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Wholesale For WooCommerce| Developed by WPExperts
Information & Requirements
- WooCommerce 3.8+ (4.0+ recommended)
- PHP 5.3+ (7+ recommended)
Sign up wholesale customers and display wholesale prices based on multiple wholesale user roles on your existing WooCommerce store.
Why waste your time and money, creating a separate website for your wholesale users when you can use Wholesale for WooCommerce to sign-up wholesalers and still take care of your regular customers all at the same time?
Control everything you want to sell to your wholesale customers through an extension that lets you manage your eCommerce store's wholesale pricing, multiple wholesale user roles, and much more.
Wholesale for WooCommerce is a WooCommerce extension that gives you the ability to display wholesale rates & prices that are only visible to your wholesale customers.
Simply sign-up your wholesale customers through a wholesale registration form and manage approval requests manually or automatically.
Through the Multiple User Role creation feature, not only are you able to create multiple wholesale roles for your users, but you can also define different discounts for each role with support for both simple and variable products.
The Single User Role allows you to create and designate a single user role so that they see the wholesale prices as per their given role.
Build A Residual Income Stream by Charging Your Wholesale Customers for Special Wholesale Prices – Earn monthly or yearly recurring payments from your Wholesale customers by charging them subscription plans for special wholesale prices. WooCommerce Subscriptions give you the ability to create Variable Subscriptions with corresponding attributes.
- Enable customers to subscribe to a given role.
- Customers are allowed to upgrade and downgrade between different subscription products.
- Create multiple variations to a variable subscription product.
- Customer's wholesale role changes automatically depending on their choice of different subscription packages defined by the admin.
- Change subscription price on each variation e.g: Sign up fee, Subscription price, Free Trial e.t.c.
- Canceling a Subscription will automatically revert your customers to a default role.
WooCommerce Subscription extension is required to access subscription features in Wholesale for WooCommerce.
The Most Powerful & Complete Wholesale Solution for B2B Businesses.
Why Use Wholesale for WooCommerce:
- Perfect for B2B businesses dealing with wholesale products.
- Create and manage multiple wholesale user roles.
- Manage wholesale prices for single or variable products with ease.
- Define different prices just for your wholesale customers.
- Easy-to-use back end interface that lets you manage user requests via the wholesale registration form.
- Tax-Exempt (Exempt wholesale user roles from paying taxes)
- Tax ID option in Billing Address
- Control product visibility (Control product visibility settings specifically for wholesale user roles.)
- Define different pricing options and discounts for your customers.
- Set minimum order quantity limits as per your requirements.
- Default Multi User Role Dropdown
- Hide Prices For Non-logged in user on Shop Page
- Compatible with Bulk Shop for WooCommerce, Bulk Variation Forms.
- Category based Discount on all Products
- Global Discount on all Products
- Enable or Disable Payment Methods
- Enable or Disable Shipping methods
- Restriction Minimum Quantity
- Retailer Upgrade to wholesaler option on My Account page
- Custom fields in Registration form
- Integration With WooCommerce Subscription Products
- Restrict Wholesale Store access
- Custom CSS Option In Registration Form
- Create Variable Subscription products to sell products with variations.
- Automatically change your customer's user role after they buy a Variable Subscription.
- Disable coupon codes for wholesale customers so only retailers can use them.
- Restrict product visibility for specific customers so that items can be purchased by retail customers only.
- Restrict product visibility from single or multiple wholesale user roles.
- Restrict product category visibility – save time from customizing product visibility settings individually.
Wholesale for WooCommerce Features:
- Create & Manage Multiple User Roles
Create multiple user roles for wholesale members so that you can segregate your customers and their buying/selling preferences. Create unlimited wholesale user roles and define different discounts for each role through products.
- Manage Wholesale prices for single or multiple products.
Set your wholesale prices for both individual or multiple products and their variations. Similarly, add the price input field so you can enter separate pricing information for users with the "Wholesale customer" role.
- Manage Approval/Rejection requests – Manually or Automatically.
Manage registration form requests through an easy to use in-built system that allows you to accept or reject users via manual or automatic setting options.
- Front-end Wholesale Registration form.
Create and embed an easy Wholesale Registration Form on your website that allows users to sign-up as wholesale customers.
- Apply wholesale prices based on minimum quantity.
You can set the minimum quantity on wholesale products so if the user's order doesn't meet that quantity requirement, they end up paying the retail price.
- Control product and price visibility.
Optionally hide "retail only" products or its variations from wholesale shoppers – Have control over your product and its pricing visibility options.
- Tax Exemptions.
Exempt wholesale users from paying tax – Tax-exempt rules can be applied globally for wholesale user roles.
- Add fix amount or percentage-based discount pricing.
Option to add fixed amount prices on wholesale products or their variations, or percentage-based discounts on pre-defined quantities. These settings can be enabled on specific products, specific product categories, or total cart quantity.
- Category based Discount on all Products
You can now apply percentage discounts or fixed discounts on a category instead of setting individual discounted prices per product. If you want to apply wholesale prices on a specific category's products, this is the best way to apply discount.
- Global percentage discounts and fixed discount on all products
Set wholesale pricing globally across your store instead of changing the prices of each product manually. You can simply override the prices of each product with this functionality.
- Disable payment methods for specific wholesaler role
The ability to disable any payment gateway for your wholesale role that allows the admin to restrict any payment gateway they desire from the backend settings. These payment gateways will not display on the checkout page to the selected wholesaler role.
- Add minimum quantity restrictions on wholesale Products.
This functionality allows you to apply minimum quantity restrictions on wholesale products so wholesalers must add to cart minimum quantity to get discount.
- Integration With WooCommerce Subscription Products
Create Variable Subscription products with corresponding attributes and product variations. Automatically change your customer's user role when they buy a Variable Subscription, or revert it back to a Default role when they cancel it.
- Disable coupon codes
Wholesalers will not be able to use specific coupon codes on the cart and checkout page.
- Restrict product visibility
Restrict product visibility from single or multiple wholesale user roles. These products will only be visible to retail customers.
- Restrict product category visibility
Restrict product category visibility for single or multiple wholesaler user roles. Save time from hiding products individually (one-by-one).
- Price labels: Retail pricing label, wholesale pricing label and saves price label.
- Email notification (Admin and User Notification Email).
- Translate using .PO .MO files.
- Translate using WPML Plugin.
Boost the overall sales of your e-Commerce store by tenfold – Unlock powerful WooCommerce wholesale features through a single extension.
How to Get Started
- Buy Wholesale for WooCommerce.
- Download and install the extension. You can find the installation guide here.
- Activate, set up, and configure the extension.
- Read the technical documentation to help you walk through the process of setting up multiple user roles, product pricing, registration form, and more.
Is this extension compatible with the Bulk Order Form For WooCommerce?
Yes! Version 1.3.0 of the Wholesale for WooCommerce extension includes support for Bulk Order Form For WooCommerce.
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Is this extension compatible with the WooCommerce Subscriptions?
Yes! Version 1.3.0 of the Wholesale for WooCommerce extension includes support for WooCommerce Subscription.
Is this extension compatible with the Bulk Shop for WooCommerce?
Yes! Version 1.2.0 of the Wholesale for WooCommerce extension includes support for Bulk Shop for WooCommerce.
Is this extension compatible with the Bulk Variation Forms?
Yes! Version 1.2.0 of the Wholesale For WooCommerce plugin includes support for Bulk Variation Forms.
Is this extension compatible with the WooCommerce Pre-Orders?
Yes! Version 1.2.0 of the Wholesale For WooCommerce plugin includes support for WooCommerce Pre-Orders.


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Mr. Pio Pio on Quail Street is a happy discovery with not only deliciously marinated and grilled meats, but Spanish tv and Spanish speaking fellow customers, so you can practice your Spanish (or feel right at home if you speak it). It's between Western Ave. and Washington Ave. near State - close to the Last Vestige record shop.
Besides an interesting selection of sodas, there are several fruit juices. I enjoy the mango.
Ok, it's true, I forgot to take a photo when the food arrived. So here's at least a photo with most of the foods involved in "Bandeja Tipica" still on the plate: steak, crackling, avacado, egg, sweet plaintain. Very generous portions of beans and rice arrive with most entrees - the rice is exactly my favorite kind of rice, long grain, sticky and somewhat al dente and the most wonderful complement to the savory beans.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Mr. Pio Pio
Posted by LorreS at 4/15/2009 04:11:00 PM
2 comments:
- jess said...
I keep meaning to check this place out. Thanks!
- May 19, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- brigid.nia said...
My brothers have raved about this place. Can't wait to get in there.
It was nice chatting with you at Daily Grind Friday morning. Good luck with your adventures!
- June 13, 2009 at 3:24 PM
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About Best of the Best: Philippines (Coffee table book)
The best vacation is right at home and now you can have it all to yourself. Eastgate Publishing, in collaboration with the Department of Tourism presents Best of the Best: Philippines, a 200-page hardbound travel guide featuring the best destinations in the Philippines. With a Gifted.ph Eastgate Publishing gift certificate, your friends and family can enjoy the best vacation by mix-matching their recommended itinerary accompanied by over 350 stunning images from our country's top photographers. It even features 18 fully illustrated destination maps and 26 route maps.
One Gifted.ph Eastgate Publishing gift certificate costs PHP 2800.00 which is equivalent to one book to be delivered directly to your recipient upon purchase. For overseas shipping and other inquiries, please contact them at (63 2) 633 4004 to 09.
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How many of the 87 million users, of which over a million were in the UK, really understood that their Facebook data was not under their control when they signed the terms and conditions (Ts&Cs)? How many even read them?
It is estimated that you'd need 76 days to read all the privacy policies an average internet user encounters each year, with the average policy containing over 2,500 words of legalese. Small wonder that we simply tend to accept the blanket permissions we're asked for.
Agreeing to Facebook's Ts&Cs grants access to your personal contacts, phone and text messages, geolocation data and web browsing history. The same permissions are also then applied to Instagram and Messenger. Register your card for peer-to-peer payments over Messenger and you're allowing Facebook to buy data about your offline purchases.
So why would we grant these permissions at all? Well, data sharing is necessary if we want the cross-platform functionality and personalisation that is associated with modern services, so as long as we want a personal online experience then data mining and analytics are here to stay.
The trouble is that there's a fine line between manipulating users and targeting them in their interest.
Recognising the need to make user consent and data usage more transparent, regulators are tightening legislation and next month will see the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which sets a higher standard for consent.
Although, if a company can justify a lawful need for processing they won't always need to request consent.
GDPR aims to give users more control over their data, and users will have greater rights such as the ability to be kept informed about collection and use; access to data stored about them, the ability to rectify or erase it, to object or restrict processing and to be able to port their data to other service providers with greater ease.
"Are users likely to exercise these new rights? Those of us that opt-in will continue to trade our data for services but those that opt-out could find themselves precluded from a personalised online experience."
As companies prepare for GDPR, I've noticed in my inbox many more requests for me to opt-in, and it is tempting to do so without understanding the implications.
At Equiniti we recognise that we have significant responsibilities in the gathering, handling and protecting of consumer data. If users withdraw consent, technological advances that allow us to personalise services and marketing messages need to be reviewed. It's therefore in our interests as data processors and data controllers to ensure we protect the good relationship we have with our end users.
In light of the CA scandal, perhaps one of the biggest benefits of GDPR is that it places far more onus on the IT community to communicate with the user. This could pave the way for initiatives such as user friendly abridged versions of Ts & Cs.
One thing is for certain, as consumers we're all increasingly aware of the value of our personal data. This will help to ensure that companies do stand over their obligation to prevent its abuse and to rebuild our trust and safeguard digital innovation.
This article was originally published in the Belfast Telegraph.


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Conjugate Gradient Algorithms in Nonconvex Optimization
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Part of the Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications book series (NOIA, volume 89)
Part of the Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications book series (NOIA, volume 89)
This up-to-date book is on algorithms for large-scale unconstrained and bound constrained optimization. Optimization techniques are shown from a conjugate gradient algorithm perspective.
Large part of the book is devoted to preconditioned conjugate gradient algorithms. In particular memoryless and limited memory quasi-Newton algorithms are presented and numerically compared to standard conjugate gradient algorithms.
The special attention is paid to the methods of shortest residuals developed by the author. Several effective optimization techniques based on these methods are presented.
Because of the emphasis on practical methods, as well as rigorous mathematical treatment of their convergence analysis, the book is aimed at a wide audience. It can be used by researches in optimization, graduate students in operations research, engineering, mathematics and computer science. Practitioners can benefit from numerous numerical comparisons of professional optimization codes discussed in the book.


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Madison High School
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tom and i divorce in 94. i got remarried in 98 to james we adopted egypt in 00. axl got married in oct of 08 he lives in columbus he is a mechanic at the columbus zoo. anastaisa is a jr at madison high she is in machine trades. anastaisa is working at snow trails. egypt is in 3rd grade she plays basketball soccer and softball . my husband james plays adult softball so most of my time is spent in some sort of ball field year round. some of u may see me walking downtown mansfield i work at first lutheran c.d.s. and i walk the kids all over the place just beep ill waive even if i cant tell who u are. i am going to be a grandma on christmas day. well cameron(my grandson) came on the 14 of dec. he is so good. a new grandson came in november, aidan . ana has 2 boys 11 months apart. and axl is having a boy in april. as for egypt she is in every sport madison offers in 5 th grade. 2 basketball teams a club volleyball team and soccer all this winter....
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Alina K composer and pianist
Four beautiful and incredibly moving original compositions from Alina K are to be featured on her soon to be released debut EP 'Awakening'.
Produced by Nick Tauber, the EP features specially selected tracks from the fourteen original compositions that Alina K recently recorded in Studio Two at Abbey Road Studios.
From the lightness of touch to the passion and raw emotion in every note that she plays, you can clearly sense that Alina K both writes and performs from the heart.


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Attendees will learn why improving utility data access can strengthen state-wide building efficiency programs. We'll cover how better access to energy data can help a state manage its own portfolio, improve compliance with benchmarking policies, and expand voluntary efficiency programs. The session will also highlight model utility programs that support customer benchmarking with EPA's ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager.
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Opportunities and benefits that offer a healthy lifestyle!
At the The Ridge Athletic Clubs, our people are our best resource, and our family of over 100 staff members is committed to pursuing our mission of recognizing the unique desires of individuals while helping to lead better lives. We offer employment in a range of fitness jobs spanning 10 departments, including careers in health and wellness, sales, customer service and hospitality, facility, and business management. For almost 25 + years, we have been building a strong reputation by providing endless paths to wellness and fitness, committed to the achievement of our members' goals. With the combination of "people talent" and resources, we will continue to grow and develop new programs, making The Ridge Athletic Clubs a great place to work, explore the fitness industry opportunities and create relationships and most importantly an opportunity together in making a difference in our community. We are always looking for great people who care about providing exceptional customer service and who are interested in joining a great team: The Ridge Athletic Team!
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Today's Fashion Friday post features one for the kids. Funky Legs is a kids brand designing super cool tights, leggings and accessories for little ones. Featuring a large range of prints and patterns this Fair Trade Label is bringing cool for kids aged 0-10. To see more of the range from Funky Legs have a look at the website here or Facebook page here.
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I Ended Up Here
Dan Adams is the creative behind I Ended Up Here. Dan has worked in the design industry for over a decade with companies like Fred Bare, Aussie Bum and Seafolly. His latest creative endeavour I Ended Up Here features greeting cards, prints and notebooks some of which I wanted to share on the blog today. To see more of Dan's work visit the website here.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Free Printable - Summer Berries Stationery Set
I wanted to share this super cute free printable from Creature Comforts with my readers today. It's almost summer in the southern hemisphere- the days are getting longer, the weather is warming up and I can't wait. Click here to download the set for yourself.
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Wow! Zone 9 Tropicals is
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Edmonds custom match fieldstone and wall cap job.
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I was enormously disappointed with this book. I thought there'd be some articles and explanations but there's virtually none of that in this book. The font was difficult and sometimes impossible to read. I had to scan through a lot of blank pages to get to anything. I don't mind the humor. In fact, I wanted some humor but, well, I was left wanting!
I expected more because of the reviews. I didn't get what I expected...!
An Excellent game kit for AFMBE--double specially for the price.
The only problem I had with it was the graphics. The graphics were good but printing it out will cost a lot of black ink (it was in B/W).
I would have preferred a more printable version.
But, still, I'd hghly recommend it. It'll read well on a Kindle or Nook or whatever else you might have (I don't have one).
This looks good and I really could use it a lot in my games.
However, I am currently trying to put it together and am working on the stairs. The assembly instructions do not clearly show how to put the stairs together. I cannot figure out, yet, how to do that. I got to the 5th picture which says, "glue 2 sides together" but it isn't clear exactly which 2 sides it means and in what way you are to glue them together
I looked around Google to find Lord Zsezse's web site to ask for help but couldn't find one. It appears as if the only way I'm going to get this together is by trial and error--and I am only in the begining and have a lot more to do.
Very frustrating.
Strong artwork and a decent selection of usable items (for the price). The only thing I didn't like was not being able to put something inside the sarcophagus or the coffin (they're both one piece).

LIKED: Easy to put together.

DISLIKED: No lids for coffin or sarcophagus.

QUALITY: Acceptable

VALUE: Satisfied

Very good artwork and adaptable for lots of different genres. It is a bit problematic for printing, however. Some of the halls and corridors extend outside printer margins and you have to use the "fit to printer margins" options in order to print. This can distort the hall/corridor and they won't quite fit each other sometimes.

LIKED: Rich, vivid artwork

DISLIKED: The printing difficulties. I'd give this a 4, maybe a 5 were it not for this.

QUALITY: Acceptable

VALUE: Satisfied

the set has a decent variety of characters. I liked having zepplin crew and a variety of gangster type. It would have been nice to have a reporter, an aviatrix, an athlete, an old time race car driver, a doctor and/or a nurse, and some clergy but you can't have everything. The artwork is also decent but the figures are a little small-ish to see very much detail but that really isn't a serious problem. The biggest problem with the artwork is the policeman. He almost looks as if he could be a chauffer.
The best thing about the se, though, is the vehicle section. I would personally like to see a complete set of just vehicles.

LIKED: The vehicles

DISLIKED: I have a 2.4 Ghz with 2GB RAM and a 7200RPM hard drive and it took a long time for the file to open. It was difficult to view it on my monitor. I, basically, had to print it out in order to see everything in the set without getting frustrated at how long the file was taking to load.

QUALITY: Acceptable

VALUE: Satisfied

Excellent artwork. Very adaptable system because it is set up to tell you which tiles can be used to make several different castles. The only thing I mildly didn't like about this product is the printing on the tiles (0one printed the tile designation on each tile).

LIKED: The artwork.

DISLIKED: The printing on the tiles.

QUALITY: Very Good

VALUE: Satisfied

This is adequate as a resource for jump starting your mind to think about different things to put in bags and pouches. I had hoped for some more "off-the-wall" items in the list but I will still use it in my games. One thing that was mildly irritating to me is the title. In the blurb, the title is, "100 Bag And Pouch Contents" but in the list itself, the title is, "100 Trivial Bag And Pouch Contents". Had I known that I would have had different expectations for the list.

LIKED: It can give me some ideas or help me think of other things to put in my game bags and pouches.

DISLIKED: The blurb did not give me the real title of the pdf.

QUALITY: Acceptable

VALUE: Satisfied

Very disappointing. I thought there would be some witty and colorful insults to use but got things like, "#37--Dwarf tossing anyone?? or "#56--Oh, here comes the nightly entertainment.?

LIKED: Nothing.

DISLIKED: The lack of originality and sense of humor.

QUALITY: Disappointing

VALUE: Disappointed

I needed something intuitive enough to be fairly quick but this didn't work for me. I don't have the time to spend learning a program with a fairly high learning curve.

LIKED: I really don't know, yet, because it was so confusing for me to use I couldn't find out. It may very well be a great product but it isn't anywhere near as intuitive as it needs to be.

DISLIKED: I tried to do something simple like change a weapon and had to spend about 10 minutes going through the help file to find out how to do that. Ultimately I learned that you had to deal with something called a "sublist".

QUALITY: Disappointing

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Professional Statement
My professional goal as an academic is to create wider, public understanding as to the meaning of, and possibilities for, an invigorated, livable technoculture. For the last several years, through scholarship, writing and art-technology projects, I have been primarily focused on the ways that networked digital cultures operate, exist and create meaning. More recently, I have developed a commitment to revealing a deeper sense of the possibilities for actively shaping what that digitally networked world looks like, how it is co-habited by many different kinds of social beings, and how we may co-exist as social beings within it. My goals, in other words, are to make sense of the "new networked age" episteme in such a way as to create a sense that it is possible to shape our world, to "hack it", into some place that we can inhabit in a life-affirming, sustainable way.
I believe that the world is at a crucial intersection, as always, but this one really matters. There has long been a recognition that digital networks might likely be enablers for worldly change of the most profound and impactful kind. The arguments that undergird this point of view are familiar. The fluency and literacy that a consequential number of people have with its technical underpinnings matters because fluency and literacy amongst a diversity of social formations can yield "new things." The capacity of individuals to acquire the material skills to create their own technologies that facilitate these social formations is unprecedented. The networks continue to pervade many touch points within the social lives of a diversity of peoples, and pervade many touch points within the physical, geographic world. Such arguments continue, often based upon access, skill, the economics of digital transmission, and so forth. Succinctly, there are far-reaching implications for digital networked publics. The portents for worldly change are provocative.
While the possibility for change is latent within these enabling conditions, the direction that change takes is not entirely clear: knowledge, literacy, techno-savvy DIY-skills may yield a variety of possible worlds, not all of which, on an ethically normative register, are palatable. On the one hand, it is presently conceivable that the new networked age could provide us with a mechanism to make a world that is more habitable, more sustainable and more accepting of cultural and political difference. On the other hand, it is well within the power of the informed imagination to conceive of a digitally networked world that is precisely the opposite.
In sum, it is my professional goal to turn my creative and intellectual energy toward ways to achieve the more life-affirming social world.
My Approach To Scholarship
I hope I can distinguish my scholarship as an interdisciplinary hybrid that knits together my engineering and social sciences background, training and passions. As an engineer, I am fascinated by technology and actively develop such, but I am less interested in doing traditional engineering, such as creating more efficient data storage software, or making faster computer processors. As a social scientist, I like the idea of revealing the complex, imbricated relationship between technology and culture, but I also like to make culture through my technology projects.
The challenge for me in doing interdisciplinary work is that I embody interdisciplinarity. I want to make technology and culture at the same time. I want to do such so as to understand how culture and technology are actually two sides of the same coin, something that social theory reveals fairly well through science and technology studies, and cultural anthropology, and other disciplines as well. While also doing this kind of social theory, I want to make — design, code, build, test, release — the kinds of manifest contributions to new networked worlds that technology, absent social theory, is able to do through traditional engineering practice.
This approach to scholarship is perhaps best encapsulated in what Tara McPherson describes as a "theory object" — an instantiated "thing" that is able to "do" theory in its design, construction and use. Theory objects are embodiments of social theory and social practice, where the "social" is part of the design and construction of the "thing." In my case, the "theory objects" I would like to construct are instantiations of the research questions my scholarship addresses.
This approach reveals social theory through the creation of technical instrumentalities, or framing theory through the creation of technological systems, or answering questions as to how meaning and social interactions can become embodied within or made possible by a device, software program or engineering practices. For instance, a component of my current book project is an investigation of more serene environments for networked digital social communication. Email, for example, and instant messaging, are seen in some contexts to be persistently nagging utilities that can be disruptive and distracting. Here, the question is around finding livable usage scenarios for IM or email. I am developing a software application that attempts to answer this question, by recasting the way in which we engage our email or interact with our IM buddies. As a "theory object", this software may succeed or may fail or, more likely it will both succeed and fail, as all technologies and all social theories do. But, through the construction of this software object, it is my intention to both address this research question — what are less disruptive ways to engage digital communications practices. At the same time, by showing the step-by-step design and construction of the object, I can reveal the way that practice gets built into software.


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The No Surrender Festival beat its own record, this summer, of the most people performing a Bruce Springsteen song together.
Last summer, 1,004 people performed The Boss' "No Surrender" together at the festival, which takes place in Vilanova de Bellpuig, Spain. This June, at the second annual edition of the festival, 1,083 reportedly sang and played on a different Springsteen anthem, "Badlands." You can watch both videos, below.
The festival took place on June 29 and 30, though the video below was just posted last week. The festival was attended by about 5,000 people, according to a report on CatalanNews.com, and featured a variety of European Springsteen cover acts.
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Bank Holiday weekend and The Big Greek Bus came to the Folkestone Arm. The upstairs is for dining in so brilliant if it is raining. The choice is good and all cooked to perfection and served with a smile. What a brilliant idea by the people who own the Meze House Greek restaurant in Shakespeare Terrace, Folkestone. This bus can go to all events and you can even hire it for your own private party.
That cider I can recommend in fact its one of those that taste like squash and goes down far too quickly! I love the way Folkestone is coming alive with all new places creating a great place to live and to visit.
I will be visiting the Meze House soon so look out for a blog about that and pictures of the food.


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This delicious and simple peach cobbler is excellent with fresh whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. Enjoy!
So easy and good! Perfect for a last minute dessert. I didn't have self rising flour so I added baking powder and salt. I also added cinnamon since we all like it. It was delicious. My family will be wanting me to make this one often. - 19 Mar 2003 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
I halved the recipe, except for the sugar, using 1/2 cup white, 1/2 cup brown. I also used 4 of the single serving peach cups instead of canned fruit. added a good bit of vanilla and cinnamon to crust mix. also sprinkled the tops of the peaches with brown sugar and cinnamon. Baked for 40 min. in a 8x8 glass dish. This came out soooo good, no problems with raw center as others mentioned. This is the recipe I will use for peach cobbler from now on! So easy and quick and good! YUMMY!! Thanks so much! - 11 Sep 2005 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
This was great! We adjusted the recipe to serve 12 and cooked it in a 9x13 for 35 minutes. Then covered it with foil to prevent overbrowning and baked another 10 minutes. We also used fresh peaches ~6 cups (3 lbs) tossed with 1/4 cup or so of sugar. Bake in 9 x 13 - 01 Aug 2005 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)


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Premiere: Challenger's "How Are My Thoughts Not My Own (Grossymmetric Remix)"
April 26, 2013
I flat-out gushed about Challenger's The World is Too Much For Me late last year, which resulted in its #6 spot on my end-of-year list. My enthusiasm for the electro-pop outfit has not abated, especially since it is my honor to introduce the world to "How Are My Thoughts Not My Own? (Grossymmetric Remix)."
Grossymmetric is the video and music art project of NYC's Kyle Marler. Marler gives "How Are My Thoughts Not My Own?" an inverted mix of sorts, stripping out the blaring treble synths and squelching bass synths. In their stead, Marler inserts plenty of bedroom synth doodles, found-sound, and gentle beats. This turns the formerly jubilant track into the perfect accompaniment for a 3 a.m. drive home. It's a unique take on Challenger that I very much enjoy.


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On September 29th, Lauranne Lanz led a seminar titled "Panchromatic View of Jet Feedback in Radio Galaxies" at Wilder Hall. Lanz received her Ph.D in astronomy from Harvard University in 2013. She is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Dartmouth College studying active nuclei at the center of galaxies.
According to Lanz, when dust falls into a black hole, the disks of dust that form help launch jets of particles which we can observe at radio frequencies. These powerful jets can transverse an entire galaxy and interact with the dust and gas between stars known as the interstellar medium. The radio jet feedback, affects the interstellar medium's ability to form new stars, and the details of this phenomenon is an active area of research.
Lanz studies how the jets impact star formation activity in radio galaxies and how they interact with the interstellar medium. When the jets come into contact with the interstellar medium, they inject mechanical energy into the dust and create a hot pocket of gas in the shape of a cocoon around the jet. This cocoon emits X-rays, and the turbulent motion of the gas drives shocks into cooler gas which then releases H2.
Approximately 30% of radio galaxies possess large amounts of H2 at 100-1500 K which were heated by shocks and have liquid hydrogen. These traits are consistent with galaxies that get power from the mechanical energy dissipating from the radio jet. While not directly correlated with jet feedback indicators, star formation in these galaxies is suppressed by a factor of 3 to 6, which is a statistically significant difference from other galaxies. This suppression is likely to have the strongest impact on the stellar mass of moderately gas-rich galaxies. Lanz will continue to research how the radio jets impact the galaxies around them, and how stellar formation is affected by this phenomenon.
- Lanz, L. (2016, September 29). Panchromatic View of Jet Feedback in Radio Galaxies. Lecture, Hanover.


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Qatar Airways Joins Interpol's Pioneering I-Checkit Initiative
Doha, November 09 (QNA) – As part of efforts to enhance international travel security, Qatar Airways has signed an agreement with INTERPOL to use the world police body's I-Checkit system to screen the passports of its passengers against INTERPOL's Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD) database.
With the agreement, Qatar Airways becomes the first full-service airline to use I-Checkit, joining regional low-cost carrier AirAsia in piloting the INTERPOL initiative which allows select partners in the travel, hotel and banking industries to send their clients' travel document information to be screened against the SLTD database.
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BANGKOK – The new head of marketing at Google Thailand, Pete Nuchanatanon, has set a goal to help people, businesses and consumers get the most out of going online by using Google's products and services.
Pete, 34, who assumed his position in January, is the second person to be in charge of marketing, following Pornthip Kongchun. He oversees and manages Google's national marketing efforts across all products and brand campaigns.
He promotes all Google products and services to businesses and people so that they will use them to enhance their business' competitiveness and their quality of life.
Pete has four main focuses: helping one-third of people to surf the Internet, helping people to benefit from Google's innovations, increasing local contents and helping more local businesses to build a presence online.
Google offers 45 services here, but this year, he will emphasize two: Google Search and YouTube. He will also focus on Google Maps, Google Translate and Google Mobile.
"The four main tasks are correlated. Our role is to get the rest of Thais to go online and to recognize the benefit of the Internet, while getting Thai businesses to have an online presence.
"Especially, only 10 per cent of Thai small and medium enterprises are online. Our task is to help 90 per cent of them to be online and benefit from being online. How good it will be if 100 per cent of companies can reach 100 per cent of customers who are searching for their products and services," he said.
Google Search will help people benefit more from Google AdWords, Google AdSense and Google Trends. About 20 per cent of searches are for new information for which people are looking.
Google's services can help businesses and people learn the exact trends in information in which people are interested, what they are looking for and what they are talking about.
"Our teams are increasing. Our teams expanded 2.5 times in only three months. We have a head taking care of each of my four focuses.
"For example, Google Trends is an important tool for businesses to know exactly the online trends with in-depth information. Businesses can use this information for free to analyse data for serving their business.
"Google has dedicated teams and partners to provide assistance, help and consulting. Google's partners have tripled," he said.
Two trends are expected: Internet penetration is going to reach 100 per cent and advertising spending is continuing to grow from 5.5 per cent last year to nearly the same as China and the United Kingdom, where digital advertising spending is 20 per cent and 50 per cent of total advertising spending, respectively.
"We see the positive trends. Also, the government's digital economy is accelerating this trend," he said.
This year, Google will roll out a lot more marketing campaigns and activities to promote both focused products and services, and new services. Next month, it will hold marketing activities for YouTube to celebrate its first anniversary here.
Pete's knowledge of Thai consumers may be the critical point in his selection as Google's head of marketing in the Thai market. He said he went through six interviews in three months to get this job.
"They asked me what the opportunities for Google in Thailand are and what Thais need," he said.
Pete has never been in the technology field before. His 12 years of work experience have been in the consumer business. He started his career in advertising and consulting for six years before joining P&G as the country marketing manager for all brands and categories for hair, skin, fabric and home, and grooming, for Thailand and Asean. Pete has also worked with Lowe and Brandscape and has a deep understanding of brands with over 10 years of leadership experience.


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Data Centres France
出版日: 2017年02月28日
発行: BroadGroup
ページ情報: 英文 42 Pages; 26 Figures
納期: 即日から翌営業日
Growth of the data centre sector in France is forecast as moderate over the next three years, according to new research by BroadGroup, with cities outside Paris the focus of new growth plans.
In the new report, Data Centres France, forecasts are made for an increase in m2 capacity of around 20% over the next three years, with a higher demand expected for available power over the period.
Research for the report suggests that power remains a concern particularly in the Paris area. With a a reliance on nuclear power which has declined in generating capacity over the past two years, as well a potential diversion of power for an Olympic bid in an already restricted market, an increased need for imported energy will occur in the short term. However planned developments for renewable energy may if achieved meet the shortfall but by 2023.
France remains the third largest data centre market in Europe and despite power concerns in Paris, there are new levels of activity and growth occurring in other lower cost cities such as Marseille, Strasbourg and Lyon in particular. In the medium term there is a more positive outlook for the potential availability of renewable resources.
Undoubtedly holding strengths in fibre and international connectivity, Marseille emerges as a new nexus for the distribution of content, as well as access to markets in Africa and the middle east with a lead being taken by Interxion in developing additional capacity in the city.
In analysing strengths and weaknesses in the market, the report suggests that France lacks a competitive strategy for attracting outside investment, and asks whether hyperscales, yet to decide on market entry, would ally with local operators or embark on their own development.
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Pluses and minuses with Whiting hackle. On the plus side the feather quality is good. Cape density is high, stems and windability are good, and barb length is consistent across numerous inches of feather length.
On the minus side, two out of two orders I have made of Whiting capes have resulted in disappointment with color. I bought a grizzly cape and what arrived, while clearly marked "grizzly" by Whiting, was effectively black with just the hint of faint whitish barring. Calls to Whiting were maddening; first they defended their right to define the color "grizzly" to whatever range their company chose, and they also blamed it on me, claiming that "this is why we don't recommend buying online...our solution is clear plastic packaging so you can choose what you want in a fly shop." I took strong exception to the fact that they claimed they "discourage" on-line sales, given that they eagerly supply to J.Stockard and others, and later a manager called me to take back that comment but to still suggest that my ending up with a nearly black cape after ordering grizzly was a result that was on me, not them.
I never returned it (after all it was not the retailer's fault). Still have the thing--to get what I wanted I had to buy a Keough grizzly cape that was truly what it was marked--grizzly. A year later I ordered a couple more of Whiting's cape products, convincing myself it must have been an isolated thing. Sure enough, instead of "dark barred ginger" (which every tyer knows is a rich ginger with light/whitish bars), what I got was a grizzly variant that's pretty much cree. The bars are black, the between-bar color is a dirty white, the underneath feathers have a brownish (still not ginger at all) tinge. I'm not even going to complain to Whiting, as I don't want to hear that it's my fault for buying from my favorite online retailer, and I don't want to incur more shipping costs to get what I wanted.
It's clear to me that Whiting chooses to "redefine" popular tying colors so that they can ship capes that are far less popular. Why they don't seem to realize that yes, they'll ship those capes, but this practice will also anger and permanently drive away customers, is beyond me. This cree variant I now have in hand should never have been tagged "dark barred ginger." It's nothing like ginger and it's nothing like a barred ginger. Not even close. It's a dirty-looking grizzlyy-ish barred cree variant with good feather quality but of minimal color use to me.
I believe other hackle suppliers produce an excellent product too, and my limited experience indicates they tag a cape the color it actually is. I've learned my lesson. I give the Whiting capes three merciful stars because the stems and barbs are good.
I do love J.Stockard.
I'm new to fly tying, about a month or so into it and I've only recently came to understand the difference between true dry fly hackle and what I've heard called grab bag hackle. I didn't want to make a huge investment into dry fly hackle, but i was tired of seeing my "dry flies" sink on contact with water, and I may not need to tie a ton of them, but the High and Dry 1/2 cape was perfect for me. A single half cape lets me tie in a variety of sizes and from how many feathers a single 1/2 cape has I don't picture myself needing to restock the colors I purchased in the near future. All very good quality feathers from a beginners perspective anyway. From everything I've heard of Whiting's dry fly hackle, i'd say it all holds true.
I just received my High & Dry half cape. Perfect hackle, lots of 14's, and very long. Many of the individual hackles have 3 inches of useable length. And a great packing job by the team at J. Stockard. Thanks!
Great feather count and length. Not quite as many or as long as the dry fly capes, but still a great cape. This is probably one of the best values in whiting dry fly hackle and they come in some awesome natural and dyed colors.
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So often we are bombarded by messages that we just need to "stay positive". People say things like, "Let's look at the bright side" or we're told things like, "Anger will kill you." Really? If this was the case, why would we have evolved the complex capability of experiencing such a vast array of emotions – both positive and negative? Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating we should all be miserable and I think by most accounts I'm a pretty positive person. I would actually describe myself as a positively realistic person.
After spending 25 years in the fire service helping people make it through their toughest days, I think you become a realist. Combine this with a passion for studying human behaviour and what helps people become high performers and I've learned that just being "positive" all the time is not really the best way. In fact, when you look at the latest research from the University of California in San Diego and the Naval Health Research Centre, where they study the brains of Navy Seals and ultra endurance athletes, we find that it's how we handle our negative emotions that will either build or destroy our resilience. When you hear the term "emotional control" you may think this means being sure that you only feel the positive emotions. This would be a mistake.
Our experience at my company Tignum, supported by the latest brain research, shows us that true emotional control is being able to experience all of your emotions (from sadness to happiness, from fear to love) but then being able to purposefully decide how you want to respond to these emotions. Advanced emotional control teaches us to be able to introspect into our emotional state by further delineating what exactly we are feeling. Instead of just feeling angry you are able to recognise the difference between feeling annoyed or feeling resentful. Instead of just feeling love you are able to recognise the difference between feeling acceptance or maybe even lust. When you achieve the higher levels of emotional control you are able to feel an emotion, explore and understand it without it owning you, and then purposely deciding how you want to act.
So where does resilience come from? Resilience is the product of stressful situations + emotional control + adequate recovery. Stressful situations often create negative emotions such as frustration, fear, uncertainty, etc. Wallowing in these negative states and creating drama destroys resilience. Being introspective and reframing these negative emotions into positive solutions (not just thoughts but thoughts plus action) creates resilience and is the best way to develop a high performance mindset. In this way, negative emotions should not be avoided, unless your intention is to stunt your resilience. Instead they should be embraced as a needed part of the process of developing your high performance mindset and your Sustainable High Performance.
Of course, the final part of the resilience-building equation that is very often overlooked is the need for adequate recovery. In the absence of this, stress hormones spiral out of control, growth hormone is diminished, critical neurotransmitters are depleted, the post insular areas of your brain shrink, and your resilience is destroyed. In this state, performance decreases and sustainability is impossible. This is why the integrated approach of Mindset, Nutrition, Movement, and Recovery is critical for building resilience.
A High Performance Mindset not one that is merely positive. It is one that is highly aware, focuses on those things within your control, and is solution/action oriented. In this mindset, negative emotions help us develop resilience and some of our best solutions.
Written by Scott Peltin
Scott is founder and chief performance officer of Tignum, a company that helps executives achieve their full potential to maximise business performance. He's worked with CEOs, C-level executives, professional athletes, and many top leaders to improve their performance and sustainability. Scott was also a previous guest on the show – check out his podcast here.


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- Russell E.L. Butler quit their 9-to-5 to pursue a music career last year.
As with many artists in Oakland's underground music scene, Russell E.L. Butler's life took a major turn after 2016's Ghost Ship fire. They watched the warehouse erupt in flames that night with 17 of their friends inside.
"If you were there, it's like your entire physiology changed," said Butler, who is gender non-binary and prefers gender-neutral pronouns. "I definitely felt that. Everything changed."
At the time, the techno artist was about a month away from releasing an EP, I'm Dropping Out of Life. Conceptually, it represented a desire to pursue a career in music full-time instead of balancing it with a 9-to-5 job. Losing friends in the fire encouraged that dream and Butler's need to go for it. It felt like a responsibility. Plus, making music was the only therapy that worked in the aftermath. "I felt and still feel very lifted up by the people that I knew," they said, pausing to wipe their eyes. "This is difficult to say because I don't want to sound arrogant, but I feel like my work is a continuation of their work as well. The folks who did record music, I play it a lot in my sets. I try to embody the advice folks gave me, or the inspiration that I gained from them.
"I knew this was my work," they continued. "It wasn't a side thing anymore."
Butler was born in Bermuda, the tiny British island territory perhaps best known for its pink sand beaches. Despite growing up in paradise, Butler was fascinated with the legend of California — and Oakland in particular. They loved the hip-hop culture, especially the hyphy movement, and devoured stories about the Black Panthers and the city's history of resistance. They moved after finishing college nearly a decade ago. Music has been a constant since childhood. Butler started with violin at age 4, moving on to saxophone and guitar in school bands. There wasn't really any kind of music scene in Bermuda, Butler said, so they experimented solo. That set the tone for the rest of Butler's music trajectory. "I was playing music but I wasn't playing anything I wanted to be playing," they said. "I was very much alone in my room in the dark, imagining other people playing the parts and imagining a crowd."
When they first moved to Oakland, Butler was in the throes of a black metal phase. Their death rock project, Black Jeans, eventually fizzled, but Butler had already garnered an interest in techno at that point. (They didn't think they liked techno, but some dark wave parties changed their mind.) Techno, crafted on a modular synthesizer, became the focus in 2012 — a natural extension of their hybrid scientific-and-creative brain that is at once rule-oriented and passionate. Butler has wrestled with bringing those two sides together for a long time, in part because of the way they were raised in Bermuda. "If you're Black and you've reached a certain social level, it's a very tenuous thing," they said. "I feel like there's this awareness from Black parents to ensure the next generation you're building up is going to be better off."
While Butler's parents and other family members all loved music, their creativity was always separate from their profession. Butler felt that familial and cultural pressure to build a more traditional career, but as an immigrant, they also needed a steady job to keep them in the United States. That eventually changed when they got married, and soon, the idea behind I'm Dropping Out of Life could be a real-life option.
Butler's next release will be their debut full-length, The Home I'd Build for Myself and All of My Friends, set to drop in July via San Francisco label Left Hand Path. Nine of the 10 tracks were made almost immediately after the Ghost Ship fire, which can be felt in a weighty, haziness that inhabits the sound. Conceptually, it's full of idealism while simultaneously rejecting effort to create a utopia. "I think if anything it's caused more problems in this world than anything else. I think something that is more effective is people setting out ideals and trying to their best. So, this is kind of a sonic blueprint of an idealistic space for literally me and all my friends, me and my community," they said. "One of the goals of late capitalism is to leave you with no time to dream. This is me building the foundation for how I hope to inspire people to dream."
It promises to be Butler's most broad work to date. Some of it is fast and percussive. Some is slow and ambient. Some is traditional and melodic. Some is tuned to Butler's own ear. "I've had this lightweight, personal motivation to essentially decolonize Western experimental and electronic music," they said. "I feel like one of the ways of doing that is creating your own structures based on your own personal history, the history of whatever culture you're in, the cultural moment you're in, and what you imagine that to be in the future.
"The kind of world I imagine, I will be very lucky if I experience it in my lifetime," they continued. "That doesn't mean I'm not going to try to move the needle a little bit."
Butler has drawn on Bermudian sounds and culture in their work in the past, but the upcoming record does so even more. There's more Bermudian-inspired percussion and "this very guttural, grounded, very in-your-hips, in-your-belly, in-your-heart kind of feeling," Butler said.
"The sound of the record is more raucous and colorful and spatial and I feel like that really encapsulates the human nature of the island, the dense spiritual nature," they said.
Perhaps there's even more Bermuda in these songs because Butler's relationship with the island continues to evolve. Funerals brought Butler back frequently over the past two years, and since Bermuda's population is majority Black, they are always surrounded by people who look like them. "There's this feeling of calm," they said. "At the same time, I can't be open and free about me being queer, non-binary, and trans.... There's this dissonance that exists now because I've found a place where part of me belongs, but it's also a place that will never completely understand me."
As a non-religious immigrant who isn't African American, Butler said they don't identify with 90 percent of American Black culture. But they love Oakland's diversity, community, and acceptance of outsiders. Even though many artists leave the Bay Area once they reach a certain level of success, Butler doesn't envision ever making that move. This is home now. "There's nothing guaranteed in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, or London," they said. "It all ends up still amounting to your work and what you want out of this life. What I want is to be here with the people who are now my family, and I want to keep representing them, doing right by them, and creating in this place."
Russell E.L. Butler plays MUTEK.SF, the electronic music festival, on Saturday, May 5, at the San Francisco Mint, 88 5th St., San Francisco. Tickets at MUTEK.org.


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We have all done it before…you set a goal, go after it with a vengeance for 3-5 days and then lose your motivation or circumstance get in the way.
Some will tell you that you just didn't want it bad enough when in reality you may have trained your brain to quite before you even got started. The scary thing is, you may not realize that you are sabotaging yourself.
When someone ask you, "What are your goals?", what is your first thought?
That's easy, lose weight, get stronger, fit into my size 8 jeans, right? Wrong…choosing the goal wisely is actually the most important part of goal achievement. In fact, I suggest that you don't choose a big lofty goal at all.
The problem with lofty goals is that they can actually teach us to not hit our goals at all. Take for example, a person who wants to lose 10 pounds…
You decide to commit to an exercise program, eat better, and you are serious this time. You set a goal of losing 4 pounds in 4 weeks. That's a SMART goal, right?
So, you hit the gym 3 days a week, lifting weights and doing your cardio minutes. You eat salads for lunch, and kick the Mountain Dew habit. The first week, you lose a pound, success! The second week you don't lose anything, yet you still stick with the workouts and healthy eating. You are a little bummed, but still determined.
The third week, you actually gain a pound, how can that be? Seriously, why isn't it working? You tell yourself, "Maybe next week will be better". You cheat a little on your diet, and you skip a workout this week. After all, you have been so good and besides, you are starting to doubt your goal was a good idea.
You weigh in the fourth week, and you actually lost 1 pound. Bummer, you missed your goal by 2 pounds. You feel like a failure.
But, guess what? You actually have started to develop some pretty exciting changes, but unless you get out of the "missed my goal" thinking, you won't see the integral habits that will eventually add up to big success.
In the past 4 months, you have logged 12 workouts (wow!), eating 7,000 fewer calories than you did the previous month (resulting in a 2 pound weight loss), and you are feeling happier, more energized, and people are starting to notice that your clothes are loose.
Are you starting to get my drift? Instead of choosing a goal, why not choose daily actions that lead to healthy habits over time. These healthy habits will build upon one another and eventually you will find success.
Here are the 7 steps to successful goal achievement:
Set SMART goals. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time Sensitive. You and your trainer will make sure that your goals meet these qualities.
Take ACTION. The longer you fantasize about a goal the less likely it is to happen. When we allow our thoughts to be consumed by what life will be like when we achieve our goal, it can actually trick your brain into thinking that you have already accomplished it, this decreases your intrinsic motivation. Instead, decide what you want and take action immediately. If the goal is to exercise more, start that day, don't wait. If the goal is to eat better, then start at your next meal or snack.
Focus on controllable daily habits instead of the goal itself. Daily habits will make or break your success. If you want to lose weight or body fat, then nutrition and exercise habits are essential. Developing the habits of eating in balance, hitting your calories goal, and food logging will do far more to help you lose weight than reading a motivational quote each day, right? Keeping your heart rate elevated throughout your sessions will get your stronger faster than if you stayed in your comfort zone for 60 minutes.
Don't underestimate completion time. Sometimes we are too eager to get to the goal line, and when we don't quite hit it, we give up. Instead, be honest with yourself about how long the goal will take, if your not sure, ask your trainer. Adjust your timeline along the way, and don't get down.
Nothing will derail you more than negative, below the line thinking. Speaking of negativity. Your thought processes are the essential link between where you are today and where you want to be 12 weeks from now. Thinking about "not wanting to be out of shape", wires your brain to think about "being out of shape". Instead, spin your thoughts around and set your goal on being able to run for 30 minutes. See, that's better, isn't it?
Use failure to your advantage. Too many people fail at a goal and just give up and move on. Instead, use your present failure to get it right on your next try. Have you tried every diet plan out there and when it stops working you move on to the next one? Analyzing your failures and make small adjustments, this will do far more than a complete overhaul.
Celebrate every success. Often we are so focused on the finish line that we forget what's happening in the here and now. Pay attention to the small successes and allow yourself to take pride in your progress so far. Setting smaller goals over time will help you stay motivated. Your 6 week assessment is a great time to adjust and/or celebrate your progress.
Click here to learn more on How our brains stop us from achieving our goals and how to fight back. Written by Gregory Ciotti


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Jennifer Nettles retains best of Sugarland on 'That Girl' journey
Yoga mats for sale at a country music show?
Not your standard memorabilia-table swag, but Sugarland was never your standard Music Row act. The yoga mat was the second-biggest thing I remember about the group's PNC Bank Arts Center show I went to in 2010.
The first was near the end of Sugarland's set, when Jennifer Nettles pointed to a group of men sporting western wear that leaned more Village People than George Strait. She pointed to one of them to say his vest was "fabulous." He immediately handed it to her, she put it on, and her new friend insisted she keep it before she left the stage.
Fast-forward almost four years. Nettles and partner Kristian Bush are taking a Sugarland break, leaving the former to release her "That Girl" album. At her show earlier this month at the Beacon Theatre, Nettles took a moment to congratulate -- to massive applause -- a just-married couple in the audience who tweeted at her earlier in the day.
The couple's names: Joseph and Steven.
Now, don't get the idea that her performances carry an especially activist tone. She just makes everyone welcome and -- by the way -- might be the best female singer on this planet, period. (She couldn't have held her own with the likes of Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Adele and Rihanna on awards-show collaborations if she weren't on the very short list.)
And yet, much of what you leave with isn't necessarily about the songs. Speaking of her largely '70s-inspired release and mentioning Barry Manilow, she added, "You can laugh if you want but he got more of you [loved] than you care to remember."
While she largely stuck to her current album's songs, her shifts to the past weren't jarring. "Moneyball," the "That Girl" track that reminds devotees not to lose themselves seeking success, was followed by "Baby Girl," the breakout debut Sugarland single praising the relentlessness of one chasing her dreams.
Genre notwithstanding, more than anything "That Girl" differs from Sugarland's releases largely in how you're completely duped -- in a good way -- by the tone the opening notes of songs create before Nettles goes in the exact opposite direction. "Me Without You" connotes heart-wrenching pain before Nettles offers a three-and-a-half-minute deep breath of relief for a jagged relationship mercifully ended.
"Jealousy" sounds like a story of oceanside relationship bliss is coming before Nettles tees off on a relationship rival and her "skanky fake hair," among other things.
Legendary producer Rick Rubin should get some credit for all the twists and turns, but Nettles gets the most, as her songwriting chops have gotten even sharper.
Nettles put it best while on the Beacon stage: "My roots are showing on this album, in a good way."
For locals planning summer music trips, the tour hits the update Chautauqua Institution Amphitheater on July 11, along with back-to-back shoes in Massachusetts Aug. 7 and 8.


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The shelf life of food largely depends on the way it is preserved, and the method of preservation determines the rate at which the microorganisms which cause food to spoil grow. Certain foods require airtight storage to limit the growth of microorganisms. One way this can be done is through the use of vacuum packing; a method that ensures all microorganisms that cause food to spoil are expelled during packaging. This maintains the hygienic properties of the food for a long time. When food is packed through this method, the shelf life can extend by up to 3 -5 times.
Let us compare the difference in shelf life for food preserved in a conventional manner versus when it is maintained using vacuum sealing. However, it is also important to note that apart from the preservation method in use, the type of food and the place used to preserve the food will also affect the shelf life of the food; these places can be in the pantry, in the refrigerator or in the freezer.
Different meat dishes will spoil at different times depending on the type. Chicken meat, for instance, will stay fresh for between 6-12 months when kept in conventional storage and between 2 – 3 years when preserved using vacuum sealing. On the other hand, fish will be fresh for 2-6 months on the typical storage, compared to 2 years when maintained using vacuum sealing.
Vegetables and fruits
Vegetables will when stored conventionally for up to 8 months while their shelf life will extend to between 2 and three years when preserved under vacuum sealing. Similarly, fruits will keep for 6-12 months under conventional methods of storage and between 2 to 3 years when they are vacuum sealed.
Coffee takes a very short time to get spoiled when preserved conventionally. It will lose most of its rich aroma and taste in about two weeks. However, when it is stored under vacuum sealing, the same will maintain its richness for up to 2 years.
Cereals can last between 2 and 3 months fresh when stored using conventional means, but their shelf life may extend to between 6 and 12 months when the vacuum sealing method is used.
Baked Foods
Baked meals such as rice dishes tend to remain fresh for about 6 months when stored conventional means of storage are used. On the other hand, when vacuum sealing is used the same meals will last between 1 and 2 years.
Cooked food items
These usually take between 1 and 2 weeks for them to remain palatable when they are preserved using conventional means. However, Vacuum sealing extends this period by up to 4 weeks.
These values, however, are rough estimates and a lot of factors have to be put into consideration to ensure that the food remains fresh for this long. The primary factor that one should consider is the condition of the storage appliance such as the refrigerator in use. If you are not sure that its performance is optimal or if the food goes bad quickly, contact a reliable fridge repair company. We are the leading company when it comes to appliance and fridge repairs in Cape Town. Contact us on 087 551 0817 for the best solutions at affordable rates.


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Valley Uprising Wins Banff Grand Prize
11/10/14 - "Valley Uprising," the documentary of Yosemite climbing culture directed by Nick Rosen, Peter Mortimer, and Josh Lowell, has won the grand prize at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. The 90-minute film, produced by Zachary Barr and Sender Films, is currently showing worldwide in the 2014 Reel Rock tour.
Film jury member Nicolas Brown said, "The mountain culture [is] pretty good at telling our stories to each other. However, sometimes we are less effective telling our stories to the rest of the world. This film tells an epic tale, giving us larger-than-life characters whose lives play out on a vast stage. The result is a work that will inspire not just climbers but the world at large."
Three other climbing films took big prizes at Banff:
Renan Ozturk's seven-minute film "El Sendero Luminoso," covering Alex Honnold's free solo of the 500-meter, 5.12 route by that name in Mexico, won the Creative Excellence Award. The film was shot largely by Cedar Wright and produced by Aimee Tetreault.
"Cerro Torre: A Snowball's Chance in Hell," the 103-minute feature film about David Lama's controversial attempt—and ultimately bold success—at free-climbing Cerro Torre's southeast ridge, was named the best climbing film of the festival. The film was directed by Thomas Dirnhofer and produced by Philipp Manderla and Red Bull Media House.
"Sufferfest 2: Desert Alpine," directed and produced by Cedar Wright, pegged the applause-o-meter to win People's Choice in the Radical Reels competition. The 27-minute film documents Wright and Alex Honnold's month-long tour of desert towers by mountain bike.
Other Banff winners:
• And Then We Swam, directed by Ben Finney (Exploration and Adventure)
• Tashi and the Monk, directed by Andrew Hinton and Johnny Burke (Mountain Culture)
• Little Red Bus, directed by Sébastien Montaz-Rosset (Mountain Sports)
• The Crash Reel, directed by Lucy Walker (Snow Sports)
• Nature: Touching the Wild, directed by David Allen (Mountain Environment and Natural History)
• Delta Dawn, directed by Peter McBride (Short Mountain Film)
• Marmato, directed by Mark Grieco (Feature Mountain Film)
• Mending the Line, directed by Steve Engman (People's Choice)
• Jungwa, the Broken Balance, directed by Stanzin Dorjai Gya and Christiane Mordelet (Special Jury Mention)
Date of awards: November 9, 2014
Source: Banffcentre.ca


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Proceedings of the 10th Chais Conference for the Study of Innovation and Learning Technologies: Learning in the Technological Era - 2015
Presented as a talk in The 10th annual Chais Conference on Instructional Technologies Research Learning in the Technological Era - 2015
Chais Conference for Research in Learning Technologies
The research group functions as a community net lab focusing on the ways that clearly defined (primordial) communities (re)form social boundaries through the use of new media (i.e. the Internet, mobile communication) and knowledge that is constructed online.
Widely used information diffusion models are based on the assumption that exposure to information, like exposure to a virus, is enough for it to spread.


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23 Reasons Why You Will Always Be PoorBy Elyssa Kirkham of GOBankingRates |
Many North Americans are clearly not experts at managing their own finances and end up broke month after month. The cycle of overspending leaves them poor, even if their income means they are considered well above the poverty line. A third of higher-income households — those that bring in US$75,000 or more a year — live paycheck to paycheck, found a recent survey from SunTrust Banks, Inc.
Then there are other factors, like the average per-household amount of credit card debt that stands at nearly $16,000 and dismal savings — 73 percent of people have less than $1,000 in their savings account. It raises the question: Why are people with relatively good income always broke?
GOBankingRates talked to 23 personal finance experts, asking them all the same question: What is the No. 1 reason people end up poor or in financial hardship? Click through to find out what problems they say are keeping you broke, as well as what they think you should do to improve your situation.