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The Shard ArcMature
Class break me and Arcelli are sat on the hill near the soul reaper academy everything had been told to Arcelli. We had been parnered for a while longer in sparring class while the rest of Takeshi's injuries healed he has only just been allowed back into sparring class. That's been driving him insane.
"Can I ask... If you know what happened to yoruichi?" The pause was self explanatory since it could cost me my life if i did know.
"I wasn't told anything she was just gone one day." I really didn't know anything. I don't even know if she knew I existed we had only met briefly once the day I was allowed into the Shihoin family. "We only met once." I said nothing more.
"So is that why you hide you are Shihoin? Because you feel abandoned with an impossible task of living up to expectations?"
"No. I'd appreciate not trying to analyse this." My tone was harsh. This wasn't something I was prepared to discuss with anyone. Arcelli didn't say anything for a while.
"Tomorrow we don't have lessons can you join me on a trip?" The question wasn't premeditated. It caught me a little off guard I agreed though he wouldn't tell me where we were going.
The next day I followed Arcelli through the sereitei to the tenth squad barracks. Arcelli asked for the time it was still pretty early for visiting it was only three o'clock. We then veered off to the sleeping quarters. We both hid when Captain Hitsugaya passed us fearing he would recognise us. We reached the sleeping quarters and went to the officer's quarters.
I stood back as Arcelli slid the door open with a feel that he was at home. He strode over to a bed in the corner of the room putting on his best Hitsugaya voice he said:
"Shard! Sleeping in is against the rules!" A mass of sheets jumped out of the bed and snapped to attention.
"Sir!" came a muffled voice from the other side of the cover. "I asked a lower officer to wake me. He must have failed i will find him right away." The bed sheets moved toward the door but missed and walked into a wall. I felt like we would be in trouble but i stayed curious about the officers name.
As the officer fell backwards the covers came loose and he saw Arcelli. The officer stood up from under his covers looking very angry. I considered using Atsuko to escape the attention.
"Arcelli! What have i told you about imitating Hitsugaya?" Arcelli seemed surpirsed "If you're going to imitate a captain at least be convincing." Arcelli still looked at the officer puzzled.
"But you beleived it this time." Arcelli said still puzzled.
"Yeah but you don't look the part. Anyway let me get dressed then i'll..." He turned and noticed me standing in the doorway. "And who's this?" He looked like he'd seen a ghost, probably still shocked from the Hitsugaya impression.
"I.." I started but the officer interrupted with
"So he's with you?" He turned to face Arcelli who nodded then the officer said "i'll be right back then need to change." He turned back to me his face was brighter. As he walked out the room and toward a toilet nearby.
"What was that? I asked Arcelli." He looked suddenly serious.
"That is tenth squad fourth seat, Aurelio Shard. He's my brother." He knew how I would take this. I silently stood as I turned to leave a member of the kido corps. stood in front of me. His white hooded face stood at an avarage height but through the standard kido corps. mask his eyes were freindly. He paused to avoid bumping into me.
"Sorry I should have watched where I was going better." The masked man said. "Are you freinds with Shard?" He looked toward the open door and noticed Arcelli stood inside. "Arcelli it's been a while."
"Daichi?" Arcelli seemed to know him "when did you join the Kido Corps.? Hey this is Kiyoshi." He pointed in my direction "he's from the academy like me." Daichi turned back to me and held his hand out I hesitated then shook it. As i finished shaking his hand Aurelio returned and seemed surprised there was so many people near his room now.
"Dai-chan is that you? I can never tell with your mask on." Aurelio said.
"Hey fourth seat Shard. I got that information you wanted the other week." Daichi seemed to think it as important.
"can you tell me tomorrow? i'm going to take Arcelli and his new friend around the barracks today." Daichi was dissapointed that his information was put on hold but said
"Ok but you best be awake when i come by this time i'm not getting someone to wake you this time." He didn't wait for an answer and left.
After a long day walking around the tenth squad barracks seeing where Rangiku's office was, it was empty, and captain Hitsugaya's office, which was occupied with a sleeping Rangiku. We ended up back at the entrance to the barracks.
"Cya later." Aurelio said as we walked away from the barracks.
"Why did you take me here today?" I asked as we walked away.
"I wanted you to see..." He trailed off
"I said not to. But thanks for the thought." We walked home and soon parted ways.


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Audubon Florida Presents Sustainable Rancher of the Year Award for 2015 to Lykes Ranch
Audubon Florida presented its Sustainable Rancher of the Year award to Lykes Ranch at Florida Cattlemen's Association annual banquet held at Champions Gate near Orlando on the evening of June 18. Accepting the award for Lykes Ranch was Charles P. "Charlie" Lykes Jr., President & Chief Executive Officer of Lykes Bros. Inc. Also present was Linda McCarthy Senior Ecologist at Lykes Bros, Inc, along with numerous members of the Lykes Ranch Staff.
Lykes Ranch, comprising 338,162 acres in Glades, Highlands and Polk Counties, is a leader in ranch based wildlife habitat conservation and water management innovation.
The Lykes Ranch has been the most effective and innovative large scale participant in the South Florida Water Management District's Dispersed Water Management Program. This year, the 16,000 acre Nicodemus Slough project became operational, providing temporary storage for 34,000 acre feet of water drawn from Lake Okeechobee. This is available to release into the lake or the Caloosahatchee River during times of need.
The Lykes Nicodemus Slough project was preceded by the "West Waterhole Marsh" project, a 2,370 acre facility on the C-40 canal in the Indian Prairie Basin. In 2014, over 6.8 billion gallons of water were pumped into the marsh. 88% of the phosphorus pumped into the marsh, or 10.3 metric tons, was retained in the marsh. 56% of the nitrogen pumped into the marsh (48.8 metric tons) was also retained. Click here to read the detailed independent study.
Lykes Ranch is planning the construction of a new large-scale (8,200 acres) storm water storage and treatment area known as "Brighton Valley" also in the Indian Prairie Basin. This project has been incorporated in the Lake Okeechobee Basin Management Action Plan and is essential to meeting the plan's goal for reducing phosphorous pollution. The BMAP projects a 7.7 ton phosphorus reduction from the Brighton Valley project, and it is scheduled to be constructed in FY16 and to be operational shortly after.
Lykes has also committed substantial portions of the ranch to perpetual wildlife habitat management through existing conservation easements, including:
- A 41,606 acre conservation easement at Fisheating Creek
- 7,578 acres of Gopher Tortoise Relocation Mitigation Sites
- 3,008 acre Rainey Slough Wetland Reserve Program conservation easement.
Lykes Ranch is actively pursuing applications to state agencies for the purchase of additional conservation easements, including:
- A 6,859 acre conservation easement protecting the 11 mile long, one mile wide tract known as Chaparral Slough through the Florida Forever program.
- An 886 acre easement at Squirrel Island through the FDACS Rural and Family Lands program.
Finally, Lykes incorporates an integrated approach to wildlife management throughout the ranch. The most notable example is long history of vigilant voluntary protection offered by Lykes to the largest communal migratory roost of Swallow-tailed Kites (Elanoides forficatus forficatus) in North America. This Roost occurs annually on Lykes Ranch near Fisheating Creek, where as many as 3,000 birds congregate prior to migrating to Central and South America.
Working with ranchers to achieve conservation of wildlife habitat, and to encourage restorative water management projects on their lands is a priority for Audubon in the Northern Everglades.
To learn more about this effort, see the updated Audubon video by clicking here.

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Market Chatter- Corporate finance press digest
Oct 21 (Reuters) - The following corporate finance-related stories were reported by media:
* JPMorgan Chase & Co has reached a tentative $13 billion deal with the U.S. Justice Department and other government agencies to settle investigations into bad mortgage loans the bank sold to investors before the financial crisis, a source familiar with the talks said on Saturday.
* Paylocity, an online payroll and human resources software company, has picked banks for an initial public offering that could come next year, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
* Office Depot and OfficeMax Inc are set to receive regulatory approval for their planned merger as the Federal Trade Commission has concluded the deal is not likely to substantially lessen competition, the Wall Street Journal reported.
* A co-operative of smallholders plans to buy a 10 percent stake in Malaysia's Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV), the world's third-largest palm plantation operator, according to a report by The Edge Malaysia over the weekend. Continued...


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— Somewhere outside of downtown Dubai, six holes of a golf course Tiger Woods designed as a playground for the mega-wealthy of the world are about to lose their ground to the desert. Sod planted to be a shining beacon of Dubai's massive wealth and Woods' design vision will likely now be overtaken by sand.
It seems like the project now on hiatus after starting some five years ago is a parallel for where Tiger Woods' game is after the Farmers Insurance Open.
Tiger Woods had his worst career finish at Torrey Pines – a place he has won seven times in his career, including his most valiant major championship triumph in the 2008 US Open.
Woods had never finished worse than 10th in the Farmers Insurance Open (or any other iteration of it). On Sunday, Woods' name was on the leaderboard line for T44. That is a shocking position for Woods at a tournament where the Sunday headline used to be pre-written on Monday.
Over the weekend, Woods posted consecutive rounds in the 70s for a combined 5-over score on Saturday and Sunday. Until this week, Woods had never shot back-to-back rounds in the 70s at the dual par-72 tracks, much less two rounds over par at this event.
This wasn't Sawgrass, or even Riviera, another California course – places where Woods has struggled mightily in his career. This was Torrey Pines.
Tiger told reporters he began the week hitting the ball well, then it slowly got worse through the week. Woods struggled with his new mechanics, making moves and hitting positions that were somewhat familiar to prior swings, but getting there in different ways.
Woods is trying to match those positions through the bag, he says, which means deviating from the short game touch that allowed him to grind – and even win – without his best stuff.
The result is disappointing, certainly, but Woods continues to use the buzz words he associate with a swing change.
He needs reps – chances to test his swing in competition – but his schedule will likely be no different than his traditional jaunt to the Masters in April.
Tiger says he has done this before, which he has on several occasions. It could take as long as a year-and-a-half, like it did with Hank Haney. If it does indeed take that long for it to kick in (and I will not pose the question of whether it will ever click), then 2011 is another lost cause when it comes to reaching the last remaining goal in Woods' career – Jack Nicklaus' 18 professional majors.
But Woods keeps talking about how things are progressing faster than he anticipated when mulling over the decision to revamp his swing, or tough it out as his own instructor. He appears satisfied with what he is experiencing on the range – which looks awfully good from videotape.
The problem he is facing, similar to every golfer to make swing alterations, is to score well with them. Not shoot 69 while fighting the whole way. Woods was doing that at the end in his work with Hank Haney. The difference was that he could compensate for his mechanical flaws with an intrinsic knowledge of how to manage them in crunch time, knowing he had done it so many times.
Then again, Woods may not have been able to pull off that feat any longer with what he had been doing to swing the golf club. Since notching his 71st and last PGA Tour win at the 2009 BMW Championship, Tiger Woods has shot 71 or worse in 32 of 62 tour rounds.
The long-range prognosis perhaps was not good with how things were, and they have yet to improve with consistency. There have been flashes – three rounds at Chevron, his singles match at the Ryder Cup – but clinging to moments in time are not what win golf tournaments. Woods knows that, which is why he is not reticent to allude to those spurts as signs of what is to come. No wonder Woods cryptically said his next tournament would be "in the future."
Familiarity and confidence in his new swing have not been yet fostered with Sean Foley, at least when the money is on the line. So, lacking assurance that he can play 72 holes with what he has, Woods will practice for a week and head to the Dubai Desert Classic. Like Torrey Pines, Woods has a fantastic record in the emirate. He has never finished worse than fifth in five career (paid) starts there.
Just as this week was astounding because of Woods' prior track record at Torrey Pines, it is important to take a long-range view on his forward progress.
Woods had a lousy week by his standards, but then again, Phil Mickelson had a rather lackluster effort to open the year in Abu Dhabi.
Sure, Mickelson had no record in the emirate as opposed to Woods' demonstrated brilliance in San Diego. But Lefty rebounded well at Torrey Pines, a place he does love and has succeeded – winning the event three times. Had a couple of things been different, Mickelson would have won for the 39th time on the PGA Tour.
While Mickelson is not in the midst of a swing change, Mickelson has been growing accustomed to living with psoriatic arthritis, and went through a different kind of family upheaval with his wife and mother simultaneously battling breast cancer. Aside from his Masters win, Mickelson had a glum 2010 of his own. 2011′s early return appears to have reinvigorated Mickelson at 40-and-a-half.
The message for Woods – not that he needs to hear this – it can be done.
Unlike his golf course, which will slowly lose the battle to unforgiving desert, Woods will not be forced to leave his work unfinished. Tiger has no choice but to soldier on with Sean Foley to the completed product which, hopefully for him, leaves him only regretful that this last year-plus (and his prior actions) had to dramatically alter his family.
His competition, ever younger and more diverse, will try to squash Woods. Meanwhile, all of them (at least on the record) have said they know their comeuppance is near and Woods will regain his prized stature soon.
For Woods, he has to resolve that – unlike the promises of improvement and development made about his golf course – he can stick to the project plan, manage his own expectations and deliver a work that can stand the test of time and pressure.


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ôWe are going to have to make a decision (on a starting quarterback) at some point during training camp to allow the starter to get enough reps to be ready for the Syracuse game.ö
Ś Penn State coach Bill OĺBrien, July 24, Big Ten Football Media Days, Chicago.
Itĺs been more than a month since Bill OĺBrien addressed the issue of Penn Stateĺs starting quarterback for the first time.
He had a known quantity in sophomore Tyler Ferguson, a junior college transfer who went through spring practice with the Nittany Lions. Ferguson played well enough for OĺBrien to inform sophomore Steven Bench - last yearĺs backup to Matt McGloin - that he would be the third quarterback in a two-man competition. Bench eventually transferred to South Florida.
OĺBrienĺs unknown was freshman Christian Hackenberg, one of the nationĺs top high school quarterbacks last year. He knew from film study that Hackenberg was mechanically sound and made good decisions, but wondered how quickly he could pick up OĺBrienĺs complex offense before the start of preseason camp.
The competition began on Aug. 5, the first day of camp, and apparently has continued right into Thursdayĺs final full-scale practice before the Lionsĺ season opener against Syracuse on Saturday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
However, as much as OĺBrien hoped to have his decision maybe two weeks before the game, the contestants apparently have made it difficult for him.
ôöIĺm going to do whatĺs best for the football team. I said that (naming a starter) in Chicago but I hope you guys didnĺt mark it on your calendar so youĺre all outside my office a week from now. Just hold your horses.ö
Ś OĺBrien, Aug. 8, Penn State media day, Beaver Stadium.
The coach insists that Ferguson and Hackenberg both have looked good. He only has spoken in terms of the two playersĺ similarities - intelligence, accuracy, competitiveness, athleticism and even height (Ferguson is 6-foot-3, Hackenberg 6-4).
OĺBrien has declined to discuss whatever differences exist between the two other than the 1-inch gap in height and the one-year disparity (Ferguson 19, Hackenberg 18) in age.
Thatĺs about it. Media members covering the team have tried anything imaginable, short of reading tea leaves, to figure out who holds an edge.
On his radio show Thursday night, OĺBrien admitted for the first time that he has named a starter, and has told the two principals and the rest of the team. He did not say when he made his decision.
The guess here is that Hackenberg will take the field for the first snap of the season. But thatĺs far from etched in stone, at least to those attempting to look inside the Lasch Football Building from the outside.
ôIĺd say by the end of the week weĺll make a decision on who will start the Syracuse game.ö
Ś- OĺBrien, Aug. 20, pre-practice interview, Lasch practice field.
ôI donĺt have to do anything you guys want me to do.ö
Ś OĺBrien, half-kiddingly (we think), later in the same interview.
Syracuse also went through preseason without a clear starter at quarterback. Coach Scott Shafer said in an Aug. 19 interview that he would not publicly name the starter prior to the game.
So if the Orange donĺt do it, why should the Nittany Lions?
ôThere was a benefit last year because you had an older guy that had been in the program for a long time,ö OĺBrien said, referring to record-setting fifth-year senior McGloin.
ôBut in this situation, you have two young guys, neither of them have been here very long. I think itĺs important for each guy to continue to earn their stripes and continue to gain the respect of their teammates.ö
Neither one is perfect. OĺBrien said as recently as Tuesday that ôtheyĺve had their share of mistakes.ö But Saturday is almost here, and someone has to run out from the sideline and take the first snap.
But who?
Itĺs a mystery.
ôIĺm not trying to bust anybodyĺs chops. I want to do whatĺs best. And whatĺs best for Penn State right now is for you to find out when we take the field for the first snap of offensive football against Syracuse.ö
Ś OĺBrien, Aug. 27, first weekly teleconference.
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In an interview with USA TODAY, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said an agency team is still studying what the space station will ultimately look like. Until the team finishes its work this summer, he said, he couldn't be sure which pieces of the station might be left on the ground, including those already scheduled to fly on future shuttle missions.
"We're trying to develop a station plan," Griffin said. "We don't have it yet."
The space station, which now serves as a home to one Russian and one American, has been more than 20 years in the making. The United States and 15 other nations share the $100 billion cost, but the station has long generated controversy in the USA as its cost grew and its purpose changed. Congress nearly killed it in 1993.
Four planned shuttle flights are supposed to carry large pieces of the space station, including solar panels and scaffolding, into orbit. NASA has even announced crews for the four flights.
"The flights will fly," Griffin said. "What piece of hardware goes on what flight is what's up for grabs."
NASA had planned at least 28 more shuttle flights to the station: 18 to finish building it and 10 to provide supplies or support research. President Bush declared last year that the shuttle would retire in 2010, limiting the number of flights. His decision was triggered, in part, by the disintegration of the shuttle Columbia in 2003.
As a result of Bush's decision, the 28-flight plan "won't work," Griffin said. "So we need a new plan, and we're trying to develop it."
Only the shuttle can haul pieces of the station into orbit. Cutting back the number of shuttle flights will make it difficult, if not impossible, to finish the station.
Legislation introduced Tuesday by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, would require NASA to complete the space station.
Griffin offered a sober assessment of the challenges NASA faces, saying America's space program has "fallen behind."
"Our shuttle is grounded. Two nations have flown people in space since we last did it," Griffin said. "We're at least five years away from having a replacement vehicle. ... We (at NASA) and America need to work hard to regain our pre-eminence in space."


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A heart-wrenching obituary has been published for the little girl who drowned last month in the waters off Gambier Island.
Seven-year-old Maddy Liebenberg had been out with her father, William Liebenberg, taking their boat from the Lions Bay marina to go for a swim near their cabin on Gambier.
Investigators are unclear what happened, but Maddy was found dead, while her dad is presumed to have drowned as well.
"Our hearts are forever broken by the tragic loss of Maddy Liebenberg — and her passing is a reminder life is precious and love is forever," the obituary reads in the Vancouver Sun.
It says the girl lived life fiercely, seen in the way she loved and danced.
It lists some of her favourite things, like the monkey bars, eating candy and loving all animals.
Her memorial is planned for Saturday in Vancouver.


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Definition of the noun american aloe
What does american aloe mean as a name of something?
- tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber
- lexical domain: Plants - nouns denoting plants
- synonyms of American aloe: agave / century plant
- more generic terms: desert plant / xerophile / xerophilous plant / xerophyte / xerophytic plant = plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water
- more specific terms:
- Agave americana / American agave = widely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk
- Agave sisalana / sisal = Mexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope
- Agave cantala / cantala / maguey = Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine
- Agave atrovirens / maguey = Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal
- Agave tequilana = Mexican plant used especially for making tequila
- dracaena = an agave that is often cultivated for its decorative foliage
- Nolina microcarpa / bear grass = stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers
- bowstring hemp / sansevieria = grown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber
- member of: Agavaceae / agave family / family Agavaceae / sisal family = chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae
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The Gardeners Dictionary (1754)
Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving All Sorts of Trees, Plants, and Flowers, for the Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure Gardens; as Also Those which are Used in Medicine. With Directions for the Culture of Vineyards, and Making of Wine in England. In which Likewise are Included the Practical Parts of Husbandry by Philip Miller
The common large American Aloe. 2. Aloe Americana minor. Munt. The lesser American Aloe. 3. Aloe Americana ex Vera Crucc, film angttstioribus, minus glaucis. H. B*<:um. The narrow-leavd Aloe from Vera Cruz. 4. Aloe Americana ex ...
The Universal Gardener and Botanist; Or, A General Dictionary of Gardening and Botany, Etc (1778)
by Thomas MAWE (and ABERCROMBIE (John) Horticulturist.), John ABERCROMBIE (Horticulturist.)
AGA ve, American Aloe. – Viviparous American Aloe.
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Plants (2013)
From Acacia to Zinnia by Christopher Cumo
While sometimes confused with agave, also called American aloe, aloe vera and agave are not in the same family. Agave blooms rarely and has no gel in its leaves. Aloe vera, on the other hand, is a succulent perennial that is 99 percent water ...
A Pocket Dictionary of the Holy Bible (1829)
by Archibald Alexander
The American aloe is famous for its fine flowers of the lily- kind ; the Asian for the useful drug propared from it. The drug aloe is formed of the juice of the leaves, fresh plucked and squeezed, set to harden in the sun : th'j succotrine aloe is made ...
The popular encyclopedia; or, 'Conversations Lexicon': [ed. by A. Whitelaw from the Encyclopedia Americana]. (1874)
The American aloe (see next article) is a different plant altogether ; as are also the aloes or lign-aloes of Scripture, which are supposed to be the Aquilaria Agallochum, or aloes-wood (q. v.) Aloe, the Great or American (Agate Americana) , is a ...
The Botanist's and Gardener's New Dictionary; in which is Also Comprised, A Gardener's Calendar ... and to which is Prefixed an Introduction to the Linnæan System of Botany (1763)
by James WHEELER (Gardener at Gloucester.)
AGAVE, the name by which Linnaaus calls agenus of plants, which by former botnnists was deemed a spe- ' cies of aloe, and in English is termed the common American Aloe. See the article ALoe. Characterr. The agave is a genUS of the ...
The Botanist's and Gardener's New Dictionary (1763)
Containing the Names, Classes, Orders, Generic Characters, and Specific Distinctions of the Several Plants Cultivated in England, According to ... Linnaeus ... In which is Also Comprised, a Gardener's Calendar ... and to which is Prefixed, an Introduction to the Linnaean System of Botany ... by James Wheeler
AGAVE, the name by which Linnæus calls a genus os plants, which by sormer botanists was deemed a species os aloe, and in English is termed the common American Aloe. See the article Aloe. CharaSers. The agave is a genus os the order ...
Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink (2014)
by John F. Mariani
its chief species being the American aloe. It is also called " mescal" and "century plant," so named for its long lifespan (whichin fact tops out at thirty ...
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The Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), in cooperation with the Science Education Institute (SEI) of the Department of Science and Technology, successfully launched the Courseware Website at the Philippine Science High School, Davao City last April 15, 2009.
The launching marked a significant progress in the country's thrust to enhance the functional literacy of students in Science and Mathematics. A strong foundation in Science and Mathematics education will help lead the Philippines to development. -During the launching ceremony, Director*Denis Villorente gave a short message which highlights the milestones of the courseware project and the significance of Information Technology in uplifting the student's imagination, creativity and interest in education. The guests were welcomed by the Director of the Philippine Science High School – Southern Mindanao Region, Ms. Delia C. Legaspino.
The Science and Mathematics modules in the website are all interactive lessons, which were released in CD copies in 2006. They are now made available online at www.courseware.dost.gov.ph. Students and teachers alike can now take advantage of these revolutionary resources, which are absolutely free via the Internet.
Elementary Students who attended the Science Camp in Philippine Science High School-Davao were able to get a hands-on experience on some of the modules. They were allowed to navigate through the courseware web pages and answer some of the exercises that followed the lessons. It has been a joyful experience to watch the kids getting excited over academic lessons which they normally consider as boring. With the help of multimedia and innovative technology, learning Science and Mathematics, in the same way as in teaching them, would never have to be such a difficult and painful task.
DOST Secretary, Dr. Estrella Albastro expressed her support on the project and on the continuing initiative of SEI and ASTI in integrating technology to classroom learning. ASTI and SEI is currently implementing a project on the development 500 modules on Science and Mathematics for the Secondary Level. These are expected to be completed in 2012.
A courseware that will help improve the Math and Science education of elementary students is now made available free of charge. It can be downloaded and installed easily and using it is just as simple. But you will need a flash player (which, by the way, is also free) to run it properly.
The "Development of Computer-Aided Instructions for Science and Mathematics" project is being undertaken with a vision to improve Science and Mathematics education in the Philippines. The project is made possible through the collaboration of Science Education Institute (SEI) and Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
In 2004, the Science Education Institute (SEI) approached the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), with an idea. To enable schools take advantage of Information Technology (IT) in conducting classroom lectures. The plan was to optimize, streamline and standardize lesson presentation through the use of cost-effective and high quality solutions, which would then assist students to be more competitive, maximize and enhance learning through the use of this technology.
To date, about 7,000 copies of this courseware have been distributed to various public elementary schools, public offices, some foreign guests, science centrums and lawmakers.
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The Department of Science and Technology, after a successful pilot testing of the Technology Package for Student Learning Empowerment for Grade 1 Mathematics, has started development of Mathematics Courseware for Grades 2 to 6. This is a collaboration between different agencies within DOST namely, the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), the National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development (NISMED) and the Science Education Institute (SEI) .
The Courseware for Grades 2 to 6 aims to continue improving elementary school students' performance in mathematics by providing supplementary software, and appropriate teaching support and materials. A total of 42 lessons distributed among selected topics from the different grades will be digitized into modules. These modules are aligned with the K-12 curriculum of the Department of Education.
The new modules will follow Courseware for Grade 1's main characters: Aida, Dan, Ed, and Tessa in learning new lessons in Mathematics. Localization of elements within the module gives it a more "Filipino" feel giving users a sense of familiarity. Modules are divided into Activities, Fixing Skills and Evaluation. Activities are the lesson proper, Fixing Skills are exercises that increase understanding of the lesson , and Evaluation tests the student's lesson comprehension.
The Courseware for Grade 1 Mathematics modules are currently available for download at (http://courseware.dost.gov.ph/cw-modules). Development and pilot testing of Grade 2-6 modules will run until the end of 2014.
The Technology Package for Student Learning Empowerment: Mathematics Courseware for Tablet PC is nominated at the ISIF Asia Award (http://isif.asia/projects/projects/view/346) for 2013. Along with 21 other contenders in the Asian region, the courseware project will compete for AUD 3000 prize money plus a travel grant to attend the awards ceremony at a regional or global event chosen by the ISIF Asia secretariat. The said entry was entered under the Innovation on Learning and Localization category, of which the winner is to be decided by the ISIF Asia committee. Aside from the major awards, the Community Choice Award will be given to the project who will get the most number of online votes using social media campaign. All the approved nominations are listed at http://isif.asia/projects/projects/index, and the online poll is still ongoing as of press time.
The Technology Package for Student Learning Empowerment: Mathematics Courseware for Tablet PC is a project of the Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) and Advanced Science Technology (DOST-ASTI) in cooperation with the Department of Education (DepEd), National Institute of Science and Mathematics Education (UP-NISMED), DOST Undersecretary Fortunato T. Dela Peña, Dr. Queena Lee-Chua of Ateneo de Manila University, and Dr. Rowena Cristina Guevarra of the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) which seeks to contribute to the improved delivery of educational content especially in the primary education, and consequently to the improvement of the quality of Philippine education.
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Food processing, healthcare, pharmaceutical, energy, diamond and precious stone segment are some of the areas where the investors have shown interest, he said here. Chouhan was talking to reporters at the Secretariat on his return from a trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, where he scouted for investments and held deliberations with entrepreneurs and businessmen.
The Chief Minister said Gulf airline Emirates has agreed to launch the State's first international flight from Indore to Dubai. Besides, Air Arabia has shown keen interest in launching international operations from Madhya Pradesh, he said.
Chouhan informed that he met over 250 investors in the Gulf nation and invited them to take part in a three-day global investors summit to be held in Indore from October 8. At the event, the Chief Minister said, he would present a progress report on earlier investor summits. He said talks were also held on setting up a Smart City in the State on the lines of high-tech urban centres in the Gulf countries.
On the issue of ongoing power crisis, Chouhan said it would be resolved within a week's time. The electricity demand has risen to 7,000 MW and the State Government has made arrangements for procuring 8,000 MW soon.


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Chapter Seventeen: Jason GrazMature
Chapter Seventeen: Jason Graz
Reverend, reverend, is this a conspiracy? Crucified for no sins, no revenge beneath me. Lost within my plans for life, it all seems so unreal. I'm a man cut in half in this world, left in my misery.
Blackness. Nothing but the darkest, dense, sinful black. Blacker than Lucifer's heart if it existed. All my senses are dead. No smell can penetrate my nose. No colour can grace my eyes. No sweet sound can pass my ears. No object can cut through my numb, tingling, dead skin to graze my touch. No soft wind can stoke the taste buds in my mouth, passing me information by stroking my cheek, instead scraping a cruel, cold, hard fingernail of pain across my flesh. At least, I think it is flesh. No bittersweet moment can lull me from the depths of despair I've fallen into, that I'm falling into and that I've always been falling in.
The reverend, he turned to me, without a tear in his eyes. It isn't anything new for him to see, I didn't ask him why. I'll remember, the love our souls had sworn to make. Now I watch the falling rain all my mind can see now is you.
It begins to dawn on my mind what has happened, what is happening. Now I feel something in my numb state. A fire lights up inside me, a horrid, twisted pain in my soul. It is wreaking havoc, causing turmoil in my mind. Pain is all I can think of. This can't be happening. It isn't possible. Not to me. Not so young. I was destined for more than this. This is just a dream. Not reality. Some sort of practical joke my mind was playing with my body. My subconscious mind against my conscious mind. Two sides raging war, both of them lying. This couldn't be happening. Not to me of all people. It wasn't true. All fake. A mirage. An illusion. A badly fashioned nightmare. A tasteless joke. It wasn't real. I wouldn't accept that. This would not happen to me in reality for years, nothing I could say to myself could make me think that this is anything other than some practical joke. I mean really?
Well I guess you took my youth and gave it all away. Like the birth of a newfound joy, this love would end in rage. And when she died I couldn't cry, the pride within my soul. You left me incomplete. All alone as the memories now unfold.
Something new washes over me. Something different. I don't like it. It is different, strange. Cold, hard, unfeeling almost. Whatever it is, it courses through my body, speeding through my veins, boiling my blood. If I could cry, I think I would. My life was useless. I never did anything to help people. I never did anything worth living for. Everything I've ever done has been driven by my own, selfish reasons. I wish I hadn't lived my life like this. Guilt tears like a hurricane through my mind, picking up anything, any scrap of memory, any emotion flying, splintering them. Rendering them a hopeless cause. Rendering them useless. Just like me. Just like I spent my entire life. Worthless. Useless. Nothing important. Nothing worthwhile. Everything I've ever done for myself, I want to take back. I want to live my life again. I want to live it again this time, with the knowledge and understanding that I should do something other than for myself. Make an impression. Not wallow in my own pit of stupidity like I did. It pains me to think about my life, but I continue to anyway. Pain and guilt are all I feel. At least I feel.
Believe the word. I'll unlock my door and pass the cemetery gates.
This is unbelievable! Metallic, blood red flashes across my vision, replacing the black that filled it moments before. It could be moments, minutes, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries. I've no way of knowing. Anger rips through my head. Memories that had been shredded are now splintered, lying in the dust of the unknown of my mind. My mind is having a war with my body. My mind wants to move. My mind wants me to open my eyes. My mind wants me to see. My mind needs to know. My body doesn't want to know. My body doesn't care. My body won't respond. My body isn't interested. Searing anger makes fireworks explode behind my eyes in the blackness. The fireworks light up the blackness, but only more blackness is there to be seen. I'll trade this blackness for a new life. I'll go on a mad quest to get my life back. I'll do anything just to get a new life.
Sometimes when I'm alone, I wonder aloud, if you're watching over me some place far abound. I must reverse my life; I can't live in the past. Then set my soul free, belong to me at last.
Any anger I had subsides. It merely fades, leaving only depression. A veil is put around me. I'm in a cage. A cage of my own creation. It is my fault. All of it. I'm alone in whatever I do now because I was a bad person. I didn't really ever try to be me. I tried to fit in. I tried to be cool. My life was wasted because I didn't do anything worthwhile. If only I could go back. If only I could go back and repent. If only I could go back and make up for all my mistakes. Maybe I could make myself a better person. In my heart I know I couldn't. I'm a horrible person. It is as plain as black and white. There isn'thing more to say. There isn't anything more I can do. Life was a mistake. Life was wasted on me. What have I ever done to deserve to live? I'm not worthy of life. My life shouldn't have existed. If I wasn't here, people wouldn't be unhappy. If I wasn't here, more would be done to help others. If only I could pull myself from this pit I was wallowing in. This pit of despair. What I'd not give to be a good person. To be loved and to be nice.
Through all those complex years I thought I was alone. I didn't care to look around and make this world my own. And when she died I should've cried and spared myself some pain. You left me incomplete. All alone as the memories still remain.
I realize that I can't go back. What is done is done. Live and let live. Whatever has happened, be it good or bad, has happened. I can't go back and rewrite history. What has happened, what did happen was meant to happen. It was fate. It was destiny. It was meant to be. The bad emotions no longer override my senses. I calm. As I calm, the blackness is lifted slightly. The blackness is replaced by a dark blue. It is calming. It is cooling. After the rage I flew into before, I need something cooling. So, everything I've done is in the past. I have to look up. Climb out of this pit. Climb out of the hole I dug myself into. Why should I spend the rest of eternity like this? Despairing? Willing to bargain my life for another? Feeling pain for actions out of my control? Shock overriding everything I know? Denial ruling whatever is left of my poor, shredded life. What can I do? I can't change anything I've done. I know that. I must forget. I must learn. I mustn't do wrong again. Things are looking up now.
The way we were. The chance to save my soul and my concern is now in vain. Believe the word, I'll unlock my door and pass the cemetery gates.
What do I have left now? What can I make from what I have? What could I have made with what I had? What can I learn about this time around that I didn't do last time? What is there that I can improve upon? All these questions and more float freely around my mind. My mind is no longer the site of a hurricane disaster, merely a building site. I must build on what I have. Learn from the past. Learn from mistakes. Do right for every time I've done wrong. Do right until I can no longer do anything anymore. There isn'thing else that I can say really. I must reconstruct what I had. Without having what I had when I started, I've barely anything. I had a future. I had will power. I had forces driving me on. I had support. I had hope. Now where do I stand? In the tatters of what used to be. Now I must grow. I must learn how to cope. I must change. It is important that everything I ever do is accounted for. I must be better. I can't afford to fail. I can't afford to lose everything again. I want to do better. I want to be a nicer, better, free minded person. I want to do right.
The way we were. The chance to save my soul and my concern is now in vain. Believe the word, I'll unlock my door and pass the cemetery gates. Gates. Gates.
What I have is what I have. I can accept that now. There isn't anything that can be done any more. Everything I can do, I will. I've accepted my fate. I've accepted my destiny. No matter how bad the cards that life deals me, I'll play them. Failure is no longer an option. I'll face problems by being calm. I shall feel everything personally. I shall no longer feel negative. I shall no longer be negative. Any emotion that isn't positive isn't what I want in my new, rebuilt world. Shock isn't welcome. Denial will be set straight. Pain shall be fixed. Guilt shall be redeemed. Anger shall be tamed. Bargaining shall be banned. Depression will be lifted. Reflection shall only be dwelt upon so that I can be more positive. Loneliness shall be united. Reconstruction shall be welcome. Redemption shall not be necessary once everything is done. Working through will be encouraged. Life shall be accepted for what it is, dealt with truly. Hope shall always be there. I have hope.


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If you're anything like me, snack time is the worst time. My creativity is shot by the end of the day and I end up throwing random packages at my kids or trying to convince them that plain bread and a banana is totally a normal end of the day snack.
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These addivtively crunchy snacks have saved my bacon more than once. And while they have yet to come out with a bacon flavor, it does seem like they have every other flavor covered. Check out some of my favorite out of the box choices…
The best part though? My kids are just as crazy about them as I am. They can power through a bag in one sitting. Way better than a piece of bread and a banana and probably healthier too. Well than the bread at least. But did I mention the love? Seriously, I am lucky I even got the picture in:
Besides the taste, I love that they curb my craving for snacky, salty foods. They totally satisfy the potato chip monster that lives within me belly. And like their chip cousins, they are super portable. We ate them constantly at the pool this summer.
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Can you believe the Summer is already half over? Everyone is starting to get sucked into "Back to School" mode. These No. 2 felt pencil bookmarks are just what the kiddos need for going back to school! They are made out of felt and come together really quickly because we all know how much I love my quick crafts! 🙂 These bookmarks would be fun to give to the teachers as well!
White felt
Brown felt
Yellow Felt
Gray felt
Pink Felt
1. Using your white felt, cut out a pencil shape. You can decide how small or large you want to make it. Cut out brown tip piece, a yellow rectangle piece, gray piece and a pink erase to fit the size of your white felt pencil piece
2. Hot glue on your brown pencil tip piece and the yellow body piece.
3. Hot glue on your silver and pink eraser piece.
I wrote "No.2" on my pencils to make it a bit more official 🙂
I joined forces with my Creative Buzz group again this month so make sure you check out these other fun and creative number themed projects!
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As part of this year's Brighton Digital Festival, the future of retail was discussed at an event hosted by Rakuten DC Storm. DC Storm, a company that specialises in data-driven marketing, made a number of exciting predictions based on recent or emerging digital breakthroughs in retail. These included:
While some of these ideas may seem quite far-fetched, they are very achievable, and their uptake will come down to the cost of implementation and consumer appetite.
When asked which emerging trends are the most exciting, Paul Cruise, Head of Sales at DC Storm, explained that for marketing professionals the introduction of Bluetooth Beacons has the greatest potential.
The notifications and alerts sent to shoppers are the immediate and obvious benefits, but there's also a far less obvious, but more valuable, outcome for marketing professionals.
If you're like me, then you might find a product online and then head to the shop where you can make a beeline to the preselected product for a quick, hands-on, pre-purchase verification. Or, conversely, you might find the product in the shop, and then buy it online later so you don't need to lug it around town.
If you take either of these two approaches to shopping, you're messing with a marketing analyst's data, for the analyst will count you as two shoppers rather than just one, because he or she has no way of connecting the customer journey between online and the high street.
Bluetooth Beacons help the analyst join these dots.
Joining the online and in-store journeys together is very important when it comes to attribution, and helps allocate marketing budget more efficiently. 'Attribution' is the term describing where a sale has come from, but the process for taking this measurement is often flawed – particularly with the 'last click' model, where the point of purchase is seen as being the sole contributing factor to the sale.
If, for example, I find a new jacket in a shop and then buy it later online, the analyst will attribute the sale to online and invest further in online marketing. If we reverse the journey, and I find the jacket online but buy it in-store, then – in the eyes of the analyst – my visit to the website was of no value to the business. Badly measured attribution is like thinking the scorer in a 1-0 football match was the only player of any value.
Bluetooth Beacons are a step towards helping the analyst connect the online and in-store customer journey. If a shopper has logged into a retailer's website on their phone and that phone has been identified as entering the store via a Bluetooth signal, attribution becomes far more accurate and advertising budget can be spent more efficiently.
I can see how this would be hugely beneficial to the marketing professional but, as mentioned earlier, the wide scale adoption of any of these trends will depend on consumer appetite. Unless there's a very compelling reason for shoppers to sign up for alerts, there's a good chance they'll quickly become an annoyance and shoppers will opt out of the scheme faster than you can say Quick Response Code.
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Investors are also invited to respond to an IASB investor survey, which should take less than 15 minutes to complete. Responses, which are on a no-names basis, are due by 15 December 2015.
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BeschreibungThe second of our series with the New England Aquarium, Amazing Jellies presents an entertaining and authoritative look into the little-known world of what we commonly, but incorrectly, have known as jellyfish. Jellies are among the most beautiful and unusual animals on earth. They are present in all the oceans of the world and their fossils have been found in rocks 650 million years old. They have no brain, no liver, no kidneys, no heart, no lungs, or gills. They do not need blood, have no eyes, nose or tongue. They can be lethal and are nearly always beautiful. Disappearing Giants: The North Atlantic Right Whale was our first collaboration with the New England Aquarium, and with the same depth and clarity, Amazing Jellies provides the reader with a thorough understanding of jellies and their role in the ocean. The book takes advantage of the most recent research into jellies, which explores how climate change and global warming are affecting the sea jellies of the world, as well as the rest of us. Beautiful colour photographs accompany a clearly written and wide-ranging text.
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Kia Joorabchian also contrasted City manager Roberto Mancini's "very direct" style with that of Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.
Asked about the relationship between Tevez and Mancini, Joorabchian told the Leaders in Football conference: "This is a personal relationship between two people. We have seen this happen all through the summer.
"We have seen [Cesc] Fabregas, [Samir] Nasri and [Luka] Modric the list goes on but they are the high-profile names who have handed in transfer requests, refused to travel, refused to play. That is a problem in general.
"My opinion is they refused to play in a different way and those managers and the clubs handled them very differently.
"Roberto's has his style of management and it is very direct and very different to Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger or Carlo Ancelotti."
Joorabchian insisted Tevez did not refuse to come on as a substitute for City during their defeat by Bayern Munich - and claimed post-match comments by the player suggesting he had done so were wrongly translated by a club interpreter.
Tevez is currently serving a two-week suspension pending a club investigation that he allegedly disobeyed Mancini's instructions.
Tevez's initial post-match comment was translated by a City employee as: "I did not feel right to play so I did not."
Joorabchian said: "If you don't have a very professional interpreter you have a problem.
"The interpretation was incorrect. Both questions and both answers from Carlos were interpreted incorrectly."
Sky News have since had the interview interpreted independently, but in their translation Tevez still appears to confirm he decided not to play. That translation states Tevez saying: "It's just that I didn't want to go in because I thought I was unwell. I wasn't emotionally well, and I thought it better not to.
"I felt that it wasn't suitable that I go on because my head wasn't in the right place."
Joorabchian said TV pictures showed the situation on the bench in Munich to be confused, with a row between Mancini and striker Edin Dzeko, who was angry at having been substituted.
Joorabchian said Tevez has been as committed to City as he was when he joined at the start of the club's "new vision".
He added: "Carlos joined Manchester City when he had official offers from Real Madrid and Manchester United on the table at end of May [2009]. He was one of the first players to join Manchester City's new vision.
"It's a great vision. Carlos was brought in to help and start that vision.
"When they didn't qualify for the Champions League at the end of his first season he took that very personally."
Joorabchian also refused to speculate on Tevez's future.
He said: "I cannot predict what Carlos wants to do. He has been clearly judged and condemned before the case has been fully looked into. I think the club and Carlos are in a very difficult position."
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After officially visiting Nebraska this weekend, and meeting coach Wyatt, Townsend's fears were laid to rest. "I committed this morning," Joseph said. "I got a chance to meet coach Wyatt and he's probably the biggest reason I am coming here to play."
With that commitment Joseph becomes the second Townsend to play, at least from this family, brother Larry having played defensive tackle for the Huskers in the mid-90s.
As to all the other things Townsend got to see that he didn't when he came in for a game earlier in the year, he said it fit everything he wanted. "The facilities are impressive. You expect something like that, but you see them and they are big time," he said. "But the big thing is that they have a 94 percent graduation rate, and I am definitely getting my degree."
"It was pretty easy once I met coach Wyatt and saw everything. So, I didn't think I needed to wait."
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The casino was filled with gamblers and other street scum - and, of course, the dancers. There were strippers everywhere on the stage up front, and what I suspected were prostitutes in the back and along the sides. I waded through the crowd, looking for my contact.
Then, I saw him: a stocky, dark-skinned man of about forty years with a black goatee and a bald spot at the crown of his head. I grabbed a drink and sat down casually next to him.
"What have you got for me this time?" I asked concisely, not wanting to mince words on pleasantries.
"I have heard about some of King Sekibo's dealings with criminal organizations," he said. "Apparently, he meets with members of the 14K Triad and Corsican Mafia in downtown Rabat."
"Oh, I see - so, it's the Rabat Connection, then? Smuggling center?"
He nodded at me, then elaborated, "And more. I have heard that he pays the Triad for prostitutes and assassinations, as well as allowing them to send some of these prostitutes - the ones he does not keep for his...personal pleasure - to clubs and bars all around Morocco. He also lets them commit extortion, racketeering, loan sharking and kidnapping on his land."
"You said they meet at the capitol?"
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I paused, staring at all of the scantily clad women throughout the room, and then said, "Are you telling me that they...?"
"Yes," he responded to my unfinished question, "They are working on the payroll of the Mafia and the Triad, who are working on the payroll of Sekibo. They may know more about how to track down the King."
He always said that last word curtly and concisely, as though it hurt him or were some kind of poison. I could understand why. With that, he and I parted ways, him leaving and presumably going home and me making my way towards one of the prostitutes.
I approached the one sitting in the corner - a dark-haired Oriental girl, no older than 25, with her hair unstyled and reaching to just below her shoulders.
"Hi," I said, walking slowly over to her and sitting down next to her. "I don't feel like wasting my breath on a pickup line that could never work, so how about I buy you a drink?"
She shied away a bit at first, but then said, "S-Sure." She said it like a question, though - with an uncertain tone to it.
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In the past, I've needed to start SQL Agent jobs using Windows Scheduled Tasks. Using Powershell, this is now easier than ever.
First, let's create the Powershell script. It's very basic and relies on Windows Authentication and SQL Native Client to connect to the SQL Server.
#Vars for Server and JobName
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In a nutshell, this script will need you to set 2 variables, $Server and $JobName. Once those have been set, the script will open up a connection to the server, execute the sp_start_job command and then close the connection.
Next, we want to start the Powershell script via Windows Scheduled Tasks. When setting up the task, choose "Start a program" under Action and type powershell.exe . We specify the Powershell script to execute in the additional arguments. By adding &'\\<filepath>\StartTest_SQL_AgentJob.ps1' Powershell will start up and execute the script.
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