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Hey Gents,
So finally, as many of you are probably aware, we have decided on a logo and intro. Many thanks to Liam 'Joe' from Shock and James for all the hard work they've put into designing and putting everything together.
Here's our amazing intro, courtesy of James:
Getting a jump on next year, we're looking at a couple designs for hoodies and tshirts, which you can see here:
+SSG+ Apparel
The main logo will standardize to Blue/Black/White (Like our website) with a shield. Only our steam profiles (And possibly shirts/hoodies) will be without the shield, to allow it to be seen more clearly by our dead opponents when they check the scoreboards.
We'll try keep this Dropbox link updated with different variations that are used for steam:
Steam Logos
Just give myself or James a shout if you have suggestions of a colour we should add in.
I'm also considering implementing a "Team Colour" scheme for steam profiles.
Something like assigning a single colour to only be used by a certain team, hopefully giving the players a unique identity for representing us competitively.
We'll also be putting together a YouTube page to upload highlight videos for everyone that wants to submit their plays and throwing in our intro to put it together nicely. Please give it a subscribe here:
YouTube Channel
(We need 100 to get our unique URL)
Other than that we'll be updating our Facebook/Twitter accounts with the new logo and hopefully next year use them all to give news on DGL matches and events.
If you would like a wallpaper of our new logo for your desktop you can find it here:
1080p Wallpaper
But yeah, I think that's it. Let me know what you guys think and if you have any ideas just give me a shout. Hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.
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Do you love sticky notes as much as I do? I have them in every color, every size, lined, unlined, tabs and extra sticky. You name it, I probably have a sticky note for you to use. One of my favorite ways to use sticky notes is for Interactive Read Alouds. Read on to learn how I use them and for a freebie!
Hey there, this is Paige from Our Elementary Lives and this is my FIRST blog post on the Primary
Punchbowl. I just recently joined this fabulous group of ladies and couldn't be more excited. You can read more about me on my blog here!
Interactive Read Alouds are one of my favorite things to do in my first grade classroom. It is an activity that teaches many standards and they are fun. You can read more about WHY you need to be doing them on my blog here. Like I said above, one of my favorite ways to use sticky notes is for Interactive Read Alouds. When I'm planning an interactive read aloud, I use my editable sticky note templates to type on, print and stick into the book that I'm using as an Interactive Read Aloud.
When I'm planning my IRA, on one sticky note I include my think out loud or what I want to say and then I also include the interaction that I want, either turn and talk, act it out or stop and jot.
Here are some examples of sticky notes from my IRA Night of the Veggie Monster.
When I print my sticky notes, I keep the template that I printed them on so that I can put the sticky notes right back onto the template when I am done reading that book. If I own the book I will often just leave the sticky notes in the book. But sometimes I have borrowed a book from the library and then I can't leave the sticky notes inside the book.
Once you have printed on the sticky notes you will have them for the long run. Use the extra sticky post-its for more durability.
Have I convinced you that using sticky notes for IRAs are the best? To help you out here is a FREE template for printing on sticky notes. And if you are not sure how to print on sticky notes, you can read my blog post How to Print on Sticky Notes in 3 Easy Steps.
Here's your freebie!
And here's an image you can pin and share with others.
Until next time, happy printing!

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3 Reasons For Choosing Woopra As Web Analytics Tools For Company's Growth
Niharika Gupta 5 Min Read
Web analytics is something that cannot work in isolation but requires a database on which it can work. This data is generated by all the businesses for their campaigns launched at various platforms viz. websites, social media platforms or in the form of online communication say emails. It is necessary for the businesses to measure the vast amount of data they receive in order to channelize the energies in the right direction which is highly fruitful. It is web analytics that makes a campaign sustainable as it helps the company to develop a database, measure the results, analyse the information and eliminate the negative components while paving the way for the addition of the desirable and necessary ones that bring in huge profits in the future. Thanks to the growing business world, they have come up with many interesting tools under this category and Woopra is one of the well known tools available in the market. In order to gain maximum out of it, it is essential to understand how it works and the key points that must be remembered while adopting it as a business tool.
There are 4 basic components of the process involved in Web Analytics. These are-
- The business metrics
- Data collection
- Analysis and reporting
- Optimisation and action
Now we shall discuss these 4 components in detail so as to make it easy to start using Woopra right way without any further delay.
The first component i.e. understanding the business metrics involves the basic understanding of business strategy and determining the key performance indicators in the same.
The second component refers to the process of choosing the most appropriate data collection or web analytics tool and using to collect the necessary data (that is planned) and measure it to obtain the results for the business growth.
The third component means analysing the data which is either recently obtained or has been stored for future analysis and generating a final report on the same. The main reason for this analysis is to develop an understanding on the online behaviour of the users.
The fourth component involves a continuous process where the relevant insights obtained from the analysis of the data are used for the improvement of the marketing strategy of the company by modifying the same according to the behaviour of the customers online.
Woopra is a real- time customer analytics service that provides solutions for sales, services, marketing and product teams. The tool is designed to let the organisations optimise the customers' life cycle by delivering the live data for website visitors and the customers.
The main function that Woopra performs is generation of customer profile. Woopra is able to track the customer intelligence i.e. it records the first visit of the customer and then all the consecutive visits after the first one. The tool creates a profile for every visitor and makes the analysis relatively much simpler. This makes it quite easy for the company to segment the customers who are in different life cycles at a particular time period. The marketing strategy can then be redefined and targeted well according to the analysis and the report about the audience behaviour online. This feature is combined with live monitoring function. You can see the customers navigating through the site which certainly helps in developing a better understanding not just on the customers' online behaviour but also gives the experts a chance to brainstorm the ideas to improve the website to ensure smooth and meaningful navigation.
Live monitoring actually gives a chance to the expert to put himself into the shoes of the visitor and then have a re-look on the website. This fresh perspective is what is called for most of the time when the things seem to be alright, but still not delivering the desired results. Woopra is capable of generating data in real time when the customer is actually visiting the site. The dashboard can be customised for certain types of customers and certain types of activities. It also allows you to send customised notifications on any platform that you desire say email, website or phone. This helps the company to be aware about the activities whether good or bad even when there is no person monitoring the dashboard. All this makes Woopra an efficient business partner and a wise investment.
As Woopra generates customer profiles, it makes it easy for the company to focus on the most important ones. To ease up the process further, this tool helps in setting a label for the different segments of the customers identified both in the present and those that have potential to become a customer in the near future.
This tool proves to be of high value when clubbed with the company's customer relationship management programme as it gives useful insights into the online behavioural trends of the online visitors. What is the thing that triggers them to buy the product instantly or stops them from making a purchase altogether? These are the important questions that must be answered before expecting any concrete results from the campaign(s) launched by the company.
The live monitoring feature of Woopra comes in handy in this case. When the visitor is present at the site there can be better engagement with him through the features like live chat. This is a way that is being adopted by the companies today to engage the customer and guide them through the conversion channel to save the time of both the pries involved. The live chat feature can be also be used in a customised way by making it to pop-up only for the qualified leads who are eager to learn more about the business and are almost ready to make the purchase. This feature is similar to the experience in a brick and mortar store where the sales person steps in to solve any query of the visiting potential customer. It gives a sense of confidence to the visitor who feels that he is cared for and is hence guided through the process.
So try Woopra and find it out for yourself that it is a tool that is just the right and wise investment for better results!


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NYU School of Medicine Offers New Four-Year Dual MD/MPH Degree Option
NYU School of Medicine announced it now offers a dual four-year MD/Master of Public Health degree (MPH), in which students can complete both degrees within four years to pursue a combination of interests during their medical education. Designed for highly motivated students with a strong academic record, the program allows medical students to augment their clinical training with the public health skills necessary to assume leadership positions in business, public health, and public policy among others.
"We are thrilled that we can now offer our students a four-year MD/MPH dual degree option to help expand their educational experience while in medical school," said Steven Abramson, MD, senior vice president and vice dean for education, faculty and academic affairs. "By offering such programs, we are providing our students with the tools they need to succeed as future physician leaders in public health settings across the globe."
The four-year MD/MPH is offered in collaboration with five of NYU's premier professional schools, as part of the existing dual-degree master's program offerings at NYU School of Medicine, which have been spearheaded by Lynn Buckvar-Keltz, MD, associate dean for student affairs. The four-year MD/MPH degree requires a full year of dedicated master's-level work and three years of medical school, with some work overlapping the final year. Students applying to the four-year program must be willing to commit to a highly structured and condensed schedule of course work, core clerkships, and electives throughout the course of the entire four years. The program is open to new students who may apply concurrently to medical school and to currently matriculated students in their first and second years. In addition to the four-year program, a five-year MD/MPH program is offered as well.
The new dual degree program is part of NYU School of Medicine's Curriculum for the 21st Century (C21) designed to seamlessly integrate the basic and clinical science to bedside application throughout the four years of medical school. C21's spiraling curriculum, earlier direct patient contact, and innovative use of technology create new pathways to teach health sciences. This new program is one of several steps NYU School of Medicine has taken to be at the forefront of transforming medical education in order to best meet the needs of tomorrow's physicians.


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Spatial Statistics 2019: Towards Spatial Data Science
10 – 13 July 2019 | Sitges, Spain
We are accepting late abstracts for posters | Submit here
Welcome to the 5th Spatial Statistics conference, which will be held in Sitges (near to Barcelona), Spain, from 10 – 13 July 2019 under the theme Towards Spatial Data Science.
The conference will bring together leading scientists in the field of spatial statistics to debate and discuss how to make statistically sound decisions and judgments in the domain of spatial data science.
Issues of statistical learning, but also common methods for spatial and spatio-temporal interpolation, stochastic geometry, classifications, tessellation, networks, point processes, random sets, including Bayesian modelling will be presented in the new context of spatial data science.
The Workshop and Welcome Reception will be held on 10 July and the actual conference will start on 11 July 2019.
Conference chairs
Professor Jorge Mateu, Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain
Professor Alfred Stein, University of Twente, The Netherlands
We are at the start of a large and unprecedented expansion of our information provision and use. Both the volume and the complexity of available data will increase, creating a great potential and demand for scientific and technological innovations.
In addition to "traditional" data, unverified spatial data is now available from volunteers, dynamic data from moving sources, streams of remote sensing images and distributed data from various types of sensors, including gadgets monitoring the function of human bodies, high-tech engine monitors and low-cost, distributed environmental sensors.
Of particular scientific interest and societal importance are spatially referenced data with temporal dependence, i.e. space-time data. The increasing volume, complexity, heterogeneity, uncertainty and interdependence of space-time data are rapidly outrunning current methods of analysis.
This big-data era is creating research challenges for many fields of science and engineering. Emerging questions have a different focus, depending on the scientific discipline in which they are born and reflecting a significant variability in the nature of big-data problems, in spite of the many common elements.
Crucial developments in this context are new scalable methods, design algorithms, and implement software for big space-time data that will:
- Capitalize on local models and sparse matrix structures
- Allow for fast simulation of space-time processes
- Include new data types (including streams of spatial data, space-time point processes, point patterns on networks, and trajectories)
This results in the domain of spatial data science. The conference will provide a platform to debate and discuss how to make statistically sound decisions and judgments in the domain of spatial data science
Conference Topics:
We are still accepting poster submissions on the topics below. They should be submitted using the online abstract submission system.
- Space-time statistics, e.g. geostatistics, point patterns, estimation methods, large dimensions
- New spatial data sources, e.g. social media, Google, citizen science, crowd source maps
- Stochastic geometry, tesselation, point processes, random sets
- Causal statistical modeling
- Trajectory/movement modeling
- Predictive modelling
- Spatial data quality and uncertainty
With these methods being applied in a range of relevant domains. For the theme of the conference, we particularly invite contributions in:
- Image analyses, e.g. satellite images
- Traffic and transport
- Global change
- Ecology, e.g. dispersion, migration, colonisation and invasion of species
- Plant and animal epidemiology, e.g. emerging epidemics
- Hazards, disasters and risks, e.g. outbreaks, risk mapping
- Crime and poverty mapping
- Health e.g. epidemiology, geohealth and global health
- Spatial econometrics


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Barcelona's transfer business has has been focused mainly on Luis Suarez this summer. But now that a deal has been done for the Uruguayan you would imagine that Barcelona will attempt to pursue several other targets, as they plan to return straight to the top table of European football.
With Messi, Suarez and Neymar all working in tandem by the turn of the year it's going to be truly frightening stuff from Barcelona next season.
But regardless of how good the finishers are they are going to need some brilliant service too – top distribution into those front three.
And someone who has quality in bucket loads from the wide areas is Fiorentina winger Juan Cuadrado.
He had a fantastic World Cup and that has only served to increase his profile – he has reportedly drawn interest from big European clubs including Barcelona and Manchester United.
Whoever else is in for him Barcelona offer such an attractive proposition for any player who wants to reach the top. The team, the stadium and the city are hard to beat.
We can definitely imagine this lad turning up at the Camp Nou this autumn but he won't come cheap due to that demand for his signature.
And with such a huge outlay on Suarez you would also imagine that Barcelona may have to do offload a few players before a deal can happen.
Nevertheless English bookmaker SkyBet have Barcelona as clear favourites to sign a player this summer, if he does move from his current club, at odds of 2/1. And they were 3/1 yesterday so Barcelona have come in again.
Let's see Cuadrado in full flight. Barcelona fans: could this winger be played as a wing back to eventually take the place of Dani Alves?
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Better player just sign Cuadrado and forget about old 30yrs defender.
Really, we have to forget about a 30years defender ,we need fresh blood.
Barca please, do everything in your power to sign this player. His talent is enormous
Barcelona should sign Cuadrado, and Blind that the only signing we need 4 now Please sign these two players.
I think cuadrado is a fine player compare to Dani Valves who has no discipline on the field. Also Blind can be brought along.
Go and sign Delay blind
taking into account how madrid are structuring up their squad lethally, we sure wouldnt want to resume d season without quality defenders, ones that can survive the pressure imposed on them, the likes of gerard pique vs macsh alone shud stop, bring in new players, new defenders, my god chasing a 30 year old defender is just a crappy idea
Pls. sign hummels, de blind ,rojo and guadado and all shall be well with us
Cuardrado z ok compared 2 dani alves
please go sign mat hummels and cuadrado
Barca shoul please sign Mats Hummels or blind and Juan Cuadrado.
Pls sign blind n curdrado for us
we need hummel and blind in our defence not even cuadrado. i bet u
Oh! God how I wish my comment would be read by our dear sports director and his dear assistant…How on earth should u pursue a 30 yr old defender,as the saying goes"old dogs can't learn new tricks" so pls in earnest ,start knocking the doors of the likes of Mart Hummels,Delay Blind and Joan caudrado. we need them to re-structure our team like our arch rivals are doing….we need fresh blood…#visca barca#
please sigh cuandrado ,blind humel
Cuadrado and Hummels, Dani Alves is not more at his best.
Sign humels,cuadrado,and a winger.
Mats Hummel and juan Guadrado all we need now to carry all the trophez.
Bringing in d likes of Mats Hummels nd juan cuadrado is a beta idea 2 strengthen d defence. Buh if Mats wud refuse 2 come i see ntin wrong in bringing in a 30y/o whom is ready 2 work wit d team. Pple may tink he'z old already buh i tell u, a man of 40y/o proved his worth in d just concluded WC in person of Miroslav klose. So y won't he (Mathieu) be able 2 stand as a capable blocking '5' in d team
Barca should ds 2 defender b4 transfer window we close bt cundrado is d may man 2 shine by dis mument.
All I know is that Barcelona needs defenders. do all your best to bring any vasatile and experienced defenders to our dear team.
Mat hummels, blind, and cuadrado we are good i bet u.
Please we all know that we need a central back. Cos, Batra has not gotten much experience, so let just have a better person to join him. Please don disturb Alves.
I really miss MR Puyol but please, let's find another better man.
Honestly people as made a lot of lovely comments here & something as 2 be done on the signing of good&young players who are not 30yrs old.pls mr director buy us players that are young&reliable lik Madrid is doing,&mind u as a Barca fan I don't want 2 xperience what I xperienced last season thank u.
Last season was horrible bcos of defence, pls d board shld do smtin abt our defence line, wit talented and young guys
Please mr josep maria bartomeu and zubzareta buy marts hummels 4 us and juan cuadrado dat ix ok for us den send pique to there village
D Centra back defenders by which barca should get rest of mine it will consist these of players
Tiago silver
Codrado is a fantastic player but barca need to beuild there defence
ZUBI ZUBI ZUBI ZUBI I THINK YOU SHOULD RESIGN AS SPORT DIRECTOR IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BARCA. I THINK YOU SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR SIGNING GOAL KEEPERS NOT OTHER PLAYERS. GIVE VETRAN PUYOL THE CHANCE TO FOUND YOU OUR CENTRAL DEFENDER. I NOW BELIEVE THAT YOU ONLY WANT TO SATISFY YOURSELF AND NOT THE TEAM AND THE FANS IN GENERAL. THIS IS THE TIME FOR YOU TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND LEARN THE PROBLEM OF BARCA. WE NEED A WORLD CLASS DEFENDER. NOT 30yrs DEFENDER. IT IS A SHAME THAT YOU ARE UNABLE TO ADDRESS THE DEFENSIVE PROBLEMS OF BARCA WHICH THE TEAM HAVE BEEN SUFFERING WITH FOR LONG TIME NOW. I KNOW IF YOUR SO-CALLED 30yrs OLD DEFENDER FAIL YOU, YOU WILL HAVE NO OBTION BUT TO APOLOGIZE AND RESIGN. WHAT BECOMES OF WE THE FANS IS NON OF YOUR BUSINESS. MR. PRESIDENT, YOUR GOOD PROJECT WILL EVENTUALLY BE DESTROY BY THIS STUPY AND SO-CALLED ZUBI WHO DOES NOT HAVE FEELING FOR THE FANS OF THE WORLD. LONG LIVE BARCA.
please we need players like Hummel, Thiago Silva, Rojo


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ID: anta205a
- ID Number: anta205a
- Size: 75 m2
- Bedrooms: 2
- Bathrooms: 1
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- Total Rooms: 2+1
- Dist.to the Sea: 3 km
- Dist.to the centre: 1 km
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Buy modern and prestigious property in Antalya Meydan Kavagi region. The compound has been built by construction company with good reputation and huge experience. Location of the property allows you to reach downtown of Antalya just within 5 minutes by car. The famous Konyaalti beach is located just in 10 minutes drive from the compound, Migros and Markantalya shopping centers can be reached within 10 minutes drive and Antalya International Airport within 15 minutes. This luxury property is located in the neighborhood of hospitals, banks, pharmacies, parks, schools, grocery shops, moreover within walking distance there are many amenities such as train station and bus terminal. The quality residence consists of 2 blocks and have in total 20 luxury apartments for sale.
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Anyone for another helping of Gypsy Tart?
Long before Jamie Oliver started spouting on about healthy school dinners, long before even Turkey Twizzlers, school dinners really were really nutritious! Watery mashed potatoes, vegetables boiled to within an inch of their life and stodgy meat pies containing the meat of who knows what poor animal.
Horse meat in burgers! Any kind of burger would have been a luxury in my school days. What wouldn't we have given for Turkey Twizzlers back then? But, then, there was Gypsy Tart.
Gypsy Tart - School Dinners
We queued up patiently in the dinner hall under the ever watchful eyes of the dreaded Dinner Ladies waiting our turn receive the dollops of greyish brown substances on our plates. All served by the uniformed canteen staff standing behind the counter decked out in their hair nets and caps.
We sat in groups at our little tables on our little mini-chairs dreading that moment when a teacher might join you. "Eat your vegetables, they're good for you" was the inevitable instruction. I sincerely doubted the wisdom of that when it came to the slippery, slimy suckers that once were sprouts.
And so we forced down the steaming pile of nutritious sludge that was the main course in the hope that the pudding would be something a little more palatable.
School Dinners - Pudding
If you remember, pudding came in various guises. Some good, some not so:
There was that indescribably awful tapioca pudding, utterly disgusting prunes and custard, dried up Bakewell tart and stodgy jam roly-poly that stuck to the roof of mouth like glue and had no jam in it. But, every so often, the sweet treat that we had all been waiting for would appear. The only thing that could speed up the process of consumption of the main course, the only thing that would ensure an eager queue for seconds, thirds and even fourths if it were possible.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the one and only, the most nutritious (honest), the most delicious dessert on the school dinner menu: GYPSY TART!
Forget your celery sticks and raw carrots Jamie, if you don't still have gypsy tart on the school dinner menus you are letting the kids of this nation down.
The sophisticated dish, gypsy tart originated in Kent and is so called because a lady, on seeing some undernourished gypsy children playing in a field next to her house, made them a pie to feed them. The dish, apparently, then became a Kentish tradition and could be found in most Kent bakers shops.
The school dinner's version, served from the 1950's was baked in huge trays and served in square portions. You just hoped that you didn't get a corner piece which had loads of the dried pastry around it!
How to make Gypsy Tart
If you ever get a yearning to revisit the wonders of gypsy tart here's how you can make it home: here's the Gypsy Tart recipe:
Gypsy Tart Ingredients:
400g (14oz) tin of evaporated milk
340g (12oz) Dark muscovado sugar
10 inch Pre-baked shortcrust pastry case
Whisk evaporated milk and sugar together for approximately 10 minutes until it is light, fluffy and coffee coloured. Pour the mixture into the pastry case and bake for ten minutes in a pre-heated oven set at 200 degrees C, or gas mark 6. When it's done, the surface will appear slightly sticky, but it will set completely when left to cool. Tip: It is best served cold.
Gypsy Tart – Official Advice from Kent County Council
If you have trouble following this complicated recipe, fear not. Kent County Council has made a video to help you out (I kid you not): here's their gypsy tart recipe and detailed instructions on how to make gypsy tart:
Gypsy Tart – Not everyone is a Fan
Not everyone loves gypsy tart, though, like this chap describes his first taste of the delicacy on the TV show, Come Dine with Me. There's no accounting for taste and he doesn't look like someone whose advice I would follow anyway.
So there you have it. Gypsy Tart, the pud of all school puds. Complete with a step by step guide and gypsy tart recipe, courtesy of Kent County Council! What more could you ask?
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Our Town
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London
More information about Our Town tickets
by Thornton Wilder
Birth; marriage; death. And everything in between.
"Do any human beings ever realise life as they live it? Every - every, minute?"
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play celebrates what it means to be human, the bonds that hold communities together, and our relationships with the ancient past and the eternal tomorrow.
Important Information
BOOKING PERIOD: 16 May - 08 June 2019
PERFORMANCE TIMES: Monday - Saturday: 7.45pm, Thursday & Saturday: 2.15pm
AGE RESTRICTION: As this is a new production, further details will be added to the website as the season approaches. However, as a three-act play, we consider that Our Town is likely to be most suitable for those aged 11 and over. It remains the responsibility of the parent/guardian in advance of purchase to make their own judgement as to the suitability of the show for their own child.
VENUE: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Inner Cir, London NW1 4NU
WEATHER POLICY: Please note that the auditorium and stage are completely uncovered and shows in the main theatre repertoire may be cancelled or abandoned because of the weather. Tickets are non-refundable in the event of cancellation because of the weather but may be exchanged in accordance with the policy set out in Regent's Park Theatre's terms and conditions.
ACCESS PERFORMANCES: 7 June 7:45pm - Captioned performance


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CORDOVA GOLF COURSE welcomes all players regardless of ability or experience. Our course marshals and staff are on the course to ensure that all players have an equal opportunity to enjoy the course and their game. Please co-operate with them at all times. If you have any questions or need any assistance, please feel free to ask them for help. To ensure that all players enjoy their experience at the course, each player is expected to know and comply with our general rules and rules of play, and to know golf course etiquette.
§ No alcoholic beverages may be brought on the premises. No ice chests allowed!
§ No children under six years of age.
§ Each player must have own set of clubs (clubs may be rented in Pro-Shop).
§ Shoes & shirts are required at all times. Only appropriate dress may be worn.
§ Only licensed drivers may operate powered golf carts. No more than 2 persons and 2 golf bags per cart.
§ Keep all pull and power carts off tees and 30 feet away from greens.
§ Replace divots, repair ball marks and rake traps.
§ Players are liable for all broken windows or other property damage. Please notify the Golf Course of any incident.
§ Driving range – hit to center of range. Do NOT hit balls over protective netting. Adjust club selection and aim as needed.
§ Do not abuse rental carts, rental equipment, or course property.
§ Out of bounds defined by boundary fences and white stakes.
§ Relief from staked trees, pumps and protection barriers Nos. 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 14, & 17.
§ All lakes are lateral water hazards.
§ Yardage signs: White Stakes at 100 yards, 150 yards, and 200 yards.
§ U.S.G.A. Rules govern all play.
§ Don`t use inappropriate language.
§ Don`t throw clubs.
§ Don`t hit into other players.
§ If you hit your ball into the wrong fairway, wait until the players on that fairway have played through. (You are in the wrong fairway, they have the "right of way.")
§ Limit the amount of time you look for a ball. If you are having trouble finding it, then either let the group behind you play through, or drop and hit another ball. (You should not look for a ball more than 5 minutes.)
§ When you have finished playing the hole, leave the putting green immediately and continue to the next hole (write your scores down after you have left the putting green and started to the next hole).
§ Keep up with the foursome in front of you. Beginners should pick up their ball to accommodate this.
§ Let the shorter tee hitters hit first from the tee and forego "honors." Shorter hitters should also proceed with their second and third shots if a longer hitter has to wait for the green or fairway to clear.
§ While waiting for other players to hit, move to your ball, make your yardage calculation and club selection, so that you are ready to hit as soon as the other players have finished hitting.
§ Line up your putt while others are putting.
§ Observe all rules of ready golf and avoid creating "nightmares."
A sample nightmare: It's Saturday morning and you just hit the first tee with a 9:00 AM tee time. Forty-five minutes later, you haven't made it to the 3rd tee. There's a foursome in front of you with a couple of "short hitters." Yet for each tee shot they are playing honors. Everyone congregates around each other's fairway shots. Each player waits for the others in the foursome to hit before proceeding to his/her ball and then starts pacing off the yardage, testing the wind, selecting a club, and finally taking 15 practice swings. When you finally see them on a green, the only player looking over the green and considering his/her putt is the one getting ready to putt. All the others are standing together on the side of the green whispering to each other until it is their turn to putt. You're thinking this round of golf is going to take 6 hours. SOUND FAMILIAR?
All of us want to play well, and most of us would like to take a reasonable amount of time for each swing and each putt. Too much time, however, can result in slow play. Please make sure you and the members of your foursome play ready golf.
Cordova Golf Course should be played in under 4 hours. Anything you and your group does to play ready golf will help play move along.
Additional rules may apply on any given day due to circumstances at the time (e.g., in case of inclement weather, power carts may be restricted to cart path only or not available, grass area of range may be closed, and the like). Signs will be posted as appropriate or the staff will inform you.
Players failing to comply with the rules will be asked to correct their behavior, and failing correction, to leave the premises.


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Amanda Ritz
Vice President
Amanda Ritz has been instrumental in promoting awareness of Water-Gen across the globe. With her vast experience, international network and out-of-the-box market focus, she continues to identify key prospects for Water-Gen.
Ms. Ritz has been a connector for venture capital and advisor for Israel-based startups. Over the course of her career in New York, she successfully generated new business; spearheaded strategic management of marketing, advertising, publicity, and promotion; and developed, executed, and evaluated growth opportunities. She has extensive background in consumer products, customer engagement, and finance. She raised millions in nonprofit dollars to champion diversity and promote community dialogue in cooperation with U.S. lawmakers and corporations, global government officials, and religious leaders.
Ms. Ritz earned a BA in Psychology and a BS in Advertising from Arizona State University. She received an MS in Special Education from CUNY Hunter College.


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The City of Owen Sound supports our young residents with a wide variety of programs, activities, and learning experiences. These exciting opportunities offer our youth the chance to grow, enhance their leadership skills, improve their talents, and become well-rounded citizens.
These unique programs support health and wellness in non-judgmental environments, to allow them to make informed choices that lead toward their personal growth and increase their self-esteem.
Each of our young residents is a unique and valued member of our Owen Sound community and must be treated with respect. By supporting the diversity of our community, we bolster our youth and support their ability to take responsibility for their own choices.
Supporting our younger generation will create our leaders of tomorrow.
Art Gallery
The Tom Thomson Art Gallery not only has an exciting collection of artwork by Tom Thomson and other renowned Ontario artists, but it also offers fun and informative programs taught by professional instructors.
Some of these classes and workshops include hands-on art making, fun activities, and even the use of specialized education kits.
With the use of their studio facilities and their quality materials, the Tom Thomson Art Gallery ensures an enriched learning experience for all youth.
More information about these programs can be found at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery website.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Owen Sound
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Owen Sound Mentoring Programs provide children and youth with a role model, a friend to talk to, and someone to share the experience of growing up with. Generally meeting once per week in the community or in the school, a relationship is developed between the mentor and the child that is built on trust and common interests. The result is a life changing experience for both.
The use of technology is increasingly important in today's world and crucial when entering educational institutions and the workforce. Computers, smartphones, electronic media, and other forms of technology are playing an essential role throughout society.
The City of Owen Sound recognizes the importance of being fluent in all forms of technology and the importance it has with our young residents. There are a number of available courses and programs that support exposure to technology and encourage comprehension and confidence.
Some of these opportunities are available at:
LGBT Youth
The City of Owen Sound prides itself as being an open and accepting community for anyone identifying with the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Community. Oftentimes youth have difficulty coming to terms with how they identify their sexuality and it can take many years of questioning to clearly express whether they are straight or gay. Thankfully a welcoming society can ease this transition of identification.
Within the City of Owen Sound, there are a number of clubs and support groups specifically oriented for LGBT youth. These groups can be very helpful for a youth coming to terms with identifying their sexuality, but can also offer support to their family members.
Some of these groups include:
The Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library offers tremendous support for the younger members of our community. This support includes programs, crafts, mobile apps, online resources, computer services, ebooks, and special events.
Whether reading a book quietly or joining a Lego Club, our youth are welcomed at the Owen Sound Library in a safe and encouraging environment. These special programs not only encourage literacy, but also promote confidence and creativity.
Roxy Youth Theatre
The Roxy Theatre offers tremendous support to the youth of Owen Sound.
Not only are our young residents encouraged to audition for regular shows throughout the year, there are also camps that the youth can attend. During the March break there is a March Break Theatre Camp, and during the summer there are two Musical Theatre Summer Camps.
These are unique opportunities for children to get on stage and challenge themselves through acting, singing, and performing. This confidence will help them approach new challenges throughout their lives.
Kiwanis Sk8 and Bike Park
Encouraging activity through sport is very important for youth, including riding bikes and skateboards. The Kiwanis Sk8 & Bike Park provides this opportunity for children and youth to skate and ride, free of charge, at a safe facility.
The City of Owen Sound is fortunate to have a modern YMCA facility to support our youth. This innovative building is a fully-equipped facility supported by qualified counselors and staff in a safe environment.
This is dedicated to building a caring, healthy community by creating opportunities for all people to achieve personal growth in spirit, mind and body. The YMCA enriches the lives of people of all ages and is open to all members of our community.
Some of the services available at the YMCA of Owen Sound Grey Bruce include:
Youth Drop in Centre
Youth facing particular challenges can find assistance at the Real Assistance for Youth (RAY) Ministries drop-in shelter. This facility caters to youth (either homeless or on the street) by providing a safe place to escape from their trials.
Shelter and sustenance are provided in a loving and judgement-free environment. Staff offer support and encouragement by sharing the Gospel and revealing the love of Jesus Christ. This assists sensible decision-making to enhance their wellness physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
This program does not receive funding from the government, but instead is supported entirely through the generous donations of individuals and local churches.
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Keeler wanted a new and destinctive product brochure and catalogue to showcase it's premier range of professional optician equipment. We designed and rpoduced a brochure that would appeal to the professional audience of eye specialists and opticians.
We, Keeler Ltd., in Windsor have worked with Design Matters for many years now and have had excellent service. The team are alwasy a pleasure to deal with. Great Results, Personable and Creative. Colin West, Keeler Ltd.


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There are many ways to harness the power of your opt-in list, and you should be able to think of at least one every month with a little lateral thinking. Here are a few to get you going:
Offer a free product.
In much the same manner that you attracted your subscriber to your mailing list in the first place, you can duplicate this process from within your list too. When you have another product ready for your market, set up a strategy exactly as you did for your first one. The difference being, is that you write your content, and a link to the opt-in page and freebie, in you next email bulletin – or in a broadcast message.
Ask questions.
Upload a web page into which you've written a survey. Now this survey can be fielded in several ways. For example, you could import a script for a multi-choice drop-down menu-type survey into your web page. Or you can send out a pertinent question that asks each member for a specific example of what's holding them back. With this type of question always ask them to be as specific as possible, because the more focused their answer is, the more you can tailor the answer you give them.
Use Internet partner relationships.
If you have a medium to large sized list, and I mean a list of at least say 1000 subscribers, other experts could be interested in offering your product to their list too – in exchange for you undertaking a similar favor for them. Contact the experts who occupy the same niche as you. You should use this contact with them to your advantage and look to building future business relationships with them.


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La colere 1967
Code: 10087
Dimensions:W: 30cm (11.8")H: 40cm (15.7")
£695.00 Approx $885.35, €793.38, py6 57916.67
Leonor Fini was an Argentinean painter and printmaker, costume and set designer for theatre and ballet. Her body of work is classed as surrealist. Indeed she was close friends with Dali, having worked in Paris from the 1930's. This lithograph comes from the "Seven deadly sins" suite, from an edition of 199, signed by the artist.
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Now THIS is something that should appear on the next installment of that show called "The Magician's Secrets Revealed"! Would love to know how they did this trick.
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- Overview
- Location & Map
- Highlights & Reviews
- Amenities
Lindner Grandhotel Beau Rivage
The Swiss flag waves proudly over the traditional Grande Dame in Interlaken. Whoever enters here will be pampered! International guests enthuse about the exclusiveness of the Grand Hotel and its location with the wonderful view of the Jungfraujoch amid the imposing Swiss mountains. Excellent service, culinary highlights and stylish conference and banqueting facilities complete this hotel concept for discriminating people with a love of tradition. With 101 rooms to choose from, including 89 standard rooms, nine junior suites and three suites, you really are spoilt for choice. Each morning you can look forward to either opening the curtains of your room to a spectacular Alpine view or being woken by the soft sound of the deep-green icy-cold waters of the River Aare. At Lindner, we know the way to your heart is through your stomach, and with our extensive Swiss gourmet breakfast, fine cuisine in the "Bonne Fourchette" and "L'Ambiance" ( wonderful terrace overlooking the River Aare) and the "Le Vieux Rivage" hotel bar, we're sure we'll have you falling head over heels in no time! Interlaken offers numerous leisure, sporting and outdoor activities as well as a wealth of traditional cultural events throughout the year. You can lie back and relax in our fantastic spa or enjoy an exclusive beauty or health treatment − all this in a dreamy Mediterranean ambience.
Location & Map
Hotel Address:
- Lindner Grandhotel Beau Rivage
- Hoheweg, 211
- Interlaken, 3800
- Switzerland
Location Summary
Nestled between three of Switzerland's most famous peaks – Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau – Interlaken is situated in the Bernese Oberland at a height of 568 metres. The Lindner Grand Hotel Beau Rivage is centrally located beside the river Aare in Interlaken, only a seven-minute walk from the city centre and three minutes from Interlaken OST railway station. Interlaken has excellent rail connections to the airports in Bern, Zurich and Geneva and is easy to reach from all the major Swiss motorways.
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Just a few steps from the city center and well located for the 'Jungfrau' sports area with famous skiing and adventure activities.
Spa Facility
Our in-house Yasuragi Beauty Center offers classic massages, thalasso treatments, and cosmetics from Babor, in addition to oriental beauty rituals such as Scen Tao and Bali Boreh.
Theatre Museums
William Tell Open Air Theatre.
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Offshoring IT work to India is now the norm for many organisations, particularly in the private sector. Many of us have done this for over ten years, with varying success rates and benefits delivered, but for certain types of work it is now the accepted norm.
However, with the credit crunch bearing down on us, is it time to re-evaluate the value that offshoring can deliver? Is this the way to continue to deliver to your short term needs and free money up for your longer term strategic agenda? Well yes, but only if you are willing to take a less blinkered approach than you currently do.
Most firms would now consider offshore for applications maintenance of all but the most sensitive systems. The rigorous approach of the offshore vendors to things like training and knowledge transfer make this a relatively risk-free option.
Some development work also lends itself to offshore easily, but there are still whole swathes of work considered out of bounds. Take agile development, for example. Currently – and rightly – it is a hot topic for CIOs in all sectors. Its mixture of continuous user collaboration, rapid iteration and constant user testing is acknowledged to offer many important benefits. 'Time to value' is typically shortened by early release of prioritised functionality, while changing business priorities can be effectively managed. Risks and costs are reduced, and visibility and control increased. Published case studies from companies such as BT, Standard Life and Tarmac show it's not just theory – it works in practice too.
Agile is no barrier to offshore
Most CIOs, however, would consider it a non-starter to do agile development offshore. But the world is changing, and Indian IT centres in particular are wide awake to the benefits of agile and the need to work in this new way with their customers from Europe and North America. In my own company, as in others, the use of 24/7 operations in India together with advanced video-conferencing has proved to us – and a select band of forward-looking clients – that globally distributed development is no barrier to the use of agile methodologies. The end product will be more easily maintained and extended - again due to all that rigour and process expertise which the offshore vendors bring.
But most crucially, the combined IT and business team are more empowered to deliver what is really needed now, not what yesterday's outdated plans dictated. And you avoid the old problem of building applications that are never used and need never have been produced.
If you take things like large scale package implementations, many CIOs have become comfortable with things like traditional development and data cleansing being done offshore. Some unit testing is also a natural fit. But the real prize is to get more of the upfront design and configuration done offshore. India is recognising that different skills are needed for this type of work which interacts directly with the business client. Lots of issues still abound, but some real ground-breaking projects now exist in the SAP and Oracle space. Think about it - if you are doing a global roll-out of an SAP template, housing the core model in India, then some distance between the core team and the local politics can be beneficial in maintaining the integrity of the core model.
Dave Harris, director of IT solutions at luxury fashion company Burberry, has made extensive use of offshore for both support and development as the company rolls out its new SAP solution across the world. He says: "Like all companies, we're under pressure to make best use of our IT budget, and offshoring has enabled us to achieve levels of service we simply couldn't have afforded with a 100% onshore operation. The key to making it work is to get the right balance between onshore and offshore, locating certain key people from the offshore provider right here within our businesses in the UK and our deployment locations around the world."
Why pay 40% more?
Data security is clearly a very hot topic at the moment, and the movement of sensitive data offshore is still seen by many as a non-starter, especially in the public sector. However, as Salil Parekh of Capgemini India told a UK public sector conference recently, this can mean that taxpayers are paying up to 40 per cent more than necessary for IT development. As a result, it is not surprising that people are now looking hard at solving the data security challenge that offshore could pose. There are many ways around the security issues. Testing using artificial data has now moved from the experimental to the proven. Increasingly close attention is being paid to EC Directives for the safeguarding of personal data. Moreover, personnel security measures in India, following the events of last November, are now starting to match and even exceed those commonly used in the UK.
The best Indian practitioners appreciate that 'application security' is a critical business requirement, and check for vulnerabilities at every stage – from design to support. For example, once development has been completed offshore – and before UK go-live - source code can be subjected to a comprehensive (and independent) security review.
So if you are feeling the credit crunch, perhaps it's time for a fresh look at what India has to offer, and to update yourself on what India has been doing to address issues such as security and agile development.
As always, our jobs come down to balancing risk on one side and cost/value on the other. Revisiting your offshoring strategy, however, could be one way of putting more days back into that stretched IT budget, especially if you are willing to take a fresh, unblinkered look at what is on offer.
Related business analysis from Capgemini


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We treat a wide range of problems here at Emersons Green Chiropractic Clinic, and see a range of patients from old age pensioners to athletes with sports injuries
Here are a few of the common ailments we see on a daily basis, which can be treated with chiropractic.
Knee and Hip Pain
Knee and hip pain can severely limit your lifestyle making it difficult to stand and walk, thus affecting everyday activities such as walking around at work, shopping, household chores and exercise. If left untreated it can eventually lead to problems in other areas of the body including lower back pain. These joints are quite complex and pain may be caused by several different factors.
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Neck Pain
Mechanical neck pain is a very common symptom of our increasingly sedentary and desk-based lives. It can have several components including but not limited to the joints, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and intervertebral discs. Posture, work-life, stress and trauma (whiplash and associated disorders, for example) can all contribute to symptoms in the neck.
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Low back pain
Low back pain is the most common presenting complaint we see here at Emersons Green Chiropractic Clinic. During your first appointment we will perform a detailed physical examination including reflexes, muscle strength, range of motion, sensation, functional muscle & orthopaedic tests to help formulate an accurate diagnosis as there are multiple anatomical structures that can cause your back pain.
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Headaches are complex and can have many causes. They can be classified as Tension Headache, Cervicogenic Headache (literally 'headache with origin from the neck') and Migraine Headache as well as others. Headaches are never 'normal' but are rarely sinister. Much research has been undertaken to attempt to explain the many causative factors and presentations of headaches.
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Shoulder Pain
The shoulder is a very mobile joint with a high level of internal co-ordination. If some of those internal components change or become dysfunctional, pain and decreased movement can occur.
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District Sports Page — Complete Coverage Of Washington, D.C. Sports By Neighborhood Writers
The Ottawa Sportspage is printed on the first Tuesday of the month and is delivered to the areas listed under as well as a lot of more higher schools, club facilities, clinics, studios, restaurants, offices, and so forth. First impressions are crucial – especially when it comes to your facebook fan page. You are going to want to locate a sports broadcasting college that utilizes an apprentice/mentor model which specializes in just sports broadcasting in order to have a well-rounded instruction knowledge. Sports photography demands a lot of cropping and with this impressive sensor it is possible to get 100% crops and nevertheless get superb image high quality.
I do NOT want people who access my enterprise page to be able to access my individual web page. In my opinion, white water rafting is the most intense and exhilarating water sports there is to do. Racing down some rapids whilst attempting to manoeuvre the dinghy to stay away from jagged rocks is basically exhausting, and with the water often spilling over in to the boat and the spray going in to your face the activity is made even harder.
With its effectively-created frame, the Mongoose Salvo Sport Dual Suspension has the base and distinct elements that make a actually good mountain bike for any cross-nation mountain biker. They would be excellent at lots of sports events – I wonder if they would be too spooky for the horses. Your most effective option—by far—for realizing your dream of becoming a sports broadcaster is to locate an currently-established expert and become his or her personal student, or apprentice. Most importantly, sports broadcasting apprenticeships enable you to develop your network from day 1.
Your husband and son have offered up on the gun and tennis for an intense sport , but that is a tradeoff you'll take, due to the fact you know that if you ever want to ask a query, go over or share your personal daily interests in sports and recreation, you have discovered the ideal spot to do it here on HubPages. An electric mountain bike could appear like an odd selection at very first, but they have their utility. There are a lot of great sports photography lenses obtainable for all brands and models of digital slr camera. Joined Sports Radio WNML as the everyday host of the News Sentinel Sports Page" in October of 2010.
From the USA to the Far East to Europe, there are numerous places to have a go at white water rafting so you can not use a lack of possibilities as an excuse not to give this activity a try. Though sports broadcasting apprenticeships naturally location you in a position for consideration when jobs turn into available, you can by no means predict when these openings will happen.


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Okay- so we always go to aberdeen mall, and I happen to have loved the previous restaurant here, called Aoyama Cafe? I don't know why it's gone 😦 but it's now replaced with Baker One. Although they have a somewhat similar menu, it's not the same! The afternoon is packed with people as they have a really crazy ridiculous small dessert and tea deal (i think it's like a few bucks only and you get a few mini cakes with coffee). But dinner was rather quiet. The soup and red tea was really watered down and bland. Dishes were just mediocre…I enjoyed my salmon mushroom dish, but my other two guests at this restaurant weren't THRILLED with their dish. It was a bit on the bland side too.
Final verdict? I don't think I will come back unless I'm super desperate at Aberdeen for food, and the amazing food court is miraculously shut down.


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I Feel Great
Love this commercial!!!
Monday, December 18, 2006
I Feel Great!!!!!!!!!
Posted by John Nevarez at 5:23 PM
4 comments:
- Brutus said...
Hello John, love your Art
and all the blogs you post.
Great work!
That commercial is too funny..now I feel great!
- 3:07 AM, December 19, 2006
- Gillian said...
Oh shit! I forgot about this commercial!!! yea still funny as hell.
thanks for the link!!! ah memories
- 9:51 AM, December 19, 2006
- K McLeod said...
That's just Silly! But Real funny.
- 2:44 PM, December 20, 2006
- Doron Meir said...
Definitely one of my all-time favorites. A bit of trivia - I noticed that one of the "My name is Earl" episodes was shot in that same office with some of the same characters hanging around...
- 10:41 AM, December 21, 2006
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The Rams had a £250,00 bid for the 6ft 4in forward turned down last month but raised their offer for the highly-rated 22-year-old, who has signed a four-year contract.
Dickinson scored 21 goals last season including one in the play-off final victory against Rochdale.
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Digital procurement: Doing more with less
The adoption of digital procurement tools and platforms can help to create new efficiency and transparency for government organisations, says Dan Quinn of BravoSolution MENA/Tejari
We are currently experiencing a revolutionary digital transformation the world over. In the Middle East, digital technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) are deeply transforming businesses and governments. It is apparent that this technology and digital transformation is becoming increasingly crucial for competitiveness and economic growth in the region, and capitalizing on this has the potential to add trillions to the GDP of economies and revenues of companies operating in the region.
The proliferation of digital transformation initiatives across the Middle East spurs spending on IoT. According to IDC, the premier global provider of market intelligence for IT, IT spending in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) is forecast to increase to total $243 billion in 2017. This is following a tough economic year during 2016 caused by market volatility and low oil prices.
An economic slowdown presents an opportunity for companies to invest in strategic technologies that ultimately bring down costs in the long-term and drive growth and ROI. Technology enables productivity, and productivity is at the core of economic growth, i.e. 'doing more with less'.
If technology is at the heart of productivity, then the procurement function are the lungs of it. Procurement manages the acquisition of assets and the management of service organisations in meeting their mission requirements.
Both technology and procurement can and should work hand-in-hand to drive value for governments and businesses. This is because it has the power to impact spend across every operating arm of a business. In tough times, forward-thinking organisations invest in procurement to reduce spend across all areas of their business without compromising on quality.
Procurement drives value in a number of ways, it helps organisations identify sources of additional value, to unlock that value, and retain it within the organisation. Even a slight reduction in overall spend which can be achieved through procurement excellence can impact the bottom line for the better.
In fact, according to McKinsey & Company, a 1% reduction on spend through procurement excellence can yield a 5% bottom-line improvement for organizations. Government procurement/spend is a large and important part of a nation's GDP, and is therefore a tool for managing the macro-economy.
Due to this, there has been a great deal of innovation in procurement technologies that drive value in both public and private sectors. In particular, these digital innovations increase transparency and productivity while engaging healthy competition. Very importantly, and all at the same time, organisational fraud, corruption and risk is reduced.
Digital innovation comes in all shapes and sizes, and those that are proven to impact the bottom line have the greatest influence in positively contributing towards the growing economy — organisations that make strategic IT investments considerably strengthen their business outlook. The Middle East's hunger for innovation makes it particularly well-positioned to reap the benefits of digital opportunities and in doing so, sets the region on an exciting path of continual economic growth.
Dan Quinn is Senior Vice President at BravoSolution MENA/Tejari


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The National Museum hosted a varied Saturday afternoon crowd,
with several jeepneys and buses parked out front and several groups waiting to get inside.
October is Museums and Galleries Month.
The National Museum and its branches around the country will be giving free admission for the entire month. [2013]
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Rick Blechta, Aline Templeton, Vicki Delany, Frankie Bailey, John Corrigan, Barbara Fradkin, Donis Casey, Charlotte Hinger, Mario Acevedo, Sybil Johnson, and Thomas Kies — always ready to Type M for MURDER. "One of 100 Best Creative Writing Blogs." — Colleges Online. "Typing" since 2006!
Sunday, April 04, 2010
How ideas fly in...
People often ask, "where do your ideas come from?" and my response is always the same. Not a clue. Some incident will prompt a moment of introspection, or someone will relate a story that makes me wonder about possibilities.
Growing up near Belfast and being exposed the ongoing maelstrom of violence makes me question why I survived and others didn't. Everyone has a story to tell; about the time they were late to the pub, late to the store, switched shifts, and managed to escape the transition of a building to a pile of burning rubble via car bomb, etc. And so to my latest story, Raven's Shadow.
The core of the story, triggered by a newspaper article and fairly apropos these days, is about the absolute faith we place in physicians. You gets some tests done, you get the news that you have cancer and only a few months left on your dance card, and that you should put your affairs in order. For a dying man, who is in relatively good health, the branch hanging from the bank is a costly, experimental treatment in a clinic in Costa Rica. With money being no object, you set sail, never knowing that you are about to partake in the biggest scam of your life. Which one of us, if presented with such a scenario, would not fling themselves headlong into the nearest plane?
There are many layers wrapped around this, but that was the core of the new book, along with the usual sex and violence, of course. With medical tourism ever expanding these days; a trip to India for a hip replacement and a vacation, or Mexico for cosmetic surgery, or China for a kidney, the opportunities for criminals to exploit people at their most vulnerable continues to grow. The recent case in New Jersey (hardly a surprise) of the funeral home attendants who were removing bones from cadavers and replacing them with bits of piping stills creeps me out, but is another example of the high, black-market demand for organs and bone grafts. It seems that criminal enterprise is alive and well, and all-pervasive.
Alastair Cooke, the veteran BBC broadcaster, is probably spinning in his grave, knowing that his bones are spinning somewhere else…
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I went for a stroll this beautiful early spring day in the woods (see all the trees in the background), and I came across an enchanted Polaroid tree. I was able to pluck 3 cameras from it's thorny branches all for your photographic pleasure. Want to get a party started? Bring a Polaroid! Want to print dirty photos and not have everyone at the Walmart photolab see? POLAROID.
I know this is a dumb post guys, I need a coffee or a drink or something...but the cameras are still cool.


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CS 351 Assignment 7: 3D Viewing & Modeling
Justin Russell, Nicki Ciociolo-Hinkell, & Adam Lowenstein
In this assignment, we created a three-dimensional modeling system and used it to create basic 3D shapes. We added a z-coordinate to our 2D matrix transformations (translate, shear, rotate, etc.) and also created a new structure, PerspectiveView, that defines the view window and perspective vectors. Then, in order to convert 3D matrices to actual images, we created a function for generating a three-dimensional perspective viewing pipeline. This function, Matrix_set3dView(), takes a Matrix object and a PerspectiveView object as parameters.
In implementing our code, we tested two different versions of code provided by Professor Maxwell. Both codes drew a simple cube, and in each code, the rotation of the cube around the y-axis was controlled by a command line argument in degrees. The following two images show the non-modular code at 0 degrees (no command line arguments)...
...and at 234 degrees of rotation:
The final aspect of the project involved generating our own shapes. Each member of the group created their own three-dimensional object and turned it into an animation. These images are shown below.
As described earlier, the only new structure that we defined was PerspectiveView. PerspectiveView has a field for a Point (for the view reference point), two Vectors (the view plane normal and the view up vector), five doubles (d, the distance in the z-direction of the center of projection; du and dv, the width and height of the view window, respectively; and f and b, the front and back clip planes), and two integers (screenx and screeny, the screen coordinate size).
Most of the coding time in this project was spent creating the Matrix_set3dView() function, which took a PerspectiveView object as one of its parameters (the other parameter being a view transformation matrix, or VTM). Once we had defined the PerspectiveView structure and implemented our three-dimensional module and matrix transformations, we tested our implementations using Professor Maxwell's test code. The non-modular test code is shown above (in white), while the modular version is shown below (in yellow). The first image is a cube rotated at 0 degrees:
...and the second is rotated at 75 degrees:
After successfully generating these images, we then altered Professor Maxwell's test code to create our own shapes and animations. These pictures are show below.
Algorithms & Pictures
The following image was created by Nicki: This shape started as the default cube and I simply modified side lengths to get a nifty prism-type object. When rotating, there are points at which it looks entirely different from itself. It is a simple but nifty graphic to toy with.
The following image was created by Justin: Here we see an animated gif which showcases the process of 3D hierarchical modeling. The ninja depicted performing his hurricane kick (SHORYUKEN!!!) is a composition of lines created in a three dimensional space rendered in two dimensions using a one point projection. I defined his motion through a series of rotations and transformations - to create each frame the ninja's center is translated back to the origin, rotated some amount and finally translated to its new location. For this particular scene the center of projection is fairly close to view reference point, and both are close to the ninja in relation to his size, which highlights the effects of the projection process as the ninja flies toward the view window.
The following image was created by Adam: This image shows an idyllic country cottage illuminated by the moon (not pictured) at night. The most striking feature of this rustic cottage is its chimney, which appears to be sitting on the roof but is actually hovering exactly where the roof would be. This image was created by modifying the test code provided by Professor Maxwell and placing the code within a "for" loop to create a series of pictures that, when put together in sequence, form an animation. In the animation, the cottage rotates around the y-axis, requiring a translation back to the origin, a rotation, and a retranslation back to the center of the image for every sequence of rotation.
Though this project did not require as much altering of our libraries as certain previous projects have, the material that we learned in this project will prove invaluable. We used everything that we'd learned over the course of the year (lines, points, matrices, and modules, to name a few) and combined it with the newly-learned 3D transformations and perspectives to create a complex and powerful new set of tools.


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Debord and Bloom
Ah Bloomsday, when the nation's aspirational literati turn out to celebrate that most triumphal portrayal of stumblings, ramblings, black pudding and a cheery disdain for all punctuation both necessary and superfluous, that most revered portrait of Dublin written carefully some 787km away in self-imposed exile in Paris.
To celebrate the day and its true Parisian origins, members of the self-described Dublin Psychogeographical Society set out to faithfully recreate the famous walk of Leopold Bloom, but in Paris.
Starting courtesy of Ryanair and appropriately enough at the James Joyce Pub, the first two parts of their step-by-step pub crawl/literary reenactment, with suitable Situationist commentary, are available online, and it all makes a rather nice change from endless interviews with David Norris.
(via Irish Left Review)
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As you enter my classroom with year, my purpose for teaching is framed on my door. I think we all need a reminder once in a while of why we do what we do, especially on our toughest days. This purpose expresses a part of my heart and it is nice to share with the students, staff and visitors before they enter my classroom. My purpose all welcomes visitors to my school website through a Voki Presenter presentation.
The theme of our school has been "SOAR," due to a song I wrote for our teachers and staff to perform at our districts convocation in 2014. This song has become the framework of goals, discipline, motivation and attitude among the staff and students at our school. This year, my classroom expectations were created in reference to "SOAR."
Learning Essential Questions have replaced the "I Can..." statements in my classroom. These questions set the tone and guide the lesson (or unit) we are working on. At the end of the lesson or unit, we discuss the question, which provides students a time to reflect on their learner and deepen their thinking through the higher order thinking processes.
This little corner in my classroom provides students with references to their grade level core words and school- wide thinking maps initiative.
My musical element, note vocabulary, and Bloom's posters are displayed to allow students to reference them at any time. I am especially fond of my Bloom's posters, as they were created with a musical theme!
This is my reading nook! I love this. My rocking chair is just to the left of the bookcase. I haven't spent that music time here yet this year, but I love integrating books in to my lessons, so I am sure I will get to enjoy my rocker more soon!


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Help! LR Question Stem - Read BEFORE stimulus or AFTER?
August 18, 2011, 06:22:39 PM »
Hello! I'm new to this forum, and I have an important question that's been boggling my mind lately.
I've completed the Princeton Review and Kaplan courses (thanks to waivers), and each told me to read the stem before the stimulus. I then did a Testmaster's course (again, thanks to a waiver), which instructed me to read the stimulus first. I've experimented with both, and I seem to be able to finish the LR sections quicker by reading the stimulus first but at the expense of accuracy. My test is in October, and I still can't decide which to use. To be honest, it's making me panic a bit since the exact order in which you tackle each question will dictate your performance on them.
For anyone who is scoring in the >160s: which approach do you use, and why?
Thanks again for any help - I appreciate it.
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August 18, 2011, 09:17:16 PM »
I trust the powerscore bibles when they say its never a good idea to read the stem first. They give five good reasons why to always read the stimulus first. One is simply time management. They say that studies indicate that if you read the stem first, you read the stimulus second, and often times you go ahead and read the stem another time. Which is just wasting time you dont have to waste. The second reason is that some stimuli have two questions which each have their own question stems. Then you will be concentating on finding the answer to the first question stem while reading the stimulus, and not concentrating on understanding the stimulus as a whole, which causes you to have to read the stimulus again to answer the second question stem. There are 3 other reasons for why you should read the stimulus first, but I dont have my lr bible with me to explain them properly. But, those two reasons by themselves should be convincing enough.
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August 19, 2011, 10:13:35 AM »
I'm currently in the low 170s UN-TIMED and low 160s TIMED. I'm in the early-mid stages of my fundamentals study. So that being said, give more weight to what others with more experience say.
I went through the Princeton Review (Cracking the LSAT... which I detested) and all three Kaplan books (which I am loving). I have also been using the Question Stem First method. I'm currently getting around 90% accuracy at around 1.5-2.5 min. (sometimes more, sometimes way less) in the LR section.
I think if you honestly followed the Stem 1st - Stimulus 2nd - Prediction - Evaluate Answers method exactly and efficiently you may be better off but ONLY if you follow it exactly. If you find you are reading everything twice, that rotation/method is breaking down and causing inefficiency. If this is your nature then it may be better to read Stimulus 1st. Note that just because your time is not currently ideal doesn't mean you won't bring it down - with more untimed practice and exposure to all things LSAT and your given method your time will naturally go down.
If you want I can share some examples where I really do think Stem first is, without a shadow a doubt, more efficient than reading stimulus first.
Regardless, if you do Stem first I would highly recommend the following (these things were not mentioned in the Kaplan books however I have found they are very helpful).
- When you ID the question, write a shorthand letter that helps remind you of what your task is. That is, if you ID the question to a Strengthen question I will write "S" next to the stem. This may help avoid re-reading the stem again and will also remind you of your task when reviewing answer choices. This should take less than 1 second of you time and may give back several seconds - especially if you tend to forget/get lost in the answer choices of your task.
- Depending on the question type (I usually do this only for questions types I tend to get wrong or are convoluted) I will write a shorthand of what the Correct answer will be AND what the Wrong answers MAY be (you should always be on the look out for common wrong answers so I don't bother writing those here). For instance, if you are in a "LEAST Strengthens" question type, I will shorthand by writing a Check Mark (for correct answer) and "W or Null Set" next to it (W for Weakening and Null set, a 0 with a slash through it, to indicate it has no affect on the argument). I will also write "X" (for incorrect answer) and "S" next to it. This, again, should not take more than 5 seconds to complete and will definitely pay off.
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Boulevardia festival will feature 11 food trucks
Heading to Boulevardia this weekend? You'll need grub to go with all that Boulevard beer. Here are 11 food trucks that will be parked at the West Bottoms street festival.
The Moose Truck: This truck from KC Hopps has a menu that changes with every event. Expect anything from all-American corn dogs and Philly cheesesteaks to barbecue burnt ends, Mexican tamales and small plates such as Moroccan-spiced lamb meatballs. On Twitter: @MooseTruck.
Wilma's Real Good Food: Comfort food with a twist is the specialty at Wilma's Real Good Food. Recent menu items have included meatloaf sliders, bourbon-pecan pulled pork sandwiches and lobster croquettes. On Twitter: @wilmasgoodfood.
Scimeca's Italian Sausage: Scimeca's is known for its fennel-flecked Italian sausage, served on pillow-y buns with grilled onions and peppers. The Kansas City company has been in the sausage business since 1935.
Poppin Joe's Gourmet Kettle Korn: Follow your nose to Poppin Joe's Gourmet Kettle Korn, which serves five flavors of the sweet-and-salty snack: original, cinnamon, cheese, caramel and white cheddar. On Twitter: @PoppinJoes.
Taco Republic Truck: Street tacos made with soft white corn tortillas are served by this food truck from Taco Republic in Kansas City, Kan. Try the cochinita pibil tacos, stuffed with roasted marinated pork, pickled onions and tostones, or fried plantain slices. Taco Republic Truck also serves chips with salsa, guacamole or cheese dip. On Twitter: @TacoRepubTruck.
Street Wings KC: Whether you like your chicken wings hot or mild, spicy or sweet, Street Wings KC has you covered. The food truck also serves experimental menu items such as Buffalo tater tots and chorizostuffed wings. On Twitter: @StreetWingsKC.
Boyer's Artisan Meatballs: This food tent makes 50 types of meatballs, from mozzarella-stuffed Italian to Thai chicken peanut and KC-style barbecue. Boyer's has also been known to serve fried meatballs on a stick and meat-free Caribbean and falafel balls. On Twitter: @BoyersMeatballs.
Plantain District: This Cuban food truck is known for Cuban sandwiches topped with house-made pickles, Cuban chili dogs and barbecue sliders. On Twitter: @PlantainDistKC.
Pie Hole: Stuff your pie hole with Australian meat pies at Pie Hole. The handheld, flaky pastries are filled with a variety of meats and vegetables. Try the Swagger Daddy, stuffed with steak, mushrooms, onions and gravy. On Twitter: @PieHoleKC.
Iggy's GreenGo: This new food truck from the Salty Iguana Mexican Restaurant serves cheese dip, street tacos and other Mexican-inspired snacks such as carne asada fries. On Twitter: @IggysGreenGo.
Jerusalem Cafe: This food truck serves some of the same food you can order from the Westport restaurant with the same name. The menu features gyros, schwarma, kebabs, falafel and hummus. On Twitter: @Jerusalem_Cafe.
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Shopaholics take note! Each year, the island nation of Singapore celebrates its favorite national pastime with an eight week long national sale. This year's event will run from May 29th through July 26th and will touch every merchandizing venue possible. Stores stay open until midnight or even later, the sale prices are substantially lower than regular prices and the cultural and shopping events make this an experience of a lifetime.
Heavily populated with shopping malls, shopping centres and one of the largest shopping districts in the world, Singapore is well-suited to hosting this consumer carnival. Vouchers are made available at the official website (http://www.greatsingaporesale.com.sg) as well as by specific stores and shopping centres.
Boutiques, designer labels, traditional arts and crafts, antiques, books, electronics, shoes, cosmetics, perfumes are all up for grabs in this feeding frenzy of commercialism. Organized jointly by the Department of Tourism and the Singapore Retailers Association, every effort is made to make tourists from around the globe feel welcome. Hotel rooms are booked months in advance. Australians are the number one shopping guest, followed by travelers from Indonesia and Malaysia. Surprisingly, the next category of early hotel reservations comes from the people of Singapore themselves. It really is a bit of a national holiday. After the people of Singapore, shoppers fly in from India, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the United States of America, Thailand and Germany, in that order.
Visitors are encouraged to take advantage of the special "Tourist Privilege Card" which can be acquired at any SingaporeVisitorCenter. The Tourist Privilege Card grants tourists special discounts and shopping opportunities for items that include cosmetics, fragrances, watches, jewellery, clothing, fashion accessories, electronics, toys and souvenirs, in addition to wellness experiences, entertainment, gourmet dining and nightlife adventures.. The Card also grants discounts for activities offered by Singapore DUCK tours, DHL Balloon and the Singapore Zoo. Foreign visitors must present their passport to receive the discounts.
Coinciding with the Great Singapore Sale is the Singapore Food Festival, offered each July. Really, if you only go to Singapore once in your life, this would have to be the time to go. Delicious traditional delectables such as Hainanese Chicken Rice and the infamous Chili Crab are just small nibbles of the epicurean delights tourists and locals alike can sample during this festive period.
One of the all-time favorite activities of the Great Singapore Sale is the Great Singapore Shopping Challenge. This is a shopping event in which teams of two are given shopping lists and a budget. The team who finds the best bargains within the time limit wins cash prizes and get to keep their purchases!
This summer long shoppers dream come true is made even more entertaining with numerous raffles, competitions and live entertainment. You will need to take cover in any of the air-conditioned malls and shopping centres if you are not accustomed to the hot, wet weather Singapore experiences this time of year, but you are sure to find plenty of refreshing beverages, spas, beauty treatments, massage services and even a cocktail or two, to help you get acclimated.
So, pack your bags, reserve that hotel and flight NOW and join in the fun at the Great Singapore Sale!