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Interview with Michelle Huff, CMO at Act-On Software
On Marketing Technology
MTS: Tell us about your role and how you got here? (What inspired you to be a part of a technology innovation company?)
I'm currently the Chief Marketing Officer for Act-On Software. I started my career years ago in high tech at a small 30-person company in a web marketing role. Over the years, I held various roles in marketing, spending the bulk of my career leading product marketing and management teams at Stellent, Oracle, and Salesforce. Most recently, I was VP Marketing for the Salesforce Data.com business unit, eventually taking on the general manager (GM) role. Now as CMO at Act-On, I have a fantastic charter, focused on defining our go-to-market strategy, building the brand, generating demand, and expanding the customer relationship to impact retention, product adoption, and customer loyalty. It's a role that's rewarding as well as challenging – but I've been enjoying every minute.
I decided to make the move to Act-On for a few reasons. First, the market opportunity – the chance to enter one of the fastest-growing technology markets (marketing automation) and help steer a truly dynamic player in the space (a category-leader according to Forrester, four times recognized as one of Deloitte's fastest-growing companies in North America). Second, the product – Act-On built an intuitive and easy to use marketing automation platform that customers loved, and that could scale to meet the needs of large implementations — supporting total database sizes in the millions. Third, the fun of the role itself. The best part about being CMO at a marketing automation company like Act-On, is that my team and I are essentially our company's target buyers; we use our solution day in and day out. The entire company (from Tech & Products, to Sales to Customer Success) is interested in my team, the structure, our challenges, our successes, and how we solve problems and why. It gives us an opportunity to be our own best customer use case — and be a voice in helping to improve the platform for our customers.
MTS: Given the shifting dynamic of marketing automation toward delivering an enriched customer experience, how are modern marketing tactics identified, measured, tracked and reported for ROI?
The way we see it, marketing automation works best when leveraged as a shared workspace for a marketing organization – a centralized hub for programs across the key marketing functional goals (building brand awareness, driving demand generation, improving customer retention and creating upsell opportunities) – so it only makes sense to apply the technology and measure its impact by individual marketing functions. Brand marketing, demand generation, and customer marketing, each with their piece of the puzzle to mind, each with a segment of the customer journey to steward. And then ultimately tying it back to revenue, so marketers truly track and measure their impact to the company's bottom line.
MTS: How should marketers plan the adoption of social selling and social media Account-based Marketing (ABM) to maximize their revenue opportunities?
We've found social selling and social media Account-Based Marketing (ABM) to be an effective tool for identifying and nurturing key stakeholders with content, within a given account. For targeting, identify people based on title, job level, and in a role to make or influence purchases. We've seen success when used at various stages of the funnel (top to bottom) – as long as the content offered is appropriate for that specific stage.
On the acquisition and awareness end, this might mean creating lists on LinkedIn based on titles you're focused on (coordinators and managers active on the site, that list their credentials in their bios) and targeting ads accordingly; the same might apply when focused on customer retention, adoption, and loyalty end as well. For tracking existing customers, you can also use social tools such as Twitter to identify who has made support requests, identify potential advocates, and engage directly with people in a position to renew or renege on their contracts.
MTS: How do CMOs allocate budgets for audience segmentation and sales analytics to optimize all the stages of Customer Experience?
The Act-On marketing automation platform enables CMOs to personalize customer engagements at scale across the customer lifecycle (from the initial brand awareness, through purchasing, and then through customer renewal and advocacy). The solution also empowers CMOs to measure the impact of marketing efforts tied to a company's revenue. With this platform, marketers segment their customer base using personas or behavior data, send messages and offers to individuals, and track engagement and impact to the pipeline. Additionally, Act-On is continually adding new capabilities that will allow marketers to build Adaptive Journeys leveraging Machine Learning to understand buyers' behaviors, preferences, and interests, and automatically adapt messages, timing, and delivery channels to the individual. When this level of insight into message and segment engagement becomes available, CMOs can make better budget allocation decisions.
MTS: What's the biggest challenge that CMOs need to tackle to achieve transparency and brand safety in their omnichannel marketing campaigns?
I think it's important to have some level of centralized ownership and structure for your marketing tech stack. With the number of technology point solutions that are available in the marketplace and the ease of subscribing to all the various services — it's easy for departments to wind up with scattered technologies across the department. The challenge is that marketing and branding assets end up being stored across these systems and campaigns are created and executed across so many different systems. And if there is no centralized oversight or centralized engine to manage customer engagement — it becomes difficult to see all the issues and ensure that you have the correct branding and messaging across all the channels.
MTS: What startups are you watching/keen on right now?
I think all the startups in the predictive analytics space are interesting and fun to watch.
MTS: What tools does your marketing stack consist of in 2017?
We're big believers in drinking our own champagne, so we use Act-On's adaptive marketing automation platform as a centralized hub for our brand marketing, demand generation, and customer marketing programs. This functions as the foundation to my martech stack which connects to other technologies including: web content management, CRM, tools for A/B testing and analytics, connectors for account-based marketing, data enrichment and cleansing tools, email signature marketing, web conference tools, video platform, live chat, predictive analytics, SEO software, and a customer content platform.
MTS: Could you tell us about a standout digital campaign? (Who was your target audience and how did you measure success?)
This past year, we decided to rethink our approach to marketing automation – to identify new use cases for the technology and a supporting framework for content. Our goal was to engage and better support CMOs at mid-market companies. We had seen these leaders increasingly tasked with stewarding the customer experience at every stage (awareness, acquisition, retention, expansion). We wanted to better highlight how our marketing automation platform could support the organizations at this level.
We first started with a survey of more than 250 senior-level marketers nationwide (both B2B and B2C firms). We wanted to find out how they prioritized their programs – if demand generation (historically where MA was best applied) won out, or if there were other functions that took its place. Next, we created a benchmark report summarizing the findings, converted into whitepapers, webinars, even a podcast series. The result? A broader framework that showcases the value of marketing automation beyond demand generation – from building brand, to generating demand, and expanding the customer relationship.
Assets specific to brand marketing, demand generation, and customer marketing instantly outperformed expectations – for syndicated brand content, 1600+ page-views and 1000+ unique visitors in just a month's time; 580+ page-views and 960+ unique visitors for syndicated demand content in the same period; 500+ page-views and 550+ unique visitors for syndicated expand content, also in that window. In the year since the campaign's launch, web leads rose by 19 percent, and the total number of mid-market leads (the campaign's target) rose more than 70%. Renewals increased, with marketing driving 76% of the total pipeline. This was a successful digital campaign and these efforts better positioned Act-On as a critical solution for mid-market CMOs.
MTS: How do you prepare for an AI-centric world as a marketing leader?
AI is going to have a huge impact on how we work, the customer journeys we build, and the programs we run in the future. I don't believe AI will replace marketers, but these new tools and systems powered by machine learning will become more of a "co-pilot" to help us make better decisions and do some of the heavy lifting so that we can be more creative and strategic. But if you think about this new world of marketing, algorithms will help us make decisions based on a variety of data (customer profiles, engagement data, product information, usage data, etc.). Marketing leaders need to make sure the company is set up to take advantage of this, gain a competitive edge, and generate more revenue. To do this, they must put in place the right marketing tech stack. Implementing a marketing automation platform as the foundation is key – so that companies can start tracking, scoring, measuring, connecting and learning from customer and prospect interactions. Understanding their engagement with key messages, channels and timing is important. Plus connecting this engagement data to customer data (CRM system) is essential so that marketing leaders can have a holistic view of the customer journey across influencers, prospects and customers. And finally, marketing leaders need to make sure that as their organizations continue to grow, they stay vigilant in maintaining great data quality. Because if one day algorithms will use this data to make decisions, they will want it to be based on accurate information.
This Is How I Work
MTS: One word that best describes how you work.
"Collaboratively." Teamwork makes the dream work!
MTS: What apps/software/tools can't you live without?
Google Maps, Waze, Evernote (with Skitch), LastPass, FlyDelta App, Lyft App, Google Calendar (most importantly the ability to share calendars) and Google Contacts.
MTS: What's your smartest work related shortcut or productivity hack?
I have my assistant block out half a day every other week – we call them "Michelle Days." Basically, it gives me an opportunity to better manage my time and get things done. If I don't take the time to structure my calendar, it's easy to suddenly have every day filled up with back-to-back meetings. This ensures that I prioritize time to think through challenges, build out plans, develop new strategies or simply research and get caught up on trends in the industry.
MTS: What are you currently reading? (What do you read, and how do you consume information?)
I'm currently reading The Atlantic monthly magazine on the airplane. I also just purchased a book called "Raising Your Spirited Child." 🙂 I consume information through so many channels – email, website searches, Google News, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, books and magazines.
MTS: What's the best advice you've ever received?
"The only thing you have complete control over – is how you choose to respond to something." We don't fully control events in life, their outcomes, what others think or how they feel. The more you try to control these things, the more "out of control" and frustrated you become. For example, you can make someone apologize, but you can't make them feel remorseful. If you need remorse to feel better – you could end up very disappointed. If you let accidents, failures, and negative comment from others ruin your day or make you stressed out, angry, or upset – you let other people and the situation have power over you. Realize that you choose what actions you need to take and how you want to interpret the intent of others and the situation. It is very empowering. You can always choose happiness. Your response is your responsibility. I believe knowing this and doing this can make a huge difference between success vs. failure.
MTS: Something you do better than others – the secret of your success?
I believe in being positive and focusing on the positive. There are a lot of ups and downs in life and in your career. It takes work to maintain, but it's remarkably helpful in building coalitions, collaborating across departments, leading teams, powering through challenging times, and giving yourself the courage to continue taking risks after failures.
MTS: Tag the one person in the industry whose answers to these questions you would love to read:
Andy Zimmerman, Evergage CMO
MTS: Thank you Oliver! That was fun and hope to see you back on MarTech Series soon.
Michelle is Act-On's Chief Marketing Officer, and oversees the company's brand, demand, and customer expansion marketing efforts. Michelle comes to Act-On with 17+ years' experience helping market leading companies, including Salesforce and Oracle, connect customers with technology solutions to grow their business. Most recently, Michelle was GM of Salesforce's Data.com division after having served as the VP of Marketing for the group. Prior to her tenure at Salesforce, Michelle was a Senior Director at Oracle and a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Stellent (acquired by Oracle). She holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Washington.
Act-On Software, Inc. is the leading adaptive marketing automation provider for fast growing businesses.
Act-On provides a cloud-based integrated marketing automation platform that enables businesses to effectively acquire customers, build loyalty and expand their relationships with these customers.
At Act-On, we love marketing as much as you do. We are a marketing automation company with a passion for helping you, the marketer, do the best work of your career. As a mark of our innovation, we created the only workspace that powers the customer experience from end-to-end. From brand awareness and demand generation, to retention and loyalty, our technology enables all marketers to drive better business outcomes. Our platform is built with powerful capabilities to help you deliver results quickly – without the need for a dedicated IT resource. Every marketer has a great campaign inside of them – let's work together to launch it to the world. It's time to Act-On!
The MTS Martech Interview Series is a fun Q&A style chat which we really enjoy doing with martech leaders. With inspiration from Lifehacker's How I work interviews, the MarTech Series Interviews follows a two part format On Marketing Technology, and This Is How I Work. The format was chosen because when we decided to start an interview series with the biggest and brightest minds in martech – we wanted to get insight into two areas … one – their ideas on marketing tech and two – insights into the philosophy and methods that make these leaders tick.


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The proportion of women who are employees in each trade sector is determined from the 2013 census. This data excludes those in non-trade roles within the sector. The time series for the proportion of female employees is calculated from IRD data each quarter and the mean of the four quarters is taken for each year. This proportion is scaled by a fixed factor for each sector so that the proportion in the first quarter of 2013 matches the proportion calculated from the 2013 census.
This measure provides an estimate of the proportion of women in trade roles in each sector each year. This is subject to the caveat that, due to the high proportion of non-trade staff among women in trade sectors, changes in this measure may be driven by changes in non-trade staff rather than tradespeople.
Only employees are included in this data. The populations identified as self-employed or employers in the IRD and census datasets are too different for this scaling to be applied.

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Get in the elevator and as the door starts to close, stick out your hand so that it opens and ask the empty doorway, "Well aren't you going up also? Jeezus I swear, you wouldn't ever get anywhere without me!" and then continue a random conversation with a non-existent person.
Answer all questions in a very LOUD VOICE....people will never ask you another question.
After someone attempts to make small talk, or better yet, while they are initiating it, offer them a breath mint
Ask the question, "Have you ever thought about how many pounds of fertilizer it would take to bring this building down?"
Get in and randomly bust out a Michael Jackson crotch grab complete with pelvis thrust while pointing to the sky with the other hand and letting out your best Michael "WOOO-HOO"
Get in with a pissed off look on your face, pull out a pair of tight leather gloves, put them on and start punching fist into open palm....all the while muttering "YOU EYEBALLIN ME???"
Ask the fellow riders, "IF you were OJ, looking back on it, how could you have done the crime and gotten away with it? My bitch...I...I mean I was just wondering."
just make the frmpf noise every time you take a step.
Act as though you are a robot complete with sounds and robotic movements.
When you get into the elevator, stand directly in front on the person, facing them, with your back to the door, put on a pair of sunglasses, and clasp your hands in front of you and act like a statue.
Ask, "how much did you have to drink this morning? my God it smells like a bar in here."
Just start chuckling, then laughing, slap your knee laughing, stop and turn to face the fellow riders and just stop.
Get in, and ask, "Have you ever gotten in your car and forgot that your kid was in their car seat on the roof? I think this is going to be a long week."
Ask, have you seen a 6 year old running around in the building? If you do can you call me at...give them a false extension...better yet, ask them if they have seen a baby in a blue car seat with a red handle...if they do have them call the extension.
Ask "Why did we stop getting the white out you could sniff and get a buzz from? My days have gone to shit since."
After they make some lame remark come back with a completely random animal question....
-Who would win in a fight, a gorilla or an ostrich?
-What's the difference between an alligator and crocodile?
-Who would win a Panda or a Grizzley?
-Is it wrong if your wife calls your dick her little koalla bear?
-Who would win in a foot race, an alpacca or a zebra?
-What is the physiological difference between a zebra and a mustang?
-Why did ford decide to produce a car and name it after a wild horse?
-How much does a mountain lion weigh?
-If you could make a mythical creature, what would it be??? Mine's the liger.
-What animal has the biggest dick?
-What truly is the difference between the African and European Swallow?


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When I think of soldiers with full face masks I think Stormtroopers and countless other faceless fighters from movie lore. A recent study however suggests that adding a face guard to modern soldiers standard helmets could substantially reduce the shock wave affect of nearby blasts and thus reduce the number of traumatic brain injuries.
A study by MIT researches suggest that face protection is critical. "The face shield contributes a lot to deflecting energy from the blast wave and not letting it directly touch the soft tissue," says lead researcher Raúl Radovitzky. "We're not saying this is the best design for a face shield, but we're saying we need to cover the face."
Speaking about today's technology "These helmets weren't designed to stop a pressure wave; they were designed to stop bullets," says Albert King, director of the Bioengineering Center at Wayne State University in Detroit. "Just like a football helmet wasn't designed to stop a concussion, but to stop skull fracture."
Seems like natural progression, however I can see concerns being raised over cooling and peripheral vision, as advanced as we are becoming with our weaponry I don't know that we are necessarily keeping pace with the protection of our boots on the ground, though I'm not well informed enough to really weigh in here. In any case the more of this type of research that we conduct the better our troops are apt to be moving forward, though it would be nice if we lived in a world where none of this were necessary.
Source: Wired
Source: Wired


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April 17, 2007 — E-Z-EM Inc. has announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its EmpowerMR injector system — the company's first product for the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging market.
EmpowerMR has the same easy-to-use interface and robust safety features as the company's other Empower injector line. EmpowerMR also employs several innovative features designed to cope with the problem of electrical interference in the magnetic field of the MR scanner.
Magnetic resonance imaging systems operate by detecting minute variances in the alignment of molecules within certain tissues of the human body. To detect these variances, MR systems create powerful magnetic fields, and require the use of non-magnetic materials and components in the immediate surroundings of the scanner. Electromechanical devices like injector systems can create both electric and magnetic fields that cause electrical interference with the scanner during the imaging process, leading to image distortion or artifacts.
To minimize this problem, EmpowerMR employs a unique, patent-pending hydraulic control system instead of the shielded electrical control components used by most other MR injectors systems.
EmpowerMR has no shielded iron core motors, piezoelectric motors or electrically active motor control circuitry adjacent to the scanner, which significantly minimizes the prospect of electrical interference with the scanner's magnetic field. The device provides for utilization in MR field strengths up to 7 Tesla.
Not battery operated, EmpowerMR links to its electrical supply by a single pass-through cable that does not require special shielding. As there is no motor in the MR suite, EmpowerMR does not generate audible noise. EmpowerMR's hydraulic control also means the system can deliver consistent flow rates, volumetric and pressure performance on demand — features that may help improve productivity in the MR suite.
According to recent data from IMV Limited, a medical technology market analysis firm, there are approximately 6,000 MR scanners in the U.S. and approximately 15,000 worldwide. Approximately 20 percent of MR procedures involve the use of injected contrast.
For more information visit www.ezem.com.


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Travel to Christmas Island – the Kingdom of the Crabs
Christmas Island has been referred to as the Kingdom of the Crabs. With 33 separate species residing there, it's easy to see why. And when the red crabs are on the move – described for you here by Alan Fealy, who lived on the island for ten years – it's one of the most spectacular animal migrations on Earth.
"The migration is triggered by the first rains of the wet season, usually in October or November, but can be as late as April. These rains wake up the millions of crabs who lie dormant for much of the year. Not that you don't see them during the dry, but it's hard to imagine how many there are until the rains come. They literally torrent from the jungle in a headlong – or, rather, sideways – dash for the coast, in a hormone-driven quest to mate and breed.
"After dipping in the Indian Ocean, the males come back to the shore terrace and form burrows in anticipation of the females' arrival. After the females have dipped, they come to the burrows, mate and await the development of their eggs, while the males return exhausted to the jungle. The eggs form in a kind of pouch under the carapace and, coinciding with the next neap high tide – when the difference between high and low is at its smallest – the females jettison their eggs into the water. So great is this discharge that the water runs a reddy-brown, triggering many of the great events of the surrounding ocean: whale sharks come to gorge, and a huge array of fish join the feast. It's truly one of the most remarkable events in the natural world.
"Although the yellow crazy ant, introduced by mistake to the island in the early years of the 20th Century, has caused havoc with the red crab population, there are still many millions of crabs on the march in any year. It's a 'crunching' experience; no matter the care taken, it's impossible for the islanders to miss them all. However, locals are more concerned about running them over nowadays, since the crazy ants arrived. Many jungle roads are closed while the crabs pass, and school buses stop short of the school to avoid the very heavy torrent that runs through that part of the island. Most classrooms have crab boards to stop them filling with crabs.
"The crabs are, like most crabs, totally non-aggressive – but I wouldn't like to become comatose in the jungle, simply because of the numbers . . . they pretty much clear anything in their path. During the migration many of them are squashed on the road, and the kids – in the macabre way of kids – call them "crab pizzas."


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The Honourable Bill Morneau has served as the Member of Parliament for Toronto Centre since 2015.
As Canada's Minister of Finance, Minister Morneau has played a key role in shaping government policy and initiatives, including the introduction of the Canada Child Benefit, tax cuts for the middle class, historic new investments in affordable housing, and the negotiation of an enhanced Canada Pension Plan.
Minister Morneau is an accomplished business leader, and has volunteered in Toronto Centre for more than 20 years. He has worked to support the arts, help at-risk youth, and improve access to health care and education. He served as chair of the board at St. Michael's Hospital, Covenant House Toronto, and the C.D. Howe Institute. He has also served on the boards at the Loran Scholars Foundation and the Learning Partnership, and as a pension investment advisor to the Government of Ontario.
In addition to his work in Canada, he also founded a school for Somali and Sudanese girls in the Kakuma Refugee Camp, a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees camp in northern Kenya.
Before entering politics, he led the human resources firm Morneau Shepell. Under his leadership, the firm grew from 200 employees to 4,000, becoming the largest firm of its kind in Canada, providing services to thousands of Canadian organizations and millions of Canadians.
Minister Morneau holds a Bachelor of Arts from Western University, a Master of Science from the London School of Economics, and a Master of Business Administration from the Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires. He also co-authored a book, The Real Retirement.
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Prominent Surgeon's Family Says Hospital Nearly Killed Him
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Stream seeks recount in St. Louis County exec race
CLAYTON (AP) - A former Republican state lawmaker who narrowly lost a November election for St. Louis County executive has asked for a recount on the final possible day to make such a request.
Rick Stream sought the recount Thursday after previously suggesting he was considering that option. He lost to Democrat Steve Stenger, a County Council member, by 1,854 votes. That's less than 1 percent of the total countywide vote.
Stenger won the battle to succeed Democrat Charlie Dooley despite opposition from some black political leaders over his ties to prosecutor Bob McCulloch.
Protesters in Ferguson have been critical of McCulloch's role in the grand jury inquiry into the Michael Brown police shooting.
The Stream campaign said it's concerned about "multiple voting irregularities, shortages of ballots, and voter complaints" on Election Day.


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THE Asia Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Forum 2018 recently concluded with Education Minister Dr Maszlee Malik promising to make it the first choice for students in Malaysia.
Few countries have attracted a majority of their students to join a vocational track as their first choice. An exceptional case is Germany.
I visited Germany last year as a TVET visiting professor. I believe the German students are attracted to TVET due to its first-class infrastructure, industry-driven curriculum and high employability.
When visiting a German Berufsschule (vocational school); it was as if I was at a Technical University with first-class equipment, advanced technology and teachers with Masters' degrees and craftsman qualifications. No wonder, German students are attracted to making this their first choice.
To make TVET a preferred choice for secondary and post-secondary students here, the government should make it as attractive.
Elite Meister High School in South Korea has attracted high-achievers to choose the vocational track because of its prestige.
In the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the usage of smart robots, autonomous vehicles and Artificial Intelligence should be ubiquitous. Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, asserts that the fourth industrial revolution will fundamentally alter the way we live, communicate, work and play.
According to McClean (2018), it is estimated that 75% of future jobs will involve Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) knowledge and skills. We will increasingly need workers who have critical thinking and problem-solving skills; have multidisciplinary and cross-cultural competencies; communication skills, and social, emotional, digital and vocational intelligences. In other words, a learner with multiple intelligences should be welcomed to join TVET.
A Korn Ferry recent report shows that a major faux pas is imminent throughout the world. Demand for skilled workers will outstrip supply in most countries. On the global scale, the report has highlighted a global talent shortage of more than 85.2 million people by 2030. In the context of talent crunch, the shortage in Asia Pacific region could reach 12.3 million people and estimated US$4.23 trillion (RM17.46 trillion) of revenue loss by 2030 due to the talent deficit in certain sectors. Even companies that are using Artificial Intelligence and smart robots foresee a growing need for human talent with advance intelligent skills. The Korn Ferry report shows that 67% of CEOs believe that advanced technology is critical for companies' growth.
The gap between TVET and industry should be reduced. Lack of specific legislation in Malaysia that requires companies to shoulder training hand-in-hand with the public vocational training institutions as in Germany is evident.
Since 1969, Germany's Federal Legislation makes it compulsory for industry involvement in Vocational Education and Training.
As a TVET expert, I admire the German Vocational Education and Training System because of its focus on quality without any political interference. Excellence in any system requires two things: quality and merit. We need a critical mass of intelligent-workers who are using cutting edge technologies. Malaysia should also become a magnet for attracting the best foreign talent. But more importantly, the government should be mindful of its citizens' employability in the context of the global talent market.
Adjusting teaching styles
It is essential that TVET institutions and industry invest in intelligent skilled talent, first-class infrastructure and provide continued access to both formal and on-the-job training opportunities. In this sense, the government should embrace more flexible education and training eco-system and labour laws.
Generation Z or millennials will make up 60% of the workforce by 2020. These techno-junkies and Wifi generation prefer an interactive approach to learning, which blends information through a montage of images, icons, sound, video, animation and Artificial Intelligence. Gen Zs take advantage of the enormous resources of the cyberspace by using digital technologies to create something innovative. Unless teachers possess digital intelligence and skills, Gen Zs will get bored. Educators have to adjust their teaching styles to accommodate the psyche of Gen-Tech. A new digital pedagogy is required.
In the digital age, to accommodate the expectations of the Gen Zs, educators need to possess digital intelligence, digital literacy, creative thinking, agility and flexibility. The future of education will be more virtual, mobile, interactive, personalised, dynamic and innovative. Digital learners prefer customised curriculum, instruction, and assessment. To embrace true digital transformation, the need for visionary, creativity, agility, flexibility and esprit de corps among teachers and learners is a must.
SThe intelligent-based TVET model isn't only about technology, it is about bringing together the power of innovation, a new culture and a new mindset that embraces the change brought by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
TVET has been rebranded several times in the past. They mostly focused on enhancing the quality of TVET talent and skills. But building "intelligent TVET" is missing from the reform agenda. An intelligent-based TVET model should be developed to bridge its curriculum with the industry's needs.
Key resolutions from the Asia TVET Forum 2018 are to enhance the 3As: Accessibility, Articulation and Accreditation. But what is lacking is the fourth A – Autonomy for TVET institutions.
American philosopher of education, John Dewey argued that in order for education to flourish, it requires "substantial autonomy" for institutions, teachers and learners.
Public TVET leaders and educators should enjoy autonomy to change the outdated curriculum, dinosaur technology, old equipment and irrelevant didactics. It is critical to recalibrate TVET to align to an intelligent-based approach as a way forward.
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A new 35,155 dwt stainless steel chemical tanker joined Odfjell on October 17th.
Bow Precision has 28 tanks and adds highly sophisticated, eco-friendly tonnage to Odfjell fleet.
The newbuilt ship was formally named during a ceremony at the Shin Kurushima Dockyard in Japan on October 17th. She will be on long-term term charter to Odfjell Chemical Tankers together with a sister vessel due for delivery in January 2019.
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Descriptions for PyCharm Professional 2018.1.2 macOS
Name: PyCharm Professional Mac
Version: 2018.1.2 Build 181.4668.75
Developer: JetBrains
Mac Platform: Intel
OS Version: OS X 10.8 or later
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Web Site: http://www.jetbrains.com/
A powerful and very easy to use integrated development toolkit for the Python programming language that allows you to edit your Python code
PyCharm is a powerful and user-friendly IDE (short for Integrated Development Environment) built on top of the IntelliJ Platform and designed from the ground up as an all-in-one toolset for Python development.
Moreover, the PyCharm IDE knows everything about your code, thus providing intelligent auto-completion, on-the-fly error checking and quick-fixes, easy project navigation, etc.
PyCharm was also created to keep your code under control with PEP8 checks, testing assistance, smart refactorings, bunch of inspections helping you write neat and maintainable code.
Additionally, PyCharm takes over all routine jobs, letting you focus on bigger things and enjoy writing your code, through a keyboard-centric approach and many other productivity features.
PyCharm also comes with a built-in inline debugger, designed to display live debugging data directly in the code editor, as well as integrate variable values within the editor.
As an added bonus, you can also use PyCharm to access many types of databases, from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL to SQL Server right from within the actual IDE.
Furthermore, the PyCharm development environment was designed by programmers for programmers with the aim to provide you with all the tools that you need for productive and joyful Python and Web development.
What's new in PyCharm Professional 2018.1.2 Build 181.4668.75
April 25th, 2018
Docker Compose Improvements:
- Our Docker Compose interpreter in PyCharm 2018.1.1 starts your application service together with its dependencies, but leaves your dependencies running after shutting down the application. This has now been changed to match the command-line behavior, and will shut down your dependencies as well. Have you not tried using Docker Compose interpreters yet? Learn how to do so on our blog with Django on Windows, or with Flask on Linux.
- Docker Compose users on Windows will be happy to learn that we're now using named pipes to connect to the Docker daemon, which resolves an issue where some users were unable to run their scripts.
Further Improvements:
- The Python Console now receives focus when its opened
- Various improvements to database support: columns that show the result of a custom function in MSSQL are now correctly highlighted, and more. Did you know that PyCharm Professional Edition includes all database features from DataGrip, JetBrains' SQL IDE?
- Improvements in optimizing Python imports
- Various issues regarding React lifecycles have been resolved
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Building an Import Tool for Relational to Neo4j over one Weekend
Last Saturday Night around 11pm when the family was fast asleep, I decided to finally write a tool that I had wanted to build for a while…
An automatic importer for relational databases into Neo4j.
I had all the ingredients at hand
JDBC for accessing relational databases, and SchemaCrawler for a convenient way of extracting the meta-information. SchemaSpy would have worked as well.
Neo4j 2.2 with its massively scalable parallel batch importer API (which is also the foundation for the neo4j-import tool).
This API also takes care of linking of nodes via external id's (which don't have to be stored).
And a bunch of ideas on how to declare rules for deciding what should become a node and what a relationship:
My Transformation Rules:
tables become nodes, the primary key becomes the linking-id (doesn't have to be stored)
foreign keys for 1:1, 1:n and n:1 references become relationships from that node
if a table has no primary key and two foreign-keys it becomes a relationship
tables and fields can be skipped
their names can be transformed (with a distinction between labels and relationship-types)
column values can be transformed as well (e.g. dates or decimals), null values are skipped
Implementing the tool was pretty straightforward, so everyone should be able to do something similar. Some details were a bit devilish, I'll mention these in the appropriate places. The following sections explain some of the technical details, if you're only interested in how to use the tool jump forward to the Example.
My first test was a simple Users being Friends database that I created in memory using Apache Derby, that went pretty well.
Looking for some MySQL demo databases, I found the Sakila artist database which could be imported out of the box but highlighted a concurrency issue - the parallel importer had to be started in a separate thread so that the reading from the relational database could progress in parallel.
And the much larger employees database. This one showed some peculiarities especially around composite primary and foreign keys. Especially foreign keys that are the same time part of the primary key are nasty. This forced me to extend the originally simple meta-data-model to cater for these cases.
But all prepared the tool really well for the final example.
Of course the obligatory Northwind example couldn't be left out. We also use it as an example for Cypher's LOAD CSV statement and to compare Cypher with SQL. So I downloaded the import script from here and ran the it in my local MySQL server.
myql -u root < /path/to/Northwind.MySQL5.sql
I ran the import tool with these parameters:
import-rdbms-mvn.sh "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/northwind?user=root" "northwind" "northwind.db"
It extracted the metadata, and the row-data from MySQL and imported it in into Neo4j. All in 3 seconds.
Looking at the meta-information in the Neo4j Browser shows that all expected labels and relationships are there.
It nicely imported the
OrderDetails and
EmployeeTerritories JOIN-tables as relationships.
As I was flying to London on Sunday I had enough time to finish the first iteration and write this blog post. So a weekend well spent.
Here you can find the tool: https://github.com/jexp/neo4j-rdbms-import
PLEASE test it out with your relational databases and send me feedback, best as GitHub Issues.
There are some more ideas, especially around parallelizing the reads from the relational database, configuring the mentioned rules and transformation and packaging it all up in to a nice little tool that can also be used by non-developers.


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Today the Pew Center released a survey regarding the future of the Semantic Web. More than half of those responded didn't think that the vision associated with the Semantic Web would be realized – that's a startling conclusion, really. It's even more remarkable given the fact that those who responded negatively didn't think it would even happen by 2020.
Intelligent Healthcare part 4 – Process Management & Modeling
In our last post on Intelligent Healthcare, we talked a bit about Electronic Healthcare Record systems. EHR/EMR technology is an important piece of the larger set of clinical systems as it represents a patient centric organizational framework. However; EHRs are only part of a larger picture. One area that is particularly promising for the application of Semantic technology to healthcare is process management. When we discuss process management in this context, we're not talking about traditional process management software solutions. Healthcare process management is in a sense a formalization of (medical) practice approaches that for the most part aren't automated and in many cases likely never can be fully automated.
Threat Management – Cyber Security Part 3
Threat Management is still a relatively new concept; there is no industry standard definition for it. In fact, the few people who are talking about it right now tend to view it from at least two very different perspectives – one a product focused approach to unifying perimeter security tools and two, a practice-focused management paradigm. As it evolves, Threat Management will eventually encompass both of those perspectives and will likely become perhaps the single most important element within any given Cyber Security solution.
Intelligent Healthcare Part 3 – Understanding Electronic Health Records
Much if not all of the discussion over the past two years in regards to Healthcare Modernization has revolved around the deployment of Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. Monies were budgeted to EHR adoption in last year's Stimulus package and more monies will be allocated towards EHR adoption as a result of the recent Healthcare Reform package. So what does this all mean in regards to Intelligent Healthcare and the application of Semantic technology? First we'll need to take a closer look at EHRs.
Cyber Security part 2 – The Semantics of Security Practice
In part 1 of the Cyber Security and Semantics series we discussed some of the highlights of how or where semantics may help transform the practice of Cyber Security. To under the full implications of why Semantics and Semantic Technology is so crucial for Cyber Security we need to examine more of the problem space associated with.
The Potential of Semantic Technology Part 2 – "The Big Dealâ€
Some of you here already know it – many others are still asking it though – "What is the Big Deal with Semantic Technology, we don't get it." Fair Enough. If we had to pick one thing that crystallizes the importance of what we're doing and link it a problem that just about everyone in IT faces today chances are we could change industry perceptions and make some real progress.
Intelligent Healthcare Part 2 – The Standards Dilemma
In part 1, we established that the primary focus for most Healthcare related IT initiatives is data interoperability. This is a requirement that lends itself to being solved using Semantic Technology. However, the industry is now involved in dozens of XML-based formal standards definition efforts. The standards-based approach (without mediation or mitgation by semantic technology) has lead to more expense and complexity…
Measuring Semantic Technology Adoption
Perhaps the best way to understand whether Semantic Technology has the potential to become an IT industry vertical is by measuring the demand for Semantic Technology Skills in the current job market. There is no way to predict at this point whether Semantic Technology will become associated with specific technologies (like Master Data Management) or will grow to become an integral part of all systems engineering…
Science & Semantic Technology
Science has always been dependent on Semantics; Semantics provide the structure for knowledge organization as well as providing the foundation for reasoning processes. Semantic Technology is poised to facilitate the next generation of Scientific Methodology and knowledge exploitation.
What is the Potential of Semantic Technology – Part 1
Asessing and exploiting "market potential" is complicated. Every new technology must pass through this process in order to achieve adoption. Semantic technology faces an even more difficult challenge given the pervasive nature of its potential. However, we can help accelerate this process by providing real world problem solving examples of how this potential can be harnessed (both technically and from the business perspective).


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Marty Ray Project – Expression Not Perfection (2015)
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in Blytheville, Akansas, Marty has a true love and passion for the south. He came from a supportive family, for the most part. Being from a family of musicians, preachers, singers, and songwriters, it was definitely in his blood from birth. He started writing songs when he was twelve years old and from the first song he knew that songwriting was his destiny– whether he got paid for it or not. "I won't allow anyone to put me in a box creatively, especially a record label." Growing up with Gospel, R&B, Country, and Blues as his musical guidance, he has been blessed with a unique style of singing and songwriting that stretches the boundaries of cultures. Marty is a Christian, Country, Blues, Rock, Pop, and whatever else he writes at the time, kind of artist. He has released several songs in his career– some successful, some not. Even when certain people hear his songs and dislike them, he still feels like every song he writes is a platinum, number one, chart worthy song. He has found love and support from fans all around the world for his music, "I love everybody, whether they like my music or not but, when they like it, I consider that a true blessing from Jesus."


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In yet another example of how rapidly things can change in politics, New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant has seen his job approval rating plummet 13 percentage points in three months, a new poll suggests.
Meanwhile, new Alberta Premier Rachel Notley appears to be basking in a post-election honeymoon.
According to the latest quarterly survey from the Angus Reid Institute, Gallant now sits at 27 per cent approval, down from 40 per cent in March. Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger remains Canada's least popular premier at just 23 per cent approval.
Gallant, who won a majority for New Brunswick Liberals last September, appears to be taking heat for his government's efforts to save $600 million by raising revenues and slashing programs. Angus Reid notes that some cost-cutting measures — notably, spikes to nursing home fees — have been deeply unpopular in the province.
But Gallant has walked his talk, too, announcing in February that he and his cabinet members would take pay cuts.
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Notley, who in May won the right to lead the first NDP government in Alberta's history, has an approval rating of 53 per cent. They're numbers strong enough to make her the second most popular premier in the country behind perennial top dog, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall at 61 per cent.
Notley was sworn in as premier on May 24. The survey was taken before a throne speech last week that signaled higher taxes for large corporations and the wealthy, as well as bills to ban corporate and union political donations.
It remains to be seen how her numbers might change in three months.
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, once considered a contender for most popular premier, is down six percentage points from March to 37 per cent approval.
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has also dropped five points within the same period to sit at 31 per cent, while British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has declined three points to 30 per cent.
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is up four points in three months, now sitting at 39 per cent approval. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Paul Davis, who is headed for a provincial election this November, is also at 39 per cent.
Angus Reid Global does not measure the approval rating of the Prince Edward Island premier because the sample size for that province is too small. Wade MacLauchlan won a majority government in that province last month.
The survey was conducted online among 6,291 Angus Reid Forum panelists between May 26 and June 7. Similar surveys have a margin of error of 1.2 per cent, 19 times out of 20.


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Gary Hume at White Cube São Paulo+ ShareGary Hume — Lions and Unicorns is an exhibition of new paintings, collage and sculpture by Gary Hume. This will be Hume's first major solo presentation in Brazil since he represented Britain at the XXIII Bienal de São Paulo (1996).Ends 23rd August 2014For more information visit the White Cube website. Photo: Eduardo Ortega
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Louise Bashige has spent 30 years working in areas of gender and justice.
In her role as IMA's Sexual and Gender Based Violence Advisor, she helps empower women, counsel men and strengthen healthy marriages in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is in charge of designing strategies and capacity building through the ongoing Ushindi Project.
And it is for her inspirational work on the frontlines of addressing SGBV in one of the most challenging places on Earth that she was named a finalist for the Coventry International Prize for Peace and Reconciliation.
The prize is aimed at world-wide grassroots projects and local communities, according to a news release. "All the finalists are an inspiration to anyone committed to peace and the eradication of war," the Right Rev. Dr. Christopher Cocksworth, Bishop of Coventry stated in the release.
On Nov. 3, Thérèse Mapenzi from the DR Congo was announced as the winner of Coventry Peace Prize 2014, and we congratulate her on this honor.
Louise, who spends much of her time in the field, spared a few moments to share her thoughts about being a finalist for such a prestigious award. We're sharing her responses in French for our global audience. English translations were made with the help of Google Translate.
Q: How does it feel to be a finalist?
A: Premièrement c'est une grâce exceptionnelle de Dieu, ensuite ceci témoigne la capacité et la compétence dans le domaine dans lequel on évolue enfin c'est une fierté de l'organisation dans laquelle le candidat évolue.
(English translation: Firstly it is an exceptional grace from God, then this demonstrates the capacity and competence in the field in which I am working. Finally, this is a pride of the organization in which I am operating.) She added: Je me sens heureux et fier de cette grâce exceptionnelle. (Translation: I feel glad and proud for this exceptional grace.)
Q: Could you talk about your participation in the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in June and how your work in Ushindi impressed the Coventry judging panel?
A: Ma participation au sommet mondial pour mettre fin aux violences sexuelles au mois de Juin 2014 à Londres a été une occasion pour moi de parler de l'implication des organisations et des confessions religieuses dans la lutte contre les violences basées sur le genre. Je pense que le jury Conventry était impressionné par le travail du projet USHINDI par le fait que les leaders religieux formés par le projet sont beaucoup plus impliqués non seulement dans la prévention par les messages de lutte contre les violences sexuelles qui sont vulgarisés dans leurs assemblées mais aussi dans les réponses psychosociales aux victimes des violences sexuelles.
(English translation: My participation in the Global Summit to end sexual violence in June 2014 in London was an opportunity for me to talk about the involvement of organizations and religious denominations in the fight against gender based violence. I think the Coventry jury was impressed by the work of Ushindi on how religious leaders trained by Ushindi are much more involved, not only in the prevention using the messages of struggle against sexual violence that are disseminated in their assemblies but also in psychosocial responses to victims of sexual violence.)
About Louise
She is IMA World Health's SGBV Technical Advisor in the DRC dealing with a holistic SGBV Project approach (medical, psychosocial, legal, socio-economical reinsertion and community mobilization). She has a UD in Public Health and Health Promotion from the School of Public Health of Nancy in France and a degree in financial and administrative studies in DRC.
About Coventry International Prize for Peace and Reconciliation
The prize rewards and encourages creative and courageous peace builders around the world, according to a news release. It honors initiatives, organizations, individuals or projects that have made an exemplary contribution to working for peace and reconciliation or in campaigns for social and environmental well-being.
Ushindi is a Swahili word for "victory" or "to overcome." Funded by USAID and led by IMA, the project integrates medical, legal, psychosocial counseling and economic support services for survivors and those affected by sexual and gender based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.


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Hallo! Today I had the pleasure of meeting a VELCO student for the first time. She recently became serious about learning English because her family will be migrating to Singapore in June, as her husband has a job posting there. I was really happy for her and shared all the good things I knew about Singapore and how the Japanese community in Singapore is like. By the waaaaay, Singapore was actually recently listed as the number one country for expats, hehehe! (Expat is short for expatriate. It means a person taking up residency in another country. Now most commonly used as term for those working in companies outside of their home country such as those with regional position)
We used some other terms during the conversation, such as migrants and immigrants. To be honest, I actually didn't know the difference between the two words, but one of the students knew it and taught it to me and the other student. A migrant is a person who moves from one place to another within a country. … An immigrant is a person who moves from one country from another. Shame on me, haha.
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The sexual abuse of children is simply the most heinous, appalling and disgraceful crime of our time. Yet I suspect this is nothing new in human history. There is ample evidence of it occurring during previous generations in western cultures, as well as being endemic in some traditional indigenous societies. Like a pebble thrown into a pond, its effects permeate our entire society from the horrendous impact on the victim, to family, friends, and successive generations.
Sadly a majority of crimes against children are perpetrated by family members or close friends.
I have wonderful memories of being a little boy spending time alone with real and honorary Uncles, "helping" them in the vegetable garden, being told stories, or just sitting on their knee riding the imaginary horse. I know my parents would not have even remotely considered the possibility that I could be abused in any way.
Very sadly it seems these times have gone forever.
Mr and Mrs GOF have had a couple of close friends for around 30 years. We have been there when each of their children was born and shared the joy of watching our own daughter grow up with their children.
Such was our friendship that one of the young children adopted me as her honorary "Dad" when her real one was absent working in a distant location for a year. That this child should have shown such trust in me remains to this day one of the most beautiful moments in my life. Yet I knew it was a situation to be handled with a great deal of care and restraint. Whilst my natural instinct was to give affection to this child as I would my own daughter, I felt it necessary to self-impose strict boundaries of behaviour.
Our friends are both highly intelligent and caring human beings, so I was always aware that, being responsible parents, they could never allow themselves to trust me completely. They would never have made me aware of any lack of trust ….. yet I knew that it was their responsibility to maintain an appropriate level of vigilance. Accordingly I felt the need to limit my displays of affection towards the children, avoiding hugs that were forthcoming, or being alone with any one of them. The children are now wonderful young adults and yet I still have a hesitation about giving them a hug whenever I see them. It has been a joy watching them grow and sharing the events of their lives. But for me there is also just a little tinge of sadness. Perhaps I have been a little over sensitive, but I still consider it was right to err on the side of caution.
In dealing with the children of the world, I must adhere to boundaries appropriate to a man who has been tainted with guilt-by-association with his own gender, and the disgraceful behaviour of some.


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Beware of 'casino lenders-kidnappers', NBI warns gamblers
By Benjamin Pulta
NBI spokesman Ferdinand Lavin reminded the public that if approached by these individuals, "people playing in casinos should approach the hotel staff and security for help immediately".
Six individuals, composed of five Chinese nationals and a Filipino-Chinese were presented by the NBI for abducting three of their compatriots and detaining them against their will inside a hotel room in Parañaque City.
The NBI said that the victims, all males and aged around 40 to 50 years old, were being asked to pay PHP7 million, which represents the principal and interest of a casino loan for PHP1.5 million.
Three of the abductors, Junrong Jia, Xuejian Li and Quijin Tian, were arrested in the NBI operation.
The three other suspects, Peter Lim Santos, Wang Liping and Au Pang Liang were arrested after they tried to bribe lawmen with PHP1 million inside the NBI Cyber Crime Division headquarters for the release of their compatriots. (PNA)
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Data Science Immersion Project
As part of the graduate curriculum in the Master of Science in Data Science program, students participate in an immersion during the summer between their first and second years. While not graded or part of any course, the immersion experience is designed to help students transition from an academic setting to a real-life situation where data needs to be preprocessed, visualized, and analyzed in order to discover a trend and lead to business decisions. During the immersion, the students work together and apply the skills learned in their data science coursework to provide solutions for a local business or entity.
This year, the Data Science students were charged with helping the Diversity & Inclusion of the Regional Economic Development Strategy for South Bend-Elkhart to improve the region's national Metropolitan Statistical Area rank of minority income disparity to the 80th percentile. The students received a data set collected by the committee and focused on sets that were tied to entrepreneurship, with a goal of explaining the economic impact, revenues generated, and jobs created/retained of minority and women owned businesses in a five county region.
At the conclusion of the immersion week, students submitted a written report and presented their findings to the committee and made recommendations like capturing the process and procedure in generating reports and gathering data. Data Science student Kelly Inman said, "I enjoyed the opportunity to meet and collaborate with my classmates during the immersion experience. We were able to help a local organization gain valuable insights from several disparate data sets by applying the statistical and data visualization principles we'd learned in class. Additionally, the communication course was great preparation for the presentation we gave at the end."
"The summer immersion project was a great experience and is an important part of our program," said Elizabeth Caldwell. "I enjoyed the chance to work with my classmates. For two semesters, we have seen each other's names online. Having the opportunity to come together and apply what we've learned to help the community was really exciting. It was also nice to have an opportunity to spend some time on campus!"


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I was who you called your little squirrel,
And who you also called your little girl.
Near the peach tree where you had laid,
I wanted you to have stayed another day.
But I felt a peace when the wind would blow,
Only to hear you say I must go.
Now that you are deceased,
We pray you are at peace.
Because when Grandma died,
You knew that you had tried.
And in your heart you were so blue,
But we knew Grandma loved you.
I wish I could again see you,
Because our hearts are also so blue.
Your life on Earth I know became boring,
But now you can rest while we are mourning.
And now you and Grandma can be together,
Because we now know you are much better.
Why did you have to die?
But for now we must say goodbye.
Poem About Grandpa Joining Grandma In Heaven
I recently lost my grandfather and this poem explains how I feel. my grandfather passed out onto my living room floor and died. I can honestly say I blame myself. this poem really caught my...
Missing My Grandpa
Published: April 2008
I was who you called your little squirrel,


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- Not to be confused with Carlotta Censorinus.
- "Life's hard enough with all these men propositioning me. But that bard is the worst."
- ―Carlotta Valentia[src]
Carlotta Valentia is an Imperial merchant in Whiterun.
Carlotta says that she gets a lot of attention from men, and claims that half the men in Whiterun have proposed to her, yet all that matters to her is her daughter, Mila, and she is determined to let no man ruin her family. If the Dragonborn helps the Stormcloaks take over Whiterun, Carlotta will mention that she is vexed by the unwanted courtship attempts of the guards, and that at least Balgruuf's men bathed regularly.
A Few Words with YouEdit
Carlotta will ask the Dragonborn to convince Mikael, a bard in the Bannered Mare to leave her alone.
Brenuin: "That's right, mock the town beggar like everyone else. But I've got a right to browse, don't I? I ain't hurtin' anyone."
Carlotta: "Make it quick, then. I don't want your stink driving my customers away."
Brenuin: "The gods smile on them who show charity. Best you remember that."
Brenuin: "Oh, the fruit looks so good. So juicy."
Carlotta: "No handouts today, Brenuin. Now scat. You'll scare off my paying customers."
Brenuin: "Oh, just one apple, Carlotta? Just one tiny apple. I'll pay you tomorrow, I swear it."
Carlotta: "That's what you said last week, and the week before that. Now go, before I call a guard."
Brenuin: "No, no! Don't do that. No need to do that. I'm going. See? I'm leaving. No guards, please."
Carlotta: "Look, come back tomorrow, okay? If I have anything left that's not sold or spoiled, you can have it."
Brenuin: "You've got the heart of Mara herself, you know that? Thank you, Carlotta. Thank you."
Carlotta: "I'm afraid not, little fairy. The fruit has about another day left before it spoils. We've got to sell as much as we can, as soon as we can."
Mila: "That's what you always say."
Carlotta: "Because it's always true."
Mila: "Can we at least go to the tavern for supper?"
Carlotta: "Tsk. And to think, I was going to feed you cabbages and apples again. Yes, little fairy, we can go to the tavern for supper."
Mila: "Yay!"
Carlotta: "I get them fresh from the farms daily, Nazeem."
Nazeem: "If you were getting them from my farm, they'd be twice as fresh."
Olfina Gray-ManeEdit
Carlotta: "I had to. The farmers are charging me double for the produce I sell."
Olfina: "Let me guess, they're saying it's because of this trouble with the Stormcloaks?"
Carlotta: "Exactly. Road patrols were cut in half because the Jarl needed soldiers. Now the bandits are bolder than ever. They've been raiding the farms for food, and supplies are scarcer than ever. Maybe I should sell swords and armor, instead."
Olfina: "Maybe, but they wouldn't taste as good as a loaf of fresh-baked pumpernickel."
Carlotta: "Aren't they? I always set some aside for myself when the traders bring them up from the south."
Ysolda: "I'm sure you could charge double for those and still sell them all within a week."
Carlotta: "You're right. I'll have to remember that the next time I get a shipment in."
- You get a lot of attention from men? "You've got no idea. Half the men in Whiterun have proposed to me. Some were even single. They'll never understand. No amount of flowers or honeyed words are going to change my mind. Right now, all that matters is my daughter Mila. No man's going to get between me and my little girl."
A Few Words with YouEdit
"Life's hard enough with all these men propositioning me. But that bard is the worst."
- Someone giving you trouble? "That bard Mikael is begging for a dagger up against his throat, the way he goes on about me. I've heard him boasting at the Bannered Mare, saying he'll 'conquer me as a true Nord conquers any harsh beast.' Hmph."
- Sorry to hear that. "I can take care of myself. A Whiterun woman learns how to handle a few idiot men early in life."
- What if I talk to Mikael? "If you want to try, go right ahead. I don't think anything will get through that thick skull of his, though."
- Mikael won't be bothering you anymore. "Really? You convinced that lute player to stop chasing me? I'd thank the gods, but I'll settle for thanking you. Here's some coin for your help."
Stormcloak VictoryEdit
- Have the Stormcloaks caused you any trouble? "No more than I was already getting. Four of the guards have already decided they're in love with me. Two of the guards got into a fight over me at the tavern. At least Balgruuf's men bathed regularly. These Stormcloaks always smell of ale and sweat, and their breath reeks."
- "Ripe fruit and fresh vegetables for sale! Straight from the fields and orchards of Whiterun, to your table!"
- "I've got a hungry daughter to feed, so selling my produce is really the only thing I care about."
- "I hope you're looking at me like that because you want to buy something."
- "Fresh-baked loaves! Still warm from the oven!"
- "Remember, fresh fruit and vegetables every day! Mostly."
- "I've really got to be going."
- "I think I hear my daughter calling."
- "Thanks for the business."
- Like other characters, Carlotta can follow the Dragonborn into their home in Whiterun. If this happens, she will go into more detail about her daughter's location.
- Unlike many other beds, hers can be slept in (possibly because she was originally supposed to be a potential spouse).
- Her stall has a "Loot" Shadowmark on it.
- She is voiced by Colleen Delany.
This section contains bugs related to Carlotta Valentia. Before adding a bug to this list, consider the following:
- PC If married (via console commands), and asked to move, her daughter (Mila) will stay behind in Whiterun.
- PS3 Despite her dialogue indicating that she is dedicated to making enough money to take care of her daughter, the Dragonborn is unable to invest in her business with the Investor perk.
- PS3 It is possible for the Dragonborn to collect two inheritances from Carlotta if she is killed. The first can be received after her death, and as long as that inheritance is received, another can be received from a Courier after she becomes an ash pile if her body is reanimated as a zombie.
- Sometimes she will appear next to Severio Pelagia's House as if she was next to her stall.
- 360 It is possible to obtain an inheritance after her death while not being married.


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We work with local residents on mutually beneficial projects that improve fish and wildlife habitat, improve safety conditions for residents, increase irrigation efficiency, reduce maintenance to instream irrigation controls, reduce road maintenance, replace culverts, reduce erosion, and increase property values.
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2017 Fish Passage Improvement Projects:
We want your ideas! What would you like to see?
Meeting will be held via Zoom until further notice. Please contact Janelle Dunlevy if you would like to participate.
4th Thursday of each month, 6:30-8:30p
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contact Janelle Dunlevy
(No Nov./Dec. General Board Meetings)
Aquatic & Riparian Committee Mtgs:
Please check before attending April Mtg, we may Cancel or hold this meeting as a web-conference.
2nd Wednesday of each month, 3-5p
Ruch Library or APWC Office, contact Janelle Dunlevy for more information
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On hold until further notice.
The first and foremost goal of our non-profit organization is to work collaboratively to improve the well-being of the Applegate watershed from ridge top to ridge top. Have you ever thought about how much your skills and time could contribute to your community just by volunteering? Become a member.
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It seems like just yesterday that I came back from the Caribbean with a fantastic tan and even better travel memories. Last summer, I ventured down to the islands with friends and Garden Oaks neighbors, Jason, Kim and Benjamin Ellis, plus the Wells family. I spent nine days with our adventure crew exploring St. Thomas, the U.S. Virgin Islands – places like Maho Bay, Waterlemon Cay, Caneel Bay, Buckeye Bay - Culebra and San Juan, Puerto Rico. What an adventure we had. To bring you up to speed with the Ellis family, they aren't your typical neighbor. In their spare time, the family is traveling the back roads in their 1987 Westfalia Vanagon, but these days they've been preparing for their latest adventure: quitting their corporate gigs, selling the house and most of their belongings and … [Read more...] about Garden Oaks neighbors set sail on next chapter, adventure
Details are not missed at Golden Bagels & Coffee
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Tru-Lite Gas Products offer spring cleaning tips
Tru-Lite Gas & Products has been serving the community since 1999. The gas products and service store is a family business that specializes in Gas Grills, Charcoal and Kamado Grills, Exterior Gas Lights, Gas and Electric Fireplaces, and Gas Logs. The family business prides themselves in the relationships they make with their customers, and they have some Spring Cleaning tips to share that can be used when cleaning your outdoor items, for example, something like a weber bbq. With spring season here in full force, getting a good deep clean in for items that are often neglected or overlooked is of importance. A couple items to start cleaning is your gas grill and outside lighting. "With our customers we stress the importance of getting their gas grills or exterior gas lighting prepared … [Read more...] about Tru-Lite Gas Products offer spring cleaning tips
Sweet Cup Gelato & Sorbet expands with second location, manufacturing facility
Sweet Cup Gelato & Sorbet is growing. The local business has expanded and opened their second location in Garden Oaks/Oak Forest at 3444 Ella Boulevard this year, and are opening their first manufacturing facility this spring to keep up with product demands and whole sale offerings. Before the business and brand were put into place, owner Jasmine Chida made gelato at home as a passion project. She went on her honeymoon with her husband to Italy and fell in love with the gelato she found in the European country. "I came back to Houston and just couldn't find that Italian gelato I fell in love with," Sweet Cup owner Jasmine Chida said. "I started making it at home, for dinner parties with friends and it sparked a business idea." That business idea fruited value and in 2012, … [Read more...] about Sweet Cup Gelato & Sorbet expands with second location, manufacturing facility
Local Foods menu inspired by chef's weight loss journey
I'm a fan of Local Foods. The downtown location is a quick hop and skip from my home in the Heights and it's a great addition to the downtown community. Now, the Local Foods brand has expanded to the Heights at the Heights Mercantile, located at 714 Yale St Ste 1A. I just visited our Heights location and got the chance to visit with executive chef Maria Gonzalez and I left an even bigger fan of Local Foods and our local location. Chef Gonzalez shared with me that she is currently on a healthy journey and just recently lost 70 pounds. "What I like about our menu is that it offers healthful options," Gonzalez said. "But when you want to get something that's more of a 'cheat day' option, we have that, too." Gonzalez will oversee kitchen operations after working alongside chef and … [Read more...] about Local Foods menu inspired by chef's weight loss journey


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FabFilter makes unique and innovative plug-ins with focus on easy-to-use, well-designed interface aimed at providing unsurpassed workflow. We picked four of their more common plug-ins to give you an introduction to their perspective, design and sound quality.
Pro-MB is an intuitive multiband dynamics processer that lets you create new bands at the frequency range you want to work with as apposed to the conventional cross-over point splitting. Pro-MB has three selectable processing modes – a unique transparent Dynamic Phase mode, Linear Phase or a traditional Minimum Phase mode.
Pro-Q 2 is a linear phase operating equalizer with zero latency, a unique Natural Phase modes, Mid/Side processing, and variable stereo placement of EQ bands. It has a large interactive EQ display that aids in creating bands where you need them and you can select and edit multiple bands at once.
Pro-L 2 is a true peak limiter with extensive loudness metering with support for the EBU R128, ITU-R BS.1770-4 and ATSC A/85 standards. It includes linear-phase oversampling, professional dithering, noise shaping and surround support.
Saturn is a distortion/saturation plug-in with multiple distortion styles – smudge, stretch, crush, rectify and clip, letting you manipulate your sounds in weird and unexpected ways. Using XLFOs, EGs, XY controllers, envelope followers and MIDI sources you also get practically unlimited modulation possibilities.
This video shows a quick run-through of these 4 popular plug-ins – Pro-MB, Saturn, Pro-Q 2 and Pro-L 2.
Instead of conventionally splitting the entire spectrum with crossovers, Pro-MB enables you to directly create a new band at the frequency range you want to work on. Think bands, not crossovers.
- Up to six processing bands, freely placed anywhere in the spectrum
- Bands can be easily snapped together to form a traditional crossover system
- Handles any form of dynamics processing, from highly transparent compression, limiting and expansion to pumping upward compression and punchy gating
- Unique Dynamic Phase processing mode featuring zero latency, no static phase changes and no pre-ringing artifacts
- Excellent Linear Phase processing mode, eliminating audible artifacts when quickly changing crossover frequencies
- Minimum Phase processing mode
- Up to four times linear-phase oversampling to reduce aliasing
- Fully customizable per band
- Steepness of each crossover slope can be freely adjusted between 6 dB/oct and 48 dB/oct
- Intelligent, highly program- and frequency-dependent attack and release curves adjust depending on presets and compression type
- Global dry/wet mix from 0% (no wet signal) to 200% (double the wet signal) to easily scale the total effect of the plug-in
- Beautiful Retina interface with unique interactive multiband display, designed for an optimal workflow
- Accurate and smooth real-time frequency analyzer with pre- and post-processing options and 'freeze' feature
- High-quality audio processing algorithms with 64-bit internal processing where needed
- Band solo/mute and bypass options
- Precise output metering
Pro-Q 2
Pro-Q 2 offers everything that a demanding engineer could wish for: top quality linear phase operation in addition to the zero latency and unique Natural Phase modes, Mid/Side processing, variable stereo placement of EQ bands, an intelligent solo feature, optional Auto Gain and a built-in, fully customizable spectrum analyzer.
- Full Screen Mode allows for more precise adjustments
- Phase modes – choose from the newly-improved Linear-phase mode, the brand new Natural phase Mode, and the standard Zero Latency mode
- Spectrum Grab lets you use the output frequency spectrum to easily select peaking frequency, facilitating easy adjustments
- New EQ shapes with universal slope support for each
- Auto-gain mode automatically adjusts gain to compensate for frequency boosts or cuts
- Gain scale feature allows for gain adjustment on all EQ bands simultaneously
- EQ match mode allows you to see the frequency response of a different track, allowing you to EQ accordingly
- Replace frequency scale with Piano Display, using keys as markers to match EQ band to specific notes
- Phase-Invert option
- Improved CPU optimization – now more than twice as efficient!
- Improvements in Analog Magnitude matching, spectrum analysis, interface sizing, and output level metering
- Best possible overall sound quality
- Large interface with visual display, recreating entire frequency spectrum
- Use up to 24 EQ bands
- Band Solo Mode for isolating frequencies
- Stereo or mid-side processing
- Multi-band selection and editing
- Different display ranges for different uses, i.e. mastering or mixing
- MIDI learn functionality
- Undo/redo and A/B comparison controls
- Great selection of presets
Pro-L 2
Pro-L 2 features precise true peak level meters and extensive loudness metering with support for the EBU R128, ITU-R BS.1770-4 and ATSC A/85 standards. Combined with its unique real-time level display, you have all the information you need to achieve the best possible results.
- Four New Limiting Algorithms (in addition to the original four)
- Surround Sound Support (up to 7.1.2 Dolby Atmos)
- New Metering and display modes with customizable scale and target levels
- Up to 32x Oversampling (compared to the original's 4x)
- DC offset filtering (optional)
- Sidechain triggering (optional)
- Unity Gain option
- Audition Limiting option (listen to gain change only)
- Analyze audio (in Audiosuite) without rendering
- Real-Time Level Display
- Adjustable lookahead, attack, release, and gain settings
- Separate channel link settings for transients and release
- Dithering with three different noise shape settings
- K-System metering with real-time limiting display
- Inter-Sample Peak (ISP) Detection
- MIDI Learn allows for adjusting parameters with a MIDI controller
Saturn offers a range of different high quality distortion models, inspired by the vintage sound of tubes, tape and guitar amps.
By applying subtle modulation to crossover frequencies, dynamics, band levels or tone controls, great warmth and definition can be achieved.
- Distortion and Saturation plug-in with multiband processing and modulation
- Sixteen different distortion styles – clean and warm tube amps, multiple tape saturation settings, heavy guitar amps, smearing effects and bit crushing
- Multiband processing (up to 6 bands) lets you create customized saturation and distortion signals for each frequency band – prevents smearing and keeps saturation limited to specific frequencies
- Optional HQ mode (8x oversampling) prevents any artifacts or aliasing
- Mono and Stereo plug-ins available
- Mid/side processing lets you add saturation to either the middle or sides of your stereo signal, adding another way of preserving clarity
- Interactive multiband display makes it easy to set frequency bands
- Easy-to-use interface, using FabFilter's innovative what-you-use-is-what-you-see concept
- Add modulation to your saturated signals with endless options; use 16-step XLFOs, XY controllers, envelope generators, envelope followers and MIDI sources to add another dimension to your effects
- GPU-powered graphics acceleration
- Normal and wide interface layouts, with an option to show or hide the modulation section at the bottom
- Modulation source signal visualization; 50-slot modulation matrix makes it easy to drag-and-drop modulation sources to the entire signal, or specific frequency bands
- Over 150 presets for dialing in specific distortion or saturation tones
- Interactive MIDI Learn lets you assign parameter controls to your MIDI Controller
- Unique per-component presets for every feature of the plug-in, from distortion and saturation to modulation
- Smart Parameter Interpolation
- Extensive help file with interactive help hints