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Recent posts have centered around film, NASA and pipesmoking. Well last night I found a little tidbit that ties them all together. I don’t have cable TV or any streaming services, so if I find myself without a DVD from Netflix, I’ll sometimes walk to my local thrift shop and “rent” a movie, just like in the old days of neighborhood video stores. You see, they cost $3 to buy, which is what they cost to rent back in the day. I’ll watch the movie and then redonate it to the thrfit shop, hence the term “rent” instead of purchase. Since seeing “Star Wars” at age seven I’ve been a fan of most things set in outer space, so I’m sure I’d seen 1997’s “Contact” before. But I didn’t remember it, and the box description was intriguing given my recent personal developments. The movie centers around a scientist and priest debating the origins of God and the universe. At one point, there’s the most astonishing exchange of dialogue. Jodi Foster plays the scientist skeptic lead, and says that all her life she’s been seeking a deeper meaning and connection with the cosmos, an explanation for why we’re here. And yet she requires evidence of an alien civilization from across the galaxy to “prove” to her that there is something greater than herself! I’ve been teasing out my Trad Man project recently, and Foster’s character is symbolic of everything we’ve lost under the mass seduction of science over the past few centuries. Why cross the galaxy when all you need to do is close your eyes and “search your feelings,” to borrow a line from “Star Wars”? In the end she does travel across the galaxy and indeed encounters an alien civilization. But she returns to Earth without the proof she had heretofore demanded in all such matters. And so she discovers that there are things that can be known and experienced, and thus are true from the point of view of the deepest parts of ourselves, but which cannot be proven according to scientific methodology. This is the beginning, for her, of understanding gnossis, or what Carl Jung means when he says, “I don’t need to believe in God, I know“: To return to tying all our recent themes together (hey, Jung was a pipesmoker!), Jodi Foster’s team of astronomers in “Contact” are searching for extraterrestrial signals. One of the members of her geek squad, played by Geoffrey Blake, is a true prep — a far cry from those NASA nerds with their white shirts and pocket protectors. He wears horn-rimmed glasses and smokes a pipe, and in one scene wears a fun shirt, khakis and tassel loafers, no socks. Just imagine what aliens would think of that getup! — CC Related Posts: Good Love Gone Bad: "Love Story" Turns 50 Hollywood Propaganda Memories Of Olden Days Gregg Donnelly And His Two Year Khaki… Le Movie-Star Do-It-Yourself Ivy, 1965 The Last Man On Earth Wears Ivy Style Chinos From The Halcyon Days Previous post Next post 15 Comments on "SETI Style" Mitchell | July 18, 2019 at 4:41 pm | Reply Any engineer’s credibility is the direct opposite of his appearance. Call it “Dilbert’s Law”: I live near Cambridge and I have to tell you that the area around M.I.T. has the absolute worst-dressed men in the country. Harvard Square is not much better and keeps getting worse year after year. Chalk it up to the increasing proportion of students concentrating in the sciences and engineering. Consequently, many clothing stores in the Square have closed, moved to less expensive areas, or are struggling to stay afloat. Harvard Square has never been the same after the loss of J.Press and Stonestreets. Porter Square has Drinkwater’s, however, which is owned by the same person that owned Stonestreets. sacksuit | July 18, 2019 at 5:08 pm | Reply I have quite a few clients who are engineers at NASA in Hampton VA. and they have to be just about the worst dressers on the eastern seaboard. God love them. My engineer brother in law has been known to where white dress shirts with shiny strips and sandals with socks. Love ya bro. Will Boop McSnoot | July 18, 2019 at 5:13 pm | Reply The character attended Cornell. Buster | July 18, 2019 at 6:35 pm | Reply My wardrobe has been almost entirely Ivy for all my 70 years (well, maybe not diapers, but even those were all-cotton and had no interlining). But I do hate fun shirts. john carlos | July 18, 2019 at 9:17 pm | Reply Buster, same for me at almost 70 years young. But I like fun shirts. I think they are a good change of pace. Linkman | July 19, 2019 at 1:23 am | Reply The film was based on the novel of the same name by the late Carl Sagan, a professor at Cornell: I.T. | July 19, 2019 at 5:26 am | Reply Interesting how some commenters here say that “Harvard people are absolutely the worst dressed people in America”. Whether that opinion is objective or not, I don’t know, but I’m glad that almost every time my subway train stops at 116th st. — Columbia University, I notice somewhat well dressed young people enter the train (mostly girls). It really is a drastic contrast to the stations immediately above Columbia. Obviously, none of the young people is dressed in “Ivy-preppy-trad” style, but you can certainly see an attempt to look passably elegant. Give them credit for the effort. Wriggles | July 19, 2019 at 6:30 am | Reply The shank on his pipe seems too short for the black stem. Smoke can get into the eyes, and would not be as cool as in a longer pipe. BUT, the guy is playing a nerdy, brainy guy. He’s not expected to know that. A Bing’s favorite is the right length. Elegant. Caustic Man | July 19, 2019 at 9:58 am | Reply I recently saw a documentary on flat earth people. I’m often skeptical of documentaries for a variety of reasons but I thought the message was a positive one. Which is: yes, flat earthers are wacky but scientists and science enthusiasts help to create resistance to their own ideas by acting haughty and elitist toward those they see as their opponents. Anyway, just a word in favor of anti-elitism in science and a yearning for scientists to recognize the limits of their fields. Tweedy Prof | July 19, 2019 at 10:50 am | Reply I.T., My guess is that those well-dressed young people entering the train at 116th st. — Columbia University are not students. Christian | July 19, 2019 at 11:07 am | Reply Just came across this quote: “Coarse-natured people must simply believe this, but the enlightened must know it.” — Meister Eckhart Vern Trotter | July 19, 2019 at 11:16 am | Reply One of my sons is an engineer and very well dressed Ivy style. At least they no longer wear those God awful slide rules on their belt. Charlottesville | July 19, 2019 at 11:37 am | Reply I.T. and Tweedy Prof – I note something similar down here in the hinterlands regarding young women being more likely to be well-dressed than their male counterparts. Whether on a date or simply walking around town, the college-age and women are much more likely to have made an effort to dress well, and are often in sun dresses or skirts, or at least nicely cut pants and shirts or blouses. Most of the males in their cohort tend to be poorly-groomed slovens in wrinkled, ill-fitting clothing, generally T-shirts or hoodies and either skin-tight pants or, in summer, baggy shorts and sandals. Of course there are some young men in blazers and khakis and some young women in gym shorts and flip flops, but generally the rule seems to hold true. I.T. | July 20, 2019 at 5:34 am | Reply Tweedy Prof — those people entering the train certainly do appear like students. A lot of them look East Asian. That’s actually a whole different topic, that Koreans and Japanese are very elegant people with a sense of style, no matter what style they choose. Charlottesville — I agree 100%. Girls do try! CLB | July 25, 2019 at 9:49 am | Reply Great post and perspective on”Contact”…hadn’t realized it’s message before you pointed it out. Thank you for a very meaningful analysis and the CGJ clip. Both great!

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Happy Thursday, dear readers! I hope you are enjoying beautiful spring weather, taking care, and staying well. We have finally had some sunshine and warm temperatures. That has allowed for long walks and relaxing on the back porch taking in all of God’s beauty. As promised, today, I am sharing […] Continue Reading Blog Christmas Front Porch December 2, 2019 by Shannon Blackford 20 comments Good morning, dear readers! Today, I am joining my sweet and talented blogging friends to bring you our porches decked out for Christmas. This fun event is being hosted by my friend, Amber, at Follow the Yellow Brick Home. You will find links to all of the participants at the […] Continue Reading Blog Vintage Garden Tour July 22, 2018 by Shannon Blackford 50 comments Happy Monday, friends! Today, you are in for a real treat! Amber at Follow the Yellow Brick Home is hosting a vintage garden tour. Several talented bloggers will be sharing their gardens and porches decorated with lots of vintage charm. If you are visiting from Art and Sand, I am […]

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It’s still hot in Japan during the day but I can feel the air is a little different from a few weeks ago. I picked up 2 small packages of incense at Kyoto Station yesterday before coming back to Tokyo.

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Tensions in the Middle East continued to push oil prices up in the international market on Tuesday. Benchmark Brent crude futures were traded at $63.30 a barrel. US WTI futures were traded at the same rate of $56.22. Amidst the speculations on the potential disruption in supply, IEA has vowed to take immediate action so as to keep global oil markets sufficiently supplied.

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Not long ago, a friend called me in a panic: “My daughter just had an abnormal Pap test, do you know what that means? Is it cervical cancer?” he asked, his voice trembling. What I knew was that an abnormal Pap smear could have various explanations so I urged him to wait for more information by their doctor before jumping to conclusions. Eventually, it turned out, his daughter had a precancerous condition due to an HPV (Human Papilloma) virus infection. She was lucky to catch it early and be able to treat it and we all soon learned that HPV infection is the main cause of cervical cancer today. This Cervical Cancer Awareness month, we invited HPV Hope, a local non-profit committed to reducing HPV related stigmas and advocating for education and prevention of HPV and HPV related cancers, to share with us empowering information on the subject as part of our new Local Advocacy – Awareness Partnerships series. HPV Hope put together, just for WASHAA, a comprehensive post that covers local prevention and testing resources for people with or without health insurance, available HPV vaccines and insurance coverage, as well as support groups and open clinical trials for everyone interested in beating the “easiest female cancer to prevent” according to the CDC.

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That old saying was written by T. H. Palmer, someone who had surely failed. Too often, we define ourselves by our failures. We look back at the dreams we had and feel empty and unsuccessful if they didn’t become reality. We are not alone with our failures. Almost every hero in the Bible failed God in some way. What makes the men and women in the Bible heroic is that they humbled themselves, kept trusting God, and kept persevering in the faith, despite their mistakes. Moses was a reluctant hero, telling God he couldn't possibly lead Israel out of slavery. At the time, Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83! But once Moses began the task the Lord set before him, he kept trying despite Pharaoh’s refusal to listen. The lesson of success is not to concentrate on what we failed to do, but to concentrate on the one who is giving the instructions. Even though Moses failed to turn Pharaoh’s heart many times, Moses returned to Pharaoh again and again. Moses trusted God and continued to do what God was leading him to do. It’s never too late to trust the Lord. And it’s never too late to try again. Reflect: Looking back, has there been a time where a failure turned into a success because you tried again? How has this refined your definition of success? Is there something the Lord is asking you to do that you feel you cannot finish with success? What next step do you need to take to trust the Lord and follow His command?

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Absolutely inspiring! A small group of us watched this and cried and rejoiced. The boy was almost decapitated and survived at 6 years old, is paralyzed from the neck down now but his life is amazing. He went to heaven while he was in a coma and describes that experience so beautifully. His family accept the miracle in their lives and of Alex's journey but they don't make it the focus of Alex's life. They have other children and try to lead as normal a life as possible. It is an amazing story of the community's outreach to the family in their time of need, the response of of other Christians in the emergency/police/medical field during this horrific time and the grace of God at work in a family's life making a tragedy become the positive turning point in all their lives. Twelve year old Alex was so impressive, he is so genuine and the face of Jesus just shines through him. An amazing story and must watch. It really gives you a perspective on your own life.

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Make Halloween hot with one of our sexy adult costumes. The Costumer carries many different brands of sexy Halloween costumes including Playboy, Leg Avenue, and Dreamgirl.

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MINOT,N.D. – The City of Minot announced the four finalists for the 2020 Mayor’s Citizen of the Year award. The finalists include all frontline COVID-19 workers for their efforts to help stop the spread of the virus. Liz Larsen the interim director of the Minot YWCA was named for her work on the first Diaper Pantry in western North Dakota. Michael Sian, a local martial arts instructor, was also nominated for his commitment to teaching moves to not only community children but also to wounded veterans. Also, retiree Vickie Phippins was nominated for her giving heart and volunteer work with the Lord’s Cupboard food pantry. Community members nominated the finalists with video submissions detailing why they deserve the honor. “I think it’s time that we make sure that we tell all of our stories and it’s amazing how that can become infectious that goodwill can spread to others and help other people,” said Minot Mayor Shaun Sipma.

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The Imams Council of ACT has met after Maghrib today at the Canberra Masjid and have declared that fasting for Ramadan 1443 AH will start on Saturday, 2 April 2022, Inshallah. Therefore, Taraweeh prayers will start TONIGHT, straight after ‘Isha’. Note: since daylight savings time will finish this Sunday, Inshallah, Isha salat will be held at 8:45pm and will change to 7:45pm from Sunday onwards.

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I haven’t been in the mood to read. I’m more interested in sitting around doing nothing. I’m using the gift of extra time at home to soften my focus. I managed to read three books in March. I was in the middle of an excellent book when the COVID 19 crisis hit the States, and I haven’t picked it up in weeks. I don’t have the focus for books. The Two-Date Rule by Tawna Fenske. This is a cute romance. I would like this to be a series, as I want to learn more about the characters. I’ve found that when I read a book AJ recommends I’m not disappointed in it. I give this book two out of five stars. The Bad Mothers’ Book Club by Keris Stainton. This book, about a group of moms who aren’t part of the cool mom group at school drop off, is predictable and fun. You don’t have to think much about this book, which was perfect for March. I give this book two out of five stars. The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock by Jane Riley. Oliver is a late 30s funeral home director who is stuck in life. He loses love. He doesn’t stand up to his mother. He learns to find his way. I really enjoyed this book. I give this book three out of five stars. In April I’m going to try to read a little every day. Have you been reading? Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Related Post navigation ← FO Friday Craft Tote Week 1 → 15 thoughts on “March Reads” nothingbutknit2 says: I have spent the vast majority of my new found time playing games on my phone or the iPad. Not knitting, reading or cleaning my house. LikeLiked by 2 people April 4, 2020 at 6:01 pm Reply mildlygranola says: Productivity is overrated. LikeLiked by 1 person April 6, 2020 at 1:11 am Reply Alissa Head says: I’m reading Le Temps Viendra: A Novel of Anne Boleyn. A 21st century woman is visiting Hever Castle, Anne Boleyn’s childhood home, and becomes ill and faints. When she wakes up, she is Anne Boleyn in 1527! It’s better than I expected, and it was free with Kindle Unlimited. It’s easy to read. I just finished 1536 by Susanna Lipscomb. It’s all Tudor all the time over here. But since I know everything about that period already it’s easy to read and it’s a break from reality for me. LikeLiked by 2 people April 4, 2020 at 7:57 pm Reply kathyreeves says: Just finished Bellewether by Susanna Kearsley, excellent book! LikeLiked by 1 person April 4, 2020 at 11:13 pm Reply Laura Kate says: Not since mid March. I finished reading Blow Out, by Rachel Maddow. It’s a history of the oil and gas industry with all of its flaws. Well researched, and an entertaining read. But, of course, you have to be a Maddow fan to really appreciate it. LikeLiked by 1 person April 5, 2020 at 12:45 am Reply mildlygranola says: I adore Rachel Maddow. LikeLike April 6, 2020 at 1:11 am Reply quiteayarnblog says: I’ve mostly been reading cozy mysteries, nothing serious at all. I did also recently start going through my cookbooks and knitting books one more time to see if there are any I can take to the used book store and/or Goodwill. As it turns out, there are! So getting some very, very minor tidying done. LikeLiked by 2 people April 5, 2020 at 12:48 am Reply highlandheffalump says: I did finish a book this week…but honestly unless I check my Goodreads account I honestly can’t remember what it was called or what it was about! …..nope…..mind is blank. I have Dear Edward from the library, that I can keep for however many months our libraries will be shut, but the print is so tiny I keep not picking it up. I read the free sample of a friend’s new book called The Sword and the Shield by Emma Khoury, fantasy books or films aren’t my thing but I was surprised how much I like the sample parts, so have considered buying it. In the end I scrolled through my Kindle read folder and have started re:reading one of Ellen DeGeneres books. The first time I read it, I was at a London airport and we were travelling somewhere exotic. Allistar was dithering on whether to buy an iPad or not…gee whiz this must have been a long time ago! Anyway, I kept bursting out laughing and in the airport and the plane and a few people asked me what I was reading. The 3 I’ve read are ‘My Point and I do have one’, ‘Seriously, I’m Kidding’ and ‘The Funny thing is’. I love Ellen and love the very natural way she rights, like you are listening to her speak. So for something to take your mind off life, they are great…the first one is the funniest imo. Ok, I gave in an looked on Goodreads, it was The Summer Children by Dot Hutchison that I just finished, the 3rd in the series…about a woman killing child abusing parents, so definitely not great reading for the current climate. LikeLiked by 1 person April 5, 2020 at 7:19 am Reply highlandheffalump says: *writes doh! LikeLike April 5, 2020 at 7:21 am Reply mildlygranola says: I love Ellen’s books. I should reread one, they would be perfect for this time. LikeLiked by 1 person April 6, 2020 at 1:11 am Reply Olivia says: Re-reading my favorite book Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher. I wore out my old copy to I found another new one on Amazon. Whew. I read it slowly at night before bed, doling out episodes (it’s not broken into chapters) each night. Calms me & reminds me that they lived through the war. Maybe we can too. LikeLiked by 1 person April 6, 2020 at 11:45 am Reply ReginaMary says: I am reading two books. One is about the Civil War and the other is about Pearl Harbor. I am taking them in very small doses!! LikeLiked by 1 person April 6, 2020 at 7:29 pm Reply AJ says: thank you! Unfortunately I read a lot of other books I don’t recommend🤣 I haven’t been reading as much as usual, but I’ve been on an accomplishing trend! LikeLiked by 1 person April 11, 2020 at 12:00 am Reply mildlygranola says: I haven’t been able to focus enough to read. I’m giving myself a break and know I’ll be reading more post pandemic.

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Pat chicken dry with paper towels and cut into steaks. To do this, place your hand flat on top of chicken breast and use a knife to slice through horizontally to make two thin steaks. Season with salt and pepper. Heat a drizzle of oil in a small fry-pan on high heat. Cook chicken for about 30 seconds each side, until starting to brown, then place onto one side of the prepared tray (the chicken does not need to be cooked through yet). Very finely chop walnuts. Brush chicken lightly with mustard and evenly coat with walnuts, pressing down firmly with fingers to make them stick. Tear fold overs into 3cm pieces and place on tray next to the chicken. Drizzle with a little olive oil and bake for 5-7 minutes, until chicken is cooked through and bread is crispy. Remove tray from oven and set chicken aside to rest for 2-3 minutes. While chicken and fold overs bake, dice tomato and cucumber 1cm and crumble feta. Place all in a large bowl, along with baby spinach and lemon juice. While chicken is resting, add croutons and a drizzle of olive oil to bowl with salad and toss to combine. Season to taste with salt and pepper. TO SERVE divide walnut crusted chicken and baby spinach salad between plates and dollop with a little hummus.

https://www.loaf.co.nz/recipes/view/walnut-crusted-chicken-with-kale-salad-and-hummus-my-food-bag

Prepare yourself for the cutest collection of baby rompers and dungarees from Joules. Beautifully designed with comfortable materials and those thoughtful details you have come to expect, these baby rompers are sure to make your little one looks the part. Choose from a range of gorgeous designs, including trendy baby denim dungarees and baby short dungarees that are the epitome of style! If a new arrival is on the way, make sure you stock up on the basics with our baby essentials collection.

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This is a contraction of the names of the two breweries who thought of this beer: Sweetwater Brewing Company and Kaapse Brouwers. We got in touch with Sweewater via ours and their distributor ‘Van Bieren’ en thought is would be cool to think of a recipe together. It’s a Belgian IPA made in the New England IPA way which creates a lot of fruit flavours and hazynes.

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I think it must be how everything feels in this season: an aching desire to grow, to be green, to peel off all the old layers and dive naked into the water; to be a free, wild thing. I spent the rest of the day working on my taxes. And that feels like a forced branch, too: it’s still winter– or, at least, it’s not spring yet, not for a while. You can’t fake the math, you can only take a look at what’s in front of you, check each box and try not to glance up every three seconds to see if the beautiful future is Now yet. When I turned around, the ground was sodden with melt under my foot (it made me shriek with surprise). I left one wet footprint on every other step all the way back into the house.

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The 2022 Calgary Stampede Royalty consists of the First Nations Princess and Stampede Princess. Each year the reigning Royals attend hundreds of community and Stampede events as ambassadors of the Calgary Stampede, sharing and celebrating Stampede’s western heritage, cultures and community spirit locally and around the world. In these roles, the Royalty not only serve their community, but also benefit from professional and personal development as members of these programs. They receive support from their dedicated committees to help uphold their responsibilities and achieve their personal goals during their terms; receive expert coaching and mentorship in a variety of fields, like public speaking and horsemanship; and find belonging in a community committed to making a difference and having fun while doing it. Want Stampede Royalty at your next event? See below and book online! Book the Stampede Royalty First Nations Princess Sikapinakii Low Horn Sikapinakii Low Horn is a 26-year-old Traditional dancer from the Siksika Nation. Her goal is to be a role model and utilize her platform by telling stories of her people, her family, the land, and the history of Treaty 7. Sikapinakii is currently attending the University of Calgary as a Fine Arts graduate student. Stampede Princess Jenna Peters Jenna Peters works in the energy industry and in her spare time enjoys competing in Cowboy Challenge events, trail riding, volleyball, hiking and fishing. As a former Stampede Showrider, Peters feels that her involvement in the Calgary Stampede as a youth helped shape her into who she is today. She is excited to inspire others through her role as the 2022 Stampede Princess and feels this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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Artificial intelligence can be fun, hands-on, and connected to real life, even for kids. In this training for educators of upper elementary or middle school students, Technovation will showcase their Curiosity Machine artificial intelligence lessons. With these free lessons, help your students learn, play and create solutions to real-world problems with Al. Learn what Al is, how it works, and how your students can use it to solve a problem they care about through our 10-lesson challenge. This is a great program for educators with and without STEM backgrounds!

https://www.afterschoolnetwork.org/post/introducing-artificial-intelligence-using-curiosity-machine

Today’s Passage: Hosea 3 Hosea’s life isn’t, perhaps, typical of what you’d expect from a holy man. When he got married, he married not one of the nice girls in town, but one of the prostitutes. And although she stayed around for a bit, it wasn’t too long before she had walked out on him. She ended up with another man – perhaps a slave, or perhaps with debts to him that she couldn’t ever pay off. She was trapped.… Lovers vs the Lover 14 Oct 2018 Nicholas van Oudtshoorn Today’s passage: Hosea 2 In our Sunday morning service this weekend, we’re continuing our journey through the book of Hosea. Hosea is an interesting prophet; called by God to be a living demonstration to his people – and to us today – of the heart of God. As we saw last week in Hosea 1, God told the prophet to marry an adulterous woman, and to start a family with her. And Hosea did. He married Gomer – a woman… God’s Amazing Love 7 Oct 2018 Nicholas van Oudtshoorn Today’s passage: Hosea 1 This weekend, our morning service starts a new 4 week series looking at the book of Hosea. Hosea’s the first of the so-called Minor Prophets – the shorter prophetic books. He is, as one of the minor prophets, much less well known than prophets like Ezekiel, Jeremiah or Isaiah. Which is a great pity… because the message of Hosea is incredibly beautiful. Hosea did more than speak God’s words. In a way, Hosea’s life came to…

https://www.goldenbaybaptist.church/sermon-book/hosea/

The trainee undertaking this role will gain skills as a driller/assistant driller. Skills may include: mobilising equipment and materials set... Code: RII20915 Status: Phasing Out RTOs: 0 Qld implementation date: 13/06/2016 Drilling Operations Level II Traineeship This qualification reflects the role of individuals such as assistant drillers who undertake a prescribed range of functions involving known routines ...

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The level of VUCA; volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity in our business environments is at a record high. People also expect more from work than just a paycheck. How can we enable performance in these new business and people realities? How can we create more VUCA-robust management models, which also works with and not against human nature? How can we create a more engaging work environment, where people perform at their best because they want to, not because they are told to, and where learning faster than others is key? This speech will inspire you to try new ways of working, where people and interactions are more valued than processes and tools, and where responding to change is more important than following a plan. Learn from the fringes! Understand how management innovation can provide just as much competitive advantage as technology– and product innovation!

https://www.agilebusinessday.com/2019/09/26/enabling-business-agility-through-finance-and-hr-abd19-pia-maria-thoren/

The wonderful Archive of Book Cover Designs and Designers has a simple—yet important—raison d’être: “for the purpose of appreciation and categorization”. Already quite extensive, the archive is constantly growing through reader suggestions and is searchable by designer, photographer, author, and many more besides. The site’s footer also provides a wonderful directory of equally great sites and a list of ‘future enhancements’; one of which is typeface identification. I’m looking forward to that one.

https://www.lonegunman.co.uk/2009/02/05/archive-of-book-cover-designs-and-designers/

Need a helping hand with moving your house, apartment or business? Then, you're probably seeking a relocation company that has reasonable rates and won't damage your property or prized belongings. Right? If you answers 'YES' we have terrific news for you. First off, you're right where you want to be. Second, we offer free and accurate estimates and detailed consultations so that you are informed and can make the best decision for you, your family, or your business. Our professional movers in Lakewood are reliable, trustworthy, and dedicated to assisting our residential and commercial clients in suburban west Denver, Our team delivers exceptional local and long-distance moving service at an affordable price. We're a locally owned company that is experienced, personal and somewhat small, but we have the manpower and know-how to provide satisfying results for both jobs big and small. We are insured and fully licensed for relocation throughout the state of Colorado and the United States. We've been around in Lakewood for more than 10 years, and a handful of employees have been with us for most of that time. Every member of our crew has passed all required background checks and have been trained intensely in modern moving practices. Now is the time to get started on your move. Simply call us for a free quote, consultation, and top-notch customer service ABOUT US Quality Professionalism We take great pride in serving our customer with the utmost care. We make sure to arrive on time to your job, work efficiently to save you money, and protect your important possession like they're our own. Our job is not finished until your are completely satisfied with the work we have done. We promise you'll love our friendly movers! Honest Estimates It's unfortunate, but quite a few moving companies in our area have earned a reputation for quoting one price and then blindsiding customers with outlandish fees when the job is complete. We will never do that. 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For longer moves, we offer an all-inclusive estimate with no hidden fees How do you protect furniture? When loading the truck with furniture, our professionals wrap pieces with moving blankets to protect them from dings and scratches. Our moving trucks are equipped to handle all moves. They are outfitted with specialized floor protection as well. How far in advance do I need to schedule? Our team is flexible. We work with you to do your move at your convenience. We realize that you don’t always have two or three weeks notice when you need to be relocated. That being said, near the end of months and on weekends, a week’s notice helps ensure you get the day and time that you desire. Are you available on Sundays? Our crew normally works Monday through Saturday. With advance notice, however, we will schedule your job on the day that is most convenient to you, including Sundays. Do you offer long-distance moving service? Yes. We do intrastate moves and interstate moves. We have vast experience executing moves throughout Lakewood, metro Denver, and throughout Colorado and the USA. Are you the cheapest movers in Lakewood? Our rates are fair and competitive, though may not be the lowest cost moving company around. We do take pride, however, in delivering true value, professionalism and efficiency that you might not get with another mover. Do you have a minimum? Yes. Our minimum changes based on the time of year and moving location. We generally have a two-hour minimum charged at an hourly rate. Do you your movers fool around on the clock? No. Many members of our crew have at least two years experience. They know they are on the clock when moving your possessions. They respect your time, stay on task, and work quickly to get the job done right and on schedule. What types of payment do you accept? We accept many different types of payment, including major credit cards, cash, and also Venmo, CashApp and Zelle payments.

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Marliss & Kai are full of snark, puns, and a potent mixture of hope and cynicism. We get excited about cute animals and equality. We design, create, package, and ship from our home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Previous slide Next slide Featured product Rainbow Metal Pronoun Pin Regular price $10.00 Sale price $10.00 Sale Shipping calculated at checkout. She/They She/Her They/Them He/Him She/They He/They She/Her They/Them He/Him She/They He/They Add to cart This extremely shiny anodized metal pin with white enamel inlay is such a gorgeous way to display your pronouns. We have she/her, he/him, and they/them available. Color changing rainbow metal is a great eye-catching background for your pronouns. Not sure how or when to announce your pronouns? Maybe with a pin this shiny they will notice before you need to! At 1.25" this pin is a nice size for a lapel, hat, jacket, vest, bag, or anything else you can pin it to. Share Share on Facebook Tweet Tweet on Twitter Pin it Pin on Pinterest Quality stickers, oh hell yes Our vinyl stickers are professionally printed and have UV protection. That means you can stick them to almost anything that stands still long enough.

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I decided to get hip yesterday, so I built ArdourVST from the 2.0-ongoing tree. Wow, some very cool stuff happening there. I love the new metering color (and the mini-meters for the tracks), but I confess that it’ll take me a while to get over missing my treasured Edit cursor. I’m trying to use the new system, but so far it’s not working like what I’m used to. I usually employed the Edit cursor for focus purposes, but it seems that the Marker focus isn’t working. [This has been confirmed]. The VST support is pretty stable so far. At first Ardour crashed on opening, so I filtered out my VST directory to include only VST effects plugins. Some still don’t work well: The SIR convolution plugin causes major xruns, a few others just didn’t start their GUI, but at least in those cases Ardour didn’t crash. Nice. I’ll keep testing various plugins.

https://discourse.ardour.org/t/some-success-with-ardourvst/80502

Not everyone achieves acclaim and, as a result, finds themselves in the spotlight as a result of their professional career. A few individuals have seized the limelight as a result of their connections with celebrities. Melissa Ann Piavis is one of the celebrities who came to notoriety after marrying WWE hero The Enormous Show. When was Melissa Ann Piavis Birthed? Her father, James Piavis, conceived her, but her mother’s name remains unknown. Melissa Ann Piavis was born in Greece on May 30, 1966, under the sign of Gemini. Melissa is of Greek descent and of the Caucasian race. Her school of choice was Sprayberry Secondary School in Georgia. In 1982, he was a group supervisor for her high school wrestling team. Her grandparents were Dr. William Piavis and Winnie Piavis. Who is Melissa Ann Piavis Married to? Melissa Ann Piavis was formerly married to Paul Donald Wight II, better known as Large Show. He first met Melissa in 1995, when he signed his first contract with WCW. The couple decided to marry after a long period of dating. On February 14, 1997, Melissa married her better half Huge Show in a lavish wedding ceremony. He had previously engaged with the grappler before Melissa Ann entered his life. Surprisingly, he made his professional wrestling debut around the time of their second wedding anniversary. At that point, he also lost the match. Disagreements in their marriage arose from that point forward, and they were unable to deal with the disagreements in their marriage. Melissa and Large Show ended their relationship on February 6, 2002, when he unexpectedly reclaimed his title. Cierra Wight, a little girl born in 1998, was given to the couple as a guardian. According to reports, her ex-husband, Large Show, will care for their 14-year-old daughter Cierra. His daughter, Cierra, lives with her father and stepmother, Bess Katramados. Melissa Ann Piavis’s Post-Divorce Life Melissa Ann Piavis eventually vanished and began living a lavish lifestyle on their profits. As a result, tracing VIP ex Melissa’s current location is difficult. Following her divorce from Piavis, her ex-husband Large Show met Bess Katramados, who was born in Illinois. At the time, the couple was dating and later married Bess in 2002. As a result of their marriage, they became guardians of two delightful little girls who have yet to reveal their personalities. The couple is currently living a happy married life with no rumors of divorce. The Net Worth of Ex-Melissa Ann Piavis As previously stated, Melissa Ann Piavis rose to prominence following her marriage to Huge Show. She has undoubtedly been working and earning money in a calling. Melissa has had a pleasant life on her salary. Melissa Ann Piavis has a net worth of $1 million, according to reports. Similarly, she may be entitled to a sizable sum of money as a result of her divorce settlement with WWE superstar Enormous Show. Her ex-husband, on the other hand, amassed a total fortune of $20 million from his professional career. His wrestling career earns him a substantial sum of money. WWE pays him approximately $1 million per year. Who is Melissa Ann Piavis’s Boyfriend? The real name of Melissa Ann Piavis’ ex is Paul Donald Wight II, but he is better known by his stage name Large Show. He is a professional wrestler and entertainer from the United States who was born on February 8, 1972. In 1994, he began his professional wrestling career. In any case, he signed as The Goliath with Big Showdown Wrestling (WCW) in 1995, initially billed as “the child of André the Monster.” In the middle of 1999, he left the World Wrestling Federation and signed a multi-year contract with the World Wrestling League (WWF). Between his WWF/WWE and WCW careers, Large Show held the WCW World Heavyweight Title twice, the WWF/WWE Title twice, and the WWE Reality Heavyweight Title twice. Aside from wrestling, he has appeared in several feature films and television shows, including Jingle All the Way. As far as I can tell, The Waterboy, Star Trek: Venture, and two USA Organization parody dramas Serious Torments, Psych, and Consume Notice are the best. Huge Show made his directorial debut in WWE Studios’ 2010 satire film Knucklehead.

https://gossipbiography.com/melissa-ann-piavis/

Casa San Matías is committed with honoring the tradition and legacy that were transmitted to us by our predecessors. We’re proud of being one of the oldest family tequila distilleries in Mexico. Everyone working at Casa San Matías put our hearts and dedication to every bottle. Our mission is to always offer tequilas of the best quality in Mexico. At Casa San Matías we are one big family. Everyone involved in the process of tequila crafting is more than just a tequila maker; every person is a unique individual with years of accumulated experiences and backgrounds. So when you sit down to taste one of our products, you don’t taste Factory-made but rather a family-made tequila with an extraordinary experience. While succesfully overcoming many challenges along the way, we have mantained a leading position in the tequila industry more than 130 years. Just like the world around us, we continue to evolve while preserving the authenticity of the original tequila that has been present in our home since 1886. 120 years of history culminating in perfection. Tequila Orgullo Pueblo Viejo was relased to commemorate our 120 years of history and evolution. During the year the 1st international Space Station was sent into orbit, we intruduced tequila Rey Sol. May this year be remembered for men taking a step closer to the sun. As the world evolved from the traditional to the digital era, al Casa San Matías we progressed as well by developing the first extra-aged tequila in the Mexican market: San Matías Gran Reserva. History is established It’s not easy to add new chapters to an already busy history book, yet that’s exactly what we did. In a decade of progress and historical events, our company didn't want to stay behind; we introduced Pueblo Viejo, marking a new age in our tequila crafting. In an era when commercial jet airplanes began to allow for travel, we decided to do a little traveling of our own; relocating our distillery to Ojo de Agua in Los Altos de Jalisco. Our history begins During a revolutionary era in Mexico many great social and technological advancements were taking place, and Don Delfino Gonzalez saw this as the perfect opportunity to develop his passion of making tequila. Because of this, Don Delfino brought great progress to the tequila industry without losing the authenticity and value of the real tequila.

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I blogged about cooking it here in 2011 using a chunk of pork bone for the stock and in 2013, I used chicken. Well, there was a little left of one pack of those bean curd sticks (tauhu kee) after my missus used most of it to cook I-can’t-remember-what-now and blame it on my OCD – I simply cannot stand seeing something sitting there idle, day in and day out, so I took it and soaked it till soft in hot water… …before draining it, ready for use. To this day, my girl still would not eat it as she thinks it tastes like plastic but she loves the soup so this time around, I used some different ingredients and even though she would not eat the sticks, there would something else she could enjoy. I defrosted some minced meat from the freezer, added a sprinkling of salt and chopped spring onions and mixed them well. There were two slices of pre-fried tofu in the fridge – I can’t remember what my missus bought them for, whatever she was cooking so I took those and cut them into quarters and stuffed them with a bit of the minced meat. My girl would love eating those! I used the rest to make meat balls, something that she would enjoy too and I peeled three cloves of garlic and got ready a bit of tang chai (preserved vegetable)… I did not add too much of the latter as we aren’t exactly all that fond of it so we would not like the taste to be so strong that it would overpower that of all the other ingredients. I filled a pot with water, threw in the garlic and the tang chai and brought it to boil. When it started boiling vigorously, I threw in the meat balls and I let it simmer so as to get the taste of the meat out into the soup since I was not using any bone stock or anything like that. Then I threw in the stuffed tofu and once the meat was cooked, I added the bean curd sticks. I guess most people would add salt and msg according to taste but I used a bit of fish sauce instead. Come lunch time that day, I dished some of it out onto a bowl, sprinkled a bit of chopped spring onion from my garden and served… Yes, it was very nice and yes, my girl enjoyed it but no, she did not touch the bean curd sticks! Author suituapuiPosted on March 28, 2020 March 27, 2020 Categories Food, Home-cooked7 Comments on Sticks…

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A beautifully crafted mosaic starfish, made with glass of differing colours. Ideal for a bathroom, as long as it is not hung over a heat source or exposed to dampness for prolonged periods.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the first ever Transform Dental Sleep Medicine Symposium! We received an overwhelmingly positive response and we commend your commitment to continuing education. Please find resources from the event below. Special Discounts Available! We appreciate our Sponsor’s support of this initiative! A number of our Sponsors have offered special discounts to TDS Virtual Symposium attendees. Click below to download their slides & offerings!

https://transformdentalsleep.com/transform-dental-sleep-virtual-symposium/

Posterior heel pain can be caused by many things. It can occur behind the heel where the Achilles Tendon attaches to the heel bone. Haglund’s deformity is a relatively common condition affecting young and old men and women. It is often a hereditary problem that can be aggravated by shoes. A bony enlargement on the back of the heel causes the severe pain characteristic of the deformity. In addition, shoe irritation can lead to the formation of a bursitis, in which case the area becomes quite red and inflamed. Bursae’s are fluid filled sacks that absorb pressure. Often times, excessive pronation or excessive movement while walking causes the heel to rub against the back of the shoe. This prolonged irritation causes the formation of an enlarged bump and overlying skin irritation. Sometimes, the bump can be caused by a bone spur growing within the Achilles Tendon. This is more problematic than Haglund’s Deformity because it can damage the Achilles Tendon as well as cause pain and trouble with shoe gear. Young children with posterior heel pain can have a problem with irritation of a growth plate in the back of the heel. Conservative care includes the wearing of a soft cushion on the back of the heel, heel lifts, orthotics or shoe gear changes. At our Institute, we recommend felt heel lifts to lift the back of the heel up in the shoe to decrease the pressure the shoe puts on the foot and the pull of the Achilles Tendon. A custom orthotic device can be used in most instances to help with the pain. A special device called a night splint can hold the foot in the correct position while you sleep to decrease pain in the back of the heel. Sometimes a air filled sock called an Air Heel can be used to help as well. A local injection of cortisone will help relieve a painful heel when placed away from the Achilles Tendon. Surgery is usually performed only if all of the conservative treatment doesn’t work. Usually people get better without surgery. If you have surgery, most of the time you can walk the same day and, be awake or asleep for the procedure. Depending on what is done, sometimes you will need to be off your foot for 4-6 weeks. This time off is necessary in situations when part of the Achilles Tendon needs to be detached from the heel bone to perform the surgery. It has to be reattached and this process takes time to heal. If your tendon needs to be reattached then this will require walking in a walking boot and crutches for 4-6 weeks. If the tendon doesn’t have to be removed then immediate walking in a cam walker is allowed. Your condition as always will be treated accurately and depending on the situation, your time off will vary. You are encouraged to ask questions and find out all the details of your specific complaint or problem.

https://www.rfainstitute.com/contents/posterior-heel-pain

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As part of our work to improve community health outcomes, we are conducting a community health needs assessment survey. A Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) creates an important opportunity to improve the health of our most vulnerable communities in Dane County. We truly value your work and feedback. We would like to invite you to participate in our survey. The survey is anonymous and confidential. The survey is available here:

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What is your gut telling you about moving forward with a particular plan of action? A strong Jupiter-Moon connection puts you in touch with some deep feelings and thoughts and you would be wise to heed them. Maybe you’re worried about being hurt or misled again, a possibility with Chiron, the wounded one, in a prominent position. But the current planetary vibes indicate that you can do well in the near future, so be open.

https://mystarshoroscopes.com/pisces-daily-horoscope-for-october-28-2016/

MISBHV is a Kraków based streetwear brand founded by Natalia Maczek and Thomas Wirski. The label has expanded its name in the last few years, gaining a significant name in the modern fashion industry, specially in the ready-to-wear sector. MISBHV has been chosen by international music and fashion stars like A$AP Rocky, 2 Chainz, Rihanna, Kylie Jenner and Chris Brown. The new collection includes a range of eye-catching graphics and designs, all featured on printed t-shirts, oversized sweatshirts and distressed sweaters, huge coats and expertly crafted biker jackets, all inspired by streetwear sub-cultures. Shop online now the MISBHV clothing at

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Lobagola Bed and Breakfast and Lobagola tours are situated in Zagreb and are an excellent base in Croatia for all motorcycle travellers with amazing riding/touring opportunities for around Europe!! ​Lobagola offer the following for the motorcyclist and much more: ​ Green Card Insurance. Motorcycle storage. Spare parts & tyres Accommodation. ​Fantastic location - the Alps and Adriatic Coast are only a 2 hour ride away. If you are going east towards Asia, they are perfectly located. If you are riding to Africa, getting to Italy and taking one of Grimaldi or a similar big ferry to reach Ceuta Morrocco or Tunis Tunisia is easy and straight forward.​​ Vast knowledge of the area from North Africa to Iran with a motorcycle network of hospitality businesses and tour operators from Africa to China. TET (Trans Euro Trail). A project built by the community for the community enabling 34,000 km of off road tracks through Europe with gpx files and more.

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We were excited to announce in January that Australia had been confirmed as the hosts of the 2021 Organization Development Conference. You may recall being invited to complete a survey earlier this year, in preparation for the international OD Conference planned to be held in Australia in 2021. More than 30 members of the OD community around the region completed the survey. The suggestions received for themes, topics and content were both diverse and exciting. 2020 has created the need to defer international events, and as a consequence, Australia will now host the International OD community in 2022 – a year later than originally planned. Organising committee member, Greg Collier, said “the events of 2020 will call on the international OD community to think about the role we all play in shaping the future of work. Organisations and leaders require new thinking and approaches as the planet responds to a still-emerging challenge. Hosting the international OD community here in Australia in 2022 will be even more important from a timing perspective than we’d imagined. The approaches we imagine and co-create over the next few years will influence the way organisations develop for generations to come. Hosting the International OD community in Australia in 2022 is very important from a timing perspective.” Greg added, “Planning for 2022 is underway and we would love for more people to get involved. The evolving organizing committee will be meeting monthly via Zoom for the rest of this year. Next steps include locking in a date, confirming a location/venue, and reviewing the suggestions received for content and themes. Given these uncertain times, we will keep the survey open so that people can continue to contribute their ideas and volunteer. We plan to host a regional OD event in some form during 2020, where we will gather more ideas on emerging OD challenges and ideas.”

https://www.odaustralia.org/australia-to-host-the-od-world-conference-in-2022/

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(WACO, Texas) – Isolation is a good thing in Texas State Technical College’s Occupational Safety and Environmental Compliance program. Students taking the Physical Hazards Control class recently worked on a safety lockout and tag-out exercise that taught how to control and isolate hazardous energy. Students worked with ball valves, breaker panels, gate valves and switches. This kind of work is done in the construction, manufacturing, process operations, and oil and gas industries. “I enjoyed how we would work together and figure out our mistakes and do it right,” said Bianca Perez, of Los Angeles, California, a TSTC Occupational Safety and Environmental Compliance student. Perez became interested in her field of study because she has family members working in construction who talk to her about safety issues. After graduation, Perez wants to work in the construction field and build on her fascination with cranes. “I think it’s right to care about your safety,” she said. Brant Buzbee, an instructor in TSTC’s Occupational Safety and Environmental Compliance program in Waco, said this hands-on training is important for students to know once they graduate and go to work. “They are going to know how to do this and train them (other employees) to do this and verify it is being done correctly,” he said. The students also learn how to develop compliance and inspection programs that are equipment-specific and used in all industries. Fernando Luna, of Rockdale, an Occupational Safety and Environmental Compliance student, said hands-on work means more efficiency in learning. “Practice makes perfect,” he said. “The more you do it, the more you understand.” Luna said the program has made him think more about breakers and knobs. “It’s very interesting to find safety mechanisms that apply to daily life,” he said. Buzbee said the class focuses on how to reduce physical hazards in the workplace and includes training in confined spaces, driving, loss control and personal protective equipment. TSTC offers an Associate of Applied Science degree in Occupational Safety and Environmental Compliance at the Breckenridge, Fort Bend County and Waco campuses.

https://www.tstc.edu/news/tstc-students-gain-workplace-safety-experience/

This is a screen shot of a little application we put together using Iguana. You can try it out on your own machine right now. The example application consists of three channels: The first channel generates a dummy ADT feed. The second channel processes this feed and populates a little embedded SQLite database with the bed status information. The third channel presents this information nicely in a little web dashboard which is what you can see. It’s a simple application. The real beauty of this is that you can easily install it, put your own real ADT data into it and then customize what you see in the dashboard so you can make your own custom dashboards for a a different purpose. Loading it is easy – just follow the instructions to get the Channel Manager application installed and run it to show all the example applications we have in the Iguana App repo. At this point you can go ahead and import the three Bed Monitor channels and run them. Wait a minute or two and go have a look at the web dash board channel and you should see a live ‘dashboard’ of bed statuses in an imaginary ER department.

https://help.interfaceware.com/kb/a-live-dashboard-showing-er-bed-status

emBIO was established in 1997; it is the outcome of an effort by highly skilled people, experts in the field, who attempted and succeeded in creating the most modern IVF unit nationwide. emBIO has cutting-edge equipment, modern operating rooms, a high-standard microfertilisation laboratory, and highly-trained staff. Moreover, empathy is valued by us. Those who trust us find the warmth and compassion they need so that in combination with the best scientific expertise and individual monitoring, and personal effort, the best possible outcome is achieved both from infertility and human standpoints.

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Fraud by prospective tenants trying to secure residential units is on the rise in SA and reflects global trends. Approximately 60% of rental applications submitted through Johannesburg property developer and rental management company, Renprop have included false information in the few months. The group reports that fraud is becoming more sophisticated, often making it difficult for an average property owner to pick up the tell-tale signs. This is also happening elsewhere around the world. CNBC, quoting the credit reporting agency TransUnion, reports the global rental industry is now at higher risk as digitisation has increased the prevalence of fraud. It reports that since the pandemic began, the frequency of actual fraud incidents has jumped by nearly 50%, according to TransUnion(1). Renprop MD, Chris Renecle says property owners looking for tenants need to be aware of this dire trend. There are however checks and balances designed to detect fraudulent activity. To illustrate how prevalent the problem is, the group currently manages more than 2,000 sectional title rental units, and says half of the rental applications are accompanied by some form of fraudulent documentation. READ MORE: Residential property market influenced by top schools Vigorous screening systems Renecle says fraud can be “disguised in many ways” and can involve inflating salaries, supplying fake payslips, and tampering with bank statements to imply the prospective tenant earns more money than they do. When it comes to ticking the employer’s box, applicants list companies that do not exist, along with contact numbers for a fictitious HR department. “The plague of fraudulent transactions is a sign of the times. Understandably, everyone needs a roof over their heads and a place to call home. Unfortunately with economic pressures comes desperation,” says Renecle. Five helpful tips for home owners seeking tenants Check each and every piece of documentation for authenticity. Even if this means a delay, make those phone calls to the potential applicant’s employer, references, and confirm all other personal information. Never overlook the credit check. Yes, times are tough but a credit check from a reputable provider can give you all the information you need to make an informed decision. An applicant’s bad credit rating should never be ignored. Another common ploy is an offer of several months’ rent up front, this is generally from an applicant who knows they will not be your first choice of tenant. They may go to great lengths to become more appealing to you. While many homeowners may find a lump sum attractive, this is definitely a warning sign. When in doubt – don’t! With SA’s property legislation it makes it difficult to evict tenants so don’t ignore warning signs otherwise it will be a struggle to get rid of an unwelcome tenant who stops paying the rent. Finally, consider the services of companies with top property management expertise as they are well positioned to identify fraud and find you the right tenant. “Owners are under the increasing pressure of trying to attract and retain tenants in the residential rental market. While many owners will only see the pitfalls of not having a tenant occupy their property – this is a better option than overlooking an applicant with warning bells. Our advice to property owners is to weed out the perpetrators even if this means the property remains vacant slightly longer than usual,” says Renecle. “On a positive note,” adds Renecle, “securing the right tenant can be a match made in heaven. And with the market picking up, and demand for rentals is increasing, the right tenant is out there!

https://rei.co.za/5-tips-for-home-owners-seeking-tenants/

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, also known as HVAC, are found in just about every domestic and professional environment. They are responsible for making a space livable and tolerable by pushing through fresh air and moderating the temperature of the rooms and spaces they are installed in. Understanding the components that allow this type of system to function is important because it can help you determine an issue as it arises, or replace certain parts as needed. Here is the basic anatomy of a HVAC system. The Furnace The Furnace is typically the largest part of the HVAC system, and it requires a set amount of space for it to be installed, which is usually a garage or basement. The main function of the furnace is to push out the hot or cold air into the ducts that run through every room in the building. In these ducts there are small vents that permit the heated or cooled air to escape and adjust the temperature of the rooms individually. The Evaporator Coil Evaporator coils are attached to the furnace on the side of it in an enclosed metal structure. These parts are activated during a cooling cycle and supply cold air to the ducts and the vents. Evaporator coils look similar to a radiator in a car and are connected to the condensing unit of the system. The Heat Exchanger Much like the evaporator coil, the heat exchanger is also located inside the furnace unit. It becomes activated as soon as the furnace is turned on, and its main function is to bring in the cool air through the ducts, and heats it up to send the air back out again to bring up the temperature in the rooms. Electric units use electric coils and gas units use gas burners to get the job done. The Condensing Unit Condensing units are installed outside of the house and away from the furnace and other parts of the system. This part works directly with the evaporator coil by sending a liquid coolant through it after exchanging heat with the outside air. Once this liquid reaches the coil, it releases pressure by spraying it inside and turning back into a gas form. The evaporation taking place causes a drop in temperature and gives that colder air to the furnace blowers. This cycle is repeated to keep a fresh cool airflow. The Refrigerant Lines The refrigerant lines are tubes made out of metal that deliver the liquid to the evaporator coil and bring the gas back to the condensing unit. These tubes are typically made from copper or aluminum, and they are made to withstand very cold temperatures as they go about their functions. The Thermostat The thermostat is what controls the furnace function, and it is the part of the system inside the building where people can manage what the temperature of the room is. If the air is too cold, the heat exchanger works with it to warm it up, and if the air is too warm then the condensing unit works to cool it down. The Ducts Heating ducts are normally installed in each room somewhere on the ceiling. They are put into place so that the vents can be installed to control the room temperature. The Vents The usually rectangular shaped vents are also installed on the ceiling to correspond with the ducts. As the warm or cold air travels through the ducts, it is the vents that allow the temperature-controlled air to flow into each room. Vents are typically built with a metal frame that are sometimes capable of being adjusted to direct the flow of air coming through them. Written by Ashley Hansen of Wayne’s Heating & Cooling in Moberly, MO who is the go to company for HVAC service!

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Fuss & O’Neill traces its roots to 1924 as a local survey practice founded by Hayden Griswold, Sr. Growth in the 1960s and 1970s added expertise in land development, transportation, structures, water and sewer systems, and water resources. In 1967 the firm became Griswold & Fuss, and then Fuss & O’Neill in the late 1970s. The early 1980s saw expansion into emerging fields of environmental compliance and permitting, and site assessment and remediation. Today the company continues to expand its expertise as engineering innovation and technological advances unfold. Fuss & O’Neill chooses to partner with like-minded firms who share a sense of the greater purpose of the work that we do for our clients and in our communities. We work on engagements that require high-quality consulting engineering expertise, whether it’s a discrete service or a more involved relationship. Our engineers, scientists and planners bring decades of experience delivering integrated services across our multiple disciplines, which allows us to provide a level of insight and best practices that adds to the overall quality of the project. Our three Limited Liability Companies bring their own expression of focused diversity to our organization, adding another layer of collaboration to bring the best possible results for our clients. As a company that offers a diverse group of services over multiple disciplines, we bring a considerable amount of project- and industry-specific knowledge that allows us to be efficient, creative and cost-effective. Fuss & O’Neill has both the technical expertise that highly technical projects require, and the hands-on knowledge that it takes to successfully manage every detail.

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Decision support systems contribute significantly to the digital transformation of healthcare delivery. However, they raise important normative challenges with respect to responsibility, privacy, safety and autonomy, as well as social challenges in terms of human-machine-interaction, workflows, the professions’ self-perception and the These ethical and social implications have not been sufficiently studied to date. This joint project aims to combine empirical and theoretical approaches in three exemplary applied case studies of digital decision support in healthcare - nephrology, surgery and nursing - to explore key ethical, social, professional and technical aspects. During the initial phase of the project, the practical issues arising at the technical and process level are elicited within the three case studies. On this basis, the social, normative-ethical and professional aspects concerning patients, healthcare professionals, IT-designers and -providers and the interactions between them are examined empirically and theoretically. Implications at the level of the healthcare system are also identified and analysed. The project actively involves stakeholders and systematically incorporates their views and expertise. The project’s cross-cutting analysis of the three cases allows general insights and lessons for the ethically and socially responsible development, use and governance of digital decision support in healthcare, thereby making an important contribution to the ELSA debate. The project’s interdisciplinary scientific approach is based on the integrated application of five complementary perspectives (ethical, social, professional, technical and systemic) pro-vided by four partners. The Partners Fraunhofer ISI Fraunhofer ISI is using empirical methods (focus groups, interviews) to investigate the social impact of clinical decision support systems from the perspective of patients and their relatives. In addition, the implications of an increased reliance on digital decision support for the German healthcare system and its development are being analysed from a systemic perspective. Fraunhofer ISI coordinates the DESIREE consortium. Paticipants: Dr. Tanja Bratan ISI Dr. Heike Aichinger ISI Dr. Nils HeyenISI Diana Schneider Contact: Dr. Tanja Bratan Leitung Geschäftsfeld Innovationen im Gesundheitssystem Competence Center Neue Technologien Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI Breslauer Straße 48 D-76139 Karlsruhe Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Hannover Medical focuses on the perspectives of health care professionals and addresses social and ethical implications of decision-support systems for the two major groups of medical doctors and nursing professionals. Aspects of participation (including conference organisation) and dissemination (including publications) of the project results are also being led by Hannover Medical School. Paticipants: Prof. Dr. Dr. Sabine Salloch MHH Sara Tinnemeyer MHH Contact: Prof. Dr. Dr. Sabine Salloch Institut für Ethik, Geschichte und Philosophie der Medizin Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1 D-30625 Hannover Protestant University of Applied Sciences Bochum The Protestant University of Applied Sciences will address normative-ethical aspects of responsibility concerning different stakeholder groups in the application of decision-support systems. This includes analyses regarding the distribution of the responsibility of professional and non-professional caregivers as well as the role of designers and providers of IT-based systems supporting diagnostic or therapeutic decision making in medicine and home care. Paticipants: Prof. Dr. Dr. Martin Langanke Dr. Wenke Liedtke Contact: Prof. Dr. Dr. Martin Langanke Angewandte Ethik/ Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit Evangelische Hochschule Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe Immanuel-Kant-Str. 18-20 D-44803 Bochum [email protected] Uniklinik RWTH Aachen The Institute of Medical Informatics at RWTH Aachen University contributes health information technology expertise and detailed know-how of decision support systems and the interactions between the systems and users. It will focus on technical implementation and clinical and organizational processes, opportunities and risks from a medical informatics perspective as well as the view and responsibility of developers.

https://desiree-forschung.de/desiree-en/?pageIdb43052e3=3

Malachi’s week was full of adventures! As our summer winds down and the school year inches closer, we are trying our best to cram in as much as we can before Jake heads back to work. On Monday Malachi got to meet his new teacher for school! This was something we have all been looking forward to as the transition to school is something we are nervous about. Within seconds of wheeling him into his classroom he went into a medium seizure, giving us a perfect teaching moment on what his seizures look like! He continued to “show out” during the 45 minute meeting, having another small seizure, a few staring spells, and getting mischievous and silly with his head control. I am still working on Malachi’s handbook that will get distributed to his teacher, aide, and nurse. We will also try to meet again before class officially begins to make sure they are comfortable with his needs and care. Malachi is turning into quite the little comedian and loves to make people laugh. He is talking a lot more around the house and loves to call for us if we set him down to briefly step into another room. I filmed him calling for his dad this week…he also says “I love” at the end (his version of “I love you”). Wednesday we headed down to Chattanooga to meet with a dietician, something I had requested at our latest GI appointment. I needed some concrete daily goals as to what I should be aiming for in regards to Malachi’s nutritional needs. After talking with her I feel so much more confident that we have him on the right track in regards to calories and his weight gain. She didn’t seem concerned at all with his weight. I had recently ordered a new meal replacement shake to try with Malachi as he has not been responding well intestinally to his soy nutritional drink. This new drink is called Kate Farms Komplete and is dairy, gluten, and soy free and is made with all natural ingredients. Trying new drinks is always a challenge as they are so incredibly pricey and we quickly find out he won’t tolerate them. After getting the thumbs up from the dietician we decided to give it a try and Malachi gobbled it down. That night he slept 7 hours straight and didn’t wake up with a tummy ache like he was doing on the soy drink. I think we have found a winner but we will give it a few weeks before we commit fully. On Thursday we had a special lunch date with a family we connected with on Facebook. They just happen to live in the same county as us and tracked us down as a result of the Chick-Fil-A video and sent me a message about their son. He is 14 months old and was diagnosed with the same terrible and rare seizure type that Malachi had at 8 months old. After lots of messages back and forth we were able to officially meet up and introduce the boys! There is just something so refreshing about spending time with other families with unique needs like ours. And the momma is full of faith, which is something I need in my friendship circle right now. Friday we went on an adventure with the youth and took a bus load of middle schoolers to lunch and to a Chattanooga trampoline park. Malachi loves spending time with the big kids. We spent the spare time in our week running soccer practices, meeting with contractors, and trying to sneak in some much needed pregnancy naps! Malachi’s new favorite way to sleep is with our foreheads and noses touching…not very conducive for my ever growing body. Today we took Malachi for a swim with his cousins, which he absolutely loved. This coming week is a wild one that will include a trip to Vanderbilt to get a scoliosis brace and meet with the orthopedic surgeon followed by a trip to Ohio to see Jake’s dad in between his chemo treatments. Jake will return to school the following Tuesday and Malachi is scheduled to start school Friday, August 4th! Insane!! We made some major progress on the house this week- it looks like we will be moving in within a month or so. I can’t wait to give you all a virtual tour of the finished product. Side note- the new house is tucked into a very country area and we have been amazed at all of the wildlife we see right outside our house! The neighbors have seen black bears, but we have yet to see those. But just yesterday we came across a bobcat as we pulled out of our driveway! He stared at us and we just stared back, trying to figure out what this muscular looking cat creature was. He was the size of a dog and it wasn’t until we saw that bobbed tail that we recognized it as a bobcat! What a beautiful creature! In 2 Corinthians, Paul talks about the concept of taking every thought captive. This verse has been on my heart and mind this past week as I continue to struggle with combating devil’s attacks. Interestingly enough, with lots of prayer and lots of “faith over fear” reminders I was able to relax a bit this week and found myself stressing less and less about Baby C. But the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, and when he realized he wasn’t succeeding in that area of my mind he formed an attack against another region… This week my thoughts have been continually flashing to Malachi’s future. A prime example happened this morning during church. The worship team was singing “10,000 Reasons” which is one of Malachi’s all time favorite songs. As I held him on my lap and listened to him sing out the words, grinning from ear to ear, I smiled to myself. But immediately my thoughts went to “We definitely need to make sure to play this song at his funeral.” WHAT?!? Where did THAT come from? Even as the thought entered my mind I was sickened by it. But my radar flared as I immediately recognized this thought as the work of the devil. I had to transition my thoughts quickly to the power of God and focus on the plan God has for Malachi’s life. While I can’t guarantee that God’s plan for Malachi is for him to outlive me, I can guarantee that Malachi will not leave this temporary home on earth before God is finished using him in a mighty way. Every. Thought. Captive. Continue to pray for our family as we are getting ready for some major life changes…a new home, starting school, a new baby, and so many more exciting things. Pray that our walk with God continues to remain a priority during these busy days and that He would continue to use Malachi’s story in ways we can’t imagine.

https://miraclesformalachi.com/2017/07/24/every-thought-captive/

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people”- Eleanor Roosevelt Search Main menu About Humor Finance Futures Publications Software-Database Speaking Post navigation ← Previous Next → Bonds Dry Up – Derivatives Explode Posted on May 19, 2015 by Michael E Kelley Here is an excellent article about why derivatives are exploding. Here is a summary of that article. The Volcker Rule was passed as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill in 2010. It banned banks from trading securities with their own money, or proprietary trading. Nonetheless, banks had already wound down their proprietary trading operations in anticipation of the rule taking effect… For larger investors, another trick to circumvent liquidity issues is to deal in more liquid synthetic securities such as derivatives contracts, which can be used to bet on the credit quality of a company without having to deal with the same liquidity problems of the bond market. Douglas Peebles, chief investment officer and head of AllianceBernstein fixed income, says he finds himself using more derivatives. These allow buyers to invest in the same underlying assets, but in many cases, they can be assured of more liquidity that the actual bond. Bond guru Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund, also concedes that he has begun using derivatives in his Pimco Total Return Fund. Here is another article. The reasons are “four Feds”, less yield for more risk, lack of liquidity, and fear of a bubble. For more on derivatives and tranches see this article. Good luck! Share this: Twitter Facebook Pinterest Tumblr Email Reddit Like this: Like Loading... Related This entry was posted in Futures and tagged bonds, CDOs, derivatives, dodd-frank, exploding, explosion, finance, investing, tranches, volker by Michael E Kelley. Bookmark the permalink.

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In previous years, the Modeling Symposium at Eclipse meetings in Europe attracted a large panel of attendees interested in sharing their ideas and in learning about the projects of others in the community. At the last event, we had fifteen interesting presentations and the room was full. This year, there is no session planned for the symposium, so it will take place during a BoF on Thursday, November 3rd at 19:00 If you are interested to show a demo, exchange ideas, or gather feedback about a proposal, please contact us with a short description about what you would like to talk. We hope being able to announce an exciting agenda. 0 commentaires Labels : Eclipse, ESE, Modeling October 21, 2011 Collaborative modeling, the new deal I already blogged about collaborative modeling but I would like to stand back from the previous post, which was very technical, and introduce the talk I will present with Martin and Benjamin at EclipseCon Europe. Since several years now the Eclipse modeling platform provides useful tools which have help to democratize the use of modeling technologies. However those tools have raised issues linked to collaboration we start to better address. To visualize and edit models in a graphical manner diagrams are often used. However usually diagramming technologies do not scale well and this is problematic as the more the models and their complexity grow the more one wants to work in group. When you model with other people, one of the difficulty is to understand reasons behind their choices and design. Document them is of course necessary but the main difficulty is to keep documentation accurate across refactorings and changes. In fact, often the more the time flies by, the more we lost the intention, documentation being seen as a post-design step. Collaborate means dealing with concurrent accesses. To enable them you have two strategies. One is to prevent conflicts either through models splitting or with locks. But models splitting is not well supported by tools and coarse-grained locks are not pratical. The other strategy is to allows conflict happens and deals with them when they occurs. It looks like a dice game, and depending on the frequency, it could become hard to deal with conflicts. Interested by the subject ? Come to the talk to discover what are the available technologies to address those concerns, and understand why collaboration matters in modeling. 3 commentaires Labels : Collaboration, Eclipse, ESE, Modeling October 10, 2011 Acceleo 3.2 To celebrate the historic victory of the french rugby team in the world cup quarter final, the Acceleo team is proud to announce its 3.2 release very soon. Photo from NikRugby23 We tackled performance problems in compilation. Acceleo is now as fast as Vincent Clerc, and even if you totally don't know who he is, you will appreciate the better reactivity of the tool. We provide a new useful view to test Acceleo and OCL expressions on the fly, the Acceleo interpreter. You will find more details and example of usage of the interpreter in the Laurent's blog entry. Screenshot of Acceleo Interpreter Want to join the scrum ? You could install a release candidate and give us feedback before the final release planned for October 24th.

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The reduction in traffic volume during the COVID-19 pandemic revealed that satellites can detect vehicles as the main source of ammonia pollution in the air in western Los Angeles. Photo: Shutterstock By disrupting normal societal activities, such as driving, COVID-19 lockdowns afforded a unique opportunity to study their impacts on the environment. Researchers now report in Environmental Science & Technology Letters that satellite data from before and during the spring 2020 lockdown in Los Angeles shows that vehicles, rather than agriculture, are the main source of urban air-borne ammonia (NH3), which forms small particles that contribute to air pollution and harm human health. When emitted into the atmosphere, NH3 is converted into tiny particles of inorganic compounds, including ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate. On a national or global scale, most NH3 pollution comes from agricultural sources, such as livestock manure. But vehicles also contribute to the problem because their catalytic converters or selective catalytic reduction systems – which are designed to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollutants including NO2 – have the undesirable side-effect of producing ammonia emissions. In cities, it's been hard to tell whether agriculture or traffic emits more NH3, and the default assumption has been that agriculture is the greater culprit, despite some labor-intensive measurement studies that suggested otherwise in a few cities. CSL co-authors Brian McDonald and Colin Harkins and colleagues wanted to see if satellite data could be used to answer this question for the first time from space, since such an approach in principle could be applied more broadly to urban areas throughout the world. The researchers focused on western Los Angeles, where previous on-the-ground measurements found that vehicle emissions of NH3 were being underestimated. The team analyzed satellite readings of NH3, as well as NO2. Because the main source of NO2 in the region is on-road transportation, the compound can serve as a proxy for changes in traffic volume and an indicator of vehicular as opposed to agricultural ammonia emissions. The team correlated concentrations of the two pollutants, and also took meteorological effects into account, to calculate the amount of ammonia emissions that can be traced to vehicles. They found that vehicles accounted for 60% to 84% of total NH3 emissions at this urban location, consistent with estimates provided by modeling, but substantially higher than the 13% to 22% share estimated from prior state and federal inventories. The researchers say their findings suggest the health impact of vehicle-related ammonia may rival that of NOx, yet it has been largely under-recognized and uncontrolled. Cao, H., D.K. Henze, K. Cady-Pereira, B.C. McDonald, C. Harkins, K. Sun, K.W. Bowman, T.-M. Fu, and M.O. Nawaz, COVID-19 lockdowns afford the first satellite-based confirmation that vehicles are an under-recognized source of urban NH3 pollution in Los Angeles, Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 2021. Abstract In situ measurements have suggested vehicle emissions may dominate agricultural sources of NH3 in many cities, which is alarming given the potential for urban NH3 to significantly increase human exposure to ambient particulate matter. However, confirmation of the prevalence of vehicle NH3 throughout a city has been challenging because of mixing with agricultural sources, and the latter are thus routinely assumed to dominate. Here we report vehicle NH3 emissions based on TROPOMI NO2 and CrIS NH3 (0.152 kg s−1) that are consistent with a model-based estimate (0.178 kg s−1) and show that COVID-19 lockdowns provide a unique opportunity for making the first satellite-based constraints on vehicle NH3 emissions for an entire urban region (western Los Angeles), which we find make up 60−95% of total NH3 emissions, substantially higher than the values of 13−22% in state and national inventories. This provides a new means of constraining a component of transportation emissions whose impacts may rival those of NOx yet which has been largely under-recognized and uncontrolled.

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Second Amendment Rally on January 20, 2020, in Richmond, Virginia. Grayson Hubble May 1, 2020 On April 10, 2020, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed 5 historic bills into law, limiting and regulating the Second Amendment in the State of Virginia. This comes less than three months after thousands of Second Amendment supporters bearing long guns, such as rifles, gathered in Richmond, Virginia. Voicing their opinion on the House Bill 961, which ultimately would have banned future sale of suppressors, standard capacity magazines, as well as firearms that are commonly known as AR-15s. That bill failed and was voted against 10-5. The bills that were signed into law on April 10, 2020 include Senate Bill 70 as well as House Bill 2, requiring future background checks on all firearms sales in the State of Virginia. Senate Bill 240 and House Bill 674, which establishes an “Extreme Risk Protective Order” which grants Law Enforcement to temporarily separate someone from their firearms if they pose a threat to themselves or the residents of Virginia. Senate Bill 69 and House Bill 812 is one of the most controversial bills signed into law, due to the fact that no Governor in the State of Virginia has signed bills restricting so much on the second amendment. The Bill limits every citizen to buying only one handgun every 30 days, in hopes of preventing firearms stockpiling and trafficking of firearms. House Bill 9 requires all gun owners to report their lost or stolen firearms to Law Enforcement, no later than 48 hours, or a civil penalty may be issued. The last proposal, House Bill 1083 increases the penalties for leaving a firearm in a child’s presence. Furthermore, Northam also proposed two more amendments to the bills, including Senate Bill 35 and House Bill 421, allowing localities to regulate firearms in public places. Senate Bill 479 and House Bill 1004 prohibits individuals who are subject to a protective order from possessing firearms. When Aden Harvey, a resident of Charlottesville, Virginia, was asked how he feels about the bills, Harvey said “I feel like they are unconstitutional and go against our second amendment” When Harvey was asked what these limitations mean for his family, he said “If we want to buy more than one handgun at a time, we can’t. Plus what if we don’t know our gun got stolen, we are going to get fined for not knowing?” When Tyler Joll, a frequent hunter in Virginia was asked how he feels about the bills, Joll said “They are not right”. Joll was also asked what this means for his family, he replied “I have family in Virginia who are lawful gun owners, and have never committed a crime. Now the Governor is basically saying, I don’t care if you are a law-abiding citizen, you can only buy one handgun a month.” It is quite clear that though these bills are historic, many have mixed feelings about them, and not just residents of Virginia have these feelings. Furthermore, with a Virginia gubernatorial election coming up in little over a year, these bills may determine who wins the next election. Second Amendment Rally on January 20, 2020, in Richmond, Virginia

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Staying firmly at indie pop's quality side, Sweden's Pale Honey reveal a new single off their anticipated third album, the title track, Some Time, Alone, a deftly structured piece established on a steady bass line, and featuring the band's signature coolness in their delivery. "We have loved this song since it was just a demo and it´s place on the upcoming album has been obvious from the start," Pale Honey comment. "The single Some Time, Alone is immediate and very beat and bass-driven. Lyrics about the feeling when you just want to be left alone and you get irresponsible and self-centered. That is not a place where you want to be, but you sometimes end up in any way. Now, life feels good because we have a new album to look forward to and share with you all." Some Time, Alone - the full length, is produced by long time Pale Honey producer, Anders Lagerfors, and it's expected out on November 6th, 2020, through Bolero Records.

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The financial institutions have for long been on the lookout for educational institutions like college campuses to be a ground of establishment. However, over the recent years, this has become quite a matter of issue for the banks as they have experienced much trouble with the regulation bodies. These officials have banned the banks from… Continue reading Banks Take Advantage Of Students With Campus Deals Published June 4, 2012 Categorized as Education Tagged banks, education news, financial institutions, students California Cuts Cause Threats to Universities Image from New York Times The Californian universities leave millions of students worried about their future as class sizes have increased along with the tuition fee. The number of courses being offered in the summer session has also drastically dropped which worry the students about finishing their education on time. The school administration is highly reliant upon the demand for… Continue reading California Cuts Cause Threats to Universities

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Inside the box you get two Nebelwerfer 41 launchers. Parts are molded in a light tan coloured plastic that neither too soft nor too hard, or “just right” as Goldilocks would say! There is an instruction sheet and no decals are included. The parts are spread over two identical sprues: 24 parts to make 6 figures (bodies and bases) plus their personal weapons (4xK98 Rifles, 1xMP38 SMG) and 25 pieces for the Nebelwerfer (19), ammunition cases (2) and rockets(4). Flash is minimal but most parts do have seam lines that need to be removed. There are a few ejector pin marks to watch for, with some found in bad places. Two especially egregious ones are found on the front face of the wheels and another large one in the middle of the back of one of the figures. The tires have no tread. Detail of the figures is not bad but I feel that there could be a bit more relief, especially in the clothing, which appear a bit flat to me. The personal weapons are quite nice. With two launchers to work with I chose to build one in firing position and the other as a towed piece. And knowing that some work was definitely needed to make the lunchers more realistic, I also decided to try two different construction approaches. I followed the build sequence as outlined in the instructions for the most part, so I'll review this kit on a step by step basis and point out where I deviated from the instructions for each launcher. Step 1: Before doing any gluing the much too narrow tubes holes need to be drilled out. This I did in stages using increasingly larger drill bits to widen the holes. If you want a "see through" look to the tubes as I wanted, the molded on rockets at the end of the tubes have to be removed and then the solid bulkheads on each end of parts 21 and 22 need to have holes drilled through them. For the towed launcher I also removed the bottom end of the tube and added new sections from plastic tube. For the launcher in firing position I just opened up the end and left the molded on tube in place. The pivot brackets (2xpart 25) that mount to the tubes are a problem and I decided to put them on a later point. If added as per the instructions the toothed elevation gear (part 23) would not touch the elevation shaft (part 27) and there will be a big gap between them. Also the tubes will sit too high in the mount and look odd. Step 2: The mount (part 15) has a prominent seam that fills most of the hole created between the brace and the upright. For both launchers, I cut off the brace, removed the seam and added a new brace from plastic strip. The elevation wheel (part 29) was left off to be added later to lessen the chances of it being damaged during the remainder of the build. Step 3: This is the step where the carriage is put together. First, the spades on both launchers were thinned. For the towed piece I glued the trail legs together and modified the front support braces into their folded position for travel. The one in firing position was constructed as per the instructions with the legs splayed and the brace deployed to touch the ground. Since none of the kit wheels (2xpart 19) were not up to snuff I substituted different ones. On the towed Nebelwerfer I used a set of Esci Pak35/36 wheels. The hubs on these were poor so I removed them and added the hubs which were cut from the kit's wheels. On the other I used a set of wheels liberated from a MAC Flak38. All the wheels were also left off until later so they can be painted separately. Step 4: Here the majority of fiddly work occurred. First I had to figure out exactly where the pivot brackets, which I had left off until now, needed to be mounted on the tubes. They fit as designed when mounted per the instruction sheet, but if you try to mount them higher on the tubes so as to bridge the gap between the elevation gear and the elevation shaft, they spread the uprights close to the breaking point due to their thickness. So, to get a proper fit between the tubes and the uprights some thinning was in order. Again, I tried two different approaches. For the towed piece I cut off the backing plates to the pivot brackets, thinned the pivots with some sanding and added them to the tubes (picture to the left). This method allowed me to retain the mounting pins on the upright. For the Nebelwerfer in firing position I thinned the backing plates on the pivots brackets and then glued them to the tubes (see picture below). This method forced me to trim the mounting pins to have the tubes fit between the uprights. For both methods, a lot of trial and error was needed to get everything to fit properly. In the end, both methods worked quite well though I have to admit that the second method looks slightly better than the first. Next came the detailing of the tubes. The base kit is devoid of any of the ignition wires. These were added using thin wire and thin super glue was used to fix them in place. A distributor box was added at the wire junction point from plastic sheet. The two hand wheels for traverse and elevation (parts 29 & 31) were glued onto their shafts this point. With the thought that I may at one time try to put one or both of the Nebelwerfers in a diorama, I put together two of the figures and separated the rockets from the sprues. Removing the rockets (4 x part 33 ) requires some care. Make sure to cut them from the sprues leaving some of the injection gate in place so you can sand the tip of the rocket to its proper pointed shape. The transport tubes (2 x part 32) are not as detailed as shown on the instruction sheet and they suffer from large injection holes. 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Despite being a lesser-known brand, Kelek was originally founded in 1896 and became a large chronograph manufacturer for the better part of a century. Kelek had a manufacuring relationship with Breitling for a number of years as a movement supplier and was eventually acquired by Breitling and has become their manufacturer for in-house Breitling Chronometre movements. The watch pictured here is a 1970s diver's chronograph, with a solid steel case, gloss black dial, 60 minute rotating timing bezel, and an incredibly clean and reliable Landeron caliber 248 manual-wound movement. 70s Chronographs like this have their own distinct designs that have made them a staple among enthusiasts, and the supplies of watches like this, especially in this condition, continues to dwindle. Tack on the fact it's well under a thousand dollars and the value for a watch like this Kelek is obvious. Take a look at our detailed photos and the condition description below: Case: ​37mm stainless steel case in excellent vintage condition as pictured. The case has only light surface wear and appears unpolished, retaining its original finish with polished chamfers and sharp case lines throughout. Some of the original crown plating has worn off which is visible in the photos. This does not affect the function of the crown. Bezel: Original bidirectional bezel in excellent condition as shown. The bezel shows minimal wear and bezel action is smooth in both directions. Dial/Hands: Original gloss black dial in excellent condition free from any blemishes. Any marks shown in the photo are on the crystal, the dial on this watch is in wonderful condition. The hour markers are raised polished steel with tritium lume inserts that have faded to a light patina. Original hands are polished steel also in excellent condition. Caseback: Original screw back in excellent condition with crisp engravings as pictured. Crystal: Domed acrylic crystal. The crystal shows moderate scratching but is believed to be original so it was retained on the watch. Movement: Original Landeron 248 manual wound chronograph movement. The movement is extremely clean and all functions work as they should including chronograph start, stop, and reset. Service history is unknown. ​ Bracelet/Strap: Vintage stainless steel bracelet in excellent condition with full links to easily fit a wrist up to 8"+

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LaGrange Chief of Police Louis Dekmar will be recognized as the 2019 Hope Giver of the Year. This inaugural award will be presented at the HOPE GIVERS Music Festival and will highlight Chief Dekmar’s commitment to supporting mental health, as well as his caring and compassion to his community and employees throughout his public service career. Since 1995, Chief Dekmar has served as Chief of Police and Chief of Public Safety for the City of LaGrange. Before that appointment, he served as Police Chief for the City of Morrow, and prior to that served for ten years in law enforcement in Wyoming. “Chief Dekmar epitomizes the type of person who is a Hope Giver in his personal and professional life,” said Tamlin Hall, Festival Coordinator and Founder of the IAMHOLDENON Organization. “He has built a national audience in the way his leadership provides hope and inspiration through positive mental wellness.” The presentation will be made during the Hope Givers Music Festival, held at Sweetland Amphitheatre in LaGrange on Saturday, May 11. Dekmar, for his part, will be accepting the nomination on behalf of the police department, as well as the faith community and nonprofits that have partnered with the LDP to help in assisting the department’s efforts to support mental health. “When I was notified of the award a week or so ago, I wanted to accept it on behalf of the police department and the faith community, as well as the other nonprofits and agencies that we’ve worked with over the last 10-12 years,” Dekmar said. “Really the ones who brought focus to this in our community were the police officers, the faith community stepping up afterwards and helping us out. Any recognition I’ve received is recognition for the entire police department and other organizations we have worked with.” Earlier this year, Dekmar received the National Council for Behavioral Health’s Visionary Leadership award for an international initiative involving the police response to mental illness. He has also received the National Constables and Marshalls Association’s “Service Above and Beyond” award. The HOPE GIVERS Mental Wellness & Music Festival will also include music, speakers and activities throughout the day, including the NAMI Family & Children Wellness Zone. Speakers will include Taylor Wesley, 2015 Miss Auburn University; Kris Brooks, NASCAR Yoga Instructor; Josh Rhye, Pastor at ThreeLife Church in LaGrange; Kat Dolan, TEDx Speaker and Performance Poet along with many others. Starting at 4:00 PM, the Sweetland Main Stage will feature music by The War and Treaty, Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors and Judah & The Lion. The festival is from 12pm-10pm. More information on speaker times, activities, and performances is available at Iamholdenon.org.

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The Cairo High School ninth-grade Syrupmakers scored touchdowns early and late to edge the Bainbridge High School ninth-grade Bearcats, 12-6, Monday at Centennial Field. Marcus Gaines ran four yards for a touchdown with 6:15 left in the first half to give the Syrupmakers a 6-0 lead. Quarterback Stacy Masten tried to run in for the two-point conversion, but was stopped short. On the second play from scrimmage following the Syrupmakers’ initial score, Isiah Brown ran up the middle, broke into the open and ran more than 70 yards for a touchdown with 5:04 showing on the first half clock, to pull the Bearcats even 6-6. Tremain McCray tried to run in for the two-point conversion, but was stopped short. The winning touchdown, which came with 1:10 remaining in the game, was scored by the Syrupmakers’ Jacarie Gaines from 2 yards out.

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The Bel Air High School percussion section will be banging their drums for a good cause, 24-HOURS STRAIGHT! You can watch the whole thing happen live, as these high school students team up with El Pasoans Fighting Hunger to help raise funds for the food bank. Fifty percent of donations collected through their GoFundMe page will be helping provide meals for El Pasoans who depend on El Pasoans Fighting Hunger for their next meal. This Drum-a-thon is an amazing way to help drum up some donations during the season of giving. You have to give these students tons of credit for spending their day drumming for a cause, instead of just sharing the news through a social media post. Kind of what I am doing right now. Marching band's drummers playing the drums Getty Images/iStockphoto loading... Either way, everyone is doing their part to hype up this good deed by Bel Air High School's percussion team. I was always jealous of high school band drummers because they always seemed to have so much fun, while I was stuck playing the clarinet. Nice to see band drummers are still some pretty cool people doing great things! Make sure to tune into the event's live stream, which will be running on YouTube for 24-Hours!

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Disruptive innovation caused by new digital technologies, including blockchain, IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial intelligence), is now stepping forward from the phase of research/trial to the phase of commercial use. Any enterprises shall furthermore need and prioritize to develop new business applying such technologies for the future growth. However, at new business creation, it is often required to have diversified ideas and specified skillset which may not be fully delivered with own resources alone. We, Cross Digital Inc., will be a partner to accompany to clients with hands-on from ideation to commercial launch. Service We work on joint business development, consistent from ideation to commercial launch, based on clients’ business policy and strategy. What we would like to be is not a consultant only drawing a beautiful blueprint but a partner sharing interests with clients, beyond the relationship of owner / contractor. This is why we stick to “joint” business development. Together with clients, we will identify needs and pain points and shape the plan practical. It is obvious that new digital technologies cannot be put to practical use only from business perspective. At PoC (Proof-of-Concept) and implementation, we will serve from both of business and technical perspective, collaborating with our affiliate, BlockchainHub Inc. In addition, leveraging our network domestic and international, we can update clients with various case-studies and benchmarkings.

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My family of 4 - me, my husband, and two adult children just had an incredible, long-awaited journey to Israel. It took us 2 years to finally decide for Israel, and 2 months of planning with Firebird to make our dream come true. We did our homework of finding the places we want to visit, and Firebird did an incredible work of putting a perfect itinerary for us. Day tours were terrific, fantastic guides in every destination, private drivers always on time and very knowledgable too, and the hotels that were booked for us were excellent. A big thank you from all of us, we will certainly recommend you!

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The term “metadata” refers to data that describes data, and it comes in quite handy when you’re training machine learning algorithms. Take for example a picture of a table with a plate of eggs, bacon, and toast along with a couple of hands holding utensils. We can easily label the individual objects – knife, fork, left hand, right hand, glass of orange juice, etc. – but we can also deduce more information from the more subtle details. The bright red nail polish, the wedding ring on one hand, smooth youthful skin, these signs could point to a younger married woman sitting down for breakfast. A human might be able to arrive at this conclusion quite easily given the ability to connect the dots using context, but an AI algorithm will have a tougher time. However, if we label all those “clues,” then the machine learning algorithms can begin to learn how to interpret imagery in the same way humans can. One company that’s been printing cash lately by providing crowdsourced big data labeling services is a publicly traded Australian firm called Appen (APX). (Below numbers in USD unless otherwise noted.) About Appen Appen’s history extends back to 1996, but it was only in 2013 that they settled on the name Appen and then completed a successful IPO in January of 2015. Since then, Appen has worked to become a “global leader in the development of high quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence.” We recently wrote about their remote workforce of over one million employees who help cleanse and label datasets that include speech, text, image, and video. The data is then used for a variety of use cases as seen below. Source: Appen In a recent investor deck, Appen cites an interesting metric from McKinsey – one quarter of AI applications require data updates on a weekly basis while one third required monthly data updates. Those frequent updates represent recurring revenues for Appen, a company that’s showed some phenomenal revenue growth as a result of strong demand for their services. The company’s growth has been reflected in their share price which has risen from around $0.40 per share in January of 2015 to around $17.60 per share today giving the company a present-day market cap of around $2 billion representing a gain of about +4,300%. In other words, an investment of $1,000 would be worth $43,000 today. Of course, past performance is not an indicator of future performance, but revenue growth has been consistently strong over the past five years. Appen’s revenue growth in Australian dollars – Source: Appen The reddish shades reflect their “content relevance” services and the blue shades represent their “language translation” services. Of these two business areas, content relevance generates the majority of the revenues at the moment – about 86%. Content Relevance The power of Appen’s service comes from the one million remote workers they can pull from to crowdsource projects based on each client’s unique needs. Appen can curate a crowd based on a specific skill set, including legal, medical or financial services experience. Once a virtual team has been assembled, they can then be directed to perform any number of tasks that help improve the functionality of machine learning algorithms. For example, Google provides certain “automatic suggestions” when you type in particular terms. These are often indicative of what other people search for. Here’s an example using Tiger Woods. As you can see, it’s pretty easy to understand how something inappropriate might appear there like “why does Tiger Woods get to sleep with so many hot women.” Google might use Appen’s services to check these auto-suggest lists to make sure nobody gets offended ever. That’s one example of where humans might be able to make a judgment call that an algorithm won’t be able to do anytime soon. There’s a whole menu of content relevance services that Appen offers as seen below. When it comes to training machine learning algorithms, it’s not just about making sure the training data is clearly annotated, it’s also about making sure that the output – such as the auto-suggest example we gave earlier – is accurate. If it’s not, the algorithm can be trained to identify these exceptions and become further refined over time. Language Translation Appen recently merged their sales and customer service teams for both their “language translation” and “content relevance” segments in order to keep the customer at the center of their focus, but they plan to keep reporting on both segments which could imply future acquisitions in the area of language translation. While revenues from this segment may be a small piece of the pie, the company has extensive capabilities with more than 400,000 pre-screened language speakers that can support more than 180 languages. In 2016 alone, they transcribed more than 40 million audio files. The way Appen uses their giant pool of language speakers extends well beyond basic translation services. For example, they offer a service called “localization” which means that if you develop an app in English, they’ll help you publish the same app in any one of the 180 languages they support. (It’s not as easy as simply translating your application text – that’s where Engrish comes from.) It’s quite interesting to look through their Language Resources Catalog which provides some pretty obscure datasets with prices to match. Take for example the below audio dataset in which 103 Italians utter things like digits, street names, and generic commands while sitting in a running car or traveling in a car at a particular speed. An Italian automaker might find this dataset useful for training an algorithm which aims to provide hands-free voice-operated services to Italian drivers. Other datasets include people talking with various background noises, people conversing in meetings where oftentimes participants will talk over each other, messages left on voicemails, distinguishing surnames from words, and the list goes on. If you need a particular dataset in any language, they have the manpower to get it done in a short period of time. Imagine trying to do that work yourself. Conclusion Appen’s plans for growth this year include spending $6 million in building a global engineering team and expanding their operations in China. Eight out of the top-ten global technology companies use Appen’s services, but their success may be flying under the radar given that they’re traded on the Australian Securities eXchange (ASX). Most retail investors outside of Australia are probably unaware of their success story, which could imply that it’s undervalued. However, we’re also at the peak of the AI hype cycle which means they could also be overvalued. The best way to invest in these kinds of stocks is to enter into a position with conviction. That means you enter into a position for the long-term and ignore the stock price except to add to your position on dips. In order to establish your initial position, you Dollar-Cost-Average (DCA) which means you purchase a fractional amount of your overall position at fixed intervals over a set period of time. This obviously becomes easier for investors who have bigger portfolios since making multiple purchases will incur fixed transaction costs. The larger your purchases, the less those transaction costs will impact your returns. We’re holding five AI stocks in our tech stock portfolio. Is Appen one of them? 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https://www.nanalyze.com/2019/04/croudsourced-big-data-appen/

That was a very fine performance by the LAA pitching crew. Felix Pena ran through 6 innings and struck out 7, giving up only 1 run on just 2 hits. The relief corps of Cam Bedrosian, Jose Alvarez and Blake Parker rolled the final 3 innings with 1 other run on just 2 more hits. The Angels managed just enough offense to support that mound effort to snatch a sweep in San Diego. Take it away, Rene Rivera! Angels take down the Padres 3-2. (Shhh! The Angels have now won 7 of their last 9.)............ Love some A Little Bit Of Shohei Ohtani News Shohei must have had a good time yesterday. He drove up from San Diego to Anaheim to throw a more intense bullpen session, then drove all the way back, and ended up pinch-hitting late in a game with an early evening start. Of course, silly you might be wondering why they couldn’t find an unused pitcher’s mound any place in the greater San Diego area?............ A Little Bit Of Mike Trout News Well, we learned yesterday that Mike has more important things to think about these days than running around centerfield, or worrying about his sore hand. Brother-in-law and ex-Halo minor league prospect Aaron Cox died yesterday morning. At only 24-years old, this has to be a blow to both families.............. Coca-Cola is making a huge investment, buying into Mike Trout............. A Little Bit Of Angels News By the time this season ends, will Mike Scioscia end up being the leading MLB manager in bullpenning?............ Billy Eppler and his crew are getting busier and busier as we get late int he year and he wishes to shuffle his talent around. Guys are coming up, and guys are going down............. Hey, don’t we need another left-handed pitching prospect? Perhaps somebody to be Ohtani’s new roomie?............ Torii Hunter, Jr. is on the rise................ Everywhere In Baseball The biggest kerfuffle in MLB yesterday was chickenshit Jose Urena choosing to plunk young phenom leadoff hitter Ronald Acuna with the opening pitch of the game. Urena was ejected after his solo pitch. Acuna had to exit shortly thereafter in pain. Apparently, this is all because Acuna is good at his job..............Bill Baer over at NBCSports finds that Urena has some history of being a dick, and good reason to prove that Urena was acting with ex-MLB guy Keith Hernandez thinks that smacking Acuna with a pitch and risking serious injury is absolutely the right thing that needed to be done. Because, hey, your team keeps losing and this kid keeps succeeding. Or, maybe that’s because Hernandez, over 8,553 trips to the plate in his MLB career, got dinked 32 total times. Once every 262 times. Acuna has seen 289 PA’s, so the kid was overdue............MLB advises that because Acuna was HBP in his only PA, the streak that had Urena so pissy in the first place remains intact............ Umpire Phil Cuzzi is sticking to his guns that (a) he was right to be wrong about his K zone, and (b) he was right to be wrong about tossing Ben Zobrist for discussing how robots need to hurry up and displace Cuzzi............Cuzzi is correct that all the tools that are easily reviewed by we fans (and baseball players) are not the same thing that MLB uses to grade umpires. But that doesn’t mean that the parties grading umpires are independent judges using perfectly accurate data, either...........Joe Maddon had the perfect perspective in arguing with Cuzzi.............. The video game industry digging deeper into the sport of baseball can only help everyone’s fears about connecting to future generations. Except now we will find out that the next generation has decided that gaming is so passe..........Except for anything video baseball, of course. Kids will always love that........... Speaking of which, fire up The Little League World Series!........... You know, it occurs to me that an MLB broadcaster cannot be “taken to task on Twitter” if that MLB broadcaster is not on Twitter. Being on Twitter is not like death and taxes or anything. Just leave the twits to chirp at each other and keep on with your own real life.............. Here is a flip. For once the Yankees are taking their cues from the Angels. This time it’s the MFY missing the injury prediction mark concerning Aaron Judge’s injury timeout........... In this click-bait review of every MLB team’s long-forgotten specific uniform, do you really need to work your way all the way over to find that of the Angels?............. Adventures in Position Players doing the pitching thing. Sometimes it works out well, and sometimes it doesn’t......But it’s frequent enough by now that we actually have stats!............ Elon Musk is now pitching his snake oil around Chavez Ravine. 2800 riders per game, at $1 per ride each way, works out to be $5600 per game, or $453,600 per season. They didn’t disclose the projected construction or operating costs, but let’s pretend that building it all only costs $1 billion. That’s only 2204 1⁄2 years just to break even at 0% interest. And you need to use 0% interest, because that annual revenue is still 1/20 of 1% interest on a billion bucks. That’s not the kind of returns that Wall Street wants to hear, and Musk is claiming that the service will be turning a profit............ Joe West is now the second-most experienced umpire in MLB history. Why is this supposed to be a good thing? Fans certainly are wondering........... If you like lawyer things and you want to observe Scott Boras ending up on the wrong side of a decision, and you got enough time, click away and read on............ The Duffle Bag Jason Grilli, once a Halo, knows that if you build it, they will come..............That’s right kid. That ball’s yours. If Jose Ramirez wants it, he can put on a Reds uni...........Attn. Rob Manfred: bat flips are our future!.............You go Sanchez. Show America why MLB is the bestest of fun............It appears that CBS Sports has hired a new social media intern, fresh from the chalkboards of MIT...........Dee Gordon, chasing history, but in a bad way............Andrew McCutcheon confesses what we have always long suspected. Ballplayers running into the infield when the benches clears is really just for show...............A Kyle Schwarber smash brings real meaning to the term ‘a can of corn’...........

https://www.halosheaven.com/2018/8/16/17682408/thorslinks-felix-fells-the-friars

In its first earnings report since completing the $1 billion acquisition of open-source database vendor MySQL AB, Sun Microsystems Inc. yesterday reported third-quarter financial results that show it's still struggling to grow revenue. Sun also said that it plans to cut as many as 2,500 jobs — or about 7% of its workforce — over the next three months. Revenue in the third quarter, which ended March 30, totaled $3.27 billion, down slightly from $3.28 billion in the same period last year. Weighed down by costs associated with the MySQL acquisition, Sun reported a net loss of $34 million for this year's third quarter. The company indicated that it would have broken even if not for charges related to the MySQL deal. Sun officials said that the vendor was doing well in emerging markets such as India and Brazil, but that business conditions weren't so rosy in the U.S. The company's computer systems and storage groups both missed internal revenue projections by about $100 million, with sales particularly flagging at the high end of those two product lines. During a conference call with reporters and financial analysts, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz blamed the economy, not competitors, for the weak third-quarter results. "Our third quarter was a challenging one in which U.S. macro factors . . . overshadowed the progress we made in other parts of the world," Schwartz said. "I'm disappointed." He added that the economic slowdown in the U.S. affected orders from customers in the government, retail and telecommunications industries. The MySQL acquisition and a separate purchase of desktop virtualization vendor Innotek GmbH added 1,100 new employees to Sun's workforce during the third quarter. But the company now plans to cut between 1,500 and 2,500 jobs before the end of its fiscal year, said Michael Lehman, Sun's chief financial officer. He expects the cutbacks to reduce annual costs by $100 million to $150 million. Sun shipped about 80,000 servers during the third quarter, up 6% year over year. About 30,000 of the servers came from the company's x64 product line, which are based on Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron processors instead of Sun's own Sparc chips. The x64 shipments were up 26% from the level in last year's third quarter.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2535546/sun-plans-job-cuts--blames-weak-q3-results-on-u-s--economy.html

I had mixed feelings about writing this blog because it's a bit tricky to offer a one size fits all approach to creating a website. What convinced me is seeing so many early-stage impact projects who spend a lot of energy and resources bootstrapping websites which end up looking too complex or not professional enough to convert investors or prospects. So I thought I would share some basic universal principles learnt after working on dozens of website designs and build projects from £500 000 to £500. Research your website user personas Think about who is going to come to your website, what their needs are and which tasks they will perform using your website. Brainstorm with your team - if you have one - and come up with three to five user profiles. Think broadly and include different types of prospects but also investors, potential partners, influencers or recruits. Make sure you have a story and a place to go for each persona, especially the two or three which are most important to start or grow your business. Nail down your value proposition Website visitors will likely spend a few seconds on your home page and leave right away if they don't clearly understand the what's in it for me? That’s why articulating your value proposition simply for your priority personas is essential. The challenge is to agree internally on your value proposition statement (See example below) and boil it down to an impactful external facing strap line you can stick on your home page. Articulate your mission statement This is even more important for purpose-led businesses. We always get our clients to do a Golden Circle workshop at the beginning of a project to define their “why, how, what”. This is a complex but indispensable collaborative exercise to align your team on a mission statement. The output will be a super useful piece of messaging to put on your Home page, About and in your pitch decks. Start your website design with a clear information architecture (sitemap) When you're building a brand new house, it's very tempting to start dreaming about the interior design, the colours and the furniture. What you really need to start with is the floor plans. Similarly, when building a website, UX (user experience) activities should come before UI (user interface). The foundation of your website UX is going to be your information architecture -also called sitemap. Think about it as an organisation chart with different levels of content and design it as such in a PowerPoint. Two principles should guide you through that process; Persona based user journeys. Make sure there are clear sections, contents and journeys for each of your priority personas. You want them to quickly find the information they need and do whatever they need to do on your website. A simple top navigation menu with a maximum of 6 categories Usually you can't go wrong with the following categories in your top navigation menu 1- Home page This is where you are going to have a universal recap with all the main information and a hub with sign posting and calls to action to the other pages. 2- About Talk about youe story, detail your mission statement, why you are special and introduce your team. 3- Services / products / technology This is where the persona-based structure should be super visible. For instance, if you have services for HR managers and Sustainability managers, you should create a subcategory for each persona. You can also add a subcategory explaining your technology into more details. Just keep in mind that the technology story is often not enough, you really need potential clients need to quickly understand your technology’s use cases and the benefits they will get from them. 4- Clients' testimonials This is the area where you want to reassure prospects with endorsements, testimonials, reviews from initial clients and / or - if you don't have any yet- some use cases bringing to life your solution. 5- News and blog Create a category for your company’s news, announcement and all the amazing articles / thought leadership pieces you're going to produce. This category is a nice to have to raise your profile an create some fresh content that will help with SEO. Add it later if you don’t have the resources to produce content yet. In the mean time, use your social channels to share news end content. 6 - Contact This is a super important area where a lot of calls to action from other pages should lead visitors. Make it easy for all your personas to contact you and for you to respond. To that extent, it might be useful to have different email addresses for different needs and to create a form to profile and pre-qualify visitors. Save time and hassle by using a website builder Website builders such as Wix -which we are using for our own website- Squarespace or Webflow do not require any technical skills and will save you a lot of time and hassle. They are super affordable with all inclusive plans and support from £10/month. They have a lot of customizable templates to choose from, which will keep your site UX neat while saving you a lot of visual design headaches. Their integrated tools for SEO, content creation and digital marketing are also super handy for future marketing activities. A lot of entrepreneurs think about WordPress as a free open source CMS, but I find it really is too complex and risky for people who haven't got previous experience with it. The back end is super complex compared to website builders, not to mention you have to pay and manage your own hosting, domains and maintenance - such as plugins updates. Design with a mobile first approach Design and build your pages starting with the mobile version. This will force you to streamline each page and identify the must have contents. It will also allow to check whether your pictures and copy work on a mobile screen. Invest in a professional-looking branding Once you have done the strategic thinking around your brand mission and your website structure, you’ll need to bring it all to life visually. It is worth hiring a brand designer - we have some good ones at the C Collective ;) - to create branding assets and style guides. In a few days of work, you can have a sleek logo, colour palette, iconography and typography guidelines which will make your branding work harder for you across your website, social media and presentations. Test your design with real users Try to show your website at different stages - Information architecture, wireframes, visual design- to normal people outside your team. The idea is to get people to look at it with a fresh pair of eyes and get as much spontaneous feedback as possible, as early as possible. Using DIY A/B testing is a good way to make a quick decision between several copy styles or design routes.

https://www.theccollective.com/post/how-to-bootstrap-a-simple-website-for-your-sustainable-start-up

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Continuing on my travel adventures, this time around I am in a little small town called Orchard, roughly 30 mins away by train from where I lived. For my two day one night trip, I decided to book the YOTEL Singapore. I found a decent rate over the weekend and the location is lovely too. You have easy access to the MRT Station via sheltered walkways and tons of malls full of F&B options to choose from. YOTEL Singapore is a solid 4-Star hotel just beside Shaw Centre and it offers cosy accommodation known as cabins. Property space isn’t their strongest suit but the rooms are alright for a couple or solo travellers for short stays. With that, follow me on and check out my 22nd unique property in Singapore. Booking Process & Pre Arrival Traveloka frequently runs sales for various hotel nowadays and these are usually available for a limited time on their Telegram Channel. I managed to grab a deal at YOTEL Singapore in the Premium Queen Cabin, their base level room for just 108 SGD Nett. It is even sweeter that this is for a weekend stay. Moreover, there is a 30 dollars promo code to apply. That brings down the daily rate to 78 SGD Nett. A super sweet rate for a weekend getaway. I have been wanting to check it out for a long time. The hotel is just next to Shaw Centre and Shaw House in the heart of Orchard. It is easily accessible via MRT and parking is also available at the hotel. The hotel does not provide parking for in-house guests and one-time exit parking coupon cost 21.40 SGD. This can be bought via the check-in counter. YOTEL Singapore has a total of 604 rooms spread across 7 categories. It is a rather huge property. All rooms and suites here do not have a bathtub. If that is a factor this is the place for you. Rooms are mainly 14 Sqm in size and differ in being on a higher floor, boosting a better view. There is also a couple of larger suites. Rooms Bathtub Size No. of Rooms Premium Queen No 14 Sqm 274 Premium Queen View No 14 Sqm 138 Premium Queen with Bunk No 14 Sqm 120 Premium Queen View with Bunk No 14 Sqm 51 First Class Queen No 16 Sqm 13 First Class King Junior Suite No 37 Sqm 7 VIP King Suite View No 74 Sqm 1 Checking In Early check-in was guaranteed at 11am. This is definitely nice given that it is on a weekend. I arrive shortly around that time and it is still rather quiet at this time. I was immediately helped to and there is no wait. Check-in was fast and efficient. I was also informed of the service changes and details on reserving the hotel facilities. They also very nicely upgraded my room to one on a higher floor with a view. The check out timing has been extended to 5pm as well. The lobby area was rather lovely and I love the entrance area. The whole vibes kinda remind me a little of the Aloft brand. The main hotel lobby is located on level 2. There is also a sheltered walkway on the left to International Plaza, Shaw Centre and the MRT station. The hotel restaurant, pool and gym can be found on level 10. Premium Queen View Cabin I was upgraded to a Premium Queen View room or cabin as they called it here. It is the same room as the base level one which I have booked, but instead located on a higher floor where the cabin comes with a view. I was assigned a room on level 27, room 2715. The room faces the Paterson Road direction and offers a view of the quaint Orchard residential area. The cabin is small, coming at a cosy 14 Sqm, you can see the entire room in one look! I do find the place nicely appropriated. While this is not the newest hotel in town I do have to say that the upkeep was good. The hard product and finishes in the room still look fresh and new. It is mainly in a squarish configuration. The high ceilings definitely help in making the room less claustrophobic. Immediately upon entering you can see the bed in the middle. I am a huge fan of YOTEL beds and love their mattress and pillows. It is rare to find such quality beddings in non-luxury hotels. I can say that some 5-Star hotels brand names do not offer beddings as good as YOTEL. They use a special gel memory foam mattress which awesome back support. You can also adjust the top half portion of the bed up and down. Something like aircraft seats where you can make it into a lazing position or a fully flat surface for sleeping! It does make quite a scene when you are adjusting, so do make sure to get it done before your partner snooze off. The Smart TV is of a good size and high quality! You can find it mounted on the wall directly facing the bed and there are tons of Cable TV Channels available. For the sports fans, you will be glad to find that both Mio Sports and Fox Sports channels are available. Besides that, you can also easily cast your phone and even connect via Bluetooth to play music thru the TV. I love the set-up here. They even have an accessible HDMI port installed by the side of the bed making it easy to connect your laptop. This is something that I can’t comprehend how a lot of luxury hotels will miss out on. I love the design here and you can find little quirks that they have to save space. You can find racks and storage are located behind panels that can be pop out by the side of the TV. For example some little hooks for jackets. A flip-out table or panel for placing some lightweight items. You can even find an ironing kit and an umbrella hidden behind the pop-out panels. This is how it looks like when fully opened. On the left of the bed, this is where you can find the minibar area which acts as a bedside table too. A kettle alongside some disposable cups is provided. Nothing fancy here besides some packaged teas and instant coffee. You can also find a fold-up seat and a mini-fridge below. The fridge is kept empty for your convenience. I love that outlets can be in reach from the bed. The wifi was fast in the room and there is no issue streaming high-quality shows. There is even a safe here. In the corner of the room, you can find an open rack that acts as the wardrobe. A couple of hangers are provided and you have a little “cosy” luggage rack built in below. It nicely snuggles my cabin size suitcase. Bath slippers are provided and left here. The bathroom is located towards the far end of the room and in fact it is the bathroom that comes with a view rather than the room itself. Similar to the layout in Hotel G and M Social the basin is located outside of the bathroom and in the room itself. Dental kits are provided and toiletries are from Urban Skincare Co which were provided in dispenser bottles! They were high quality and a good offering YOTEL. Although common dispenser bottles do have their hygiene concerns in this era. Speak about showering with a view! The highlight of the room is definitely the bathroom and showering space which was very healthy. Behind a frosted glass door, you can find floor to ceilings windows spanning the view of the orchard enclave. The standing shower comes with both a rainforest shower and a handheld shower head. For those requiring more privacy, they have blinds here too. The water pressure and temperature control were excellent and I really enjoy the rainforest shower where the water cascade down like a waterfall from the high ceillings. The toiletries from Urban Skincare Co were great and had a pleasant scent. Gym Their swimming pool and gym are both in operation. However, advanced booking is required and this is only possible after checking in. Usage will be kept to 1 hour per booking. In line with the current government regulations, the gym can only be able to accommodate 5 people at a time. 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Read a pretty fascinating story today in People Magazine about former Cowboys linebacker Jeff Rohrer, who came out of the closet some time ago and now lives with his husband, his ex-wife and their two kids. It’s, to be polite, a quirky saga. Here’s the link. Anyhow, I was curious what people thought about the story, and found myself diving into this unfortunate thread on Twitter … And what I’d like to know from Chris Aubert and his conservative friends is this: Did you not vote for a man who cheated on his wife with a porn star just 10 days after she delivered his child—then paid her off? Did he not then pay off a Playboy model he also slept with? And did he not then brag of grabbing women by the pussy? I, too, find the Rohrer story sorta odd—not because he’s gay, but because he’s 23 years older than his husband and the two of them are living with his ex-wife. But if we’re going to judge and mock and ridicule and presume, let’s at least be consistent about our so-called moral stance, no? As I’ve noted 1,000 times before, I’m tired of the pro-military among us standing behind a man who just two months ago lied to the troops about a 10% raise that doesn’t exist; who mocked a POW, who had five draft deferments. I’m tired of the Christians among us standing behind a habitual cheater who mocks the needy, ignores the helpless, belittles everyone in site.

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Mayor Lioneld Jordan has called a Special City Council meeting for Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 5:30 PM in Room 219 of the City Administration Building, to discuss the Fayetteville Housing Authority’s 2018 Annual Plan and Rolling Five-Year Plan. If you have questions, please feel free to contact the Mayor’s Office at 479-575-8330.

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Growing up in a small town in Arizona, there wasn’t too much opportunity around for Justin Gaethje. For him, the only way out was through wrestling. So when the University of Northern Colorado called to offer him a scholarship, Gaethje packed his bags, left his family, and headed up to a new state for a chance at a college education. From there, the next four years were a grind. Collegiate wrestling, Gaethje says, was one of the toughest things he ever went through. He used to walk off the mat after every match with his feet cramping and his forearms on fire. Then, one day at practice, an assistant coach brought in a few MMA stars for a workout. They were big names in the sport—Georges St. Pierre, Donald Cerrone, Keith Jardine—and Gaethje outwrestled them all. He was always a fan of MMA, but this was the moment that sparked his decision to start fighting. Even with no experience in the sport, he says he knew he could do it simply because “they seem like normal people that work hard, and I'm a normal person that works hard.” Plus, it just looked fun. And that was it—with zero training under his belt, he went all in and started taking amateur fights in between wrestling seasons. Gaethje is, in many ways, a fearless soul. He welcomes the difficult path forward, and embraces the grind with open arms. It’s the mentality that got him through college wrestling, as well as propelled him to stardom in the UFC. Gaethje will be participating in the Beat the Streets Virtual Benefit as a featured speaker on September 17. FOOTBALL TO WRESTLING Football was probably my favorite sport growing up, but luckily I wasn't any bigger so I didn't pursue that. Then I got a call to go to UNC, and it was the best thing. The best decision I've ever made. SMALL TOWN REALITIES Coming from a small town like Safford, there's not necessarily a lot of opportunities. 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The base in northern Alabama will be staffed by highly trained pilots, flight nurses, flight paramedics and an on-site aviation maintenance technician. Air Evac Lifeteam announced its newest emergency air medical transport base in northern Alabama is now in service. Located in Athens, the new base will provide service to Limestone County and the surrounding regions. “We are proud to join the community of Athens and to be located close to our partners in care at Athens-Limestone Hospital,” said Debbie Jaggers, Senior Program Director for Air Evac Lifeteam. “Our dedicated teams look forward to providing access to a higher level of care to patients who have life- or limb-threatening injuries and illnesses.” Having a new air medical base located immediately next door to their facility means expedited care for the patients of Athens-Limestone Hospital. “To have an air medical service available and based in Limestone County is a tremendous benefit for our community,” said Traci Collins, President of Athens-Limestone Hospital. “For many years, Athens-Limestone Hospital and ALH Emergency Medical Services have worked closely with AirEvac to assist with scene flights and to transfer critical patients. We are excited to welcome them to Athens and look forward to working together to provide excellent care for our patients.” The Athens base will be staffed by highly trained and experienced pilots, flight nurses, and flight paramedics, and it will be maintained by an on-site aviation maintenance technician. The Bell 206 helicopter operated at this base will be medically configured with the latest avionics and safety features.Air Evac officials have also negotiated hangar space at Pryor Field Regional Airport to house the aircraft for standard maintenance and weather. Air Evac Lifeteam is a participating provider in the AirMedCare Network (AMCN), the nation’s largest air medical transport membership program with more than 320 air medical locations across 38 states. Members flown for a life-or limb-threatening injury or illness by an AMCN participating provider have no out-of-pocket costs for the flight. Whatever the member’s insurance or third-party insurance pays is considered payment in full. Annual memberships start at $85.

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With one month still remaining in 2021, November’s reported sales brought the total year-to-date sales to 115,716 residential properties sold. We will finish the year with approximately 122,000 sales, eclipsing the previous annual record for properties sold in 2016. In that year 113,040 properties traded hands. As will become evident, given the supply problems the market is experiencing, 2021’s record-breaking accomplishment is not likely to be surpassed for some time, and definitely not in 2022. In November 9,017 residential properties were reported sold, also a record number for any previous November. Last year 8,728 properties were sold, 3.3 percent fewer than this November. The big news coming out of the November data, aside from the new records achieved, was what’s happening to prices and the region’s disappearing inventory. In addition to being the strongest November on record, and breaking the annual record for total sales, November saw the Toronto and area average sale price climb into record territory. The average sale price for all properties reported sold came in at $1,163,323, almost 22 percent higher than last year’s average sale price ($955,889). November marks the sixth consecutive month of monthly increases. This streak started in June when the average sale price was a “mere” $1,089,135, 7 percent less than the average sale price for November. The pace of these monthly increases in average sale price began to accelerate in September when it became evident that the Toronto and area supply problem was moving from chronic to dangerous. The supply problem became even worse in November. Only 10,036 new listings came to market in November, 13.2 percent fewer than the 11,556 that came to market last year. Given the absorption rate – 9,017 properties were reported sold, almost the same number as came to market – combined with the few listings that realtors were able to bring to the market, we find ourselves entering December with only 6,086 properties available to buyers, an eye-popping 56 percent fewer listings (13,798) than at the same time last year. As unbelievable as these numbers are, depending on housing type and neighbourhood, the situation is even direr. For example, there were trading districts that reported no sales of semi-detached properties for November. The reason no sales were reported is due to the unnerving fact that no semi-detached properties came to market in November in those trading areas. No surprise that sales of all types of properties were happening at lightning speed. In the City of Toronto, all detached properties were reported sold in just 13 days. Semi-detached properties sold in just 11 days. In the 905 region, all semi-detached properties that came to market in November sold in a mere 8 days with some trading areas reporting sales at an even faster pace. All sales of semi-detached properties in Halton, which includes Burlington, Milton, and Oakville, were processed in only 4 days! Another milestone that was achieved in November was months of inventory. Given the data in this report, it won’t surprise anyone that for the first time months of inventory for the greater Toronto area dropped below one month. For the entire region, months of inventory came in at 0.9 months. In some trading areas, this number was, unbelievably, even lower. Durham region, which includes Ajax, Uxbridge, Oshawa, and Pickering ended the month with only 0.5 months of inventory.

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The first-ever Snowvana preseason party is on for October 21st and 22nd at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, and it is going to be huge. Here’s a quick list of what to expect: 1,000 lift ticket giveaways 5 Snowvana Season Passes good for all three Mt. Hood resorts plus Mt. Bachelor All sorts of free prizes will be raffled off during the two-day event: custom skis and snowboards from Oregon’s own Deviation and ON3P, helmets and goggles from POC, a pair of Armada 163s, and more. Winners will be announced Friday at 7pm and 9pm and Saturday at 1pm, 3pm and 6pm. 17 Concourse Level Booths Local shops such as Next Adventure, Hillcrest and the Mountain Shop will be in attendance with gear galore, along with global brands including Salomon, Atomic, Rossignol and Nordica. 39 Arena Level Booths Mt. Hood Ski Patrol, Sun Valley, ReRack, Mt. Hood Meadows, PACRAT ski racers, Hope on the Slopes, Ski to Defeat ALS, Lumberyard Indoor Bike Park, Mt. Hood Skibowl, Teton Gravity Research, the Mt. Hood Museum, the one and only Shred Hood (sorry) and many more. Free candy at the Shred Hood booth, so stop by and say hi! 4 top-notch bands playing from 6 pm until 10 pm on Friday Grammy-nominated Robert Wynia starts at 6 pm, followed by Portland-based Michelle DeCourcy and the Rocktarts at 7, The Federal Empire at 8 and the Dandy Warhols at 9. 8 of Oregon’s greatest Drink Artisans Sample libations and concoctions from 10 Barrel Brewing, Willamette Valley Vineyards, Rogue, Widmer, Bend Distillery (maker of Crater Lake Vodka) and Mt. Hood Brewing. (Take a train or Uber home if you plan to drink more than a couple, please.) 9 Skiing and Snowboarding films to get you stoked for 2016-17 Screenings will begin at 12:30 pm Saturday in the Georgia Pacific Room, off to the side from the main floor (the court where Bill Walton and the Blazers won it all in ’77. Here’s the film line-up for Saturday: 12:30 pm: Hometown feature Paradise Island Vol. 7 1 pm: Hometown Feature #2, Slow Your Roll and Satisfy the Soul 1:30 pm: Tom Wallisch’s Vice Versa 2:25 pm: Tanner Hall’s Ring the Alarm 3:20 pm: Some of the best female snowboarders in the world in Full Moon 4:25 pm: Level One’s Pleasure 5:40 pm: Match Stick Production’s Ruin and Rose There you have it. 1,000+5+17+39+4+8+9 = 1,082 reasons, unless I got the math wrong. Any other questions? Check the Snowvana website. Meadows regulars enjoying another fun weekend. Photo by Sean Jacks Carlos Martinez and Asit Rathod on the Hogsback A bunch of Schnees, that day Skibowl dedicated Dogleg to Bill Johnson. See you there! Ben Jacklet is editor of Shred Hood, which launched in October 2013 with a mission to provide a lively flow of news and information for Mount Hood enthusiasts. You can sign up for free Shred Hood E-Mags here, or like the Shred Hood Facebook page here.

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