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The Best Of 2008
|02-Jan-2009 05:00 pm
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I've got this thing where I have to wait until the following year before publishing the obligatory Best Of Last Year article. Part of it is that I need the time away from my full-time job compile the list, but I also need the reality of the new year to put the previous year into perspective. And so, once again, after a holiday season, a crazy new year's eve party with my friends, and a full new year of music just looming ahead of me, here are my picks from 2008.
Best Concerts of 2008When it comes to shows, I really just enjoy being out and hearing new music. Even when it's not a standout performance, being out at the venues and getting to watch a band put a show together is way better than TV. Looking through my shots from 2008, I estimate that I photographed about 190 different bands/musicians in the past 12 months. Researching for this category is a good time in itself because it meant I had to go back through all my articles from 2008 and remember each and every concert. It's a fun life.
Well there it is. Except the honourable mentions, which are:
Top 10 Albums of 2008There were some great releases in 2008. Checking my iTunes statistics, it shows that I listened to less variety of music this year than in previous years. I think that's because the albums that I liked, I really liked, so I ended up playing them again and again. What it means is that some music that made other people's top 10 lists didn't necessarily get a fair shake from my ears. For example, despite hating the name of the band Vampire Weekend, I listened through the album a couple of times and liked it. But I didn't listen to it enough to even consider it for my top 10 list... I just forgot to listen to it more (or more likely, I was listening to the Arkells instead). Anyway, this list was generated partly by using my iTunes statistics and ratings to expose which albums I actually tend to rate highest and listen to the most. Note that I include albums from 2007 that I didn't discover until 2008 because it seems unfair to exclude albums entirely just because I was slow to learn about them. And in case you're wondering: I added 181 albums to my collection this year.
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10 Hot Singles of 2008Sometimes it's not a whole album that grabs me, but just one or two songs that I really love listening to. It takes more than a few songs to put an album in the list above, but here are some singles that really caught my attention this year.
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text: Nottingham - James Anderson could yet feature in the Ashes series finale after being included in a 14-man England squad named Sunday for this month's fifth Test against Australia at The Oval.Anderson, England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker, had to miss the fourth match of the series at Trent Bridge with a side strain suffered during the team's eight-wicket win in the third Test at Edgbaston.But England still crushed Australia by an innings and 78 runs in Nottingham on Saturday to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series, with just the match at The Oval, starting on August 20, to come.Stuart Broad, Anderson's longtime new-ball partner, took eight for 15 on his Nottinghamshire home ground as Australia were dismissed for just 60 in 111 balls on the opening day - the shortest completed first innings of a match in the 138-year history of Test cricket.When Anderson injured himself in Birmingham, there were fears he might be sidelined from the remainder of the series.And with England now in an unbeatable position in the series, it has been argued that they don't need to risk their prize asset in a 'dead' match.It was a point acknowledged by England national selector James Whitaker who said Sunday that Anderson, who has replaced uncapped left-arm seamer Mark Footitt in the squad, would not be rushed back into the side. "James Anderson is continuing to improve and, with 10 days to go before the Test, may be able to play a part at the Oval - although with the series won, we will not be taking any chances given the cricket we have in the coming months," Whitaker said in an England and Wales Cricket Board statement. Meanwhile Whitaker hailed the way in which England had bounced back from their 5-0 series loss in Australia in 2013/14. "Regaining the Ashes is a superb achievement and is down to 18 months of hard work from the players and coaches and support from a lot of people since the last series in Australia," he said.England fifth Test squad: Adam Lyth (Yorkshire), Alastair Cook (Essex, capt), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), Jos Buttler (Lancashire, wkt), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Mark Wood (Durham), Steven Finn (Middlesex), James Anderson (Lancashire), Liam Plunkett (Yorkshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire)


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Keeping a job in these turbulent times is difficult enough, especially when you see companies taking any chance to layoff their workforce. If you feel overwhelmed while at work or even on your own time, it will be most beneficial that you take on the situation as soon as possible. This article contains tips that will help you to manage your stress.
Your stress levels will stay down if you stay up to date on repairs your items may need. If you have three things that need to be repaired, that is triple the effort you will have to do. It is better to stay on top of things.
Physical activity is a great way to relieve stress and feel relaxed. It is not a quick fix, but it is an ongoing way to make life better and gives you something to look forward to tomorrow. Stress can be lowered with this approach, and it also has the benefit of raising self confidence and feeling of control.
Know your own stress. One of the most important parts of dealing with stress is identifying where your stress comes from. Stress can be a reaction to an event, person or object. One you have narrowed down the exact stressors, it becomes much easier to eliminate or minimize stress in your life.
Professional Massage
A professional massage is a great way to take some of the stress away. A byproduct of stress can be wound, tense muscles that do not loosen with conventional methods. Scheduling a professional massage can work your muscles back into comfortable shape.
Stress is a result of many different things, so it is important to first determine what the trigger was that caused you to feel the way you do. Once you identify the source, you can work at solving your problems, to relieve yourself of that particular piece that is bothering you. You will feel less stressed almost immediately!
Gardening can be an effective release for coping with stressful thoughts. Homeowners can build a big garden, a small one or even have a few of them.
Living life stress-free seems like an impossible task, but it can happen. Once you start identifying the things that cause you stress, you should then work on how to overcome them.
For a easy trick to reducing stress, pick up some spearmint or lavender oil. Take a little of the oil and dab it on the temples and neck when stress is an issue. You will be amazed how much relief you can find from simple remedies like this.
If you are a teenager or twentysomething, playing video games like Final Fantasy can relieve stress. Games can help you focus on increasing your problem solving skills in situations that may not be as upsetting as real life. Playing by yourself or with others, can be a great way to improve your mood and alleviate the affects of the stress from your day.
Reduce anxiety and stress by deciding to be honest, no matter what. It has been proven that small lies may cause strong feelings of guilt that can result in more stress.
If you are a student and one class is stressing you out, consider seeking the assistance of a tutor. Getting the help that you need will create a feeling of confidence and lower stress levels when exams come around. The better prepared you are, the less anxious you will feel.
Stress Level
Deep breathing is a good way to lower your stress level. People tend to start taking quick and shallow breaths when they find themselves in stressful situations, or when they have a high stress level. This is why practicing deep breathing exercises can help to reduce stress. This is an excellent way to relieve stress, so therefore, it should be done daily to ensure your stress levels don't get too high.
If you have a busy life, reducing stress could be as easy as learning to say no. It is normal to want to keep others happy, but if you don't know how to say no you will end up stressed out.
One great way to cut down on stress is to have a long soak in a hot bath. This form of stress relief can be very peaceful and allow the different muscles in your body to recover from a long day. As an alternative to a bath, simply wash your face with hot water in the sink, to save time and obtain the same relief.
Try out tonics for stress relief. Homeopathy should be researched as a way to help decrease stress and anxiety. These natural herbal remedies are completely safe to use, and have provided relief to many people. Don't rule out herbs like Kava. A few studies have shown Kava to be as effective as Xanax, a popular anti-anxiety medication.
When you miss out on sleep, your body cannot function right. Not only can lack of sleep affect your thinking, but it can also affect your ability to handle stress. Get a full night's sleep so that you are alert during the day and, so your body is at its full potential.
Take yourself out of any difficult situation. Focus on peaceful thoughts and have confidence in your ability to take care of the situation in a positive manner, then move forward and do that.
Try to control your stress levels by listening to some soothing music. Soothing your senses can help eliminate stress and tension. Playing music softly can be a great way to nurture your mind and your soul. If you allow yourself to really sit back and listen to this music, it can transport you away from stressful situations. This activity is a great addition to any stressful day.
Working for a living is hard enough without having to be stressed out while doing it. Stress related to your job, family or other personal matters can really wreak havoc on your life and induce a number of negative health conditions. Follow the tips you have found here to reduce stress and live more peacefully.


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Conversations on Restless Youth: "Talking about our generations" - Part II
5 dec 2019 (18:00 - 20:30)
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Meet the authors of the publication, the curators and the educator of the "Restless Youth" temporary exhibition! Instead of a traditional panel debate, this time we invite the audience to take part in informal and intimate conversations in the museum's galleries, in direct connection with the exhibition itself.
With five authors of the "Restless Youth" publication:
- Marko Zubak, Research Associate, Croatian Institute of History, Zagreb
- Richards Jobs, Professor of History at Pacific University in Oregon
- Luisa Passerini, Professor of History, European University Institute, Florence
- Kostis Kornetis, Visiting fellow in History, St Antony's College, Oxford
- B. S. van der Steen, Lecturer of History, Leiden University
In dialogue with the members of the "Restless Youth" team in the House of European History
- Jitka Mlsová Chmelíková, Curator for the exhibition
- Kieran Burns, Project Manager and Lead Curator for the exhibition
- Christine Dupont, Curator for the exhibition
Click here to register for this event.
Limited seats available.


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SAP, Oracle in Magic Quadrant for IT project portfolio management
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for IT project and portfolio management includes SAP and Oracle because customers can leverage data from their existing ERP applications.
SAP and Oracle customers should look to their ERP vendors for IT project and portfolio management, according to a new Gartner Magic Quadrant report.
It ranks the two ERP vendors as challengers in the market for IT project and portfolio management (PPM) applications, which organize and prioritize projects in terms of factors like cost, manpower and time. SAP and Oracle customers, particularly those heavily invested in the financial management software packages, should turn to their respective vendors for PPM because of their ability to leverage data in their existing applications.
Oracle E-Business Suite Financials users can use Oracle Projects not only to calculate project cost but to match project budgets to schedules. Users of SAP ERP Financials and SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) can do the same with xRPM, an SAP xApp. Customers say xRPM also has good knowledge transfer, product expertise and professional service, according to the report.
"[SAP's and Oracle's] whole strategy is to make sure their installation base isn't eroded by pure-play vendors," said Daniel Stang, the report's co-author and principal analyst with Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Research.
Overall, the market for IT PPM applications was unsettled last year. Some providers grew, the report states, while others declined because of the economy and tighter IT budgets.
SAP's xRPM user base grew by about 45%, according to data provided by SAP. It now has a total of 260 users, 80 of which purchased and implemented the xAPP in the last year.
A total of 70% of those customers are using xRPM for their IT departments, according to SAP.
Oracle wouldn't disclose how many PPM customers it has or how many of those were using it to manage IT. Oracle's PPM applications include Oracle Projects and Oracle Project Management.
Gartner's Magic Quadrant reports rank vendors (in descending order) as leaders, challengers, visionaries or niche players.
The leaders in IT PPM included CA Clarity, Compuware, HP PPM and Planview. Gartner also named as leaders PPM vendors that provide IT-specific PPM as well as PPM for other industries, including Primavera Systems, Microsoft Project and the on-demand PPM vendor Daptiv.
Gartner defines leaders as providing portfolio management that goes beyond simply gathering together information on a single project. Leading applications also include a view of what else IT could invest in and align strategic programs.
Challengers, like leaders, have product depth combined with enough experienced technical sales support to effectively reach the market. But, unlike the leaders, their products emphasize one core area, such as project cost management, without all-around strength across most areas of IT PPM functional areas.
For example, SAP and Oracle are really only interested in targeting their own users with IT-related PPM offerings, the report said. In turn, Oracle's PPM applications have limited portfolio analytics, and xRPM's usability needs to be improved.
"They've got some of the basic things in there to make sure their customers don't get completely steered away," Stang said. "ERP vendors never targeted internal IT until this [PPM] market surfaced. They're not the pure-play PPM [vendors] in IT that are looking to drive the applications portfolio."
In selecting a PPM application for your IT department, Stang recommends looking at who's asking for it, what the expressed purpose is, and how much you want to spend.
If you want better IT project capital reporting and better alignment reporting, look to SAP and Oracle.
"If the IT department isn't completely asking for this thing," Stang said, "then the ERP vendors make a lot of sense."
But if you need more out of it, look to the leaders.
"If you're a project manager in the trenches of IT and you've got service requests, formal projects, you know you've got 20 things coming down the pipeline that need to get done -- the answer is, you're going to go to an IT management vendor," Stang said.
He had reservations, though, about whether ERP vendors could ever become leaders in this market.
"It depends," he said. "Ultimately, they could. It starts with understanding and also quite pointedly focusing on an IT management market, not an ERP or business management market. They might only get so far."
Or perhaps ERP vendors like Oracle and SAP will just start buying these niche vendors.
"They probably will," Stang said. "Larry Ellison has a bit of a trigger finger these days. He's buying companies left and right. [He's saying] 'I'm tired of trying to be this thing. Let's just buy it.' "


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This strategy is using Money Flow Index and Bollinger Bands in order to identify the probable trend reversal points.
Money Flow strategy is using both 15 minutes and 30 minutes bars and on average, will generate around 5 trading signals per day. The strategy may open up to 3 positions in the same direction simultaneously.
Indicator description
Money Flow Index (MFI) is a momentum indicator. It is a volume-weighted version of a popular Relative Strength Index, which measures the velocity and magnitude of the price movements (counted as the ratio of higher closes vs. lower closes for the consecutive bars).
The value of the oscillator ranges from 0 to 100. MetaTrader 4's default settings for the overbought level (sell signal) is when the MFI rises above 70 and for the oversold level (buy signal) is when the MFI falls below 30.
Bollinger Bands are a volatility indicator, consisting of the moving average and upper and lower bands, which are a function of the standard deviation of the price in the given time period and widen or narrow, as the volatility is rising or falling.
When the price of the instrument is reaching either of the bands, it is considered a signal of the likely reversal of the trend.
Strategy Description
Money Flow Strategy is seeking to identify the points when the trend is reversing and open the positions accordingly.
Bollinger bands are used as an additional filter to reduce the likelihood of false signals.
Buy signal will be generated if the 30-minute Money Flow Index is less than 35 and the low of the current 30-minute price bar is less than, or equal to the previous lower 15-minute Bollinger band.
Accordingly, the sell signal will be generated if the Money Flow Index is greater than 65 and the current 30-minute price bar is greater than, or equal to the previous upper 15-minute Bollinger band.
The throttle settings limit the number new of signals being generated to 1 per 5 minutes.
If the strategy already has a position and an additional signal in the same direction is generated, further position will be opened, with the limit of consecutive positions being set at 3 (please note that this is a number of positions that can be opened simultaneously, not the volume of these positions).
The positions will be closed and reversed when the opposite direction signal is generated, meaning that for example the long position will be reversed once the MFI oscillator rises above 65 and the current 30-minute price bar will be greater, or equal to the previous 15-minute upper Bollinger band.
The strategy is using symmetric stop-loss and take-profit orders, set at 40 pips.
The strategy's accuracy in the long term is likely to be around 60%.
This strategy works best when the markets are moving within a range. During the strong trends in either directions the MFI indicator value may remain in the overbought / oversold area for the prolonged periods of time and false signals will be more frequent in such periods.


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Pray, Read, Pray, Reflect…
Good morning, here are today's reflection questions.
- Compare and contrast G-d's announcement to Zachariah and Mary.
- salutation
- the basis of selection
- reaction
- What are the similarities and differences between Mary and Elizabeth?
- What is revealed about Jesus identity and destiny?
- What are Mary's responses and emotions?
- Reflect on the above questions…Do they apply to you today? How? Why/why not?
Pray and Give Praise


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If you do one thing today, it should be this…you MUST check out what some of the writers at GeekDad have pulled together in remembrance of Jim Henson's passing 20 years ago.
I grew up watching obsessing over Fraggle Rock and Sesame Street, and when I got a bit older I would watch The Muppet Show reruns on Nick at Night. I still get teary-eyed when I think about hearing the news that he had passed away. You know when people ask which five people you'd have over for dinner, alive or dead? It's always so hard to answer in that moment, but I will always have a spot saved for Jim Henson.
All of the videos from his memorial in 1990 are posted over at GeekDad, but here's a favorite of mine with Big Bird singing It's Not Easy Being Green. These are probably some of the most touching and meaningful moments you'll ever see, so please, please, please check them out.
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This man was brilliant. The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth are two of my favorite films.
Great post! Love your blog. :)
Me too on growing up with this stuff–I can't believe it has been 20 years since he passed away! We used to sing all those Muppet Movie songs in grade-school chorus and I still remember every word!
Do you think the doozer sculptures were made out of sugar? I think that's why the fraggles always ate them…


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Let's end the Afghanistan mission before any more soldiers are killed and hearts are broken.Click here to enlarge.
How ironic that as we seek this Remembrance Day to honour the men and women who die on behalf of our country, purportedly in "just" wars around the world, we wear poppies in their name.
Poppies, cultivated to produce opium and heroin, are the one sustainable cash crop in the failed state of Afghanistan, the site of a murkily defined mission that appears to have achieved less than nothing.
Lest we forget? The only real way to honour our soldiers this Remembrance Day is by ending Canada's participation in a pointless war. Immediately. Before any more hearts are broken and any more lives destroyed.
It's a sad fact that as the world celebrates one of the greatest pacifist achievements of our time - the fall not only of Berlin's Wall but of Communist totalitarianism - we Canadians are still engaged as America's proxy in an old-school, ill-fated effort to wage war and impose politics from the top down.
Why is it that those sending our country's soldiers into peril get to claim they're "supporting the troops," while those of us wishing to respect our armed forces by keeping them out of pointless danger get painted as unpatriotic?
How can the Stephen Harpers, Michael Ignatieffs and Don Cherrys of this country even pretend that any of the Canadian blood spilled on the dusty sands of Afghanistan is achieving anything we can be proud of?
After the embarrassment of the recent Afghan pseudo-election, can anyone really believe that Canadians are dying in the name of democracy?
Afghan attempts at representative government are at least as flawed as those of South Vietnam in the early 60s. Back then, the American government of St. John Kennedy chose to look the other way as the anointed custodian of freedom, Ngo Dinh Diem, was assassinated in an attempt to produce a government the U.S. could at least claim was somewhat democratic.
And tragically, as in the disaster of Vietnam, Canada's casualties aren't just measured in body bags. A generation of damaged people is returning from this horrific war, veterans unable to function as they once did, a ghostlike mystery to the families who sent them off to Central Asia with the best intentions.
Hamid Karzai unapologetically struts around sustained by cronies, corruption and foreign armies, as despicable as any post-colonial Cold War lottery-winning head of state - the lesser of some envisioned greater evil. The Afghan president is supported by imperialist governments afraid to let their imagined enemies gain the upper hand, while true local initiatives never get a foothold.
No foreign force has ever been successful in Afghanistan. Do we really think America and its allies will be the ones to change that?
As drone aircraft ply the skies above this forbidding landscape, young people who have honed their skills on video games drop bomb-bursting payloads on more and more unintended civilian targets, alienating a populace exhausted by corrupt government and foreign invaders.
Let's not become a country expert at empty gestures, our soldiers used up in ill-advised political exercises and grim-faced globalization, but a nation willing to put its precious troops at risk for the sake of peacekeeping and justice.
It's time to stop naming the highways carrying coffins from military planes to morgues for our heroes, and start treating our soldiers like heroes by refusing to casually sentence them to death for confused reasons.
If we can even remotely trust this country's politicians, this ill-fated mission will end in 2011 anyway, so let's be truly brave, admit our mistake and bring these bright-faced and well-intentioned Canadians home before more are crammed into caskets to be honoured at flag-draped overpasses.
Let's not ask the men and women who bear arms, ostensibly on our behalf, in Afghanistan to become this century's George Lawrence Price - the last Canadian soldier killed in WWI. At 10:59 on the morning of November 11, 1918, one minute before the armistice, Price stepped out of a building in the French village of Havre to be cut down by a German soldier's bullet. He was this country's last grim casualty in the war to end all wars.
This mission is a bust, and everyone knows it. Let's leave now, before one more beautiful citizen of Canada gets added to the list of those who died selflessly, but tragically, in vain.


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Great to see someone taking the timeout Dan to explain the basics to the fantasy newbies...Good luck with Part Two, my money is on 'enrique' coming out of hiding and mentioning a certain something.....
Good work...
In the first of a series of three guides Dan Heaton, Fantasy Cycling admin and top-20 player, looks at the tactics for reading a race and how it affects who should be in your Fantasy team
Hello! And welcome to this guide in which I, an average* fantasy cycling player, try and help you to get the most out of the game by imparting some of my accrued knowledge and a few useful tips.
I'll go through some of the basics and highlight the most important things to consider when picking your team. If you have any questions pop them in the comments at the bottom of the article and I'll try and answer them as best I can.
Unsurprisingly the key to performing well in the game is picking the right riders at the right time. To do this though there are a number of key things to consider. In this, part one, I'll go over what to look for on each stage and the basics of picking riders. In part two we'll look at the points awarded on each stage and how to pick your team to make the most of each stage. And in the third part, we'll look at transfer strategies and how to plan your changes. So, let's begin.
The biggest factor in who will win a race or a particular stage is the stage profile. In essence, what's the terrain like? Will it suit a sprinter like Mark Cavendish or a climber like Alberto Contador? Reading a stage is never an exact science but over time you get a feel for how a race will finish. That being said, even the most inexperienced fantasy player can look at a stage at take a good guess at how the day will play out. For example:
This is the first stage of the 2013 Tour de France. It looks bumpy but if you take a closer look the day never goes above a height of 147m above sea level. In the grand scheme of things, when compared to the mountains later in the race which top out at 2000m above sea level, this stage doesn't feature anything that will trouble anyone. Even Marcel Kittel.
On a flat stage like this it's very difficult for riders to get away in a break and stay away all day so it's likely that the main body of riders, the peloton, will finish together. When that happens it's the sprinters who'll contest the stage win. Riders like Mark Cavendish and Andre Greipel, who are fast finishers on flat stages, will be up near the front and racing hard to take the stage win.
On the other hand though we have stages that look like this:
This is stage 8 of the Tour de France which features two large climbs at the end of the day. These climbs are categorised based on their difficulty: how long the climb is, how steep it is and how technical it is (whether the climb is straight or twisty and whether it's a proper road or a dirt track etc.) all factor into the climb's rating. The lowest rating, as seen in stage 1, is Category 4. These are minor bumps and won't affect the stage. Category 3 and Category 2 climbs are longer, steeper and harder but not so hard as to trouble the true climbers. A Category 2 climb in the middle of a stage may cause enough problems for sprinters, though, that they can't make the stage finish with the main bunch.
Category 1 and HC (Hors Cátegorie - above classification) climbs are the hardest climbs featured in the race. These are brutally long and steep climbs to high mountain passes. Stages featuring Category 1 and HC climbs will almost always favour pure climbers like Pierre Rolland or Alberto Contador and some of the hardest may also put good climbers like Cadel Evans or Thomas Voeckler into difficulty.
As you can see, the Col de Pailhéres reaches 2001m above sea level and will likely cause big splits in the race with only the strongest climbers left at the summit. This is then followed by the easier Category 1 Ax 3 Domaines, but a summit finish is where the GC riders will be looking to make time on their rivals. Stage 8 is certainly the type of stage where riders in contention for the overall crown will stay close to the front and fight for the stage win.
No matter what terrain, though, a race will usually take a standard format. This will involve a small group, usually 3-10 riders, getting into a breakaway where they race ahead of the main group and try and stay out in front for as long as they can. On flat stages the teams of the sprinters will let them go then work to reel them in close to the finish so that their designated sprinter can compete for the stage win. On mountainous stages things are less predictable but some teams will work to the same plan and try to bring the breakaway back to the group so that their rider can attack for the stage victory. The break is important, because as we'll see in part two it's not just rolling over the line first that gets you points...
As well as normal road stages, many races all include time trials. The 2013 Tour de France actually includes three:
Time trials require a particular skill set and it's hard to pin down one type of rider who has this. Some of the strongest climbers can time trial while others are hopeless. Some sprinters can time trial while others are unable to sustain a good pace for long enough. Riders like Tony Martin and Fabian Cancellara are true specialists and often take the stage win but the places behind them can feature all manner of riders.
Like other stages profile and stage length count for a lot and the result of a relatively flat stage like stage 11, above, will be very different from a mountainous or very technical time trial. On a tight and twisty mountainous time trial strong climbers often perform better and this is something to consider when picking your team. Likewise a prologue, a short time trial often under 5km in length, suits sprinters and riders who can sustain a high pace for short distances much more than a long 35km time trial would.
Team time trials (TTT) are different again as it's less about any one rider and more about how well drilled a team is. A team who have trained hard and perfected riding in formation could well take a TTT stage despite not having any of the strongest individual time trial riders.
If you've checked out the stage profile and just can't work out who's going to feature then there are other options. The first is to hit the internet and search for race and stage previews. Many cycling websites will preview a race and the riders taking part; some specialist sites will even go as far as to preview each stage individually. The latter in particular will give some of the most useful information such as whether the race is going through a rider's home town or whether a stage profile is misleading. Take what you read with a pinch of salt though: most sites will plump for the most obvious choices without really doing any research or repeat the 'wisdom' of other sites rather than doing any work themselves. The best sites will give considered details of the stage and analyse the main riders' chances.
The second option is to hit the gambling websites. Bookies are not fools and if someone is a red-hot favourite for a stage they'll let you know. Bookmakers websites will also give you a good idea of what type of rider is favoured. If the top favourites are all sprinters you can be fairly sure the stage will come down to a sprint finish; if they're climbers then expect an exciting day in the mountains. Like many of the previews the odds will often just show the obvious picks but if nothing else they'll give you a feel for what type of stage it's expected to be.
Once you've read the stage profile and had a good guess at what types of riders will feature at the end of the stage you can try and pick them. Riders in the game are split up into different types. These are:
General Classification (GC) - riders who score well across different types of terrain whether it is in the high mountains or on a time trial. Only the best riders over the last 12 months get this rating. GC riders are likely to be strong in the mountains, strong during time trials and feature heavily on a number of stages. A rider like Chris Froome epitomises these features.
Climbers (KM / King of the Mountains) – riders who score well in the high mountains, these are generally strong climbers who should feature on the toughest stages. While strong in the high mountains KM riders can struggle during time trials and may not feature on multiple stages preferring to target stage wins over a high overall finish.
Sprinters (PC / Points Classification) – riders suited to the flat stages and fast finishes. The riders to pick on stages you think will come down to a sprint finish.
All-rounders (AR) – the riders who can do almost anything and may feature on any day. Riders like Peter Sagan fall into this category but so do former general classification contenders like Cadel Evans and breakaway specialists or strong classics riders like Sylvain Chavanel. A mixed bag of riders and a catch all for those who aren't true specialists or who can score on different terrain.
Domestiques (DS) – Support riders or those who don't score as heavily as the main contenders. Domestiques can feature on any given day but don't often win stages. Most Domestiques are lesser known riders working for their more illustrious team-mates but many are talented racers in their own right, capable of winning stages. Domestiques also cover those riders who were once great but haven't scored highly in the last couple of years. Andy Schleck, Jerome Coppel and John Gadret have all featured in the top 10 of major races in the past but have dropped in value thanks to poor recent results, at under 10 credits they're possible bargain picks for the mountains but unreliable and risky.
Thanks to the budget restrictions in place in the game you can't load your team with just super stars so the difference between a good day and a bad one can often rest on your cheaper picks. Domestique picks are the most unpredictable and often hardest to get right but can score heavily on the right days. Domestiques also tend to make up the members of each day's breakaway.
In part two tomorrow I'll go over how to use this information to pick a team and how to manage your team to get the most out of your picks.
*Dan's being modest here. He's 19th overall, out of over 6,000...
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
Think I enjoy picking the purist more than the standard, though my purist team invariably does far worse. I doubt a guide would help me, as clearly there are strange voodoo forces at work, wherein my picks are cursed and doomed to failure or withdrawal.
Good tip on checking the bookies, BTW, though beware that British riders (and sometimes other well-known riders like Andy Schleck) tend to be overvalued due to punters' betting patterns.
Stage two is definitely a tough one to call. Its almost a certainty that sprinters like Cavendish and Kittel won't feature but stronger sprinters like Sagan might. He'll probably be the favourite but the GC guys will want to stay safe near the front and if one feels good they may try and put Sky and Froome on the back foot earlier than they may have expected.
Personally, I'll probably pick Sagan and have a weaker team for stage 1 by picking stronger sprinters thinking ahead to 2 and 3.
Well done Dan, May I call you that rather than Dr?
Which betting sites are best for cycling that's something I always struggle to find, good odds?
I tend to use oddschecker for the headline event stuff (it also links through to any introductory offers from the big online bookies if you want to place any actual bets), though few of the major bookies dig particularly deeply into cycling.
In terms of real-life gambling, Skybet will give you a tenner stake for absolutely nothing whe you sign up for the first time. I signed up last year, used the tenner to back Tejay for the white jersey at 6/1, bagged myself a neat sixty quid and closed my account without ever making a bet that I paid for myself!
If you're looking for value, go for the top ten overall, or maybe the podium, as the odds on Froome or Contador (or indeed Sagan & Cav for green) are prohibitively short in my view.
Well done Dan, May I call you that rather than Dr?
Which betting sites are best for cycling that's something I always struggle to find, good odds?
I personally don't gamble so can't comment on odds/offers but from a fantasy point of view I agree that oddschecker is the best as it just covers all the major sites and gives an overall view cutting out the potential bias one may have.


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Susana de Noronha
SUSANA DE NORONHA is an anthropologist, with a Ph.D. summa cum laude in sociology of culture, and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), NECES Research Group, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Winner ex aequo of the 2007 "CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Social Scientists" and the "Bernardino Machado Award 2003" for the student with the highest final grade in Anthropology. Author of the books - A Tinta, a Mariposa e a Metástase: a arte como experiência, conhecimento e acção sobre o cancro de mama [Paint, Butterflies, and Metastasis: art as experience, knowledge, and action on breast cancer] (2009, Afrontamento); Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doenças nas estórias da arte [Objects Made of Cancer: material culture and illness on women's art stories] (2015, Almedina); and Cancro Sobre Papel: Estórias de oito mulheres Portuguesas entre palavra falada, arte e ciência escrita [Cancer on Paper: the stories of eight Portuguese women in words, art, and science] (2019, Almedina). |||||||||| CREATIVE WORK: Creative scientific illustration: creative ethnographic painting/drawing and amateur photography. In her third monograph, from theory to practice, blending social science with the visual and plastic arts to understand cancer, the researcher created eight projects, a sum of drawings, paintings and photographs that retell the stories of eight women from her relational circle, using imagination and metaphor to reinvent scientific illustration and ethnographic drawing. She is also a lyricist, with work published in three albums, one EP, and four compilations of Portuguese music: 09 Roads (in press); À Sombra de Deus Vol. IV (2012, Braga 2012); Lock Full Version (2010, Cobra Discos); 3Pistas Vol.2 (2009, Antena3 & Edições Valentim de Carvalho/Iplay); EP Lock (2009, Optimus Discos); Novos Talentos FNAC 2009 (2009, Fnac Portugal); Undergod/Underdog (2009, Poison Tree Records, Los Angeles); Acorda! Primeira Compilação de Nova Música Portuguesa em mp3 (2006, Antena3 & Cobra Discos). |||||||||| RESEARCH INTERESTS: Artistic narratives of cancer patients in the visual and plastic arts; illness, resistance and activism; Narrative, political and activist art; the visual and material culture of cancer/illness: from imaging technologies and therapeutic objects to prosthetics and disposable materialities; amputation and (dis)ability; the interaction between the arts and biomedicine; Bodies, embodied knowledge, emotions and affections; Autoethnography; (Re)mixtures of knowledge: social science, art and creative/alternative methodologies (creative writing and creative scientific illustration for social science research: creative, metaphorical and non-figurative reinventions of ethnographic drawing, painting, and photography); other/hybrid ontologies and epistemologies: "the third half of things and of knowledge" (Noronha, 2015).
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Book Chapter
Noronha, Susana de (2019), Fotografías hechas de cáncer: el arte como pedazo de enfermedad en los relatos de mujeres, in Rebeca Pardo & Montse Morcate (org.), La imagen desvelada: Prácticas fotográficas en la enfermedad, la muerte y el duelo. Barcelona: Sans Soleil Ediciones, 79-122
Article in Scientific journal
Noronha, Susana de (2019), "(Un)stitching the Memory and the Story of a Melanoma: Giving a Form to Forgetfulness between Anthropology and Creative Ethnographic Drawing", Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia, Vol. 8,, Nº 2, 73-79
Article in Scientific journal
Noronha, Susana de (2019), "The chairs of hereditary cancer: understanding time and illness using creative ethnographic drawing", Comunicação e Sociedade, 35, 153-171


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Dissertation Talk: Negative Capacitance Transistors: Numerical Simulation, Compact Modeling and Circuit Evaluation
Presentation | December 11 | 4-5 p.m. | 521 Cory Hall
Juan Pablo Duarte, UC Berkeley
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
Negative capacitance FETs (NC-FETs) are quickly emerging as preferred candidates for extremely scaled technologies for digital and analog applications. The recent discovery of ferroelectric (FE) materials using conventional CMOS fabrication technology has lead to the first demonstrations of FE based NC-FETs. The ferroelectric material layer added over the transistor gate insulator help in several device aspects, it suppress short-channel effects, increase on-current due voltage amplification, increase output resistance in short-channel devices, etc. These exciting characteristics has created an urgency for analysis and understanding of device operation and circuit performance, where numerical simulation and compact models are playing a key role.
This talk will give insights into the device physics and behavior of FE based negative capacitance FinFETs (NC-FinFETs) by presenting numerical simulations, compact models, and circuit evaluation of these devices. NC-FinFETs may have a floating metal between FE and the dielectric layers, where a lumped charge model represents such a device. For a NC-FinFET without a floating metal, the distributed charge model should be used, and at each point in the channel the FE layer will impact the local channel charge. This distributed effect has important implications on device characteristics. These device differences are explained using numerical simulation and correctly captured by the proposed compact models. The presented compact models have been implemented in comercial circuit simulators for exploring circuits based on NC-FinFET technology. Circuit simulations show that a quasi-adiabatic mechanism of the ferroelectric layer in the NC-FinFET recovers part of the energy during the switching process of transistors, helping minimizing the energy losses of the wasteful energy dissipation nature of conventional transistor circuits. As circuit load capacitances further increase, VDD scaling becomes more dominant on energy reduction of NC-FinFET based circuits.


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My Comments: Yestersday my post declared that the cost of what we call Long Term Care will go up for women in 2014. This is because there are more and more people reaching the age where bad things start to happen. The law of supply and demand says that when the demand increases, more people needing care, and the supply stays the same, ie those able to take care of the above referenced people, the cost of that care is going to go up.
In about 25 years, the supply of caregives will exceed the number of people needing care and the price will drop, relatively. This is Economics 101.
In the meantime, if you find yourself getting older, then you should be increasingly aware of the issues you are likely to face going forward. Assuming you stay alive.
by: Elliot M. Kass \ Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Bob Stowe faces two central issues in his practice. One is helping clients ensure that they will have an income stream throughout what may be an extended retirement; the other is ensuring that their long-term care needs are met.
"Long-term care is an issue that keeps coming up for clients over and over," says Stowe, a fee-only planner based in Plano, Texas. "Even when you nail it down, the market changes on you and you have to re-evaluate: Did I pick a good carrier? Is the product still affordable and useful to my client? How does my client's wealth aggregation strategy fit with continuing to outsource the long-term care risk? Is it something we can bring in-house now instead of outsource?"
If you divided Stowe's mass-affluent client base into three unequal parts, they would consist of:
1. Those that are able to afford anything; they can take care of themselves and long-term insurance is just not for them.
2. A group that typically has around $1 million in assets, where there's the an open question of whether they can fund their long-term care themselves and still meet their other financial goals. For this group some long-term care insurance might be desirable.
3. A group that comes up short and will either have to purchase an LTC policy or rely on Medicaid.
The first group, which comprises around 50% of Stowe's clients, self insures and gets a better return on their capital than they would by investing it in an LTC coverage plan.
The second group—or around 40% of his clients—"can probably pay for their own long-term care costs, but it's a question—especially for couples." Having one spouse linger for more than two years in a nursing home can impact the other, especially if the second spouse lives into her 90's, he notes. So the question they have to confront is can they survive two separate long-term care experiences?
Stowe frequently refers these clients to a LTC insurance specialist and recommends that both spouses get insured at a minimal level. Ideally, the two policies will allow for benefit sharing, which permits one spouse to receive some of the benefits from the second policy, so some benefits can be transferred between the couple depending on circumstances.
Since this group is partially self-insured, he emphasizes that the coverage they procure should be viewed as a prelude to hospice care and not for insuring against 10 years of dementia or similar conditions. Another reason this approach makes sense, the planner says, is all the uncertainty that exists around the cost of LTC. If they were to purchase a Cadillac policy instead, it could easily double in price before the couple taps into it.
For the third group, or 10% of Stowe's clients, if they can afford a minimal policy they should buy it, he says, otherwise they will have to get on Medicaid. Stowe acknowledges this is "not a fun conversation to have with clients."


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The terms "Search Engine Optimization" and "keyword optimization" are staples in the digital marketing world. Inbound marketing agencies like ours have been using them as a driving force behind our marketing campaigns since pretty much the dawn of digital and inbound marketing. But you've probably been hearing things like "SEO is more than just keywords these days" and "search is transforming" as well as, "Google's algorithms are more sophisticated than ever." So, this begs the question, is the classic SEO optimization of keywords even working anymore? And if not, what are we going to do about it?
Before we go any further, I know some people are getting anxiety just at the title of this blog post. So, take a deep breath fellow marketers, because HubSpot isn't killing keywords. What they're doing is forcing them to grow up, and the process is now called "Content Strategy." (Much more on that later.)
What's Happening to Keywords?
Long gone are the days when you could throw a keyword in your title, meta description and 5-7 times throughout a blog post to make Google love it and rank you for it, and HubSpot knows it. Now, the algorithm is getting good at recognizing natural human thought and speech patterns, as well as what's good content and what's just trying to pull up a ranking for a certain phrase. And not only is Google better at reading your content (so make it good!), but it's also scanning to see the authority of that post through the links coming to and from it. That's why marketers like us are getting pounded with emails asking about guest blogging right now, because Google likes posts with lots of link backs and authority built into it on similar topics.
On top of that, not only is Google shifting how it's reading your content, but the way people are searching for content is different, so everything has to be optimized for voice searching. For example, once upon a time not so long ago, optimizing for "Grand Rapids, Michigan restaurants" may have been an ideal keyword, but today, "What are the best restaurants in Grand Rapids, Michigan?" is more in tune with what people are asking Siri to find for them. Keywords are now longer phrases and questions rather than just one or two words, so they need to be optimized accordingly.
HubSpot's Keyword Changes
And for our friends who are fellow HubSpot users, did you know the keyword tool will disappear from your marketing platform in May of this year? It's being replaced with the content strategy tool. HubSpot believes the focus of your SEO efforts should be on the topics and subtopics of your content and the organic traffic those efforts produce rather than just the rank number. (Jury is out over here on if this is 100% the right move, but we're going to wait and see. Experience tells us that HubSpot's usually right about these things.) However, for those of you who still need to know what your rank is, you might want to think about purchasing something like SEMRush or Moz. There are also a bunch of free SERPS tools out there if you are looking for very basic ranking numbers for certain keywords or topics. (Here's a link to one if you need it.)
What to do Next: Content Strategy
It's time to up your content strategies, folks. And that means building content that plays right into Google's algorithm-loving hands. Thankfully, HubSpot can help us to do that within the Content Strategy tool I was talking about earlier. The tool allows you to build out your content in a way that organizes it and measures it so Google ranks it higher, providing you with more of the right traffic to your site.
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Your cluster starts with a primary topic in the middle which is the term or phrase you want to generate traffic from, and that's where you should link to what's known as the topic's pillar content. Pillar content is a well-written and in-depth content piece that your persona would find a great deal of value in. Lots of people ask us if these can be blogs and while that's possible, usually blogs are too short to serve as pillar posts because pillar content needs to have over 4,000 words. (Here's a link to an example of one of our pillar pages.) You then build the cluster out with supportive sub topics that are that link to the pillar page within their content. HubSpot will suggest topics for you, or you can add them manually if you identify more valuable topics to include.
Here's what a content cluster should look like when it's done:
The best part? Once you build these lil' gems, you will now know when people come into your site off one of the links attached. Remember how the keyword tool would tell you "unknown keywords" as the source for almost all organic traffic you received? Once you have a content strategy web built out like the one above, the analytics will provide you with which topic or subtopic page was viewed from the search engine, so although you don't know EXACTLY what search terms the visitor typed in on Google, you now know that the page they clicked into was what they thought might answer their search query, which is powerful information to help generate more quality traffic to your site.
We understand change can be hard - we've been feeling the pain of transition as well - but what we're learning so far is proving to be far more valuable than a simple SERPS rank number. The key is understanding the traffic coming into your site and making more strategic decisions based on what your searchers want from your website. Once we shift our thinking into that focus, we're going to be creating better content for our buyer personas that truly answers the questions they are looking for, leading them further down the buyer's journey and closer to becoming one of your customers.
Happy content strategizing, friends!


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Long ago, the galaxy had known peace. Paradise was ruled with the hand of science, and the hand was that of the galactic governing body known as the Core. Ironically, it was the Core's ultimate victory, the victory over death itself, that brought about the downfall of its paradise and started the war that would decimate a million worlds. The immortality process, known as "patterning," involved the electronic duplication of brain matrices, allowing the transfer of consciousness into durable machines. Effectively it meant immortality, and the Core decreed the process mandatory for all citizens in order to ensure their safety. However, there were many citizens unwilling to toss aside their bodies so casually, many indeed who regarded patterning as an atrocity. They fled to the outer edges of the galaxy, forming a resistance movement that became known as the Arm. War began, though it was never officially declared by either side.
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Gene D. Plumber
He's been working two jobs for a long time – he's been a fixture under sinks and on stage in Hoboken since the 1970's. Gene Turonis, aka Gene D. Plumber, is finally ready to put down the wrench and pick up the guitar full-time. On his new album Gene has truly found his voice – a gravelly outer shell that sandpapers into a smooth sweet center. Gene cut solo vocal and guitar tracks for this album and then brought in some great players under the watchful eye of Marc Jonson, a producer and songwriter perhaps best known for writing the song "Love Radiates Around," made popular by The Roches.
The album features Gene on a number of originals, both poetic and humorous, as well as a few cherished covers. As a child of rock and roll, he embraced the music of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee, and all the great 45's getting cut in New Orleans by the likes of Little Richard and Fats Domino. Having discovered county music in college, he is well versed in the repertoires of Hank Williams and Jimmie Rogers – self-identifying as a George Jones "freak." Gene actually met Jones twice, and say's "He was the scariest person I've ever come across – but what a voice." The fancy chords Gene throws into the mix here and there show that some of his all-time favorite artists are jazz musicians. The Americana feel in his music pays homage to his musical heroes, from the 20's and 30's through the 50's. He calls his music "swinging honkytonk-a-billy."
He graduated high school in 1963 and bounced around a number of colleges in the area, studying acting and philosophy. Then a friend took him to Hoboken one night where he met the electric psychedelic jug band, The Insect Trust, at a guitar player Bill Barth's apartment. "It was a place down by the waterfront, " recalled Gene, "I had never seen roaches like that, just crawling across the kitchen table." He was grossed out; still something about the visit kept him coming back. In 1971 he began calling Hoboken his home, and expect for a year in Nashville, he hasn't left since.
He met his future wife, Renee, a Hoboken B&R (born and raised), while on a plumbing job where she was the family babysitter. They got married in town in 1981 and three bands played at their wedding over the course of the 12 hour celebration; they've been together ever since.
Hoboken was a run-down port town in those days, it had really gone to ruin when the shipping industry left. The mayor, the city council and the school board were mostly cops or ex-cops. The local bohemian scene centered around The Insect Trust, who put out an album called Hoboken Saturday Night. The band's multi-instrumentalist, Luke Faust, became a mentor to Gene, who helped the fledgling guitar player shape the style he plays to this day. Luke once told Gene, "Be careful of what you listen to because it will change you."
Gene was also educated by Jim Hans, who ran the Hoboken Historical Society in its early days. Jim threw a lot of parties and schooled Gene with his extensive collection of jazz records from the 20's and 30's. "To this day Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday are my favorite musicians", says Gene.
Oddly, Gene never saw The Insect Trust play. "People played music sitting around the kitchen, but there wasn't a music scene at all when I got here." He would travel into the Village to see the Unholy Modal Rounders and found further guidance and inspiration in the music making of the Rounders' Peter Stampfel. Another member of that scene, Michael Hurley, also played a large part in forming Gene's musical persona.
Gene has an endless enthusiasm for making music; he has been a constant on the scene for over 40 years, through the changing face of the town. While plumbing the depths of Hoboken and raising a family, he always found gigs; he never let the music slip away. Gene has put in his 10,000 hours – playing, singing, and songwriting – mostly in his basement after a long day of work. People have described Gene's music as real, authentic, and direct, three words that happen to describe him as a person, too.
From the kitchen table bohemian scene of the early 1970's through the rise of Maxwell's, punk rock and grunge, Gene and his band, D Plumbers, kept plugging away. With All the Pretty Girls, he's planning to travel farther afield, beyond the mile square city. Last year he traveled to Paris and played the basket houses over there for a week. So watch for him, he may be playing a club or house concert near you. And if you have a leaky pipe…
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Strona 224 - ... and carries death and terror into the Russians. They wheel about, open files right and left, and fly back faster than they came. "Bravo, Highlanders! well done!
Strona 102 - In a few minutes after, the enemy's cavalry galloped up and crowned the crest of our position. Our guns were abandoned, and they formed between the two brigades, about a hundred paces in our front. Their first charge was magnificent. As soon as they quickened their trot...
Strona 52 - France had been victorious in the battle, and " if a power, animated by the ambition, guided by the fanaticism, and directed by the ability of that of Louis XIV., had gained the ascendency in Europe. Beyond all question, a universal despotic dominion would have been established over the bodies, a cruel spiritual thraldom over the minds, of men. France and Spain united under Bourbon princes and in a close family alliance — the empire of Charlemagne with that of Charles V. — the power which revoked...
Strona 207 - For my part, if I were called on to give my impartial testimony of the merits of your great general, I confess before Heaven, I would not select his victories, brilliant as they were — I would go to the moments when difficulties pressed and crowded on him — when he had but the choice of extremities — when he was overhung by superior strength.
Strona 434 - Legion having so frequently distinguished themselves against the enemy, and particularly upon the occasion of the late victory obtained near Salamanca, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent is pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to command that the officers who are now serving with temporary rank in the several regiments of that corps, shall have permanent rank in the British army from the date of their respective commissions.


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The Adeje council has just begun a new alternative training scheme for 15 people in the over-30 age bracket, who have currently no qualifications, to train and work in the catering industry. Under the 'Restur Adeje' plan they will work towards certificates in basic restaurant and bar work, with both theoretical and practical training, in an industry that offers many work opportunities in Costa Adeje.
According to the councillor for economic development, Manuel Luis Méndez Martín, "it's very important that we provide those seeking work with the right tools and knowledge to enter the thriving labour market here – which is the tourist sector.
"We know that there is a section of the local population between the ages of 30 and 40 who have few or no qualifications so it is fundamental that they have the opportunity to acquire professional certificates that will assist them in the search for work", he added.
Given the recent establishment of the Association of Canarian Tourism Boroughs, (Adeje, Arona, Guía de Isora, San Bartolomé de Tirajana and Mogán), with established aims including the generation of social wellbeing from the economic benefits of the tourist industry and the creation of quality employment, it is "imperative that we offer training and specialisation in the production sector", explained Méndez Martín.
'Restur Adeje' will work to improve the levels of employment among persons over 30 who have no professional qualification nor have completed their studies, and will train them as waiters and servers while also helping levels of motivation and knowledge of the sector to properly meet the employment needs of the market place. During their training participants will also work at events organised by the council and by non-profit making organisations that are raising funds locally for those in need.
'Restur Adeje' will be taking part in over 50 events during this period. The student workers will combine theory and practical sessions in class and out in the catering sector. Those who complete the course will also be granted a certificate in Basic Restaurant/Bar operations. There will be an intensive two month training period followed by work experience. Students will also take classes in languages, social skills for employment purposes, professional orientation, communication and marketing, etc.
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Poll: Which health IT trends dominated the conversation at HIMSS16?
HIMSS16 has come and gone. Just not without its share of health IT news, insights and buzz. So it's fitting to ask: What were the most popular topics this year? We'd love to compare your responses with ones that we received ahead of the big show.
In the weeks leading up to HIMSS16 we asked readers which of those they anticipated to be the most buzz-worthy at the show. Big Data and interoperability led with 80 votes apiece, while privacy and security edged out population health for second place, with 75 and 67 votes, respectively.
Chronic care management and meaningful use tied with 18 and revenue cycle pulled up the rear with 11 votes.
So now we're gauging which predictions came true, and which did not. Vote here and when enough responses come in we'll compare and contrast.
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This story is part of our ongoing coverage of the HIMSS16 conference. Follow our live blog for real-time updates, and visit Destination HIMSS16 for a full rundown of our reporting from the show. For a selection of some of the best social media posts of the show, visit our Trending at #HIMSS16 hub.


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The Return
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The ASA Annual Awards
Each year, ASA gives out various awards to outstanding members. Some of these awards are based on points that have accumulated over the year, others are based on a specific feat, action, or achievement. To be considered for an award, an individual or group must fill out the appropriate form(s), which may be found on the Award Nomination Forms page.
Yearly Club Awards:
Expansion Award
Presented to the club which has acquired the most new members within the calendar year. This information is available to the Points Secretary (PS) of ASA.
Busy Bee Award
Presented to the club which has participated in the most events, with at least 5 members of the club in attendance. The events must have been pre-scheduled, and can include shows, parades, demonstrations, clinics, mounted practice sessions, working socials, club member social events, and trail/over-land events. This information is available to the PS of ASA.
Betty Skelton Award
Presented to a member or to a club for submission of an archival memory of a sidesaddle event or a piece of information that must be preserved for the good of the club and the art of aside riding. Entries must be submitted by January 5th of the new year that follows the award year. If a submitted entry does not win, it can be saved and sent in again the following year. All entries must be in a format that can be retained in the ASA Library (paper, film, data stick). The PS and persons (at least three) who are not club members, but who are interested in equine activities will judge the entries. Archived information is maintained in the ASA Library.
Nominated Awards for Individual Members:
Helping Hands Award
For going above and beyond the call of duty to help another rider, horse, or event venue, so as to make a performance come off safely and well. Letters of nomination must be received by January 5th. The PS and persons (at least three) who are not club members, but who are interested in equine events will serve as the judges.
Bottoms Up Award
For the most spectacular unplanned dismount, not resulting in serious injury. This must have been witnessed and an account by a witness must be included. Photos or video are a bonus. Letters of nomination must be received by January 5th. The PS and persons (at least three) who are not members but who are interested in equine events will serve as the judges.
Velcro Award
For a witnessed 'almost unseating' type event that did not result in a fall. This must have been witnessed and an account by the witness must be included. Photos or video are a bonus. Letters of nomination must be received by January 5th. The PS and non-members (at least three) who are interested in equine events will serve as the judges.
Tom Tom Award
For the best story of heroism, adventure, hardship, or weather extremes while traveling to or from a sidesaddle event. A member can self-report this in writing. Letters of nomination must be received by January 5th. The PS and non-members (at least three) who are interested in equine events will serve as the judges.
Rookie Award
For the tale of the greatest adventure or progress. The rookie can be a member or can be the member's horse. The first year of showing or starting a new discipline aside will be considered. A member can self-report this in writing. Letters of nomination from the rookie or fellow member must be received by January 5th. The PS and non-members (at least three) who are interested in equine events will serve as the judges.
Route 66 Award
For the greatest distance traveled one-way from barn to a sidesaddle event, using the most direct route via MapQuest. Documentation of attendance at the event will serve as proof. The member can self-nominate. The PS will compare all entry miles and determine the winner.
Sanity Clause Award
For the greatest number of miles traveled to all sidesaddle events in the year, barn to event (one-way). A log, most direct route via MapQuest, must be submitted. The member can self-nominate. The PS will compare all entry miles and determine the winner.
Wet Saddle Blanket
A special recognition for members who spend many hours preparing and training, whether or not they actually compete. The member must submit a log of actual aside riding time (time in saddle with forward motion) for the entire year. Motion time in sidesaddle at events of all types and pleasure riding can be counted. This is an honesty award and a simple diary or log will count. This will also be judged by the PS.
High Point Affiliate Club Member
For each individual member of each affiliate club who has accumulated the most points for the year. The PS will tally the club points to ascertain the high point winners.
Individual Member Competition Awards
Any breed of equine (horse, mule, pony, donkey, zebra) is acceptable for aside riding. For a member to obtain consideration for the 'most points earned' in a category, valid point sheets or alternative submissions that include the pertinent information about the event must be sent to the PS of ASA within three months of the event, or for late events, by the end of the calendar year or by January 5th of the next year. The PS will do unannounced spot checks throughout the year to validate the honesty of the overall submission process; thus, contact information for officials or persons who can testify as to the validity of the event is required. Awards in each of the following classes are given separately for junior competitors (under the age of 18 as of January 1 st of the award year). Age cut-off follows 4-H rules. The PS will tally and judge.
Overall Grand Champion
Awarded to the junior and the senior member with the highest number of accrued points for all the types of events. The PS will do the tally based on submitted points.
Overall Reserve Grand Champion
Awarded to the second place junior and senior member as above.
Show-Off Award (Horse Show)
For greatest number of horse shows for the year. One point per day is given, regardless of the number of classes entered. A member who serves as groom or as work crew can also be given a point for the day.
Street Cruiser (Parade)
For the most parade points. One point per parade can be given to a rider aside or to a member who serves as safety walker or crew (banner carrier, pooper scooper, rig driver, caterer, etc.). An astride rider who is part of a sidesaddle group in a parade can also be given a point so long as the astride rider wears dress and tack that highlights or is in congruence to the costume of aside riders.
Exhibitionist (Demo)
or the greatest number of days exhibiting and/or demonstrating to the public, either on horseback, by lecture, show and tell, or in an exhibit hall setting. The program must be pre-scheduled and members who assist in booth set-up, equipment hauling, modeling, booth work, or tear-down may be given a point for the day. Public outreach to promote aside riding is the essential aspect to obtain this 'demo' point. Drill team performances are counted as demonstrations.
Overland and Trail Mileage (Trail)
For the greatest number of miles on trail-type events. These include pleasure trail, competitive trail, endurance trail, ride-and-tie (both participants), pace events. Verifiable paperwork with the official person's contact information is required. No 'partial mileage' will be given for any of these events, and if the competitor withdraws or is eliminated for any reason, no miles will be given. Standard rules of trail ride competition apply; however, if the event has more than one section with different mileages, and the competitor is permitted by ride rules to choose one or the other section at any point in the ride, then, actual mileage completed will count. Hunting (fox, drag, stag, clean boot, mounted bassetting or beageling, etc) is counted in this section for each hunt. In order to acquire the maximum mileage (10) for a hunt, the horse and rider must complete either 2 hrs minimum or the entire hunt (exception: if the competitor can prove mileage greater than 10 on a hunt, such as via GPS records, the verified total miles will be counted). Planned pleasure trail rides will be assumed to be 5 miles unless otherwise noted.
Practice Makes Perfect (Practice)
For pre-planned practice sessions, such as drill team, parade and other demonstration routines for the public. At least three members must be present for a drill team or parade unit practice. While all the submitted practice sessions are tallied for the Practice Makes Perfect category award, only five points/practice sessions are counted toward the final year-end ASA overall point tally.
Clinic Care (Clinic)
For teaching purposes for aside riding and sidesaddle fitting. Novices or seasoned aside riders who want to improve their skills may obtain one point per day for riding as students. Members who are teaching in the clinic (teachers must have acquired Judge/Instructor/Clinician (JIC) status with ASA) will also receive one point per day. Members who assist with the clinic as grooms, set-up, helpers, caterers, haulers, or clean-up may be given one point per day as well.
Writers Reach (Writing)
For members who attain publication of advertisements/fliers, articles, books, blogs, press releases, or marketed audio-visuals can receive one point per publication. The publication must be considered to be of interest to or as a target for the public, in order to promote aside riding. A copy must be seen by or submitted to the PS.
Social Butterfly (Social)
For the member who attends the most events related to sidesaddle, but not actually riding. These include club parties, get-togethers, business meetings, and teleconferences.


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Tag #6019 - lrosell & Chico
Our beautiful Golden Retriever Chico! He loved to go on our caching adventures. He is no longer with us and we miss him more than words can describe.
Chico was our very first Golden and we got him on the day after we were married. We started on our honeymoon, stopped at a pet store I knew and ended up with a soft little ball of golden fluff that we named Chico. Our life was and is still filled with many wonderful dogs, but there will only ever BE one Chico. He knew everything you wanted before you ever asked for it. He went caching with us all the time and always waited patiently while we took the most difficult path possible. We took him to 'obedience' school with one of our other family members Fluffy (an Australian shephard) and he stole the show. Always the first and the best.
It is always said that time heals a broken heart, but I don't think this hole in my heart will ever be filled. He was a one of a kind. Even though we still have several of his children, and they ARE also a chip off the old block, there can only be one Chico.
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Located near the Temple of Christ's resurrection, burekdžinica (burek shop) Vukčević is a place with one of the best burek in Podgorica, or even wider, in the entire Balkans!
Here's a little introduction on what exactly the burek is (in case you don't know still):
Burek is a dish made with phyllo pastry that is filled with meat or cheese. It is thought to have originated in Central Asia: it was then adopted by the Ottoman Turks who took it with them to the various corners of their military empire.
Burek is an integral part of Slavic cuisine.
Burek comes in a couple of different shapes: triangular (baked in a round tin and then sliced into wedges), coil-shaped (kind of like a sausage) and also cigar-shaped which is the one they prepare in my favourite burek shop! You can eat burek together with yoghurt, just to cool it a little bit, cause usually they're hot, since they prepare them really fast.
They offer different types of burek, like :
– Burek with meat
– Burek with cheese
– Burek with spinach and cheese
– Burek with potato
– Burek with mushrooms
All their burek costs less than 2 Euros, with yoghurt.


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It's been about three w̶e̶e̶k̶s̶ months since I first picked up a Fujifilm X-T1 here in Taipei, Taiwan. I could go on and on about the technical specifications, but that's a moot point since you can find such information everywhere else on the internet. Instead I want to touch base about how these little Fuji cameras make me feel.
I have been shooting film and still shoot film for almost 20 years now. My go to "workhorse" cameras at the moment are a Mamiya 645 Pro and a Pentax 67II, both shooting massive medium format film, you simply can't beat the resolution. In the 35mm realm, I've a Minolta XD-11 and an X-700. These two cameras are what the current Fuji X series remind me most about, —the tactile feel of dials and just enough controls to do what you need. I've also own about three different Fujifilm compact point and shoot film cameras, a Fuji Klasse W, a rare little Fuji Black Silvi F2.8 (24-50mm zoom!), and a Fuji Tiara DL Zoom (28-56mm). To round the list off, my favorite classics, the original Ricoh GR1 (I've blown up drum scans to 34" x 50" and they were sharp!) to the quirky Konica Hexar AF (what I would consider the X100 closest too in spirit), and one of the last Canon film SLRs ever produced, the Elan 7NE (complete with the ahead of it's time eye control focus or ECF).
The first digital camera I ever purchased was a Canon 5D, only because it was full frame and I could use my existing Canon lenses. I never bought the MKII or anything else after as I didn't see a value in video at the time or an increase in "quality." Despite taking great pictures on it, and using it for commercial work, it just didn't excite me. But in ways it made me a better film photographer and being a film photographer also made me a better digital photographer.
When the X100 was first announced, I immediately was sold on it but still remained skeptical. It was still digital! How could I love it? I didn't pick one up new but instead waited almost 1.5 years later buying it used at Map Camera in Tokyo, Japan. Long story short, I finally felt shooting digital on this little guy (although quirky in many ways) made me fall back in love. It was the closest experience I ever had to using my film cameras. Eventually I picked up the Fuji X-E1 (I didn't mind the EVF and used it more on the X100 anyways, so I couldn't justify the X-Pro1) with the 35mm prime and the 18-55 zoom. I've used the X-E1 to shoot stories for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times as well as Monocle Magazine and various other things. Despite the "slowness" of the AF, the weight and image quality never disappointed. The form factor was perfect and allowed me to carry it everywhere to shoot street fashion portraits. However, something was missing still.
When the Fuji X-T1 one was first announced, naturally the sexy EVF enticed me the most. and secondly, the reported new speed and improved AF (found on the X-E2). I'll admit, the battery grip and being able to shoot and hold the camera vertically for "portrait" mode with the rotating EVF display was also very impressive. I didn't think anything else would be that different from my X-E1, but I ended up being pleasantly surprised.
The EVF is blissfully amazing, as I'm sure you have all read. I've been using it in full view, with only exposure compensation, shots remaining, focusing distance and aperture/shutter displays. Very basic and minimal, similar to what shooting film was like. For me, and the way I work, less is more. The high refresh rate actually made me dizzy the first day I used it, but I've adapted. When I show people the camera, they are most amazed by the rotating EVF display. Why didn't anyone think of this? I wonder if it's possible to be done in an optical viewfinder as well? I would love to see this implemented on the next X-PRO 2 (Fujifilm are you listening?).
I never had a chance to play with the updated Phase AF found in the X-E2, though I did briefly play with the X100S. On the X-T1 it really shines. No longer do I feel a lag or a delay. Sure in a dark bar environment it may have problems if you don't find an edge, but that's normal. Even manually focusing a fast lense on a film camera you would be hard pressed in such low light if you couldn't find your edges with the split prism. The speed of this camera impresses me and I feel it's one step closer to a full fledge DSLR.
I never used the drive mode on the X-E1 or the X100, as I really hate how it named the images in a sequence and you had to review it in a group playback mode. That's been completely fixed with the X-T1, and I find myself using it often. It works pretty damn good at that but I haven't really tested the AF tracking as I don't really shoot a lot of fast moving objects, wildlife or sports. Animated GIFs anyone?
It feels like using a film camera. I like how the ISO dial locks, I love how the shutter dial locks. It works exactly like my film cameras. As I mentioned previously, and most importantly they feel like I am using my old Minolta cameras. It's like the 1970s engineers passed on their design skills to the Fuji engineers after caving in to the whole Minolta/Konica/Sony orgy. My one gripe above all, the damn rear directional menu buttons. As of now, I've stuck on some soft black thin furniture pads to raise them up and give them a tactile feel. I also miss having the playback button on the left side of the screen, as when you bring the camera down from your eye, you naturally hold it with both hands so the thumb doesn't have to cross the screen to press play.
If you've used any of the previous Fuji digital cameras before, then you know image quality is up to par. I'm pretty old school as far as my standards go and for me the colors on these guys trump everything else. I'm not going to argue megapixels and show you MTF charts, I honestly don't care about that stuff. There's just something the Fuji engineers got right, the way their sensor and colors react to light. As much as people love shooting the JPG engine, for me RAW is the way to go. Using lightroom and VSCO as a basis, I've found the files approximate closely to all the film stocks I love and still use. Comparing to both the 5D Classic and MK2 colorwise, it kills them. Long story short, it's fucking badass.
I currently own the 23mm, 35mm, 56mm and the 18-55mm. I had the pleasure of borrowing the 10-24mm and was amazed by the sharpness and build quality of the lens. Certainly a lens I'm considering in the future. I started writing this review/non-review three weeks after I purchased the camera. Since then I've had Fujifilm Taiwan fix the light-leak for free, even though it does not affect my usage of it. In the meantime, I've gone on to shoot a few more jobs with it and have played with it more. You've won me over completely Fuji. I never thought I'd care for anything less than film or a full frame sensor, but you've got me... That is until the X-Pro2 comes out?
Samples below of all sorts of different shooting situations:


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Before consumers plunk money down on their dream car's latest model, they may want to take into account its auto insurance costs. And just in time, the list of the costliest models to insure has been released.
With the help of Quadrant Information Services, Insure.com has compiled a list of the 2011 vehicles with the highest car insurance rates.
At an annual premium of $3,543, the Mercedes SL65 AMG is the most expensive, followed by two BMW 750 models - the 750i and 750Li - which both run their owners about $3,280 per year.
The Mercedes model knocks Porsche off from the top spot, as last year, the Porsche 911 Carrera GT2 was $2,943, according to Insure.com. The Mercedes S65 and Dodge Viper were second and third, at $2,863 and $2,851, respectively.
Auto insurance companies take a car's model and make into consideration when assessing premiums. Earlier this month, the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration ranked auto insurance claims cost by model and year. Mercedes and BMW models were among the highest, but insurance claims were the most costly for the Maserati Granturismo.
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