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Obituary: Amy Winehouse
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With her gravelly voice and eclectic style, Amy Winehouse, 27, who has been found dead in London, won comparison with some of the great female singers such as Sarah Vaughan and Nina Simone.
But like another great singer, Janis Joplin, she had a talent for self destruction, and fought a long battle against substance abuse.
Amy Jade Winehouse was born on 14 September 1983 in the well-to-do area of Southgate, north London.
Her taxi driver father, Mitchell, was a jazz enthusiast and often sang songs to his daughter as she grew up.
She trained at the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School from the age of eight and, by the time she was 10, had formed a rap group with one of her best friends.
Winehouse later attended the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School.
She began writing music at the age of 14 and a former boyfriend sent a tape of her singing with a jazz band to an A&R man.
Critical praise
It led to a contract with the Island/Universal record label and a publishing deal with EMI.
Her debut album Frank, released in 2003, was described by The Times newspaper as "earthy, warm, lived-in and astonishingly versatile".
She co-wrote all but two of the songs and won praise for what one reviewer described as "the cool, critical gaze" in the lyrics.
Frank was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize for album of the year in 2004, and Winehouse won the Ivor Novello songwriting award for best contemporary song with Stronger Than Me.
But it was the critical praise that followed the release of her follow-up album in October 2006 that propelled her to international stardom.
Rehab, the first track released from Back to Black, reached number seven in the UK singles chart.
The song, about her refusal to attend an alcohol rehabilitation centre, generated huge publicity, with Winehouse frequently being photographed drinking on stage and in pubs.
In February 2007, she scooped the title for best British female at the Brit Awards and, four months later, she picked up song of the year at the Mojo Awards.
Winehouse was again nominated for the Mercury Prize and went on to be named artist of the year at the MTV Europe Music Awards in November.
But as her popularity soared, her health began to suffer and her behaviour became more erratic.
She appeared to be drunk on Channel 4's The Charlotte Church Show in 2006, and took part in Never Mind The Buzzcocks in a similar state.
Her weight plummeted during an exhausting schedule of promotional appearances and concerts in the UK and US.
She admitted punching a female fan at a gig in London and attacking her boyfriend when he tried to calm her down.
She confessed to self-harming and spoke of battles with eating disorders. And she shocked a journalist from US magazine Spin when she carved the name of then-boyfriend Blake Fielder-Civil into her stomach with a shard of mirror during an interview.
It was a break-up with Fielder-Civil that inspired much of Back To Black.
But she surprised fans, and her own family, when she secretly married him during a trip to Florida in May 2007.
In November of that year, there was further turmoil when Fielder-Civil was arrested and accused of inflicting grievous bodily harm and attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Winehouse herself was arrested and released on bail in December 2007 but no charges were brought against her.
A month later she went into a rehab facility following the publication, by a tabloid newspaper, of pictures of a woman they claimed was Winehouse, allegedly smoking crack cocaine.
She played a number of gigs in 2008 but it became increasingly apparent that the turmoil of her private life was having a severe effect on her ability to perform.
Time out
Following a diagnosis of what could have been the onset of emphysema, she managed a creditable performance at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday concert in June 2008.
But her performance at Glastonbury a few days later was described by one critic as "dismal" and tabloid interest centred on an incident where she appeared to punch a fan.
Amy Winehouse took some time off after a slew of festival appearances in 2008.
In 2009, she was found not guilty of assaulting a burlesque dancer at a charity ball in central London.
She made a low-key return to the stage in a surprise performance at her local pub in London in October 2010.
Earlier this year, Winehouse was admitted for treatment at the Priory clinic in south-west London.
Last month, she pulled out of her European tour after she was jeered at the first gig in Serbia for appearing to be too drunk to perform.
For 90 minutes, she mumbled through parts of songs and at times left the stage - leaving her band to fill in.
In her short career Winehouse gave us just a glimpse of what might have been, before she was undone by her own personal demons.
But the songs she recorded, and the string of awards they brought her, served to underline what a talent she was.


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Helping your workers get the most out of your new cloud-based communications solution
Published: Jul 24, 2018
Author: Andrea Grant
By now the benefits of unified communications (UC) platforms are well known, and many businesses are rushing to make the move. UC can help your organization to better control costs, streamline your operations, improve employee productivity and deliver better customer experiences. And with everything based in the cloud, you can deploy new applications to users or departments as you desire—keeping your business at the cutting edge of innovation.
But while the benefits of migrating to a cloud-based UC are clear, a move–especially one that brings with it new endpoints or applications–can result in a temporary reduction in productivity as workers figure out how to use the new tools they've been given. However, with the proper approach, your users can quickly overcome the learning curve and leverage the tools in ways to help move business forward more efficiently than ever.
Identify desired business outcomes
Your new UC system is designed to empower your employees. But before you can assess the success of a deployment, you need to define success; i.e. what it is you are hoping to accomplish. Whether it's using video to increase the efficiency of HR's interviewing process or enabling your sales force for mobility, you need to be clear on the purpose of rolling out a new solution so that you can achieve what you set out to as well as measure success once the tools have been deployed.
Identify a pilot team
A successful adoption includes the identification of a pilot team. This will be a select group of employees to train first on the new technology. The pilot team will play a key role in helping you see what's going right, where the process could be improved and can help champion the deployment throughout your business to other employees and departments. By helping you demonstrate how they benefit from the new system, the pilot group can help to overcome any initial reluctance by demonstrating the value of the system to others. In addition, both your pilot team and the bulk of your workers will need the right tools and resources for learning. Online training libraries, on-demand tutorials, marketing collateral and training sessions can help educate them and build their confidence.
Regular surveys to evaluate employee usage and satisfaction rates will help you catch any problems early on, and pinpoint areas for improvement before you drive adoption throughout the organization. It will also mean employees involved in your pilot feel engaged and listened to, so they're more likely to champion the new system during the wider company roll-out.
Get the right support
At Verizon, we support your transition to the cloud by assigning a dedicated Adoption Specialist for the entire lifecycle. The Adoption Team sees you through onboarding, piloting, deployment and day two processes; working with you to define the customer journey and build viable use cases for your enterprise.
The goal of UC implementation isn't hitting a technology milestone—it's using these tools effectively to drive your business objectives. That's why adoption is so important. Read our whitepaper for an in-depth look at UC adoption, and how Verizon's specialized adoption team can support your transformation.
Andrea Grant oversees Verizon's UCC Adoption Services program, leading the team responsible for Cisco's Lifecycle Advisor (LCA) Program. Andrea holds Bachelor's Degree from the University of Central Florida.

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At the moment the situation is pure madness! Web developing is pushing the throttle down! Google is developing several projects, beautiful ones, I'm a fan of AngularJS and I'm appreciating more and more their alpha project named Polymer.
Polymer is a new type of library for the web, built on top of Web Components, and designed to leverage the evolving web platform on modern browsers
- A set of polyfills for emerging web platform features. Initially, these core features are enabled as polyfills but go away over time as browsers implement them.
- A next-generation web application framework built upon these core technologies.
- A set of comprehensive UI and utility components for building web applications.
Ok, let's try it first!
bower install --save Polymer/polymer-elements
bower install --save Polymer/polymer-ui-elements
Once downloaded the components we can start building our first element with Polymer!
1) We have to create our element template in a file called who-am-i.html :
In every element files we have to specify the polymer elements we are using (to work properly), our template (with relative tag) and any following scripts and styles concerning the element/template.
2)After that, do you want to see how is easy to use the element created?
It needs just the platform.js script and the element created.
Check it out on GitHub.


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5 Tutorials for Budget DIY Video Lighting Kits
Think you need to spend hundreds of dollars to create a professional looking video?
Not entirely true!
Having great lighting can make a world of difference and make your video look a lot more credible. What a lot of beginner video creators don't realize is that you can actually cobble together some decent lighting for your video for under $100.
The most important thing is to understand what kind of lighting you want and where to place the lights to get even lighting.
Here are 5 do-it-yourself tutorial videos that teach exactly how to put together an affordable video lighting kit for those of us who haven't made it big yet!
1. Down and Dirty Lighting Kit by Wistia
2. DIY Lighting Under $30 for Video's & Photos
3. How-to: Powerful DIY video light (800 watt equivalent)
4. DIY: Make Your Own Basic Lighting Kit at Home


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Whether you are looking for a formal corporate child care center, faith-based child care center, family child care home, or private in-home care. There are some basic things you would need to know to help you with your search. With my experience as a child care business owner and former Director, I have compiled a list of tips to help you make the best choice for your family. Children's healthy development is based on the positive experiences and interactions during their first 3 years. Choosing quality childcare is not an option and it is the most important choice made by a family.
- Start Early– start looking as soon as you know you're expecting because you may have to go on a waitlist. See the list of the types of child care options available to for you.
- Tour The Center(Scheduled & Unscheduled Visit)– Understanding that referrals from other parents, friends or trusted resources are great, however, you will need to review the center for yourself several times to assess it will meet your needs. A few details you may want to review cleanliness, safety(childproofed) and age-appropriate toys including sturdy or soft books. Does the center share the space with older and younger aged children, if so the toys with small parts should be kept away from younger babies? TIP-any toys that can fit in a paper towel roll is too small for a child up to 2 years of ages(choking hazard). Ideally, infants and babies should have their own area for toddlers. Infant rooms should have an area dedicated to swings, bouncers and equal area for the floor(tummy time) for physical development. I encourage you to visit each location several times on a different day to get a feel of how the staff interacts with children. This will also allow you to get a feel for the centers routine for that age group. Once your child is enrolled, you should consider dropping unannounced just to see how your child is adjusting. You need to see the center on their best day and well as not so good days. No one center is perfect, but you want to find the right one for your family's need
- Policies Check – Ask for a parent handbook to review during your visit. You want to find out if the center shares your ideas in regard to discipline(time outs, scolding), feeding(a copy of the menu), sleeping(nap time) and so forth. For family child care homes or private in-home care, ask whether there is a backup plan should the provider get too sick to work. Please ask these questions now, so you won't be surprised by these policies later
- Emergency Plan-Check whether the child care center has an emergency plan in place. This should include fire extinguishers, evacuation route(nearest exits clearly identified), health department inspections visible. In addition, does the center maintain a first aid kit and please provide a contact number to make a call from the center during an emergency.
- Make an Informed Decision– Take some time to review the information you have gathered from each location with all concerned family members. Compare what you have learned and how you felt about each program and make the best choice for your family.
Stay Involved – Now it's time to partner with your child's caregiver. Here a few ways to stay involved with the program:
- Offer to volunteer(reading to a class)
- Have parent-teacher meeting regularly and ask questions
- Join in special events held at the child care center.
Visiting and participating in events at your child's Early Childhood Education center sends a caring message. It tells your child and your child's teacher that you think what your child doing and learning is important.
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By Mark Smith
Dr. Mark Smith is Head of Social Work in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His particular teaching interests are Ethics and the political and organisational context of social work. His papers, essays and articles are widely published and he is the author of Rethinking Residential Child Care. Contact Mark at email@example.com
"Throwing off the Cringe"
As a young boy I had little reason to doubt that I was British. Some of my early memories are of the Secretary of the local Labour Party coming round our house to collect my mum and dad's subscriptions. I think I remember watching Churchill's death on the television and I vaguely remember watching the 1966 World Cup Final and feeling that I should be mildly pleased that England had won. My family and others like us had much to thank Harold Wilson for. My parents, both having left school at 15, were later able to go to university.
I can't really remember when I began to feel Scottish rather than British. I know I was there by my mid-teens. In 1974 I was a paperboy when the SNP won 14 seats in the General Election. Thirty-five years on, I'm a paperboy again, this time delivering newspapers and leaflets for the 'Yes' campaign in the run-up to the Independence Referendum.
While the SNP's showing in 1974 was achieved largely on the back of their 'It's Scotland's Oil' campaign, my own development of a Scottish identity rapidly moved beyond purely economic arguments to assume a cultural dimension. I began to read Scottish history. I became aware of the poets of the Scottish Literary Revival, of the folk revival spearheaded by Hamish Henderson and linked to both of these, an explicitly socialist political tradition exemplified by John MacLean.
But it was in many respects a fragile identity. It could be hard to say that you were a nationalist in those days. It elicited a metropolitan sneer – Scotland was too small, to poor, too stupid to be able to take its place among grown up countries. Were these put-downs not enough, one was further accused of narrow nationalism.
Knowing through constant reinforcement that you're too small, too poor, too stupid, too parochial takes its toll. It can be manifest in an inferiority complex, whereby the pressure not to name your world is manifest in an inverted snobbery, what has been called 'the Scottish cringe'.
Me and my cringe went off to university. Perhaps there was some unconscious dynamic going on but I could not have chosen a worse place than St Andrews to reinforce it. At times I felt like and may well have been a stranger in my own land. That's not to say that I didn't like St Andrews or find like minds – I did, and not just among fellow Scots.
One guy there, though, didn't seem to suffer from my introspection. My introduction to student politics was a debate between the student presidents of the Labour and Tory parties but also the leader of the Federation of Student Nationalists, one Alex Salmond who was in his fourth year when I was in my first. He was as impressive then as he is now, cutting through the metropolitan arrogance of his opponents with a confidence and command of his brief that belied his Linlithgow upbringing.
During my time at St Andrews we had the first devolution referendum in 1979 and the imposition of the rule that required that 40% of the electorate needed to vote for change. And of course, while a majority voted for devolution we didn't break the 40% barrier. As though that manipulation of the normal democratic process were not enough, 1979 also saw the election of the Thatcher Government. Oblivious to the Scottish Enlightenment, she told us there was no such thing as society. 'Stand down Margaret stand down please' we used to sing at student union discos. But she didn't stand down. She went on to destroy industrial Scotland. By that stage, the mid 1980s I was doing my social work training at Stirling University. My musical memory of that time was the Proclaimers 'Letter from America – Linwood no more, Bathgate no more ….
Devolution eventually arrived in 1999. I took a group of kids from the residential unit I was managing to the reopening of the Scottish Parliament. I took my own kids up to Princes Street that evening just to walk around and to take in the significance of the moment. The poet Alasdair Gray penned (or borrowed) the epigraph 'Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation'. For a short time I believed a better nation might be possible. But instead we got New Labour, the Iraq War and in Scotland, a narrow and punitive approach to social issues, exemplified in its approach to youth crime. Ironically, Jack McConnell's version of devolution saw Scotland lose much of what was previously distinctive about its approach, in particular to criminal and youth justice issues. The ultimate failure of the New Labour project was, according to Bill Jordan, a moral failure; its behaviour a betrayal of those who went round houses collecting subs from working men and women.
Then in 2007, I remember standing in the street waiting for the announcement of the result of the count for the final seat to declare in the elections to the Scottish Parliament. It went to the SNP and saw the election of a minority administration. This narrow victory was followed up in 2011 by a landslide. Since then we've had competent government in Scotland, but also government that has established some basic social democratic values. We have free University education and will have according to Alex Salmond 'til rocks melt wi the sun …'. Just like other modern European nations, apart from England!
Contrast this with the policies of the posh boys in the Con Lib Westminster Government. They seem to live in a time warp; they think they can still parachute into Scotland and distribute their largesse to a nation they obviously still regard as too small, too poor, too stupid to be able to run its own affairs. Those days are gone. In the words of Hamish Henderson's anthem 'Freedom Come Aa' Ye, 'Nae mair will our bonnie callants, Merch tae war whan our braggarts crousely craw … Scotland is no longer prepared to be cannon fodder or voting fodder for an imperialistic and morally bereft London political class.
Politics is getting interesting in Scotland; progressive voices are mobilising. Moreover, these are diverse voices, the voices of new Scots, including surprising numbers of English immigrants. They are voices of hope and of belief that we can work in the early days of a better nation. I do appreciate arguments against independence that point out that the English Regions are similarly alienated from the Westminster system. For them, Scottish independence has the potential to showcase a different kind of politics.
In any erstwhile dependency relationship there comes the John the Baptist moment when He/she must increase, I must decrease. This is what happens when kids grow up and when they eventually leave home. They need to make that break to return home more respectful and more equal in their relationship with their parents. The same is true for nations. To paraphrase Alex Salmond, England stands to lose a surly lodger and to gain a respectful neighbour. Regardless of the outcome of the Referendum vote, things will not be the same again. Scotland, politically and socially is moving in a different direction from England. No-one, to draw on the words of Patrick Pearce I think it was, can set bounds on the progress of a nation. There are those who fail to learn from history.
© 2015 Mark Smith and goodenoughcaring.com
Stuart Russon comments
My response is to the "Throwing off the Cringe" and "The Colonised Mind" articles as the one thing that is starting to grate with me is the total lack of consideration for the future of the English and Welsh folk in all of this. As if our comrades in Scotland have just washed their hands of us. What did we do wrong? We thought we were your mates.
Broadly it seems the left supports a 'yes' vote and the right will vote 'no'. So if we accept that premise I have some questions for my comrades in Scotland.
Do you care about those of us down here in England looking north and feeling a little bit let down? Many of you will have been involved with the left wing movement via the Labour Party or Trade Unions. We campaigned together but now you are just walking off and leaving us to fight alone.
I'm alright Jock, pull up the ladder.
Turns out it wasn't a class movement after all. You were nationalists first and foremost. Will you still fight on behalf of the British working class as you used to or does the English and Welsh working class not matter anymore?
Do you feel any responsibility for the potential impact your independence has on English and Welsh working class folk? Or did they never really matter in the first place?
Also I am disconcerted by the debate seemingly focussing on the current political situation as if it is a permanent state of affairs. This isn't a vote for Alex Salmond or the SNP or progressive politics or a more equal society. That may be the immediate impact but this is just a vote for independence. There are no other guarantees. Are you ready for the worse aspects of nationalism which will inevitably appear? Have you thought about the prospect of a tory government being elected in Scotland one day? I know you wll say 'at least we voted for it, we chose it' but this perhaps shows the yes choice as being purely about nationalism and not to do with a fair, equal society.
(The above is written as part of my advocacy for the devil…. If I were you I'd be voting yes, Yes, YES)
Jeremy Millar writes
Mark, I felt so many resonances with my experience of growing up in Scotland. I was taken out of school with my classmates to wave union flags as the Queen progressed from Dyce airport to Balmoral. The Imperial map was pulled down at the front of the class regularly as we were indoctrinated on the benevolent reach of the British nation
I am grateful that my English parents, in the manner of incomers, encouraged an interest in Scottish culture and history. We toured all the stone circles and castles in the north east. Something I did with my own children. I realised through my reading of history that this is not ultimately about national identity rather it is about democracy and social justice.
The people of Scotland have through their history and folk memory retained a belief that the struggle of our forebears was about throwing of an oppressive yolk that took a different form at different times but ultimately resolved itself in a notion of egalitarian freedom.
This folk memory of struggle is as vibrant in many parts of England and Wales, but unfortunately the dominance of London and the south east stifles their cries and demonises their resistance. The miner's strike being the last stand of the working class. With communities destroyed and demoralised we see people fall prey to unmediated voices of the right utilising Imperial narratives to maintain inequality and oppression of the working people who should be coming together in common cause.
Stuart Russon's further personal angle and reflection upon "the Scottish Cringe."
My clearest memory from my childhood in Scotland is very precise and may not say anything about anything in particular but on a personal level it was a pivotal moment for me as an English kid moving to Scotland. It gave me confidence that I may not have had had the moment gone a different way.
My first day at Dunnottar Primary School in Stonehaven as a 10 year old just arrived from Birmingham. I felt shy and nervous and got hassle from a lad who was hostile and intimidating.
Teuchter – "Say 'Aberdeen'"
Me – "Aberdeen"
Teuchter (to his mates) – "Ha ha, check the boys accent. Aber-Doyne, Aber-Doyne"
Me – "I didn't say Aber-Doyne, I said Aberdeen"
Teuchter – "HA HA HAAAA. English dick… Say something else. Say Birmingham"
Me – "Birmingham"
Teuchter – "Burminum, Buuuurminoom Ha ha"
Me – "I didn't say Burminum I said Birmingham"
Teuchter (to his mates) – "Ha ha, what a prick…He disnae even ken he's daein it"
Me – "What? Disney what?"
Teuchter's mates (to teuchter) – "Ha ha, yer just a f***in teuchter, he canny understand a word o' what yer saying ye glechit c**t".
And with that I had accidentally 'won' this verbal joust and I was accepted into the group. I realised I didn't have to change. Didn't have to speak or act a different way, I could be myself with these folk.
Was the teuchter's mates response to turn on their friend for sounding too Scottish/Doric when talking to the English kid something to do with 'The Scottish Cringe' or was it just the usual classroom mockery? I dunno, but I often look back on that very, very brief moment in my formative years and think it could have gone a different way and my whole perception of myself and the way I deal with situations could be different. And it sends a genuine shiver through me
I had expected problems but after that initial hiccup there was nothing. I was allowed to be my English self throughout my school years with no real sense of prejudice except for in jest. Of course there were times when I deserved to be put in my place and that would be when 'English' would prefix whatever swear word had been selected to be spewed at me (English C**t was the top choice, followed by English W***er).
Schmaltzy footnote – 32 years after the above occurrence I still meet the teuchter and his mates in question every year for a game of golf and a catch-up.
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Top 10 sweatiest cities in America: Humidity, population density combine to create sticky conditions
By Katy Galimberti, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer
As millions of Americans face the peak of sweltering summer heat, some might find themselves sweating more than others.
A study released by Honeywell Fans in partnership with Environmental Health & Engineering broke down the top 10 sweatiest cities in the United States based on several factors.
Scientists pulled data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center and the U.S. Census Bureau to rank cities according to sweat-inducing conditions such as average temperature and humidity levels during summer months, population and housing density and average wind speed.
"Geographic location has a major influence on temperatures, but so does infrastructure like residential buildings or heavy industry, which can trap heat or contribute to heat output," Dr. Ted Myatt, ScD, Environmental Health & Engineering said.
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Though sweat may seem like an unfortunate consequence of a warm climate and dense population, it's the body's natural defense against potentially dangerous heat.
The human body starts to dissipate the heat by varying the rate and depth of blood circulation, by releasing water through skin and sweat glands, according to the American Red Cross.
When the blood temperature begins to climb past 98.6 degrees F, the body will try to cope by panting.
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When temperatures rise past 90 degrees Fahrenheit with relative high humidity, the body does everything possible to maintain a temperature of 98.6.
Higher humidity can make that process more difficult.
"The body cools down primarily by the evaporation of sweat on the skin," he said. "When the air is dry, sweat evaporates and cools the skin. When the air is humid, sweat doesn't evaporate as well and the body is unable to cool down," Director of Integrative Pain Management at The Mount Sinai Hospital Houman Danesh, MD, said.
Claiming three cities on the list, Florida's geographic location makes it a prime contender for hosting several sweat-inducing areas.
"The humidity remains consistently high during the summer across Florida as the state is surrounded by very warm waters and daily thunderstorms add to the moisture available," AccuWeather Meteorologist Paul Walker said.
While heat and humidity may be a common consequence to the summer season, the right factors can be deadly. An average of 658 people died of heat-related causes between 1999 and 2009.
Check out the top 10 below:
10. Charlotte, North Carolina
9. Dallas, Texas
8. Los Angeles, California
7. Raleigh, North Carolina
6. Washington, D.C.
5. Orlando, Florida
4. San Diego, California
3. Houston, Texas
2. Miami, Florida
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Actions and Programmes promoting Agri-food cultural heritage29.06.2017During the workshop for Agri-food cultural heritage, in which the National Documentation Centre (EKT) participated, programmes for funding proposals in the agri-food sector were presented, as well as research experiences and ideas on planning and preparing joint research programmes to study and promote Greece's agri-food culture.ScienceEntrepreneurship ResearchInnovationFunding
'Entrepreneurship' - the key topic of the Attica workshop28.06.2017The workshop, in which the National Documentation Centre participated, discussed the strategy of the Attica region for the promotion of entrepreneurship and a production and development model to support the comparative advantages that Attica has.CreativityEntrepreneurship ResearchInnovationFunding
100m euro funding to support 69 Small and Medium innovative Enterprises19.06.2017The funding is part of the second phase of the SME Instrument, the European Commission Mechanism for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and enables enterprises to invest in innovative activities, as well as the development of a mature business plan for their product.Entrepreneurship ResearchInnovationTechnologyFunding
The journal 'Mediterranean Marine Science' is available with open access on EKT's eJournal platform14.06.2017The journal 'Mediterranean Marine Science', published by The Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, has published more than 600 articles on original research, announcements, biodiversity records, extended reviews, comments and special features covering all areas of oceanography, marine biology, limnology, fishing and hydrology in the Mediterranean.ScienceResearchDigital Content
Conference Proceedings 'Greece-Europe 2020: Education, Lifelong Learning, Research, Innovation and Economy' now available on EKT's eProceedings platform13.06.201751 interesting items expected to capture the attention of the national and international scientific community are available with open access on EKT's eProceedings platform for conference proceedings.EducationResearchInnovation
Hundreds of young people learn about mobility opportunities at the Mobility Fair 201712.06.2017Great interest in the actions of EKT as National Contact Point Horizon 2020Education
Great participation in the Enterprise Europe Network-Hellas B2B@EUSAIR 2017 business meetings02.06.2017The Enterprise Europe Network is currently the largest network supporting entrepreneurship and innovation in the world, significantly contributing to the promotion of the internationalisation of European SMEs. It covers over 60 countries and contributes to more than 2,500 international Co-operation Agreements annually. Enterprise Europe Network – Hellas, a member of the Enterprise Europe Network, provides services for international business co-operation, updates on policies, services for innovation and technology transfer as well as services to encourage the participation of Greek SMEs in European Research and Technology programmes. Entrepreneurship InnovationFunding
Dimensions of the Knowledge Triangle in Greece highlighted in a new EKT publication25.05.2017A new EKT publication draws special attention to the role played by Higher Education Institutes in research, education and innovation, and their interaction with research centers and the business sector.EducationResearchInnovation
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Goliath is a gorgeous little "drop calf" that was rescued by the Hubbs family from being slaughtered two months ago; he was only a day old. When they took Goliath in, he was weak and frail, and could only eat with assistance. Two days later, he was already picking up and gaining strength.
Goliath has settled into his new home, a ranch in Danville, California, with the alpacas, sheeps, goats, horses, mini-horses, chickens, and especially with the dogs, which Goliath thinks he is. The Hubbs family have three dogs.
A Great Dane named Leonidas cared for the cow since he arrived, licking and nudging him to stand up.
Shaylee Hubbs, a high school senior, told CBS: "He would lay down with the sick little cow for hours just to keep him company." "As the cow became more active, he began to try to 'nurse' my male Great Dane."
Watch short report by Inside Edition on Goliath:
One day, they could not find Goliath, and they searched the back, around the yard to see if there were open gates, and then they found him in Leonidas's favorite spot, the couch.
My cow thinks he's a dog… We left the door open for 5 minutes pic.twitter.com/Wj1OHygrAH
— shaysap (@shaysaprocky) October 28, 2015
"Look who we found lounging ever so comfortably on our couch — Goliath," Hubbs said. "This was triumph and victory; a nice comfortable place on the couch," CBS reported.
— Goliath Hubbs (@goliaththecow) November 6, 2015
Goliath doesn't think he's a cow at all. ABC wrote: "I'm pretty sure he thinks he's a dog," said Hubbs, 17. "He was raised with our three dogs, and he's around them every day. They chase and play together, he watches how they eat their dog food and drink water from their bowls and copies them, and he even lays in their dog beds. He even loves scratches on his neck around his ear.


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Does the previous line of questioning sound familiar? If not, you really need to try a mystery skype. I responded to a request for volunteers to team with a friend of fellow blogger, Charlotte. After many attempts, we were able to finalize a time and date to meet with her colleague Mrs. Debbie Dixon.
I had done a mystery skype before, but didn't use a firm set of guidelines. This time would be different. We had a greeter, questioners, responders, map readers, researchers, and a student that let the other school know it was their turn. My students don't have access to Google Docs and don't have Gmail accounts. We decided to use Today's Meet to track questions. I had two students typing the questions they asked on laptops. The other students could see the question track on our iPads. Students used desktop maps, Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google.
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It was such a fun, educational experience for both sets of students. We gathered some important question lines to ask our next visitors, and made new friends. We hope to meet up again with Mrs. Dixon's students.
My students are hooked on Skyping. Anyone interested in meeting with us? I have one other Mystery Skype planned for my other set of students.


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Canada's insurance lobby says Albertans are less likely to be worried about weather trends linked to climate change than others in the country, despite a recent six-fold increase in insured damages from severe storms, fires and flooding.
But as property and casualty carriers respond by hiking premiums up to 25 per cent this year, the Insurance Bureau of Canada says the province and its municipalities need to get serious about mitigating losses in Alberta that have mounted to an average of $670 million annually in the past four years compared to an average of $100 million annually in the previous 15 years.
"Alberta has become the place where bad weather pays a visit more often," said Don Forgeron, IBC's president and chief executive.
"We could simply raise premiums, walk away and be quiet, but we think there is another way."
Polling done this month for IBC found 91 per cent of Canadians have noticed a change in weather patterns over the past decade, but only 80 per cent of Albertans had spotted a trend.
The numbers also showed residents of the province were less likely than others in the country to be concerned about the changes that have made Albertans the worst hit by natural catastrophes.
According to the poll, residents were also more likely than other Canadians to make the mistake of naming Ontario instead of their home province as the largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions that have been linked to climate change.
Forgeron, who is scheduled to speak to Calgary's Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, said he isn't coming to the city to preach to oil executives about limiting the cause of this looming problem.
But he does believe governments, business and consumers need to adapt or risk seeing their losses from severe weather continue to rise.
"An Alberta farmer who just had his barn damaged by yet another hailstorm probably doesn't care if the climate graph is shaped like a hockey stick or not." Forgeron said.
"Neither are we, but we are interested in the impact on our customers and members."
A recent study prepared for IBC by the Institute for Catastrophic Loss and Reduction predicts Alberta will see a 10 per cent increase in severe weather events by 2050 as average annual temperatures in the province rise up to four degrees Celsius as a result of global warming.
The report says the result will be drought conditions and shortages of potable water in fast-growing cities like Calgary.
Combined with a 20 per cent increase in lightning frequency, the dry conditions will increase the likelihood of wildfires similar to the Slave Lake disaster two years ago.
Rainstorms, when they come, will be more intense and could cause flash-flooding in low-lying areas and overwhelm existing storm sewer systems.
John Pomeroy, the Canada research chair in Water Resources and Climate Change at the University of Saskatchewan, has studied rainfall records on the Prairies for the past century and found a marked increase in the number of multi-day rain events during the summer that can overwhelm streams and rivers.
"Those big frontal systems are increasing in their intensity and frequency," said Pomeroy, "and we're fast learning that our roads, our bridges and even some of our towns aren't any match for the rainfall and the overflow that results."
While Alberta's infrastructure is better able to withstand the threat of increased flooding than that in other Western provinces, he said there are areas like the Cougar Creek subdivision in Canmore that are especially vulnerable.
"Cities need to be much more rigorous about where they're letting people build," Forgeron said.
"That home along the river is beautiful until the water starts running through your living room."
Residential development in older neighbourhoods along the Elbow River and Bow River in Calgary occurred long before the risk was known and the city has had to build embankments or develop plans for the placement of temporary barriers to prevent flooding.
But Frank Frigo, a senior planning engineer with Calgary's water resources department, said newer subdivisions such as Quarry Park and Chaparral Valley have been subject to scrutiny prior to approval.
"We end up being very cautious and very concerned about the impact of any development in the river valleys," Frigo said.
While the vast majority of new homes in Alberta are equipped with sewer backup valves, Forgeron said cities and towns need to consider following Edmonton's lead in providing grants to homeowners to retrofit their properties and prevent basement flooding.
Forgeron said IBC is also developing a risk assessment tool that will allow cities and towns to identify where they need to improve sewer and stormwater systems to handle the deluges expected in the coming decades.
The province started flood hazard mapping during the 1970s to identify areas with a risk greater than one per cent of being flooded in any given year, but a spokesman with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development said the assessments are based on historical data and have not been updated to include the effects of climate change.
"Flood mapping is woefully inadequate in the country," Forgeron said.
"Governments have not invested in up-to-date flood maps, so it's difficult to predict exactly where these rivers are most at risk of flooding."


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Love in the Workplace: Uncovering Real Stories of "Love" At Work•
All you need is love. Love, love is all you need!
Absolutely, we totally agree with that. However let's be honest, most people automatically only think about home and personal life when it comes to love. Given that the average American spends about 90,000 hours at work in a lifetime (that's one-third or 30 percent of human life!), you have to wonder – what about love in the workplace?
In the spirit of uncovering real "love" in the workplace, we did a fun little exercise with our own "love" data from hundreds of thousands of employee reviews on kununu. We also tapped into some cool insights from Winq, a social polling app for millennials.
Oh, at the end we also threw in some of our favorite heart-warming real stories of people finding love at work (quick preview: OKCupid, speed dating, and post-divorce romance).
Finding "love" at work
A huge benefit of kununu reviews is that we we allow employees to tell all (anonymously) about what they like and dislike about the company they work at. The responses we typically receive can go from very straightforward to very impassioned and, as you might have guessed, the latter is where the "love" comes in.
Here are a couple charming "love" statistics we discovered on kununu:
Out of thousands of reviews on kununu, we found 6,751 reviews containing the word "love" – not an insignificant number! And check out the distribution of "love" reviews across industries, with health industries, education, service and food industries leading the pack.
There's one caveat that we have to talk about though. When it comes to these reviews of "love" in the workplace (and this applies to life in general too, really) there's love-love and then there's hate-love.
For example:
- Love-love sounds like: "The staff… [is] amazing. Hard working, friendly, helpful. I honestly love the people I work with."
- Hate-love sounds like: "You'd be hardpressed to find someone that loves going [to] this place."
You get the drift. The point is, though, that the word "love" is more common than you would think when people describe their workplace. And since we as human beings don't typically throw the four-letter-word around willy-nilly, that's something to think about.
Millennials' perspective on love between co-workers
To get a perspective on love in the workplace particularly between co-workers, we asked our friends over at Winq, a social polling app for millennials, to share their insights. After polling 5,000 participants, this is what they found:
8% of their users have fallen in love with a coworker
32% of their users have witnessed a real love connection in their office
And to add to that, a few comments from participants:
"It's really obvious when 2 people are having an affair at work! Everyone in my office knows about this one couple even though they try and be discrete"
"[The workplace is] the perfect way to get to know someone since you spend most of your day with them"
"my friends kate and luke actually got fired from work at a department store when they were 17 cause they got caught together and have been together since. now they're getting married 11 years later lmao"
If what millennials are saying here is any indication of what love between co-workers in the workplace is going to look like going forward, then seeing (and finding!) love at work is likely only going to become even more commonplace. Is this a good thing? Well, that's a whole other conversation.
Real workplace love stories
What better way to round out this discovery about love in the workplace than with some adorable, real-life love stories that happened at work. Here are a few of our favorite:
Chance encounter with OKCupid co-worker
"One night I received a message on OKCupid from a nice looking gentleman saying "Hey". I answered back the next morning "Hey". I went about my day at work, grabbing coffee, sending emails, arranging samples, etc. (I work for a fashion company)
I grab some mail from the mail room and on my way back, the hot new designer opens the door for me. "Thanks!" I say in my most flirtatious way. walking through the door while simultaneously sucking in my tummy and sticking out my booty. I get back to my desk with a message from the guy on OKCupid saying "I think we work together".
"Nope" I answer ever so confidently, I know everyone who works here.
"I think I just held the door for you" he writes back. My jaw dropped to the floor! The hot designer and the guy on OKCupid one in the same!
It took us a while to actually begin dating. We were friends for a year after that encounter before we became girlfriend/boyfriend. Three years later, we're so in love and opened our own business together." – Mary V. of LaPitturaStudio.com
Failed Speed Dater
"In 2001, I became the cofounder of a tech startup called Pre-Dating Speed Dating, a dating event company which became the largest in the country. You would think I would have met a women, but I did not.
At the same time I had a full-time job at an e-commerce company in Miami, Florida. In 2005, a new girl joined the company. She was very nice, but I did not believe in dating women at work. Plus I was old looking and bald and she was super cute and looked very young.
We used to go to lunch together and I liked her alot, but I did not know if she liked me. One day she came to my cubicle to tell me she was leaving to start a new job in a week. I was devastated because I loved being around her. It was her last friday at the job and she was taking a week off before the new job.
I asked her what she was doing next week. She had no plans. That's when I asked her if she would go with me the next morning, Saturday, to Paris for the week. She blushed and was stunned. She hesitated and thought about it for a while, and finally said yes!
That was 12 years ago. Since then we have virtually never been apart, got married, have 2 boys who are 6 and 9. And I still own part of the speed dating company!" – Dan Gudema, Founder of StartupPOP LLC
Love After Divorce
"A few years ago, I was going through a divorce and was convinced I would be alone forever. I usually worked 16-hour days in my factory, as the owner of a small-but-growing manufacturing business that primarily sells online. Never any time for socializing!
I had recently moved my factory into a larger space that I shared with another small business. For the first few months in the new space, employees of the other business received all of our packages because they were closer to the front door. One day, the UPS driver asked who owned this business that he was always dropping packages off for (my business).
That day, I was in the nearing the end of a multi-day work spree where I was only getting a couple hours of sleep per night – we were preparing for a segment on the Martha Stewart Show, which was a huge deal for my small business. I was essentially delirious at that point. But when I rounded the corner to see who was calling me, I saw the cutest UPS guy ever and I woke right up!
We had a great little chat, and afterward, I found myself ordering *everything* online to guarantee a daily visit. Soon the UPS guy, Justin, was taking his lunch breaks with me in my factory – sparking many what can brown do for you? and package delivery! jokes from my cackling employees.
Fast forward a couple years, and Justin quit his job at UPS and is now my business partner and life partner." – Annie Mohaupt, Founder and CEO of Mohop
Have something to add about love in the workplace? Do you want to hear more on this topic? Let us know on @kununu_US!
Linda Le Phan is the Content Marketing Manager at kununu US, a company review platform built on transparency. When she isn't focused on creating great content around the modern workplace, company culture, and workplace happiness, she is probably going out to get an iced coffee (even in Boston winter), raiding the snack drawer, or jamming to kununu's Spotify playlist.


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An Aer Lingus strike during St Patrick's weekend is now highly likely, according to SIPTU.
The industrial action will take place over an ongoing pensions dispute.
Unions had met on the weekend to talk about the €800m hole in the Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme, which involves over 4,200 Aer Lingus, DAA and Shannon Airport staff.
Head of SIPTU's Pension Advisory Committee Dermot O'Loughlin said it was likely the strike would take place two weeks from this Thursday - around March 13, at the start of the weekend before St Patrick's Day on the 17th.
Aer Lingus CEO Christoph Mueller believes striking will do nothing to help settle the row.
Earlier the firm announced an operating profit of over €60 million for 2013.
In the early results for last year, the firm said total revenue for the year was up 2.3% to €1,425 million, up from €1,393 million in 2012.
And the profit before 'net exceptional items' was €61.1 million.
Last November, there was a crisis at Shannon Airport as the airline had threatened to outsource jobs on three routes over the Atlantic that used smaller planes.
Staff had said they did not want to work with just four cabin crew on each flight.


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"A positive parent-teacher relationship helps your child feel good about school and be successful in school" by Diane Levin, Ph.D.
One of the most important things a school can do to help raise student achievement scores is getting parents involved. There needs to be a partnership between school and parents, working together to better the students academic lives. How can you get parents involved? Below are my top 5 ways.
1. Ask: Often times educators don't ask parents about volunteering because they don't want to impose on a parent. Using a site like SignUp Genius, allows parents to sign up for what they feel comfortable doing and have time for. Having multiple volunteer opportunities from brining in snacks, to helping with filing, to creating a bulletin board gives all parents options.
2. Website: Every educator should have a website that has basic information for the parents such as grading polices, helpful websites and class schedule. Embed calendars so parents can record upcoming events, assignments and dates to check to help their children's progress is also beneficial. If your school doesn't supply you with a website option, you can create free owns with Weebly, Google Sites or Wix.
3. Social Media: Communication is huge in getting parents involved and having a school Facebook Page and Twitter is a great way for parents to stay updated. Don't believe me: check out these Facebook Stats. Here is a schools Faceebook page from Charlotte, NC: Grand Oak Elementary and a Twitter Page from New Jersey: New Milford HS.
4. Workshops: Having professional development for parents helps them feel comfortable with curriculum and programs helps build trust. An example of workshops that you can have are BYOT or Common Core so parents can see how they are implemented.
5. Having a Space for Parents: Designing a space for parents helps parents feel welcomed and apart of the school. This space also allows the parents to help the school or teacher without getting in the way of the students learning.
Want more information of getting parents involved read: Education World: Parent Involvement in Schools. Please share any successful tips that have worked for you in the comment section.


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Greek Orthodox Parish of St Paraskevi
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia
Address: 241 Church Rd, Taigum
Phone Number: (07) 3865 1218
Parish Priest: V. Rev. Fr Panagiotis Kapandritis, 0448 885 737
Sunday: Matins and Divine Liturgy, Greek language, 8am-11am.
Monday: Matins and Divine Liturgy, English language, 6pm-7pm.
Other services: Please contact the church office or parish clergy for more information.


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Have you been injured recently? Do you need compensation? A personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles can help. Why? Because personal injuries can affect you on a number of levels, each of which can negatively impact your life—and your financial stability.
A personal injury is any injury that affects your person rather than your property, be that a physical injury or a psychological one. These can come in many forms: perhaps you were injured in an automobile incident where you were not at fault; perhaps you received a workplace injury due to your workplace's failure to comply with safety protocols; perhaps you were the target of a crime; or perhaps you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time and received an injury as a result of someone's carelessness or negligence. In any of these cases, the intent behind the injury doesn't matter. What matters is your ability to get the financial compensation you need so you can heal, recover, and get on with your life. A personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles can help.
Why is a personal injury lawyer so important?
If you receive a personal injury, there are a number of reasons for why you would need to contact a personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles. First, you need to heal. That may mean medical expenses and costly medications. If your health insurance doesn't cover enough of these unexpected costs, you could find yourself facing financial difficulty in a hurry—especially if you also need to take time off work to recover. That brings us to our second reason: healing requires time. That means you are probably going to have to take some time off work—and that means cutting back on your income during a time when you are probably spending more than you had planned to spend. Additionally, you may need someone else's help during your recovery process. That may mean you either need to hire someone to provide you with care, or you may need a loved one to take some time off work to help you. Depending on the extent of your injuries, this could last anywhere from a couple weeks or months to a much more long-term commitment. That means even more short- to long-term expenses.
What if you need to make modifications to your home—or move somewhere more accessible or travel closer to a treatment facility—to accommodate your short- or long-term injury? Home renovation expenses can also add up quite quickly—especially since the medical equipment that may require those renovations (wheelchairs, etc.) tend to be quite pricey, too. And don't forget your mental and emotional health as well. The injury you've experienced has caused you trauma, and you may need time and professional support to get through the psychological impact of the injury, too. Don't underestimate the costs that can accumulate alongside your injury—or the extent to which your financial compensation could help. A personal injury lawyer can help fight on your behalf so you can get the compensation you deserve—and that compensation can go a long way towards combatting the extra expenses that will accumulate as a result of your personal injury.
How likely are you to receive a personal injury in Los Angeles?
Let's take a look at the statistics: in the US, approximately 31 million people are injured and require medical treatment every year. Approximately 2 million of those injured require hospitalization, and 162,000 of those injuries end up being fatal every year. Of those injuries, vehicle accidents are the most common cause, accounting for 52 percent of those injuries. US statistics further show that approximately 5.5 million car accidents occur every year, and 3 million of those cause injuries (40,000 are fatal). Medical malpractice is the second leading cause, contributing to 15 percent of injuries and fatalities (98,000 deaths) per year. Approximately 5 percent of injuries are caused by product liability each year, and the remaining 28 percent of personal injuries include injuries which occur on construction sites (construction accidents cause 300,000 personal injuries and 1,000 deaths per year) among other causes. However, it isn't the likelihood of your receiving a personal injury alone that makes a personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles so crucial. Of those reported injuries, only 61 percent of motor vehicle related injuries, 50 percent of intentional tort trials, 39 percent of premises liability trials, 38 percent of product liability trials, and 19 percent of medical malpractice trials succeed in court.
A personal injury lawyer in Los Angeles can help you turn the odds in your favor.


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a person having behavior differing from that which is normal
or socially acceptable; -- used especially to characterize
persons whose sexual behavior is considered morally
Syn: deviant. [PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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I still owe you the photos from our wonderful course with Marius Schneider, 22.-23.04.2017!!!
First of all thank you so much Marius for coming to us ❤ I know you have more requests for courses than you have weekends, so I really really appreciate you giving us your time and enabling more and more people to experience the academic art of riding.
We will do our homework and are looking forward to October!
Second, I'd like to thank all participants, with horse and as listeners, as you are the heart of these courses ❤ It is a big step to admit you don't know everything and to be open to learn! You have a big advantage over those that don't take the effort to travel, try to understand, rethink their approach, want to improve. Our horses motivate us to go beyond our comfort zone and find other ways and new and better versions of ourselves.
So what happened on this course? What I find most outstanding about Marius' way of teaching is his consequent insistence on correct basic work. The basis for all dressage work is a good communication with the horse, which we build up during groundwork and lunging. Can we lead the horse from different positions, stop him easily, does he focus on us? Which groundwork position does the horse prefer, where do we have the best connection? And what are our own strengths? How do we actually teach a horse, and what exactly are the different aids and how and when do we apply them?
During the groundwork education, we have to take care that our body aids and micro signals do not contradict our secondary aids and macro signals. Horses are experts in reading micro signals, whereas we humans focus more on macro signals, which can lead to a miscommunication. During the exercises, it is important to come to the point quickly and then give the horse a break when he did well. This way we keep the horse motivated and in a thinking frame.
Marius wants his students to understand the essence of the exercises. Why are we doing it? What is the effect of a certain exercise on the horse's body? Quite often, we loose focus on the line on which to perform an exercise. For example, the horse does not stay on the diagonal during half pass. Marius then focuses on the correct line the rider has to walk or ride and less on the hind legs. If we take the horse's shoulders with us in half pass, then we only have to add a little bit of hind leg, and voila. Marius' solutions to the problems we were having usually were very simple and we could easily implement them. Quite often during this course I heard "Why didn't anyone tell me this before?" That is actually a valid question and also why I love to be Marius' student. In almost every lesson, I experience aha-moments and find it incredible, how simple changes lead to so much improvement.
In the academic art of riding, we strive for more and more refined aids and a better balance. Right from the start, the horse is give responsibility for his own movement and we don't force the horse into a certain frame with side reins during lunging or heavy contact on the reins during riding. Several times, Marius repeated: "I don't have fun pulling my horses in the mouth!" In his experience, horses don't know what we want when we pull on the reins and they usually go against the pressure. Thus, educating the aids is of utmost importance. Our aids should help the horse to understand what we expect of him. Right from the start, our aids should be a light as possible and we search for every responds from the horse that goes in the right direction. Usually, we need to do much less than we think! If we are soft, the horses will comply just as softly. So it was a pleasure to see reins lengthening during this clinic and legs and seats becoming more and more relaxed. The horses answered with a better forward, softer bending and a more relaxed mind.
The seat is the primary aid in the academic art of riding. Thus, the education has to start with ourselves. We learn to follow the horse's movement and learn to have calm hands and legs, calm in the sense that they follow the movement and the swinging. For example, a calm hand is not one that is still but one that allows for the nodding movement of the horse's head and neck. A calm seat allows the three dimensional swinging of the horse's back, and a calm leg gives aids only when needed and allows the chest to swing from side to side, to contract during the forward and to expand during collection. With our seat and hands we learn to feel more into the horse instead of commanding the horse what to do. We become aware of asymmetries and imbalances and learn what the reasons of certain symptoms are. Where does the horse fall out of our seat, and why? What can we do to improve it? In which moments do we give aids? Do we know at all times when each of the horse's legs leaves the ground, in every gait? As humans we like to solve all issues with our hands. In the academic, we learn that what we feel in our hands is the past, which we cannot change anymore. Instead, we work on the causes and not the symptoms. Most likely, we have to work the hind quarters or move the shoulders so that the swinging can go through the whole spine and reach our hands. Can we achieve a correct stellning with our hand, direct the shoulders between the reins, influence the hind quarters with our lower leg?
When we have educated our seat and aids, we start to invite the horse to follow our seat, to follow our point of weight, which we place more forward for the forward down and more backwards for collection. We change between contraction and relaxation of the frame, on the circle and during the lateral exercises on the straight line. We check collection with forward and forward with collection. If the horse does not show an engaged forward after collection, most likely the horse was not collected but simply slow. The horse shall step in the point of weight with both hind legs and elevate his chest, shoulders, neck and head, and develop more shoulder freedom. As riders, we guide this development and allow the horse to find self-carriage. By working on balance, suppleness and shape, we gradually also improve tempo, rhythm and swinging. We give the horse time to sort his legs and to respond to our aids, and in the beginning a lot of the education happens in walk. Can we do all lateral movements and the pirouette in walk, we do the same in trot and later in canter. Many riders feels that they haven't properly worked their horses if they didn't ride all the gaits during a lesson. In the academic, we educate the horse step by step and thus build understanding and confidence. Each step is preceded by something the horse already knows and connects to a system of logical exercises. Nevertheless, it is mostly us humans who have to learn. If we do it right and have the exercises in our body, then the horses follow us effortlessly. Then, every day, what we ask of the horse makes sense to them and we will increase the trust between us day by day. If we give our best to them, they will give their best to us.
Lastly, my personal experience with this course. Just before the course, I had the chance to be a working student for Bent Branderup in Denmark. I learned so much and was so happy to show it to Marius during the course! Weto has become more round and got a much better forward of the hind legs, which is a good basis now for the collection work that is in front of us. One of my homework from the last course with Marius was to start using the curb bit more and to ride one handed. If you only use one hand to hold the reins, the bending has to come more from your seat than from the reins. Moreover, I feel a lot better when I take the reins in one hand, more relaxed in my upper body and seat and I also focus more on the seat aids. Just two years ago I could not have imagined to collect my horse only from the seat, with hanging reins! The reward for trusting in the ways of the old masters is just awesome. How can one describe harmony other than the absence of any resistance? When a little change of seat is enough to bring the horse into a shoulder-in or from relaxation to collection, then it feels like the melting of two bodies and to minds. My other homework was to school the trot further in all lateral movements, so I was happy to show that Weto's trot has improved, too. Furthermore, I really enjoyed to see the improvement of my fellow riders and the advise that Marius gave all of us concerning the education of our horses. I am so thrilled to be a part of this wonderful academic family!
A big thanks also to the management of Stajnia Olender and our stable workers, who did their best accommodate us and make us feel comfortable. And of course to Paweł Siwek for the amazing photos, because of you we can remember 🙂
I hope to see you all again soon! Our next course will take place 22.-23 July 2017, with Carina Dörfler. You are all very welcome to join!


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The Board of Commissioners of Consolidated Utility District of Rutherford County is pleased to announce that William "Bill" Dunnill has been unanimously selected by the Board as the new General Manager, succeeding Larry K. McElroy who announced his retirement effective June 15, 2012. Upon announcing Mr. Dunnill's appointment, Board Chairman John L. Batey, Jr., stated "we are delighted to announce Bill's appointment and are excited to work with him as he manages the future growth and service of our system in providing water to the citizens of Rutherford County. Bill has proven himself over the last several years as our Assistant General Manager and we have the upmost confidence that he will continue to provide capable and competent leadership for our staff as they serve thousands of our customers who depend upon Consolidated for their water needs."
Bill joined CUD in March 2004, as Assistant General Manager, received his civil engineering degree from Bradley University, and is a registered professional engineer licensed in the State of Tennessee.
Bill served as an engineer and corporate officer for an independent oil producer in southern Illinois for sixteen years prior to moving to Tennessee. During that time, he was active in public service organizations, charitable fund raising events, and local politics. He concurrently held the office of Mayor at the City of Carlyle, Illinois from 1989 to 1995 where he developed the interest in the public sector and utility operations.
In 1995, Bill moved into the public sector full-time when he accepted employment with the City of Lenoir City, TN, where he initially served as City Administrator and later as General Manager of Lenoir City Utilities Board.
Bill is an active member the Tennessee Association of Utility Districts and of the American Water Works Association where he serves on the metering committee. He is a member of New Vision Baptist Church and Gideon's International. Bill and and his late wife Tamara have a combined family of four children, and five grandchildren.


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There are a ton of healthy foods that are reported to help with the life of your hair. When choosing the right one, you might overlook plantains. These fruits might be overlooked for their counterpart the banana, but there are some great benefits of plantains for hair that make them worth a second look. Here are a few benefits of plantains for hair that make them a great addition to your diet or hair care routine.
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Finance minister criticises new Greek government
There are serious doubts whether new PM Alexis Tsipras can fulfill his promises of an end to austerity.
Reacting to the new left-wing government in Greece, Sweden's finance minister says she is mainly happy the neo-Nazi party did not get more votes.
Minister Magdalena Andersson (Social Democrat) is sceptical the new government can achieve its aim of renegotiating Greece's massive debt.
"The Eurozone has made a loan in euros, and if the Greeks aren't using that currency it'll be hard for them to pay it back," she says to SVT Agenda.
The new Greek government is led by the rising Syriza party, which won a surprising landslide. Syriza is significantly more left-wing than the Social Democrats and is allied with the farthest left-wing group in the EU parliament.
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First, I have to say I was a bit afraid when Citavi 5 started opening my Citavi 4 project. I really hope it simply copied my project, not changing it in any way. Did it?
That being asked, I would like to thank you for the a great software and suggest a few features I really miss:
1. Missing fields: many styles (such as NP-405 for Portugal) require the user to use custom fields or adapt other ones (such as page count). Since we're moving towards a new project structure, I guess there's no reason for not improving fields. Fields for journal publisher and place are what I immediately think of, but if given chance all users will give you a hand plenty of them, and this should be considered.
2. This leads us to ISSN: if there's a(n internal) field for the journal's ISSN, it should be used to immediately pull precise info the journal, such as it's official name, publisher, place, etc.
2.1. There's always the issue of double ISSN (electronic and paper ones) for many journals but this doesn't seem to be a real problem.
2.2. What might be a problem is that older issues (or worse: older series!) of a journal might have been published by a different publisher, but I (amateurly) think there shouldn't be hard to cross this information with the date input from the user (something like if ISSN = 1234-5678 AND date < 2000 then publisher = Old Publishing House, else publisher = New Publisher).
3. And then there's exactly that thing, the date: Citavi 4 (and 5) doesn't seem be very clever recognizing dates. And why this is important? For three reasons: different types of references have different lenghts of date-data; different styles cite a same date differently; and one needs to cite a reference in different languages. Ex.: if a journal issue was published in October 2012, one might be required to cite it as "Oct. 2012", "10/2012", simply "2012", or "out. 2012" (in Portuguese, for example, where October = outubro); and a conference happened in August 30th 1990 may be cited with it's complete date ("30/08/1990", or "10/30/1990", or "Oct. 10, 1990", or "10 out. 1990", etc.) or just the year, and so on. So wouldn't it be great if Citavi understood what the (available) date actually is and cited according to each style? A slightly more (but not that much more) complicated is the case of intervals, when a journal issue correspond to a set of months or an event happened in a set of days, sometimes even starting in a year and ending in the following one (e.g., October-December 2000; Oct. 1-3 2000; Oct. 2000 - Mar. 2001; Dec. 30th 2000 - Jan. 3rd 2001). So in general there seem to be two types of date-data: instantaneous dates (10/10/2010, 10/2010, or simply 2010) and interval dates, and the last ones are simply a combination of two dates (start and end).
4. Batch editing: this would save so, but SO much time... I would love to perform a search and change any field for all results (e.g.: search for "Nature20**" and set all results as belonging to the Nature journal; or add author "Chaplin, Charlie" to all files containing "chaplin"), in the same we can already select multiple references and change their reference type.
4.1. Conditional search and replace would be taking this to heaven.
5. Short title: this should be customizable, because it has so many (unused) potentialities (which become a problem thereafter). Improving date recognition would allow having only the year in the short title, even if the date is 10/10/2010. And I might prefer having only the first author, or the first three, or the first and "et al.", or all of them. And it should be possible to reprogram the rule for the short title formation and apply it in batch, both to the whole project and for a selection of references only.
6. Batch renaming: the combination of short title customization and controllable batch operations would lead to a better control of files naming, but I have been experiencing a catch here, which is having several files for a single reference, each of them with individual properties that I need to recognize when choosing which file to view (which means I have to manually rename them everytime this happens). The two situations in which this happens the most are: (1) different versions of a single file, specially different languages (a same paper in English, French and Spanish); and (2) separation of complementary contents in different files (main contents and it's attachments, for example).
7. Folder watch: Citavi Picker is great, but having to use it as main import tool is not great. Sometimes one receives several files attached to an e-mail, or needs to manually split (we'll get to this below) a journal issue single file into several PDF files (one for each paper), or simply perform heavy in-browser research, downloading dozens of PDF files for later reading, indexing, etc. Mendeley and others have this feature, and it would be really nice to have it.
8. PDF splitting and/or assigning: a single PDF file for a whole edited book or journal issue is a very common find. This is very frustrating, because it requires one to manually split the PDF file, add each one to a new reference, etc. If Citavi could automate this, it would be great. But what would be greater, and would solve the suggestion number 9 (below), is recognizing the pages of a single PDF as belonging to different references. This might not be easy, I know, but wonder this: you scroll a 180 pages PDF file down, passing by all it's papers/chapters, and Citavi follows you showing the correspondent reference on the side.
9. Page number gap recognition: when adding quotations, Citavi thinks page 1 of the PDF file corresponds to page 1 of the reference, but that's (often) not the case. Sometimes it's just a matter of interval (adding +23 or -5 do the PDF page is enough to get the correct page number), sometimes it envolves more (two reference pages per PDF page, skipped or missing pages in PDF, etc., giving us simple equations or conditional equations, like rule X+Y for pages until N and rule X+Z after that), but I also think this should be a feature of a new Citavi.
I am sorry if this is too much, but I really think these features would fill 95% of a perfect software.
(The other 5% relate to legal references, which I didn't include here because they are really a huge mess, changing per-country etc.)
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Now where there is forgiveness of these things (our sins), there is no longer any offering for sin.
Hebrews 10: 18
There is essentially only one thing that separates people from a close, intimate, on-going, and eternal relationship with God, and that one thing is the orientation of our hearts. Once we accept the sacrificial gift of life that God gave to all of humanity through the death and resurrection of Jesus, we have started a life long process of transformation, and our hearts are forever connected through the presence of the Holy Spirit to our Creator. The sacrifice that was required to pay for the sin that fills the souls of people from birth was offered, accepted, and finished by Jesus.
So why do so many of us go on living as if we need to continually come back to the altar and offer up the works of our hands as sacrifices to God that are given in order for Him to accept us as worthy and to look upon us with loving acceptance? The Lord doesn't want our works; rather, He desires our hearts. God wants us to be committed to serving Him out of the depths of the love that He has poured into us; for, Christ fills me with His presence, and His presence is defined by a sort of love that is not conditional and that never diminishes or grows cold. The absolute sacrifice that Jesus made for me should set me free from the need to perform and from the fear of failure that can strangle my ability to live fully and to function with the sort of deep peace that empowers me.
The only sacrifice that God wants me to make is admittedly a very large one, for He wants me to give my entire being, my whole existence, and every breath that I breathe to Him. Jesus said that He wanted us to pick up our cross and follow Him (1), and surrendering my life to His will is what that looks like. Yet, the path that Christ lays out for us is also the one that brings the greatest sense of peace to the heart, and the efforts that this journey requires are supported by the Spirit of God, for Jesus also promised us that His yoke is easy, and His burden is light.(2)
1. Matthew 16: 24
2. Matthew 11: 30


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Meet More of the New 2012 Graphic 45 Design Team!
Hello G45ers,
Happy Friday to you all and welcome to another day of craft delights with Graphic 45! TGIF! We hope you are all having a lovely day and we are so glad you're stopping by our blog toady. This is going to be such a fun day! We have more fantastic design team introductions to share with you. Today you'll meet the fabulous Susan Lui from Singapore and Tara Orr from Canada! Their styles are so incredible. You are sure to be inspired for some fun weekend crafting! We want to thank you all for joining us for this fun week of design team introductions. It has been such a joy to introduce you to our magnificent new team. We are so excited for the inspiration that they will bring this year! We still have a few more superb crafters to introduce you to. Let the wonder commence!
First up is Susan Lui. Susan has a whimsical and intricate style that is simply magnificent. She combines lavish color and gorgeous embellishments to create multi-layered works of art. She also likes to use a variety of materials to create interesting textures in her crafts. Her blog Of Photos & Paper is rich with glorious ideas and profoundly gorgeous crafts. There is a radiant warmth and beauty that shines in all of Susan's creations. We are sure you are going to love her lavish style as much as we do! Please join us in welcoming the amazing Susan Lui!
"Hi there! My name is Susan Lui and I'm from Singapore. I started scrapping a few years ago and fell in love with papercrafting because it allows me to record and preserve memories for my family in a manner that appeals to the creative side of me. I have a fondness for shabby-chic designs with a vintage touch but will frequently venture over to the dark side for a distressed grungy adventure with mediums. I like my projects to have lots of texture and dimension and my layouts frequently end up very three-dimensional because of the mediums and embellishments I use. Aside from papercrafting, I enjoy travelling and photography. My family's travel itinerary always includes dining at some of the best restaurants and checking out the local flea markets. All documented with lots of photographs of course. I was on the Graphic 45 design team in 2009/2010 and have really fond memories of my term then and am really looking forward to another year with my favourite manufacturer. Please visit my blog at luv2scrap-pages.blogspot.com to see more of my creations." -Susan Lui
These are the fantastic creations that Susan submitted for the final round of the Graphic 45 design team call. You wont believe your eyes! There is so much imagination in each and every one of these creations. Here is a video that highlights the incredible projects featured below.
Here is the Olde Curiosity Shoppe 5x8 Altered Art Music Box that Susan created. You can see all of the rich detail and stunning use of embellishments. The mix of metal with Olde Curiosity Shoppe is just perfect in this project. The flowers and butterflies look so elegant and lively! Inside is a Sweet little music box and pop-up card. Simply gorgeous!
Next we have this vastly beautiful Once Upon a Springtime altered art frame and card creation. You can see the incredibly detailed dimension that makes this creation come to life. It opens to reveal a whimsical card that unfolds into a 3-D spring wonderland. It's absolutely remarkable!
Next up is this enchanting Magic of Oz layout that Susan made. Here she uses paper layering to create a fantastic 3-D look. This LO totally captures the playful and colorful spirit of Oz.
Here is another marvelous layout by Susan. This one features our Once Upon a Springtime collection. Again you can see her love for creating depth and dimension while also using pretty embellishments to add even more beauty!
This next brilliantly talented artist is joining us for her second year in a row on the Graphic 45 design team! We are so happy to welcome back the fabulous Tara Orr! Tara's creativity is the stuff that dreams are made of. Seeing a new creation by Tara is like opening a present on Christmas morning. Her work is endlessly captivating and enchanting. She puts so much love and attention in each project she creates, often drawing upon inspiration from her children and family. Her style is perfect for Graphic 45! She uses lots of beautiful layering, paper distressing and gorgeous embellishments in her unique crafts. Whether it's a beautiful layout, altered art piece, mini album or piece of home decor, Tara always knows how bring all the elements together to create something astonishing. Her blog Each Moment, Only Once is a testament to her diverse range of techniques and artistic expertize. Please join us in welcoming back the wonderful Tara Orr!
"I live in Beautiful British Columbia, Canada with my gorgeous husband of 11 years and our three amazing kids who are the heart and soul of my projects. I am now a SAHM to my precious little kiddos but before that, I worked as a webmaster in the Technology industry for many years. Random Facts about Me: I have a degree in Psychology, a green belt in karate, love horseback riding (although its been way too long since I last rode), I order a grande dark from Starbucks almost every day, prefer chocolate to any other sweet, gave up hope of maintaining my 'Monica from Friends' (as my husband would describe) cleaning habit once I had kids of my own, have earned more grey hairs and wrinkles in the past 7 years than I could have imagined and love my family more than anything else on the face of this earth! I started scrapbooking in 2008. Instant addiction. I love papercrafting! It challenges me, it relaxes me and it lets me escape into a world of creativity that I adore. I love to explore different techniques and styles but I feel most natural working with a shabby chic genre with lots of distressing! I am so honoured to have the opportunity to design with Graphic 45 for another year! If you want to take a peek at some of my work, please stop by my blog for a visit – I'd love to have you!" -Tara Orr
Here are the gorgeous creations that Tara submitted for the final round of the Graphic 45 design team call. Here we have an adorable and beautiful Little Darlings layout. You can see how well Tara takes a lovely photo and creates an enchanting world around it. She uses lots of stunning paper layering and distressing in this piece. Her stunning shabby-chic style really shines!
Here is a remarkable altered art piece that features Curtain Call. This piece adheres to the classic color pallet of Curtain Call with rich blacks, whites and creams. Beautiful embellishments give depth and movement to this wonderful piece. It is like stepping back in time!
Here is another gorgeous Little Darlings layout by Tara. The colors in this LO are just incredible! You can really feel the deep love that Tara has for the creative process. Layouts like this one show how wonderful scrapping is for turning our love for life into a tangible work of art!
This is another beautiful layout by Tara. This one features Olde Curiosity Shoppe! The central photo captures the sweet inquisitiveness of childhood, while the gorgeous colors and playful paper pattern bring pure delight!
That's all for today, G45ers. Thank you all so much for joining us. Huge thanks to Susan and Tara for their fantastic work today. We hope you all got a big dose of inspiration from today's gorgeous crafts! Please join us on Monday as we bring you more design team introductions, a new blog contest and lots of awe-inspiring crafts. We wish you all a happy day and a fantastic weekend!
With Love and Pretty Paper,
Your Friends at Graphic 45