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Hard tags
RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) is a technology that uses radio signals for identifying, tracking and tracing of objects, animals or persons. For this RFID tags - also called RFID chips - are used. RFID tags contain a unique code on which data can be stored. This data is read by a reading device, called the RFID reader. The basis of every RFID tag is a tiny RFID chip, which contains a communication and memory module. To the chip an antenna is connected. In most cases the size of the antenna determines the reading distance: the larger the antenna, the larger the reading distance.
The simplest tag form is an "inlay". This raw form can be incorporated in a housing suitable for the required application. The most common forms are labels and rugged tags (tags in a robust housing which are suitable for use in the most aggressive environments). Rugged tags are very suitable for use on RTIs (Returnable Transport Items).
Standard or customised
For its RFID solutions Aucxis always selects the most suitable tag. In many cases tags are readily available on the market, but sometimes there is a need for customisation. For instance if the client has specific wishes (imprint, dimensions, colour, material) or if environmental factors are an issue (Atex, temperature, pressure, dust, ...).
Aucxis has already developed various RFID labels and tags on customer request. Examples are pallet labels, pallet tags, asset labels, tags for fish boxes. The Aucxis C-Tag can be perfectly integrated in a plastic box.


text: The issue of big money in education can be viewed in two ways: first, individuals and corporations use large contributions to legislators and other state officials to lobby for laws and statutes that will benefit themselves; and second, individuals and corporations find ways to take advantage of the large amounts of state and federal money tied up in education. The first post of this series on big money in education addressed the first issue, relationships between wealthy individuals, corporations and legislators. The second post, on charter schools, and this post on school vouchers examine the second type of money's influence in education.

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Well that time of year is just around the corner, the tree is up, the house is decorated with tinsel, baubles, Father Christmas' in various shapes and sizes and Christmas cards are everywhere.
I have always loved this time of year and as a little girl my mum tells me I always wanted to go to bed as very early on Christmas Eve so that Father Christmas would come as soon as possible. Now it is my daughters turn, as Chloe is now 2 she is getting to the age where she is finding the twinkling lights and decorations exciting, laughing at the jolly Father Christmas' and trying to unwrap all of my beautifully wrapped presents for the family.
Christmas has got a great air of excitement about it for my family and I this year, as it is all about the little ones really isn't it? Seeing their joy at the mountain of presents under the Christmas tree and their eyes popping out at all of the delicious food on offer.
I hope you are enjoying the run up to Christmas too this year, I have found it rather stress free – I have done a lot of internet shopping which does make life so easy doesn't it- particularly as I have been able to buy gifts from my I phone too.
Debenhams is THE place to go for gifts for the whole family and it has certainly made my life easy- I have shopped for Great Aunts, cousins, grandparents, nieces and nephews and my husband all from Debenhams. Christmas is about enjoying the time with your family so make sure you make your life as easy as possible with all of that gift buying and take a look at what Debenhams has to offer.


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pineapple cheesy chili
This is one of my go-to recipes. It is so easy to make and is mostly from cans so it's great to have in food storage. Also, it's G O O D! This recipe has won two chili contests and I think it's because of the pineapple. I actually can't take credit for the pineapple addition, that is my husband's secret ingredient.
Pineapple Cheesy Chili
1 medium onion chopped
1 can of chili beans (undrained)
1 can of pinto beans (drained)
1 can of black beans (drained)
1 can of corn (drained)
1 can of chopped tomatoes (undrained)
1 pkg of dry ranch dressing mix
1 pkg taco seasoning mix
1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 can of pineapple tidbits (mostly drained)
Combine all of the ingredients in a saucepan and simmer for 1 hour. You could also use this in a slow cooker, I personally have never done it in a slow cooker, but I'm sure it would work great... it would just take longer than an hour.
Top with some extra cheese and mini saltines or corn chips.


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Top wicket-takers in Vivo IPL 2018
Straight Drive posted a topic in IPL Forum4 pacers and 4 spinners in top 8 so far.
CSK Magnificent 11 !!!
Straight Drive posted a topic in IPL ForumBATSMEN: FAF, MURALI VIJAY, SURESH RAINA, KEDAR JADHAV, DHRUV SHOREY, CHAITANYA BISHNOI. WICKET KEEPERS: DHONI, RAYUDU, SAM BILLINGS, N JAGDEESHAN ALL ROUNDERS: JADEJA, SHANE WATSON, BRAVO, MITCHELL SANTNER,KSHITIZ SHARMA BOWLERS: SHARDUL THAKUR, KARN SHARMA,HARBHAJAN SINGH, MARK WOOD, DEEPAK CHAHAR, KANISHK SETH, MONU SINGH, LUNGISANI NGIDI, ASIF K M I think CSK would play following playing 11: WATSON MURALI VIJAY FAF RAINA KEDAR JADHAV DHONI BRAVO JADEJA HARBHAJAN THAKUR MARK WOOD What do you think would be CSK's playing 11 ?
Batsman have taken special liking towards Mohit Sharma's bowling as he features in 3 such spells in 4 matches. Great stuff by the batters to find the weaklink and execute the tonking.
Buffet bowlers in IPL 2018
Straight Drive posted a topic in IPL Forum1. Mohit Sharma 2. Dwayne Bravo 3. Basil Thampi 4. Avesh Khan 5. Corey Anderson 6. Sran 7. Mohd. Shami 8. Mohd. Siraj 9. Unadkut 10. Curran 11. Woakes 12. Plunkett 13. Morris 14. Johnson Any one else who deserves to be in the list.
Here are some overs where batsmen have taken the bowlers to cleaners with some exceptional hitting. Having 22 runs scored off an over as criteria to be categorized as tonked. Wonderful to see the talent being showcased by batsman as well as presence of mind. Some batsman are waiting on the back foot and as soon as fast bouncer is bowled they are just using the pace to guide it over third man for six. Sanju Samson has shown exceptional timing against spinners as well. Chris Gayle has been ruthless tonking the spinners and pacers for huge sixers.He just likes to thrash the bowlers by scoring 50's and 100's, doesn't he. Someone said it was his 12th T20 ton.Amazing batsman. Ripped off Deepak Chahars bowling.That was sensational batting.More sensational was him tonking the T20 specialist Rashid Khan.Liked that effort more than hitting the inexperienced bowler. Rahul has been sensational, just caressed the ball into the gaps with nice touch and timing.At times he has used the tonks as well.Shocking why he isnt in all playing 11's in shorter formats. Hope we get to see some more talented batsman who can rip off the bowlers in a matter of one over. Need some quality batsmen for shorter formats.
Best bowling performances in IPL 2018
Straight Drive posted a topic in IPL ForumAt least one of the following filter will apply to qualify for the listing in best performances. We do not want every Tom, Dick and Harry. Only the top performers, hence the filter is strict. Yet, we are having a good number of best bowling spells so far. 1. Minimum 3 wickets in one bowling innings and conceded less than 28 runs. 2. Minimum 4 wickets on one bowling innings and conceded less than 40 runs . 3. 5 wickets in an innings and conceded less than 55 runs. 4. 6 or more wickets and conceded less than 60 runs. Let's see which bowler is giving good number of wickets in an innings while choking runs. Bowlers who qualify in both expectations ( wickets while choking runs) are the better ones than those who just pick wicket but leak relatively more runs or just choke runs but pick no wickets. A lot of Indian bowlers in the list so far, which is a very good sign. Mayank Markande is the leader of bowlers in IPL so far with 2 such great bowling performances. Well done Kiddo.
RCB Playing 11
Straight Drive posted a topic in IPL ForumBATSMEN: VIRAT ,ABD ,SARFRAZ , MCCULLUM, MANDEEP SINGH, MANAN VOHRA, ANIRUDHA JOSHI, PAVAN DESHPANDE WICKET KEEPERS: QUINTON, PARTHIV PATEL ALL ROUNDERS: WOAKES ,WASHINGTON SUNDAR ,CDG ,MOEEN, YUZVENDRA CHAHAL, PAWAN NEGI BOWLERS: UMESH YADAV, NAVDEEP SAINI , SIRAJ ,MURUGAN ASHWIN ,NCN ,TIM SOUTHEE ,KULWANT KHEJROLIYA, ANIKET CHOUDHARY I think the playing 11 would be as follows: MANDEEP SINGH QUINTON VIRAT ABD SARFRAZ WOAKES (Woakes as first choice. CDG / MOEEN as backup options) PAVAN NEGI SOUTHEE (NCN is injured) WASHINGTON SUNDAR YUZVENDRA CHAHAL UMESH YADAV / NAVDEEP SAINI / SIRAJ What the team gets: (1) Attacking openers. (Virat gets some cover from new ball. Mandeep can be given role of quick scorer) (2) Strong middle order as well as depth in batting upto No. 9. NCN can play cameos, Sundar can bat a bit) (3) Pace attack of 3 bowlers (NCN, Yadav & Woakes. NCN is a strike bowlers as opener and bowls at good pace in 140's. Umesh Yadav is weak link. Woakes will give 4 overs most of the times. Reliable spin combination) What do you think the playing 11 would be ?
RR Playing 11
Straight Drive posted a topic in IPL ForumBATSMEN: Ajinkya Rahane, D'Arcy Short, Rahul Tripathi,Steven Smith, Aryaman Birla. WICKET KEEPERS: Jos Buttler, Sanju Samson, Prashant Chopra. AllROUNDERS: Ben Stokes, Stuart Binny, Jofra Archer, K Gowtham, Jatin Saxena, Mahipal Lomror. BOWLERS: Anureet Singh, Jaydev Unadkat, Dhawal Kulkarni,Zahir Khan, Shreyas Gopal, Midhun S, Ankit Sharma, Dushmantha Chameera, Ben Laughlin IMO Rajasthan Royals would field the following playing 11: AJINKYA RAHANE RAHUL TRIPATHI STEVEN SMITH SANJU SAMSON JOS BUTLER (WK) BEN STOKES GOWTHAM KRISHNAPPA JOFRA ARCHER SHREYAS GOPAL DHAWAL KULKARNI JAYDEV UNADKAT What do you think would be RR's playing 11?
K11P Playing 11
Straight Drive posted a topic in IPL ForumBATSMEN: KL Rahul,Karun Nair, Aaron Finch, Christopher Gayle,David Miller,Akshdeep Nath, Manoj Tiwary, Mayank Agarwal ALLROUNDERS: Axar Patel,Andrew Tye, Marcus Stoinis,Yuvraj Singh, Manzoor Dar, Pardeep Sahu. BOWLERS: Ravichandran Ashwin,Mujeeb Zadran, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Mohit Sharma, Barinder Singh Sran,Mayank Dagar,Ben Dwarshuis My guess is that K11P would field the following playing 11: RAHUL (WK) FINCH KARUN NAIR YUVRAJ SINGH DAVID MILLER MARCUS STOINIS AXAR PATEL RAVICHANDRAN ASHWIN ANDREW TYE MOHIT SHARMA ANKIT RAJPOOT What do you think would be K11P's playing 11?
DD Playing 11
Straight Drive posted a topic in IPL ForumBATSMEN: Gautam Gambhir, Shreyas Iyer,Colin Munro, Jason Roy, Prithvi Shaw, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Manjot Kalra. WICKET KEEPERS: Rishabh Pant, Naman Ojha. ALLROUNDERS: Glenn Maxwell, Chris Morris, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Daniel Christian, Abhishek Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Harshal Patel. BOWLERS: Amit Mishra, Shahbaz Nadeem, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammad Shami, Trent Boult, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Lamichhane, Sayan Ghosh. I guess Delhi Daredevils will play the following Playing 11: GAUTAM GAMBHIR (C) MUNRO (JASON ROY as backup) RISHABH PANT (WK) SHREYAS IYER GLENN MAXWELL NAMAN OJHA CHRIS MORRIS SHAHBAZ NADEEM AMIT MISHRA RABADA (BOULT as backup) SHAMI Who do you think would be the playing 11 for Delhi Daredevils ?
SRH Playing 11
Straight Drive posted a topic in IPL ForumSquad: BATSMEN: David Warner, Manish Pandey, Shikhar Dhawan, Kane Williamson,Ricky Bhui, Tanmay Agarwal, Sachin Baby. WICKET KEEPERS: Wriddhiman Saha, Shreevats Goswami. ALL ROUNDERS: Deepak Hooda,Carlos Brathwaite, Shakib Al Hasan, Yusuf Pathan, Bipul Sharma, Mohammad Nabi. BOWLERS: Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan Arman, Siddarth Kaul, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Chris Jordan, Basil Thampi, T Natarajan, Syed Mehdi Hasan. I guess following would be SRH's playing 11: WARNER DHAWAN WILLIAMSON PANDEY HOODA SAHA SHAKIB RASHID BHUVI SANDEEP SHARMA KAUL Which Playing 11 do you think SRH would play ?
KKR Playing 11
Straight Drive posted a topic in IPL ForumBATSMEN: Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Cameron Delport, Shubman Gill, Ishank Jaggi, Nitish Rana, Apoorv Wankhade, Rinku Singh, Javon Searless WICKET KEEPER: Dinesh Karthik ALLROUNDER: Andre Russell BOWLERES: Mitchell Starc, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Vinay Kumar, Mitchell Johnson, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav ,Sunil Narine My playing 11 would be: ROBIN CHRIS LYNN NITISH RANA DINESH KARTHIK (WK) SHUBHAM GILL ANDRE RUSELL SUNIL NARINE KULDEEP YADAV PIYUSH CHAWLA MITCHELL STARC KAMLESH NAGARKOTI / SHIVAM MAVI / VINAY KUMAR What do you think will be KKR's playing 11 ?
2018 IPL Champions Playing 11
Straight Drive posted a topic in IPL ForumSQUAD: BATSMEN: Rohit Sharma, Saurabh Tiwary,ean-Paul Duminy, Suryakumar Yadav, Siddhesh Dinesh Lad, Sharad Lumba. ALLROUNDERS: Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya,Kieron Pollard,Anukul Roy, Ben Cutting, J Tajinder Dhillon, WICKET KEEPERS: Ishan Kishan, Aditya Tare BOWLERS: Jasprit Bumrah, Mustafizur Rahman, Rahul Chahar, Pradeep Sangwan, Jason Behrendorff, Pat Cummins, Akila Dhananjaya,Mayank Markande,Nidheesh M D Dinesan,Mohsin Khan. IMO following would be MI's playing 11. EVIN LEWIS ISHAN KISHAN ROHIT SHARMA SURYA KUMAR YADAV KRUNAL PANDYA KIERON POLLARD HARDIK PANDYA RAHUL CHAHAR PAT CUMMINS MUSTAFIZUR JASPRIT BUMRAH What do you think would be MI's playing 11 ?


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As part of the ABF, we were given the opportunity to attend a conference of our choosing on the continent. I'm interested in technology in Africa so the conference I picked was AfricaCom, the largest Africa-focused tech event in the world! It was held in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa, and as expected it was amazing! I had an opportunity to learn more about telecommunications in Africa as well as tech entrepreneurship and the growing media industry on the continent.
It was a huge conference of 10,000+ attendees representing global organizations like Ericsson, Google and Facebook, as well as a large number of African companies and small start-ups. There were three main themes that continued coming up in the different sessions I attended - the need for innovation and adjustment of traditional business models, the growing opportunities in media, and the benefits of social impact.
Traditional telcos in Africa and around the world are seeing revenues from their voice business decrease as more of their customers turn to data. This presents the need to adjust their business models to meet customer demand while maintaining a profitable business, and one such way is by focusing on additional services like digital media. There are also increasing opportunities in fintech, as services like Safaricom's M-Pesa continue to grow in popularity, and reach people who have been left unbanked by traditional banking models. Cryptocurrencies are also gaining more interest as some traditional currencies have proven volatile in recent years. One of the coolest topics was around the wide range of applications in the space of Internet of Things (IoT), especially in the discussion on smart cities (buildings, transport, home, health, education, agriculture).
An area of specific interest for me was around social impact and the way tech entrepreneurs have shown commitment and creativity in solving social issues. Hackathons, coding trainings, and community wifi networks were just some of the initiatives discussed which have made an impact.
I am thankful for the opportunity to attend AfricaCom and I left feeling excited about the potential for transformative tech in Africa.
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I was really excited about last weekend. B and I were celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary (don't bother doing the math, I walked down the aisle almost 8 months pregnant with max)..
It was supposed to be a fun getaway night for us, We were headed to Hood River, but me being lame and not realizing it, made reservations at a hotel in the dalles, I thought it was close, but guess what 25 minutes is not close. The hotel I chose looked great on the website.
I imagined a cool 50's modern vibe, with a pool that overlooked the gorge and a huge porch with a firepit to sip wine on. The reality of the hotel was an updated motel, that smelled likes vicks vap o rub, with a tiny little porch, that overlooked the freeway, the pool that was located in the parking lot, and the view from our room looked out over a mobile home park.... so disappointing. We made the call to leave the hotel, and search out something actually in Hood River, or even back in Portland.
We headed back to Hood River and decided to park and seek out our dinner destination. We didn't really have a plan we just walked around checkin out every ones menus. Taking our time to decide at 8:30pm was not the best idea, by the time we walked back to the restaurant we wanted to go to, they were no longer seating... BLAH. We ended up at a nice enough restaurant, but not where we really wanted to go. Our dinner tasted like old people food.
All the hotels in town were booked, as were all of our McMenamins stand bys... so we made the call at 11:30pm to just head home. We stopped at Voodoo donuts, just because it was late and we thought it would be fun, but the guy in front of us bought the last Maple Bacon bar, and the rest of their donuts suck. Bummer.
Saturday kind of redeemed us. Aunt Jo took the boys to coffee in the morning so we got to sleep in, and we had our coffees delivered. The weather was beautiful, and our neighbors shared their crop of tomatoes and Basil, so we decided to have an eggplant Parmesan throw down, my way versus the traditional way. We loaded up and headed to the farmers market in search of eggplant, and than spent the afternoon cooking. I will post photo's of that later... the eggplant Parmesan was awesome!
Than Sunday, we had to work in the kids community at church, which wasn't bad, but ya know...
After church I convinced B a quick trip to the beach would be awesome. It was rainy and horrible in Portland, We loaded up, took the 1 hour and 45 minute drive and landed in Cannon Beach. Got out of the car to drizzle rain that soaks you to the bone without you even realizing it, but I was convinced this was going to be fun. Headed down to the beach, the tide was way in and there was only about 3 feet of beach in some places. Within 30 seconds Max and I got hit with the biggest sneaker wave ever. Max actually went under the water and got hit against the rocks. The water was up to my waist. It was horrifying. So we went back to the car to calm Max down, dry him off as best we could and change his clothes. B and Ollie didn't get touched (good thing, I don't think Ollie would ever step foot on the beach again if he had gone under a big huge wave).
I had brought a change of clothes for the boys, but no change of clothes for me... BLAH, I was soaked. We decided to just grab lunch and head home. So I sat at Mo's dripping wet, gulped down some chowder and than drove home in a sweatshirt and no pants.... a total of a 5 hour trip... and only 30 seconds on the beach.
I plan on re-doing our anniversary weekend... for all the crap that didn't work out, we still had a good time, and got to laugh about it together!
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Weekend Mis-fire...
I was really excited about last weekend. B and I were celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary (don't bother doing the math, I walked down the aisle almost 8 months pregnant with max)..
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
an apple for the teacher..
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. ..happy.. .
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
destruction and the re-build...
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
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little foodie...
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Max.. .
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Friday, August 6, 2010
.. .personality... .
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freckle twins and lucky toes.. .
Really, how weird is that to have freckles in the exact same, odd spot.
You know what else is special about Ollie, he has crossed toes. The toe next to his big toe, and the one next to that, cross over each other, have since he was a baby. The doctor said as long as it is not bothersome to him, he is fine. I told him it just means he is lucky... and he is one lucky boy.. and I am a lucky mama to have such an awesome little Oliver.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
..weekend.. .
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
want this... .
I can't even get over the amazing illustrations in this book! I know what all my nieces are getting for Christmas! and you know Ollie and Max will totally appreciate this book too, it is mostly for me though!
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Awesome ideas! very useful.
Children who can segment and blend sounds easily are able to use this knowledge when reading and spelling. Segmenting and blending individual sounds can be difficult at the beginning. Our recommendation is to begin with segmenting and blending syllables. Once familiar with that, students will be prepared for instruction and practice with individual sounds.


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Spawned in the steaming ghetto called Trench Town, the Wailers are the masters of reggae; the acknowledged voice of Rastafari is Bob Marley. Brother Bob Marley and the Wailers touch the very core of our psyches and as the musical branches of a growing Caribbean roots consciousness, these brethrens made understandable the foundations of our being. We see ourselves reflected in their music.
Robert Nester Marley, internationally famous superstar was born in 1945, the son of an English army Captain and a Jamaican woman. Bob started singing professionally at the age of fifteen (15), "But why?" "That is a hard question he says, "I couldn't see myself doing anything else, I just like music." In 1963, himself along with Peter McIntosh (later Peter Tosh) and Bunny Livingston (later Bunny Wailer) formed the Wailing Wailers. Two of their earliest hits were "Simmer Down" and "Rude Boy".
In 1967 he did some work with Johnny Nash. Nash came to record in Kingston and later had a series of Reggae singles on the British charts culminating four years later with "Stir It Up" which was written by Bob Marley. 1969 emerged as one of their classic periods. Recorded by the most
famous Reggae producer of them all, Lee "Scratch" Perry, they did two LPs and the singles "Duppy Conqueror" and "Small Axe".
It was at this stage that their Rastafarian religion became the core of their music. Bob Marley believed the concept that His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I as being the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah. He says, "Haile Selassie is the Almighty. We belong to Africa. Everyone in the world will have to respect that. Until we all realize that civilization started from Ethiopia and we multiplied from that and spread out, there will be pure war and our lives will be in torment and vexation. We have to respect Africa to find peace of mind." "The devil may tell you we have no link in Africa but we have to stop letting the devil tell us – white people and black people both – and we have to think for ourselves."
In 1970 they successfully launched their own label, Tuff Gong. Their breakthrough to recognition came when they signed to the British label, "Island", for which they did the albums "Catch A Fire" and "Burning" (including "I Shot The Sheriff" which Eric Clapton made into a…


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Happy Holidays!
Wishing everyone Happy Hay Days and a Happy Neigh Year. 2014 is the year of the horse…get it? (Neigh Year pun courtesy of David Sandlin's holiday card)
Holiday Hours
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8am-midnight Wednesday
9am-midnight Thursday-Saturday
Sunday December 22nd and Monday the 23rd 9am- midnight.
Tuesday 12/24 9am-8pm
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BUSTED: Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Photoshop fail exposed
Prime Minister Scott Morrison uploaded a wholesome pic of his family to his official website - with one creepy detail.
ScoMo, reclining happily with his wife and two daughters, appeared to have two left feet. In the Photoshop sense, anyway:
Turns out the photo was a doctored version of a portrait he had posted at Christmas time, originally featuring some less-pristine footwear:
ScoMo loves a promo opportunity, and quickly responded to the 'scandal' by sharing an image of this "footwear of choice":
A rep for the PM told Ten Daily that the pic "was doctored by the department of Prime Minister and Cabinet" without his knowledge - and that "the PM much prefers his own shoes."
Photos: Scott Morrison / pm.gov.au
That's a lot of binge-watching.
They've discovered our weakness.
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Quaint Old Homes is a society of women that meet every month in each others homes for a luncheon enjoying eachothers company and sharing their homes, creativity and news of upcoming events.
For the month of February we had the pleasure of being invited to a dear friend and neighbor of mine, Terri's home. Terri lives in an exquisite stately house. I get to drive by this beauty everyday on my way home. It takes my breath away each and every time. I gasp walking up the porch steps anxiously awaiting to see what Terri has done to her home this time. She is very creative and has impeccable taste. See for yourself.
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UPDATE: He did it! Jurek set a new supported speed record on the AppalachianTrail (AT) finishing in 46 days, 8 hours, and 7 minutes.
I am a fan of Scott Jurek after I read the book "Born to Run" in 2010. In this book they discuss "the greatest race", a 47 Km ultramarathon held in Copper Canyon (in southwestern Chihuahua, Mexico). However, in all of the book's discussion of the race, no map or visuals are provided. Using the book and Google Earth, I built a "virtual tour of the route" then.
This May 27 through Facebook he published: "Embarking on a big adventure tomorrow, something I've always wanted to do. The time is now!".
After I followed several days, since the DeLorme 2D map in his FB really can not find the actual position, I decided to use my way. At first, I made a 3500km Google Earth 3D tour. I use Scott's icon as runner, along Appalachian trails forward, every one hundred kilometers milestone will display. You can download this KMZ file or watch on youtube as above.
Then, I made a web page to show Scott's footprints. I suggest that you use the Chrome browser, although Chrome no longer supports Google Earth Plugin by the end of 2014, but before closed, Google Earth Plugin is still the world's best 3D presentation.
Now You can press below image to enter web page, but when enter the web page, maybe you can't see Google Earth, it is because Chrome drops support for NPAPI plugins by default. It is still possible to get them back is via a Chrome flag.A Google Earth tour of Scott Jurek running the Appalachian Trail


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Ford C-Max 2012 (12) ZETEC TDCI
- Body TypeMPV
- Mileage98,000 miles
- Fuel TypeDiesel
- TransmissionManual
- Engine Capacity1,560 cc
- CO2119 g/km
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Google blocked my account and mentioned the reason that my account was linked with an account which was previously disabled for the invalid clicks.
I didn't have any other account then how it is possible to be linked with the banned account.
I write an email to them and explained everything in detail and now I am waiting their reply.
Would anyone tell me why my account is blocked and what should I do now. My site was having Adsense for the last 10 months and I never had an account before and my one and only source of traffic was Adwords and I had a lot of investment on it.
Can anyone help me what should I do now.
There may be other possibilities. Wait and see what Google says....
I remember that some days before like 2 weeks I checked my friends Adsense account, which was not opening because it was banned due to some reason. He told me to check his account from my laptop but it was not opening.
That might be the reason?
But I am not related to his account just mistakenly tried to open from my pc because my friend was wanted me to open it. I am responsible for my account only. But I don't know why Google did so with me. I got a $$$$ dollars loss.
Can google show me any sympathy to reopen my account because I am not directly involve in any invalid click activities or other. Because my major source of traffic is adwords only.
I am still hoping that they will reopen my account because I was going very fair with my account. That's why I was doing investment in it.
Can anyone suggest me what to do now and is there any chance for the reopening of the account.
Hopefully they won't hold it against you that you are friends with someone whose account was disabled.
I sent two Emails to Adsense. I explained them everything especially one and only suspicioius thing to open someones account from my pc, which was banned due to uncertain reason. I hope Adsense will consider my apologies because I did it by chance and didn't know its consequences.
I am very much confirmed that my 90% traffic come from Google Adwords. Google can check the logs for the past several months. I never involved in any illigal activities like self clicking or other. I used to send Emails to Adsense very often in a friendly manner. They always replied politely to all my queries.
I was very happy with them and I still hopeful that they will show me sympathy because I never tried illegal methods, always trusted on the good traffic. I invested in Adwords to get the targetted traffic.
The main thing is that Adsense was my only source of income because I left the job due to Adsense some months before.
I am hopeful that Google Will deal with my case very sympathetically and politely. I did a mistake by chance not willigly.
Thank you for your comments and sympathy
Why did you do that?
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Act now, put some other cpc or cpm program there. It won't be as good as adsense but will keep money coming in.
But if your only source of traffic is adwords then you might be in trouble...
If you're checking your friends adsense accounts with your ip and google cookies then you aren't nearly paranoid enough.
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If your story is valid, there is no reason why they should not allow you back in.
I support others though.. If you quit your job based on a single site running adsense, that was not a wise move.
I think having many revenue streams in order to protect yourself and smooth out the peaks and valleys is very important to sustaining an income. Having just one source of income on one site is playing with fire in a pretty siginificant way.
Your first order business should be to figure out how you can quickly begin monetizing your site again without adsense, and then secondarily work with google to getting back in to adsense.
Thank you all for your reply. I am still waiting their reply and I still have hope that they will treat me sympathetically. Because I never try to go against the Google TOS.
But If mistakenly and unwillingly something wrong has done by me I have apolgized for it.
I am not ready for this big punishment. I have made a lot of investment for the targetted traffic.
My inner is satisfied that I did not violate the Google TOS. So I have a great hopes with Google that they will consider my case sympathetically.
Is there any case like me in which Google reopened the account?
Thanks all
Could it be that one of the accounts you checked got banned and they tracked your IP address and thought you were related to that banned account?
That would be too stupid, as my IP is shared by each and every customer of my ISP, I guess more then 10,000,00 users.
I never involved in any Click fraud or bogus activities. It is still not understandable to me.
They can check the log since the starting of Adsense on my site. I am sure that I never involved in any click fraud activity.
The situation is strange to me. But I still have great hopes with Google that they will save me me from this and reopen my account.
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Any one of these issues might not be enough on its own to get you booted from the network, but if something (such as even a vague association with your friend's disabled account) triggered a manual review, it's understandable that the Google staff might have said, "Jeez, another made-for-AdSense mesothelioma site" and hit the red button. Remember, they can cancel you for any reason without an explanation, just as you can quit for any reason without an explanation. They don't have to prove that you're guilty of a violation; they can simply decide that your made-for-AdSense site about cancer (or whatever topic) reflects badly on the network or is delivering poor value to advertisers.
I don't have any cancer related website. Because I was fond of Adsense like many other people I was just curuios to find which topics are good for the websites (so I previously posted this question in this forum.
Many of the people just make their websites only for the purpose of Adsense Earning. We all know this reality.
To pursuing the good topics of the website does make a sense to be kicked out of Adsense?
Making a Website can be a hobby and if earning involves with the hobby we try to get the good performance and results from our hobby because this is our source of earning too. And for this if we find the good keywords for good results then I think its not a big deal.
Regarding the Labelling question. It is very important for us to know exactly what the means of Labelling and how it should be used with the Google end.
So to get rid the confusion and get the clarification I asked this question in this forum. It does not meant that I wanted to violate the Google TOS.
By knowing all about my situation is there any chance that Google will forgive me for my unwanted and unwilling crime. Should I expect any mercy from Google.
It's about time for Google to start getting on the case of MFA sites and rewarding sites that don't spend all their time looking for high paying keywords and making up pages to use them.
If Google starts rewarding real sites that exist to proivide a true service and not just to generate income, maybe they'll get more loyal AdSense users and maybe their advertisers will get a better return on their AdWords investment.
I see no denial forthcoming on whether the site in question here was MFA.
I am sure many people are in the same boat as me. I run a system where my revenue is 100% adsense and it is scary as I am not working and hence this is a pretty fundermental part of my income or rather I hope it will be. Currently I am at about the $1,500 a month level before the rather considerable expenses.
Each time I read a thread like this, you can't help but think about whether lightening might strike yourself :( But it does seem that each time around the poster must actually know their sites are sites that should be banned.
Myself I don't do MFA and just rely on volume, I never see a CTR above 0.0% in the report :D
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I don't have any cancer related Web site
My apologies. I must have been confused by your "carcinoma" example in message #4 of:
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If the only connection is the one he described, attempting to log in to his friend's banned account, then he should send a detailed explanation to Google and maybe he can get back in. If there's more to this story than he has revealed (which in my experience is most of the time), then he should realize that Google are on to him and he should just give up.


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by Jon Schreiber
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Preface from Breema and The Nine Principles of Harmony:
Breema is a teaching of the heart,
an expression of the unifying principle
of Existence.
Its purpose is to create harmony and balance
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and in your relationship to yourself,
to others, and to all life.
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Dear You is going to be heading out on tour in a few weeks and you can check HERE to see if they're going to come to your town. If you love the music and want to see them live, make sure to donate to the band by clicking on this link, so that they can make another album and go on tour again (because they need a longer tour with more venues [Florida venues]). Since it's been a few months since I've had to pay for any books or courses, I'm feeling rich (..relatively.. though I'm sure this last year will try to kill me) and am more than willing to give money to help the band make another album so that I can continue listening to their music.
The guys seem awesome and I'm kind of in love with their music ("16 Miles", "August Almost Broke Me", and "The Way You Left Me" are great) and "If Worries Were Weights" is, in its entirety, amazing. Seriously, making a song and video aimed at reaching out to those who need help is pretty overly great; that alone should convince you that this band needs to keep making music.
So donate if you can (it's hardly anything and you get gifts; you're basically shopping for a good cause) because I'm sure the band has a lot of good music to come.
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At one point in our premarital relationship, my current husband and I were both searching for employment. We extended our search to a neighboring state. My kids told their father that we were looking for jobs in an area about a two hour drive from where we currently lived. I received an angry phone call from him. He ranted for awhile and then finished with, "Over my dead body!" His rancor was wasted, we didn't find employment out of state. I stuck with working as a substitute. My husband found another local maintenance job.
Fast forward … my ex remarried in June of '09, shortly after my MIT graduation. In order to expediate bonding with their new stepmom I agreed to lengthier visits. They spent full weeks with she and their dad. I knew that she owned a house that was in a rural community — a two hour drive away. My ex also still owned the house we had lived in. Since I had custody of the kids I wasn't concerned about the distance between our homes.
Unbeknownst to me, my ex had already put his plans into motion.
2009 was the worst summer of my life. I was without employment, having just graduated with my teaching certification. My current husband was looking for work. My ex had stopped paying child support several months earlier. We were renting a large, beautiful house in a quiet neighborhood and we had to leave it. Fast. Our only decent option was to go live at my mother's house. Not what I wanted to do. I knew how difficult it would be. I cried and cried about it. Not only is my mother a very challenging person, but she lives 6 blocks from my ex. I did not want to return to the neighborhood where I had lived with chaos and abuse. But go, we did.
My ex and I had a telephoned child support hearing during this transitional period. He was livid and put down the phone more than once to walk around and rant to his wife. He specifically told the attorney that if I got the support order he would make my life "shit" and would take the kids from me. Well, guess what?
I bawled my eyes out after that phone call. I knew what he was capable of. I knew how he was about money. Within a month he had brainwashed the kids by telling them that they would have more money and more things if they lived with him. He fabricated abuse and sent CPS to my home. But the worst of it was that he took my kids. I got my youngest son from him. He tried to take him back, but I was vigilant about not letting that happen.
I soon found out that I was powerless to get my children home. We didn't have a parenting plan. Under our state's laws there is nothing to protect one parent from taking the children from the other. You simply cannot "kidnap" your own children. There is nothing in the law that requires one parent to allow the children to see the other — in the absence of a parenting plan, that is.
Sigh …
I think it is time to make a long story a bit shorter.
At the time when my ex took my kids we were living only 6 blocks away from each other. It seemed like it could be ok. The kids would be nearby, I could see them after school. I had already enrolled them in school before their dad announced that they would not be returning to me. But he took them to live at his wife's house. Two hours away. And I was powerless to stop him.
I had to let go of my children. Physically and emotionally. Far earlier than a mother should have to. My son was 13 and my daughter was 9. I didn't see them or speak to them for more than 3 months. I was utterly heartbroken. I spent many of my days lying in bed, reading and watching tv. And sleeping. I did a lot of sleeping.
I found that the only way to get through it and go on living was to let them go. I had to stop worrying about them. I had to let go of my attachment to them. Part of me had to stop loving them.
I know that all of this seems farfetched and unreal. The sad fact is that it happens. It happens to good parents. It happens to loving moms. It is all too common.


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The successful candidate will have teaching assignments in the field of Speech Therapy, in the various study cycles offered by the Faculty of psychology and educational sciences (PSP), and more in particular in the context of the Bachelor and Master programs in Speech Therapy within the School of Speech Therapy (ELOG) as well as a subject within the School of Psychology (EPSY) that is common to both programs.
The successful candidate will carry out research in the field of sensory functions and dysfunctions in relation to (spoken and written) language learning and its disorders, and to the development of suppletive and/or palliative communication systems. These research activities will be developped in collaboration with colleagues from other disciplines (ORL, Ophtalmology, Neuropsychology, Psycholinguistics, Orthopedagogy).
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What is a vision screening?
A vision screening is a brief examination that can detect symptoms of a potential vision problem, or unknown existing condition, in the eyes. While a typical vision screening does not diagnose the actual problem, it does offer insight into possible current (or future) medical concerns that should be brought to the attention of an eye doctor (ophthalmologist or optometrist) who can perform a more comprehensive dilated eye examination to assess the situation. If your child needs a vision screening, we offer Tampa-area vision screenings right here in town. Read on to find out more.
Below is a quickfire vision screening Q&A:
How is vision screening performed?
The method depends on the age of the child being screened.
What is the screening process?
Your child's eyes will be inspected for overall abnormality of shape and/or structure, and for irregularity in pupil shape. Additionally, the red reflex of the eye is tested. It's the reflection from the lining of the inside of the eye (ie. the thing that causes eyes to look red in photos) and should be equally bright in both eyes. Additionally, corneal light reflex testing, cover testing and standard eye charts will most likely be used.
What is corneal light reflex testing?
The light reflection from the front surface (cornea) of the eye is observed while the child focuses directly on the light. Normally the corneal light reflex is in sharp focus and centered on both pupils, but if the corneal light reflex is not crisp and clear, it may indicate a problem.
What is cover testing?
A test to detect misalignment of the eyes. The person conducting the test covers each eye sequentially to look for an alignment shift of the eyes.
Eye charts. Are those the same thing I was tested on as a kid
Essentially, yes. It is still the best screening method to directly measure visual acuity.
What kinds of eye problems can a vision screening find?
Children are typically first checked for warning signs of amblyopia, an eye disease that can lead to permanent visual impairment unless treated early. Other uncovered problems may include strabismus (eye misalignment), cataracts, glaucoma, ptosis (drooping eyelid), refractive errors such as myopia ("nearsightedness"), hyperopia ("farsightedness"), astigmatism, and other more potentially serious conditions.
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The UK has one of Europe's most vibrant startup communities. From fintech to fashion technology, the country is host to a range of new tech companies.
The people at the heart of the startups are the CEOs and cofounders who built and continue to lead the companies. We rounded up a selection of some of the UK's best startup CEOs.
Did we miss anyone? Let us know in the comments — we want to know about them.
Additional reporting by Oscar Williams-Grut, Lara O'Reilly, Will Heilpern, and Max Slater-Robins.
Weave.ai has not made any product announcements yet but earlier reports indicate that it was working towards transforming the mobile experience using artificial intelligence (AI), contextual search, and deeplinking, learning from users as it goes and offering them information and services from the other apps on a phone.
CEO Rodolfo Rosini previously cofounded AI company Storybricks, which used AI in video games. He was also the CEO of security company Cellcrypt.
Total amount raised: $118,000 (£80,000)
Headcount: 5
Roland Lamb's startup ROLI wants to revolutionise the piano.
It's behind the "Seaboard" — a new kind of musical instrument that looks superficially similar to an electric keyboard, but with far more control and customisability.
The former philosophy student's company launched its third instrument— the Rise 49 — in January 2016, and it has bagged $20 million (£14 million) in VC money, with backers including Index Ventures and Balderton Capital.
ROLI has multiple design awards under its belt — most recently the "Best of Innovation" award at CES in Las Vegas.
Total amount raised:$43.5 million (£30 million)
Headcount: 81
Yeomans is CEO of London startup Yavli, which first started its life as a software company that served sponsored content to millennial audiences. Around two years ago, the company pivoted in response to the huge rise in consumers using ad blocking software.
Yavli's software allows publishers to specifically target their ad blocker audiences with sponsored content. Last year, the company claimed to have more than 100 publishers on board.
Headcount: 8
Oxford grad Hiroki Takeuchi was so convinced of the idea for GoCardless that he and cofounder Matt Robinson decamped to Silicon Valley's legendary accelerator Y Combinator to get it off the ground. The startup uses smart technology to make it much easier for businesses to accept and process direct debits.
GoCardless's clients include TripAdvisor, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and Box. The company is currently in the process of raising a big new round of funding, as well as expanding across Europe.
Total amount raised: $11.8 million (£8.1 million)
Headcount: 69
Former equities trader Jason Trost founded Smarkets in 2008. The site is a peer-to-peer online betting exchange that lets traders agree odds on everything from sports to politics.
Smarkets charges a base rate of 2% on transactions, which Trost says is 60% cheaper than competitor Betfair's base rate. The Sunday Times reports that Smarkets attracted over £200 million in trades in 2013.
Trost told Business Insider that his site did £10 million in revenue in 2015, and is processing around £140 million per month through the site.
Read Business Insider UK's full interview with Jason Trost »
Total amount raised:$2.7 million (£1.9 million)
Headcount: 55
Jason Kingsley is an unconventional CEO.
For starters, he's a knight. And not just the run-of-the-mill, honoured-by-the-Queen-for-services-to-industry knight. Kingsley is a real knight. He's a keen jouster, breeds warhorses, and spends tens of thousands on custom suits of armour.
When he's not on horseback, he's running Rebellion, an Oxford-based gaming company he cofounded with his brother in 1992.
Its main focus is video games, creating titles for a variety of platforms, but also has smaller operations in other areas, including book publishing and comic books. It owns 2000AD, the comic anthology responsible for the famous dystopian Judge Dredd series.
Kingsley is also on the board of TIGA, a games industry body, and Rebellion plans to launch its first virtual reality game this year — a remake of classic arcade tank-shooter "Battlezone."
Read Business Insider UK's full profile of Jason Kingsley and Rebellion Games »
Headcount: 214
The downside to crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo is that you don't get any stake in the eventual company your investment helps build. When these companies cash out, it can sometimes leave an bitter taste in supporters' mouths, as was the case for some backers of VR headset Oculus when it sold to Facebook.
That's not the case with Seedrs, a London-based equity crowdfunding platform.
Users invest (as little as £10), and in return, they get a share of the company. It's clearly an attractive prospect: The company recently recently announced that £100 million has been invested through its platform.
It was cofounded by Jeff Lynn, a former corporate lawyer, who serves as CEO. In June 2015, tennis pro Andy Murray joined as an advisor.
Headcount: 46
Blockchain is a London-based bitcoin startup, with cofounder Peter Smith in the role of CEO and Nic Cary, another cofounder, acting as its public face.
It was launched in 2011, and offers a number of bitcoin services, including a tool for exploring transactions on the blockchain (the public ledger of all bitcoin transactions), and a wallet for holding bitcoin.
In October 2014, it raised $30 million (£20.7 million) in VC funding, which was then the largest ever raise for a bitcoin startup.
Back in July 2015, Peter Smith was chosen to accompanying British Prime Minister David Cameron on a trade mission in South-East Asia along with a host of other more conventional companies. Nic Cary is a regular on the conference circuit, speaking publicly on behalf of Blockchain about the possibilities that bitcoin offers.
Total amount raised: $30 million (£20.7 million)
Headcount: 38
Twitter:@OneMorePeter, @niccary
Adzuna, a search engine for classified listings, lets people discover jobs, cars, and houses online. The company's job- and housing-market data is reportedly used by Prime Minister David Cameron to monitor the UK economy.
The company brought in £2 million in investment in 2015 using crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. 500 investors brought the company over its £1.5 million target. Monro also signed a letter urging David Cameron not to cut immigration to the UK's tech sector.
Monro launched Adzuna in 2011, having previously worked as COO of property-listing site Zoopla, managing director of online listing site Gumtree, and a senior manager at eBay.
Total amount raised:$9.3 million (£6.4 million)
Headcount: 39
Twitter: @dougall
George Spencer, in his late twenties, is CEO of a proptech startup — Rentify, which provides tools for landlords to manage properties, as well as other rental-focused services. The company takes a cut of a property's rent in return for managing everything to do with it.
Created in 2011 (and formally launching in 2012), it's backed by London venture capital firm Balderton Capital, and raised £5.5 million last year.
Total amount raised:$16.5 million (£11.4 million)
Headcount: 60
Alexandra Chong is the founder of Lulu, the app that lets women review and rate the men they date. She started the company in London in 2010. The site launched with $1 million in investment from VC firms Passion Capital and PROfounders Capital. But it changed focus in 2013 to expand to the US and embrace the college culture there that had helped Tinder grow.
It was announced in June 2015 that Lulu would re-enter the UK market, and that followed Chong's star-studded wedding which was attended by Google cofounder Sergey Brin and actress Kate Winslet.
Lulu announced in February 2016 that it had been acquired by dating app Badoo, and Chong became the president of that company.
Read Business Insider UK's full interview with Alexandra Chong »
Total amount raised:$3.5 million (£2.4 million)
Headcount: 13
Miniclip is a British gaming company that often flies under the radar.
It's 14 years old — practically ancient by startup standards — and got started building browser games before moving to platforms like iOS and Android with the rise of the app economy.
Robert Small, its founder, serves as CEO.
His company hit a number of milestones in 2015. It passed half a billion downloads; Agar.io, one of its most popular titles, was Googled more times in 2015 than "Fallout 4"; and most significantly, Chinese gaming company Tencent bought a majority stake in the company in February.
Headcount: 155
Oxford graduate Husayn Kassai quit his job at Merrill Lynch in 2012 after just a week to focus on building a startup he'd cofounded at university.
That startup was background checking service Onfido, which has now raised $30 million (£20.3 million) from a wide range of investors, including Spotify backers Wellington Partners and lastminute.com cofounder Brent Hoberman. It is now considered one of Britain's smartest companies.
Onfido — which now employs 100 people across offices in London, San Francisco, and Lisbon — boasts over 625 paying customers, including recruiter Morgan McKinley and Hays, and newspapers like The Daily Mail and the Evening Standard.
Read Business Insider UK's interview with Hussayn Kassia about how he left investment banking to do a startup here »
Total amount raised:$30 million (£20.3 million)
Headcount: 100
Twitter: @HusaynKassai
Chris Morton is the cofounder and CEO of Lyst, a fashion ecommerce platform that allows people to shop from over 10,000 designers and stores in one place.
Lyst, founded in London in 2010, raised $40 million (£28 million) in April with money coming from well-known investors like Accel, Balderton, and DFJ.
Since launching, Lyst has expanded its platform, where users reportedly spend an average of $400 (£277) per order, to over 150 countries.
Total amount raised:$60 million (£41 million)
Headcount: 144
Emily Brooke is the founder and CEO of Blaze, a London startup that has built a laser bike light that can help save cyclists lives.
Blaze's "Laserlight" is designed to improve rider safety by projecting a green laser image five to six metres in front of the cyclist, thereby making them more visible to drivers, pedestrians, and other cyclists.
Brooke, who took part in the first ever Entrepreneur First startup building programme, scored a major win for Blaze in December when it was announced that Santander planned to fit every "Boris bike" in London with a Blaze Laserlight. The deal is said to be worth close to £1 million.
Total amount raised:$500,000 (£345,000)
Headcount: 9
Luke Lang and Darren Westlake are the cofounders of Crowdcube, Britain's biggest crowdfunding website. Over £138 million has been invested over the platform into businesses like burrito chain Chillango and Camden Town Brewery.
Old school City of London stockbroker Numis invested £6 million in the company last July and the pair are working together to do the world's first crowdfunded initial public offering.
Headcount: 76
Kate Unsworth is the CEO and cofounder of Vinaya (formerly Kovert Designs), a London-based fashion startup that makes connected jewellery, including rings and necklaces that buzz when you receive a WhatsApp message or email, for example.
Vinaya raised a $3 million (£2 million) seed round in November with Passion Capital's Eileen Burbidge leading the round and Bebo's Michael Birch also taking part.
Vinaya said it was going to use the funding to set up a "research lab" in Shoreditch that would provide insights on brain/human habits that could be used in its product design process.
Read Business Insider UK's review of a Vinaya ring »
Total amount raised:$3 million (£2 million)
Headcount: 24
Kieran O'Neill is the CEO of Thread, which helps customers make sense of the world of fashion by matching them up with their own personal stylist through its platform. The stylist learns about users and suggests clothes that they think would suit them. Users can then purchase the items through the site. Thread is free to use, but the company takes a cut of any purchases that you make.
It was announced in August that Thread had raised $8 million (£5.5 million) from investors including Balderton Capital, Google DeepMind cofounders Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, and former Saks Fifth Avenue president Andrew Jennings.
CEO Kieran O'Neill started his first online business in 2003 when he founded video streaming website HolyLemon.com while studying for his GCSE. He eventually sold the site for $1.25 million (£814,000).
Read Business Insider UK's feature testing out Thread for ourselves »
Total amount raised:$10.5 million (£7.3 million)
Headcount: 18
Greg Marsh cofounded home swapping service onefinestay in 2009. Marsh, who is CEO of the company, had a busy year in 2015, raising large amounts of funding and bringing in a top hotel executive.
onefinestay, which allows people to stay in expensive, serviced houses in cities around the world raised $40 million (£25.4 million) in June from a range of well-known investors. Marsh also hired InterContinental's chief finance officer, Tom Singer, in a bid to beef up his management team.
Total amount raised:$80.9 million (£55.8 million)
Headcount: 304
The Tab is a network of student news websites run by editorial teams across the UK and US. It started off as a Cambridge student newspaper, founded in 2009 as the university's first online-only paper. It made headlines after The Sun fell for its April Fool's joke about BNP leader Nick Griffin and for its "Rear of the Year" competition.
The company announced that it had raised $3 million (£2 million) from Balderton Capital in December, and the money is going towards the expansion of its US site as well as its new general interest site that's not about a specific university.
Editor-in-chief Jack Rivlin told The Guardian that The Tab's had 3.2 million unique visitors in November 2015.
Total amount raised:$3 million (£2 million)
Headcount: 48
Twitter:@marangosgilks, @jackrivlin
Blomfield is the CEO and cofounder of Mondo, a new London fintech startup that's building a branchless bank using its debit card and accompanying app. Mondo cards are controlled through the app, and show users information about the purchases they make.
Mondo hasn't fully launched yet, but it has released a version of its card to alpha testers ( you can see how we got on with it here).
Before founding Mondo, Blomfield was a cofounder of another London fintech startup: GoCardless. He left the company in 2013, and started Mondo in 2015.
Total amount raised:$10.4 million (£7.2 million)
Headcount: 14
Twitter: @t_blom
Everledger is a startup that wants to make diamond theft a thing of the past.
It uses the blockchain — the ledger of all bitcoin transactions — to make a public record that valuable diamonds can be registered to, recording their unique characteristics. This should make it harder to pawn stolen diamonds, and help cut down on fraud.
The company was created by the Australian Leanne Kemp in 2015, and took part in the Barclays Techstars accelerator in June.
Nearly 900,000 diamonds have been registered to Everledger's platform already, and another 900,000 are queued up. Later down the line, it intends to start registering other luxury goods.
Read Business Insider UK's profile of Leanne Kemp and Everledger »
Total amount raised: $118,000 (£81,000)
Headcount: 3
Somali-born Ismail Ahmed worked for the UN to help crackdown on money laundering before setting up WorldRemit in 2010. The startup offers an app that lets migrants send money back to family in places like Africa, India, and Latin America, known as remittance.
The company was valued at $500 million (£345 million) in a $100 million (£69 million) funding round last year, led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), which has also backed the likes of Facebook, Spotify, and Netflix. WorldRemit recently secured a further $45 million (£31 million) line of credit to fund growth and is processing 400,000 transactions a month.
Total amount raised:$147 million (£101 million)
Headcount: 163
Mustafa Suleyman and Demis Hassabis cofounded DeepMind with Shane Legg in 2011, before selling it to Google in 2014 for £400 million.
In January, the pair of artificial intelligence (AI) experts pitched their AlphaGo agent against the European champion of board game Go and won. They're planning to take on the world champion in March.
Over the course of the last year, both Hassabis and Suleyman have acknowledged the potential impact AI could have on humanity. To ensure they get their message across, they have attended several conferences and given talks about the ethics of AI.
Headcount: 150
Twitter:@mustafasuleymn, @demishassabis
Rob Whitehead (CTO) and Herman Narula (CEO) are the two-man founder team behind Improbable, a London startup that wants to be the "Google of simulation."
The duo went to the University of Cambridge together, and in 2012 founded Improbable, which builds software that can power sophisticated simulations done by others. It provides the engine to do the heavy lifting, so you can get on with the business of actually modelling whatever it is you want to model.
The company's original focus was on gaming — massive multiplayer game-worlds — but it has applications in science, research, defence, and more.
It landed a $20 million (£14 million) in venture capital funding from well-respected US firm Andreessen Horowitz in 2015— its second ever investment in the UK.
In November 2015, it officially launched SpatialOS, its operating system. Alongside the launch, it announced an ambitious flagship project — a virtual city run in collaboration with academics to answer questions about modern urban life. "We're going to have an oracle for an entire city," Narula told Business Insider. "We'll be able to answer questions like 'what happens when we introduce autonomous vehicles,' or look at interactions between different things that have just been [previously] impossible."
Read Business Insider UK's November 2015 interview with Herman Narula »
Total amount raised:$22 million (£15 million)
Headcount: 81
Twitter:@RJFWhite, @HermanNarula
Former Googler Azmat Yusuf founded Citymapper in 2011 as a guide for Londoners to navigate the city's bus network. The app evolved into a multimodal travel platform and today it is used by millions of people worldwide.
In January, Citymapper raised $40 million (£28 million) from Index Ventures, Benchmark Capital, and a number of angel investors.
Citymapper is now available in 31 cities, including Hong Kong, Sydney, New York, Istanbul, Brussels, Tokyo, and San Francisco.
Total amount raised: $50 million (£34 million)
Headcount: 34
Silva is the former government technology advisor who was part of the team that created the Tech City UK initiative. He worked closely with George Osborne since 2006, and oversaw the growth of the UK's startup scene, playing a key role in the government's relationship with the growing tech cluster.
Silva left government in 2013, and went to work for VC fund Index Ventures. But he quickly decided to launch his own project, and created East London coworking space Second Home.
It was announced in January that Second Home had raised £7.5 million from investors including Yuri Milner, Tencent chairman Martin Lau, and venture capital firm Index Ventures, and that it would use the money to expand to Lisbon.
Silva is also planning to double the size of Second Home, and his plans include a "huge indoor lake."
Total amount raised: $10.7 million (£7.4 million)
Headcount: 9
Gareth Williams is the CEO and cofounder of Skyscanner, the Edinburgh-based company behind one of the world's most popular flight comparison sites.
Williams led the Edinburgh company through a £128 million funding round in January, valuing it at over a billion dollars. He also opened Skyscanner's first London office at the end of 2015, which is home to a team of engineers, led by former Amazon executive Bryan Dove.
Skyscanner also has offices in Shenzhen, Beijing, Barcelona, Glasgow, Miami, Singapore, and Sofia. During 2015, the company grew the size of its workforce to approximately 800 people.
Total amount raised:$197 million (£136 million)
Headcount: 740
José Neves launched Farfetch in 2008 as a way to marry boutique fashion retailers with customers, many of whom likely didn't know the products existed. The company has taken over $190 million (£130 million) in funding and is now worth over $1 billion (£690 million), making it a "Unicorn."
The company's investors include Conde Nast and Index Ventures. It's headquartered in London but has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Guimarães, Porto, São Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo.
The average users spend over $600 (£400) on Farfetch in a single session and the company is doing over $160 million (£110 million) in revenue per year.
Total amount raised:$194.5 million (£135 million)
Headcount: 909
Jon Reynolds started SwiftKey straight out of Cambridge University. The mission, according to Reynolds, is "to make it easy for everyone to create and communicate on mobile." The app, which is available on iPhone and Android, is used by more than 300 million people and relies heavily on artificial intelligence to predict what, exactly, the user is trying to say.
Microsoft was interested and acquired SwiftKey for $250 million (£175 million) in early 2016. The team will be incorporated into the company, meaning that Reynolds is now an employee of Microsoft who will work on AI, an area that Microsoft is intensely focused on.
Total amount raised:$21.6 million (£15 million)
Headcount: 148
Sean Murray is the CEO of Hello Games, a Guildford company that is building one of the most ambitious video games ever made. "No Man's Sky" is an attempt to create an entire universe in an online video game environment, which will contain 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets.
It's a project of epic scale, and Hello Games has started to show off its progress. Stars like Kanye West, Steven Spielberg, and Elon Musk have all been given demonstrations of the game in 2015.
And the game now has an official launch date: June 2016.
Headcount: 16
Nigel Eccles is the founder and CEO of Edinburgh-based FanDuel, which is a fantasy sports platform that allows people in North America to create one-day fantasy teams and enter them into leagues with cash prizes.
High-profile investors such as Google Capital, Time Warner Investments and Turner Sports backed FanDuel last summer in a $275 million (£176 million) round, which brought total investment in the company up to $361 million (£234 million).
FanDuel is perhaps the only British unicorn company not to offer its product to people in Britain. But that could be about to change as Eccles has hinted at the possibility of launching FanDuel in the UK for Premier League fans in the near future.
Total amount raised:$361 million (£250 million)
Headcount: 438
Twitter: @nigeleccles
You have, of course, heard of "Candy Crush." You can't not. It's the insanely popular candy-swiping mobile app made by King Digital Entertainment.
Riccardo Zacconi is the man at the wheel at King, and he's had a very good year: In November 2015, Activision Blizzard (the gaming megacompany behind "Call of Duty," "Starcraft,"" World of Warcraft," and more) acquired King for a massive $5.9 billion (£4.1 billion).
Zacconi, who is Italian and lives in London, cofounded King in 2003, and is its CEO. At the time of the acquisition, the company boasted 330 million monthly active users.
Headcount: 1,600
Samir Desai is the founder of peer-to-peer business loan platform Funding Circle. The platform lets savers lend directly to businesses and over £1 billion has been lent over the platform since it launched in 2010. The company was valued at $1 billion (£690 million) last year.
Former management consultant Desai moved to the role of Global CEO last year to oversee expansion into new markets and in October Funding Circle entered Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands with the acquisition of Zencap. Desai had the idea for the business while working on a project at Northern Rock.
Total amount raised:$273 million (£190 million)
Headcount: 266
Twitter: @samirdesai01
Kristo Kaarmann and Taavet Hinrikus are the Estonian co-founders of low cost online international money transfer service TransferWise. The pair's marketing savvy has helped turn the startup into one of the few London companies valued at $1 billion (£690 million) after attracting a $58 million (£40 million) investment last year from top Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Other investors include Sir Richard Branson and Paypal founder Peter Thiel. Before TransferWise, Hinrikus was Skype's first employee. TransferWise went global in 2015 and has already passed the $1 billion transferred mark in the US.
Read Business Insider UK's interview with TransferWise's cofounders »
Total amount raised:$90 million (£62 million)
Headcount: 364
William Shu launched his restaurant food delivery company in London in 2012 after realising it was hard to get good quality food delivered to your home or office.
The former investment banker has subsequently expanded Deliveroo to more than 30 UK cities and over 20 international cities. The growth has been fuelled with $200 million (£138 million) in venture capital funding, half of which was raised last November.
Shu has managed to attract popular London restaurants such as Dishoom, Ping Pong, and Dirty Burger to Deliveroo, where they can access an even larger customer base in exchange for approximately 30% of every transaction.
Read Business Insider UK's interview with Will Shu about how Deliveroo plans to expand »
Total amount raised:$200 million (£138 million)
Headcount: 583


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NyQuil as a Gateway Drug
I was a kid in the 80s. I was a kid with a lot of energy in the 80s. I grew up with two sisters and I was the most active of them all. I rode my bike off of bridges. I broke a lot of bones and caused a lot of trouble. I was full of energy all day-every day.
As it turns out my parents did not know it all. I realize this more every day. My dad loved NyQuil. My parents loved sleep. My parents needed me to sleep and I was probably minorly sick so they fed me NyQuil one night. They still talk about the reaction I had. They, of course, fed it to my sister too and she was asleep within minutes. I had the opposite reaction. I loved it. It made me bounce off of the walls for hours. It has been 30 years and they still talk about the night they learned their lesson about giving me NyQuil. I wonder if my reaction this early in life to NyQuil showed a glimpse of my future addictive tendencies. Maybe it was an early sign that I would love alcohol more than my sisters. Maybe not. Ask a scientist, this is my f-ing blog.
So, here I am 30 years later. I am frequently flip flopping my schedule to travel through time zones. My days at work could start at 2 am or at 6 pm, depending on which way the wind is blowing. There is no consistency. So, as I've written about before, lack of sleep is part of the reason I fell into addiction. I absolutely could not fall asleep without wine. But, before wine...it was NyQuil. NyQuil was my gateway drug.


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by: Brian Westenhaus
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The ICCF ran over five days with an impressive group of experimentalists, theorists and engineers attending. The list of presenters was also impressive, with talks of research from across the planet, involving many nations and reaching deep into the science of Cold Fusion and Low Energy Nuclear Reactions or LENR
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Editor's Note: LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reactions) or LENT (Low Energy Nuclear Transmutations) is a technology which has the capability to replace dirty nuclear fission as a power source in addition to providing the ability to transmute nuclear waste in to less harmful daughter products. See also Transmutes Radioactive Waste - U.S. Navy and #LENR Energy.


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Spy Kids
Year: 2001
Duration: 1h 28min
IMDb: 5.4
Country: USA
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara, Alan Cumming, Tony Shalhoub, Teri Hatcher, Cheech Marin, Robert Patrick, Danny Trejo, Mike Judge, Richard Linklater, Guillermo Navarro, Johnny Reno, Shannon Shea
Gregorio and Ingrid are the two greatest secret agents the world has ever known: masters of disguise, mavens of invention, able to stop wars before they even start. Working for separate countries, they are sent to eliminate their most dangerous enemy...each other. But in an exotic corner of the world when they finally come face to face, they fall in love instead and embark on the most dangerous mission they have ever faced: raising a family. Now nine years later, after their retirement, having exchanged the adventure of espionage for parenthood, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez are called back in to action. When their former colleagues, the world's most formidable spies, start disappearing one by one, the Cortez's are forced to take on techno-wizard Fegan Floop and his evil, egg-headed sidekick, Minion. But when the unthinkable happens and they too disappear, unfortunately there are only two people in the world who can rescue them...their kids.


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Congratulations to NES for co-ordinating a very successful Environment Week 30 May-02 June.
This year incorporated artwork & performing arts items by school students, a Quiz Challenge and the popular Lagoon Days with lots of media coverage. June & Andrew Hosking, wonderful
examples of "living" the sustainable life focused on their composting loo at home in Mauke.
Lagoon cruises & a visit to the last habitat of the native Red Fiddler Crab at Aroko, as well as
informative booths provided the public and school children with a wonderful educational
exposay. Thanks to Tamara Suchodolsky & Teresa Framhein for being the TIS co-ordinators, attending pre-meetings and together with Ana & Jolene Bosanquet manned the TIS booth on the two Lagoon Days. The focus was on the "fauna" of the wetlands. presentations. Thanks to CI Natural Heritage for the photos for the display. The message is loud and clear, whether we live on the coast, on the back road or further inland we are ALL responsible for the health of our lagoon.


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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Tesco had a good holiday. Britain's biggest grocer sold more than rivals over a difficult Christmas period, doing better across the gamut of food, clothing and general homeware. The company is also managing to launch cheaper offerings to fight off discounters like Lidl without jeopardising its operating margin targets. Its successes merit a higher valuation.
Tesco on Thursday said like-for-like UK sales rose 2.2 percent in the six weeks to Jan. 5 compared with a year earlier. That counts as a win given its rivals' difficulties. Marks & Spencer on the same day said food and clothing sales fell in the 13 weeks to December 29 and blamed a combination of falling consumer confidence, mild weather, Black Friday and heavy discounting from peers. Food discounting is set to continue. WM Morrison said earlier this week its prices would be slashed.
The UK grocer is swimming against the tide by taking a leaf out of German discounters' books. Its "Exclusively at Tesco" range, which Goldman Sachs analysts reckon is around 10 percent cheaper than comparable Lidl goods, has been a hit with customers. More people shopped at its stores during the last three months of 2018, according to Kantar Worldpanel. That may help explain why the retailer sold more of its higher-margin premium range. A target of lifting operating margin to 3.5 to 4 percent by 2020 from 2.9 percent in the first half of 2018 is therefore still attainable.
Brexit is the biggest risk. If Britain crashes out of the UK without a deal, grocers may struggle to import goods. That would dent sales. If job cuts follow, customers are likely to shun premium goods. That would derail Tesco's progress towards its margin target. But barring such calamity, Tesco merits a higher valuation. The company is currently trading at around 12.5 times forward earnings, according to data from Refinitiv. That's below even peers like Morrisons which have patchier sales growth. Becoming a one-stop shop for penny-pinching customers who want occasional high-margin treats will improve Tesco's standing.
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At the weekend I decided that I needed to change my bedroom a bit. Of course when I get one of these ideas in my head it means I have make a start right at that moment. Cue loud music, bad singing and the screeching of furniture as I drag them unwillingly across my room. So after rearranging my room and painting some furniture I realised it still wasn't enough. It was time for a lot of the posters to come down to make way for wall art. I've made a start on one wall by putting up two of my paintings, but after falling in love with embroidered hoops for wall art I need one of these. I'm going to make my own, not sure of what yet, but I love all of these beautiful embroidered hoops from different Etsy sellers.
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Welcome back to the Silicon Valley, GHTC !
It has been three years since the last time the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference took place in San Jose. It is so good to see the community again – organizers, speakers, researchers, volunteers and participants who are passionate in learning, sharing and applying technology to solve problems that could improve lives of many people, especially those who are underserved. Thanks to all your hard work!
The conference started officially early monring on Friday, Oct 20, with the opening remarks by Dr. Dick Willkins, 2017 General Chair. Dr. Larry Alder, VP of Product Definition, OneWeb, delivered the opening keynote on: "Connectivity Challenge and Evolving Solutions".
While many of us reading this blog has enjoyed Internet access, similar to the electricity – with an increasing dependency in daily lives. In a significant part of US and the World, there is still limited, or no access to the Internet at all. The digital divide has affected the economic growth in regions that has limited connectivity to the Internet, i.e. limited access to the enormous source of information, knowledge and an effective way of communicating with each other.
Dr. Alder presented an emerging solution to bridge the digital divide, by building a satellite communication system that would provide coverage to include those regions that do not have connectivity currently. The new, small satellites can be built at lower cost, as compared to the traditional ones. A large number of these satellites can be launched into the lower orbit to circulate around the globe and provide connectivity in areas where the infrastructure for internet access are not available on the ground.
Following the opening keynote that addresses a fundamental problem in the accessibility of information and communication technology, the conference proceeded with the parallel sessions in five different tracks, after the break:
- Maternal Healthcare Issues
- Micro-Grids
- Agriculture
- Water
- IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC) workshop
Multiple papers were presented in each track, followed by questions and discussions.
The panel session on Energy was moderated by Joe Decuir, with panelist: Alexander Anderson, Peter Michael, Sarah Majok, Dr. Henry Louie & Bruce Nordman.
The afternoon was filled with two sets of parallel tracks, separated by a coffee break:
- Physical and Neurological Health Issues
- Solar Energy
- Agriculture and Food Security
- Water and Sanitation
- Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities
- mHealth
- Panel (1): Social and Economic Development of Rural Women in Rwanda and Uganda through Solar Energy for Productive Use Panel; Panel (2): Opportunities and Challenges of Distributed Manufacturing for Humanitarian Response
- Agriculture
- The IEEE MOVE: Disaster Relief Project "in a box" Workshop
- Humanitarian Challenges and Opportunities
Finally, the evening session was completed by Ms. Sayre White's talk about the great work that she and her colleagues at the non-profit AnnieCannons has been doing to train the survivors of human trafficking to be software developers and engineers.
Looking forward to the next 1.5 days of exciting programs and interesting discussions at GHTC 2017!