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With the growing installed equipment base, Huisman Services is in constant contact with clients owning all types of equipment worldwide. This places them in the best position to offer service to maximise the clients' safety and performance during the entire lifecycle of Huisman equipment.
Huisman Services creates value by means of:
- Safety First
- Dedicated First Point of Contact
- Huisman Quality Assurance
- Huisman Knowledge and Data
- Global Client Knowledge Base
- Global Support and Assistance
Safety First
At Huisman, a safe working environment is the number one priority for Huisman employees and the employees of Huisman clients and suppliers. Huisman strives for continuous improvement of procedures and systems related to health and safety, which is seen as a key driver for a safe and successful working environment.
Depending on internal and external needs, training programs or initiatives are developed for all Huisman employees to become conscious of not only their health and safety, but also of the health and safety of those around them.
In practice, this may include safety leadership training and/or dropped object awareness training in addition to training programs such as: HUET, BOSIET, or other locally required training. These programs ensure a broad range of safety needs for a diverse range of locations and applications: from the office to on-site; wherever Huisman operates.
Dedicated First Point of Contact
Huisman Services always appoints clients a first point of contact, if possible in the same or neighbouring time zone.
- Always directly in contact with the correct person within the organisation;
- Knowledge of the specific equipment, client demands and requirements;
- Up-to-date on the current status of the equipment / ongoing issues;
- Backed-up by our Customer Relationship and Service Management (CRSM) Program;
- Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of the client's operations and preferences.
Global Quality Assurance
Quality is key. Years of R&D, product design, manufacturing, assembly, commissioning and servicing have resulted in a high level of material and component understanding that is embedded in our quality standards, manufacturing and delivery requirements. Furthermore, Huisman has the knowledge of operational systems in the field and their performance in daily operations in harsh environments.
Besides working with Huisman's own guidelines and procedures, Huisman has extensive experience working with recognised authorities and notified bodies such as Lloyd's, DNV, ABS, API and others who demand that specific requirements are met.
- Direct connection to Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) data and support to ensure the original Huisman quality;
- Experience with internationally operating authorities & notified bodies;
- Extended experience and long-lasting collaboration with Huisman audited and approved suppliers.
Knowledge & Data
Huisman performs service on Huisman-built equipment. Service Engineers working on the equipment have access to the original engineering data. When faced with complex engineering questions, the Service Engineers can rely on the office based Engineers under the coordination of the Service Coordinators.
Huisman Services serves as the clients' point of contact for all their Huisman equipment related training needs during the operational lifecycle of the equipment.
- Always access to original and updated engineering data;
- Engineers with knowledge of the latest developments;
- First point of contact (Account Manager) to monitor the progress during engineering orders;
- Ensure original Huisman quality in parts, repairs and modifications;
- Huisman Academy develops and executes client specific training courses.
Global Knowledge Base
All Huisman Service locations have direct access to the CRSM (Customer Relationship and Service Management) programme that is used within the organization. With this CRSM programme, the history of each piece of Huisman equipment is documented and available in every global Service office.
Any issue raised by the client is registered with a unique tracking number in the CRSM programme. Using this system, all relevant documents are traceable and globally available in all of the Huisman Service offices.
- The history and knowledge of the equipment is globally available;
- A quick global response is possible when urgently needed;
- Current ongoing development will allow valuable client information to be accessed securely and reliably by our clients via internet.
Global Support & Assistance
Over the years, Huisman has expanded with several Service / After Sales offices and Production locations worldwide. From these locations, Huisman supports all clients globally, coordinated by a dedicated Account Manager.


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LNP may repeal same-sex civil union laws
Queensland's Liberal National Party may repeal laws that allow same-sex civil unions in the state if it wins government next year.
The Civil Partnerships Bill passed Parliament on Wednesday night, 47 votes to 40, with all 31 LNP MPs voting as a bloc against it.
The opposition has called the bill a vote-grabbing political stunt and says it was rushed through in the last sitting week of the year, and possibly the last before the state election.
"We'll look at the repeal of it, but it may not be possible," Deputy Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls told the ABC today.
"It may be that people have altered their circumstances, or are in train to change their circumstances, as a result of that legislation."
He said repealing laws was not an easy process and while the LNP would look at it, the party's major focus would be on building the economy and driving down the cost of living.
Employment, Skills and Mining Minister Stirling Hinchliffe said Labor was prepared for the laws to become an election issue.
Opponents of them have vowed to campaign in seats where Labor is vulnerable, but Mr Hinchliffe said the party was prepared for that.
"When you take a principled stand on something you have to understand and wear what comes with that," he told the ABC.
"There are certainly people out there in the community who've taken the view that they're going to campaign on this issue against members who've supported it.
"But equally, I presume there'll be some people in the community who'll want to campaign to support those who supported it."

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Purchasing a 40th anniversary gift for a husband is sometimes difficult even though you know him well. Traditional 40th anniversary gifts typically incorporate red rubies. Some gifts use ruby stones and some are just ruby-colored items. While searching for an item, be sure to get something that your husband will enjoy.
Professional Items
Some gifts are appropriate for a husband with a professional career. Show your support for your husband's office job with a thoughtful ruby red tie he will wear out on a date night to celebrate your anniversary. This gift goes well with a gift card to a fancy restaurant. Alternatively, purchase a ruby-encrusted paperweight for your husband to keep at his office desk.
Vacation Away
Take a loose interpretation on the ruby theme. Go to a destination with ruby in its name. Your husband will enjoy a trip to Ruby Falls in Chattanooga, Tennessee, if he is the outdoorsy type. Stay at a quality cabin with a hot tub so you both may relax. Alternatively, make a visit to Cherokee, North Carolina, to visit the ruby mine.
CD Mix
CD mixes are inexpensive, thoughtful and sentimental gifts. Create a playlist of songs about rubies to go along with the traditional ruby theme. Some songs to include are "Ruby Tuesday" by the Rolling Stones and "Ruby" by Kenny Rogers. More examples are "Ruby" by Ray Charles and "Ruby Dear" by the Talking Heads. Decorate the cover of the CD with an adhesive CD label. Then leave a thoughtful message on the cover, such as "Rubies on Our 40th."
Some guys appreciate jewelry with rubies on it, especially if he has fancy events to attend. For instance, buy your guy a thick, gold ring with rubies encrusted on it, or get him some silver cufflinks with rubies embedded in them. Have the cufflinks engraved with the man's initials if there is room. Alternatively, purchase a tie clip with rubies on it.
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Neighbours' shock at alleged homicide in 'cheery' street
HOPE St residents were left rattled by news of an apparent homicide in their usually quiet Warwick street.
Just before 6pm yesterday, police responded to reports of a disturbance in the small Warwick street.
On arrival officers located a 54-year-old Warwick man with a serious head wound.
He died at the scene.
A 29-year-old Warwick man was taken into custody and is assisting police with inquiries.
One neighbour, who asked to remain anonymous, said the house was a rental and occupants changed regularly.
"We have just have seen them across the street. They haven't been there that long," she said.
"It's a family-friendly, quiet street, usually.
"They have been some disturbances at that house before but apart from that, it's a very cheery and neighbourly kind of street"
Her family were alerted to the incident when they saw flashing lights through their hallway.
"We just heard police cars coming and going, and the ambulances," the concerned resident said.
"It is a bit of a shock but police were here very quickly."
Fellow neighbours Kay and Ken Fletcher didn't hear the commotion and were shocked to find out this morning.
"They have parties and that, but it's a pretty good neighbourhood. That's why we moved here," Mr Fletcher said.
Like their fellow neighbour, the couple said the house changed renters quickly.
Neither neighbour knew the identity of the deceased.


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At Mount Stewart you can pick up the more unusual species of plants that we grow in our own gardens.
We stock a wide variety of plants, garden ornaments, and garden furniture. The plants for sale in our garden shop are spray-free, and most are grown on the property from our own stock using peat-free compost.
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4 Unique Use Cases for Microsoft Teams
This constantly evolving Microsoft product offers opportunities for many industries including healthcare, manufacturing, education and food service.
2020 has been an incredible year for Microsoft and especially for Microsoft Teams. With many organizations quickly adopting new ways for employees to work from anywhere, Microsoft Teams has seen a meteoric rise in usage for meetings and collaboration. In fact, Microsoft recently announced that by the end of April 2020, usage of Microsoft Teams had surpassed 75 million active users, a massive increase from the 44 million users reported the previous month.
One of the greatest assets of Microsoft Teams is that the platform is growing and adding new capabilities on a seemingly weekly basis. As organizations look for new ways to use the platform and further integrate Teams into their business processes, they will soon discover solutions for customized workflows, business process automation, direct integrations with Microsoft and third-party applications that provide a single pane of glass experience, and even industry vertical-specific functionality for supported tenants.
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Greenpeace Activists Occupy Oil Rig in Norwegian Arctic
A group of fifteen Greenpeace activists from eight different countries boarded and climbed an oil rig in the Norwegian arctic Monday morning, protesting a Norwegian company's plans to drill there.
The activists, who were in the area on the Greenpeace ship the MV Esperanza in the Barents Sea approximately 190 miles north of Norway, made the decision to board the drilling rig Transocean Spitsbergen, which was en route to the Hoop area in the Barents Sea, after learning that the Norwegian government had reversed an earlier decision blocking drilling in the region.
Greenpeace says the drilling site, the most northernmost well in the Norwegian Arctic, is too close to the Bear Island nature reserve — and an oil spill would devastate the island's unique and unspoiled habitat.
Greenpeace's message: Pull out.
"The activists want to save this pristine and harsh environment from oil spills," Juha Aromaa, communications lead for Greenpeace Arctic Ship Tour tells Mashable. "They want to stop climate change that the burning of oil is causing. They have a clear message to the Norwegian Minister of Environment Tine Sundtoft; she must stop Statoil's Arctic drilling plans."
Sune Scheller, an activist on board the Esperanza, tells Mashable that one of the greatest challenges with Arctic drilling is the long distance to any infrastructure that would be necessary in the event of a spill. "Dangerous oil spills happen all the time," he says, "but when we are talking about the Arctic it is a whole different manner."
And so, they occupy.
Greenpeace Oil Rig
Statoil, in a statement posted on its website, says it "respects the right for legal protests and believes it is important with a democratic debate on the oil and industry," but called the protest illegal and irresponsible and raised concern for the safety of activists.
"We are concerned for the safety of the demonstrators who have made their way on board, and for the crew," the statement said.
"Several activists are now suspended by ropes underneath the rig, above the open sea and above the thrusters that must be kept running at all times to keep the rig in position. The weather is cold in the area, with temperatures around zero degrees Celsius. If the demonstrators were to fall down, their life and health would be at serious risk. Some of the activists are also carrying heavy equipment that could lead to drowning."
There is a dialogue going on between the crew onboard the rig and the activists, the company said, though Scheller told Mashable those talks have since broken down.
Statoil rig just called us asking about our intentions. We told them we're in it for the long haul #occupyarcticoil http://t.co/oZcd8iCxbP— Greenpeace Esperanza (@gp_espy) May 27, 2014
"They would like us to go away, and we responded that we would like them to stop Arctic oil drilling," he said of the sticking point between the two parties. With blue skies, calm seas and sunlight 24 hours per day, Scheller says the activists plan on staying as long as the weather holds out.
There is a Norwegian Coast Guard ship nearby, Scheller says, "but they are being very passive, they seem to be observing the situation" and have not made contact with the Esperanza.
Coast guard have arrived but are holding back. #NoArcticOil pic.twitter.com/kMxdjKbxRM— Greenpeace Esperanza (@gp_espy) May 27, 2014
You can follow the action on Twitter at the hashtag #OccupyArcticOil. Greenpeace's petition asking the oil company's biggest shareholder, the Norwegian government, "to stop these reckless plans before it's too late" had 61,000 signatures at time of writing.


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Germander speedwell is a perennial plant that grows up to 50 centimetres tall. It has narrow, opposite leaves that are toothed and hairy, and hairy stems. It has a fibrous root system and creeps along the ground, spreading by sending down roots at the stem nodes. The flowers are blue or violet, each with a white eye. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female reproductive parts) and are pollinated by insects. The mature fruit is a heart-shaped capsule.
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On Wednesday, Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research confirmed that Mayor Sylvester Turner is not kidding about obliterating Houston's pot holes.
Kinder Institute researchers set out to make sure that the stats Turner has been keeping on the pothole project's very own website, houstonpotholes.org, are accurate. Between January 4 and February 16, Public Works crews have filled a total of 9,815 potholes — 1,976 of which were reported by citizens on 311 calls. Ninety-five percent of the time, crews fixed potholes reported by citizens within the next business day, as Turner promised upon taking office.
When Kinder did its own analysis of the data, it turned out correct.
"This independent verification confirms that we are delivering on the promise to quickly respond to pothole complaints," Turner said at a press conference. "This is an example of the new level of customer service I expect city employees to deliver. Now it's time for us to focus on achieving success for more complicated street repairs."
Those more complicated repairs include things like street paving and panels that need to be repaired on skid patches — more extensive work that may be covered under ReBuild Houston, an initiative to repair Houston's streets and drainage infrastructure. If a citizen calls in a pothole that falls under an existing ReBuild Houston project or larger repair project, that pothole won't be fixed. Potholes also won't be fixed if they're on private property or if the crew doesn't think they're actually hazards. The Kinder Institute recommended that the city find a better way to make this clear to 311 callers, so as to avoid angering citizens.
As for funding the pothole obliteration, Turner said that the city is only using existing funds and those left over from Mayor Annise Parker's $10 million initiative to do the same.
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But to continue at this rate, he said the city might have to expand repair funds for 2017's budget — and given Turner's promise to make budget "sacrifices," that could be tricky.
Toward the end of the press conference, Turner explained that, to shrink the budget, layoffs will be necessary. The only city employees who won't be at risk, he said, are police officers. He said he would be "reluctant" to lay off firefighters, but won't take it off the table. He has also proposed to cut each individual council member's allotted $1 million budget, used for various projects in their districts, by 75 percent.
"My hope is that we can put forth a budget that minimizes the number of layoffs, and that's why I've asked everyone to engage in a shared sacrifice, including the members of city council who are sitting around the table today."
While Turner said that filling potholes will remain a priority, whether a potential laid-off firefighter agrees is perhaps a different question. The budget's due out this June.


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The First Snowfall
I am not going to do the obvious subject for this post, basically because I can't. The horrific events of last Friday in Connecticut have already caused me three very disturbed nights sleep. As a volunteer in a school I spend a fair amount of my time giving one to one attention to little ones. Unfortunately I have not been given training of the lockdown procedure that is practiced in schools here even though I spend so much time there a teacher recently commented that "I'll be getting a bedroom there soon". My worries about how I would react in such an unthinkable situation is giving me nightmares. I hope more than anything that I will never be in such a horrendous situation but if that should ever happen I hope more than anything that I will have the bravery to not panic and to protect the kids entrusted to me with my life.
On a lighter note, the mood in school has been pretty crazy lately as the kids await our first big snowfall of the season. We've had 'flurries' on and off but despite being constantly forecast nothing significant has happened yet. I have to say it really surprises me that the kids get so excited buy the prospect of a big snowfall. I mean it's not like it's not going to snow is it? Here in Canada it IS going to snow the only question is when will it start and how much we will get. In the UK you may go several consecutive winters without any snow at all and when any amount of snow falls no matter how insignificant it means snow days, schools are closed the kids get a day off, the excitement from children is understandable. Here, however, a huge snowfall means little. Life continues as normal, roads are cleared (main roads, side roads, all of them!) public transit runs and schools are open. It's 'business as usual'. In fact the kids still go outside a recess if the temperature is above -15oC. This country is making men out of my boys!
I wonder if the excitement at the snow is just a manifestation of Canadians enthusiasm for just about everything. I think it's fair to say us Brits do love to moan; we especially love to complain about the weather. That doesn't happen here, people may remark, "I don't really like the winter" but that's it, it's not a moan simply a statement but the majority of people love all the seasons, they look forward to the next one while still enjoying the current one. It still baffles me that the kids here stare longingly out of the winter at the sight of the first few flakes. Maybe is just because kids love snow regardless of where they live.


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She has hit headlines over the past few months with her increasingly erratic behaviour.
So the latest pictures of Demi Moore are likely to cause concern among her family and friends, as the actress was seen exhibiting some very bizarre behaviour at a party with Lenny Kravitz on Wednesday night.
The 50-year-old actress played up to the photographers present at the Chanel Beachside Barbecue held at Soho Beach House Miami, leaving friends including Kravitz and George Clooney's girlfriend Stacy Keibler bemused by her antics.
The mother-of-three was seen lifting her arms and bumping and grinding while in her seat, as Kravitz appeared embarrassed and looked away.
While Demi's new beau American art dealer Vito Schnabel, 26, was at the event, the pair didn't pose up together, but were rumoured to have indulged in a passionate PDA inside.
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ForBInc: Forest business incubation toolkit by and for Forest and Farm Producer Organisations
Anna Bolin, Duncan Macqueen, Martin Greijmans, Sophie Grouwels, Kanimang Camara, Linda Ndethiu
Toolkit, 58 pages
In rural areas, implementing sustainable development and climate action requires the coordinated action of the 1.5 billion male and female forest and farm producers who live there. The profitability and sustainability of their businesses will define whether the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change can be achieved. Significant development and climate finance exists — but the pipeline of investible businesses into which it can flow to scale up integrated solutions is blocked. Far too little is being done to incubate sustainable and locally controlled forest businesses through which that upscaling might happen.
The specific challenges in forest landscapes - including remoteness, high transaction costs, long production timeframes, overlapping rights and high levels of informality - mean that they are perceived as high risk and therefore forest business incubation needs a rather unique approach. A well-designed system of incubators in the forest landscape that de-risks investment into this crucial sector, and fills the business support gap, could really make a difference.
By providing an approach to incubation that is adapted to the forest and farm landscape, this toolkit aims to address that gap. It is written primarily for second-tier umbrella organisations of forest and farm producers, who aspire to offer business incubation services for their members. It draws on findings from 11 case studies of different forest business incubation models and is laid out in a logical sequence of 5 modules with practical tips and guidance throughout.
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To restore forests and get out of poverty, rural communities need the knowledge and connections to build flourishing enterprises. Forest landscapes are among the most isolated and marginalised areas in the world, where land, food and energy security and income generation are pressing concerns. Achieving sustainable development in the forest landscape while addressing those immediate needs is a complex challenge that requires joined-up efforts.
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When a dry cow transitions to being a lactating cow, her energy requirements are similar to that of a human running two marathons a day. Because of this, the transition period from calving to lactating is critical due to the physiological and endocrinal challenges to homeostasis these cows face. The sudden demand in milk production can cause significant metabolic stress that must be managed and the cow must be prepared. Metabolic stress is often paired with oxidative stress caused by an imbalance in the production of free radicals and peroxides and a lack of antioxidants to neutralize them. The rumen is unable to detoxify the peroxides and free radicals, so they build up, causing a halt in the normal flow of microbial protein synthesis and fiber digestion as well as bio-hydrogenation of fatty acids. Interruptions on a cellular level also occur. For example, lipid membranes are rich in polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA). Free radicals formed during oxidative stress lead to peroxidation of PUFA in the lipid membranes, damaging cells.
All of these issues can cause a decrease in fluid milk production, milk fat production and overall cow health. When antioxidants are fed, they chemically stabilize the harmful free radicals. This neutralizes the free radicals, which allows them to continue along the metabolic pathway and not interrupt normal rumen flow. Antioxidants also help repair cellular damage that occurs from peroxides and oxidative stress. By feeding antioxidants before and throughout transition period, cows are less likely to experience such metabolic stress and will have a smoother and more productive time during lactation.
Dr. Karen Luchterhand- Manager of the NOVUS® C.O.W.S. Program
The C.O.W.S. program has been successful in working with dairy producers and their teams to unlock bottlenecks in their operations.
The program is provided by Novus International and was developed in collaboration with Dan Weary and Marina Von Keyserlingk from the University of British Columbia. It started in 2010 with the assistance of two graduate students from the University of British Columbia visiting and collecting data from mature, high-production Holstein pens from 200 dairy farms in the U.S.
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The GAAIA campaign against salmon farming uses images similar to those used against the tobacco industry. (Photo: gaaia.org)
Global campaign launched against Big Aquaculture
Wednesday, February 02, 2011, 15:30 (GMT + 9)
The brand-new Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture (GAAIA) has commenced a global campaign against Big Aquaculture warning consumers about the dangers of salmon farming. This month, the alliance will issue a new report on salmon called "Smoke on the Water, Cancer on the Coast" and later others on shrimp, tuna and genetically engineered (GE) fish.
GAAIA's "Salmon Farming Kills" campaign uses similar graphic imagery to the "Smoking Kills" campaigns employed against Big Tobacco.
"Salmon farming kills around the world and should carry a global health warning," said Don Staniford, global coordinator for GAAIA in British Columbia (BC). "As good global citizens we need to face the fact that salmon farming seriously damages human health, the health of our global ocean and the health of wild fish."
Kurt Oddekalv, leader of Norges Miljøvernforbund (Green Warriors of Norway), disputed that salmon aquaculture's pricey PR campaigns endorsing farmed salmon as safe and sustainable are red flags that salmon farming is injurious to the environment and human consumers. He said it is thus counterproductive for salmon farmers to deny peer-reviewed scientific evidence describing human health and environment dangers.
"Here in Norway the industry is on death row with infectious diseases, sea lice infestations, chemical resistance, escapes and depleted fish feed issues looming as the last nails in the coffin," Oddekalv stated.
Juan Carlos Cardenas, a veterinary doctor and director of Chile's Ecoceanos, argued that Norwegian aquaculture firms operating in Chile provoked the biggest sanitary, environmental and social crisis in the country's south coastal regions. In the last three years, 20,000 jobs have been lost there.
He also commented on the use of wild fish for farmed fish feed.
"By draining our Southeast Pacific oceans of wild fish for feed, Norwegian-owned salmon farmers are robbing Pedro to pay John and stealing fish out of the mouths of Latin Americans," said Cardenas. "This lethal industry has been responsible for the deaths of divers and 64 workers as well as hundreds of sea lions and other marine birds and mammals."
Canadian biologist Otto Langer compared the fish farming industry to that of tobacco insofar as denying the health risks of its products.
"If the fish farmers want to play the same game as the cigarette manufacturers did for many years and live in denial they're welcome to it but it's not going to give rise to any solutions," he said in the documentary film "Farmed Salmon Exposed: The Global Reach of the Norwegian salmon farming industry" shown during last year's Seafood Summit.
GAAIA is an international network working to further environmentally and socially responsible fish farming. It recognizes that the farming of salmon, shrimp, tuna and "Frankenfish" threatens sustainable and safe seafood production.
GAAIA touts itself as leading the fight against standards-setting and certification schemes for salmon and shrimp farming especially.
Don Staniford, global coordinator for GAAIA, is now attending the Seafood Summit "Responsibility Without Borders?" in Vancouver.
Related articles:
- Senators reintroduce legislation to ban GE salmon
- Scotland's salmon farms using booming amounts of chemicals
- Aquaculture farm threatens wild salmon: Atlantic Salmon Federation
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Terremark is rolling out a cloud computing service, accelerating a trend in which servers and storage are being provided over the Web.
Terremark has a slightly different take on cloud computing than rival Amazon, which offers separate services for storage and servers, and lets customers buy as many or as few computing resources as they want.
With Terremark, customers purchase a dedicated pool of processing, memory and storage, billed in a lump sum, and can scale up on the fly as needed. The "cloud" is a mix of servers, storage and virtualization software from HP, IBM, Cisco, VMware and 3Par.
"Using a Web-based interface, you can create and deploy virtual servers," says Simon West, chief marketing officer. "You get a pre-allocated set of resources, you're not sharing them with anyone else. ... You are getting billed for that set of resources rather than a minute-by-minute count. Our enterprises signal to us they need a certain stability in the way this is used or billed."
Terremark got its start selling dedicated physical servers, and has data centers in Silicon Valley, Dallas, Miami and the Washington, D.C. region, all of which will be used for the cloud computing offering. Future data center locations include Latin America and Europe. Users can make changes to their servers and storage in minutes instead of weeks, compared with previous Terremark offerings, the company says.
Gartner analyst Lydia Leong says it's a natural step for Terremark to enter the emerging cloud computing market.
"Traditional hosting players are evolving into cloud computing vendors," she says. "It's a very natural evolution for them because they're used to managing lots of hardware."
Customers can choose varying levels of management. Terremark can maintain only the hardware and virtualization layer for those customers who want more control, Leong says. Customers can also choose to have Terremark manage everything except the application code.
Leong expects users to include seasonal businesses, such as tax preparers, and in general enterprises that are willing to place hardware outside their own walls. Corporate mail servers, ERP systems and customer-facing Web sites are ideal candidates for Terremark's service, according to West.
Terremark is trying to differentiate itself by offering extensive visibility into performance and granularity of control through its Web-based Infinicenter interface. "Servers can be configured and provisioned in minutes, grouped and organized according to role, and dynamically extended according to utilization," Terremark states in a press release. "A variety of preconfigured server roles are available across Microsoft Windows, Linux and Sun Solaris operating systems. .. Infinicenter also provides a full reporting interface that allows instant insight into resource utilization and application performance."
Base packages start at several thousand dollars per month and average about US$20,000 a month, according to Terremark.


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Which woman am I in 2018?
Illustrations by Izak Zenou, for Susan Miller's Year Ahead 2018 Wall Calendar . I chose images that somehow spoke to me, telling me a story about a woman you could find in front of the Guggenheim Museum, with an eye for … Continue reading
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Cover-ups and giveaways, an orientation
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Inspiration from shop windows in Milan this week.
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Drinking Buddy Water Bottle
Regular price SGD 34.90
Stay hydrated on the go without the bulkiness of traditional tumblers with these water bottles! With a form factor almost as thin as a notebook, these bottles will fit in most bags without the bulk.
- Size: Approximately the size of an A5 notebook
- Holds up to 420ml
- BPA-Free
- Made from food grade plastic
- Dishwasher safe
- Wash before use
- 12.5 x 3 x 21 cm (cap on)


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Lorna Jones provided a copy of Annual Report 2010 for the French Canadian Special Interest Group that includes a comprehensive history of their meetings and members. The SIG formed five years ago and held its first meeting on Wednesday, May 25, 2005. Subsequent meetings were held on Wednesdays 5-6 times per year until 2008 when meeting days were changed to Saturday to accommodate members who worked during the week.
Bill O'Neil, Mary Beth Frederick, Lorna Jones and Jane Lindsey
By January 2006, the group consisted of ten members: Carol Backhus, Anne Cyr, the Freemans, Lorna Jones, Wayne Knauf, Jane Lindsey, David Lowndes, Bill O'Neil, Al Riel and Lynn Theuriet. Since that time some of the original ten have moved away but new members include: Mary Beth Frederick, Tom Gesner, Gary Reopelle, Barry Goyette, Craig Siulinski, Christine Morton, Gary Darnsteadt, John Lee and Gibran Rath.
The group now has a total of sixteen members who come when they can to the three scheduled meetings each year. They try to meet in the morning on second Saturdays so they can stay for the membership meeting in the afternoon at 1:00 p.m.
French-Canadian SIG Coordinator Lorna E. Jones
Lorna reports:
The meetings usually are unstructured – someone comes with a 'brick wall' question and we all dive in and work on it. We frequently have 'show and tell' where we share new websites, or a book someone has found, or some new French translation list. It's all very low-key, but entertaining, and the folks who attend are great.Email Lorna Jones if you would like to receive notice of upcoming meetings.
Do you have ancestors who may have moved to the mid-west in the early 1800s? Or perhaps some who were born in Canada, but the exact location is unknown? The American-Canadian border was easily crossed; many others came up the Mississippi via New Orleans to settle before the railways were built.
The French-Canadian Special Interest Group meets to discuss research problems. It is a small group so there is plenty of opportunity for each issue to be debated thoroughly. Help for French translation is available, as well as lots of ideas about where to search, both on the web and in books.
The next meeting of the French-Canadian Special Interest Group is at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 10, 2010.
Photographs courtesy of Jane Knowles Lindsey.


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We have magnetic swipe cards at my office to unlock the doors. You wave them at a sensor, it beeps, and the door unlocks. I used to carry my card in my pocket, but I kept forgetting it in my pants. I recently switched to wearing it on a lanyard around my neck -- less attractive, but also easier to notice at the end of the day.
Unfortunately with it around my neck, it means my head is closer to be beeping sensor. That thing is loud when my head is right there! It hurts my ears. Strange that it never bothered me at arm's length, but neck length is just too close.
I've been experimenting with ways to resolve this. For awhile I would swipe the card and then jump back, hoping to being clear before the beep. It didn't work. Then I tried taking it off my neck as I approached, but that was annoying. The lanyard tended to get tangled up in my ears or hair.
I could plug my ears, but it's difficult to do that while swiping a card with one hand. Also it would probably look silly.
Today I hit on the perfect solution though. I pull the card toward the sensor with my right hand (or just lean forward and let it sense the card hanging from my neck), and turn my head to the right. My left ear is right there, but I discretely cover that ear with my left hand. My right ear is protected by being turned away.
Perfect! The nasty beeping is diminished enough that it doesn't bother my ears at all. It's convenient, it'll keep me from forgetting my card, and I don't look all that silly. Everybody wins -- or at least I do.


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Calendar of Events: Mountainside
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Sat, February 23, 1:00 PM
Westfield Area YMCA, Westfield
Free Healthy Kids Expo
This event will include active indoor fun including t-ball, basketball and track & field stations, the inflatable obstacle course, arts & crafts activities and carnival games. Dance Academy will offer 30 minute demo classes during the event: 1:30 p.m. for ages 3-5, 2:30 p.m. for ages 6+ and 3:30 p.m. for ages 3-5. Register at www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0b4fafaa29a7ff2-healthy for dance ...220 Clark Street Westfield, NJ 07090
Sat, February 23, 6:30 PM
ohn H. Stamler Police Academy, on Union County Vo-Tech Campus, Scotch Plains
What Parents Need To Know About Transgender ...
A free informational presentation for parents and community members
Parents and community members are invited to attend a free educational presentation, "What Parents Need to Know about Transgender Individuals" presented by Dr. Paula C. Rodriguez Rust of Spectrum Diversity, LLC.
The presentation will help parents and other adults better understand gender identity and transgender ...1776 Raritan Road Scotch Plains, NJ
Sun, February 24, 1:00 PM
Renaissance Church, Ren Students Space, Summit
GriefShare Support Group
Health & Wellness Religions And Spirituality
If you are navigating life after the death of a loved one, please join Renaissance Church for a 13-week support group. The weekly group includes video seminars and focused support by caring people who have been through the same challenges. You can join the group at any point. A $20 fee covers a workbook and other expenses. More information and registration (recommended, but not required) is ...497 Springfield Ave. Summit, NJ 07901


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Parables of Redemption: The Restored Doctrine of the Atonement as Taught in the Parables of Jesus Christ
This gospel study is the first of its kind to focus attention wholly on the Atonement as the centerpiece of Christ's parables. Join six celebrated LDS scholars in an in-depth examination of specific parables of the Master that teach us directly about the Atonement.
Every page of this inspiring book will illuminate aspects of the Lord's ultimate act of redemption and will help the reader better understand the mercy, justice, depth, and power of His infinite sacrifice for all humankind.
Come to understand the parables of redemption through this detailed study of six stories from the New Testament.
Authors C. Robert Line, Ronald E. Bartholomew, R. Scott Burton, Robert England Lee, Craig Frogley, and Andrew C. Skinner are all renowned scholars and theologians. Most have worked for the Church Educational System or Institute of Religion and have been published previously. Brother Skinner is currently the executive director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.


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How To Make the Perfect Panini
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There's nothing better for lunch than a delicious panini. With warm golden brown toast, gooey cheese and plenty of meat and veggies, this is the way a sandwich is meant to be enjoyed. However, if you've never made a panini before it can be hard to make the sandwich perfect on the first try. Use these tips to make a better panini in your kitchen.
Coat Your Bread
What makes a panini a "panini" instead of just a plain sandwich is the way that it's toasted and pressed together. To get those golden, crispy toasted edges on your panini, it's important to coat your bread with butter or olive oil. These greasy substances will add flavor to your sandwich and give it the perfect exterior instead of burnt marks.
Use a Panini Maker
Another key to getting a panini that's toasted to perfection is using the right tool. Don't risk burning your sandwich on a stovetop pan. Use a panini maker instead. This appliance heats both sides of your panini at the same time for even and efficient cooking. You'll be able to toast your bread and melt your cheese in a matter of minutes - you can even make more than one sandwich at the same time.
Additionally, with a Oster® DuraCeramic™ Panini Maker, you don't have to worry about nonstick sprays or parchment paper - the panini maker is designed with a unique DuraCeramic™ natural ceramic non-stick coated surface that keeps your panini from sticking.
Save the Greens for the End
When you're making a panini, it's important to heat all of your ingredients together. Not only does it bond them together in one warm sandwich, but it also helps combine the flavors. However, there's one group of ingredients you shouldn't heat: the greens.
Add your lettuce, spinach, arugula and other greens to the panini after it's done toasting. If you include it on your sandwich during the heating, it will wilt. Keep it for the end and it will stay fresh and crisp.
Use the Right Ratio and the Best Ingredients


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Many users have passcodes set on their iPhones to deter other unauthorized persons from gaining access. Unfortunately, forgetting the passcode is something that a lot of people experience in their daily lives. When you forget your passcode, most people will try guessing the passcode repeatedly. When you enter the wrong passcode six times on your iPhone, it will be disabled and you will not be able to use it unless it is unlocked. Fortunately, we are here to help you learn how to restore a disabled iPhone XR/XS/XS Max/X/8/7/6/SE/5/4.
Choose The Right Way to Restore Disabled iPhone
There are four ways to restore a disabled iPhone. each method has its own procedures and advantages.
- If want it easy, you can use iPhone password unlocker to get your iPhone into disabled iPhone because it helps in any disabled or unlocked situations.
- If you synced your iPhone to iTunes before, you can use such iTunes to back up and restore your iPhone.
- If "Find My iPhone" is enabled on your iPhone and you know the Apple ID and password, you can also use iCloud to remotely erase your iPhone and its passcode.
- If you have synced your iPhone or you didn't enable "Find My iPhone", you can use recovery mode to restore your disabled iPhone. Sometimes this doesn't work at once, you may need to repeat the steps again and again until it works.
How to Instantly Restore Disabled iPhone via LockWiper
If you are looking for ways to restore a disabled iPhone without the need of entering iPhone password or iCloud passcode, that is effective and takes just a few minutes to complete, then iMyFone LockWiper is the tool you need. This tool lets you unlock or restore iPhone and iPad screen passcode with ease. With this iPhone unlocking tool, no passcode, Touch ID or Face ID stands a chance of not being cracked.
LockWiper's Great Features:
- Quickly restore disabled iPhone and remove the password without hassle
- Bypass Apple ID on all iDevices without password when you can access your device settings.
- Unlock locked iPhone without password even when its screen is not responsive
- Support any type of screen lock, like 4or 6 digit passcode, Face ID, and Touch ID
- Compatible with all iOS versions, iPhones, iPads or iPod touch. iOS 14 and iPhone XS (Max) are included.
Steps to Restore Disabled iPhone without Any Password
Step 1: Download and install iMyFone Lockwiper on your computer. Then launch the software. Click on the Start button to commence the unlocking process.
Step 2: Connect your iPhone to the computer using a USB cable. Follow the onscreen guide to put your device in DFU mode.
Step 3: Download the firmware package for your device. Once the Firmware has been downloaded, click on the Start to Verify button. This will ensure that the firmware package is compatible with your device.
Step 4: Click on Start Unlock button for the tool to start removing the passcode. Enter 000000 and click Unlock to confirm that you want to use this tool to unlock your iPhone.
Just wait for it to unlock your iPhone. It won't take long. Then you set up your iPhone with new passcode.
How to Restore Disabled iPhone Using Synced iTunes
You can restore your iPhone via iTunes if you recently synced your device via this service on your computer. iTunes will erase the passcode and give you access to your iPhone once again.
Step 1: Connect your iPhone to a computer that was used to sync with the iPhone
Step 2: Launch iTunes on the computer. iTunes will automatically detect your device and start syncing it and backing up your data. (If it asks for passcode, please change to another iTunes you synced before.)
Step 3: Once the syncing and backing up of data is complete, click on the Restore iPhone button.
Step 4: When it's done, you can set up your iPhone by "Restore from iTunes Backup". Pick the most recent or relevant backup file to start the restoration process.
Conditions for this method to work:
- You must have trusted and synced your iPhone with such iTunes.
- This way only works in a day since your iPhone was disabled.
- If your iPhone's version is iOS 11 or later, the feature "USB Accessories" (which you can find in "Settings > Touch ID & Passcode") must be enabled.
- If "USB Accessories" is disabled, the way only works in a hour since your iPhone was disabled.
How to Restore A Disabled iPhone via iCloud
You can also use iCloud service to restore a blocked iPhone. This service will enable you to remotely erase your iPhone and gain access to it.
Step 1: Open icloud.com on your computer browser and sign in to your account using your Apple ID and password.
Step 2: Click on the Find iPhone option.
Step 3: Tap All Devices at the top of the display screen.
Step 4: Choose your disabled device from the list.
Step 5: Click on the Erase iPhone button and confirm it to start the erasing process.
Conditions for this method to work:
- Your iPhone must connect to internet, no matter cellular data or Wi-Fi.
- You must set up Find My iPhone feature on your device.
- You must the Apple ID and password that the iPhone is signed in.
How to Restore Disabled iPhone in Recovery Mode
This is a more drastic method for restoring your disabled iPhone. It will erase your iPhone and the passcode.
Step 1: Connect your iPhone or iPad to computer and launch iTunes. If you don't have a computer, borrow one from your friends.
Step 2: Force restart your iPhone while it's connected:
- On iPhone 8 and Later: Quickly press and release Volume Up button, quickly press and release Volume Down button, keep pressing the Side button until you see the iTunes logo.
- On iPhone 7/7 Plus: Keep pressing the Volume Down and Side buttons until you see the iTunes logo.
- On iPhone 6s and Earlier, iPad or iPod: Keep pressing the Home and Side (or Top) buttons at the same time until you see the iTunes logo.
Step 3: On your computer, you will see the option to Restore or Update. Choose Restore here.
iTunes will download the latest iOS firmware for your iPhone. But note that, iPhone will exit the recovery mode if it takes more than 15 minutes. Then you need to repeat the steps again until it finally works.
In short, if your iPhone is disabled, the only way to fix it is to restore it. There is no way to fix the disabled iPhone without restoring. If you don't want to lose any data, you can use synced iTunes to back up first. If you want things easy, use iMyFone LockWiper iPhone password unlocker would be your best choice. It just takes you a few clicks and a few minutes to unlock your disabled iPhone.


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Join Opera Queensland in 2016 for an exciting new program of Open Stage workshops! By popular demand we've added 2 NEW school holiday workshops for budding young performers along with Puccini and Rossini themed adult workshops.
Come along for a new adventure to sing, meet new people and grow your skills under the guidance of professional Opera Queensland artists.
Our first workshop kicks off in April so don't wait to secure your place in the musical experience of a lifetime!
I had so much fun during this week and I would definitely do it again. My confidence and singing improved each time I attended and performing with the friends I made in the workshop made the whole experience so special.
The exercises that we did made us more rounded performers & built a sense of community. Our tutors were amazing & worked with the group so well. There was a perfect balance I felt with learning the pieces we were to perform & preparing us for our stage presence.


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Robert Lee Hotz explains "Why you shouldn't put your money where your mouth is": NYU researchers identified DNA from more than 3,000 pathogens on dollar bills. Eeewew.
If you thought you heard the last bit of bad news about HealthCare.gov, think again. Turns out the infamous cyber security threat, "Heartbleed," may have infected the site so the government is urging users of the troubled website to change their passwords.
The administration's push to get enrollees in Obamacare had a little help from friends -- friends like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, H & R Block, Ascension Health, Johnson & Johnson, and Kaiser Permanente, the New York Times reports.
Guidelines urging doctors to avoid codeine when treating children in emergency departments are generally unheeded.
Eight years after researchers implanted a vagina grown in a lab from the patient's own cells, the patient says she enjoys a normal sex life and is grateful to have received the treatment. She was one of four women who underwent the treatment. All had Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome.
Is this the deal of the millennium? Reuters reports Pfizer is considering a $100 billion bid for AstraZeneca. Cha-ching.
A Democratic president declares victory with a healthcare reform law, but Congressional Democrats are loath to mention the law when hitting the campaign trail: that's the dilemma facing President Obama heading into the mid-term elections.
Death is not a barrier to Medicaid coverage -- at least not in Illinois. That state's Medicaid agency paid an estimated $12 million for medical services for about 3,000 people "listed as deceased in other state records," the Associated Press reports
How did embalmers create the world's most beautiful mummy?
Morning Break is a daily guide to what's new and interesting on the Web for healthcare professionals, powered by the MedPage Today community. Got a tip? Send it to us: email@example.com.


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In particular, I noticed that the way I "do" parks has definitely changed since becoming a mom. No longer do I feel the need to "do it all" in a day. In addition, I'm okay with not going on every ride. I'm more than okay with going for only a few hours. It's more relaxing to just enjoy it.
Not to mention, I have fun staying in one section alone. We spent over an hour in the "Net Climb" section of Shamu's Happy Harbor at Sea World in Orlando. We genuinely enjoyed being kids again. I'm sure our son enjoys it this way too. Having his parents climb through tunnels and on nets is super fun and special.
While I was watching my 6'4" husband net climb & tunnel crawl, at least 4 stories up in the air, I thought to myself, 'Wow ... I never imagined seeing this!'
Then, I thought about how much all of us do, so differently as parents, as compared to our lives before children. Do you notice it too? Granted, your days may not be filled with your husband singing Chipmunks tunes at random hours of the day, when your child is no where near. And you may not have a husband that is addicted to the new adventures of "The Fresh Beat Band." However, you surely have your own stories of parental life. I'd love to hear them.
As an "FYI", we used our Fun Card. For the price of a one day ticket, purchased almost a year ago, we were able to enjoy Sea World for an additional 2 days for free. You can't beat that. Deals are great. But quality time is what it's all about; the bonus was that this time it was at Sea World in Orlando.
Update: December 15, 2018
Shamu's Happy Harbor is currently closed & will reopen in 2019, remodeled as a Sesame Street themed land. The Sea Carousel is still accessible.. However, the large net climb structure, Water Works, and Fun Ship are slated for removal. The Seven Seas Railway, Shamu Express, Flying Fiddler, Jazzy Jellies, Ocean Commotion, Sea Carousel, and Swishie Fishies will survive, although relocated, liley with new theme & layout. New rides, new buildings & the entire area is upposedly going to look like Sesame Street. I have to wonder if there will be a Sesame Street themed net climb area, as there is a similar one in Busch Gardens, their sister park in Tampa, Florida. While I will miss my memories, I look forward to improvements & new activites!


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Resolved to
Make a Difference
For many years, Professor Karen Tokarz was the chief architect of the highly ranked Clinical Education Program at the law school. Now as
director of the school's Dispute
Resolution Program, Tokarz continues to stress to students the professional responsibilities of lawyers to both their clients and society.
By Judy H. Watts
Around the world, across the nation — and notably at the Washington University School of Law — the practice and teaching of law are changing. "It's a transformation!" says Karen L. Tokarz, with her radiant grin.
"There's a new kind of lawyer and a new role for lawyers," explains Tokarz, JD, LLM, the Charles Nagel Professor of Public Interest Law and Public Service. "The 21st-century lawyer more often solves clients' problems through 'alternative dispute resolution' — negotiation, mediation, arbitration and public dialogue — rather than through trials. Our goal is to prepare lawyers who are client-centered, zealous and passionate, but also focused on solving disputes creatively, efficiently and fairly — and in ways that preserve relationships as much as possible."
And, it seems that many in society view this new professional role for lawyers and new direction in legal education as positive. Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth recently remarked: "I am especially taken with new ways that the law can be applied to reach compromises and make the world work better. I know some, of course, who have naturally pursued this course, but it is good to have it taught."
Assuring access to legal representation
Tokarz, who earned a Doctor of Law from Saint Louis University and a Master of Laws from the University of California, Berkeley, was recruited by the Washington University School of Law in 1980 to build its Clinical Education Program. Over the years, she helped establish the school as a global leader in clinical legal education. The program consistently ranks in the top five in the
nation. Through 12 national and international clinics and field placement programs — nine in St. Louis; one in Washington, D.C.; one in Delaware; and one that provides overseas placements — faculty-supervised law students work on behalf of low-income clients, nonprofits, government offices and the courts.
Tokarz, who also coordinates the Public Interest Law & Policy Speaker Series, is among the law school's nationally known faculty who teach in the Clinical Education Program. In her course, "Civil Rights & Community Justice Clinic," she and her clinic students collaborate with Legal Services of Eastern Missouri and other agencies in St. Louis on public health benefits, housing and immigration cases. She also coordinates the school's new "International Justice & Conflict Resolution Field Placement" in partnership with international human rights authority Leila Nadya Sadat, the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law and director of the Harris World Law Institute. Tokarz has placed students with the Legal Aid Board and Lawyers for Human Rights in South Africa, the Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia, and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. For example, Sarah Placzek, a third-year JD/MSW student, worked at the Rwanda tribunal this past semester through the field placement program.
"Karen has worked with students to assist in the delivery of quality legal services to thousands of people who otherwise would have lacked access to justice," says Kent Syverud, law school dean and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor.
Recognizing her efforts, the university
honored Tokarz with a Founders Day
Distinguished Faculty Award in 2005.
The New Lawyer: Preparing to Serve
Dean Syverud says Professor Tokarz has changed the
Washington University School of Law and legal
education around the world. "She has taught generations of students through hands-on learning how
to provide access to justice," Syverud says, "and many of those students have gone on to have path-breaking careers of their own in public service." Here are snapshots of two third-year students influenced by Tokarz and well positioned to make a difference.
Sadena Thevarajah interned this past semester in the White House office of Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor and assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs and public engagement, through the school's D.C. clinic. She plans a career working with both communities and providers on reform "to change health-care access issues and health-care disparities resulting from systematic discrimination." Earlier in law school, she interned for BJC HealthCare and worked on Medicaid appeals for children through Tokarz's "Civil Rights & Community Justice Clinic." In 2009, her team placed second in the American Bar Association "Representation in Mediation" national competition. She calls Tokarz "an amazing teacher and role model — the kind of community-focused, public interest lawyer I want to be!"
Joe Whitfield studied negotiation with Dean Syverud, then interned with Lawyers for Human Rights in Durban, South Africa, counseling and negotiating on behalf of refugees and immigrants, through Tokarz's summer program. He studied dispute resolution in Hong Kong during the fall of his third year and, under Tokarz's guidance, he researched the potential for using public dispute resolution with regard to land disputes in the region. "These experiences have convinced me that dispute resolution is a fundamental lawyering skill," says Whitfield, who looks forward to a career as an international public policy negotiator. "And I'm blessed to know Professor Tokarz!"
Dispute resolution's impact grows
Now, following a yearlong sabbatical spent as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation, Tokarz is embracing a new challenge: directing the law school's Dispute Resolution Program and guiding it, too, to national pre-eminence. "And Karen will do it!" Syverud says.
Despite his busy schedule, the dean teaches two negotiation courses each year, reflecting his conviction that dispute resolution is an essential tool for today's new lawyers. The school's dispute resolution curriculum is already robust and growing, including courses in business negotiation, family mediation, arbitration, pre-trial settlement, and game theory, as well as domestic and international internships. New faculty in the area include Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff, associate professor of law, who teaches law and psychology and advanced negotiation.
Tokarz brings to her directorship all the expertise and energy cultivated from her extensive accomplishments and service. Among them, she is a founding member of the Global Alliance for Justice Education and a leader in major professional and civil justice organizations.
In fall 2001, Tokarz went to South Africa as a School of Law Treiman Fellow; in summer 2008, she returned as a Fulbright Senior Specialist. Over the years, she has worked with the University of Kwa Zulu-Natal, in Durban, helping to foster clinical education and dispute resolution programs, a law student-exchange program and summer internships there for WUSTL law students. To date, more than 100 students have studied or worked with public-interest law offices in Africa.
While a student, Naomi Warren, JD '08, MSW '08, took Tokarz's "Civil Rights & Community Justice Clinic" and also spent a semester at the University of Kwa Zulu-Natal law school, where she interned with the Children's Rights Centre under the supervision of Tokarz.
It couldn't happen in a courtroom
Tokarz says she chose to work in South Africa almost a decade ago in large part because South Africa's movement from apartheid to full democracy — without open civil war and with a national commitment to a non-racialized society — attests to what "alternative dispute resolution" can do. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established by President Nelson Mandela, was critical to the country's political and social transformation, Tokarz believes.
[Professor] Tokarz says she chose to work in South Africa almost a decade ago in large part because South Africa's movement from apartheid to full democracy — without open civil war and with a national commitment to a non-racialized society — attests to what "alternative dispute resolution" can do.
"Certainly desperate problems still exist in South Africa, but most people believe the TRC served the country better than had there been massive, multi-year, criminal trials focused solely on punishing the perpetrators with no reconciliation efforts and no reparations for victims," says Tokarz, also a professor in the African and African American Studies program and an affiliate professor in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, both in Arts & Sciences.
An internationally respected dispute resolution expert, Tokarz teaches mediation and mediates civil rights cases, frequently with her students in attendance. She cites one recent powerful example, out of hundreds, of how mediation and dispute resolution improve society. A high school coach had been sent to prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of rape and sexual molestation of a female student. The family brought suit against the coach, the principal and the school district; the court appointed Tokarz mediator.
At the initial meeting, the family was enraged; the school officials were defensive; and the student declined to participate. Following "a difficult but successful mediation," however, the parties reached a tentative settlement providing the daughter with funds for extensive counseling, college and graduate school.
The next day both sides met again, and the student agreed to attend. Tokarz encouraged each to say what they needed "in order to feel heard." The father, the mother and the brother all screamed at the school representatives and broke down crying. The school district apologized; everyone on that side also cried, including the insurance agent.
Beforehand, the student had developed with Tokarz a two-page list of steps the school district could take to ensure that such a situation would not recur in the future. Each measure was adopted.
Today, the daughter is doing well in college. The brother, now a high school teacher, travels to school districts with his mother, talking about what students, parents and officials need to know. "Trust me," Tokarz says, "this outcome could not have happened in the courtroom."
Judy H. Watts is a freelance writer based in St. Louis and a former editor of this magazine.


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The business value of workforce healthPosted by Aetna in Employees
By Dr. Thomas Parry
Several years ago, I had a prophetic conversation with an executive responsible for managing all the absence programs for a 60,000-life financial services company. She told me that during the previous week, the CEO of her company had asked her: "What are we getting as a business for all this money we're spending on health and related benefits?" She said to me that she knew exactly how much the programs cost but had no idea what value they added to the business. But then she added something interesting: "If I can't answer his question, I look like a non-essential administrative function in my organization." I am not sure if it was related, but she retired the next year.
As employers evaluate the future of health benefits for their organizations, two fundamental truths stand out for every benefits professional. First, health care is changing. Whether employers decide to provide employee health benefits through private or public exchanges, exit the health care system and pay requisite fines, invest in workforce health, or completely turn health decisions over to employees, the approach to health care benefits will never again be the same. Second, senior business leaders need highly-performing, productive workforces so that their companies can remain competitive. The challenge to benefits professionals is how to make the transition from health-as-cost to health-as-business value given these changes.
We find that benefits professionals in employer organizations understand these new realities conceptually, but when it comes to engaging in a conversation with senior business leaders in their organizations, they often get stuck for two reasons: 1) They typically lack the data to create a business case for workforce health improvement. 2) Their company is organized in benefit silos with more incentives to shift cost and risk to another internal program area than to work together for the benefit of the company as a whole.
So what is the economic impact of workforce health for employers? IBI researchers developed a statistical model that provides such estimates for the employed population.
Let's use as an example a 10,000 life hospital system. Typically, this employer would equate the costs of health with health treatments and pharmacy expense. In this case, we would expect those costs to be about $33.7 million annually. However, when we include all the costs of health — lost work time, reduced performance and the associated productivity consequences — the total economic impact of health jumps to $70 million. We arrive at this figure by estimating wage replacements for absent workers at a total of nearly $13 million, and lost productivity associated with absence and reduced performance at an additional $23.6 million.
As benefits professionals proceed they must understand that regardless of their company's decisions about financing health care, the lost-time and lost productivity consequences of health can never be fully shifted outside of their organizations. They also need to make the business case for health improvement in economic terms to their senior business leaders.
With all the focus on the cost of providing employee benefits, it is easy to overlook the potential value of those benefits if they can protect and improve employee health. Better coordination, relevant data and timely information can go a long way toward objectively evaluating the true cost – and value – of employee health to employers.
Four steps to get started:
- Step 1: Meet with your benefit-program counterparts and identify what data are available across programs to start to make build your business case.
- Step 2: Align interests across programs and move beyond compartmentalizing them to demonstrate the collective value of your programs to the business.
- Step 3: Put future data collection approaches in place that include leading indicators of health (such as biometric and health risk information); indicators of health care treatment (such as how and where care is delivered); and lagging indicators (such as cost, lost time, performance and productivity) so you can track changes associated with your interventions over time.
- Step 4: Let your vendor partners know exactly what data you need and why, and have them work in partnership to support your company's health and productivity objectives.
About the Author: Dr. Thomas Parry is President of the Integrated Benefits Institute. He directs IBI's activities and stewards its research agenda. Before co-founding IBI, he served 11 years as Research Director at the California Workers' Compensation Institute. His research at CWCI encompassed a wide variety of topics in workers' compensation, including medical treatment patterns, vocational rehabilitation costs and effectiveness, legal costs and trends, medical utilization, mental stress claims, and physical therapy patterns of care. While at CWCI, Parry was engaged in some of the earliest research and analysis on 24-hour coverage and integrated benefits.
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Billy Bowden
Brent Fraser "Billy" Bowden (born 11 April 1963) is a cricket umpire from New Zealand. He was a player until he began to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. He is well known for his dramatic signalling style which includes the famous "crooked finger of doom" out signal.[1] On 6 February 2016, Bowden stood in his 200th One Day International match in the game between New Zealand and Australia in Wellington.[2]
|Personal information
|Full name
|Brent Fraser Bowden
|11 April 1963
Henderson, New Zealand
|Umpiring information
|Tests umpired
|84 (2000–2015)
|ODIs umpired
|200 (1995–2016)
|T20Is umpired
|24 (2005–2016)
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 10 January 2016
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In March 1995, he officiated his first One Day International between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at Hamilton. In March 2000 he was appointed his first Test match as an on-field umpire, and in 2002 he was included in the Emirates Panel of International Umpires. A year later he was asked to umpire at the Cricket World Cup in South Africa, and was chosen to be the fourth umpire in the final between Australia and India. Shortly after this he was duly promoted to the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires, of which he was a member till 2013. He reprised his role as fourth umpire in the 2007 Cricket World Cup final and was involved in the wrong decision that caused the match to end in darkness.[3] Bowden was involved in an incident at the 2006 Brisbane Ashes test while standing at the square leg fielding position, when knocked to the ground by a ball hit by Geraint Jones.[4] In January 2007, Bowden became the youngest umpire to officiate in 100 ODIs during the New Zealand and Sri Lanka match at Hamilton, which corresponded exactly with his first ODI in 1995. Simon Taufel bettered that record a few days later.
Bowden, from his inclusion in the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires in 2003, has umpired in 82 Tests, 192 one-day internationals and 21 Twenty20 internationals. He was dropped from the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires after an annual review of performance in June 2013, but was publicly appreciated for his outstanding contribution - along with fellow umpire Asad Rauf - over the past 10 years. On 1 July 2014 Billy Bowden returned to the elite panel replacing fellow New Zealander Tony Hill. He was then dropped again a year later, in 2015.
He was selected as one of the twenty umpires to stand in matches during the 2015 Cricket World Cup.[5]
He was a member of the International Panel of Umpires and Referees until June 2016, when he was demoted to New Zealand's national panel.[6]
New ZealandEdit
Suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, it was too painful for Bowden to signal a batsman out in the conventional fashion,[7] with a straight index finger raised above the head, and this led to the "crooked finger of doom". He has also put his own slant on several other signals, including a "crumb-sweeping" wave of the arm to signal four, and the "double crooked finger six-phase hop" to signal a six. His signals are sedate in Tests, more flashy in ODIs and decidedly flamboyant in Twenty20. His behavior has attracted him both fans and critics almost equally. Martin Crowe referred to him as Bozo the Clown,[7] and at least one commentator has said he should remember that cricket is for the players and fans, not for the umpires.[8] However, there was a suggestion that he needs to do the signals in the way he does because of his arthritis, as he needs to keep his body fluid.[7]
International umpiring statisticsEdit
As of 6 February 2016 :
|New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Mar 2000
|West Indies v England at Bridgetown, May 2015
|New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Hamilton, Mar 1995
|New Zealand v Australia at Wellington, Feb 2016
|New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Feb 2005
|New Zealand v Pakistan at Wellington, Jan 2016
ICC Bronze Bails Award for 100 ODIs.
See alsoEdit
- ^ Cricket's 'crooked finger of doom' marks arthritis
- ^ "Warner, Marsh ace Australia's 282 chase". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
- ^ Malcolm Conn (2 May 2007). "Neutral umpires have failed". www.theaustralian.news.com.au The Australian. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
- ^ "Quick Singles: Jones 1 Bowden 0". Cricinfo. Retrieved 22 March 2007.
- ^ "ICC announces match officials for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015". ICC Cricket. 2 December 2014. Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ "Bowden cut from NZC international panel". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ a b c "Bowden breaks the mould". news.bbc.co.uk BBC. 20 August 2003. Retrieved 22 March 2007.
- ^ Malcolm Conn (5 January 2007). "Bumble Bowden should be humble". www.theaustralian.news.com.au The Australian. Archived from the original on 28 August 2009. Retrieved 16 December 2008.
External linksEdit
- Billy Bowden at Cricinfo.


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Life Taught Lessons – C #AtoZChallenge
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Calm and composed – similar to my pick for the day. 🙂 An important virtue to cultivate. Loved the last line – "As there is nothing more to win in this race."
keep it going vinitha…. your posts are short but strong. And BTW you do not have to worry about travelling and not being able to post. You can preschedule your posts if you have them already written them… go and visit the A to Z challgne website for instructions to do that…
All the very best for the challenge.
Well stated! Concisely exercised! Great writing! 🙂
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By Mike O'Neil and Mike Zhe
Hampton Union, Tuesday, February 16, 2010
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast Online.]
HAMPTON -- As dedicated as he was to the X's and O's as the head coach of the Winnacunnet High School boys basketball team for more than three decades, Jack Ford's true drive always seemed to be producing quality people.
The beloved — and successful and quotable — former coach died Sunday at Exeter Hospital at the age of 66. He'd been battling a leukemia-like blood illness for the last few years, and his health took a turn for the worse last week.
"It is sad news," said Chris Coates, one of Ford's all-time best players at Winnacunnet, who went on to star at Keene State and in Europe. "I talked to Jack six or seven months ago and from what I saw and heard he was feeling better. But he's one of those guys who will downplay how bad things are."
In 31 years roaming the sidelines at Winnacunnet, Ford led his teams to the Class L final six times. He won one championship — in 1991-92 — and three times was named Class L Coach of the Year. He was inducted into the NHIAA Coaches Hall of Fame in 1999.
But to those who knew him best, the wins and losses — his record at the school was 385-310 — only scratched the surface of the man he was.
"I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to not only play under him, but be with him as an assistant," said current Winnacunnet coach Jay McKenna, who succeeded Ford after the 2004-05 season. "There was nobody better in terms of motivation or preparation. He taught us all that if you worked hard, you would be successful, and it wasn't just in basketball."
"What made Jack different from a lot of other coaches was that he really was the consummate worker," said Winnacunnet girls basketball coach Ed Beattie. "He just outworked a lot of people, and that always seemed to extend onto the floor. It was an extension of who he was."
Ford's coaching career began in 1966 at Xaverian Brothers in Westwood, Mass. From there he would spend six seasons at St. John's Prep in Danvers, Mass. There he coached with Bryce Beattie, Ed's father, and the two developed a lasting friendship.
"He was an assistant at St. John's while my father was there, and they were the best of friends," said Beattie, who has coached Winnacunnet to three straight Class L girls titles. "It was a different time then. After the games, all the coaches would go over to a restaurant out in Salem and you would have all the coaches there: Danvers, Beverly, St. John's, Peabody. They would all be there, coaches and officials — just the great camaraderie between all of them. It really was a North Shore of Massachusetts thing."
Ford came north in 1974, and went about turning Winnacunnet — specifically, cozy Dodge Gymnasium — into one of the toughest stops on the Class L schedule. Every Tuesday and Friday night, Ford's teams would play a full-court, in-your-face style. That style often made Dodge Gym look and feel a lot smaller than it actually was.
"The court was 84-by-50 wide. It is a regulation-size high school basketball court," said Beattie. "The only difference was the 10 feet to the circles on either side of half court. That, plus the fact that the walls were so close, everybody that came in really thought it wasn't a regulation-size court.
"So Jack and I decided to keep that going. If people thought it was a smaller court — fine, we played it up. That meant a couple more points for us each night."
"It was definitely a special place," said McKenna, who graduated in 1993. "The walls were right up against the baseline, and we pressed. It was run-and-gun. That was his style."
Winnacunnet won its first — and only — Class L championship under Ford in 1991-92. The championship in 1991-92 kicked off a run that would see the Warriors reach the Class L final five times in nine years.
But beyond the wins, Ford was molding young men with a coaching style that was disciplined, but also compassionate and sometimes downright humorous.
There were former players like Mike Daboul, who was part of that 1992 title team, attended Ford's alma mater — Merrimack College — and later got into teaching and coaching. Daboul has been Winnacunnet's baseball coach for a decade and — like Ford did — teaches there.
"He was 100 percent my mentor," said Daboul. "He was intense. He wanted the best out of everybody. When you weren't doing what you were supposed to do, he let you know. But it was always a teachable moment."
Other coaches would tell Ford he was innovative, and his response was that he had to be. Coaching at a school with one of the smallest enrollments in Class L, he used an up-tempo style to gain advantages on the court. Off the court, he would arrange for trips to play in offseason tournaments, and even took some teams overseas.
"He outworked every one of us," former Manchester Central coach Mike Fitzpatrick told the Herald after Ford announced his retirement in 2005. "We'd see his teams in Haverhill, Burlington (Vt.), Lowell — everywhere."
With Ford's coaching style came the patented one-liners that so many times made players laugh, think and learn — often at the same time.
Gems like, "You can shoot or you can shower, but you can't shoot and shower"; "Heave and hope"; or "Tommy Tunnel Vision" were all common in reporters' notebooks.
Even McKenna, the point guard, earned himself a spot on the list of "Fordisms." He was referred to by the coach as the "Fastbreak Killer," a reminder to keep the game moving at a quick pace.
"He would come up with them right on the spot," said McKenna. "Sometimes it was hard as a player not to laugh. I was talking to (JV coach) Don Lamprey about it today. We all had nicknames, and any time we get together they all come back out. "
When McKenna was a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire, Ford asked him to help coach as an assistant. After 11 seasons as an assistant, McKenna became just the fourth Winnacunnet head coach in 2005-06.
"I learned a lot of things about basketball and a lot of things about life from him and how to be successful at it," said McKenna. "I can't thank him enough. I can't put into words what he means to me or what he means to a lot of guys.
"Next to my own parents, he's the most influential person in my life," he added. "Things I learned from Coach Ford, I use every day as a parent, as a coach and as a teacher."
Around the Seacoast Monday, a lot of people who knew Ford were thinking the same thing.
"Jack definitely left a legacy," said Coates. "Everyone knows who Jack Ford is. Even after he retired, people would say, 'Who did you play for?' I'd say, 'Jack Ford,' and everyone would know him."
"That's his legacy," said Daboul, "what he created and what he meant to so many people. People don't do it like that anymore."(See also, Coach Ford Stepping Down; and Legendary Send-off for Jack Ford; and Obituary of Jack Ford and other tributes)