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Tick season is among us and it's said to be the worst in years!
May is tick awareness month and now that spring has finally sprung here on Long Island with the blooming of tulips, daffodils, cherry blossoms and green buds on the trees. We all are looking forward to spending time outside, whether it be hiking, gardening or having a picnic at your local park or beach. However, with the warmer weather comes the pesky insects such as ticks! These bloodsuckers also carry serious life altering disease such as Lyme, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Babesiosis and a new tick known as the East Asian Tick to name a few.
The best way to deal with these pests without causing harm to yourself, family, neighbors, pets and the environment is to have your property sprayed with an organic product and to plant bug repellent plants around your home. It’s best to start treating your property early in the season such as in March-April and continue throughout the summer months.
Plant Lavender and Rosemary around your property.
Keep your lawn short, cut back shrubs and clean up leaves.
Wear long pants and sleeves and tuck in loose clothing.
Frequent clothing, body and pet checks. | 2019-04-22T02:24:24 | https://www.luckytolivehererealty.com/blog/Tick-Prevention-on-Long-Island/61792 |
The Australian market looks set to open lower following a dip on Wall Street led by financials and lower oil prices weighing on energy companies.
The SPI is trading at 5338, down 24 points.
Locally, no major economic or equities news is expected.
China aggregate financing, new yuan loans, M2 money supply (May), Canada jobs report (May), US monthly budget statement (May), Mexico industrial production (April), Turkey current-account deficit (April) and GDP (1Q), Italy industrial production (April), France industrial production (April). | 2019-04-25T23:51:28 | https://www.australianstockreport.com.au/insights/morning-market-update-10-june-2016/ |
We are leading the way in innovation in Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda and other East Bay cities with our environmental-friendly practices. An increasingly large percentage of our vehicles administer an environmentally sensitive alternative to commonly used fuels, called Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). Since CNG is lighter than air, it disperses quickly when leaked or spilled. This is just one of the ways we are doing our part in helping Oakland and other cities meet ambitious targets for a cleaner and greener community.
Friendly Cab is currently renovating our headquarters to create make a more positive impact in our East Oakland neighborhood. Recycled water is already being used for our car-washing facility, and upgraded buildings will improve energy efficiency, reduce waste, and promote the use of public transportation and bicycles by our employees. Our facility will have a pleasant, attractive, and high-quality street presence, improving our neighborhood and its businesses as well as the global environment. Construction is underway.
One of Friendly Cab's most important initiatives in 2009 is the launch of a hybrid taxi fleet. These greener vehicles will not only lower our emissions but create visibility and buzz around hybrid car ownership in the East Bay. As a leader in taxi technology and transportation efficiency, we hope that taxi companies worldwide will follow our initiatives to help make the environment cleaner and safer for generations to come. | 2019-04-20T14:25:02 | http://friendlycab.com/index.php/community-our-commitment/green-community |
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Breakfast serve at hotel, visit Wat Intharawihan (Standing Buddha), this Buddha image that reaches to the sky at 32 meters tall. Then continue to take boat to across Chao Phaya River to visit Wat Arun, 'The Temple of Dawn' (The last capital in Thailand) in Thnburi (compulsory donation fee THB50 per person for entrance to temple at own expenses). Thereafter, shopping stop at Gemstone Factory, Leather Shop and Honeybee Shop. After that, drop off at 4 Face Buddha at Erawan Shrine for pray and wishes. After tour, transfer back to hotel directly or you may free at own leisure and own arrangement back to hotel.
Bangkok half day city tour will be based on English speaking tour guide service. Mandarin speaking tour guide can be request with additional charges. | 2019-04-23T00:53:47 | https://www.12fly.com.my/trips/asia/thailand/bangkok/3-days-2-nights-bangkok-free-easy/?l=1547685253 |
StarForce Technologies signed a contract with “Ernst & Young”.
The first stage of cooperation implies protection of a multi-media course distributed on CDs.
The course is targeted at Russian accountants and audit professionals that work under western audit requirements.
«It is an important step in strengthening our position in the Russian corporate market. We have been working successfully with western partners for a while now and are certainly happy to star cooperation with the large Russian business», says Vassiliy Kosmynin the StarForce sales director for Europe.
IT experts of "Ernst & Young " appreciated StarForce service and quality protection systems.
StarForce Technologies and “Ernst & Young” are going to increase the number of published training courses in the nearest future.
Ernst & Young focuses on seven major industry groups: financial services; technology, communications and entertainment; energy, chemicals and utilities; industrial products; retailing and consumer products; health sciences; and real estate, hospitality and construction. Our practices provide specific services for additional industries on a country-by-country basis.
StarForce Technologies is an expert in gaming, educational, entertainment and business software protection against copying and cracking as well as in PC and corporate networks protection from various kinds of external and internal threats and unauthorized access. | 2019-04-22T06:47:54 | http://www.star-force.com/press/news/index.php?news=1942 |
The type specimens from the Andringitra mountains have the following set of characteristic features: small size (males 15 mm, females 20 mm); vomerine teeth rudimentary or absent; lateral metatarsalia connected, and only a trace of webbing.
Own material: Males from Ankaratra measure 16 mm, males from Andringitra 15.5-17.0 mm. Femoral glands are indistinct. The colouration is typical: Three dark brown stripes on a light copper-brown back.
Similar species: See B. wittei.
Andringitra (Ambalamarina, Ambalamarovandana, Andohariana), Ambatovory, Ambohitantely, Torotorofotsy, Manjakatompo, Mantasoa. Terra Typica Ambalamarovandana, Andringitra mountains, 1500 m altitude; mare Antorotorofotsy (near Andasibe); S of Moramanga; Manjakatompo; Ambalamarina; plateau at the base of Pic Boby. Observed at elevations from 900 to 1800 m.
Habits: Calling males were found hidden under vegetation in sun-exposed swamps in January and February. The calls were heard between 15.00 h and 21.30 h.
Call (from Andringitra): The structure of the call is very similar to the call of B. grandisonae. Two different unharmonious note types exist. A long note (duration about 330-350 ms) is followed by a series of 4-8 click-note-pairs. Each note-pair (duration 35-40 ms) consists of one longer (ca. 20 ms) click followed by one shorter (ca. 10 ms) click. Intervals between note-pairs are ca. 30 ms, between both notes of one note pair ca. 15 ms. Frequency is between 3.6 and 4.8 kHz. Calls from Manjakatompo and Ankeniheny are very similar. At Manjakatompo sometimes series of long notes (type 1) were emitted with a repetition rate 0.6/s. Such series could be triggered by play-back of conspecific calls, indicating a territorial function of this note type.
Species Account Citation: AmphibiaWeb 2010 Blommersia domerguei <http://amphibiaweb.org/species/4593> University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Accessed Apr 26, 2019. | 2019-04-26T15:23:25 | https://amphibiaweb.org/cgi/amphib_query?query_src=&where-genus=Blommersia&where-species=domerguei |
"Whilst it’s a really tough life, we really love it. And obviously we do ‘cause there’s no way we’d still be here if we didn’t."
Life on the farm isn't just about the tough times: on his trip to Northern NSW Ben Smith also found out that it's a unique life that makes it worth riding out the hardships.
Hear Ben talk to farmers from Qurindi about the beauty of living on the land, and join us at the game this Easter Monday to show your support #forthefarmers.
Click through to buy your tickets and be part of our Easter Monday blockbuster! | 2019-04-21T14:18:50 | https://www.parraeels.com.au/news/2014/04/18/forthefarmers-life-on-the-land/ |
The Zwilling J.A. Henckels Twin Four Star II Carving Set includes a 7-inch Carving Fork and 8-inch Carving Knife. Zwilling Twin Four Star II series is one of Zwilling's precision forged professional cutlery lines. This entire collection features precision forged knives made from a single piece of Zwilling exclusive high carbon stainless steel. As a result, the knives have improved quality consistency, lasting sharpness, and perfect geometry. In addition, the steel blade goes through a special ice-hardening process called Friodur. This process changes the molecular structure of the steel improving the cutting properties providing a remarkably sharp blade and ensures a long lasting cutting edge. Each knife is hand sharpened, polished and laser controlled to assure the cutting edge is accurate along the full length of the blade. Zwilling Twin Four Star II knives feature high impact polypropylene handles with a stainless steel end-cap that are permanently bonded to the knife blades without any gaps. These comfortable, molded handles are break-proof, sanitary, and colorfast. In addition, the super bolster and full tang provides weight, insures safety, and adds balance. Made in Germany with a lifetime warranty. | 2019-04-26T16:22:07 | https://www.cutleryandmore.com/henckels-twin-four-star-ii/carving-set-p113929 |
The drama surrounding the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process has many people in America losing sleep at night, and a comment made by a senior source involved in the confirmation process appears to have taken the drama-level up yet another notch or two.
While Republicans plan to hold a final vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation, likely this weekend, following the FBI’s report, many within the media have seemingly leaned toward Kavanaugh being confirmed. The assumption that many are making is that between Senator Collins, Murkowski and Flake, at least two of them will vote ‘yes’.
Things aren’t so cut and dry, however, as the situation seems to change on a minute-by-minute basis.
“We’re going into this vote and we don’t have 50 right now,” a senior source close to the process confirmed to Axios late last night. “There’s been a lot of work that was done today, by members wading through this material. I don’t want to put my thumb on the scale. Things keep moving — so much, it feels like we’re walking on quicksand. So I don’t even want to say confidence or not confidence,” the source continued.
All it will take is two Republicans and all Democrats voting “no” on confirmation to tank Kavanaugh, and force the President to nominate a new candidate for the nation’s highest court.
While it is possible that West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin will vote ‘yes,’ that will likely only be the case if he is not the deciding vote. If two of the three Republicans vote ‘no,’ Manchin would almost certainly vote ‘no’ with them. If, on the other hand, only one Republican votes ‘no’ it’s very possible that Manchin could vote ‘yes’.
The entire situation is incredibly fluid and things appear to change as each new story related to Judge Kavanaugh breaks. | 2019-04-22T12:55:24 | https://hillreporter.com/republicans-dont-have-50-yes-votes-on-kavanaugh-according-to-senior-source-9385 |
Vote for Olympia's Nominees in King 5 "Best of Northwest Escapes"
King 5 Evening has announced the Olympia area’s Giant Metal Cows as one of Western Washington’s top Roadside Attractions and Ranch House BBQ as one of the top Road Trip Eats in its Best of Northwest Escapes viewer’s poll of the best regional getaways. The giant sculptures are located on the south side of Highway 101 west of Olympia, welcoming visitors from the coast to this decidedly different destination. Love the friendly cows as much as we do? Enjoy the flavorful BBQ of Ranch House? Cast a vote for these local gems at this link. Inspiration from this interstate icon, the delicious outdoor staple food, and the warming temperatures have us dreaming of the open road, sights to see and bites to find. See our top five road trips using Olympia as your home base. Head out this weekend, chart a spring break plan or plan ahead for summer.
Surfs up at Washington’s Beaches. Spot the aforementioned Giant Metal Cows on the way to Westport. Head 70 miles west from the Olympia region to Westport, a seaside spot that is quickly becoming known for its big waves and friendly community. Rent a surfboard and gear, bring your own or just set up shop on the beach to watch the experts hang-ten.
See signs of spring along the Bountiful Byway. Farms and Farmers Markets are beginning to share early spring crops, which means visitors may find fresh peas, asparagus, greens and more to bring home. As the weather continues to warm, the fields and markets around Olympia create a tasty journey. Chart your course using the Bountiful Byway’s self-guided tour map and craft your own adventure based on interests like beverage tasting, touring local farms or unique and historic stops like Wolf Haven International(by appointment only), Evergreen Valley Lavender Farm (opens June 14), Lael’s Moon Garden Nursery and more.
Meet these Small Towns. You’ve heard of our state capital, but how about Rochester, Tenino or Bucoda? Take a drive into the area’s rural communities and discover that small town charm still exists just a short way from Seattle’s hustle and bustle. In Tenino, find hand-carved, sandstone treasures and watch them being made or make your own with classes taught at the Stone Carver’s Shed. Taste local wine at Scatter Creek Winery or Sandstone Distillery. Nearby, don’t miss Volunteer Park in Bucoda. Grab your pole, some bait and spend the afternoon fishing along the Skookumchuck River. In Rochester, test your luck, catch a show or enjoy a delicious meal at Lucky Eagle Casino & Hotel.
Meet Mount Rainier’s Wildflowers. Head for the hills on a trip to Mount Rainier National Park for possibly the northwest’s best wildflower viewing. Pack a picnic lunch with local fare from the Olympia Farmers Market (open Thurs-Sunday, April-October) and road trip it for an hour and a half to the park. Plan ahead for this one as wildflowers typically reach their peak from Mid-July to late August, depending on how fast the snow melts. This iconic Washington-state park offers a range of trails and areas to explore, this handy list from Visit Rainier lists the Top Ten Wildflower Hikes. Enjoy plenty of time to explore before returning to town for dinner and night in the town, or a good night’s rest.
Take a Scenic Selfie Tour using the recently installed “Selfie Spots” as a guide. Visitors will find historic and iconic locations like Tumwater Falls and Heritage Park Fountain near the waterfront to under-the-radar, locally loved locations like the Rainier Mural or Shipwreck Beads. Plan a route of snap-worthy sights or challenge yourself to visit all 20. Find the full list, along with tips for taking your best shot from a New York Times photographer at this link.
Follow along to find out the Best Roadside Attraction winner using #BestNWEscapes and tag @KING5Evening. Show us your road trip adventures using #DecidedlyDifferent and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter (@Experience_Oly) and Instagram (@ExperienceOly). | 2019-04-22T10:54:10 | https://www.experienceolympia.com/blog/post/start-your-engines-five-south-sound-road-trips/ |
Losing Sanity: Can We Love Our Second Children As Much?
One of my very first blogger buddies was Hart Johnson. We have Oregon and writing in common and as I got to know her through comments and blog posts, I realized we also have slightly wacky senses of humor in common too...which is why I'm so excited to have her here today to help celebrate and promote her cozy mystery, The Begonia Bribe. I read The Azalea Assault in, like, a day and I'm setting aside a summer day for The Begonia Bribe too.
And then you have a second baby, and you figure, I'm an old pro. I've done this before. I've GOT THIS.
While my books in the Garden Society Mystery series were technically written 7th and 9th, they were the first and second published, respectively... And MAN, am I going through second time mom syndrome... I'm all relaxed when I ought to be panicking, totally forgetting certain details... And I'm embarrassed to shout to the world HELLO!!! I know you gave me the FABULOUS gift of love and support a year ago, but I need it again!!! Pretty please! And things that I did and were unnecessary the first time, I skipped and totally should have done this time around... The Begonia Bribe is definitely going to need YEARS of therapy.
And all the while, I can't help comparing my children... the first was so perky and personable... she got right out there in people's faces—on a Barnes and Noble TOWER in the peak book buying month—and I got pictures of her all over the world being held by various friends... This second child seems just a little slow to warm up. I'm not sure what to do about that. Maybe she resents that I didn't eat as carefully or watch my weight as well during my pregnancy.
She's still on a tower... so that's something. But not nearly as many shipped. Oh, I know... it has to do with how many SOLD the first time—they are trying to match better, but I'm worried it will give her an inferiority complex!
And all in all, I ALSO had a much harder time getting this book written... second in a series... how much do I retell? What portion of readers will read the first first so they know already? What portion will read them out of order so I have to watch out for spoilers? Because these are in ORDER, but the murders stand alone... so the only REAL spoilers that matter are who died and who killed them. But those sort of matter, yeah?
I'm not sure why #2 was so hard and then #3 was relatively easy... In fact my beta readers both loved #3 best of the set, but there it is. They also say with parenting: When you have one, you spend all day just gazing at your child. When you have a second, you spend all day watching your first child to make sure they don't hurt your second. When you have a third, you spend all day hiding from your children... so there's that.
Labels: See. Isn't she phenomenal. Her book babies are going to be fine. They'll grow up to be perfectly well-adjusted book adults. Make sure you buy them to help them on their way through book adolescence.
Looking forward to reading book 2, Hart!
And a wonderful analogy here. You're absolutely right--the second book is incredibly different...and not so new and shiny to us as the first! Makes it tough to promote it as hard as we did the first time around.
My first and second books are really different. And yet I think I made all the mistakes with the first one.
Actually this analogy only works for me the other way round - my second child was easier to love than the first and so was my second novel!
It is funny how the process of writing a book, even within the same series, is so different from book to book.
Congrats Hart on your second baby!
I loved the Azalea Assault, and I'm sure I will love The Begonia Bribe! Hart, your books are well plotted and your characters are wonderful people who could be my friends. I agree that each child is a different parenting experience--but we don't need to feel guilty about that. The fact is what works one week won't work the next in this business, and it's a constant struggle.
They always say we're only as good as our next book, so (as a fan) I hope you're planning a large family!
Elizabeth, maybe that is part of it... the shiny new thing... (or lack there of).
Alex-always best to do it that way!
Cecelia-that's great that the second was easier! Sounds like you learned, too.
LG-Really caught me off guard, actually!
Connie, thank you so much! And yes... some kids really need different stuff... My daughter has been easier on the tails and much harder in the middle, and my son seems to be doing just the opposite.
I'm experiencing this same thing. I loved the watching/hiding part!
Great to see you here with Johanna! Waving!
Good luck with The Begonia Bribe.
That first book always holds a special place in our hearts. However, the second in my series will always be my favorite even though it wasn't the fans' favorite.
I read somewhere that songwriters have a difficult time with their second albums, especially when their first albums are successful. They said it was because they spent years working on their first album, but they had less time to work on the second one; also, they were under even more pressure to deliver another successful album. So I think that that can apply to your situation regarding your second book; it's a lot of pressure, but the fact that you completed more than one book is a big accomplishment in itself.
Carol-Makes sense that you would be!
Diane-funny how are favorites don't always do the best!
NW-that is definitely part of it... with a series contract, there IS less time for the later ones than the first. My biggest issue was calculating the time that would be needed for feedback.
I like this. Sometimes we need permission for things to be different each time around. It's still our writing, but new and different.
I hope I'm better with my future kids than I am with my books, then. I have that one book that I always say, "Yes, read this one. It's the best," and then I have others that I say, "Eh, let's just not talk about that one... It's not important."
Barbara-it DOES help to have permission, eh?
The comparison to having children is awesome.
Oh and I didn't want to have your second child grow up with a complex.
Pat the little one on the head and let her know that she is included on my TBR list.
Though call Hart, since I only have one child. But it just goes to show that books, like children, are a growth experience and we learn along the way. A great host Johanna.
Hey, I've started Begonia and having a swell time with it, so no worries, Hart darling -- your second child is succeeding just fine. And your fourth and fifth are going to be geniuses, and your sixth and seventh will be stinking rich and support you in your old age.
I have a friend who claims "The first child is a lure".
Best of luck Hart! Looking forward to reading your book.
Congrats on your second baby. Hey, remember each one is different, but the love for all our children should be the same... right?
Don't worry about the slow start. It will pick up. Keep positive. You have such talent and a way with words.
The cover alone is so bright and cheerful, that should appeal to many a reader.
Hart, you totally are reading my mind! I have felt so much of what you wrote and I hope my third is as good as yours. Best of luck...when I read them, I'll be sure to start with book one.
I'm really looking forward to reading Book 2! | 2019-04-22T18:07:03 | http://www.johannagarth.com/2013/05/can-we-love-our-second-children-as-much.html |
The basics of adding criteria to queries, and rules for staying out of trouble.
The basics of using AND and OR logic in your criteria.
Using logical operators to include and exclude data, and find ranges of data.
Using wildcard characters to help find data when you don't know all of a value.
More courses available at Office 365 Training Center. | 2019-04-26T16:30:33 | https://support.office.com/en-us/article/video-use-query-criteria-in-access-2013-4b102653-7b6f-4358-9751-1ab51fe89469?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US |
We’d like to thank The Arlington Players for sponsoring ShowBizRadio this week. The Arlington Players opens A Little Night Music on Friday evening, June 1st.
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Soft current account data released mid-morning Thursday – the Q3 current account deficit widened to R176.6 billion. | 2019-04-21T16:26:19 | https://forum.fundhot.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=6577&start=20 |
I saw on EarthSky that there would be a great pairing of the moon and Venus so I took my camera out to the backyard yesterday evening…and promptly decided my tripod, that I’ve had for 25+ years, needs to be upgraded. LOL! I tried though and here are a few shots using my Panasonic FZ150.
To set things up…a picture of STAR WALK app on my iPad.
Da Moon ~ around 5 pm using just the auto setting on my camera and hand held.
This one around 7-ish pm.
🙂 That’s what I caught in this photograph!
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NPR News this morning was talking about making 27 foot telescope mirrors!
Lovely!! How did you get those detailed pics? I’ve tried so many times to get a moon shot, and it always looks tiny!
It’s my new camera! 24x Optical Zoom! 🙂 I’m going to invest in a nice tripod soon, hopefully I can get clearer shots.
The details of the moon are fantastic! I also love your photo at the top of your blog.
Thank you! The header photo is looking east from my work building.
That’s cool! I didn’t know you could see the dark part of the moon when it’s just a little crescent. Maybe I need to get my eyes checked?
What lens and settings did you use to get those pics of the moon so clear and close?
I bought myself a Panasonic Lumix FZ150 not too long ago…the lens I’m using is the standard one that came with the camera. LOL! Nothing special. It’s a Leica DC Vario-Elmarit 1:2.8-5.2/4.5-108 ASPH. Power O.I.S./25mm Wide 24x Optical Zoom. The settings was just set on Automatic…I haven’t played with manual settings in a while so I didn’t want to chance it last night. | 2019-04-21T03:05:32 | https://sleepycathollow.com/2012/01/26/venus-moon-25-january-2012-evening-sky-over-reno-nv/ |
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The funding has been channeled directly by the State Department through three US agencies: Panamerican Development Foundation (PADF), Freedom House, and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
In a blatant attempt to hide their activities, the State Department has censored the names of organizations and journalists receiving these multimillion-dollar funds. However, one document dated July 2008 mistakenly left unveiled the names of the principal Venezuelan groups receiving the funds: Espacio Publico (Public Space) and Instituto de Prensa y Sociedad (Institute for Press and Society �IPYS�).
Espacio Publico and IPYS are the entities charged with coordinating the distribution of the millions in State Department funds to private media outlets and Venezuelan journalists working to promote US agenda.
The documents evidence that PADF has implemented programs in Venezuela dedicated to �enhancing media freedom and democratic institutions� and training workshops for journalists in the development and use of �innovative media technologies�, due to the alleged �threats to freedom of expression� and �the climate of intimidation and self-censorship among journalists and the media�.
According to the documents, PADF�s objective is to �strengthen independent journalists by providing them with training, technical assistance, materials and greater access to innovative internet-based technologies that expand and diversify media coverage and increase their capacity to inform the public on a timely basis about the most critical policy issues impacting Venezuela�.
However, while on paper this may appear benign, in reality, Venezuela�s corporate media outlets and journalists, together with US agencies, actively manipulate and distort information in order to portray the Venezuelan government as a �communist dictatorship� that �violates basic human rights and freedoms�.
Not only do media and journalists in Venezuela have a near-absolute freedom of expression, during the past decade, under the Chavez administration, hundreds of new media outlets, many community-based, have been created in order to foster and expand citizens� access to media. Community media was prohibited under prior governments, which only gave broadcasting access to corporations willing to pay big money to maintain information monopolies in the country.
Today, corporate media outlets and their journalists use communications power to publicly promote the overthrow of the Venezuelan government. The owners and executives of these media corporations form part of the Venezuelan elite that, under the reigns of Washington, ran the country for forty years before Chavez won the presidency in 1998.
What these documents demonstrate is that Washington not only is funding Venezuelan media, in clear violation of laws that prohibit this type of �propaganda� and �foreign interference�, but also is influencing the way Venezuelan journalists perceive their profession and their political reality.
The State Department funding not only is used to create and aid media outlets that promote anti-Chavez propaganda, but also to capture Venezuelan journalists at the core - as students � in order to shape their vision of journalism and ensure their loyalty early on to US agenda.
One of the PADF programs, which received $699,996 USD from the State Department in 2007, �supported the development of independent media in Venezuela� and �journalism via innovative media technologies�. The documents evidence that more than 150 Venezuelan journalists were trained by US agencies and at least 25 web pages were created with US funding.
During the past two years, there has been a proliferation of web pages, blogs, and Twitter, MySpace and Facebook users in Venezuela, the majority of whom use these media outlets to promote anti-Chavez messages and disseminate distorted and false information about the country�s political and economic reality.
Other programs run by the State Department have selected Venezuelan students and youth to receive training in the use of these new media technologies in order to create what they call a �network of cyber-dissidents� against the Venezuelan government.
For example, in April 2010, the George W. Bush Institute, together with Freedom House and the State Department, organized an encounter of �activists for freedom and human rights� and �experts in Internet� to analyze the �global movement of cyber-dissidents�. Rodrigo Diamanti, anti-Chavez youth activist, was present at the event, which took place in Dallas, Texas and was presided over by George W. Bush himself, along with �dissidents� invited from Iran, Syria, Cuba, Russia and China.
In October last year, Mexico City hosted the II Summit of the Alliance of Youth Movements (AYM), an organization created by the State Department to bring together select youth activists from countries of strategic importance to the US, along with the founders of new media technologies and representatives from different US agencies. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presided over the event, and anti-Chavez youth activists Yon Goicochea (Primero Justicia), Rafael Delgado, and Geraldine Alvarez, attended as special guests. All three are members of Futuro Presente, an organization created in Venezuela in 2008 with funding from the Cato Institute in Washington.
The declassified State Department documents also reveal more than $716,346 USD in funding via Freedom House in 2008, for an 18-month project seeking to �strengthen independent media in Venezuela�. This project also funded the creation of a �resource center for journalists� in an unnamed Venezuelan university. �The center will develop a community radio, website and training workshops�, all funded by the State Department.
Another $706,998 USD was channeled through PADF to �promote freedom of expression in Venezuela� through a two-year project focusing on �new media technologies and investigative journalism�. �Specifically, PADF and its local partner will provide training and follow-up support in innovative media technologies and formats in several regions throughout Venezuela�This training will be compiled and developed into a university-level curriculum�.
Another document evidences three Venezuelan universities, Universidad Central de Venezuela (Central University of Venezuela �UCV�), Universidad Metropolitana (Metropolitan University) and Universidad Santa Maria (St. Mary�s University), which incorporated courses on media studies into their curriculums, designed and funded by the State Department. These three universities have been the principal launching pad for the anti-Chavez student movements during the past three years.
PADF also received $545,804 USD for a program titled �Venezuela: The Voices of the Future�. This project, which allegedly lasted one year, was devoted to �developing a new generation of independent journalists through a focus on new media technologies�. PADF also funded various blogs, newspapers, radio stations and television stations in regions throughout Venezuela, to ensure the �publication� of reports and articles by the �participants� in the program.
More funds have been distributed to anti-Chavez political groups in Venezuela through USAID�s Office for Transition Initiatives (OTI) in Caracas, which has an annual budget between $5-7 million USD. These millions form part of the more than $40 million USD given annually to opposition organizations in Venezuela by US, European and Canadian agencies, as evidenced in the May 2010 report, �Venezuela: Assessing Democracy Assistance� published by the National Edowment for Democracy�s World Movement for Democracy (WMD) and Spain�s FRIDE Institute.
PADF has been active in Venezuela since 2005 as one of USAID�s principal contractors. PADF was created by the State Department in 1962 and is �affiliated� with the Organization of American States (OAS). In Venezuela, PADF has been working to �strengthen local civil society groups�, and is �one of few major international groups that have been able to provide significant cash grants and technical assistance to Venezuelan NGOs�.
US AID's "Office for Transition Initiatives", eh? Aka colour revolutions.
"Foreign aid" is one of a very few areas of the UK governtment budget strictly ringfenced and sheltered from draconian 25% cuts.
Why? Because much of this "foreign aid" is being used to, ahem, "bolster democracy" in countries such as Afghanistan. In short, to build infrastructure and buy local militias, thus enabling NATO troops eventually to be sent home (or such is the overt plan, anyway).
Chavez should retaliate by opening up a Venezeuelan Office for Transition Initiatives Washington DC and London. | 2019-04-25T11:03:12 | https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-4296.html?s=7f4b89c5069b38ba580b437b87413478 |
We had originally booked to stay in the hotel its self however as we got to the hotel they told us they were fully booked and we had to stay in their apartments a 10 minute walk with heavy bags, the first room stunk of dirty drains so we arranged for the hotel to move us. They then moved us to the highest room which was a hard walk with large bags but when we got up there the room was Baltic. I had to be up half 6am and its fair to say i was shattered in the morning because of the lack of sleep we all had due to how cold it was. Its fine for a over night stay but not for a long term stay.
I arrived late and they waited for me. This was good. My rooms were up a pretty steep flight of stairs, not fun with luggage, and you have to pick up the keys at a pub about ten minutes away (with luggage). The staf was nice. Cable didn't work and took DAYS to repair. The room was pretty clean. The shower was nice and the bed was comfortable. No sofa, but it turns out the sofa was the bed in the kitchen/living area. I was there two weeks, so a cleaning or at least access to cleaning supplies/equipment would have been nice. They tried to charge my visit about a week before I arrived, but they were very nice about getting that sorted for me. My apartment was at the front of the building and had one pronounced problem. It was summer, so of course you open the windows. which lets the flies in. It's near the rubbish bins out side, so you have flies no matter what you do. W-fi was good, and free. Plenty of room. Kitchen was equipped okay, but as another person mentioned, foil with burnt on food left in the oven. Overall, good. just a couple of glitches. Not on the tube line, but close to mainline train station, not far from buses, even near a library.
We booked this through "letsbook.com" in May. When I booked it said that they would not charge a booking deposit etc. I was booking it for August so it was some three months away. I was looking for an apartment for two adults and two teenagers. I was directed to a one bed apartment for maximum of four, (pull out bed) for the teenagers. Unfortunately when I booked although the company advertising said "no booking charge" that did not stop the hotel itself taking the FULL amount from my account. This has never happened to me before so guys beware, especially if you do not expect to pay in FULL for a holiday three months away. There did not seem to be any comeback for this so we let it lie. Also we were told it was 10 minute walk away from Alexandra Palace, it isn't it is about 45 minutes walk and transport is not that convenient to it either. When you get to the apartments you have to go to down to the pub to collect keys, this is some 10 minute walk away. You are given your keys and told to drop them into the letterbox at the apartment on the last day. The apartment was apartment F at the very top of steep stairs, definitely not wheelchair friendly. The apartment though clean and well stocked was TINY I mean it really would only be for two. When we got into bed we had to watch our heads at we would hit them off the sloping ceiling!! The girls slept outside on a pull out bed in the kitchen (!) but had to come into our bedroom to use the toilet..... disaster, as typical teenagers stayed up until all hours. Also no side lights in the bedrooms so I had to buy a torch to read in bed!!! We had to put towels on the windows to block out the light as there are only light blinds on same. The noise of the traffic is horrendous and you wrestle with a choice of noise or heat at night and first thing in the morning. Also outside the apartment was very unpalatable with rubbish left outside, especially from the indian restaurant. I think in a nutshell there was absolutely no comfort in staying in this apartment, and I do not think an apartment should be advertised for four when people have to come into your bedroom to use the bathroom facilities.
After free accommodation with a friend fell through we had to book a place ASAP as we were going to the O2 arena and our trains were booked for a weeks time. This seemed a reasonable price for London zone 2 for 3 nights through booking.com so we went for it. When we arrived there was some mis-communication between the hotel you check in at and the person who owns the studios so we had to wait a while. The man at the hotel was apologetic and offered us a drink etc so this was okay. We arrived while the cleaner was finishing up and he really hadn't done a good job. A few hairs in the shower, a dirty floor and badly cleaned utensils. After we had given the whole place a good clean, bought some more washing up liquid and some hand soap for the bathroom it was fine. Sky tv, microwave worked, shower was good. We didn't use the main oven but there was old foil with food stuck to it left inside and instructions to use this foil when using the oven. We would have had to buy tin foil if we had wanted to use the oven because it was quite disgusting. Despite this the interior was modern and not damaged. The bed was extremely comfy with nice sheets. Studio E was extremely small (we did book the 'small studio') but fine for 3 nights. If it had been clean the entire experience would have been good. We went during the heat wave so struggled to keep the place cool with 2 of us in such a small space and no breeze outside. No idea if the heating worked if you were staying in winter but it seemed to have an adjustable temperature gauge. If using the tube be prepared for a mile walk to the tube station. But there is a cost cutter near the tube to buy essentials from. I would recommend finding a bus map from one of the main stations when you arrive/scouting them out before you go. Overall a fine experience. It was our fault for leaving it so late. Minor details and a major cleaning lapse let it down. I recommend taking small amounts of cleaning products (mainly soap) to save buying them and we took our own towels which was a good idea as theirs were the usual one small towel each. Not sure if we would stay again... Depends it we could find somewhere better if we were more organised.
We originally booked to stay at Beaconsfield hotel but after a mix up with our booking we were offered the apartments, and how glad were we!!!! We had 3 apartments, all were superb with excellent facilites. The apartments were clean, decorated to a high standard and even had sky t.v! We would defiitely recommend these apartments and would stay there again. | 2019-04-25T12:56:49 | https://www.fliggy.com/hotel/50352857 |
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Writing a Twitter bot is easy, you do not need any coding skills and you can make one live in under 5 minutes. While most Twitter bots on the Internet require some understanding in Python, Node.js or Ruby, our bots are hosted on Google servers and require “zero” programming.
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The basic idea behind Twitter bots is simple. You specify a search phrase and choose an action. The bot will find all tweets that match the search criteria and perform the associated action on those tweets.
Create a new account at Twitter that will work as a bot. Then go to apps.twitter.com, sign-in with your new Twitter account and create a Twitter application. Give your app a name, description and put any URL in the website field. Agree to the developer terms and submit the form.
Once the Twitter app has been created, click Modify App Permissions under Application Settings and change the access level to Read, Write and Access Direct Messages.
Next switch to the Keys and Access Tokens tab and click the Create My Access Token button. Twitter will generate the Consumer Keys and Access tokens that we will need in a next step.
Go to digitalinspiration.com/bots to open the Twitter bots application.
Enter the Twitter Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, Access Token and Access Secret that were generated in the previous step.
Next, you need to specify the search phrase for the bots. The app will find all new tweets that match this search phrase and process them all, one at a time.
Click Save to initialize the Twitter bot. That’s it. The bots are now initialized and they’ll auto-run in the background.
Please watch the Twitter Bots Video Tutorial (download) for a more detailed getting started guide. It is important to note that Twitter TOS discourages automation so you may want to test the waters with a test Twitter account.
If you are changing your Twitter username, set an auto-DM bot for the old account so your new followers get to know your new screen name.
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You can follow users or add them to a Twitter list who tweet on particular topics or whose Twitter profile (bio) matches your search criteria.
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Protection of vital parts of the body from cold.
Additional layer of protection for the skin. We have less hair today than our ancestors and future humans may eventually become hairless.
It’s ironic your hairs’ lack of function is what gives it our cultural meaning. Healthy hair is your crowning glory . . . a decoration of sorts. Hair is one of the most important defining statements about your self-identity.If your hair is in disarray and all out of order, all other attempts to create a statement of who you are will fall short.
Hair is protein . . . the same protein that makes up your fingernails, teeth and skin. The scientific name for this protein is keratin. Soft shiny hair is an indicator of good health, like clear skin and strong fingernails. Your hair is fed by blood, which first feeds your essential organs such as your heart and brain. Whatever nutrients are left goes to the extremities. This is why dull lackluster hair sometimes indicates an illness or vitamin deficiency.
The cuticle~~ The outermost layer of your hair is made up of overlapping scales, as on a fish. Healthy hair cuticles lie down smoothly and reflect light, giving hair its shine. This is the only protecting layer for your hair. A conditioner can help smooth the cuticle. Most women can tell whether they need conditioner by the way their hair feels, such as dry, brittle, broken ends. Here’s a test to find out whether your cuticle layer is damaged. Shampoo and condition your hair, then comb it out. If the comb sticks in your hair down toward the ends, your cuticle is either dry or damaged, and you will benefit from a deep-moisturizing conditioner.
The cortex ~~The bulk of the healthy hair strand, makes up 90 percent of its weight. It gives the hair texture, strength, elasticity, and color because it contains melanin, or pigment. Some leave-in conditioners with protein actually penetrate the cortex and build up the hair from the inside out. (When you use permanent hair color, it needs to penetrate the cortex in order for it to take).
The medulla~~The light, air-filled core. We don’t know just what it does, and some people with fine hair don’t have it at all. Anthropologists think that this might be a throwback to our caveman ancestors, who needed insulation to keep them warm. | 2019-04-23T12:24:35 | http://hairstyle-blog.com/damaged-hair |
Gov. Matt Bevin is trying everything he can to take away any opportunity for teachers to increase their pay. It’s obvious that he doesn’t have any respect for educators. Dealing with other people’s children is one of the hardest jobs a person can sign up for. Bevin knows that teachers with masters degrees earn way more money than teachers without the degrees. The less educated the teacher, the less they get paid, period.
Bevin should prefer to have as many teachers with advanced degrees as he can find, but he seems to think Kentucky doesn’t need to waste money on highly educated teachers to teach a bunch of low-intelligence children with low-achieving parents. To him, we’re a waste of money.
Smarter, more educated teachers can help our children reach educational goals. I thought teachers had to periodically go back to school in order to learn new subject matters and teaching techniques. We never stop learning, no matter how old we are. Maybe Bevin would be tickled pink if things reverted back to when men felt a woman’s place was in the home and men made all of the important decisions. An old-school-thinking religious fundamentalist like Bevin has no business being our governor.
Fayette County Superintendent Manny Caulk and the school board are the magicians who distract with one hand while performing the “magic.” Look! We will try to protect students seven hours a day. Don’t look! We just need $13.5 million and this expense never goes away!
Please, spend part of that $30 million “rainy day fund” instead of increasing taxes on people who don’t even own an umbrella. Adding staff and issuing student identification badges aren’t one-time costs. Each year they will dip into their piggybank, i.e. taxpayers, to cover that cost.
Even if people don’t own property, rent will go up. Consumers pay utilities and there is a school tax in each bill. Do you get a yearly 4 or 5 percent raise? I don’t. But this board has no problem wiping out our increases and expecting us to cut our tight budgets, while $30 million just sits there.
ESPN doesn’t air the playing of our national anthem before Monday night football games. A convenient excuse is to have more discussion time. Or, maybe they are trying to save face so viewers won’t have to witness the bad behavior of a few players who kneel in protest and disrespect our nation.
These players may often be seen grumbling all the way to the bank to spend huge salaries in dollars that clearly read “In God we trust.” You hear multiple excuses for kneeling, often based on nonsense or political protest or maybe because the person they voted for did not get elected.
Many men stood their ground and gave all they had so this nation would endure, only to have others burn our flag and spit on the graves of our honored dead. Players who refuse to stand for the anthem should be paid in Euros, and broadcasting agencies should be ashamed. An old friend of my father told me how some people disrespected him, even spit on him. after coming home from Vietnam. They could act like that, he said, because of all of those veterans who stood for freedom in their place.
The morning after major national news broke on the Manafort and Cohen cases, MSNBC showed newspaper front pages in states where President Donald Trump will campaign: North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Rep. Andy Barr and likely Gov. Matt Bevin, Kentucky GOP leaders and NRA officials will stand with Trump who brags about having the “best” people around him as one after another loyalist is indicted or pleads guilty.
How will Kentuckians react with time to understand the implications of Trump’s former campaign manager’s guilty verdict and “fixer” lawyer’s guilty plea in a case making Trump an unindicted co-conspirator about hush money paid before the presidential election to two women who allege affairs with him?
If Kentuckians attend a Trump rally, I hope they leave impressionable children home and will protect — rather than threaten — a penned-up press (remind anyone of caged children?) And if Trump declares nothing to hide, demand: “Where are your tax returns?” Bevin?
With the recent convictions or guilty pleas from Trump associates, talk has again come around to President Donald Trump’s impeachment if the Democrats regain control of the House.
Much as I dislike Trump and his minions, impeachment should be avoided. The simplest argument is that if one uses the ultimate tool too often, it soon becomes the preferred tool. Impeachment should not become routine.
Would it not be better to just hamstring him? Instead of the Republicans, evangelicals, and other lowlifes fighting to kiss his … feet, let the Democrats reestablish what “checks and balances” were intended to be.
Oh, sure, send his friends and family who have committed crimes to jail where they belong. But Trump? Let him finally realize the failure he is as a human.
Besides, President Mike Pence? Really? | 2019-04-25T00:05:43 | https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article217307645.html |
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On Saturday this weekend, I had a lovely girls day with my housemate Jen. I may have been a little hungover but this didn’t affect or stop our little wander around angel or our gym sesh in the afternoon followed by a film night. Perfect girls day!
Whilst walking towards Angel from Highbury & Islington station we had our eyes out for a nice little coffee shop or cafe to start our day. Upper street has so many lovely little places for lunch, coffee or dinner that it’s always hard to pick. However when we spotted this little place there was no doubt this was it.
Romeos is a gluten free cafe/bakery. With Jen being on a gluten and wheat free diet due to allergies this place was perfect!
As we walked in we were greeted by a lovely young woman who showed us the selection of gluten free cakes, breads, etc and told us to sit wherever we fancied. We chose a little table towards the back and settled in. It had quite a cosy, family feeling to it, but still a little contemporary – perhaps from being gluten free, something which has become more widely available only more recently.
The young woman came over with a couple of menus and asked if we’d like tea or coffee. Both opting for tea, she went off and left us to look at the menu. There were quite a few options for breakfast or lunch, all sounding absolutely delicious! Jen and I sat chatting through the options before settling for scones – I don’t think my stomach could handle much more at the time, but we said we’d have to go back sometime for breakfast or lunch!
We were delivered our pot of tea for two, milk in a jug and a bottle of tap water with two glasses. Sugar cubes were already in a little pot on the table.
Not long after, the woman came back with our scones with butter and jam. Making sure we had everything we needed we were left to enjoy, and that we did.
We sliced our scones, spread the butter and masses of jam – they really do give you plenty! – and indulged. They tasted fantastic. We were a little shocked as gluten free doesn’t always taste as good as cakes made with gluten, but these scones were mouthwateringly delicious. Just thinking about them now is making my tummy rumble!
We sat eating, trying not to rush as to really enjoy! We drank our tea and sat catching up and talking about our Friday nights. Our plates were cleared and we asked for our bill.
The whole bill came to just over £12, which we thought was great!
On our way out we even got to taste a cheese and onion loaf they sell. I highly recommend any gluten free dieters to go there for bread if you don’t fancy a coffee or tea break whilst out, and are going home for lunch. It was so yummy, and you could really taste the flavours. It didn’t feel crumbly like other gluten free bread I’d had, it was actually really moist! I’m thinking of going back to get some for Jen and I to have one night with dippy Camembert!
If you’re looking for a gluten free option whilst out for the day in London, I would definitely recommend this beauty of a find and I’m sure Jen would too! Overall this was a lovely place to go, great friendly service and fab prices.
Enjoy! If you have any other gluten free recommendations I’d love to hear about them (then I can share them with Jen too 🙂 )! | 2019-04-19T16:23:18 | https://lashesoflifestyle.co.uk/romeos-gluten-free-bakerycafe/ |
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Is TP-Link's TL-WD4300 N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router a diamond in the networking rough at just $79? Let's find out.
TP-Link aren't a brand that most people think of when they are after high-quality networking gear, but the company have been making some truly stellar products of late, at prices that the big boys just can't compete with.
TP-Link is a Chinese company that has been around for 17 years and now has over 14,000 employees across the world. So, if you've never heard of TP-Link, it's definitely a big company. I received their TL-WDR4300 Wireless Dual Band gigabit router to test, and while I'm not a networking professional, I'm going to come at it from a consumer point of view.
We'll do some testing on the Gigabit Ethernet ports, the Wi-Fi, and a quick skim through how to set it up, too.
First, we'll tackle the huge list of specifications that TP-Link have crammed into the TL-WDR4300.
The router has four Gigabit Ethernet ports, and two USB 2.0 ports for some simple sharing of printers, or files between systems over the Wi-Fi network. But, wireless is where it's at for the TL-WDR4300. It supports Dual Band Wi-Fi, meaning 2.4GHz and 5GHz. With the 5GHz band, we have the ability to crank up to 450Mbps and the 2.4GHz can ramp up to 300Mbps.
There's three detachable antennas, which are quite good quality, and big, too. We have the usual wireless security with 64/128-bit WEP, WPA/WPA 2 and WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK.
There's a gigantic list of software features, so if you're after something specific, you'll be able to find that in the specifications above.
As for pricing, TP-Link has the router very competitively priced - and by very competitive, I mean dirt cheap. Newegg is listing it for just $78.99 at the time of writing, which I find nearly unbelievable for the amount of bells and whistles the TL-WDR4300 throws at you.
We'll finish off with the looks on the WDR4300, which are stunning. It's a fingerprint magnet, sure, but it looks great. | 2019-04-26T11:04:09 | https://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5632/tp-link-wdr4300-n750-wireless-dual-band-gigabit-router-review/index.html |
After many months of planning it was with a great sense of achievement that we welcomed over 800 delegates to ERF2017 which took place at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre from 22-24 March. This three day conference, featuring seminars, workshops and an exhibition, is the premier European Robotics forum; a meeting place for robotics in Europe, bringing together researchers, engineers, managers, and a growing number of entrepreneurs and business people from all over Europe. The event offers opportunities, through attendance at seminars, to consider the potential of robotics applications for business and societal needs as well as how they might create jobs. The exhibition allows companies and research organisations to demonstrate recent breakthroughs in robotics and their potential business applications.
Tim Ensor, Chief Commercial Officer at Tharsus.
The theme of this year’s forum was Living and Working With Robots and there were 66 individual workshops/seminars of 90 minutes each on this theme. Topics ranged from Robotics for Nuclear Environments, Construction Robotics, Agri-Food, Neurorobotics and Health, generating lots of interesting conversations and opening the door for future research collaborations. Thirty exhibitors took advantage of the exhibition space to showcase their latest robots. This was a great opportunity for the Centre to show off iCub, the latest addition to our humanoid robot family. | 2019-04-26T12:23:43 | https://www.edinburgh-robotics.org/news/201705/european-robotics-forum-2017 |
1.) Consumer Electronic Device Usage Is Converging - Consumer electronics (which I’ll refer to as “CE” for the balance of this blog) devices are increasingly being used on a 24/7 basis. If you’re like most workers and consumers, you don’t want to have to carry around separate devices for your work and personal life. While IT departments are always rightly concerned about security of corporate data as their top priority, they are increasingly recognizing workers want the same utility at work from CE devices they can get from their favorite consumer devices (such as an iPhone or iPad). This has led to the rapid adaption of such CE devices as tablets and smart phones for use in restaurants, hospitals and offices. This trend will accelerate in the next 5 years as more IT teams figure out a way to allow this to happen without compromising their corporate data integrity.
While there are some innovations featured in “Minority Report” I hope stay in the realm of science fiction (such as insect robots and crime prediction software), I’m looking forward to what I’m sure is going to be a continuing wave of new creative ways to interact with our devices and data.
3.) Apps Are A Key Growth Driver for CE Devices– “There’s an app for that” is more than an advertising slogan...it’s the truth. There will be an estimated 70 billion downloads of apps on an annual basis by 2014 – that’s an average of 10 apps per person on the planet. This exponential growth of apps is driving the popularity of tablets and smart phones. I think the biggest advantage of apps is they can be used at the “moment of truth” (i.e. when and where they are needed by a consumer). The biggest downside risk many of us have already experienced is to become overwhelmed with too many app choices. Becoming the next “must have” app will remain a dream for legions of developers but consumers will continue to benefit from their hard work.
4.) Ongoing Sales From Selling Premium Content Will Be Critical To Long-Term Profits In CE - Creating and maintaining premium prices for CE devices (i.e. Bang & Olufsen) is almost impossible today. Selling premium content and getting a piece of every sale is going to increasingly be where the real market battle takes place. King Gillette discovered over a century ago it’s more profitable to sell razor blades than the device that holds the razor. What Steve Jobs did by creating iTunes and what Jeff Bezos is doing with Kindle Fire is a key to long-term financial viability in the CE category. That’s going to be true for all the major CE players as well in the 21st century where the term “Blade Runner” is going to take on a whole new financial meaning.
Wireless scales that measure your weight and alerts family members wirelessly if your weight has gone up or down by a certain amount.
Motion detectors with sensors that track whether a family member has fallen, opened a pill bottle, used the bathroom excessively at night, wandered out of the home, hasn’t stirred for hours, or forgot to turn off a burner on a stove.
Mobile phones with a hidden keypad with very large buttons, an amplified earpiece, and a panic button on the back that automatically dials five preprogrammed numbers when triggered.
We all like to make fun of the TV commercials featuring The Clapper (“Clap on! Clap off!”), but I believe as the average American gets older, as a country we are going to need to be all kinds of innovative CE devices that can do a heck of a lot more for us than just turn off the lights.
7.) How Consumers Buy CE Matters A LOT More Than Where They Buy – My sympathy goes out to the “Big Box” retailers in the U.S. today. They are under increasing pressure to make their economics work. It won’t be easy. They are getting increased competition and continue to lose market share to e-commerce and emerging “mobile commerce” players. In addition, there are more and more consumers who go to their local stores to shop in person, whip out the price scanner on their smart phone to comparison shop, then buy online based on best price (often with free shipping). This is leading some of these retailers (such as Best Buy) to consider sub-leasing some of the existing retail space they’ve got to help bring down their overhead. That will help some but won’t be nearly enough to ensure their survival.
The real winner in all of this for now will be the consumer since they now have at their finger tips the information needed to make a well-informed CE purchase decision as well as continuously lower prices on what they buy. The long-term question is whether this retail environment can last since if enough “brick and mortar” places can’t make their economics work, consumers won’t have the luxury anymore of checking it out the latest CE device in person at their local store before they make a purchase decision.
What's Next? - Despite the on-going economic doldrums we’ve all been in for the last several years, consumers still remain very passionate about their favorite CE devices. The past 5 years have seen an explosion of innovation and strong global growth in various CE categories, which I don’t think is going to slow down anytime soon. The winners in this space are going to be the ones who do the best job staying on top of and effectively responding to the rapidly changing consumer trends I’ve discussed in this blog.
What do you think? What consumer trends will be key drivers for consumer electronics in the next 5 years? | 2019-04-21T20:09:53 | http://www.knightvisionmarketing.com/blog/seven-consumer-trends-impacting-consumer-electronics-business |
To improve students’ learning, faculty must understand the limitations of memory.
We take in information from our environment (stimuli), and if we decide to process or think about it further, it is done in our working memory. For example, we may use working memory to think about the new information in relation to prior knowledge and experiences. Through this process of elaboration, the new information is more likely to be encoded into our long-term memory, from which it can be retrieved later.
It can be helpful to think of short-term memory as having slots, each holding a distinct idea or chunk of information.
Perhaps the most important limit for short-term memory is that while all of these pieces of information are able to be held, only one is available at a time (Garavan, 1998; Bleckley et al., 2003; Basak & Verhaeghen, 2011). Accessing one of the other pieces of information means switching focus away from the current conscious piece of information.
The amount of information that working memory is processing at any given time is called cognitive load (Sweller, 1988). When there is more information than can be processed by a learner’s working memory, we experience cognitive overload. This overwhelming and uncomfortable feeling means we are unable to process additional information, and therefore unable to encode new information into long-term memory. How much cognitive load we are able to handle is dependent on many factors such as age, expertise and emotional state.
The finite capacity of working memory is a bottleneck to learning and has several consequences for learners.
Working memory limitations mean that multi-tasking does not exist. Instead, we switch our attention quickly between different tasks, but this comes at a cost for more than 98% of learners: they take longer to do tasks and make more errors when task-switching than when focusing on one task at a time (see Multitasking).
How information is presented to students will affect the efficiency in which they’re able to take in and process content. The Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML) explains why these effects occur and suggest several ways to better present information to learners (see Multimedia Learning).
Atkinson, R.C.; Shiffrin, R.M. (1968). "Chapter: Human memory: A proposed system and its control processes". In Spence, K.W.; Spence, J.T. The psychology of learning and motivation. 2. New York: Academic Press. pp. 89–195.
Baddeley, A. D. (1999). Essentials of human memory. East Sussex, United Kingdom: Psychology Press Ltd.
Baddeley, A. D., & Hitch, G. (1974). Working memory. In Psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 8, pp. 47-89). Academic press.
Cowan, N. (2001). The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(1), 87–114.
Miller, G. A. (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capability for processing information. Psychological Review, 63(2), 81–97. | 2019-04-22T08:48:54 | http://www.buffalo.edu/ubcei/understanding/memory-and-learning.html |
INLOCK is a lending platform that enables cryptocurrency holders to manage short-term liquidity problems by taking a loan, using their existing cryptocurrencies as collateral. The credit transactions are established between the two parties directly. INLOCK merely acts as intermediary to record the terms of the agreement. These terms are established in a smart contract, making every credit contract between parties immutable and impossible to manipulate. Inlock (ILK) is an ethereum-based token that will be used when creating a lending contract.
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Living in Devon you will never be many miles from a horse, so it is no surprise that horse racing is a popular sport in our county.
I was brought up riding and in theory should have the correct breeding for racing myself. My parents were both amateur jump jockeys, meeting as a result of my grandmother, who trained several successful Point to Point horses herself. Since then my cousin has ridden in Point to Points and my aunt is a professional trainer. Although riding in a race still remains a dream for me, I recently discovered it is not the only way to become involved in horse racing.
Jump racing is split into two disciplines: amateur Point to Points, which are organised by local Hunts with the intention of raising money for the Hunt and its farming community, and professional National Hunt racing, which holds events at fixed racecourses throughout the country.
Professional horse racing is often viewed as a glamorous pastime. This isn’t entirely untrue. During the summer flat season, the front pages of newspapers are awash with pictures of wealthy celebrities at Royal Ascot sporting designer clothes and records were recently broken at Newmarket when a one-year-old filly changed hands for an incomprehensible £5.25m.
Summer is now a distant memory and winter is upon us so race goers have swapped their tailored dresses and exotic headpieces for the more practical tweed and waterproofs, as another exciting jump season begins. From a spectators’ perspective it might seem that the season has just begun however, for all involved behind the scenes thousands of gruelling hours of hard physical work will have already been invested.
To find out what happens away from race day, I headed up to Brayford in North Devon to meet the successful local trainer Victor Dartnall. Anyone involved with animals will understand that it really is a way of life as much as a full time job. Horses are no exception and will expect their morning feed at 5.30am irrespective of the day of the week. I arrived on a Sunday morning after Victor had already been up for hours finishing the necessary morning jobs. Keeping a yard of 30 racehorses running smoothly requires planning, a strong team and a huge amount of dedication.
Although Victor no longer exercises the horses himself he is certainly still in charge of the proceedings. We jumped in his Landrover and headed up to the all weather gallop to watch six horses put through their paces before they were due to race later that week. As he talks me through each of the horses and their statistics it is obvious he has the wealth of knowledge needed to be a winning National Hunt trainer but it is the passion that really shines though.
Horse racing is an enormous industry in our country and trainers make up a very small percentage of that. Victor’s yard is a family run business, with his brother, his daughter and her boyfriend all heavily involved alongside eight full time stable staff who work a 47-hour week. It is not only the hard work back at the yard or a good jockey that is needed to win races; the owner is also key to success.
Anything involving horses requires money and this is where the owners play such a significant part - without them professional racing could not exist. With 30 horses in training a large part of the job is keeping owners happy and Victor seems to manage this well. One of his clients recently vowed only to leave the setup in a coffin or penniless.
The sport does have a stigma attached to it and to a certain extent yes it is a rich man’s game however, thanks to syndicates, opportunities to become an owner are becoming more attainable. You might have heard of the phrase owning a “leg” of a horse, this is in theory possible and some syndicates will have up to ten members resulting in the costs being affordable. Finding only ten percent of the training fees, vets bills, and entries does not dampen your experience so you can still have one hundred percent of the joy when watching your horse run at meetings.
If dedicating your life to becoming a trainer or jockey is not for you or costs of becoming an owner unrealistic then fear not - the race day experience is where the majority of the population find their pleasure. The horse racing industry as a whole relies on the television ratings and the footfall at race meetings to sustain it.
In Devon we are fortunate to have a top class race track at Haldon just outside Exeter. Due to the hard work that Manager Tim Darby and his team put in to ensure the ground is well maintained, the track has secured large sponsors and the prize money is substantial. If you have not yet experienced horse racing then Exeter Racecourse could be the perfect place to start.
The New Year’s Day meeting is always sure to blow out the cobwebs and one thing you are guaranteed at Haldon is some fresh air and good quality racing. | 2019-04-18T21:06:37 | https://www.devonlife.co.uk/people/heather-fell-a-day-at-the-races-1-3181232 |
This is the one that started it all, Folks! The debut Long Player for SJDK and Daptone Records. DIG on Funky classics like -Got a Thing on My Mind-, -Got to be the Way iIt Is-, and -Pick it up Lay it in the Cut-. Oh, and if you-re a fan of Funky covers / this album also boasts the Looooooooooooong out of print single / Janet Jackson-s -What Have You Done for me Lately-. All KILLER no FILLER! A Funk classic in the truest sense! | 2019-04-22T18:35:29 | http://www.munsterama.com/site/index.php?mode=spot&skuid=33455 |
Welcome to Superba Knitting! My online store with a focus on knitting machine tutorials, yarn, accessories & notions.
Please check back often as new content and features are added, including video tutorials for all major brands and gauges of home knitting machines plus a subscription series for distance learning. Here is a teaser video of what you can expect. | 2019-04-23T08:27:55 | http://superbaknitting.com/ |
Order online for delivery and takeout: SP-7. Flower Steak from Golden Palace Express - Omaha. Serving the best Chinese in Omaha, NE. | 2019-04-22T08:43:06 | https://www.goldenpalaceexpress-ne.com/order/main-menu/menu/sp7-flower-steak |
But fortunately Amelie's never been scared to voice an opinion. And it's usually the opposite of mine. Frankly I wish she'd shut up sometimes. Only yesterday she called me a kibble-brain and told me I've got no talent. And all because I sang in the car.
But I had good reason to express my high spirits through the medium of song, because we were on the way to see Big Sis. Toby's being wiped clean of his original sin at a Catholic baptism this morning, after which I turn forty and he turns one, so with a triple celebration on the cards, the various factions of the Gardner family army are descending on Sussex. It's a bit like the Battle of Hastings, but with cake. Big Sis and her boyfriend were driving to St Leonards from Wiltshire yesterday, so we arranged to meet them for lunch at Brighton Marina.
Unfortunately things never go according to plan. An accident involving a crane on the M25 delayed them by an hour, and after a couple of hasty phone calls and some impromptu Googling, we changed our venue to The Plough at Pyecombe, to save them driving into town. And I'm glad we did, because it was actually very nice.
That's a photo of it on the wall behind us. Although I don't think you could take a similar view of it today without standing on a petrol pump at the BP garage. Toby seems to have the face of an old man in that photo. Which is handy, as it distracts the eye from the fact that I'm using the back of a chair to support my rolls of fat.
Anyhoo, the menu at The Plough is longer than War & Peace, but the food is surprisingly good. They also have a large outdoor area complete with extensive canopies which simultaneously shade you from the sun, and protect you from unexpected downpours. Both of which we experienced. The meal gave Amelie the chance to fill in her aunt on the nitty-gritty of her recent break-up, which she insisted was quite upsetting (she's clearly more stoic than we realised), after which Big Sis kindly gave her a French plait. Which should help to make her kissing more authentic, and win her a new man.
I told you she could express a strong view.
Without wishing to sound pedantic, that's a gate not a fence.
Many Happy Returns. It's all downhill from here. Not literally here, of course, this being Norfolk and flat.
Yes, HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY, PHIL!
See how I cunningly tried to disguise your age there! | 2019-04-24T06:36:17 | http://www.mulledwhines.net/2013/07/i-cant-bear-people-who-sit-on-fence.html |
Respawn's Star Wars Game Officially Titled Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order!
During the EA Play 2018 press conference, Respawn Entertainment confirmed that their upcoming Star Wars video game will be titled Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order!
The developer confirmed that the game will take place during “The Dark Times” as Obi-Wan Kenobi mentioned in the original movie, and is set between Episodes III and IV as the Jedi Order is being hunted across the galaxy. Jedi Fallen Order will not be available this year sadly, and is targeting a Holiday 2019 release date.
In further Star Wars news, DiCE announced that this year Star Wars Battlefront II will dive deep into the era of The Clone Wars including four brand new heroes: Obi-Wan Kenobi, General Grievous, Count Dooku, and Anakin Skywalker. | 2019-04-24T04:46:21 | https://www.superherohype.com/news/417527-respawns-star-wars-game-officially-titled-star-wars-jedi-fallen-order |
Brackenridge's Edson Ortiz looks for running room around Somerset defenders during first half action Friday Aug. 26, 2016 at SAISD Complex.
Records are through Saturday’s games.
Jared Zirkel, Kerrville Tivy: junior, kicker — Made a 59-yard field goal and had 9 of 9 kickoffs go for touchbacks in the Antlers’ 57-41 victory over Fredericksburg.
John-Michael Kadrmas, La Vernia: Aenior, defensive back — Had two interceptions and four solo tackles in the Bears’ 56-7 victory over McCollum.
Cole quarterback Ya’Monie Crawford passed for 273 yards and four touchdowns and rushed for 143 yards and two touchdowns in the Cougars’ 50-7 victory against Poteet.
Marshall’s Bernard Dankyi rushed for 234 yards and two touchdowns on 22 carries in the Rams’ 27-20 loss against Taft.
Brackenridge’s Edson Ortiz rushed for 186 yards and one touchdown in the Eagles’ 56-24 victory over LEE. | 2019-04-20T09:19:57 | https://m.mysanantonio.com/sports/high_school/high_school_football/article/Football-E-N-Area-rankings-top-players-13218896.php |
The Trenza 10137 x 19 x 4 Pillow by Surya at Suburban Furniture in the Succasunna, Randolph, Morristown, Northern New Jersey area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
Browse other items in the Trenza collection from Suburban Furniture in the Succasunna, Randolph, Morristown, Northern New Jersey area. | 2019-04-23T01:04:10 | https://www.suburbanfurniture.com/item/trenza-pillow/1854618601 |
Hullo. My name is Baller Bug. I'm not a bad dog, my data is just configured that way. I love licking faces! Little humans are my favorite because they usually have some good food smeared all over them! It's okay with me just to touch paws while we watch t.v. on the couch if you want to start slow. | 2019-04-21T02:07:39 | https://coindogs.co/Dog_215 |
Document control is used to increase the efficiency of a particular organization by controlling the versions of a particular document that are released. This ensures employees all have the right versions of a particular document. ISO standards are a set of international standards that help standardize processes within businesses and also help businesses keep adequate records, according to Intelex. Companies must understand what standards apply to their particular business and use document control measures to ensure these standards are followed.
Document control often seeks to reduce or eliminate paper documents so the documents have less impact on the environment and reduce company costs, according to Intelex.
Ease of access is also an important aspect when dealing with document control. Companies will have an easier time keeping information up-to-date if they can, for example, easily access that information from the Internet.
Documents must be organized into logical categories. By doing so, the appropriate documents for a given situation can be found. These documents are often organized into categories such as policy, procedure, work instruction and forms and records, according to 9000 World. The ISO requires relevant documents be available when needed.
Documents must be reviewed extensively before they are finalized. In many cases, these documents should be reviewed by more than one individual, both for oversight purposes and to ensure mistakes are not made by having an extra pair of eyes to catch the mistakes, according to 9000 World. The review cycle should include workers involved in the particular documents and managers who oversee them, since they will have more expertise and will be able to understand mistakes. ISO requires documents be approved for adequacy prior to issue.
ISO standards require documents be reviewed and updated whenever necessary. Conditions in a particular company will inevitably change, and updates must be added to the documents when logical. The revision status must be placed on the document, according to 9000 World. These statuses include draft, review and approval. Obsolete documents that are kept by the company for whatever reason must be identified as obsolete.
Documents must always be readable and accessible by those who need them, according to 9000 World. ISO requires the documents be updated when they receive wear or damage.
Not only should documents that originate from a company be controlled, but the documents originating out of the country should also be controlled, according to 9000 World. Many documents, such as user documents for products and machinery owned by the company, must be clearly marked and distributed to the right individuals in the company. | 2019-04-21T08:30:14 | https://bizfluent.com/list-7464553-document-control-requirements.html |
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The George and Barbara Bush Foundation wants both a locomotive and a plane to exhibit at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, but not just any locomotive and not just any plane. The foundation is requesting that an Air Force One plane that is set for retirement in 2025 be provided for permanent display at the library and it’s also wants to exhibit the Union Pacific No. 4141 George Bush Locomotive whose custom paint job incorporates the colors of the Air Force one used during the Bush presidency. | 2019-04-18T21:07:16 | https://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/headline.asp?id=52800 |
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This authoritative report by the President of the Board of Directors of the TESOL International Association, Dr Deborah Healey, examines gamification and its uses in education.
This authoritative report is an exploration of gamification in education, commissioned by Macmillan Education and written by Dr Deborah Healey.
and concludes with an exploration of the current use of gamification and games design in education.
Dr Deborah Healey is the 2019–2020 President of the Board of Directors of the TESOL International Association. She has taught online and face-to-face teacher training courses for the University of Oregon, primarily focusing on technology in education. She gamified both her online and her face-to-face courses. She has also taught ESL and EFL at community colleges and language institutes.
Dr Healey has written and presented extensively in the US and internationally. Her recent areas of research include gamification, massive open online courses (MOOCs), and online teaching approaches. Her doctorate is in Computers in Education.
Click the link above to download this white paper on gamification. | 2019-04-23T13:57:48 | http://www.onestopenglish.com/community/teacher-talk/advancing-learning/advancing-learning-gamification/557202.article |
It is hard for me to fall asleep tonight, and I think it’s hard for you too. Because what about my future? And what about yours too? What if we stay? But what if we go? If we end up leaving our marks, where will they show?
This generation, my generation, we know something nobody else knows. We know that life is what we make of it, hard work, brains and heart are our tickets to go. We believe something can change, because we changed our selves, because we are no longer afraid. We feel things nobody else does too. Our emotion stirs from music and from shout, we hear the rhythm as we march through, and nothing can stop us because all that percussion, it’s ours too.
We see this world differently, we painted it in our art, and in our songs, we color it through words and action. We are not you. We have dreams. We have skills, we learned history too.
Nothing looks bleak anymore because we broke our backs and that silence you shoved us through. We know things you don’t know, and we believe in ourselves, more than you’d ever do.
See, it all comes down to that step, that walk into your fire; that hell you put us through. Except we will rise, generation upon generation of youth better than you. The days will come long after you, those wooden chairs will burn and your biggest fears will have come true. You do not live forever, and a Phoenix from the flames forms anew. After all, we know things you will never know. | 2019-04-23T14:35:29 | https://upliftingletters.com/2015/08/24/we-are-your-future/ |
A security guard patrolling outside the One Mill Run office complex, 3455 Mill Run Drive, discovered more than he expected early Thursday morning, Aug. 23.
The privately employed security guard noticed a suspicious car parked on the building's perimeter shortly before 2 a.m. and called 911.
Several hours later, Hilliard police had William E. Foldner II, 50, of Groff Place, in custody and had uncovered a marijuana-growing operation in a wooded area along the east side of Interstate 270, just south of Cemetery Road.
Foldner was charged Aug. 23 with one count of possession of drug paraphernalia and one count of cultivating marijuana, both fourth-degree misdemeanors.
He is scheduled for an initial appearance Sept. 12 in Hilliard Mayor's Court. The case could be heard or transferred to Franklin County Municipal Court.
In the call to Hilliard police, the security guard described a suspicious car parked at the back of the parking lot and reported part of a fence removed.
"It's a gray Cutlass, beat up," the security guard said. "And I hear something in the trees but I'm not going back there by myself."
Hilliard police responded to the scene and heard voices and sounds from the wooded area but did not make an immediate apprehension.
Officers were still waiting when a man, later identified as Foldner, returned to the car at about 5 a.m.
The marijuana plants were in three locations in the wooded area. They found 74 plants at the site.
"(Police) had to crawl on their stomachs to get back there," Officer Hyda Slone said.
Officers also found digging tools and fertilizer in the vehicle, she said.
Slone said officers do not believe the amount of dried leaves will exceed 200 grams.
Possession of marijuana is a misdemeanor unless the weight of the dried leaves, less stems and roots exceeds 200 grams.
Officers did not search the Foldner's residence, nor are they pursing additional suspects, police said. | 2019-04-24T22:26:04 | https://www.thisweeknews.com/content/stories/hilliard/news/2012/08/28/officers-discover-marijuana-growing-operation-near-i-270.html |
SAN JUAN, MM--Baser Amer will embark on his national team duties at the Southeast Asian Games, and it is not just San Beda coach Jamike Jarin who is very glad to see his star point guard go for the gold.
"The entire San Beda community is very happy that he made it to the SEA Games team," Jarin, who graduated from San Beda High School, told sportswriters on Saturday, a half-week after the announcement of Amer's inclusion to the Gilas Cadets squad for the Singaporean tournament starting on June 10.
Jarin also said, "Even his family, the people from Davao, our Muslim brothers, they're very happy that Baser Amer will don the national colors."
The former Batang Gilas mentor also noted that this will be the very first time Amer will become part of a national team as he missed out on becoming one during his youth team days.
"He wasn't able to do that in the youth team because of personal things," Jarin explained why the Red Lions' spitfire point guard did not play for the youth squad despite getting raves from high school coaches.
In spite of that, Jarin is happy that Amer will finally team up with supposed youth team comrade and best friend Kiefer Ravena.
"It is a reunion--the first time for Kiefer and Baser to be teammates with the national team, so I'm very, very excited for them."
On the other hand, Amer told some scribes that he is happy that he will be with the Gilas Cadets, which has been practicing everyday and is raring to once again show its dominance in the Southeast Asian basketball scene.
Expected to win it all, the Gilas Cadets will battle five more teams in the SEA Games basketball tournament. | 2019-04-25T14:21:35 | https://www.dugout.ph/2015/05/bedans-davaoenos-proud-to-amer.html |
REVIEW THE CRITERIA: The project’s certification criteria is available for download on the website. Review the criteria to see if your business is a good candidate for certification.
DECIDE: After looking at the criteria, decide if you want to become “Petal Certified”.
CONTACT US: Let us know that you are starting the program and a representatuve will be assigned to assist you throughout the process.
DOWNLOAD THE BUSINESS TOOLKIT: There are many resources, tools and templates available to assist your business. Everything you need to get started is in the toolkit. Download toolkit.
DEVELOP YOUR PLAN: Now that you have the toolkit in hand, gather a group of co-workers together to develop a plan of action for your business to meet the criteria.
EXECUTE THE PLAN: Becoming fully certified requires everyone in the business to participate. Make sure everyone is knowledgeable about the goals and understands the expectations.
TRACK YOUR PROGRESS: As you work through the criteria, document which items are completed, in progress, etc, who was responsible, and the location of any necessary documentation.
COMPLETE ALL PETALS: With the completion of each Petal, set up a meeting for a Petal Project representative to meet with you to verify that the criteria have been met.
BECOME FULLY CERTIFIED: Once your the business has completed all of the petals it will be recognized as a “Petal Certified” business, but the work doesn’t stop here.
RECERTIFICATION CLASS: A representative from a “Petal Certified” business is expected to attend one recertification class a year.
YEARLY REVIEW: To maintain the integrity of the program a yearly review will be conducted at all “Petal Certified” businesses. The business must continue to meet all of the Petal Project criteria to be recognized as a “Petal Certified” business. | 2019-04-25T18:41:23 | https://petal-project.com/green_your_business.html |
The Aga Khan Academy Maputo celebrated its fifth anniversary with students and staff during the month of August. The Academy opened its doors in August 2013 with its lower primary school and is now up and running with its Junior School campus. The residences and the remainder of the Academy's purpose-built campus are in the process of construction.
A special assembly was organised to commemorate the fifth year. During the assembly, the very first students to enrol at the Academy were acknowledged together with the first staff members who are still with the school as a part of the Academy family. During the assembly, the Head of Academy shared some very interesting work from the first day of school with the students, which really inspired them to think about the mission and the vision of the Aga Khan Academies.
No celebration is complete without a treat!
A cake cutting ceremony took place on Friday the same week to mark this very special occasion. The whole school, including students and staff members, were a part of this ceremony and shared this treat to make it a day of remembrance.
On the Fifth Anniversary of the Aga Khan Academy Maputo, I think it is important to reflect on where we started, take into account where we are now, and continue to develop our vision for the future. I am simply amazed by the growth of the school as I have watched it flourish from the foundation ceremony to today.
Our professional teaching staff is motivated and passionate and our students are eager and ready to take up challenges. While in the future, we are sure to face many challenges, I have confidence that our students, staff, parents, and community can scale new heights as we have done in the last five years.
Congratulations and best wishes to the Academy for achieving this milestone!
A special edition of the school newsletter was circulated on this special occasion. This newsletter has contributions from many who have been closely involved with the Academy since it started. Below are the links to download the English and Portuguese versions of the newsletter. | 2019-04-26T14:08:06 | http://www.agakhanacademies.org/maputo/celebrating-5-years-%E2%80%93-2013-2018 |
The flag in front of my house says, “Come and Take It.” Yet the city intends to take without warning half my front yard for a sidewalk. This sidewalk, if allowed, will kill huge Live Oaks down our street, destroy Native American artifacts, create flooding from loss of soil over The Aquifer Recharge Zone sitting the edge of the Balcones fault (which means the sidewalk will crack). As a sidewalk on one side of the street, it is a liability. And, there are further concerns regarding property rights.
As someone who attends nearly all of the meetings scheduled by City Hall, reads the packets it was a great shock to me there has been no outreach or official notification for this Belvin Street Sidewalk Project. Apparently, the decisions were all based on an “internal study conducted by city hall.” On Jan. 24, I was promised by a city staff person that this documentation would be provided, yet still after repeated requests I have received nothing.
Unlike the new Code SMTX, where there are text/email notifications, neighborhood meetings, public hearings, city council meetings, and information posted on the land with huge signs. The so called “Complete Streets Program” arrives with a one page leaflet Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, announcing a five-foot sidewalk (six inches deep). They promised they would come back two weeks later with markings. The next day however, flags were placed by CoSM staff instead of official surveyors. Concerns were raised by myself and others and now CoSM will hire a surveyor.
There are many neighborhoods that have requested sidewalks, but from what I can tell our neighborhood does not want the sidewalk.
We found out about the project on Jan. 16, we have not received information that answers our questions about: right -of-way, the trees, the artifacts, and our flooding concerns.
Our portion of the street is scheduled this month for a Historic Resources Survey. This survey is designed to protect the character and history of our street as well as our national resources. Are the different City Hall departments communicating?
It is important to note, this is not a downtown commercial business, these are people’s homes. In these cases, it stands to reason, that a longer official notification process should be put in place. | 2019-04-20T03:41:07 | https://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/opinions/cloud-over-belvin-sidewalk |
Clinicians of every discipline enjoy sayings such as “time is brain” and “common things are common.” Yet, surely no medical saying is better known than “first do no harm” or, to use the Latin phrase, “primum non nocere.” Contrary to popular belief, this phrase does not appear in the Hippocratic Oath or the Hippocratic corpus (Hippocrates wrote in Greek, not Latin). Rather the saying is attributed to Thomas Inman, as recently as 1860. That same year Oliver Wendell Holmes (Snr) famously remarked in a lecture to the Massachusetts Medical Society, “If the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind—and all the worse for the fishes” He observed that the injuries caused by overmedication were often masked by the disease.
There is a misconception that herbal medicines have relatively fewer side effects that regular or allopathic medicine and is completely benign and non-toxic. This is because natural sources tend to be metabolized easier by the body or are they? Qualified herbalists and naturopaths understand that even herbal medicine can potentially be unsafe to certain people or groups of people.
1. The potential for negative side effects. “Im tired and I just want to get a good night’s sleep”. Ingredients in an over the counter formula such as 5HTP or St John’s wort is contraindicated with prescribed medication especially antidepressants. Those who take warfarin for blood thinning should be very careful about taking a variety of supplements or herbs and always consult their health professional before taking them. Herbal medicines are now required to be adequately labeled with precautionary information outlining potential side effects.
2. The international trade in poor quality unregulated herbal products is very profitable – for the supplier. Now we can order over the internet but many of these herbal preparations are not always subjected to government regulations. They can contain harmful additives or herbs not permitted in countries like New Zealand. Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicines are often adulterated (sometimes knowingly) with heavy metals for example. Quality of herbals need always to comply with a Pharmacopoeia which sets out minimal allowable levels of microbial contamination, pesticide residues, heavy metals and active constituents to name a few.
4. Always find out who wrote the research around a supplement as quite often it was done by the company who produced it in the first place! The need for more clinical trials and studies on how well herbs work and how safe they are is not economically viable for many drug companies and government research agencies. Therefore any unbiased research outlining the safety of many herbal preparations is slow in coming.
Are you wasting your money on supplements that just don’t work? | 2019-04-25T18:15:08 | http://www.dpherbals.com/Blog/tag/Supplements/ |
Standard Metre in the Petit Luxembourg, Paris. Set up when Metrification introduced by the French National Assembly between 1791 and 1795. Metric units became compulsory in France in 1801. Engraving, 1904. | 2019-04-20T16:39:14 | https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-standard-metre-in-the-petit-luxembourg-paris-set-up-when-metrification-57314299.html |
Back in the summer of 2017, Judith and Mat had their dream wedding at Millbridge Court in Surrey. The lovely venue, that fortunately accommodated the beautiful weather the lucky couple had, is one of the most beautiful venues in the area, and they also offer accommodation, catering and wedding planning!
After returning from their life together in Kenya, Judith and Mat decided to throw an African themed wedding, using collected figures as table favours. If you look closely you’ll be able to spot them in the wonderful pictures, as captured by Paul and Carol at Stylish Wedding Photography. Additionally, the couple chose Kate Avery Flowers to arrange the flowers, which were just perfect. Each arrangement was made with the perfect balance of colours and types of flower!
Take a look through these photos and get some inspiration for your 2018 summer wedding! Let’s hope the weather is just as good this year!
We wish Judith and Mat all the happiness in the world! | 2019-04-24T23:12:46 | https://www.zankyou.co.uk/p/judith-and-mats-african-themed-wedding-in-surrey |
Methods based on nuclear ensembles allow to simulate steady and time-resolved photoelectron spectra with absolute intensities.
Providing results directly comparable to experimental data is a major goal in computational theoretical chemistry. This goal represents a special challenge with the natural trend of dealing with always larger and more complex molecular systems. Whenever nonlocal quantum effects can be neglected, resorting to semiclassical simulations turns out to be a good option, as it allows closely emulating experimental techniques at relatively modest computational costs compared to full quantum simulations.
In the last years, we have worked out and implemented diverse of such semiclassical approaches for spectrum simulations within the Newton-X platform. A central point in these developments has been to include inhomogeneous broadening via nuclear ensembles.
For both, steady and time-resolved PE spectra, we have developed and tested two approximations, one based on full computation of photoelectron cross sections (we call it cross section approach) and another based on cross sections approximated by Dyson orbital norms (DO norm approach).
Moreover, the vibrational modulation of the electron kinetic energy distribution was also modeled with two different approaches. In the first one, vibrational overlaps between N and N-1 electron systems were supposed to be significant only for the electrons ejected with the maximum allowed kinetic energy (PVB model). In the second approach, vibrational overlaps were supposed to be constant over the whole electron kinetic energy domain (CVB model).
We applied these methods to simulate PE spectra of imidazole (steady and time-resolved) and of adenine (steady). The comparison to experimental data shows that steady spectra can be nicely predicted with the PVB model, with good description of intensities and band shapes.
Steady (left) and time-resolved (right) PE spectra of imidazole. In the TRPE, only the initial time window is shown. Sn are the states of the neutral molecule, while Dn are the states of the cation.
For time-resolved spectra, however, the PVB model fails and the CVB model renders much better results. The CVB simulations have been able to reproduce a series of substructures in the experimental spectrum.
For all tested cases, cross sections approximated by Dyson orbital norms delivered results of similar quality as those based on full computation of cross sections, with an enormous economy of computational effort.
These results make us confident that photoelectron spectrum simulations based on the nuclear ensemble approach can be an effective tool to aid deconvolution and assignment of experimental data for large molecules.
The methods will be available in the next release of Newton-X. | 2019-04-22T10:38:12 | https://barbatti.org/2016/09/15/photoelectron-spectrum-simulations/ |
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Heather is Vice President, Operations with Optimé, responsible for overall leadership of the company’s Operations. Heather is a customer-oriented work process and supply chain executive, with a track record of delivering outstanding results in the areas of cost efficiencies and productivity that support and enable the business strategy. She has significant experience in managing the supply chain impact resulting from product launches, acquisitions, divestitures, and plant closures with underlying strength in governance.
At a leading CPG firm, Heather served as a leadership team member at both the country and organization levels which resulted in a skilled and collaborative approach to dealings with Marketing, Sales, IT, Finance, Manufacturing, HR and PR. Select project leadership highlights included leading a 200+ employee organization through 6 consecutive years of improved operational results utilizing 6 Sigma “like” techniques to deliver process improvement and efficiencies in support of results improvement as well as staffing, coaching and directing Subject Matter Expert resources for an average of 30 concurrent projects worldwide.
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Winter operation hours of calbe cars and ski lifts Here you get information about the opening hours of all cable cars in Stanton, St Christoph, Stuben, Lech and Warth am Arlberg.
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All those in possession of the lift pass “Arlberg” therefore have the possibility to access km of piste, via 88 lifts! Km of cross-country trails: Professional tips For your own personal winter sports experience.
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The Council for the Stockholm Mälar Region is a member’s organisation for County councils and municipalities in the Stockholm Metropolitan Area.
The Council serves as a platform for municipalities and county councils in the Stockholm Mälar Region but also to an increasing extent for collaboration between the politics, the business sector and the academia. The Council promotes common strategic goals within infrastructure and transport, as well as knowledge and skills development for a more sustainable, internationally competitive and attractive Stockholm Mälar Region.
The Council was established in 1992 by regional politicians, for closer cooperation between the counties and municipalities of the Stockholm Mälar region. Today the Council has 56 municipalities and five counties as members, and seven associate members.
The secretariat is led by Secretary General Ms. Maria Nimvik Stern and five co-workers.
43 % of the Swedish population live in the region – that is 4,3 million inhabitants.
49 % of the Swedish GDP is created in the region.
48 % of the companies in the country are located here.
The Stockholm Mälar Region is the biggest labour market in Sweden, 45 % of the work opportunities in the country are here.
29 out of 48 Swedish higher education institutions (HEIs) are located in the region.
45 % of the 25-64-year-olds in the region have post-secondary education.
The region accounted for 51 % of population growth in Sweden 2012-2017.
The region accounted for 52 % of housing construction in Sweden 2012-2017.
In total, goods are exported to the value of 530 billion SEK from the region.
8 out of 10 train trips in Sweden begin or end in Stockholm. The region is a vital part of the infrastructure and transport system in Sweden. | 2019-04-23T16:26:25 | http://www.malardalsradet.se/about-malardalsradet/ |
Negotiations of oil & gas leases almost always include a provision for the payment of royalties on the production of the well. The lessee who operates the well will be required to pay royalties to the lessor if and when the well does produce, and the amount will be set at a predetermined percentage of the well production. In most cases, the lessee will have to pay a shut-in royalty in order to maintain the lease, even if the operation of the well is suspended during the term of the lease. Legal disputes over royalty payments are common in our area, and in too many cases it is the land owner or title holder who loses out.
If you are a surface owner or mineral interest co-owner and you have been faced with late payment, partial payment or refusal to pay on the part of the mining company who leased out your land, you should not delay in speaking with an experienced Colorado oil and gas law lawyer who can advise you of your rights. You can take legal action to resolve the dispute and obtain payment. Most often, the best approach is to work with your attorney to conduct detailed research of the relevant documents, such as the surface use agreement, and the drilling operating agreement. You can save time and money by gaining compliance on the royalty payment outside of court, but it is important to find an attorney who is willing to enter litigation should this prove necessary.
With our many years of experience practicing in the field of oil and gas law, Feldmann Nagel Cantafio Margulis Gonnell PLLC is well equipped to help you with any type of dispute over royalty payments. You may be one of the many land owners who has been frustrated by the unfair payment practices of an oil or gas company but we want you to know that you have a right to demand the money that is lawfully yours. One of our attorneys can meet with you to conduct a document review and consultation to determine whether you have a case.
Contact a Colorado oil and gas law lawyer for aggressive representation of your rights to receive royalty payments on your well. | 2019-04-25T09:59:35 | https://www.coloradooilgaslawyers.com/Oil-and-Gas-Law/Royalty-Disputes-Litigation.aspx |
Bridouxia is a genus of snails of concern and found in the following area(s): Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia.
Copyright Notice: This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Bridouxia".
Glenn, C. R. 2006. "Earth's Endangered Creatures - Bridouxia spp. Facts" (Online) - Licensed article from Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Accessed 4/24/2019 at http://earthsendangered.com/profile.asp?sp=9901&ID=1.
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ZURICH (Reuters) – Novartis said its Sandoz division received approval from the European Commission for its biosimilar Zessly (infliximab) in gastroenterological, rheumatological and dermatological diseases.
Zessly is approved for use in all indications of the reference medicine including rheumatoid arthritis, adult and pediatric Crohn’s disease, adult and pediatric ulcerative colitis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis and plaque psoriasis, Novartis said in a statement on Thursday.
Zessly is the sixth approved biosimilar medicine for Sandoz, with several more major oncology and immunology launches expected globally by 2020, Novartis said. | 2019-04-22T19:55:49 | https://www.physiciansweekly.com/novartis-receives-eu-approval/ |
Exhibition Way Apartments are located 3 minutes from Wembley Stadium and the SSE..
Exhibition Way Apartments are located 3 minutes from Wembley Stadium and the SSE Arena, a major London icon and entertainment venue hosting popular sporting events and concerts. The local neighbourhood features a mix of multi-cultural shops, restaurants and green open spaces and offers a great balance of suburban life and city connections.
For shopping there's a busy high street with a unique mix of specialist shops as well as a designer outlet mall with a great choice of brands all at discounted rates. Wembley is also well positioned to access all the business parks and commercial districts of West London where many international companies have based themselves. Central London is only a short journey (under 20 minutes) away by train giving you direct access to Oxford Street's mega department stores, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, London Eye and The Shard, with its striking shimmering exterior and spectacular viewing gallery.
Exhibition Way Apartments are part of a new state-of-the-art building boasting some excellent on-site facilities including a pool table, a coffee machine, comfortable seating and a large TV featuring Sky Sports. The communal landscaped garden and pond are exclusively for residents. There’s secure indoor bike storage.
Inside the apartments really do present a warm and inviting experience. Designed with a modern look and feel and contemporary furniture accents, these residences have dining, laundry, entertainment and high quality bedding all included with housekeeping services as well. WiFi internet runs at 40 Mbps and the Smart TV features an integrated DVD player.
Bathrooms are sleek with rain-fall shower features, radiators and large mirrors. Bedrooms have more than just the basics with storage, reading lamps, privacy blinds and luxury bed linen. Open up your balcony doors to enjoy some great 6th floor views of the city.
24 hours concierge, Lifts, Shower, Bathtub, Heated towel rails, Hairdryer, Ironing facilities, Welcome pack, Guest handbook, Security staff on-site, Central heating, Double glazed windows, Balcony, Communal landscaped garden, Secure indoor bike storage.
Full kitchen, Hob, Microwave, Dining table and chairs/Bar-stool,breakfast bar and coffee table, Oven, Refrigerator, Freezer, Cooking utensils, Cutlery and crockery, Toaster, Dishwasher, Kettle, Washer/Dryer.
On site parking available on request for an extra fee.
Sleeps two and has one bedroom, double bed, one bathroom, a full kitchen and a spacious living and dining area.
Sleeps four and has two bedrooms, double beds, two modern bathrooms, a full kitchen and a spacious living and dining area.
Extra Beds An inflatable bed available on request for an extra charge. | 2019-04-26T08:09:30 | https://www.check-in-london.com/apartments/london/north-west-london/wembley/exhibition-way-apartments.aspx |
“We are committed to real pension reform which preserves benefits for state workers while reforming the system for future generations. The governor’s plan calls for bonding and tax increases, which will not solve the problems facing our pension systems. We need a systematic overhaul to keep them solvent for future workers.
“This budget proposal represents one of the largest tax increases in Commonwealth history. It also does not satisfactorily address property taxes, the most burdensome tax on residents of our region. Our constituents are interested in a goal of elimination. As it is, his target of 50 percent reduction does not include a cap that would prevent future property tax escalation. His proposal also does not address the cost drivers such as unfunded mandates and prevailing wage that allow school spending to spiral out of control. We appreciate the governor starting this debate, but we do not believe his spending plan represents a realistic solution for taxpayers.
“The governor’s budget plan also directs tax dollars disproportionately to school districts in urban areas. This leaves growing districts, such as many in York and Adams counties, footing the cost as increased funds are sent once again to fund schools in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. This is not a real solution for Pennsylvania’s future, but perpetuates an education funding formula which is already unfair. In fact, it is similar to the proposed one mill tax increase for York County, designed to bail out the city of York.
“It is disappointing that a former businessman would propose a budget that is detrimental to small business. Saddling them with burdensome tax increases and increasing the minimum wage does not support the job creators that provide employment to middle-class Pennsylvanians. | 2019-04-23T08:09:37 | http://www.repmoul.com/NewsItem.aspx?NewsID=23011 |
Emily was there to have a good time and then she saw him.
His family has always talked about love at first sight. But he didn't believe it.
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Floods can happen anywhere but that is something that many homeowners forget about when they are shopping for insurance for their home. Whether they believe that the flood cannot happen to them or if they think they already have it, there are many people who still do not have flood insurance protection. Unfortunately, because a flood can happen anywhere, it is definitely something to consider. Continue reading to see why you should get flood insurance for your home.
Many homeowners insurance policies do not include a flood insurance clause which means that many people are not protected when they think they are. Flood insurance, more often than not, is purchased separately because it is not included. If you think you are covered, you may want to double check by taking a look at your current homeowners insurance policy.
Twenty percent of floods occur in low to moderate flood zones. Just because you may not live in an area that is prone to flooding does not mean that you are not at risk for a flood. They can happen from a burst pipe or even if the above ground pool your neighbor has collapses.
If you live in a new construction area, you are more prone to flooding. This is because the soil that water used to be absorbed into now will flood to other areas because of the new streets and sidewalks. It is something to consider if you live in an area of new construction.
If you would like to learn more, get a quote, or take a look at your existing flood insurance or homeowners insurance policy, please contact us at Progressive Insurance Agency, Inc. today. We will be happy to help and make sure your home is fully protected. | 2019-04-18T22:34:58 | https://www.proamericainsurance.com/blog/2016/01/ |
Recently, I had a challenging encounter with God. I had parked my car in the corner of a church’s parking lot. When I got out of the car, I noticed dense vines growing on the retaining wall in front of me. From where I was standing I could tell they were wild grape leaves and thought how nice that this church had these attractive vines providing fruit for the wildlife in the area. Suddenly I felt a prompting from the Holy Spirit to take a closer look at the vines. I stepped closer but nothing appeared out of the ordinary. With that I heard the voice of the Lord pressing me, “Look beneath the surface and see what lies beneath.” Taking hold of a grape vine and lifting it up I noticed that the grape vine was actually growing on top of a rather large and healthy patch of poison ivy! Many of the green leaves I had seen in the vibrant foliage weren’t grape leaves, but poison ivy.
Who are you beneath the surface … in your heart? When you take off your mask and look in the mirror, who do you see? After all, that is who God sees all the time!
If the level of our Christianity only rises to the level of doing outward things to be seen by others, we will always try to do what looks good, while criticizing others who don’t, and silencing any who would show us our shallowness. In essence, we will become like Pharisees. The Pharisees put on a religious facade that covered their impure and insincere hearts.
The two primary characteristics of the Pharisees that Jesus declared during His earthly ministry were that they were hypocrites and they were blind. We can see this clearly in Matthew 23. Seven different times Jesus proclaims, “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” The Pharisees were hypocrites … “play actors.” They played the part of having utmost devotion. The Pharisees would painstakingly perform deeds that displayed pious devotion to God. While their deeds indeed seemed impressive, they didn’t represent who they really were. The life of many Pharisees was little more than an insincere show. While the Pharisees might have looked good on the outside, they were full of death and decay on the inside. “Woe to you … Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean” (Matthew 23:27).
What do you and I look like beneath the surface? Are you the same person at church as the one who lives in your house … or are you playing a role? You can count on this truth: what is on the inside of you will make its way out! But even more alarming to those who long to please the Lord — He already knows every “secret” of your heart. There’s no off-limit closet He can’t see into, no secret hidden chamber He cannot enter. To think differently is to deceive yourself.
The solution to hypocrisy is repentance and sincerity. The Lord detests hypocrisy. He wants us to live one life — not play many parts! He wants us to confess hypocrisy as a sin, ask Him to forgive us, and then embrace sincerity. Being sincere means we are real, genuine, and authentic before man and God. It means we act the same, regardless of whom we are with because that is who we really are.
All of us are called to serve the Lord with a sincere heart. “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and in faithfulness” (Joshua 24:14). The reason so few believers walk in sincerity is because it isn’t easy. Sincerity is hard because it means we can’t pretend to be more than we are. Instead, we are forced to face our weaknesses and shortfalls. But sincerity is the only way to keep our relationship with God real and genuine, while knowing how far we have been changed into Christ’s likeness … and how much further we’ve yet to go!
The other prime characteristic of the Pharisees was their lack of spiritual vision. Five different times in the 23rd chapter of Matthew Jesus laments the Pharisees blindness: “Woe to you, blind guides! … You blind fools! … You blind men! … You blind guides … Blind Pharisee!” According to our Lord and Savior, the Pharisees spiritual vision could be summed up by the phrase, “blind as a bat.” After all, the Pharisees couldn’t see Jesus was the fulfillment of the messianic promises that they studied, memorized, and taught to others. Right in front of their eyes Jesus was teaching like no other, performing miracles, and fulfilling the prophecies about the Messiah, yet they were blind to the truth that He was the Messiah they so desperately wanted to see.
Before we get too critical, I wonder how we are doing in our day. Is the American Church visually impaired? Do we see Jesus as the great, powerful, majestic Lord that He is? Or, are we becoming spiritually blind like the Pharisees?
Jesus gave us this promise, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God” (Matthew 5:8). Our only hope of seeing God is by being pure! The person who is “pure in heart” doesn’t go around wondering, “Where is God in the trials, tragedy, heartache, and grief?” They will see that He is right in the middle of every situation teaching them, molding them, strengthening them, upholding them, and moving them along into His likeness.
How do we become “pure in heart?” Only through repentance and relationship. We need to renounce the “secret” idols we have been treasuring in our hearts and repent of looking to them for pleasure instead of finding joy in God. If you need to be washed clean, you’re not alone. Let Jesus and His love purify your heart so that you may begin to see Him more clearly.
It is impossible to live a “pure life” without relationship with God. We need to meet with the Lord in His Word. The Scriptures will both show us what needs to be removed and help nurture what needs to grow in our hearts. We must open the Bible and “use it” every day if we want the strength to become and remain pure.
We also need to commune with the Lord in prayer. We will not remain pure without prayer. Prayer enthrones the Lord on the thrones of our hearts. Our hearts will only be pure if Jesus not only lives there but reigns!
Let us pray: Lord, we repent of playing various parts instead of living the one life You died to give us. Forgive us of our hypocrisy and help us to be able to serve You in sincerity. Lord, we want to be the pure in heart who see You. Examine our hearts and show us every wicked way. We repent of treasuring the trash of this world instead of pursuing You whole-heartedly. Forgive us and help us to walk in purity for Your names sake. Strengthen our relationship with You that we might not only remain pure, but also have clear spiritual vision in the days ahead. Amen. | 2019-04-24T19:56:19 | http://livingwaterpublications.org/beneath_surface.php |
Busy Bees at Coorparoo features beautifully designed open plan rooms and a spacious outdoor setting that includes a vegetable and herb garden, sandpit and beautifully planted areas where children are encouraged to ignite their curiosities and sense of discovery.
Angela Frame is the appointed Service Manager and brings with her 14 years of commitment and experience in early learning. Angela is supported by a team of 22 teaching practitioners and educators with the Service offering 113 spaces for children. Conveniently located in the heart of Coorparoo on the corner of Harries Road above the Woolworths Shopping Complex, the Service was developed to ensure that children are being provided with exciting opportunities and challenges for them to play and grow in an innovative and stimulating environment where their individuality can be nurtured by dedicated Educators.
Busy Bees at Coorparoo encompasses an innovative approach which is based on the discovery and exploration of respectful relationships with children. We follow this philosophy and offer children uninterrupted time for play, plenty of freedom, a calm and relaxed environment, cooperative relationships, and our full attention.
We would love to have you join our Busy Bees family at Coorparoo.
My name is Angela Frame and I have 14 years experience in the early childhood sector. I have been the Service Manager at Coorparoo since we opened in January 2018.
Building trusting relationships with families and children is important to me, I like to know that all children and their families feel welcomed in our Service.
I feel quite privileged being part of our children’s learning journey. Being able to watch them grow and reach their developmental milestones brings me so much joy. Together with my team of Educators we are dedicated in providing a solid platform for the lifelong learning that our children will take on.
When we first opened in January last year we were a small team of eight dedicated and passionate Educators. One year on and we are a strong team of 22 Educators and each of us are just as passionate and dedicated in giving our children the best start to life.
Our child-centred approach promotes the development of creativity, individuality and self-confidence with our Investigators. | 2019-04-25T10:56:35 | https://www.busybees.edu.au/locations/coorparoo |
Substitute Paul Peschisolido's late strike earned Derby a place in the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of Bristol Rovers.
The Canadian was played in by team-mate Steve Howard and coolly slotted the ball in from just inside the area.
It was harsh on valiant Rovers who saw Richard Walker and Sammy Igoe go agonisingly close with headers.
The game turned in Derby's favour when Aaron Lescott saw red for a foul on Arturo Lupoli with 20 minutes left.
Paul Trollope's outfit did not come to Pride Park to defend and made their intentions clear as early as the third minute when star striker Richard Lambert directed his six-yard header towards goal but into the arms of Stephen Bywater.
Bywater was then forced into acrobatic action, tipping over Walker and Igoe's headed efforts.
When he was beaten by Andy Sandell's header, referee Andy D'Urso came to Derby's rescue by ruling out the goal for a foul on Bywater.
The Rams' shot-stopper was also forced into clearing a loose goalbound backpass from team-mate Richard Jackson, with the alert Walker breathing down his neck.
The Championship leaders had to increase their forays into Rovers' half, and they did after the break.
Lupoli, their on-loan striker from Arsenal, was unlucky not to score with a header that had to be cleared off the line by Martin Carruthers, while Howard struck his 12-yard effort two feet wide of the Rovers goal.
However, Derby's fortunes changed on 70 minutes when Lescott was shown a straight red for a late tackle on Lupoli.
With the away side down by a man, Billy Davies' men sensed they could steal the win.
And with 10 minutes left they did just that when substitute Peschisolido broke the offside trap to give the home side a valuable yet undeserved win.
"We knew this cup game would be difficult because we were at home.
"They are 56 places below us but the cup is a leveller. It's a great chance for these teams to come and dig in."
He added: "It was a great goal from 'Pesch'. He's put us in the fifth round for the first time since 1999."
"We can take a lot of pride from our performance, I said to the boys it was a chance to make their mark.
"In the first half we got hold of the ball and created a lot of chances. I was disappointed we didn't have the lead at half-time."
On Aaron Lescott's red card Trollope added: "A yellow card would have done."
Derby: Bywater, Jackson, Moore, Michael Johnson, Camara, Fagan (Bisgaard 85), Malcolm (Smith 81), Seth Johnson, Barnes, Lupoli (Peschisolido 73), Howard.
Subs Not Used: Edworthy, Oakley.
Bristol Rovers: Phillips, Lescott, Hinton, Elliott, Carruthers, Igoe (Rigg 83), Campbell, Disley, Sandell (Haldane 76), Walker (Ryan Green 72), Lambert.
Subs Not Used: Lines, Parrinello. | 2019-04-19T01:11:26 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/fa_cup/6282171.stm |
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Here’s an interesting article on Russell Kirsch and the first digitized image.
Fifty years ago Kirsch scanned an image of his son into a computer, and the digital imaging revolution began.
I’ve just completed an in-depth review of a Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 ED AI-S telephoto lens for astrophotography.
I picked it up used, in excellent condition, from KEH for about $300.
This lens is really very good for astrophotography, even when used wide open.
I’ve got a ton of information in the review, so be sure to check it out!
This shot was taken with a new lens – a manual focus Nikon 180mm f/2.8 ED AIS.
Actually, I acquired the lens used from KEH, but it’s almost like new.
It shows the area around NGC 6357 and NGC 6334. Click on the image above or on the link to see a higher-resolution version of the image with identifications.
This image is a stack of 13 x 2min exposures (26 minutes total exposure) at ISO 1600 at f/2.8 with a Canon 1000D (Digital Rebel XS) and Astronomik CLS filter.
I will be publishing a detailed report on this lens in the near future.
NGC 6334 is the Cat’s Paw Nebula in southern Scorpius. Click on the image or the link to see a higher resolution version with more info and technical data.
This was a tough one to shoot! It never rises any higher than 15 degrees above the horizon from my observing location.
At this elevation, you have to deal with a lot of atmospheric absorption, which dims the light from the nebula, as well as shifting the color towards the red. And because it doesn’t get very high above the southern horizon, that means it is not well placed for shooting for very long.
To complicate matters, on the night I shot this, there were clouds rolling through on and off, so I didn’t get as much exposure time as I would have liked. This image has 48 minutes of total exposure in 8 sub-frames, each of which was 6 minutes long at ISO 1600 at f/6, taken with a modified Canon 1000D (Digital Rebel XS).
I believe that I was also the one who actually gave the “Cat’s Paw” nebula its popular name. I started calling it that because of its resemblance to, of all things, a cat’s paw (!), and because of its proximity to the “Cat’s Eyes”, Lambda and Upsilon Scorpii. I think the name was first published in an article I wrote in Sky and Telescope magazine in August of 1998, and documented in Hartmut Frommert’s “A Collection of Some Common Names for Deep Sky Objects” on the SEDS web site.
This area of southern Scorpius doesn’t get too high above the horizon up here in the north, so it’s not that easy to shoot. It does contain a lot of interesting stuff though! Click on the image or the link to see a high-resolution image with a mouse-over for identifications.
This image had to be shot over the course of two nights to acquire the 71 minutes of total exposure that it contains. This was because the area just is not that high above the horizon for very long because of its southerly declination, and because I was plagued with clouds both nights.
Seventy-one minutes of exposure may seem like a lot for a wide-field shot, but several factors were conspiring against me. First, there is a lot of atmospheric extinction for objects with low elevation, and the center of the field never got more than 15 degrees above the horizon. This dims objects and requires longer total exposures to get good images. There was also a significant amount of moisture in the air, as well as the typical aerosols and air pollution that we always have in the northeast, and these dimmed the area even more.
The field was shot with a Nikon 85mm f/1.4 AIS manual focus lenstopped down to f/4.8 (1/2 stop closed down from f/4) with a IDAS LPS filter and a Canon 20Da DSLR at ISO 1600. A Fotodiox adapter was used to mate the Nikon lens onto the Canon body. It was necessary to stop the Nikon lens down three and a half stops to get sharp stars across the entire field. Because the Nikkor lens does not use ED glass or any special aspheric elements, it has a lot of aberrations when used wide open. In fact, I would say that it is hardly usable wide open on a starfield.
Stopping the lens down is not that big of a deal if you have enough time to devote to a sufficient number of sub-exposures. But for special objects like comets or fields that don’t stay above the horizon for very long, it sure would have been nice to be able to capture the same number of photons in 6 minutes of total exposure at f/1.4 as I did in 71 minutes of exposure at f/4.5.
If the lens was great wide-open, I could have shot 71 minutes at f/1.4 and captured 12 times the total number of photons, and improved the signal-to-noise ratio by almost 3.5 times.
Unfortunately, the lens is not very good wide-open for astrophotography, so we just stop it down, and make due with what we have to work with.
Dark nebulae B92 and B93 are two outstanding examples of clouds of dust and non-luminous matter is space that block the light from the stars behind them.
Click on the image above or the link to see a higher-resolution version of the image with more information and technical data.
Having truly dark skies makes photographing dark nebulae much easier, as this shot illustrates. It was shot from Cherry Springs with only 22.5 minutes of total exposure.
These two dark nebulae were also more visible because they are located in front of the extremely rich starfields of M24, the small Sagittarius star cloud.
Three frames of 7.5 minutes each at ISO 1600 were shot with a modified Canon 1000D with an Astronomik CLS filter through my Astro-Physics 130EDT at f/6 with a focal reducer to make this picture of B92 and B93.
It is not totally impossible to shoot really faint dark nebulae from a much brighter sky, but the price you must pay is much longer exposure times, such as this image of the dark nebulae in the Taurus Molecular Cloud shot from my moderately dark-sky observing site in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey where more than 12 hours of total exposure were needed.
The sky brightness at Cherry Springs is about magnitude 21.8 per square arc second, compared to a brightness of about 20.8 in the Pine Barrens. While it seems like one magnitude difference is not that much, it is actually 2.5x difference because the stellar magnitude scale is not linear.
So to achieve the same quality image that you get at a dark sky site with a given exposure, you would need about 2.5x more exposure at a site that is one magnitude brighter. For a site that is 2 magnitudes brighter, you would need 2.5 x 2.5 = 6.25 times more exposure.
From downtown in a city, the sky might be 4 magnitudes brighter, requiring 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 more exposure, or nearly 40 times the exposure at a true dark-sky observing site.
With these kinds of differences in needed exposure, we can see where it quickly becomes more efficient to pack up your equipment and drive an hour or two or more to a darker site.
Even if you are not trying to take photographs, the aesthetic experience of observing the dark nebulae in the Milky Way, particularly in binoculars, is an astonishing experience from a true dark-sky site.
Joe Steiber has just alerted us that Anthony Wesley and Christopher Go have captured an image, and a video, respectively, of another impact on Jupiter.
This time they captured the actual fireball upon impact!
The impact took place at 20:31 UT on June 3rd, and Wesley places the location of the impact site at Jovian latitude minus 16.1 degrees, and central meridian longitudes CM1: 300 degrees, CM2: 33.8 degrees and CM3: 210.4 degrees.
Wesley’s image can be seen above, and Go’s video can be seen here on Spaceweather.com.
Be sure to get out there an look at Jupiter in the next couple of days to see if any impact scars develop!
Update: Anthony Wesley now has a video of the impact up… warning – it’s 45mb.
Update: Anthony Wesley has released a great color image of the Jupiter impact.
Here is a shot from my Beginner’s series – The Summer Triangle, taken on a barn-door tracker. Click on the image or the link to see a higher-resolution version of the image and more technical data and object identificatons.
It shows one of the amazing kinds of pictures that you can take with incredibly simply equipment.
In this case, the shot was taken with Canon’s least expensive DSLR, the Digital Rebel XS (1000D) unmodified, and the kit 18-55mm EF-S f/3.5 – 5.6 zoom lens working at 18mm and f/3.5.
The exposure was just two and a half minutes at ISO 1600.
A fog filter was used on the lens to highlight the brightest stars.
The camera was mounted on a simple home-made barn-door tracker that was hand cranked.
Believe me, if I can make this tracker, anyone can!
In an extra little bit of luck, the image also recorded a satellite flaring as it went through the frame, something I didn’t even see because I had my head down turning the crank on the barn-door tracker and watching the second hand of the watch. | 2019-04-21T01:17:49 | http://www.astropix.com/wp/2010/06/ |
Tube and bracket hosted a Technical workshop on 15th November for The Carver Group, a family owned business that manages a portfolio of manufacturing businesses; Biddle, Thermoscreens, Carver Clamps and Widney Leisure. The Event was held at the Banbury Head Office at Middleton Cheney.
The Carver Group has it’s headquarters in the UK, representation in 50 countries and branch offices in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom and Canada. The Group’s three research and development centres co-operate with universities to develop the latest technologies in customer oriented solutions. The Carver Group is represented on the HVAC standards committees, helping to shape the future of the industry.
The Carver Group has been a customer of Tube and Bracket for several months and most recently have been working on a project to incorporate a universal kitting trolley to enable the streamlined building of air conditioning units.
The workshop event was recommended as an initial platform to become familiar with the tube and bracket system and was an ideal opportunity to see the system in use within the T & B facility.
Technical workshop attendees were given a walkthrough tour of new Tube and Bracket facility on arrival, followed by a presentation by Andy Coles, Tube and Bracket Operations Director. The presentation started the workshop with a brief overview of types of tube and brackets available and their function. How components are used to create applications, eg. workstations and trolleys etc. Tips on assembly and how to the ensure support strength of tubes and brackets.
An inspection of a prototypes suitability with Biddle componentry and the initial stages of second trolley build followed, this was completed after lunch. The day was rounded off with a debrief and discussion of next steps.
Technical workshops, designed by our Kaizen team, are available on request and are one of the key services we offer to support our customers.
We offer technical workshops to our customers to help them achieve the best possible outcomes from our products and give them the independence to work autonomously for continuous improvement. It’s really great to see the guys get so much out of the workshop, which for me personally makes it all worthwhile.
We welcome visits from our customers and can provide workshops designed around a specific bespoke solution. Please contact us for more details or to arrange a visit. | 2019-04-20T02:39:51 | https://tubeandbracket.com/technical-workshop-for-carver-group-at-tb/ |
Can you plan to win the lottery?
Endreson siblings (left to right) Emma Pirie, Marie McHenry, Sigrid Endreson and Jennifer Pirie.
Judging from the amazing story of the Endreson family’s $20.1 million bonanza in the New Jersey Lottery, the answer just might be yes.
The family’s lottery pool – originally conceived by matriarch Flossie Endreson, who died in 2004 at the age of 85 – finally paid off big when her 17 surviving children won the Pick-6 Lotto on a quick-pick game board purchased for $1 at a 7-Eleven in Fork River, N.J.
Flossie, the story goes, is said to have had a formula for splitting any lottery winnings among the family. When she died in 2004 at the age of 85, her children gathered and collected funds to cover her funeral expenses. After daughter Sigrid Endreson realized funds were left over, she and her siblings decided to use the money to start a new lottery pool in their mother’s honor.
The winnings “couldn’t have come at a better time,” Marie McHenry, a family spokeswoman, told reporters. Four of the siblings, who range in age from 53 to 76, lost their homes during Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
According to the New Jersey Lottery, the family opted to take the jackpot as a lump-sum payment of $14 million – or about $10 million after taxes. | 2019-04-19T13:25:43 | https://blog.aarp.org/2014/07/25/how-17-siblings-scored-a-20-million-jackpot/ |
The webinar link will be circulated closer to the event date.
Fragomen invites you to a breakfast briefing on the Tier 5 Government Authorised Exchange (GAE) visa with the aim to provide insight into the process for sponsoring foreign national interns in the UK.
We encourage businesses that are interested in understanding more about sponsoring foreign national interns in the UK.
Fragomen looks forward to meeting you both familiar and new faces on the day. If you have any burning immigration questions that you would like us to cover, please email them in advance to [email protected]. | 2019-04-24T22:41:36 | https://www.scci.org.uk/event/fragomen-webinar-navigating-intern-sponsorship-in-the-uk-tier-5-gae/ |
Doofa does it for you!
A Doofa is an app that works in harmony with Microsoft Excel, making tasks on your computer quick and easy. Doofas are jargon free and very simple to use. So you can get stuff done without talking tech!
Maintaining mailing lists, protecting passwords, managing accounts, storing confidential information? Doofa will do things for you!
Dinky Doofas provide quick and simple solutions to individual problems. Deluxe Doofas are more intricate apps, making complex tasks a breeze!
Why not grab The Whole Caboodle? All the Doofas in one handy pack. | 2019-04-20T17:03:53 | https://www.doofa.com/ |
Every year, Universal Orlando teases fans of Halloween Horror Night’s fans with the official website, giving fans clues to what will be at that years event. In the last update of the website, after clicking the Lantern to see undeveloped photos, we got hacked by the Legendary Truth for sticking around on the page too long.
The Enviroments page has been updated, displaying pictures from past events. However, it seems to mainly focus on Halloween Horror Night’s “Sweet 16” year, with several different images from “Screamhouse: Resurrection”, “Harvest of the Souls”, and “Psychoscareapy: Maxiumum Madness”. The Legacy, Characters, and Environments are possibly the key to clues of a “family reunion” at this year’s Halloween Horror Night event.
According the blurb on the lefthand side of the environments page, it seems this year will be no different from the past, creating immersive enviroments that “are not quite what the seem – they’re much worse”.
Stay tuned for more Halloween Horror Nights 20 updates. | 2019-04-18T21:27:47 | https://behindthethrills.com/2010/08/halloween-horror-nights-creates-immersive-environments/ |
Such lovely photographs and artful prose….a gift in itself!
This beautiful pot, full of primroses, came into our lives on Sunday afternoon.
Brought by skilled and loving hands, it touches us deeply, as it is a gift from the heart.
The pot has a long history. It came with our friends from their home in Northern Ireland many years ago. They’ve had it all this time, waiting, and made a gift of it to us this Christmas. It is a round terra cotta pot, wrapped in the deep, strong roots of an ancient ivy plant, and covered with moss. It speaks to every romantic notion of the beautiful land of Northern Ireland. | 2019-04-22T02:57:05 | https://tobecontinuedchristine.com/2013/12/31/a-gift-and-tuesday-snapshots/ |
I'm a newbie for ukulele.
Here is my new Uke that I just got yesterday.
Nothing special. . .It's just a Kamaka HF-1.
Wanna share my happiness to you all with these set of pixs that I took.
I love the KK logo design. Very nice clean and timeless design.
Honestly, i'm not really like this friction tuner. Love a peghead a lot more.
Welcome to the Kamaka Klub! Your HF1 is gorgeous.
Wow. I love your photography.
Beautiful pictures! Enjoy your Kamaka!
I love my HF-1 and I really wanna get HF-1D but it's extremely hard to find one.
Thanks for sharing the stunning photos and cool graphics!
Gorgeous, nice pics! You sound like a new daddy! Beautiful baby!
Ever been to Baan Ukulele in the Fortune Hotel???
Thanks . . . I'm very happy now.
I would love to visit Baan Ukulele store 'again'. They have the gorgeous uke collection.
She's a beauty! Will she be having siblings anytime soon? Enjoy and keep strumming!!!
*drool* What a hot uke!
Nice photography! Beautiful ukulele! A Kamaka, any Kamaka, IS special! Yes, the deluxe models are amazingly beautiful - and expensive. Good luck with the hunt. Enjoy your Kamaka.
First off welcome to UU and to the wonderful world of ukulele. Second "JUST" a Kamaka... are you teasing? It is a fantastic instrument! congratulations!
Sorry for my eng. I shouldn't use the word 'just'.
Beautiful instrument. I love going in their shop on South St. It's about as basic as it gets, you go there for one thing, and one thing only.. ukuleles. Congrats!!
I wish I can go there. | 2019-04-25T19:44:33 | https://forum.ukuleleunderground.com/archive/index.php/t-47522.html?s=deffef8c9de2054cb44b52c216fa9b3a |
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, appears to be flouting his own election pledges in his attempt to appoint his cousin Amari M. Wijewardene as the new Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
Wickremesinghe, who came to power promising to wipe out nepotism, and promote good governance, transparency and accountability, has bypassed much more qualified foreign service officials, and has instead proposed the name of his cousin, who is Chairman & Managing Director at the Swadeshi Industrial Works PLC.
Her name has been nominated to the Parliamentary Working Committee on Senior Portfolios as the new High Commissioner to UK.
She is also cousin to Ruwan Wijewardene, the State Minister of Defence.
Last November, Manoj Warnapala, the son-in-law of Austin Fernando, advisor and confidante of President Maithripala Sirisena and the Governor of the Eastern Province, was appointed as a consul to the Sri Lankan High Commission in UK.
Since the resignation of former High Commissioner, Dr. Chris Nonis, in September 2014, the post has remained vacant. There is also no Deputy High Commissioner.
So be it when you curse the P.M or anybody for that matter the curse will come back on you at some pointing in your life. you call your self good Buddhist and praise Ananda/Nalanda is this what load Buddha preached. i am sure you have a inferiority complex for not having gone to Royal Collage Colombo -7 for your education may you be the curse person in the near future you are very jealous of some body else good Karma. | 2019-04-22T12:31:42 | https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/ranil-does-a-mahinda-appoints-cousin-as-sri-lankan-high-commissioner-to-uk/ |
Description: Your goal is to save the kingdom. Help the Keeper of the Magic Hammer protect the castle from enemies. You will face the representatives of four elements: water, fire, earth and air. Use their vulnerabilities to opposite elements by selecting the necessary hammer. Collect coins to upgrade your skills and buy new spells. Destroy all the enemies and defeat the main dragon.
Instructions: Move the mouse cursor to control the magic hammer. To throw a small hammer, click the left mouse button. Move the mouse cursor over coins to pick them up. Use keys 1-5 to switch between hammers. Press Q,W,E keys to use the primary skills (purchased at the store), Press P - to pause. | 2019-04-20T16:54:40 | http://www.hm-games.com/games/arcade/magic-smash-hammer/magic-smash-hammer.html |
I know that I have fans of my music on all political avenues and boulevards, but if you've listened to my music you know that I am not apologetic in my musical activism. My family and I stayed up rather late last night watching live coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives, and we were deeply moved by the passion and resounding courage of the representatives who decided to take a stand. I want to share some of my thoughts on the matter.
I have spent the last five+ years writing, performing, recording and sharing music that speaks out against the troubles of the world from my point of view. I sing out, inspired by the legacy of so many, but especially by the examples set by the late Pete Seeger who knew that if we could manage to join our voices together, we could change the world. We could shine a light on injustice that would reflect and echo intellectually and emotionally within our communities. These words and music would spread like wildfire. For example, listen to any rendition of We Shall Overcome and witness the power of song -- as Zilphia Horton wrote in her introduction of the song in the People's Songs Bulletin, "Its strong emotional appeal and simple dignity never fails to hit people." Last night, hearing our reps sing a version of that song on the floor of the House -- a song by the people, for the people -- was a serious moment that underlined for me that this was NOT a stunt, as posited by Speaker Ryan, but that this was a moment of Truth.
Hundreds of millions of guns make it unbearably easy to add up the numbers of dead -- 33,000 gun deaths in American in just one year. This is not about protection in the countryside away from law enforcement, or about hunting game in the backwoods of Indiana. Or about "Islamic Radicals" or about the Second Amendment, or about the protection of Due Process. This is truly gun makers protecting their business interests. The NRA is largely funded by gun makers. And in return for this, the NRA actively lobbies our Senators and Representatives, and pursues political support and local legislation across this country to promote the marketplace for the sale and distribution of tools of murder.
The setup has been long in the making, and even with the technology-media-collapse of our "fourth branch", the press, many have shown ample evidence for all of this. But the problem is that changing a system from within can be an impossibly difficult endeavor. That is why we all must actively add our voice in support of the house minority. It's why we need to flood the phone lines. It's why we need to show up and vote on election day. We all need to sing out. As loud as we can.
I have assembled a bunch of my songs about these issues and more in this free to stream playlist on SoundCloud because these are things I believe with great passion, and I will #HoldTheFloor as long as I am able in my own way. Please join in. Even if you disagree with me about guns (and I know some of you do), participate and speak up, develop a relationship with your community leaders, and maybe even become one yourself. | 2019-04-24T20:10:27 | http://simeonpeebler.com/blog/holdthefloor_and_nobillnobreak/ |
The stories in this book empower us all to ultimately dominate diabetes.
Delivery Note: Standard delivery time for most magazines is 6 to 10 weeks.
Provides an overview of treatment for teenagers with diabetes, including such issues as the developmental demands of adolescence, diabetes self-management, and high-risk behaviors. | 2019-04-22T00:29:27 | http://dmtsolution.blogspot.com/2017/05/buy-typecast-amazing-people-overcoming.html |
In Isaiah 40:3-5, Isaiah painted a grand mural of God’s glorious coming to earth. The word picture of God’s glory—His kabod—is vivid in Hebrew. In some contexts, this word means “to be heavy, weighty.” God is heavy with splendour and magnificence.
In contrast, man’s greatness is as insubstantial as a blade of grass that withers “when the breath of the Lord blows upon it” (Isaiah 40:7). Yet, how tempting it is to claim the credit ourselves for the mighty works God does in and around us.
Perhaps no one feels that temptation more than those who serve God in a public ministry—those who have been called to hold His glory in sacred trust. Whether their work becomes a movement of God or calcifies into a monument to themselves depends on one crucial factor: who gets the glory. | 2019-04-20T11:12:24 | https://www.insightforliving.ca/broadcast/can-one-person/COPD04 |
To my fellow members who are striving hard at your jobs--be victorious at your present workplace! Times of difficulty provide the best opportunity for developing trust. Become a champion of human revolution! | 2019-04-23T10:56:37 | https://www.hosshakukempon.com/to-my-friends/friday-march-22nd-2013 |
As the cloud computing technology develops during the last decade, outsourcing data to cloud service for storage becomes an attractive trend, which benefits in sparing efforts on heavy data maintenance and management. Nevertheless, since the outsourced cloud storage is not fully trustworthy, it raises security concerns on how to realize data deduplication in cloud while achieving integrity auditing. In this work, we study the problem of integrity auditing and secure deduplication on cloud data. Specifically, aiming at achieving both data integrity and deduplication in cloud, we propose two secure systems, namely SecCloud and SecCloud+. SecCloud introduces an auditing entity with a maintenance of a MapReduce cloud, which helps clients generate data tags before uploading as well as audit the integrity of data having been stored in cloud. Compared with previous work, the computation by user in SecCloud is greatly reduced during the file uploading and auditing phases. SecCloud+ is designed motivated by the fact that customers always want to encrypt their data before uploading, and enables integrity auditing and secure deduplication on encrypted data.
SecCloud introduces an auditing entity with a maintenance of a Map Reduce cloud, which helps clients generate data tags before uploading as well as audit the integrity of data having been stored in cloud. This design fixes the issue of previous work that the computational load at user or auditor is too huge for tag generation. For completeness of fine-grained, the functionality of auditing designed in SecCoud is supported on both block level and sector level. In addition, SecCoud also enables secure deduplication. Notice that the “security” considered in SecCoud is the prevention of leakage of side channel information. In order to prevent the leakage of such side channel information, we follow the tradition of and design a proof of ownership protocol between clients and cloud servers, which allows clients to prove to cloud servers that they exactly own the target data.
Motivated by the fact that customers always want to encrypt their data before uploading, for reasons ranging from personal privacy to corporate policy, we introduce a key server into SecCloud as with and propose the SecCloud+ schema. Besides supporting integrity auditing and secure deduplication, SecCloud+ enables the guarantee of file confidentiality. Specifically, thanks to the property of deterministic encryption in convergent encryption, we propose a method of directly auditing integrity on encrypted data. The challenge of deduplication on encrypted is the prevention of dictionary attack. As with, we make a modification on convergent encryption such that the convergent key of file is generated and controlled by a secret “seed”, such that any adversary could not directly derive the convergent key from the content of file and the dictionary attack is prevented.
It is very difficult to audit the files huge and large amount of data in cloud using integrity auditing.
Data loss and lots of Duplicate files in cloud .
The design goal of file confidentiality requires to prevent the cloud servers from accessing the content of files. Specially, we require that the goal of file confidentiality needs to be resistant to “dictionary attack”. That is, even the adversaries have pre-knowledge of the “dictionary” which includes all the possible files, they still cannot recover the target file.
Deduplication is a technique where the server stores only a single copy of each file, regardless of how many clients asked to store that file, such that the disk space of cloud servers as well as network bandwidth are saved. However, trivial client side deduplication leads to the leakage of side channel information. For example, a server telling a client that it need not send the file reveals that some other client has the exact same file, which could be sensitive information in some case.
Stateless verification, which is able to eliminate the need for state information maintenance at the verifier side between the actions of auditing and data storage.
Aiming at achieving both data integrity and deduplication in cloud, we propose SecCloud and SecCloud+. SecCloud introduces an auditing entity with maintenance of a MapReduce cloud, which helps clients generate data tags before uploading as well as audit the integrity of data having been stored in cloud. In addition, SecCoud enables secure deduplication through introducing a Proof of Ownership protocol and preventing the leakage of side channel information in data deduplication. Compared with previous work, the computation by user in SecCloud is greatly reduced during the file uploading and auditing phases. SecCloud+ is an advanced construction motivated by the fact that customers always want to encrypt their data before uploading, and allows for integrity auditing and secure deduplication directly on encrypted data. | 2019-04-26T06:50:16 | http://www.ieeexpert.com/uncategorized/secure-auditing-and-deduplicating-data-in-cloud/ |
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