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Trenching Best Practices
If you are starting a new excavation work using a trencher, you surely know everything about security when digging a trench. Many countries have "guidelines" to excavation works and issues on security.
The best practices written below can be used as a reminder and suggestions for a profitable use of a trencher.
First of all, we are talking about excavations, and trenchers are the best tools in these kinds of works. Your experience is our job, and in MachinesBroker you can find everything you need to get your job done.
Let's start with our guidelines, and see the three steps for a perfect trenching work:
Pre-trenching. It's all about the project. A perfect project assures perfect works are done. You must check several things before you start to dig a trench, from the soil to the underground utilities. You must assure every security issues and provide safe access. Excavation can be classified in two ways. Firstly by the type of material that is being excavated and secondly by the purpose of the excavation. When classification is based upon material type, it is very important that the material is accurately identified to keep costs down and prevent technical problems occurring. Surveyors and engineers use various methods to measure how easy or hard the earth is to dig. Four general categories are:
a)Easy – loose free flowing soil or sand
b)Medium – gravel with clay
c)Medium to Hard – wet heavy clay, broken rock, gravel with boulders
d)Hard – materials requiring blasting.
What about the trencher? The machine assigned to the job must fit the requirements of the project. Using a machine too small for the workload not only limits production, it causes wear on the machine. And a trencher too large for a job may not be able to operate in limited space. All necessary support equipment, warning signs, etc., must be readied to be transported to the site along with trenching equipment.
Trenching. You provided a safe access to the work, you can start your excavation. Proper planning and accurate locating and marking of existing utilities are essential for successful excavation and installation of pipe or cable. The trenching crew must verify that all underground utilities and structures are clearly identified, the site should be carefully inspected for indications of buried utilities that have not been marked, make a quick check of the machine's fluid levels and any signs that repairs are needed. Your operator must be prepared for all intervening emergencies, he must be able to stop if anything goes wrong and restart if necessary. If the pre-trenching work has been done properly, the excavation itself will be quick and clean. An important issue is the stability of the trenched soil, you must provide to keep it stable and prevent any fall. Provide safe barriers if necessary. For a clean work is also important to remove dirt and excavating materials (many trenchers have conveyor belts to help you in this part of the work).
After trenching. The work is done, and now? Provide a safe access to workers, assure the stability, install pipes and cables, repair existing damages. Trenching equipment requires regular daily maintenance that should be performed after a day's work is finished or before the machine is operated again. Primary wear parts on any chain-type trencher are digging teeth, digging chain and sprockets. All fluids and filters should be changed at prescribed intervals, more frequently when operating in adverse or dusty conditions. Lubricate all service points, and maintain the hydraulic system at manufacturer-prescribed intervals. Adjust chain or belt drives as necessary, and replace all guards and shields after maintenance procedures are complete.


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A closer look at the security of aftermarket OBDII tools
Blog post 2018-03-26 by Josefien Hupkes, intern at Secura
In the past few years, interesting research has taken place regarding automotive security. The broad attack surface of connected cars make this subject very versatile and also gives researchers, as well as attackers, a lot of options. As this subject caught my interest, I decided to do my research internship at Secura and investigate a specific part of the attack surface of a connected car.
OBDII and CAN Bus
One of the attack vectors in particular, the On Board Diagnostics (OBDII) port, seemed like a particularly interesting subject for further research. This port was originally meant to be a useful tool for garages to measure diagnostic information about a car. Nowadays, the port isn't just being used for its original purpose. Due to the OBDII port being available for small plug-in devices, the aftermarket automotive industry saw an opportunity in using the OBDII port for other purposes than its original one. Functionalities range from increasing or decreasing insurance cost to fleet management to even having a social purpose for sharing your driving behavior with your friends. Products range from cheap Chinese diagnostics scanners to more 'high-end' devices that can be used for multiple purposes at a time.
As was already known, the OBDII port (and so these dongles as well) is connected to a car's central control unit, the CAN Bus. The CAN protocol has already proven not to be implemented with sufficient security measures. When connected to a CAN bus in a car, it is possible to sniff the messages from every ECU connected to the CAN Bus in question. When sniffed messages are reverse engineered, the knowledge gained by reversing can be used to send messages to the CAN bus as well.
The presence of the OBDII port poses a risk for 'easy access' to the car's ECUs and the possibility to use an OBDII dongle, if any vulnerabilities are found, as a means to compromise a car's CAN Bus.
Automotive Security Research
For my research, I took a few OBDII dongles to investigate their attack surface and identify vulnerabilities and insufficient security features.
Most of the dongles used Bluetooth as their means to connect to a mobile phone and display all necessary data in a mobile application. Another recurring theme in the dongles was the usage of GSM/GPRS to send data from the dongle to the backend. Eventually, the focus was mainly on the usage of Bluetooth and GSM/GPRS, reverse engineering the dongles' PCBs and obtaining the firmware of the devices, but the mobile applications and web backends were investigated as well. The image shows how the OBDII dongle is plugged into the diagnostics port.
Results concerning hardware and firmware
A clear conclusion of the investigation was that every dongle had multiple security flaws. Some of the flaws were hardware specific, such as leaving components and test pads marked on their PCB so reverse engineering was not a very difficult task and UART pads could be found easily. Also, for some dongles firmware was obtained fairly easily, even one of them has been observed to use the insecure FTP protocol to push firmware updates to the dongle. When FTP is used for firmware updates, firmware can be acquired by just sniffing the update with Wireshark and extracting the firmware file. The analysis of a firmware update also lead to the discovery of hardcoded credentials, since the same were used in every (automated) firmware update.
Though the FTP firmware update flaw has been discovered, it has also been observed that some dongles DID take measures to prevent reverse engineering and firmware extraction. One of the dongles had an easy-access SPI flash chip which could be read with a Bus Pirate and a few test probes attached to the right pins. Even though the chip could be accessed and read easily, the chip appeared to be One Time Programmable to prevent extraction. Other dongles had epoxy layers around the microcontroller, microcontrollers that were glued (in other words: impossible to desolder) or had an absence of test pads for possible JTAG or UART access. Customized firmware has also observed to prevent reverse engineering.
Results concerning Bluetooth connections
In addition to the dongle specific results, the Bluetooth analysis has led to an interesting result that is applicable for all Bluetooth dongles investigated. It turns out that it is very easy to eavesdrop Bluetooth traffic of the dongles when the eavesdropper is in the Bluetooth range of ~ 10 meters. The dongles all have an implemented an insecure pairing mechanism. All dongles used 'Just Works', AKA tapping the Bluetooth name to pair, or a really simple hardcoded PIN code like '0000' or '1234'.
When pairing is set up with a Bluetooth dongle, an attacker with an Android developer option called "Bluetooth HCI snoop log" can store all Bluetooth traffic from paired Bluetooth devices in a log file. This log file can then be opened in Wireshark to view the captured Bluetooth traffic. In this way, an Ubertooth is not necessarily needed to capture the traffic. It is even possible to pair to the dongle and read data when the car's engine is switched off, since only the battery is needed to power the dongle.
Also, since all dongles investigated have the Bluetooth profile 'Serial Port', it is possible to send serial commands to the dongles. To do this, the dongle only needs to be paired to the smartphone or laptop that sends the commands, further authentication is not required. Malicious usage of commands that access the CAN Bus can lead to compromise of the CAN Bus.
Additional findings and conclusion
While the findings mentioned above are considered the most important, the investigation also lead to the discovery of hardcoded keys, the discovery of a phone number using the GPRS interceptor mentioned in the previous blog post 'Practical GPRS MitM attack- mobile setup with YateBTS' and a website that sends sensitive information over the unencrypted HTTP protocol.
After all, the main conclusion is that most IoT devices still aren't flawless and security isn't the main focus. Though, it did stand out that most security measures that were taken were taken in the way of customizing as much as possible. Regardless of this, the findings of the research have shown that OBDII dongles pose multiple risks to their users. As observed, the dongles and the corresponding back-end process sensitive information and, in some cases, don't encrypt the traffic in which credentials and information about the car, driving behavior and even driving routes are processed. The ease of eavesdropping on this is also worrisome. Finally, the firmware update process of some dongles can also lead to compromise.
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Elon Men's Tennis to Face Tennessee in NCAA Tournament
ELON, N.C. – Back in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2007, the Elon University men's tennis team earned a No. 3 seed and will take on No. 2 Tennessee in the first round on Saturday, May 10, at 9 a.m. in Durham, N.C.
"It's exciting for our team to get back to the NCAA Tournament," said Elon head coach Michael Leonard. "We're excited to go to Durham and we're excited to take on Tennessee in the first round."
The Phoenix, the 54th-ranked team in the country, reached the NCAA Tournament by way of winning the Southern Conference Tournament championship on Saturday, April 19, in Chattanooga, Tenn., with a 4-1 victory over the second-seeded Furman Paladins. With three wins in the tournament, Elon stretched its record against SoCon opponents to 12-0 this season. That marks the second perfect conference season for the Phoenix, the first of which came in 2007.
In its one previous NCAA Tournament appearance, Elon lost 4-0 to the Clemson Tigers on May 11, 2007. That year, Elon went 9-0 throughout the regular season in SoCon play, then topped College of Charleston in the SoCon Tournament to advance to the NCAA Tournament. Overall, their record for the season was 23-3 and finished with a then-program record No. 44 ranking in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) national rankings.
This season, Elon reached a new program-best mark of No. 39 in the ITA national rankings while going 19-4 this season. The Phoenix also took home a conference-high nine postseason awards, including the SoCon Player of the Year and Coach of the Year. Cameron Silverman earned the Player of the Year honor for the second season in a row, becoming the first player to do so since 2006 and 2007 when Or Dekel of College of Charleston won in back-to-back year. Leonard earned the award for the fifth time since coming to Elon in 2005.
Entering the tournament, Silverman has 62 wins in his career at Elon. That mark puts him two from tying the program's all-time best of 64, which was set by former standout Damon Gooch in 2009. Silverman should have a chance to at least tie Gooch's record, as the senior could be in line for a bid to the 64-player singles tournament, which will be announced tomorrow, April 30.
Since joining Division I in 2000, Elon has never played Tennessee. The Volunteers, ranked No. 20 in the country, enter the tournament as the No. 2 seed in the pod hosted by top-seeded Duke. Winthrop is the No. 4 seed in the pod, taking on the Blue Devils at 12 p.m. after the Elon/Tennessee match. Tennessee went 17-10 this season and earned the six-seed in the SEC Tournament, but the Volunteers were upset by 11th-seeded Ole Miss in the second round of the tournament. John Collins, Elon's volunteer assistant coach this season, played for the Volunteers and graduated from Tennessee last year.
With a victory, Elon will move on to face the winner of the Duke/Winthrop match on Sunday, May 11, at 2 p.m. in Durham. Elon has defeated both Duke and Winthrop this season. The Phoenix topped then-No. 7 Duke to open the season on January 17, then beat Winthrop on March 14 in Rock Hill, S.C. Both matches were tight 4-3 victories in Elon's favor.


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At Bradway we pride ourselves in our creative curriculum. We have found that pupils learn best when they have some influence over what they are learning so we provide opportunities for them to say what they would like to learn about in certain parts of the curriculum. Pupils have told us that they enjoy learning outside so we plan activities that make the most of our large grassed areas and woods. The outdoor classroom and woodland paths provide the potential for a wide range of exciting outdoor activities.
Although some subjects, like Maths, are mostly taught as a separate subject, many others are grouped together under the umbrella of a topic. So, for example, pupils will learn important literacy, geographical, historical and artistic skills through learning about the Stone Age in Year 3, dinosaurs in Year 2 and the Mayan Civilisation in Year 5. Visits and events will be organised to inspire the children and to give them a wider perspective. So for example in Years 3,4,5 and 6 all pupils get the opportunity to go on a residential visit where they stay for a night in a Youth Hostel or activity centre. In Year 3 they go to Ravenstor Youth Hostel where they take part in a variety of activities such as making candles and archery.
Topics are many and varied so that during the course of their school career pupils may be pirates, aliens, superheroes, dinosaurs, Romans, Second World War Evacuees or explorers. They will visit places as varied as Sheffield town centre, Whitby, Creswell Crags, Thornbridge and Eden Camp and will take part in many other exciting activities.
We do all we can to provide a curriculum which will inspire a love of learning amongst our pupils so that they will go on to become successful, independent ,self motivated learners in the future.
Class Topic Lists
You can see what each year group is studying this term by clicking on the links below.
Phonics is taught on a daily basis throughout Year 1 and Year 2 using the Letters and Sounds programme (which is also used in Foundation Stage).
Spelling: Children take home spellings to practise on a regular basis, to reinforce their learning in phonics lessons at school. Please see our "Spelling Out Progress" for further information.
Handwriting: Handwriting is taught through the 'Sheffield Structured Handwriting' scheme, because it is very simple in its rules for letter formation and also develops a fluent, cursive style. As there is a link between progress in handwriting and early spelling skills, there is a strong focus on the teaching of handwriting in Year 1.
Reading: Children work through a graded book band scheme, using a variety of books from different reading schemes. The child's reading book is sent home daily with their reading record book. Above all else, we would ask parents to listen to their child read on a daily basis and comment in their reading book. Every child reads with their teacher either in "Guided Reading" groups or separately at least once a week. We also appreciate the support of volunteer adults who also read with individual children each week.
Writing: Children are encouraged to write independently from an early age, using their knowledge of phonics and spelling patterns.
There is a great deal of research evidence suggesting that pupil performance can be improved if parents are aware of how they can support their child's learning at home. Most of you are very willing to help, time permitting, and of course you want the best for your child, but it is not always easy for you to know how best to do this. The year group blogs on this website and our year group 'Welcome Packs' are an important part of this communication with you, sharing what your child is doing in school and how you can help to support them in the main curriculum areas during the year.
Each year we have targeted workshops for parents and pupils. They are designed to help parents who want to support their child with Maths or Literacy at home.
Schools of course have a huge part to play in the rate of a pupil's progress; that's what we're here for. However, if we can work in closer partnership with you as parents, involving you more in their learning, we are sure that this will have a really positive impact on individual children's progress.
Having invested this year in Education City for all pupils from FS2 to Year 6, we are really pleased that most pupils are now using the program at home and are very excited about it.
Please note there is an app: Puffin Academy, which can be used to make Education City accessible on ipads and other tablets
If your child is not able to access Education City at home, please let their class teacher know.
Please find below our Route Through Calculation document, covering FS2 to Year 6.
Route Through Calculation May 15
Time Tables Resources
Times Tables Resources List.pdf
There are many aspects to the development of literacy in young children. We would ask you to support your child in exploring which ever topic they are learning about. However, we would like to emphasise that the most important thing you can do as a parent to support your child's progress in Literacy is to read with them and to them daily.
Parental Workshop
Parental Workshop - January 18 - Reading
High Frequency Words Guidance For Parents.pdf
First 100 High Frequency Words.pdf
Parental Workshop - October 2014
Spelling out progress KS1 parent guide
Spelling out progress KS2 parent guide
Parental Workshop - February 2015
1. Improving Writing - VCOP Parent Guide
2. Improving Vocabulary - Parent Guide
3. Improving Connectives and Sentence Structure - Parent Guide
4. Improving Sentence Openers - ISPACED Parent Guide
5. Improving Punctuation - Parent Guide
6. Supporting Grammar - Parent Guide to Terminology
You can download a copy of our Home School Agreement policy by clicking here.


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Today after playing around some more with the XOOM, I figured I'd try to install Google Voice one more time. Well, what do you know. It worked! By the way, this is not the modified .apk found on XDA. This is the stock version 0.3.4(#13). So if you can get your hands on a Gvoice .apk floating around, you should be good to go.
* By the way, I tried numerous times on my first Verizon XOOM with no joy. It must be the 3.1 update that's made the difference, because this is the same .apk I used back then.


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Robsart street, London, SW9 - £346 pw + Tenancy Info
Available NOW
A well presented, 1 double bedroom modern apartment with private balcony and stunning london skyline views. Located only a 3 minute walk to both Stockwell(Northern and Victoria lines) and Brixton(victoria line).
This apartment is situated in a well maintained modern building and consists of a large double bedroom, HUGE modern bathroom suite, large eat-in fully fitted modern kitchen and a large bright separate living room leading out onto a lovely private balcony with amazing london skyline views and overlooking a gorgeous park. This building has lift access and secure underground bicycle storage.
Offered Furnished and available from 18th August.
Descriptions of the property are subjective and are used in good faith as an opinion and NOT as a statement of fact. Please make further specific enquires to ensure that our descriptions are likely to match any expectations you may have of the property. We have not tested any services, systems or appliances at this property. We strongly recommend that all the information we provide be verified by you on inspection, and by your Surveyor and Conveyancer.


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This truck sits on the side of a highway in Transylvania County, NC.
Photography by Hunter Goosmann
This listing is for an unmatted and unframed open edition print that is created from an original image taken by me of a truck in Transylvania County, NC.
The price is for an 8×10 inch print. If you order a larger size, an additional fee will be added to the base price. All prints will be drop shipped directly to you and will not be tracked unless requested. Please note that the colors you see on your monitor may differ slightly from those of the print due to variations in monitor settings. See my Policies menu link for specifics on shipping and/or legal.
If you would like custom order – i.e. a print in a size or material that is not listed or any other special request(s) – please send me a message!
This truck sits on the side of a highway in Transylvania County, NC.
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|This article is about a/an Carrier Mecha in Chouriki Sentai Ohranger.
King Pyramider (キングピラミッダー Kingu Piramiddā): KingRanger's mecha, a massive Pyramid which doubles as his space ship. King Pyramider is armed with a laser beam that it fires from its apex and can summon a wave of lightning from the sky to obliterate giant Machine Beasts called Super Burn Wave.
Appearances: Ohranger Episodes
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King Pyramidder Carrier Formation
- "King Pyramidder, Carrier Formation!"
- ―Combination announcement[src]
King Pyramider Carrier Formation (キングピラミッダー キャリアフォーメーション Kingu Piramiddā Kyaria Fōmēshon): A lesser used alternate combination of King Pyramider, the Chouriki Mobiles, and Red Puncher formed with the command, "King Pyramider, Carrier Formation!" where King Pyramider stretches out into a mobile platform onto which the Chouriki Mobiles and Red Puncher are mounted.
Appearances: Ohranger Episode 28 & Ohranger vs. Kakuranger
King Pyramidder Battle Formation
King Pyramidder Battle Formation (キングピラミッダー バトルフォーメーション Kingu Piramiddā Batoru Fōmēshon): With the command, "King Pyramider, Battle Formation!," King Pyramider is able to assume a gigantic humanoid form. The most powerful weapon in the Ohrangers' arsenal, King Pyramider Battle Formation's hollow interior allows it to take either the Super-Power Mobiles or OhBlocker into itself to serve as a power source while Red Puncher mounts on a platform on its back. King Pyramider Battle Formations attacks with the Super Legend Beam (スーパーレジェンドビーム Sūpā Rejendo Bīmu), a barrage of lightning bolts fired from multiple points on its arms and body backed up by Red Puncher's arm cannons and culminating with an energy wave fired from its chest.
Like the Magma Base in Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman, King Pyramidder's Battle Formation, despite his humanoid form and somewhat moveable-arms, is largely immobile and unable to physically fight on its own, simply serving as a large battle platform.
Appearances: Ohranger Episodes
- This is the only Ohranger mecha that was not built by United Airforce Overtech Hardware like the rest.
- The spelling King Pyramidder is seen on a systems display in Ep. 47: Stand, Shine, Revive!!.
- There is an error when both times OhBlocker is used as part of King Pyramidder Battle Formation, the Ohrangers are seen in their separate Chouriki Mobiles cockpits when commanding the formation to fire, even though they are not present in this version of the formation. This error is due to the result of stock footage.
See Also
- Pyramidas - Power Rangers counterpart in Power Rangers Zeo. See comparison page.


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Good evening Everyone!!! I feel like I've been gone for a long time but it's only been one day. I don't know. I guess I just did a lot leading up to now that if felt longer. You all are going to LOVE today's swatch for sure. I didn't know it existed until I was just looking through Etsy shops and there it was. A Girl Obsessed Whimsyshire!! The name alone is what caught me. At that point I don't think I would have cared if it was something I didn't like. I would have bought it for the name. I don't know of you've heard of it, but my boyfriend and I have been into the Diablo series for so long and in Diablo III there is a secret level called Whimsyshire. Your character goes into a cartoon-style level and kills unicorns, happy clouds, cupcakes, etc. for gold and loot. I know it sounds twisted but it's super fun.
If you could ever see this magical place (Google it!) you would know A Girl Obsessed did amazing relaying her inspiration for this polish. This is actually one coat over Sinful Enchanted. I love this glitter for so many reasons. It's super dense so I could wear it alone if I wanted (no fishing for glitters), it's full of circle glitters in different sizes, and the formula is awesome (it's not thick or goopy). Oh and the price is great. It's only $8 on her Etsy store.
Let me know what you think about this awesome glitter polish. Have you played Diablo III? Let me know in the comments below. (:


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HTML Codes in Safari Vs. Firefox
The difference in how browsers render the Web programming language known as HTML has long been a bane to Web developers and hobbyists. If you're a professional designer, you need to know which codes Firefox might support and those that Safari uses to ensure that visitors have a uniform and functional experience, regardless of their browser. Luckily, both browsers support most modern codes, and you can take steps to promote cross-browser compatibility in your designs.
Rendering Engines
Firefox and Safari use different rendering engines, which causes the difference in how your Web page displays. Firefox uses Mozilla's Gecko, which also powers Thunderbird and SeaMonkey. In contrast, Safari is among the browsers that use Webkit, a rendering engine that was originally based on KDE's KHTML and KJS libraries. Chrome is another browser that uses Webkit, so the two browsers often produce similar results that differ from Firefox's display.
HTML5 Support Differences
While Firefox and Safari have had years to support HTML 4.01, the HTML5 specification isn't quite universal. Firefox renders some tags with which Safari is not yet compatible, and the opposite is also true. For example, Firefox supports PCM audio and device orientation detection, while Safari does not. On the other hand, Safari shows subtitles with multimedia content and lets you specify form fields as numbers, ranges or key generators, whereas Firefox lags behind in this aspect.
If you use PCM audio files as part of your Web pages, then Safari's visitors may not be able to access your audio. Similarly, you may use the HTML5 function to create Web apps in the desktop version of Firefox that allow the browser to detect orientation of the device and change app orientation as well. Safari includes this orientation support in its mobile version. In addition, you can better control which characters a form would allow in Safari. Nevertheless, the difference in HTML5 support rarely means your websites will be completely different or entirely unusable in either browser.
Many of the discrepancies that you may experience when coding will disappear when you specify a document type at the beginning of your HTML document. This instructs the browser how to render the HTML according to which type, such as XHTML, HTML 5 or HTML with frames, that you're using. Adding the doctype, such as <!DOCTYPE html> for HTML 5, before you code your entire page can prevent some of the frustration you'll experience when you don't use a document type.
Photo Credits
- Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images News/Getty Images


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BBA Pumpernickle
This poor bread had a tough time of it with me. It's Pumpernickel Bread from the BBA. I made the levain version without instant yeast.
7 oz. starter - 100% hydration
7oz. Giusto's pumpernickel flour
6oz. water
9 oz. high-gluten flour (I figured it was important to use high gluten flour since there is a 25% rye component and rye has gluten issues. I mixed a high [14%] gluten flour at the ratio of 97g 12% protein white flour to 3g 75% protein Giusto's VWG)
1 oz. brown sugar
.5 oz. powdered cocoa
1 1/2 t salt
1 cup old bread bits (a previous SD baguette)
1 oz. vegetable oil
2 oz. water
Make rye starter: mix starter, rye and water, ferment at room temp 4-5 hours until bubbly and foamy. "Immediately put in the 'fridge overnight" Here's where the trouble started. My starter bubbled and tripled, woo hoo, I put it in the 'fridge. When I took it out the next day, it had fallen back to essentially it's original size. That made me worry about that word "immediately". Hummm... maybe my starter was right on the edge of over ripe, maybe I should have refrigerated it more immediately. I soldiered on.
Next day: remove rye starter from 'fridge an hour before using. Stir together flour, sugar, cocoa, and salt, add starter, bread crumbs (if only I'd noticed it said "crumbs" and not "cubes") and oil. Scrape it out onto the counter and knead. Supposedly the dough should pass the window pane test. Ha! I was worried about not overmixing a rye dough and making it gummy, I did knead for a full 6 minutes, rather vigourously, but then i stopped, although it didn't approach the window pane test, in fact it broke apart the moment I attempted to stretch it. And the bread cubes. oops! Not even moistened. Those are the white chunks here and there in the crumb. Live and learn.
Ferment to double. Preshape into two loaves, shape into boules, proof. I over proofed. The dough was fermenting faster than I thought and it got away from me. I didn't attempt to slash as I was afraid it would just collapse. Luckily I proofed it on parchment paper so I just slid it in the oven. It rose not at all in the oven, but it had risen quite a bit while proofing and it didn't collapse in the oven, so it could have been worse.
Given all that, it came out OK. I was very leery of using brown sugar and cocoa in a "real" bread. The flavour is actually pretty nice. I'm favourably impressed. My next rye will be a light rye with caraway seeds though. And that will be soon.


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Thanks for all the lovely comments on my One Million milestone - I remember when my blog clicked over 10,000 hits, and then 100,000. Who would have thought One Million?! And the post I wrote about talking to people with visible differences has touched more than I could imagine. Australia's Disability Discrimination Minister Graeme Innes retweeted it, lovely comments have been left, and DeDe was inspired to write a blog post about her own experiences with her little boy Evan who has Ichthyosis. We met in New York last August - she's on the left, and her cousin Kara is between my Mum and I - and have become firm friends.
here. She writes about the invasion of privacy when people feel the need to ask her questions about or comment on Evan's skin. The reality of this is that these questions and comments are tiring, no matter whether we need to educate people about diversity, and I really hope DeDe and my stories help others understand and change their ways a little.
That post of mine has also been listed in Schmutzie's Five Star Friday Roundup. What an honour!
Voices of 2013 nominees have been announced this week. So proud to be on the list, and also so happy that many of my friends are on it too. There is a huge diversity of bloggers - it's exciting. Tonight I am kicking back on the couch, listening to music and plan to check out some blogs I haven't read before.
Today I had lunch at Chin Chin with Fran, a friend I've known for more than 20 years. She's down in Melbourne for the Grand Prix - her son races in the V8 Supercars, and her husband and brother in law have a racing business. We met when her eldest son was in hospital with me when he was 13 and I was 10 - we were both very regular patients. Sadly, he passed away aged 18. I've got such fond memories of playing with him in the playroom, and then sitting with him and his family in his hospital room. It is bittersweet how tragic circumstances bring people together.
Fran and I both love food and we did not stop talking about food. We had son in law eggs with chilli jam, pork rolls (similar to Peking duck)...
Then I checked out Hosier Lane for street art - isn't this pretty?! I love how the Indian dancer is peeking at the gnome!
Business Chic is a fabulous street fashion blogger. We met three years ago when she took my picture for her blog. She has a Little Black Dress exhibition at Melbourne Central for Loreal Melbourne Fashion Week until the end of March.
From the LMFF website:
She styled a little black dress in different ways once a week for a year. I love what she's done with accessories. She's gorgeous. The exhibition inspired me to work with my staple items more.
"Everyone has a Little Black Dress (LBD) but how many different ways can it be styled for work and play? BusinessChic.com.au streetstyle photographer and stylist, Cheryl Lin, works in Finance and explored 52 different ways to style a LBD for work. View the exhibition for FREE at Melbourne Central and purchase a copy of the LBD Project book as a useful reference for yourself or Mother's Day! Visitors who wear their own LBD to the exhibition have the chance to win their own autographed copy and style session with Cheryl Lin."
Finally, I picked up the new Bob Evans album Familiar Stranger yesterday - actually I downloaded it for my phone and computer, and bought the physical CD too, because there's nothing better than sighing over the CD booklet on first listen. As expected, the album is magic. It's more pop music than his previous solo albums, but I am loving this progression. The upbeat pop complements the often dark and deep lyrics. It's made me laugh, made me sad, made me think. He's an incredible writer. My current favourites are Wonderful You - an ode to his baby daughter, Go - an upbeat love song with a funny video - and In Another Time - it reminds me of Clare Bowditch's The One. In Another Time could be about a person returning to interrupt life when you've moved on, or it could be a hangover from a previous point in life that follows you around, and you just want to shake it. I highly recommend the album - tell me what you think! Kevin also wrote a great piece about musicians on Twitter - it made me think of fandom and the mystery shed when interacting with idols on social media.
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Who Will You Know Your Entire Life?
The relationships we have with family and friends are generally the ones we value the most. They are an important part of our lives. However, there is one relationship that seems to be even more important. It governs all the others – and that is the relationship you have with yourself. Ask yourself: In all likelihood, who will you know your entire life? You.
Every day of your life, you send yourself thousands of mental messages that determine how you evaluate your own worth. The evaluation you make of your worth is what determines your level of self-esteem. Of course, the messages we receive from our family, friends, co-workers and others affect our self-esteem, too. But they send only a tiny fraction of the number of messages you do, so they don't have the same opportunity to affect you.
Besides, if you are continually sending yourself negative, devaluing appraisals, you will drown out the other messages, no matter how positive they might be. It is very important that you, yourself, become the source of these positive messages, or affirmations as they are sometimes called. When you take control of this process, the leverage you will gain from your "inside" position will make tremendous personal growth possible.
Unfortunately, many people spend much more time focusing on their faults and mistakes than they do on their strengths and successes. Focusing on the negative is a learned behaviour. A positive focus can be learned, as well. If you choose to, you can learn it.


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The Apple Watch is here — and we've rounded up some must-have finance apps to help you manage your money. Is your wrist ready for personal finance?
A casual search on eBay led to auctions selling iTunes gift cards for cheap, but is there a darker side to this? Some would say yes.
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Today, he would've been 13.
I could've been having a great big birthday party!
But, it's not.
For whatever reason, that's not God's story for me.
And, again, and again, I am reminded of that.
I just read my post from 2010------and sadly enough, my feelings haven't changed one bit.


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Aiyara Palace Hotel
To discover the Unique experience for your holiday at Aiyara Palace Hotel, Pattaya, Thailand. Enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of traditional Thai and modern style. We are right in front of Pattaya Naklua road next to Soi 25. The hotel is close to the beach, bank, shopping center and entertainment area. It's only a few minutes by public transport. We are offering the accommodation with our best hospitality.
We provide 195 guest rooms surround by a part of beautiful beach view. All room are decorating in the elegant modern Thai style. It makes you feel luxury and relax. We also present the quality of our hospitality and make your holiday truly memorable in Pattaya.


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English Theatre in Zurich - watch or be involved
From 14th Protected content May the Zurich Comedy Club are putting on two one act English plays, "Penalty" and "Candle on the Table". "Penalty" is an excellently crafted comedy about a FIFA referee in Baku, Azerbaijan, who is being seduced and blackmailed into giving Baku a Penalty by the alluring Yellena from "the Ministry"....I'm playing Howard the Ref. If you want to know more go to Protected content
The Zurich Comedy Club is always looking for new members to be involved with all aspects of putting on a large production twice per year. If you are interested in being a part of a unique part of English culture in Zurich (the ZCC has been going for 60 years) then come and join us on a Monday night or contact me direct.


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Danielle and Frances Little, a Dallas Fort Worth-based flight attendant and a fellow Champion for Children, attended the UNICEF Snowflake Ball in New York City on December 3rd.
How did you feel about attending the Snowflake Ball?
The UNICEF Snowflake Ball was such a beautiful evening. It was an honor to be part of the event just as it is an honor to be a part of the Change for Good program on American Airlines.
Why do you volunteer as a Champion for Children?
UNICEF has always been an inspiration for me because of its many programs to help children in need. My schedule makes it difficult to volunteer, but in the airplane, I can reach up to 450 passengers if I do three flights a day. I am a proud Champion for Children who will never give up.
Why do you think the program has been so successful?
When American Airlines authorized flight attendants to show a video, make public address announcements and collect donations in the blue and white Change for Good bag, the response was fantastic. I saw the enthusiasm and positive attitude for the program, and now we have more than 2,300 flight attendants who have registered to volunteer for the program.
The video helps to show the accomplishments, explains that $1, $3, $6 -- so little money -- could change the lives of children in need, like vaccinations, construction of wells, education and simply being treated as a human being.
What do you do to inspire American Airlines passengers to give to Change for Good?
I always felt that my personal attitude, smile and kindness toward the elderly and families with children are essential in getting donations. I also feel that my ability to speak different languages makes an impact. Passengers appreciate it because you make the effort to reach them -- to touch their heart -- in their native language.
Also, the Champion for Children pin that I proudly wear on my uniform is a subject of conversation. Passengers ask me questions and thank me for being a volunteer.
What would you like to tell an American Airlines passenger or Flight Attendant reading this?
You can get involved!
To learn more, go to: www.unicefusa.org/changeforgood
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Econsultancy's Digital Trends in Financial Services and Insurance Report from December 2016 outlines here top priorities for marketers in 2017:
- Targeting and Personalization
- Customer Journey Management
- Content Marketing
Clearly, these three are all connected. They reflect a shift in financial services away from product-centric marketing towards customer-centered marketing. To be customer-centered we must know our prospects and customers and deliver relevant services and experience to them. That means personalized content and services.
But anyone who has wrestled with creating a more personalized Web experience for anonymous visitors (prospects) and creating a personalized omni-channel experience for known customers can speak to the complexity of the task. It challenges even the most mature marketing organization. Then there is financial services, if you know what I mean.
So, is marketing personalization hard? You betcha. How hard? Darn hard.
Personalizing to anonymous users
- Someone follows an organic search result about planning for business continuity in small businesses. When they arrive at the site, they should not only get the content they are after but other small business content as they move through the site.
- A user clicks and reads a series of home and boat safety content on the site. The next time they visit, they should receive more home and boat content and be spared the chore of clicking past enterprise business content that is not relevant.
We want to pick up on signals from people we don't yet know visiting our Web sites and draw reasonable conclusions about who they are in order to give them the most relevant experience.
The biggest challenge towards personalizing the experience for someone we don't yet know is deciding the segments that matter to personalize against and what we do to personalize to those segments. So, pretty much the whole thing is a big challenge.
Here's how @AlhanKeser put it in Entrepreneur:
"Other than showing return visitors product categories they already looked at instead of whatever is on sale that day, the strategy for what you do in response to any data point is highly unclear, as soon as you go beyond basics.
So what if you know that I listen to podcasts, work in Manhattan and just got married? Will any of that help you figure out how to best sell me something? Because I am a man, does it mean I like to see other men wearing clothes? Perhaps I'm shopping for my wife. How can you know? Are you going to rely on my returning to the website after showing interest in something, therefore only personalizing for a fraction of visitors?"
Personalizing to customers
We should know a lot about our customers. Many businesses did not establish central data profiles for their customers and are trying to catch up. There is a terrific example where many companies could have set these up ten years ago. The cost of catching up continues to accrue.
The three big challenges of delivering a strong and increasingly personal experience to customers include:
Integrating multiple data sources to establish an always-contemporary view of the customer
@erikober outlined the tension for CMOs in Target Marketing:
"A Forrester report revealed that while 87 percent of CMOs anticipate the need to integrate customer data into their digital strategy over the next four years, only 16 percent currently do so.
So what makes personalization difficult? Data silos pose the biggest obstacle. The fact that customer activity takes place across so many different platforms — social, web, mobile, email, e-commerce and CRM — makes it extraordinarily challenging for marketers to get a single, coherent view of the customer and understand the context of the interaction with the company."
Just think about the data that would be the most helpful to know to get marketing personalization right:
- All the customer's sales and service data – what do they own and how have we interacted with them
- Their demographic, geographic and household circumstances – what is the context of their daily lives
- Key life events like moving, college and more – what disruptive changes do they face
- Their stated and behavioral preferences – content, settings, delivery, channels
- Their digital and social channel behavior – what they actually do online
- Their social media profiles – what they say and do online and how influential they may be
That shopping list of data comes from very different stores, so-to-speak. Getting it all together and relating it in a view of the customer that is always growing is, well, hard.
Connecting the experience across channels (e.g. what they receive via email relates to their Web experience)
We all want an "omni-channel" world where we can start a conversation or service transaction with a client via phone or email and have it continue via social or a customer portal. Conceptually, we get it. Let customers determine which channels we communicate with them on. It just isn't that easy. Using marketing automation tools like Salesforce and Maximyser, we can sync up the email with the Web site. But connecting the call center and social channels are chores unto themselves.
Creating the rules to trigger content and services via all channels to the right customer
When does one prospect receive a specific Web experience? When does a customer receive a sequence of emails in response to some behavior (e.g. they showed an interest in smart home technology and would now benefit from some follow-up information)?
Remember, this is 'marketing automation' and we are trying to develop rules or triggers that cause different content or messages to fire based upon what we know about our visitors. Developing those triggers and monitoring how well they work such that we are not inadvertently annoying customers with irrelevant or poorly-timed content or messages is important and hard. And trigger-based marketing is a bit of a blunt instrument.
Here's how @MikeBrondello puts it in the Optimizely blog:
"In a trigger campaign, a user's action (such as a click, email open, pageview, etc) triggers the marketing automation software to perform an action – such as send a specific email or show a specific piece of content. This type of marketing requires a marketing automation tool, like Marketo or Hubspot for instance, that uses this basic set of user information to personalize content....
...A reason that trigger-driven personalization can be ineffective is that the content triggered to the visitor is predefined based a persona they may fit, rather than the actual indications of their wants or needs."
There are plenty of other challenges but these seem to be some of the big ones. Its one thing to acknowledge the obvious - that more personalized experiences will serve customers better. It's another thing to break this down into a practical strategy and start to implement i. That part is hard.
Helpful resources
Interview with Jim Conning, the head of Data Services at Royal Mail
33 Experts Reveal the Most Important Piece of Customer Data To Help Make Smarter Marketing Decisions


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Doi Moi Policy
In the year 1986, Vietnam economic reform was implemented, which was referred as "Doi Moi". Vietnam economic reform consisting of the "Doi Moi" was to include overall revamping of Vietnam economy. "Doi Moi"-Vietnam economic reform:
•In the very beginning it has been mentioned that Vietnam concentrated primarily on heavy industries. With the advent of "Doi Moi", efforts were made to shift focus to the the following areas. Food production
•Boosting private domestic investment as well as foreign investment •Interference of the state pertaining to business activities. The National Congress meetings held in 2006 laid stress on the same. However, it was felt that the country needed more structural reforms to be implemented. The economy of Vietnam is basically market economy, which has got many sectors.
The agricultural reforms in Vietnam is one of the redeeming features of the economic reforms. In the year 1981, the government in Vietnam adopted the contracting system pertaining to products. This was followed by the adoption of yet another contracting system pertaining to household. With the introduction of Land Law in the year 1993, all the faulty cooperatives were abolished. The farmers enjoyed title rights to the tillable land. They could also decide as to how their agricultural land could be best used. The Vietnamese government focussed on research and development in the agricultural sector. Domestic investment as well as foreign investment has been instrumental in bringing about Vietnam economic reform. The government supports the private sector and to this effect the Civil Code has been executed to give recognition to individual ownership. Several ordinances as well as laws have been passed to encourage the same. State sector reform:
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Pockets of apricot preserves fill these pecan-coated cookies. A chocolate drizzle dresses them up, but they're just as tempting unadorned.
How to Make It
Beat butter at medium speed of an electric mixer until creamy; gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy. Add egg yolk and vanilla; beat well.
Combine flour and salt; add to butter mixture, beating well. Stir in 1 cup pecans. Cover and chill dough at least 30 minutes.
Lightly beat egg white. Shape dough into 1" balls; dip each ball in egg white, and roll in remaining 1 cup pecans. Place balls 1" apart on greased cookie sheets. Press thumb gently into center of each ball, leaving an indention; fill with preserves.
Bake at 350° for 17 to 18 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool 1 minute on cookie sheets; remove to wire racks, and cool completely. Drizzle melted chocolate over cooled cookies, using a fork or spoon.
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There are plenty of offices to rent in the Wigan area but more and more people are choosing to rent with The Storage Team for value for money and the many free amenities we have to offer. If you're setting up a business and need a local office in Wigan, or you're not getting the most out of your current space, we can offer a more affordable solution with extra benefits that we're sure you won't get anywhere else.
Location is key when it comes to finding an office as your business needs to be ideally situated in a place that is accessible for the public, clients and employees. Depending on your business, location can be a way of generating interest in your company and potentially taking on new clients or customers.
The town centre is where many businesses thrive which is why office space in this area is often in popular demand and costly. The Storage Team in Wigan is ideally located just two minutes from the town centre and has various sized offices available. We offer a fantastic location in the town centre without huge rental costs.
Affordable and Fully Serviced
We keep our rental fees low and make payments easy by tying everything into one cost. Our office spaces are fully serviced with electricity, heating and water, and all of this is included in a single, weekly payment. We do this so you don't have to worry about paying separate bills at different times. As a business owner you have enough to worry about which is why we make our payments fuss-free, simple and affordable.
Free Amenities
Everybody loves freebies and in business it's important to save money any way you can. There are lots of free benefits to renting an office in Wigan with The Storage Team, including:
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All of these free extras make working life much easier and it's the little things such as free customer car parking that make a good impression on clients.
We'll even offer to help with the removal of your goods from the existing office to your new office with 25% off The Removal Team's rates!
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Nucleus of Bacteria
A unique feature of eukaryotic cells, which distinguishes them from bacteria, is the presence of a membrane-bound nucleus that contains the chromosomal DNA (illustrated; image credit). Surprisingly, a nucleus-like structure that forms during viral infection of bacteria is the site of viral DNA replication (link to paper).
During infection of Pseudomonas bacteria with the phage 2O1phi2-1, a separate compartment forms in which viral DNA replication takes place. A phage protein, gp105, makes up the outer layer of this compartment, which initially forms near one end of the cell, and then migrates to the center. The migration of the compartment takes place on a spindle made up of the tubulin-like protein PhuZ.
In addition to viral DNA, certain proteins gain entry into this compartment, including viral proteins involved in DNA and mRNA synthesis, and at least one host cell protein. Other proteins, such as those involved in translation and nucleotide synthesis, are excluded. This compartmentalization very much resembles that of the nucleus of eukaryotic cells.
Packaging of the viral DNA takes place on the surface of the viral nucleus. Empty phage capsids form at the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane, then migrate to the compartment where they attach firmly to the surface. By an unknown mechanism, DNA moves from the compartment into the capsid. Then capsids are released from the surface to further mature in the cytoplasm. The completed phages are released from the cell upon bacterial lysis.
These fascinating observations raise a number of unanswered questions. Does infection with other phages lead to assembly of a viral nucleus? How do molecules selectively move in and out of the structure?


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Financial Smart Start for Newlyweds is an educational series designed to help couples gain financial management skills. The series features activities to help couples practice communication, set goals and design a budget, among other financial management tools. Newlyweds who enroll in the program also receive the monthly newsletters during their first year of marriage, which contain the latest information about saving, spending, record keeping, credit, insurance and other financial topics.


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My offseason/improvement/bulking/puffy/bloated season is coming to end on February 1. I have learned a lot of things and gained more than just weight (which I am embracing to it's fullest) during the past 5 months.
1- Hands down, the most important thing I learned this off season was to GIVE UP the notion of being stage lean all year round. Oh yea, a shredded stomach is neat but it's not realistic. Your body will more than likely shut down before you spend an entire calendar year stage lean. So the BEST advice i can give someone coming off a competition season is to have a plan in place for off season, get in the right mindset, and buy a bigger pair of pants.
2- This brings me to my next point, I learned that my legs need a size 4 and my waist needs a size 0 and can someone for the love of god please invent jeggings with these measurements. Thank you. So, I have been a size 0 my whole entire life outside of wearing Limited Too pants. A size 0. For a long time, especially in college, that number defined me and my reason for living. Stupid- right? Yea, it is stupid. I was a silly cardio bunny going to the gym to watch the college boys curl and to flip my hair around. Now?? Now you ask??? Now i am ok with buying a size 2- which i did for the first time in my life in December and i nearly had a panic attach but I DID IT. yes, i am very fortunate, genetically. i also work my ass off to so don't sit there and tell me i would be fit if i just played candy crush all day- FALSE. i am thin by DNA, i am fit by determination. anyways, rant over, my waist luckily stayed the same pant size this whole time but the legs grewwwwww!!!!
3- I am a strong person. Mentally strong- yes but I am talking physically strong- let me put it into perspective. September 14 was my last show last year. At that time, i was STRUGGLING, STRUGGLING i say, to do a set of 30 walking lunges with a 40 lb straight bar on my back. Now- I can do 100lbs for 30. I have increased my weights and reps on every single lift and have been incredible size gains.
4- food food food. I have learned this offseason that I have incredible self control when it comes to good. I ate to hit my macros and that was about 90/10. 90% of the time was healthy food. the other 10% was off season food- yes I ate at least one donut every single day post workout. Will this work for everyone? Nope. (PS- for post-workout carb information- reference my post a few weeks ago titled: Eat A Poptart).
5- never in my wildest dreams would i ever have imagined to be sponsored by 3 amazing companies in my first year of competing- House of Pain, Isolator Fitness, and USPlabs. Talk about an incredible off season to sign with Isolator and USPlabs at the tail end of 2013. There is no luck involved- it's called a partnership and you must WORK to make yourself stand out from the crowd. A thousand people compete so set yourself apart in some way.
6- lastly, i learned this off season that people want to see you do well but they never want to see you do better than them. unfortunately, i learned this the hard way when i lost my training partner/best friend from last year due to jealousy. many things were said about me, to me, and behind my back from someone who i truly trusted. it was a blessing in disguise because now my life is extremely toxic free and so much more positive. circle got smaller- vision got clearer.
So in conclusion, I will be starting this season toxic free and at 135 lbs with 20.8% body fat. My first show is May 10 in columbus, oh and I can NOT wait.


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Ecommerce Web Design Trends For 2016
Ecommerce Web Design Trends for 2016
In the last year, ecommerce websites were more subjected to impersonal photography. Now, we are expecting to see more friendly and applicable web designs in 2016. Illustrations creates a feel of delicate connection and help companies to present their story. It is easier for a business to demonstrate themselves in graphics rather than a bunch of stocky photos. Illustrations may become complex if used on very large scale, but even present better picture than images or backgrounds. Web designers are now using a mix of illustration and animation to describe a business. Captivating illustrations, mix with user friendly interface, can be very beneficial for ecommerce websites.
Graphics adds the sense of quirkiness to websites which cannot be achieved with stock photography.
Pluckier Color Selection
Graphic design companies normally prefer flat designs for ecommerce websites, which emphasizes on the usability of website. Flat designs usually have alike color palettes, now this trend is expect to change. In 2016 you will find many new and exciting color scheme in the ecommerce websites. Color is one of the most important element that express the company's values and convey the message of the organization. The usage of color and font offer amazing combinations and we will see more trialing in 2016 with brighter and bolder colors.
Typography Will Be More Innovative
With the availability of free or reasonable web fonts like Google Fonts and Type kit, offer more inspired typography, which will be reflected in ecommerce websites in 2016. In mix with CSS3 it will offer a lot more with typography on the web, like creating attractive transitions and complete animations. Bolder and unique typefaces will be more use in this year, as they work well with illustration. Designers will use more readable fonts for body copy and we will see more trial pairing for headlines and associate copy text.
Use of Material Design Will Increase
Material design was introduced by Google initially for use on Android supportive devices. Later that principles was adopted by various mobile platforms and also by desktop websites. Material design is considered as a best practices and will become standard of designing for all internet friendly devices. Card interfaces is also a great feature that comes up with material design. Pinterest is the good example of the usage of card interface, but in 2016 we will see more card interfaces combination in ecommerce web designs. In card interface, various elements on the screen are fix in rectangles and look like set of cards. Card layouts also helps in responsive web design, as they can be speedily rearranged for different screen sizes.
Vertical Web Layouts Will Be Used Instead Of Pages
Users find scrolling easier as compare to click and this is especially true for smartphones. Whether we are using desktop or any mobile device, scrolling is an important interaction tool. If your ecommerce website has high traffic from mobile devices, scrolling will more easily for users. Scrolling pages can also be a used to tell the story of the company, as they guide visitors to specific section. Animation often implement to enhance the story and make the web design more dynamic.
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text: This article concerns the space through which shamans journey (its relationship to physical space as well as to the person), and how it is represented in indigenous Nanai discourse. From the perspective of traditional Nanai shamans, spiritual and physical spaces are interconnected. Events having spiritual significance saturate physical space and thereby open up an additional spiritual dimension. Shamanists believe that by appearing simultaneously on different sides of the border between the spiritual and physical worlds, they are able to observe one another and, having met in the spiritual world, they can enter into lasting relations with one another, continuing them in the physical world. These and other analogous emic ideas permit the conclusion that, for practicing traditional shamans, spiritual space is objective and in relation to the person is externally situated.


text: It may look like a smaller Samsung Galaxy S 4, but the Samsung Galaxy S4 mini is much different than you'd think. Available online at Negri Electronics for around $575, the Galaxy S4 mini sports a 1.7 GHz dual-core Snapdragon 400 CPU, 4.3-inch qHD Super AMOLED display, 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD recording, 1,900 mAh battery, and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean with TouchWiz. It has the same design language as the Galaxy S 4, but the specs aren't quite up to par. Given the price point, you may be better off getting a Galaxy S III. Part 1 of 2.


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Sunday, 14 November 2010
Skinny Update Manager
I've started a new project that's related to SD but has sufficient application potential beyond SD that I decided to host its development apart from SD.
One of the challenges for SD has been getting a decent update/upgrade deal going. Skinny Update Manager tries to fix that.
Sunday, 24 October 2010
The default
/etc/sudoers file in Squeeze has a new directive:
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
that lets you make changes to sudo without editing the stock
/etc/sudoers file.
There are a few gotchas about using it:
- Files in
/etc/sudoers.dthat end in ~ (that's a tilde in case it tenders as a dash) or contain a . (period) character will be ignored.
- Files in
/etc/sudoers.dmust have 0440 permissions. So after you create your file, do a
chmod 0440 {filename}
on it.
- The directive itself in
/etc/sudoersshould be the last line. Otherwise it seems to get overridden by whatever follows.
At this point I don't know in what order the files are read, but I suspect it's in alphabetical order. So, for the moment I am using numbers (e.g.,
99shutdown) to enforce the desired order.
Complete info at http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/sudoers.man.html.
Monday, 9 August 2010
Sqeeze freeze
Squeeze has been frozen.
Friday, 2 July 2010
Improved sdsudo security
I am testing a modification to the SD
sdsudo utility that addresses a potential security issue I mention here. As I mentioned there, I don't think the way
sdsudo works at present is a security issue when used as intended—as a one-logged-in-user-at-a-time desktop/laptop environment. But more security with no downsides is never a bad thing.
The mod is based on Daniel Stone's "xhost plus considered harmful" post. If you want to try this yourself, open
/usr/bin/sdsudo as root in your favorite text editor. Find the line
xhost +local:root 1>&2
and change it to
xhost +SI:localuser:root 1>&2
A couple tests indicate this works. I'll need to do some more testing to see if there are any gotchas.
I am hoping that SkinnySqeezey won't need sdsudo.
Sunday, 27 June 2010
Install script license change
I have changed the license of the SkinnyDebbie installation scripts to GPLv3. The rest of SkinnyDebbie is unchanged: it's still GPLv2.
Having said that, when I get around to finishing the next version of SD (for Squeeze) it will probably get a GPLv3 license as well.
Why the change? Because, the CC license that used to cover (and if you insist, still does) the install scripts isn't well suited to software licensing. I originally wanted to use a CC license for these scripts because I got a bit irritated that earlier versions of these scripts were being used without attribution in the source or elsewhere as the basis for installation schemes in unrelated projects. The GPL also protects against attribution infringement, but I thought the CC was a bit more rigorous in this respect. However, I now think that it's better to use the licenses in the way they were intended.


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On Health Care, Walker and Rubio Offer Obamacare Lite
Republican Presidential candidates Gov. Scott Walker and Sen. Marco Rubio have put forward plans to repeal and replace Obamacare. Unfortunately, their "replace" proposals are best described as "Obamacare lite."
The centerpiece of both "replace" plans is a refundable tax credit for health insurance. Yet such tax credits already exist, in Obamacare. Also like Obamacare, the Walker/Rubio tax credits would allow Washington to decide how much coverage you purchase, penalize you if you don't buy that government‐defined plan, and conceal massive redistribution of income under the rubric of tax cuts.
Why bother repealing Obamacare, only to recreate its worst features?
Conservatives who lean toward tax credits cry slander when critics label them Obamacare lite — just as conservatives who supported an individual mandate in the 1990s cried slander when critics argued it amounted to a government takeover of health care. But let's look at the facts.
A health‐insurance tax credit functions exactly like an individual mandate. Under both proposals, if you choose not to buy a government‐designed health plan — even if you want to buy coverage, just less than the government requires — the IRS takes more of your money. Under Walker's plan, the effective penalty can reach $7,800 for a family of four.
Under a tax credit, Washington would exercise as much control over your health plan as it does under Obamacare's individual mandate. Just as Congress must define what level of coverage lets you avoid that explicit penalty, it would define what level of coverage lets you avoid a tax credit's implicit penalty. Special interests would have the same incentive and ability to force you to buy coverage you don't want, as with Obamacare.
Again like Obamacare, the Walker/Rubio tax credits are "refundable." So if you have no income‐tax liability, or if it's just less than the amount of the credit, you get a check from the government. We don't have numbers on Walker's or Rubio's plans, but Obamacare's "tax credits" are roughly 80 percent government spending. With a Republican imprimatur on such spending, Obamacare supporters could probably increase spending more than they could under Obamacare itself.
How would Walker and Rubio pay for their new spending? Would they keep Obamacare's tax increases? Raise taxes elsewhere? Would they finance new health care spending by cutting existing health care programs? If so, chalk up yet another way their plans would resemble Obamacare.
Conservatives can offer a better "replace" plan that is politically feasible by expanding a bedrock conservative initiative: health savings accounts, or HSAs, which have already enabled 14.5 million Americans to save more than $28.4 billion for their medical expenses tax‐free.
Expanding HSAs would give workers a $9 trillion effective tax cut, without cutting spending or increasing the deficit, and would drastically reduce government control over Americans' health decisions. Most important, "large" HSAs would spur innovations that make health care better, cheaper, and more secure — particularly for the most vulnerable.
Because Congress does not tax employer‐paid health insurance premiums, the vast majority of Americans with private coverage get it through an employer. Yet employers finance such coverage with money they would otherwise pay workers — an average of $12,000 per worker with family coverage, for a total of $735 billion this year, and $9.1 trillion over 10 years.
Large HSAs would let workers take that money as a tax‐free HSA contribution, and thereby let taxpayers own and control $9 trillion of their earnings that someone else currently controls. That's an effective tax cut equal to all of the Reagan and Bush tax cuts combined, and nine times more than taxes would fall by repealing Obamacare. Workers could use those funds to remain in their employer plan, purchase better coverage elsewhere, buy medical care directly, or save for future medical needs. All tax‐free.
Moreover, Large HSAs involve no income redistribution and create no dependence on government. They would bring health care within reach of those with low‐incomes by turning hundreds of millions of other Americans into cost‐conscious consumers who force prices downward.
As with tax credits, government would define which health plans consumers could purchase with tax‐free Large HSA funds. But those rules would be far less restrictive because consumers wouldn't have to buy coverage to get the tax benefits. Few special interests would demand mandated coverage of their services if they know consumers have the freedom not to buy it. Large HSAs would thus allow innovations that Obamacare and tax credits inhibit, including higher deductibles, health plans with a total‐satisfaction guarantee, and pre‐existing‐conditions insurance.
For decades, prominent conservatives advocated an individual mandate. The left then picked up the idea and gave us Obamacare. Before they once again fall into the same trap, conservatives should drop any support for the implicit mandate of health‐insurance tax credits. Expanding HSAs is more compassionate and provides a direct route toward freedom and better health care.


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by Diana Gruhl, MSW, ASW, Excerpt from Master's Thesis, May 2010
Many seniors who have lived their whole lives being productive, purposeful, and engaged with others can become depressed and debilitated when they lose their independence due to illness, loss of work, or functional ability (Borg et al., 2006). Especially if they are not able to take care of their own needs; have poor health; and have low educational, socio-economic support, or social capital, they can become devastated by the factors of their lives and feel great despair (Borg et al., 2006). The impact of increased frail health and lower quality of life due to limited finances and social neglect can make them feel incapacitated, incompetent, and unable to see their value in daily life.
In addition, senior isolation is usually caused by lack of connection to close family members, who are considered to be the closest source of intimacy among this population (Mullins et al., 1996). Seniors have a need for social relationship support in their older age to provide expressions of empathy, love, trust, and caring, as well as instrumental help, informational support, and appraisal, which are expected to be a function of the family (Ashida & Heaney, 2008). However, in modern times, many seniors live alone, due to the death of their life partner or due to a lack of nuclear or extended family systems, and may live in low socio-economic circumstances without support (Ashida & Heaney, 2008; Hashimoto, 1993).
In response to this crisis, social relationships with friends, volunteers, and other society members are necessary to enhance the quality of life for the elderly (Ashida & Heaney, 2008). Social relationships help with the maintenance of good physical and mental health, while providing a network of support (Ashida & Heaney, 2008). These networks depend on reliability of network members, frequency of contact with members, and geographic proximity to network members to provide social connectedness, support, influence, and social companionship (Ashida & Heaney, 2008). They are also needed to buttress or complement the support that family members may not be able to exclusively provide, such as empathy, love, trust and caring, instrumental support or aid, informational support, and appraisal (Ashida & Heaney, 2008). Social support also helps with well-being and self-esteem and influences people to engage in more healthy behaviors while buffering life stresses. This, combined with home visitation, is one way to serve seniors and society, by supporting their wellness and mental health.
Activities an an Intervention
According to the Activity Theory of Successful Aging, activity participation is an essential determinant of life satisfaction, fulfillment, and health among senior citizens, aged 65 and older (Onedera & Stickle, 2008). This theory states that regular involvement in social and cognitive engagement can help elders maintain their health and wellness, while improving mood, memory, and overall functioning.
Specifically, the most beneficial activities suggested by this theory are those that positively impact seniors and others, such as sharing life stories with children and volunteering, engaging with social support systems and meaningful relationships, staying in touch with the present moment by learning about current events, having short- and long-term goals that give them meaning, and taking time for reflection (Onedera & Stickle, 2008).
In addition, a Japanese study confirmed that seniors who are involved in a regular social support group have higher levels of functional capacity, increased self-esteem, and enhanced morale, which is associated with recovery from disabilities and slower declines in health, than those who do not participate in activities (Kondo, Minai, Imai, & Yamagata, 2007). These findings are critical as they demonstrate the essential need for seniors of all health conditions to participate in activities, in order to enhance life satisfaction and counteract the negative effects of aging (Kondo et al., 2007; Onedera & Stickle, 2008).
Specific activity models for distinct senior populations
Although most activities are beneficial, each senior population requires a certain type of activity to meet their particular needs. Research suggests that active community-living seniors benefit from more engaging, cognitively stimulating, and in-depth activities, such as mentoring a child in school subjects or teaching a person English as a second language (McInnis-Dittrich, 2005). This is due to their motivation to maintain their active cognitive status, good health, memory, and independence for as long as possible. In addition, the most beneficial activities for homebound seniors include meaningful conversations and discussions with younger persons where they can reminisce and relive memories, share their skills, experiences, and wisdom, and learn about another person. This is due to having increased needs for social support and memory stimulation, and less physical capability for external activities.
Reminiscing about the past is an intensively engaging activity that provides a sense of accomplishment, showing that they can engage in dialogue about meaningful memories and counteract the negative feelings associated with potentially poor physical health (McInnis-Dittrich, 2005). It is also a way to increase feelings of competency and adaptive skills, as focusing on past memories recalls strengths from the past that might not be present if focusing on current problems. This activity is also helpful for youth who participate, since students who engage in the reminiscence process learn about life stages, the process of aging, life in different generations, respect for the elderly, and the growing field of elder care (Neysmith-Roy & Kleisinger, 1997).
For more frail seniors, beneficial activities include hearing the paper read out loud, trivia, mentally stimulating games, chair exercise, cooking, listening to music, or going to events or concerts that they enjoy. This is particularly appealing if they lack transportation and other means to engage with the larger community; it not only provides intergenerational stimulation, but also access to activities from their past in which they might not otherwise participate (McInnis-Dittrich, 2005). Other activities include functional support such as helping with shopping, cooking, or crossing the street, all of which can be neglected or overlooked by busy family members, and therefore be of great assistance to the whole family unit (McInnis-Dittrich, 2005). The activity theory also states that challenging one's cognitive functioning is a great way to maintain memory, which is a goal for frail as well as active seniors (Onedera & Stickle, 2008). This can be met by participation in this variety of activities and benefits all participants involved, while being of critical importance to senior health and well-being.
Lastly, seniors with memory challenges benefit from activities that engage their long-term memory recall and feelings of well-being (McInnis-Dittrich, 2005). The best activities for this purpose include musical stimulation and reminiscence activities, because even though many of these seniors are "no longer able to orient to time, space, or person" and have limited cognitive functioning, they can respond to music (McInnis-Dittrich, 2005, p. 188). Specifically, those who have Alzheimer's disease, who can experience a significant decrease in mainstream verbal communication, benefit from the utilization of instruments, sing-along programs with their favorite music, reminiscence about the past, and multi-sensory engagement; this provides a new language that opens doors to perception and enhances the present moment. Furthermore, recalling old songs, keeping rhythm and remembering words also focuses on the strengths of what they are able to do, instead of focusing on what they can no longer accomplish.
In addition, these elders can enjoy arts and crafts projects that stimulate their minds with colors and shapes, as well as gear them toward the seasons, which helps orient them to time and space. Also, pet visits can be very nurturing for this population as they can meet their needs for touch, while enhancing communication with others (McInnis-Dittrich, 2005).
Summary and Conclusion
For senior citizens of all ages, it is clear that social support and activity engagement provide significant benefits, including increased life satisfaction and fulfillment, memory improvement, and depression reduction (Ashida & Heaney, 2008; Borg et al., 2006; Bullock & Osborne, 1999; Mullins et al., 1996; Ron, 2004).
References listed at the end of complete Master's Thesis manuscript, "Adopt-a Grandparent Plus Program: A Grant Proposal Project", by Diana Gruhl, MSW.


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UPDATE 10:12 a.m.: In an anguished interview, the father of the suspects in theBoston Marathon bombing described his fugitive son as a smart and accomplished "angel."
Anzor Tsarnaev spoke with The Associated Press by telephone in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan after police said one of his sons, 26-year-old Tamerlan, had been killed in a shootout and the other, Dzhokhar, was being intensely pursued.
RELATED: Boston Marathon bombings: 1 suspect dead; manhunt for 2nd suspect locks down Boston; both ID'd as brothers from Chechnya (Photos)
"My son is a true angel," said the elder Tsarnaev . He said his son was "an intelligent boy" who was studying medicine.
"We expected him to come on holidays here," he said.
"They were set up, they were set up!" he exclaimed. "I saw it on television; they killed my older son Tamerlan."
An uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects urged one of his nephews to turn himself in Friday, saying he had brought shame to the family and the entire Chechen ethnicity.
"Yes, we're ashamed. They're the children of my brother," Ruslan Tsarni told a throng of reporters outside his home in Montgomery Village, Md. View a portion of the interview below:
VIDEO: Suspects' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, speaks to reporters. View more videos at: http://nbclosangeles.com.
The father of the suspects, Tsarnaev, became badly agitated and gave little more information. He ended the call angrily, saying: "Leave me alone, my son's been killed."
The AP reached Tsarnaev through a phone number provided by a relative in the United States.
The younger Tsarnaev gave few clues as to his inner life on his profile on Vkontakte, a Russian equivalent of Facebook, though he did include websites about Islam among his favorites.
The family's origins are in Chechnya, the mostly Muslim Russian republic where separatist rebels fought two full-scale wars with Russian forces since 1994.
A spokesman for Chechnya's leader said the family left Chechnya long ago and went to Central Asia, then moved to Dagestan, a Muslim republic adjacent to Chechnya that has been the site of a sporadic insurgency for more than a decade.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended School No. 1 in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. The principal's secretary at School No. 1, Irina Bandurina, told the AP that Tsarnaev left for the U.S. in March 2002.
UPDATE 7:26 a.m.: Here & Now Host Robin Young, from public radio station WBUR Boston, has met Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, through her nephew, who is a close friend and former classmate. Young hosted the Boston Marathon bombing suspect at her house for her nephew's prom party. Read an interview with Young and her nephew.
PREVIOUSLY: The father of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing claims that his son who is still on the loose is a smart and accomplished young man.
Anzor Tsarnaev spoke with The Associated Press by telephone from the Russian city of Makhachkala on Friday after police said one of his sons, 26-year-old Tamerlan, had been killed in a shootout and the other, Dzhokhar, was being intensely pursued.
"My son is a true angel," the elder Tsarnaev said. "Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the U.S. He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here."
In May of 2011, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, then a senior at a Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a prestigious public high school, was awarded a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge, Mass., to pursue higher education. Now, Tsarnaev is on the run, described as "armed and dangerous" and suspected of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Here & Now Host Robin Young, from public radio station WBUR Boston, has met Tamerlan Tsarnaev through her nephew who is a close friend and former classmate. Young hosted him at her house for her nephew's prom party. Listen to an interview with Young and her nephew.
"This is nothing that we'd even expect," he said.
Two brothers, one now dead, one alive and at large. After hours of only grainy images of two men in baseball caps to go on, a portrait gradually started emerging Friday of the men suspected in the attack.
Tsarnaev, 19, and his older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed during a violent night in Cambridge, had been living together on Norfolk Street in Cambridge. An uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., told The Associated Press that the men lived together near Boston and have been in the United States for about a decade. They came from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's page on the Russian social networking site Vkontakte says he attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, graduating in 2011, the year he won the scholarship, which was celebrated with a reception at City Hall, according to a news release issued at the time. Before moving to the United States, he attended School No. 1 in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim republic in Russia's North Caucasus that has become an epicenter of the Islamic insurgency that spilled over from Chechnya.
On the site, he describes himself as speaking Chechen as well as English and Russian. His world view is described as "Islam" and he says his personal goal is "career and money."
Tsarnaev appeared in the video released by authorities on Thursday, identified as Suspect Number 2, striding down a sidewalk, unnoticed by spectators who were absorbed in the race. He followed Tamerlan by about 10 feet. He wore what appeared to be a gray hoodie under a dark jacket and pants, and a white baseball cap facing backward and pulled down haphazardly.
Tamerlan was stockier, in khaki pants, a light T-shirt, and a dark jacket. The brim of his baseball cap faced forward, and he may have been wearing sunglasses.
According to the website spotcrime.com, Tamerlan was arrested for domestic violence in July 2009, after assaulting his girlfriend.
He was an amateur boxer, listed as a competitor in a National Golden Gloves competition in 2009.


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A prime task of microscopy is to examine materials in a highly precise manner and to observe their modification by various factors in real time. Light microscopy is employed to examine materials inside the electrolyte in real time. It alone offers the possibility of observing processes in real time in realistic surroundings. The technique is used, for example, to study lithium deposition under conditions comparable to those in real cells.
The scanning electron microscope is a versatile tool for studying materials at a high resolution. For battery materials, the focus is on materials sensitive to air that can be transferred using a special transfer system.
Transmission Electron Microscopy
Transmission electron microscopy is used by all research groups and disciplines. It contributes to the observation of active battery materials at a resolution in the atomic to nanoscale range. This is possible in both two and three dimensions. It produces high-resolution data containing information of a structural, morphologic, chemical and/or spectroscopic nature about the material. The modification of material such as during charging or discharging can, as a result, be determined in both structural and spatial resolution.
Spectroscopic methods utilize the absorption or scatter of electromagnetic waves—which include those of light—to draw inferences about the structure of the materials being studied. Among the spectroscopic methods employed at HIU are nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), Mössbauer spectroscopy, and Raman scattering.
X-ray diffraction studies are conducted at HIU on a synchrotron as well as using laboratory diffractometers, for which a powerful version especially designed for battery research is also employed. Identification of the structures is possible using this technology, and phase transformations can be studied in detail during lithiation and delithiation. In experiments using the synchrotron and conducted in collaboration with other research groups at HIU, in situ and ex situ measurements of x-ray diffraction and x-ray absorption are carried out in order to study the structure of electrode materials. The strong interaction and the scattering cross-section of the thermal neutrons with lithium and oxygen make neutron radiation an ideal probe for battery materials. By using neutron diffraction, it is possible to monitor the crystal structure of the anode and cathode materials. Structural change can thus be studied during charging and discharging, just as it can be determined during a battery's aging.
Mechanical Measurements
Mechanical tension is formed in electrode materials during the storage and removal of lithium. Since this stress can lead to damage, measurement of the stress is helpful in assessing the reliability of material. An effective means to conduct such experiments is the substrate curvature method, in which a thin film is observed on a carrier, in this case the substrate. If the film undergoes mechanical tension, the electrode film–substrate system curves slightly. By measuring the substrate curvature, the tension in the electrode film can be calculated. At HIU it is uniquely possible to conduct such measurements on the basis of composite electrodes such as used in real batteries.