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AOL Reorgs Sales Around Global Categories
Jim Norton's role expanded
AOL says brands are finally ready to do more than pay lip service to going global. So it's reorienting its sales service to help better capture those global dollars.
Jim Norton, who was previously svp of AOL Advertising, has been named the company's new head of global media sales. Norton will not only look to push the company toward more international mega deals with big brands, but is also planning to lead the company into a more category-centric approach.
Indeed, AOL is establishing a new position, the cdo (category development officers); the portal has brought in five execs to serve in these new roles as they attempt to build deep knowledge and relationships in specific product verticals.
The new cdos include John Gregory, a former marketing exec at Bloomingdale's, Ann Taylor/Loft and Macy's who will oversee AOL's retail business; Paul Kadin, who logged time at Citi, Chase and Dreyfus, and now runs AOL's efforts in the finance category; and Scott Kelliher, formerly of Virgin Mobile, who now heads up AOL's tech sales group.
In addition, ex-Toyota group vp Steve Strum is AOL's autos cdo, while Mike Merna, late of Pfizer, is the cdo for packaged goods.
AOL of course is hardly the first sales organization to debate whether to organize sales around particular agencies, clients or categories (a similar reorg was contemplated during the brief Greg Coleman era). And half of the agency world seemed to ad global officers of some kind over the past year, as did many publishers—but outside of a few huge brands, true global campaigns have been elusive.
Norton says that's changing fast., in part because of technology.
"Customers are asking for and more global strategy, and fewer and fewer partners," Norton said. "Complexity is leading to compression. And there are fewer people that can be good at both."
Norton said that AOL is working with close to 40 global accounts, and the plan is to grow that number quickly. He says that agencies are also pushing this shift, as evidenced by the Publicis-Omnicom merger.
But agency organizational models, as well as most publishers' structure and processes, still make global tough. "A lot of this is very challenging in our industry," said Norton.
Here's a memo from AOL CEO Tim Armstrong detailing the changes:
AOLers –
Advertising is an area that AOL has increasingly gained strength in – we have great products and a very strong sales team. Our customers are looking for fewer, bigger partners and they are looking for partners with a global strategy on global platforms. The work we have done to rebuild our products and platforms is a highlight for the company and our barbell strategy has become one of the successful models in our industry.
But success starts with our ability to drive change and to lead – and today we are promoting one of the best leaders we have at the company to lead our push into globalizing our advertising business and partnerships. Jim Norton has been promoted to Head of Global Media Sales for AOL and he will be responsible for our global sales strategy and structure. Jim will be working closely with our brand leaders and with Graham Moysey who leads our International business.
Since joining AOL in 2009, Jim has re-architected AOL's sales approach and go to market strategy to optimize revenue across AOL's leading property and platform solutions. His category-led sales infrastructure and agency development practice have allowed AOL to pioneer strategic partnerships and innovative cross-platform marketing solutions across all the global agency holding companies and with Fortune 500 clients. Jim has also driven growth across all advertising revenue lines, including video, O+O display and network, a combination that is delivering great consumer experiences and successful customer results.
As part of this new alignment, Erika Nardini, AOL Advertising CMO, will assume global packaging/category strategy responsibilities. Marta Martinez (Head of Sales Strategy & Operations) will assume global account operation responsibilities. Erika and Marta have been exceptional leaders and partners with Jim in the advancement of our go to market sales and marketing approach.
Jim is running our global sales conference in Miami this week and there is no better way for us to prepare for 2014 than to put the right people in the right seats to lead AOL's future development. Jim is a true leader in every sense of the word and the entire AOL team has witnessed Jim's transformative leadership and results.
Please welcome Jim Norton to his new role and welcome Erika and Marta to their new roles in driving the globalization of our advertising and marketing engines. 2014 is our year to conquest – and it starts today – TA


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If you are a VAR, ISV, MSP or SI – your world is changing. Cloud and changing customer buying behaviour means that not only do you need new business models but how you engage your target markets and focus your business will need re-inventing. You may need a new channel to market, new Partner relationships and restructure how you communicate you value to your target customers. The pace of change is catching many organisations unaware and the impact on revenue and profitability is beginning to affect the bottom line.
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car battery dead every time i start the car after it got stolen?
by archiworks
Question by Amy: car battery dead every time i start the car after it got stolen?
My car was stolen and it was recovered a day after. When I found the car battery was dead so i jumped the car. And the next day when I tried to start the car it didnt start because the battery was dead again. Whats wrong with my car? What should I do?
Best answer:
Answer by Raging Elephant
Charge the battery and do a load test. Should be around 12-12.6 V charged. Hook it up, let the car run for about 10 minutes, and test the battery while the car is on. If the alternator is working, it'll be around 13-15V. Bad alternator means the battery doesn't charge while it's running.
What do you think? Answer below!
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Survival and Love
Most of us act with the deliberate intention of making survival and love more certain for ourselves and for those close to us. How many of us feel encouraged by the ease and regularity with which we realize these objectives? Extrapolating the trends of the past few decades, who among us feels confident that the ideas and behaviors upon which we relied in the past will be an adequate foundation for living with satisfaction in the future? The purposes of this essay are to suggest that surviving and loving may now be more intimately related than we generally admit, and to outline an alternative to the approaches by which many of us have pursued them.
Survival More Difficult?
For thirty years, Americans have been adjusting our expectations downward. In place of the bold dreams and confident humanism of the thousand days of the Kennedy Presidency we now have the rising fears and confused alienation of the nineties. More and more of us live with disappointment. Today, the 1950's and early 1960's, when we were termed a "people of plenty" and an "affluent society," seem only a mirage. How many times have you read the newspaper or watched the television news and wondered, "Where's the 'good' news?" As more and more of us become aware of the lies by which we live, we are replacing the idealism so long a cardinal element of the American character with cynicism. And that cynicism is like a cancer upon our consciousness, appropriating everything in its path to its own ends, draining away self-esteem, undermining both will and ability.
Increasingly, we look to the future with apprehension. Acts of official and free-lance terrorism reach into every corner of our lives. We live with vivid images of police beating a prone suspect senseless on network news, thousands fleeing in panic from the smoking wreckage of the largest skyscraper in the world in the aftermath of a bombing, one unhappy individual after another wandering through trains, restaurants, streets, schoolyards, and workplaces killing and maiming. Despite a quarter century of environmental protection legislation here in America, we continue to level our forests, extinguish species, deplete our fisheries, and foul our air, soil, and water. As extreme weather patterns resulting from our own activities bring unprecedented destruction to one locale after another, all but the most sanguine among us are beginning to wonder whether those who promised progress have seen the future clearly. Even though we claim for ourselves a grossly disproportionate share of the natural resource capital of the rest of the globe with "trade" conducted on terms negotiated under, and enforced by, threat of war, we lack the wherewithal to maintain our domestic infrastructure. Reports of crumbling highways and failing bridges are accompanied by sobering estimates of the labor and material necessary to replace them. In scarcely a generation, we have replaced the tasks of distributing abundance and adapting to leisure with the challenge of maintaining what we have, or more often, of trying just to hang onto the most important of it. For more and more of us, survival is an issue.
Degradation of Love
Thirty years ago, many spoke enthusiastically, albeit loosely, of love. Love and lust, often associated in experience, were subsumed under the former with a wink. "Free love" and "making love" were euphemisms with which people made extra-marital sex and sexual intercourse itself topics suitable for polite conversation.
But when the "flower children" of the late-1960's embraced love in its dual meaning, they sought more than sexual freedom; they wanted also a gentler human society. They flocked to theaters to cry over romantic films like Love Story. The believed, or wanted to, when the Beatles, fresh from their encounters with an Indian swami, cheerfully promised, "All You Need is Love."
When the people who generated mass media advertising campaigns turned in that era to explicit and subliminal sexual themes to induce us to buy, they added at least a thin veil of sentimentality and kindness. Models looked at each other, and smiled.
In the current era, lust is undisguised, and we find shrinking use for love. People talk openly, indeed proudly, about topics once taboo. We have supplanted admonitions about reserving sex for those with whom we intend to make a life with threats of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. College students list money at the top of their career goals and public service far down the list. High schoolers are more likely to carry guns and knives than love beads and pictures of love-preaching gurus. In movies, the lust-to-love ratio is enormous and growing. Few question a plot in which one character cuts off another's limbs 'for love.' The leading music genre is a hate-filled series of threats and put-down's from which melody and harmony have been banished. And advertising is stripped of any pretense to vulnerability. Models glower and sneer off the page at us.
Reclaiming Love
How shall we put love, in the sense of caring for each other and the environment we share, back into our culture? Ours are lives of individualism and competition, where a very large proportion of what we do is devoted to exchanges of various kinds. How often have we been taught that by hoarding our talent and resources, and offering them only when we can trade to our advantage, we will create maximum satisfaction for all? Given this conditioning, who can profess surprise that we think primarily as individuals, emphasizing our separateness and uniqueness? To compete more effectively, we ask recognition and credit for even our very beings, downplaying the many accidents, both genetic and cultural, which account for so much of who we are. As we maneuver to enhance our relative status, we drain others of their value and arrogate whatever we can to ourselves.
Focusing on the advantage to be gained by increasing our personal power, do we even imagine the greater security potentially available by satisfying the needs of all? More likely we treat interaction with others, including "love" relationships, as exchanges, and repeatedly question whether we are "getting enough" from them. How often do we hear "She's too good for him,", "He ripped me off," and similar expressions indicative of this outlook? By demanding service or personal compromise of those we claim to love, we reveal pervasiveness of commercialism and exchange in our consciousness.
Inexperience with Charity
Even when we think we are magnanimously giving, we often speak of "exchanging presents" and almost always expect something, if "only" gratitude, in return. Among people who characterize interactions in these terms, the capacity to give freely is rarely well-developed. But do we acknowledge this openly, or do we conceal the extent to which we withhold and feel separate from others by promising to do, "what I can" for them, rather than admitting that we intend something far more limited than devotion of every breathing moment and every capacity we possess to serving them? Who will deny that "what I can" is less "all I can" than "what I please?"
How rare indeed is the "I love you," which means, "We are one; I serve our mutual being; your satisfaction and my own are equally important to me; even to the point of survival itself am I prepared to share equally with you the risks and rewards of living"? Love of this nature, when we do offer it, usually passes only among intimates: parent and child, husband and wife, and lifetime collaborators. Given the increasing impermanence and shrinking reliability of even these ties in our culture, such love may be on the verge of extinction. With how many others will you "draw straws" for the right to survive? Do you sense any connection between the rarity of this kind of loving and declines in our individual satisfaction and collective security?
In Pursuit of Dominance
For more than two hundred years, beginning at least as early as the era in Western European history presumptuously proclaimed "the Enlightenment", we have placed growing faith in our ability to increase our security by mastering new techniques for more rapid and larger-scale matterenergy conversions, and competing with one another in using them. How happy has been our choice to seek control over the earth, instead of learning to live gently upon it? How wise have we been to develop laws of property which perpetuate privilege, and to devote enormous resources to maintain the public and private armies and arsenals by which we enforce them at home and abroad? What have we gained by postponing action by which to redress the gross disparities in human circumstances?
Perhaps such behavior is understandable in terms of our historical relationship to our environment. Wherever we turned there were new frontiers with untouched resources. The pace of our scientific learning produced a seemingly endless sequence of new ways to make useful that which previously had been unappreciated. For awhile we imagined that all might share, if disproportionately, in this bounty.
In the absence of such relatively modern global threats as nuclear holocaust, gross atmospheric and oceanic poisoning, or the emergence of some super-pathogen through human malice or carelessness, survival was a much more individual task. Plague might sweep a continent, but some people lived in places sufficiently remote to escape danger. Parisians might party while Romans were besieged. Long after the English found wood too precious to burn, Americans wasted forests just to clear land. Separate communities were somewhat autonomous and self-reliant, and most of the world's people lived in ignorance of each other.
One Human Future
Our situation is now quite different. We who are supported by the highest levels of matterenergy conversion are dependent on a global supply network. Accessibility of information by telecommunications has exposed our dependence. Those who slave so that we may luxuriate are increasingly skeptical of the justifications we offer for this inequality, and grow almost daily more ready and better prepared to disrupt our exploitation. Who can in good conscience ask them to accept promises that they may someday share in ever larger benefits from newly-discovered resources and newly-developed technologies as even we who managed such triumphs in the past recognize the completeness of our science and the finiteness of the planet?
Today our question is less, "How shall we sustain growth and achieve a better life for all?" than, "How many shall die so that we may continue living as we do?" Unless we reach agreement as one humanity on the bases on which this question is to be answered, our selection of potential responses is likely to become frighteningly narrow. Already we are constrained by a growing human population and an environment made lean by past plunder. After two centuries of industrial bounty and clever competition, we face a future less certain than ever before. How long shall we persist in our current approach? By what wisdom can we develop another?
Old Ideals for New Realities
For centuries, there have been those who devote attention to philosophical, religious, or mystical contemplation aimed at extending human experience beyond the sensate, material realm of everyday life. Some such people, termed moral philosophers, undertake a search for the "good". In their explorations, they inevitably consider the positive and negative qualities of various attitudes and behaviors towards other people, and frequently they speculate on the nature of loving. Within both the secular and religious philosophical traditions of East and West, are exultations of a loving "oneness" tantamount to complete identity of self and others. Both Christ and Buddha taught such loving as a path to personal realization, happiness, and enlightenment.
The seeming incompatibility of such a sense of self with the day-to-day behaviors by which some of us cling to luxuries while allowing others to perish has long been a source of conflict for thinking people. How often do the actions which promote our own welfare and those which protect and nourish others seem to lie on divergent paths? The compartmentalization of charity is evidence of our failure to reconcile these two goals. Despite the proliferation of service organizations, most of us continue to devote the majority of our life and other resources to insuring our own survival, admitting and even touting our gains at the expense of others.
Knowing that we kill or let die for selfish reasons, how can we anticipate any but similar behavior from others? So long as any are more powerful than we, where all of us live more from expedience than from principle, can we be secure? Suppressing awareness of the contradictions and paradoxes in our lives, we stubbornly repeat old behaviors. How many of us consider ameliorating the suffering of others the best way to lessen our own anxiety?
Evolution of Culture
Humanity is now a far cry from the days when injury and death in the jaws of cave bears and sabre-toothed tigers, or as a result of other non-human-mediated events, inspired our greatest fears. Today the indifference and hostility among us may be the greatest risks we face. In a world where we are more cognizant of each other, and where even the relatively weak are increasingly able to affect any one of us, who will refuse to question whether the means by which we subdued and in some cases extinguished other life forms remain appropriate for use among us? Just as the tiger and the bear have gone, so may the missiles and bombs give way to new techniques for meeting the dangers of a different age. Rather than look outward for more sophisticated technologies by which to dominate our planet and each other, perhaps we will look inward to create an ethos by which we can quiet our fears.
Failure of Narrow Self-Interest
The actions by which we express fear are often the same as those by which we elicit it from others. They range from design and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction to isolated murders, from buying food away from the lands of the starving to burning gasoline for pleasure trips while the peasants of the Himalayan foothills deforest a subcontinent in search of cooking fuel. So long as we persist in our collective failure to make the security of all the goal of all, can any of us escape fear or find enlightenment?
By devoting resources to maintaining unequal access to satisfaction and survival, we reduce the amount of need-fulfilling goods and services which we collectively share. By our refusal to live as equals, we unnecessarily deplete all that can satisfy our needs. With our stubborn persistence in old ways we waste human life, land, minerals, and energy. Those of us who insist that we are entitled to something more than 1/nth of the world's resources (where 'n' is the world population) are left to enforce our claim with threat and violence.
Survival and Love
Some ask, "Can humans be different?" North Americans have long recognized the common interest in providing through government for the basic needs of the indigent. Private groups like corporations, unions, mutual insurance companies, and cooperatives may offer even more comprehensive benefits to members limited in capacity by illness, injury, or old age. Some families, communal groups, and monastic orders extend such protection to its practical limit, sharing resources on the basis of need and contributing to group welfare on the basis of ability. In this they are much like a number of non-Western, non-industrialized cultures which have existed in the past and endure in remote areas even today.
By learning to love in an ever larger, more charitable sense, by expanding our sense of self to include more and more of the world's people, we can take further steps towards mutual security. By joining with those whose needs are unfilled, we can lay the foundation for a society of peers. Perhaps in doing these things we will become less preoccupied with fear of one another, better able to find common purposes, more adept at living within the limits to earth ecosystem stability, and thus more likely to protect the ability of all to survive and to love, now and in years to come.


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It can totally be a bummer when you're basically the only single girl in your group of friends. While your besties are hanging with their BFs on Friday night, you're sitting in bed binge-watching The Vampire Diaries (again) with a box of pizza on your lap.
Well, Lucy White and Katie Weachter can totally relate, and they wrote a super hilarious song about it that you won't be able to stop singing with your besties. From not having anywhere to wear your cute new dress to trying not to eat a whole box of Pringles in one night, "Life When You're Single" is basically every single girl's anthem. Their LOL YouTube vid has over 80,000 YouTube views, and will remind you that when you have a BFF to eat pizza and rip apart loves stories in magazines, like ahem, Seventeen (!!!) with (we get it, ladies—and we're totally here for you!), being single isn't bad at all.
Check out their hilarious music video below:
Can you totally relate to "Life When You're Single"? Are there any other single-girl problems that you'd add to their lyrics? Sound off in the comments!
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Finola Igoe
Finola is an associate in Dispute Resolution. She has considerable experience in commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution with a particular focus on banking and construction related disputes.
Finola advises banks and financial institutions in bringing proceedings against defaulting borrowers/guarantors and on the various enforcement options available to the client. She also provides advice to clients in bringing and defending proceedings involving claims in debt recovery, breach of contract, defamation and product liability.
Finola is part of the Firm's Construction, Environmental, Waste & Planning Group and advises clients – including design teams, contractors and developers – on all legal aspects of construction projects including any issues arising in relation to planning and environmental compliance in a variety of business sectors. She also advises clients involved in contentious construction disputes and is experienced in Arbitration, Mediation and Conciliation.
Admitted as a Solicitor in Ireland in 2010
Admitted as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 2010
Bachelor in Laws (LL.B) Trinity College Dublin, 2005
Post-graduate Diploma in Construction Law and Contract Administration, Trinity College Dublin, 2016
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Mayor Bloomberg and teachers union boss Randi Weingarten are going head-to-head again — this time in a high-stakes, bitter national fight over school reform in Los Angeles.
Weingarten, the former city teachers union head who is now president of the American Federation of Teachers, blasted billionaire Bloomberg for donating $1 million to help elect a slate of school-board candidates in LA committed to accountability measures opposed by the union.
Weingarten accused Bloomberg and other big corporate donors of "trying to buy the LAUSD board."
"Mayor Bloomberg has lost the support of public school parents in NY. Now he wants to take his flawed approach in LA," tweeted Weingarten.
Weingarten is backing the Los Angeles teachers union's slate of candidates against the one backed by Bloomberg. The election will be held on March 5 and union officials vowed to have "boots on the ground" to counter "bully" Bloomberg.
Bloomberg's camp defended his contribution.
"Teachers unions have spent millions in Los Angeles and tens of millions around the nation to oppose reform and defend the failed status quo," said Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson.
"Mike Bloomberg is proud to help level the playing field on behalf of children and their families. The union may not like it, but they should get used to it because he is just getting started."
As in New York, the union and LA school chief John Deasy are battling over a new teacher-evaluation program that for the first time will use student results on standardized tests to help grade teachers.
Bloomberg has been unable to secure an agreement with the city teachers union on a new evaluation plan here.


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Céleste necklace yellow gold and diamonds
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11 GVS white diamonds 0.07ct
Size of the pattern : 0.85 x 1.30cm
Chain 1mm adjustable from 40 to 42cm
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Passionate as she is about the Victorian era's jewellery and in search of dreams and beauty, Marie Poniatowski creates the Grace cross, in tribute to the actress Grace Kelly who left her mark on the designer's childhood. The diamonds are enhanced without being ostentatious, showing a light, modern and easy-to-wear piece.
The cross is particularly cherished by Marie Paniatowski; she sees in it a sort of harmony between the male and female principle, a sign of life and victory. As an archetype of sharing and stability, the Stone Paris' cross is also a lucky charm.


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Kasai classification
Dr Yuranga Weerakkody ◉ and Dr Ayush Goel et al.
Kasai classification is used to describe the three main anatomical types of biliary atresia.
- type I: obliteration of common bile duct (patent cystic and common hepatic duct)
type II
- IIa: obliteration of common hepatic duct (patent cystic and common bile duct), sometimes with a cyst at hilum hence termed cystic biliary atresia
- IIb: obliteration of common hepatic duct, cystic and common bile duct
- type III: obliteration of left and right main hepatic ducts at the level of porta hepatis (most common, 90%)
Note: some authors have mentioned this anatomical classification as Japanese and Anglo-Saxon classification 1.
- 1. Wildhaber BE. Biliary atresia: 50 years after the first kasai. ISRN Surg. 2012;2012: 132089. doi:10.5402/2012/132089 - Free text at pubmed - Pubmed citation


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HRSflow will show its hot runners at this year's Fakuma at booth 2217, hall A2, with a focus on servo driven FLEXflow One hot runner technology.
The FLEXflow One does not need additional control unit during the injection process, and the new range of full compact nozzles with a reduced constant external diameter over their length. Thanks to newly developed pressure blocks, the hot runner can be used to provide support in the mould, while the new Thread Safe Kit prevents damage during disassembly of screwed-in hot runner nozzles.
HRSflow has developed a family of screwed-in hot runner nozzles, called Full Compact Nozzle, which achieves a space-saving heating system, the nozzle seat diameter having been reduced from 33 mm to 28 mm over its entire length. They are optimised for producing small, delicate parts such as loudspeaker grilles and are also suitable for reverse gating from the ejector side. Lengths range from 75 mm to 450 mm with internal diameters of 6, 8 and 10 mm. They can be equipped with one or two heating zones and are available in Classic Line and Fail Safe versions, the latter with two heating devices and two thermocouples.
HRSflow's recently introduced Pressure Block clamping plates are positioned between the hot runner system and mould where, thanks to their low thermal conductivity, they ensure a more uniform temperature profile in the hot runner system and help to bring about a distinct increase in mould stiffness. They can be flexibly positioned without any negative impact on the temperature profile of the hot runner system.
Another recently introduced product, the Thread Safe Kit unscrewing aid, reduces maintenance costs by helping to ensure easy nozzle removal without thread damage. When processing critical thermoplastics such as PMMA and PC, it stops the screwed-in nozzle from seizing.
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Douglas Quinby, vice president of research at the travel industry group Phocuswright in an article by the Information on AirBnB:
"Even this whole idea of 'travel like a local' I believe is more marketing than substance," he adds. "Most travelers when they travel don't want to meet locals, they don't want to attend the violin-making class in Paris. They want to eat a croissant in a cafe and go to the Eiffel Tower."
Gillian Morris in the comment section of the same article:
AirBnb wins because it is cheap and convenient, not because it is unlocking a magical world of authentic experiences.
AirBnB's next move is probably flight-booking, as noted by Bloomberg.
Airbnb may acquire an online travel agency or license data from a provider, such as Amadeus IT Group SA or Sabre Corp., said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing unfinished products.
Licensing data would not differentiate AirBnB from Skyscanner or Google Flights. Acquiring an online travel agency does. I stumbled on AirWander today.
Airwander: add multi-day stopovers to save on flights
This seems like an extremely good acquisition for AirBnB. Not only would AirBnB buy a ready-made flight-book tool. It would also buy a service that enhances their main product. Pick a destination, save on flight costs and book a cheap home for your stopover.
It should not go unnoticed that stopovers are becoming more popular. It allows travellers to save money and see more of the world. Several Youtube creators have made stopovers, in Hong Kong and New Orleans.
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Mickey Mouse Movie Night Party and More!
Happy mid-October. I read an article today that says the rains are coming to California! We sure need it, but the magnitude of rain could be scary. I think it might even rain on Halloween this year. What would a rainy Halloween look like? Has anyone experienced one?
Thank you to everyone who added your parties to our site this week. Once again I'm blown away by what you do, and how much love you have for your families!
My favorite parties this week are... an outdoor Mickey Mouse movie night party, a pretty, pastel polka dot owl birthday, a gorgeous glam carnival, and a spooky Hallow's Eve party with an amazing dessert table!
- LAURA'S little PARTY's Hallow's Eve tablescape
- Memories Are Sweet's Milly's 1st Birthday
- Sally A's Glam Carnival!
- LAURA'S little PARTY's Mickey themed outdoor movie night
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Our mission is to provide the best pizza and outstanding service, to our customers, in the American market. We are committed to providing our employees with the necessary resources for success.
Customers are the ''Life'' of Pizza Hut - the most necessary ingredient in our plan. We believe the customer is #1 and must be given a since of caring and urgency through exceptional service and the highest quality products served in a clean and inviting atmosphere.
Employees are the most valuable asset and must be recognized for there individual achievements, thus giving them a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment in their work. They are the strength within the company, and their involvement and teamwork are essential to the company.
Community interest is an active role we strive for, by providing assistance to worthy causes and jobs to the lives in our communities.
Our Chamber has approximately 530 members that invest their resources, employee volunteerism and confidence in the Owatonna Area Chamber of Commerce & Tourism and the business community.
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It's a Party!
The rain is falling but that is not hindering the masses getting down to Surry Hills and Darlinghurst to get prized positions for parade watching. In the spirit of festivals and festivities I thought I'd put a little blog together about yummy and nutritious party food ideas for the little ones. Top Ten Party Foods


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Platinum Suites Canmore Accommodations offer guests luxury condominium accommodation when traveling on business or pleasure.
Each luxury two bedroom condo is richly furnished and accessorized with a full state of the art kitchen, dining area, living room with fireplace and balcony. The master bedroom features a king size bed, flat screen television, in room Jacuzzi tub and glass shower. A second spacious bedroom offers two queen beds, flat screen television and a second full bathroom.
To make your stay more comfortable each suite includes a number of conveniences including in room washer and dryers, direct dial telephones, high speed internet access and 3 cable televisions.
With 1,100 square feet featuring 2 bedrooms, separate living room, dining room and kitchen our Canmore accommodations are ideal for up to 6 persons. Each of the Condo Style Suites includes the following:
Master Bedroom
- King Size Bed
- Flat Screen Cable Television
- In room jetted Jacuzzi Tub
- 2 sink Bathroom Vanity
- Large tile/glass shower
Living Room
- Sofa with Occasional Chair and stool
- Fire Place with Bench Seating
- Flat Screen Cable Television
Additional Bedroom
- 2 Queen Size Beds
- Flat Screen Cable Television
- Separate single sink vanity area
- Bathtub and shower
Dining Room
- Dining Table with Six Chairs
- Bar Stools at Kitchen Counter
- Stove with Oven
- Full Size Refrigerator and Microwave
- Dishwasher
- Dishware, Cutlery and Basic Cooking Equipment
- Washer and Dryer
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- Large windows that open for fresh air
- Balconies
- Individual Climate control in each suite
- High Speed Internet Access
- Direct Dial Telephones
Building Facilities
- Complimentary Underground Secure Heated Parking
- Outdoor Swimming Pool – open year round
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Today I want to point out a great blog post by Howard J. Luks, MD, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports injuries. It's clear from the content of his website that Dr. Luks is a zealot for involving his patients in their care.
The post I want to focus on today is titled Patients Need to Feel Comfortable Asking Questions – Your Input Matters. Let's just break this post down.
First, Dr. Luks starts off with an anecdote of a patient who didn't feel he could speak up to his doctor. Immediately we can all identify with the situation. We want to know what happened to poor Bill. We keep reading.
Then Dr. Luks demonstrates that he understands the concerns of his patients by listing, in bullet form, their common concerns. It's already clear to me that, unlike Bill's doctor, Dr. Luks listens to his patients. But he didn't come out and tell me that – he demonstrated it by sharing this understanding. Very smart.
Finally, Dr. Luks goes on to give some specific actions that patients can take to get the most out of their doctor visits. By telling patients what information to provide and questions to ask, and giving them permission to wait to make a decision or even seek a second opinion, Dr. Luks is firmly positioned as patient advocate.
The result is an engaging article that ends with useful take away information for anyone who reads it – whether they are Dr. Luks patient or not. And if I'm shopping for an orthopedic surgeon, this article is definitely going to cause me to consider Dr. Luks.
Well done.
From a writing perspective, the article is also well done. There are only two paragraphs with more than five lines – this makes for easy readability. No intimidating blocks of text here. Plentiful use of bullets makes the article easy to scan.
Furthermore, the text is written at a 7th grade reading level which is fantastic for a medical blog. This means that Dr. Luks has successfully taken medical concepts and communicated them without jargon. He's written a piece that can be quickly scanned and digested by most hurried internet readers.
Finally, Dr. Luks' tone is casual and accessible. I feel like he's having a conversation with me, and he would probably be easy to talk to in person.
In the midst of this excellent blog, there are a few things Dr. Luks could do to improve it. First, an image would be valuable. A well-selected image engages readers before they get to the first word. I included one at the top of this post that would work well for Dr. Luks' post. There are lots of resources to find cheap and free images on the internet.
Second, Dr. Luks could run the piece through a proofreader. Microsoft Word will catch most spelling or grammar errors for you. If you want to get really crazy, you can run it through the Hemingway App. It will find instances of the passive voice (9 in Dr. Luks' article) or overly complicated sentences. The best proofreader I have found is simply reading the piece aloud. It's crazy what will stand out to you when you hear your writing as opposed to just reading it silently.
Last, Dr. Luks has a ton of great content on his website. He is missing out on engaging his readers further by not linking from text in this article to posts he has previously written. Specifically, he's written about rotator cuff tears and second opinions before. I would link to those if I were writing the blog post.
Overall, Dr. Luks offers us a great example of a useful blog for patients. Most medical practices would do well to take a page from his book.
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by Lois Zachary
Think about people you know who are approximately your age. The likelihood is that you and your age cohort exhibit similar behavior patterns, workplace expectations, communication styles and expressions, and also share common historical reference points and memories.
If you are a Baby Boomer or a GenXer, chances are you've noticed that many, if not most, of your coworkers have different modes of expression, working, and even dissimilar values. That is because right now a tremendous shift is underway in the workplace. Baby Boomers, for many decades the largest generation, are rapidly decreasing in numbers and record numbers of Millennials (76-80 million of them) are flooding the workplace.
More has been written about the Millennials (born between 1980 and 1995) than any previous generation. Millennials have been given many labels: Echo Boomers, Gen Y, Net Generation, First Digitals, iPod Generation, GenerationNext. They will be, by far, the largest workforce generation. Here are some interesting stats about Millennials:
- According to T&D Magazine (2011), Millennials will make up about 50 per cent of the 2014 workforce.
- They have the highest unemployment rate of any U.S. demographic group. Forty percent either lack a job or are underemployed and many have opted for jobs in the public sector.
- More than a third of employed Millennials have started their own business to supplement their income (Iconoculture 2011). Many others have focused on business or social entrepreneurship.
- Millennials are more racially diverse than any prior generation (U.S. Census Bureau 2011). 18.5% are Hispanic; 14.2% are Black; 4.3% are Asian; 3.2% are of mixed race; and 59.8% are White.
We live in the context of our own generation and we bring that context with us into our relationships. Baby Boomers, who defined the very nature and norms of today's workplace, find themselves struggling to understand why the values, preferences and ways of doing business that they embrace don't seem to be valued or relevant to most Millennials. To lead Millennials, managers need to become keenly aware of generational differences. While awareness offers a frame of reference, it is important to fully understand the uniqueness of each Millennial and not "over-generationalize."
What can you do to improve how you relate to, engage and develop Millennials as leaders?
- Tell them the truth; it establishes trust and sets the tone for the relationship.
- Be respectful and acknowledge the experience that they bring to the table; they want to be treated as equals.
- Ask for and listen to their thinking; they want to be heard and taken seriously.
- Offer challenging "think outside the box" stretch assignments and a variety of learning opportunities.
- Make sure they have the resources and the information that they need to achieve their goals.
- Use technology. If you don't know how, ask them to show you. They are masters at it.
- Provide regular feedback, especially praise and affirmation.
Lois Zachary is the President of Leadership Development Services, LLC. and an international expert on mentoring and leadership development. She has written several books on mentoring. The newest one is The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships. Other books include Creating a Mentoring Culture: The Organization's Guide, and The Mentee's Guide: Making Mentoring Work for You.


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McCorvey's Pro Shop is one of the largest pro shop chains in the United States serving bowlers in Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia and Virginia. With the original location in Huntsville, AL opening in 1984, we have been serving the bowling community for over 30 years.
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My sister was visiting all weekend, so I was a little anti-computer, but I didn't forget Photo Friday. In fact, a gift from my sister was the inspiration for my finger photos. She has this thing about giving me cocks. Actually, I have been giving them to her for awhile too. Okay, it's a downright cock war–err fight–but I think she's winning. Anyhow, below is the cock finger puppet featured on the finger:
I showed my cat Cleo the cock as well. She was quite unimpressed:
Sorry about the icky quality of these photos. I accidentally left my ISO settings on 800 making for really grainy shots. They'll do in a pinch though.
We're gearing up for this week's insemination. Actually, I'm just trying to get prepped for the school week after having guests again, and I'll likely be focusing on the insemination at the last minute. In the meantime, I'm drinking my green tea and taking my Vitex in hopes of some super fertile days to come.
We were going to go to our Pride festival today, but today also brought our first real rain of the season, so we opted to sit at home with my sister and watch movies. This turned out to be much more fulfilling and relaxing–and I didn't have to see my students out in public, which is always an awkward ordeal, even at non-queer events. They just don't see me as a human that eats, sleeps, or even leaves the university. If only they knew.


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In a dramatic break with tradition, U.S. Catholic bishops on Tuesday (Nov. 16) elected New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan as their next president, choosing a friendly but assertive leader over the more conciliatory front-runner.
Dolan defeated Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., 128 to 111 in the third and final round of voting. Kicanas has been vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, traditionally a stepping stone to the presidency, since 2007, when he defeated Dolan by two votes.
Tuesday's election marks the first time since the 1960s that a sitting vice president was on the presidential ballot and lost the election, according to church historians.
Noting that two conservative candidates led the voting for vice president, observers said the elections show that the bishops'conference is moving sharply to the right — with consequences not only for Catholics but also for politicians who court a crucial swing vote.


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To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.
To go before in place, rank, or importance.
To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object.
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We have cancelled the 2020 Event for safety reasons. Don't Miss this Truly Magical Weekend at Heritage Farms when it is rescheduled!
A truly magical family play day as rolling fields surrounding Heritage Farms are transformed into an outdoor country fairyland.
The weekend offers fun and adventure for all ages and everyone is encouraged to come in a fairy costume for Fairy Days at the Farm. There is fairy house building in the south field, games in the tree barn, Mini Fairy Gardens and Unicorn Coloring Corner.
Flitter the fairy will be here to lead the morning costume parade and to dance in the Fairy Circle with her new Fairy Friends both days from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. In the afternoon, watch for our silent and mysterious Bubble Fairy both days from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.
You can watch from the shade of the gazebo bridge as newly built fairy houses fill the field below the parking area.
Take time to shop in our Magical Meadow Market, where all fairy lovers young and old can discover for Fairy container gardens, wings, crowns and other costume crafts along with face painting, sweet fairy treats, items to create your personal fairy garden at home and more.
See you soon at Fairy Days!
When We Reschedule Fairy Days Hours :
Saturday, May 30th: 10 am – 4 pm Sunday, May 31st: 10 am – 4 pmFAIRY ACTIVITIES & MAGICAL MEADOW MINI MARKET BOTH DAYSFairy Games to play, Fairy House building, Mini Fairy Gardens and Unicorn Coloring Corner!
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So we arrived after a 14 hour car journey, to our lovely, very beautiful (complete with little blue shutters!) farmhouse located in the very quiet and quaint Saint Germaine du Seudre.
Surrounded by sunflowers, vineyards and wheat fields it really was everything I was hoping for our holiday in France.
I was dying to share the pictures (if you follow me on Instagram you would have seen my stories!) so thought I would do a quick blog post to share all my pictures. I'm going to do a 'proper' post soon all about our destinations and what I'd recommend…but for now, I'll leave you with some my photos 😊
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Located at the point where the suburbs of White Bear Township, Lino Lakes and North Oaks meet, you'll find a restaurant that embodies the words Warm, Fresh, Real!
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Hillary Clinton, who was escorted from an unannounced White House visit last Thursday, has now reportedly escaped from a mental health evaluation hospital in New York.
Reports being picked up off the wire indicate that following her daring jump from a basement window, she first went to the offices of the New York Times where she threatened the staff over reporting her stop-over at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. From there, she is said to have exited the building and pulled a cabby from his vehicle to then speed off into traffic.
One unconfirmed sighting placed her in Flushing Queens at the site of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, where a pair of time capsules are buried. Witnesses stated that she had a pick-ax in hand and was chipping away while screaming, 'I'm coming Bill. You'd better be ready! Make sure Chelsea is up and dressed for school!'
Across the Big Apple, security personnel from the mental health institution in question, have been seen looking down ally ways, poking into bushes at Central Park and lifting the lid on nearly every dumpster in town. Most are said to be dressed entirely in white while wearing ear buds and Google Glass... as well as carrying things like over-sized, heavy-duty netting as well as straight-jackets.
There has been no official word from Mrs. Clinton's personal staff, her husband, daughter or the opossum she received from PETA last year.
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A grant of representation (a grant) is a document issued by the Supreme Court that enables the executor or administrator to deal with the deceased person's estate. Under Victorian law there are three main types of grant:
The executor or administrator must place a notice on the Supreme Court of Victoria's 'Probate Online Advertising System' advertising their intention to apply for a grant of probate or letters of administration of the Will, after a period of 14 days from the date of the notice. Applications must then be filed with the Probate Office.
In some cases, where the assets of the estate are small or jointly held, these assets may be dealt with without obtaining a grant. From 1 July 2015, a new definition of the maximum monetary threshold of 'small estates' was introduced to section 71 of the Administration and Probate Act 1958 (the Probate Act). Section 71 defines a 'small estate' as an estate where the gross value of solely owned assets does not exceed $109,350. Small estates that fall within this definition can seek the aid of a small estates officer in the Probate Office in applying for a grant of probate. Assistance can also be sought from local magistrates' courts should applicants live more than 32 kilometres from Melbourne.
A grant is always required where a deceased person owned an interest in land in Victoria in their own name solely, or as a tenant in common. The Land Titles Office will not allow land to be transferred or otherwise dealt with until it has evidence that a grant has been obtained. A grant is not required to deal with property that was held jointly (as joint tenants), as that property will pass to the survivor through the 'right of survivorship'.
Where the deceased held other assets of value (such as money in bank accounts, shares or other investments), the banks, share registries and any other organisations are likely to require production of a grant before they permit the transfer of those assets. Each organisation has its own policy as to whether it requires a grant. For example, some banks require the production of a grant where they hold $15,000 or more. For other banks, the threshold is greater, such as $30,000 or $50,000.
In situations where a grant is not required, the relevant organisation will release funds to an executor or beneficiary once its requirements have been met. Those requirements are usually proof of death, proof of the existence of the Will (if there is one) and an indemnity from the claimant.
The indemnity is required so the organisation can recover from the claimant any loss it suffers if it is later discovered that the asset was released to the wrong person. An indemnity is not required when a grant is produced.
Banks and other organisations generally release enough funds from a deceased's estate to pay funeral costs prior to the granting of probate. A bank, for instance, will generally either pay the funeral home directly once it receives the original invoice or will reimburse the person who paid the funeral invoice from the deceased's funds. Banks and other organisations may release part or all of the funds they hold immediately if they are satisfied that a beneficiary of the estate, such as a domestic partner or child, would otherwise suffer significant hardship.
An urgent release of funds to a beneficiary is not an automatic right. It is at the discretion of the bank or organisation that holds the asset for the deceased.
Generally proof of death is required to obtain a grant. The proof required is a death certificate from the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages or an equivalent register.
In ordinary cases, a death certificate takes about four weeks to be issued. However, where a coroner's inquiry is taking place, a death certificate may not be issued for many months. During an emergency or a disaster where there are a large number of deaths, the process may take longer.
To avoid significant delays in obtaining a grant, as an interim measure the Registrar of Probates will usually accept an interim death certificate from the Coroners Court of Victoria or from the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages as proof of death. However, the interim death certificate may not be accepted by banks and other organisations. The registry will require evidence of the full death certificate when it is eventually issued. The registry will require further information if there are any differences between the coroner's certificate and the death certificate.
Where there are difficulties with identification of a deceased person, it is unlikely that the coroner will provide a certificate until the person's identity has been established. This will cause delays in administering a deceased estate.
In some instances, a person's death will not be able to be proved, in which case a person may be considered as missing, although they are presumed dead.
A grant can be issued without actual death being established, and can be made on the presumption of death. The person who is claiming that someone has died must establish to the court's satisfaction that this person is likely to be dead.
Before the court will declare a person to be presumed dead, the law generally requires a person to be missing for seven years without being heard of, and that there are people who would normally have heard from the person in that time but have not. Where the circumstances show that in all probability death has occurred, the court is able to infer death without waiting for the seven-year period.
Where a grant is issued on the presumption of death, the estate assets cannot be distributed without the leave of the court.
There may be some instances where it needs to be established who died first, for example to determine the order of Wills or ownership of assets. Where it cannot be established who died first, there is a presumption that the oldest person died first.
The Wills Act 1997 (Vic) provides that beneficiaries must survive the deceased by 30 days before they become entitled to a gift under the Will. If beneficiaries die within that 30-day period, they are treated as if they had died before the deceased. This does not apply if the Will shows a different intention.
Despite the rule regarding the 30 days, an executor can make a distribution of assets, such as money, to the spouse, partner or child of a deceased within this 30-day period. The distribution needs to be made by the executor in good faith, and must be for the purpose of providing maintenance, support or education to the beneficiary. The amount distributed will also be deducted from the relevant person's entitlement under the Will. If the beneficiary dies within the 30-day period, the distribution is treated as an expense of the estate.
If there is a copy of the Will available, a grant may be obtained. The executor's affidavit accompanying the application for the grant must address:
Affidavits are also usually required of witnesses to the Will. Where the witnesses cannot be located, other evidence will be needed to corroborate the valid signing of the Will or to establish that the document is an informal Will.
Generally, if the Will was with the testator and cannot be found on their death, it is presumed it was destroyed with the intention of it being revoked. However, this presumption may be rebutted.
Where no copy of the Will is available, it is possible to obtain a grant on a 'reconstructed' missing Will. In addition to the evidence listed on this page for a copy Will, evidence of the content of the original Will is needed. This evidence would need to be independently corroborated.
A common perception in the community is that where there is no Will the assets of the deceased go to the government. This is not always the case.
A set of rules known as the law of intestacy provides a formula for the division of assets between relatives, such as spouse/partner and children, where there is no Will.
It is only if there are no relatives within the specified categories that the assets of the estate go to the government.
The person entitled to apply for a grant of letters of administration in relation to an intestate estate is the person with the greatest entitlement to the deceased's assets, such as the deceased's next of kin.
If a deceased intestate leaves a partner and children of that partner, the partner is entitled to the whole of the estate. This is because the law assumes that the surviving partner will provide for their children later upon their death.
If an intestate leaves a partner and children from a different partner, the partner is generally entitled to the first $451,909 of the estate plus interest, all of the deceased's personal chattels, and then one half of the remainder of the estate. The remaining one half of the residuary estate is shared between the children who are not of that partner.
These provisions change if the deceased has more than one partner at the time of their death.
The superannuation entitlements of a deceased person (known as 'death benefits') do not always form part of the deceased's estate and so can often be distributed without the need for a grant. These entitlements may include the deceased's accumulated member's balance as well as insurance proceeds. The deceased may have executed a 'binding death benefit nomination' form, which designates to where the deceased person wanted their balance go. This may be directly to a partner or children, or into their estate.
Superannuation funds have differing rules regarding the payment of entitlements, so the best step to take is to write to the fund who will provide claim forms, advise who could potentially make a claim (such as spouse/partner, children, financial dependents) and advise of their requirements for distribution of death benefits.
No, enduring powers of attorney, and all other powers of attorney, cease to operate when the person who gave the power dies.
Any person who was appointed under a power of attorney cannot use that power to access the deceased's assets. Only the executor of the Will, or the person or people appointed under letters of administration, will be entitled to access a deceased person's assets.
While there are do-it-yourself probate kits, it is highly recommended that you seek legal advice and assistance in the administration of a deceased estate.
If an application for a grant is not initiated correctly, added complications, delays and expense are likely to result, which in turn may cause distress and anxiety to all involved. There can also be additional expenses where an application is rejected for errors and has to be re-made.


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From WWE.com:
As announced on Wednesday's edition of WWE Main Event, both Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman will be at Monday's Raw in Indianapolis to respond to Triple H's WrestleMania 29 challenge.
Apparently, Lesnar and Heyman are looking forward to addressing The Game's challenge live on Raw.
What will unfold during Lesnar's first appearance on Raw since being attacked and injured by The Game on the Feb. 25 edition?
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Why an Auto Detailing Franchise Is a Good Choice for a Business
These days, everyone owns an automobile. And at some point the automobile will need to be cleaned. Auto detailing franchise provides expert attention and deep cleaning of the vehicle which makes the vehicle owner seem as though they have just rolled out of the showroom. That results in a market which has a potential to grow all the time. In fact, it has already created a huge customer base for the detailing market all over. Franchise business in this sector, therefore, offers maximum gain. Here are some more concrete reasons why an auto detailing franchise is a good choice for the intended business.


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Client Feedback
To Whom It May Concern:
I retained Donise Hardy to cast my first theatrical feature film, BARTLEBY. In a surprisingly short time, she was able to obtain for me a dream cast consisting of David Paymer, Crispin Glover, Glenne Headley, Joe Piscopo, Maury Chaykin, Seymour Cassel, Carrie Snodgress and Dick Martin, three of whom are Academy Award Nominees!
She accomplished this in spite of the fact that this was a low-budget independent production by a writer-director-producer making essentially a first feature. She contacted agents, made offers, negotiated deal memos, cast day players and continued to follow through with issues that arose throughout principal photography.
For her outstanding efforts on behalf of this production, she was given the credit of Associate Producer. I will retain Donise on future productions and would highly recommend her to others.
Jonathan Parker
Parker Film Co.
1101 Fifth Ave., Ste. 150
San Rafael, CA 94901
To Whom It May Concern:
As executive producer with AchieveGlobal, an international developer of video-based corporate training, I have had the pleasure since 1992 of frequently working with Donise Hardy in San Francisco and Los Angeles, both before and after her relocation to Texas. During that period, AchieveGlobal has produced the equivalent of one or more feature films per year, auditioning literally thousands of actors for hundreds of parts.
Donise has a number of talents and traits, as a well as a depth of experience, that make her an ideal casting director for AchieveGlobal. She has wide film industry contacts and strong relationships with agencies in the markets where we shoot. She constantly surveys the available talent pools with a keen eye for exceptional talent suited to our type of video. Donise clearly understands the sort of talent we need – diverse actors with well-developed skills who can believably play extended scenes set in the workplace – and she does an excellent of job of identifying talent that meet our criteria.
Donise is meticulous about the nuts and bolts of casting – maintaining strong agency relationships, liaising with actors, coordinating and staffing for large auditions, working collaboratively with the director and me, handling related paperwork including union forms and deal memos, negotiating when necessary with agents, and so on. I rest assured that Donise will handle these critical details so that the director, writers, and production staff can focus in their areas of expertise.
Because of her skills, experience, organization, attention to detail, and collaborative approach, Donise has become a true creative partner. I consider her contributions central to the scores of national and international awards that AchieveGlobal video has earned in the past 20 years.
With all this in mind, I highly recommend Donise Hardy as a consummate casting director for creative film projects of any scope or scale.
Craig Perrin
Director of Product Development
8875 Hidden River Parkway
Tampa, FL 33647
Office: 813-631-5668
To Whom It May Concern:
Donise Hardy: what can I say?
I've used Donise as my primary Casting Director for over 20 years on countless projects. Whether I'm looking for On-camera talent or Voice talent, she has always delivered the best combination of Actors for me. I admire how she will work tirelessly to find whatever it is I'm looking for, doesn't matter the age range or ethnicity. She is not afraid to make insightful suggestions and is pleasant to be around, and believe me in this business with pressure of budgets and time lines, that is a must as far as I'm concerned.
She understands production costs and the need to deliver projects in a timely manner and will work hard to keep things on time and on budget.
Donise Hardy is a valuable ally, and I would not hesitate to recommend her services to anyone who wants to contact me.
Ed Couppee
3518 Azeele Street, Ste 391
Tampa, FL 33609
My name is Will Wallace. I am an independent filmmaker and producer (Cake, Rock Slyde, Clear Lake, WI, Flatland: An IMAX Experience). Donise Hardy was my lead casting director on Cake. Being the it was a wedding comedy, with a large ensemble cast, I needed a talented and experienced casting director at the helm. Donise was all that and more. She has an amazing eye for spotting talent, and she is a team player from start to finish. I would highly recommended her, and A Casting Place, to anyone needing casting.
Will Wallace
1648 N. Wilcox Avenue
Hollywood, CA 90028
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing this letter on behalf of Agora Entertainment Partners as a letter of recommendation for Donise Hardy and A CASTING PLACE.
Donise Hardy has cast several of my feature film productions (Pendulum, Rain, and Mind of its Own) and has demonstrated an exception ability to cast and secure/hire talent. Her unique ability to work under difficult circumstances and limited time frames make her an invaluable asset to any production. Her vast experience and personality also make Donise a pleasure to work with and eases concerns during the audition process.
I look forward to more film productions with her and give her my highest recommendation. If you should require any additional information, I will gladly be available.
Jason Kabolati
Entertainment Partners 3225
Premier suite 150
Irving, TX 75063
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm writing this letter in support of Donise Hardy and A Casting Place. My name is Kat Candler (cicadas, jumping off bridges, Love Bug) and I'm an independent filmmaker and professor in the RTF department at the University of Texas.
I was fortunate enough to work with Donise as the casting director on our feature film jumping off bridges. She has an amazing gift for actors and the casting process. She brought the best talent into the room and was key in helping us assemble an amazing cast. At the time we were fairly new working with agents and managers and she was patient and thoughtful in guiding us through the process. She was an absolute gem to work with.
I'd recommend Donise and A Casting Place to any filmmaker on any project. She's a joy and an incredible casting director!
Kat Candler
Candler Productions
University of Texas RTF Professor
PO Box 301463
Austin, TX 78703


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Animal Classification
Monachus schauinslandi
The ancient Hawaiian name was "llio holo I ka uaua" meaning "dog that runs in rough water." The Hawaiian monk seal is one of the most endangered marine mammals in the world, and the rarest seal or sea lion in US waters. Weighing between 375-450 pounds (170-205 kg) and 7-7.5 feet (2.1-2.3 m) in length, females are slightly larger than males. Pups are 35 pounds (16 kg) at birth and 3 feet (1 m) long. Silvery-grey colored backs with lighter creamy coloration on their underside; newborns are black. Additional light patches and red and green tinged coloration from attached algae are common. The back of the animals may become darker with age, especially in males. Monk seals are known to live between 25-30 years.
The Hawaiian monk seal's entire range is within U.S. waters. The majority of monk seals live in six main breeding subpopulations in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) at:
- Kure Atoll
- Midway Islands
- Pearl and Hermes Reef
- Lisianski Island
- Laysan Island
- French Frigate Shoals
Monk seals live in warm subtropical waters and spend two-thirds of their time at sea. They use waters surrounding atolls, islands, and areas farther offshore on reefs and submerged banks. Monk seals are also found using deepwater coral beds as foraging habitat. When on land, monk seals breed and haul-out on sand, corals, and volcanic rock. Sandy, protected beaches surrounded by shallow waters are preferred when pupping. Monk seals are often seen resting on beaches during the day.
Smaller breeding sub-populations also occur on Necker Island and Nihoa Island, and monk seals have been observed at Gardner Pinnacles and Maro Reef. Most of the population is within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, designated in 2006. Monk seals are now also found on the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) where births have occurred on many of the major islands.
Females generally mature at age 5-6 and it is unknown when males mature. Monk seals are promiscuous and mate underwater. Given male-dominated sex ratios at some breeding colonies, group mobbing of "estrus" females is known to occur, sometimes causing serious injury or even death to the female. The gestation period is 10-11 months. Birthing rates vary with a range of 30-70% of adult females birthing in a given year. While most births occur in late March and early April, birthing has been recorded year round. Newborns are black, and then molt near the end of their nursing period. Nursing occurs for about 39 days, during which time the mother fasts and remains on land. After this period, the mother abandons her pup and returns to sea. Although they are generally solitary animals, females have been observed fostering others' offspring.
Monk seals are primarily benthic foragers, feeding on a variety of prey including fish, cephalopods, and crustaceans. Their diet varies by location, sex, and age. Adults are generally nocturnal hunters while juveniles spend more time hunting species that hide in the sand or under rocks during the day. Monk seals generally hunt for food outside of the immediate shoreline areas in waters 60-300 feet (18-90 m) deep. Monk seals are also known to forage deeper than 1,000 feet (330 m), where they prey on eels and other benthic organisms. Tiger sharks and Galapagos sharks prey on monk seals.
Hunted to the brink of extinction in the late 19th century, Hawaiian monk seals have been declining since modern surveying. The monk seal population is currently declining at 4% annually and is estimated at fewer than 1,200 individuals. Biologists predict this number will dip below 1,000 in the next 3-4 years, placing this species among the world's most endangered. While the larger NWHI population is shrinking, the MHI population is growing, with a population estimated at over 100 animals.
At The Marine Mammal Center
While outside of The Marine Mammal Center's 600 mile rescue range in California, we still help provide care for Hawaiian monk seals through a partnership with NOAA and the National Marine Fisheries Service due to their endangered population and need for help. In September of 2014, The Marine Mammal Center opened a new state-of-the-art hospital for Hawaiian monk seals located at Kailua-Kona on the Big Island. Called Ke Kai Ola (The Healing Sea in Hawaiian), the new facility has already rescued, rehabilitated, and rehabilitated a number of Hawaiian monk seal pups.
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Learn more about the Hawaiian Monk Seal and the work being done at Ke Kai Ola to help save this critically endangered species.
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Who hasn't dreamed of becoming an explorer at some point in their life? Or, even better, the genuine discoverer of something or somewhere previously unknown to others? To point your finger in the direction of the indefinite, the mysterious and boldly say, "Just follow me!" Ok, so maybe that kind of cavalier attitude wasn't exactly how Christopher Columbus approached his voyage, but to see his exaggerated, elevated statue at the Columbus Monument of Barcelona (Monumento a Colón de Barcelona), you might be emotionally moved into thinking that it was. On display is the likeness of the "discoverer" of the Americas, with his finger pointed in their direction.
The statue and its tower has been closed, but reopened this June to the public. You can go up the tower with an elevator to be one of the approximately 170,000 people annually who come to see the unique views. A visit to Barcelona remains incomplete with one thing and that is a visit to the famous pedestrian promenade called La Ramla or Las Ramblas (it now one continues Rambla but originally consisted of several smaller ones). Many a person has been inspired to wax poetic about the views of this arcaded pedestrian-way and it is part of any major tour of the city, whether it is through mobile app, guide book, or with an in-person tour guide. At the end of this street, marked by Columbus´ statue is the Port of Barcelona. The statue was constructed in the year 1888 for the World Fair and goes up 60 meters (nearly 200 feet) in the air. The statue itself is approximately 7 meters (23 feet). From this point, you have a view possibly better than those of the coastline balconies that line the Port´s Avenue. Besides Las Ramblas, you can see the Maremagnum shopping mall, the cable cars, the World Trade Center of Barcelona, the boats coming in and out of the city and the cities´ many cruise passengers. From the PalacePlaza (Pla de Palau) next to the ColumbusMonument, the sightseeing options are innumerable. One great option is to spend the day in the old fishermen's village called Barceloneta, which is now one if the city's most bustling neighbourhoods. Or cross the bridge to the Maremagnum shopping centre for stores, restaurants, and even an IMAX theatre. What we fancy most, perhaps, is going for a tour of the old port with the famous Las Golondrinas, who have been in operation since 1888! Earlier we mentioned that the finger of Columbus pointed towards America and here we unravel a curious controversy. The finger of Columbus points in the direction of the Americas only if you assume the waterfront to be facing directly south. However, as Barcelona's front faces more Northeast, where is the finger supposed to be pointed? Is it towards Genoa, the supposed hometown of Columbus? Here is where the controversy really begins as Columbus´ origins are heatedly contested with some historians claiming Columbus´ true roots were in Catalonia. What do you think? Where is his finger pointing? Where was Columbus from? The photo used in this post is used under the Creative Commons license and belongs to Toni Escuder.


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What is a cue sheet?
A cue sheet is a record of all the songs and compositions used in a film and television production. We need these for every locally produced program broadcast in New Zealand.
All music used in a production need to be supplied to us because we distribute on the public performance of the work. Regardless of how music is obtained (ie purchased/commissioned), all music needs to be identified. This also applies to royalty free music.
Include these details in your cue sheet header:
- Production Title
- Episode Title/Actors Names/Name of Event
- Production Company
- Production Number (if available)
- Country of Origin
- Series Number (if relevant)
- Episode Number (if relevant)
- Director (only applicable to Films/Documentaries)
- Year of Production
- Total Production Duration
- Date of Broadcast
Include these details about the song or composition used:
- Song Title
- Composer (if available)
- Performer
- Publisher (if available)
- Record Label (required if the work is Production Music)
- Catalogue Disc Number (required if the work is Production Music)
- Track Number (required if the work is Production Music)
- Duration used
- Work Origin – Commercial, Production Music or Specially Commissioned
- Vocal/Instrumental/Mix (if multiple versions exist)
- Usage Type – Theme, Background or Featured.
Key Terms
Theme refers to music that is regularly or solely associated with a television series, individual program or film, when used as the opening and/or closing theme. Theme excludes music used in conjunction with program previews (teasers) play ons/offs or recaps, which are credited as background music.
Background refers to any songs or compositions used in the broadcast that can only be heard by the audience at home – not by the characters/actors/live audience/hosts etc. This also applies to any prepackaged/prerecorded or post-production stories/items within the broadcast.
Featured refers to music which falls into one or more of the following categories:
- Music performed by one of the characters or music that is listened to by characters in a scene
- Music performed in music video clips
- Music performed in association with choreographed dance sequences
- Music performed "on camera"
Cue sheets can either be submitted by emailing a completed Excel template to firstname.lastname@example.com, or via our Online Cue System.


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Answered By: Davy Gibbs Last Updated: Jun 11, 2020 Views: 138
If you are a continuing student, the first question to answer is: Can you log in to your Piedmont College email account? Try to log in now.
If you are denied access, please contact the IT Department at 706-778-8500 x1153. You can also write Steve Dague at email@example.com or John Brooks at email@example.com.
If you log in to your email successfully, keep this window open and follow these instructions to reset your password:
1) Visit webadvisor.piedmont.edu.
2) Find the What's My Password? link in the bottom-right corner and click it.
3) Select the I don't remember: Reset my password option.
4) Enter your last name and SSN in the appropriate fields and click "Submit."
5) Find your Piedmont College email address in the drop-down menu and click "Submit" again.
6) Return to your email account, read the message from "ellucian," and copy the temporary password provided.
7) Return to webadvisor.piedmont.edu and log in again, using the first half of your email address as your username (i.e. "jsmith0101"). In the password field, paste the temporary password from the email.
8) You will immediately be prompted to create a new password. First, you must re-enter the temporary password in the field labeled "Old Password." Then, you will be asked to enter (and confirm) a new password. This new password must contain at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, at least one number, and cannot contain special characters. Choose something you will be sure to remember!
9) This is your new Piedmont College Single Sign-On. Once you have completed this process, your new password will automatically replace your old passwords for the following college services: WebAdvisor, Canvas, WEPA printing, College Email, Off-Campus Library Resources, and PilgrimNet. You will only need to remember this one password to log in to any of these services from now on.*
*Note: When logging in to your college email, you will still need to include your full email address as part of the log-in process (i.e. "firstname.lastname@example.com"). For the other services listed above, simply use your college username (i.e. "jsmith0101").
I hope this helps! If you continue to experience difficulties logging in or are having trouble creating a new WebAdvisor password, please contact the IT Department at 706-894-4205.
Davy Gibbs
Associate Librarian for Collection Development
Arrendale Library, Piedmont College


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Hoodlums attack Customs command, injure officers
Hoodlums disguising as #EndSARS protesters swoop, loot Iseyin Customs base, Police Station
NPA Headquarters On Fire
Only functional 'Single Window' can eliminate most industry's crippling challenges – Shittu
FG reiterates commitment to concession of Onitsha River Port – Moghalu
World News
In call with Israel and Sudan, Trump announces next normalization agreement
World Polio Day: Pediatrician urges regular vaccination to maintain zero status
UN at 75: Secretary-General Guterres calls for global ceasefire
A look into the IDF's mysterious new elite unit that could revolutionize the battlefield
#EndSARS: US shut down Lagos consulate, issues security alert to nationals
NSE market indices improve further by 0.47%
NECA says businesses affected by protests, portends danger to nation's economy
NSE market capitalisation rebounds by N59bn
Sub-Saharan Africa economy will recover by 3.1% in 2021 – IMF
West African Power Poll appoints MD, TCN chairman Executive Board
Ekiti State raises alarm of looting of poisonous food items
Okei-Odumakin urges govt. to address citizens' grievances
Hoodlums loot C' River COVID-19 palliative warehouse
Gov. Matawalle says 31 illegal miners deported from Zamfara
#EndSARS: Akeredolu lifts curfew as peace returns to Akure
In the Lighter Mood: No secret…
In the Lighter Mood: At Old Age…
In the Lighter Mood: GRAFFITI
NPA, TVC in flame as Reps minority caucus condemns alleged killing of protesters
In the Lighter Mood: NIGERIA's got TALENTS…
6 killed, 3 injured in early morning Tuesday's multiple accident in Niger
3 die, 19 others injured in road crash in Niger — FRSC Commander
Truck crushes 4 on Sagamu-Ogijo road
Early Monday accident claims 4 lives on Lagos -Ibadan expressway
Police confirm rescue of abducted female lawyer in Rivers
Health and Safety
Hoodlums attack Customs command, injure officers
Gov. Matawalle says 31 illegal miners deported from Zamfara
COVID-19: NCDC records 77 new infections in Nigeria
World Polio Day: Pediatrician urges regular vaccination to maintain zero status
Police nab 13 over alleged armed robbery, possession of unlawful firearm in Niger
EPL: Manchester United in buoyant mood ahead of clash with Chelsea
FIFA Ranking: Nigeria drops by 3 spots, now world 32nd
Liverpool's Van Dijk to undergo knee surgery
Golf: Australia Open cancelled for first time since World War Two
Leipzig eye club record against Augsburg, Bayern to rotate
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If Willy Wonka was an Industrial Designer
If you've ever met a Chinese person, you will know that they have a delightful attitude of 'make do and mend'. Many moons ago in the west, this would have been the norm however due to the convenience of on the shelf and cheap products this attitude only remains in the far east, and the Chinese people do it rather well.
Wacky home made Chinese inventions is an amazing little series of images which highlight the amazing inventions people have made by simply using spare parts. From things you would never go near, to things that potentially could go viral, this article has them all.
These Chinese inventors show the world that there is hope for all the waste materials we ignore and that there are still plenty of wacky, dangerous, exciting and scary inventions yet to grace this planet.
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Dr. Weil in Italy and Sicily
In the late spring of 2012, to celebrate my 70th birthday on June 8, my daughter Diana, some close friends and I took a wonderful trip through Rome and Sicily. The highlight was a trek up glorious Mt. Etna, the famed active volcano on Sicily's east coast - we explored natural springs and enjoyed breathtaking views. A bit of la dolce vita to kick off my eighth decade! Photos by Andre FasciolaRead More


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Since I've been visiting Walden pond, I have a number of photos I have taken there. I also have some photos taken in my own garden (my raspberries, the first photo I will include here, a praying mantis on my raspberry plant), and at Garden in the Woods, where the New England Wildflower society has its headquarters. I went to the Garden in the Woods to meet with the program coordinator there, both to tour the woods, and to discuss potentially having a poetry reading there in the spring. If all goes well, I will read there during their Trillium Week celebration in may.
Speaking of poetry readings, thank you again to all who have preordered my new book of poetry, Intimacy with the Wind, from Finishing Line Press. If you haven't yet ordered it, you can now buy it on Amazon if you like here:https://www.amazon.com/Intimacy-Wind-Carla-Schwartz/dp/1635343097/ And I have some readings coming up soon in the Boston Area, and one in NYC. I am planning book launches in Lexington MA on Nov 30, and Somerville, MA on Dec 7. You can check out all of my upcoming readings here: http://carlapoet.com/carla_schwartz_Events.html
I also have photos of the giant Kale my cousin grew, and some of the music I attended recently (Dennis Brennan band, and Sam Bush).
I hope you enjoy these photos.
Happy Autumn.
The following is my favorite photo of the bunch. I love the luscious red raspberry peeking out under the "nose" of the praying mantis.
Intimacy with the Wind... it's here!
Walden Pond
These photos are taken on two separate dates in October, October 12 and 23. Both were nice days of waning warmth. I like to take photos of the people and the light. I especially find people walking around in their bathing suit, talking on their cell phone a bit incongruous.
Garden in the Woods
A Brief Trip to Cape Cod
I took a short trip on October 2 to Cape Cod, down and back the same day. I spent part of it on the bike path, and found the beautiful light on the cranberry bog as I was heading back to my car.
Cambridge, MA
On October 9, I had the opportunity to go into Cambridge to do a photoshoot with Mark Ostow. It was a wonderful experience. Afterward, I walked around in the rain, and captured these photos.
Dennis Brennan... One of My Favorite Bands
Sam Bush
Bags in Brookline
I saw this gentleman walking toward the library with all these bags. A little later, in the library, I saw the bags all lined up.
Bolts Sprouting Up Everywhere
While at Walden pond, often there are more than one Chevy Bolt charging. One time there were three. Today, there was a red one just like mine, with the same bike rack.
King Kale
My cousin's yummy giant kale leaves.