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St. Paul Fish Co. will open its second Milwaukee-area location at a new $29 million mixed-use development coming to Mequon.
St. Paul Fish Co. plans to open its second Milwaukee-area location at a new $29 million mixed-use development coming to Mequon.
The seafood restaurant plans to use the redeveloped former Ross-Wells Inc. industrial building at the Spur 16 project.
Shaffer Development LLC last year received city zoning and design approvals to build Spur 16 north of W. Mequon Road, west of Mequon Town Center and east of Buntrock Ave.
will seat 200 patrons. Its plans include include extensive outdoor seating and indoor private dining options.
“We like the developer, and we like the building and we like the area,” St. Paul Fish owner Tim Collins said in the Friday announcement.
St. Paul Fish, which also operates at the Milwaukee Public Market in the Historic Third Ward, is the first commercial tenant announced for Spur 16. The development is named for the site's historic railroad spur.
Shaffer Development's plans for Spur 16 include renovating other industrial buildings on the site's southern portion for a public market and additional commercial space, as well as building new apartments.
Other commercial tenants are to be announced over the next several months.
Spur 16's grounds outside the fish market will include a weekend farmers market, food trucks, and art and musical events.
The apartments will be developed on the site's northern portion.
Buntrock Ave., and we have not started marketing the project,” Cindy Shaffer, owner of Shaffer Development, said in a statement.
Shaffer Development plans to break ground in February.
The renovated commercial buildings, totaling 20,000 square feet, are to be completed this summer with the town homes to be completed this fall, Shaffer said.
Three additional three-story apartment buildings, totaling 155 units, are to be completed in the spring and summer of 2019, she said.
The St. Paul Fish announcement comes the same week that the Mequon Common Council approved new zoning for the Foxtown mixed-use development, which is just across Mequon Road.
Foxtown's plans calls for a combination of redeveloped and new buildings which would include a restaurant, two craft breweries, additional office and retail space, 96 apartments and 21 single-family homes.
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Musical chairs, rover red rover come over and doge ball are good elementary team building activity. Tag, hide and go seek, and capture the flag are good games for team building too. Have the students make their own cookbook and sale them for a fundraiser. Have a talent show or musical play for a team building activity. Have monthly birthday party for your students. Host a lunch for the local Veterans Day with a special musical presentation. Visit a local nursing home and put on a Christmas concert.
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Teach X + Y axes and +/- quadrant values by playing "You Sank My Battleship." Review geometric vocabulary while building structures.
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For a long time I've wanted to publish a book with inspirational stories about how teachers made a difference in the lives of their students; because I know they made a difference in mine!
Paula Fox helped to make that dream come true. She's a teacher with 35 years experience teaching and leading all ages from preschool through adult.
Her book,The Heart of A Teacher , is an inspirational masterpiece!! The stories, the quotes and Paula's beautiful original poetry will grab the heart of any teacher, or anyone (like me) whose life has been influenced by a teacher.
Today, I'd like to share the beautiful true story about Mark Eklund, which was written by Sister Helen Mrosla. I'm betting it's one you won't forget!
At the end of the year, I was asked to teach junior-high math. The years flew by, and before I knew it, Mark was in my classroom again. He was more handsome than ever and just as polite. Since he had to listen carefully to my instruction in the "new math," he did not talk as much in ninth grade as he had in third. One Friday, things just didn't feel right. We had worked hard on a new concept all week, and I sensed that the students were frowning, frustrated with themselves and edgy with one another. I had to stop this crankiness before it got out of hand. So I asked them to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then I told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down. It took the remainder of the class period to finish the assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed me the papers. Charlie smiled. Mark said, "Thank you for teaching me, Sister. Have a good weekend." That Saturday, I wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and I listed what everyone else had said about that individual.
On Monday, I gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class was smiling. "Really?" I heard whispered. "I never knew that meant anything to anyone!" "I didn't know others liked me so much." No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. I never knew if they discussed them after class or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another again.
That group of students moved on. Several years later, after I returned from vacation, my parents met me at the airport. As we were driving home, Mother asked me the usual questions about the trip, the weather, my experiences in general. There was a lull in the conversation. Mother gave Dad a sideways glance and simply said, "Dad?" My father cleared his throat as he usually did before saying something important.
"The Eklunds called last night," he began. "Really?" I said. "I haven't heard from them in years. I wonder how Mark is." Dad responded quietly. "Mark was killed in Vietnam," he said. "The funeral is tomorrow, and his parents would like it if you could attend." To this day I can still point to the exact spot on I-494 where Dad told me about Mark.
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While that list may work for some people, I’ve actually found I do better by focusing on recipes, ingredients and foods I CAN eat instead of ones I need to avoid. It may seem silly but making lists actually reinforces all the good things out there we can eat and makes it feel like you're not missing out on much.
Focus on the foods and recipes you currently enjoy that are naturally DF or can be made that way with a few minor adjustments. You’d be surprised just how many of your favorite recipes are already DF or could be made that way.
When you’re flipping through food magazines, blogs or websites start marking recipes that are DF and sound good. It may seem like all the food magazines out there have tons of butter, cream and milk in their recipes, but in reality they do have a number of recipes we can prepare.
I’d love to hear your suggestions, tip and ideas of things that work for you. Please enter them in the comment field below or click the EMAIL link in the righthand column.
More than likely, your physician has given you a list of foods you shouldn’t eat; it’s now time to create a list of foods you CAN eat. Organize it in the order your grocery store is laid out so it’s easy to follow along when you’re shopping.
When you’re shopping, be sure to check the ingredient list of ALL items you pick up, even if you’ve previously purchased them. Sometimes manufacturers adjust their formulas/recipes but don’t say anything on the packaging. So what used to be DF may not be anymore. For example, Cool-Whip used to be dairy-free but they recently changed their formula and started adding small amounts of cream. So it’s always good to double check labels no matter how many times you’ve bought them before. (BTW, if you're looking for a dairy-free version of Cool-Whip, try Truwhip. If your store doesn't carry it, print out this flyer and bring it to the store manager.
When going to a restaurant, especially with a group of people, for many of us the last thing we want to do is call attention to ourselves and make a fuss about finding things on the menu we can eat. If you know where you’re going ahead of time, something I will occasionally do is call the restaurant and find out which dishes are DF or can be made that way.
If you’re at a restaurant, take a look at the menu and identify dishes you think you could eat. Then talk to the server and tell them you have an allergy. Being lactose-intolerant isn’t an allergy but most restaurant staff understand the importance of food allergies. Something as simple as "I'm extremely allergic to dairy and can't eat anything made with milk, butter or cheese. Could you please tell me or ask the chef if this dish would be safe for me to eat?"
The age-old adage of catching more flies with honey is very true in this situation. If you’re extremely friendly and respectful, you’ll find most restaurants will bend over backwards to accommodate you.
Lactose intolerance is on the rise and DF websites, blogs and organizations are popping up all the time. Find people to share stories, successes and recipe failures with. You’ll pick up some great tips and recipes if you can expand your circle of DF friends.
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113. Standing behind an oblong partition set up in the palace, facing the doors, were some strangers from Africa. These called out to the natives of Europe, "Permit one of us also to offer an opinion concerning the origin of conjugial love and its virtue or potency"; and all at the tables signified with their hands that it was allowed.
One of the strangers then entered and, standing by the table whereon the tiara had been placed, he said: "You Christians deduce the origin of conjugial love from the love itself, but we Africans deduce it from the God of heaven and earth. Is not conjugial love a love chaste, pure, and holy? Are not the angels of heaven in that love? Is not the whole human race and thence the whole angelic heaven the seed of that love? Can a thing so supereminent spring from any other source than God himself, the Creator and Sustainer of the universe? You Christians deduce conjugial virtue or potency from various rational and natural causes, but we Africans deduce it from the state of the conjunction of man with the God of the universe, a state which we call the state of religion, but you the state of the Church; for when the love is from this source and is stable and perpetual, it cannot do otherwise than operate its virtue, and this is like itself and so is also stable and perpetual. Love truly conjugial is known only to those few who are near to God, and therefore to no others is the potency of that love known. This potency with the love is described by angels in the heavens as the delight of perpetual spring."
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Evidence suggests that the effect of cigarette smoking on chronic pain is stronger in younger than older adults. This case-control study investigated whether age modified an effect of smoking on temporomandibular disorder (TMD) in 299 females aged 18 to 60 years. It also investigated the extent to which this relationship was explained by psychological profile, inflammatory response, and allergy. Cases were defined using the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders based on clinical examination. Psychological profile was evaluated using standardized instruments. Inflammatory response was evaluated with 11 cytokines isolated in plasma. History of allergy conditions was self-reported. Odds ratios (ORs) for the effect of smoking were calculated using binary logistic regression. Stratified analyses and the likelihood ratio test examined effect modification by smoking. Compared with nonsmokers, ever smokers aged <30 years had higher odds of TMD (OR = 4.14, 95% CI: 1.57, 11.35) than older adults (OR = 1.23, 95% CI: .55, 2.78) (P (effect modification) = .038). Adjustment for psychological profile, cytokines, and history of allergy-like conditions attenuated the effect by 45% to statistical nonsignificance. The main finding was reproduced with secondary analyses of 2 nationally representative surveys of adults conducted in the US and Australia.This study showed that smoking was associated with TMD risk in females, but only in young adulthood. It replicated this finding in 2 nationally representative surveys of females in the US and Australia. Findings may alert clinicians to recognize that smoking is a concern for TMD in younger female patients.
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When we first began automating our lights in 2015, the entire control operation lived inside of a large Rubbermaid tote box that sat on our front porch. If you were to peek inside of it, you would be met with a jumble of wires, electrical components, flashing LEDs, and a sound of clicking as mechanical relays turned on an off. We lovingly call this setup our “Bomb Box”. It has morphed over the years as our show has moved more and more to pixel lighting but still has a place in our yard and in our hearts.
Currently, we use the bomb box to control the traditional strands of Christmas lights that wrap our big front yard tree, the two dwarf pine trees, and light up our info sign. It is also now the home of an FM Receiver and an audio amplifier for driving the speakers in our front yard as well as a power supply and ESPixelStick controller for the light bulb rails and snowmen on the left side of the driveway.
The contents of the “bomb box”. Note the sign on the lid to the left warning people to not touch the stuff inside. The most dangerous part where we are switching 120V AC power is in the bottom of the box.
Controlling standard strings of Christmas lights is a whole different game than controlling pixels. We use mechanical relays controlled from an Arduino to accomplish this. The electronics are from our first year of automating our lights in 2015 and it is about as DIY as you can get. Check out the 2015 Light Display to see the original setup and the learning process involved, but be warned, the electronics inside are hokey at best and possibly even dangerous if not treated with respect.
Before we go further, we have to emphasize that WE DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE USE THIS DESIGN AS IS. There are some serious safety deficiencies that we hope to remedy at some point. We are documenting what we have here for our own records and so that we can highlight some of what not to do, even if it technically works.
We use an Arduino Pro Mini ($10 from SparkFun) to drive 5 Schrack 5V relays. The relays were already mounted on custom PCBs from a failed DMX receiver project Philip attempted many years ago, and with some trial-and-error, we were able to get them functioning. N-channel MOSFET transistors are used to take the control signals from the Arduino and amplify them to have enough current to drive the relays. The hot 120V AC line runs into each relay, which acts like a switch. The output line of each relay runs to an outlet and that is where we plug in our strings of lights.
An ESP8266 wi-fi module (these things are legitimately awesome and super cheap!) is used to receive the E1.31 DMX over wi-fi control instructions from Falcon Player and communicates the DMX stream to the Arduino using a standard serial UART connection.
What’s Wrong with the Relay Design?
So, let’s talk about why this design isn’t ideal. Admittedly, it works and we haven’t had any issues with it. However, it is inherently unsafe due to the lack of isolation between the 5V logic side of the circuit and the 120V AC power side of the circuit. It is good practice to use optical isolators whenever working with AC power to minimize the number of places where you get electrocuted.
An optical isolator is a simple device that contains an LED and a light detector in a single package. You put the device on a logic line, which in our case would be the control lines for each relay. When the input voltage goes high, the LED turns on and the light detector senses that and generates a high voltage on its output. When the input voltage is low, the LED turns off and the output voltage is subsequently low. It is the air gap between the LED and light detector that gives the isolator its name. The benefit of using such a device is that you have true separation between the copper that is working at 5V and the copper that is working at 120V. There is no possible way for the 120V power to short circuit and energize the low voltage section, even if a component were to fail.
Our current design does not use any isolation and thus we have 5V control signals and 120V power both meeting inside of the mechanical relays. While it is unlikely that anything would happen, it is possible that a failure in the relay could cause the higher AC voltage to gain electrical connectivity with the control side, thus creating a safety hazard. At some point, we will improve the design of this component (or possibly just do away with traditional strings all together and replace them with LED pixels!) and will definitely add optical isolation at that point.
The other downside of using just simple mechanical relays for controlling our traditional strings of lights is that they can only be on or off. There is no ability to dim these lights with our current setup. In 2016, we attempted to update our setup to use TRIACs so that we could actually dim the strings of lights but we never got it working. We had some limited success early on but then things seemed to regress quickly. Ultimately, we gave up on it as the standard lights are such a small portion of our display and we would rather spend our time playing with pixels instead.
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Large volume of digital content needs identified and audited in order to form a coherent risk assessment which leads into a Digital Preservation Strategy for Northumberland Estates.
Currently tried DROID to audit content but would like to explore alternative tools and evaluate results.
The solution would need to process records efficiently as I will be auditing the whole of Northumberland Estates network. A relatively straightforward workflow also needs to be established which works on a Windows OS.
- Alternatives to DROID (e.g. JHOVE) - Might be more relevant to focus upon one tool.
Northumberland Estates currently needs to establish digital preservation best practice approaches in order to preserve and safeguard it's digital assets. An audit is currently underway which will result in a risk assessment and Digital Preservation Strategy. Looking to explore best practice approaches and solutions in order to audit the Estates electronic records.
Their are a range of tools which can be used to aid identification. It'll be interesting to learn the best practice approach and apply it to my particular dataset.
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Do you have a community news paper? as I would like to place an advert for my dog walking business Pooch-ercise.
Please could you tell me how much it is to advertise my handyman business in the honeybourne news?
Could you please contact me. I am looking to advertise my fitness business in the local magazine.
Hello My name is Jon Bird, I am the Watch Commander for Pebworth Fire Station. We are currently recruiting for more crew members and as such could you contact me regarding the possibility of adding a short passage on your site informing people of the process and what it is like to be an on call fire fighter.
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REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 3, 2014 — Speaking to shareholders at Microsoft Corp.’s annual meeting today, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella highlighted the company’s strategic direction and continued progress in becoming the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.
“We are committed to building a thriving organization and culture that will enable everyone at Microsoft to do their very best work as we focus on delivering the next wave of innovation, growth and long-term shareholder value,” Nadella said.
Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood recapped Microsoft’s solid fiscal year 2014 performance and reported a strong start to the current fiscal year, with improved execution across all the company’s businesses. Hood noted that the company is investing in high-growth opportunities and remains focused on delivering long-term shareholder value.
Elected 10 directors to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders. All director nominees received a vote of more than 92 percent of votes cast.
Approved, on an advisory basis, the fiscal year 2014 compensation of the company’s named executive officers. The advisory measure received more than 72 percent of votes cast.
Ratified the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the company’s independent auditor, with a vote of nearly 99 percent of votes cast.
Rejected a shareholder proposal to allow proxy access for shareholders. The shareholder proposal received approximately 10 percent of votes cast.
Microsoft’s board of directors consists of John W. Thompson, Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer of Virtual Instruments; William H. Gates, Microsoft founder and technology advisor; Maria M. Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College; Teri List-Stoll, chief financial officer and executive vice president at Kraft Foods Group; G. Mason Morfit, president of ValueAct Capital; Satya Nadella, Microsoft chief executive officer; Charles H. Noski, former vice chairman of Bank of America Corp.; Dr. Helmut Panke, former chairman of the board of management at BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG; Charles Scharf, chief executive officer of Visa Inc; and John Stanton, chairman of the board of Trilogy International Partners. Eight of the 10 board members are independent of Microsoft, which is consistent with the requirement in the company’s governance guidelines that a substantial majority be independent.
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According to researches including the National Science Foundation, it is estimated that we have between 50,000 and 70,000 thoughts per day. That’s roughly 2,000 to 2,900 thoughts per hour, or 35 to 49 thoughts per minute. As remarkable as those numbers seem, I believe that for most of us those numbers are even higher. Maybe not back in the day of little houses on the prairie, but certainly in the day of real-time technology.
We think thoughts, apply reasoning, and formulate beliefs. The problem is that our thoughts and beliefs aren’t necessarily true, or in our highest good.
How many of the roughly 60,000 thoughts in your day are absolutely true?
How many of them are in your best interest?
How many are in the best interest of all?
When I do not notice thought, it controls me. Imagine that, it controls me because I don’t notice it. The mind thinks, and I believe it without question, all day long, everyday. Some unmonitored thought has me on top of the world, and some of it has me hiding under the bed.
Developing the ability to notice thought is one of your superpowers.
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Defending champions, Great Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro, lived up to expectations when winning the Grand Prix on the opening day of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage 2014/2015 Final at the Thomas & Mack Centre in Las Vegas, USA today (17th April 2015).The reigning Olympic, World and European title-holders produced a brilliant test to finish over six marks ahead of The Netherlands’ Edward Gal and Glock’s Undercover, but the big hero of the day was America’s Steffen Peters who lined up third with Legolas just over two marks further adrift.
Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) has awarded grants to 21 of its groups totalling more than £100,000. RDA’s grants programme has been made possible thanks to players of People’s Postcode Lottery and BT Supporters Club. Funds have been allocated to specific projects aimed at increasing the number of people who can benefit from the charity’s activities.
Viva Las Vegas – Valegro is coming to town!
Las Vegas, USA knows all about welcoming stars, and this weekend another big name can expect the red-carpet treatment when he arrives in the entertainment capital of the world ahead of the Reem Acra FEI World Cup Dressage 2014/2015 Final.
Cameras flashing, TV crews following his every move and the frenzy and razzmatazz that goes with super-stardom are all in a day’s work for this handsome, talented and sophisticated athlete whose fancy footwork has broken every record in the book in recent years.
McCash’s Country Store in Perth, Scotland has been declared the winner of a keenly battled competition to celebrate the launch of the new Spillers essentials range. They have bagged themselves £500 worth of shopping vouchers in the process.
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I will try to start blogging a bit more often. I took about a two week WoW break towards the end of April–I didn’t drop my subscription, just didn’t log in–and that caused some of the break. The dailies stress me out, Y’all. Sometimes I can’t muster the will to play end game and that limits me on topics to write about.
I played some Diablo III and killed Diablo again instead. I also got busy in WoW after my break. I was too busy to write because I had no extra time.
So…what did I do in WoW to take up so much free time?
I leveled my first ever Horde character to max level.
I really need better transmog gear.
This is Tabby, you might recognize her from my guide to getting attuned to Molten Core.
Tabby and I go way back. I created her in September of 2009, about a month after I started playing WoW. She was the first Horde character I ever made. She is also the third character I ever made in WoW – so she is one of my original kids. This post is mostly about her to celebrate her finally hitting max level.
I leveled her to about level 15 and then got distracted by finally hitting level 80 Alliance side. Even though I loved Silvermoon and Blood Elves in general, my guildies were Alliance and I liked playing with them. So my Belf Pally stayed parked in Silvermoon near the paladin trainers. She stayed there for a long time.
In the meantime my altaholic tendencies bloomed. I acquired a few more level 80s and soon my server was almost completely full. This left me conflicted because Cataclysm was coming and I wanted to make a gnome priest but had no room. I also wanted to make a Worgen and there were Goblins too!
It might seem silly to pay to transfer a level 15 character, but I liked Tabby and didn’t want to delete her.
This is the oldest picture I have of her. It was taken in September of 2011.
Once Cataclysm hit, she started to be leveled again when I had spare time. I didn’t play her (or my Alliance pally) often because I didn’t like the changes made to paladins. I did have lot of fun seeing the Horde side of the story when I played though.
This picture was taken in Un’Goro Crater. I apparently loved the hot springs there because I took about 30 shots of her there on different bird mounts.
Her hair was originally pale blond. I wanted to change it to red for a long time, but I couldn’t find a barbershop Hordeside. To this day the only Horde city I am comfortable in is Silvermoon and it has no barbershop! Which is really odd if you think about it.
Tabby has always had her hair in a ponytail and she probably always will. It is a nice practical hairstyle for a holy warrior who judges her enemies. I call her my evil paladin because she is Horde, but she isn’t really evil. (Nor is the Horde, that is just me being silly.) She was a paladin back when the Blood Knights kept a trapped Naaru in their basement and used it for power though, so she isn’t exactly “good’ either.
This was taken in April of 2012. Somewhere over Borean Tundra.
Finally she made it to Northrend and discovered the holy grail–a barbershop!–in Dalaran. Her hair has been fiery red ever since.
I slowly kept leveling her. She was level 83 at the end of Cataclysm.
Mists was very alt unfriendly when it started. Suffice to say I worked on Tabby when I could. She got up to level 88 in March of this year and stayed there a while. I took time out of actual leveling to visit Molten Core and Blackwing Lair with Tabby in order to chase battlepets.
Silvermoon is the prettiest city in the game. It is also where Tabby lives when she isn’t busy fighting evil.
I decided I really wanted to see the Horde side of patch 5.1 and started leveling her in earnest after my April break. I surprised myself and got her from 88 to 90 on one long Saturday. Finally I had my second level 90 and my first max level Hordie!
Congrats on your first 90 Horde! And I gotta agree, Silvermoon is truly a breathtaking place. Even as a Forsaken I tend to conduct all my business there.
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This week at PDC the Dynamics CRM team is taking the wraps off a few select platform features coming in the next major release of CRM. A few weeks before PDC I sat down with some of the program managers and devs on the team to discuss a few of these features.
In this first video I chat with Andy Bybee, Humberto Lezama Guadarrama and Allen Hafezipour all program managers on the CRM platform team thinking about programmability and the developer experience. We talked about some of the thinking that went into CRM “5” (that’s a codename, by the way). Don’t look for any schedule information in here. CRM “5” is still a long way away. We’re talking about this developer-focused stuff early to help developers with design and architecture as they think about future designs.
The team is still committed to power of choice and so will continue to use the exact same code base across on-premises, partner-hosted and Dynamics CRM Online. The features that you see in revisions of CRM Online will fold into CRM “5”.
Since the folks I was talking to think mostly about the platform they had a lot to say about that. CRM “5” is not about building generic applications. The team has a laser focus on enabling the patterns they see over and over again when devs are building line-of-business applications.
One area they are thinking hard about is how to solve some of the problems that ISVs run into when building on the platform. A primary concern is simplifying the deployment and upgrading of applications and protecting intellectual property (IP) rights of those applications.
Another area you’ll see a lot of work in is the user interface. The team talked about the work done on end-user experience with the page model. They are working to improve usability and help with the density of information.
Andy talked a lot about cloud services. BTW, when we recorded this a few weeks ago the Azure brand had not been announced so we just referred to this generally as “cloud services”.
CRM itself does not run in Windows Azure (formerly known as Red Dog). Applications running outside the firewall would run great and be easiest to develop on Windows Azure. In the CRM world we refer to these as self-service applications. On the other hand, if you’re building line-of-business applications that would run behind the firewall those would run great and be easiest to develop on Dynamics CRM. Microsoft .NET Services (formerly known as “Zurich”) provide the glue that can pull those two types of applications together so that they can share information. The Azure Services Platform makes service-to-service integration much easier and safer by providing capabilities like identity, access control, relay service and workflow. Andy does a great job of describing on the whiteboard how CRM and .NET Services work together to build systems that avoid what Humberto calls the “funky stuff”.
Code on the server is a pain point today for devs trying to build applications on the CRM Online platform. Allen talks about some of the thinking that went into designing this core new feature. As you can imagine this sort of thing has important implications in so many other areas (coding, debugging, operations, monitoring etc). Also, although the thinking first started with the idea of getting code on the server for CRM Online, what the team has done actually provides important capabilities to all types of deployments.
We’ll go into a lot more detail on this cool stuff in a couple of other videos later this week. Stay tuned to this site for that.
I finally got myself registered for PDC last week.
I noticed that we’ve now published a few Dynamics sessions. These look to be really interesting. Since PDC is the conference where we talk about the future of the Microsoft platform, I’m anxious to hear what Andy Bybee and Humberto Lezama Guadarrama have to say on the future of Dynamics CRM.
I also noticed that Adam Wilson and Matt Humphrey will be talking about the Dynamics Online Commerce and Payment API. That one sounds interesting.
The Dynamics products sit at the very top of the Microsoft stack so that there are, of course, a ton of other sessions related to the future of technologies that are currently built in or soon will be .
I would love to get together with others while in LA; especially ISVs and VARs that are developing on Dynamics or thinking about it. If you’re going to be at PDC and would like to get together to chat about Dynamics, CRM or anything else drop me a line via the email link above.
David “Mr. Dave” Yack sent me a copy of his latest project this week. Dave’s written a book on developing with the Dynamics CRM called “CRM as a Rapid Development Platform.” I haven’t had a chance to read through all 700 pages, as I just got it a couple of days ago, but it looks darn good.
Dave’s a smart guy. He did quite a bit of training for us when we were out helping ISVs get an early start on Dynamics CRM 4.0 development. His survey scores consistently came back really high. A sure sign that he knows his stuff and knows how to teach others.
He also helped to write the CRM ISV development white paper we released not that long ago.
There’s lots more information about his book over at the book web site.
What’s new in CRM 4.0 for users and developers.
How to setup a development environment to be more productive.
How to use the dynamic SOA Web Services, including detailed reusable how to’s.
Explanations of using the Metadata API to read and update metadata, including the Multi Language capabilities.
How to build .NET Plug-ins that extends the platform, including several reusable examples.
Deep exploration of Windows Workflow Foundation customization, including building .NET custom activities.
Jump Start Framework – Thousands of lines of .NET code to help with Authentication, Plug-ins, and Workflow Activities.
In yesterday’s video we talked about WPF and showed off some mind-altering 2D and 3D animations :). As we said then, WPF provides access to local data and resources as well as access to bare metal performance including 3D graphics acceleration. But you can’t take that sort of thing to the web. While WPF will run in a browser, that browser needs to be Internet Explorer running Windows.
Since CRM is built on web services and has a local web server, you call the exact same web service whether you’re offline or online. The only difference is that when you’re offline the endpoint is local and when you’re online the endpoint is on the server. Girish shows us the code to do that and it’s pretty simple. Something on the order 10-15 lines. Sweet!
The WPF TimeManager app is a composite app that pulls info from the outlook calendar (something you wouldn’t be able to do with a web app) and from CRM itself to reduce the time and effort required to submit a time sheet. When you’re done it then posts that back to CRM for tracking, reporting and billing. Obviously since we’re using WPF here the user experience is a cool rich immersive one. We also take full advantage of WPF to show off some of the rich data visualization possibilities. Girish switches easily from project to category view to look at the time sheet from different perspectives. We also shows off some cool 2D data visualizations of historical data by month, quarter or year. Finally, Girish adds a third dimension to the story (showing project, time and team member) to show off some fascinating 3D data visualization. Since we were offline when he submitted the time sheet, we hit the local web service endpoint which stored the data locally until we were back online and synchronize all the offline data back to the server. That part was automatic since CRM knows which entities are offline and how to sync them back up.
CRM is built from the ground up using web services so it’s a pretty standard experience to build the WPF app using the well known Visual Studio for developers and Expression Studio for the user interface and interaction designers. WPF supports data binding so it’s simple to pull the data in from CRM and surface it in WPF using standard or even 3rd party controls.
In the last episode we talked about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server; in this one we talk about Microsoft Office on the client side.
CRM actually integrates really really well with Microsoft Office Outlook right out of the box. That’s a natural as it’s the place where many people work day-in day-out (and especially those sales and marketing folks). But what about those people that need that data in Word or Excel? In this episode we talk about how easy it is to customize the integration of Dynamics CRM with Microsoft Office on the client side. This category of applications, often referred to as Office Business Applications (OBA), help to unlock the value of line-of-business (LOB) systems, such as the ones built on the Dynamics CRM platform, and turn document-based processes into real applications. There’s lots more info about these types of apps over at OBA Central.
In the demo Girish put together, we see how the app is surfaced with a custom ribbon. This in turn opens a Status Report template which has a custom task pane. That task pane pulls all the relevant information for my status report from the CRM server (in our case CRM Online). It authenticates and then grabs the project info. When I choose a Project it also pulls in the work items for that project. Just like with the SharePoint example, it’s trivial to open a CRM form right from within Word where I review more detailed info or even start an Office Communicator session with the owner of the work item.
I can then insert the work items along with descriptions and hours worked directly into the status report. Since you’ll want to share that status report with your customer, Girish built in the ability to publish it to Office Live Small Business. Office Live is the ideal place for sharing documents with customers or partners who won’t have access to SharePoint sites behind your firewall (and it’s free!).
The secret sauce that allows these kinds of apps to be developed so quickly is right in Visual Studio in the form of Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). As you might expect, the same authentication code we used in the SharePoint example is used for authentication from with the OBA. Then it’s just a case of using the Dynamics CRM web services to pull info from CRM and post it into the Word doc. Nice!
In this segment Girish and I talk about how Dynamics CRM integrates with SharePoint. We begin with a little guidance for where you might use one over the other and where they work well together. And they sure do go well together. “Separated at birth” is how I put it in the video. Girish’s demo shows a custom SharePoint page. Not many people know that SharePoint can be stylized using CSS to build sites that look nothing like plain vanilla SharePoint. This is a pretty good example of that.
We use a SharePoint List Web Part to pull data from CRM to show a list of CRM users and the hours from their time sheets. This was pulled directly from CRM using web services. We also show how could use that data to display a dashboard style gauge using Dundas Gauge for SharePoint. You can pull CRM data directly into SharePoint to build a dashboard. You can then pull that dashboard into the CRM web client (minus the SharePoint chrome). By pulling it into the web client it automatically shows up in the Outlook client. Speaking of Outlook; in the last segment we talked about customization but didn’t show the Outlook client so Girish gives us a quick tour of how that works also.
Each of the forms in CRM are URL-addressable. Girish puts that to good use in showing how you can pop a CRM form directly from within SharePoint. He also shows how CRM lights up automatically when you have Office Communicator installed leaving room for some interesting Unified Communication scenarios. We should probably do an episode on UC soon.
The segment wouldn’t be complete if we didn’t show some code. Girish built the list part using the Visual Studio Web Part project template. The code to pull in the time sheets into a list web part is about 10 lines of C#. The hardest part was doing the authentication. CRM provides a plug-able authentication mechanism and 3 different auth options out of the box. On-premise deployments will likely use Active Directory, while CRM Online uses Windows Live ID and finally if you’re deploying in a partner-hosted mode you’ll use form-based authentication. Girish shows how as an ISV you can build your application once and take all of those options into account. After that the code you write is portable across all the deployment options.
Girish on my team has been working on a demo that demonstrates the capabilities of the Dynamics CRM platform. We figured it would be a lot more interesting to get some of that on video in the form of a conversation (as opposed to a screencast) so I get to play the role of interviewer and Girish is the “talent” :). In this episode, we started off thinking we’d talk about Dynamics CRM and SharePoint integration but got so deep into the underlying capabilities of CRM that we ran out of time. We’ll show you the SharePoint stuff in the next episode. I promise!
The demo that Girish has been working on uses the scenario of a fictitious graphics design firm (i.e. a professional services organization). Clearly CRM works great for automating sales, service and marketing functions. What we think about is the stuff under the covers that can be used by developers and ISVs to build new applications that may or may not be related to CRM. That’s what we mean by the CRM platform.
This includes the basic metadata required to store the data related to a line-of-business application. CRM uses the concept of entities and attributes to store data whether your online or offline (all stored in SQL Server). It also makes the building of relationships among those pretty simple. Once you’ve got your metadata defined then building forms for the UI (ASP.NET) and workflow (Workflow Foundation) for process are next.
We’ll get into a lot more of the platform (and in particular the extensibility options) in the next few episodes.
This document outlines the future direction of Microsoft Dynamics CRM through to the next major release, Microsoft Dynamics CRM “V.Next”, which will be aligned with the Office 14 wave of product releases due in late 2009/early 2010.
Partners can grab a copy of this on PartnerSource. Customers can grab it on CustomerSource.
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It is time to sharpen the pencils, dig out a stray notebook from under the clutter of your desk, plus perhaps open Excel on your computer, and crunch some numbers.
New numbers have come in regarding the Miramichi.
Most interesting were the Millerton Trap numbers from Sept. 30, especially when compared to both last year, and to the numbers for Sept. 15 of this year.
To begin, the Sept. 30 count at Millerton was 631 grilse and 426 large salmon. Compared with 443 grilse and 358 large salmon last year.
More interesting is the influx of grilse and large salmon this year. The Sept. 15 numbers were 379 grilse and 289 large salmon.
Thus there were 252 grilse counted at the trap over that 15 day span, meaning 16.8 grilse per day in the trapnet.
It also means that 40% of the grilse count for the year, up to Sept. 30, was in that roughly two-week period in the last half of September.
For large salmon, 137 came into the trap in the last half of September, or 9.1 large salmon per day. Plus this constituted 32% of the 2014 numbers, up to Sept. 30.
Does all of this constitute a significant fall run of salmon for the Southwest Miramichi at least? It appears the answer is a profound “yes”, as long as one calls the last half of September part of the fall season.
Looking at the graph provides another, more sobering perspective. The numbers of grilse and salmon may have come up significantly, but when compared over the past generation, the low return is sobering. Some combination of predation that includes striped bass in the estuaries and some predators at sea, plus perhaps winter survival conditions is impacting the numbers for the Southwest.
Count of grilse numbers at the Millerton Trap through the past generation.
What do the Dungarvon Barrier numbers have to say about the state of runs? Not too much. The latest numbers, from Sept. 29 to Oct. 5 are just in and there were 4 grilse and 3 large salmon in that period. As a reminder, seasonal totals are not reliable this year for the Dungarvon Barrier, with it out of commission for more than two weeks due to Tropical Storm Arthur in July.
The histogram for large salmon at the Millerton Trapnet reflects the same situation as that of grilse.
The other facility of note is the Cassilis Trapnet, located on the south bank of the Little Southwest Miramichi a few kilometres upstream from the Miramichi Salmon Conservation Centre.
The Cassilis Trapnet numbers are just not there this year. To Sept. 30 there were 89 grilse and 73 large salmon counted, compared with 379 grilse and 181 large salmon last year to that date.
Cassilis is not showing this year any real sign of a fall run. The Sept. 15 figures were 71 grilse and 58 large salmon.
Thus the facility counted 18 grilse over the 15 days, which was 1.2 grilse per day. The segment of the run from Sept. 15 to Sept. 30 constituted 20% of the grilse return, not enough to say there was a major Fall run. Do remember that there were actually more fish entering the Little Southwest and Northwest symbol at this time.
As to large salmon, the Cassilis Trapnet had 15 large salmon in that 15 day period, so an average of one per day. It constitutes about 21% of the large salmon returns for the year, again constituting a comparatively week fall run – so far.
Meanwhile the Northwest Barrier numbers were encouraging this week, the Sept. 29 to Oct. 5. There were 8 grilse and 5 large salmon – 13 for the week. Numbers are down year over year however – 155 grilse and 61 large salmon in 2014 vs 191 grilse and 220 in 2013.
On the actual fishing, it has been improving in the past few weeks. Water levels were low, but a nice big rainfall on Oct. 6 and 7 made a big difference, and it looks as if more might be falling on Oct. 8 and 9.
Hopefully this will encourage another surge of Atlantic salmon into the river, and will almost certainly result in more salmon that have been holding in the lower river to move upstream. This should be true of the Southwest, Little Southwest and Northwest Miramichi.
Nice rain on the weekend for the Little Southwest Miramichi.
Two major statements on the Little Southwest and Northwest Miramichi are evident: live release is essential for the future of these rivers, and the pressure from striped bass predation needs to be addressed in a more comprehensive way.
Northumberland Strait rivers – Unfortunately a picture is worth 1,000 words when it comes to near-drought conditions. The photo below was taken on Wednesday, showing that these rivers are still in need of heavy rain. Predictions are for only small amounts of rain to hit this area.
While the salmon angling is over, considerable rain throughout the lower St. Lawrence and Gaspe regions should keep the salmon happy, which is, after all, very important.
We are still awaiting year-end numbers from the Cascapedia.
Joe Coletta releases a gorgeous Atlantic salmon on the Cascapedia near the end of September.
Rain fell on the weekend. The river levels were low, and more rain would be appreciated as spawning season comes closer.
ASF’s “In the Water” Live Release Photo Contest has generated many entries so far, and we invite all of you to submit your entries. Remember that the salmon being released needs to actually be in the water.
Could you please give a re cap of Scottish, Icelandic, Norwegian , Russian and European rivers please?
Amazing numbers at the Millerton trap. Very hard to understand as the fish never made it to the Blissfield/Doaktown area.
The Miramichi Salmon Club closed last week even though some guides are still working for others, still no fish here.
I’ve talked to all the other clubs in the area, same thing, no fish.
Where are they going, are they coming in and out with the tides and being counted over and over, makes no sense at all.
The Cains must be full to the brim if they all went there.
The numbers are interesting, and I have no particular sense as to where they are going – except for the comments a week ago about the Cains. While it is possible a few are recirculating back down river, I don’t believe that is significant.
It would be good to get an assessment of the look of the salmon that are being counted at Millerton.
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You should be forming a relationship with both a bank and a banker. There are, however, practical pluses and minuses to relying on just one primary banking contact in this era of bank consolidation, when changes in personnel can occur quickly. You do not want to rely extensively on one person who may suddenly leave. Just as a lawyer needs to have deep and wide relationships with clients' organizations, you want a range of contacts within your bank. Don't just limit yourself to dealing with only your loan officer or branch manager. Getting to know a senior manager, a vice president, or even the president of the bank will help you in the long run.
This is particularly true if the bank is involved in a merger. Your contacts could not tell you about a merger beforehand because of privacy restrictions. However, once you've established senior relationships, you can prepare for a pending merger by asking to be on the short list for early notification. If a merger does occur, ask to be introduced to the new people as soon as possible. If your bank is doing the acquiring, it puts you in a good position with a stronger bank that has new referral sources. Alternatively, if your bank is being acquired, you have to know who the new players are.
To contextualize the lawyer-banker relationship and what you want to obtain from it, think of the bank as a supplier. Suppliers provide lawyers with goods and services that, in turn, allow the law firm to deliver quality legal services to its clients. One of the essential suppliers, for any lawyer, is a reliable and helpful bank. Good banking relationships provide the necessary funds and financial services that allow a firm not only to maintain itself but also to grow with the future.
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• The government's proposal to allow small scissors and some other sharp objects back onto airliners is causing an uproar among flight attendants, families of victims of the Sept. 11 hijackings and several lawmakers. Catherine Herridge will bring us the details on the proposal by the Transportation Security Administration.
• Then, 10 Marines were killed outside Fallujah on Thursday and another 11 were wounded in what was one of the deadliest days for American troops in recent months. Mike Emanuel has the latest.
• And, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and war critic Rep. John Murtha joined forces today to again call on the U.S. to begin withdrawing forces from Iraq. Major Garrett has a report.
• Also, President Bush declared the economy to be in good shape today as he touted the latest unemployment figures. Carl Cameron takes a look at the latest Labor Department report.
• Plus, there’s a lot happening in Israeli politics as two top political leaders bolted from their respective parties to join a new party, while the country's political satire program is having a field day with the whole process. Jennifer Griffin has the story.
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Geology (2012) 40 (6): 539-542.
In the study of geochemical mass balances at subduction zones, the composition of the mantle wedge prior to additions from the slab is a critically important yet poorly constrained parameter. Deconvolving the influence of ancient versus modern enrichments is particularly difficult, especially when considering elements that are highly mobile. Here we provide an alternative approach, using less mobile elements, and a filter to remove the effects of recent slab additions. We provide new Hf isotope data for 30 Mariana Trough (MT) backarc basin lavas. Once filtered, Hf and Nd isotope ratios are highly correlated, of Indian mid-oceanic ridge basalt character, and display variations similar to ocean ridges of comparable lengths. The isotopic variability observed in this “ambient mantle” provides a new paradigm for the interpretation of the varied volcanic products of the arc. Thus, shoshonites associated with the northern termination of the backarc basin rift axis reflect the interaction of a subducted sediment melt with an isotopically enriched mantle source. In contrast, the large volcanoes of the Central Island province have a consistent offset in Nd isotope compositions from the MT array resulting from fluid addition. Existing data for smaller edifices in the submarine portion of the arc have larger variations resulting from fluid addition on a more local scale. We suggest that the similar characterization of ambient mantle elsewhere may help to resolve many conflicting geochemical observations in arc lavas worldwide.
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That’s me cringing behind my big brother at Trafalgar Square.
Eek! What’s happening to me? Every Friday for the past year and a bit I’ve writing a series of posts under the Above Ground on the London Underground heading. Week in, week out. I’ve written over sixty posts, long, extensive, thoroughly-researched posts that take ages to put together, in an effort to deliver a virtual travel series in which I cover sights and sounds at the stops along the tracks of the London Underground. But this week I forgot. I just forgot. It skipped my mind. Friday came and went and it never occurred to me that I should be writing a post to contribute to Joy Weese Moll’s British Isles Friday meme.
Is it a sign of the Alzheimer’s that took my mother marking its hold on me, letting me know what lies in my own future? Or is it simply the case of an over-worked mind, a mind so happily preoccupied with all the planning and decision-making that comes with taking a real trip to London that there’s just no room for anything else at the moment?
In less than two weeks my husband and I are actually going to Europe and there are a thousand and one things to think about.
Will I even recognize the land of my birth? I hope to get a picture of the house where I was born.
How many pairs of pants should I pack?
Is one little black dress enough?
The Ripper Tour or the Ripper Tour w RipperVision?
Should I buy some Dr. Scholl's inserts to put in my walking shoes?
Take an umbrella or buy one there? Union Jack or Fleurs de lis?
Should we try to visit Parliament?
I don’t need to actually ride the London Eye, do I?
I’ve been to Hampton Court Palace and Windsor Castle already and he doesn’t care. How guilty do I need to feel for not going?
Do I have time to get my hair done before we leave?
Should we rent a car on the continent or take trains?
Be sure to get to Triple A for an International Drivers License just in case.
Oh, I definitely need a new white bra. Or maybe beige.
Hey, neato! The Cannes Film Festival is running while we’re over there. Let’s go!
Hey, have you seen the prices for rooms in Cannes during Cannes Film Festival? Time to reorder our itinerary.
Oops! The Picasso & Rivera exhibit at LACMA will be gone by the time we get back. I need to get over there now.
Where shall we have tea? £50 for tea? Are you kidding me?
Will I still be afraid of the pigeons in Trafalgar Square?
The latest act of terrorism in Paris? Yes, I know all about it. No, it doesn’t change my plans or my excitement. 662 people were killed in LA County in the last year, four were shot dead within the past week.
Are there still pigeons at Trafalgar Square?
I’m late with my post but it’s not too late for you to see what fellow bloggers are up to on this British Isles Friday.
Sim, I love hearing the questions that are filling your head. We are similarly planning all the details of our trip. I probably won't need to bring as many warm clothes as you will since we are limited to the South of France and Paris. I'll go mostly casual dresses and sandals with sweaters and scarves to throw over them. A few pairs of jeans in case we go hiking.
Earl and I were looking at the price for dinner on the Eiffel Tower. The Jules Verne, the top one, has seatings for 190 Euros or 215 Euros -- per person. Maybe we'll do it someday, but it feels so decadent to spend that kind of money on one meal.
I can't see spending that kind of money on a meal either but I think my husband is almost convinced to go to the top of the tower since it doesn't move. He won't get on the London Eye, that's for certain.
I didn't ride the London Eye and, I have to say, it turns out that I regret that choice. I would have liked the experience and the view -- especially at sunset.
I missed both Hampton Court and Windsor even though I haven't seen them before, so I can say for sure that you have a good excuse for skipping them.
If you spot a pigeon in Trafalgar Square, take a photo because no one will believe you, otherwise.
So they really did clean up the pigeons! The view at Sunset sounds great but I'd have to do it alone so I'll skip it. Maybe try for one of those rooftop bars with some overpriced cocktail instead.
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We love Colorado and the mountains. On this day we went wheeling on the Ophir Pass, found a little snow at the pass, elevation 11,789 ft. The views in every direction are just spectacular.
Wild flowers blooming in the mountain meadows.
After camping in Ouray for a couple nights we moved to Ridgeway State Park about 20 miles from Ouray. Ridgeway is also a beautiful area, this photo was taken at sunset from a trail behind the Visitor Center in the Park.
Back in Winslow AZ, we've seen some amazing sunsets here, (no photo editing).
We liked the north rim of the Grand Canyon much better than the south. I think mostly because it is way less crowded and touristy. You can walk around and find places to sit and look at the canyon and be alone (for the most part). We drove out to several points (above) and were the only people there.
Waiting for a sunset that never really materialized because of the clouds, none the less the Grand Canyon is ever changing with the clouds and light of the day, it's a magical place.
The clouds and little rain showers that popped up added to the show.
June 2015 - Leaving Taos NM, heading for Arizona.
This is probably my favorite of all the missions we visited, I like the simple lines and adobe construction.
San Francisco de Asis Mission Church is in a historic district of Taos. After several years of construction, the mission was completed in 1815. The Taos Chamber of Commerce claims it is one of the most photographed and painted churches in the world. Photographer Ansel Adams and painter Georgia O'Keeffe to name a few of the artists.
The mission was the center of a fortified plaza. Plazas were enclosed with thick walls which offered protection against Indian (Comanche in this case) attackers. The plazas also served as gathering places for the community.
Flagstaff AZ, The Great Race.
We learned the Great Race was coming to Flagstaff and decided to check it out, so glad we did, it's such an amazing event which we knew nothing about, until now.
The Great Race is a world famous old car rally that's been in existence for 33 years. It's a 9 day race that covers over 2,000 miles in vehicles 1972 or older. This year the race started in MO and ended in CA, traveling over sections of old Route 66 which brought the rally thru Falgstaff. The cars each have a driver and a navigator. They're given precise instructions everyday that detail every move down to the second. It's not a race of speed but of time. They are scored throughout the day at checkpoints. Following the precise instructions is key and the primary job of the navigator.
People lined the streets and cheered as the cars pulled into Flagstaff.
These proud guys were from Finland. There were also a couple teams from Japan.
I liked the tow truck, who would ever think of entering a tow truck in a road rally.
A rather unusual custom built car.
From looking on their web site, this car was the overall winner. The cars lined the streets for a few hours making for an amazing car show. We talked to a husband/wife team (so interesting) and saw they placed in the top 20...cool.
If you're interested in entering, save your coins, the entry fee is $5,500.00. The winner is awarded a cool $50,000 in prize money.
Next year the race will be following the Lincoln Highway, starting in CA and ending in IL. We'd love to see the race again, it's very possible with our moving home.
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Non-Bethel Author Worthington Jr., Everett L.
Sample Citation Sandage, S. J., & Worthington Jr., E. L. (2010). Comparison of Two Group Interventions to Promote Forgiveness: Empathy as a Mediator of Change. Journal Of Mental Health Counseling, 32(1), 35-57.
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Victoria Park II will complete the original Victoria Park development with 12 new townhomes. Similar in exterior design, the new townhomes are being reconfigured for enhanced livability.
Call today to set up an appointment: 847-417-3170.
Victoria Park II is an over 55 community catering to those buyers who are looking for a highly rewarding living experience in Chicago’s northern suburbs. Continuing the success of the original Victoria Park, three additional townhome buildings, 12 units, are now being constructed by Samuels Homes.
Located within five minutes of business and shopping attractions in historic downtown Libertyville. These new townhomes have access to a private clubhouse equipped with an exercise room and are surrounded by a beautiful ‘nature lovers’ walking path. Meet the neighbors and enjoy the Victoria Park experience throughout the seasons.
Samuels Homes has been building custom homes for more than 30 years. Known for their unparalleled workmanship and attention to detail, they are now offering two unique townhouse models at Victoria Park II.
1,700 Square Feet Ranch Home From the low $400,000s – End Locations Only.
Includes 2 bedrooms, an optional den and 2 full bathrooms. This ranch home features a formal living/dining space with 10′ ceilings, a centrally placed open gourmet kitchen with oversized island for entertainment. The master bedroom suite includes a tray ceiling, his and her closets and luxury bath including a large shower. A spacious guest bedroom, full bath and first floor laundry room complete this great home. An open stairway creates an inviting entrance to the optionally designed and finished lower level.
2,270 Square Feet, 2-Story with First Floor Master From the low S400,000s – Interior Locations Only.
Includes 2 bedrooms, a loft and 2 1/2 bathrooms. The first floor features a two story living and dining room, a gourmet kitchen with island, a powder room and large laundry room. The master bedroom suite with walk-in closet, wall closet and luxury master bathroom completes the first floor. The upper level includes a dramatic loft space, large storage room, guest bedroom, full bath and spacious den. An open stairway creates an inviting entrance to the optionally designed and finished lower level.
Whichever model you choose, you will be assured a professional, courteous and timely building experience.
You will receive personal attention from Jeff Samuels, owner of Samuels Homes, to achieve the level of satisfaction you deserve. From picking out your granite countertops and kitchen appliances, to selecting the tile for your bathrooms, he will be available to answer any and all of your construction questions.
The clubhouse is a wonderful place for family and friends to gather. Party in the great room, which boasts a beautiful stone fireplace. The catering kitchen includes a refrigerator, dishwasher and microwave for real convenience.
The two business offices can be used for meetings and conferences. A reception area could be set up to receive deliveries when you are not at home. The fitness center has cardiovascular and weight machines so you can stay fit without having to leave home!
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Raneem Oudeh profile – very, very bad! Too established, bad! Too successful, bad! Just so very bad.
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A Guide to the Best Toronto Tourist Attractions, Reviews and Need-to-Know Information – CN Tower, Toronto Zoo, Hockey Hall of Fame and more.
Planning a Vacation or Business trip to Toronto, Canada? These pages will help you decide what attractions you must see!
Admission price, hours of operation, best time of year and how to get there.
Staying for a day or week, this guide will help you make the best use of your time and help you decide what Toronto Attraction you will see.
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Walking distance from center. Room was spacious and clean and staff was friendly and helpful.
The hotel was nice, clean, and the room was large. It had a kitchenette.
breakfast simple but freshly baked bread were great. Location is excellent. close to restaurants, shops and attractions. Friendly staff. Specially the manager in the morning shift.
Great location, easy access to supermarket, restaurant, attractions. Breakfast was simple but fresh.
Buen desayuno. Tuvimos un inconveniente en el pago, que amablemente fue solucionado. El personal, lo mejor del hotel.
Todo como lo esperaba. Buena atencion buena ubicacion y acorde al precio que se paga por él.
Todo es impecable en el hotel. Desde su ubicación hasta la atención de todos los componentes de la Consejería, hacen que el Sol de Piedra sea 100% recomendable. La relación precio/servicio es excelente.
Lock in a great price for Sol de Piedra Apart, Suites & Spa – rated 8.5 by recent guests!
Sol de Piedra Apart, Suites & Spa This rating is a reflection of how the property compares to the industry standard when it comes to price, facilities and services available. It's based on a self-evaluation by the property. Use this rating to help choose your stay!
One of our top picks in Córdoba.Featuring a gym and a spa, Sol de Piedra Apart, Suites & Spa is a themed hotel offering rooms with free Wi-Fi and plasma TV. It is located only 2,300 feet from Cordoba’s Cathedral. Breakfast is provided.
Decorated in soft hues, rooms at Sol de Piedra are fitted with wooden furnishing. All of them feature seating areas with sofa beds and air conditioning, and private balconies.
An American breakfast including jams, eggs, natural juices, corn flakes, ham and butter is served daily. Snacks and drinks can be enjoyed at the bar.
Sol de Piedra provides guests with free bicycles, a helmet and lock, as well as tourist maps to tour the city. Guests can make use of the spa facilities, which include a sauna and Scottish baths. Massage sessions can also be requested.
Sol de Piedra Apart, Suites & Spa is 650 feet from Buen Pastor Promenade and from Patio Olmos Shopping Mall. Ingeniero Ambrosio Taravella International Airport is 9.3 mi away.
뀐 Located in the top-rated area in Córdoba, this property has an excellent location score of 9.2!
When would you like to stay at Sol de Piedra Apart, Suites & Spa?
Features air conditioning, plasma TV, self-catering facilities and private balcony.
Private parking is available on site (reservation is needed) and costs USD 11.38 per day.
Spacious room featuring air conditioning, plasma TV, self-catering facilities and private balcony.
Spacious room featuring spa bath and terrace.
House Rules Sol de Piedra Apart, Suites & Spa takes special requests – add in the next step!
Sol de Piedra Apart, Suites & Spa accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Sol de Piedra Apart, Suites & Spa accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Our room was noisy. AC unit made noise. Even when we shut ours off, We could hear motor noise from something else. We were on top floor, had a superior room . Despite that, all else acceptable and good value. Besides we were in Cordoba on an Argentine long weekend and it was hard to find hotel rooms.
Very nice staff . Rooms very large.
Our room was noisy (we could hear conversations on the street) and the checkin was slow, they asked for a lot of data.
Maintenance could be faster and more effective on some minor issues in the room. Parking very narrow and difficult but staff was helpful.
Beds were really soft. Parking very narrow, but staff helped parking our car.
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Customers choose Sempertrans for our technologically-advanced products and business efficiency. But the success of our partnership would not be possible without the close relationship we strive to establish with them.
An international network of conveyor belting specialists and expert partners are always at your disposal at any time and anywhere you are to guarantee diligent project development and follow-up.
Our global reach is supported by mobile and multilingual sales representatives and distribution partners whose physical proximity to your business locations allows for more effective project handling. Through their deep understanding of the drivers and challenges of your industry – from mining to cement and ports – they are able to help you bring value to your conveying installations and maximise your investment.
Field Service On-site service is a critical factor to make your belt as durable as possible. We offer installation, splicing and maintenance services.
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Hi, it's September now, so here's a post about a thing that happened a month ago! On the weekend of August 8-10, we went to our hometown convention, Boston Comic Con. Ever since it's earlier incarnation as a small basement show in the Back Bay Events Center, I've been attending and covering this show annually as it's evolved over the last five years. This year, the event expanded to a three-day convention and took place at the Seaport World Trade Center.
After pre-gaming the convention with One Direction at the Gilette Stadium on the eve of Boston Comic Con, we all crammed into a taxi and headed to the Seaport on Friday afternoon. I spent most of my convention time wandering the Artist Alley with AK and Nick, looking at vintage toys, and photographing some of Boston's exceptional cosplayers (all of my cosplay photos can be seen HERE). I also got bother all of my friends who were tabling and commission some beautiful artwork from Kate Bresnahan, Jonathan Reincke, and Kristilyn.
I didn't really get a chance to plan any new costumes per se, but I wore Batmangirl and I managed to put together a magical girl x Batgirl of Burnside look (featuring Sarah's Oh Snap! shirt) and a last-minute Donna Troy outfit. I've realized that Boston Comic Con has turned into a casual cosplay con for me, which is honestly more relaxing and fun. I do hope to put together at least one new costume within the next couple of months for New York Comic Con and/or Halloween.
Although we had a fun time at the show, the one major downside were the lengthy admission lines (for both prepaid and at-the-door admission) and the congested crowds. Since the location of the Seaport was more isolated than the Hynes Convention Center, the flow of the crowd was definitely more stagnant than Boston Comic Con 2011/2012 or Anime Boston. In efforts to relieve ourselves from the stuffy crowds on Saturday, we got some fresh air and Sangria at Rosa Mexicano across the street for a couple of hours (note to future self: I highly recommend that you do this again next year). So like, hey Boston Comic Con - move to a more suitable location or whatever!
I got these little button covers.
Your outfits are super cute! I'm loving all the photos!
But yes, please post your recap~!
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Play Baby Elsa Cooking Homemade Icecream 2 and many more free online games similar to Baby Elsa Cooking Homemade Icecream 2. Our online games portal let you play all the games like Baby Elsa Cooking Homemade Icecream 2. Get your apron on and start doing some work in this baby Elsa cooking ice cream game and by the time you get it out of the freezer it will be plenty of it to last the whole week.
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Ranch Jelov Klanac has many horses and organises riding schools, riding tours for up to several day as well as simple riding experience fit for children and adults alike. Estate provides accommodation in several suites in two houses Jela and Bor.
"Jela" (A Fir-tree) is one-of-a-kind wooden house. Situated in the heart of immense forest and green vegetation, Jela "thinks green". It is furnished with pieces of furniture made of fir. When lights are out in the night, one may enjoy peace and the beautiful view of the stars. In winter, the whole estate is lit up by glow-worms, surrounded by beautiful sent of different officinal herbs.
“Bor” (A Pine-tree), is located on a hill, 200 meters away from “Jela”. Houses are separated by a small forest to provide a feeling of intimacy and privacy. The furniture decorating “Bor” is unique and hand-made and in minimalistic style and the fireplace and the surrounding wood make the stay in “Bor” an unforgettable experience.
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As the prevalence of high deductibles and self-pay accounts increases, healthcare providers are evaluating new ways to work with consumers and ensure optimal recovery of patient pay. As a best practice, some healthcare organizations use a HFMA Peer Reviewed ROI Value Model to uncover patient pay improvement opportunity, in conjunction with an optimized revenue cycle workflow. In this session, learn how patient pay and consumerism are affecting healthcare organizations, and how they’re benefiting by creating a financially oriented consumer-centric care model.
Mr. Thompson has been focused on patient pay for more than a decade. He joined ClearBalance in 2004 and has served in myriad client program performance roles, including management of the funding department and director of client services. As senior solutions architect, Pete is responsible for client solution design, including financial modeling and ROI analysis. He also counsels prospective and current clients about their revenue cycle workflow to drive optimal results from the ClearBalance program. Pete is involved in client implementation to ensure all benefits are translated from paper to practice. Before ClearBalance, Pete was a senior analyst with Cardinal Health.
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Over the years, the cloud has changed a lot—but a misconception about cloud workloads remains.
Since its inception, cloud computing has come a long way, yet people still possess misgivings and misunderstandings about what it can do, particularly when it comes to workloads.
The history of cloud computing, if only conceptually, stretches back further than you may imagine. The cloud genesis, so to speak, dates right back to the 1960s, when renowned computer scientist J.C.R. Licklider dreamed of an ‘intergalactic computer network.’ Licklider imagined a time when everyone on the planet would be interconnected and able to access programs and data from anywhere at any time. He may never have specifically called this grand plan ‘the cloud’, but its similarities to what we now utilize daily are striking.
But while this idea has been ‘in the air’—if you’ll excuse the bad pun—for 50 years or so, it’s only recently that we’ve started to realize its potential, primarily because of the significant bandwidth now offered by the internet. The cloud is in many ways still a relative newcomer to our technology stacks.
When it first become a reality, the cloud’s predominant focus was on using APIs to access elastic infrastructure (akin to IaaS). The cloud’s capability and capacity has significantly advanced over the last decade, but many people’s comprehension remains rooted in the past, and herein lies the cause of most people’s misunderstandings.
Historically, people viewed workloads as simply being ‘data + a basic understanding of how it should be processed,’ which has been a tricky misinterpretation to shake off, especially with this definition extending to cloud workloads. In reality, modern workloads do so much more.
Workloads are, in essence, well-planned services. However, the sheer breadth of what they incorporate is staggering and covers data as well as the configuration of applications, hardware configuration, supporting service(s) and networks.
Efficiently managing your cloud workloads comes down to the connections you build, as the cloud requires workloads to be handled in a highly abstracted manner. This abstraction should be a way of keeping technical details from impacting the end-user. By adding this level of abstraction to your cloud workloads, you should be creating a service which makes it easier to provide a well-defined function with a definitive purpose.
Clearly defined connections allow developers to cleanly link services. Moreover, by creating well-organized containers, you introduce a highly flexible environment which can support changing workloads.
So, when we talk about cloud workloads, we’re really discussing the need for configuration of different components in a virtual environment. The well-informed cloud user understands how to configure the communication between each of these disparate elements effectively.
Cloud Workloads or Traditional Workloads?
While each and every one of the above components could theoretically run from the cloud, it doesn’t always make business sense to migrate them. Certain Tier 1—business-critical—applications, for instance, make more sense to remain on-premises, because these crucial applications should always be accessible and within your care.
With cloud adoption comes a new raft of learning hurdles which must be cleared. There’s been a history of users just ‘dumping’ applications and processes onto the cloud, and while this may provide serviceable results, it’s far from optimal. Not all of your workloads and applications need to be migrated to the cloud. The best strategy is approaching each instance, case by case, and asking yourself: what would the advantage really be of keeping this process on site? What would the impact be of migrating it to the cloud? And the cost? If the pros don’t outweigh the cons, or the cost exceeds the potential returns, then in all likeliness the process can and should remain as is.
Digital transformation is all about becoming as fast, accurate and agile as possible. By orchestrating the (virtualized) moving parts of the cloud, you can truly harness its full potential.
Are you prepared for the impact of accelerating technology on your business processes? Find out how you can safeguard your organization's future.
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Negotiation events in industrial procurement involving multiple, highly customisable goods pose serious challenges to buying agents when trying to determine the best set of providing agents’ offers. Typically, a buying agent's decision involves a large variety of constraints that may involve attributes of a very same item as well as attributes of different, multiple items. In this paper we present iBundler, an agent-aware service offered to buying agents to help them determine the optimal bundle of received offers based on their business rules. In this way, buying agents are relieved with the burden of solving too hard a problem and concentrate on strategic issues. iBundler is intended as a negotiation service for buying agents and as a winner determination service for reverse combinatorial auctions with side constraints. Furthermore, we assess the computational cost added by employing agent technology in the development of iBundler to characterise the type of negotiation scenarios that it can acceptably handle.
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Teachers often try to plan very carefully and ensure that their lessons run smoothly and as planned. This often ensures content and coverage with secure and effective lessons. More recently the teaching profession has been encouraged to take greater risk in their teaching styles, and develop strategies to create deep effective learning rather than the superficial learning. The current secondary curriculum inserts these concepts through thinking and more personal skills.
Throughout the on going research into deep learning, it has become more apparent to us and other professionals that every individual can learn effectively. This may appear obvious to most people, however, this has to some extent been overlooked by teaching professionals in the past. People in all walks of life need to learn new skills, take in new concepts, assess new situations and be able to deal with the unexpected. Possessing existing skills and principles to be able to learn new ones is vital.
Students have their own unique reactions to the educational process; students can range from feeling trapped and have a very abhorrence perspective of school, to other who genuinely enjoy it (Willgoose, pg; 77, 1979). The reasoning behind this can be a number of factors; some students may comprise bad experiences that may have disheartened, embedding a negative attitude towards learning.
Effective learning is deep learning, marked by deliberate intention to learn, as well as individual and social orientations to learning. Orientations to learning may be academic, vocational, personal and social (Rhem, 1995).
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Keeping the brake system safely maintained and knowing what problems to watch out for will keep motorists safe.
Regular vehicular maintenance is an important part of having a vehicle that lasts as long as possible when driving Texas roads. Systems that most often need to be replaced or maintained include windshield wiper blades, exterior lights and brake pads. Brake pads alone are an important thing to have regularly changed, but the whole braking system also experiences a lot of wear and tear. The safety importance of having a properly functioning braking system warrants that drivers be aware of the most common brake-related problems, as well as the maintenance strategies that will keep things working dependably.
· Smoking brakes often indicates that brakes are being applied too hard when going down a steep slope. Doing this too much can cause the brakes to overheat and leave a glaze over the brake pads.
· If the brake pedal is pushing to the floor, it could indicate that the hydraulic system has a leak. This is a serious issue that could lead to an accident, and the car should stop being driven immediately and should be towed to where it can be inspected.
· When braking, if the steering wheel shakes, there could be warped rotors which prevent the brakes from evenly pressing on the surface of the wheels.
· If the brake pads are wearing down too much, a squealing sound will be audible when the brakes are applied. This means they need to be replaced soon.
Vehicles driving on mountain roads with steep slopes and heavy vehicles are likely to encounter the above issues with greater frequency.
A clean braking system will run more smoothly and, more importantly, when residue accumulates it is more likely for the system to overheat. Another tip when attempting to brake safely down mountain roads is to shift the vehicle into a lower gear. This will allow some of the braking to be done by the engine. Even when not on a slope, it is not a good idea to "ride" the brakes. Braking as needed and coasting to slow down gives the brakes time to cool, and reduces the amount to wear on them.
A faulty braking system can lead to a traumatic accident, and people in Texas who end up injured as a result could end up dealing with high expenses paid for medical bills. It may be possible to get financial compensation do deal with these costs. An attorney in the local area who practices personal injury law may be able to help in such matters.
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The Seattle Seahawks will take a cue from San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick at the team's season opener against the Miami dolphins today, when players are expected to engage in a "demonstration of unity" during the playing of the national anthem.
Detroit Lions players are also expected to engage in a similar demonstration during the team's season opener in Indianapolis against the Colts.
Opponents have slammed such protests as disrespectful towards veterans, the U.S. flag, and the country, in general. And given it's the 15th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, today's "demonstration of unity" has definitely struck a chord with critics.
Case in point: On Friday morning, #boycottNFL began trending on Twitter in response to the growing number of critics.
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Keywords: Ship stability, determining functional, inertial manifold, monotone random systems, quasi-stability, synchronization for stochastic systems.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 01A70.
I. D. Chueshov, Monotone Random Systems - Theory and Applications, Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1779, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York, 2002.
I. D. Chueshov and I. Lasiecka, Long-time behaviour of second order evolution equations with nonlinear damping, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc., 195 (2008), ⅷ+183 pp.
I. D. Chueshov and I. Lasiecka, Von Karman Evolution Equations, Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, 2010.
I. D. Chueshov, Dynamics of Quasi-Stable Dissipative Systems, Universitext. Springer, Cham, 2015.
I. D. Chueshov, Lectures on Operator Sermigroups, Book in preparation, First Draft February 2015.
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Our number one concern for every customer is to properly restore water damage before it becomes a major issue and it cannot be fixed. The worst possible situation could arise if you do not act fast. Lake Forest Water Damage experts are here to help you! Our 24/7 Emergency Response Time keeps customers happy and homes intact.
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This book provides auditors and fraud examiners with step-by-step guidance on using data extraction and software to detect and prevent fraud.
Using software to detect improper transactions are techniques that have grown in importance for fraud examiners. This book provides fraud examiners and auditors with step-by-step guidance on using data extraction and software to detect and prevent fraud. Its implementation guidance is supplemented by more than 60 case studies. Plus, it enables readers to use data to identify known and unknown symptoms of fraud. Auditors and fraud examiners will discover how to leverage data analysis as a powerful tool to detect and prevent fraud from occurring in any organization.
Accompanied by educational software by ACL, a leading data analysis and fraud detection software provider, the book's practical approach clearly shows auditors how an organization already using computer-assisted audit tools and techniques (CAATTs) can progress to the next level by developing approaches to prevent and detect fraud.
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Mineral Specimen No. 76056: Quartz var. Smoky Quartz for sale from North Moat Mountain, Bartlett, Carroll County, New Hampshire.
Description: Doubly-terminated translucent gray smoky quartz crystal with lustrous faces on the front and waxy luster on the rear where pocket solutions etched the quartz. Three small white areas of albite are on the surfaces of the smoky quartz crystal. No damage is visible to the unaided eye, but minor damage is visible under 20x magnification. Collected ca. 1984.
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* Go right again at the traffic lights (S118). Pass the BP gas station and go straight on at the roundabout (spot the old NDSM-logo in the middle!). Follow the road until the next roundabout and turn right. After 100 metres turn left and immediately right again, pass Braspenning and turn right to the main gate of Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam/Niron Staal. Please report your arrival at the gate.
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If you commonly install smaller networks using stand RJ45 networking cable, it's important to have the ability of checking your work before everything is installed so that you don't have to doubleback and reinstall cabling. Hobbes LANID gives you the ability to check your work and the "auto-negotiation" function provides speed matching with other devices for painless diagnostics to save you the time of guessing or assuming the networking devices will work at your needed speed.
From 100BASE-Tx full duplex to 100BASE-T4, the LANID has your speed tests covered to ensure that your network is performing as expected.
The 25-548A adjustable compression tool utilizes a hinged clamshell design and is used with F Type - RG-6, 59 &11..
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Commercial heating systems are an essential piece of equipment for commercial and industrial buildings in Twickenham and are used to maintain a workable environment. However, even with a high level of care and attention, the effects of use and time will take its toll on a commercial heating system.
Unfortunately, commercial heating systems in Twickenham can develop a fault at any time. However, when these problems occur, it is considerably more cost effective to repair the units rather than replace them completely.
We provide Commercial Heating Repairs in Twickenham specifically suited to repair and restore your heating system to full working condition. Faulty heating systems can make industrial and commercial buildings unable to be used for work.
Our customers value our commercial heating repair service, as it removes the costly expense of replacing the heating unit. All commercial heating repairs in Twickenham are performed by one of our commercial heating engineers, and as all of our engineers are fully trained and skilled in their area of expertise, you are guaranteed a top quality commercial heating repair service 100% of the time.
With a team of fully qualified Commercial Boiler Engineers, we are able to provide full Commercial Boiler Repairs for your boiler plant room in Twickenham. Depending on the size and complexity of your commercial boiler system, our engineers can conduct an onsite visit to diagnose the problem and conduct boiler repairs to get your boiler back up and running.
We specialise in commercial heating Twickenham and can install, maintain and repair heating systems on a commercial and industrial scale. We provide commercial and Industrial Heating services throughout Twickenham with Commercial Heating Engineers always available in Twickenham and covering the whole of the South East.
As a small but very professional company offering nothing but the best in all your Commercial Heating Installation requirements in Twickenham, we can offer professional yet affordable heating services that matters to you, the client.
From the initial point of contact our Commercial Heating Consultants Twickenham will help you all the way through to the completed product. We take great pride in all works undertaken.
All the commercial heating customers we provide for in Twickenham are 100% happy 100% of the time and you will be no different. Your satisfaction is paramount to us.
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Tough, reliable and built to work as hard as you do, the class-leading GRENDiA EX promises reliable, class-leading performance - whatever the challenges. Tried and tested in the toughest applications, this no-nonsense design builds on the successes of its predecessors - delivering optimal performance.
GRENDiA EX’s sophisticated Euro 3B compliant engines, coupled with its long-life design, keeps GRENDiA’s running costs and maintenance demands low - for maximum efficiency and productivity. Diesel models, for example, employ a unique, maintenance-free diesel particulate filter that automatically burns off soot during operation... preventing downtime and delays.
Green inside and out, GRENDiA EX keeps noise and exhaust emissions to a minimum, while delivering improved overall economy. An optional Flex Control package - including wet disc brakes - offers further savings. It protects the transmission and prevents wheelspin, while its automatic adjustable braking reduces wear on brakes and ‘hill hold’ makes working on ramps and slopes quicker, safer and more comfortable.
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ERAGON Movie Poster. Size: 47x63 inches approx. Condition: Excellent.
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This training focuses mainly on dancing, so it is also suitable for people with no ambition to teach. If you want to take your dancing to the highest level or perform in public this training is a must. Some of the areas covered are: footwork, posture, communication, rhythm, musicality, video analysis, upper-body isolation, creativity, musicality.
In 24 hours we will take you from the fundamentals of zouk to mastering the hardest techniques. This will give you an insight into the possibilities of zouk dancing in all its facets. For people who perform or want to perform this is a must as you will receive video feedback and/or one-on-one sessions during the training that really focus on you as a dancer with analysis of your strengths and areas for improvement.
Early bird prices – valid till 31st of May.
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Allison Claire Designs: Coralie and Co.
A casual tee, skater skirt and heels is my definition of classic, yet trendy look. Since this is such a simple outfit, I paired my Coralie & Co. necklace with it to give it that "bam!" that I was needing. It's such a versatile piece with more of a neutral pallet, making it wearable with many, many different things. There's a simpleness about it that I love, but it also grabs your attention at the same time.
Shop the necklace I'm wearing and all of their amazing pieces on the Coralie and Co. Facebook Page by liking them on Facebook, then commenting "SOLD", your email address and the state you would like you item shipped to, on the photo of the piece you want to purchase. It's as simple as that!
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Poor and improper diets can make the hormones imbalanced, leading to make changes in the overall body appearance. It happens with both men and women these days. When we talk about the men, they start suffering from different kinds of health related issues like low testosterone, low vitality, reduced energy, and much more. These issues are likely to happen from 25 to 30, as these ages are the earliest times of your life. This means, you are going to face more than these issues after 40 or 50. So, Testo Boost Pro is an effective way to overcome all your issues in an easy and effective manner.
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Congratulations to our newly elected CaGIS VP Thomas Pingel of Virginia Tech, and our two new Directors Kevin Hawley of the US Census Bureau & Samantha Arundel!
We also thank Howard Veregin from the Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office and Matt Rice from George Mason University, who are rotating off the board. Thanks, Howard and Matt, for your service to CaGIS!
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The ensemble prediction system (EPS) is an approach employed in meteorology to estimate fore-cast uncertainty of dynamical systems. In EPS, an ensemble of auxiliary simulations is launched along with the main prediction. Recently, an application with the EPS framework was proposed as a method that enables algorithmic tuning of parameters of large-scale models, in cases where high-CPU demands make usual iterative optimization impractical. The approach was aimed and tested for operational numerical weather prediction models, with a relatively small number of parameters and well-tuned initial values. Here, we present a new version of the approach as a general-purpose parameter estimation method for situations where effective parallel computing is available, but high-CPU requirements exclude the use of standard sequential approaches. We treat the problem as a stochastic optimization task and employ an evolutionary approach, the differential evolution as the optimizer. We demonstrate improved convergence properties, especially for strongly biased initial values or higher number of parameters. For parametric uncertainty quantification, the approach can be considered as a heuristic sampler of the parameter distributions.
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Laughing Dog opened in November 2009 as an Art Gallery and Gift Shop. Since adding a café into the space in 2011, Laughing Dog’s unique creative mixed space has been a popular destination for Locals and Visitors alike.
Grey Walls Gallery is home to many local as well as internationally renowned artists. The Art Gallery has many changing exhibitions. Click here to see our website.
Laughing Dog also boast a fine art bespoke printing service to both artists and businesses. If you would like to know more, please Contact us directly.
The Lifestyle Store/Gift Shop has an array of items from Local Makers as well as unique offerings from established companies. Most of the items in our shop cannot be found for miles around.
The Café won its first award in 2018 for Brighton’s Best Dog Friendly Venue. The Café sources ingredients from an array of local farms and suppliers. Our coffee is roasted in Brighton.
Our head baker Ella has been with us for over two years.
She brought with her some fantastic recipes, a huge passion for all things food and a heck load of charm.
Below, we ask her some questions so people can know more about the gal behind the bakes.
Hey Ella! So, how long have you been working at Laughing Dog?
Hello! I started working at Laughing Dog as a barista in Autumn 2016 and became the baker towards the end of that year.
I love how independently I can create my daily work load and how I’m encouraged to let my creativity run loose. Everyone here is a joy to work with! This makes me look forward to going to work.
Some of your recipes are becoming semi-famous. What is your favourite thing to make at Laughing Dog?
What I really like doing is coming up with new ideas and adapting recipes. I like that everyday is different and depending on the day I can choose what’s going to be on display for our customers.
Of all the things that I make, I’d say my favourite is the Chocolate Orange cake, just because I love to drizzle the melted chocolate!
What is your favourite thing to eat here?
For my own lunch, I usually make up a healthy salad using ingredients at my disposal!
Of the things we serve, I’d say our new Savoury Muffins. They are full of spinach, feta, pumpkin seeds and chilli. They are healthy and fun with a bit of a kick! We serve it with Sriracha Chilli Sauce. Delicious!
Your lemon drizzle is super popular here. Can you tell us about that?
I’m from Switzerland. When I was little my mother would make lemon drizzle cake with me and my sister ‘helping’ her. Just smelling the lemon zest brings back very fond memories. It always reminds me of home, So needless to say it was the first thing I started making regularly at Laughing Dog when I became their baker.
That’s so sweet! You seem to be constantly evolving the offerings at Laughing Dog. What are you planning for the future?
We’re looking to keep things fresh and different so our regular customers have some variety . Lately I’ve been researching more savoury bakes like our savoury muffins, different quiche fillings and filled puff pastry. Christmas is approaching us fast so there will definitely be some festive baking!
Do you have a favourite place to eat out in the Brighton area? Other than Laughing Dog of course!
I wouldn’t say I have a favourite restaurant or cuisine. I like to go out and try different places. There are so many amazing looking places in Brighton and Hove so we’re spoiled for choice!
If I had to pick a place, I would say the food at Street Diner, It’s a street food market in the garden on the corner of Queens Road and Church Street. They have a range of different foods so every time I go there I can try something new!
I hear you recently got married! Did you bake your own wedding cake?
No I didn’t! (chuckles) As a matter of fact there was no wedding cake. We just had a small cake-less gathering. All very low-key.
We accumulated a few interesting recipe books over the years so I like to sit down and ponder through them. I look stuff up online as well, but it’s more fun to go out into town and see what all the other coffee shops are up to.
What originally got you in to baking?
This is my first baking job! When I was young, my Mother would always bake from scratch and make home made birthday cakes. It’s always been a passion from that point, so as soon as the position came up, I knew I wanted it!
Thanks so much Ella! We all wish you well on your baking endeavours at Laughing Dog!
All of our milk is fresh and delivered directly from local farms.
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This morning I am struggling a bit to remain conscious. Neither myself nor my wife managed to get much sleep last night, because in our partially finished state… the rain kept dripping off a metal plate just outside our window. Which meant either try and sleep through this loud irregular dripping pattern, or sleep with the television loud enough to hopefully drown out the noise. We did the later which means we never really slept that deeply, kinda like we do when there is a tornado warning and we end up with the weather blaring all night hoping we would wake up if we needed to take shelter. As a result I am struggling a bit when it comes to stringing together thoughts into a sentence. This is absolutely the sort of day that I would just say screw it and not blog… but after several years of this madness I don’t really want to break the chain. That’s the funny thing about doing the daily blogging thing… is after a point you really don’t want to do something to break the pattern of posts. It is like the pattern itself becomes the important thing and not so much what I am writing about.
This weekend also was one where I did a surprisingly small amount of gaming. We recorded the latest episode of AggroChat on Friday night this week, and during that I piddled around in Fallout 4. Then as usual I stayed up way the hell too late wrapping up some minor details on the podcast. Then Saturday we had the very first of our family “Christmas” activities, I say it in quotes because it is technically a dual purpose Thanksgiving and Christmas that we have with my wife’s dad and step mom. They are snow birds and spend the winter in warmer climates… so for the last decade or so we have had this dual holiday day around Thanksgiving. Thing is they keep pushing it up so they can get down South “before it gets cold”, and admittedly they have a really nice place down there so I don’t blame them. It just ends up making for a strange holiday get together… when I am absolutely not even in Thanksgiving mode yet. When I got home from that… I had every intent of taking a nap, but instead the contractors were banging on the wall of the bedroom which would have made sleep impossible.
As a result I pretty much sleep walked through the day until we went to bed that evening relatively early. This is the point at which we realized that the drip was a thing… which woke us up about 4 am Sunday morning. My wife just stayed up, and I attempted to sleep through it… which I am guessing I eventually succeeded because it didn’t wake me up again until around 7:30. Over the last several years we have pretty much ignored we had a back yard. The siding had gotten bad and honestly everything back there was just overwhelming in that it all needed attention. With the bedroom door thing leading out there, my wife has become determined to fix the problems back there and reclaim it as usable space. Since we had a dumpster thanks to the construction folks… she was damned determined to use that to take care of some stuff. We had a few hour break in the rain, so my wife and I were trudging through the muddy back yard picking up things and carrying them to the dumpster. I am surprisingly sore from this, even though all I really did was act as the person moving stuff from the backyard to the dumpster, and she did a lot of the brute force gathering stuff into piles for me to move.
The highlight of yesterday has to be our Star Wars pen and paper game. The AggroChat crew and a few friends have been doing a fantasy flights Star Wars system game through Roll 20. The way that game integrates with Roll 20 is amazing, and quite literally if you fill out your character sheet correctly all you have to do is push a single button when you want to do an attack. I am assuming there is a lot more going on behind the scenes that Tam is doing to run the game, but for the most part… this is the best possible remote pen and paper experience. Essentially we are a group of force users during the A New Hope era, with one significant monkey wrench thrown in. My character is the one that does not fit… I am not a nice person… I never claimed to be. My character has pretty much spent his entire life working as a Bodyguard/Hired Gun/Enforcer for one Hutt cartel after another. The problem is… I get these “bad feelings” and often times my employers don’t heed my warnings and end up dead. As a result I’ve developed this persona in the underworld of “Misfortune Mordren”, and it has been interesting to see how that is working out.
I built this persona because I thought it would be interesting to play… but apparently I am some sort of underworld bogeyman. We had an instance yesterday where our craft was about to get boarded by some pirates, and the mere mention of my name…. and some really high deception rolls on the part of Kodra… caused them to back off because they wanted absolutely nothing to do with me. Apparently I am considered to be so “Bad Luck” that even after interdicting our ship… it was not worth their time to try and take us on. Then again there is a whole other side to this tale, because I am racking up quite the body count. While I am playing a character from Edge of the Empire, we decided to make things easier and put me on the Force and Destiny conflict system. I feel like I am not understanding this system… because every time I take conflict I cheer out loud. Much to the horror of my otherwise party of “goody two shoes” that are trying desperately to avoid the Dark Side. We walked into a gang base yesterday, and I opened fire before they had time to even speak. To my defense though… I figure if you are in a gang on Nar Shadda you have made some poor life choices anyways. Also to my defense Kodra did ask me to create a diversion… so yeah I was just doing that.
Essentially I am becoming somewhat of the conflict sponge for my party, and I am perfectly fine in that role. The thing is… I never said I wanted to be a light side character… and additionally I never said I was a “good guy”. My character has spent his entire life living in Hutt territory, and in truth I am turning over a new leaf. As a Hutt enforcer I would have been expected to torture every single one of these people I took down… just for good measure, because that is what Hutts do. I have yet to feed a single one of them to some bizarre creature we are keeping in a pit to entertain the boss. So simply taking them out cleaning… is a bit of a mercy from what I have been used to. It is going to be interesting to see how my character and the rest of the party play out… as they so carefully use their stun settings… and mine has dust on it because it has never been used once. The game usually runs for several hours… and by the time it wraps up I just have enough time to grabs some food and head downstairs for my Sunday evening television time… including Walking Dead, Talking Dead… and now maybe Into the Badlands. I watched the first episode last night and I have to say so far I am digging it heavily.
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Relying on his sinking fast ball to become all-time Major League leader with 341 career save, Fingers was the American League MVP and Cy Young Award winner in 1981. Appeared in 16 World Series games for Oakland, winning 2 and saving 6. His number 34 was formally retired in 1993.
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The Sunbury 16 piece cutlery set is sleek and contemporary and made from 18/0 stainless steel with a mirrored finish.
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I always have some clergy as clients, and I’m curious about your take on misconceptions or even dysfunctions clergy bring to their job search. I found your blog post addressing the difficulties people have in combining and balancing discernment and selling themselves. Do you also run into people who are just plain uncomfortable around selling themselves? Or who just assume “I have to take whatever I can get,” which pretty much rules out discernment? These are things I have seen in many clients – clergy, lay, totally nonreligious – over the years, but your viewpoint is different, and I’d love to know what you notice.
Many of the problems clergy have with job searches are inherent in the deployment system, not in the clergy themselves. The goal of this blog is to help clergy understand how the current system does and does not help them manage their vocational journey.
Some of the problems are caused by the opacity of the deployment system. For example, clergy used to complain to me that the old CDO system never sent their profiles to search committees. Once clergy learned that parishes used just a few dozen of the 1800 possible skills with any statistically significant frequency, and learned which skills from that shorter list to use to describe their skill set, they found the CDO system would send their names to many potential matches. Unfortunately, the matching component of the new OTM program is still a work in progress, so there is no technical fix for the new system yet.
I find breaking a job search down into manageable and measurable steps helps clergy understand the process more clearly. The whole process can seem daunting with clergy asking, “Where do I start?” “What do I do next?” and “What went wrong?” There are techniques for navigating each individual step, from resume writing, to parish profile analysis, to interviewing. Your effectiveness in performing each of these steps can be measured and enhanced. Follow my current series of blogs , “The Five Steps in the Search Process “ for more tips.
I do work with clergy who are uncomfortable about selling themselves and note two common causes. Some clergy oversubscribe to traditional “call theology”. (See my previous two-part blog on Theology for the Vocational Journey). Call theology implies that clergy, like young David, should be minding their own flocks patiently waiting for Samuel to come offer us a new job. Under that theology anything that smacks of sales or climbing a career ladder is assumed to be unseemly. Discernment theology encourages clergy to present the best of their skills and values, while they discern the best of a job opportunity before them. Discernment theology understands that once Samuel anointed David, David climbed his career ladder with the help a slingshot and then with an army.
Clergy often don’t understand what they are selling or are so anxious about finding a new call they will try to sell anything to anyone. The challenge is to sell what you believe in, not what you think a search committee wants. Presenting what you like most about yourself, the experiences where you feel fulfilled and successful, the values you hold dear, and your sense of your God-given purpose in life, shouldn’t feel like sales. If what you present is near and dear to your heart, it is an offering, not a sales pitch.
Discernment is key, despite the immediate pressures to find a job. I find it helpful to ask clergy to think about their whole vocational journey first before focusing on their next job.
I hope this helps and I hope other readers will chime in.
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Arthur Gillette. One Million Volunteers. Penguin, 1968. Contents. Abbreviations. Preface.
I am looking forward to the time when the average youngster --- and parent or employer --- will consider that one or two years of work for the cause of development, either in a far away country or in a depressed area of his own community, is a normal part of one's education.
International voluntary service for young people has only gained widespread recognition since the creation in 1961 of President Kennedy's Peace Corps. In the last seven year's the growth of full-time voluntary service has been phenomenal. Over 250 organizations ---national and international, governmental and private, of various inspirations --- are now involved in recruiting, training, and sending young volunteers from North America, Eastern and Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand to the Third World.
Arthur Gillette has written a stimulating and comprehensive history of a movement that began with a work-camp rebuilding farmers' houses on the Verdun battlefield after the First World War and is today a prominent feature of international co-operation --- mutual aid not charity.
The author shows how service has affected volunteers and the peoples with whom they work, and draws guide-lines for the future of international voluntary work.
Arthur Gillette was born in New York in 1938; he read French and Spanish at Harvard and graduated in 1961. He has held a variety of jobs, including deck-hand on a West Indian fishing smack and engine-boy on a Norwegian freighter. He has also travelled in Asia, Africa, Latin America and most of Europe, managing to get in some workcamping on the way. From 1961 until 1963 he did alternative service as a conscientious objector, helping to administer an international voluntary service organization; he then worked in Unesco's Youth Division, and in 1967 he became a free-lance writer and jobs consultant, usually connected with out-of-school youth education. Until recently he has been resident in Paris; he now lives with his French wife in Ethiopia, working as a youth consultant. Arthur Gillette has published articles in New Society, the Unesco Courier, Américas, and other magazines. His other interests include politics, the sea, classical music and printing.
9. INTERNATIONAL LONG-TERM SERVICE: A 'JUVENILE EXPERIMENT'?
VOLUNTARY service by young people only gained widespread recognition around the world with the creation in 1961 of President Kennedy's Peace Corps. Since, the growth of similar programmes sending young people from industrialized to developing countries for a year or more has been phenomenal. Over 20,000 long-term volunteers from two dozen countries are now at work in a hundred developing nations and territories. About two hundred organizations --- national and international, governmental and private, of various inspirations --- are now recruiting, training and/or sending medium-skilled young volunteers from North America, Eastern and Western Europe, Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand to the Third World. Clearly, long-term voluntary service has become a permanent feature of international co-operation among young people and well merits the public's attention.
What many people do not know is that the Peace Corps, although the largest programme, was not the first initiative of this kind. Voluntary Service Overseas began sending British youngsters abroad in 1958 while Australia started exporting volunteer teachers to its needy neighbours in 1950. In fact, international long-term volunteers have been working in different parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America since Pierre Ceresole --- son of a president of Switzerland --- led the first team of Swiss and Englishmen to India in 1934.
In the last decade two new forms of service have become popular. In Europe and North America, community social service has offered increasing numbers of young people the opportunity to aid their underprivileged fellow citizens --- without imposing on them. In Africa and Asia, national civic service corps and pioneer movements enable youth not lucky enough to continue school to receive an education and contribute to national development projects.
To be sure, the concept of service did not first appear with Pierre Ceresole's organization, Service Civil International. Throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America old institutions of neighbourly aid still subsist today. It is called Donkpè in Dahomey, Mingas in Ecuador and Bayanihan in the Philippines. And the YM and YWCA, Scouts and Guides and other youth movements born of the harshness of the Industrial Revolution included service in their credos. But Service Civil International was the first to go beyond charity that treated its beneficiaries as objects, rather than human beings. And the movement unleashed by Service Civil International has helped modify the entire idea of service.
Modern voluntary youth service began with an SCI workcamp rebuilding farmers' houses on the Verdun battlefield after the First World War. It is today a method used around the world, not of charity but of mutual aid, and the annual number of volunteers taking part in projects lasting from two days to two years is now well over one million.
The Peace Corps and similar programmes in Britain, France, Canada and other countries receive general publicity, and these and other long- and short-term service schemes have been described to some extent in specialized literature. But no chronicle of voluntary service as a whole has yet been attempted. One Million Volunteers is meant to fill that gap.
One Million Volunteers does not claim to be an exhaustive history of all forms of modem voluntary youth service. It is, rather, a panorama, a fresco in which certain scenes are described and interpreted in detail while others --- for want of space --- are glimpsed in passing. For those who wish to become conversant with voluntary service this is a phrase-book, not a dictionary. And, through extensive use of quotations, the actual volunteers and their leaders are made to speak for themselves.
Some readers may be surprised not to find a one-phrase definition of voluntary youth service in this Preface or elsewhere in the book. The functions and forms of service are too diverse for all or most organizers to agree on a single definition. Indeed, some may not find it appropriate to include in one book all the types of service covered here. For them, the author sees One Million Volunteers itself as an attempt to define voluntary service.
A number of people have provided indispensable aid to the author. Where letters and conversations have helped him understand periods about which written material is no longer (or not yet) available these are credited in the footnotes. Gary Fullerton of Unesco's Public Liaison Division deserves credit and gratitude for originally suggesting the idea of a book on voluntary youth service. Thanks are also due to Jean-Michel Bazinet, until recently Director of Unesco's Co-ordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service. His patience in answering the author's many questions and intelligence in inducing him to raise the he key issues have been equalled only by his constant good humour in lending numerous valuable documents from the Committee's archives. Jeremy Hamand, an inflexible enemy of newspaperese, has lent a hand in unscrambling ideas and English. Robert Hutchison and Adrian Moyes have helped pluck the original manuscript to Pelican size. Frank Judd, too, has helped more than he would admit. The advice and aid of these and other people has helped make One Million Volunteers a truer and more readily accessible representation of voluntary service than would otherwise have been the case. However, ultimate responsibility for ideas expressed --- and possible errors of fact --- lies, naturally, with the author.
Finally, the author is grateful to Mmes Valery Brasseur and Renée Derosch and Mlles Flora Azulay and Nicole Silly who have struggled valiantly to wade through and retype his draft.
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The StrongLoop team has been working with Mobile Monday for events for some time now. Recently, though, we combined forces to host a hackathon at Galvanize NYC from June 2-4th, 2017. Developer Evangelist Joe Sepi was on hand to provide an overview of LoopBack as well as support and encouragement.
MobileMonday is the premiere community for the Mobile and Connected Industry. It is an open community platform fostering industry cooperation through events that educate, demo products, share ideas and discuss industry trends.
The hackathon was open to solo entrants or teams made up of beginners, pro hackers, and everyone in between. Participants were set to hack with Watson, StrongLoop’s LoopBack, and Bluemix.
Here’s a list of the winners, including best use of LoopBack.
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an approach to medical practice intended to optimize decision-making by emphasizing the use of evidence from well-designed and well-conducted research. A medical professional generally depends on articles published in medical journals for this evidence. Thousands of article are being published every day. which makes it very hard for the health care professional to find relevant info.
Congratulations to the team, composed of Akshay Kumar Vikram, Vishnu Pillai, and Gladys Um.
A common struggle for all is to think of gift or date ideas. With our app, we got your back. Finding a gift for someone can often times be hard, and many people end up resorting to giving impersonal gifts like gift-cards. With our app, Watson will study a person through his/her social media, utilizing its Personality Insights service, and suggest a gift for you to get.
Kudos to team members Harmit Minhas, Prasanth Venigalla, Jai Punjwani and Sarthak Arora.
The third prize went to “Smart Bitly”, dubbed as “Bitly But Smarter”.
Our solution is a service that operates as a link management platform. But unlike conventional shortening services, the aim of our platform is to more efficiently aggregate information to people of different backgrounds regardless of the content we are sharing and tear down the language barrier completely.
On top of maintaining links, we parse through the content and use Watson’s cloud services to accurately translate and rebuild the content in a cohesive fashion. Unlike Google Translate services that blindly go through the webpage and tries to translate every sentence it sees, our service takes a more logical approach and more accurately translates our content.
This team included Tommy Inouye, Sean Inouye, Edward Donovan and Shuyang Sun.
The winner for best use of LoopBack (based on LoopBack usage tracked with a scorecard) was inspired by bringing friends and food together and determining what to eat tonight, especially when you are paralyzed by choice.
Too much freedom?! We’ll take the pressure away from choosing.
Congratulations to Richard Kuo, La-Keisha Towner and Roman Levytskyy for their creative use of LoopBack. Each team member was awarded a TJ Bot.
Loopback can help you get an API up and running in 5 minutes! Here’s how.
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The Convention on the Participation of Foreigners in Public Life at Local Level is a treaty of the Council of Europe, adopted in 1992. It grants foreigners the right to vote in local elections, provided that they fulfil the same legal requirements as apply to citizens and have been lawful and habitual residents in the State concerned for the five years preceding the elections. The convention came into force in 1997, after the fourth ratification. As of July 2015, the Convention has been ratified by nine member states. Four states have signed the convention, but not ratified it.
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The Truth about Iberdrola and our Energy Minister!
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Start-up has begun at Praxair, Inc.’s new state-of-the-art 135 million standard cubic feet per day (scfd) hydrogen plant serving the Valero refinery at Port Arthur, Texas.
The plant, which also serves other customers, houses the largest steam methane reformer (SMR) Praxair has built to date and will supply hydrogen and up to 450,000 pounds per hour of steam to Valero’s new 57,000 barrels-per-day hydrocracker.
Hydrocrackers are used to break down hydrocarbon molecules in heavier crude oil to produce the premium transportation fuels that are in strong demand globally, such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels.
The new Port Arthur SMR is connected to Praxair’s existing 750 million scfd Gulf Coast pipeline network, which includes a unique 2.5 billion scf high-purity hydrogen storage cavern that provides additional supply reliability for customers along the pipeline.
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cannot implement regular expressions. Oracle has in its SQL product.
the complete language are more likely to be performant.
But as I said, I can agree with making it optional.
leaving the rest as optional.
> query language. Regex therfore must be optional.
> sparql -cat "Danny Ayers"
> allow for simple suffix wildcards such as searches on cat* .
> I am just posting this because regex raised an alarm flag in my head.
> Perhaps this has been dealt with before.
Next message: Kendall Clark: "Re: agenda, 24 Oct 2006, 14:30 UTC"
Previous message: Lee Feigenbaum: "Re: agenda, 24 Oct 2006, 14:30 UTC"
In reply to: Henry Story: "make regex optional in SPARQL"
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Taking the lift out of the station at Jungfraujoch to the area known as The Plateau is a great way to start a visit to the Top of Europe.
From here you can see all three of the main buildings: the triangular-roofed modern main restaurant and shopping complex, beyond it the older scientific research establishment and, perched in the top of the ridge, the Sphinx Observatory. There are also some fine views of the Aletschgletscher.
Then itʼs on to examine the heating system. The Eistpalast (Ice Palace) is a series of tunnels through the ice, filled with statues carved from the living ice (in most cases). It is not only highly decorative, but also very functional. In order to prevent the heat of the visitors bodies melting the carvings, heat-pumps are employed to keep the area below freezing. This in turn provides around 40% of the heating requirements of the rest of the complex.
Moving around the Eistpalast is an art in itself as the floors are also made from ice (Health and Safety Inspectors in this country would have a fit). Seeing all the visitors shuffling along holding on to the grab rails reminded me of the old ice rinks we used to have in this country. So I tried 'skating' in my walking boots. It worked very well, but I must have looked ridiculous.
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The KCEA soccer tournaments serve as an extracurricular support to reinforce on the athletic field what is being instilled in the classroom in the lives of student-athletes at affiliating schools: character, sportsmanship, and Christ-like attitude and behavior. Through this tournament, teams compete against other Christian schools in KCEA who have also registered to participate. If more than four teams register for a tournament (7-v-7 or 11-man), a playoff game is held at a neutral site during tournament week, with the winner advancing to the “final four” that weekend. Teams making it to the “final four” play both Friday and Saturday.
The KCEA soccer tournaments are typically held at a single host site, on the same dates in late October and at the same location as the volleyball tournaments. Participating schools and parents find this format to be mutually beneficial, as it allows students and spectators to support their team — or both teams — throughout the event. In recent years, games have been played under the lights Friday night, allowing for an extended schedule and also some great memories for the players.
A close game throughout, the game-winning goal was scored with 0:33 remaining in regulation.
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Now reading: Serum 101: Serums, Ampoules and Essences Oh My!
Serum, ampoules, essences. What’s the difference? There The die-hard 12-steppers will be able to distinguish between all of them, but we’ll give you the rundown. At TONIC15, we view products in this category as interchangeable. Their main function is to deliver a concentration of active ingredients to nourish and supercharge your skin. They are applied to the skin after you cleanse and apply toner, yet underneath night creams.
Serums contain a few active ingredients to address a specific issue. It can be hydrating, fine lines or dark spots. Its is typically clear, and applied out of a pump or with a dropper. It is thicker than water, and you only need to use a small amount.
As a rule of thumb, essences are thinner and ampoules are thicker versions of serums. Essences are focused on hydrating the skin and may feature some other nutritional qualities. Ampoules are concentrated versions of serums, typically with a higher number of active ingredients. You typically only use ampoule for a limited time, to give a boost to your skin, whereas serums are designed to be a part of your regular routine. Serums can be used in the morning and evening.
What about emulsions? Emulsions are a water-based formulas that hydrate the skin. Their main purpose is to lock in moisture in the skin, and they typically are limited in other active ingredients so they do not target more specific skin concerns.
So do I really need to use serum? Which one should I get?
That depends of course! Everyone’s skin is different. We like general-use serums that can be used year-round. Think of it like a daily vitamin for your skin. Just like vitamins, serums maintain the general health of your skin. Taking these preventative measures as part of your regular skincare routine keeps your skin nourished, and slows down the effects of aging and pollution.
Our go-to is Huxley Oil Essence. It is a hybrid essence and oil formula with the hydrating properties of an oil and the lightweight properties of an essence. It absorbs quickly into the skin and does not have the sticky feeling that some oils leave. It contains nutrient-rich ingredients such as prickly pear seed oil and acai berry extract. We use this one year-round as it is hydrating enough to survive the winter months but light enough not to feel heavy during the summer.
You can also use serums to target specific problems. Klairs Freshly Juiced Vitamin Drop is concentrated with 5% Vitamin C (L-Ascorbic Acid) reduces pigmentation and refines dull skin tone, which is beneficial to treat acne scars or dark spots.
Some like to apply several different serums, essences and ampoules to separate parts of their face to address different skin concerns. We believe in simplicity, and using just one of these products is sufficient for your regular routine. Also, be aware of how products interact with each other. Serums with a high concentration of Vitamin C do not react well with products that contain niacinamide (Vitamin B3) or retinol (Vitamin A). They end up making each product less effective, or cause a reaction. If you love the buffet of products, we recommend applying thinner formulas to the face first for the best absorption results.
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KOH PHANGAN, THAILAND - MAY 2, 2015 : Haad Rin beach before the full moon party. Unidentified people arrived on the island of Koh Phangan, to participate in the Full Moon party.
hd00:24KOH PHANGAN,THAILAND - MAY 2, 2015 : Haad Rin beach before the full moon party. Unidentified people arrived on the island of Koh Phangan, to participate in the Full Moon party.
hd00:35KOH PHANGAN,THAILAND - MAY 2, 2014 : Haad Rin beach before the full moon party. Unidentified people arrived on the island of Koh Phangan, to participate in the Full Moon party.
hd00:14Alanya, Turkey - May, 7, 2017: A group of people play water polo in the pool. The man throws the ball.
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Harry Potter's Diagon Alley Is Now on Google Street View - Thinkwell Group, Inc.
The shops of Diagon Alley from Harry Potter are now on Google Maps’ Street View.
The Diagon Alley set brings to life the shop setting from J.K. Rowling’s legendary Harry Potter series of seven best-selling books, which grew into a successful eight-movie franchise. Warner Bros. Studio Tour says the Diagon Alley set took more than three months to build, and it took six months to create over 20,000 products to put on the shops’ shelves.
Explore Diagon Alley for yourself on Google Maps. It’s a fun experience for Harry Potter fans, but it makes me wonder what adventures Harry, Ron and Hermione would have missed out on if they had Google Maps and never got lost.
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In 2011, the focus of the Heritage Doors was Wawa's rich mining history. The doors were created to accompany the collection of miining equipment on display at Mining Heritage Park (corner of Broadway Avenue and Mackey Street).
The location of the Heritage Doors across from the Lakeview Hotel in the Mining Heritage Park, was a perfect fit for telling Mr. Breton's colourful and tragic story.
Through the eyes of both a researcher and a young child who remembers the tragedy of Mr. Breton's death, to me Aime was a true Algoma pioneer who lived life to it's fullest. He enjoyed the bounty of the land and its people. His soul will always be a part of Wawa. And his life ultimately resulted in the increased efficiency of search and rescue operations in Ontario.
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Expensive shoes are the new status symbol, and sneakers are at the forefront thanks to millennials' desire for comfort and athleisure.
There are two periods during the year that are the best time to buy designer, says Krystle Craycraft, CMO of online fashion assistant ModeSens.
Gucci has become hugely popular with teens and millennials. We visited a store and saw why they love it despite the high price tags.
Young shoppers are obsessed with Gucci, ranking it in their top 10 favorite apparel brands. We went to a Gucci store to see why it is so popular with teens and millennials.
Millie-Belle Diamond, the proud owner of "Palace MBD," also apparently gets paid up to AUD $250 a post to share photos of herself wearing designer clothes.
Louise Linton, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin's wife, apologized for her widely condemned Instagram post last month in which she belittled a critic.
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KARACHI (92 News) – Muttahida Qaumi Movement has on Thursday announced its decision to withdraw from talks with the government once again.
A meeting of MQM Coordination Committee London and Pakistan was held after the third round of dialogues between the MQM and the government.
Addressing a press conference, MQM leader Farooq Sattar demanded the resignations to be accepted immediately.
Farooq Sattar said that the government was serious about the dialogue process.
He said that even after a lapse of almost 20 days no committee was formed by the government and demanded the government to immediately accept the resignations.
The MQM leader said that MQM was being pushed against the wall. “The party’s all political offices and unit offices are closed,” he said.
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I have a thing for breakfast food. Like, I could eat breakfast food any time of the day. So when I stumbled upon Brinner Café through Instagram I was easily intrigued with it. I immediately asked Carlo to check-out this place very soon and so we did (with our third wheel, my friend Gladys).
I love you, Cebu – Queen City of the South!
Touchdown, Cebu!!! Last September 2014 my family and I made a short trip to Cebu City. Since it was our first time, we really didn’t know what to expect in the Queen City of the South.
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Within the past ten years, the availability of digital imaging hardware and powerful image processing algorithms has led to the wide diffusion of strain mapping techniques like Digital Image Correlation (DIC). This has open up a new age for the testing of materials where old nominally-uniform or simple stress field configurations can be replaced by more complex ones leading to heterogeneous states of stress and strain. In this case however, the problem is not statically determinate anymore and inverse identification needs to be employed to extract the parameters from the strain maps. Within the last 10 years, the Virtual Fields Method (VFM) has emerged to become the most promising tool for material identification thanks to its spectacular computational efficiency compared to traditional finite element model updating (FEMU). A recent independent study has quoted that the VFM was 125 time faster than FEMU for a hyperelastic model.
This project is part of a strategic partnership between the University of Southampton and MatchID NV. The Virtual Fields Method championed by Prof. Pierron over the last 20 years is now implemented in MatchID and the integrated DIC/VFM tool is now ready for industrial transfer. However, there is a need for the design of novel test configurations that will strongly benefit from the new paradigm as current tests are generally adapted from existing configurations and not optimal. Recently, Prof. Pierron’s research group has set up a procedure based on synthetic image deformation to simulate the complete identification chain from imaging to VFM, so that uncertainties can be propagated through the complex chain and realistic error bounds produced.
This PhD will take this one step further and look at two problems of material identification: anisotropic elasticity (composites) and either anisotropic plasticity (sheet metal forming) or hyperelasticity (rubber sheets). The design space will be explored using finite element simulations coupled to the identification simulator and promising configurations will be tested extensively to produce robust error bounds. This is an essential step before running inter-laboratory round-robin tests to prove the robustness of the new paradigm and convince industry to take on these new tests. The PhD project is therefore both numerical and experimental.
The ideal candidate for this project will have a bachelor or master degree in mechanical, materials or civil engineering and have studied fracture mechanics at undergraduate level. Prior experience with finite element simulations is desirable but not essential.
If you wish to discuss any details of the project informally, please contact Prof. Fabrice Pierron, Engineering Materials Research Group, Email: [email protected], Tel: +44 (0) 2380 59 2891.
This studentship covers UK/EU tuition fees and provides a tax-free stipend at the standard EPSRC rate.
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Cardiology is the diagnosis and management of diseases which affect the heart and circulatory system. Cardiologists conduct investigations and help patients to manage a variety of heart disorders including rhythm disturbances, arterial blockages, angina, heart attacks, heart failure, and valvular heart disease. Routine physical examinations may reveal irregularities. Chest discomfort or palpitations are usually the first critical symptoms that lead patients to cardiologists. Generally, cardiac evaluation begins with a complete history and physical examination. An electrocardiogram, chest X–ray and blood tests are performed. 24 hour ambulatory monitoring, exercise stress testing, nuclear cardiac studies, echocardiography and cardiac catheterization procedures may be recommended.
After a diagnosis has been established, the cardiologist may suggest diet and activity modification, medical therapy, and in some cases procedures such as coronary artery balloon angioplasty or cardiac surgery. For all patients with heart disease, appropriate follow–up is vital. Most patients have a personal physician who may have instituted their initial evaluation and will play an important role in follow–up of their cardiac condition and general health. A vascular disorder is a blood vessel problem such as poor circulation caused by blockage. Arterial blocks could be in the coronary artery (the one that supplies blood to the heart, and which is dealt with exclusively by cardiac surgeons), the carotid artery (which supplies blood to the brain), the subclavian axillary brachial (to the upper limbs), and the iliac femoral popliteal (to the lower limbs). Even the veins can get blocked. Blocks in the blood vessels occur when narrowing takes place. Cholesterol and nicotine deposits, stress, diabetes and increased longevity are the most common causes of these blocks.
A tingling sensation in the limbs, pain in the legs on walking, momentary loss of power in limbs, transient loss of vision are all signs of possible blocks in the arteries. The color Doppler test, is a non–invasive method for testing. It is 80 to 85% accurate and can give one an idea of how much the blood vessels are blocked.
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Adriana Martínez is obsessed with ideas and entities that extend past national and regional borders. Martinez makes work that wrestles with the global economy through simple gestures conceived with a lightness of hand. Thought of temporally, many of her artworks can be described as quick: easily read, they come across like nimble jabs, the most succinct and articulate rebuttals. Martínez is conceptual in her approach to making art, often writing out her ideas in lieu of the traditional artist sketch. She is not concerned with the traditional skills required to realize her works—those, like the commodities she often works with, are easily traded—but is more interested in the process of imagining and articulating a certain point of view. She works with everyday and readymade objects often, pulling from the mass market and our image-rich global culture to comment on the very proliferation of those images (and the materials and peoples that they stand in for) around the world.
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A simple Bundt cake, frosted or not, is the perfect dessert for warmer weather. This buttery pound cake comes out velvety with a soft crumb. Serve it with fresh fruit, or all on its own.
To achieve a light cake, beat air into the batter before you add the eggs in this coconut cream cheese pound cake.
I don't know about the weather where you live but it's starting to get hot in my area. As in hot enough that any cake with frosting is going to be a bad idea because the heat will prevent the frosting from setting properly or will melt it the minute you take it out of an air-conditioned environment.
That's where pound cakes come to the rescue. They can be glazed if you wish but they can also be kept simple and served as is without worrying too much what condition the heat will render them. And despite their modest appearance, they can be delicious as this one was. Normally I don't like cream cheese in baked goods and I'll never eat cheesecake but I do like incorporating cream cheese into a pound cake. You can't taste the tang from the cream cheese; instead it simply adds a velvety softness to the texture of the cake and cuts some of the butter flavor so you don't remember (clearly) that this recipes uses three sticks of butter in it.
The only thing to be wary of in this cake is if you beat the batter too much after the eggs are added in, the cake can form a meringue-y or crunchy crust. Not super crunchy but enough to crumble a little when you cut into it. Not a big deal, but try to beat air into the batter before you add the eggs. You'll notice there are no chemical leavenings in this recipe: no baking powder or baking soda. So the only time you'll really be beating air into the batter to give the cake some rise is when you beat the butter, cream cheese, and sugar together. You don't want to beat too much after the eggs are in there (or it'll form that meringue crust in baking) and definitely not after you add the flour or the texture will be tough because of the gluten developing.
Also, be careful about underbaking. Underbaking a pound cake will cause an even heavier texture than pound cakes are known for. Of course overbaking is the bigger sin to me and will give you a dry cake. Sometimes it's hard to tell if a butter cake is done because the toothpick can come out clean and yet the cake might still need a few more minutes of baking time because of the high butter content. Time it, go by appearance (golden brown versus a darker brown – your choice), and your sense of smell as well as the toothpick test. If you're really unsure, turn the oven off when you think it's done and leave it in there for a few extra minutes. Just don't forget about it.
I liked this cake. It only had a mild coconut flavor but if you want more coconut, try using coconut milk, thinned with a little water so it's not quite so thick. Beyond the flavor, I also liked the texture of this cake. It had a velvety soft crumb, always a sign of a good pound cake.
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and flour a tube pan or a Bundt pan.
2. In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
3. Gradually add the sugar, beating at medium speed until light and fluffy.
4. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating just until the yolk disappears.
5. Sift together flour and salt; add half the flour mixture to the butter mixture.
6. Add the milk followed by the remaining flour mixture.
7. Beat the batter at low speed just until blended. Stir in the vanilla and coconut.
8. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour and 30 to 35 minutes, or until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean.
9. Remove cake from oven and cool in pan on wire rack for 10 to 15 minutes. Loosen cake from pan with spatula and invert onto wire rack. Let cool completely.
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Fr Aveyard was born and brought up in nearby Batley.
He studied for the priesthood at Ushaw College, Durham. In 1981 he was ordained in St Mary's, Batley and then was appointed as assistant priest to St Joseph's, Keighley. At the time the parish priest there was Fr George Hinchliffe who had previously been the parish priest here at St Paulinus.
After just 18 months Fr John was asked to study for a degree in canon law at the Pontifical University of St Thomas in Rome. After gaining his Licence in Canon Law he returned to Ushaw to teach and there he remained until 1993.
Since then he has been parish priest of SS John Fisher & Thomas More, Burley-in-Wharfedale (1993-1998); St Mary's, Selby (1998-2007); Immaculate Heart of Mary, Huddersfield (2007-2011). He took up his appointment in St Paulinus in November 2011.
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The metaphysics presented on this website is not about the occult, nor about immaterial souls, also not about the human situation in a political and social context, and not about human psychology.
It is a metaphysics about the general and intrinsic constitution of THINGS, i.e. an ontology of things. And "ontology" is the science of being(s) insofar as (they are) being(s).
By " things " will be meant : UNIFORM BEINGS, ontologically existing by virtue of themselves, things, which are in principle observable. So by " things " we do not mean for example concepts. CONCEPTS belong in the order of knowledge, knowledge about things, or (knowledge) about concepts, or knowledge about whatever. By " things " we also do not mean mathematical entities. Mathematical entities do not belong to the content of the Real World, but to that of the Ideal World. In that world they have an objective existence (See for the -- distinction between the -- Real World and the Ideal World, the Essay on the Universal). Also properties (of things) are not considered here as uniform beings. They do not exist by virtue of themselves, but by virtue of that something of which they are properties. In this way we just sketched a ' Substance-Accident Metaphysics ' (See the Essay on Substance and Accident).
All these things are uniform things in contradistinction to aggregates (of things). An aggregate has its unity from outside, i.e. a unity caused by extrinsic factors. Aggregates therefore never show CONSTANT PATTERNS. Uniform things by definition do. Although Stars certainly are uniform things, we shall not deal with them. We leave that to other devotees.
The existence of such things does NOT depend on their being observed or thought about. They exist outside the knowing subject precisely as knowing subject. So they are transcendent with respect to the knowing subject.
We are in principle able to know these things AS THEY ARE IN THEMSELVES. We know this to be true because we often detect mistakes concerning parts of our knowledge. So it seems that these things just are how they are, in and for themselves, independently of our knowing them or not knowing them.
The metaphysics presented on this site is in principle concerned with the same world as Natural Science is. What then is the difference?
The difference is not easy to state because -- strange enough -- we don't know exactly what Metaphysics really is and because there are overlaps (this latter observation is obvious because -- as has been said -- metaphysics (as presented on this site) treats of the same world as Natural Science does).
Natural Science tries to relate observational data by means of theories, models. These models pretend to predict certain observations or experimental outcomes, and so they can and must be tested and verified (or falsified) by observations and experiments. Natural Science tries to find nearest causes of observable phenomena. These causes are, like their effects, observable matter of facts. The relations between those causes and their effects are decribed as laws. These laws can be in the form of certain restrictions which must be satisfied, like for example the conservation of mass and energy in chemical reactions, or they are in the form of dynamical laws that relate input to output in a general way.
Metaphysics (as presented here) tries to provide the most general scheme of Reality, by stating fundamental and general relations that are valid for EVERY being in sofar as it is a being. In this way, in a sense, Metaphysics tries to establish the most remote causes or FIRST causes. The results of Natural Science should figure as specifications of a general metaphysical theory or system. In cases where such results (of Natural Science) are beyond doubt, we demand that a metaphysical scheme must be able to accomodate these results as specifications. This does not imply that those results, obtained by Natural Science, could have been deduced from the general metaphysical theory. A metaphysical theory admits of a whole spectrum of (possible) specifications, and observation must finally decide which specification must figure as such. Also it is not possible to deduce a metaphysics from Natural Science alone, because Natural Science begins and ends with observational data only. Metaphysics on the other hand is concerned with the intrinsic constitution of things and processes (these latter from the viewpoint of things as defined above), i.e. it is looking for those factors responsible for something to be a THING (a uniform being), without those factors themselves being things, and consequently without their being observable. It discriminates between the Thing and an Aggregate, between a Thing and its Essence (See the Essay on Being and Essence), between Substance and Accident (See the Essay on Substance and Accident), between the Individual and the Universal (See respectively the Essays on The Principle of Individuation and the Essay on the Universal), between the per se and the per accidens , between Matter and Form (See the Essays on Substance and Accident and on The Principle of Individuation), and so on.
Besides, but connected with, the characteristics (of metaphysics) just mentioned, another important one must be brought forward. Natural Science must proceed from one or more unproven suppositions -- presuppositions -- about the world it investigates. Most of them are implicit in her methods. It is one of the tasks of Metaphysics to make those presuppositions explicit. In so doing they will as such become part of that Metaphysics. One example of such a presupposition will be found at the beginning of the Essay on The Principle of Individuation.
The viewpoint of the metaphysics here presented -- and continually under construction, hopefully also becoming inspired by e-mail reactions (and objections) -- is the metaphysics of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. But our concern is not the full preservation of this ancient metaphysics. We demand that such an inspired metaphysics must accord with modern standards. This implies that we are seeking to develop a REVISED Aristotelically and Thomistically inspired metaphysics of Being, thereby only concerning the above mentioned types of objects. How do we proceed to accomplish such a revision?
Well, first of all we will test whether the many facts about the world (and, for us, especially concerning uniform things), established by Natural Science, can indeed figure as specifications of such a metaphysics (a revised Substance-Accident Metaphysics). Such facts are cases like the metamorphosis of insects, where a drastic transformation takes place but whereby the individual is conserved. Further, the cases of liquid crystals, are they uniform things? Cases of weakened individuality of certain (primitive) organisms, and all phenomena connected with the organic evolution, including the descent of man from animals. The status of chemical reactions, the molecules and the chemical bond (See the Essay on the Chemical Bond), etc.
Secondly, we will give to DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS a central role in our efforts of revision, because of the following reason : It seems to me that every uniform thing, from the categories listed above, is generated by some dynamical system. The dynamical law governing such a dynamical system will be interpreted as the Essence of the thing generated by that system (See the Essay on Being and Essence, and the Essay on Dynamical Systems). It turned out that such an approach could solve certain long standing problems within Classical Metaphysics.
Such a revised metaphysics will not, accordingly, end up as a (revised) philosophical anthropology, nor as a philosophy of science, but as a general philosophy of Being. And above all, it is not, as has been already emphasized, a philosophy of the occult, but a philosophy with both feet on the ground.
" With both feet on the ground " also means that we realize that there are more possibilities of designing a metaphysics than the one we present. The world is too complicated to be caught in one conceptual scheme only. And because it is not in the power of one individual to cover all schemes, several other possible pathways to an understanding of the world are not utilized here, not because they should be inferior with respect to our own pathway, but because of the limitations mentioned. If we want to make progress in understanding the World we must participate in dialogues, thereby being open-minded to objections and to other points of view. The only thing we demand is intellectual integrity, and that means that we are prepared to give up any position in favor of a better one.
The ideas of Charles Darwin not only transformed Biology, but Philosophy as well. Their impact can be felt everywhere. They challenge perennial presuppositions, especially in the area of the ontological status of Mind, from where they go right into the domain of Philosophy. So even the metaphysician must be aware of Darwin's findings.
What has been said here is quite sufficient for getting a clear idea about the philosophical investigation carried out on this website. This means that you can happily skip the next two Essays, namely (1) Introduction and Overview and (2) Status Quaestionis, because these Essays are just a detailed extension of the present Essay : Like this, they tell you about the investigation, not actually carrying it out. They give you information about the subject, method, structure and limitations of the investigation, and about the work of other authors. To actually comprehend the rest of this website studying these two Essays is not really necessary.
The reader could perhaps study these two Essays later on (because they are certainly interesting), i.e. after he has read the rest of this website, in order to be able to put this investigation into its proper context.
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Mexico City’s Kurimanzutto gallery has popped up in San Francisco at the ascendant Jessica Silverman Gallery, running ahead of the city’s increasingly popular FOG Design + Art fair.
Long before it was a blue chip powerhouse gallery with a 14,000 sq ft, skylit wood-steel-and-concrete exhibition cathedral - carved out of a former lumberyard in Mexico City’s San Miguel de Chapultepec neighborhood - Kurimanzutto was a renegade art operation that staged shows everywhere from a supermarket parking lot and a carpet store, to the Benito Juárez International Airport and the shipping container of a semi truck.
In that vagabonding spirit, Kurimanzutto also took its act on the road over the years, staging shows at the Parisian galleries Chantal Crousel and Patrick Seguin, Warsaw’s Foksal Gallery and Los Angeles’ Regen Projects.
In San Francisco, that means Kurimanzutto and Silverman are presenting a ‘history of the gallery’, from its early work with artists like Orozco, Damián Ortega, and Abraham Cruzvillegas, to newer stars such as Haegue Yang, Marieta Chirulescu and Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla.
Up front, visitors will enter into the space through Jimmie Durham’s Arc de Triomphe for Personal Use (London version) – a wooden metal detector, that leads to a leather and rope screen that Leonor Antunes showed at her solo exhibition at the New Museum last summer. The walls feature an 8x6-foot palm tree screenprints by Allora & Calzadilla, a massive wall installation (made of news articles and postcards covered in red and black latex) by Cruzvillegas, and polemical paintings by Minerva Cuevas that take swipes at the dirty underbelly of publishing and offshore oil drilling.
Meanwhile, the floors are covered by eight cochineal-dyed rugs that were handmade in Oaxaca for the chimerical Vietnamese art star Danh Vo, atop of which the galleries have installed a mixed media sculpture by Gabriel Kuri (Jose’s brother), one of Orozco’s hand-formed impressionistic terracotta sculptures (with accompanying works on paper adorning the walls, all of which reference the lifeline between the hand, the heart and nature), as well as a Durham chair sculpture invoking Alexander Calder.
That said, Silverman does her best to create such a vision inside her own FOG booth, where she’s tackling themes of architecture and urban planning via new works from Hugh Scott Douglas, Julian Hoeber, Dashiell Manley, Barbara Kasten, Ian Wallace, and Nicole Wermers. These artists will be installed opposite half-century-old Joseph Albers-influenced paintings by septuagenarian sensation Suzanne Blank Redstone, who taught at the University of Pennsylvania alongside Louis Kahn during the 1960s and is experiencing something of a late career revival thanks to Silverman.
For Silverman, it would appear, one good (curatorial) turn deserves another.
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I am a postdoc fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. I received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the School of Electrical Engineering from Korea University in Feb. 2011 and Feb. 2018, respectively. My research interests are computer vision and connectomics, especially in the problems of segmentation using deep learning.
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Anna Odobescu has released an acoustic version of her song for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest.
Ahead of next month’s contest in Tel Aviv, Moldova’s Anna Odobescu has released a live acoustic version of her song “Stay”. Her preparations for the contest are well underway, as last week she attended the first pre-party of the season, Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam, and will also take part in the Moscow Pre-Party at the end of the month.
Anna will perform her song “Stay” in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv on May 16. She is one of 18 acts that night vying for 10 slots to the grand final. Read more about Anna in our recent interview.
Anna Odobescu will represent Moldova at the Eurovision Song Contest. The singer who was born in 1991 had previously attempted to represent Moldova at the contest in 2018, she finished 5th with the song agony. Anna is no stranger to representing Moldova internationally. She previously represented Moldova at Slavianski Bazaar, the contest has been a stepping stone for many singers who have gone on to compete at Eurovision.
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In terms of economic reality, Toro stock is not fast growing. The company’s 2016 fiscal first-quarter sales, ended January 29, 2016, increased only 2.6% to $486.4 million. But the company’s bottom-line earnings were $39.0 million, or $0.70 per share. This was a solid improvement over the same quarter in 2015, when earnings came to $31.0 million, or $0.54 per share, representing an improvement of 29.6%. With its latest earnings announcement, the company increased its previous 2016 fiscal guidance. Total sales are expected to grow about four percent over last year. Earnings per share should come in between $3.85 and $3.95, representing a gain of 8.5%–11.0%. Then there is the company’s dividend, which often isn’t offered in the micro-cap space. It’s not the biggest in the world (currently yielding approximately 1.5%), but management does have a solid history of increasing dividends to shareholders and this is an important trait.
In this market, it’s tough for any business to produce genuine business growth. But, similar to other existing winners, institutional investors vote with their wallets and the fact that TTC stock just bounced off another new all-time record-high is telling. This is a solid business with a proven track record and the ability to weather the business cycle, which not a lot of companies can offer. Next year’s earnings-per-share (EPS) growth should, once again, be in the double digits. And this is from a traditional manufacturing enterprise, which is an accomplishment. Selling to golf courses and professional contractor markets is useful. If the manufactured product can hold up under constant use, these groups can form a loyal customer base. Toro Co stock is worth keeping on your radar for major price retrenchments or market corrections. As mentioned, very often in the stock market, some of the best wealth creators are the companies you never hear about, just like TTC stock.
Despite the enormous number of publicly traded companies that are listed, at any given time, there are actually very few really good businesses out there—Toro Co (NYSE:TTC) stock is one of them.
For Toro, which operates out of Bloomington, MN, lawnmowers and sprinkler systems really are that good of a business.
This stock is one my long-time favorites. It’s certainly not the fastest growing micro-cap enterprise in the marketplace, but who cares? This is a proven wealth creator for stockholders.
Plus, it’s still reasonably priced on the stock market and it pays a dividend.
Naturally, you are not typically going to hear about Toro Co stock in the media because the business does not provide much in the way of hype. But that’s okay, because frequently, it’s the market’s esoteric special situation companies that actually turn out to be the best risk-adjusted wealth creators over time.
Toro Co manufacturers its own branded equipment used for turf maintenance, snow and ground working, irrigation, and outdoor lighting. The company mostly sells to the professional contractor and rental markets.
In the first quarter of 2015, the company purchased BOSS professional snow and ice management business. Some of the company’s existing brands of equipment are Toro, Lawn-Boy, Exmark, Pope, and Irritrol.
In terms of economic reality, Toro stock is not fast growing. The company’s 2016 fiscal first-quarter sales, ended January 29, 2016, increased only 2.6% to $486.4 million.
But the company’s bottom-line earnings were $39.0 million, or $0.70 per share. This was a solid improvement over the same quarter in 2015, when earnings came to $31.0 million, or $0.54 per share, representing an improvement of 29.6%.
With its latest earnings announcement, the company increased its previous 2016 fiscal guidance. Total sales are expected to grow about four percent over last year. Earnings per share should come in between $3.85 and $3.95, representing a gain of 8.5%–11.0%.
Then there is the company’s dividend, which often isn’t offered in the micro-cap space. It’s not the biggest in the world (currently yielding approximately 1.5%), but management does have a solid history of increasing dividends to shareholders and this is an important trait.
In this market, it’s tough for any business to produce genuine business growth. But, similar to other existing winners, institutional investors vote with their wallets and the fact that TTC stock just bounced off another new all-time record-high is telling.
This is a solid business with a proven track record and the ability to weather the business cycle, which not a lot of companies can offer.
Next year’s earnings-per-share (EPS) growth should, once again, be in the double digits. And this is from a traditional manufacturing enterprise, which is an accomplishment.
Selling to golf courses and professional contractor markets is useful. If the manufactured product can hold up under constant use, these groups can form a loyal customer base.
Toro Co stock is worth keeping on your radar for major price retrenchments or market corrections. As mentioned, very often in the stock market, some of the best wealth creators are the companies you never hear about, just like TTC stock.
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I remember when I first started my business and I needed to do all the running around associated with a startup – getting all the documents and paperwork I needed.
This is the famous text of Nicodemus who is a leading official of his day. He had what most people wanted. He had what many of us would say we want. However, for all that he had, he knew there was more.
The disciples never went fishing inside the established church. The disciples fished outside in the market place. They went by the Pool at Bethesda and where the tax collectors were. They went where the publicans and prostitutes were. They went to the addicts, wine bidders, and sinners. They never fished up in the choir. They didn't fish up in the pulpit! They didn't fish out in the pews. They went out!
At the disciple level, it's not about taking a course assigned to you. It is your lifestyle. Do you remember when Jesus called Peter, John, and James and said, "Follow me and I'll make you fishers of men?"
What Paul says in Philippians 3:17 is not a slip of the tongue because Paul gives this advice again and again. Look at 1 Corinthians 11:1, which says, "Be imitators of me as I am of Christ."
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Innovation is the main catalyst behind most great corporate success and development. Along with providing for a better organisational culture, innovation improves efficiency, productivity, quality and competitiveness. Nonetheless, companies frequently fail to build and maintain their innovation capacities. Why is this happening? The reason is twofold – a lack of an innovation strategy and failure to execute. To fix this, enterprises must devote due time and effort to strengthening their corporate innovation programs and processes.
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The increasing emphasis on the value of innovation goes side by side with the evolution in corporate innovation models and strategies. These focus on people-powered innovation i.e. the shift in the number of people involved in the innovation process from the domain of the few to the domain of the many.
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Join a 40-year tradition of song and celebration…bring family, friends and neighbors to share in the season, sing to the residents of our neighborhood, and share cookies and hot chocolate. The route is not long, the spirit will be high, and the joy of song will go right into your heart. Bring an instrument if you play.
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This morning I went fishing with John before sunrise. Actually he went fishing & I shot a pinflag on the beach. It was really dark when we got there. We stayed about 2 hours ... it was cold & very windy.
John heads back to his rod after kicking a dead fish out of my photo.
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The unsuspecting fisherman loses his hat.
A flock of pelicans admire John's bluefish.
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