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Chloe, I love this idea. I am looking forward to reading it. I am also interested in understanding your writing process. It’s so different from person to person – I would really like to know what feels best to you when you right – what method works best for you.
what feel best to you when you WRITE … sheesh. I do have a better education than that.
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Radio Atlantic: How Has America Changed Since 1968?
This entry was posted in Agent Orange, Black Power, Cambodia, Civil Rights Mov., Counterculture, Documentary, Draft board, Ho Chi Minh, LSD, Marijuana, MLKJr., Movie, Music, My Lai, Napalm, Nixon, Project Mercury, R. McNamara, Rob. Kennedy, Vietnam War, Weather Underground and tagged Agent Orange, Black Power, Cambodia, Civil Rights Mov., Counterculture, Documentary, Draft board, Ho Chi Minh, LSD, Marijuana, MLKJr., Movie, Music, My Lai, Napalm, Nixon, R. McNamara, Rob. Kennedy, Viet Cong, Vietnam War. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-25T17:52:10Z
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This is a quote from a professional trade magazine and reflects the typical misunderstanding of some absolute terms, including “unique.” The definition from Merriam-Webster.com says “unique” is: “being the only one” or “being without a like or equal.” The site also acknowledges that “With popular use came a broadening of application beyond the original two meanings…” Examples included “very unique ball-point pen” or “fairly unique.” This shows the unfortunate trend toward carelessness in language which has also produced “pre-owned” cars to mean “used” and “everyone has their opinion.” I assure you these will be dealt with in the future!
It’s understood that language may change over time so that what was unacceptable usage once is now “OK.” At some point, however, the often unpopular logic should intervene. “Unique” is an absolute. There is no scale where we can measure how close something is to being unique. Either it is or it isn’t.
To use comparisons or modifications of the term flies in the face of reason. Saying that something has more unique properties than something else would be correct because, in this case, the uniqueness of each property stands alone without modification. However, saying that a property is quite or more unique would be similar to declaring something or someone is “so best” or “very worst.” Granted, this situation is not identical because “best” and “worst” are superlatives in a comparison sequence. Nevertheless, I hope the point is made.
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2019-04-20T20:55:32Z
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There. 5 Icon/user pic/avatar thingies. From my walls. cuz im lazy or I just haven't made an icon in yrs.
Anime: K & Tokyo Ghoul.
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2019-04-21T07:05:14Z
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Back when I first moved to the Heights (which, as my kids say, is when dinosaurs roamed the Earth), the choices for going out to eat were somewhat limited in quantity. It was definitely at Adams’ “How” phase. The options were few, far between and generally just outside the neighborhood altogether.
Looking around the Heights these days, it’s clear that modern times have arrived. The options are more plentiful and varied than could have been imagined back in the days when the streets pretty well rolled up at sunrise. I wrote about this variety last year (link here), putting together a hypothetical four consecutive weekends of quality eats where not a single restaurant was repeated.
However, let’s say you didn’t want to spend those four weekends, but instead had just the one evening and you wanted to try as many Heights area restaurants as you can. Luckily for you, that opportunity is at hand, thanks to some good-hearted volunteers at All Saints Catholic Church.
I think I may need more than three forks at this year’s event.
The 10th annual Great Taste of the Heights will provide a chance for over 20 area restaurants to showcase their wares in one setting, that being All Saints, 215 East 10th, from 5-10 p.m. Saturday, May 16. Unlike the past week or the beginning of the week to come, Saturday’s weather looks like we’re going to get a brief break from the rain, at least long enough to chow down, which is all we can ask for, right?
The annual Great Taste of the Heights has become a tradition in the neighborhood, and is a wonderful fundraiser for All Saints. It’s also a cheap, cheap way to sample the food at these restaurants as advance tickets are the event are only $25, or $35 at the door. Those are all-you-can-eat tickets, by the way, which by any measure is an incredible bargain, even more so when you include the live music. Click on that link to find four area locations selling tickets or to purchase online (though online sales end today).
Hope to see you out there. Even better, napkins will be available, so even though Douglas Adams advised otherwise, you can leave your towel at home.
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“You cluck and they’ll cluck back,” a woman whispers in my ear. She’s been teaching herself to speak with fowl, mainly chickens and ducks. Everyone regards her as mad, of which she definitely seems — her hair is ragged and face gaunt. She wears a long grey trench coat and spends most of the time in the filthy street outside my work making strange noises. Come to think of it, she’s always there, no matter what time of day I pass. There’s a good chance she doesn’t sleep. She does have one thing working against the popular theory that she is insane, however, and that is that the fowl do talk back. That can’t be denied.
That same day she whispered those words in my ear I witnessed her speaking with the severed head of a duck. Its skin was iridescent, without feathers. And despite its dismembered state it was indeed clucking back at the old woman. It’s funny I say “old” when I refer to her . . . because she isn’t in fact old; she seems old, no, she seems ancient, but she is probably younger than me.
Anyways, she picks up this iridescent quacking duck head by its long neck, and I can see large fangs in its mouth. They look like the fangs of a rattlesnake. She’s unconcerned with them. So unconcerned that she begins petting them with her index finger, slowly gliding it over the white fangs. The duck seems to be charmed by the sensation and its eyes begin to roll around in its head. As they do so I notice a speck of green peeking through the white of its cornea; which, at an opportune moment, the woman pinches with her dirty nails and out slithers a long worm. I pick it up to get a closer look. The worm has a human face. My face.
We are now living in post-apocalyptic cities where nothing grows and all industrial progress has ceased. The sun never shines here, it is always dark. There are no animals left, we have eaten them all — there are only trees, decrepit buildings, and us. Without animals we no longer have a reference that we can point to and claim the vague animator we call “instinct” exists; nor do we have operational machines to tear into the land. Without these we no longer feel dominion over anything; and even the most Earth loving among us are weak and angry.
The boys are marching off to war. There is a black clothed team and a white clothed team. I’m with the black. This war is a senseless game, neither side has a goal; but people will die, many people will die. While marching into the silent and empty forest I desert my company and build a raft out of old animal bones and twigs. I float down a tame stream and arrive at a place where I am stuck inside a photographic book that is similar to a high school year book. There is always one photo that is animated and talking. The type of dialogue taking place is like that of an evening news show conducting an interview. I am asked what I think the biggest problem we now face is. The page turns and my photograph is animated — in it I am a teenager, I have long hair and I’m wearing a red KGB shirt with a hammer & sickle decal on it. I proclaim proudly (in the way only a teenager can) that it is because we have abandoned ourselves, and that I have never abandoned anything. But my adult self who is wittnessing my talking teenage photograph knows this is not true — I have just abandoned my army.
I woke up with patches of a milky oily film all over my body. There must be something in this water. There are tiny painless red bumps forming all over my body, some are larger than others. They seem to be gestating under the hazy film. I can’t get it off, the warm water just beads off—I think the milk is weeping out of my pores. This wasn’t here yesterday. Something must be wrong.
Doesn’t matter, I have to get to a funeral. It is for a musician I admire a great deal—his name is Nils Frykdahl. His body is in the trunk of a car and is clothed in a red ritual robe. Friends and fans are paying their respects to him by placing severed fingers on his chest over his heart. I don’t know where the fingers were obtained. Nils begins to shake violently and a wide closed-mouth grin stretches out on his face. Moments later I can see that his teeth are checkered pink and black. He hops out of the trunk and humbly bows before the crowd. People are thankful for the performance.
I see a monolithic-like cube building over the hill behind the funeral car that I have never seen before. In fact, I know it wasn’t there—this is a new building. I decide to explore it. Inside it is full of staircases that seem to go nowhere. Some of the steps are too high for regular-sized people to climb. The cube’s architecture is emotionless and cold. It is much narrower but also taller than it appears from the outside. Glossy black stone square blocks, the size of two people tall, make up the walls. There doesn’t seem to be an end to the height of the building, and as I start walking up one for the spiraling staircases I see that there isn’t a bottom either. There are no windows in the building, and no lights, but somehow I can see. The building is lit by my vision alone. As I climb the stairs my reflection is scattered all over the glossy black walls. I see myself walking in every direction—up, down, backwards, and sideways. I look out at my hand. I don’t have any fingers. I look to my reflections to see if they have any fingers. They don’t. I don’t care. I don’t need them anymore.
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I’ve now got a goal of running at least a mile a day. I know the true runners of the world with more energy bars than friends would say, “Psh! I could do that with my legs tied behind my back,” but for now that’s all I need. I don’t want to say that the effects are immediate, but the effects are immediate. I feel like the rubber man, you know, the one who toured around with the sideshows. Yeah, I feel great!
But I have a feeling that it’s going to cut into my other routines of lying around and thinking of things to write, so I’m hoping to try out a method of writing a week’s worth of posts tomorrow when I have time and then I won’t have to worry about breaking this goal to keep another.
By the way–and when I say by the way I mean it as if I’m in Portland, Oregon, and I’m giving directions to a friend to get from San Diego to the Hoover Dam and I tell them that my house is by the way, when really I just want them to drink a cup of coffee and make sweet coffee-stained music with them–I am still waiting for more people to chime in about what makes them happy. Leaving a comment is simple, and it doesn’t have to be anything personal. I just want to make this a community effort, this happiness.
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2019-04-20T05:14:21Z
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All Entries Tagged With: "game recap"
The Green Bay Packers ended the 2018 season in God awful fashion with a thumping 31-0 loss to the hapless Detroit Lions at Lambeau Field.
The Green Bay Packers visit Minnesota, the Green Bay Packers go home losers. Again.
Rinse, repeat. Green Bay Packers face the Seattle Seahawks on the road and come home losers. The image above looks all-too familiar.
The Green Bay Packers finally got a win. They beat the Miami Dolphins 31-12 at Lambeau Field just as some flurries started to fall.
The Green Bay Packers put together another poor showing on the road and went home losers to the Detroit Lions by a score of 31-23.
The Green Bay Packers fell to the Kansas City Chiefs by a score of 33-21 and dropped to 2-2 on the preseason.
Green Bay Packers football is back. Almost.
Happy New Years to our readers, Packers fans and everyone except for Vikings fans!!
The Packers needed overtime for a second-straight week to get a win but, as they say, a win is a win. On to the day's best and worst.
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2019-04-22T16:01:10Z
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Posted on April 11, 2014. Brought to you by superpages.
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The year began with recovery from a cold/flu virus that had struck me down just after Christmas 2014. As I write this review I am pleased to report that in the Christmas holiday 2015 I am well.
On the teaching front, the year did not involve any new material, having made extensive changes in 2013-14. It started in January with my X-ray diffraction lectures having a second outing, followed by quantum chemistry/statistical thermodynamics (which had also been recently revised). Later in the year my teaching included advanced quantum chemistry and materials chemistry lectures, again having a second outing. My Forensics teaching included revised lectures on Arson given in the autumn. I travelled to Nottingham Trent University in June for my third external examining visit, which went smoothly.
Research in the first half of 2015 was dominated by Giordano Bispo’s visit. His project involved use of supercells to model a material with partial occupancies, and it was (and continues to be) very challenging. He will be submitting his PhD thesis in 2016, which will hopefully include some of this work. In addition I started a new project with ‘old’ collaborators in Germany, which included a visit to Goslar and Clausthal in June. I only attended two conferences this year, one in Bristol, where an old student kindly invited me to give a talk, even though the main theme of the conference was Analytical Chemistry (!), and the annual RSC Solid State Group Chemistry meeting, which was held this year at the University of Kent. At this meeting I didn’t contribute to the scientific proceedings, but I did stand for Group Treasurer, and was elected by 41 votes to 19!
On the musical front, I continued to play in three orchestras (South Cheshire, Middlewich and Keele), and was involved in concerts for all of them. They were all fun, but unlike in 2014, none of the programmes were particularly interesting or challenging. Let’s hope that changes in 2016.
I had my annual visit to the GBBF in August, which I posted about earlier in the year, and we had a short holiday in Brussels in September, which was well timed (although not by design) to coincide with the start of the Belgian Beer Weekend (which I also posted on). I am very fond of Brussels, and the fact it is accessible by Eurostar is the icing on the cake.
2015 was dominated by a General Election, and although the result was very bad for me, it had a positive personal effect in a way. I had continued to support Labour, even though I left the party in 2013, and I had quite high hopes for them in the General Election. In the end, the poll predictions all proved to be wrong (apart from Angela’s predictions, which were also right about Labour’s collapse in Scotland), and the Tories won with an overall majority. As a result, Labour had a leadership election, and the left-wing candidate Jeremy Corbyn won. But before the result of the leadership election had even been announced, I had made the decision to join the Liberal Democrats, and to look for Social Democrats within the party to align with. I just couldn’t continue as a Labour supporter, especially with Corbyn as leader! Anyway, after reading posts on LibDemVoice, I made contact with George Kendall, who was interested in reviving the Social Democrat tradition in the party. I am now helping George to set up a Social Democrat Group. I am also active in my local party, where I was appointed Social Media Officer and webmaster in November. So for me, something good came out of the General Election, in that I have now found a political home in which I am much happier.
Finally, I should add a tech update. Early in 2015 I upgraded my mobile phone to a Sony Xperia Z3, and it has worked very well throughout the year. At the moment I have no immediate plans for an upgrade; we’ll see what emerges during 2016. There will be a new flavour of Android, for example. And on the laptop front, my Microsoft Surface 3 continues to serve me well. I also invested in a Sony Smart Watch as a Christmas present, and I’m just getting used to what it can do. I’ll post a review in due course.
The main challenges for 2016 will be to try to consolidate my research activities, which don’t seem very strong at the moment, to make a useful contribution in my political activities, and to help the RSC Solid State Chemistry Group maintain a secure financial position. Let’s hope I succeed!
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Endura’s design team is full of cyclists who ride every day. So when it comes to designing new clothing, they know exactly what a rider needs in every cycling situation. Endura cycle clothing is made with the highest quality materials and innovative features that truly benefit the rider.
From jerseys to cycling shorts and everything in between, Endura creates high performing cycle gear. Use the search filters on the left to narrow down what you’re looking for or just scroll through their products – a couple of highlights include Endura overshoes and the Endura FS260 range where you’ll find all sorts of pro-quality clothing designs.
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2019-04-23T00:15:02Z
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https://www.evanscycles.com/endura_b
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These three items -- Service Level Agreement (SLA), Service Metrics, and Service Milestones -- can be linked in the About the Service sidebar section. Additional content can be linked there as well.
Find the Business Service page you wish to edit.
Scroll down and expand the Service Links section.
Scroll to the bottom of the form and follow the standard procedure for publishing content.
Note: you can use the Other Links field to add additional hyperlinks to the Service Delivery box.
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Will there be a Final Fantasy 8 film?
How do you make a boy love you forever?
If adjusted for inflation the top moneymaking film in American Film is Gone With The Wind which was released in 1939.
How do you make sure they stay with you forever?
How do you make films?
How do you make bread last forever?
You Don't. It Gets Old and Stale to say the least. If You Try to save it it gets freezer burned.
How do you grow from a 8 month relationship to make it last forever?
How do you make the sun live forever?
What is the name of the horror film with 8 blonde kids who make people kill themselves?
The film is Village Of The Damned. There are 9 children (10 were born but one was stillborn).
Is Shrek forever after the last Shrek film?
How do you make your hair wavy forever?
Who took films and pictures of walk on moon?
How do you make your hands soft forever?
I think that would be impossible, you either use cream but it won't last forever.
How do you make a guy see your the one for him forever?
Only the guy can see that you're the one for him; there's nothing that you can do, he must see it for himself.
Can god make you live forever?
How do you make your hair straight forever?
There is no way to do that but you can always get a straight perm so it lasts longer.
Will there be a Saw 8 film?
Do they make tires that last forever?
yes, but they chose not to manufacture it because they wouldn't make any money from people buying new tires anymore.
When a hair is curly how can i make a straight forever?
Is there a drug that makes you live forever?
No, but there are drugs that (for a while) may make you think you will live forever.
What film took John Wayne 8 years to find right location?
How do you make you hair curly forever?
Sadly you can't, you just need to keep curling it with the available tools/gadgets on the market for doing so, or attend a quaffer every other day.
Did Ernst Stavro Blofeld die in the film Diamonds are Forever?
No , Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Charles Gray) returns to die another day in For Your Eyes Only (1981), where James Bond (Roger Moore) drops him down a chimney with a helicopter.
When did the film titanic took place?
The film was made in late '96 / early '97, and released later on in 1997.
What makes a film a film?
What kind of music does After Forever make?
After Forever produce music with a heavy metal genre that can also be described as death metal.The band use a mixture of soprano vocals and manly screams and grunts.
What product does Forever Living make?
Who directed the film Forever and a Day?
How can you make magnets move forever?
Do they make a gum that last forever?
No. Any business making a gum that lasts "forever" would go out of business - because you'd never need to buy any more.
When was On a Clear Day You Can See Forever - film - created?
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever - film - was created on 1970-06-17.
What is the duration of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever film?
The duration of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever - film - is 2.15 hours.
Was the actor Mel Gibson in the film called Forever Young?
Yes, Mel Gibson did appear in Forever Young. The film was released in 1992. He played the role of Captain Daniel McCormick.
Is the actress Drew Barrymore in the film Batman Forever?
Yes, Drew Barrymore is in the film Batman Forever. She plays the role of Sugar.
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The Baja Portalegre 500 cross-country rally is being held in the Portalegre municipality of the Alentejo region in the eastern part of Portugal, near the Spanish border. Organised by the Portuguese Automobile Association, official competition vehicle inspections took place on Thursday this week ahead of the rally beginning. The Outlander plug-in hybrid EV (PHEV), Mitsubishi Motors’ rally car, passed without any problems and is the only entrant in the newly-established TE class .
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In university, I almost believed it. This doctrine of might makes right in world affairs. I should say I almost believed in it. But, then I started to think about that a little. And I became of the mind that we need to do everything we can to make sure people have basic human rights the world over. I guess I also say this as someone who has always been a little different.
It takes a lot of courage to consistently stand up for human rights, especially within countries that are very much part of the international system. China is a great example. That is why I am so inspired by these folks who unfurled a Free Tibet banner off the Great Wall of China this week.
This is important work - thank you to all of you who risked your own safety to take part!
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Fixed Departures for the 3 styles of Chadar are available i.e.
(Day-03) – Leh – Chilling – Tilath sumdo (By Road)–Shingrak. Night Stay in Camp near cave.
(Day-04) – Shingrak – Muska La – Choumo Cave (By Trek) Night Stay in Cave / Camp.
(Day-05) – Choumo Cave – Tipouma – Dib Cave – Nyrakpula Village (By Trek). Night Stay in Camp / Home stays in Village.
(Day-06) – Nyrakpula Village – Lingshed Village. Night Stay in Camp / Home stays in Village.
(Day-07) – Spend an entire day resting in Lingshed, one of the most remote villages in Ladakh. Visit monastery, school for monks and explore the village. Night Stay in Camp / Home stays in Village.
(Day-08) – Lingshed Village – Nyrakpula Village – Dib Cave. Night Stay in Camp/Cave.
(Day-09) Dib Cave – Choumo cave/Muska La. Night Stay in Camp / cave.
Itinerary :: Full Chadar Trek (14 Days including 1 back-up day).
Arrive in leh. Transfer to hotel rest for acclimatization (strictly a Rest day).
It takes about an hour to get used to the “ladakhi shuffle” of walking on the frozen zanskar. Boots with “sticky” soles are helpful as well as the poles. Practise walking in the afternoon. Camp at tilat sumdo.
Leave camp by about 8.30am. Continue along the chadar to the cave at bakula bawo. It is believed that the first bakula rinpoche of ladakh spent a week meditating in this cave. A juniper tree above the cave is considered holy to the locals who traverse this gorge. Camp at shingra.
Leave camp by about 8.30am. We stop for lunch at tsemodo for about an hour and continue to camp at tipp bawo. The water in this particular section tends to melt more easily and we may at times have to traverse the steep rocks due to the melting ice. If there is no proper campsite, we will go further to camp at gyalpo. – 3170m. Camp at tipp bawo.
This can become a difficult day if the chadar is not very firm. The scenery though is stunning as we pass incredible frozen waterfalls which look like ice cliffs. If you look closely chances are that you will see blue sheep, ibex clinging onto the cliffs. Stop for lunch enroute at yokmado near one of the many caves used by the zanskaris at night and continue to walk on the chadar to camp at nyerak pulu. The village is high above the river. (if the chadar is in good condition this walk will take about 6 hrs otherwise it may take upto 8 hrs). Camp at nyerak.
Visit the monastery in the morning then trek for 2 hrs through the valley before reaching the frozen chadar. We then begin our walk on the frozen river to tsarak dho. 5 – 6hrs and from there the will pickup and drive to centre of the Zanskar region Padum.
We will walk around the Padum and stakrimo gonpa and visit the the karsha monastery and the village karsha by jeep.
Day 13: fly to Delhi.
Yap, looks good.. i have done few treks in hims max alone, but going in group will always be fun, thanks, and iam interested, you can mail me the other details….
or you send me your email id and I will send you the other details.
Hi, I’d like to know the details, too.
please send me your email id so that I can send you the details.
Hi Rohit, hv been doing Nubra and Spiti on my bike for the last many years. Howver, this is the first time that I look forward to a trek. Count me in punk. What do I do to join and not skip it?
I have mailed you the details.
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Welcome to Vardys Road Public School.
We aim to create a caring environment where staff, students and parents are valued and respected and where quality education is provided for all students.
We aim to ensure that all students attain their academic and creative potential and develop interpersonal skills that will enable them to contribute responsibly to a changing society.
To encourage student commitment to personal excellence based on a set of positive values and acceptance of responsibility for their own learning.
To foster a strong partnership between teachers, students and parents based upon trust, respect and co-operation.
To create a learning environment that is happy, safe and supportive and one in which achievement is promoted and celebrated.
To encourage the professional development of teachers.
To develop an effective communication network.
To develop respect for others and an appreciation of Australia's heritage.
To develop a capacity for change in the school community.
To support the school's identified priorities by ensuring equitable allocation and effective use of resources.
Vardys Road Public School is located on the boundary of two western Sydney suburbs, Kings Langley and Seven Hills. The former gained its name from Mathew Pearce's land grant of 22 July 1795. He had arrived at Sydney Cove on board the "Surprise" on 2 May 1794. Upon receiving his land grant, he named it Kings Langley after the village in which he was born. This village is 20 miles from London.
Mathew Pearce is also responsible for the naming of Seven Hills for it was from his original land grant that seven hills were visible. The official name of the Seven Hills district can be traced back to 1800.
Vardys Road gained its name from an ex-convict, John Vardy, who arrived in the colony on board 'The Queen' in 1791. By 1802 he had been 'freed by servitude' and was registered as a labourer. His son John was granted the land on which the school was built, sometime after 1812.
The Minister for Education, Mr R. J. Heffron, approved of the establishment of Vardys Road Public School on 2 April 1959. It was opened on 24 May 1960, and by 1961 had an enrolment of 330 pupils. Mr Edward Hicks was its first principal.
Our school crest bears the state floral emblem, the waratah, and the Australian wattle. It clearly symbolises our place in Australia.
Our motto, 'I Aspire' reflects the aspirations of our students in working towards attaining their place in a forever changing society.
And always do the right.
You our school we hail!
To our school be true.
Our pledge is based on the Australian Citizenship Pledge. At all formal assemblies and events, we reaffirm our promise to become great Australian citizens.
the freedom and the rights that we share.
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2019-04-24T18:13:41Z
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https://vardysroad-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school.html
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"... Abstract—Information technology is changing the business value chain and business systems. This situation is due to the business value chain and the value creation factors in business. Technology companies and researchers are developing new businesses, but many companies and researchers cannot find ..."
in management. Finally, the business attributes of information technology are studied through a review of previous research that has been conducted on this topic.
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2019-04-19T05:26:54Z
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https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/search?q=Analysis+of+Business+Attributes+in+Information+Technology+Environments
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Despite president’s recent sympathetic comments about their plight, many so-called Dreamers fear they too could face deportation.
For nearly 2 million so-called DREAMers — undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children or young teenagers — the initial weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency have been anxious ones.
DREAMers like Brenda, who spoke on condition that she only be identified by her first name out of concern for being targeted, and their advocates say their apprehension has grown amid conflicting signals on immigration and the fate of DACA sent by the new president and his administration.
Trump has backtracked on a campaign promise to end DACA and has hinted he is open to the possibility of a compromise on illegal immigration that could provide permanent legal status to those brought into the country as youngsters by parents or other relatives.
“DACA is a very, very difficult subject for me, I will tell you,” he said at a Feb. 16 news conference, adding that there are “some absolutely, incredible kids” in the program.
At the same time, he has dramatically expanded immigration enforcement efforts nationwide. And though his executive orders did not roll back DACA, at least two undocumented immigrants who participated in the program have been taken into custody by federal agents in recent weeks.
That has some legal experts urging eligible immigrants to refrain from signing up for DACA, which requires applicants to provide personal information, fingerprints and undergo an extensive background check, until the situation becomes clearer.
“(Applicants) should get their individual situation assessed to weigh the pros and cons and understand the ramifications,” said Amy Rose, legal director of ACLU of Nevada.
Michael Kagan, a UNLV law professor and director of the school’s Immigration Clinic, was more blunt.
“This is not something that someone who is at risk of deportation would want to do because you are essentially telling the Department of Homeland Security, ‘Here I am,’” he said.
That concern has been evident at recent immigrant community events, including one Tuesday at Rancho High School in support of the BRIDGE Act, a bipartisan bill that would provide all DREAMers with DACA-like protections that could only be repealed or altered by Congress.
That event was attended by some DACA participants, but friends with U.S. citizenship spoke on their behalf.
Astrid Silva of Las Vegas, who has emerged as a national spokeswoman for the DREAMers because of high-profile appearances on behalf of the Democratic Party, said such concerns are understandable given the political climate.
The DACA issue has divided conservatives. Some hard-liners have urged Trump to act on his campaign promises to remove anyone who illegally entered the U.S.
“The administration isn’t being hard-line enough on the DACAs because Trump campaigned saying that DACA was an illegal program and would be ended on day one,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
Other Trump supporters, like Tori Alby of Reno and Niger Innis of North Las Vegas, say they agree with the president that the DREAMers deserve special consideration.
Despite such sentiments, those in DACA remain concerned that Congress and the administration could end the program and revoke their temporary legal status, which must be renewed every two years.
Francisco, another Las Vegas DREAMer, who was brought to the U.S. from Mexico at the age of 2 by his parents, said being undocumented wasn’t a big problem when he was a kid, attending Clark County public schools.
But as he aged, he began to encounter situations where his undocumented status was problematic, such as taking the SAT, applying for college scholarships and getting a driver’s license, all situations where he was asked to supply a Social Security number. He said he began avoiding such rites of passage.
That changed after President Barack Obama enacted DACA in June 2012.
With the work permit and protection from deportation it provided, he also was able to pursue the American dream in earnest, earning a bachelor’s degree at UNLV, excelling in his career and last year buying a two-story, 2,500-square-foot home in Las Vegas.
Her renewal came through without a hitch, she said, allowing her to continue with her studies at UNLV and pursue her goal of becoming a high school guidance counselor working with minority and undocumented students.
Contact Lucy Hood at [email protected] or 702 387-2904. Follow @lucyahood on Twitter.
Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained Dreamer Daniela Vargas after she denounced ramped up immigration raids, including the arrests of her brother and father, at a news conference in Jackson, Mississippi. Vargas had enrolled in DACA, but her status expired in November because she could not immediately afford the cost of renewal, her attorney said.
As Vargas’ case unfolded, Dreamer Daniel Ramirez Medina was well into his third week in custody after ICE agents arrested him at his father’s home outside Seattle. In court filings, the Justice Department claims Ramirez admitted to having gang ties, while his attorneys say he is a law-abiding father who, as part of the DACA renewal process, passed two background checks determining he was not a threat to national security or public safety.
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2019-04-19T21:05:03Z
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https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/young-undocumented-in-las-vegas-wait-as-trump-weighs-daca/
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Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United could lock horns for the signature of Torino midfielder Soualiho Meite this summer.
Amid reported interest in the Croatia international from Arsenal, Luciano Spalletti says Ivan Perisic cannot leave Inter for free.
Armando Izzo's header earned Torino a 1-0 home win against Inter in Serie A on Sunday, Ivan Perisic having handed in a transfer request.
Cristiano Ronaldo has adapted seamlessly since joining Juventus but Massimiliano Allegri is ready to give the 33-year-old a break.
Massimiliano Allegri could not bear to watch as Cristiano Ronaldo settled the Derby della Mole in Juventus' favour from the penalty spot.
Juventus superstar Cristiano Ronaldo grabbed himself a piece of club history by scoring the Bianconeri's 5,000th goal in Serie A.
Juventus were below par in a tense derby against Torino before Simone Zaza's error allowed Cristiano Ronaldo to seal the three points.
Torino will have to contend with Cristiano Ronaldo in Saturday's derby showdown but Massimiliano Allegri is ready to give his star a rest.
Juventus take on local rivals Torino on Saturday and Cristiano Ronaldo knows Bianconeri fans will not accept anything other than victory.
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2019-04-25T19:44:58Z
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https://www.fourfourtwo.com/torino
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1: If it’s really about religious convictions, why do they build their business on cheap products from China?
1a: If the test is “sincerely held beliefs”, shouldn’t the SCOTUS be asking questions to actually establish the sincerity of that belief, or otherwise looking for consistency? Much as a human can only get away with things like faith healing or conscientious objector status if they can demonstrate that they really believe in it?
2: The argument that it’s the employer’s money, therefore they have somehow sullied themselves if it is spent on contraception, is dumb. If the employer still has say over what the employee does with their pay or benefits, then surely the employer is beholden to the employee’s preferences, since it was the employee that originally did the work to earn that money and then pass it on to the employer. And, for that matter, the employer shouldn’t be allowed to do what they want with the money that customers provide—so the customer should be allowed to circumscribe allowable uses.
So apparently what we really need is a questionnaire with each shopping transaction, so that the customer may delineate what things the money they just spent may and may not be used for by the business they are shopping at. There is no logical reason why the employer —> employee transaction remains encumbered by the giver’s morality, but no other economic transaction does.
3: Why don’t the employees get any religious freedom to spend their paychecks how they want?
4: But, ultimately, Hobby Lobby wasn’t ever forced to do this, even before the lawsuit. They always had the option to not provide subsidized health insurance to their employees, and pay the modest penalty. If they really have such strong religious convictions, it should’ve been a small price to pay. Or, if they feel like that violates their desire to “take care of” their employees, they could bump everyone’s paychecks by the amount they’re no longer spending on subsidized healthcare (and still pay that no-insurance penalty). Added bonus: then they get to be martyrs for the Christian cause, because of the onerous penalty the big mean secular government is forcing them to pay.
That would’ve made for a much stronger argument: they could give their employees enough money to buy insurance, pay the penalty for not providing/subsidizing it (which is $0 right now, right?), and launch their lawsuit to argue that so long as they are giving their employees the means to get insurance, they should not be penalized for choosing to not provide it directly, since providing it would force them to support something they consider immoral. That might almost be a sensible argument. It doesn’t answer the question of why the employer’s owner’s morality trumps not only the employees’ morality, but also societal norms as expressed in both behavior and what we support our government doing, but at least it would be consistent with the owners’ stated beliefs.
Unless the real belief at issue here is controlling women. My suggestion wouldn’t let them do that.
Stumbling about the internet landed me at this article on Movieguide: The Family Guide to Movies and Entertainment.
OK, set aside for a moment the dubious source of this news, and just focus on the “substance”. How many ways can you be wrong in 7 short sentences?
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2019-04-23T12:29:13Z
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https://woodelf.wordpress.com/tag/christian/
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Welcome to the 2019 Pac Battle Of Champions Canada event hub! Here you'll find the very best coverage of the competition including a live stream, the performance order, results, photos, articles, news, and more!
It's Final Day Of Our 3 Event Championship Weekend!
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2019-04-23T12:22:08Z
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https://tv.varsity.com/events/6254024-2019-pac-battle-of-champions-canada
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Sports
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wordpress
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Hello~ I'm a living paradox. But aren't we all?
I took them to my core.
With all my heart, I did.
When you made another with someone else.
Came crashing down just like that.
Could we ever go back?
Floaty’s Intro~ and my first scribble.
Hello guys! I’m Floaty, the new writer around here 🙂 I wouldn’t really call myself a writer though… More like a scribbler… so yeah, I’ll be posting more in the Scribbles section.
This is also my first post~ an intro and a scribble because I’m bad at intros (really).
Something I never thought could ever happen to me – a heart break.
hoping it will ease my pain.
The ruthless truth I wanted to run away from.
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2019-04-25T01:50:43Z
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https://siriuswrites.wordpress.com/author/floatingnothingness/
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Yesterday I received my Mezzacorona, Wines from the Dolomites Pinot Grigio!!
Through state-of-the-art facilities and modern winemaking techniques, Mezzacorona offers to the final consumer 100% single varietal wines characterized by all the vivid elegance and crispness typical of the Italian Dolomites.
Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay are dominant in the Dolomites. They are well-known for their floral tones, exotic fruit, ripe aromas and silky smoothness on the palate. Mezzacorona is the largest Italian estate producer of these two varietals.
As the wine makers intended, these wines are crafted to be a perfect complement to Italian and International cuisine.
Discover why the Trentino region, in the heart of the Italian Alps, is the best suited region to grow Pinot Grigio.
What does a Pinot Grigio grape look like? Probably not as you’d expect! Pinot Grigio variety actually derives from Pinot Noir grapes. As a matter of fact, the Pinot Grigio skins are characterized by a dark colour, ranging from copper grey to light red, and the clusters are very small and tight. This distinguishing shape tends to remind people of pine cones –or “Pinot,” as they’re called in French!
Mezzacorona Pinot Grigio is a full expression of the unique combination of climate, soil and people you’ll find at the foot of the Italian Alps in the Adige Valley. The combination of these three key elements makes the Pinot Grigio grown in this area exclusive from anywhere else and exemplifies why Mezzacorona is the world’s leading producer of this variety.
Climate. Pinot Grigio is a variety that yearns for particular environmental conditions: large temperature swings between day and night (which help preserve the acidity of the grapes), and constant winds. Here in the alpine area in the North-East of Italy, those conditions are perfectly replicated. A fresh breeze comes from the glaciers peaking at over 9,000 feet in the North of the region, while gentle mild winds blow from Garda Lake in the South. Together these conditions allow the perfect aromatic maturation of the grapes, while not subtracting from their perfume and fragrance.
Soil. Pinot Grigio is cultivated in favourable soils with optimum fertility, both in deep valleys as well as in the hills. The Dolomitic landscape adds crispness and minerality to the classic, delicate and elegant aromas of Pinot Grigio. The typical “pergola” trellising system allows the grapes to hang free with maximum exposure to air which helps prevent mildew. Moreover, the leaves above the grapes protect them from the sun’s harmful rays (Coppertone SPF 45 failed to do the trick) . All green management and harvest activities are performed by hand, allowing the farmers to carry out the finest selection in the vineyard. As a result, the grapes arrive at the winery in perfect and healthy condition.
People. Originally known with as the German name Ruländer, Pinot Grigio has been cultivated in the Dolomites since the 1950’s. The successful cultivation of vines in a steep and difficult environment has been possible thanks to the great determination of the local grape growers & their ability to join forces and work together. We believe Mezzacorona parallels the strong character its workers: Able to cope with difficulties and create strengths out of weaknesses.
The result of our triple-threat combination? An elegant Pinot Grigio characterized by a unique crispness and minerality, perfect as an aperitif and excellent with local and International cuisine. Salute!
I will be taking 2 bottles with me this weekend on a camping trip that I have planned with friends from high school!! I am excited to see all the girls, and sit around together catching up over wine! This weekend is going to be a ton of fun!
The third bottle will go to one lucky reader, and since I can’t wait to get it started lets open it today!!!!
Mezzacorona, Wines from the Dolomites Pinot Grigio Giveaway!
Remember to leave a comment for EACH entry method you choose. Giveaway closes April 30th at 12PM NOON CST. The winner will be chosen using Random.org and notified via email. He or She will have 24 hours to claim their prize, or a new winner will be chosen. Good Luck To All!!
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2019-04-25T09:57:01Z
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https://thewigleys.wordpress.com/tag/restaurants/
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In 2013, God looked down upon the Earth; he ignored millions of prayers, millions of things that could be tweaked, adjusted and fixed, and instead, decided to focus his power on one thing – The Shabelles Recording A New Album.
So, the Shabelles are recording a new album – get ready worlds!
You can buy already existing Shabelles albums on Amazon.com while waiting for this brand new thing.
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2019-04-19T00:59:02Z
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https://theshabelles.wordpress.com/
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Sports
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Shopping
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tripod
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The Taylor Outside Wood Stove adapts readily to any existing heating system i.e. forced air and/or baseboard hot water. A super system for new and old construction-centrally located will provide heat & hot water for all buildings.
ALL contents of this Website are the property of C & E Stoves. Any unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.
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2019-04-24T19:15:43Z
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http://c-ebert.tripod.com/index-6.html
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The work International Trade : U.S. Trade Preference Programs; an Overview of Use by Beneficiaries and U.S. Administrative Reviews represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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2019-04-26T13:43:29Z
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http://link.law.upenn.edu/resource/vDRm4pPEEj0/
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weebly
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Yes, it has been a while since my last post, apart from my previous bid to get organised post - but that's the downside of travelling I guess. Once we return home too after such a long stint away, its always a little hard to get back into the swing of things.
Part of my time away was my special Art Retreat on the lovely Greek island of Skiathos. Here, I did actually 'work' very hard, along with cooling off in the pool, and spending time eating and chatting with Yvonne. The two of us painted very harmoniously in her studio, and I managed to complete quite a few small paintings, with other larger ones underway. It was wonderful to actually paint with someone again after all these years, and surprisingly, we were quiet most of the time too!
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2019-04-24T22:58:26Z
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https://jackiesherwood.weebly.com/archive-art-blog/category/nice
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Sports
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Arts
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Amo Bessone, younger brother of Pete Bessone, another Reds alumnus and USA Hall of Famer, was enshrined in the coach’s category in 1992.
Amo skated with Providence in the 1942-43 and 1943-44 seasons. After a year out of the game, he would return for a single game in 1945. He scored 1 point and 18 PIM in a total of 17 games.
Bessone’s true hockey legacy lies in the 28 years he served as hockey coach at Michigan State University from 1951 through 1979, his Spartans won the NCAA national championship as a heavy underdog in 1966.
He was one of the most colorful college coaches of his era with a trademark whistle he used to signal line changes. Intense behind the bench, he was warm and endearing off the ice. He regularly invited fellow coaches, officials and reporters out for drinks or back to his house for spaghetti following games.
In 1983, Amo received the first John MacInnes Award. The award, given out by the American Hockey Coaches Association, recognizes great concern for amateur hockey and youth programs.
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2019-04-22T19:53:50Z
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http://rireds.org/2010Website/halloffame/Hall_other_bessoneamos.htm
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baltimoresun
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Board members of Chesapeake Science Point Charter School are confident that the school will get the approval of the Anne Arundel County school board this week.
Last month, the school system gave the troubled charter school a list of problems that must be remedied in order for the school to open in the fall. On Wednesday, the school board will hear a report on the charter school's progress.
"I think we have everything pretty much lined up," said Spear Lancaster, spokesman for the Hanover school.
County Board President Konrad Wayson said that although the board and the county school system have been working with the charter school's founders to keep the school open, what happens next will depend on what the report says and how much progress the school has made.
"At this point, I don't know what could happen," said Wayson, who added that he has not seen the report on the school's progress. "It could be anything."
Chesapeake Science Point, which opened in the fall, focuses on math, science and technology. Although the school had some stumbles at the start of the school year, the bigger problems began in March, when police removed then-director Jon Omural from the school.
Omural was placed on leave by school system officials after personnel complaints and union grievances were filed against him by three teachers, who were reassigned to other county schools. Omural resigned.
Those actions led to an investigation into the management and operating procedures of the school, and, ultimately, to the "letter of cure" that was given to the charter school's board last month.
Lancaster said that architects have drawn new plans for how the school's classrooms can be divided within the rented industrial park space the school inhabits. The fire marshal's office visited the school last week to make sure all was in order.
The Chesapeake Science Point board has two candidates to take over the operation of the school: Fatih Kandil, who most recently ran a charter school in Ohio, and Judith Henry, a retired Prince George's County principal. However, Lancaster acknowledged that Kandil does not hold certification in Maryland to be a school administrator, an issue that also was a problem with Omural.
As far as the bookkeeping and paperwork issues raised by the school system, Lancaster said he thinks that those are in order.
Lancaster emphasized that Chesapeake Science Point's board members, founders and parents are doing everything they can to be in compliance with the school system's regulations.
A survey of teachers and parents at the school shows that most are satisfied and would like to see the school remain open, he said. Only one teacher is not returning next year, and of 103 students who ended the year there, five have said they will not be returning. The school will take in an additional 50 students in the fall, as it expands to sixth grade.
But Wayson said that the school's finances remain his top concern.
"Do they have enough money to support the school?" Wayson said. "... That's something I'll be concerned about."
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2019-04-24T18:18:46Z
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2006-06-18-0606170131-story.html
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I cannot say that this is one of the better films noir, but it's a good example of the way this kind of film was drifting in the early fifties: away from the studios; toward independent production; more cars, fewer subways; a vaguely documentary air, ala Jack Webb, rather than the more elegant stylization we associate with the forties; more outdoor scenes, fewer cramped rooms; and overall a movement away from the Gothic and toward a more contemporary, which is to say paranoid mood. Having said this, it ain't a bad picture. Edmond O'Brien (who also had a hand behind the camera) plays a basically decent and fair cop who gives in to temptation and steals some money from a bad guy. He pays dearly for his transgression. O'Brien is edgier and tougher than usual; the rest of the cast is okay. This is an extremely watchable film. It involves you more than most police thrillers. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
When Noland shows Patty the new model house, the sign out front says "Castle Heights Tract Homes". Castle Heights is an actual Los Angeles neighborhood where such homes were being built at the time. It is situated between Chevoit Hills, Beverlywood and the Santa Monica Freeway.
Capt. Gunnarson: Write his story good.
When Brewster goes to Sternmueller's apartment, from the exterior shot the black window blind is closed. In the next, interior shot, it is half open.
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2019-04-24T01:19:20Z
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https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0047479/?ref_=m_tt_rec_tti
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Sports
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therugbyforum
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Discussion in 'Rugby Video Games & Apps' started by knowsleyroader, Jan 29, 2005.
Has everyone seen the pics on gamespy site ? I cant remember looking at them and I dont remember seeing the pic with the kicking tee before.
I could be completely mistaken however and these have already done the rounds. Appologies if they have.
Just as a side note though I was reading through Februarys Video Easy handout, and in there is rugby 2005 with a late February release..........??
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2019-04-23T04:38:08Z
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https://www.therugbyforum.com/threads/new-pics.373/
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telegraph
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Three siblings who lost both parents to cancer within the space of a week will not have to give up their family home, as they had feared, after members of the public donated in excess of £275,000 via an online crowdfunding campaign.
The JustGiving appeal set up for the children closed this week with a total of £276,820 submitted in donations, allowing Luke, Hannah and Oliver Bennett, aged 21, 18 and 13 respectively, to pay the mortgage on their home in Wirral, and for the older siblings to continue with their university education.
Their father Mike was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2013, and mother Julie was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2016, which spread to her other organs.
Mr Bennet died on February 6 at the age of 57. Mrs Bennet followed on February 11, aged 50. Both died at the same Merseyside hospice.
Julie and Mike Bennet holding hands on their deathbeds.
A family friend set up an online appeal for the greiving children, and within hours donations totaling tens of thousands of pounds had flooded in.
In a statement released in the days after their parents' death, Luke Bennet said: “My brother, sister and I are overwhelmed by the enormous support and generosity we have received from so many friends and well-wishers.
In a new interview with the Times, Luke said they were considering what to do with the donations they've received - and are considering passing a proportion on to other good causes.
"We now have enough financial security," he said. "We said it would be nice — we don't know exactly what the bills are going to be — but it would be nice if we could put a portion of it towards other charitable things. Hopefully give back some of the generosity we have received.
"We have said that some of the things that are being planned in our name, maybe give the money towards cancer research."
Hannah added: "There's other people that need it more than us. There was something I read on the JustGiving page about somebody needing treatment and that was about them keeping their life and not about being able to stay in the same house."
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2019-04-19T16:54:53Z
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/11/275000-raised-children-lost-parents-cancer/
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Kids
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This short video vignette was commissioned by the Purdue University Mathematics Department.
Prof. Melvin Leok is currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego.
The computational geometric mechanics group has been at UCSD since Fall of 2009.
Students who are interested in pursuing a PhD under his supervision are encouraged to learn more about available funding opportunities.
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2019-04-23T07:06:42Z
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http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~mleok/video.html
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Sports
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wordpress
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EBC business consulting – EBC employs a team of business consultants to develop joint ventures, consulting for a fee or retainer, business coaching. Business introductions that lead to revenue and capital generation may produce commissions or secure ownership positions in prospective business interests.
Technology applications and development (i.e., iPhone, custom on-line resources, etc.) – EBC develops technology applications that generate revenue for its show line-up and relevant client needs.
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On-line search and feature showcase – EBC generates revenue from keyword ads and paid placement on its proprietary website.
LiveCasts to the web – EBC members and producers generate live broadcasts to the web supported by membership fees, key word advertising, production fees, and by pay-per-view or available for download- for-a-fee special events.
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Film Commission incentives for programming – EBC applies for film commission rebates based on the productions dollars spent in respective states per their statutory rebate program.
Affiliate Programs – EBC researches and secures revenue generation opportunities via qualified affiliate programs.
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2019-04-19T20:59:49Z
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Isaiah Hankel, “The Cheeky Scientist,” guides WSU graduate students through a workshop earlier this year. The workshop was a part of WSU’s innovative Professional Development Initiative.
Life as a graduate student can be singularly focused on developing specialized expertise. A new program is helping broaden perspectives for Cougar grad students often while providing useful resources for faculty as well.
Washington State University’s Professional Development Initiative brings the long view into sight with skill development, advice, and anecdotes on life after grad school.
An ongoing series of workshops addresses a wide variety of topics, from working in academics, to balancing career and family life, to taxes. The series addresses traditional professional development, fused with personal development and skill development.
The Professional Development Initiative is a collaborative effort between the Graduate School, the Graduate Professional Student Association, and WSU’s academic colleges. By combining resources and perspectives, the program is relevant for students across disciplines and timelines.
Those core components – Academic and Career Development, Communication and Collaboration, Leadership and Professionalism, and Personal Wellbeing – were informed by student and faculty input. The events in the PDI lineup are sometimes specific to a particular field, but most can be applied universally.
Shantel Martinez, GPSA’s director of professional development says with the number of events on the calendar, it’s easy for students to find something that interests them.
Among the most popular events have been the “Industry Job Series,” by Dr. Isaiah Henkel (The Cheeky Scientist), and the “Versatile PhD,” series with Dr. Paula Chambers. On March 28, President Kirk Schulz and Professor Noel Schulz are presenting on, “Family, Career, and Fun – Lessons Learned as a Dual Career Couple.” On April 14-16, all students, faculty, and staff are invited to PDI’s workshop on, “Liberating Structures: Practical Ways to Invite Freedom and Responsibility in the Classroom, Boardroom, and Laboratory,” with special guest Fisher Qua.
Overall attendance for the year is closing in on 1,000, and nearly one in 10 grad students has attended a PDI event already. Grad students are able to livestream events, and the group is working to develop a video archive for those who cannot attend the live events.
The group is keeping close tabs on the results of the events. The Professional Development Advisory Council, to which the college deans appoint representatives, was formed to help assess the outcomes, and find ways to improve. The PDI syncs smoothly with the Strategic Plan’s “Transformative Student Experience,” and “Institutional Effectiveness,” themes.
For more information on the Professional Development Initiative, and to learn how you can get involved, visit gradschool.wsu.edu/pdi.
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2019-04-23T04:00:09Z
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https://provost.wsu.edu/tag/grad-school/
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Carolyn Bersnak and Megan Smith send their greetings from the de-facto DIY capital of the world at the DUMBO Hands-On craftacular.
The de-facto DIY capital of the world hosted a hands-on crafts fair from the globe’s leading purveyor of all things twee.
Etsy, the Brooklyn start-up that has become the hipster answer to eBay, drew hundreds of creative consumers to the archway beneath the Manhattan Bridge for an expo of recycled, refurbished, retrofitted, and reinvented goods.
And their nifty designs and inventive ideas spoke to the DUMBO denizens.
“These crafters have a way of finding beautiful but very accessible projects to do,” said Alexandria Sica, executive director of the DUMBO Business Improvement District, which joined forces with Etsy to stage the first-ever “DUMBO Hands-On” on June 26.
Attendees learned how to make greeting cards, personalized sweatbands, and even masks — with the instruction of neighborhood businesses.
The Brooklyn Roasting Company taught java lovers how to transform a used coffee can into an ice cream maker — a contraption that would typically cost around $50 if purchased in a store.
The impromptu ice cream machine drew a large crowd and plenty of fans with its delicious coffee-flavored taste.
“Who knew you could make something so great just by shaking a giant can?” Sica said.
Typical tryhards. They're incapable of opening a serious business like a machine shop or a lumber yard (a real lumberyard -not apileof lead filled odds and ends used for quirky furniture sold in Park slope). Or even a hardware store.
No these people lack skill. and they're lazy. That's why they fall back on the things they used to do at summer camp - knitted pot holders, poorly constructed clothes and cupcakes.
Of course they're attention whores too.
Pat -- Machine shop or lumber yard??!? What?
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2019-04-18T15:10:33Z
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https://cngmid.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/27/dtg_etsyfest_2012_07_05_bk.html?utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=module&utm_source=similar&utm_content=intra
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Dover Athletic are delighted to announce that Millwall defender Danny McNamara’s loan spell has been extended until March 23rd.
The 20-year-old right-back arrived from the Championship side on January 23rd and made his debut in National League clash at Havant & Waterlooville.
He has played three games since then and scored his first goal at senior level in the 3-1 win at Salford City last Saturday.
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2019-04-25T04:23:05Z
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http://www.doverathletic.com/news/mcnamara-loan-deal-extended/
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Citation RUELLIA PEDUNCULATA Torrey ex A. Gray, subsp. PINETORUM (Fernald) R. W. Long, J. Arnold Arbor. 51: 288. 1970.
Basionym: Ruellia pinetorum Fernald 1945.
Type: FLORIDA: Calhoun Co.: Iola, May 1896, Chapman s.n. (holotype: MO; isotypes: MO 2 shts).
Ruellia pinetorum Ruellia pinetorum Fernald, Rhodora 47: 24, t. 844. 1945. TYPE: FLORIDA: Calhoun Co.: Iola, May 1896, Chapman s.n. (holotype: MO; isotypes: MO 2 shts).
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2019-04-20T05:13:06Z
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http://www.florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/Plant.aspx?id=2365
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Waterloo Team of Volunteers Success "The Friends of Old Christ Church" have been elected "Team of the Year for the North of England".
Marsh Christian Trust in conjunction with the Churches Conservation Trust awarded The "Friends" in recognition of their achievements in bringing Old Christ Church, a Grade II* listed building in Waterloo, back in to active use as a venue for community activity. attracting over 30,000 visitors per annum.
The Marsh Awards are a group of 41 awards given by Marsh Christian Trust in the areas of conservation , science the arts, heritage, literature and volunteering and recognise those who do it for love not money.
John Bramham, chairman of the Friends said on behalf of all the volunteers, "We are delighted and privileged to be in a position to help look after this magnificent example of late Victorian church architecture".
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2019-04-23T00:10:39Z
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http://www.oldchristchurch.moonfruit.com/news-16-october-2013/4580163775
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Brett Gardner expected to have the night off Friday night. After spending his morning reading books and mingling with ailing children at New York Presbyterian Children's Hospital in Manhattan, Gardner figured he'd have a good seat on the bench for Alex Rodriguez's first game at the new Yankee Stadium.
But after Johnny Damon got ejected from the game for arguing a called third strike in the third inning, Gardner was pressed into service. And just as he came up big for the young patients at the hospital earlier in the day, he also came up big for the Yankees last night in their 5-4 win over the Twins.
Gardner hit the new Stadium's first inside-the-park homer in the seventh, then helped ignite the Yankees' game-winning three-run rally in the ninth with a leadoff triple off Twins closer Joe Nathan.
It was a very full day for the 25-year-old center fielder, who went 3-for-3 to raise his average to .256.
The Yankees were trailing 4-1 in the seventh with two outs and no one on when Gardner lined a pitch from Twins reliever Jesse Crain down the left field line.
Denard Span tried to play the ball on one hop, but it skipped by him and rolled toward the wall. And all the while, Gardner was sprinting around the bases.
"I didn't really see the ball skip," said Gardner, who last hit an inside-the-parker when he was with Single-A Staten Island in 2005. "I came around first and I didn't know if he had caught it or not. I kept going hard and (third base coach) Rob Thomson was waving me so I kept coming. I was pretty tired."
But that was just the beginning for Gardner.
When Nathan came on in the ninth to protect the Twins' 4-2 lead, Gardner greeted the All-Star stopper by tripling to right-center. Mark Teixiera followed with an RBI single and the rally was on, capped by Melky Cabrera's two-out, two-run single with the bases loaded.
It was a nice finish to very meaningful a day for Gardner.
"It was a good experience," Gardner said of his hospital visit. "Anytime you get a chance to do something like that and kind of use the Yankees platform to help brighten a kid's day is something pretty special. I met with several different children, probably 15 to 20.
"One girl gave me a bracelet and I asked her what it was for. She said it was for me and she told me if I kept it, I'd hit a home run.
"I'm glad I could do that for her. I hope she was watching."
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2019-04-26T06:30:41Z
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https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/yankees-real-hero-hospital-visit-brett-gardner-plays-key-role-inside-the-park-homer-article-1.411079
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MIT’s master’s degree (SM) program in operations research (OR) teaches you important OR techniques—with an emphasis on the practical, real-world applications of OR—through a combination of challenging coursework and hands-on research.
In addition to computer literacy and writing competency requirements, our rigorous curriculum includes seven graduate-level courses in such areas as optimization, applied probability, and statistics as well as advanced topics in OR that complement your academic interests and career goals. You must complete 66 credit units, of which at least 42 must be in advanced subjects, to earn your degree.
What’s more, you’ll put classroom theory into practice by writing a thesis based on independent research you’ve conducted under the guidance of your faculty advisor. Prior to graduation, you’ll present your research to your fellow ORC members.
Upon completion of our two-year program, you’ll be ready to put your knowledge and skills to good use in a variety of fields, including business, education, and research. In fact, recent graduates of our program have been sought after for such positions as technical staff members in business or industry, government planners, and private consultants.
Students who are currently enrolled in another master’s degree (SM) program at MIT may be considered to pursue a dual SM in OR. For more information, please contact the ORC at 617-253-3601 or orc_staff@mit.edu.
For more information about ORC course offerings, please see the MIT course catalog.
Operations research (OR) is the discipline of applying advanced analytical methods—such as optimization, statistics, machine learning, and probability—to make better decision that impact society and the world positively.
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2019-04-19T04:26:36Z
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https://orc.mit.edu/academics/master%E2%80%99s-operations-research
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09 | May | 2018 | Julian Ruck - Author, Columnist and political commentator.
Everybody goes on about a new car (well, make that fairy new), a Big Mac, a rented flat, a spanking lip stick……..there’s not much that the ‘anybody’ doesn’t go on about. So where do we go to sort the problems of the world out. Nowhere that’s where.
Isn’t it a notion that has the word ‘depressed’ about it?
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2019-04-23T05:56:12Z
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https://julianruck.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/
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JONNY MAY: I hate heights and flying. Our flight to Edinburgh got cancelled this season so we went by coach – that ended up being a good trip with no stress.
RW: Have you got any hidden talents?
JM: I can play the drums. When I was younger I played a lot, but the neighbours weren’t too happy about me banging on the drums all the time. They are still back at my mum and dad’s house.
JM: Wolverine (right) – Hugh Jackman. He’s the man.
JM: A pet lizard. It was good for 30 seconds but then I got bored. I had to feed it crickets and I worked out it was going to be expensive, plus it tried to bite my hand off. After a couple of months I gave it to a friend.
JM: I wouldn’t walk under a ladder when I was younger, but not so much now. My girlfriend won’t walk over three drains in a row.
JM: Just myself really. Anyone else in the lift would get on my nerves so I’d be happier in there on my own.
JM: I’m doing a degree in sports business so I’d like to finish that.
JM: Barack Obama. I just think he knows a lot of stuff we don’t know. Beyoncé – she could sing whilst we eat and is a really good performer. Lady Gaga would make a good mix. I don’t know why her – I was thinking of singers and she came to mind.
RW: Which one of your team-mates would you like to be?
JM: Shaun Knight – it would be interesting to walk around with that body weight for a day!
JM: I just go about my business – if people find it funny… Andy Hazell is always joking about and Henry Trinder is a good laugh.
JM: We were squirting hand sanitiser on Nick Wood’s bald head the other week – he’s got a big egg head! A few young guys like Henry and Shaun wanted to kill time between sessions.
JM: Looking back, probably having my pants pulled down at the 2010 Junior World Cup against Australia. Someone did it on the 22 but I kept going for the try-line and scored. I wasn’t thinking about it on the pitch but I’ve since seen the video back. I can laugh at it now but not at the time!
JM: I hate littering. When I see people dump fags or chewing gum I shout at them.
RW: Why are you no longer on Twitter?
JM: It’s all rubbish – I hate social media. It’s a waste of time in my opinion – a time killer.
JM: Probably as a unique person.
This was published in the March 2014 edition of Rugby World.
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2019-04-19T08:16:33Z
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https://www.rugbyworld.com/in-the-mag/30-minutes/30-minutes-with-jonny-may-35225
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Sports
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fordham
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2019-04-26T11:47:45Z
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https://itsecurity.blog.fordham.edu/2010/01/08/for-owner-of-userfordhamedu-mailbox/
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Derry drew out the winning number last week and it was revealed on the Official Site that Holt was the lucky £10,000 winner.
Holt, a lifelong fan who has been in Lifeline for many years and despite being visually impaired, still supports the club by listening to games on his radio in his flat in Netherfield and contributing via Lifeline.
The club organised BBC Radio Nottingham commentator Colin Slater and record goalscorer Les Bradd to visit his house to present the cheque to him, meanwhile the voice of the Magpies also introduced the current Notts boss into his abode.
Derry told the Official Site: "I think Lifeline and visits like this, shows what this club is all about, it's a real community club.
"I was delighted to draw Peter out and then to visit him and present him with his cheque.
"I don't think there's anyone more deserving.
"Just spending time with Peter, having a cup of tea and hearing all his Notts stories just showed me how much of a fan he was, despite him not being able to get to the games.
"I hope that many more fans do sign up to the scheme, because it really is the heartbeat of the club."
Lifeline Co-Ordinator Lynn Lawson added: "It's always a pleasure to announce the £10,000 winner, but it felt extra special this year.
"Notts means so much to so many people and today's events prove why.
"It's nice that Lifeline can give something back and feel that we can make a huge difference to somebody's life. It was very moving and wonderful to be there."
Peter revealed he was going to spend the money on visiting friends in Scotland and also purchase a brand new digital radio to ensure a crystal clear frequency to listen to the Magpies.
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2019-04-24T04:55:31Z
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https://www.nottscountyfc.co.uk/news/2014/october/derry-no-one-deserved-the-10000-lifeline-jackpot-more-than-peter-/
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Defense Secretary Gates' recent prohibition against discussing the FY 2010 budget is designed to prevent selective disclosure distorting budget development. If the Air Force pilots featured in this video are active duty, not only are they distorting the decision-making process, they may be violating the law.
I agree with both the Article and the blog comment reply positive aspects and from my novice, uninformed and/or and/or very limited expertise within this area of expetise.
Hopefully our commendable brave and courageous pilots have not been duped, hoodwinked and/or otherwise deceived and have the best of the best Representation, Support and Guidance to NOT!! be subject to any undue concerns within this Article.
As to some extent a novice,uninformed, wishful and/or hopefull effort of expression and view of the Transparency and/or "Oversight and Accountability' efforts and endeavors is a mention for the review and consideration aspects is to some extent to express a somewhat abstract view of to some extent to wishfull and/or hopefull expression as I do not have the expertise information would seemingly be of a product sufficiently equal to or ten times better to the positive aspects and at 1/10th the cost.
While I haven't seen the video, I highly doubt the comments offered by F-22 pilots as depicted in the story constitute an endorsement in violation of USC and DOD regulations.
I once was part of a small arms weapon test group and our after action reviews were recorded. There were several reasons but the important ones related to showing/explaining to engineers who weren't present what it was we were talking about. It's hard for a trainer to go to an engineer and explain why, for tactical reasons, a gas tube needs to be moved one-sixteenth of an inch or why you'd like a little less weight and where you believe ounces can be removed and not affect performance.
Furthermore, providing video and written comments is almost always a mandatory part of the process. If LM chose to use those recorded or written comments from the pilots, it's hard to find culpability.
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2019-04-21T22:17:27Z
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https://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2009/02/notsostealthy-endorsement.html
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wordpress
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The Good Neighbors is made up of the three volumes Kin, Kith, and Kind, and is (as most Holly Black stories are) about the fae. The story follows Rue Silver, who discovers that her mother is a faerie. Her father had won her mother away from her own father, a powerful lord of Faerie, in a game and had taken her back to the human world when he was young. But when her father has an affair, her mother disappears, and strange things start happening around Rue. It turns out that her mother was only bound as long as her father was faithful, and with the breaking of the bond, the separation — and the peace — between the human and faerie worlds starts to fall apart. Rue discovers that her fae grandfather has taken the slight against her mother to heart and is seeking the most drastic method of revenge: he wants to cut off their city from the rest of the human world, to take it off the map and trap its human population there forever. It’s up to Rue to save the humans she loves from this plot even after she learns that she herself was never one of them.
I’m not sure what I expected from this series when I started it, but I finished it feeling rather unsatisfied. Rue’s character feels flat, and so much of her personality is tied to her relationships with others — especially her relationships with men — rather than her own wants and interests. She doesn’t feel like a person with any kind of interiority — it’s not clear what her personal interests or motivations are, or who she is as a person outside her circumstances — and this extends to most of the other characters. The one character who does feel like she has some meat to her is Amanda, the woman Rue’s father cheated with and the only Black woman in the book; but she still feels like she’s there most of the time to provide exposition. Add this to the fact that she’s the only human character of color in the book (there are a few brown fae), and that really makes it feel off that she’s a kind of morally grey character who ends up doing the bulk of the emotional work in the story.
But my dissatisfaction felt deeper than that, and I wonder if a large part of this is just that it feels like retrod territory for Holly Black. While this isn’t set in her larger Modern Faerie Tale ‘verse, at least in no way that was obvious to me, it feels to me like Tithe already told a similar story, and told it better than this. I know what a story about a girl who discovers that she’s a faerie and must use all her wits in order to save her human friends and family from a larger fae plot looks like already, and this just doesn’t compare.
Yet the biggest problem with this series is the art. As I write this, I’m still wondering if the story might have been more compelling if it had been paired with a different artist than Ted Naifeh. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that it’s bad, but it’s… certainly not great. The interiors are black and white, but plenty of fantastic comics are in black and white, so it’s not the lack of color that hurts it. Rather, it’s a variety of issues. The characters’ faces are inconsistently drawn and a bit too similar; sometimes I was left depending on clothing and context to tell who was who. At the same time, there was never a sense of motion or fluidity on the page, making it hard to follow the action and leaving me wondering how the story got from point A to point B. I had to read one page three or four times before I realized that the transition from one panel to the next was supposed to be a bunch of fae suddenly Apparating into the scene.
Overall, I just had a hard time connecting to the characters, I never felt wowed by any of the scenes or developments, and I’m not sure whether to lay those issues at the feet of the author or the artist or both. I know that the likelihood that I’ll love every book an author writes is low, but up until this point I’ve had a pretty solid run with Holly Black. It’s a real bummer to run into something that feels derivative and uninteresting, especially since I’ve been meaning to read these for quite some time. But at least now I know, and the one lucky upside is that once I get rid of these, I’ll have more room on my graphic novel shelf for new stuff.
Hear more from Lady Saika on Character Reveal, the podcast she cohosts with BrothaDom!
This entry was posted in Books, Comics, Fantasy, opinion, Reviews and tagged faeries, graphic novels, holly black, kin, kind, kith, ted naifeh, the good neighbors by Lady Saika. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-23T20:09:26Z
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https://ladygeekgirl.wordpress.com/2017/10/13/my-bad-luck-with-the-good-neighbors/
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allafrica
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KZN health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo has said in a statement that family planning methods such as contraceptives and condoms need to be strengthened in order to prevent the abandonment of babies and the illegal termination of pregnancy.
The MEC was reacting to the shock discovery of a newborn baby who was "miraculously rescued alive" from inside a stormwater drain in Newlands East, Durban, on Monday morning.
The little girl was heard crying by a passer-by near the intersection of Barracuda Rd and Herring Circle, who then alerted emergency medical services and the SAPS, News24 reported.
Paramedics, including those from the KZN Department of Health's Emergency Medical Services, worked flat-out on Monday to rescue the little girl, who was found with her umbilical cord intact.
She is believed to be aged between one and three days and was named Sibanisethu ("our ray of light"), and Gabriella, by local residents gathered at the scene where she was discovered.
After a rescue operation that lasted nearly four hours, the little girl was eventually extricated from the drain by paramedics and airlifted to Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital (IALCH).
IALCH trauma specialist Dr Timothy Hardcastle said the baby had to be warmed up owing to her exposure to cold temperatures while inside the drain, but that apart from minor scratches on her chest and dirt on her body, she was in a satisfactory condition.
She is due to be referred to another Durban hospital, and will later be released into the care of the KZN Department of Social Development.
Dhlomo, who visited the baby, thanked the whistle-blower who found the baby, the paramedics, paediatrics, Dr Hardcastle, and everyone else who was involved in the rescue operation.
"It's really a miracle that this baby was saved. The doctors have given this baby a clean bill of health, and she will be transferred to another hospital."
The MEC said the incident should be a turning point regarding the promotion of family planning by government, and its embracement by society.
"It's a wake-up call that talks to our progammes of family planning, because the birth of this little one is as a result of an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy, resulting in the mother deciding to throw her baby into a stormwater drain. It's something that we need to do... to strengthen our family planning.
"But again, if you've missed your opportunity for family planning and it was not successful, still do come into our hospitals. We'll advise and put you in touch with social workers who can help with the adoption process if the pregnancy was unplanned. It doesn't have to end this way. This little one was very fortunate to be alive and well. Some of the babies who get abandoned do not come out alive. So, this points out to the need to strengthen family planning in that community, and others as well."
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2019-04-24T14:14:37Z
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https://allafrica.com/stories/201902120626.html
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Sports
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Health
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virginia
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On behalf of the College Board, the Department of Education is pleased to announce assistance to students who have been affected or displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The College Board has announced that it will provide free testing to college-bound students from the affected areas. High school seniors who live in the flood zones or have been displaced will be able to take the SAT Reasoning Test and the SAT Subject Tests free of charge during the November and December administrations. In addition, all eleventh-grade students from affected areas, who could not take the PSAT during the October administration, must write to National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) as soon as possible to be considered for other options. Additional information about the National Merit Scholarship Corporation may be found on the website at www.nationalmerit.org. Letters from students or school officials must be postmarked on or before March 1, 2006, for requests to be considered.
The College Board is also making accommodations in all of its major programs to assist students, counselors, teachers, and administrators in middle and high schools, as well as the colleges and universities, in the affected states. Updates are being posted regularly on www.collegeboard.com.
If you have questions, please contact Dr. Willie Stroble ([email protected]), school counseling specialist, Office of Middle and High School Instruction, at (804) 789-9377.
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2019-04-22T14:51:39Z
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http://www.doe.virginia.gov/administrators/superintendents_memos/2005/inf218.html
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Sports
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News
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ups
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The following are some answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding Trackpad. If you do not already use Trackpad to manage your parcels with confidence and have a question about the Trackpad system, email [email protected].
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How do I avoid typing tracking numbers or other data that I want to capture as I receive packages?
With UPS Trackpad, you can scan tracking numbers or other data elements that are scannable. Simply use the scanner functionality of the handheld personal computer that comes with Trackpad to scan the package’s barcode(s).
Since UPS Trackpad uses barcodes, how do I track things that don’t already have barcodes? I’d like to have a special identifier for Marketing and Sales, Accounting, the Executive Office, etc.
Trackpad makes this easy. You can link certain high-volume departments to particular Trackpad desktops and then anything generated with that desktop will have the unique numeric identifier you configure. Trackpad makes this easy through its Unique Numbers feature. From the setup menu, click the Unique Numbers button to see your options for generating special number sequences. You can even generate barcode labels within the department.
What do I do when a package I want to track internally doesn’t have a barcode?
You can create a tracking number for these packages. From the UPS Trackpad main menu, click Inbound Parcels, then click Auto and a unique sequential number will be generated for that package. If you also have label printing configured on the desktop, you can then click the Parcel Label button to print a label for that package that can be scanned at delivery.
What’s the best way to develop a route for my staff equipped with Trackpad handhelds? Our corporate campus spans several buildings.
This can differ by organization. However, if you have an extensive route to plan, it pays substantially in reduced cost to optimize your internal delivery network. Consider the volume of parcels you average daily, the number of different locations they are delivered to and the relative volume each department uses. You can use a weighted matrix or network optimization software to develop an optimum delivery plan after defining a few simple variables (such as number of deliveries per day, number of people available to deliver, shift times, relative usage by department, distance from inbound delivery center, etc.).
If you would like assistance in route planning for your internal deliveries, contact UPS Customer Solutions, a global leader in route planning. UPS Customer Solutions can help you lower costs associated with unproductive hours, retraced paths and inflated labor rates associated with sub-optimum delivery routes.
How can I tell the UPS Trackpad handheld where departments are located so my staff isn’t constantly searching for where to deliver packages?
Use the auto-populate feature. Your UPS Trackpad system administrator uses a company directory to define different delivery locations. That person can set up custom fields to auto-populate key information about different delivery scenarios for you. For example, if you entered a name in Custom Field 1, your system administrator could set up the custom fields so that name brings up the department, building and room number of the person. Refer to the system guide for details.
How do I find a "lost" parcel once it’s arrived at my location?
If you know the relevant date range that the parcel should have been delivered within, then you can use a Parcel Report. From the main menu, click Parcel Reports, then enter a from-to range of dates in the format MM/DD/YYYY.
Another way to find a misplaced package is through the Exception report. From the same main menu, click Exception.
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Tyus Jones was sore Monday, and that’s a good thing.
That’s what happens when you play a career-high 39 minutes in your first NBA start.
Jones figures to continue to get the minutes while Jeff Teague heals; he got his second straight start Tuesday against Washington at Target Center.
More and more, it appears Jones is gaining Wolves coach Tom Thibodeau’s confidence, though Thibodeau was clear Jones needs to continue to work on his individual defense.
But here are two reasons why Thibodeau isn’t surprised by Jones’ career-best game Sunday, when he had nine points, seven assists, seven steals and four rebounds: his anticipation and his steep learning curve.
That anticipation is probably the big reason for the seven steals. And the learning curve?
That said, Thibodeau wants to see better individual defense from his backup point guard.
Jones had 12 points, seven assists, four rebounds and a steal in 40 minutes Tuesday.
Both Nemanja Bjelica and Teague took at least a limited part in the morning’s shootaround for the Wolves, but neither was ready to play against the Wizards.
Both players missed their third straight game. Teague has a sore right Achilles tendon, which he injured late in the Wolves’ victory over Orlando on Wednesday.
The Wolves are calling Bjelica’s injury a left mid-foot sprain, but he described it more as a left ankle sprain when talking with the media Tuesday morning.
Of the two, Thibodeau said Teague probably is closer to returning.
Bjelica said he first injured his left ankle/foot in the Wolves’ victory over San Antonio at Target Center on Nov. 14. He played in the next four games before the pain knocked him out; he only played eight minutes vs. Orlando in his last appearance.
Bjelica said he was never concerned, even though the injury is to the same foot/ankle he had surgery on last season.
Teague, meanwhile, has found not being able to play frustrating. He has averaged better than 76 games a season over the past five seasons, including a full 82 last season.
Teague said he was hurt late in the Orlando game when he drove to the basket, then fed Taj Gibson for a basket.
• Through 20 games, the most efficient Wolves lineup in terms of net rating is Bjelica, Teague, Andrew Wiggins, Jimmy Butler and Karl-Anthony Towns, who have a plus-36.5 net rating.
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^ Handbook of Food Engineering (second ed.). CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group. (2006). p. 201, Figure 2.19. ISBN 978-1-4200-1437-2.
^ “Chlorophyll‐bound Magnesium in Commonly Consumed Vegetables and Fruits: Relevance to Magnesium Nutrition”. Journal of Food Science 69 (9): 348, Table 1. (2004). doi:10.1111/j.1365-2621.2004.tb09947.x.
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The Forgotten War on Drugs Nearly four decades after the United States declared a war on drugs, juvenile drug abuse is on the decline, but illegal narcotics remain cheap and plentiful. In a five-part series, NPR examines the progress of U.S. anti-drug policy so far, and where experts say it should focus next.
July 3, 2007 The Colombian government reportedly has had it with the Bush administration's coca fumigation program. Coca hasn't been cut back, and cocaine trafficking continues unabated. The punitive approach also has driven poor farmers to grow more coca and to help the guerrillas. The state says manual eradication is far less venomous, and it is moving in that direction, quietly.
April 6, 2007 John Walters is the public face of the drug war, the nation's drug czar. But many activists blame Walters for a lack of leadership, and experts are concerned that the war on terrorism has pushed the war on drugs off the nation's radar.
April 5, 2007 In the 1980s and '90s, more than a million people in the United States were arrested each year on drug charges. Most went to prison. Now hundreds of thousands of inmates are returning to their neighborhoods, and many communities are collapsing under the burden.
April 4, 2007 In America's war on drugs, more federal resources have gone into foreign operations and law enforcement than into demand reduction at home. But policy experts, community activists and recovering addicts say only a combination of strategies will work.
April 4, 2007 NPR's series on the drug war began in a tiny Miskito Indian fishing village, on Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, that relies on cocaine for its livelihood. Such dependence, John Burnett writes, is a visceral reminder that nothing the U.S. does abroad will shut down the drug trade.
April 3, 2007 For seven years, the United States has sprayed a deadly defoliant on Colombia's coca fields. Some credit the program with a sharp drop in violence in that nation. But in remote, lawless regions, cocaine production — and the violence it entails — remains strong.
April 2, 2007 Four decades ago, the U.S. government declared a "war on drugs." From the rise and fall of kingpins to current efforts to interdict and stamp out drugs, follow events so far.
April 2, 2007 Despite decades of U.S. interdiction efforts, cocaine, heroin and other illegal drugs still stream into the country. Critics say America would improve its chances of "winning" the war on drugs if it revamped anti-drug policy to focus more on stamping out demand.
April 2, 2007 The war on drugs has been waged for 38 years, through seven White House administrations, in foreign coca fields and on America's streets, at an estimated annual cost of $40 billion. But what has it accomplished, and where does the U.S. go from here?
April 2, 2007 America has been waging a war on drugs for decades; the battle has affected people from all walks of life. Hear analysis from federal drug officials, as well as the personal experiences of a former drug dealer, a recovering drug addict, a former drug prosecutor and a mother who lost her son to heroin.
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Barbara Gordon May 18, 2016.
Where do you get your Thread for Bobbin Lace?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Darcee Yates Feb 25, 2016.
Bobbin Lace - Torchon first- then All of them- they are all so intriguing!
I've just begun leaning bobbin lace from books and websites and would appreciate a place to chat with others also interested in the craft.
Welcome. Please read all the NOTES. They explain our policies, and how the software works. Join any groups that interest you. The NOTES explain how to do that. We do have a group for BOBBINLACE BEGINNERS. Its opening page has a recommended book list, and links to good, free, online lessons. Take some time to explore. If you have any questions about this site, contact me and I'll try to help.
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The Windows Azure Media Services is a tool that helps the developers storing, transferring and streaming different types of media. It is basically based on the Windows Azure unstructured storage, Blob Storage. This service is mainly to help the developer with mainly three things: Upload Media, Encode Video and Deliver and Stream Video.
First of all you have to create a Media Service account on the Windows Azure, to do so go to your Windows Azure account and follow the steps.
Now Congratulations!! Let’s get in depth about the features that you can start using on the Windows Azure portal.
As you can see in the following, the home page of the media services created, normally in any home page whether in the Windows Azure Mobile Services or Windows Azure Media Services, this page helps you with the basics of the development that will help any developers. As you can see Windows Azure Media Services is only to be created using only 2 programing languages, C# and Java.
It also helps you with the development to achieve any of the previously mentioned issues the upload, the streaming or download and encode.
The last thing is you will find a sample project where you can download and go through the basic of the development whether using the C# and the Java development.
In the Dashboard, you will be able to monitor the performance and the tasks queued, delivered and failed of the Windows Azure Media Service Created. Also you can find a link where you can download the Windows Azure Media Service SDK. For your information, to start developing you will need the following 3 SDKs, the Windows Azure SDK, the Windows Azure Media Service SDK and the WCF Data Services 5.0 for OData V3 libraries.
The third tab is to help you scale your running Media Services whether for streaming or Encoding.
You can also upload some content directly to Windows Azure Media Services without the need to code or create any kind of application. You can do so not only from your local computer but from the Windows Azure Storage if previously uploaded to a Windows Azure Storage account.
The Windows Azure Service Bus Notification Hub is finally released and it is generally available to be used in the development. It supports multiple platform push notification like Google, Microsoft and apple push notification. The Notification Hub will easily help the application to reach millions of users through their mobile or windows application by simply sending them a Notification through the Service Bus.
For the Relay Messaging Service Bus, it goes with the same process like the Brokered Messaging but only in the configuration part.
Now Congratulation you have created your Windows Azure Service Bus Relay Service on the Windows Azure.
You can follow the following instruction to create a Relay Service, however it is a lot easier than the Brokered Messaging. Before starting working on the Relay Service, I recommend that you learn more about what is the Service Bus Relay Messaging, the Brokered Messaging and what are the difference between them.
After introducing the EAI (Enterprise application Integration), and its solution the Windows Azure Service Bus and its different solution, the Brokered Messaging, the Relay Messaging and the difference between them. I went in details with the Brokered Messaging API and here I am into the Relay Service in deeper.
Unlike the Brokered Messaging target to connect multiple clients to an application, the Windows Azure Relay Service is to connect multiple application together from different datacenter, in our case one will be on the Windows Azure and the second one will be the company datacenter. The Relay service is offering to communicate multiple application across multiple datacenters to deliver reliable application.
To work with the Relay Service, this will require you to develop a WCF Service it doesn’t require more than that. All you have to do later on is to define the service bus endpoints in your configuration file and after that create the endpoint programmatically in your application using the normal WCF with defining the Service Bus Environment in it. Certainly you will have to define what type of binding you are willing to work with. Here are the types of the Binding you can work with and the differences between them, the NetTCPRelayBinding, the WSHTTPRelayBinding, the NetOneWayRelayBinding and the NetEventRelayBinding.
For those who have worked with the Windows Azure Mobile Services, after building a new Windows Azure Mobile Services you can download the application or connect it to the application you have already built. For each application you build using this mobile service or for any change of the application domain you will have to add its domain to the Windows Azure Cross-Origin resource sharing known as CORS. The reason you will have to do so is to allow the communication between the different applications, from different platforms with different URLs to communicate with your Windows Azure Mobile Services.
I have faced this error especially when I was developing an application on the local machine. If you have downloaded the application from the portal directly and have run it without any modification it will run smoothly without any errors, the reason it worked smoothly is that if you went to the CORS under the configuration you will find the local host added to the CORS.
If you have added a new project to your solution that you have downloaded from the portal, and just run it. You will find that it will run smoothly but won’t execute any functions that require actions from the Windows Azure Mobile Services. The reason is that your application that runs on your local machine is not using local host but an IP with 127.0.0.1 that you will have to add it manually on your Windows Azure Mobile Services only for the testing after that I think that you will have to remove it before publishing the application.
Now as we have known the Windows Azure Cloud Services whether a webrole, a workerrole and how to communicate between them using Queue storage.
After that in your application just create a new TcpListener to receive the incoming request. Once the Tcp listener accept the incoming traffic from the specified endpoint previously created. To do so, there is an example code.
After that you can read or write directly from the stream whether a stream reader or a stream writer. Now you have a Worker Role that accepts the communication from the endpoint whether it was from another role or any other application.
Here is a nice video clarifying more how to deal with the inter role communication.
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Rany on the Royals: Royals Today: World Series, Game 2.
Royals Today: World Series, Game 2.
On Tuesday night, in Game 1 of the World Series, the Royals had exactly the game I had feared they would have…in the Wild Card game against Oakland. That day, I was terrified that 15 minutes after their first postseason in 29 years began, it would be effectively over. And it certainly looked awfully precarious early, when James Shields gave up a two-run home run to Brandon Moss in the first inning. But the Royals answered quickly and even took the lead in the third inning before the A’s five-run sixth meant that their first postseason in 29 years effectively lasted about two hours.
Or not. The one thing that kept me calm as Madison Bumgarner mowed down batter after batter late into the game was that the last time the Royals were in that position, they had a miraculous comeback in a game they could not afford to lose. They didn’t need a miraculous comeback Tuesday night. They just needed to win Wednesday night.
And they did, in a game which – while certainly more dramatic and longer in doubt than Game 1 – was nearly as lopsided at the end.
- After giving up a bomb to Gregor Blanco – Gregor Blanco?! – to lead off the game, Yordano Ventura did what James Shields could not: prove it was a fluke. Ventura was effective, if not particularly dominant, into the sixth inning. His velocity was regularly in the upper 90s, perhaps not as fast as it was during the salad days of summer, but better than in his last start – and after leaving that start with a tight shoulder, the return of some velocity was a welcome surprise. He only struck out two batters, which would be concerning except Ventura’s strikeout rate has trailed his pure velocity all season. He struck out 20.3% of batters he faced this year, just a little above league average, even though he was one of the three hardest-throwing starting pitchers in baseball. He got a two-strike count on nine batters, and just had trouble putting them away.
But he also didn’t walk anyone, limiting the damage. He’s not perfect, but I don’t think there’s a Royals fan alive who wouldn’t take Ventura over Shields right now in a game with everything on the line. In all likelihood they’ll both get another start; if the Royals do get to a Game 6, they’ll either be playing to clinch a championship or to save their season, and either way, I’m glad they’ll have the guy who right now is their best starting pitcher on the mound.
- It is quite possible Billy Butler just made his final appearance at Kauffman Stadium as a member of the Royals. If he did, he couldn’t have gone out with a better memory to leave fans with: a single in the first inning to tie the game, and another one in the sixth to give them the lead they wouldn’t relinquish. According to Baseball-Reference’s win expectancy chart, they were two of the four most important plays in the game.
I’m not really analyzing here. I’m just really happy for Butler, the longest-tenured player on the team (he has more service time than Alex Gordon by ten days), who suddenly seemed to lose his ability to hit when the Royals finally needed him to, and who seems to be the one player that Ned Yost isn’t willing to protect and defend like one of his own children. Butler has taken a lot of crap over the years, from the fans, the media, and the team, some deserved and some not. He’s ungodly slow, he doesn’t hit for enough power, he can’t play defense. But at his best he’s always been a line drive machine. Wednesday night, when the Royals badly needed a line drive, he delivered. Twice. It was kind of special.
- At his best, Nori Aoki plays defense the way he hits – awkwardly but surprisingly effectively. At his worst, he’s just awkward. Last night he was just awkward, and as amazing as the Royals’ defense is when they have an Alex Gordon-Jarrod Dyson-Lorenzo Cain configuration, having Aoki out there puts a significant dent in its value.
This is particularly an issue now because the Royals move to San Francisco, where AT&T Park is nearly as spacious as Kauffman but with the added dimension of having, well, added dimensions: the outfield wall juts out in weird directions, the ball takes different bounces off the wall depending on where it hits, and the wind from the bay occasionally does unnatural things to the flight of a baseball. As I wrote before the series began, how the Royals’ outfielders handle the park in San Francisco is one of the hidden keys to this series.
Not only does starting Dyson give you the best possible outfield defense for the first six innings instead of just the last three, it makes Aoki a very useful pinch-hitting option. Because the Royals lose the DH in the NL park, Butler is only going to get one at-bat in all likelihood, meaning the Royals need additional bats on the bench. Josh Willingham is one of them. It’s probably not for no reason that Ned Yost pinch-hit for Butler with Willingham with two outs in the ninth inning of Game 1, and that he pinch-ran for Butler with Terrance Gore in the sixth inning, guaranteeing that spot would come up again and that Willingham would pinch-hit for Gore. Yost pretty clearly wanted Willingham, who prior to Game 1 had just two plate appearances in the previous 22 days, to get some reps before the games in the NL park started.
If the Royals start Dyson, then they now have three quality pinch-hitting options in Butler, Willingham, and Aoki. And they all do different things. Butler is the best hitter overall, but in a double play situation, you would go to Willingham if you want to prioritize power (no outs, man on first), and Aoki if you want to prioritize contact and singles (one out, men on first and third).
Aoki has particular value as a pinch-hitter because he has no platoon split to speak of, and in the late innings – when pinch-hitters get called upon – Bruce Bochy will be in his bullpen, and as we saw in the sixth inning last night, he can be extremely aggressive about calling on a reliever to face just one batter if need be. Aoki is essentially immune to these shenanigans – while Javier Lopez is a sidearming left-handed pitcher and has the extreme platoon splits characteristic of them, Aoki is better equipped to handle Lopez than any other left-handed hitter on the roster.
In AL parks, with the DH in play and less need to pinch-hit, having two pinch-runners in reserve is an effective strategy. But in an NL park, pinch-hitters are a necessity. Starting Dyson over Aoki would improve the defense and improve the bench, because it swaps in a pinch-hitter that the Royals definitely need for a pinch-runner who was simply a luxury.
And amazingly enough, Yost is hinting – according to Andy McCullough – that he might actually do just that. For a guy who has literally written out the exact same lineup for over a month, he is once again picking the perfect time to not be dogmatic about his approach and to make subtle but crucial changes to his approach. Yost is not a tactical genius, but he might be something even more rare, and more impressive: a manager who is improving in real time under the glare of the postseason spotlight. Genius, after all, is a gift. Improvement is earned. Yost’s improvement this month is earning him a fresh look from those of us who were skeptical he’d ever learn this side of the game well enough to succeed.
Or, you know, he might start Aoki anyway. I guess we’ll see.
You get Gordon’s OBP ahead of your postseason hit machines, and anyway your best hitter should usually bat 2nd. Maybe he’s not their best hitter right now, but for the season as a whole Gordon was their best hitter, and that’s not something you can just ignore.
And yes, keeping the R-L-R-L dynamic going is critical. As we saw Wednesday night, Bochy will use his relievers for one batter if the situation is important enough. You don’t want someone like Lopez getting the platoon advantage for consecutive batters; if he wants to face two left-handed batters, he’s going to have to go around at least one right-handed hitter in the process.
- Was I the only one who saw some similarities between the sixth inning last night and the eighth inning of the wild card game? Both involved a single by Lorenzo Cain, then a full-count walk by Eric Hosmer in what I feel was the crucial at-bat of both innings, and then an RBI single by Billy Butler. The innings devolved from there, but the core of the inning – what made the big innings possible – is the same. Hosmer’s walk in the Wild Card was the most underrated moment in the inning, if not the game. I would say the same thing about his walk last night.
- I don’t really get starting Jeremy Guthrie over Jason Vargas in Game 3. Not because of who starts Game 3 or 4 – they’re both starting in the same ballpark, and it doesn’t matter who goes first. It matters because whoever starts Game 3 starts Game 7. And the decision of who your starting pitcher should be for Game 7 of the World Series is kind of big.
The Giants start as many as six left-handed hitters in their lineup. That’s not a big reason to start Vargas, who doesn’t have a huge platoon split, but it is a reason not to start Guthrie, a right-hander who lefties hit pretty well. I honestly, truly don’t get the move.
Unless. Unless the reason is that the Royals have already figured out that in Game 7 of the World Series, all the rules get thrown out the window, and your “starting pitcher” is simply your first reliever. Unless they think that by starting Guthrie against the Giants, they might entice the Giants to load up their lineup with left-handed bats. Unless they then plan to pull Guthrie at the first sign of danger – and I mean the first sign, like in the second inning. Unless they tell Guthrie ahead of time that look, you’re not going five innings tonight, and you might not even go three, so just air it out for as long as you can go and we’ll pull you as soon as you falter even a tiny bit. Unless they then plan to go to lefties Danny Duffy and Brandon Finnegan as soon as the second or third inning, either garnering a big platoon edge – with Herrera, Davis, and Holland ready to take over as soon as the fifth inning – or forcing Bochy to pinch-hit with his right-handed bats that early in the game, locking those bats in against the three-headed cyborg (or Triborg, as brilliant Twitter follower Dean Lytton called it) for the rest of the game.
Honestly, I don’t think that’s what the Royals are thinking. I don’t think that they would have set up a trap for the Giants in Game 7 before the series even began. I’m terrified that they named Guthrie their Game 3 starter because they’d honestly rather have him on the mound in Game 7 than Vargas.
But if they are setting a trap…hot damn. I would love that.
- My wife flew down to join me for Game 2 of the World Series, just her second time at Kauffman Stadium, and her first time since shortly after we got married in the summer of 1997. (This is the game we attended. It turned out to be the first game in a 12-game losing streak that got Bob Boone fired and ushered in the Tony Muser Era.) So…yeah, this was a different experience for her. A much better experience.
I sprung for some nice tickets in Section 117, just past third base – as a medical professional, I am quite aware that you can live a full and normal life with just one kidney. We sat (well, stood more than sat, like everyone else…) next to a family that had chartered a flight from Tennessee that day to watch Game 2, and were flying back the next day. I didn’t think much of it other than, “well, they’re loaded.” But in the sixth inning, as the Royals came to bat I started talking with the gentleman next to me, who told me that he had attended all the Royals’ home games in the 1985 World Series, and his family had a connection to the Royals. I was curious.
“Do you remember the guy who was co-owner of the Royals in the 1980s?” he asked me, as the Royals mounted their rally. “Avron Fogelman, sure,” I replied. Fogelman is a mostly-forgotten part of Royals history, but in 1983, Royals owner Ewing Kauffman, who was concerned about his own mortality and lacking any heirs that wanted to run the team, had been looking for a potential successor, someone younger but wealthy enough to own the club. He found Avron Fogelman, a Memphis real estate tycoon who owned the Double-A Memphis Chicks. He sold Fogelman 49% of the team, with an option to buy a majority stake later.
In 1985, when the Royals won the World Series, both Kauffman and Fogelman were presented as co-owners. My most vivid memory of Fogelman is seeing him during the Royals’ championship celebration after Game 7. But the Memphis real estate market nosedived in the late 1980s, Fogelman needed cash, and his only liquid asset was his stake in the Royals. He sold his stake back to Kauffman – well creditors demanded his stake go up for auction, but there were no serious bidders other than Kauffman – in 1990, and disappeared from Royals history. Three years later, Kauffman passed away, with no owner to take over the reins, and the Royals were set adrift.
“Avron Fogelman, sure,” I replied. “Yeah, he’s my dad,” he told me, as the Royals piled on five runs in the inning, their biggest inning of the playoffs.
I’m hoping to create a wall of pictures of the seminal moments of this postseason, either for my house or my office – or maybe both. (If they lose the World Series, it will likely be muted. If they win…I will probably spend a truly irresponsible amount of money making it happen.) There are many seminal moments to choose from.
But I think I might have to find a spot on my wall to frame this quote from Salvador Perez as well. So much win here. Perez body-slams Hunter Strickland so effortlessly I’m not even sure he meant it.
“Look at Omar. Omar hit the bomb.” I'm innocent, dude. Someone stole your lunch money, but it wasn't me.
Except that even an amateur lip-reader can deduce that what Strickland said was, “get in the dugout, boy,” something about a dozen of you tweeted to me when I asked (since we didn’t know what had instigated the brouhaha) about what had happened.
I hope I don’t have to explain to you the potential implications of a white guy from Georgia calling a dark-skinned immigrant “boy”. This could be a much bigger story. Frankly, maybe it should be, and it’s a little curious that it isn’t. But that’s at least in part because the guy who was the recipient of those thoughtless words either heard something different than what the rest of us read, or chose to take the high road and ignore it.
Perez has had the worst season of his career at the plate, a terrible second half, and a generally awful postseason punctuated by the biggest hit of the season and his big double last night. But I don’t care. He’s still my bae.
Rannnnnyyyyy! You makin me smile!
I was surprised that the "boy" comment wasn't made into a bigger deal too. Looking at the Deadspin article about it, I don't think it's a coincidence that in the picture at the top of the article, Dyson and Cain (2 of the 3 African Americans on the active roster, and both from the south), appear to look the most P.O'd/vocal. Personality-wise, I suspect Dyson would be out there no matter what the scenario, but Cain? Probably over-analyzing but it's awfully coincidental.
The Duffy Finnegan Trap would be awesome, let JGuts go through 12 batters.....no matter the outcome, drop duffy in for 9 batters, frasor for an inning, then if you have to come back with finn in the 6th do it.....if you are through 7 activate the cyborgs.
Love the potential lineup with Dyson 9th, Gordo 2nd.
Love the Game 7 "trap" idea.
But Ned's not that clever.
Beautiful write up Rany. I love the trap idea. But I don't think there's any chance Yost is that smart.
I definitely read "Boy" on Strickland's lips. Sad moment.
But what does "He's still my bae." mean?
I'll have to miss tonight's game. I'll be playing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor when the first pitch is thrown.
It lookslike Ned copied your lineup! That's the exact lineup he is trotting out there tonight. Love that lineup!
omg it was unconscionable that gutherie started game 3 and that the batting order was such and such!!!!! small sample sizes don't mean anything, unless there is a move i don't agree with, in which case holyfuckingshitimmawritethousandsofwords!!
I hope & believe Finnegan ends up being a good starter in the future, but no matter, his contributions in the post season have already made him a great draft choice. 2 more victories & Royals are Champions! Unbelievable!
Well, this series is either ending in SF (in our favor) or coming back home. That is all that we could ask for. LOVED Holly's post-game debut on MLB Network - what a humble guy. Go Royals!
Why let Guthrie go 12 batters? Let him go through the lineup once (so presumably 2-3 innings max unless he falters). Then start bringing in the bullpen with Duffy and Finnegan for 1-2 innings each with Frasor sandwiched in between for 1 inning followed by HDH.
Royals Today: World Series, Game 3.
Royals Today: World Series, Game 1.
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2019-04-20T15:21:19Z
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http://www.ranyontheroyals.com/2014/10/royals-today-world-series-game-2.html
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A key to figuring out how to defeat cancer is understanding how it behaves at the cellular level. Winship researchers use high resolution microscopy to peer into cellular worlds and illuminate the beautiful, yet deadly, structures within.
Emily Summerbell from Winship investigator Adam Marcus's lab created images of the inner skeleton of lung cancer cells to study how these structures change within groups of invasive cancer cells. The cell skeleton (made of a protein called tubulin) is orange. The nucleus of the cell is blue.
Subhas Mukherjee in Winship pathologist Dan Brat's lab uses a fly brain to show a tumor (orange) growing into the normal brain tissue (blue). Mukherjee studies the behavior of brain tumor stem cells to learn how targeted therapies could help.
Working in the lab of Melissa Gilbert-Ross, director of the Winship Cancer Animal Models Shared Resource, graduate student Briana Brown dissects a fruit fly to isolate its wing. She then stains and magnifies the wing to create the image below.
Briana Brown magnified the wing of a fly 63 times in order to mimic a form of lung cancer mutation. She's trying to understand how the mutation works to promote metastasis or the spread of these tumors.
Satoru Osuka working in the lab of Erwin Van Meir, Winship neuro-oncology investigator, uses brain tumor cells from a mouse to study the recurrence of glioblastoma multiforme. This image represents an over-expressed protein (in green) that could be key in the progression of the disease. The cell body is red and the nucleus is purplish blue.
"High-resolution live-cell imaging allows us to see at a microscopic level how cells behave and even how individual molecules function. Ultimately it's this biology that is driving the tumor."
Alex Chen from Winship brain tumor researcher Renee Read's lab uses fruit flies to understand glioblastoma multiforme, a malignant and incurable brain tumor. This image depicts the effects of knocking down or reducing the amount of protein that may be involved in tumor progression.
Subhas Mukherjee enlarged the tumor in a fly brain 20 times to depict the tumor stem cells (in green) and abundant dividing cells (in white). The cell neurons are in red.
Emily Summerbell created what she calls a tubulin sunburst from the internal skeleton of a lung cancer cell. It is made of structures called microtubules. The pushing and pulling of the cell skeleton plays a critical role in how cancer cells move and multiply.
Neil Anthony, assistant scientist in the Integrated Cellular Imaging Shared Resource, views a cancer cell in the new lattice sheet microscope. The new technology enables researchers to view live cells at the highest combined 4D resolution attainable (three spatial dimensions plus time). Winship is one of only 15 sites worldwide to acquire and install a lattice sheet microscope.
The Winship researchers who made these images are (left to right): Briana Brown, graduate student; Emily Summerbell, graduate student; Subhas Mukherjee, postdoctoral fellow; Alex Chen, graduate student; Satoru Osuka, postdoctoral fellow.
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2019-04-23T10:59:45Z
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https://winshipcancer.emory.edu/magazine/issues/2017/spring/features/what-is-that/index.html
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Scottish rapper and writer Darren McGarvey has been awarded the UK’s most prestigious prize for political writing at a ceremony in London.
McGarvey, also known as Loki, was honoured with the Orwell prize for Books for his “searing examination” of working-class life in ‘Poverty Safari’.
The book, McGarvey’s first, aims to give a voice to people in deprived communities across the country and features autobiographical notes from the rapper on his own experience growing up in Pollok.
McGarvey joins the likes of Labour home secretary Alan Johnson and novelist James Meek as winners of the prize.
McGarvey, who writes a weekly column for The Scotsman, was presented with a cheque for £3,000 by Richard Blair, George Orwell’s son, on what would have been Orwell’s 115th birthday at a ceremony at the Royal Society of Arts building in London.
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2019-04-20T03:16:09Z
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https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/whats-on/entertainment/scotsman-columnist-darren-mcgarvey-wins-orwell-prize-for-political-writing-1-4759665
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Dec 16, 2018 Knee MCL Sprain Grade 2 Boyd suffered a "low grade" MCL sprain in his right knee in the 2nd quarter of Week 15. He missed the final 2 games.
Oct 8, 2017 Knee MCL Sprain Grade 2 Boyd sprained his right MCL in the 1st quarter against the Bills and missed 4 games.
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2019-04-22T06:36:03Z
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https://www.draftsharks.com/fantasy-stats/tyler-boyd/7472
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Oh, sweet Friday! Illustrious salve to the vicissitudes of the capricious midweek! And, what’s more, a chance to look at cool stuff!
This Alu Scott has the same geometry as its carbon brethren, designed for ‘world class speed’. Internal routing, too.
That lockout controls the Fox CTD fork and 100mm of fast-as-owt travel.
The whole shebang comes in at a whisker under 25lbs.
For those who like their bikes a little *wider*, take a look at the Felt Double 70. Aluminium framed, with everything you need to render the untameable tameable. Except for tigers, probably.
Plenty of bosses for bottle attachments and racks and what-have-you on the hydroformed aluminium fork.
Complete with removable inner padded short, asymmetric style an’ that for maximum schralping (What? I haven’t used the ‘S’ word in aages…) and maximum style in maximum comfort.
Catchy named jacket with Windbreaker and Dryozone technology. Stuffs into its jacket pocket when it’s not being orange (or when it’s not raining out).
“a face for radio” – it’s official.
Barney tries to be one of those fellas from CHIPS (no relation). Or perhaps he’s hiding the huge bags under his eyes from having a new baby (hint: it’s the not the former).
It’s got an integrated MIPS brain protection system, comes in 3 sizes, has a Micro Rotatory Adjustment System, extended coverage and optimised venting. Even Barney can’t make it look bad (as much as he tries, simply by existing).
An all-mountain shoes with a more relaxed fit (than other racing-snake shoes in their range, presumably). They’ve got a Boa ratchet for closure and sticky rubber (in groovy red-orange colours) for grip.
GVM is planning some back-country expeditions in the near future – he’s camping out in the woods until the heat dies down. So he’s delighted at the prospect of this Aldi backpack. Lots of pockets (for hiding his ‘special stuff’), a large main compartment, a vented back, and a bladder.
The hero pose, for all those GVM fans. You know who you are. Larger photos available on request.
It’s a bottle cage made of carbon! Flared sides for easy access, and a firm hold in 23g flavour.
Up to 120psi in a roadie style, and with a cunning one-size-fits-all valve head.
..and we’re done! The weather actually looks pretty good this weekend, so as fast as our little pins can carry us we’re heading out to try to remember what riding bikes in anything other than clag is actually like. Have a great weekend!
Hoorah! Looks like I win this weeks spot the deliberate mistake competition. The 12th’s Sunday not Monday, and you’d not want anyone to miss out on Aldi bargains would you?
Can people stop talking about the Aldi bargains until I’ve been!?
Aldi and Lidl and my employers are conspiring against me. EVERY time A + L have temping stuff on the cheap, my employers have me out of the country at work.
Grrr. Mrs Seadog refuses to enter said establishments on my behalf.
is the zip tie on the chainstay of the fat bike missing deliberately to save weight?
Two bikes at sensible(ish) prices!
The problem with 85 quid light weight jackets when you literally “punch the wall” they end up covered in duck tape…..
Liking the stuff from GT- i might have one of those rear lights, are they any good?
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2019-04-24T05:00:35Z
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https://singletrackworld.com/2015/04/fresh-goods-friday-237/
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I normally like to bring out the actual camera for blog tours, and not use my iPhone, however, our life has been running around between the children’s hospital, and blood work, and getting prescriptions, and doctor appointments that the iPhone was really the only way to go right now. So, this is my formal apology for the pretty basic photos. And if we’re being honest, the sewing this week was pretty basic too. I didn’t realize my life would be going from one appointment to the next this past little while. Ok. Now that we’ve established all that…. On with the show.
How am I breaking ground this blog tour? I am trying out a new to me designer – Flosstyle. I’ve sewn up two MODIFIED versions of their Play Away pattern! Please note that I received this pattern compliments of Flosstyle.
I was originally only going to sew up one of the four versions – Discover – for my nephew, but Jackson saw it and asked if I’d make him something too. I showed him the four different versions – Drive, Discover, Dolly, Draw – and of course he had to have Drive. His own little race track to tote around?! Heck yes!
Do not look at my poopy stitching. I do NOT love sewing on vinyl! Maybe I need a Teflon foot, because my roller foot was NOT having it!
Discover is a cute little version of the pattern. It makes me think of a little touch and feel book. The one side has three little circles with different fabric textures in each one. I choose minky, a sequins fabric, and ribbing. Soft, scratchy, and bumpy. There’s also a little section of different textured ribbons and elastics. The fabric behind that portion is swim, to add another textured element into the mix – slippery.
The other side of Discover is pretty freaking awesome. Now, it’s suppose to be filled with either poly pellets or beads, but while mucking about in my sewing room I found this gold confetti and thought it would be fun to add to the discovery window. Note, it totally looks cool, but now the jingle bell in there is all clogged and doesn’t jingle. Meh, you live and learn. There’s all sorts of surprises hidden in the discovery window. What can you see? I see a little buggy boo’s face. I see the jungle bell. I see a the lion button. And a I see an alphabet bead. Don’t worry if you don’t see them all. I have an unfair advantage.
I mentioned above that I did modify the Flosstyle Play Away. I also started off this blog tour mentioning that I’ve been to a zillion appointments. Ok. Well, the one supply I didn’t have on hand was a separating zipper in the right length. I COULD NOT go out again. Too frazzled. Too much anxiety. Too emotionally worn out from appointments. It wasn’t happening. It would have ended with me crying my eyes out either at a red light on the way to the fabric store or in the middle of the notions aisle once I’d arrived. Or both. Nope nope nope. I opted to skip the zipper and do an elastic and button closure on both versions of the Play Away that I made.
I whipped the Drive version up for Jackson the night before we headed back to the children’s hospital. Here is where I admit my screw ups. Since I knew I wasn’t doing a zipper I just sandwiched the inner portion, vinyl, and shell together, without first attaching the vinyl to the inner portion first. And now my finished product looks a bit sloppy, in my opinion. The flannel used for the inner and shell have a bit of give and movement, whereas the vinyl doesn’t. Stitching the vinyl to the inner first would have eliminated some of the wrinkling that is happening now in the inner layer. Again, live and learn. But a freaking obnoxious outcome that I could have EASILY avoided. Gah!
There’s four different inners for the Play Away – Drive, Discover, Dolly, Draw. There’s also four different shells – Flat pocket, pouch pocket, plain pocket, just straps. For Discover, I did just straps. For Drive, I did pouch pocket. I think Jackson and I discovered that you can squeeze six hot wheels into one pouch pocket, but it’s better to divide them up between the two.
What a great make. This is such an awesome pattern and so practical for kids.
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2019-04-18T14:55:08Z
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https://manningthemachine.wordpress.com/2018/03/15/breaking-ground-blog-tour/
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Clarke County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. In the 2010 census, 9,286 people lived there. The county seat is Osceola.
This page was last changed on 14 September 2018, at 19:33.
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Snow, sleet, freezing rain, and rain are all in the forecast.
Massachusetts is in for plowable snow this weekend, but when exactly will it hit?
The snow is expected to transition to rain, freezing rain, and sleet in parts of the state Sunday morning, before changing back to snow Sunday afternoon, the service said. Areas southeast of Boston are forecast to see rain Sunday morning, while areas west and north of Boston are in for a wintry mix. In Western Mass. and northern parts of Central Mass., where the highest projected snow totals are, it’ll remain snow throughout, according to the service.
With the changing temperatures, service forecasters say a “flash freeze” is possible Sunday afternoon across all of Southern New England.
All of Massachusetts, except for Cape Cod and the Islands, will be under a winter storm warning or watch for the duration of the storm.
* Winter Storm Warning issued for northern MA.
* Coastal Flood Warning issued for eastern MA for Sun AM high tide, where pockets of moderate flooding expected.
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2019-04-22T03:02:32Z
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https://www.boston.com/weather/weather/2019/01/17/timing-snow-storm-boston-massachusetts-january-19-20-2019
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On the wtf is up with Damon Linker?
D) What exactly is there to be sad about not being religious, what do you lose that you’d want to keep?
F) Why is it the atheist’s job to disprove a religion and not their job to prove it?
H) Do they think that someone born and raised atheist feels a profound lack in their life?
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2019-04-21T18:33:13Z
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This year we organised our second children’s summer camp. Once again God provided the resources and we were able to spend 7 days in the countryside, enjoying friendship, having fun and learning from the bible.
There were 25 children, of whom 10 were from families who don’t come to church. For some it was their first experience of this kind. The theme of the camp was courage and it was based on the story of Gideon. Each day, the children learned about God having a plan for each of our lives and that He is also able to help us fulfil it. We also sang and discussed different themes, with the children divided into their age groups for discussion.
As well as the teaching, we also had sport, free-time, games and English classes in two age groups.
Since the majority of the children are from Niš, we have remained in contact with them and regularly invite them to our youth and children’s activities. We’ve also transformed our Sunday school into a children’s club, where the learning activities are a similar style to those from the camp. Some of the children from the camp whose parents do not attend church have also shown interest in the club – and these parents are supportive of their children’s involvement with us. It’s so exciting to be able to share His word with children.
We were very blessed on the camp. As always, prior to the camp, we prayed for the team, for the children and for protection for everyone. And we really felt God’s protection.
Please, go to this link to see pictures from the camp. Enjoy!
We had an English camp in Backa Topola in July. About 26 teens came from Backa Topola and Pacir and had a great time while learning English, playing games and hanging out with each other.
We had prayed for opportunities to share the Gospel and the love of God, and we were blessed to see that the kids were open, very honest and felt free to ask questions. I will never forget the words of a teenager guy who claimed himself to be an atheist, that even if he didn’t believe in God, he still enjoyed very much to listen to the conversations about Him. A girl said she wanted to start coming to the church, because “Christians at the camp were so loving”. Seven of them said that they came to faith during this camp.
We really grew close to these kids, and continue hanging out with them at the church. So far we have had 2 “follow-up programs” , the first one was a barbecue, and we organized a disco-party for them last Friday. Please pray that God would continue working in their hearts. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND SUPPORT!
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2019-04-24T16:34:40Z
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Michele Bachmann: Evolution Of A 'Cultural Warrior' When TV news shows want somebody to enthusiastically rip into President Obama, Michele Bachmann is a reliable choice. The Minnesota congresswoman is a polarizing figure — and a Tea Party favorite. But her first presidential campaign experience came from a place today's political observers would least expect.
NPR has been profiling some of the Republicans who are considering a presidential run in 2012, to find out what first sparked their interest in politics. Read more of the profiles.
Then-state Sen. Michele Bachmann, shown with state Sen. Warren Limmer in 2001. As a state senator, Bachmann was known for taking stands on controversial cultural issues, like abortion and gay marriage.
When TV news shows want somebody to enthusiastically rip into President Obama, Michele Bachmann is a reliable choice.
One of her favorite techniques: comparing Obama to Jimmy Carter.
"A second administration of Jimmy Carter wouldn't have done this country any favors," the Minnesota congresswoman said on one of her regular Meet the Press appearances. "We need to make sure we don't have a second Barack Obama administration."
Bachmann knows a thing or two about Jimmy Carter, a secret she revealed last December in Michigan. "The first time I ever went to Washington, D.C., I went to dance at Jimmy Carter's inaugural ball," she said.
"And another secret you need to know? My husband and I met in college — we worked on Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign."
Born in Iowa, Bachmann grew up in Minnesota, where she says "Democrat" gets printed on your birth certificate. The woman who started the House Tea Party caucus was, in fact, raised a Democrat.
Jerome Christenson, the deputy editor of the Winona Daily News in Minnesota, says Bachmann "was really pretty enthusiastic for Jimmy.
"I think at the time," he says, "one of the things that might have attracted her was Carter's Baptist roots."
Christenson was Bachmann's classmate at Winona State University in the '70s. He encouraged her to run for vice president of the student senate — a seat she won.
But even though her party label changed, Christenson says, the Minnesota congresswoman preparing a presidential run today is not too different from the effusive college student he knew 35 years ago.
"Stridently evangelical Christian," he says he'd call her today. But back then, he says, "we just called her a Jesus freak. Generally, the folks that promoted themselves as being Christian were pretty apolitical. They were friends of Jesus, and that was about it."
Christenson describes her as a bridge between students of deep Christian faith and those of political passions.
Bachmann has said she left the Democratic Party after reading a Gore Vidal novel that mocked the founding fathers. Like Bachmann, Mitch Penny, another former classmate, switched parties as he grew older.
There is a real insurgent element throughout Michele Bachmann's career. ... [As a state senator], she was quite willing to engage in highly public crusades about issues. Well, guess what — that's what she's been doing in Washington, as well.
"I guess going off to college, you're young and impressionable," says Penny, who is now a police sergeant in Minnesota. "You want to make a mark in the world. And as we've grown older, we've paid more attention to our pocketbooks and [are] trying to decide, are we going to be paying out too much? And if we pay too much, you're not going to have enough for everybody."
Bachmann and her husband both moved over to the Republican Party, volunteering for Reagan in the 1980 campaign. She received her law degree from Oral Roberts University, and another graduate degree from William and Mary Law School. Over the years, the Bachmanns have raised five biological children and have fostered 23 kids.
Between work as an attorney and a mother, Bachmann didn't re-enter politics full time until 2000, when she won a Minnesota state Senate seat.
Steven Schier, a political scientist at Carleton College in Minnesota, has tracked her political career from the beginning. "As a state senator," he says, "Michele Bachmann was primarily a cultural warrior," campaigning outside abortion clinics and vocally fighting against gay marriage.
Six years after she joined the state Senate, Minnesotans sent her to Congress.
"There is a real insurgent element throughout Michele Bachmann's career," Schier says. "She was never a favorite of the legislative leadership when she was a Republican state senator. She was quite willing to engage in highly public crusades about issues. Well, guess what — that's what she's been doing in Washington, as well."
Bachmann's political base loves her style, and it makes institutional Republican leaders cringe.
Her rhetoric is always colorful — and occasionally wrong. The nonpartisan website PolitiFact has evaluated 21 Bachmann statements. None were rated "true" or even "mostly true" — 16 were just false.
Match Game: What Inspired These Republicans?
The night of the president's State of the Union address in January, Bachmann gave Republican leaders another headache: She offered her own Tea Party response to the president's speech, just after the official Republican response.
"We believe in lower taxes," she said then. "We believe in a limited view of government and exceptionalism in America."
Bachmann has been an enthusiastic booster of the Tea Party movement. And her style is widely compared to another potential Republican presidential contender, Sarah Palin.
Schier sees one key difference.
"I think Bachmann has identified herself more with social conservatism throughout her career and is, I think, a more undiluted social conservative perhaps even than Sarah Palin."
In short, Bachmann is not bland. The risk of her candidacy is that the same spiciness she uses to fire up the conservative base might burn her when she needs to appeal to a broader audience.
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2019-04-19T19:17:44Z
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https://www.npr.org/2011/05/09/135603636/michele-bachmann-evolution-of-a-cultural-warrior?ps=rs?ps=rs
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Lebogang Shange became the first African athlete to win a race in the Mexican leg of the IAAF Race Walking Challenge in Monterrey, where Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez and Andres Chocho also enjoyed a successful weekend during the two-day Memorial Jerzy Hausleber.
Absent last year in Monterrey, world and Olympic silver medallist Maria Guadalupe Gonzalez was a class apart, moving away from the rest of the field after six kilometres on the two-kilometre loop course around Parque Fundidora.
Despite the hot conditions, Gonzalez cruised to a course record of 1:27:46, her third fastest time ever, only slower than her silver medal performances at the 2016 Race Walking Team World Cup in Rome and the 2017 World Championships in London.
Defending champion and 2017 Race Walking Challenge winner Erica de Sena settled for second in 1:30:47, followed by Portugal’s Inês Henriques, one placing lower from 2017.
In the men’s 20km, warm conditions hindered faster times from the start. South Africa’s Lebogang Shange was joined in the lead group by Mexico’s Carlos Sanchez, Andres Oliva and Ever Palma as well as Ecuador’s Maurico Arteaga.
Shange, fourth at the 2017 World Championships, made his move in the second half of the race and went on to win in 1:24:32. On his second competitive trip to Mexico, the 27-year-old improved his third place performance from Ciudad Juarez in 2018.
Sánchez followed him next at the finish line 27 seconds later. Arteaga overtook Olivas for bronze in 1:25:10.
Pre-race favourites suffered in the heat and were never a factor in the race, including 2015 Pan American Games gold medallist Evan Dunfee, who opted for the 20km after winning the 50km in Monterrey last year.
Brazil’s Caio Bonfim, fourth at the 2016 Olympic Games, finished 11th, one place ahead of Mexico’s José Luis Doctor, runner-up in 2017.
Spain’s 2015 World Champion Miguel Ángel López and Mexico’s Eder Sanchez, winner multiple times of the Mexican race, were relegated to 15th and 16th respectively.
On Sunday, Ecuador’s Andrés Chocho returned to winning days on Mexican soil over 50km as he did in Ciudad Juarez in 2016 with a South American record.
The 2015 Pan American Games gold medallist took on the challenge of two seasoned Mexican athletes: José Leyver Ojeda and Omar Zepeda, who have taken three victories at home since the Race Walking Challenge was introduced in 2003.
Chocho bided his time and moved away from the Mexican duo in the second half of the race to win in 3:50:27, three minutes ahead of Ojeda (3:53:37). Zepeda returned to the podium in third with 3:57:31.
Mexico’s Horacio Nava opted for his specialist event but was left out of contention, eventually finishing fifth in 4:02:28.
Six women also contested the longer distance compared to one the previous year. The sole competitor in 2017, Erika Jazmine Morales, improved her time by almost 30 minutes to set a new Mexican record of 4:32:53.
USA’s Erin Taylor-Talcott (4:54:39) and Mexico’s Lizbeth Silva (4:58:41) also joined her on the podium.
A junior 10km race was also held and local athletes swept all medals, led by César Córdova (42:35) and defending champion Alegna Ariday Gonzalez (45:20). They will both represent Mexico at the IAAF Team Race Walking World Cup in Taicang, China, May 5-6.
The event carried the name of 'Jerzy Hausleber Memorial', in honour of the late Polish coach who is regarded as the 'father' of Mexican race walking. He paved the way for success since Jose Pedroza’s silver medal at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City.
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2019-04-25T09:48:53Z
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https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/shange-chocho-and-gonzalez-win-monterrey
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As much as I want to pay off Sallie Mae it’s time to beef up my emergency fund. For the month of January I’ll pay paying just the minimum $452 for the month. Between bills from the holidays and my pending medical bills it’s spreading me thin.
Today I was wheezing heavily and coughing at work. This has never happened to me before and lasted for a full 45 minutes. Luckily my job has a clinic on-site. I went down there and both people who worked there and those waiting felt really bad for me. So I was seen a full hour before my appointment. Chest x-ray ruled out pneumonia, tested negative for flu and negative for strep. Got a nebulizer treatment for a half hour, blood work drawn and two injections in my backside. I immediately started to feel better. My prescriptions were only $12. Went home and did 0 work afterward.
My current health plan has a $4000 deductible. That is going to $2000 in about two weeks. Still not enough to make a big difference in what I will end up owing. I hope most of the stuff at the clinic is covered by my co-pay but I cannot say so for sure. The x-rays will be a couple hundred dollars I figure.
Currently I have $197 in my bank account so an emergency fund is non-existant. I need to pull back at least for a month to do some damage control. Credit card balance is just under $700, close to $900 after pending transactions hit. That will be paid off in full after my next paycheck. I put the ATT ($87), Verizon ($150) and electricity bill (not yet added but $212) on it.
It’s a wakeup call that health is important and having insurance matters. Coming out of the holidays without super much massive damage (though I spent more than I wanted to) and that makes me happy. That’s all for now.
Update: Maybe the X-Rays aren’t as much as I thought. I see an estimated cost online of $32 for the center I went to.
I have asthma so I know how scary that can be when you are having problems breathing. I think you are doing the right thing by focusing on building up the emergency fund. It’s always good to have a cushion, and for people like you and me, well, our loans are here for the foreseeable future, so we need to worry about “today” too, not just “tomorrow.” Happy Holidays!
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2019-04-18T12:36:20Z
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Hokies headed to Sweet 16 after 67-58 victory against Liberty, Duke awaits in D.C.
Dribbling out the clock Sunday night in the closing seconds of East Region No. 4 seed Virginia Tech’s 67-58 win against No. 12 seed Liberty, Justin Robinson stood a few feet away from Hokies coach Buzz Williams, smiles broad across both of their faces.
Why not sharing a mirthful moment after waiting so long to break through? It was worth taking a couple of seconds to soak it all in at the end of the NCAA tournament second-round game.
After all, this is a road seldom-traveled by Tech’s men’s basketball program.
For the first time since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985, Tech is headed to the Sweet 16. It also made it that far in the 1967 tournament, but back then, there were only 23 teams in the tournament.
Tech (26-8), which established a school single-season record for victories, has a tall order Friday night in the Sweet 16 against No. 1 seed Duke in Washington, D.C. Duke survived 77-76 Sunday against No. 9 seed Central Florida.
On Feb. 26, Tech defeated Duke 77-72 in Blacksburg. Duke was without eventual ACC Player of the Year Zion Williamson, who sat out because of a sprained knee, but Tech was missing Robinson, its starting point guard who was dealing with a left foot injury that would keep him out for 12 games.
Forward Kerry Blackshear led Tech on Sunday with 19 points and nine rebounds, while Ty Outlaw had his first double-double as a Hokie with 10 points and 11 rebounds. Hill added 14 points and Robinson chipped in with 13 points.
Tech used a 16-3 run in the second half to grab a 52-44 lead with 10:20 remaining. Liberty (29-7), which was paced by Darius McGhee’s 15 points off the bench, missed 13 of its last 16 shots from the floor and made 27.3 percent of its field-goal attempts in the final 20 minutes.
“I don’t have to motivate these guys,” said Williams, who last made it to at least the Sweet 16 in the 2012-13 season, when he took Marquette to the Elite Eight — his third straight trip to the Sweet 16 or beyond with the Golden Eagles.
Though Tech shot 48.3 percent from the field in the second half, it struggled to get on a roll in the opening half, connecting on just 35.7 percent. Liberty built a lead as large as eight points in the first half before going on to take a 32-29 halftime advantage.
Tech misfired on 17 of its first 24 field-goal attempts, but made three of its last four in the first half to generate a little momentum going into the locker room. Hill made a big 3-pointer with three seconds left in the half.
It was the first of two huge moments for Hill.
With 3:13 remaining in the game, Tech was clinging to a 56-50 lead as it prepared for an inbounds play under the basket. Robinson spotted Hill, who caught Liberty forward Scottie James unaware in the middle of the lane, slipping past James for an alley-oop layup.
Making matters worse for Liberty, which shot 38.3 percent from the floor for the game, James fouled Hill on the play. Hill made the ensuing free throw to put Tech ahead 59-50.
Liberty guard Georgie Pacheco-Ortiz made a 3-pointer with 2:20 remaining to trim Tech’s lead to 59-54. Liberty, which turned the ball over 12 times compared to seven turnovers for Tech, wouldn’t get any closer down the stretch.
Blackshear and Outlaw put the game away in the final 40 seconds, making four straight free throws. Tech was 6 of 7 from the free-throw line in the second half and 12 of 16 for the game.
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First baseman Evan White is both part of the problem and a possible solution to the Mariners’ plight in possessing baseball’s worst farm system.
The 21-year-old White was the club’s first-round pick out of Kentucky last June, but an ailing quadriceps muscle truncated his campaign at short-season Everett.
The Mariners’ top three prospects in a system already thinned by trades each ended last season on the shelf: outfielder Kyle Lewis, White and righthander Sam Carlson.
White appears fully recovered and will be a fast-track development plan.
"He will definitely start with a full-season club,” farm director Andy McKay said. "When we signed him, he had a lingering injury with the quad, and we tried to manage it the best we could. It didn’t work.
White hit .277/.345/.532 with three home runs in 14 games at Everett while displaying a smooth righthanded swing and a disciplined approach, in addition to plus defensive skills.
The Mariners believe White’s speed and athleticism would allow him to shift easily to a corner outfield post. For now, though, he’s a first baseman who plays, he said, with a shortstop’s mentality.
A rival scout recently likened White to "Mark Grace with better speed.” A four-time Gold Glover, Grace combined a line-drive swing with elite defense in a 16-year career, but White is a long-time Reds fan who points to Joey Votto as a role model.
"I think he is a very good defender,” White said, "and I love how he hits. Not only does he have a beautiful swing, but he makes adjustments. He hits for power, and he hits for average.
Ranking the Arizona Fall League's 12 best prospects, plus a look at players who improved their stock.
Even with baseball’s rich vernacular history, there’s really no clever name to describe a player like White.
A career reliever in pro ball, Festa tried his hand at "opening" for the Mariners in September.
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https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/evan-white-prepares-to-jump-on-fast-track/
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The History and Philosophy of Science Program at Notre Dame is a Ph.D. program. Graduate students pursue their studies on one of three tracks (History, Philosophy or Theology and Science), and have a second home in the corresponding department.
Our students meet all the Ph.D. requirements of their home department, as well as the additional HPS requirements, thereby emerging fully trained in their home discipline as well as in HPS. This is accomplished with three years of coursework, followed by at least two years of dissertation work.
Details of the degree requirements can be found in the HPS Handbook.
Every year we admit up to four students. Click for more on admissions.
We do not accept applications from students seeking a master’s degree. However, students already enrolled in a different Ph.D. program at the University of Notre Dame are eligible to enroll for a concurrent master's in HPS.
This non-research HPS M.A. degree requires the completion of 36 hours of coursework. Students may count up to nine hours of coursework toward both degree programs, subject to approval by the director of HPS and the director of graduate studies in the other program.
For more details, please consult the HPS Handbook, or contact the HPS Program Director.
A Graduate Minor in HPS provides Notre Dame science, engineering, and arts and letters Ph.D. students with the opportunity to develop skills and perspectives that enable them to analyze the many roles that science and technology play in the modern world. Training in the HPS Graduate Minor Program will therefore promote graduate students’ abilities to be thoughtful citizens, scholars, and policy-makers as science, technology, and medicine shape contemporary life ever more deeply.
The minor requires three HPS courses, and attendance at the HPS Colloquium for two semesters. For more details, please consult the HPS Handbook, or contact the HPS Program Director.
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Motorola has taken the headphone jack out of its newest smartphones, making them super slim in the process.
The Moto Z has a 5.5-inch display and is about 30% thinner and lighter than the iPhone 6S Plus.
Lenovo, Motorola's parent company, unveiled the new device on Thursday, calling it "the world's thinnest premium smartphone."
The company also showed off the Moto Z Force, a slightly thicker version of the Moto Z that boasts shatterproof glass.
Both models will be available in the U.S. later this summer on the Verizon (VZ) network in two colors, black and white. No exact date or pricing has been announced yet. The devices will come with a headphone and USB-C port adapter for charging and audio and data transfer.
As wireless technology continues to improve, it's possible that many future gadgets will come without any ports.
The headphone jack is just an example of a legacy piece of technology that gadgets just don't need anymore. After all, there are already many types of wireless earbuds and headphones on the market, and several kinds of smartphones with wireless charging capabilities.
Chinese tech company LeEco already launched three phones without a headphone jack. And there is speculation that Apple (AAPL) will release a new iPhone in the next two years that also ditches the audio port.
The new Moto Z and Moto Z Force are also examples of another mobile trend: modular phones. Both gadgets can be configured with external accessories to transform into speakers, a mini movie projector, and a huge battery pack.
The LG G5 has mods too, and Google's Project Ara smartphone will launch next year with interchangeable hardware, such as a fitness tracker, health tools, or an e-ink screen.
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Do you have handy dandy cleaning wipes at home?
Wouldn’t you love them even more if you made them and knew exactly what was in them!
It’s pretty easy and you’ll feel so much better about wiping down your surfaces!
1 – First, you’ll need to remove the cardboard tube from the middle of your roll of paper towels. It takes a little patience and persistence. I worked mine away from the towels and then pinched the cardboard and twisted and pulled.
2 – Measure the height of your container and cut the paper towels to fit. A serrated knife will do the job!
3 – Slide paper towels into your container. You can use an old wipes container, a coffee container, anything you have on hand that will fit your paper towels. Depending on your container you may have to remove some to make it slim enough to slide in.
4 – Mix 1 1/2 cup water with 1 capful of Thieves cleaner and pour over towels. *Optional, you can add white vinegar or any other favorite cleaning product or essential oils.
5 – I chose to pop off my *grippers*. My paper towels are not the same durability as store bought wipes so the grippers were too rough on my towels. In this instance its best to pick strong, durable paper towels.
Done! They smell like the great cinnamon, clove scent of Thieves Cleaner! They were so easy to make and I love having the cleaner I LOVE in handy wipes for a quick wipe down of all my surfaces!!
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https://faldesignphotography.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/thieves-wipes/
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Sunday 8th December, Reiss and I ventured to a museum in London called The Horniman Museum and Gardens. We weren’t sure what we were expecting to see but I was delighted by the range and scope of this museum. The gardens include a small petting zoo and an allotment. The Museum itself houses a taxidermy wing, and assortment of curiosities, a music wing, a photography exhibition and an aquarium.
All of the grounds and exhibitions are free to enter except a small fee of £3 per person for the aquarium, for the upkeep of the tanks. We spent around 3/4 hours here and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
My favourite thing in the museum was the jellyfish tank in the aquarium. They were beautiful and mesmerising.
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This is going to be a short post, answering a question I recently got on my email, regarding how to actually ask for a girl’s phone number, after you’ve approached her, had a couple of minutes of good chatting, and you genuinely think you want to see this person again.
I decide to start this advice blog with a personal story. I believe the only way you can transfer your emotions and thoughts to someone else is by strongly believing in them, and I hope you, the reader, can benefit from the things that I have been through, because having the third person perspective of a situation can really help you break it down and understand it, and this is what I found out during (or after) my journey with my first girlfriend.
First things first, the relationship itself started in an odd way, so to better comprehend it, I’ll start from square one.
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November 14, 2013 - Workshop!
A great opportunity came to me today; I was invited to a workshop which the girls of "tendencies" invited me to a workshop which talked about the tendencies for the next years. It was a very interesting lesson because it was all that was going to be very popular for the next couple of years. I took lots of notes but couldn´t really figure out how they got all of their information. It was if they new the future but never have lived it.
Prosper to that meeting; I knew that I had to work on my questions for the Google Hangout because the date was coming up. I had a week to get everything settled. I really had to focus on who I wanted to ask my questions to. This required a whole lot of work. Until know I believe I am heading the right way.
Here are some of the General Questions that we had created.
2. ¿alguna de ustedes hace deporte frecuentemente o rutinariamente?
3. ¿Qué tipo de deporte te gusta hacer que ejercite tu sistema respiratorio (Cardio) Ejemplo: Natación, Correr, Bicicleta?
4. ¿Han participado en algún evento de deporte masivo?
5. ¿Qué te motivó a participar?
6. ¿Han escuchado alguna vez de algún evento deportivo (ejemplo:5K) en pro de alguna causa social?
7. ¿Cada cuánto montan en bicicleta?
8. ¿Alguna Vez han participado en alguna bicicleteada?
It's hard to know the future, but companies do need to spend some time thinking about where trends are going.
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pass the word to your co-workers!
CRM credits have been approved for this event.
today's challenge in the RIM industry.
Messaging and Other Pitfalls of Document Management in the Information Age".
applying them within our workplace environment.
I hope each of you are having a pleasant summer!
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2019-04-26T05:47:18Z
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Would you like to know more about the University of Alberta? Students are invited to take part in an online group chats. They are held once a month from 7pm-9pm (Mountain Time) and allow you to sign in from the comfort of your own home and ask real-time questions to University of Alberta advisors.
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Note: The DPT program accepts students to begin the professional program only for summer terms, which begin in June.
Admission to the DPT program is available through regular admission (applicants will have a bachelor’s degree prior to beginning the professional program) or through an early admission option that allows students to enter the professional program with 90 credit hours.
All applicants must have at least a 3.0 GPA in the core required courses and as a cumulative GPA in the last 60 credit hours.
On-campus interviews are required for admission to the professional program.
Students who enter without a bachelor’s degree must have satisfied the MU general education and graduation requirements and taken two Writing Intensive courses at MU. These applicants must possess a 3.5 GPA.
All students are strongly encouraged to contact the School of Health Professions Student Affairs Office for advisement and planning well in advance of application.
Admission to the program is selective.
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SINGAPORE, March 23 (Reuters) - The yen hit a 16-month high against the dollar on Friday, while the Turkish lira skidded to a record low, as concerns over rising global trade tensions triggered a bout of investor risk aversion.
The yen rose broadly amid talk of position unwinding by Japanese retail investors, who had held long positions in higher-yielding currencies such as the Turkish lira against the Japanese currency.
“It’s mainly driven by cross/yen selling and stops from retail (investors) from what we can see,” said Tarek Horchani, head of sales trading in Asia-Pacific for Saxo Markets in Singapore.
“It’s a pure risk-off trade,” he said, adding that there was stop-loss selling in cross/yen pairs.
The dollar fell to as low as 104.635 yen in early Asian trade on Friday, the greenback’s lowest level since November 2016, as the Japanese currency pushed higher. The dollar was last down 0.4 percent at 104.90 yen.
According to Reuters data, the Turkish lira slid by more than 3 percent against the yen early on Friday. It was last down 1.2 percent on the day at around 26.41.
Against the U.S. dollar, the lira fell to a record low of 4.0375 per dollar at one point. After paring some losses, the Turkish lira last stood at 3.9680 per dollar.
The broad rise in the yen came after financial markets were rattled by worries over rising U.S.-China trade tensions.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday that will target up to $60 billion in Chinese goods with tariffs, but only after a 30-day consultation period that starts once a list is published.
In the wake of Trump’s actions, China’s commerce ministry said on Friday that the country was planning measures against up to $3 billion of U.S. imports to balance U.S. tariffs against Chinese steel and aluminium products.
“The yen continues to be the beneficiary of global risk aversion, and even as we melt through the 105 level like a hot knife through butter, there remain very few reasons not to be short USDJPY in this environment,” Stephen Innes, head of trading in Asia-Pacific for Oanda in Singapore, wrote in a note.
MSCI’s broadest measure of Asia-Pacific equities outside Japan fell 2 percent.
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https://in.reuters.com/article/global-forex/forex-yen-surges-on-risk-aversion-turkish-lira-hits-record-low-idINL3N1R51AB
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PYNDA is a thriving group of alumni who have studied marine and maritime degrees at University of Plymouth - and all its previous incarnations. We continue to be closely involved with the University and are keen to welcome new members.
Formed back in 1970 by some of Plymouth’s earliest graduates in Nautical Studies, today PYNDA boasts a membership of around 400 individuals who are in regular contact with the University, and each other, through networking opportunities, communications, and much more.
Our network reaches far and wide across the sector, with PYNDA members occupying all levels within the maritime industries - from new entrants to influential business leaders.
Han Ozturk recently took over from Mark Warner as the New Chair of PYNDA and looks forward to greeting members, new and longstanding, at future events.
Get social. Like us on Facebook, connect with us on LinkedIn and follow us on Twitter.
As a member of PYNDA, you'll be connected with hundreds of nautical, marine and maritime professionals across the sector. You'll benefit from numerous opportunities for professional networking, collaboration and the forming of mutually beneficial relationships.
By becoming a member of PYNDA, you demonstrate your commitment to supporting the ongoing success of this established network of Plymouth graduates.
We charge a small membership fee of £10 per year, which covers events and administration costs. This payment is processed entirely outside of the University, by the PYNDA Committee. If you're a current student, or have graduated within the last year, you're eligible for free membership.
For more information and to join PYNDA, visit our website.
Director of Nectar Group Holdings.
Han was elected as the Chair of the PYNDA Committee in 2016 and has over 30 years of experience in the shipping industry. Han is currently the Director of Nectar Group Holdings. After spending six years at sea as Chief Officer, Han came ashore in 1989 and has worked for a variety of companies, including Van Ommeren Shipbroking and Inchcape Shipping Services.
Commercial Project Manager for the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers.
Nick graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Maritime Business and Maritime Law, 1997, and an MSc in International Shipping, 1998. His career highlights to date include eight years with the Department for Transport and a stint in aviation security training - which included being part of a team responsible for air restrictions during the London 2012 Olympics.
Case Handler for Pequod Associates.
Andrius, who is fluent in both Lithuanian and Russian, graduated from University of Plymouth in 2010 with a first-class degree in BSc (Hons) Maritime Business and Maritime Law. He went on to achieve a second bachelors degree and Legal Practice Course with the College of Law in London.
Now working for Pequod Associates, Andrius' principal area of practice is cargo claims relating to carriage of goods by sea, road and air, focusing on international conventions.
Insurance Assistant for V Ships.
Marius, a native speaker of both Lithuanian and Russian, graduated with a first-class degree in BSc (Hons) Maritime Business and Maritime Law in 2012. During his student years, he was awarded with the PYNDA Prize for Outstanding Performance in the Maritime Business and Maritime Law degree.
After graduating, Marius joined the V Ships Insurance department in London, managing insurance claims and facilitating the placing of different marine insurance covers.
Visiting Fellow, University of Plymouth Marine Institute.
Paul has been involved in the international shipping industry for over 50 years, having entered HMS Conway Merchant Navy Training School at the age of 13, and later undertaking a Deck Officer apprenticeship with Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool.
In 1979, Paul joined Plymouth's School of Maritime Studies as a lecturer and embarked on an academic career, undertaking an MSc International Shipping in 1986. He retired in the summer of 2014 following time as Leader of the International Shipping and Logistics Group (2000-06) and Associate Director of the Marine Institute (2006-14). In retirement Paul continues his interests in the industry through work with many external organisations, including the Nautical Institute, Maritime Foundation and the South West Ports Welfare Group. He is an active member of PYNDA.
"Graduate of BSc Maritime Business and Maritime Law (2007 - 2010 class), at University of Plymouth. My first professional engagement within intentional shipping was with Italian shipping giant Grimaldi. The group of family owned companies having a solid fleet of roro, ropax, ferries, and deepsea conro and roro type vessels specialised in shortsea and deepsea trades within Continent, Mediterranean, and Southern Atlantic. During years 2011 to 2014 I have worked as Commercial Specialist within Project cargo department, and Traffic and Planning Specialist within Traffic and Operations department.
In early 2014 I have made a sharp turn into Dry Cargo Brokering environment. I have been given a chance to join renowned London based brokering shop Galbraith's where I put my determination on the line and faced the most challenging Dry cargo market of all times. Thanks to my determination and focus, even then I was still able to establish strong professional relationships with new and established clients, as well as create new numbers of deals. I have carried huge chunk of my current professional expertise from those challenging years in shipbroking.
Currently I am back with owners, and back to Roro business in a role of Fleet Deployment Analyst at CLdN (Cobelfret). CLdN is a Roro division of a family owned group of companies with a head office in Luxembourg. Within shipping group company owns fleet of Roro type ferries, various size bulkers, roro terminals, agencies, and logistical subsidiary. My main objective within my current role is to monitor, supervise and analyse with commercial acumen the movements and schedules of a fleet of about two dozens of roro ferries."
Lecturer in Maritime Business, University of Plymouth.
Sarah served in the Merchant Navy for 12 years as a deck officer and qualified as a Master Mariner. Her research interests include sustainable ports and shipping, qualitative research methods and short sea shipping.
Sarah’s role on the PYNDA Committee is to connect the Committee to University of Plymouth staff and students.
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https://web-dr.tis.plymouth.ac.uk/alumni-friends/alumni/alumni-groups-and-networks/pynda
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Cyborg is derived from the 2 English words cyber and organism. Google describes a cyborg as “a fictional or hypothetical person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body.” When I was growing up, Cyborg was my favorite team member of the Teen Titans, and I always wondered how long would it take for society to be able to make me a cyborg so I could be just like him. According to McLuhan, we’re already there and we’ve been there for a while now. I don’t mean that in medieval Europe, people were running around with half their bodies made out of technology. However, since then, and maybe even before that, technology has been evolving human ability from the way we talk, to the way we work, cook, sleep, and everything in between.
Bandura taught us that our aptitude for technology, like most things, is created through social cognitive theory. We learn through observation and we improve self-efficacy by doing over and over again. McLuhan looks at media/technology as the main component of our evolving society. McLuhan shows us that technology has been the driving factor in the development of human ability and interaction. Technology isn’t just a machine we use, it becomes a part of us, and extension of ourselves, integrating itself into every aspect of our life and changing what traditional looks at. For proof of this, you can look at things like radio and tv which are late 19th century/early 20th century inventions that completely revolutionized how we see and hear the world. However, those born and raised in the late 20th century/early 21st century will be raised in a world where radio and tv are relatively prehistoric and the seeing and hearing experience has been propelled into high definition music and video streaming applications that fit cozily on a mobile phone.
Yes, in Today’s society, we have redefined the harmony between technology and human beings. What was once a fantismal concept of a majority robot and part human being, is now a normal human being with the ability to enhance their sensory input/output through technology in their lives that have become second nature. In today’s society, it’s important to note that technology has become the buffer for traditional communication, and according to McLuhan, this is the new traditional. Having a cellphone was just the start, and for the fact, so was texting. Now popular social media platforms have become the primary means of communication between multitudes of individuals. Your profile is no longer a hobby, but has evolved into your social media presence. Instagram and Twitter accounts are being asked for during job interviews. You don’t have to talk on the phone to order food anymore, instead technology has evolved so much that you can have door to door grocery and meal delivery with just the push of a couple buttons.
The ability to live and survive is being compacted into these tiny devices that we grab off of our side tables and dressers without even thinking of. When my generation were hitting their early teens, we were heckled for being so attached to our mobile devices, but now, members of society who don’t own one are closer to off the grid than on. Continuing to hound “millennials” about excessive technology use is futile because the next generation is inherently plugged into the world with the amount of technology in society now. What’s normal and traditional will continue to be revolutionized by new technological advances and we, as a society, will continue to be the new Cyborgs.
Okay, so the first disclaimer is that I’m not a psychologist, but naming my opinion on how Society limits our view of Self-Efficacy in relation to Social Cognitive Theory “The Box Theory” makes me feel pretty great. This is definitely a thought piece on the relationship between our environment set by pop culture, the US Government, the current political climate, etc. and our ability to recognize our potential and strive for greater heights.
Let’s start with the basics. As an African-American male, I’ve been taught growing up that no matter what happens to me, where I come from, who tries to bring me down, I always have to be better than my environment to improve my environment. As an individual, I observed the actions of my parents: I watched my mom hold my family together and strive towards higher levels of education to increase her ability to provide for her family and in turn herself. I watched my father make many mistakes and completely turn his life around to become reliable and a provider for our family, while following the example of my mother, achieve higher education, and level up in his profession. This was the behavior I observed, imitated, and are currently in the process of executing.
I am not ashamed to be labeled a millennial but I am a huge advocate for labels no being the equivalent to stereotypes. I view the term “millennial” as a classification, not necessarily as a way of life. I am more apt to technology than most, I text quickly, I use google for everything, but none of these things hinder my growth as a human being or limit my ability to grow beyond what the media has tried to limit me to. There you have it. I said it. I believe today’s society tries to limit our Self-Efficacy to fit the labels they’ve created. This is my box theory.
As I continue, I understand that this is starting to feel a little conspiracy-theory-ish, but stick with me. Social Cognitive Theory informs us that human behavior is learned and can be changed through cognitive observation, empowered models, beneficial environments, etc. Well in today’s society, our models are starting to evolve into similar people. Our celebrities and politicians, once very separate fields, have merged. Our environment is evolving, and the dreams we are being sold are evolving too. Labels are becoming more relevant than ever and are starting to seriously limit the mind’s scope of what we as individuals can and cannot do. In other words, Self-Efficacy is there but is still limited to our labels. Society is putting us in boxes, and telling us to dream inside of them.
Sticking with my own experiences, representation in popular culture, media, politics, government occupations, etc. is very important to me. As an African American Male, I want to be able to see myself in movies, but also be able to see myself running the country. It was important to have models like Barack Obama flourish and never falter to society’s negativity, while also seeing the likes of Mahershala Ali, Jordan Peele, Drake, etc. take the media by storm, succeeding in their perspective areas. While black people have been fighting the good fight of representation for a very long time, we are still fighting, alongside latinos, asians, the LGBT community, women, and so many others. My issue lies in the fact that I now see a trend that media is limiting the popularization of certain models in certain areas that allow us to dream, but only in a certain direction/lane, thus emphasizing a box we’re to stay in.
I believe an even smaller box is being enforced on younger generations. Even if the representation is there, my generation, and the generations that follow see these things, begin to work for them, and then get stuck in a vicious cycle surrounding money. We see people drop everything to succeed but are faced with the reality that without money, there’s no way you’ll make it. So we work and go after occupations that we have to struggle in before we can rise and make the big bucks, but society sells us the dream big, go big, risk everything, and succeed model. Still confused? Let me break it down for you.
I went to a Creative and Performing Arts middle and high school. They were public schools with arts magnet programs, allowing students to have regular academics coupled with rigorous studies in an art form of their choosing. I studied musical theater in middle school and vocal/voice in high school. I’ve always dreamed of making it big, whether that be on a big stage selling out concerts, or on broadway, selling out shows. The school advocated for self-efficacy. We practiced day and night, went to audition after audition, built repertoires that spanned from german to latin to italian to spanish to hebrew, and we believed in ourselves and each other. When I left my Pittsburgh CAPA, I was told by so many people in “Real-World Jobs” that my dreams just weren’t realistic. My environment shifted and I tried to become a lawyer. That was a failed dream (although now I feel like I’m going after a real world occupations I love.) We as a society have brilliant artists all over the world, but we are limiting our future by forcing younger generations to conform and aim their hardwork and dedication, their self-efficacy in a direction.
After typing this, I thought to myself, “can the box be broken?” The answer is an obvious yes. People do it every day. Ashton Sanders, 21 dropped out of school to film an independent movie and that movie went on to win an Oscar for best picture while his costar, Jharrel Jerome, was only 17 at the beginning of filming. But these instances are becoming more rare, because, also, as a society we are putting way too much emphasis on money. If we continue to go down this road, Money will become the biggest influencer on our cognitive ability to believe we are able to succeed. Many would argue we are already too far gone. I believe that there is still a possibility to end this cycle, and that a generation will stand up for dreams and hard-work coexisting hand in hand.
First, a consideration for the reader: I am very happy with who I am and am thankful for the opportunities that have lead me to be the person I am today. This connection of SCT and Self-efficacy was not written to induce any reaction other than that of a recollection and attribution of these concepts to my life.
Without going into much detail, who I am today is not who I was ten years ago. This can be said of nearly every person (with a few exceptions) and I am aware that the claim is not a radical one. SCT is often simplified to the concept of Reciprocal Determinism, the relationship and dynamics between an individual’s person, environment, and behavior. In my life, all three of these (in my own self-analysis) were consistently negative. From the angle of the person, I existed as someone with exceedingly low self-esteem (low self-efficacy), which was especially clear on a social level. My environment was one that involved high amounts of stress (not that I was in any physical danger) and underwent several changes in my physical and social environments during my teen years. My behavior fit within the textbook predictions of someone existed within the person and environment that I described, and as I mentioned earlier, the clearest example of this was in my social (lack of social rather) life. Upon reflection of how I saw my reality at the time, it is understandable that my self-efficacy was low and how my self-efficacy really dictated my responses to the stimuli in my life. My behavior accurately depicted my current emotional/mental state and a physical record of this could be found on my first social media accounts (which are now, thank God, deleted and lost in history.) My first posts/tweets were more negative, vague, and mostly held a sense of dissatisfaction. Now this is not to say that I was posting for the sake of recognition or feedback, but with the introduction of these new mediums, it became an opportunity to express the negative view of my reality and be rewarded by a slight release of endorphins. This pattern went on for several years, and really hindered my self-efficacy to grow in a direction that was healthy. It wasn’t until I made a conscious decision to attribute my reality (person, environment, behavior) as an opportunity to grow that I saw a shift in my self-efficacy. I started to read more, enter difficult social situations intentionally, and made a habit to learn about my environment from micro and macro levels. This meant that when I was interacting at all on my social media accounts, I would create a conscious effort to post more positive content. Essentially I was training my person and behavior to become more prepared for the inevitable environmental factors that would have crippled me before. This transformation is an ongoing process that I still work on today. I still will catch myself posting/tweeting content that is not in some way positive to myself, and I still will struggle with certain social situations if they are unfamiliar or uncommon. But I can look back and see a change in how my self-efficacy is now at a more stable and confident level, as well as recognize that I can attribute negative influences in my reality as positive learning opportunities.
In reflection of the film “We Live in Public,” I think that many thoughts that I have had about the online world and especially social media were confirmed and laid out on a physical stage that may never happen again (legally.) Josh Harris’s unique ability to gather talent and personality from all ends of the spectrum for his websites and especially the small “city” he developed really point to how influential and intoxicating online membership can be. I believe that after all of the information was brought out about his projects, people saw the signs of some of the serious repercussions of living in an online-immersive environment. I do not think that today, it is thought of as often, or is rather joked about considering the obvious chokehold that online relevancy has on our American society. On the surface, it would appear that self-efficacy is high among those who interact online, but upon any further research, it is clear that depression, aggression, and defensive tendencies are at the peak of this new generation that has been brought up in both a physical and virtual world. Nearing the end of the filming of Josh Harris’s project, it becomes clear that emotionally, members (rats) of his society were less confident and much more willing to carry out the requests (commands) of those in charge.
“If you walk up to someone and tell them to take off their pants, they won’t do it. But if you walk up with a video camera and ask ‘Take off your pants.’ They’ll do it. The eyeballs that perceive that moment give it power.” This quote from on of the filmmakers accurate describes today’s online world. “Do it for the Vine!” and other pressures make the online world now a place that can almost incite anyone to do anything, simply because others are watching. SCT’s “reinforcements” are evident as soon as you enter any online profile, where now the rewards of the virtual world are now more important (or rather perceived as more important) than that of the physical world. We are creating an environment that is often not mentally healthy, but is also dangerously Orwellian.
That sentence is what started the day that I connected social cognitive theory to the most – both personally and professionally.
April 18, 2017 began as any normal day at JET 24. However, it quickly changed when a high speed chase with a white Ford Fusion, which ended with a self-inflicted gun shot wound, came across the police scanner. However, we all remained calmed, adrenaline pumping – absolutely – but as calm as we could be. A reporter headed to the scene. The rest of us began posting on social media. TV news is dying in the sense that people don’t watch it on TV anymore. Everyone watches on their phones now. Facebook Live was our go-to for everything that day. The irony in that story was unbelievable – a case that started on Facebook, ended on Facebook. However, that day all of us reporters used a large amount of cognitive control to develop our new course of action, reassessed the day, and then prioritized the stories for the order of the show based on what we thought people would be most interested in first.
Also, along with social cognitive theory, the day Steve Stephens killed himself on Buffalo Road in Erie, PA helps to motivate me to get up and go to work everyday, like motivation process discussed in, “Self-Efficacy.” Days like that day are the reason reporters enter into the career field. Not because everyday is that exciting. Not because we wish people would commit murder or die. It’s because those are the days everyone flips on their TV, turns on their cell phones and relies on you to provided the latest, up-to-date, accurate information. Those are the days self worth and self reflection, also discussed in this week’s readings, are established. I laid in bed for the next several nights, even to this day, reflecting on that story. Not just the positives (helping my self-efficacy), but the questions, “How could I have made it better? How could I have do the story differently?” run through my head. Motivating me to make the next story, the next breaking news scenario even better.
“Perceived self-efficacy occupies a pivotal role in the social cognitive theory because it affects action not only directly, but through its impact on other classes of determinants as well.” stated in “Social cognitive theory: An agentic perspective,” reading. That’s probably the quote that resonated the most with me throughout this week’s readings.
I think the less self-efficacy a person has, the more observational learning, also discussed in “Social cognitive theory: An agentic perspective,” and “Social Cognitive Theory of Mass Communication,” people will do. The less people believe in themselves or what they’re doing, the more they’re going to turn to other people to watch, listen and mimic.
In fact, I think life begins with observational learning. From peek-a-boo with our parents, to having older siblings copying what they wear, how they talk, etc.
I think most careers begin with observational learning, also. I know mine – a reporter – does. Studies, surveys and focus groups have been done in the world of broadcast television to see how people react to certain stories and their attention spans to see how long stories should be. Therefore, that has set a standard in television news that “if it bleeds it leads,” and no story should be any longer than one minute, 15 seconds. However, there’s a million and one ways to create a story. Everyone asks different questions, writes in a different style and edits the video to the story in a different way. That’s where young reporters, like myself, watch the professionals on World News Tonight, Good Morning America, CNN, etc. We watch other professional’s styles and we incorporate those to create our own. Reporters appear to not only have a high level of self-efficacy, but actually need one. This is because everyday they put themselves in front of thousands of people and could possibly make a fool of themselves, but also because of their ability to stay calm when situations go awry or news breaks.
Everyday, reporters walk into work with no idea what is going on that day (not all the time, but most days), or any idea what could pop up. The word reaction would be our buzz word if we had one. Everyday we are forced to react to situations, whether it be breaking news, the people/person we need to interview for our story is unavailable, the weather doesn’t corporate and an event gets cancelled, etc., etc., etc. This concept discussed in “Social cognitive theory: An agentic perspective,” much like the Steve Stephens day.
So how do I related social cognitive theory and self-efficacy in my personal life? The best example I can give is a topic that has recently become a big part of my life.
Self-efficacy is also a major role in the fitness world. Many people walk into a gym and are intimidated,. They do not know how to work machines, they do not know what certain things are or how to use them. So maybe they just go to the treadmill because they’ve used those before or at least seen people use them (observational learning). I feel that’s how everyone starts out. However, through watching others use machines or weights, people may pick up on a few new exercises to try or tips and then start to feel more comfortable at the gym.
This was me when I first became interested in changing my lifestyle. However, I hired a personal trainer to teach me new things. Then I hired a coach to map out all my workouts for me. I took what I was taught and ran (no pun intended) with it.
Also, the use of technology has helped me tremendously when it comes to working out. YouTube makes it like everyone has a personal trainer in their pocket. Now I’m much more comfortable in the gym. I have a good idea about what I’m doing, alternatives if something goes wrong and an overall good sense of knowledge and self-efficacy.
Josh’s experiment in the documentary of the pods I think is exactly what the internet is now. One of the women in the video said, “There was a real sense of freedom even though you’re also chained by the concept of being watch.” I think people feel they are free to say and do whatever they want on social media, hiding behind the keyboard. I do think the concerns of the internet have been realized, but I do not think people will change or care. However, I think most people almost consider it like a virtual reality, not real life. That’s the way people in the pods started to feel – “detached” from themselves. I think the people who loved being watched in the experiment are like people today who love to have thousands of followers and post obsessively on social media sites. “Everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame,” quoted in the documentary. I think that’s true when it comes to the internet. However, I do not find this to be true when it comes to my job. I always joke the camera attracts the crazies or is like the black plague – more often like the plague and clears out a room quickly.
The fact this was the first “reality” TV show makes me feel differently about reality tv shows. I never thought about reality TV shows in the way it’s put in the title “living in public.” I think the “Real World” emulated this concept. However, I also think when Josh put the cameras in his home, it was almost like Facebook Live now – being able to watch something in real time and interact directly with those in front of the lens.
Josh I think is the social cognitive theory in real-life form. He literally put people in one room and observed their social interactions and experiences. Outside of that, he created an opportunity for the outside world to observe this group of people’s social interactions and behaviors. Josh’s self-efficacy was at an all-time high, I think, throughout the experiment in the bunker and when his relationship was going well in his own “Living In Public” world. But once the cops raided the bunker, and the relationship went south, Josh went through a depression. His self-efficacy crashed, hitting a low and not knowing what to do with himself. So what do most normal people do? Go to Ethiopia. Okay, maybe not. But Josh did. I think most people when they hit that low self-efficacy have a motivational process and try and find something or somewhere else to go to get their life back on track.
However, I will never look at Gilligan’s Island, or clowns (not that I liked them before) the same.
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Magic to a 94-84 victory over the Seattle SuperSonics at KeyArena.
Nelson ended with nine points and six assists.
as Indiana knocked off the Trail Blazers, 105-97, at the Rose Garden.
Travis Outlaw and Juan Dixon both scored 12 points off the bench in defeat.
Atlanta Hawks on Sunday in thw finale of the current stand.
last four contests in the series.
and final meeting of the season between the clubs.
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The EAP Writing Support Program offers a free, one-on-one service for GWU students with non-English backgrounds at the Language Center, Phillips Hall 210B during regular semesters. Our tutors are available during any stage of the writing process to work on audience, brainstroming, citation, drafting, evidence, grammar, organization and flow, outlining, paragraphing, revision, thesis, and a tone. In addition they are trained to provide focused support for non-native speakers.
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In addition to the EAP Writing Support Program, the GW Writing Center conducts free, one-on-one sessions with undergraduate and graduate students to assist students with course writing assignments, research papers, theses, and personal statements.
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THE TALK hosts their annual “Million Dollar Baby Shower” show filled with giveaways for an audience of first-time expectant mothers. THE TALK co-hosts, Julie Chen, Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler and Sheryl Underwood, welcome special guest, mom-to-be Jamie-Lynn Sigler, to help host the festivities and surprise the audience with an exciting hour of gift-giving to provide them with everything they need to prepare for their new arrivals. The audience was showered with more than $1 million in gifts, Friday, April 26, 2013, on the CBS Television Network. Sheryl Underwood, from left, Sara Gilbert, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler and Julie Chen, shown. Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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2. Line a muffin pan with paper/foil/silicon liners.
3. Combine bananas, eggs, vanilla, and honey with a hand/stand mixer.
4. In a separate bowl, combine coconut flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
5. Add dry ingredients to wet, mixing until all ingredients are well incorporated.
6. Add in coconut oil (must do this last since the coconut oil will harden with cold ingredients).
7. Last, mix in strawberries.
8. Fill cups a little more than 3/4 way full with batter.
9. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick in the center comes out clean.
10. Remove from oven and let cool in pan for 10 minutes, then cool completely on wire rack.
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“The Perfect English Weather are a husband and wife duo from Brighton, England, whose musical journey began in the late 1980s as part of the indie-chart regulars The Popguns. Perched on a melodic precipice at the frayed edges of indiedom, their “beautiful, slightly melancholic pop” has drawn comparisons to Everything But The Girl and more recently St Etienne. BBC 6 Music Radio seems to agree, with their songs receiving repeated airplay on the Gideon Coe and Steve Lamacq shows.
Caramelos Janglies para días de lluvia como los que nos plantea el Perfecto Tiempo Inglés. Precioso nombre para este prometedor dúo de composiciones Pop con aspiraciones a melodías perfectas.
“The Perfect English Weather are Simon and Wendy Pickles, a duo from Brighton taking time out from The Popguns to create an enchanting collection of odes to overcast afternoons in seaside cafes, conversations with cats, and weekend adventures to cancelled Morrissey concerts.
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2. Go for 30-plus minutes of exercise five days a week; we love walking 10,000 steps a day.
3. Get friendly with healthy fats. There’s the odd-numbered omegas: omega-3 DHAs, omega-7 and omega-9; plus poly- and monounsaturated fats like canola oil. Lose trans and saturated fats in baked goods, meats and full-fat dairy.
4. Reduce stress with meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, fun and helping others. Why does this work? Well, stress can kill brain cells and lead to weight gain, which can lead to inflammation, type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
Many people would like to avoid sweat as much as possible. We get the aversion, but we are fans of the summer glow — in winter, too. And we hope you’ll avoid antiperspirants (deodorants may be OK if they do not contain fragrance or phthalates) and follow our tips.
• Embrace the health benefits of a good sweat. Activity-induced sweat raises your heart rate (in a cool room, you’ll sweat when your heart rate is over 80 percent of your age-adjusted maximum), reduces blood sugar and LDL cholesterol levels, dispels stress hormones, and burns calories faster. Passive sweat — from a sauna — is beneficial if you don’t overdo it. Too hot or too long can stress your heart. Bonus: When you sweat a lot, the body odor will go as you cleanse impurities from your system.
• Do you get flop sweats (high anxiety can make for some strong body odors)? Meditation and regular physical activity help calm your system down. Find someone — friend, therapist, family member — to talk to about your nervousness. In the meantime, keep your underarms bacteria-free (they generate the smell) by shaving your pits, applying alcohol-based hand sanitizer or taking a very small dose of a beta blocker (high blood pressure meds).
• Plagued by hyperhidrosis — severely excessive sweating? Botox can turn off the tap for up to six months.
In the first half of this year, there were more than 18,000 reported cases of whooping cough — and we’re heading for the most since 1959 (40,000), when the vaccine was introduced.
Whooping cough (also called pertussis) is a bacterial infection that starts with cold-like symptoms, but after a week or two triggers coughing fits (whoops) that leave a person breathless. Infected infants, who account for half of the deaths from the disease, may cough slightly or not at all.
Why is whooping cough making a comeback? First, the newer formulation of the vaccine (since about 1996) seems to wear off sooner than the previous one, making people vulnerable. And most teens and adults don’t get boosters; so they can get and spread the disease. Also, infants start the five-part vaccination at 2 months and are not immunized until they get the third shot. So they can catch it from siblings, parents and caretakers who might not even know they have it.
• Have all infants fully vaccinated with DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis).
• Get a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis) booster. It’s for kids 11-12 years old; everyone who has contact with pregnant women or infants; women of childbearing age, before, during or immediately after pregnancy; and everyone 64 or older who has not had a booster within the past 10 years.
What do bicyclists need to protect them in a bicycling accident? A good-fitting helmet that meets U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission standards, comes in a bright color and has good air vents and thick, secure straps that are easy to adjust. The inside padding is generally made from crushable, expanded polystyrene. Because it absorbs impact well (soaks it up and dissipates it), once it meets the pavement or tree trunk, it’s usually time for a new helmet.
Unfortunately, riders of all ages skip the helmet and pay the price: Every year 140,000 kids under age 14 end up in the hospital for traumatic brain injury because of a bicycle crash; and 91 percent of bicyclists killed in 2009 were not wearing helmets.
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Posted on 24/12/2013, in Báo giá and tagged Báo giá. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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Olympic runner Oscar Pistorious was spotted on the track of the University of Pretoria and may be considering Training for the Olympics soon.
The Paraolympic runner was photographed with his running blades on for the first time since he admitted shooting his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his South African home on Valentines Day.
Training could be a grieving outlet for the runner, although his uncle Arnold Pistorius added: “Oscar is not back on any official training programme.
It is the first time Pistorious has put on his blades since Steenkamps death.
Oscar Pistorious’ bail has still not been determined. But the Paraolympic runner revealed more details. He says that it was dark inside his apartment when the shots were fired. Yet, a neighbor says that she heard arguing earlier in the evening; and later heard shots, saw a light come on, heard a woman screaming and then heard more shots!
An illustration of the athletes apartment was shown with images of what he says happened. He says on Valentines night, he got out of bed to bring in a fan that was on the patio. He then heard noises, and scooted to where his gun was. He says he did not have on his prosthetic legs. He then scooted in front of the bathroom door, and started to shoot.
But investigators say that how the gunshots are positioned in the door ( pointing down,) there’s no way Pistorious was on the floor. The shots would be pointing up if he was in fact shooting from the floor. In fact, the shots point directly at the toilet!
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• Prepare early by virtualizing the server environment and implementing a wire-once server environment that eliminates the need to individually cable new servers.
• Use commercial, off-the-shelf components instead of developing the software internally. "Using Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud accelerated deployment from 24 months to 2 months," says Cinque. "In addition, we didn't have to train internal IT resources to maintain custom software, and we have the option to out-task management of the IaaS program to Cisco Services or a third party."
• Develop the operational model early. Map out every step for a service before you take it live.
• Know your clients and their expectations. "Early communication with customers is essential," says Jim Heil, with the CITEIS Client Engagement Team. "They will always want additional capabilities, so you have to draw a line for the first release and constantly follow up, keeping a close eye on the options from external IaaS providers."
• Start small. Make sure you can provision the simplest resource end-to-end before offering more complex resources.
• Make a simple user experience a high priority. "It doesn't matter how great the automation is if the service portal isn't easy to use," says Cinque. Hide the complexities of the offering by creating short, simple online forms.
• Calculate the TCO for the environment if you are going to implement a chargeback model.
Also I really like what they have as next steps: focus on the application. Some of this may be very obvious to my Silicon Valley start up friends ("re-write the app"), but it's positively daunting for a large enteprise.
The location of resources will become less important as Cisco IT's vision is to host the complete software lifecycle, including development, test, and production, in the cloud (Figure 5). This will require that applications have the intelligence to be in the right locations at the right time. Supporting a distributed architecture will also require rewriting certain applications to tolerate latency and disconnects.
Shaw-Jen Chang, Vice President of Network and Data Center Services, is committed to continually enhancing Cisco IT infrastructure services. "We will continue to improve efficiency on the PaaS layer," Chang says, "and increase cost-effectiveness when the PaaS layer is automated."
API Compatibility: From cruising at self-service speed to "we gotta have a meeting"
Today's announcement that Citrix is dropping support for OpenStack has reverberated through the clouderati sphere like a new Justin Bieber song through my niece's third grade class. Super important but will not matter much when the next idol arrives.
In any case, a lot of smart people have written about it. I'll leave them to explain the whole thing.
Cloud Avenue has a good in-depth coverage post. And so does James Staten of Forrester. Randy Bias also weighs in as well. I'm sure I'm missing other worthy commentators.
But the post that most caught my attention came from Thorsten at Rightscale's. We both share something in common: we both build products that connect to cloud API's. Including vendor who have API's that claim to be compatible EC2. This experience, I think provides a useful point of view when thinking about API compatibility. Not to mention it creates a jaundiced view of the human soul.
I’ve said it many times and I’ll repeat it again: it’s the semantics of the resources in the cloud that matter, not the syntax of the API. This means that “API compatibility” has to reach very, very deep to be meaningful. Let me give you a couple of examples around EC2.
George Reese at Enstratus has written about this as well. Thorsten then refers to three areas where semantics trump compatibility: Instance sizes, the use of storage, the usage of multiple zones, and differentiation of services. These are by no means the only ones.
Let's start with instance sizes. Amazon has very definite meaning to their instance sizes which are not trivial to replicate in a data center, or as Thorsten's says, you may not want to replicate in your datacenter because your economics might be better than Amazon's.
That is, while certain instance sizes make economic sense to the seller of cloud services, they may not make sense in a private cloud. For example, why does small Linux come with 160 G of disk? It always seemed excessive to me.
But if we change instance sizes, this has many implications for the operation of an application from performance to monitoring to SLA's.
In simpler terms, a developer goes from cruising at self-service API speed to "we got to have meetings". All the code that uses the EC2 API's makes assumptions about the underlying semantics, and those semantics are expressions of operating models, organizational structures and business policies.
Change the semantics, and you have to have meetings to gather requirements, design, spec, build, test, deploy, etc. And that's just if we change the machine instance size.
By the way, I recently lived this journey. My team took our Cisco Cloud Portal and Cisco Process Orchestrator working on top of the the vCloud API's and moved to manage an OpenStack cloud using the Amazon EC2 API's.
This instance size issue showed up immediately. vCloud has no concept of sizes, OpenStack Amazon API's, has no concept of configuring VM's. Much hilarity ensued, but I'll that save that story for another post.
When we add storage services like EBS, the road gets long and windy indeed. Here Thorsten writes about Elastic Block Storage (EBS).
#2: EC2 EBS block storage devices have quite peculiar performance characteristics (that are not universally liked…) both for regular I/O as well as for snapshots. It would seem rather crazy to try to duplicate those characteristics and not benefit from improvements that are possible in a smaller purpose-built private cloud. But by doing so the operating procedures for deployments may change rapidly making the notion of “compatibility” questionable. Put differently, should one retain compatibility if compatibility is worse?
Thorsten is being too kind to EBS. For many workloads, particularly traditional SQL databases, you can't depend on EBS delivering consistent performance. So Amazon users have learned to do all kinds of architectural gymnastics to get stable, predictable storage performance to an application.
In other words, developer's fixed the issue through writing new code. This option is often not available to private cloud users, users of commercial applications and platforms, and people with a life outside work. Also, it requires even more meetings.
But why would one re-write an app when self-administered root canals are so much more pleasant? And if the private cloud has an EMC or NetApp storage system with service levels, back up, dedup, etc that provides stable, predictable IO? Why no just use that?
The answer is we would, but that's change in the deployment so API compatibility matters less.
There are other issues such as how workloads work in zones and datacenter in Amazon. For example, if one wants to run the same instance in both the Virginia datacenter and the EU-region datacenter, it's necessary to copy the template image (AMI) between these sites.
Two issues arise. First, you now have to keep the same image synchronized. This is an error-prone pain. Literal quote from a meeting: "Has any one seen my image?" Ok. So automation, like what Cisco provides can help with this.
The second is tougher as it involves speed of light issues. A year ago, moving a 6 Gigabyte image between the US and EU was a three day process. First, it took 6 hours (a workday) to move the parts. Any corruption or failure required re-starting the process the next day. I've spent many an hour counting file parts to ensure they all made it through the atlantic safe and sound.
This means that we had to build a three day buffer on deploying a new image to all the Amazon Datacenters. This is but one example of the operational changes that technology enables and disables. If the transfer only takes a minute, my operational model would be different.
API compatibility is not going to solve that operational problems and it doesn't get you as much as you would think. But it's still important. Cloud is complex enough and any simplifcation and standardization can mean the difference between a succesful project and a failure. Compatibility can also get you a richer ecosystem of tools.
As an aside, it'd be fun to get Thorsten, George Reese of EnStratus and myself on a panel to talk about API compatibiliy. Maybe call it, "API compatibilty and other tales of magical unicorns."
Recently, a customer asked me what was the value of using automation to operate a private cloud? It was a good question. Working in the middle of the reality distorition field of the cloud industry I take it for granted that everyone knows automation's benefits.
Fundamentally, automation tools help to reduce labor costs, rationalize consumption and increase utilization.
Costs are lower because the labor required to configure and deploy is eliminate. This automation is possible by creating standard infrastructure offerings. Standard infrastructure offering make possible a new operational model: to move from the artesanal approach of delivering infrastructure ,where every system and configuration is uniqe, to the industrialized approach, that ensures repeatability, quality and agility. It's the difference between custom tailoring and standardized sizes at The Gap. Both have their place, but one costs more.
The Gap has a self-service catalog.The British bespoke tailor doesn't. Self-service should not be an after-thought, it's the beginning of the cloud journey. Self-service drives the standardization of offerings and reduces the labor costs that arise from designing, specifying, ordering, procuring, and configuring computing, storage and network resources on custom basis.
This standardization and automation is also applied to the application components, security and network services such as LDAP, DNS, load balancers, etc.
Standardization also provides second order benefits through reduction in the maintenance, procurement and support costs. After all, if the cloud has one management interface, and all compute blades are the same then the whole break/fix cycle gets simplified and procurement is streamlined.
Automation is all about saving labor. First, the customer saves provisioning labor costs, additional savings are incurred by reducing errors which means less time fighting fires (labor), and finally, on-going operations (day 2), like applying patch also result in labor reduction.
The interesting metrics here are the number servers per administration and the number of errors before and after automation is deployed.. As you know, every incident/fire causes a hailstorm of work for a bunch of people. Imagine if automation detected the error, and fixed it before it became a problem? Well that's what Cisco Intelligent Automation does for compute, network and even SAP.
Utlization: What did Captain Kirk know that Scotty didn't?
The third source of cost reduction, increasing utilization, is probably the biggest opportunity for cloud.
Yet it is the hardest for IT professionals to achieve because it requires applying a combination of psychology, market dynamics and technology.
Two big costs in the datacenter are the over-provisioning of capacity and the hoarding of infrastructure by application teams. Introducing service-tiers with different capabilities, costs and delivery options underpinned by automation can be very effective in changing user behavior.
Over provisioning happens because without the ability to quickly and automatically provision services, it’s safer for both IT and the user to deploy the requested capacity. The result is that a lot of VM’s sit there idly at 3% and the operations staff can’t intelligently manage consumption because they don’t have the original request specification and service tier committed.
As to what did Captain Kirk know that Scotty didn't? He knew how to balance engine utilization and the mission. Sometimes, Scotty, she can take Warp 10.
In fact, a lot of upfront friction in the design, estimating, specifying happens because the infrastructure teams are trying to ascertain (guess) the real needs of the application, i.e. the mission, so they don't over or under provision.
Meanwhile, the application teams don't want to get caught short because a) they'll get yelled at by the customer if the app is a great success, and b) it takes so long to deploy additional capacity that to be wrong is exactly like an outage.
That's how workloads becomes gold plated. Every one's happy, but the CFO. The CFO then makes the CIO suffer, and that's how IT and the business get out of alignment. Automation is the infrastructure chiropractor; it helps bring back IT operations and the customer back in alignment.
Self-service and automation start to change this situation. It starts with Introducing a few service offering with standardized service tiers, backed by self-service and automation changes the dynamic of the conversation.
A bronze level service for QA and development, available in a few minutes, with minimum support might be better than a whole production stack that takes 8 weeks. (It is: that's why people go to Amazon!).
Over the last ten years, newScale, now part of Cisco, worked with hundreds of customers and we learned psychology and market forces can be used to shape demand. Getting something NOW, and cheaper turns out to be a better choice for many users over "perfect later." Introducing quotas and leases, makes the customer a more engaged partner in managing capacity. Putting coss and prices, even in the absence of chargeback decreases demand. Why? Because human beings are wired that way.
Hoarding has similar dynamics. When it’s difficult and burdensome to obtain infrastructure resources, when the process takes months, there’s a tendency to want to keep the resources forever as the customer knows they might those servers them again.So like the proverbial roach motel, resources go out to customers, but never come back.
Automation changes this dynamic: once the customers see they can get resources get provisioned in minutes, the psychology changes. A user now starts to think: "why spend time renewing a lease for an app I'm not using if I know I can get it back in minutes next time I need it? Plus my boss will get the bill and she is going to ask me if I'm still working on that old project?"
The final costs savings come from introducing metering and charging. It changes customer behavior and reduces over provisioning to begin with. With dedicated virtual or physical infrastructure, the business paid for it upfront though capital expenditures, the equipment was used and now it sits there idle wasting power, space, licenses and labor.
And from the point of view of the users Infrastructure is "free" so why do anything about? Plus what could be done? Nothing. In a capital expenditure model driven by business unit P&L, there really wasn't that much IT people could do.
Subscriptions up-end this model. A cloud subscription becomes an on-going operational expense that goes on forever unless it's turned off. This changes the psychology and behavior of the organizations.
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To end, over provisioning and hoarding are holding hostage a large chunk of a datacenter’s resources. When the user has confidence they can get infrastructure on demand they tend to hoard less, and when leases, quotas and lifecycle visibility is available more infrastructure is freed up.
The Cisco Cloud Portal shows the user exactly what they are consuming, shows the boss what the team is consuming and it shows up in the P/L, the behavior changes. Quickly.
At Cisco Live last week, Wayne and I did a short video panel on cloud with Jay on converged networks and cloud deployment. Yes, we did talk self-service and catalog.
Wayne who used to work at VERYBIGCO, used to have an SLA of 43 to provision a server... Well, now it has to be be five minutes This completely upends the current IT operating model, throws it under a truck and drives over it, back up and makes sure it's dead.
By the way, with my looks and accent, i'd make an excellent Bond movie villain. I could say, "Private cloud, Mr. Bond?, No, I'll give you public cloud. BWAAHAAHAA."
You are about to see a fantastic demo. I have divided this post into two parts: The Science and the Art.
The following demonstration puts a pragmatic face to self-service cloud operations. It provides both the "Front Office" view and the "Factory" view so you can see how this new fangled world is LIKE and NOT LIKE the existing world.
First, we see a Service Provicer administrator (Giri) contract, design and deploy a set of virtual datacenters at different service levels from a single screen. He provisions compute, apps, network and storage services.So it is like what we do today, but rather than requiring a bunch of silos, meetings, documents it's all done instantly. So it's ITSM done agile.
The key is strong standardization coupled with converged infrastructure from NetApp and Cisco with Vmware's vCloud DIrector providing the datacenter abstration.
This new way leans heavily in abstracting operations through the creation of standardized technical service offerings, which then get aggregated. choreographed and consumed as a larger service offering in the Cisco Cloud Portal (ex-newScale).
You then get to see how the Factory in NetApp and vCloud deploying the requested datacenters in minutes.
This is then followed by a different end user who needs an Oracle Financials environment - could be for test, development, performance testing, training, auditing, or even production.
The newScale catalog guides the user through all the proper questions to deploy the user's infrastructure.
As you watch the demo, you'll see the screens ask certain questions of the person on-boarding the tenant. The choices provided maybe unfamiliar to some. The choices may be too restrictive for others.
This is where the art and science of service catalog meet. The set of questions and choices need to be appropriate to the role of the user, in this case an administrator for a service provider. And they need to balance the need for simplification so a customer can choose with ease and confidence, with the need for sufficient flexibility to accomodate different needs.
This is where the science of technology meets the art of marketing and customer knowledge. By definition, standard offerings remove choices in exchange for agility and cost-savings.
Where the service catalog software begins to shine is that we may take the same underlying technical service offerings, and package them for a different audience with a completely different set of choices and questions appropriate for that customer.
For example, we could decide our customer is the telecom facilities manager in charge of deploying voice-over-IP telephones plus video conferencing. We could then ask questions about the number of phones and video rooms, the size and quality requirements, etc, etc. Those questions and choices, are then translated into the technical specifications that drive the configuration vCloud, NetApp and Cisco UCS. Including deploying the proper telephony and video infrastructure for that application.
So don't get stuck on choices and questions in this demo, they will vary depending on the audience, role and application requirements. Instead of your mileage may vary, your service catalog experience wil may vary.
Recently I did this fun Podcast on clouds touching on stupid apps, network containers.
We talked about the future of cloud API's and cloud management stack, how well is the self-service concept being received and we touched on ITIL.
Rodrigo talks about how his world essentially revolves around the concept of change and gives us some tips and tricks to help customers understand how to organize their thoughts and teams around these new self-service models. The bulk of the content on his blog, http://servicecatalogs.typepad.com/servicecatalogs//, is about the mindshift change happening with IT orgs when they start enabling Service Catalogs.
How is the progress happening in that world?
Is ITIL the biggest barrier to Self-Service adoption?
And we touched on food as a service models!
Recently I've written a lot about the value of service catalog driven automation as well as standardization. Hopefully it's beginning to make sense.
A good tool to explain the geekiness of this, is this presentation Cisco put together about the value of the newScale service catalog for cloud operations.
Specially useful are slide 6 on the some of the drivers to private cloud and slide 8 has the tangible, measurable benefits. It could be in any ITSM presentation.
Where things wicked random (in a good way) are on Slide 7, where Cisco outlines a reference architecture for achieving this which combines software, integration and hardware components.
Now we are talking real delivery. Awesome. And if your interest is peeked, we have a webinar series called four steps to private cloud coming up.
A repercussive source of gaseous releases continues to emanate from the private vs. public debate. I mostly try to avoid it. I'm in the camp both. Both are going to be around for the practical length of my career and thus I would argue either for or against is like arguing for or against gravity.
But a fool with a blog am I! I think can bring some insight heretofore missing from this soiree. Mainly, this weekend I went shopping and got some batteries and some bottled water and put gas in my car.
Because while I mostly consume water and electricit as a utility, there are special use cases where I need be prepared for the utility to fail, like in the case of an earthquake--living in California, it's a must.
There also other use cases for private utilities such as flashlights and drinking water at an airport. There are also different service levels involved, such as needing power while away from the plug so as not to have a very long 32 mile cable when I commute to my office.
Utilities work because they limit the use cases they cover through standards. Those standards don't work if you need less 120V. At that point we need converters or batteries and all kinds of extensions. Some of my neighbors are installing solar panels to generate their own electricity (private grid?).
Still, when you compare consumption of utility water vs bottled water, it's small right? After all we don't bathe in it. Yet it's a $4B a year business. And highly differentiated, since people pay from 200 to 1000 times more per gallon than for public water. The fact that "private" seltzer is 1000's percent more expensive that public water, won't change how we mix a gin & tonic.
The same is true of batteries. We have double AA's for transistor radio, small ones for hearing aids, giants ones that power cloud data centers. And while most people do not have a electric generator at home, the do have one in the car. It converts gas into electricity to power things like the radio. Or if you live in a rural area, you might have a generator.
If you are still reading this, my walk through the mundane, should illustrate one thing: there are markets for many use cases and the will continue to be. I won't be digging a well, or a septic tank, or installing a generator in my house anytime soon, utiity is fine for most of the time. But I'm also not buying 32 mile power cords, giving up on private water or using much public transportation for my commute.
And in that spirit, here's a interesting take from Define the Cloud on public vs. private.
Data Security – Will my data be secure/can I entrust it to another entity? The best example of this would be the Department of Defense (DoD) and intelligence community. That level of sensitive data can not be entrusted to a private 3rd party.
Performance – Will my business applications have the same level of performance existing in a public offsite cloud?
Up-time – On average a properly designed enterprise data center provides 99.99 (4×9’s) uptime or above whereas a public cloud is typically guaranteed for 3 to 4×9’s. This means relying on a single public cloud infrastructure will most likely provide less availability for enterprise customers. To put that in perspective 3×9’s is 8.76 hours of downtime per year where 4×9’s is only 52.56 minutes. An enterprise data center operating at 5×9’s only experiences 5.26 minutes of downtime per year.
Exit/Migration strategy – In the event it were necessary how would the applications and data be moved back in-house or to another cloud?
These factors must be considered when making a decision to utilize a public cloud. For most organizations they’re typically not roadblocks, but speed bumps that must be navigated carefully.
I think that's right a lot of these concerns are not necessarily obstacles, rather bumps on the road which will take time and new technology to address. But it's diverse world and it's an old world. Some bumps are not worth it.
Home of the original burger which uses this patented technology to this day.
Since cloud is a new operating model for IT folk, I think this post from my friend Troy DuMoulin should be very useful.
Fundamentally, the struggle IT organizations have master on their way to providing and / or consuming cloud services is the standardization of offerings. This requires se move from the make anything you want to order (like a wedding caterer) to one where there's a reasonable amount of standardization to ensure low cost, self-service and agile deployment.
This is tough for the typical IT organization. On the one hand if the IT operations group is going to create standards that work, they better engage with the user community to underestand their needs. And for this to work on a self-service, on-demand way, then there will have to be a healthy focus on automated provisioning which means understanding the relevant governance processes that need to automated, eliminated, changed, and/or supported.
So with that said, here's a visual from Troy that should help.
Certain Processes / Outcomes require more of a craft approach while others demand Process formality, a high degree of standardization and minimized variance.
Make To Order: looks at the concept of doing something consistently in a batch format. We will follow a common method for a certain process or IT system during the project lifecycle but the next project may use a totally different approach.
The two biggest objections to cloud computing are security and compliance / regulations. I believe both have some validity but I also believe both can be used as excuses to bury heads into sands and holes.
And I believe shining a light is the best way to assess risk. So it's with great delight I found this article: Cloud Computing Down to Earth: A Primer for Corporate Counsel which starts to list the types of risks that need to be enumarated.
policies for data destruction when the corporation no longer wants the relevant data available or transfers it to a different host, see id.
the potential warrantless seizure of corporate electronic mail under the anachronistic Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (“ECPA”), 18 U.S.C. § 2510, which includes the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2701-12. Signed into law in 1986, the ECPA established a procedural framework for law enforcement authorities to obtain wire and electronic information, including files stored on a computer. Think Miami Vice, not cloud computing. Only two months ago, the Sixth Circuit in United States v. Warshak (6th Cir. Dec 14, 2010), held valid based on the government’s dubious reliance on the Stored Communications Act a warrantless seizure of corporate e-mails notwithstanding a lengthy and informed exposition on the relationship between technology and the Fourth Amendment, see id. slip op. at 14-29.
Actually, as I read these, the ones that I think unique to cloud are 7,8,9, and 10. It's not that 1-6 are not realistic, is that these are existing problems for any outsourcing deal, or internet connected device, which means EVERYTHING.
Mary Meeker, former analyst with Morgan Stanley and now partner at KPCB, gave this amazing presentation on the future of the internet which is mobile.
I'm an iPhone user, iPod for my car and got my iPad in the first few days of the Crack, I mean the device, was available. So I thought it'd would be big. But the numbers Mary quotes are STAGGERING, MIND-BLOWING.
But it's not about a toy. It's about a new way of working, living and engaging with the world. And that has big implications for IT services.When things are ubiquotous, real-time, persona, expectations for service will change. And there will be winners and losers, new models will emerge.
All retail business will be affected, and thus all their suppliers.
Here's the whole thing. Have fun getting your mind blown!
Reading: What’s Not, Will Become Hot. < Did I Just ITIL the Clod?
Service Catalog: Service catalog solutions that enable end users to serve themselves and subscribe to services, used to be viewed as “something nice to have” but not essential. The service catalog is now the user’s interface to Cloud services, which make it an essential part of Cloud. Many large vendors are now integrating their service catalog as a component of their base cloud platforms.
Workload Management: Despite all of the hype surrounding Cloud computing, the value of Cloud computing is not the Cloud computing technology itself. It’s about the speed to market, and flexibility to get the work of the business done efficiently and quickly. So whether the work is run on internal infrastructure or on a service provider’s infrastructure, the ability to distribute and optimize the business’ workloads across the available infrastructure is still paramount. The dynamic nature of Cloud computing and business workloads will force IT to automate their workload management. Automation, monitoring (internal and service provider), SLM, and analytics all have an integral part in making this happen.
Workload refers here to the applications that run on the infrastructure. First, a big value of cloud is to enable a faster time to market, if you will, of those applications. Second, is to run those applications with higher availability, at a lowwer cost by implementing policy-based automation.
What does "policy-based" automation mean? It means that we define up front the service level parameters and quality of service required, along with any other governance limitations that are applicable and then the infrastructure through automated monitoring, automation and analytics ensures that application meets those service level requirements.
And where are those service level requirements offered and set? At the service catalog level -- business service definition for the business and at the supporting technical service definitions.
Recommended post on GigaOM by my colleague Michael Liebow.The point is that cloud computing is not a technology, but rather a new operating model.
To achieve immediate results from private cloud, IT organizations must implement self-service, orchestration, automation and lifecycle management on top of a virtualized infrastructure. In other words, enterprise IT needs a business operating layer.
Amazon has set the bar for cloud computing – and enterprise IT, or really any service provider, needs to offer the same experience of self-service on-demand provisioning from a catalog of standardized services, perhaps with tiered options at different price points and visibility into users’ consumption of IT resources.
While most enterprises are using private cloud for application development, testing and QA environments, they’re also increasingly extending their use to production workloads and moving beyond infrastructure to applications. And while application-development teams are using public cloud and IT operations teams are investing in private cloud, the future is likely a hybrid cloud mix of both internal private cloud and external public cloud options.
Recommended interview with Randy Bias. Thoughts on Efficiency, Elasticity and Agility.
If you are interested in cloud computing and its impact on IT Service Management, this is probably on the better reads you'll find in the middle of a lot of noise.
It's an interview with Randy Bias. Randy is true cloud expert, he conceived and built one of the first cloud services in the market, GoGrid.
He makes three points that I agree with and thought worth expanding upon.
Cloud isn't all about elasticity. Internal datacenters run about 100 servers for each admin. The large cloud providers can manage 10,000 servers per admin.
Cloud is not all about the ability to get capacity on-demand--it's also about increasing enterprise agility driven by efficiencies of scale. Efficiency of operations driven by standardized configurations and scale are powerful economic factors driving cloud computing.
Think about your own situation and how many admins or total headcount per managed server? Or managed storage? Or network segment? It's going to be lower than Google for sure. But is it competitive within your industry? And if the answer is yes, how is your industry changing?
The second point is about the elastic nature of hte cloud.
Users can procure cloud resources on an elastic basis, but like power production, the underlying resource isn't elastic, it's just built above demand.
Elasticity bedevils and scares many of the infrastructure executives I meet. They have fixed capacity: only so many square feet of data center and power, and only so much capital. So how can they provide elasticity?
The answer varies by company size and scale. If you have sufficient scale compared to demand, then demand shaping can be effectively used to plan capacity.
If you are a small or medium size company, you don't have scale. That's why I believe for many small and medium business, cloud services are the future.
For a lot of others, the answer will be a combination of a private cloud with scaling capacity from an external provider, the so-called Hybrid Cloud I wrote about yesterday. This arrangement will provide the elasticity so the private cloud seems infinite.
We, at newScale, are working with a number of large Service Providers working on exactly this offering. The customer's can request capacity that is provisioned instantly inside the customer's network with all the proper security and network configurations.
The final point is one about the outsourcing benefits (or not) of cloud computing.
The benefit of cloud isn't in outsourcing the mess you have in your datacenter. It's about using compute on-demand to do processing that you're not doing today.
Yes, there's pent up demand. A LOT. So rather than focus on how to move legacy apps to the cloud, focus on improving agility for new projects and reducing the cost of failure (which let's more stuff fail cheaply).
SHI International, one of the nation’s largest software resellers with $3 billion in revenue, is investing big in cloud computing infrastructure and data center projects.They are building a $20M datacenter to offer a variety of cloud services as Infrastructure as a Service, Disaster Recovery, SaaS and others.
They are also working with us in building out their self-service portal, order management and service catalog. Central to their vision is the ability to offer a variety of services beyond just virtual machines and to do it via self-service.
What's interesting is that that service design becomes a core competency in cloud. What they offer, drives what they build and drives the kind of self-service that is provided. Self-service is NOT another channel, but rather it's the customer-centric expression of the underlying infrastructure.
This, of course, requires automation in the back end so the customer experience is seamless and agile. Or in English, they don't run into weird process steps that cause surprises, slow downs and failures.
Here's a quote from a recent article.
SHI is also using newScale to provide what Fastert called “the self-service and automation required for SHI’s next-generation [IaaS] solution.” newScale delivers enterprise-class functionality, with flexibility and agility needed to support a rapidly growing cloud business.
newScale’s software is specially designed to support many crucial aspects of bringing cloud computing to ‘go live’ operations, including a service catalog for on-demand provisioning of applications, compute, storage, and network resources. newScale provides this Web-based “menu” of standardized service options, with dynamic self-service provisioning and lifecycle management. This enables self-service in a controlled, easy and quick launch environment, newScale officials said.
The posts below by Jeff Hine gives a great shout out to newScale! But there's more.
What cloud is dependent on is behavioral and process change–and that says software to me. Software and middleware from companies like IBM and CA and less known folks like newScale are going to be the keys to private cloud. A software layer will also be important for firms managing the utilization of public cloud platforms within their own walls.
I like newScale in particular–it’s a purist firm. It did not emerge from the cloud wave; it was already on its surfboard watching the wave come in. It was doing software-driven service cataloging and self-provisioning when ITIL was the shiny new toy in IT service delivery. Companies were building private cloud models with newScale before they were even called private clouds.
Software and behavioral change are key. And if you can crack that nut, it really does not matter whose boxes, whose “unit of compute,” or whose facility the stuff sits in.
I see it as a sign that cloud computing in 2011 is moving into implementation and not just theory. When you really have to deliver a new operational model, that's the moment where people, process and technology need to be molded into a coherent, greater whole.
We are at a moment where those building these private or public clouds are beginning to realize it's not an ice-rink, but more like an ice mountain. The network issues are tougher than they thought -- not because of the technology (which is complex) but network really intersects security, risk management, compliance, performance and availability. These are not areas that the technical side of the house had ever articulated to other groups or their customers. Now they are faced with making and explaining choices in a language an approach that is unfamiliar to VM admins, developers, qa and customers.
These are areas we, newScale, have been working for years.
To make matters worse, they need to bring in marketing know-how to create the brochure and branding.
I could go on, but we'll finish it right here.
It's really about IT as a service and not just a VM unit of compute. And that's something we've been doing for a bit. Got the scars to prove and we got the wins too.
Differentiated Service Levels: $49 or $15,000 per month. By the Way, Here's How to Justify Your Salary Raise.
Amazon introduced new service levels to its support plans. Depending on your needs you can pay as little as $49/month or if you need it, $15,000/month.
What do you get for that $15k? A personal account manager, high priority access to engineers, and help with planning and roadmap. Which is right. At newScale, we've been serving large companies for 10 years and they not only want the responsiveness but also the direct access and relationship management.
And this is probably true of internal service groups as well. I've worked with lots of companies that have relationship managers perform this function. Well, Amazon now has put a price and a definition of what it encompasses. From my experience, enterprise relationship managers do way more than what Amazon has outlined--which is good for you if you are in the service level / relationship management. Why? Because Amazon has taken 5% of your job and said that it's worth $15k. Time for a raise?
By the way, does this make cloud enterprise ready? For another segment of the market, the answer is now yes.
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The future arrives with a bang. First it's coming, coming, coming, then it's past and we are behind.
This week I've been talking or been in conversations where some very good news were shared.
1) A large government agency went live with their private cloud using newScale.
2) A large manufacturer told us they have close 100,000 people ordering services from their newScale catalog and they will expand it.
3) I'm requested to urgently fly out to finalize a project w/ a company that needs to go live with their cloud by February and could I be there hmm... tomorrow? (No, but I'll be there next week).
4) Meeting w/ the head for cloud of a large financial services firm (and existing customer) today to talk about their strategy plans. What's amazing is that there was no "Cloud" position a year ago.
So there's a lot of activity, build out. We will exit 2011 with an altered landscape.
If enterprise IT is truly going to benefit from the today’s embryonic but tomorrow’s immense value proposition of all forms of cloud, then I believe we are going to need an army of change agents, at many levels of a change-able organization to influence and drive toward the desired result.
I am under no illusion that in the coming months (or years) that automation, in the guise of the much heralded public and private cloud services, will render large parts of my current role and responsibility defunct. I am under no illusion that futile attempts to keep hold of areas of scope, sets of repeatable tasks or, for that matter, the knowledge I’ve collected over the years will render me irreplaceable.
Will I shed tears ? Yes. But they will be tears of joy.
As a not-so-Smart Guy who comes from a very deep technical infrastructure background, I already see the assembly line robots beating a path to my door in the shape of orchestrators and directors….I welcome them with open arms.
The need to be the agent of change, rather at the effect of change.
The need for a change-able organization. Who hasn't hit the wall sometimes. If it happens enough times, maybe it's time to look for the door.
The certainty while whole parts of IT will disappear (I agree), whole new challenges will arise that require new roles, know-how, etc.
But this requires we embrace change early, lead it, learn the good and the bad. Because cloud is happening.
Introducing newScale's New Cloud Services Portal: MashUp the Cloud!
Today we are announcing a new product: newScale's Cloud Services Portal. This is a modern, MyYahoo and iGoogle-style portal to view, manage, aggregate cloud services.
Over the last year, the user portal has become a critical component delivering private cloud computing and IT as a Service. Our customer's have been telling us they want to offer and consume cloud services from different providers as well internal services.
And they need to provide different views – with the ability to tailor the user experience for their unique preferences as a business manager, application developer, IT architect, or other roles.
Oh, and not all services will come from our catalog and they want to avoid creating whole bunch of self-service silos.
The traditional request portal from ITSM vendors didn't work because they all assume the request is a help desk ticket rather than a cloud service. Customer's needed something modern and flexible that really addressed the heterogeneous reality they have today and which will grow even more.
Users can create new portlets from scratch, re-arrange the page by dragging and dropping, create new pages and change colors and styles. A very Chameleonic portal.
So in a nutshell, here's the top features.
You can deliver a Web-based "single pane of glass" dashboard, with data from multiple sources including other cloud providers, SaaS, and internal services.
Leverage newScale's role-based access controls (RBAC) to control who sees what so your regular users, your technical users, and your admins each has the right views and don't get confused as what they can get.
Increase flexibility and control over the user experience, with drag & drop configurability by the user's themselves. As you make new portlets available, they can add them without development.
Our customers know that newScale is very focused on TCO - functionality that takes an army to deploy and maintain makes no sense. So that meant delivering a new portal that is easy to configure, and extensible in all the right ways.
So joining our our Service Designer, Portfolio Designer, Organizational Designer and ServiceItem Designer tools is the Portlet Designer.
It's worth it's own post, but for now, I'll say it's the secret sauce that makes this tool so useful for any organization planning on offering IT as a Service.
This new Portlet Designer is designed to leverage data from newScale applications. This mean all objects such as Service Offerings, Agreements, Request, Transactions, Forms and Service Items can be used to create new porlets. And done without coding with a simple wizard.
Or you can create portlets that consume information from third party systems such as vCloud, Amazon, a CMDB, a ticketing system. I can even consume industry standard portlets based on JSR 168.
Monitoring data from a third party system.
Next post I'll delve into our new designer!
My TakeAway from Reading "Cloud and the Future of Networked Systems"
This is James Urquhart's presentation on Cloud and the Future of Network Systems. It's oriented to explain what will happen to networks in the age of cloud. It's interesting reading and recommended.
There are two salient points that are interesting to service catalog people (always looking for that template!).
One, is that the cloud is about applications that deliver a service. And by application, James include four parts: configuration, code, data, and policy. Each of those four components for an application has its own set designs that must be catalogued and policies applied to them.
Two, there are a number processes such as availability, capacity, performance, quality of service, and ... yes security that will need to be coordinated across the compute, storage, network stacks to deliver the application.
In other words, security is in the network, in the app, etc, etc.
Which means we can't be stuck on "cloud security" as an issue, but instead need to think aboud "app security" and "data security" and "network security"
To me it means, that the business and requestable service definition needs to both abstract and drive these parameters to be successful as a cloud service. And this is hard for the techies,and it's hard for the ITSM folks, so it's going to be hard. And thus a valuable skill.
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I was a guest at ServiceSphere ITSM Weekly podcast #40. My topic was to talk cloud and ITSM. The result is pretty fun.
What happens when a CIO, a Service Desk Manager and an Industry Junkie Chat Weekly?!
I did start my section by noting that it was the same day as Little Wayne getting out of jail - coincidence? I think not.
My name is Dances with Clouds. I will not talk to you anymore. You are not worth talking to.
I remember the scene in Dances with Wolves where John Dunbarr (Kevin Costner) is being interrogated and he says: "My name is Dances with Wolves. I will not talk to you anymore. You are not worth talking to."
I was reminded of that scene when reading "A New Cloud: The Stealth Cloud?"
Ian Gotts writes on CIO.com about stealth clouds--these are the cloud applications and infrastructure that are breeding like Australian bunnies in the business and coompletely hidden from IT.
An interesting point is that while they relieve some pressure for IT, they may be also making the business even more alienated from IT.
Too much has been talked about the business- IT divide. Unfortunately, the stealth cloud has driven an even greater rift between business and IT. It is exposing, as far as the business side is concerned, the lack of flexibility, agility and responsiveness of corporate IT departments.
Basically the consumer experience the users have been enjoying outside the enterprise is now also applicable for business applications and the customer is left wondering why the heck it's so difficult to do business with IT and so easy with the cloud.
I'm not saying this relationship can't be saved. But in some ways, the stealth cloud is a bit like that scene. Interrogating and questioning cloud deployments, bringing up "issues" but not solutions, is going to break the business IT relationship with some finality. You don't want to interrogate Dances with Cloud. They may not talk to you anymore.
PS: I have to confess that when talking to some people, I'm beginning to feel like Dances with Clouds. I mean, it's a new frontier with lots of possiblities and also risks. That either inspires you or scares you. Half full or half empty. I know I'm inspired you and hope you are too.
Wow. Reading Dustin's Blog on "Surveying cloud and virtualization in application middleware" is a nice and pleasant surprise. He surveys some of the challenges facing the enterprise adoption of virtualization and cloud computing.
The post doesn't center on technology but rather on that intersection of service management, the cloud operating model and technology. And this maps very well to the topics people working on service catalog implementation.
I recommend reading the whole blog post where he touches on the cultural, business and process model, and automation challenges. As I've been blogging lately, if you drive towards a cloud operating model based on self-service and automation, the HOW you go about your service management improvement procesess changes, the order in which you do things, changes, and the specificity of requirements changes.
Workflow governance challenges for the cloud: Users are attempting to reconcile traditional workflow governance techniques with the new provisioning model put forth by the cloud.
While the technology allows them to provision environments with unprecedented speed and potentially move toward a self-service model, their workflow governance processes just do not work like this. If I can spin up an environment in 5 minutes from the time I decide to deploy until the time it is ready, that is great.
However, if I have to go through a day long ticket request process to start that deployment, that is not so good. This is the challenge facing many organizations, and providers need to ensure they can account for some type of integrated workflow governance around provisioning.
Whether it is directly in the system, or delivered via integration hooks, providers cannot ignore this capability.
The goal is not to have every configuration or option. The goal is to have a 2 or 3 options, with some common configuration options.
I'll leave you with another quote. This is about culture and how there's a whole lot of attitude change needed.
Cultural challenges for the cloud: This is a topic I often bring up, but when I talk with users struggling with employing virtualization, automation, or cloud techniques, nine times out of ten it is not technical. Rather, the real problem is confronting culture within the organization. This could be learning how to work across organizational silos as they move towards self-service stack provisioning processes, or it could be convincing developers that the machine hidden under their desk is actually of greater use when put into a shared pool of resource.
My friend Steve Chambers decided to administer a dose reality cloud this morning in the discussion thread ITIL down, Cloud up.(LinkedIn Account required). I quote his whole reply below. It inspired me to write some more in response to people arguing that ITSM is needed in the cloud (I agree, but it's a different kind of ITSM). Any way enjoy.
How much does ITSM cost? How much value does it add? Put another way: how big is the ITSM bump on the critical path to more revenue? Would we care if it died, or would we be happy?
Agree with Rodrigo that ITIL/ITSM pro's should understand cloud rather than dismiss it. People who don't understand cloud often choose to dismiss it as either (a) a new tech fad, or (b) an old tech fad, when neither is true. There are no excuses for not knowing a definition of cloud because they are everywhere. If you can't explain it... then you aren't relevant.
I had five years of ITSM people putting bumps in the path of virtualization when virtualization delivered significant benefits (and if you don't agree that it saves money, then you are beyond hope!). Here we are again with ITSM people doing the same thing with cloud so I would say that the only similarity that Cloud has to things like Virtualization is that ITSM is getting in the way again, adding cost and no value.
The DC, Ops, ITSM guys I know that are running seriously large enterprises have no love for ITIL nor ITSM which they perceive as expendable tools. Ever seen a room of people roll their eyes in unison? It happens when some consultant mentions ITSM. In fact, these folks would look like heroes to the business if they got rid of ITSM because (a) it would save significant money, and (b) it would speed things up. Don't assume that everything fails without ITSM: we still have our common sense, that thing we had before ITSM existed and what we will have when ITSM is gone.
Beyond the ops teams who cares about ITIL? Infrastructure vendors, designers, application developers, business folks: do they? I think not. The only people I see loving ITSM are the practitioners and people who charge large sums for training, certifications and vague consulting.
I see cloud doing IT a great service in wiping away the excesses of the ITSM generation, and best of all it is the forward-thinking ITSM pro's who are helping make it happen by embracing cloud and getting excited by the future instead of scared.
Everything You Need to Know About how ITIL and Cloud Work Together, in One Short Video.
Last week at Vmworld, we presented self-service service portals and catalog solutions to enable both private clouds and the use of public clouds.
One of them was with NetApp. I'm placing the demo overview below to give you a good flavor of how a actionable service catalog ought to work in data center services. (In ITILingo, the technical services).
You could read endless articles or be bored stiff with the ITIL books, or see this short overview for everything you need to know about how ITIL and cloud work together. (Hint: Service catalog-driven automation).
Do we need Cloud API Standards? asks Sinclair Schuller in new blog post.
My answer is, like Sinclair, over time yes, but immediately, no. Like him, I see lots of innovation going on and premature standardization will either stifle that innovation or be so over-complicated that no one will use it.
Sinclar makes a good point, which is we already have early de facto standards, like Amazon EC2. We work with Eucalyptus, for example, because newScale already used the Amazon EC2 API.
Given Amazon’s API penetration, a market “gold standard” has been created just by shear adoption, and I think people will naturally flock to a proper abstraction like Eucalyptus because of sheer necessity to ensure compatibility with the gold standard while preserving the ability to experiment with new solutions.
But there are other areas for which standards would be useful to have, like service definition standards. In fact, I think the most useful standard to emerge from Amazon is NOT only the API, but rather the service definition that introduced t-shirt sizes to IT. I'm talking about Amazon's Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large compute instances.
With SMLXL, Amazon brought merchandising and standardization to the data center. I've noticed that every cloud provider is forced to speak in these terms even as they try to differentiate, because SMLXL is the baseline.
Yes,SMLXL are not a perfect fit for everyone (pun not intended)in clothing but they allow for mass production of clothes at prices that are a fraction of custom tailored clothes. Because once we have standard "product" definitions, it's possible to apply automation to the factory and supply chain.
The same thing happens in the cloud. Once we have standard service offerings, it's possible to industrialize the data center, the supply chain and management functions, like capacity. Think how much easier capacity management if compute requests are one of 4 types, all fungible and all demand driven by self-service.
Yet as simple as SMLXL is, there is room for variability.
Amazon AWS offers a Small VM which can be Linux or Windows, it can included SQL or not, you can select monitoring or not, you can assign it an IP or not and finally, you can select an image that loads an application or just simple opt for the OS. On the other hand, Go Grid offers a load balancer, which Amazon didn't offer.
And Terremark's vCloud Express offers CPU, Memory and Storage capacity in bulk which is independent of the number of instances/VM's a customer chooses to run. So you can specify your VM's RAM and you can change the RAM as you wish. Amazon does not do that.
The point is that there's a tremendous variation in the offerings. From an API perspective, it's possible to abstract like jclouds or libcloud do so all clouds look roughly the same.
But for newScale, and our customers, we have to go a lot deeper.
We need to present the offering in English, explain all the options, allow for comparison and selection. Then we need to be able to configure the request (for example, do you select monitoring or not). It's the configuration of the request against both the values required / allowed by the cloud vendor API and internal policies and rules of the company it's where things get tricky and valuable.
So as much as we need an API, we need to have a standard format for exchanging catalog information. This is what we are trying to do with SPACL,provide a simple XSD format to express the service offering. And yes you can express SMLXL in a SPACL document.
There's a precedent for this type of work.
During the B2B e-commerce wave, a lot of attention was placed on transaction standards. Yet all of them ended up needing something like Ariba's Catalog Interchange Format, because before a transaction could be made, the customer needed to know the product name, sku, description and price. We are in a similar place today with cloud.
Over time SMLXL is not sufficient. We will need the equivalent of colors and sizes as well, but for now, just making SMLXL type packages would be a good step.
Maybe you remember him from VMworld last September where his "Will Provision For Food" sandwich board achieved rock stardom.
Maybe you remember seeing him in a 10-minute "visual essay" on the newScale website HERE.
Maybe you saw how his "Will Provision For Food" shirt went viral at VMworld and required newScale to purchase hundreds more to satisfy demand.
Well make no mistake, Steve the Server Guy is BACK and will be at Cisco Live in all his glory.
Now he's going to Cisco Live to make sure people know that Cloud Computing doesn't have to put him out of a job - despite rumors of the 'death of the sysadmin' and the 'vanishing IT department'.
With the fantastic new combination of newScale and Cisco UCS, Steve can deploy a private or hybrid cloud to improve IT agility and reduce costs - so his IT team can focus on innovation, not just keeping the lights on. You can learn more about newScale support for Cisco UCS by reading the press release HERE.
Recently I was speaking with project manager implementing ITIL for the whole service lifecycle. For those, unfamiliar, ITIL is a process framework of 22 processes to manage a service from "Should we do it?" to "How are we are designing it," "How do we operate it" and the end, "We are getting rid of it."
Somewhere in there, the whole how to do it requires a service catalog to design, assemble, offer, order, and deliver the service. - which is why we were talking.
But the project manager, she struggled with how to make all this process framework relevant to her customer, to get the project funded. So I asked her, "are you building a private cloud?"
A bit of hemm and haw, and out comes a torrential downpour of projects for virtualization, cloud public and private, etc, etc. And her customers she had to sell were the people who were running these projects.
Which explained the focus on the service lifecycle?! It's no good to make server provisioning 5 minutes, if architecture reviews, requirements, design, change management, etc, are all done manually as one-of's bespoke projects that take 6-18 months!
The real issue is how do you accelerate the throughput of the whole cycle! At the top level, the execs understood this is the real challenge, but down in the implementation level, every one doing the best they can, the forest gets lost, the link unbroken.
I don't want to imply that one is better than the other, rather to point out that these are two cultures that need each other, but may not be articulating their concerns and objectives in ways that each can listen and help.
For example, the cloud requires automation of process and policies to speed provisioning of services. Which is why they get annoyed by the ITILISTA focus on manual process.
Finally, ITIL lack of focus on automation, getting rid of process steps and rigid definitions completely disables people building clouds from bringing in their objectives, tools, language to the table.
ITIL prescribes a cumbersome process, very manual, with meetings, etc. In the cloud, we are looking for self-service, instant delivery of computing resource. Should that go through change management?
Your answer will determine whether you are an ITILista or a Clouderati.
Until then, it remains cloudy, with a chance of ITIL.
Cloud is Reducing CIO Power? Yes. Agility & Elasticity Trumps Cost.
Good article on the changed CIO dynamics. They continue to lose power, and 30% of IT spend is done outside of IT.
The cloud will accelerate this trend. I'm seeing departments going around IT and getting on the cloud with out permission from IT. Why? "It takes too long," "Expensive."
There is some disturbing new data for the role of the CIO. Thomas Wailgum of CIO.com says, “Given the… warning signs, it’s easy to speculate that the CIO’s role and the department’s sovereign power might be slip-sliding away.” Half of our Diamond Digital IQ Survey respondents said that more than 30% of the dollars spent on IT is done outside of IT. Power in any organization usually follows those who can create new revenue and value, but our survey shows that 75% of the CIO’s innovation role is internally facing.
We think these different indicators point to a weakening of the CIO role at the very time when technology is reinventing marketing, and competition more than ever before. How can they be losing power and influence at the very time that they should be gaining it? iPhone apps are changing our expectations of mobile capability; Facebook has 400,000,000 users; Coke and Pepsi have embraced social media as a new means to get their message out; the giant Siemens is using YouTube to tell its message to doctors and technicians alike; massive data mining is creating new insight, and data visualizations making these insights more usable — and the pace of change is increasing!
So does this mean that ITSM process are not needed? Actually, it does mean that. To be specific: some processes will go away; some change management will not be needed. Also the manual ways we go about doing ITSM will need to go away.
Here's my latest from-the-field-notes from talking with a customer who is planning to deliver a private cloud and the questions that surface.
First, they need to figure out what will be the basic services they will offer.
Should they start with Amazon type instance sizes? If so, how do they differentiate? This means they are preparing their technical services catalog and the requests that will drive it.
So now it's not really about documenting processes. It's about being competitive in the market place.
And that means they need create a group that will define, design, configure, and deliver the cloud offerings and other professional service offering within newScale's suite.
This team has to think from the point of view of the market and then work with the technical teams to define, design, configure, and deliver the requestable component services. These will be actionable in the newScale catalog to enable the operational day-to-day delivery of the cloud services.
The outcome? The customer can go to their own self-service portal, see specific configurations, configure their request, order and be provisioned in minutes.
All the catalog work is about making it happen, then tracking consumption. Other things that we need to provide are account management, customer on-boarding, subscription, life-cycle management, and of course billing. In the back office, it will run some manual process, but many more automated provisioning processes.
But all begins with the first question: What are the offerings? What's included? How is it priced?
In all this discussion, ITIL never came up.
But if my business depended on getting it right? 'd go here and use the Pragmatic Marketing Framework.
I've written about this before in the Product Manager Role and also here, and here.
Hence my doubts. In the thick of it, I am forced to rely more on traditional product management skills than ITSM skills. Competition is wonderfully focusing.
What I propose is something I call the pCard (code-named "Jean-Luc"?), named as such because it is somewhat analogous to the infamous "vCard" electronic business card format.
In a sense, a pCard is a calling card for a software payload--whether simple single container payloads, or complex multi-container distributed payloads--that contains the information needed by a service provider to determine a) if they can meet the needs of the payload, and b) what kind of services are required to do so (and their costs).
The issue is an important one for cloud computing: how do you know what services are available from a service provider? How do I read, in English, what the options, costs, service levels, description are? And how do I bind this information to specific operational instructions that can be carried out by deployment tools?
This is what SPACL is tackling. The formalized description of service offerings, and service requests between a consumer and a provider. One of the nice things about SPACL is that we are making it extensible. So if application packaging description and unpacking instructions are importan, SPACL can carry in its payload those instructions.
So I recommend reading James's blog and then taking a look at the draft SPACL object model at SPACL.info.
Here's a post "SPACL Announcement - Service Portfolio and Catalog Language. Fuses ITIL and Cloud Concepts" on SPACL I wrote at announcement time.
If you are interested in giving feedback, here's my post "Don't Like Service Standards? Go Out and Make Some of Your Own. Here's How." on how to do that.
"Is the ITIL make-over like putting lipstick on a pig?" No. But Should We Be Asking Pigs to Fly to the Cloud?
Steve Chambers at ViewYonder catches the same question I had when I wrote "Is ITSM / ITIL Keeping Up with the State of the Art in Cloud Computing? Doubts Emerge" I then wrote that there didn't seem to be much thinking going on about the impact of cloud computing to ITSM.
Steve's wish list is to have a more pragmatic ITIL.
Virtual Infrastructure – how the service and server lifecycles are transformed, and how they impact all the other ITSM processes from SLM through Finance through to Config Management.
Cloud Computing – the epitomy of managing IT as a service, this is a great opportunity for ITIL to provide a best practice framework.
Yes, you heard me, I’d like to see a library of best practice reference frameworks for IT Infrastructure.
I don't think it's going to happen for three reasons.
First, it's cultural. Part of the ITIL culture seems at times to be intensely anti-technology and vendor. And the problem with that is that technological change is vendor driven. With all the good an bad that implies, but it is a fact. As long as that attitude remains, innovation will flow like molasses, not a river.
Second, it's structural, ITIL is owned, and parceled out in such a way that many organizations (OGC, TSO, ITSMF, training organizations) each with its own focus and motivation that is hard to bring innovation in.
It doesn't have to be this way. For example, AIIM is a professional organization, with a a large following and a very well defined process to create international standards. So innovation is part of its daily operations. I'd love to see ITSMf model itself along those lines.
Third, it is the nature of ITIL. Which is supposed to be a "best practice framework". Best practice, by definition, means proven, tested, and ... backward looking. Which is neither good nor bad.
I want my surgeon to be very proven, tested and backward looking --most of the time. But in times of rapid change, particular the junction of technology and economics we are living in 2010 that backward looking "best practice" doesn't work and can be down-right counter-productive.
I do believe the ITIL v3 update will be a good thing. I'm a software guy, so patch updates are not a bad thing. But when we patch updates, we don't re-write the stack. We fix the minor problems.
So what's the problem with a best practice framework. For me, it's the phrase "BEST PRACTICE." It's designed to make the brain stop thinking and looking for alternatives. If you find best, why keep on searching?
If ITIL was referred to as a set of "common practices," "useful body of knowledge," "guide to where dragons be hiding," or just "useful accumulation of tidbits you really ought to know by now" then... we'd have both the value ITIL brings, and the ability to keep on innovating.
But wishes ain't reality. And someone told me long ago, "Don't aska pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig."
So it's really us who need to think if we should be asking pigs to fly? Lipstick optional.
Steve. I think we are on your own.
Question: Any one working on service catalog to support virtualization?
A few days ago, I posted this question in the service catalog community. Since then, some excellent and lengthy discussion has ensued. I wanted to share a bit of my answer with you here, but it's worth reading the whole thread in LinkedIn. Here's my response to the latest.
Thank everyone for the thoughtful responses so far. This is a fun discussion.
I've been playing around with Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud services for a bit now to assess its utility as software deployment environment. I found it's a game changer for data center and a great model for a service catalog.
The two aspects that I believe are revolutionary about Amazon's cloud offering are the predictability of IT infrastructure costs and the variability of the cost structure. Neither of these is true today for IT organizations. You may have predictability but not variability, and that predictability often comes at high costs.
Amazon has a different offer for their customers. And how Amazon communicates with its customers? Through a actionable service catalog that manages the offering, the provisioning, the life cycle and the billing.
I think I can agree with all you that virtualization and cloud computing "ought" not to have an impact on the service catalog. The "service" should be transparent to the customer.
But IT organizations come in all levels of maturity and many are just not there. So the issues outlined by Stephen and Cary do come into play.
All of us in this group drunk the Kool-Ai and agree the service catalog, preferably "actionable," is a good thing, most organizations are a the beginning of their journey and many practitioners have a hard time justifying the value of a service catalog. I'm finding virtualization might help the catalog project. This is the root of my question.
Here are some of my observations thus from playing with Amazon EC2 and talking to a few customers and prospects.
1) Virtualization requires standardization and packaging of environments. There's no point to provisioning a server in 5 minutes if it requires 6 months of discussions, meetings and negotiations to figure out the proper configuration. So I'm seeing a LOT more seriousness about service catalogs coming from the customers involved in virtualization. I mean, the few I've talked, don't think they can get there without a service catalogue. So it goes from NICE to have, to MUST have.
The service catalog has to present "packages" that have enough options and allowable configurations while remaining within some useful standard framework. This is the restaurant problem I've written about before: Are you Burger King or McD's? Can the customer ask for extra pickles? What does extra cheese cost? Should we offer salads and chicken sandwhiches too?
This really necessitates a dialogue with both the applications group and the customer about needs today and needs tomorrow.
2) Unit costing becomes more urgent for reason of fairness and reasons for governance. When the business owned the hardware and software, it's easier to point to a box and say "yours". Now the business is getting a service the questions of "what do I get"? at what price, capacity, availability, etc acquire an urgency that may not have been there before.
4) Amazon, GoGrid, and others are setting the standard for what you should expect from your hosting operations. If a small (2G RAM, Xeon, 160G drive) Linux instance is $0.10 per hour, what is my internal IT costs? This type of offers will FORCE an unbundling of services. For example, if servers are $0.10 per hour, I will need to separate help desk and support costs, so I can explain to my customer what it is I do. This “packaging” is one of the fundamental steps of having a service catalog. The best term I’ve heard for decomposing a service to be benchmarked is making a service “market-ready.” So to make your own application hosting market ready, you’d start with what the external providers do, and define your service in that same way. You’ll have a variety of services left, those are your “value-added” on top of the market ready. You then have the basis for discovering whether you really add value, or it’s just waste.
There’s urgency to move application hosting from one-off projects to on-line processes just like Amazon EC2 does. (I’ll post more about that soon). Amazon provides a tight definition (but some variability), clear cost, and an actionable service catalog tied to a specific SLA and cost accounting. The benefits of virtualization or private cloud computing will not be realized without a well defined service catalog that is actionable. If you can define a well thought out application hosting offering, why should it go through Change Management? Amazon doesn’t.
So my question remains, any one working on service catalog to support virtualization? Or am I just talking to a few pioneers?
Today BMC Software, CA Inc., FrontRange Solutions, IBM, and newScale announced the formation of the Service Portfolio and Catalog Language (SPACL) consortium and delivery of the first draft of the SPACL specification.
This is relevant to service catalog practitioners because it establishes a formal model to document service offerings and service requests.
I recommend you check it out at the SPACL website. You will find a great white paper and draft of the SPACL spec. Here's an excerpt of the press release.
The SPACL consortium is a collaboration of companies that have joined to develop a vendor-neutral open standard definition for Service Catalog offerings, and for exchanging service requests between Service Catalog systems. These definitions are key to enable service request operations between IT consumers, internal IT organizations, and external service providers – including cloud computing providers.
The SPACL specification provides a clear set of XML-based schema definitions, content and data structures so that IT organizations and service providers can succeed at implementing and exchanging Service Catalog and Service Portfolio definitions. SPACL is designed to be extensible so that customers and vendors can add new elements and attributes while maintaining interoperability.
* An open definition of Service Offerings and Service Requests that is vendor- and tool-agnostic. The goal is to provide sufficient rigor to guide service definition, with a clear set of content and data structures.
A definitional model so Service Catalog development is decoupled from operations, allowing services to be defined independently of how they will be used operationally. This will simplify Service Catalog projects and enrich the usability of the catalog.
A rigorous, normative schema that enables automated exchange of definitions. For example, this schema would enable self-service for IT services ordered within an enterprise and provisioned by an external cloud computing provider. It would also facilitate shared service definitions between Service Catalog, CMDB, provisioning, finance, HR, billing, project portfolio management, and other systems.
The Cloud Changes the Emphasis of ITIL. Response to Troy's: ITIL Castles in the Cloud.
Rhetorical Question: But wait I thought that cloud computing strategies are meant to simplify IT service provisioning? I cut the supplier a check and they take care of rest right?
Response: In one sense this is a correct, since you are paying an external supplier to provide a complete service outcome. The service can come in the form of an account for a hosted software service, a development platform or a set of virtual infrastructure components without you having to own or manage the physical assets. However, on the other side of coin it is critical to understand that what you are also doing is introducing a new set of players into your existing IT management processes. Just as Young Cosette discovered in the musical Les-Miserables we still have to sweep the floors and take care of business even when we live in the clouds.
And several people join including IT Skeptic and Matthew Hooper with really great insights that I'm in violent agreement with. This a topic I've written about before: What responsibility and visibility does IT need to have when engaging a service provider? Well cloud computing is bringing this issue back to the table with a lot of force.
But there are differences worth thinking about with cloudcomputing. As a user of Amazon EC2, I'm running about 81 instances, several hundred gig of data, and multiple vlans.
And it's forced me to think differently about systems. For example, lifecycle management has become way more important than standard system configuration. We have one image, we test the hell out of it, but then the next 80 servers are all the same image. Traditional cms would have me monitor the internals of 80 servers.
Assets are not that useful, because the real issue becomes subscription lifecycle management because of the liability issue. As long as it's on, Amazon bills me.
Capacity management is a non-issue because of the elasticity, but I better have a good contact at the provider.
Monitoring also becomes different. My cloud is a black box beyond a certain point, but I can monitor uptime, performance. But really, I can't do anything about the machine, OS, Storage and Network. In fact, I build that lack of knowledge into the app architecture -- an instance will fail, so I build that assumption and not worry when it does fail. I report no problem and do no root cause analysis on that part of the infrastructure. I do it on my application, of course.
So my take is: the old stuff applies but the emphasis will be very different than in-house IT.
And yes, I'll provide a song to end with a cloud motif, Paper Planes by MIA!
In my discussions with customers about how to define IT services there's always an issue of granularity. How small, how large, what level of detail should it be included.
One of my recommendations has been to borrow from service providers who do it for a living and emulate / imitate.
Recently, I've learned another angle to this approach as I've met people who specialize in helping companies negotiate outsourcing contracts.
Before an organization can outsource it needs to create a list of services (a catalog), with specific service definitions, outcomes, and expectations. Then it needs to benchmark its services against other offerings.
This makes sense. You need to define which services you will outsource, and then figure out how the internal IT organization stacks up: are you a lower cost provider? Are there others who do better worse? What does it cost you to provide a 100M Outlook Inbox? What is the ongoing price for an e-mail inbox? And what's included?
The concept is sometimes called "market-sizing" services. This means defining services in a way that they match what external providers offer.
Here's a simple thing. What does it cost an organization to provide a small Linux box with 1.7G of RAM, 160G disk. Here's the benchmark against Amazon which includes this and costs $0.085 per hour.
Services and activities for which there are no external viable providers because they are too specialized, regulation / laws don't permit outsourcing, represent core IP of the enterprise, or are just cheaper to do in-house (this is true).
This second bucket is usually problematic. It's where you find services that need to be done, like support which may not provide differentiation, or services that are unique and provide you competitive differentiation, and of course, crap/waste. Stuff that adds no value, and no one knows why it's there.
Market sizing can help you fix that.
And, it seems cloud computing is accelerating this trend. James Urquhart, writes inCloud computing and the big rethink about this change.
Enterprise IT will begin to bend enterprise and solutions architectures to align better with what is offered from the cloud. I may not agree with some that the cloud will stifle differentiation in software systems, but one thing is very true.
As end users select software-as-a-service applications to run core pieces of their business, meet integration and operations needs from the cloud, and generally move from systems providers to service providers, the need to reduce customization will be strong. This is both to reduce costs and strengthen system survivability in the face of constant feature changes on the underlying application system.
Which is why I think the next step in service definitions is bending metal -- meaning, bending IT infrastructure service definitions to match what cloud providers are delivering.
It's inevitable that these questions will be asked: what do you do, how well you do it and what does it cost on per unit basis. This is at the heart of a service catalog.
Growing Interest in #CloudComputing Calls for New IT Governance Tools. People Just Beginning to Wake Up.
We provide guides that help the user choose the best path, such as "Intranet server," "Sharepoint set up," or "Small Linux test servers".
Wizards then assist the requester to ensure the proper workload goes to the proper option. For example, certain workloads require privacy considerations so they automatically stay in the private cloud.
Configurators assist the user in making changes to their environment without deviating from the standard. Think like a Burger King Whopper can be requested with extra pickle, or no onion. The configurator also prevents mistakes.
This is but the tip of the self-service iceberg. There's a lot more I'll share at another time. Regardless, the private cloud will require this kind of actionable service catalog.
There's a lot of discussion / questions going on about the relationship between ITSM / ITIL and cloud computing. At some level, cloud computing is nothing but IT; of course ITSM will play a big role ... no?
Yes, but there are also big differences. And there's a great need to begin to understand those differences. To understand what changes, what remains the same, what gets emphasized, and what gets diminished.
Two examples: Change Management and Service Catalog.
The singular focus on Change Management CAB as the ONE process to add stuff to the infrastructure is either irrelevant in cloud computing or has to be vastly changed, automated and and made policy driven. Heck, there's a request process now in ITIL v3.
It cannot remain the same because in the cloud servers come and go. The speed of configuration and deployment needs to be much faster than a once a week meeting can handle.
And by the way, moving those to be pre-approved changes is a nice semantic pirouette that solves nothing for an infrastructure team under pressure to adopt virtualization and a cloud computing operating model.
We will have change management, but a huge number will now need to be standard requests off a catalog that go directly provisioning and lifecycle management, and not change management.
The other case is the service catalog.
I'm seeing great interest from infrastructure teams trying to create self-service provisioning that goes directly to the cloud. They are defining packages, processes, trying to define their standards, etc.
On the other side of the company, I see ITSM team still thinking a static document is the catalog and struggling with service definitions.
So there's this conflict brewing between the infrastructure group that is in hurry to adopt a cloud operating model and the ITSM group that is only focused on process. There's a good chance the ITSM group will get run over if it gets in the way.
The Cloud Operating Model is a tremendous opportunity for ITSM groups, but only if they can speak the language of cloud. And I'm not seeing that happening.
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i always forget about this purchase, and always always forget how good it is!
i seen someone review these on youtube before i went to Florida, and i’d never seen them here so when i was over there i bought them. i got them in Target for about $25-ish – can’t fully remember. i was impressed by both the price and how well they worked. i have curling tongs which cost around £30 in stores and my hair doesn’t hold in the curl for a full night out, and i paid probably about £20 for these wavers and my hair is wavy for at least 2 days!
another feature is changing the temperature – there’s settings 1-30. mines are always set at 30 cause they work best and make more prominent waves. i assume the lower settings make a subtle wave.
this is the best picture i could find, i’m actually quite annoyed at myself for not using them more than i have. this was my 21st last July. (the dress is from a department in Macy’s…Grass Collection). it was a beach party and i’d been running around all day preparing the hall and buffet and that, so it was a quick idea. And the “beach waves” were fitting for my beach party theme.
in Target it was $25 as i said, i just found it on Amazon and it’s $22ish. but i can’t find it on UK amazon…?
i’m going to Aberdeen this weekend, and i’m planning on taking them since my hair worked out nicely today until the RAIN got it’s hands on it!!! i was not pleased.
i recommend these wavers 1000000%! they are really impressive and really inexpensive!
i’m on YouTube constantly watching hair/make up tutorials, finding answers for games, music videos, downloading music…etc.
*nail art i love this. i tried it once i seen it and it never worked up for me at all, sadface… but it actually fascinated me that it’s possible. i wanna try it again, but i need scotch tape, cos i tried it with normal sello tape and it was rubbish. i just looked through my phone and i cannot find the pics for it. but it was actually quite cute. i done, pink, purple and gold. and another time i tried two shades of pink. the main issue with it was that it was soooo messy. i’d try it again if i thought i’d keep it tidy. i just couldnt be botherd with that mess. there are AMAZING ideas on youtube, i don’t think the one above is the best one i seen. i just watched a girl do a poinsetta (the red christmas flower?) one, it was gorgeous! i also subscribe to “CutePolish” on youtube, the ideas are so simple but they look really good!
these look BEYOND delicious! i actually just watched this baking how-to video! it’s so simple and i am definitely gonna make these when i’m doing my next baking day! colourful with some vanilla flavour! YUM! i don’t like to use food colouring sometimes. last time i used Morrisons own pink food colouring and it smelled AND tasted like beetroot! i mean yeah i love beetroot as much as the next person but not on my cupcakes thanks!!
this is actually one of my favourite hair styles. i would never rock about with a general french plait in my hair but this just looks nicer and more like you’ve made an effort, if that makes sense? it looks quite intricate but its actually so simple. i’d never be able to explain it in words so just go on YouTube and search “hair fishtail” and there’s loads of tutorials. once i looked at one for a fishtail and then more came up at the side for all these other hair styles. i’ve tried loads but my fingers are like big mars bars and i get so frustrated that when i get one thing wrong it ALL goes wrong! my favourite channels for hair styles are either “LuxyHair” or “FoxyLocksExtensions”.
i have subscribed to so many make-up gurus and everything, and i think thats how i got so into make up. it’s how i know about the Naked palette and the coastal scents palettes that i now have.if i’m going out i like search “clubbing make up” or “casual day make up”.
i actually love YouTube, i wish i liked my voice enough to make videos…the only way i’d do that is if i magically woke up with an american accent. cause i cringe cringe cringe when i hear my own voice!!!
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Poll: Should We Close The US Border Until The Wall Is Approved?
This is getting ridiculous. Do democrats really hate the idea of a wall so much that they will allow mass deportations to commence instead of just making a deal with President Trump?
President Trump made it clear that there will beno DACA deal without a wall.
Check out our top story here or take our poll below.
The debate over immigration policy became increasingly acrimonious after it was reported on Thursday that the Republican president used the word “shithole” to describe Haiti and African countries in a private meeting with lawmakers.
The comments led to harsh recriminations from Democrats and Republicans alike, with some critics accusing Trump of racism, even as bipartisan talks continued in the U.S. Congress to seek a bipartisan compromise to salvage the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
Efforts to extend the program are further complicated because it could make a funding bill to avert a government shutdown due Friday more difficult.
“DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don’t really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our military,” Trump said earlier on Twitter. Read more.
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JUPITER, Fla. — NFL labor talks are in mediation. NBA labor talks are generally stuck.
Baseball is hoping to avoid those fates.
That's what union head Michael Weiner will tell players over the coming weeks, a process that started on Monday when his spring training tour opened with a visit to the St. Louis Cardinals. Weiner laid out how the Major League Baseball Players Association is prepping for talks on the game's next collective bargaining agreement, with the current one set to expire in December.
"I know we're prepared to try to get it done. I'm confident that the ownership is prepared to try to get it done as well," Weiner said. "You don't know until you get to the table."
Weiner expects meetings about the next CBA to be held in both Florida and Arizona before the regular season opens. He acknowledged keeping track of the labor talks going on in football and basketball, noting they "conceivably could have an affect on our atmosphere."
The NFL's labor deal expires at the end of the day March 3, and the union fears that team owners will lock out players — and threaten the 2011 season. The NBA's deal expires June 30, and Commissioner David Stern ominously said at All-Star weekend that the sides there "have each expressed to the other our dissatisfaction with each other's proposals."
"You don't want to see a work stoppage anywhere," Weiner said, adding that the NFL and NBA unions have baseball's support.
Cardinals player representative Kyle McClellan said the meeting was key because "there's a lot at stake here."
"We want to make sure that we're informed, make sure that we're prepared," McClellan said. "We don't even know what the other side's issues are. As of right now we're just making sure that we're well prepared."
Weiner met with the Cardinals for about 90 minutes, his presentation often interrupted – to his liking – by questions, none of which he said caught him off-guard.
"What I'm talking about here is explaining what preparations have been done, different levels of player involvement, what our negotiating committee does, what our executive board does, what role the player membership has, how they can get information over the course of the year," Weiner said. "And then some of the mechanics of bargaining, where it takes place, all that."
– He said he would not expect the looming trials for home run king Barry Bonds (scheduled for March) and seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens (scheduled for July) to cast a large pall over the 2011 season.
Bonds is expected to plead not guilty when arraigned March 1 for the latest modified indictment since he was initially charged in 2007 with lying to a grand jury about his steroids use.
Clemens faces allegations of lying to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform during a deposition and hearing in February 2008 where he said he did not use steroids or human growth hormone during his career.
"I don't think anybody's happy about the fact that Barry and Roger face these trials," Weiner said. "Knowing both of those guys a long time, I'm not happy about that. I think the institution has gotten to the point where drug testing and the issues associated with it are going to be involved with the business of the game, but it's not the dominant story that it has been or was several years ago."
– Weiner met with Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, who said last week that he believed the union was pressuring nine-time All-Star Albert Pujols to "set the bar" with his latest contract. Talks between the Cardinals and Pujols on what is believed to be an eight-year deal worth $200 million were halted last Wednesday and the three-time MVP said they will not resume until season's end.
Weiner said the talk with La Russa went smoothly, without revealing much in the way of details. The MLBPA denied advising Pujols on what to do during his talks with the Cardinals.
"The union's role will be, we're there to support any player who wants assistance from us but when it comes to free agent negotiations the players and agents are essentially on their own," Weiner said.
Said La Russa: "We just said hello and kidded each other."
Part of the Cardinals' offer to Pujols was believed to include the opportunity for him to obtain a stake in the franchise when his playing days were over — something that is not prohibited under baseball's current rules.
"Have we thought about it a little bit? Yes. Have we thought about it a lot? No," Weiner said.
– Salary advancement and other financial matters will obviously have a dominant spot on all negotiating agendas between owners and players, though Weiner expects this deal not will not bring sweeping changes.
"I don't think either side is looking to fundamentally change the way contracts are negotiated in baseball," Weiner said. "I think both are, I'll say satisfied with the basic structure of the reserve system in terms of salary arbitration and free agency."
– Two Senate Democrats said last week that they would like Major League Baseball to ban smokeless tobacco, which is already prohibited in the minor leagues. Weiner said he expects that to be addressed.
"I'm not going to make any predictions about where we're going to go with it, but I do expect it to be an issue," Weiner said.
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The water found in bore baths such as Lightning Ridge, Burren Junction and Walgett comes from the Great Artesian Basin and is approximatley two million years old! Natural pressure sends the water to the surface through an artesian bore and it maintains a constant temperature of 41.5 degrees celcius. The bores supplying these baths are only a few of hundreds being rehabilitated throughout the Great Artesian Basin conserving this precious natural resources for future generations.
The Great Artesian Basin is one of the largest freshwater basins in the world, it contains approximatley 8,700 million megalitres of water and underlies 22% of Australia and 26% of New South Wales, the Basin supports 200,000 people and underpins $3.5 billion of production annually. Unfortunaltey flows from bores and artesian pressure have declined drastically, nearly half of NSW’s 1,400 artesian bores no longer flow. There are 7,000km of open bore drains in NSW and up to 95% of water from these open drains is wasted through evaporation, seepage and breakouts, 15,000 tonnes of salt enters the landscape annually.
Today aretesian bores are being capped to control water flow, bore drains have been replaced with 170km of underground pipes. The NSW and Commonwealth Governments Cape and Pipe Bores program provides technical and financial assistance for landholders to install piping systems. This program will save water (the equivalent of 450 olympic sized pools is saved annually), reverse artesian pressure decline and reduce soli salinity. It intends to conserve biodiversity and to help control feral animals, this project will great improve the Great Artesian Basin’s overall sustainability.
The pool is not a toilet. Public toilets are provided on site.
Pets are not allowed in the baths. Pets are not allowed on the reserve unless restrained or in a vehicle.
The Bore Bath reserve is an alcohol free zone. Patrons are not permitted to consume alcohol or carry any type of glass in the pool or around the pool area.
The Bore Baths are not a camp site – no camping, caravaning or fire lighting on the reserve.
Under Section 632 of the Local Government Act Council is entitled to impose fines for transgressions of published rules relating to alcohol and animals.
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Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
Yes boys and girls, put away your Excel spreadsheets and gather round the fire.
Before you swoon in admiration of my unparalleled genius, I want to be clear that these ideas and even the phraseology are not mine.
Yes folks, this changed my life. If you pay attention, it might do it for you.
And then again for those of you too lazy to listen, it might not. YMMV.
Definitions first and details later. Ok?
The fundamental metric of all investing. The ratio of the price you pay for the value you get. This needs to be less than one at all costs and the lower it is, the larger your margin of safety (remember margin of safety?: https://unrepentantlyrecalcitrant.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/all-investing-is-value-investing-the-rest-is-speculation/).
All of Wall Street that makes money off of you, conflates price and value. It is the fundamental thesis of those that believe the markets are efficient.
The lower the price and the higher the value, the better the deal.
Buffet talks about buying a dollar for fifty cents.
I will discuss the estimation of value in some detail in a later post.
Needless to say, it should be a positive number!
Before you laugh at that, I will in the future show you why most businesses (the majority) are not getting a positive number and as a result have a zero EVA (bad!) or even a negative EVA ( yes, they are destroying capital!).
If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, you must (MUST) have plans for a positive EVA! If not, don’t even bother. More on this later.
A little more fuzzy than the others, this statement underlines that certain things are an inevitability.
You must prepare for them and account for them in your estimation of value and decision to invest ( or grow your business).
Your resistance to rain clouds and gravity is useless. Rain will fall down.
Remember, Value investing is simple but it’s not easy! Oh No!
I will take each of these points and expand on them in future posts.
The only thing I can’t help you with is mental toughness.
Oh, one last thing. You know that money you saved up to buy the latest Excel program?
Go get a great dinner instead.
You ain’t gonna need Excel anymore.
Those of you reading my blog for the last several columns have figured out by now that I believe that the traits and character required for an entrepreneur are very similar to those a good value investor should have.
I am going to add to that.
As you think deeply about the kinds of behavior, instincts and thought process that result in success in these areas, you will no doubt find that many of those ideas are transferable to life itself. This is something I have termed “Right Thinking” in prior posts (not my term, but one I think is appropriate).
By no means am I a fan of Rudyard Kipling (I can tell you where he should stick his “White Man’s Burden”!).
But credit where credit is due. I believe his poem IF, reproduced below is a graphic and exact description of what you need to succeed as an investor, as an entrepreneur and at life.
I will discuss aspects of what he says in this column over time, but I am unable to summarize the whole as elegantly as he has done.
You can do much worse than read it carefully, ponder and apply to your situation! Rinse and repeat!
Now tell me thats not the most amazing advice you ever got!
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Items matching "Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation > CBT Working Papers" and Year "2010"
Becker, Johannes and Runkel, Marco (2010) Corporate tax regime and international allocation of ownership. Centre for Business Taxation WP 10/10.
Would the introduction of a corporate tax system with consolidated tax base and formula apportionment lead to socially wasteful mergers and acquisitions across borders? This paper analyzes a two-country model with an international investor considering acquisitions of already existing target firms in a high-tax country and a low-tax country. The investor is able to shift profits from one location to another for tax saving purposes. Two systems of corporate taxation are compared, a system with separate accounting and a system with tax base consolidation and formula apportionment. It is shown that, under separate accounting, the number of acquisitions is inefficiently high in both the high tax and the low tax country. Under formula apportionment, the number of acquisitions is inefficiently high in the low tax country and inefficiently low in the high tax country. Under tax competition, a novel externality arises that worsens the efficiency properties of equilibrium tax rates under separate accounting, but may play an efficiency enhancing role under formula apportionment.
Bettendorf, Leon, Devereux, Michael, van der Horst, Albert, Loretz, Simon and de Mooij, Ruud (2010) Corporate Tax Harmonization in the EU. Economic Policy, 25 (63). pp. 537-590. Link to full text available through this repository.
This paper explores the economic consequences of proposed EU reforms for a common consolidated corporate tax base. The reforms replace separate accounting with formula apportionment as a way to allocate corporate tax bases across countries. To assess the economic implications, we use a numerical CGE model for Europe. It encompasses several decision margins of firms such as marginal investment, FDI decisions, and multinational profit shifting. The simulations suggest that consolidation does not yield substantial welfare gains for Europe. The variation of effects across countries is large and depends on the choice of the apportionment formula. Consolidation with formula apportionment does not weaken incentives for tax competition. Tax competition instead offers a rationale for rate harmonisation, in addition to base harmonisation.
Bond, Stephen and Xing, Jing (2010) Corporate taxation and capital accumulation. Centre for Business Taxation WP 10/15.
We present new empirical evidence that aggregate capital accumulation is strongly influenced by the user cost of capital and, in particular, by corporate tax incentives summarised in the tax-adjusted user cost. We use sectoral panel data for the USA, Japan, Australia and ten EU countries over the period 1982-2007. Our panel combines data on capital stocks, value-added and relative prices from the EU KLEMS database with measures of effective corporate tax rates from the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation. Given the tax-adjusted user cost, we find little additional information in statutory corporate tax rates or effective average tax rates.
Devereux, Michael and Loretz, Simon (2010) Evaluating Neutrality Properties of Corporate Tax Reforms. Centre for Business Taxation Working Paper, Oxford.
We propose a methodology for assessing the neutrality of corporate tax reform proposals in an open economy. The methodology identifies variation in effective tax rates to assess the proximity of a tax system to capital export neutrality (CEN) and to market neutrality (MN, which holds if all potential competitors in a single market face the same effective tax rate). We apply the methodology to two reform options in the EU. Optional international loss consolidation would move the EU tax system away from both CEN and MN. The proposed common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB) has mixed effects which depend on the precise comparisons made.
Dischinger, Matthias and Riedel, Nadine (2010) The Role of Headquarters in Multinational Profit Shifting Strategies. Centre for Business Taxation WP 10/03.
This paper stresses the special role of multinational headquarters in corporate profit shifting strategies. Using a large panel of European firms, we show that multinational enterprises (MNEs) are reluctant to shift profits away from their headquarters even if these are located in high-tax countries. Thus, shifting activities in response to corporate tax rate differentials between parents and subsidiaries are found to be significantly larger if the parent observes a lower corporate tax rate than its subsidiary and profit is thus shifted towards the headquarters firm. This result is in line with recent empirical evidence suggesting that MNEs bias the location of profits and highly profitable assets in favor of the headquarters location (for agency cost reasons among others).
Koh, Hyun-Ju and Riedel, Nadine (2010) Do Governments Tax Agglomeration Rents? Centre for Business Taxation WP 10/04.
Using the German local business tax as a testing ground, we empirically investigate the impact of firm agglomeration on municipal tax setting behavior. The analysis exploits a rich data source on the population of German firms to construct detailed measures for the communities' agglomeration characteristics. The findings indicate that urbanization and localization economies exert a positive impact on the jurisdictional tax rate choice which confirms predictions of the theoretical New Economic Geography (NEG) literature. Further analysis suggests a qualification of the NEG argument by showing that a municipality's potential to tax agglomeration rents depends on its firm and industry agglomeration relative to neighboring communities. To account for potential endogeneity problems, our analysis exploits long-lagged population and infrastructure variables as instruments for the agglomeration measures.
Lockwood, Ben (2010) How Should Financial Intermediation Services be Taxed? Centre for Business Taxation WP 10/14.
This paper considers the optimal taxation of two types of financial intermediation services (savings intermediation, and payment services) in a dynamic general equilibrium setting, when the government can also use consumption and income taxes. When payment services are used in strict proportion to final consumption, and the cost of intermediation services is the same across firms, the optimal taxes on financial intermediation are generally indeterminate. But, when firms differ in the cost of intermediation services, the tax on savings intermediation should be zero.
Also, when household time and payment services are substitutes in transactions, the optimal tax rate on payment services is determined by the returns to scale in the conditional demand for payment services, and is generally different to the optimal rate on consumption goods. In particular, with constant returns to scale, payment services should be untaxed. These results can be understood as applications of the Diamond-Mirlees production efciency theorem. The extension to n consumption goods in each period is also studied.
Niepmann, Friederike and Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim (2010) Bank Bailouts, International Linkages and Cooperation. Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation WP 10/16.
Financial institutions are increasingly linked internationally. As a result, financial crisis and government intervention have stronger effects beyond borders. We provide a model of international contagion allowing for bank bailouts. While a social planner trades off tax distortions, liquidation losses and intra- and intercountry income inequality, in the non-cooperative game between governments there are inefficiencies due to externalities, no burden sharing and free-riding. We show that, in absence of cooperation, stronger interbank linkages make government interests diverge, whereas cross-border asset holdings tend to align them. We analyze different forms of cooperation and their effects on global and national welfare.
Simpson, Helen (2010) How do firms' outward FDI strategies relate to their activity at home? Empirical evidence for the UK. Centre for Business Taxation WP 10/09.
This paper investigates the structure of firms’ outward FDI and their behaviour at home in both manufacturing and business services sectors. UK multinationals with overseas affiliates in low-wage economies invest simultaneously in a large number of high-wage countries. I find that more productive multinationals operate in a greater number of countries, consistent with their being able to bear the fixed costs of investing in numerous locations abroad. UK manufacturing plants owned by large-scale, low-wage economy outward investors display lower domestic employment growth, in particular in low-skill activities, consistent with low-wage economy labour substituting for low-skill labour in the UK.
Voget, Johannes (2010) Headquarter Relocations and International Taxation. Centre for Business Taxation WP 10/08.
This paper examines the extent of international headquarter relocations worldwide. About 6 percent of all multinationals relocated their headquarter to another country in the 1997-2007 period. The paper presents empirical evidence on the role of tax in these relocation decisions. It considers a sample of 140 multinationals that relocated their head- quarters over the past decade and compares them to a control group of 1943 multinationals that have not done so. It is found that the additional tax due in the home country upon repatriation of foreign profits has a positive effect on the probability of relocation. The empirical results suggest that an increase in the repatriation tax by 10 percentage points would raise the share of relocating multinationals by 2.2 percentage points, equivalent to an increase in the number of relocations by more than one third. Furthermore, the introduction of controlled foreign corporation legislation also has a positive effect on the number of relocations.
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