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This qualification reflects the role of individuals working in a variety of roles within the human resources sector who have a sound theoretical knowledge base in human resources management and demonstrate a range of managerial skills to ensure that human resources functions are effectively conducted in an organisation or business area. Typically they would have responsibility for the work of other staff.
This qualification comprises 6 core units + 3 elective units
BSBHRM501 Manage human resources services
BSBHRM506 Manage recruitment selection and induction processes
BSBHRM512 Develop and manage performance-management processes
BSBHRM513 Manage workforce planning
BSBWRK510 Implement and monitor WHS policies, procedures and programs to meet
BSBWHS401 legislative requirements
Note: elective units may be selected from a range of units from endorsed training packages at Diploma Level of above.
Elective units must be relevant to the work environment and the diploma of Human Resources Management qualification, maintain the integrity of the AQF alignment and contribute to a valid, industry-supported vocational outcome.
Elective units can only be selected from those the RTO has on its scope.
Units recommended by CALearning include:
BSBWOR501 Manage personal work priorities and professional development
BSBINN601 Lead and manage organisational change
BSBHRM510 Manage mediation processes
BSBHRM505 Manage remuneration and employee benefits
BSBPMG522 Undertake project work
Other Units include:
BSBDIV501 Manage diversity in the workplace
BSBFIM501 Manage budgets and financial plans
BSBHRM502 Manage human resources management information systems
BSBHRM507 Manage separation or termination
BSBHRM509 Manage rehabilitation or return to work programs
BSBINM501 Manage an information or knowledge management system
BSBLED501 Develop a workplace learning environment
BSBLED502 Manage programs that promote personal effectiveness
BSBMGT502 Manage people performance
BSBMGT516 Facilitate continuous improvement
BSBRKG502 Manage and monitor business or records system
BSBRSK501 Manage risk
BSBHRM511 Manage expatriate staff
BSBSUS501 Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability
BSBWHS501 Ensure a safe workplace
BSBWHS506 Contribute to developing, implementing and maintaining WHS management systems
CALearning is proud to introduce the Diploma of Human Resources Management program designed to meet the needs and impart the skills necessary for a 21st century HR Professional and/or the line/general manager with substantial HR responsibilities.
If you are seeking a best-practice framework and, to ensure your managers understand current trends and legislative changes and their responsibilities to your human resources, then this is the course you need.
Research conducted by Dave Ulrich (consistently named as the most influential person in HR in publications across the globe) and his colleagues tell us that HR should:
– Turn outside business trends and stakeholder expectations into internal actions – Focus on both business results and human capital improvement
– Target both individual ability and organisation capabilities
– Understand that HR is not about an isolated activity (a training, communication, staffing or compensation program) but sustainable and integrated solutions
– Respect heritage, while shaping a future
– Attend to both day-to-day administrative processes and long-term strategic practices.
Research in Australia by the AHRI combined with Ulrich's work determines that the 21st century HR Professional needs to learn to be:
This is a far cry from the old fashioned HR department!
The College for Adult Learning accreditation delivers you
We guarantee Human Resources Management information that is up to date and real-time relevant (it will challenge, extend and reward participants with valuable skills and knowledge)!
CAL is continually updating the units of study to ensure that every video tutorial completed contains the most recent research and cutting edge practice. The units in the Diploma of Human Resources Management are in a continuous improvement cycle – we never stop working on, updating and improving our content.
Our promise to you is to provide your HR Professionals with the most recent, relevant information and to support it (where required) with up to date statistics and tools. The examples we provide are always based on cutting edge models and global best practice.
We guarantee participants will be exposed to new and developing theory and practice that can be immediately applied on the job – this is actually better than post graduate studies!
CALearning will provide:
Assessment processes can be designed to incorporate your organisation's systems and processes to ensure your staff reach the standard required of them in your workplace
Assessment processes can be designed to incorporate your organisation's systems and processes to ensure your staff reach the standard required of them in your workplace
Assessment processes can be designed to incorporate your organisation's systems and processes to ensure your staff reach the standard required of them in your workplace
The RPL process can reflect your organisation's systems and processes. We can design an organisation-specific RPL process to ensure your staff achieve the standard you require


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It would be a terrible mistake not to have a website for your business in this day and age. Without a website, your company is completely isolated from the world. Internet users will have trouble finding your company and this will result in minimum sales. A website will prove to be beneficial and will help you increase your visibility, attract new customers, and elevate your revenue. Unfortunately, designing a successful website can be trickier than you could ever imagine. Using the tips below will give you the upper hand over the competition.
Know Its Purpose
Before getting into the complexities, you should figure out precise what you wish to achieve from your website. Some businesses will be interested in selling goods and services online. Others will only be interested in using their websites to show off their company and its portfolio. Do you need an ecommerce store? Do you plan on setting up a blog for your company? Don't get started, until you've considered all of your options and have confirmed precisely what is needed.
Choose A CMS
In all likelihood, you're not going to be able to code the website from scratch. In fact, you shouldn't feel obligated to do so. There are many excellent content management systems, so you should feel free to utilize them to your advantage. There are CMS software, which is suitable for blogs, simple sites, and even e-commerce stores. No matter what you're trying to achieve, it is essential to start with a solid foundation. Therefore, you should start by choosing your CMS. For e-commerce sites like Opladershoppen, it would be wise to select an e-commerce platform, such as BigCommerce or Magento.
Intuitive Navigation
One of the main factors that drive visitors away from websites is poor navigation. If the website cannot be easily navigated, it is virtually useless. A perplexing layout will hinder navigation, causing visitors to quit a blog or page, without further ado. It is important to embed navigation options into the main navigation bar, where it will be accessible to all visitors. Unless you want to drive your traffic down to the bare minimum, you will need to utilize intuitive navigation strategies.
Branding Wisely
It doesn't matter if you are a large or small business, branding is one of the most important factors to consider. Your company's logo and its placement are going to have a huge impact on how customers view your company. A professionally, clean-cut logo will catch potential customers' eyes and give your brand a voice (see here for the best way to get a logo designed). While the logo design is important, the location of the logo on your website is just as important, if not more so. You want to choose a location that will be visible to all visitors, even if they just happen up on your website by mistake. You want to make sure they get a look at your logo. Most people choose the upper left hand corner, because this is where the eye begins to naturally scan a website.
Keep in mind that once you are branded with a logo it is a good idea to incorporate this logo into everything you do. Place it on the packaging of your products, and even put it on your invoices. Make sure that your brand is known worldwide and people will begin to associate your company with this unique logo.


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Category: Perspectives on Figure Modeling
Drawing People Whole:The Artist-Model Relationship
Western art typically distinguishes between portraiture and figure drawing. The model-artist relationship would benefit greatly – for justice, for purity, for respect, for human understanding, for common sense, and for better art – by being brought closer to the artist-sitter relationship, or better, by being fundamentally a human relationship which has production of art work together as part of its goal.
There are three basic expressions used in schools for a particular kind of artwork.


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On Friday, John McCain told reporters on his campaign bus that he had issued a clear directive to his people about negative campaigning: "Don't."
His chief ally in the state, Sen. Lindsey Graham, elaborated. "You don't need to tear anybody else down to get the votes for John McCain," he said, as the bus approached Mt. Pleasant, S.C. "That's the point. You can contrast your vote with theirs but you don't need to tear anybody else down to get the vote for John McCain."
Less than 24 hours later, a biting McCain campaign mail piece attacking Mitt Romney arrived in South Carolina mail boxes.
"Mitt Romney raised taxes by $700 million!" it blares.
"Romney provided taxpayer-funded abortions. Romney signed legislation in 2006 that increased funding for taxpayer-subsidized abortions."
"Romney refused to endorse Bush Tax Cut Plan."
"Romney fee increases led to 'Taxachusetts.' A survey of states grappling with spending crisis has found that Massachusetts imposed more fee hikes that (sic) any other state in the nation this year — at least $500 million."
Note the typo. This is not a fair-and-balanced compare and contrast ad. This is an attack, in the grand tradition of Romney's attacks against McCain in New Hampshire. The mail piece even includes a reference to RepealRomneyCare.org, which is a front organization put together by mostly pro-life leaders who oppose Romney. Just below the list of Romney's faults are the words: "Paid for by John McCain."
And so it begins.
UPDATE: Some of the claims made in this mail piece, about abortion and the $700 million in taxes, were made in an attack ad that Mike Huckabee kinda-sorta-almost ran in Iowa against Romney. (Huckabee officially pulled the ad at the last minute, though he showed it to reporters, and a few stations ran the ad before they got the memo.) The good people at Factcheck.org said both claims were misleading. See here for the analysis.
ANOTHER UPDATE: It occurs to me that I should point out the context for this sort of a mailer on the Republican side. McCain is by no means exceptional. Back in the spring, I found this flier in South Carolina from the moribund Duncan Hunter campaign. And Romney has had mailers dropping on South Carolina for weeks, many of which attack McCain and others with pretty misleading messages. Meanwhile, the Politico's J. Martin got the McCain campaign to explain why they are suddenly attacking Romney via U.S. Post. In reference to a similar piece of mail dropped in Michigan, McCain spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said, "We've been attacked enough times by Mitt Romney to justify getting out front to set the record straight."


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I'm very lucky to be speaking with Jane Porter, author of Odd Mom Out, The Frog Prince, and Flirting with Forty, among other novels. Jane's latest, She's Gone Country, has just hit the shelves. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two sons. Today Jane talks about writing, Texas, and her latest book!
Q: Thanks for speaking with me, Jane! You're certainly busy—writing Harlequin romances along with more mainstream women's fiction. Do you prefer one over the other?
JANE: I don't have a preference. I love them both and really enjoy having two different genres as it allows me to create very different worlds and very different characters. Going back and forth between the two has also made me a much better writer.
Q: In many of your books, your main characters are women facing a turning point in their lives—many of them are hiding their true selves from the world for various reasons. Does any of that come from real life?
JANE: Undoubtedly. I grew up the typical first born, good girl. I was a pleaser my entire life, feeling obligated to make everyone happy. What I wanted and needed was secondary to others needs. And while I don't discount those needs now, I learned at forty that I'm important, too, and that I will never be happy if I'm waiting for others to be happy first. I realized there's only so much one can do for others, and that I have to be responsible for my emotions and let others be responsible for theirs. This discovery allowed me to 'find' me and it started in The Frog Prince, continued in Flirting with Forty and the rest is history!
Q: Can you tell us about your writing routine? How do you power through those rough spots (aka writer's block)?
JANE: I write pretty much every day, although when I finish a book I take anywhere from 2-4 weeks off. I can be a bit of a procrastinator now, too, but having a firm deadline goes a long way to keeping my tush in the chair!
Q: Your new book, She's Gone Country, sounds like a lot of fun. You're a California girl—what kind of research did you do to get the "flavor" of living on a ranch? Where did you get the idea for this book?
JANE: Shey is a character you see in some of my previous novels, playing a minor character role in Odd Mom Out and Easy on the Eyes, and her background was established from the beginning as a tall blonde Texan with a heart of gold. And writing about Texas is a natural for me as I've spent a lot of time there, and my mother's father was a rugged Texan who had two Black Angus cattle ranches. He actually died on one of our ranches during a round up, and we still have the ranch in the family today. I think once you have that affinity with the land and a certain lifestyle, it just stays with you.
Q: What's next for you?
JANE: I'm just now putting together a proposal for a new series about an Irish-American family in San Francisco with four daughters. The stories will revolve around the Brennan sisters' relationships with their families and each other. I'm really excited to be writing about sisters for the first time!


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Big Ol' Thunderstorms: Love 'em or Hate 'em? [POLL]
Many of us in Mid-Missouri have been experiencing quite a few thunderstorms recently. There have been severe weather advisories, reports of 60 mph winds and the threat of hail in the area, not to mention the damaged trees, flooded streets and traffic accidents that come along with a good old fashioned Missouri storm. Despite all of this mayhem, I'm absolutely loving this weather, and I have a hard time believing that I'm only one out there who likes it.
Just this morning, I was awoken by a massive thunderclap that rattled my entire house. I love the sound of a powerful storm, how the thunder rumbles in your chest and slowly rolls away, leaving you with the sound of a peaceful spring rain until "KABOOM!" the next one sounds like it's right on top of you.
I think it's great, and I think I could sit and listen to storms like that all day. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for my dog, who is not a fan of severe weather. He spends most storms cowering in fear underneath a towel in the bathroom. I'm sure there are children and maybe some adults that hate these storms just as much as my dog.
So which camp are you in? Are you looking forward to the next big thunderstorm, or are you waiting for all of this to just pass us by and let the sunshine in?


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This week's Splitcoaststampers' Featured Stamper is Twila (aka tjdstampsalot). I chose a non-card project as my inspiration:
I love the clean red, white and silver colour combination!
I focused on Twila's:
-retro ornament theme
-red and white colour combination
-silver from the left side of the tin
I changed:
-number of ornaments
-added a sentiment
I used:
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The Meatball Factory Rolls Onto The SceneMonday, October 24, 2011 at 10:10 AM - Posted by Megan - (0) comments
Chef Dave Martin knows how to play ball. As demonstrated when the Top Chef alum debuted his meatball-centric menu to an eager crowd during this weekend's preview of The Meatball Factory, which officially opens on Tuesday, October 25th.
Commanding the corner of East 14th Street and 2nd Avenue, this warm, rustic bistro boasts a cozy interior with dark wooden tables, exposed brick walls, floor to ceiling windows and a sizable bar area. The menu of upscale comfort food centers around an extensive selection of house-ground gourmet meatballs, including flavorful rounds of braised pork, short ribs, chorizo, duck, lamb, turkey and veggie. Proteins pair up with eight savory sauces, such as green curry peanut, black truffle cream, spiced up vodka and fire roasted marinara, and fully customizable combos allow diners to curb any meaty craving—you can have your balls on a challah roll, over housemade pasta or crispy, thin-crust pizza, or poutine-style atop fresh cut Idaho fries coated in melted cheese.
So, what makes The Meatball Factory stand out? "Simple, high quality, fun food that's affordable," Martin shared. Nothing on the menu is over $15 and no bottle of wine is priced over $40. Yet, the quality and flavors are top notch. Take the Turducken meatball, made from a house blend of La Frieda turkey, Bell & Evans chicken, Hudson Valley Farms duck confit, sage & allspice. Martin prides himself on prime sourcing and uses his own line of handcrafted rubs, sauces and seasonings to tastefully elevate each dish.
While meatballs are the star here, you'll also find dairy-free and gluten-free options, seasonal salads, vegetable sides, and a tempting array of sweet treats and ice cream sundaes to round out the menu. The 'Thai This' pizza—a mouthwatering medley of ground Turducken, luscious green curry peanut sauce, Thai chiles and Grana Padano sprinkled over delicate cracker dough—is a must-try. For the ultimate indulgence, order up Dave's World Famous Black Truffle Mac 'n' Cheese—a decadent breadcrumb-topped infusion of slow cooked cream, shallots, brandy, sherry, truffles, fontina, thyme and oregano. And make sure not to overlook the shaker of red chili spiced agave on your table. When splashed onto entrées, it adds complexity, depth and quickly becomes addicting. To wash it all down, belly up to the bar for reasonably priced vino, along with 18 taps and 20 bottles of craft beer.
With an evident passion for his craft, chef Martin masterfully pairs new flavors with comfort food staples, creating dishes that you'll want to savor again and again. And since The Meatball Factory rolls out endless choices and combinations aplenty, be sure to come hungry and prepare to have a ball.
The Meatball Factory, 231 Second Avenue at 14th Street, 212.260.8015
Kicked Up Cocktail SauceSunday, February 14, 2010 at 07:02 PM - Posted by Megan - (0) comments
For my Kicked Up Cocktail Sauce, I turned up the heat with a little spice and some nontraditional ingredients to add depth and zest to this classic shrimp accompaniment.
Kicked Up Cocktail Sauce (serves 6)
Make the cocktail sauce by simply mixing the ketchup, chili sauce, horseradish, Sriracha sauce, lemon juice and chopped parsley together in a bowl. Kick up the heat even more with a few drops of Tabasco sauce and add black pepper to taste. After thoroughly mixed, cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
Before serving, divide the sauce among 6 martini glasses, hang a few shrimp around the rims of each glass and garnish with a lemon wedge.


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I've been seeing a lot of internet babbling about SeeqPod. For those of you that haven't heard of this website, let me run it down for you in a nutshell. It is a music search engine that allows you to build a playlist and listen to songs it finds on the internets. Sounds really cool right! I think it sounds effing great ... but the people that have posted those songs may not think so. Let's say that you are using a hosting site that grants you a certain amount of bandwidth during the month. After you exceed that limit, you start being charged for extra bandwidth. So now SeeqPod can find these songs and the more people that use SeeqPod, the more accessible these files are on the internets. Some Joe Baloney that posted his favorite Metallica song that may never get any internet hits, may now all of a sudden be getting hundreds of hits a day ... and worse, may get a hit right in the ol' wallet at the end of the month. He'd be lucky to get past Lars Ulrich's wrath anyways.
So streaming some MP3 files doesn't sound so bad. Kind of like it. There are a few Firefox plugins that let you play MP3 files you encounter with an embedded player. These are just little one off sorts of things. The playlist feature in SeeqPod is nice since you can find enough material out there to last you for a long time. Instantly, you have people that want to download the files that they encounter. While SeeqPod does not allow you to download these files, it does tell you the location of where to find them on the internets. Basically you can type in the URL that you see and get to the MP3 file and download it. How quickly will SeeqPod be turned into a device for illegally downloading songs?? Now, I don't condone downloading MP3s, but I wanted to see how easy it would be to turn SeeqPod into an MP3 download tool. Took me about 5 minutes and it is cake. Here is how to use SeeqPod for downloading MP3 files:
I use Firefox, so these instructions are for firefox users. First off, go to www.seeqpod.com and do a search for some music that you would like to listen to. I did a search for Dream Theater (because they are da bomb). If anything is available, you will get a list of songs on the left hand side of the screen. That's all you need to do as far as SeeqPod is concerned. The rest will be up to you and your browser. Open up a second tab in FireFox and paste 'about:cache?device=disk' into the location bar (without the quotes). This should pull up your cache. Do a search in your cache (ctrl + F) and paste into the find box 'anonSearchPaginationFlash' (again, no quotes). Scroll through those results and look for links that have what you searched for (dream theater would be visible somewhere in the link). Click on the key link and it will load it as cache entry information. Click on the key link again and it will load the XML of the SeeqPod results page. Look for Location tags. Those will be the path to the MP3 file that you searched for. At that point, it is up to you how to handle the download. If I were a crafty person, I would just copy all the links and stick it into some sort of download.html file I created on my computer. Then I might just load that file in Firefox and use the DownThemAll plugin to grab all the files at once. This is just a concept, so if you want to experiment, go ahead. I'm not responsible for your downloading activity ... just sayin.
Is SeeqPod a great idea ... absolutely! Will it be used for illegal downloading ... certainly. Anytime a website that crops up that seeks out MP3 files on the internet, it will probably be put to use in a negative way. Haystack is another example of the streaming audio principle. It is a bit different, but again, very easy to download music off of.
If you are going to download something ... since it is so irresistible ... at least experiement with CD's/music that you already own. Not that it makes it any better, but at least you have dropped some money into the artists pockets for it at some point. That's a whole other can of worms that I'm not going to touch.
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If you do have an iPhone, then just find a song that you want to hear and then you can "share" the link. The share button just emails a link to whoever you want (in this case, the URL of the mp3). You can just email it to yourself and then using your email tool of choice, download the file from the link you just sent yourself. Very cake!


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Bayer's Diligence Failure In Merck Deal Haunts Its Monsanto Purchase
Bayer AG's failure to identify weaknesses in Merck & Co.'s over the counter drug business before it bought it in 2014 sets a problematic precedent for its latest acquisition, said an M&A expert.
The $14.2 billion purchase of the Merck business was Bayer's biggest before its announcement last week of the acquisition of U.S. seed-maker Monsanto Co. for a record $66 billion.
Due diligence errors in assessing Merck & Co.'s over the counter business, highlighted in an investor presentation on Tuesday, raise questions about the vetting that Bayer has done on Monsanto deal, said Scott Moeller, a professor of finance at Cass Business School in London and director of the M&A Research Centre.
"There is no excuse for not doing a proper due diligence, especially if it is not an unsolicited bid," said Mr. Moeller.
After an unsolicited bid or hostile takeover, the acquiring company may find it challenging to assess the quality of the asset it wants to buy, as the target company might decide to not release information needed to perform adequate due diligence.
"In an unsolicited deal, you don't get access to everything," Mr. Moeller said. "But, Bayer and Merck are public companies so there was a lot of information out there." Moreover, Bayer's offer for Merck's nonprescription drug-business was a friendly one.
Bayer chairman Werner Baumann said on Tuesday that the company had to discontinue a few products after the purchase.
"The business that was expected to be handed over had a top line of around $100 million lower than what was actually presented during due diligence," Mr. Baumann said.
According to Mr. Baumann, the Merck business's new product development efforts were "not nearly as good as it was presented." He added that there was "limited ability to do due diligence" on Bayer's part.
As a result, Bayer will not reach the synergy target of around $400 million per year by 2017 that it had expected. Bayer also needs to invest more than initially planned, especially in its Dr. Scholl's foot care brand and Coppertone sun care products.
"We found out that some of the [Merck] brands have in fact been under-invested [in] both in terms of pipeline development and consumer promotion," said Erica Mann, head of consumer health at Bayer.
This may reflect over-optimism on Bayer's part, according to Mr. Moeller. "Practice and experience should not lead to hubristic behavior," he said. "Even if one knows the target very well, one should not cut short the due diligence process."
Sums of $100 million might not be material, given the size of Bayer's balance sheet, Mr. Moeller said. Nevertheless, failure to spot weaknesses in a target is potentially damaging to the company's reputation, he added.
In Bayer's case, the misstep is amplified since the company promotes its record of acquisitions and successful integrations to shareholders.
On Tuesday, Mr. Baumann said Bayer had a record of successfully integrating and separating acquisitions and divestitures. On Wednesday, the company hosted a meeting in Frankfurt with investors which will be followed by a second one in London on Thursday.
Mr. Moeller said he expects Bayer to have learnt from this incident. "One would hope that they are applying that knowledge to what they are doing today", Mr. Moeller said. Bayer did not respond to a request for comment.
In its proposed takeover of Monsanto, the company faces regulatory hurdles in a number of countries. Bayer said it expects the deal to okayed by the end of 2017.
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Victory Bell receives makeover before UNC's game at Duke
Tar Heels celebrate with Victory Bell
For nearly 70 years the Victory Bell has been a part of the North Carolina-Duke football rivalry, a symbol of triumph that has been around longer than the ACC has existed.
For a while now, as long as many can remember, the bell's platform has worn the colors of the rivalry's most recently victorious school. Which means that since Nov. 20, 2014, Carolina blue has surrounded the bell. Until now.
The Tar Heels play at Duke on Thursday night and, as is the tradition during UNC-Duke week, a student manager wheeled the Victory Bell out onto the edge of the practice fields, where it sat on Monday with a noticeably different look. No longer was the bell adorned in light blue.
It had received a new paint job: half Carolina blue and half Duke blue, with both teams' logos on the respective side of their shade. Larry Fedora, the UNC coach, claimed ignorance about the bell's makeover.
"It was new to me," he said. "I hadn't seen it yet, I just heard about it from a player."
Later, UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham confirmed in a text message that this is simply the new, and indefinite, look for the Victory Bell, which has been in existence since 1948. Cunningham and Kevin White, the Duke athletic director, mutually agreed to a Victory Bell with equal representation for both schools.
It's unclear when the tradition of painting the bell's platform began but that – the postgame paint job – had become the norm in recent years after the bell changed sides. Duke painted it a darker shade of blue in 2012, after snapping a long streak of futility against UNC. And UNC painted it back two years later.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the Victory Bell's transformation comes two years after the Tar Heels reclaimed it amid a wild celebration after a Thursday night victory in Durham in 2014. When the game ended, UNC players jubilantly rang the bell while they spray painted it Carolina blue.
The celebration continued in the visitor's locker room, which at Duke is on the other end of a practice field that borders Wallace Wade Stadium. Not long after the game Duke sent UNC a bill for $27,170.44 to cover repairs related to spray paint damage on that practice field, in the visitor's locker room and parts elsewhere.
About $22,000 of that covered the cost of a new carpet in the locker room. Another $4,500 went to repaint the walls of the practice facility and stadium where someone had spray painted "U-N-C." At the time, Cunningham bristled at charges that he found excessive.
Eventually, Cunningham and Fedora wrote personal checks – $13,585.22 each – to cover the damages. Fedora said on Monday that he didn't plan to discuss with his players what happened at Duke the last time the Tar Heels played there. But, he said, "We won't do any painting."
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"happy living at Heathcotes Arnold..."
14th Dec 2011
- One person using the service told us that they were supported by staff in attending college and looking for a job. They also went shopping with the staff which they said they enjoyed. They told us they were happy living at Heathcotes Arnold and staff were very nice, helped them when needed and always did as they were asked.
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Oh-5 Optical Crystals
Published: Wednesday 15 March 2006 - Updated: Monday 28 March 2011
To demonstrate diffraction from a crystal lattice using optical apparatus.
- Laser
- Optical bench
- Optical carriers
- Slide projector
- PASCO® "Optical Crystals
Click on pictures to enlarge.
The Pasco optical crystals consists of 28 photographic emulsion patterns positioned on seven individual plates. These allow diffraction patterns to be observed due to 1, 2 and 3 dimensional crystals. The laser is directed onto the slide which is mounted on a short optical bench and the resulting pattern is then displayed on a ground glass screen. Alternatively a T.V. monitor may be used for enlargement.
Each plate has four optical crystals as follows
PLATE 1. a) dots. Random array.
b) c) d) Single row of dots with various spacings
PLATE 2. a) Two parallel rows of dots
b) Three parallel rows of dots
c) Four parallel rows of dots
d) Rectangular lattice of dots
PLATE 3. a) One row of dots
b) Two rows of dots at a 60degree angle
c) Three rows of dots each at a 60 degree angle
d) Full hexagonal array of dots.
PLATE 4. a) Two identical layers of dots in random array
b) Two layers of dots in hexagonal array
c) d) Two rows of dots in rectangle array (various spacings)
PLATE 5. a) b) Random array of asterisks (two sizes)
c) d) Random array of S's (two sizes)
PLATE 6. a) Random array of A's
b) One row of A's
c) Rectangular array of A's
d) Hexagonal array of A's
PLATE 7. a) Rectangular array of dots
b) Face centred rectangular array
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I am currently running a Shadowrun campaign on pbp, and have done the worst mistake. The characters being part of the army, they received a mission briefing ending with: "the mission will start next week, you have 7 days to make your preparations".
That was four months ago. Two days have passed in game.
The characters have spent a crazy amount of time exploring the Matrix, the Astral, asking their contacts, adapting and readapting and rereadapting their equipment.
Thinking about it, I figured I would remove preparation completely for their next mission. But then, it would remove some of Shadowrun's fun, right? And then, I remembered Leverage RPG.
Behold: THE SHADOWRUN OVER-PREPARATION FIX.
(beware: can also make the game a lot cooler)
At any time, a character can spend an Edge point to call a flashback. The player describes the action, and makes an appropriate roll if necessary. It happens, no matter the result of the roll. If the roll is failed however, the situation might go bad in some other direction. The flashback has to be called by another character, whether a PC or NPC – this can be described by the player as he wants. All characters increase their max Edge Points by one.
Example: The group infiltrated the office where they are supposed to steal a chip. While the gunslinger covers the entrance, the others realize that the chip is an absurdly efficient safe, and they have no hope of opening it. Raven, the ex-ganger street samurai, reaches for the door with a confident look on her face.
Zhen, adept: "Wait, you think you can unlock that thing?" (this is the call)
Raven: "Better than that…" (spends an edge point)
One day earlier. A man is hurrying in the rainy streets of Hong-Kong, holding his bag against his chest. He keeps glancing above his shoulder, and screams when he ends up bumping into someone.He let out a relieved sigh, realizing it is only a street cleaner. He grumbles some insults and walks away.No one notices the cleaner dropping something in her jacket as she disappears in a dark alley.(The player makes a Palming roll here)
The samurai gets a magnetic key out of her pocket, a huge grin on her face.
Raven: "People drop all kind of things, don't you think?"
(If her Palming roll succeeded, this is indeed the correct key, and the chip is inside. If it failed, it IS still the correct key… but maybe the chip is not inside? It is filled with drones? It is linked to the building alarm system? All of the above?)
So here you have it! I hope this will give a more "caper feel" to the game.


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Author: Calinda B
Source: Lit Connect
Genre: Science Fiction/ Fantasy Romance
Length: ebook of 384 pages
Publisher: Sumner McKenzie, Inc
Reviewed by: Cerridwen
Chérie's just a small town girl living life the way she thinks it's supposed to be. She's got a great guy, a great job and a whole lot of things that don't make sense. Like, why can't she stick up for herself? And why did this mysterious guy walk up behind her on the dance floor, whisper "sexy girl" in her ear, make her body quake with sensation and then disappear? Who is this crazy old woman with eyes like an eagle and braids that blaze with fire who keeps dropping into her world? And where are all these bewilderingly vivid dreams coming from with the mysterious guy as the main attraction? Chérie wants answers. She finds these answers and more as she faces her past, and comes face to face with a future that is more remarkable than she ever dreamed possible.
This was one of those books that took a struggle to get through at first. The first 75 pages and I was about to stop. I felt as lost and confused as the main character Chérie, but it is hard for me to give up on any book. So I set my mind to it and had to pay close attention. I am glad that I didn't give up with this one because it offered a different story altogether...sex and all.
With that said, the HOT rating is for the TYPE of eroticism that one usually doesn't find in books called tantric sex. Not only does it offer that, but the characters have an out of this world reason for that type of intimate, emotional state of mind.
So enjoy this book in peace and quiet cause you'll need to "tantric read" to enjoy the storyline. I will be reading the rest to satisfy my curiosity though.


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Find entertainment and inspiration under the soaring copper dome with events at the Basilica of St. Josaphat.
Photo credit: Marc Royce
Music for Sacred Spaces, March 7, 2017
The Basilica of St. Josaphat
601 W. Lincoln Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53215
For the second time ever, Eric Whitacre and his Grammy award-winning choir, the Eric Whitacre Singers, are bringing their eclectic and ethereal choral compositions to the United States with their Music for Sacred Spaces Tour. The choir will grace the timeless halls of the Basilica of St. Josaphat with both new and much-loved pieces, including "Lux Aurumque" and "Sleep," in a performance that's sure to captivate and inspire.
Seats within the different sections are first come first served.
*Gallery Seating: The first row is Tier 2 pricing, the rest is obstructed seating. Also, there is NO handicap access to the Galleries.
Doors will open at 6pm. Please enter through the John Paul II Pavilion. Door off of Lincoln ave or 7th st parking lot.
Parking: Lot on 7th st & Lincoln ave (has handicap stalls), lot off S 6th St, and free street parking.
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text: Anyone heard anything about the step change in super charger technology that Elon mentioned during the conference call today. They are already charging at 1C. Any word on the capacity of the existing chargers as I would assume the hardware that is going in today has the current capacity to accommodate the "step change" once the system engineering and testing is done.


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A Guide To Choosing Plumbing Fixtures
Decorating one's home can be a very fun and enjoyable affair. It is important to choose the right fixtures regardless of whether you are looking to decorate a new home or looking to looking to remodel your current home. Choosing the right plumbing fixtures will do a lot of good to the interior of your home.
Choosing the appropriate plumbing fixtures is not as easy as many people would think. No matter how difficult it is, you should ensure that you make the right choice and you should therefore take your time when shopping for plumbing fixtures. Do not be afraid to ask for help from an interior designer if you are finding the choice of which plumbing fixtures to go with quite difficult to make or if you do not have the time to shop on your own. This article seeks to make it easier for you to make a decision by giving you a number of tips for choosing the right plumbing fixtures.
Before deciding to go shopping, you ought to have a clear idea of exactly what you are looking for. One may laugh after reading this because it seems like something very obvious but it is interesting to note that a number of people still embark on their home improvement journeys without really understanding what it is they need. If you have knowledge on plumbing, deciding what you need can be quite easy but if you do not know about anything to do with plumbing, you should ask for guidance from a plumber or from a home renovation specialist.
It is important to take in the aesthetics of your home before choosing plumbing fixtures. It is important to ensure that you do not choose a fixture with modern designs if your home has a traditional layout and vice versa since this may interfere with your home's decor.
There are very many fixture brands in the market today and you therefore have a wide range of patterns and designs to choose from. It is important to note that some fixtures are expensive while others are cheap and it is therefore up to you to choose those that best fit your budget. Do not be attracted by the obnoxiously cheap plumbing fixtures because they may end up disappointing you in the long run by proving to be of poor quality. Because one does not remodel regularly, you ought to ensure that you purchase plumbing fixtures that will serve you for a long time.
Buy your plumbing fixtures at specialized plumbing stores rather than at big stores that deal in everything. This is important because since these stores only deal in plumbing equipment, you are sure to find the right fixtures quicker and easier. Another reason why you ought to shop in specialized plumbing stores is that the staff in these stores understands what it is they are selling and they are therefore going to prove to be of more assistance than those in stores that deal in a wide range of products.


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Will Teyana Taylor have another sneaker sell-out on her hands? Perhaps. After her first collaboration with adidas sold out in record numbers, Teyana is gearing up for another fresh collab. This time, the singer teams up with Packer Shoes for some gold appeal.
If you're a fan of simple silhouettes, the Teyana Taylor x Packer Shoes x Ewing 33 Hi "Gold Medal" might be far, far, far away from your comfort zone. With an all gold upper, gold sparkles featured along the translucent gum out sole and gold lace, this design is a bling-lovers dream.
No release date has been set, but we'll keep you up as details emerge. Are you a fan of Teyana Taylor's latest collaboration?
Images: @geminikeez / @teyanataylor
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Invest in a professionally designed web graphic for a visual appeal and be sure to have correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Have all your information up-to-date so that sponsors know where you are investing your work efforts.
- Ease of Editing
In order to add new articles and links, event updates, press releases, blogs, etc. your website needs to easily editable. Readyportal site structure and edit features makes it easy to change and add new content with granular permission. Essentially, having ease of access to editing your website allows your company to create an effective web presence without costing you an expensive IT professional updating your website daily/weekly. Although, make sure to have regular updates because no one wants to visit a website that is populated with old news.
- E-mail List
If you plan to collect e-mail addresses on your website, it is best to use an online form. It is an easy way to allow people to give you their e-mail address. You will also need a secure way to store those addresses and send mass email. Readyportal's out of the box solution will easily implement this feature into your website.
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Today, the International Tracing Service (ITS) published around 15,000 further documents from the "Death Marches" collection in its online archive. Cemetery plans as well as maps of and references to burial places have been added.learn more
"My father Hendrik didn't start talking about his imprisonment in Germany until after he retired. From that point on, he talked about it a lot." When Aart Quak visited the International Tracing Service (ITS) with his son Dick in November 2017, he had various documents and photos with him.learn more
Following a raid in the summer of 1944, the German security police deported Pierre Joseph Marie Louis Margerit first to the Compiègne prison and then to the Neuengamme concentration camp. There the notary was assigned to forced labor in the construction of submarine pens. He died in the Sandbostel camp in 1945, shortly...learn more
It took Marcelle Boulhol completely by surprise when a member of the International Tracing Service (ITS) staff contacted her and told her about the personal belongings of her uncle in the archive. Until then, she had known next to nothing about his fate. She received the package with Antoine Brun's watch and pen in...learn more
"We hope that by the end of this workshop, we might develop another joint digital humanities project that will use the latest research methodologies to make the historical information in the ITS digital archive available to more people." Christine Schmidt, Deputy Director and Head of Research at the Wiener Library,...learn more
In the beginning there was a charm with a birth date found by archaeologist Yoram Haimi and his Polish colleagues in 2006 in the grounds of the former Sobibor extermination camp. Yad Vashem announced the discovery, leading several historians and TAZ journalist Klaus Hillenbrand to carry out research and discover to...learn more
The International Tracing Service (ITS) spoke to Pieter Jan Wolthers, a former ambassador of the Netherlands to Romania and Ukraine who is serving as the chairman of the International Commission (IC) for the second time. The ITS spoke with Wolthers regarding the role of the IC, the future of the ITS, and what role the...learn more
The Greek historians Stratos Dordanas and Vaios Kalogrias visited the International Tracing Service (ITS) together to research Nazi concentration camps in Greece. They found a lot of material they were not expecting.learn more
Over a period of three days, fifteen researchers from Germany and Austria acquainted themselves with the ITS archive. The students and doctoral candidates will use the results of their research for their master's and doctor's theses. The workshop, which took place from October 10 to 12, 2017, was organized by the...learn more
Shoshana Berman survived two dictators: Hitler and Stalin. Now the 83-year-old Israeli would like to record her life story in an autobiography and is therefore carrying out research in several archives. When she visited the Documenta art exhibition in Kassel recently, she took advantage of the opportunity to stop by at...learn more


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Book Review: Fitz
Fitz by Mick Cochrane. November 2012. 9780375956836. Gr. 9-12
Fitz by Mick Cochrane was one of many teen fiction ARCs stacked on my desk at the end of 2012 that I was wading through, and I might have passed it by if I hadn't opened the book to the first sentence. It said, "On a cool morning in late May, Fitz is standing in the alley behind his father's apartment in St. Paul." Most readers probably wonder about Fitz's relationship to his father when they read that, but my attention was drawn to the mention of St. Paul. A quick scan down the page revealed—with mention of "Summit Hill District" and "F. Scott Fitzgerald"–that it was, in fact, St. Paul, Minnesota, and I had to read the book. After all, I lived in St. Paul for several years, and I love the Summit Hill District. Though I had to laugh at Fitz's opinion of the neighborhood: "It's full of yuppies." I don't know if I agree with that, but I can imagine a 15 year-old boy thinking that.
For those without a personal connection to the setting, it doesn't take long before the big reveal that will have you on the edge of your seat for the duration of the novel. Fitz is waiting outside his father's apartment with a gun. ". . . he's carrying a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver in the waistband of his jeans and a gutful of confusion, a lifetime's resentment in his heart. A gnawing hunger for a father he's never known." This is in the first five pages of the book. In the next hundred and seventy pages, we follow Fitz and his father all around the city as they spend a day getting to know each other with a gun between them.
It's a fast moving story that will likely have appeal to some of your more reluctant readers. It is also a thoughtful look at a boy desperate enough for his father's attention that he is willing to threaten him with a gun. As Fitz's father tells his story, we see that there are no easy answers. This short novel is both suspenseful and poignant. Highly recommended for a complex look at divorce and father-son relationships.


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Thursday, December 8, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Greene Art Gallery, 29 Whitfield Street, Guilford. Poets and lovers of poetry, join the Guilford Poets Guild for its annual Holiday Roundtable, this year featuring memorized poems. Attendees are invited to recite a poem from memory — either your own poem or one written by someone else.
Please bring a favorite children's book, new or very gently used, to be donated to the Branford Community Dining Room. (You may also choose to read from your book instead of sharing a poem.) The reading is free and open to the public. Refreshments are served. For more information email@example.com, 203-453-5213.


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Two of the biggest names in the online payment sector are Stripe and PayPal.
Despite the fact that Stripe and PayPal are actually going after pretty different business demographics, the two brands dominate much of the online conversation.
(For those who are interested, Stripe goes after developers and techier business owners, whereas PayPal is built for smaller businesses, simple integration and, ultimately, for ease of use.)
In this article, I'll run each option through a few different test categories to pick apart where their strengths and weaknesses lie.
By the end, you should hopefully have a better grasp on what each processor has to offer and which, if either, is best for you and your business. Let's get started.
What does it do?
PayPal and Stripe are both payment processors, which basically means they allow merchants to accept payment from their customers.
Here's how each company describes their product.
Whether you're looking for a payment gateway or want to add PayPal as an additional and more secure payment method on your website, we can help you get set up.
Stripe is the best software platform for running an internet business. We handle billions of dollars every year for forward-thinking businesses around the world.
Now, with PayPal it can be a little unclear as to what we're talking about. For simplicity's sake, we're dealing exclusively with PayPal's Payments Pro package.
PayPal does offer a cheaper service called Payments Standard but it's pretty underpowered and it'd be unfair to put it up against super techy Stripe.
Is it easy to use?
When a payment processor does a good job, you don't even notice that it's there. So, how easy to use are our two payment processors?
PayPal is incredibly easy to use. I mean, its whole business is built on providing a simpler way to get paid online. It's probably the simplest payment processor to integrate into a website and is well within the remit of even severely un-technical business owners.
Stripe, on the other hand, was designed and built to appeal to developers. As a result, it's a little bit techier.
It's not as easy to use and if you're looking for a super simple plug-and-play payment processor, it's probably not a great option. In fairness, though, that's not what it's trying to be.
How flexible is it?
For the vast majority of us, we won't need a flexible payment processor. Most of us are running normal businesses with normal payment structures.
However, if you want to do something a little more unusual, you'll need a payment processor that's both flexible and functional.
Right from day one, Stripe has carved out a reputation as a super flexible service. Its API is one of (if not the) best in the industry and it's driving the industry standard upwards.
Stripes API is super simple, super clean, super well documented and super easy to use. There's comprehensive libraries available in Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, Node.js and a handful of other programming languages, meaning that you can use Stripe in virtually all web projects.
Stripe's API was built from the ground up for developers and it really pays dividends in highly technical projects.
Any company dealing with money has to take security incredibly seriously and these two are no different.
The good news is that both Stripe and PayPal are robust, stable and secure platforms. Both will allow you to power eCommerce businesses and accept other online payments with complete peace of mind.
However, there are some differences in how they approach security. Let's have a look at how each service deals with the issue of security.
Stripe was pretty innovative from the get-go, releasing a brilliant bit of kit called Stripe.js.
When a merchant uses Stripe.js on a website, a user's payment details are never sent to your own server. Instead, all sensitive data is sent directly to Stripe.
This shifts a huge amount of responsibility from you to Stripe. With Stripe.js you don't have to worry about PCI compliance and data security because you're not actually storing it.
PayPal does offer something similar to this but payment information has to come through your website first, which means you take on a lot of the data security burden.
In summary, Stripe.js encourages good developer security practices, while PayPal gives developers room to make bad decisions. They've recently taken steps to provide better options, but these options still aren't as secure as Stripe.js.
How much does it cost?
Functionality, support, flexibility and security are great but if a payment processor is charging exorbitant fees, it can eat away at your bottom line.
Here's how the two services charge users for their service.
|PayPal Pro
|Monthly Fees
|Transaction Fees
|1.4% + 20p
|1.9% + 20p
|Example £10 Transaction
|Example £100 Transaction
As you can see, Stripe comes out the clear winner, boasting processing fees 23 percent lower than PayPal in our £100 mock transaction. It's also worth noting that both services have volume related pricing. In other words, the more you process, the cheaper your processing fees get.
Our comparison uses the top tier pricing, which gives each service the best chance possible. Unfortunately, for smaller merchants with a lower monthly turnover, PayPal is even more expensive.
If it's a question of money, Stripe comes out well on top.
Final verdict
We're almost at the end of the article so it must be about time for a conclusion, right?
Well, unfortunately not.
All businesses have unique payment processing demands, unique payment method breakdowns, unique business models and unique in-house skillsets. With so much variation between businesses, it's impossible for me to say, with any sort of confidence, that Stripe is better than PayPal or PayPal is better than Stripe.
However, with the information above, you should be able to judge which is the better fit for your business.
Also, it's worth remembering that neither Stripe nor PayPal is the cheapest payment processor. To discover the cheapest payment processing option, check out our blog post here.


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Titles to make a good, all-around solid VB game collection with:
Wario Land -- Decent side-scrolling adventure starring Wario.
Panic Bomber -- Classic, fun puzzle game.
Golf -- Great golf sim.
Tennis -- It probably came with your VB.
Mario Clash -- Old-school entertaining Mario pipe game.
Nester's Funky Bowling -- Bowling is really fun.
Vertical Force -- The best VB Shooter out there.
Pick up these titles if you're a collector:
Waterworld -- It sucks, but is very rare.
Any Japanese Language Game -- Foreign.
You'll like these games if you like the genre:
Tetris 3-D -- Tetris with a twist.
Virtual League Baseball -- The only VB baseball game.
Galactic Pinball -- It's pinball.
Red Alarm -- You like it, or you don't.
TeleRoboxer -- If you like PunchOut, you'll like this.


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Michael's work with organisations offering business services, during 2012 and earlier. For more recent projects, see Recent Client Projects.
- Veterinary Services Organization (New Zealand, 2012) … Engagement with vets and other professional staff for co-discovery of opportunities for a new Intranet and collaboration platform.
- Project Management Organization (New Zealand, 2012) … Advice on an approach to engagement and user adoption for a new suite of collaboration tools from IBM, including Connections, Sametime, and FileNet.
- Professional Services Organization (Global, 2012) … Presentation of a workshop on user adoption, and facilitation of a discussion on collaboration strategy and developing an approach to user adoption for a new SharePoint-based team collaboration application.
- Professional Services Organization (New Zealand, 2011) … Engagement with lead business users and managers for co-discovery of business requirements for a new Intranet and collaboration platform.
- Risk Management Firm (Norway, 2010) … Facilitation of capability development in the area of user adoption strategies for new collaboration tools and approaches, along with drafting the initial strategy.
- Insurance Firm (United States, 2008) … Input into collaboration and governance strategy.
- Professional Services Firm (London, 2007) … Provided input into the collaboration strategy and decision approach when selecting a new collaboration technology platform. The client was comparing and contrasting an IBM infrastructure with a Microsoft one.
- Strategy Consulting Firm (New York, 2007) … Development of scenarios for new ways of working, as input into the collaboration strategy.
- Legal Services Firm (United States, 2005-2012) … Strategy review and input for collaboration and document management services.


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Celebrate With Us: Dessalines Day
Often referred to as the father of Haiti, Jean-Jacques Dessalines is honored every year on October 17th, the anniversary of his death. Born on a plantation near Port-au-Prince, Dessalines joined the country's struggle for independence in 1791, and played a key role in the success of the Haitian Revolution – the first successful slave revolt in the history of the world. He became a general, and later declared himself Emperor Jacques I, and ruled autocratically until his death by assassination.
It was Dessalines who renamed the country Haiti. Ultimately, Haitians celebrate this day as a day against slavery and colonialism, and are proud that their country was the first republic to be governed by people of African descent. Dessalines' death anniversary is widely celebrated throughout the country with parades and parties, as well as historic reenactments of his life, and other patriotic activities. In spite of his brief totalitarian rule, the Haitian people still celebrate their hero's death as a man who liberated them from slavery and gave them their freedom.Read other posts
"Great Haitian atmosphere"
We really enjoyed this property. The staff was very friendly and even went out of their way to accommodate us, by letting us check in early after flying all night. The atmosphere was very laid back just as most Haitians are.
– Gregory C
"Highly Recommended"
A very pleasant atmosphere and helpful staff greeted me upon arrival. Vladimir, who quickly handled my special requests, was especially helpful. I would definitely stay here again and would recommend this hotel for all travelers, whether on business or vacation.
– Matthew W
"PG from Florida"
I really enjoyed the family atmosphere at Leplaza hotel . Every single staff was very nice courteous, helpful , professional from the security guards to the receptionists , the staffs at the bar and restaurant . I had the greatest times of my life because everyone make feels at home especially at the reception and the bar- restaurant . I strongly recommend Leplaza Hotel . My rooms were nicely cleaned daily . I want to go back soon because they made me feel special . I want to thank all the staff about their warm welcome .
– PPGedeon
"Great Stay"
Great experience. All the staff was very helpful and the rooms were very clean. Vladimir and James were very supportive and helpful as well. The front desk and restaurant was high class. We will definitely be back.
– Tyler S
Located off the central town square it has good security and is the obvious expat place to stay. Nice garden breakfast area near a well received pool. Tranquil after the huddle and bustle outside. Rooms are clean, beds are very comfortable and the hot showers a blessing.
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Alumni Answers: Should I get an engineering license?
Dear Michael,
Did you obtain engineering license, and if so, did you find it necessary? Did you join any engineering clubs? (Maurice)
Michael H. (BS Physics, 2015), Research Engineer at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories
The specific field of engineering you decide to pursue will play a significant role in determining whether professional licensure is necessary or even useful. I will admit up front that I am a fairly green professional, and that any more senior advisory panel member who says differently from me should probably be given more credence; but as I understand it, an engineering license is only required if you wish to be the "final authority" to sign and certify the design and plans for any project funded for the use of the public – buildings and bridges, for instance. For this reason, civil engineers are usually the ones who find it useful to hold an engineering license. (You can still work as a civil engineer without holding an engineering license, you just can't be the final authority to sign off on any plans that fall into the "for public use/benefit" category. I do not completely understand the delineation for "public use," but it is not just as simple as "will a lot of people use it." I expect that further investigation beyond that which I can provide will be helpful here.)


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The growth of synthetic identity fraud shows few signs of slowing. Data breaches, social media mining, phishing and other schemes have given fraudsters easy access to the consumer data used to build synthetic, or false, IDs. But there are good solutions out there to help organizations to fight back against synthetic ID fraud. These solutions detect and monitor behavioral patterns early in the process to prevent or mitigate extensive losses. Effective fraud-detection solutions must be robust enough to handle both increasing volumes of pertinent data and savvy criminals.
One example of how pervasive synthetic ID fraud can be is a scam prosecuted by the FBI in 2013 in which fraudsters created more than 7,000 fake IDs and stole more than $200 million. And that is hardly the last time this type of scam has been used.
The scheme involved a three-step process in which the defendants would:
- Make up a false identity by creating fraudulent identification documents and fraudulent credit profiles.
- Pump up the credit of the false identity by providing false information about that identity's creditworthiness.
- Run up large loans using the false identity. The higher the fraudulent credit score, the larger the loans that the defendants could obtain. These loans were never repaid, and the conspirators reaped the profits.
Take a look at this animated infographic to learn more about how these types of scams work and how to prevent against them.
The post Synthetic ID Fraud Is Not a Fictional Threat appeared first on Insights.


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- New Polls Show Hillary Clinton Leading In Most Key States
Don't freak out just get out and vote early and get everyone you know out to vote especially in Florida, NC, and VA!!!
- FBI Director James Comey defied Attorney General with Email Announcement
Even Trump Supporter Fox News Jeanine Pirro Defends Hillary Clinton Over FBI Announcement!!!
- Right-Wing Alternate Reality Collapses – Obama Approval Rating Hits 56% In Fox Poll
77% of Americans believe Trump NOT a role model for children. I suppose (I don't know but many people are saying) the other 33% are Trump's deplorables.
Dopey Don Interrupted Clinton 51 times. An incoherent babbling fool.
- Explosive Audio Surfaces Of GOP Senator Joking About Gun Owners Shooting Clinton!!
Don't BOO, Vote Now!!!
- Former Arizona Governor Dismisses Hispanics: 'They Don't Vote'
We'll see about that!!
- Its Over!!
It's Time To Dump Donald Trump!
- Where are my Tic Tacs?
- Trump's Debate Performance a Catastrophe! Total Loser for Third Time
He acted like your drunken Uncle
- Conservative Texas Newspaper Destroys Myth That Hillary Clinton Is The Lesser Of Two Evils!
"She is not, as has been sold, a mere lesser of two evils. Her experience and intellect would make her a standout in any group of candidates. Like President Obama said and didn't need to be fact-checked, she's more qualified than him or her husband."


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I have been most neglectful of this blog. I have no reasonable excuse. Suffice to say, I've been very busy with work, and am reconfiguring a little bit of what I do, and when. Now, you might think that's awful to say, but you will completely forgive me when I do the PS: to the reasoning ... Peri. He's spending much time with us, and I simply am compelled to spend as much time as possible with him. He is doing marvelous, just marvelous!
I'll do a really quick rundown for you, and add that I do plan on being a better blogger in the days ahead.
Working from newest, to oldest, things have rolled like this...
Here, we have chosen some new appliances for this happy vegan. Things to make my life (hopefully) much easier in the kitchen. And, if we don't stay here, it will make things that much easier for the next happy vegan who comes into the kitchen. I've chosen a professional baker's oven. It's gorgeous. I confessed to you long ago that I got super excited when I saw the slop sink nozzle of my dreams, you can only imagine what went on when my new oven was picked out. I have worked up numerous new recipes over the last couple of months, some epic fails (what else is new...) and some really great additions (Matcha Green Tea Biscotti with chia and almonds anyone?) to the product line. I'm getting a little burned out in the kitchen, and am optimistic that the new appliances will help streamline production and organization.
Peri is an everyday love affair. He is really back to his old self, but of course the big missing part of his life is that he no longer is patrolling territory outdoors. He does get regular outside time on a tether, and he's doing well enough now that upon request from guests, we will let him onto our screened veranda for visits. He relishes that time, although often enough he will race to the back screen door, plunk himself down and howl to get out. He has taken to sleeping on my head (oh my goodness, I had a cat named Amethyst that used to be my "bed hat" and since she's gone no one has done that. Over the last week, Peri has been channeling Amethyst). My sleep is beyond poor lately. Peri is not light-footed at night, and when he arrives onto my pillow, it's quite the production on his part--without fail interrupting any sleep I may have been catching, and ruining me for at least another 2 hours. We are so happy that Peri is happy, stable (he's packing on the pounds in a good way!) and able to spend time with us here at Deer Run. His people parents are very sweet that way; I absolutely am crestfallen whenever he's not around.
I got out on the water yesterday for the first time in longer than I can remember. I put up a photo album on our Facebook page, please go visit the photos. It was so beautiful yesterday. We came upon roseate spoonbills on the flats, always such an unexpected treat.
Our issues with the County are not resolved. There are indications that they are willing to make the concessions we have indicated we expect at this point, however until I have what I want in hand then nothing is resolved. And, for that reason I feel like I remain in a mini-limbo. I have finalized many issues for other options, and you all should know that no matter what happens, we are committed to being activists and good stewards local.
Speaking of activism... we did participate in the March Against Monsanto this past weekend; did you? We joined in the March up in Marathon. There was a really good turnout, and I met some really awesome new people. We marched from the Community Park to the 7 Mile Bridge in sweltering heat (but don't worry, we're hearty folks and heat is nothing compared to the risks associated with not protesting...) I am not looking to take away your Fritos or Doritos. You may have them should you desire. I am, however, all about labeling foods that are genetically modified. Presently, there are much stricter labeling requirements on ME for the products I sell as opposed to the ingredients offered to me (I buy only organic because I cannot trust that GM foods are labeled as such. Currently labeling of GM foods are voluntary only, and never in my life have I seen ANY product or ingredients with a GM label... have YOU?)
We have fawns in our herd now. When a fawn appears, everything stops in my house. I drop whatever I'm doing and rush out with my camera. I have no regrets about that.
Another thing I've been devoting much more time to is the organization Save-A-Turtle of the Florida Keys. The other happy vegan has recently become Acting President. There's been a lot of behind the scenes work we're doing to get things organized the way we want, and just work in general associated with that position. I'm doing my best to support his efforts, I type things, do computer-y stuff (please check out the SAT Facebook page!) and in general do the best I can for whatever needs to be done. Although we don't yet have any turtle nests on our beach, there are indeed several nests through the Keys now. No hatches yet.... the hatchlings will arrive in about 5 weeks give or take. Believe me, you'll know! So, last Monday the 2 of us headed down to Key West to be guests on the "Key West This Week" podcast talking all about Save-A-Turtle and turtles in the Keys. It was an awful rainstorm on the way home, but afterwards we chased the biggest rainbow I've seen in years all the way home (you saw it if you're on our Facebook page).
I think I'll end this little ditty about here. I will put up some photos for you on the next post, just to catch you up. Thanks for your patience with me. Paradise is a great place to live and work, but finding that perfect balance will probably always be challenging for me. I won't fail you, I promise!


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text: CP is used with verbs like "say", which can be used in a quotation or paraphrase: +-------------------CP---------------------+ | +-------Xd--------+ | | +---S---+-Xc-+ | | | | | ///// The President is busy , the spokesman said ///// Verbs that can take quotational complements of this kind have "CP-", directly disjoined with their other complement connectors. The verb must connect to commas on either side (or to the right- hand wall); see "Xc". say: (S- or I-...) & (O+ or Ce+ or TH+ or (Xd- & Xc+ & CP-)); Verbs that can be used this way can usually also be placed elsewhere in the sentence - either after an opener (ex. 1), or after the subject phrase (ex. 2). In the first case, they use COq; in the second case, they use Eq. +-------------S---------------+ | +-Eq--+ | | | 1. The President , the spokesman said , is busy +---------------------CO--------------------+ | +-----COq----+ | | | 2. At the moment , the spokesman said , the President is busy Verbs such as "say" therefore have the following: (S- or I-) & (O+ ... or (Xd- & Xc+ & (CP- or Eq+ or COq-))); The category of verbs that can take quotations like this cuts across other verb categories. For that reason, it seemed simpler to designate new dictionary entries for quotation-taking verbs; these entries have only the complement connectors used in quotation (CP, Eq, and COq). Such entries are subscripted with ".q" ("say.q", etc.). Quotation complement connectors - Eq, CP, and COq - are all domain-starting. The structures created in such sentences are rather unusual, however. With domains, the usual principle is to have embedded clauses nested inside the domains of main clauses. In cases of quotation, it would seem (semantically anyway) that the quoting verb (e.g. "say") is the main clause, and the quotation itself is dependent on it. Therefore, we make the quoting expression start a domain which includes the quoted expression. In the case of Eq and COq, these links are simply made domain-starting links. In the case of CP, the "Wd" connector on the wall already starts a domain which only includes the quoted statement. CP is then made to start an "urfl" domain (of type 'd'), which includes both the quoted statement and the quoting statement. +-------------------CP(d)------------------+ | +-------Xd(d)-----+ +-S(d(m))-+ | +--S(d)-+Xc(d)+ | | | | | | ///// The President is busy , the spokesman said ///// CPi is used with verbs taking paraphrase statements which also require "filler-it" as subject: "The President is busy, it seems". See "SF: filler-it".Grammar Documentation Page.


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text: The Metropolitan Museum is an unparalleled venue for your company's special event. A branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters opened in 1938 and is located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan. Perched on a towering cliff, the museum offers stunning views of the Hudson River with views of New Jersey and the George Washington Bridge. This venue is ideal for a corporate reception and dinner and has a capacity of 100–400 guests. We can help you plan a flawless event at this beautiful medieval art museum that everyone will remember.


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Google Refine is another open source project from Google that deserves attention -- quite a lot of it. This is a great tool for cleaning messy data sets and for performing advanced operations on your data, such as transformation from one format to another or data augmentation.
Google Refine is a new tool from Google you will love, if you need to work with data sets. Sure, there are many programs to work with data sets -- even Microsoft Excel or Open Office Calc can do lots of tricks for you and make your data crunching lives easier but if you have a really messy set of data, full of all sorts of inconsistencies, then Excel and Calc will waste you lots of time (it could be days or weeks, if the data set is huge) till you get your data in usable shape.
Of course, Microsoft Excel and Open Office Calc aren't meant to be professional data tools and you can't expect from them miracles in handling your data. But what to do when you have GBs of data and you need to clean it, preferably as soon as possible? Turn to Google Refine, of course!
Freebase Gridworks Grew Into Google Refine
The concept behind Google Refine isn't new. In fact, even (lots of) the code and the implementation aren't new because Google Refine is the reincarnation of Freebase Gridworks. Google bought the open source Freebase Gridworks in July and just a few months later, the first Google-branded version of the software is out for grabs. Google Refine started right as version 2.0 and the source, as well as binary downloads for many platforms, can be obtained from here.
The Sky Is the Limit for Data Operations with Google Refine
For everybody, who has dealt with raw data messes, Google Refine is just a blessing. The screencasts explain marvelously some of the common operations you can perform with Google Refine. Cleaning messy data is just one function you will like; data transformation (from one format into another) and data augmentation are two other groups of features you will appreciate in Google Refine.
Google Refine is definitely a very advanced tool but it is easy to use and even non-techies could use it to perform complex data manipulation tasks. There is Undo for all operations, so you can quickly get brave.
Some of the other nice features in Google Refine 2.0 are that you can use it to extend your current data set with data from external sources, such as Web services, and your data will still be intact after all these operations.
You can also link records from Google Refine to external databases, for instance Freebase. All these nice features make Google Refine a very useful tool for everybody, who has any operations with data sets on the agenda.


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I want to start by wishing all the wonderful mother's that read my blog a very Happy Mother's day! It will be quiet here.... with the excitement of the hockey game last night (Montreal won) I had lots of trouble falling asleep... I started making list again... and then thought of work... and then got up to take a pill to calm my head and finally got some sleep. But with that being said I'm pretty tired.
My hubby will be installing my new air purification system in our bedroom! Hopefully this will help with my allergies that I totally didn't help by bringing little Leo home with us... but he's so sweet and such a joy to be around that I really want this to work.
Anyway I'm here to share with you a little ICAD (supposed to be index card a day) but I do them just whenever now. They are really fun I discovered them via the FB group of International Crafters - Those ladies show the very best tutorials all the time and they are so kind and helpful! Love love love that group. You really should join in the fun and learn a bunch of new tips cheap too!!!!
Anyway because of them I finally pulled out my Gelli Plate and played with it to make some papers for pocket letters and since I still had some paint I made a few ICAD backgrounds. I thought the colors for this would be perfect with this image that was a freebie from Simply Betty in her FB group that's another group that you don't want to miss out being part of.... so fun! And the challenge with this freebie was Lavender, Black and White. So I think I did pretty good.
I'm entering this little ICAD in the Freebie challenge over at Simply Betty FB group And I will also enter in Left of center challenges Where the challenge is to bling it up well I did put some but this is more LOC....
Hugs and have a great Sunday
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Happy Mother's day to all mother's out there!
Posted by Crafting Vicky at 8:45 AM
Labels: A gal with Brains , Simply Betty
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Happy Mother's Day to you Vicky! Hope you had a good one and that you had a good rest. Also hear you on the allergies...crossing fingers it helps you. <3 Very cute index !ReplyDelete
Thanks for the tip about International Crafters - must have a look...! Already am a Simply B member - so I too have had a go with this image - brilliant isn't it! Thanks for sharing your make with LOC!ReplyDelete
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How to promote a high-tech feature through a dated medium?
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The Volvo V40 comes standard with City Safety, an automatic braking system. Volvo wanted to promote their V40 and highlight its special feature in an outdoor campaign.
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We took an outdoor mobile poster and equipped it with an automatic braking system. Introducing: the Volvo Automatic Braking Billboard. A mobile poster, that brakes automatically when the V40 is about to hit the edge.
And this was the result.
What appeared to be a normal poster for the Volvo V40, has one special feature. When the poster starts moving and the car is about to hit the edge, it brakes automatically. After a couple of seconds it rolls back to its original position. This way, our Automatic Braking Billboards were real eye-stoppers in the busy city center of Brussels.
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Concept Jasper Verleije & Sarah Huysmans
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The Backstory: Omar Kashoura at his studio
Over the summer I've been meeting up with designers who presented, in my view, a really exceptional collection during the London Collections: Men weekend in June, to find out the story behind the collection, and the mind that created it.
Omar Kashoura is a designer whose work I've admired for some time, as a creator of genuinely elegant clothing for men. Attending one of his presentations for the first time was a definite highlight of the Collections for me, and I'm really thrilled to be including him in this series of conversations.
Omar Kashoura, desert colours for Dharma Bums
When it comes to fashion, I do love a story. A narrative that draws everything together and sets both a tone for viewing the clothes as well as a sense of when and how they should be worn. And Omar Kashoura is one of the best fashion storytellers out there. Continuing his exploration of The Beats, Kashoura's setting this time was Black Rock Desert and yesterday he got all the details right in a collection full of the dramatic colours of the desert: from the evocative, hand written invite on monogrammed notepaper stating simply "Meet me at Christopher's at 10:00 Hours", to the scent of burning, fragrant wood at the show itself. It was a supremely elegant collection: recognisably Kashoura but moving the story forward in the same manner as a gifted writer might. As a self … Read More »


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The best supervillains have themes that are both seductive and deadly at the same time so your victims come to you and are willingly drawn in before meeting their doom.
Since your theme also dictates what kinds of crimes and schemes you commit, it's good to pick a theme that will offer a wide range of possibilities, like if you go with a water theme you might steal a dam or you could fill the city hall building with squid. With a plant theme you can cover all of your bases and still have plenty of room for growth and new possibilities. Plants are ancient and mysterious, and as with most things in nature: the more colorful and beautiful something is, the more lethal their poison.
If you're looking for a good place to start your career as a seductive supervillain, this Women's Lethal Beauty Costume will put you on the right path for plant-based crime. The green and gold accented dress and adjustable skirt features leafy vine-like trim to signify your intimate connection with nature. The leafy motif continues with the included tan leaf-printed tights and leaf lined green glovelettes and shoe covers, while the flowery femme fatale style is completed with a green leaf mask to keep an air of mystery about you. This complete costume is a great choice for any group superhero or supervillain costume! Your victims will fall at your feet when you cast your shadow over them, so be gentle with whichever poor superheros try to stop you!