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Will it be Anti-Climatic??
Last night, I put up the todo list on my whiteboard for the soft launch of Tickets with a Twist on Sunday. Today, I've been wondering about what the launch will feel like. Launching WhyGoSolo was such a monumental event to me (us) and this one…like I mentioned in another post, feels so much different.
This launch is different for many reasons. First, it will be a soft launch – meaning, we're going to keep it extremely low key since we will not have the quantity and variety of tickets I was anticipating. Second, our widgets will not be online and third, the live site will require additional testing. Although it's being currently tested on stage, when it goes live it will require additional testing…particularly since it ties in and interacts with the WhyGoSolo site.
The other factor that have me wondering about what the launch on Sunday will be like is because of how much of a big deal the launch of WhyGoSolo was to me and all of us involved. The team was much bigger and development had been ongoing for almost five months. I had been prepping for the launch for almost a year and the compilation of all our efforts were finally coming together.
I was also dedicating my full time and energy to WhyGoSolo back then, while for this launch, I've been and still am juggling a full time job.
I don't know if saying that we were over hopeful or just slightly naïve is proper, but I know I had imagined that launching the site was going to make huge things happen over night. I had unrealistic expectations. Now, I feel like my feet are better planted where they need to be.
When we launch on Sunday, out of the original team that at one time soared at eleven members (not including myself), only two original members are left (not including myself).
I've been thinking about the synergy between the three of us who have now been together for almost a year. Obviously, all three still see the huge potential in what we're doing however, we are all wiser of the road we're traveling. It's nuts to think that we've been chatting and holding weekly calls over Skype with each other for a year.
Darcy was still in high school then and he's now in his second semester of Uni (as he always calls it – he is Australian)
Michael, who was enduring long commutes back then, has since left his full time job and started a business of his own. I also just found out he is expecting his first child. CONGRATULATIONS TO MICHAEL and HIS WIFE!!
We know bits and pieces of each other's lives yet, we're putting full faith into one another. On top of it all, we still haven't met.
So it'll be interesting what it will feel like on Sunday when www.gofortix.com is turned on and we enter a new phase. I'll be talking some more about it Friday night at 8pm EST. Feel free to join me!


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Looks like Floyd Mayweather Jr. isn't about ready to jump off the Johnny Football bandwagon just yet.
A week after winning $200,000 on Manziel and Texas A&M covering the first-half spread against the SMU Mustangs, Money May once again put money down, this time $30,000, on the Aggies to cover the first-half spread against the Arkansas Razorbacks. It didn't came close to the $200,000 he scored last week, or the $300,000 he told Howard Stern he was going to drop for this wager, but hey, $30,000 is still $30,000. Unless you're Floyd, who treats such amounts as boring money.
Then again, it still shows that Floyd still has betting limits and won't hesitate to cut his bets when he finds it too dangerous to lay out that much money on a line he wasn't apparently as confident as we all thought. When prodded by his Twitter followers why he bet only 10 percent of his promised $300,000, Money May explained it through a tweet, saying "When the betting line changed from -3 to -14, I couldn't bet $300k. Too dangerous."
A dramatic swing in the spread is a legitimate cause to pause, something Mayweather smartly did even if he was able to find a middle number at -7 to put his $30,000 on. He did win on a $100,000 bet on the Miami Hurricanes to hit their -9.5 first-half spread against the South Florida Bulls, which they easily covered when it led at the half, 35-7.
But for all his betting winnings, Mayweather apparently also had some losing bets over the weekend, including $40,000 on the second half of the Canes-Bulls game. But that money only cut back on what looks like another winning weekend for the Money Man.
Good thing he didn't lay any money on USC covering the spread against the Arizona State Sun Devils at Sun Devil Stadium.

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Repeated special trading session for offering MEUKAM-108 of issue 11 (KZKD00000816) will be held on KASE on October 28
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/KASE, October 18, 2019/ – Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) announces that a repeated special trading session for offering of government long-term treasury bonds of Kazakhstan's Ministry of Finance (MEUKAM) will be held in KASE trading system on October 28, 2019 on the terms below (Almaty time). ----------------------------------------------------------- Security type: MEUKAM-108 ISIN: KZKD00000816 Issue order number: 0011 / 108 KASE trade code: MUM108_0011 Face value, tenge: 1,000.00 Number of bonds outstanding, pieces: 65,737,000 Circulation start date: August 29, 2014 Last circulation date: August 28, 2023 Redemption start date: August 29, 2023 Circulation term: 9 years (3,240 days) Coupon rate: 7.00 % p.a. Coupon payment periodicity: once a year Coupon payment schedule: 1 September 1, 2015 2 August 29, 2016 3 August 29, 2017 4 August 29, 2018 5 August 29, 2019 6 September 1, 2020 7 August 31, 2021 8 August 29, 2022 9 August 29, 2023 Time base: 30 / 360 ------------------------------------ ---------------------- Trade date: October 28, 2019 Current maturity: 3.8 years (1,381 days) Declared offering amount, mln tenge: 4,000.0 Trade subject: "clean" price Market order execution ratio, %: 70 Order submission method: closed Order receipt time: 09:00–11:00 Order confirmation time: 09:00–11:30 (Т+0) Striking time: before 15:00 (Т+0) Payment date and time: October 28, 2019, 15:00 (Т+0) Order execution method: at cut-off price Limit orders execution method: pro rata to offset order amounts Trading system sector: MEKAM_ST1 Trading system group: MEUKAM_108 ----------------------------------------------------------- As the price an order must indicate the "clean" (without accrued interest) price of the bond in percentage of the face value with accuracy of up to the fourth decimal place. This value is the trade's subject. Trade participants must by the time indicated in the table provide money available at the money account used for settlement on deals in securities in accordance with the set of rules of the Central Securities Depository (Almaty), in the amount sufficient to pay for acquired treasury bonds (based on the assumption that all orders submitted by trade participants and accepted by KASE are subject to execution). At full or partial satisfaction of orders submitted, the payment of the respective amount must be carried out in accordance with the Rules of placement of government treasury bonds of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The text of said Rules is available at
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BONDURANT, Iowa—You can help celebrate what would have been a golden birthday for a girl from Bondurant.
Ava Hutchinson would have turned 13 on the 13th. We first met Ava in 2016 when she asked for birthday cards for her 11th birthday.
She even appeared during RVTV's stop in Bondurant in 2016. Keith Murphy asked Ava, "We just heard about all those cards you've been getting. What do you want for your birthday?" Ava answered, "Cards, and I want people to donate money to Children's Cancer Connection."
Ava beat cancer in 2009, but it returned five years later. She had a big birthday bash for her 11th birthday. Ava died on September 11, 2017, just two days before her 12th birthday. Family and friends still held a blood drive in her honor. Patients with cancer typically need many blood transfusions.
This year, her parents are hosting Ava's Golden Birthday Blood Drive. It will be Saturday, September 15th from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Federated Church of Bondurant. You can schedule your blood donation time on Lifeserve Blood Center's website.


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Can Disney's Circle really deliver a porn-free Internet?
Filtering out the bits of human knowledge you don't like and leaving all the bits you do is a deceptively difficult task; it's one of the classic "I may not know art, but I know what I (don't) like" problems. If you have a family with small children and absolutely any adult member of that family is not a complete libertine, though, it's a problem you'll need to address. The latest edition of the Disney-backed Circle filtering platform aims to help, via either a standalone IoT gadget ($35) or a service embedded in higher-end Netgear routers and mesh kits, such as Orbi RBK50 ($300) or Nighthawk R7000P ($160).
Netgear's Orbi RBK-50 (left two items) offers embedded Circle functionality, or you can purchase a standalone IoT gadget (right).


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Global ETS, LLC.
November 13, 2017 Issue
Q&A with Dan Tang, President of Global ETS, LLC. providing Electronic Components Identification and Testing Services to the Military, Aerospace, Automotive, Aviation, Franchises and Independent Distributors Worldwide in their AS900 Certified Laboratory
Dan Tang
Global ETS, LLC.
Dan Tang
Interview conducted by:
Lynn Fosse, Senior Editor, CEOCFO Magazine, Published – November 13, 2017
CEOCFO: Mr. Tang, would you tell us about Global Electronics Testing Services?
Mr. Tang: We are an independent, AS900 certified and DLA QTSL Laboratory Suitability Approved laboratory. We specialize in components authentication and testing services. We have a location in Shenzhen, China and our headquarters in Odessa, Florida. Our facility here is 10 thousand square ft., with state of the art testing equipment, serving customers from all industries including military, aerospace, automotive, aviation, franchise as well as independent distributors all around the world.
CEOCFO: What is involved in testing electronic components?
Mr. Tang: Quite a bit is involved. You must have the proper facility with ESD certification, a variety of testing equipment, approved detailed processes, and a knowledgeable and experienced staff. At Global ETS we have different test methodologies that we follow from Industrial Standard MIL-STD-883, AS6081, and customer specific requirements.
CEOCFO: Your site mentions the unique perspective of your skilled workers. Where does the human element come into play when you are testing a component?
Mr. Tang: Our engineers and technicians are highly skilled, with many years of experience in the electronic component field. This level of experience, with our detailed control processes, allows our team to accurately inspect and verify the components and provide a comprehensive inspection report.
CEOCFO: What might you look at when you are doing a project that less knowledgeable organizations do not think is important?
Mr. Tang: We are an extension of our customer's quality department, which means we need to take very seriously our responsibility to convey correct findings and produce clear reports.
While we do review and test different elements of components, one of our most important element is the ability to communicate well with our customers, allowing full disclosure with end customers and suppliers.
CEOCFO: What information do you provide to your customer?
Mr. Tang: Our customers look for a complete detailed and accurate analysis report of the products they have or are looking to purchase. Our report shows whether the product is new, original, will function to manufacturer specifications and are authentic components. With this data our customer is able to make an informed decision whether to use or purchase the product.
CEOCFO: GETS was recognized as A Florida Company to Watch. Would you tell us about the growth trajectory and how you continue forward?
Mr. Tang: It is a great honor for our company to be recognized as one of the 50 Florida Company to Watch for 2017. In late 2016 we built a 10K square foot test facility, and with this new facility our sales have double. We have increased our laboratory staff by 20%. In 2018 we have plans to add a military support division and are looking to increase our sales by 25%. In the near future we will add a second shift to support our customer demands. With the projected increase in business Global ETS will hire up to 10 additional full-time employees, with some entry level positions and several electrical engineering and technician position.
CEOCFO: What accounts for the growth at GETS?
Mr. Tang: Our ability to provide high quality tests with fast turn time, detailed test reports, cost savings, combined with our outstanding customer service and ability to understand our customer's needs. At Global ETS we are constantly improving our process and bringing in the latest and greatest test equipment available. In addition, we strive to achieve the highest laboratory certification available. GETS is an AS9100 certified company. We are in the process to be DLA (Defense Logic Agency) lab approval. In first quarter of 2018 we expect to be ISO 17025 certified. These certifications allow us to expand our services; working with QTSL certified suppliers as well as government contracts. We have different locations throughout the world with ability to support our customer needs no matter where they are.
It is our mission to be in the forefront of eliminating counterfeit or substandard electronic components from the supply chain, while providing our customer with unparalleled and unbiased electronic testing services throughout the world.
"We are an extension of our customer's quality department."- Dan Tang
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KIA will make a brand new compact cross. The car based on the Rio hatch.
Autocar informs that Volkswagen T-Cross will be the main rival of the car. According to rumors, the new product will be calling XRio, as it was with XCeed.
The final verdict on the car will be making at the Kia Europe branch. If approved, XRio will be Koreans' smallest SUV. The novelty may locate in the model line below Stonic.


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Ariya Ouskouian was a student at University of California, Irvine who was charged by Orange County prosecutors on August 29, 2018 for impersonating a medical doctor.
The press release from the Orange County District Attorney's office states that Ouskouian will be charges with 1 felony count of "Providing medical diagnosis while impersonating a doctor" and 8 misdemeanor counts of "Misrepresenting oneself as a licensed medical practitioner" which carries a maximum sentence of 3 years in state prison or 8 years in Orange County jail.
Mr. Ouskouian is accused of impersonating a medical doctor on May 3, 2018 by providing a diagnosis to an unnamed patient in a consult room at University of California, Irvine regarding a growth on his neck.
Additionally, Mr. Ouskouian is accused of impersonating a doctor at Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) between April 23, 2018 and June 4, 2018. He reportedly misrepresented himself as a doctor to CHOC security personnel to gain access to restricted floors of the hospital. This is where this story gets confusing. In order to gain access to this area, he claimed that he had misplaced his security badge to security officers, and when they became suspicious and when the security officer(s) requested some verification he provided the name of a UCI staff member and convinced security personnel of his status as a doctor. He was subsequently issued a temporary hospital badge.
At this time, there are no details on what verification procedures were in place or if there was a breach of security protocol, nor are there any details of when & how staff at CHOC became suspicious of his credentials.


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80 Acres Row Crop Farmland & Duck Hunting
Prairie County, Arkansas
80.96 +/- Acres
Parcel #/ID: 001-03136-000
This is a great opportunity to own a row crop farm with duck and deer hunting in Prairie County, Arkansas less than 20 minutes north of Stuttgart, Arkansas. The farm is 80+/- total acres with 73.4 FSA cultivated acres in two fields. The farm is fully irrigated with a 6" electric irrigation well and an electric relift on a tail water recovery ditch. The well and relift are connected by 12" underground pipe and irrigate the farm with three risers, one in each field and one to fill the tail water ditch if needed. The farm is currently under a one year farm lease on a 75/25 rent share. The farm has one duck pit in the south end of the east field. There are also many opportunities for large deer along the east border of the property. The property also included a fenced and graveled area in the southwest corner that could be used as a headquarters. There is an existing 40x60 storage building and several smaller utility storage buildings. Great property with income and hunting!
Estimated Acres:
80+/- acres (73.4 FSA Cropland Acres. 2.5+/- Acres in Tail Water Recovery Ditch, 2.5+/- Acres in woods on East & SE Corner, 1.5+/- Acres (.8 acres fenced) in Headquarter with 40x60 building.
Legal Description:
The South Half of the Southwest Quarter (S1/2 SW1/4) of Section 28, Township 2 North, Range 5 West in Prairie County, Arkansas.
Property Highlights:
Irrigated Cropland with good income
Duck Hunting
Deer Hunting
Great Graveled Headquarters Area
Plenty of water with an irrigation well and tail water recovery ditch
FSA Base Acres
Wheat - 31.8 Acres. 45 bu PLC Yield
Rice LG - 33.9 Acres 6496# PLC Yield
Soybeans - 4.0 Acres 41 bu. PLC Yield
Rice MG - 3.2 Acres 4578# PLC Yield
Estimated Income:
Crop Income: $9,500
Other Lease Income: $2,500
Taxes: $636/year (2018)
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South Bend Community School Corporation
Talks with Todd will continue online through December.
The South Bend Community School Corporation will provide its students with free Wi-Fi service for both the first and second summer school sessions, beginning Monday, June 8.
Superintendent Dr. Todd Cummings announced today the district will hold in-person, outdoor graduation ceremonies at Four Winds Field for the five high schools.
The latest updates on eLearning, meal distribution, free Wi-Fi, and more.
District Information
Learn more about what makes SBCSC the best public school choice in the area for your student.
School Information
Wanting to attend a South Bend School? Learn more about our curriculum, enrollment, school boundaries and facilities.
Extra-Curricular Opportunities
Interested in athletics or fine arts? SBCSC provides countless opportunities for our student athletes and for our students with a passion for the arts.
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City of Yonkers, NYHome Sitemap Contact
The Mayor's Hispanic Advisory Board
The Mayor's Hispanic Advisory Board consists of seven members who provide the City's growing Hispanic community with an official platform to discuss issues of importance. The board recommends policies to advance Hispanic community development in the city of Yonkers.
Members of the Board
Carmen Gomez-Goldberg, Chairperson
Edgar Santana, Vice-Chairperson
Marisol Mancebo, Secretary
Zafiro Acevedo, Member
Grace Borrani, Member
Linda Bohan, Member
Steven A Mejia, Member
Jim Noriega, Member
Carlos Vargas, Member
Contact Us
Melissa Velez-Goldberg
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Significant expertise in the field of tax investigations
Our team at Baldwins Forensic Accounting has significant expertise in tax enquiries and investigation having direct experience from working at HMRC. Over the years we have supported many of our clients when they have come under scrutiny with HMRC. Being subject to an HMRC investigation can be an extremely stressful time for an individual, partnership or limited company.
Indeed, it can be a difficult time for an accountancy practice and can be extremely time consuming. HMRC has been granted significant powers to investigate or enquire into taxation affairs, with enquires being of a random nature or targeted by a review of similar businesses or based on information gained by HMRC.
What you get as part of your service with Baldwins Forensic Accounting:
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Kingston Announces NVIDIA SLI-Ready HyperX DDR2 Low-Latency 800 MHz modules
Kingston Announces NVIDIA SLI-Ready HyperX DDR2 Low-Latency 800 MHz modules news post from TweakTown's online news computing and technology content pages.
Some more DDR2 modules have been added to Kingston's "HyperX" lineup just recently, these being rated for 800MHz at timings of 4-4-4-12. They're available as single 1GB modules, or dual channel 2GB kits.
The press release can be found here.
Fountain Valley, CA - (June 05, 2006), Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced the release of the NVIDIA SLI-Ready 800 MHz low-latency HyperX® modules. The NVIDIA SLI-Ready 800-MHz low-latency HyperX modules increase overall system performance when paired with select NVIDIA nForce® 500 series-based motherboards with easy, one-step set up. Kingston's NVIDIA SLI-Ready modules, designated with an "N" in the part number, are available in 1- and 2-GB kits.
Kingston® and NVIDIA engineered these specially designed HyperX modules to allow users the ability to boost system performance by simply installing NVIDIA SLI-ready components. Without needing to tune the BIOS, users simply select their performance options during their system configuration to experience enhanced performance.
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Preparing for our detox, which begins tomorrow – going to begin my day with an epsom salts #detox bath #liferetreat
If you have kids, then you are really going to like this "recipe" for a calming Epsom salt bath.
It is super easy, completely natural, makes your bathroom smell nice, and also gives your kids some extra nutrition. That's right – nutrition right in their bath water!
Just like how our skin can absorb vitamin D, it can also absorb magnesium. Magnesium doesn't get a lot of attention, but it is one of my favourite minerals for its calming properties.
You can get more magnesium from food, but the digestive system isn't very efficient at breaking down dietary magnesium and only absorbs about 50% of what we eat. You could up your intake of magnesium rich foods, or you could get your magnesium another way – like in your bath!
Epsom salts happen to be 100% magnesium. By adding them to your kids' bath water, you are providing them with this much-needed mineral and also helping to calm them down. Of course, you don't have to limit Epsom salt use to your kids. Since magnesium is a natural muscle relaxant, it is also great for relieving back pain, headaches, and tension in general.
You should use all-natural lavender essential oil for fragrance and for its calming abilities. Combined with the magnesium of Epsom salt, the duo is super calming. Most pharmacies stock pure 100% natural essential oils. You could use any essential oil you want (just make sure it's 100% pure), but the lavender is especially calming.
Remember, it isn't just magnesium which is absorbed by our skin! Our skin – which is our largest organ – also absorbs pollutants.
Yes, that's it! Just add them to the bath and swish around a bit to mix it into the water. It really does help wind the kids down, increases concentration levels and pulls out all those nasty colourants and flavourants that we get in through our diets.
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Shin (death) is the clam shell Tomo uses for fighting. It hypnotizes the opponents and creates illusions involving various senses, additionally being able to put the wielder himself inside the illusion world as a sort of actor to help things along. Tomo is able to see his illusions as they unfold and can also trap a person's body and mind within it in order to extract their memories. The extracted memories can be used to create a scenario for the victim or be replayed at a later time.
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Friday, January 04, 2008
I received my copy of the final issue of Dragons, Knights & Angels the other day. It looks nice--there isn't a whole lot involved in design when you print something through Lulu, but DEP does a good job in taking advantage of what Lulu can do without over-cramming the pages or any other pitfalls that those using POD might fall to. It looks nice on the shelf of contributor copies, and I'm pleased to have it (the poem itself has also received a number of positive comments, so that makes me even happier than the contributor copy).
But I'm annoyed with Lulu. Specifically I find their packaging of books to be absolutely unconscionable. In this age when only a few blinders-on pockets of people deny the importance of caring for the environment, they go to ridiculous extremes with the amount of packaging. DKA (like the other magazines from DEP) has a nice size to it, paperback size more or less except for much thinner. But Lulu wraps it in a box too big to fit in my mailbox, easily big enough for a thick trade paperback with several inches to spare on every side even then. That's silly enough, especially as it must increase mailing, but then inside, the book is plastered to another piece of corrugated cardboard with heavy-duty plastic. What on earth for? What's the point of the plastic at all? Or the extra cardboard, for that matter? I often receive things in the mail, whether contributor copies or things to review, and there are much better ways to ship books and magazines that keep them perfectly safe.
Well, rant over. I just hope saner people within the organization can get them to use more environmentally friendly packaging.
2 comments:
- Neil Richard said...
Hard to tell without a photo, but it sounds like how Amazon packages their orders. I've had several books come shrink-wrapped to a piece of cardboard that is then stuffed inside a box. Granted the box was usually the right size and the cardboard holding my book was also proportional. Maybe they have extra paper to use?
- Daniel Ausema said...
Well, I'm guessing the overly large box has to do with they only have one size of box, and its big enough regardless of what book gets printed. In a short-sighted way it might make business sense, but that doesn't make it acceptable.
It's been a little while since I last got anything from Amazon, and I don't think I've only ordered a single book from them for a very long time, but I've only ever had a single box with the books free inside.
I find it perplexing.


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BACK in high school they always told us that brains prevail — that cool gets you only so far.
Well, last week, smarts won — at least one round. Wikipedia went dark and Google blacked out its logo, as the brainiacs of Silicon Valley tilted at the A-list media giants of Hollywood and New York.
At issue were two antipiracy bills that few Americans had even heard of. Suddenly, though, people were buzzing about SOPA and PIPA — short for the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act.
The bills were put forward by the entertainment industry to combat unauthorized downloads of movies, music and television via foreign Web sites. The technorati argue that the legislation would hand the government Orwellian powers over the Internet.
It all seemed a bit like a food fight in the school cafeteria between "us" and "them." Many of the media companies that have championed the legislation — the News Corporation, Viacom, Time Warner, Disney — have a rocky relationship with Silicon Valley. Sure, they want their content on new-school digital platforms — but they also want to keep their old-school profits. As if. Tension between the two sides seems certain to grow as the debate heats up on Capitol Hill.
Whatever the outcome, the clash prompted a remarkable outpouring within the Internet world. By late Wednesday, more than seven million people had signed an online petition from Google to stop SOPA. Many senators and representatives who previously supported the legislation had flip-flopped.
On Thursday in South Carolina, Republican presidential contenders spoke out against the bills during a debate on CNN. The audience booed when the moderator, John King, disclosed that CNN's parent, Time Warner, supported SOPA.
Before Wikipedia went black, all of this probably seemed esoteric. But it may well go down as a watershed moment. The old media, it seems, is struggling to keep up with the Web.
"The grass roots they can generate is, frankly, concerning," Cary Sherman, chairman and chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, said of the Internet community.
One reason for that, says Sandra Aistars, the executive director of the nonprofit Copyright Alliance and a former associate general counsel for Time Warner, is that the Web's anti-SOPA message is "sexier" than the facts offered up by Hollywood.
"Downloading stuff on the Internet for free is cool," said a person close to Viacom, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to jeopardize his relationship with the company. "Our message isn't cool."
This is from someone on the side of Viacom, which invented MTV.
SURE, many media companies have embraced the Web. But privately, many media executives say Internet companies pay them no respect. Copyright? Please.
And yet the Web needs content and, ultimately, it needs to get that content legally.
"There's no reason we can't get together and work together," said Michael O'Leary, a senior executive vice president for the Motion Picture Association of America. "But it's difficult to do business with a business model that is based on theft."
Fighting words, perhaps. But technology types don't see this as a battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley. They see it as a battle between old and new.
"It's ultimately about disruptive and disintermediating technologies versus incumbent industry," said Michael H. Rubin, a lawyer who has represented several large Internet companies in copyright cases. Incumbent industries, he said, chose "litigation and legislation over innovation."
The faster that legitimate deals are struck, the sooner people will turn away from pirated movies and TV shows. "Right now they're saying, 'We understand you want to enjoy content on your own terms, and that's the one way we don't want to give it to you,' " said Eric Goldman, director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University, and an opponent of SOPA.
As long as the Web doesn't eat into profits from traditional outlets, as it did with the music industry, media companies will have no problem making shows and movies available on the Web, said David Bank, an equity research analyst at RBC Capital Markets. "They can live with guys on the subway selling bootlegged DVDs," Mr. Bank said. "What they can't live with is a giant player that arguably could cause market forces that lead to value destruction."
For now, the entertainment industry sees the Web as a means to make money on shows like the "Vampire Diaries" from CW or "Nip/Tuck" from FX. Unlike some breakout hits, such shows rarely lead to multimillion-dollar syndication deals.
"We're talking billions of dollars, so to go and put those shows out essentially on a table in the street is not a good idea," Jeffrey L. Bewkes, Time Warner's chairman and chief executive, said in an interview last October.
That's not quite the way Mr. Bewkes saw things in 2010, when he argued that the business potential of Netflix was overhyped. It was, he said, as if people were saying that the Albanian army might take over the world. He is now a proponent of "TV Everywhere," an industrywide push to make television available to subscribers on any device.
Relations are particularly icy with Google, an architect of the anti-SOPA movement. Google has a formidable presence in Washington. Last year, it spent $5.9 million on lobbying, more than any other computer or Internet company.
Google, of course, isn't the only deep pocket at work here. Last week, Rupert Murdoch ranted against SOPA on Twitter. "Don't care about people not buying movies, programs or newspapers, just stealing them," he wrote.
Viacom, meantime, is appealing a copyright infringement case against Google's YouTube service. A federal judge in June 2010 ruled in favor of Google, which had been accused of exploiting thousands of copyrighted clips from programs like "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart."
Google's hard-line stance makes talking difficult, said Mr. Sherman at the R.I.A.A. "How do you do business with somebody who is attempting to undermine your very existence?" he asked.
"We have the same goals but we disagree on how to achieve them," said a Google spokeswoman. "We believe the best way to shut down pirate Web sites is to cut off their funding and that can be done without asking U.S. companies to censor the Web."
A YouTube spokesman pointed out that in the last six months, the Web site has struck licensing deals with four major movie studios.
The Internet camp contends that the entertainment industry has often shunned new technologies like the VCR and the iPod. The Hollywood camp says it only wants to protect what it owns. Both sides agree that something has to be done about online piracy, which, the M.P.A.A. figures, costs the entertainment industry $58 billion a year.
The question is whether this scrape will ultimately bring Silicon Valley and Hollywood closer together or push them further apart.
"It's not just a reset for Washington discussions, it's a chance for the movie industry to take a hard look at their partnerships," said Markham Erickson, the executive director of the NetCoalition, a group that includes Google and Yahoo.
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The Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Linked Data Platform 1.0. This document describes a set of best practices and simple approach for a read-write Linked Data architecture, based on HTTP access to web resources that describe their state using the RDF data model. Comments are welcome through 02 September.
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Ready Player One: Win A DeLorean!
OMG, you all!!!! The Hunt has come to life!! In celebration of the release of Ready Player One's paperback, Ernest Cline has announced his own Easter Egg Hunt. The prize: a 1981 DeLorean. But I'll let him tell it:
Here's more info on the rules and challenges: http://www.ernestcline.com/rp1contest/
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This week's challenge is Vibrant!
I took this at Mayfield Lavender in Surrey a couple of summers ago. Beautiful colours to be surrounded by… as long as you are OK with bees buzzing around you! They love the lavender too.
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Dr Rajasekhar latest offering PSV Garuda Vega did good business at the box office. Since its released, the word of mouth for the film was positive. Finally, PSV Garuda Vega has turned to be a super hit film.
According to sources, PSV Garuda Vega theatrical run of the film is Rs 7.5 Crore.Most of the revenue has earned from Nizam and USA respectively. The theatrical value approximately 11 Cr where they have recovered 70% of their investment. Trade pundits predict that, Satellite rights and digital rights of PSV Garuda Vega will help the film to fetch more revenue.
The film is directed by Praveen Sattaru also stars Shraddha Das and Pooja Kumar in the lead roles. Rajasekhar is seen playing as a NIA officer in the movie.


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A North-African vegetable soup, traditionally used to break the fast during Ramadhan.
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- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 onion, roughly chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 1 carrot, cut into pieces
- 1 courgette, cut into pieces
- 2 large tomatoes, roughly chopped
- 1 small potato, roughly chopped
- 2 tbsp lentils
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1/2 tsp ground coriander
- 1/4 tsp ginger powder
- 7 cups of stock
- 2 tbsp bulghur (cracked wheat)
- 1/3 can chick peas
- large handful or chopped coriander
- lemon wedges
- Fry onion in oil until beginning to soften then add garlic, cooking for a few minutes more.
- Add cinnamon, turmeric, ground coriander and ginger, cooking for 2 minutes then add carrot, courgette, tomatoes, potato, lentils and stock. Bring to boil then simmer for 20 minutes. Allow to cool slightly then liquidize and return to pan.
- Bring back to simmer, add chick peas, burghul and chopped coriander and cook for 3 minutes.
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In the case of Ewing v Crown Court sitting at Cardiff and Newport ([2016] EWHC 183 (Admin)) the Divisional Court confirmed an important feature of the open justice principle: that permission is not needed in order to take notes in Court. Although the Court may, for good reason, withdraw the liberty to take notes, the default position is that anyone who attends a public hearing is free to take notes. Read the rest of this entry »
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WO: Weekly Obsessions
In case you couldn't tell from my mentions of post-wedding burgers or J-Law's hunger pangs, food is on my mind A LOT lately. It's no wonder, then:
- Eggs Benedict: My first experience with this dish years ago (in NYC, actually) was a bad one, resulting in illness. I finally got over it two weeks ago and my Keys roommate created our own version. The curse is lifted!
- The Bee's Knees Peanut Butter: A friend recommended this healthier version of PB, and I finally found it at a local market. Honey and peanut butter come together to make it seriously difficult to not lick the jar clean.
- Girl Scout Cookies: Um, duh. I ordered a few boxes months ago and had totally forgotten — until I returned to the office Monday with them sitting at my desk. Thank goodness my teammates are open to sharing … the last thing I need is 40 Thin Mints laying around.
- "Between the Raindrops" – Lifehouse f. Natasha Bedingfield: After all these treats, it's pretty obvious a workout is in order. This beat starts a bit slow but picks up and makes it nearly impossible to not dance, run or jump around. Enjoy!
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Creating Peace With Oranges
We have three boys and one baby girl so when we sit down for dinner it is loud. To add to the slight bit of chaos is our dog, a dog that is taller than the table. We are constantly on guard as the Husband and I direct conversation towards meaningful ideas rather than who hit whom and how many changes of underwear my three-year old went through that day.
It can be a difficult task to remain calm, unruffled, polite and loving.
When we sit down for dinner, meals are intense. Voices race to tell Dad about the day as airplane forks float in front of my face with very loud propellers. I've decided to embrace the chaos rather the busyness but I manage how the busyness makes me feel.
Around 4:30 I begin to prepare (on a good day). David Nuveu on Pandora begins to filter out the clatter of Legos from the intimate conversation I am having with my 3-year old son over what I am doing and how he likes airplanes. My son wonders how peaceful music is wafting through the air as I am fluttering about unloading the dishwasher and moving the schoolbooks off of the kitchen table while trying to keep my pink polka-dot pajamas around my waist. They have been stretched to their limit with 4 pregnancies and countless washings.
Desperately desiring to order take-out, I pick up my apron strings and make a simple meal.
But I garnish it with love, beauty, and peace. . . .
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Garmin Vivosmart Vs Fitbit Flex
Now, it has many manufacturers also produce Android smartphones Wear as smartwatch and even traditional watchmaking has been started using the Android platform smartwatch apartments developed by Google. This time the article will of course discuss about 2 smartwatch already no doubt his name on the ranks of the smartwatch favorites. They come from 2 different brands and different series, please welcome Garmin Vivosmart vs. Fitbit Flex.
Garmin Vivosmart
The latest Smart bracelet from Garmin is getting an upgrade on a better feature step counters. In addition Garmin Vivosmart HR + can also measure heartbeat, track user position via GPS, and features a more detailed mention in reporting sports user's activity. Other features will not be discussed in detail because there has been in the Garmin Vivosmart Vs Vivofit. This clock has also been updated with added GPS features, where using this fitness-tracker bracelet you will get more detailed reports such as mileage during walking or running, time to place or location when you guys work out. With GPS, you guys will be very easy to monitor the performance of a body to monitor the resulting when time ran a surround field for example. Garmin also adds a feature called exclusive Move IQ. The move is the system IQ automatically know when someone stops exercising and when someone does sports. Move the IQ can also identify whether a person was walking, running, swimming, or cycling ? In addition to having the feature to monitor the condition of the body, Garmin Vivosmart HR + can also be used as a smartwatch because it has features that owned smartwatch in General, such as: short message notifications, incoming calls and missed call, email until the reminder calendar. Garmin Vivosmart HR + will provide notification in the form of vibration when there is interaction is done with Smartphones.
Fitbit Flex
The Fitbit Flex wristband is made of a flexible, durable elastomeric material similar to that used in many sports watches. Does not contain latex. The buckle is made of stainless steel surgical-grade and contains traces of nickel. Watch this equipped with Wireless bluetooth sport headphones with Built-in Remote & Mic safe-fit for Apple & Android will support your activities through notifications that will appear on watch's screen. Not only that, you will be impressed also by sound balanced, clean in a lightweight, comfortable fit for active or stationary wireless audio consumption. In addition, it can connect quickly and easily manage audio and call playback with built-in volume controls, multi-function buttons, and microphone. And also, it's compatible with computers with Bluetooth & mobile devices, up to 4.5 hours of playback or up to 175 hours of standby. Create a fitness lifestyle with Fitbit Flex- a slim, stylish device that keeps track of activities throughout the day such as steps, distance, calories burned and active minutes. See how it stacks up every day with LEDs that light up like a scoreboard as you get closer to your destination. Then wear them at night to measure the quality of your sleep and wake up silently, vibrating the alarm. Day or night, Flex fits comfortably in your wrist, waterproof, and has 5 days of battery life.
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|- Sleek band is comfortable to wear all day, and the always-on display shows your stats, even in sunlight - Displays steps, distance, calories, heart rate, floors climbed and activity intensity - Receive text, call, email, calendar and social media alerts²
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Among the titled of Garmin Vivosmart vs Fitbit Flex, we can conclude that lifestyle will be affected your choice soon. We will give a certain case like if you are interested in a wearable that shows you more than three blinking lights, Garmin Vivosmart is an ideal one for you, because you will love the additional features too that technology-savvy users appreciate in a fitness tracker. While, if you want a simple wearable that effortlessly tracks your health, it seems like Fitbit Flex is the right choice. It is worth taking price into consideration too especially if you are on a budget, and a boatload of features are not necessary to you.


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The Middle Tennessee State University Center for Historic Preservation has helped with history projects all across Tennessee and is now accepting applications for local history projects.
In East Tennessee, the CHP is working with Knox Heritage and West View Community Action Group to make interpretive materials for three African-American cemeteries. They are also partnered with the Crossroads Downtown Partnership in Morristown to design a walking and driving tour of local historic resources.
Partnerships in Middle Tennessee include working with the Wolf Gap Education Outreach to assess historical resources for educational and interpretive potential in Giles County.
In West Tennessee, The Walter Brewer Bemis Community Center has worked with CHP on a heritage room, interpreting the history of the former West Bemis Rosenwald School. It now houses the community center outside of Jackson.
CHP Director and Tennessee State Historian Carroll Van West, staff and students worked with partners in Memphis on interpretive products for the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., which took place on April 4, 1968. The staff and students created driving tours, exhibitions and publications for Memphis partners, including the Memphis Heritage Trail, Universal Life Insurance Co. and Soulsville USA.
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i'm considering getting an iPad, and i'd like iPad owners' opinion.
I realize lots of people hate the iPad, and i don't need to hear people dissing it unless they actualy have one.
iPad owners only!
I think everyone else who owns an iPad would agree it is essentially a giant iPod Touch. There is not a lot more to it than that to be honest. I'm not saying that is a bad thing, the iPad is actually very useful for a lot of situations… but it is not revolutionary or magical as Apple describes it, these are just marketing terms thrown around to help make the iPad seem more distinguished from the iPod.
The key differentiating factor is the size of the screen which allows developers to take advantage of the large full resolution display when building apps for the device. This provides a better all around user experience, but apart from a usability and resolution improvements, there isn't a whole lot to be said about the iPad in comparison to its little sister.
The iPad is faster and more powerful than the iPod though and the higher resolution display really makes a difference. For example, you can now have a (virtually) full size keyboard which certainly helps, but..
When you compare Apple's iPad to other similar tablet computers however, there are a few things missing. For one, the iPad has slower processing speeds and less random-access-memory than most of the competing tablets (e.g. 1 Ghz vs 1.6 Ghz processor and 256 MB vs 1024 MB of RAM).
This means you are essentially paying the same price for much less physical hardware. It is important to note that most of the apps built for the iPad do not use a lot of processing power or RAM, so this is not actually a big issue, it's just a case of you're paying a lot and not getting the hardware to show for it (but the same can be said for most Apple products though, so that is to be expected).
The other key thing the iPad is missing is a webcam and/or camera like most other tablets have built-in and also a USB port for connecting peripheral devices.
One of the downsides of the iPad is that it basically runs a crippled Operating System. Compared to a standard copy of Mac OS X or Windows 7 (that other tablets have), the iPad OS is rather limited in its capabilities. It can only run apps that are specifically designed for Apple mobile devices where as other tablets can run virtually any existing Windows application. Again this is not such a bad thing, it's not like the iPad is designed to replace your main computer, but it kind of feels like you are renting it from Apple because you are consistently reminded that the device has certain limitations and that there is not a lot of room for customization to make it your own (unlike a Windows based tablet for example).
Just to be clear, the iPad is not any more limiting than the iPod, but because it is a larger device, the expectation is that it should follow the rest of the industry and be an open platform without restrictions. For this reason, a lot of people don't like and refuse to buy the iPad because they believe it is a 'step back in computing' (i.e. more restrictive / less able than other competing devices).
Why did apple come out with the ipad? Because all it is is an iPhone with a big screen.?
In 2007 when iPhone came people like you asked the same question. Why did Apple come with a phone that didn't have video camera and MMS.
Cheap phones are loaded with features. But see the result today in little over 2 years iPhone became the highest selling smartphone and Apple has grown enormously. iPhone became a phenomena.
Today again the question is why iPad and again you will see big lines in front of Apple Store on the day of its launch.
Apple items are not everyone its only for those who believe in performance not in features. Its not for those who just follow commercial and start bragging oh it doesn't support "Flash"
I love it because I dont want Flash based intrusive advertisements banner and video on the sites.
iPad is incredible book reader with amazing business support through iWork. You will see very soon all the company will bring "touch enabled office suite"
Multi gesture iWork alone is enough for people like me to get an iPad. It supports High Definition video so it will be incredible to watch video, play games and best is you will get internet over 3G and AT&T hot spot just for $15.
All the incredible iPhone apps will run on iPad so I can enjoy those on bigger screen. And many spectacular app are coming exclusively for iPad. In few months we will see 50,000 exclusive apps for iPad.


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Not much going on around here, but then again, there's not much going on on any goth sites these days.
Not much going on around here, but then again, there's not much going on on any goth sites these days.
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Totally worth it.
Give me enough rum and I'll set the back yard on fire.
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I'm sure he had it coming.
Not your typical song about vampires. I absolutely adore this lady.
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Ooh, another sword fanatic? :D
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I've discovered the joys of hunting, dissecting, and preserving owl pellets. I have more rat, mouse, and vole bones than I know what to do with now. They've been 'bleached' in hydrogen peroxide and cl...
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I thought about it, but the owls had already digested everything but the bones and fur. I didn't figure the ants would be interested in fur, and the biggest thing was the discoloration.
Personally, I'd much rather wear something that was crafted (at least mostly) by nature.
Personally, I'd much rather wear something that was crafted (at least mostly) by nature.
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- Employer: Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council
- Reference: RECS/19/112091
- Published: Wed 16/10/2019, 13:15 PM
- Closing on: Sun 10/11/2019, 23:55 PM
- Working Pattern: Full Time
- Hours: 37 hours per week
- Salary: £23,522 - £26,539 inclusive of outer fringe allowance
- DBS Check: No
- Location: Council Offices, Campus East, Welwyn Garden City AL8 6AE, Hertfordshire
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Support Officer - Garages (P00428)
Support Officer (Garages)
Fixed Term to 31 March 2021
£23,522 - £26,539 inclusive of outer fringe allowance
37 hours per week
We are currently seeking a Support Officer - Garages to work 37 hours per week within the Garages Team which forms part of the Building Services service area for the council's commercial portfolio.
The team is responsible for providing a professional property management service to the tenants of the authority's 5000 council garage stock.
The successful candidate will be required to have a broad range of customer service skills and be a team player.
The Support Officer (Garages) is responsible for dealing with the day to day activities of the Councils garage stock, including tenant liaison, allocations, inspections, records management and debt management.
The post holder will work to the direction of the Lead Officer (Garages) to ensure a professional and efficient service is maintained.
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential in this post.
Closing date for applications is 10 November 2019.
Assessments will be held on 14th November 2019.
Interviews will be held on 20th November 2019.


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Requires further development
Well placed
Very well placed
ERO's findings that support this overall judgement are summarised below.
Samoa Moni I Lana Gagana Aoga Amata in Mangere provides education and care for up to 30 children over two years of age. The philosophy and values of the aoga promote learning outcomes for children where the Samoan language and culture are nurtured within a Christian context. Children's holistic wellbeing is central to the philosophy statement.
The aoga is governed by a board of trustees and licensee, and is associated with the Mangere Methodist Parish. The head teacher works with two other qualified teaching staff, and an administrator is also employed.
ERO's 2016 review of Samoa Moni I Lana Gagana Aoga Amata reported about positive relationships and strong affirmation of children's identity and belonging. ERO recommended that the aoga leaders improve governance and financial systems, and aspects of compliance. ERO also reported that teachers needed professional development and leadership in order to improve curriculum planning and assessment, and learning outcomes for children.
ERO's 2016 report noted that little progress had been made in addressing similar concerns stated in ERO's 2012 report and that external support was required to make improvements. Leaders, new trustees and teachers have responded positively to ERO's 2016 recommendations. They all express the wish to provide the best learning outcomes for children.
Parents feel welcome in the centre and are pleased that teachers promote the Samoan language and culture through daily routines, through lotu, and in the context of play. Children are enthusiastic and proud of their Samoan heritage. The learning programme and environment strongly families' cultural backgrounds. There is a particular emphasis on Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and the inclusion of tikanga and te reo Māori.
Teachers have received appropriate professional development in curriculum planning and assessment, and ways to document children's learning. They are now more aware of how to respond to children's individual interests and strengths, and how to let children initiate learning activities. Children's records of learning are updated regularly, and are available to share with parents.
The aoga has a new set of policies to guide operations in relation to the licensing criteria and regulations for early childhood education services. Policies now include the aspects of child protection, protected disclosure, privacy and teacher performance that were identified as areas for improvement in ERO's 2016 report. It is important that the procedures are now well understood by staff and trustees.
The constitution of the newly established board has improved governance of the aoga. Members of the board have clearly set out guidelines about their roles and code of conduct. A variety of external advice and expertise has supported the introduction of the new policy framework, updated systems, improved reporting and accountability.
In particular, the formation of a legally constituted board has resolved governance relationships with the Mangere Methodist Parish, and improved the efficiency of aoga management. Financial systems managed by the new board have been implemented and audited. Teacher and parent representation on the new board has improved communication and collaboration.
The board has developed a comprehensive long-term strategic plan. Trustees' priorities are aligned to ongoing improvements and accountability, including the new systems for managing teacher performance. Teacher appraisal procedures for 2018 now comply with Education Council requirements, and trustees agree that leadership of the aoga is the key to strengthening teaching practices.
Teachers are keen to build roll numbers by promoting the aoga through the church and local community. Other challenges for the future relate to embedding the new governance systems and procedures, rationalisation of staffing, developing child-led learning approaches, and sustaining ongoing improvement.
To sustain and build on recent improvements, the next steps for the trustees and leaders should include ensuring that:
there is ongoing professional development for teachers to ensure that the learning programmes reflect Te Whāriki, the early childhood curriculum
expectations of professional leadership are clearly defined to better support teacher development and embed the new performance appraisal systems.
ERO recommends that the Ministry of Education continue to support teachers to implement learning programmes that respond effectively to children's learning interests, strengths and capabilities.
Before the review, the staff and management of Samoa Moni I Lana Gagana Aoga Amata completed an ERO Centre Assurance Statement and Self-Audit Checklist. In these documents they attested that they have taken all reasonable steps to meet their legal obligations related to:
During the review, ERO looked at the service's systems for managing the following areas that have a potentially high impact on children's wellbeing:
emotional safety (including positive guidance and child protection)
physical safety (including supervision; sleep procedures; accidents; medication; hygiene; excursion policies and procedures)
suitable staffing (including qualification levels; police vetting; teacher registration; ratios)
evacuation procedures and practices for fire and earthquake.
All early childhood services are required to promote children's health and safety and to regularly review their compliance with legal requirements.
To improve current practice, the manager and head teacher should ensure that all staff take collective responsibility for recognising and promptly minimising or removing hazards in the environment.
ERO identified an area of non-compliance in relation to the curriculum. Trustees and teaching staff need to ensure that:
teachers plan, implement and evaluate a curriculum that reflects an understanding of learning and development that is consistent with current research, theory and practices in early childhood education
Licensing Criteria for Early Childhood Education and Care Services 2008, C4
Education (ECS) Regulations 2008, 43 (1a(iii).
The next ERO review of Samoa Moni I Lana Gagana Aoga Amata will be in three years.
Julie Foley
Deputy Chief Review Officer Northern (Acting)
Te Tai Raki - Northern Region
28 June 2018
The Education Review Office (ERO) is the government department that, as part of its work, reviews early childhood services throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. ERO's reports provide information for parents and communities about each service's strengths and next steps for development. ERO's bicultural evaluation framework Ngā Pou Here is described in SECTION 3 of this report. Early childhood services are partners in the review process and are expected to make use of the review findings to enhance children's wellbeing and learning.
Mangere, Auckland
Ministry of Education profile number
Licence type
Education & Care Service
Licensed under
Education (Early Childhood Services) Regulations 2008
Number licensed for
30 children over the age of 2 years
Service roll
Gender composition
Boys 8 Girls 7
Ethnic composition
Percentage of qualified teachers
Reported ratios of staff to children
Over 2
Better than minimum requirements
Review team on site
May 2018
Date of this report
28 June 2018
Most recent ERO report(s)
Education Review
March 2016
Education Review
June 2012
Supplementary Review
April 2009
ERO's overarching question for an early childhood education review is 'How well placed is this service to promote positive learning outcomes for children?' ERO focuses on the following factors as described in the bicultural framework Ngā Pou Here:
Within these areas ERO considers the effectiveness of arotake – self review and of whanaungatanga – partnerships with parents and whānau.
ERO evaluates how well placed a service is to sustain good practice and make ongoing improvements for the benefit of all children at the service.
A focus for the government is that all children, especially priority learners, have an opportunity to benefit from quality early childhood education. ERO will report on how well each service promotes positive outcomes for all children, with a focus on children who are Māori, Pacific, have diverse needs, and are up to the age of two.
For more information about the framework and Ngā Pou Here refer to ERO's Approach to Review in Early Childhood Services.
The overall judgement that ERO makes and the timing of the next review will depend on how well placed a service is to promote positive learning outcomes for children. The categories are:
ERO has developed criteria for each category. These are available on ERO's website.
ERO reviews are tailored to each service's context and performance, within the overarching review framework. The aim is to provide information on aspects that are central to positive outcomes for children and useful to the service.


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Thank you very much Eydie and Sammy for sending me such a nice (and tasty) gift. And this time, it was two (2) jars, and this time they were big!!! This homemade goodness is so addictive… I might very well get myself into a… jam. <Cough>. I know this gift was packed with LOVE. (Why… it said so right on the packaging didn't it?).
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As I listened to the news this morning, I heard that there was over 500 tornados in our nation during yesterday's storms. This is unprecedented numbers. My wife and I had to shelter from a potential tornado for the first time ever. I got the sensation that God is trying to turn us as a nation, but I don't sense that we are getting the message so here it is as I hear it from God.
"Without faith it is impossible to please Him." "Whatsoever is not of faith is sin." We have adopted a lifestyle of religion without faith in Him. We are similar to the Pharisees in that we are careful to dot the I's and cross the t's in our form of worship, without ever realizing we are in the presence of Almighty God. We struggle and work to "do good" and to "be good" on our own, but God is saying to us that such religion is an insult to Him. We need to get this right. God is not pleased with a religion that does not place us in a position of trusting in Him and will judge us for not turning to Him.
The situation is this: All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. We are not guiltless, we are guilty of sin and will face judgment unless we turn from sin. According to Romans 14:23 living a life of not trusting in Him (faith) is sin. Do you get it? Faith is the missing ingredient. That is the only thing that will please Him. We must own our sin. It is not because we are so bad and fail so much, but because we refuse to live by faith in Him.
I can just hear the response of "I trust in God. How dare you question my faith?" My dear friend, I am not judging you. I am sharing the truth of what the Scripture states about our condition. Jesus Himself said that most people will travel the Broad Way that leads to death. Only a few will find the narrow way that is restrictive and corrective but they will find life.
That brings us to the second truth about our situation. There is a way to please Him and turn away His wrath. Instead of insulting Him by our rejection of the truth of our sin, we need to own up to it and confess that we are desperately in need of His forgiveness. We can't do it without Him, whether we understand it or not. God is well aware of our plight. It is even worse that we know, so His plan is to take our sin on Himself, suffer the consequence of it, and deliver us from its consequence. I remember a time when I was about four or five years old that there was a forest fire near our home and Dad was fighting the fire with other neighbors. Dad had placed my older brother and I in a fairly safe place at the edge of the forest with a couple burlap sack to put out little spark fires that would break out from the airborne cinders. Sure enough, one broke out near us and my brother put it out. Soon there were others and I got involved but I didn't know much about what I was doing. I was wearing a pair of sandals and kicked at the fire but my sandal flew off and when I stepped down in the leaves, I stepped on a thorn and I let out a scream. I stood there on one foot, with fire coming closer and fire between me and my brother and I cried out in desperation. Then I heard a sound come rushing toward me and when I looked up I saw my Dad come running through the fire to me. He spotted my sandal and in full stride, gathered it up and then grabbed me up and carried me out of my situation. This is what our heavenly Father wants to do for us. He is our solution and not the sum of our best efforts.
The final truth of our situation is that all God requires of us is for us to continue to walk by faith in Him. He is not concerned with us looking good in His eyes. His love for us is enough. He is not pleased with our good works, but he is pleased with our faith in Him. When Jesus was asked, "What must I do to inherit eternal life?" he answered, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent." The word "believe" and the word "faith" are exactly the same word in the Greek language so that it could be translated that ye have faith in Him. . . God is not concerned with your mighty works but he is infinitely concerned with your faith in Him. God will do the work, but you are required to do the believing. Faith in Him is our work. Sadly, we have it turned around today and are focused on the works, omitting the faith and that is what defines the Crises of faith today.


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Summer scenes in Herne Bay, Fordwich and Canterbury.
Short Summary
Herne Bay, Kent - a sunny day's stroll along the promenade.
Many people walk along the front - the clock tower can be seen in the distance. Camera pans slightly - people are sitting on park benches. It looks like quite a chilly day. One man wears a mackintosh / macintosh and most people are wearing coats. L/S of the beach. People are swimming in the sea and sitting on breakwaters. A pier can be seen in the distance. A large group of people splash around in the sea.
Intertitle reads: "The old smuggler's window, where the bold bad man used to signal the "all clear" to his friends." Shot of a Herne Bay street. M/S of a shop - presumably a smuggler's house previously. "Then a trip to sleepy Fordwich." Panning shot of picturesque scene. Travelling shots of the river from on board a boat. M/S of a witches ducking chair. A woman sits in it and is suspended out over the river. Canterbury Cathedral is seen over the rooftops of houses in the city. M/S of the city arch - a bus drives towards the camera. M/S of the river passing by the Weavers (I think that is what this building is called.) End title reads: "And all in 2 minutes folks."
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WHERE did all the sketch shows disappear to?
Go back 10 or 15 years and we had Little Britain, The Catherine Tate Show and Mitchell and Webb.
Before that there was The League of Gentlemen, Harry Enfield and Chums and The Fast Show and we fondly remember the classics like Monty Python's Flying Circus, Morecambe and Wise and The Two Ronnies.
Trends may have changed on TV but sketch shows have never gone away on the radio where arguably the format works better than ever.
Just ask John Finnemore whose career has revolved around radio and comedy.
He said: "I love doing shows on the radio. I love the immediacy of it. I love being in complete control of what the listener 'sees' as it were.
"Sketch shows are expensive to make on TV because you have all these different locations and costumes and sets.
"But in a way on radio you've got an 'unlimited budget'.
"We can do anything and be anywhere. You can have characters talking and then only reveal when you chose to that they're in fact basking sharks or whatever they be.
"Whereas on TV you'd have to conceal that quite carefully or wouldn't be able to at all. So in some ways radio is very freeing."
John is performing in Warrington on September 12 when he will be bringing the cast of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme to the Parr Hall stage.
Fans of his hit BBC Radio 4 sitcom, Cabin Pressure, will be pleased that he will be reprising his role as overexcited air steward Arthur.
The series, which also starred Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephanie Cole and Roger Allam, was about MJN Air, the world's smallest airline, consisting of just one 16-seater plane.
It was a subject that came naturally to John as his dad was a pilot for British Airways.
He added: "As a family we'd get a free ticket once a year so we went on some wonderful holidays.
"And in those days, it was pre-9/11 so it was much easier to visit the cockpit – or flight deck I should say.
"Dad gets cross when I call it the cockpit. Cockpit means a fighter jet, airlines have flight decks. So yes I got to visit the flight deck and be up there for take-off and landing."
The difference between his own experiences and Cabin Pressure is that John had to create a small airline so that his characters would always be together.
He said: "My dad flew 747s for a big airline where you wouldn't necessarily fly with the same co-pilot for months or even years.
"That wouldn't work for a sitcom so I needed a way in which my characters would constantly be together and that's why it became a tiny, one jet charter airline.
"That also opened all sorts of plot avenues because they could fly anyone I wanted anywhere instead of doing the same routes over and over again like most airlines.
"Comedy is all about people who are trapped together and you can't be more trapped than being in a flying cupboard over the Atlantic for eight hours."
Over its four series, Cabin Pressure had a big bump in its popularity when Benedict Cumberbatch became a household name following Sherlock.
John added: "It changed the audience demographic a bit. We had an equal gender split mostly of people over 40 and 50.
"Then after Sherlock, suddenly it was mostly female and mostly under 30. But they were great
"We worried a little that they would maybe only be interested in seeing Benedict and they wouldn't really care about the show.
"But that was not the case at all. They were a great audience and they laughed as hard at Stephanie Cole as they did at Ben."
Indeed, Radio 4 received more than 22,000 audience ticket requests – breaking the world record for a BBC radio comedy – to watch the recording of the final episode.
John said: "It was extraordinary. It was popular back then but I don't think any of us were expecting quite that many requests.
"I can't remember how many the theatre held but it wouldn't have been much more than 400 or 500 so you're odds of getting a ticket were very small.
"It was probably the hardest thing I'd ever written and may still be because I had so much to resolve but also still make it funny.
"In the early drafts it became more like a play or a soap opera and you think: 'No, it still has to be funny'. It was very hard to write and I was exhausted by the end of it but it was quite a day that final recording."
Meanwhile, John has been working on two projects with Armando Iannucci, known for the likes of Alan Partridge, The Thick of It, Veep and The Death of Stalin.
The first is Avenue 5, a HBO comedy set on a spaceship in the near future and the second is a film called In Too Deep.
John said: "That's extremely exciting but at the moment I'm not allowed to say anything about it."
So what is it like to work with Britain's renowned satirist?
John added: "Armando's often asked why don't you bring The Thick of It back to discuss Brexit but the situation is beyond satire at the moment. The politicians are doing it for themselves.
"He's not intimidating. He's a lovely man. He's unusually open to suggestions from anyone and a delight. I would say that anyway but it happens to be true."
JOHN Finnemore has loved sketch shows since he was a child and he seized the opportunity to turn his passion into a career at university.
He said: "I loved them growing up. My favourites were the shows by Victoria Wood and Fry and Laurie when I was a boy.
"That was what inspired me to get into comedy in the first place."
John enjoyed writing and performing in equal measure – so he did both.
While studying at Cambridge University, he joined Footlights, the renowned amateur club run by students.
He added: "The simplest way was to write something and then perform it yourself and given I was always interested in doing both there was a show every fortnight.
"It was basically a late-night show, about an hour long. It was the format of an open mic stand-up but rather than a bit of stand-up you would do a sketch or a character monologue or something like that.
"You could audition for it on Tuesday and be performing it by Thursday. It was such a great way of learning and getting through all the terrible stuff you have to write when you start.
"Getting to perform it in front of an audience meant you really saw what worked and you saw what other people were doing and what worked about that."
At the same time John was cutting his teeth working on the scripts for other people's shows like Mitchell and Webb and Dead Ringers.
The first bit of work that John sold was for Channel 4's Smack the Pony.
Another key moment was being introduced to David Mitchell through the producer of Dead Ringers.
David was keen to work with John as he had been making waves on the Edinburgh Fringe circuit.
The pair have now worked together numerous times and John is currently assisting with writing an episode of Simon Blackwell's Mitchell and Webb sitcom, Back.
He said: "I've particularly enjoyed writing in David's voice. We did a long series of a thing called Soapbox which was a series of three-minute rants and I started to really enjoy writing for his particular voice. It's nice to be doing it again and he's a good friend as well."


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Nordic Games has proved you don't just find bargains on games in discount bins. THQ's implosion has made picking up entire franchises as affordable as buying into Sydney real estate, with several titles proving to be even cheaper. Spending $4.9 million over all, Nordic Games have claimed over 10 individual franchises to add to their catalogue. 505 Games cleaned up what was on offer, rounding out THQ's final sales figure to $6.55 million.
If you've ever been a fan of Darksiders, Red Faction, MX vs ATV, Destroy all Humans!, Summoner, Marvel Super Hero Squad or Supreme Commander then you can expect Nordic Games to be giving you something new in the coming years. They've also acquired Titan Quest, Frontlines, Stuntman, Juiced and Full Spectrum Warrior. CEO Lars Wingefors has indicated they're not going to rush out any titles. Rather, they're going to take a look at the health of each franchise and individually assign sales strategies to them depending on their strengths.