only ingredients within 100 miles
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Taber Shadburne| Worldwide
Offering: Workshops, Individual Coaching
"I’m a spiritual counselor and guide, a teacher of transformation. I love practicing, teaching and facilitating what I call R/evolutionary R/elating, as well as Radical Honesty." - Taber
Taber Shadburne (M.A.) is a cutting edge counselor and teacher of transformation: "I help those who yearn for deep soulful connection to create it. I facilitate what I call R/evolutionary R/elating and conscious community... I can help you get to really know and love your own insides -- the light, and the dark -- and to open-heartedly share yourself with others...
I use a unique awareness-oriented & body-centered approach, bringing compassionate attention to all the messy, juicy stuff of life -- emotions, relationships, communication, conflict, love & intimacy. I'll help you connect with your own deep passion and intuitive knowing, and teach you to skillfully express them in the world, using them to create soulful connection with others, and the life of which you dream... This is what I call the art of embodying Love...
My work integrates Buddhism, meditation, mysticism, psychology & conscious communication (I've studied and practiced these disciplines for about 30 years). I lived in a Zen center for a few years, and practiced with that sangha for 10. I have a B.A. in music & comparative religion, and an M.A. in counseling psychology, and have done many professional trainings (Gestalt, Hakomi, Process Work, etc.). I'm also an author (The Heart of Healing: Inspired Ideas, Wisdom and Comfort from Today's Leading Voices). I completed training as a Community-Building facilitator by M. Scott Peck's F.C.E., and I worked closely for years with Dr. Brad Blanton (he certified many as Radical Honesty trainers, but I'm the only one he certified as a Master Trainer). I'm the founder of the Church of Soul, a progressive spiritual community center for transformation, celebration & service (in Oakland), and am working on another book and my second CD of music."
I help people get to really know
and love their own insides
the light and
with others, creating
deep, soulful connection
- M.A. in Psychology
- Certified Master Trainer of Radical Honesty
- Lived in a Zen center for years and did lots of serious spiritual study and practice
- Co-author of “The Heart of Healing: Inspired Ideas, Wisdom and Comfort from Today’s Leading Voices”
- Founder of The Church of Soul in Oakland, California
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Blue Boomerang Power Wheels 12-Volt Ride-On Vehicle by Fisher-Price
The Power Wheels Boomerang vehicle is a young racer’s dream, allowing kids to tilt and spin into awesome, fully controlled drifts. This rad ride-on powers over different terrains and races at a max speed of 5 mph in the forward direction. For added security, it features an adjustable seat, high sides, and Power-Lock brakes.
Fisher-Price Disney Mickey Mouse Mouska Train Playset$15.79
Mouska-Train Express comes with a set of track pieces that you assemble into an oval track layout. You will also get a battery powered train engine with Mickey at the helm and a cargo car. The set also includes a cargo tower, a tunnel, 2 stop-tracks, a crossing gate, 2 spinning signs, and 2 cargo packages with a pop-up surprise one with Pluto, and the other with Chip ‘n Dale.
Fisher-Price Imaginext Eagle Talon Castle Dragon$18.66
Imagination and creativity fly on the wings of this dragon. Make-believe and fantasy allow children the opportunity to be silly, the bad-guy or good-guy, the powerful scary beast, or the beloved pet. And making the dragon fly will increase dexterity and hand and arm strength. Using these Action Tech toys, a child can control all the action, experience self-expression, and practice conflict resolution through pretend play. Will the dragon make it past the castle gates? Who will tame the dragon? It’s a new adventure every time kids play.
Fisher-Price Imaginext Shark Bite Pirate Ship$29.99
Kids are At the Helm of All the Adventure!
Imaginext Power Pads put the action in kids’ hands. Push down on the center Power Pad to open the shark’s mouth and capture the enemy. Turn a second Power Pad to aim the cannon and push a button to fire on attackers! Turn the third Power Pad left to reveal the hidden treasure – and turn it right to fire projectiles! What to do with the prisoners? Kids can throw ‘em in the brig, make ‘em walk the plank, or hang ‘em from the yardarm! There are lots of places on the ship to continue the pirate play.
Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends MINIS, 20 Pack$17.08
Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends engines just got a MINIS makeover! With over 80 engines to collect, Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends MINIS from Fisher-Price completely reimagine the Island of Sodor with never-before-seen themes! From “Spooky” monsters and colorful “Animals”, to hard-at-work “Construction” and intergalactic “Space” engines, MINIS pint-sized engines showcase Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends in a whole new way! Of course, no collection is complete without your favorite characters in their classic styles, which is why Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends MINIS also include lots of classic engines, too! This 20-Pack featuring a variety of MINIS styles is the perfect way to discover the world of Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends MINIS. Your child can collect ’em, race ’em, trade ’em, and use their imaginations to create really unique adventures for these Really Useful engines! Please Note: The trains are MINI, so are small, and should just be used on Thomas MINI playsets and tracks specifically for the MINI line.
Collect Them All – Take collecting to the max with MINIS! With many to collect, Thomas & Friends MINIS include never-before-seen train themes such as “Spooky” monsters, super-themed “Heroes” and prehistoric “Dino” engines. Kids can collect ‘em, race ‘em, trade ‘em, and more!
Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends Super Station$76.99
Works with Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends Adventures, TrackMaster, MINIS and Wooden Railway engines (additional engines sold separately)
Comes with Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends TrackMaster, Thomas, and his friends Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends Adventures, Percy, Fisher-Price Thomas & Friends MINIS James, plastic Harold
Multiple configurations of layouts to fit into any space
Remove legs for Micro layouts to fit small spaces
Holds over 100 engines
Purple Boomerang By Power Wheels
Kid-controlled power drift mode
Vehicle tilts while turning for exciting driving action
All-wheel drive with dynamic traction control powers over hard surfaces, grass, and rough terrain
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The rise of telecommuting and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies in the workplace have launched employers into a heated debate over when and where their employees are more productive — at home or in the office. Studies suggest telecommuters are more productive than their office-stranded counterparts, yet more than half of companies lack formal remote-work policies and the physical workplace is still a fixture for many organizations.
But if remote workers truly are more productive than in-house employees, how do the millions of small businesses across the country with office-fixed staff bridge the productivity gap? Fortunately for employers, there may be a way to boost employee productivity around the physical workplace without investing in new talent and more training — music. Science agrees. A group of scientists even discovered that listening to just ten minutes of Mozart increased the cognitive abilities of their test subjects, a phenomenon that has been termed the “Mozart Effect.”
Being productive at work involves so much more than big brains, sound logic, and classical music, however. Thank goodness there’s a multitude of music selections to supercharge engagement, concentration and change management in the physical workplace.
Music for Engagement
Songs like Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome to the Jungle” and Kenny Loggins’ “Highway to the Danger Zone” deliver excellent rushes of blood to the head before obligatory meetings or project kick-offs. Spinify, a provider of sales leaderboards and gamification solutions, suggests a few other tunes for creating a positive, engaging workplace environment:
Music for Concentration
Science says a little Mozart before diving into heads-down projects may increase your employees’ productivity, but there are other options to try out for creating a focused, zen-type atmosphere in the workplace. Try a few of these:
Music for Change Management
Today’s workplace is fast-paced and fluid, and you want your staff to be able to adapt when change occurs. Think about creating a playlist of songs for all the good, bad and ugly evolutions your workplace might go through so your employees can roll with the punches and stay productive. Perhaps something like:
- A Change Is Gonna Come — Aretha Franklin
- Viva la Vida — Cold Play
- We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together — Taylor Swift
- Against the Wind — Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Your physical workplace might never be able to deliver the perks of working from home, but that doesn’t mean you can’t try. Unless they’re zombies, odds are your in-house team isn’t immune to the power of good music. So, whether it’s a ballad from an ‘80s hair band or coffee-shop jazz, play some tunes at your office this week and see how it impacts your employees’ productivity and morale. You certainly don’t want them going home playing this…
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The Beautifully Bizarre Franken-Candles of Dutch Artist Helmut Smits
Helmut Smits is a Rotterdam-based artist who works in the vein of designers like Dominic Wilcox or Sebastian Errazuriz — his portfolio is bursting at the seams with quick, clever creative experiments, the product of a hyperactive mind with a healthy sense of humor. Among them: Everything from a visual catalog of autumn leaves caught by the artist before they hit the ground, to a series of lamps made from cheap ceiling caps, to a series of photos of various balls balanced on various everyday objects. Some of the projects are silly, some are conceptual, and others are just plain visually lovely, like the one below featuring candles of all shapes and sizes melted together into color-blocked totems. Check out the full series here. | <urn:uuid:8e245e5b-ed8b-4425-8c28-e6a857d3a525> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.sightunseen.com/2016/01/the-beautifully-weird-franken-candle-sculptures-of-dutch-artist-helmut-smits/ | 2019-07-23T03:26:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528687.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723022935-20190723044935-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.939644 | 168 |
When Too Much Freedom Becomes Detrimental
Monday, June 29, 2015
I used to work as an editor for a regional newspaper. When dealing with freelancers I always tried to grant them as much freedom as possible. I didn't want to order them around or be too narrow with my asks. Just because if I'd been a freelancer I would have wished for being treated like that. I would have wanted the editor to trust me that I will deliver on time - without him having to tread on my toes and micromanaging me.
My intention was a good one - but it didn't always work out in everyday work life. I made the mistake to project my needs onto others. Of course, some people need freedom and responsibility. But others need clear orders and boundaries - and with my rather lax attitude I didn't live up to the needs of these freelancers.
I think, with horses, it's similar.
There are some horses that demand more room for themselves. And there are others that yield willingly to the human and make way for him to decide for the two of them.
If I am that type of human who has clear expectations and demands and I meet a horse from the first category, we might end up fighting. Because I am not quite flexible enough to adjust to the horse's needs and to grant him more say then I would like to. I think a horse of the second category will have an easier time to accept strong leadership.
I, with my "I'll grant you freedom"-attitude on the other hand will probably confuse a horse of the second category because I don't communicate clearly enough. My behavior creates misunderstandings.
Like a few weeks ago, when I was working with the project horse from the ground. I wanted to send him out on a circle to the right. Instead he came in with his ears pricked, posing a question. I like questions as they prove that the horse is mentally engaged and communicating. This is why I consider it rather rude to answer with a "no, get the hell out of here on that circle!". But if I wait too long giving the horse a pause in the middle with me I create confusion rather then do good to our relationship. Because my initial aid "please go out on the circle to the right" turns into "yes please come in" for the horse.
If I ask for the circle the next time, the horse will likely offer to come in again instead of traveling on the circle around me. If I then send him out with energy, the misunderstanding is complete. Once I said "go" and was okay with "whoa". The next time I said "go" and insisted on "go".
This is a mistake I make quote often. I want to support the horse's mental engagement and I dont' want to be overly critical. But over this I become wishy washy with my signals. A response like "no, this was not the answer, try again" in the end is more helpful to the horse than having to correct him in the end because I accepted something I actually didn't want in the first place.
Just to give you another example of this: A few weeks ago I was riding a friend's horse. The mare had experienced some bad handling and wasn't too keen on backing up. Too much pressure on the bit she usually comments with rooting the head. I wanted her to move out from a standstill. But she shifted her weight back and offered to back up. Instead of keeping up my aids until she found the forwards, I released. Because I was happy how willingly she offered the backup. Asking her to move out again, she naturally offered the backup again - and already I had created a misunderstanding.
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TREND ALERT: CHECKMATE
By Temara Melek
Plaid and checkered prints are back and we are mad for them! New York Fashion Week recently wrapped up their SS18 shows and plaid was favorited among fashion designers making a revival on the runway. Bella, Gigi, and Hailey were just a few of the model’s sporting this big trend on the streets of New York. Plaid instantly adds a new dimension to your outfit and we loved the varied approaches to styling this fall must-have. Here are a few of our favorite ways to style a plaid button down which you will be wearing this fall season!
Bella & Gigi Hadid taking an edgy risk by pairing their oversized plaid button ups with chunky boots.
We love how Bella paired this matching plaid set with chic white heels for a dressed-up look.
Hailey Baldwin wearing an oversized button up for a more casual look.
If it’s still warm where you are, tie a plaid flannel around your waist like Emma Roberts and pair with sneakers.
Tie your button up and pair with a skirt and booties for a feminine twist.
Who better than Cher Horowitz to take inspiration from? 90’s plaid is back.
Straight from the runway -
Brands: Miaou, Jeremy Scott, Victoria Beckam, Marc Jacobs
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A BRAZEN thief bagged himself a £330 refund in Aldi - for a TV he had just picked off the shelf.
The man walked into the discount supermarket on Wragby Road, Lincoln on January 2 and grabbed the box from the shop floor.
He then walked to a till and asked the cashier for a refund for the Bauhn 49ins Smart TV but was directed to speak to the manager when he revealed he didn't have a receipt.
He shook hands with the manager before returning to the till, leading the cashier into believing he was fine to issue a refund.
The man was then refunded £329.99 for the TV which he had not bought.
NHS PAY FRAUD RAPHospital boss pays hubby £20,000 from hospital budget so he could buy MacBook Pro, court hears
MODEL FRAUD plotModel, 31, 'plotted with mum to pose as multi-millionaire to pull off £1.2m property fraud
LOST THE PLOTDad shocked to find his £500k home on Rightmove after fraudsters stole his identity and put it on the market
CATFISH CON ARTISTObese fraudster posed as attractive women on dating sites to con lonely men out of £20,000
CCTV images have been released by Lincolnshire Police of a man they would like to speak to in connection with the incident.
A spokesman said:"A man walked into this supermarket and picked up a boxed television on the shop floor.
"He then walked straight to one of the tills and asked the cashier for a refund without a receipt.
"The man then leaves the till to speak with the manager, shakes his hand and returns to the cashier who believed permission had been given for a refund.
"The man received £329.99 and left the store.
"We are looking to speak with this man seen on CCTV as we believe may be able to assist our enquiries.
"If this is you, or you recognise this person, please call 101 quoting 'incident 324' of January 2. To report anonymously please call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111."
Do you recognise the man in the CCTV images? Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org or call 0207 782 4368
A man stole £40,000 worth of designer watches in a similar scam last year.
He struck two luxury jewellery stores by posing as a customer before running out of the shop with the extortionate timepieces still on his wrist.
Last month another brazen thief was caught on camera nicking a woman's purse from her handbag while her back was turned just days before Christmas.
The fraudster struck as the pensioner was shopping in Iceland and didn't realise her purse was missing until she went to pay for her shopping at the till.
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Imagine yourself for a moment in a concert hall. You are listening to a classic work played with great precision by an orchestra under the direction of an accomplished conductor. You admire both the composer, for the beauty and harmony of his music, and the conductor, for his artistry in realizing the intent of the composer. To achieve this effect it is apparent that both composer and conductor must know the capabilities and limitations of the instruments of the orchestra.
The Cold War Power Spectrum
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CNN Internationals new series which shines a light on the next big names in culture and the arts, CNN Ones to Watch
continues in December, with an episode dedicated to street art, exploring the subculture which is turning into a multi-million dollar industry.
Legendary American street artist Shepard Fairey, renowned for his Obama Hope poster and influential OBEY clothing line, alongside former Banksy associate turned art-dealer, Steve Lazarides, act as this months masters, pointing viewers in the direction of the boldest new names in street art.
As one of the most influential figures within street art, Shepard Fairey has spent a lifetime creating pieces of work that are destroyed shortly after. For this reason, he believes upcoming street artists need a tenacious personality in order to become successful.
Fairey tells the programme: What I think it takes to break through as a street artist is a tenacity, a willingness to go there put work up and have it cleaned, have it covered by other artists, and not be too precious about it, to accept that street art is ephemeral. Of course, finding good places and making imagery that is unique and sets your work apart from other people is really important, but tenacity is crucial.
The three artists picked by Fairey and Lazarides as rising stars of street art, certainly have tenacity continually creating pieces of art in challenging and unconventional places.
CNN Ones to Watch travels to Kabul, Afghanistan; Chicago in the US, and Lisbon in Portugal to meet these promising artists as they produce a new mural throughout the episode, revisiting them at the conclusion, as they lay the finishing touches to their new artwork.
Afghan artist Shamsia Hassani is a courageous young woman whose spray-cans are beautifying the war-torn streets of Kabul. A recurring image within her work are the large, strong frames of burka-clad women, painted onto walls ravaged by bullets and war. Lazarides believes it is the political message contained in Hassanis courageous work which makes her an artist to watch, telling CNN Ones to Watch:
She's got that thing that a lot of great artist have, that one iconic image that a lot of people can link to. Its part of that old political tradition of graffiti
if you go back to Roman times it was the Greeks writing Romans out, it's quite often been used as a form of protest and I think hers is following in that rich tradition.
In Chicago, urban artist POSE has illegally painted the streets of his home town for years, but CNN captures the moment he legitimately paints on his own streets for the first time, as part of a street art festival organised by Shepard Fairey called Art Alliance: The Provocateurs.
Speaking of his beginnings in the street art world, and Chicagos relationship with graffiti, POSE says:
I was always told no, I was always arrested and locked up, beat up by the police, it's a very, very rough city one of the most anti-graffiti cities that I've seen in the world. Now if you look around, all the cool neighbourhoods have street art, and graffiti co-exists with that, those are the neighbourhoods that are being sought after for some of the highest property values, where to put the next Marc Jacobs store.
Portuguese artist Vhils, who uses jackhammers and explosives to create images in relief on abandoned walls and buildings, echoes this sentiment that a city greatly influences the street art created there. Speaking about Lisbon, and how he developed his destructive style, he tells the programme:
I remember when I was growing up that you could see the development of the city like a bomb that had fallen into Lisbon and the shockwave was arriving
and I started to look at a wall as something that absorbs the history
I realised that I didnt want to be one more layer on all these layers building up on the city every day.
CNN Ones to Watch airs at the following times on CNN International
Friday 12 December at 1030 GMT/ 1130 CET and 1630 GMT/1730 CET
Saturday 13 December at 1430 GMT/ 1530 CET and 2030 GMT/ 2130 CET
Monday 15 December at 0430 GMT/0530 CET and 0930 GMT/ 1030 CET
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Dad Creates Heart-Warming Illustration Cards To Mark His Child's First Milestones
The early stages of a child's life are some of the most exciting because they are changing so rapidly. That's why we parents are so keen to document all of their milestones; from the day they sit up for the first time unassisted to their first word. And one dad decided to do something particularly special to mark his baby's milestones.
Mr. Miller, whose first name is unknown, is an artist, and his wife Sarah wrote on Bored Panda that when she was pregnant with their first child, he put his skills to good use, creating illustrations to mark all of their early milestones - right up until their first solid food which, naturally, was celebrated with an illustration of Jaws!
Miller's choice of characters for his milestone illustrations were no accident either. He and his wife are both huge Disney fans. She revealed that he used this to inspire many of the designs, writing that this was a lot more personal than the type of cards which are typically sold in stores - after all, no two children are the same!
Here's baby's Indiana Jones-themed 1-week-old card:
Here's baby's 2-week-old card:
Followed by his adorable three blind mice card:
I personally adore this Fantastic 4-themed card for baby's 4th week of life!
And this minibeast card is buzzzzzing:
Look how Mr. Miller has cleverly designed Patch's spots into the shape of numbers:
This unicorn card is actually making me so jealous:
But nowhere near as jealous as I am over this BB-8 card for Baby's 8th week of life:
He's like Mr. Miller's very own Christopher Robin:
Three months old calls for the greatest wizarding trio to hit Hogwarts:
A parent's first Christmas with a child is one of the most special occasions there can be:
I am your father...
And this made me smile too:
Who better than Thumper to congratulate baby on finding his feet?
I have a lot of time for this Gremlins-themed card:
I think this may be my all-time favorite:
Correction - this is my new favorite:
Terrifying, beautiful, and hilarious - all in one:
What do you think of Miller's illustrations? They're a testament to the fact that the personal touch really is the best. Perhaps you've been inspired to create illustrations of your own, or perhaps do something else to mark your baby's milestones? If it's the latter, share your ideas in the comments section! | <urn:uuid:58ef358c-44f9-4f7c-a2bd-8318b38b4e18> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://craftfactory.com/entertainment/dad-creates-heart-warming-illustration-cards-to-mark-his-childs-first-milestones/ | 2019-07-24T08:54:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.976405 | 543 |
How to get system time in HaxeFlixel ?
I'm making a project for school and I want to get the current time of the system in the game and show it on screen.
I know there is a function called in Unity ; "System.DateTime.Now" to get the time. is there also something like this in HaxeFlixel?
if there is none, what is another way to get this done?
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The term protection refers to a series of certain rights and privileges which are extended to investors under FIPPA. In other words, investments carried out under any law other than FIPPA shall not be eligible to enjoy such rights.
Fundamental rights recognized under FIPPA in favour of foreign investors are as follows:
- The right to transfer profits (dividends) as well as capital and gains on capital in foreign exchange;
- The right to receive compensation resulting from expropriation (deprivation of ownership) and nationalization of foreign capital;
- The right to receive compensation resulting from the passing of laws or Cabinet Decrees causing prohibition or interruption in the implementation of financial contracts of foreign investors;
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PACKAGE REDESIGN | WELCH’S
Delicious and refreshing, Welch’s Chillers are juice drinks the whole family can enjoy, including mom. The only problem – the bottle label wasn’t giving off this vibe. Enter LAM. To expand appeal from just kids to mom too, we updated the Chillers brand identity to feel “youthfully grown up.” We also improved flavor and refreshment cues by creating succulent fruit illustrations floating on a river of splashing juice. | <urn:uuid:7fa6cfd9-99fc-40c3-818f-b4e1e3617ddc> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://lamdesign.com/portfolio/welchs-chillers/ | 2019-07-24T09:23:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.88639 | 109 |
So it's lovely when friends send me pics like this - they spotted me in the Woman's Day magazine at the doctors surgery. It makes it feels like it's not all over just yet.
It's also lovely to have received more letters from politicians in the mail. Over the last month I have received letters from three politicians including the Premier Will Hodgman who presented me the Tasmanian Mother of the Year award. I had to laugh when I saw he crossed out 'Mrs King' and changed it to Lisa. We are obviously on first name basis now! ;)
Before the national awards in Sydney, I was contacted by someone who works for Rosemary Armitage. She said that Rosemary wanted to do a 'special interest' speech about the award and our family, and asked if I was happy for her to. I met with them and was interviewed for about an hour, and Rosemary gave the speech after the national awards. I have no idea about politics, so I had no idea that politicians give speeches about things like this in parliament. If you click on the picture you can watch the video of Rosemary's speech.
I also received a letter from Andrew Nikolic who spoke in Federal parliament about me! It's overwhelming to receive so much recognition, but it's also lovely to know that my community is proud of how we have dealt with our circumstances.
It was also lovely to get a special package in the mail from Magdelena Photography with the portraits that she took of Jalen and I, on the morning of the national award. I love the ones of Jay, but am not keen on the ones of me - not because they're awful photos, but just because I had so much makeup put on and I don't usually wear a lot, so I just look at the photos and don't think it looks like me.
Someone from our church who writes articles for public affairs, also sent in an article to Mormon Newsroom Australia. It was published a few weeks ago. You can read it here or by clicking on the picture below.
This journal entry made me smile so much. When I came off the stage after the national Mother of the Year award was announced that it was Leanne from Queensland, Harri put his arm around me and said 'you're still the Mother of the Year to me Mum', and that's better than any award :)
It's been nice that the excitement and recognition has spread out over a few months, but unfortunately life has to get back to normal. Even though it's all over, I know it's always going to be something that will always give us a boost, as we remember how lucky we were to be a part of such a special experience. | <urn:uuid:b706e8d0-df66-474a-8857-d6edaefca562> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://lisajking.blogspot.com/2015/07/moty-recognition.html | 2019-07-24T08:51:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.988714 | 552 |
New Year’s Eve is held in our house in the south. We will be six, including four drinkers. I like coincidences and it always fascinates me. A friend who will attend the dinner calls me at lunchtime and tells me that he intends to bring a wine for the meal and asks me if his input will be consistent with what I have planned. And he announced his contribution: Richebourg Domaine Anne Gros 2003. I had already chosen the wines so that my wife is inspired to compose the menu and among them there is a Richebourg Domaine Gros Frère & Soeur 1987. I obviously agree its contribution which will give rise to a pretty juxtaposition.
At 5 pm my friend delivers his wine and I open all the bottles of the dinner. The friends arrive at 20:30 and we take the aperitif with a Champagne Laurent Perrier Cuvée Grand Siècle magnum non vintage that I have for ten years in cellar. The color is already somewhat amber with a beautiful gold patina, the bubble is very active and the champagne is a rare richness. If the general trend is that of lemony notes, the message of the wine changes constantly, overflowing with complexity. And the finish is inextinguishable as the wine is penetrating. It is a very large champagne with an elusive message as it twirls. With this champagne we nibble thin slices of a Pata Negra well fat and tasty, small tiles with parmesan, small dry salted petits fours and slices of an excellent sausage.
We go to the table. My wife planned: scallops / foie gras lobes fried with truffle slices / low-temperature lamb with pan-fried parsnip / variety of cheeses / supremes (which means without skin) of pink grapefruit with confit kumquat and saffron from our garden / financiers and small dry sweet petits fours.
The Meursault-Charmes 1er Cru Domaine des Comtes Lafon 2003 has a rich wealth opulent smells. He invades the mouth and settles there. It has both beautiful minerality and sensual fat. It is a beautiful white wine merry, perfectly adapted to the shells and a little less to the foie gras even if it suits him.
The gigot welcomes two Richebourg. The Richebourg Domaine Gros Frère & Soeur 1987 has a slightly dusty nose. It is nice but has lost a bit of its vivacity. It highlights the Richebourg domaine Anne Gros 2003 with the live fruit, generous of a very young wine. The fight does not take place because the 1987 is a bit frail but the juxtaposition is possible, both Richebourg being very pleasant. The 2003 is a noble and racy wine.
Our pace of absorption is sustained also is it time to open the wine I had planned before my friend declared his contribution. The Côte Rôtie La Landonne Guigal 1987 is a marvel. It has the youth of the 2003 that we just finished and the legibility of a generous wine and immediate access. And what transcends it is the freshness of its finale. My friend reports his menthol notes which are those of an exquisite freshness. This wine is pure pleasure. The cheeses are so numerous and varied that we must choose those who go with this splendid Landonne. The Laguiole is well suited as well as the Saint-Nectaire, but also the superb blue Termignon, very lively.
For the supreme grapefruit, the Château d’Yquem half-bottle 1990 is the ideal companion. And I did not expect it to go as well with raw, uncooked slices. They give a boost to the wine that is in a glorious state. He is fat, strong, joyous as a golden ingot. It should be noted that the traces of saffron magnificently excite the sauternes, giving it a complement of vigor.
At the request of my friend we vote and if the votes are different an agreement is found to rank first La Landonne Guigal and in second ex-aequo the Grand Siècle and Yquem.
We had been kissing for New year for a long time and thirst is always present, so I open a Champagne Krug Grande Cuvée that I entered in the cellar about four years ago. The champagne is straight, precise, complex but a little unidirectional and far enough from the beautiful complexity of the Grand Siècle by Laurent Perrier. We nibble at sweet little petits fours and delicious financiers from my wife. We are rebuilding the world as one of the guests is overwhelmed by what we have been drinking.
It is three o’clock when begins my first night of 2017.
The next morning, lunch with the cheeses of the day before and the rest of the Krug. It is very much better, wider, fuller. I had probably misunderstood it, at the end of our agape. | <urn:uuid:17abf47c-7ddb-4ca0-9f09-f744244a6fa9> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.academiedesvinsanciens.org/sylverters-dinner-in-the-south/ | 2019-07-24T09:39:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.949187 | 1,065 |
Like men, women enjoy gambling. However, it is believed that they do not gamble on the same level as their male counterparts. Of course, some women gamblers would disagree. Gambling is a pastime that both male and females enjoy. But, the question still remains do women gamble in the same way as men. Find the answer to that question and much more in the article below.
Women have a competitive nature. In fact, they will compete on every level just to prove a point. With that said, the female competitive nature does not always the case when it comes to gambling. Statistics show that men tend to wager more money on single bets than women. This is even true for women who are big earners. Experts believe that this behavior shows that women are more reserved when it comes to gambling. Some women will agree that they are more reserved gamblers than men. But, there are a few women that disagree about this theory.
When it comes to comparing female and male gamblers, it is important to look at both sexes level of cautiousness. It is easy to see that both sexes share some of the same gambling characteristics. However, the experts agree that most female gamblers are more cautious about taking risks. This is the case even if when both male and female gamblers have the same amount of money to invest and when playing at brick-and-mortar and online casinos, such as Sbobet. Being a cautious gambler is a good trait that will always play in the female gambler’s favor.
The experts believe that most men would gamble every minute of the day if they could afford it. Women, on the other hand, tend to gamble at specific times of the day. It is believed that most women refuse to gamble until they have fulfilled their daily responsibilities. This is especially true for women with children and full-time jobs. Males will gamble even while they are at work if they get the opportunity. Of course, most male professionals will hold off gambling until they get a break.
Cope With Boredom
Another big difference is women will refuse to utilize gambling as a way to cope with their boredom. While some women will gamble during their downtime, others prefer to find other activities to keep themselves occupied. Men, on the other hand, do not hesitate to utilize their mobile phones to access an online casino during special events, such as weddings, graduations and church meetings. Women prefer staying focused on the event.
Both male and female gamblers tend to share the same game preferences. However, the experts believe that women gamblers gravitate toward the slots while male gamblers stick to card games, such as poker and blackjack. The reason women prefer slots to card games is that they are easier than card games.
While women share some of the same gambling characteristics and preferences as men, they are also a different type of gambler. It is also true that some women gamble more like men than others. | <urn:uuid:0e17054c-cc2c-4001-a338-136def2a8910> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.awesome11.com/do-women-gamble-in-the-same-way-as-men/ | 2019-07-24T08:35:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.976173 | 603 |
The perfect music to accompany ANY Braai!
Fraser Mackay’s ‘Babwean Memorabilia is now available for download on Amazon both in the UK and the US.
Whilst the album only has four official tracks, the total running length is almost an hour and a quarter and consists of what I think is the set from a live recording at a beerfest in Zimbabwe.
- Tequila Medley, Length: 25:09
- Dop Medley, Length: 21:27
- Sadza Medley, Length: 15:36
- One For the Road Medley, Length: 11:49
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You can listen to samples of each of these tracks and buy the album from Amazon – links below: | <urn:uuid:5419eaa2-6f5d-450a-82ce-a2656aeec6ed> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.chirundu.com/zimbabwean/zim-music/fraser-mackays-babwean-memorabilia/ | 2019-07-24T09:04:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.925373 | 157 |
David denHartog teaches through Mark 10:35-52. Jesus asks a pair of brothers in this text, and he also asks a blind beggar: What do you want out of life? We can learn much from their answers, and from Jesus’ responses to them. How would you answer Jesus? What do you want?
Dean Elliott continues Amber Alert: Lost in Johnson County, with a lesson from Mark 4:1-34. Why does anyone want to listen to Jesus? They listen because someone tells them about Him. There are 3 spheres of responsibility when the Gospel is shared – our’s, their’s, and God’s. Scripture references: John 10:19; 2 Corinthians 4:1-5; John 6:44-47 (The […]
Dean Elliott concludes the Roller Coaster series, teaching from Mark 9:14-29 about how we can have the supernatural power to say yes to walk in God’s will. Our prayer life anticipates and expects to grab ahold of the mighty power of God so we can do things that are supernatural.
Dean Elliott continues the Roller Coaster series, focusing on what we ask for in prayer. We must learn to say no to the flesh, so that we can say yes to God’s will and the power of the Holy Spirit. Beginning in Mark 14:27, we look at the most colossal blunder of the flesh compared to […]
David denHartog teaches about the third meaning of “salvation” or “saved” found in the New Testament. In these passages, the words are speaking of a reward that comes at Jesus’ return to those that have lived faithfully during their life on earth. Scripture references: Mark 8:34-38; Ecclesiastes 2:4-10; I Peter 1:3; James 1:21; Hebrews 3:14 […]
David denHartog teaches about Proportional Giving at the Next Step Commitment Event held at the Cleburne Conference Center. The widow was commended by Jesus because what she gave was a greater percentage of what she had; compared to the others – who still had much left over after they gave.
It is hard to give up our dreams and expectations and accept God’s will for our lives when they don’t align. Dean Elliott wraps up the series on depression by teaching from Mark 8:34-9:32. Also: James 1:20 | <urn:uuid:f93a5c9a-bdd6-4c9e-90df-56c21ff9769e> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.cleburnebible.org/?sermons-category=mark | 2019-07-24T08:54:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.947854 | 510 |
This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe discuss The Rock punching Ancient Greece in the face in Hercules, the mind-bottling hype behind Frozen, the never ending appeal of They Live, the mind numbing middle section of Stargate, 80’s computers, Thanos, Mortal Kombat X and much more.
The Collector’s Edition of They Live is here to kick ass and chew bubblegum…and it’s all out of bubblegum.
Quick, think of an awesome 80’s action movie, chances are Al Leong was in it as a henchmen.
Everyone seemed to be busy this week so it’s a two man show from Zach and Chris that still somehow goes over an hour with talk about Planet of the Apes, an in depth analysis of the 80’s movie Creator, Mortal Kombat and They Live.
A bunch of news this week about some possible upcoming remakes and a look at the completed Green Lantern suit and the first look at Men in Black 3.
The guys manage to bring you this week’s podcast despite technical and scheduling issues. Hear what we think of Devil, The Town and more.
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Samoa is a country in the South Pacific Ocean, to the northeast of Fiji, with a total area of 2 840 km². The country comprises two major islands, Savai’i and Upolu, eight smaller islands, plus some uninhabited islets. For administrative purposes, the country is divided into 11 districts. The capital city is Apia, located on Upolu island.
The agricultural area, which is the sum of arable land, permanent crops and permanent meadows and pasture, is estimated at 35 000 ha, which is 12 percent of the total area of the country. In 2013, the total physical cultivated area was estimated at 30 000 ha, of which 27 percent (8 000 ha) consisted of temporary crops and 73 percent (22 000 ha) of permanent crops (Table 1).
The topography of both Upolu and Savai’i island is rugged and mountainous, with about 40 and 50 percent of their territory respectively characterized by steep slopes descending from volcanic crests. The interior of both islands is covered with forests and contain volcanic peaks. The Upolu crestal ridge rises to 1 100 m, whereas Savai’i has more and younger volcanic cones with the highest peak reaching 1 848 m at Mount Silisili. The islands generally have a narrow coastal plain (SOPAC, 2007).
The climate of Samoa is tropical with abundant rainfall. The average daily temperature range is from 22º C to 30ºC varying only 1-2º C between the seasons due to its equatorial location. There are two major distinguishable seasons. The hot and wet season extends from November through April, while the cooler and drier season runs from May to October during which period the climate is pleasant because of fresh trade winds. The annual rainfall averages 2 880 mm, varying from 2 000 mm in the north-west parts of the main islands to over 6 000 mm in the highlands of Savai’i with about 75 percent of the precipitation occurring during November-January. Humidity averages 80 Percent (SPC, 2012; SBS, 2012; SOPAC, 2007).
In 2015, the total population was about 193 200, of which around 81 percent was rural (Table 1). About three quarters of the population live on the main island of Upolu. Population density is 68 inhabitants/km². Besides Upolu and Savai’i islands, only Manono and Apolima islands are inhabited. The average annual population growth rate in the 2005-2015 period was 0.7 percent.
In 2014, the Human Development Index (HDI) ranks Samoa 105 among 188 countries, while the Gender Inequality Index (GII) ranks it 97 among 155 countries, for which information was available. Life expectancy is 73 years and the under-five mortality is 18 per 1000 births, both progressing from 67 years and 27 per 1000 in the 1990s. With no significant distinction between boys and girls, around 95 percent of the children in 2013 are enrolled in primary education and 80 percent in secondary education (World Bank, 2015). In 2015, 99 percent of the population had access to improved water sources (98 and 99 percent in urban and rural areas respectively) and 92 percent of the total population had access to improved sanitation (93 and 91 percent in urban and rural areas respectively) (JMP, 2015).
In 2014, the gross domestic product (GDP) was US$ 801 million and agriculture accounted for 10 percent of GDP, while in 1994 it accounted for 23 percent.
The economy of Samoa has traditionally been dependent on development aid, family remittances from overseas, tourism, agriculture, and fishing (World Bank, 2016). The current Strategy for the Development of Samoa (SDS) 2012-2016 and the Agriculture Sector Plan (ASP) 2012-2016 set out goals and strategies for the re-invigoration of the agricultural sector both for local food security and for exports. Agriculture in the country has evolved from subsistence to semi-subsistence and commercialization, due to the demands of a growing population, the continuing shift to a cash-based economy, and technologies (MNRE, 2013).
Surface water and groundwater sources exist across most of Samoa, although their distribution is not uniform. The older volcanic terrain of the Fagaloa and Salani volcanics have a clay cover that results in impermeable strata, and therefore surface runoff. These older volcanics and associated surface water courses are mostly located on the eastern and southern halves of both the Upolu and Savai’i islands. The younger volcanics of the Mulifanua, Lefaga, Puapua and Aopo lave flows have little or no soil cover and allow the infiltration of nearly all rainfall. These lavas are highly permeable, allowing also rapid groundwater flow to the sea. These younger volcanics are along the north-west Upolu and Savai’i regions and coincide with the dominant distribution of coastal springs and good groundwater sources (MNRE, 2013; SOPAC, 2007).
Upolu island has about 15 more or less perennial rivers, while Savai’i island has about 4 perennial rivers (MNRE, 2013). River flow is good during the wet season whereas in the dry season, ephemeral rivers and streams begin to dry up and perennial river systems experience low flows (MNRE, 2013).
Rainwater harvesting has only been reported to be practiced to any extent in the Falealupo Peninsula of north-west Savaii, where a combination of the highly permeable Puapua volcanics and the relatively isolated geographic peninsula appear to result in saline groundwater and no surface water courses, giving the local populace no alternative but to use rainwater harvesting. This has been practiced since 1993. There is no known use of non-conventional sources of water in the country (SOPAC, 2007).
There are some crater lakes in Samoa. Lake Lanoto’o on Upolu island is the largest lake in the country (MNRE, 2013).
There are five hydropower schemes operating in the country at Afulilo, Lalomauga, Samasoni, Faleolefee and Alaoa. The latter three schemes abstract water from within the Vaisigano catchment. The Afulilo scheme includes the only dam in the country with a total capacity of 10 million m³, and stores water from a number of streams above the Vaipu wetland (Table 2). The five power stations provide about 40 percent of the annual national energy demand, varying from 70 percent in the wet season to only 20 percent in the dry season (MNRE, 2013).
In 2007, surface water provided approximately 65 percent and groundwater 35 percent of the total water withdrawal in Samoa. Most of water withdrawal and supply are operated by the Samoa Water Authority (SWA), some by independent water schemes in villages. In 2007, SWA operated 38 surface water intakes used for public water supply, 36 in Upolu (including 4 springs) and 2 in Savai’i, and 40 borehole supplies, 20 each on Savai’i and Upolu. In addition, there are 19 independent water schemes in Upolu and 5 in Savai’i. Water supply in northern, eastern and southern Upolu and eastern Savai’i is from surface water intakes, whereas that for western Upolu and rest of Savaii is from groundwater.
The urban water supply for greater Apia is supplied almost entirely from surface water intakes from the Vaisigano and Fuluasou rivers. Commercial and industrial uses are limited in Samoa, and rely for the most part on the urban water supply. The largest commercial activities are the brewery, coconut factory and approximately seven bottled water companies. Tourism in Samoa is growing and contributes to heavy water demand and high wastewater production, thus putting pressure on the water availability. Tourism relies also on the urban water supply (SOPAC, 2007; SPC, 2012).
SWA has responsibility for providing water services in rural areas, though coverage is not widespread and infrastructure is poorly maintained and users are reluctant to pay for the low levels of service they receive. Outside of these areas water is accessed through village operated and independent schemes or small household scale sources. In rural communities where there is no access to piped water, the most common water supply is untreated groundwater and surface water sources where available (ISF-UTS, 2011).
There is hardly any irrigated agriculture in Samoa, almost all is rainfed. However the Penina golf course has an irrigation system, fed from a borehole, but no information on water withdrawal for this is available. Surface water is also used for power generation (SOPAC, 2007).
Rainwater catchment systems are less common in Samoa than in the other Pacific Island countries, and some communities have reportedly refused to use subsidized rainwater tanks citing to dislike the taste. Rainwater harvesting is only practiced widely in the Falealupo Peninsula and in otherwise isolated and rural households (SOPAC, 2007; IFS-UTS, 2011).
Water shortages are reported during the dry season, especially during extended dry periods associated with the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), in the Apia area on Upolu served by surface water intakes and in the Falealupo Peninsula on Savai’i where groundwater is often brackish saline and the population relies upon rainwater harvesting (SOPAC, 2007). There is an increase in the development of groundwater resources to supplement surface water supplies in the country. SWA, some major hotels, and beverages and water bottling companies, as well as other large establishments have constructed their own production boreholes to provide reliable water services, especially during the dry season when river and stream flows are low (MNRE, 2013).
Irrigation areas in Samoa are very small. Small-scale irrigation needs are supplied by gravity from the numerous streams found on both main islands, but no information on exact areas is available.
The Ministry of Women, Community and Social Development (MWCSD) is the government department formally responsible for the rights and representation of women, as well as the mechanism by which the government coordinates and works with the traditional governance structure of the village communities (SOPAC, 2007).
The most important institutions involved in water resources management are:
The Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) is an intergovernmental, regional organization including 18 Pacific island countries and territories, as well as Australia and New Zealand. SOPAC’s work is carried out through its Secretariat, based in Suva. While the initial focus of its work was on marine mapping and geosciences, during recent years other scopes such as hazard assessment and risk management, environmental vulnerability, oceanography, energy, water and sanitation have been included.
The Water for Life initiative of the MNRE is an ongoing process to stimulate the development of Samoa's Water and Sanitation sector. The Water for Life Sector Plan 2012-2016 envisages the following sectoral objectives:
The Water Sector Support Programme (WSSP), funded in 2005 and financed by the European Union, was successful in creating a comprehensive and coherent framework for the development and evolution of the water sector. Amongst others, the programme has financed the rehabilitation of some rural schemes (MNRE, 2016).
In 2007, SOPAC implemented the sustainable integrated water resources and wastewater management project in Pacific Island countries, of which Samoa is a beneficiary. The project was funded by the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). The Apia catchment area was considered an appropriate pilot in this project (MNRE, 2016; SOPAC, 2007b).
The Pacific Hydrological Cycle Observing System (HYCOS), funded in 2008 by the EU-Water Facility (EU-WF), provided training and support to MNRE-WRD, over a three-year period, with the re-establishment of surface water hydrological stations to help establish a programme of sustainable water resources monitoring in Samoa (MNRE, 2016; SPC, 2012).
Major investments in rural water supply and sanitation schemes were planned for 2008-2011 by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and European Union (EU).
In 2010, SWA was able to cover its operation and maintenance costs from water sales (ISF-UTS, 2011).
The Samoa Water Resources Management Act 2008 (revised edition in 2014) makes provision for the management, conservation and use of water resources in Samoa including coastal waters where freshwater accumulates or discharges and is mixed with seawater. The Act sets out the principles of sustainable management of water resources, defines rights to control and manage water resources, regulates the taking and use of water, establishes the Samoa Water Resources Board, provides for the protection of the catchment areas, provides for community involvement in water resources management and defines offences. MNRE shall implement this Act and manage the water resource in accordance with principles set out in this Act (FAO, 2014).
Regular monitoring of rivers and streams for parameters including flow rates, temperature, turbidity, pH and dissolved oxygen (DO) is ongoing under the WRD of MNRE. Available processed data indicates that river flow rates are highly dependent on seasonal fluctuations in precipitation making it highly vulnerable to climate change and climate variability. Already, there is an emerging declining trend in river flow rates in the main rivers of Samoa with economic implications.
River and stream water quality is not a major issue based on indicators of turbidity, pH and dissolved oxygen, but there are reported incidences of high E.coli counts in water springs of several villages. Direct waste disposal into rivers and streams, especially in rivers in the urban setting, has contributed to a lot of pollution to the coastal areas and is now being targeted by the rehabilitation efforts of the WRD (MNRE, 2013).
Sanitation in Samoa is almost completely managed through individual septic systems. Approximately three quarters of the households in Apia are connected to septic tanks, but many of these are overflowing and thus leaking black and grey water into groundwater or surface streams (IFS-UTS, 2011).
Samoa experiences both floods and drought. Flooding often occurs during the wet season (November-April), following prolonged or intensive rainfall events, and can cause devastation in urban areas (MNRE, 2013). El Niño related dry periods can cause urban water supply problems in Apia. Even where rainfall is reduced for a relatively short period, impacts can be felt due to limited catchment and reservoir storage (SPC, 2012).
Salinization is known to occur at some boreholes in Savai’i, although this is generally thought to be due to over-pumping of an individual borehole rather than to saline water intrusion (over-abstraction from the aquifer as a whole). The Falealupo Peninsula is an exception, which might be prone to saline water intrusion (SOPAC, 2007).
Deforestation caused by agricultural clearing and commercial logging has changed the vegetation cover in Samoa. At present, the low volumes extracted in the few remaining logging activities are indicative of the largely depleted nature of Samoa’s native forests (MNRE, 2013).
The largest immediate threats to Samoa’s natural resources, including water, are extreme events associated with climate change and climate variability, such as cyclones, floods and droughts. Other threats exist, such as amongst others waste proliferation, poor sanitation systems, unsustainable exploitation of resources and poorly planned development initiatives. However, these threats are more manageable with timely and effective interventions (MNRE, 2013).
Water demand is increasing with population wealth, urbanization and an increase in major developments, including tourism. Despite considerable effort in water demand management measures, including metering, leakage detection and repair, tariff incentives and conservation awareness campaigns, per capita consumption of water are predicted to rise. Samoa recognizes the benefits of adopting more integrated water resources management approaches (SOPAC, 2007).
The potential for increased hydroelectric power generation or irrigation will directly compete with more traditional uses (SPC, 2012).
FAO. 2014. FAOLEX. Samoa: water Resources Management Act 2008.
FAO. 2015. FAOSTAT. http://faostat3.fao.org/download/Q/QC/E. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
ISF-UTS. 2011. Samoa water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector brief. Prepared for AusAID by the Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, October 2011.
JMP. 2015. Progress on drinking water and sanitation – 2015 update and MDG assessment. WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation.
MNRE. 2007. Integrated water resource management demonstration project. Apia water catchment. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
MNRE. 2013. State of the environment report. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
MNRE. 2013b. National Environment and Development Sector Plan (NESP) 2013-2016. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
MNRE. 2016. Water for life website. Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
SBS. 2012. Agriculture census. Analytical report 2009. Samoa Bureau of Statistics.
SOPAC. 2007. National integrated water resource management diagnostic report. Samoa. Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission.
SOPAC. 2007b. Samoa. Hot spots analysis and demonstration concept (IWRM). Final report. Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission.
SOPAC. 2015. Website of SOPAC. Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission.
SPC. 2012. Catalogue of rivers for Pacific Islands. Samoa. Secretariat of the Pacific Community.
SWA. 2015. Website of SWA. Samoa Water Authority.
UNDP. 2015. Human Development Reports: Data. United Nations Development Programme. New York.
World Bank. 2015. World Development Indicators. World DataBank. World Bank. Washington.
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By Pastor Eric
To reconcile is to restore to friendship or harmony. Another way of saying it is, to restore true relationship. This is what God did through Christ and the cross. He restored the relationship between man and Himself.
Look at 2 Corinthians 5:18,19 “And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”
Notice that the Lord didn’t stop at reconciliation between Himself and mankind. He took it a step further and gave us a ministry of reconciliation. We are expected, through Christ in us, to restore relationships towards one another, our fellow man. It is through Him and not of ourselves that we can accomplish this.
With all this being said, there is yet another area that must be dealt with. That area lies within the inner man. To reconcile with yourself about yourself.
Yes we all have junk, baggage, stuff, whatever you want to call it. Sometimes our greatest challenge is with ourselves. We can’t truly reconcile with others when we haven’t done it for ourselves.
How does that work, you might ask? There are a few simple steps. One is to know and understand that God loves you and has forgiven you of all sin. Secondly, recognize that you, in your own strength, cannot fix you. Only through Christ and His strength can you be fixed. Thirdly, is to know who you are in Christ.
Be reconciled with God the Father, then yourself and others. Recognize the power that is in you to accomplish this.
Occasionally Pastors Eric and Laura will write as the Lord leads them. There may be prophetic words or insights and revelation that have come to them. They share these with the intention that someone would be blessed and encouraged or admonished, something we all need once in a while. | <urn:uuid:5b2bcaf9-8503-41f4-8715-4571f68224aa> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.gatheringplaceinternational.org/pastors-blog/reconciliation | 2019-07-24T09:15:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.971575 | 423 |
Celine Dion – a woman who has a beautiful voice. Whichever song she sang, it will always be a masterpiece. It is worth noting that many of her fans interested in the question about the secret of her youth and beauty. Today, we try to deal with this issue.
1. Care. Every evening you must remove make-up, and in the morning and evening, the skin should be cleaned. Avoid skin condition where pores scored to the limit. To cope with this problem is very difficult. After cleaning, you need to apply a cream that suits your age.
2. Hair. As for the beauty of hair, everything is simple: the less dry the hair dryer and more often applied to the roots of burdock oil.
3. Manicure. For nails should always follow. After cleaning their fingernails pink coat lacquer or milk.
4. Power. Eat right – it should be the motto of every woman.
5. Sport. Engage better with the trainer to all exercises carried out correctly.
6. Attitudes toward people. Treat people the way you would like them to treat you. All natural and very simple.
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Eser, Besteci, Solist Aratın:
Solist Tanıtımı - İngilizce
Elena Kuschnerova was the last pianistic discovery of Harold Schonberg (1915-2003), music critic for the New York Times and prolific author on great performers. After listening to her debut CD, he dubbed her a "Pianist who grabs the imagination", and he lauded her Scriabin CD as "the best recorded performances I am familiar with" (American Record Guide, 2000 and 2001).
Earlier, Kuschnerova's Prokofiev CD (1997) had been awarded the prestigious "German Record Critics' Award (Preis der Deutschen Schalplattenkritik). A year later it was included on a list of the 50 best "Desert Island" piano recordings of all time by the German music magazine SCALA.
In its 70-year history, the Penguin Guide, the world's most venerated source of classical reviews, has bestowed fewer than two dozen Rosettes on piano recordings, a distinction that eluded many of history's most famous pianists. The most recent of these was awarded to Elena Kuschnerova's all-Bach Recital (2001) in the Penguin Guide's 2003/04 issue. The team of Penguin reviewers admonished readers to "make no mistake, this disc... is altogether outstanding. Indeed it is one of the finest Bach recitals on the piano... the present recital leaves the listener feeling exhilarated and purified as only the best Bach playing can."
Born into a musical family, Elena Kuschnerova started her pianistic education when she was 5, playing her first concerto with orchestra at the age of 9 (The f minor concerto by Bach under the baton of Emin Khachaturyan, recorded by Moscow Radio). She excelled at the elite Moscow Central Music School where she studied with Tatiana Kestner, also the teacher of Andrei Gavrilov and Nikolai Lugansky, and later at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Sergei Dorensky. Elena Kuschnerova was influenced by the great and controversial Russian composer Alexander Lazarevich Lokshin (1920-1987), who wrote a variation cycle for her.
After graduating with an honors diploma, she spent eight years touring in the capitals of the former Soviet Union, with occasional forays into Western Europe.
Moving to Germany in 1992 gave a push to Elena Kuschnerova's career. Her recitals and CDs encompass an enormous range, from Bach to first performances of works composed for her, and have brought her international acclaim. Elena Kuschnerova has concertized with a number of orchestras, in addition to expressing her deep love for chamber music on the concert stage.
Elena Kuschnerova played at many important Festivals such as the Gustav Mahler Music Festival in Toblach, the Bach Festival in Ansbach, the Festival of Rarities of the Piano Music in Husum, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Clef de Soleil in Lille, etc. In 2002, Elena Kuschnerova premiered a piano concerto written for her by Siegfried Matthus at the Dresden Festival together with Dresden Philarmonic Orchestra under the baton of Marek Janowski. She has performed this work many times since then, including a performance with the RSO Berlin under Michail Jurowski.
Elena Kuschnerova has been conducting concert tours in Japan for many years. A CD with live recording of her 2003 Tokyo recital was released by Steinway Japan. Elena Kuschnerova's new Stravinsky and Brahms CDs have been released in spring 2005 and the latter has received the Supersonic Award from the music magazin Pizzicato. The new CD with "Seven Romantic Ballades" composed for her by the Russian composer Mikhail Kollontay as well as Balladen Op.10 by Brahms has been released in 2008.
Elena Kuschnerova is also internationally recognized as a piano professor, giving master classes in Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, and the USA. Since 2006 she has been guest professor at the Elisabeth University of Music in Hiroshima.
Elena Kuschnerova has been a Steinway Artist since 2002.
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Rappists, The Harmony Society
Die Gesellschaft Harmony - Rapp und die Rappisten
"The settlement made more rapid advances in wealth and prosperity, than any equal body of men in the world at any period of time, more, in one year, than other parts of the United States ... have done in ten."
"But whether reverend Rapp learned this while in Germany
"Niemals habe ich eine so wahrhaft patriarchalische Verfassung gesehen als hier, und das, was die Menschen gewirkt haben, spricht am Besten fü:r ihre Einrichtungen und für die unter ihnen herrschende Eintracht."
Duke Bernhard of Weimar
New Harmony, Indiana
New Harmony is the site of two of America's great utopian communities. The first, Harmonie on the Wabash (1814-1824), was founded by the Harmony Society, a group of Separatists from the German Lutheran Church. In 1814, led by their charismatic leader Johann Georg Rapp, they left their first American home, Harmonie, PA. Indiana's lower Wabash Valley on the western frontier gave them the opportunity to acquire a much larger tract of land. In 1825, the Ha rmonists moved back to Pennsylvania and built the town of Economy near Pittsburgh. Robert Owen, Welsh-born industrialist and social philosopher, bought their Indiana town and the surrounding lands for his communitarian exper iment. The Harmonists combined the Swabian work ethic ("Work, work, work! Save, save, save!") with the Benedictine rule ("Pray and work!"). This resulted in an unheard of economic achievement that was recognized as "the wonder of the west."
The Indiana years proved to be the golden decade of the Harmony society. Their industries prospered. Agricultural and manufactured products were marketed to major cities in the United States and abroad. New Harmony, with it manicured gardens and neat tree-lined street, was renowned for its beauty. The town was largely self-sufficient. There were 2000 acres of highly cultivated land, including a 15-acre vineyard and a 35-acre orchard of choice apple and pear tress. Four large brick dwellings, a steam engine, two large granaries, wool and cotton factories, a threshing machine, a 5-acre vegetable garden, and more than 126 family dwelling houses were carefully cataloged by the Harmonists in a final inventory of the town that was prepared prior to its sale to Robert Owen.
Robert Owen's ambition was to create a more perfect society through free education and the abolition of social classes and personal wealth. World-renowned scientists and educators settled in New Harmony. With the help of William Maclure, the Scottish geologist and businessman, they introduced vocation education, kindergarten and other educational reforms.
Harmonist Society History
Johann Georg[e] Rapp was born on November 1, 1757 in the village of Iptingen [now one of four communities administered from Wiernsheim, 25 km from Stuttgart] in the then province of Württemberg. His father, Hans Adam Rapp, was a peasant wine grower. Georg had one brother, Adam, who died on his way to America, and three sisters, Marie Dorothea, Elise Dorothea, and Maria Barbara, who all went to America.
After finishing school, George Rapp became a journeyman weaver. In 1783 he married Christina Benzinger; they had two children, Johannes (1783) and Rosina (1786). Rapp, inspired by the writings of 17th-century German mystic Jakob Boehme and by Pietist and Anabaptist thought, became convinced that the individual can communicate directly with God, and the Layman can interpret the Word of God himself. Others who felt similarly soon joined Rapp. His followers began to form a distinct sectarian movement around 1785, at which time Rapp officially broke with the Church. From this point the Separatists grew rapidly in numbers and influence. Because civil and religious affairs were still closely intertwined at that time, Rapp's nonconformity was viewed as dangerous to the government and civil order. In 1787 the first of many o fficial investigations of the Separatists took place and their meetings were banned.
For holding services in his Iptingen home and attracting followers with his unacceptable Anabaptist concepts, Rapp was briefly imprisoned and fined in 1791. Several of his followers were fined. Some were even threatened with the insane asylum. All feared being driven from their homes at any moment.
By 1798, and particularly through formulating Articles of Faith in the "Lomersheimer Declaration," Rapp's movement had to be reckoned with by state and church as a new denomination. This declaration, named after the town of Lomersheim, specifies that the movement's adherents object to what they perceived as being empty church ceremonies, i.e. practices such as baptism and confirmation. They objected to sending their children to school where Church (Lutheran) doctrine was taught, and they refused to serve in the military. They objected to communion being given by impure minis ters to impure members of the congregation. They liked to express themselves as the spirit of God moved them, and they could not do this in Church. The Articles made no mention of communal living, millenarianism, or chastity/celibacy. However, these future tenets of the Harmonist Society were being practiced in their formative stages in the late 1790s.
The harassment by local Church authorities caused Rapp to contemplate emigrating to American. It is reported that his followers numbered as many as 20,000 at this point. In July 1803, Rapp and his son Johannes, Dr. Christoph Müller, and Dr. Frederick Haller [who soon broke with Rapp to establish his own colony at Blooming Grove, PA] sailed for America to find a location where his followers might enjoy the blessings of religious freedom. Friedrich/Frederick Reichert was left in charge of the congregat ion. While Rapp was gone, new and stricter government regulations led to more investigations, persecution, and imprisonment.
On October 7, 1803, Rapp and his companions arrived in Philadelphia. They were interested in government land in Ohio, and petitioned President Jefferson for special consideration in a land purchase, not realizing that such a petition would have to pass through Congress. On May 1, 1804 the first 300 of Rapp's followers left Germany on the "Aurora". They arrived in Baltimore on July 4, with Dr. David Gloss as their leader. Around September 14, 1804, a party of 257 arrived in Philadelphia aboard the "Atlant ic"; they were led by Frederick Reichert. Another group arrived on September 19. The last contingent reached America on September 19, 1804 on the "Margaret".
In the beginning the followers were scattered, for a location for the community had not yet been found. Some settled in Ohio, expecting Rapp to settle there. When Pennsylvania was chosen many of these followers remained in Ohio under the leadership of Dr. Gloss. Others were scattered, camping with Rapp or living with German families.
The Harmony Society took care of its adherents' every conceivable need. Early commercial ventures included tailor, hat, shoe, and print shops. The tailor and shoemaker watched fellow members arrive for weekly worship services. If they clothes seemed shabby or their shoes worn, replacements would be provided. An 1827 alphabetical listing of all merchandise sold (with original prices) by the Harmony Store still exists. The store shelves; also reveal the breadth of items sold here.
In examining George Rapp's papers, Shepherd discovered a revealing passage. Rapp wrote that he would "go to Pittsburgh with the girls and see what kind of taste the world now has to choose the best and the most useful out of this to obtain what is most necessary." At the store villagers purchased "worldly goods" for daily use, such a chine and glass, as well as objects for enrichment and enjoyment, including works of art, musical instruments, and books.
The furnishings reflect their simple life style, verified by an inventory taken for a 1847 court case. Eventually added to many dwelling were family sheds, which served as wood, tool, and drying shed, root cellar, cow shed, and outhouse. (The Harmonists even trained their cows to come to these sheds to be milked, rather than have workers walk to the field). Each household had a garden plot with vegetables, herbs, and flowers. The Bakers' garden today is planted according to a list of plants and herbs compiled by a young schoolgirl, Clara Knodel, in 1825.
Even though the group practiced celibacy much of the time, there were some young residents. A visitor wrote that one child was born each year. The charismatic Rapp was much beloved by young and old, and in an account of his visit in 1826 the Duke of Saxe-Weimar wrote: "Mr. Rapp conducted us into the factory again, and said that the girls had especially requested that visit that I might hear them sing…The girls sang four pieces, at first sacred, but afterward, by Mr. Rapp's desire, of a gay character." The duke, who published his remarks two years later in two volumes entitled Travels Through North America, went on to remark, "All the workmen, and especially the females, have very healthy complexions and moved me deeply by the warm-hearted friendliness with which they saluted the elder Rapp. I was also much gratified to see vessels containing fresh sweet-scented flowers standing on all the machines. The neatness which universally reigns here is in every respect worth of praise."
Hungarian poet Nicholas Lenau spent six months in 1832 in Harmony. Lenau wrote Don Juan, a poem that Richard Strauss set to music. Perhaps not so coincidentally a poem written by Lord Byron in 1824, also entitled Don Juan, mentions both George Rapp and the Harmony Society.
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Carlsen wins TATA for the 7th time
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Carlsen’s tournament record is the perfect definition of boring: repetitive, the “same old thing”, “once again”, “nothing different”, etc. In any other sport, Carlsen would be considered a god. But in chess, Carlsen is just plain boring!
Joking aside, winning a tournament like Tata 7 times is one for the record books, and one that is unlikely to be broken any time soon.
While Carlsen’s play was hardly his best chess, it was the consistency of his play that allowed him to edge out his nearest rivals. It always does.
Before the tournament began, Carlsen had achieved what was probably the longest running ‘draw’ streak ever by a world champion, and even some of his most die-hard fans were beginning to worry.
But once Magnus showed us that he still knew how to win a game of chess, then there was little doubt that the Norwegian superstar would rackup yet another trophy. For Magnus, it is a lot like riding a bike…and he fully deserved to win the tournament.
Ding,Liren. A name to remember. Tata was yet one more tournament where the Chinese superstar did not lose a single game. Only Carlsen could boast the same. But he won only twice, whereas the Norwegian won 5 games.
Many see Ding as the next challenger for the World Championship. I think that this is wrong: Ding is going to be the next World Champion!
I believe that his best chess is better than Carlsen’s best chess–and this tournament proved it–but Ding’s opponents played better against him than they did against the World Champion, and so this explains Carlsen’s 1.5 point margin.
Vladimir Kramnik needs no introduction. Former World Champion, and the only man of his generation capable of defeating Kasparov in a match.
Everything went wrong for Kramnik in this tournament, right from the start. He consistently got good positions, but self destructed time and time again. In the end, his 6 losses guaranteed his last place finish, despite winning twice in the final 3 rounds.
Of course, he brought it on himself…Kramnik is trying to change his style of play from that of a positional player to that of an aggressive attacker. Good idea, but certainly the wrong tournament to try this strategy out!
Kramnik is his harshest critic: he accepted his setbacks with a shrug and more than once wrote it all off to his advancing age…I don’t think that Kramnik believed this one bit, but he did not want to have to make lame excuses.
When a great player like Kramnik plays badly, there is no good excuse. Typical of his down to earth, humble attitude is the interview he gave after winning his first game (in round 11):
His first Super-Tournament
Twenty-seven year old Sam Shankland was invited for this year’s Tata tournament by virtue of his consistently top-level performances. Sam had an absolutely brilliant 2018-season, firmly establishing himself as a 2700-plus player.
Sam is on a mission. He wants to take on the very best in the world and come out on top. Not an easy task, especially coming from North America. A steady diet of Swiss Open tournaments when he was an up and coming youngster did not quite prepare him for the more demanding round-robbin / knock-out tournaments that are mainstay at the top.
Tata_2019 was Sam’s first super-tournament, and he did reasonably well, probably better than most expected of the American. With a bit of help from the off-form Kramnik in the last round, Shankland was able to finish the tournament with a 50% score.
Nothing earth shaking, but enough to demonstrate that he is a really strong player. If you watch the video below, snippets from video published by the Tata film production unit, you can get a good idea of Sam’s approach to this tournament, and of his unshakeable self-confidence.
Some might consider Sam’s attitude to be a bit unobjective. No body plays his best in these really tough tournaments, especially in his first super-tournament. Also, I think that Sam does not quite understand that in such a great tournament he is expected to finish in the bottom half.
This is not a reflection on his own chess skill, but instead acknowledges that there are simply many players better than Sam at this point and time. Sam will need quite a bit more experience in such events to develop his full potential. Atleast, however, Sam’s result in Tata shows that he is competitive with the world’s top players. | <urn:uuid:194f827c-02ee-4f37-9baf-2c4e90495d4c> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.spraggettonchess.com/carlsen-wins-tata-for-the-7th-time/ | 2019-07-24T09:28:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.981159 | 1,010 |
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Sunday, March 2, 2014
Casio Forester - Time for a New Battery
My Casio Forester finally gave up the ghost. It needs a new battery. That could be a problem because I found the battery on my last one difficult to change. You can read about that in my Casio Forester review:
Fortunately, the Casio Forester watch is quite inexpensive and after two and half years I can probably just get a new one. Plus, the crystal on mine has a minor scuff.
Casio Forester (Back Plate)
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