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We believe in using the best tools to serve our customers. Our team of experts are always in search of innovative ideas and innovative products that can help them be more efficient. Amazon Redshift commanded attention of everyone in the house. It is a pretty impressive and useful data warehousing service.
"Our data analysis platform collects tens of terabytes of log data each day from a variety of internal and external sources. Migrating to Amazon Redshift two years ago allowed us to scale to over ten petabytes of uncompressed data with a ten times performance improvement over our prior on-premises system," said Mick Etoh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Innovation Management Department, NTT DOCOMO – Japan's largest mobile service provider.
"Customers such as Amgen, Boingo Wireless, Electronic Arts, Hearst, Lyft, Nasdaq, Scholastic, TripAdvisor, and Yahoo! are migrating to Amazon Redshift in droves because it leverages the scale of AWS to analyze petabytes of data with ten times the performance at one-tenth the cost of old guard data warehouses," said Raju Gulabani, Vice President, Databases, Analytics, and AI, AWS.
Before we get to the webinar let's discuss this Data Warehousing service from AWS. So, what exactly is Amazon Redshift?
Amazon Redshift is a fully managed data warehouse service. It is amazingly scalable. You can start with a few hundred gigabytes of data and when needed, you can scale up to a petabyte and more. Customers can analyze all of their data stored on high performance local disks with the help of standard SQL and existing Business Intelligence (BI) tools at impressive speed. And yes, all this is available to the users for the tenth of the cost of traditional warehouses.
#Amazon Redshift is Fast
You can provision a data warehouse in minutes. Amazon Redshift uses columnar storage technology which improves I/O efficiency. You only have to create a data warehouse cluster and define your schema. You can then begin loading and querying your data. Amazon manages the provisioning, configuration and patching part. The queries are parallelized across multiple nodes which enables it to deliver fast query performance. The hardware is optimized for I/O intensive workloads at 4GB/Node/Sec. Networking is enhanced with over 1 million packets/Node/Sec. There is regular cadence of auto-patched improvements.
#Amazon Redshift is Scalable
With the help of a few clicks in your console or with a simple API call you can resize your Amazon Redshift Data Warehouse Cluster. When you modify the cluster, the changes you request for are immediately applied. You can run multiple clusters with the same data in Amazon S3 with the help of Redshift Spectrum. You can scale all the way up to petabyte or more. You can create very large data warehouses with the help of Dense Storage (DS) for minimal price point. Very high performance data warehouses can be created with the help of Dense Compute (DC) nodes. During the process of resizing you can continue to query your data warehouse in read-only mode until the new cluster is ready for use.
#Amazon Redshift Is Friendly & Compatible
Amazon Redshift is amazingly compatible with your preferred BI and ETL tools. It uses industry standard SQL and it can be accessed using standard PostgreSQL, JDBC and ODBC drivers. Custom JDBC and ODBC drivers can be downloaded from the AWS console. Integrations with popular BI and ETL vendors have been validated by Amazon Redshift. Most of them offer free trials to help you get started with loading and analyzing.
#Amazon Redshift Backs Up Your Data Continuously
Amazon Redshift replicates data across nodes. If a Node suddenly fails, there are always at least two more nodes ready to be pressed into service containing the same data. There is replication of data within the cluster and a backup with Amazon S3. This feature helps it in recovering from unexpected failures. Backups are continuous and automatic.
#Amazon Redshift Keeps Your Data Secure
Amazon Redshift uses industry standard encryption techniques to keep your data secure in transit and at rest. When your data is in transit it is kept secure by supporting SSL enabled connections between client application and your Redshift data warehouse cluster. When your data is at rest and is being written to disk, Amazon Redshift encrypts each block using hardware accelerated AES-256. All the data including intermediate query results is encrypted. Backed-up data is encrypted as well. Compute nodes are not directly accessible. Amazon Redshift takes care of your key management by default. If you so desire, you can manage your keys by using your own hardware security modules (HSMs) or with the help of AWS Key Management Service.
#Amazon Redshift Helps You Monitor Your Data
You can use AWS Management Console or Amazon CloudWatch APIs to monitor your Amazon Redshift Data warehouse clusters. You can track your metrics on storage utilization, read/write traffic, compute utilization and a lot more free of cost. You can also get information on query and cluster performance. You can diagnose performance issues and track the users and the type of queries that consume the maximum resources.
Know more about Amazon Redshift from our experts. We, at OpenXcell conduct webinars on the latest development tools and technologies. Do go through one on Amazon Redshift.
Key takeaways from the webinar are listed below.
- Importance of Data
- Data Growth Rate
- Data Warehouse Challenges
- Why Data Warehouse Services?
- AWS Database Services
- What is Amazon Redshift?
- Architecture of Amazon Redshift
- Benefits of Amazon Redshift
- Conclusion
You can now go through the webinar.
You can download the Amazon Redshift presentation from here.
We routinely offer plenty of useful information through webinars. You can go through the webinar on 'Serverless Architecture' here. The one on 'Serverless Integrations' is here. The one on 'Amazon Lamda in Action' is here.
And that is all from my desk for now. Until next time, Adios.


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Chris and Piers: Chapter 4
Resident Evil 6 Walkthrough and Guide
by vhayste
Chris and Piers: Chapter 4
Take cover and take out the enemies in the hangar. Enter the room to the left to find a Semi-Auto Sniper Rifle. Head to the right side of the hanger to find a helicopter. Get inside and check the cockpit to find an emblem.
Head towards the stairs ahead until the enemy raises it. Continue forth and climb the stairs in the left side to take out a couple of snipers. Follow the catwalk then jump over to the other side (as Piers). Head to the missile and activate the lever. As Chris, you have to grab on the wire and make your way to regroup with Piers. Once reunited, Piers should take out the snipers and enemies while Chris rewires the missile.
After destroying the bulkhead, climb down and make your way outside through the marked door. Before moving anywhere else, look at the smaller ship's tower to find another emblem.
Move forth along the path until you reach another double-door. Open it with your partner and pull the lever to lower the stairs again. Kick the nearby ladder down and descend. Take out the pilot of the harrier by sniping him from a safe location. Fight your way through more enemies and kick the marked door open.
Fight your way to the stairs then head to the damaged bulkhead and kick open the door there. Head inside for a scene. Open the next door then take the elevator. Enter the next room then open the next bulkdoor. Clear the briefing room afterward.
Go around the corner then check the bathroom for a green herb then open the next double-door. Check the laundromat for loot then go upstairs and take out more enemies along the way. Open the next bulkdoor. Head inside and open the red chest for 2000 SP.
Head to the barracks and take out more enemies. Pursuit Ada only to be ambushed by enemies breaking in from the windows. Kill them then continue your pursuit. Open the next double-door. Proceed through the command center then vault over the window. Take the stairs up then open another double-door.
Head inside the control room and proceed carefully. More enemies will break in from the windows. Take them out then turn the valve to open a path on the ceiling. Go up the ladder afterward.
After climbing up the ladder and before taking the stairs, look under it to find another emblem. Continue upstairs until you find another ladder. Climb up then loot the shelves then open the door for a scene.
After the scene, examine the console by the door to update your objective. You'll have to find three passcodes to open the door. The first one is found on the floor nearby, beside a corpse. Open the door next to him for a short scene. Don't bother wasting ammo on this enemy as it can't die by normal means. You can still shoot it however, to stop from its tracks and to push it out of the way.
Kick open the door to the kitchen to trigger a scene. Survive the attack until the security gates open. Kick the damaged bulkdoor to reach the mess/ dining hall. Open the door near the crates since it leads to the officers' quarters. Check all the rooms there since they contain chests with SP and other loot as well.
Once you reached the infirmary, open the double-door only for Chris to be trapped inside. Once the enemy inside is taken care of, open the door and grab the second passcode.
Continue forth and go past the small blue room with vending machines then open the bulkdoor leading to a flooded hallway. This leads to the crew cabins. One of them has the third passcode. Scour the cabins for more loot then open the new bulkdoor leading back to the mess hall. Backtrack to the locked console and open it. Head past the door and open the next double-door afterward.
Move along the catwalk for a short action sequence. Kill the B.O.W before it reaches you then continue to another double-door that leads to the rear hanger. Approach the VTOL to start the next portion of the chapter.
There's another emblem that can be found here but will only be accessible by using Piers. As Piers, you'll be the VTOL's weapons control. It is simple; just aim the targeting reticule on the target, wait for the lockon and press fire to launch a missile. You must keep the targeting circle steady as you make a lockon. Keep destroying the anti-aircraft guns around the carrier so that you can land.
Weapons specialist
Upon landing, have to remove the obstacles along the way by planting explosives. You have to press the action sequences correctly to properly set up the explosives. After destroying the first trailer, vault over two obstacles then turn to the right. Before vaulting over the third obstacle, look at the tire in the corner to find another emblem.
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We have opened our doors to the public with a few changes in how we operate. There is a sanitizing station as you walk through the front door that we strongly encourage our customers to use. There is another station inside the riding gear room. When shopping for riding gear we ask that you notify a staff memeber of items such as helmets and gloves that you have tried on. This way we will be able to take those items to the side and sanatize them with ample time untill restocking. We ask our customers to respect the 6-ft seperation while in the store.
We hope everyone can understand these measures and why we have taken them. Please let us know how we can help or what you may need and will do our very best to accommodate how ever we can Thank you very much and we appreciate your business. Contact us via these avenues:
Phone: 867-668-2101 or 1-800-661-0430
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Animals and Your Health: Pet-Facilitated Therapy
Many people have experienced the soothing quality of petting a cat or bunny, or the infectious laughter that bubbles up when tossing a ball to an energetic puppy. Animals can give us joy on many levels—helping us to forget our worries and pains, better connect with those around us, and enjoy the simple act of being alive.
For many it may not be surprising, then, that the medical field is exploring the health benefits of interacting with companion animals. In fact, many hospitals and other healthcare facilities are starting to incorporate animals as treatment tools for physical and emotional therapy.
Pet-facilitated therapy (PFT), or animal-assisted therapy, involves bringing animals to a group or individual with the hopes of providing a positive therapeutic or health effect. Whether this is at a Red Cross facility after a traumatic event, or at your local nursing home or hospital, using animals as therapy is gaining in popularity. Though little research has been done in this area, preliminary studies and anecdotal evidence seem to support the usefulness of animals in helping people to feel better and connect to those around them.
Trauma Survivors
When disasters such as earthquakes, tornados, and bombings occur, we often see our canine companions on the scene helping to search for people in the rubble. But the work of dogs, cats, and other animals behind the scenes can also have a positive impact on a trauma survivor.
Pet-facilitated therapy appears to help children and families deal with the pain and emotional trauma associated with hospitalization or a traumatic event, and visits from volunteer animals may help patients who have pets at home maintain a more normal living during their hospital stay. In addition, playing with the animals often helps people to take a much-needed mental and physical break from the stresses of what they are going through.
The Elderly
Preliminary studies have shown that PFT can help to improve social interaction, psychosocial function, life satisfaction, social competence, and psychological well being, while reducing ]]>depression]]> in adult home residents. It is also thought that interaction with these animals can help break the cycle of loneliness, hopelessness, and social withdrawal that is often seen in older adults. Many nursing homes and adult home-visit services will use companion animals as a means to promote interaction between the residents. PFT has been shown to be beneficial in elderly schizophrenic patients.
For many it is probably no surprise that animals can work wonders for children's emotional and social development. In fact, PFT is helping children rehabilitate at Shriners Hospitals for Children. For instance, a child with a newly fitted prosthetic arm can practice his grasping skills by using a brush to groom a dog, or a child with a new prosthetic leg might improve his balance while throwing a ball to a dog. Even beyond the physical therapy, many would say that the emotional therapy these animals provide is priceless in helping children to learn confidence, gain self-respect, and focus on their abilities instead of on their limitations.
Work has also been done on using animal-assisted therapy with ]]>autistic]]> and mentally disabled children. Time with dogs, horses, and even dolphins can as be used as a powerful motivator to learn and develop new skills, interact with the world around them, and try new things. Recent study at the Childrens' Hopsital in San Diego showed that PFT reduced pain perception in children undergoing a surgical procedure.
Theories on Why Pet-Facilitated Therapy Works
Several ideas have been proposed to explain how animals may help improve well-being. Animals may do the following:
- Remind people of home
- Provide a more "natural" environment in the hospital or care facility
- Provide non-threatening reassurance and a non-judgmental acceptance
- Provide non-verbal and tactile comfort
- Facilitate exercise, play, and laughter
- Provide a link with reality to enhance emotional stability
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Shriners Hospitals for Children
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Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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QUETTA, Oct 26 (APP): Inspector General Police Balochistan, Ahsan
Mehboob has said that Balochistan police was not afraid of terrorists, adding that the police would continue its actions against anti-peace elements to bring them to justice.
In a press release issued, here on Wednesday, he said that officials and
personnel of Balochistan had been making history by fighting against terrorism. "Scores of police officials and personnel have lost of their lives to restore peace and defeat terrorists in Balochistan," he said.
Expressing his solidarity and sympathy with the heirs of victims of Quetta Police Training Center carnage, the IGP said that police martyrs are our heroes and they are models for Balochistan police. "The families of martyr police personnel will not be left alone," he said, adding that their all issues and problems would be resolved on priority basis.


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National Breastfeeding Week
Celebrating Portsmouth - A Positive Baby Feeding Place.
At Positive Birth Portsmouth we love a good news story. The PBP team were chatting about National Breastfeeding Awareness Week and realised how much there was to celebrate about breastfeeding support in our city.
Breastfeeding Awareness might not seem like an obvious part of positive birth, but positive birth is just the beginning of a family's journey. A positive first breastfeed can play a big part in a positive birth experience for many people and the same support that is needed for positive birth is needed for a positive start to parenting and to baby feeding.
Just like with birth, at PBP we support people to make their own informed decisions about feeding their baby. We share information about breastfeeding and we're also not afraid to say breastfeeding can be challenging and it's really normal to need support with getting breastfeeding established. We support your right to breastfeed anywhere and any way that suits you, and if you choose not to breastfeed, or to stop breastfeeding, we support your right to do that without guilt.
We think it's important to focus on helping the people around new families, the extended families, health professionals and members of the wider community to appreciate that, whatever choices women make, they have the right to support, encouragement and love and to be given accurate information and unbiased care.
So if you are pregnant and planning to breastfeed, or if you are already breastfeeding, do you know what support is available to you to help you have all the information to help you make sure you're making decisions and enjoying your baby?
If you're pregnant, one place to start is with the antenatal breastfeeding workshops provided by the infant feeding midwife at our local hospital, Queen Alexandra. All the information and dates can be found on the hospital website by clicking here: Portsmouth Antenatal Breastfeeding Workshops
Another place to go when you're pregnant, and again once your baby is here, is to any of the free local breastfeeding peer support groups run by the Breastfeeding Network. These are a great place to find out more about what it's really like to breastfeed and what's normal. There are also trained peer supporters available at many of them to help with any issues or questions you might have. Portsmouth is very lucky this service is still funded in the city as many of the peer support services across the country have had their funding cut in the last few years. There's also a very active Facebook Group where you can get sympathy at 1am and up to date details of face-to-face groups.
You can also get specialist breastfeeding support from lactation consultants across the city. To find out more about what an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) is, and what they can do, check out our post where we interviewed Lynn, who also runs a free breastfeeding support group in Southsea.
Last but not least, one of the main reasons women identify that they stop breastfeeding is concern over breastfeeding in public. In Portsmouth there is a brilliant way of finding places you can go and feel comfortable feeding your baby, knowing that they will support and welcome you. The Portsmouth Breastfeeding Welcome Scheme has many members across the city and will give you confidence getting out and about with your baby.
So much to celebrate and so much to be positive about in Portsmouth!
Not local to Portsmouth? You can get support with Breastfeeding via the National Breastfeeding Helpline - 0300 100 0212
To find your nearest Breastfeeding Network group visit https://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/
Interview with Southsea Slings
Continuing our series interviewing our conference sponsors this week we're talking to Sophy from Southsea Slings.
Can you explain a little about what babywearing / using slings is all about and what motivated you to become a sling consultant? What babywearing and using a sling is all about, is really dependent on you and your family's needs and preferences. Babywearing is a skill, carriers and slings are tools in a parenting tool kit. For some families, wearing their baby in a sling from day one is a plan they had long before they are awaiting the arrival of their child even. For others using a carrier is only a consideration when they taking their toddler on a camping expedition. The benefits of babywearing to newborns to preschoolers and their carers are numerous, and it was this fact and our personal experience of using slings with our babies that drove me to become and sling consultant. When I completed my training in 2012 I really wanted my work to be part of breaking down any cliques, and stereotyping around what kind of families used slings and why. I had been a La Leche League breastfeeding support leader for some years, and had loved how non-judgemental and empowering my training had been. I wanted to try and assist families to be empowered to use slings safely, in a way that suits their personal needs, no matter what their parenting choices were.
What are the main benefits of using slings for pregnant and new mums?
Using what is commonly called a wrap sling (essentially a long length of fabric) to wrap your bump whilst pregnant can be a great way to support your bump, improve posture, open up your rib cage and become more aware of your own body. It is also a great way to start to become familiar with the way a wrap or stretchy wrap works, meaning you are better prepared for its use with a baby. For new mums one of biggest benefits is having hands free from holding baby, whilst still meeting baby's needs of being close. This has major benefits to new mums being able to attend to their own needs, such as having a wee, getting a glass of water or grabbing a sandwich without the stress of leaving their baby unattended. Using a sling with a newborn promotes secure attachment , aids recovery from postnatal depression, decreases stress, makes getting around with baby easier and safer. The benefits for baby also benefit new mums, as meeting their baby's needs becomes easier and so they can enjoy new motherhood more.
What are the benefits for babies?
Reduces stress, aids digestion, great assistance for babies with colic or reflux, promotes greater periods of sleep and of the quiet alert state; babies cry less, promotes mothers responding to babies' initial cues for breastfeeding, great for temperature regulation, more cuddles with the sound of a heart beat! Reduces the incidence and aids recovery from of plagiocephaly (flat head syndrome) and torticollis (stiffness in the neck). Less stressed carers are always a benefit to baby too.
Are there any specific situations in pregnancy or for mums where babywearing can really help?
This is a really difficult question, because there are so many specific situations where babywearing really helps. It allows mothers and any carers the ability to attend to their baby's most basic and paramount need to be close to their care giver, whilst allow the care giver a greater amount of freedom to attend to their own needs too. Kangaroo care for premature babies is a great example of a specific situation where babywearing really helps, promoting greater weight gain, better temperature control, promoting positive, secure bonding and attachment, better breastfeeding outcomes, and less social isolation for parents. Mothers with specific disabilities making carrying baby in arms impossible altogether or for long periods of time. Mothers who have had a c-section that have have to use stairs, having two hands free to safely support themselves, whilst carrying baby. I could go on and on with examples. I suppose it may help to imagine the question the other way round; it is rare but sometimes slings do not help because parents have had bad experiences of trying to use a sling without sufficient knowledge of how to use it safely and then slings are not helpful! Hopefully we can help prevent this happening with the support we offer to help families learn to use slings safely and comfortably.
Do you have any hints or tips for pregnant women or mums to help them look after themselves, their physical health and their mental health?
Being kind to themselves. Not trying to be superwoman. Definitely finding a antenatal group, even if you feel like you have very little in common with the class attendees, you have babies in common, and that is a very special factor. Everyone will have ups and downs with being pregnant and or becoming a mother, and just being able to chat to someone going through a similar experience at the same time in your lives is so helpful and supportive, even if you have very different ideas on parenting. I think social isolation and fear of judgement is massive negative factor for many mothers, new and experienced. So if at all possible go along to some groups whilst pregnant and when your baby comes along. Using a sling is great for your physical and mental health and having a gentle walk out and about is a great way to start to recover from pregnancy and birth.
What sort of training do you do as a sling consultant?
Training varies depending on the course that you attend. I attended The School of Babywearing UK (Externally regulated by OCN Eastern Region) 5 years ago now, and since have done 100's of hours of client contact time. I attended a face to face course and then had to complete course work, including reports and feedback from families on consultations. I now to keep up to date with current recommendations from manufactures as well as keeping abreast of ongoing research, attending conferences etc. Rachel Hammerton, who also runs Southsea Slings, trained with Slingababy (very popular and well established babywearing training school based in UK). Our courses both covered aspects of child development, mother and baby physiology, safety, and benefits to babywearing - use of the various kinds of slings and carriers, aspects of history of babywearing, woven wrap carries, special circumstances. Skills of being a consultant, in terms, for example of pedagogy, empathy and observation. Organisational skills , such as how to run a workshop etc. Both myself and Rachel are fully insured as Babywearing Consultants.
Is there a way mums can find out what training levels the person running their local sling library has?
BABI - British Association of Babywearing Instructors is an association that can assist with a great map, with details of who runs what and what qualifications they may have. Listings and details on line are commonly updated by volunteers and may sometimes be slightly out of date. Trusted antenatal groups, as well as NHS health professionals are good to ask about local services. There is no one official umbrella regulatory body for babywearing consultants or sling libraries, but there are reputable organisations striving towards maintaining up to date detailed listing. One of the best is Sling Pages, a website, currently undergoing a re-vamp. If in doubt a good group or sling library will be happy to answer any queries from clients as to their qualifications, if they are not happy to chat then it may be worth finding another service.
If you're wondering what parents think of the service from Southsea Slings check out the many positive reviews on their Facebook Page like these ones.
"A great way to find your perfect sling. I had slings in the past that I was not 100% happy with, and thanks to the helpfulness of Southsea Slings I have found my perfect sling.
The perfect sling is a very individual choice and the service that Southsea Slings provides enables that choice to be made. Thank you so much"
"This is a must attend morning. I had my own sling but have not really known how to use it up till now. I'm so much more comfortable and my baby is much more secure. Baby wearing is magic too. He falls asleep within minutes of getting in. Thank you so much. Lovely ladies too"
"Superb service pre baby so I was ready and confident! The ladies here are lovely and happy to help with a great selection of products and knowledge. Would highly recommend them."
Where can you find them?
Running regular free to attend drop in sessions in Portsmouth (weekly term-time) , Havant and Chichester (monthly). Their services also include private consultations in the comfort of clients' homes, as well as, workshops, talks and event stalls. Southsea Slings is a social enterprise and offers 50% reduction for monthly hires to clients in receipt of social security benefits, such as Universal Credit. https://www.facebook.com/SouthseaSlings/
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Phone: 07801222714 www.southseaslings.co.uk
Informed choice
As a positive birth group, we think it's important that women's decisions and choices are paramount. We believe there's no such thing as a perfect birth but rather a positive birth requires only that women be respected as the power holders in their own births.
We also believe in order to make the decisions they need to make about the care they receive during pregnancy, labour and birth they have the right to have all the information about the risks and benefits without bias.
We often find that women are not encouraged to ask questions of their care providers but rather to just go along with the usual procedures without question. We aim to gently and positively encourage women and their partners that it's not only ok but actually a really good idea to ask questions and take responsibility for what they choose to accept or decline of what is on offer to them.
Here's a few thoughts from Lucy's blog to read more find it here
"…yeah, just ask for an epidural and all the drugs…………………I'm sure then it'll be fine…."
I was standing in the queue at the parcel collection office, two women in their early 20s were chatting, and I overheard this snippet. It made me think. I know many women are fearful of labour and childbirth. What I question is why so many are fearful of a natural process, a beautiful journey that sees the interplay between mother and baby unfold so powerfully that it results in the birth of a new soul and the emergence of a mother. And yet, they are not fearful of accepting synthetic painkillers and accept epidurals without asking the risks involved. Many women ask for epidural in the belief it will make childbirth easier. What they are not told is that it can inhibit their production of oxytocin, which can reduce the effectiveness of uterine contractions, therefore making labour longer.
Women are afraid of the great unknown of labour & birth that has been the norm of human existence for thousands of years, and yet perfectly prepared to accept medical intervention that has existed for mere decades without realising they may not have all the information they need to make that decision.
It is time that we encouraged all mothers to know what medical interventions mean – not simply how they may *benefit* the mother, but how they may affect her in other ways.
Until we ensure that women are presented with the risks as well as the *benefits* of intervention, there is no such thing as freedom in birth, no such thing as informed choice for pregnant, labouring, birthing women.
Don't be afraid of what we know – that women have survived & even relished labour and childbirth for millennia. Be afraid of what you don't know when offered drugs that will make it *easier*.
Want to find out more – these are some good places to start…
Positive Birth is for Everyone
It's our passion that women (and their partners and families) have the chance to feel positive about their pregnancy, their birth and having and caring for a new baby.
But we also find very often people expect that we support 'natural' birth, or 'drug free' birth or home birth. Maybe that's because we're also fond of saying we believe in women and their bodies. So, let's just get this straightened out.
What do Positive Birth Portsmouth members really mean by positive birth?
There are as many answers to that as there are people who you ask the question but here's a selection.
"It's not about where or how she births, it is about feeling loved, heard, informed, supported and honoured."
"A positive birth is one where you feel you had choices and support making and upholding those choices."
"Positive birth happens when women are able to be free from unnecessary fear and feel empowered to own their own pregnancies and births. Supporting each other is often an important part of having a positive birth"
"Positive birth happens when women are empowered to be the authors of their own birth stories."
"Birth is something women should look forward to. I did! I'm totally committed to making sure women have the BEST birth experience for them."
"Free of fear, supported by the ones you love…"
"Positive birth means knowing you have choices, knowing you don't have to just 'do what you're told' making informed decisions and being supported in them."
"Positive birth is one where you make your own choices and everyone caring for your respects and supports those decisions."
"...every woman and every child born are given the best opportunity to have a healthy and happy experience."
That's a lot of thoughts what's the number one thing that makes a birth positive?
The main theme is that a positive birth is one where you know your choices, have all the information you need and feel supported in those choices. As a group, we don't offer advice unless it is this, do your research and make your own choice. We think it's important that no one opinion is more valuable than another we listen to the whole story of how you feel, to what it's like to be you and to why you make the choices you make and we support you to make the choices you want to make with all the information you need. Then we stand behind you as you confidently insist that your choices for your own birth are respected and listened to.
So we do believe in your body and your ability to birth, but your ability to birth as you choose to do, not valuing any choice above another.
Why can't we just go with the flow, birth can't be predicted so why build up your hopes?
Yes it's true birth in unpredictable but preparing for a positive birth means being prepared for the flow to change but knowing you still have choices and birth is something you're ding not something that's happening to you.
We also know that many women have been taught to fear birth through the messages in the media and the horror stories they have been old since they found out they were pregnant (and sadly sometimes through previous experiences). But more than that, we know this doesn't have to be the way, that we can provide an atmosphere of sharing between women where the positive stories of how amazing it is to work with your body and be supported through such an overwhelming experience and make your own choices and meet your own baby can be shared. The more we share stories of positive birth experiences the more women will be able to know that could also be their experience and go on to have their own positive birth. We find most women will be surprised with how not scary after all labour and birth can be and how when given a positive environment their body's do just work.
We also find that even when birth doesn't go smoothly with support and informed choices women can still find it's a positive experience. You can have a positive homebirth, positive water birth, positive birth centre birth, positive birth on labour ward, positive epidural birth, positive assisted birth, positive c-section. As long as each of these things happens in an atmosphere where you know you are supported and your decisions are yours alone and are the best ones for you on that day.
Posts written by doulas, mums, a yoga teacher, an antenatal teacher, an acupuncturist and a counsellor.
June 2020


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Welcome to the digital edition of James Kochalka's award-winning, influential, and totally addictive autobiography, American Elf! It's a simple idea — every day, James draws a comic strip capturing a moment from his life– but gathered all together, these moments take on rich new meanings. Both silly and profound, American Elf is a portrait of human life lived to the fullest, infused with the trademark passion and magic of Vermont's Cartoonist Laureate.
In 2003, James rescues a duck, grows a beard, loses his fear of death, meets Daniel Johnston, gets fired from Vice Magazine, buys a house, invents a new grilled meat, gets bitten by the mayor, wins the Ignatz Award, is transformed by Amy's pregnancy and the birth of their son Eli, and decides that life is "harder, but better" with a baby.


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Shamir Bailey is a singer songwriter hailing from Las Vegas, Nevada. In June 2014, Shamir released his EP Northtown. Shamir might be one of the most unique and interesting acts I've listened to in the past while. Shamir is a suburban kid who's take on urban disco and house makes for a unique experience; and has made quite an impression on music writers across the online community, from NME to Pitchfork. His debut Northtown is an eclectic mix of tracks which demonstrate the artists array of influences. His debut single If It Wasn't True is a funky house infused track which is led along by the singer's androgynous and naïve vocal style. Shamir is not your run of the mill singer. His vocal delivery blurs that of gender but is very self assured and convincing. If It Wasn't True is a track which harks back to the days of 80s Prince, Michael Jackson and Grace Jones.
Shamir's influences include Janis Joplin, Nina Simone and Billie Holiday as well as that of Outkast and Groove Theory. He was inspired into pursuing a career in the music industry by an aunt. According to an interview with Pitchfork, Shamir says he learned guitar from Guitar For Dummies bought for him by his mother at age 9. At the age of 16, Shamir formed a punk rock band with a friend which was a short lived endeavour due to a member suffering from stage fright. The EP's cool and almost retro disco/house sound is something that immediately draws in on first listen. Shamir cites Nina Simone as somewhat of a reference or influence on his androgynous vocal style. The artist admits in Pitchfork that gaining control over his unique voice was a challenge, but has since embraced his own unique style.
Sometimes A Man and If It Wasn't True are contemporary disco stompers. The tracks are laden in zapping synths and a pulsating beat led by the slinky vocals of Shamir. The lyrical themes are that of frustration in love and trust. In Sometimes A Man Shamir sings in a nonchalant and cynical fashion that "Sometimes a man ain't what he says he is". The penultimate track I'll Never Be Able To Love is a ballad which leads the mind back to the days of Michael Jackson's Ben. The song is somewhat of a contemporary disco power ballad which almost reminds me of a Berlin song. The song is also laden with a cracking synth breakdown like the previous.
The last track is an acoustic guitar driven track entitled Lived and Died Alone which is a cover of a song by Canadian country singer Lindi Ortega. The track stands out as not being as slickly produced as the tracks that have gone before. The down tempo and stripped down nature of this track suit the style and showcase the sweet and gentle side of Shamir's vocal style. The lack of slick production also adds a haunting quality to the track. The lyrical theme deal with the pain of loneliness and isolation and acts somewhat as a prayer for those who have yet to experience the love that they crave in life but haven't received. Shamir captures the ambience beautifully. The naivety and simplicity of the track is certainly endearing as an end to the E.P.
Shamir Bailey or just Shamir is an example of fascinating raw talent that certainly deserves attention. At 19 years old, he has already honed quite a unique and contemporary sound which I am sure will garner much attention in the coming months. Shamir displays a rare maturity and wisdom beyond his years which is evident in listening to his debut E.P.
The E.P Northtown was released on June 11th off GODMODE records. It is also available to stream on Spotify and Soundcloud. It was produced by Nick Sylvester.


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June Gnome of the Month - Pinwheel Gnome - Whirlygig Gnome - 0439
A Gnome with a pinwheel ready to play in the summer sun! This is the June gnome of the month! His pinwheel spins and will provide some fun and whimsy to your summertime fairy garden. Please note that his pinwheel is paper and not suitable to leave outdoors!
The June gnome of the month 1.75 inches tall and 1 inch wide without the pinwheel and 1.5 inches wide and 3 inches tall with the pinwheel. Comes boxed for giving. Please note that these fairies and gnomes are completely made of polymer clay and no paints are used. He is made as a shelf sitter and a plant poke - the ornament option is not available for this gnome.
Shelf sitters have a flat bottom and will sit on their own.
Plant Pokes, have a small hole in the bottom for a toothpick to be inserted to help them stand in soil.
Ornaments have a loop added to the top.


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For over 25 years, New Earth Records has brought visionary music to enhance wellbeing of audiences worldwide. As an independent label, it is possible to explore many aspects in the flow of creativity. This collection of music unites the unique qualities of each artist and their ability to share states of meditation through sound vibrations. Music and silence, healing and relaxation, body and spirit reach a harmonious equilibrium, resulting in PRESENCE.
"Hearts Awakening" by Parijat is from the album Reiki Healing Waves and showcases the fluid, soothing sound of Parijat, which can be felt resonating deep within the heart.
From Sangita Yoga, Naren's "Shiva Pranam" is an intricate interplay of exotic instruments and Naren's comforting voice.
Deuter's "Dämmerschein" from his album, East of the Full Moon, gently lifts up listeners into a relaxed space.
"New Moon" comes to us from Chinmaya Dunster's Buddha Moon. It is a track that combines reective and inspiring forces.
"Om Shanti" brings the listener into a space lled with the sacred sounds of nature. This track is from Terry Oldeld's album Mandala – Circle of Chant.
"Drei" evokes the sense of absorbing wildlife's inherent magic through the sounds of birds singing over a lulling piano melody. This track is from Deuter's Atmospheres.
Deuter's "Tonglen", from Illumination of the Heart, placidly ventures through a mysterious expanse, filled with joyful flute and string sounds.
Intriguing and rich, Hans Christian's "Between Dawn and Dusk" from Nanda Devi, invites you into an exploratory realm of relaxation.
"Vedic Chanting" from Manish Vyas' Atma Bhakti is a lovely combination of collective voices and music that convey a deep sense of devotion and love.


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Time: May 17th, 2018 @ 7:00PM.
Location: Blu's BBQ and Burgers
612 N Robinson Ave
Oklahoma City, OK 73102
Father Zurita is a priest with the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter. He grew up in NYC and entered with the Fraternity about 10 years ago. He was ordained to the priesthood about 3 years ago and is currently serving as the assistant pastor at St. Damien of Molokai outside of Edmond. Come join us and Fr. Z on Thursday May 17 @ Blu's BBQ where he'll be speaking about the Four Last Things: Judgement, Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory!
P.S. He enjoys Chimay blue label in case you're interested.
There will be adoration available before, during, and after the event at St. Josephs! Please talk to (or text/call) Dominic (405.204.1012) or Leah (949.923.9018) if you need the door code to St. Josephs! See you all then!!!
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by Phil Parsons
As soon as we stepped off the vans for high school summer camp at Carolina Point, electricity ran through our veins. The staff's awesome welcome along with the opportunity for free time around the camp was perfect for our students. From being launched off The Blob in the lake to chilling out by the newly built pool, our kids got comfortable quickly. Before all of us knew it, we were finding ourselves dressed in dark clothing in our cabin teams, ready to accomplish the feat of the police obstacle course. Mud, gunk, an epic fire hose being shot at us and keeping their fearless adult cabin leader clean were part of the overall plan. Teamwork. Camaraderie. Family. Another moment in the week, we found ourselves all dressed to impress in our cabin competition outfits – Army camo gear. It was epic to see from afar. There was no mistaking our group of teens who came together and were competing against other teams and with one another.
Looking back over the past six months we've seen an insurmountable explosion on the scene of our youth who need Christ the most. We've seen students throughout the past half year who have an understanding of Christ and God, but camp brought to light those youth whose belief systems we had no idea about. One was Kyle. We knew his home life wasn't the greatest just by his interactions at Club. He was a good kid from the outside, typically cheerful and often open to talk and catch up when he came to Club.
Camp pushed Kyle outside of himself, and apparently, his belief system. He shared with us that he was more of a scientific guy and not into the whole "God thing". One evening during Club time at camp while we were worshipping, Kyle headed out of the room. I was outside right there with him, check if he was alright. He stood there exclaiming to me, "I just can't do it…I see how you all worship and I can't do it. I don't understand how you all can do it. It's great, but I can't sit in there anymore."
As he calmed down, we walked back in the Club room and listened to the talk. God moved again within him as we walked back to the cabins together. Kyle shared some of his darkest secrets with me and how he felt like he wasn't going to have a home when camp was over. More specifically, he was looking at jail time for his previous actions before camp. Then he excitedly told me, "I want to have what you all have…I want to believe." Rather than push hard, I shared how he needed to share things with his cabin mates and leader and that I was there for him. I also shared with him how God was meeting him right where he was in his own mess at camp. No judgment, nothing. Thankfully, Kyle got to meet with the Creator of our universe at camp, all because we didn't give up on his "awkward" actions and lifestyle.
This is what it's about. In the trenches, living life, discerning what God has for all of us, one step at a time.


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i have ALWAYS been a fan of Tiffany & Co. what girl isn't? it all began when i was a girl, probably 7 or 8 years old, and i saw the infamous Audrey Hepburn movie, Breakfast at Tiffany's. not only is Audrey a classic, sophistacated starlet. but she lived a girl's dream! she was a sexy party socialite with a handsome mad trying to win her affection! and her mascot was Tiffany's!
years later, Hollywood released another film, which further reassured my obsession with Tiffany's. the flim, titled 'Sweet Home Alabama' starred Reese Witherspoon and Patrick Dempsey. in this love comedy, Dempsey's character surprises Reese by closing Tiffany's and letter her choose her engagement ring. AMAZING!
so with that being said, it's our society's fault for luring innocent women to the expensive hands of Tiffany's.
although i have never owned ANYTHING from Tiffany's, the hunger still holds strong. i was head over heels excited when i came across this website that sells exact identical Tiffany's replicas, which comes with the box and all! i thought to myself, perhaps someday i can get my own Tiffany's, even if it's not 100% real!
so all you men out there, now is your chance to surprise your lady for this Valentine's day! and truly, she won't care if it's not real. it's the thought that counts! (hint, hint pk!)
plus, we are in a recession!
<3 katie


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Where Family Matters
"By this all people will know that you are my disciples,
if you have love for one another"
- John 13:35
Welcome To Bellevue!
Welcome To Bellevue!
(Sundays, 10:15AM PST)
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You can also contribute online here!
We hope Bellevue Church of Christ can be a blessing to you and your family. Please join us as we learn more about Jesus and sing praises to his name.
We have programs for ALL ages with Children's Bible classes, a Sunday nursery, Youth Group, Young Adults, Family, Senior, Women's and Men's groups.
Our goal at Bellevue is to do life together and grow as a community of believers that have a passion for the helping world around us. Learn more about us here.
We also support many ministries in the local Puget Sound area and missions internationally.
Are you interested in getting involved, or learning more about the Bible? Sign up here!
9:00 am Bible Class
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THE people of Coventry today stood in silent tribute to the thousands who died in the terrorist atrocities in America which have shocked the world.
At the stroke of 11am, people in factories and offices stopped work, no sales were made in shops, court cases were halted and pubs delayed opening.
Announcements were made at stations, airports, on trains, in schools and in city centres across the UK as millions fell silent for three minutes.
In Coventry, the city centre came to a standstill as people, some in tears, united to reflect on the terrible loss of life.
At the fountain in Market Way, Lord Mayor Cllr Dave Chater led the tribute ceremony.
After an announcement on the public address system, the fountain stopped, and people stood with bowed heads in a sombre mood to observe the vigil.
Couples hugged in sadness while others stood on the city centre balcony in disbelief over the shocking events.
Shop staff poured out of their doors to join the hundreds of shoppers who came together to pay their respects.
Jenny Hurley, who works at The Body Shop, said: ?I have some friends out there at the moment. They are staying near the World Trade Centre. They flew out there on Saturday to celebrate their silver wedding, and were due back yesterday. I have been in touch with their children who say they are all right, although they don?t yet know when their coming back.?
The Body Shop manager Sharon Simpson added: ?It is nice to see so many people out there expressing their sympathy. It is very sickening what has happened, and something like this certainly makes you put things into perspective.?
At the end of the silence, Cllr Chater said: ?It is almost impossible for us to understand the scale of the tragedy in the United States.
?It has affected so many people all across the world, not only those who have lost family and friends, but all who value life, democracy and freedom.
?It has been Coventry people who have experienced so much in their time of tragedy over 50 years ago. It?s been so moving to see so many people come to express their sympathy to America over this particular incident.?
Nick Nolan, leader of the city council, said: ?It?s a wonderful turnout today and moments like this should make us particularly proud of our city and the people in it.??
At Coventry Cathedral, dozens of people stood in silence in the ruins and in the new cathedral.
Don Rogers, aged 72, and his wife Joyce, aged 73, of Arch Road, Wyken, had come to the cathedral to reflect on the tragedy.
Mr Rogers said: ?Coventry Cathedral is the focal point of the city and we wanted to come here during the three minutes silence.
?Two years ago we went to the World Trade Centre and we can?t comprehend what it must be like for people caught up in the tragedy.?
Rachel Shela, aged 49, from Jerusalem in Israel who is on a 10-day tour of England, said: ?I came to the cathedral because I wanted to be near other people.
?I feel very sad about has happened and I will be going to the service to pay my respects.?
Betty Keenan, aged 78, of Beaconsfield Road, Stoke, said: ?I feel terrible about what has happened and I wanted to come here today to pay my respects, my thoughts are with everyone in America.?
Val Bayliss-Stranks, aged 63, of South Avenue, Coventry, said: ?I didn?t want to be at home on my own and I can feel at peace here. I just want the American people to know how much we are feeling for them especially those who have lost loved ones.?
Gwyne Power, aged 65, of Leicester Causeway, Foleshill, Coventry, said: ?My heart goes out to people who have lost loved ones.
?I have come to the cathedral today because it is such a significant place of peace and reconciliation.?
Sikhs from the Ramgarhia Gurdwara temple in Foleshill Road, Coventry, said prayers at 8am and worshippers joined in the nationwide three minutes? silence at 11am.


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Looking to dress up your table for Fall and Thanksgiving. It is time to change out the decor around your house to all things Fall! Do you have plans to decorate your house this Autumn? Or maybe you're hosting a Fall Dinner or having friends and family over for a Thanksgiving celebration? If you would like some tips on how to decorate your table for Fall or Thanksgiving, I have a beautiful and easy Fall Tablescape Idea for you (note the source list below):
Easy Fall Tablescape Idea Supplies and Resources
Note: this is a setting for six. Adjust according to your specific needs!
This tablescape makes great use of the colors of the season: brown, orange, yellow, red, green and even purple! Gold and bronze (warm) are chosen over silver (cool).
• 6 Brown Chargers
• 4 Orange Plates
• 2 Brown Plates
• Assorted Fall Decor: pumpkins, leaves, pine cones, berries, etc from Hobby Lobby, Joann or Michaels
• 6 Silverware Settings
• 6 Fall Napkins (cloth)
• 6 Clear Glasses with Gold Rims
• Faux Wood Paper order here (instead of a tablecloth)
• Brown Mesh Fabric (order here Joann's or Michaels)
• Fall Garland (Gget more ideas here or try your local Hobby Lobby)
• 4 Plush or Velvet Pumpkins (order here)
Easy Fall Tablescape Idea Directions
• Roll out the Faux Wood Paper across your table. You could also substitute this for a tablecloth.
• Roll out the Brown Mesh Fabric on top of the Faux Wood Paper.
• Set Six Table Settings: Start with the brown chargers. Add a dinner plate on top of each. If you are setting up your table so everyone sits across from one another, place the brown plates in the middle to break things up. If you are setting "heads" at the top and bottom of the table, set the brown plates there.
• Set your silverware forks on top of the napkin on your left, or place your napkin between the charge and dinner plate draping forward and above, and place your forks to the left on top of the Faux Wood Paper. Set your spoons and knives to the right. Alternatively, you can wrap your silverware inside your napkin (closing with a napkin ring if desired), and place on top of your place settings.
• Add your glasses. If you are offering wine as well as a cold beverage and/or water, you will need an extra set of glasses appropriate for those beverages.
• Set a small fall assortment to the right of each plate. This fall assortment is just fall colored leaves purchased at a local craft store. You could make your own assortment of Fall Colors, by picking up leaves here.
• For the center of the table lay a fall garland across the table.
• Plush Brown Pumpkins were placed across the table. Four were used and purchased at Hobby Lobby. You can find Velvet pumpkins here if you cannot find pumpkin decor locally.
• Complete the look by adding an assortment of Autumn related decorations around the table and as a centerpiece. In this setting, purple and brown flower assortments purchased at a craft store were placed in tall clear glasses. A horn of plenty can be set for Autumn (harvest time) through Thanksgiving. Real (or fake) apples in a Small Bowl for a pop of red color!
• Adding items such as apples, pumpkins, cranberries (fake) or gourds in a small bowl, or is a great way to add color to your Fall Tablescape! You can place small pumpkins, pine cones, leaves as single items about your table. If you have a Micheals, JoAnn Fabrics, Hobby Lobby, Home Goods, Kirkland, Tuesday Morning or Pier 1 Imports, you can browse through these stores and find the items you need to replicate this look.
Creating a beautifully styled fall tablescape is easy and fun! Just let your imagination run wild on the autumn side of decor, and you will have a beautiful fall tablescape set up for decoration, for a party table, or to dress up Sunday dinners.
The two featured recipes shown in this tablescape:
• Autumn Punch! This is a delightful cocktail that fits perfectly in the fall and Thanksgiving season!
• Bruschetta made with Heirloom Tomatoes and Kale This bruschetta can be made anytime of the year by buying the produce from your local grocer. In the fall, take advantage of your backyard garden to mix up this delightful appetizer!
• Disclosure: the links in this post may be affiliate links.
• For more Holiday posts on Ann's Entitled Life, click here.
• For more Craft posts on Ann's Entitled Life, click here.
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A lire sur: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2334650/Making-Sense-of-Big-Data-in-Search-Marketing
To make marketing data work, you need to be able to measure and understand performance against a standard set of metrics. The challenge lies in marrying data from web analytics with search and social signals, and then being able to tie that to business value (for example, the correlation of search rankings with visits and conversions).
Did you know the average smartphone today is more powerful than the most powerful computer in 1985? Have you heard a human in this day and age processes more data in one day than he or she did in an entire lifetime 500 or so years ago?
The ability to process more data begets more data. More data means more to analyze, more to understand. If you're in the search marketing industry, chances are you've heard the term "big data" countless times. And even though you know "big data" is out there, you may not know the first step in what to do with it.
And you aren't alone.
Marketers didn't invent the concept of big data. Figuring out what to do with the mounds of data that exist isn't only the plight of marketers, but also nearly every sector in the world. In fact, humans have been striving to harness data that computers have been creating for decades and decades.
But before we talk about sane ways to make heaps of data work for your marketing initiatives, a brief overview of how data has grown up and turned into the problem child it is today.
Big Data, Big Headache
Webopedia defines big data as the "massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is so large that it's difficult to process using traditional database and software techniques. In most enterprise scenarios the data is too big or it moves too fast or it exceeds current processing capacity."
While technological advances over time have amassed the data we face today, a popular 2013 statistic stated 92 percent of the world's data was created within two years. This illustrates just how fast data can grow.
What we track is growing at alarming rates. Cisco data projects total traffic across fixed Internet, managed IP, and mobile networks to be 1.8 times larger in 2017 than in 2014. That's a lot of data to process.
The "EB" in that chart represents exabyte. Keep in mind:
- TB = Terabyte (1,000 GB)
- PB = Petabyte (1,000 TB)
- EB = Exabyte (1,000 PB)
Using Data Integration to Wrangle Big Data
With all this data, the challenge is (and has been for many decades) harnessing it in a meaningful way. One such way is through data integration. Data integration works to combine multiple sources of data into one place for more significant information.
Just like web marketing strategies don't begin and end in one silo, neither do data sets from multiple networks, channels, and devices. Together, they represent user behavior across the lifecycle of engagement with a brand online.
But it's not just pulling together multiple sources of data in one place that's the answer; it's being able to do so in a way that yields actionable insight. With data coming from multiple places, it needs to be streamlined into a format that's similar and comparable. View this video by CommonCraft.com for a simple, illustrative example of this concept in action.
The majority of marketers agree data integration is central to what they need to do. BrightEdge surveyed more than 300 marketing practitioners from its customer base of global brands in December 2013/January 2014 and found respondents felt multiple data sources were important to fuel initiatives like content marketing:
- More than 90 percent said Google Webmaster Tools data integration was key.
- Forty-two percent mentioned Adobe SiteCatalyst as a compelling source for added data.
Keep in mind that informed data integration doesn't mean viewing data from one tool and then viewing data from another tool separately. To gain actionable insights, you really need an analytics platform that pulls in data from multiple sources, processes it, and outputs it in a way you can act on.
Making Sense of Big Data
To make marketing data work, you need to be able to measure and understand performance against a standard set of metrics. The challenge lies in marrying data from web analytics with search and social signals, and then being able to tie that to business value (for example, the correlation of search rankings with visits and conversions).
There are two ways to start making big data work for you.
1. Selecting the Data
Know which types of data from what sources matter to your marketing efforts. Then, make sure the sources you're pulling data from are trusted. In general, common sources of important data for digital marketing include:
- Geographic data
- Keyword data
- Link data
- Local search data
- Mobile data
- On-page data
- Rank data
- Revenue data
- Traffic data
- Social network data
- Universal search data
2. Excluding the Data
To avoid being overpowered by data, you have to exclude some data. Understand the key performance indicators (KPIs) that matter to your unique marketing strategy. Then, let the strategy and KPIs drive the data paths you follow.
If, for example, your business were built on launching new products, the marketing approach, the KPIs and the data would vary greatly than a business that runs a news site.
When you approach data within an organized framework, you make it work for you instead of being worked over by it. This approach reveals opportunities in your marketing campaigns. And the idea is that once you begin to set boundaries on data, you can actually flourish more, and begin to examine the business value big data can reveal.
Big Data Use Cases: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Data in the wrong hands can get ugly. But when harnessed well, can be a beautiful thing. In a 2011 report by the McKinsey Global Institute, the health care industry showed early success in its use of big data:
- The California-based integrated managed-care consortium Kaiser Permanente connected clinical and cost data early on, thus providing the crucial dataset that led to the discovery of Vioxx's adverse drug effects and the subsequent withdrawal of the drug from the market.
- The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, part of the United Kingdom's National Health Service, has pioneered the use of large clinical datasets to investigate the clinical and cost effectiveness of new drugs and expensive existing treatments. The agency issues appropriate guidelines on such costs for the National Health Service and often negotiates prices and market-access conditions with PMP industries.
Corporations have harnessed it, too, as outlined in the following examples from the McKinsey report:
But there are also examples of big data gone wrong, as illustrated by this article in the Harvard Business Review. Here's just one scenario:
"To help allocate its resources efficiently, the City of Boston released the excellent StreetBump smartphone app, which draws on accelerometer and GPS data to help passively detect potholes, instantly reporting them to the city. While certainly a clever approach, StreetBump has a signal problem. People in lower income groups in the US are less likely to have smartphones, and this is particularly true of older residents, where smartphone penetration can be as low as 16%. For cities like Boston, this means that smartphone data sets are missing inputs from significant parts of the population – often those who have the fewest resources."
And there's no better example of harnessing big data than IBM's "Watson" – the machine best known for its game-show trivia triumph at "Jeopardy!" in 2011. Now, it's been reported that IBM intends to use the power of Watson to win the big data game.
Big data doesn't have to be big and scary if you have simple elements in place:
- Understanding what data sources are important to your brand.
- The means for data integration and processing from sources you trust.
- An understanding of your business and the right marketing approach.
- Knowing what KPIs support that marketing approach to set boundaries on data analysis.
The rest is, as character Sherlock Holmes would say, "Elementary, my dear Watson."


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What will Newcastle Become?
The last month has seen some tremendous announcements by the NSW Government that will have a lasting impact on the long term stability of Newcastle City.
September saw the University of Newcastle enter into discussions with the Government about acquiring a further 2 ha of land in (3) parcels behind Wright Lane and along the rail corridor.
On a Real Estate study tour of the USA's west coast in 1996, I came back full of enthusiasm for the dormant potential Newcastle University offered this region if it linked itself to business and business development. At that time I offered the University the entire Warabrook Industrial Estate as an incubator site only to be met with; "We are a pure education facility we do not contaminate ourselves with links to business".
Time has marched on and our education facilities, as a nation, take on more and more of the look of the U.S.A style campuses, especially in regard to student debt. In the U.S.A, towns centre themselves on Universities and Colleges and in the cities, businesses centre themselves around the Universities and Colleges, the commerce created is enormous. However Newcastle requires a critical mass of faculties to make this succeed in the city centre and the additional land must be guaranteed unequivocally to the University.
You see, all of the announcements by the Minister thus far are full of exit clauses "under investigation" – "explore the opportunities" – "developing the relationship". With 2,000 to 3,000 apartments in the pipe line and NO demand from outside the region for more office space, the University is exactly what the city needs to be built on this land.
Another announcement concerned a cruise terminal. If you ever wondered what such a beast can do for a town take a look at the once sleepy coastal town of Kusadasi in Turkey. It's port was developed in 2004 at a cost of EUR$24.3m it now hosts 648,000 visitors a year and if they were to spend just EUR$100 each that's $64.8m to the economy day in day out, year on year.
Then there's the V8 Super cars that will expose our city to a wider and more varied audience than ever before. The economic numbers are all estimates as to what will be brought to the region however it's the wider publicity that will be the ongoing and more tangible effect rather than the shot of cash race day brings.
There are some things that are not going to plan and that is the NSW Government's lack of support for manufacturing. I've just spent the weekend in Melbourne and "Made in Melbourne for Melbourne" and "made for Victoria by Victorians" hits you in the face every time a new tram glides past. This message drives home the fact that the Victorian Government is fighting for jobs and are proud to do so. While in NSW the trams or light rail goes to Korea and our local bus plant is shut down only months after the current state government was elected for their first term with 250 local jobs going to Victoria.
We may be getting a light rail but hell it would have been nice to see a sticker on the side "made in Newcastle for Newcastle".
Still the big winner on the real estate front is anyone looking to sell an investment property or even a vacant building close to the city. We recently sold a commercial investment property in Dick Street Newcastle for a 5.67% yield with (11) bidders – (10) of which are still looking to buy.
Smaller buildings in the Wickham/Maryville area are also proving hot as people look for that elusive New York style warehouse to live in.
There have been some large commercial lease moves a foot with the tax office filling up – the 1,650m2 floor plates proving popular but not to any new businesses just the usual shuffling of the decks as the bankers, insurers and NSW Government change places.
Larger industrial leases are still scarce however there is quite a trade occurring in the stock up to 500m2.
The question at the start was "What will Newcastle Become?" – I'm not sure but what I am sure about is the injection into tourism and especially tourism infrastructure along with the promise (although shaky) to bring further University faculties into the city will change the town more than any misguided poorly orientated tram track.
The Government giveths and the Government takeths! But after another trip to Melbourne I still like the mixed running tramways and strip shopping, lets hope the activation of the Hunter Street strip is truly what the NSW Government is chasing.


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Ryan Reynolds Red Carpet Flashback! 20 Years of Photos Bring His Career to 'Life'
Canadian-born Ryan Reynolds has come a long way since his days starring on Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place. After starring in the smash hit Deadpool last year, the 40 year-old father-of-two is currently in theaters in the sci-fi thriller Life, which opened this past weekend. Click through for a look back at 20 years of Reynolds' red carpet moments.


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I was gonna stay out of it. Really, I was. The Sarah Palin joke was writing itself, and while the final, gut-wrenching punchline could still be that Americans are as stupid as they were 4 years ago, and vote this mess into the highest office, at least they couldn't say they didn't see it coming.
But instead, I am still watching this train wreck of a Republican ticket be defended. It's like in some time bending continuum, the GOP are spending more time trying to convince us they actually vetted Ms. Palin than they actually spent doing it. Actually, I think they spent more time in the beer tent than they spent going over her history. And while I constantly call the media out for not doing their job, I have to admit, this time, they not only did their own job, but the GOP nomination committee's as well.
Now, they're blaming that media for the circus atmosphere that has descended. Oh, boo. When they're the ones saying the most appalling things, it's fine. Now, in a line of reasoning that smells as badly as the moose guts that Ms. Palin has apparently left scattered over the frozen tundra, the media should back off the little lady.
Let's do a little check up on their own treatment of some other women. Remember a girl named Chelsea Clinton? Remember Mr. McCain's 'joke' at her expense when she was 18? Sure you do. He said, at a Republican Senate Fundraiser that Chelsea was so ugly because Janet Reno was her father. Now, I recognize that I will never be President of the U.S., for many, many reasons. But mostly because if he had said that about my daughter, I would have reached up through his nostrils and pulled his brains out through his nose.
But, back then it was okay to denigrate any woman, and hopefully in the basest way possible. Rush Limbaugh, that symbol of masculinity and good journalism, famously held up a picture of the Clinton's cat, then held up a picture of 13-year-old Chelsea and declared her to be the White House dog. I would have gotten to his nose next.
But, okay. These attacks on Chelsea (and we can't even begin to count the garbage heaped on her mother over the years) at least were flung to the other side. Maybe it's proper, even chivalrous, for the McCain team to be protecting Palin from a riotous, hounding press. Except, don't forget what McCain said to his own wife in 1992. With witnesses, on the campaign trail. "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you c**t".
Yup. Class act, this guy. If that's how he treats his Trophy Wife, who has used her vast resources to fuel his political journey to the top of the world, how is he going to treat his Trophy Vice? Actually, maybe Ms. Palin will do what Cindy McCain should have done years ago - she's apparently a great shot.
But Mr. McCain, if Chelsea Clinton wasn't out of bounds all those years ago, and for all those years, why are Ms. Palin's family suddenly supposed to be untouchables? She herself has repeatedly run on platforms trumpeting her own family values, and announcing her plans to declare her way is the only way, and yet we can't see for ourselves how that is working out?
Don't forget she's a creationist; backs abstinence only sex-ed; tried to fire the librarian in her town when she became mayor because said librarian refused to pull a list of books that SP disagreed with; became mayor of a town with zero debt, left the office with the town 22 million in the hole; didn't tell her constituents she was having a 5th kid until she was 7 months pregnant, then back on the job 3 days after giving birth (sorry. I will never, ever see this as a sign of a strong women. it's stupid); and, most remarkable (at least to my ears), saying that her daughter had 'decided' to have her baby. Now, stop me if I'm wrong, but isn't that 'decision' the one she is bound and determined to remove from all other women? Curious....
Oh, and this: she knew at 3 months she was carrying a kid with DS. She heroically went ahead with the pregnancy (even though 90% of women in this case do not. Even republican ones). Why have the test if abortion was never an option?
When asked a few months back on her stand on the Iraq war, she indicated that she didn't know much about it, and therefore didn't really have a stand. Interesting, considering her oldest child is heading over there in a week. I won't let my kid go to the Eaton's Centre, because I think it's dangerous. But at least I checked it out before making up my mind....
But lastly, and most importantly, this woman is prepared to push her children off a cliff to get a job. There is no end to what she is willing to expose them to - I know Alaska is remote, but did she seriously think her kids would escape all this? After what Chelsea and the Bush Twits went through?
After the initial shock and awe of this nomination choice, I truly think the press is getting a little green around the gills. Too many innocents have been tugged into this nasty fight, and while there doesn't seem to be a ton of people trying to pretend that Sarah Palin is fit for this office, I despise what she and her husband are putting the kids through.
Wonder if they even got asked?


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Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History
This article describes a successful teacher-professor collaboration to plan interdisciplinary curriculum and team-teach it in a first-grade classroom.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
Students read a work of realistic fiction about bullying and gain understanding through writing, Readers Theatre, and discussion.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
An Exploration of The Crucible through Seventeenth-Century Portraits
In this lesson, students incorporate analyses of characters from The Crucible with examinations of original seventeenth-century portraits of Puritans to create a visual portrait of the character. The project culminates in a "Portrait Gallery Walk" where students present and defend their artwork.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
An Introduction to Julius Caesar Using Multiple-Perspective Universal Theme Analysis
This resource is an introduction to William Shakespeare's tragic play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, through the study of universal themes using multiple-perspective investigations of betrayal scenarios.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Disney's Changes to the Hercules Myth
What drives changes to classic myths and fables? In this lesson students evaluate the changes Disney made to the myth of "Hercules" in order to achieve their audience and purpose.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 10 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction
To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.
- Classroom Resources | Grades K – 8 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
Book Cover Creator
The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 12 | Calendar Activity |  March 24
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiered in New York in 1955.
Students are introduced to the characteristics of drama, read a chapter from a novel the class has read, and create a script from the chapter that they will present to the class.
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CD/DVD Cover Creator
The CD/DVD Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information. Students can use the tool to create covers for books, music, and films that they explored as well as to create covers for media they compose individually or as a class.
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Are Multiple Offers in the Toronto Real Estate Market Here Again?
You bet they are
This week I put in an offer on a home in the St. Clair/Dufferin area. The home was listed for $ 629,000. My client put his best foot forward and came in at $ 640k with no conditions and met the sellers closing date. Great offer. They lost it to someone else who bought the house for $ 685k.
Mind boggling, isn't it?
The size of the house was around 1000 sq. ft. and it was a bungalow. The basement was finished and the house was renovated.
About 2 weeks before, a comparable house in the same area sold for $ 630k
It seems that every house that is renovated and looks great in the Toronto Real Estate market are holding back from receiving offers for a week and trying to get to get a bidding war. Now that the Bank of Canada just dropped their lending rate, it makes you wonder if the house prices will ever stop increasing.
Remember the movie The Field of Dreams, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, "If you build it, he will come." He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field …….., one of the actors said, if you build they will come. How about, "if you list it, they will buy it for lots of money".
The only people that benefit when houses go up the way they do are investors or people that are downsizing. It's kind of a no-brainer, that if you are going to down size and buy a condo, now is the time.
Considering that the population growth of Ontario is suppose to increase to 17.4 million by 2036, it makes you wonder where the prices are going.
Since it seems that everyone wants a house that is completely modern high end, maybe you should consider a home that needs a little work, I bet there won't be too many bidding wars.
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In the ever-moving goalpost that is Facebook'snewsfeed algorithm, video currently reignssupreme. The more video you pile into yourposts, the better they'll perform. Animoto'svideo builder makes it easy to craft short, compelling clipsusing nothing more than your stills and b-roll. Professionaland Business subscriptions enable you to create 1080pvideos in Instagram-friendly square or landscape formatswith your own logos in the video and custom branded colorsin the theme. You can add voice-overs, text and pre-builtstoryboards to your videos as well.
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To start, marketers suggest splitting up your ad budget nearly evenly
among your target networks—at least until you build up enough data on
user behavior to justify a shift in allocation.
When it comes to social media marketing, you'll have to become
something of a data nerd to fully maximize your investment.
First, Facebook and Instagram have extremely precise tools to target
customers, Hade says. In fact, Facebook and Instagram have an identical
advertising system, since Facebook owns Instagram. You can send ads
to customers based on their location, where they've been, what they've
searched for and more. (Our total lack of Internet privacy does have some
upside for marketing, doesn't it?) "If there's a wedding boutique that your
ideal customer goes to, you can target your ads to everyone that goes
within five miles of that boutique or florist," Hade says. You can also target
people by their published relationship status, which is especially helpful
for wedding photographers searching for recently engaged customers,
Brooks says.
Even with these precision tools, you'll want to test your approaches on
various social networks to see how they're performing. All the major social
network ad platforms support A/B testing and a fairly rich set of analytics
to help you measure your audience, their behavior and the activity of
others in your industry. Studying those metrics on a daily or weekly basis
will help you hone your targeting. Brooks suggests creating a landing
page on your own personal site where you can track inbound leads from
various networks. "See the cost per click, then measure what percentage
is coming through a given network," he says. "Then, track which inbound
click ends up becoming a lead. Then, which leads lead to jobs you get."
This minutia is important, Brooks stresses, since you may find one network
sends more leads but another audience actually generates more jobs.
When it comes to promoting posts on Facebook or Instagram, you don't
need to think of a conventional ad that markets just your service, Olson
says. "Paid giveaways and contests like a 'Freebie Friday' post are a great
way to get new people to interact with you," she notes.
Co-marketing can also help, Hade says. "If there's a florist you workwith, you can both kick in money to start a campaign to target customerslooking to get married."As we noted, social networks change their algorithms, often todevastating effect. Staying current with how various networks prioritizecontent is a must, Olson says. When it comes to disruptive policy changes,Facebook seems to be the most active, followed by Instagram. Pinterest,she says, is the slowest to change of late, which is good for those seekinga bit of stability in their marketing efforts.
While there are huge numbers of people on social networks, you
shouldn't necessarily throw every last digital marketing dollar into social,
Brooks says. Some budget needs to be tailored toward capturing Google
search traffic—particularly during the run-up to bookings season when
consumers are doing their research. In that case, Brooks says it's a good
idea to divide up your marketing spending with 50 percent going to
Google Ad Words and 50 percent going to social. When people are not
actively looking for wedding photographers, Brooks advises that the
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Women Building Futures and Enbridge partner to train women for careers as field operators
August 17, 2017
EDMONTON, Alberta (August 17, 2017)—Women Building Futures (WBF) is pleased to announce a new partnership with Enbridge to train and prepare women for careers in the pipeline operations or construction industries. These careers offer women endless opportunities for training and advancement, an outcome that WBF and Enbridge fully support.
The new 6 week, Construction/Field Operator Readiness program sponsored by Enbridge starts on November 6, 2017 with an application deadline of September 18, 2017. Beginning immediately, WBF will be recruiting 12 women for this program through their proven strategies and activities of awareness, career exploration, assessment, interviews, drug/ alcohol and fitness to work testing, and hands-on skills training at the WBF training centre in Edmonton, Alberta.
"With this new partnership, Enbridge is making a commitment to support the future development of more female leaders within their organization," said Kathy Kimpton, President & CEO of WBF. "This partnership is completely aligned with our commitment to women to improve the economic prosperity and general wellbeing of women through increased participation in trades and occupations where women are under-represented."
The Construction/Field Operator Readiness program will prepare women to successfully enter a variety of entry level opportunities including work on maintenance crews and terminal crews as well as pipeline labourer positions with Enbridge's contractors. These opportunities will lead to long-term careers and/or apprenticeships for successful hires who demonstrate the right attitude and aptitude.
"Developing skills and supporting employment are two of the most sustainable benefits we can offer our communities," said Susan Larson, Enbridge's Vice President of Canadian Operations. "At Enbridge, we recognize the value and importance of a diverse workforce and are committed to fostering that within our own organization and communities. This partnership helps us meet that commitment, and we are proud to partner with Women Building Futures on this exciting initiative."
About Women Building Futures
WBF is Alberta's premier destination for women who want to discover, pursue and advance in a career in trades. A Social Purpose Organization and registered charity, WBF is valued for its uncompromising approach to meeting the needs of women and industry by recruiting the right people, providing them with the right training and matching them with the right employer. WBF offers women pre-trades competency-based training in welding, steamfitting/pipefitting, plumbing, sheet metal, carpentry, electrical, heavy equipment operator training and more at the Edmonton, Alberta training centre. WBF has quickly become the go-to place for women interested in a career in the construction trades and for companies wishing to diversify their workforce. For more information, visit www.womenbuildingfutures.com
About Enbridge
Life takes energy. And for more than 65 years, Enbridge has played an essential role in connecting people to the energy they need to live their lives to the fullest. Enbridge is North America's premier energy infrastructure company with strategic business platforms that include an extensive network of crude oil, liquids and natural gas pipelines, regulated natural gas distribution utilities and renewable power generation. When the energy people invest in life meets the energy we fuel it with, beautiful things happen.
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- Women Building Futures empowers women to become economically prosperous in careers in trades and occupations where women are under-represented.
- Women Building Futures operates the WBF Training and Housing Centre in Edmonton Alberta, the first of its kind in Canada.
- Women Building Futures partners with over 300 employers to create diverse, innovative and productive workforces with qualified working women.
- WBF grads experience an average of 132% increase in their income after completing a WBF program.
- Women are 50.7% of the workforce, but only 4-6% of the construction workforce in Canada. Of WBF grads…
- 92% find work in their field.
- 83% are registered as apprentices in their first year.
- 34% are Indigenous women.


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Justin Bieber asking fans to stop talking about certain body part
HollywoodNews.com: Justin Bieber is more than a little popular with young girls, but it seems he doesn't want all of him to be popular with them.
Bieber recently spoke with Reggies Yates of BBC radio and asked his fans to stop doing one thing, states Hollyscoop. "Be nice, and don't talk about Jerry," Bieber commented, then clarifying that fans on Twitter gave that name to his penis.
Bieber currently has 22 million followers on Twitter, so it may take a little time for all the chatter to stop.
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