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The MICE – (Meetings, Incentives, Conference, Exhibitions) West Africa Accra Ghana 2017 Forum & Expo. MICE –West Africa Ghana is a global platform to share experience, learning & innovations in entrepreneurship & exploring the global opportunities. MICE is the World's largest entrepreneurship conference specially focused on global business scenario, emerging startups, women entrepreneurship, youth entrepreneurship, global brand creation ,innovations in entrepreneurship & many more interactive sessions by renowned top leading industrialists, global business leaders, policy makers, entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, chairmen, CEOs & MDs of reputed organizations across the globe will gather and share their experiences.
MICE-West Africa Forum and Expo trade show focused on networking between buyers and sellers of the MICE industry. Thousands of event organisers and travel professionals will be present to see over seven presentations at the complimentary conferences and workshops. MICE 2017 provides a platform for you to network with the key decision makers in the industry and develop your business. Entrepreneurial globalization through bridging the gap of entrepreneurs & global network. Gathering of leading High-profile Professionals, businessmen, decision makers, government policy makers & professors to share their experience, learn & exchange ideas, achievements & success.
Before attending the MICE-West Africa, please discuss your own training needs with your line manager especially those skills and capabilities which will be covered at the workshop where you can improve and have most impact. The discussion will surely give you an idea on where to put your 'special' attention during the Conference.
We welcomed more than 1,000 attendees. It is a key event for anyone involved in organising, running, marketing or selling events. Visitors range from exhibition organisers, meeting planners, incentive house agency, party/networking planners, meetings and event associations and tour, travel and destination agencies. They represent a range of companies heavily involved and devoted to support the events industry.
Following the growth of the East Africa MICE industry and the success of the MICE International Forum & Expo 2016, Royal Panford is proud to present MICE from Novermber, 2016. MICE –West Africa Accra Ghana Forum and Expo 2016 is the ideal opportunity for your organisation to get involved in Africa's booming MICE industry.
MICE West Africa Ghana, Travel Your World is one stop solution for your Meetings, Incentives, Conference and Exhibitions.
MICE has been contribution to national development by improving managerial skills and professionalism in virtually all industries.\
The MICE program is designed for Destination Management Companies (DMC) and Airlines, Conference Facility Vendors, Conference Hotels and Resorts, Financial Institutions, Associations and Regional Convention Offers, MICE Business Executives and Professionals, PEO, PCOs, Hosted Buyers, Marketing and PR Agencies, Corporate Travel, Event Organisers, Suppliers and Planners, Travel and Incentive Invocations, Government Support Authorities, Logistics and Catering Firms, Senior Managers in positions where it no longer suffices to be highly performing specialists. In an era of intense competition, globalization and corporate renewal, leaders are called to be more dynamic and innovative.
Managers are required to take a more holistic view of all aspects of their organisations in order to make best and informed decisions.
This four day Event is designed to empower you with greater insight to lead your organisation to growth and sustain it in a position of competitive advantage.
A Rich Event built on over 30 international and local case studies, exposes you to a variety of challenging business scenarios to enhance your decision-making abilities. In addition, role-plays and simulation games, workshops, socialization night, interaction with relevant social development groups, dance/drama performance by giving you the opportunity to test strategies you developing the course of the event.
Our Expert Personnel will introduce you to cutting-edge ideas and technology relevant to the Ghana West Africa environment. Their knowledge is always updated through research and consulting work carried out on actual business problems.
The strong Network of top-level executives from various industries enables you learn from different perspectives as you interact in and outside the Event.
Business Ethics is emphasized in all MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) Event with the aim of developing social responsible managers to lead sustainable development in Ghana, West Africa.
This comprehensive four day's program examines these trends following on the theory and practical of the participants. The program is designed to better enable professionals to initiate policy and administrative reforms to improve International and local businesses to simulate economic and social development. The MICE is designed to help experienced Managers refine their management skills and come up to date with the best practices. The event enables the participants take a more critical look at the work he has always done, with the aim of improving effectiveness and efficiency by:
Improving decision-making capacities
Fostering an entrepreneurial spirit
Increasing awareness of the ethical dimensions of business activities
Deepening understanding of team building, teamwork, and delegation
Fostering an integrated view of the business as a whole in relation to its main market and to the local and international economy.
MICE Event is uniquely designed initiative to link determined participants without standing potential with professional personnel with the rich experience necessary for influencing society and inspiring and empowering the younger generations.
This Event provides the theory and practical application for national and international companies and local businesses around the world with resource, mobilization and establishment of local systems. Through a series of lectures, workshops and computer applications, the program focuses on analyzing policy and administrative options related to development of tradeshow, travel and tourism within Africa.
- Description Route MICE is a global platform to share experience, learning & innovations in entrepreneurship & exploring the global opportunities. MICE is the World's largest entrepreneurship conference specially focused on global business scenario, emerging startups, women entrepreneurship, youth entrepreneurship, global brand creation, innovations in entrepreneurship & many more interactive sessions by renowned top leading industrialists, global business leaders, policy makers, entrepreneurs, investors, innovators, chairman, CEO & MD of reputed organisations across the globe will gather and share their experiences.
- Exhibitor Booth partnering allows your company to have pre scheduled face-to-face meetings where your company's thought leaders and brand is unified – in the MICE West Africa 2016 Forum & Expo. While delegates that register for Partnering can also have private meetings in the GLOBAL PARTNERING CEREMONY at MICE West Africa 2016 Forum & Expo, exhibitor booth partner meetings must take place in the MICE West Africa 2016 Forum & Expo, and the number of meetings you can host is determined by the size of your booth.
- To create a global platform for sharing of experiences, achievements, learning & innovative approach in the entrepreneurship that revolutionise the global economy.
- Global branding & Networking opportunities. Media Interactions exploring partners for sustain projects and funding & global expansion Global partnership;
- The MICE (Meetings, Incentives Travel Conferences and Exhibitions) will focus the moderated key note speeches on key issues & challenges for advancing entrepreneurship, including innovation-based techno-premiership. Successful journey as an entrepreneur-motivational experiences Bio-entrepreneurship, Healthcare entrepreneurship, Catalysing the youth entrepreneurship, Empowering the Women entrepreneurship, Building a global entrepreneurial ecosystem, Social entrepreneurship, Global entrepreneurship;
- Entrepreneurial globalization through bridging the gap of entrepreneurs & global network. MICE West Africa 2016 Forum & Expo highlights! Gathering of leading High-profile Professionals, businessmen, decision makers, government policy makers & professors to share their experience, learn & exchange ideas, achievements & success.
Present to representatives from the world's top companies. Catch their presentations too. Company Presentations are promoted on the MICE West Africa webpages, my MICE in printed promotional materials.
The issue of MICE is not the preserve of only one organisation or individuals. It requires a multidisciplinary approach to make an impact.


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Overview Edit
There are several forms of government with which you can rule your civilization, but none offers complete control. Under autocratic regimes your citizens readily support the military, but reduce your trade income through corruption. When granted representative government they are efficient and productive, but demonstrate against the use of military force by becoming unhappy. The standard forms of government are:
- Despotism. Lacking written words or laws, you rule simply through the force of personality -- whose effect decreases rapidly with distance from your capital, leading to heavy corruption.
- Monarchy. Written laws and uniform religion offer the monarch power enough to support an active military while keeping corruption from overwhelming trade.
- Communism. With science and industry come the tools to impose military control over the workers and implement a planned economy, while suffering only a slight but uniform level of corruption.
- Republic. The people respond to freedom with increased trade under this ancient form of government, but disapprove of military action.
- Democracy. Modern participatory government and free enterprise eliminate corruption, allowing trade and science to thrive -- but free citizens agitate most strongly against warfare.
You begin your career as a despot, with your cities suffering heavy corruption until you gain the technology to impose more effective government. You may change governments as often as you like, once a new kind is made available by the discovery of its similarly named technology, by selecting the appropriate option from the "Government > Change Government" menu. This plunges your empire into anarchy for one to five turns, after which you may select any available form of government. Most players race to achieve the republic and democracy so they can expand their cities through rapture and boost their science output with expanded trade. Monarchy and communism are popular choices for players embarking on extended military campaigns (as is fundamentalism in the civ2 ruleset).
The tribe which possesses the Statue of Liberty wonder can choose any government, including those that the tribe has not yet researched, and without the transition period of Anarchy. This is most useful if several revolutions are expected (i.e., the player prefers communism in war and democracy in peace). In order to build the Statue of Liberty, the Democracy technology must be researched. Democracy is significantly less expensive to research than Communism, so the Statue of Liberty is useful for gaining a communist government early.
Features of Governments Edit
Several properties should be noted in addition to those in the table:
- Under anarchy you lose control of the ratios that allocate trade, which cities spend entirely on luxuries for themselves.
- A democracy will revolt and plunge into anarchy if any city remains in disorder for two turns. This makes democracy dangerous for those not attentive to city happiness.
- Cities under democratic or communist rule produce partisans when taken from their original owner, if their owner knows communism and gunpowder and at least one player has discovered guerilla warfare.
- Diplomats and spies built by communist regimes get automatic veteran status.
- Diplomats and spies cannot subvert cities and units from democratic opponents
- Despotism has a -1 penalty whenever a tile produces more than 2 units of food/production/trade, except while celebrating. So irrigated grassland will have +2 food instead of +3 food.
- Under republic or democracy, celebrating cities size 3 or more with at least +1 food will increase their population each turn as long as the conditions are met.
The Capital and Civil War Edit
The city containing your palace is your capital. Should you build another palace elsewhere, its city becomes your capital and your old palace disappears. As the center of government, corruption is least in your capital and increases with distance from it. (But remember that communism produces the same corruption everywhere, and democracy simply eliminates it.) Under Despotism, the capital enjoys a 75% production bonus. Under Monarchy, a 50% production bonus. Other government types do not get a production bonus in the capital.
Should an enemy capture your capital, you will be given a new one in another city, but your empire could experience civil war. This risk increases with each city in disorder at the moment of capture, and decreases with each city that is celebrating. Civil war is catastrophic -- you lose as many as half your cities to a new computer-controlled opponent who takes with him all units and wonders owned by those cities, and also half your treasury. Civil war is not tidy -- the lost territory is likely to be randomly distributed throughout your empire. After one turn in the state of civil war (whose properties are similar to those of despotism), both you and the new opponent enter anarchy. Small civilizations of ten cities or less cannot suffer civil war, and under similar circumstances simply fall into anarchy instead.
Other governmentsEdit
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Weeks ago I was talking with a friend about procrastination.
Do you remember when you experienced procrastination in your life?
All of us experienced procrastination at least once in life.
Why do we go through it? Because there is a mechanism inside human beings that sometimes instead of choosing freedom, guides us to choose fear.
Freedom means air, clarity, confidence and self-esteem at all levels to live life to the fullest.
Fear means restrictions, to be stacked, unable to move, paralyzed.
We have all been in a situation where we think something from the outside blocks us. Still it is something from the outside generating something inside ourselves that begins the process. It can be a situation, it can be an emotional reaction, it can be something from the past, and it can really be many things.
It is difficult to take action, because we look for objections that come from our old beliefs and stop us convincing us that we are unable to move forward.
They are caused by FEAR: false evidence that appears to be real. False information coming from our subconscious mind based on old experiences that were imprinted, and are supposedly "trying to protect us". The subconscious mind is like a recorder. It cannot think reason or evaluate, it only replicates reactions according to the emotions we feel, that we felt in the past and left a print in our subconscious mind. Indeed our conscious mind has the power to think, evaluate, reason and choose. Once we are aware of this fact, we evolve understanding the lesson related to the experience and grow from it. At that moment we are able to move forward being conscious of who we are which are our skills and where we are aimed to arrive having the blueprint to walk through a plan and a strategy that will help us reach our goal. We are now able to take safe and secure decisions and be free from the past. This is evolution! Are you ready to evolve?Esther Coronel de Iberkleid "The Clarity Mentor" Life Changing Coach "My Journey toward YOUR success – The Magic Wand of Life" "Transforming YOUR Life from the first Session" http://about.me/EstherCoroneldeIberkleid http://xeeme.com/EstherCoroneldeIberkleid Cel: (591) 730 07479 Email: email@example.com La Paz – Bolivia
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Monday after the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Scripture: Nehemiah 1:1-11 (NKJV)
1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah.
It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the citadel, 2 that Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. 3 And they said to me, "The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire."
4 So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.
5 And I said: "I pray, LORD God of heaven, O great and awesome God, You who keep Your covenant and mercy with those who love You and observe Your commandments, 6 please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You. Both my father's house and I have sinned. 7 We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses. 8 Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, 'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations; 9 but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name.' 10 Now these are Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand. 11 O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man."
For I was the king's cupbearer.
The book of Nehemiah takes place during the restoration of Jerusalem, well after Cyrus' edict that allowed the Israelites to return to their homeland. Nehemiah was still in Persia, serving as the king's cupbearer. This position not only guarded the king's food and drink, but it allowed Nehemiah to become a trusted advisor. After learning through visitors of the deplorable conditions in Judah, Nehemiah was appalled and immediately interceded in prayer for God's help. He knew the importance that Judah held, not only for the Jewish nation, but for the fulfillment of prophecy. The prophets Micah and Zechariah had foretold the key roles that both Jerusalem and Bethlehem would play in the life of the Messiah to come.
We see that Nehemiah was first and foremost a faithful servant of God. Even though he held an important position next to the king, he was primarily concerned with God's mission for the nation of Israel and the Redeemer Who would come from God's chosen people.
In our world today we are no longer bound to a nation or a place, as the Kingdom of God is established where Christ is present in Word and Sacrament. "Jesus said to her, 'Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him'" (John 4:21-23).
Prayer: Dear God, regardless of what tasks we perform or positions we carry, help us always to remember our true calling is to serve You and Your Church; in Jesus Christ. Amen.


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Mental Floss takes us Reagan babies back with the history of the Trapper Keeper.
Mental Floss takes us Reagan babies back with the history of the Trapper Keeper.
Categories: 1: Featured Pop Culture
Tags: mental floss trapper keeper
"In the fall of 1981, second grader Mike Ryan"
Let's see, I was a junior in prep school. Missed out on getting original editions of Boy and October by this band called U2. "Too commercial."
Fucking idiot.
Effin' Trapper Keeper. I remember kids styling off their TKs and my Mom refused to get one because they were both pricey and the It Symbol of Conformity. South Park pretty much hit the nail on the head, though nobody quite bonded with their TK in that way (close, but no cigar).
Why do people keep filing Trapper Keeper under the 80s? It says right there they appeared in 1978, and I certainly wore out more than one while President Carter was still in charge!
They were expensive. I think I must have had one but I mucked-up my notebooks so quickly they were lost on me. The idea of starting a semester and being organized was appealing but it never worked out. I think those big blue jammies that you could draw on worked better for my sloppy ass.
Not only would my mother not buy me a TK, being a 'thrifty' Indian woman, she insisted we cover our school textbooks with paper shopping bags from Key Food...you can imagine how this went down at school. The things that stay with you from your youth..
I must be old. What's a trapper keeper? In 1981 I was hanging posters in record stores from the Valley to South Central LA, driving a 1966 Jeepster Commando I bought for $1500 (damn, I wish I still had that vehicle), and seeing music just about every night. Other times we would sit at a table for two days straight and think we solved the world's problems...


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NASCAR & Auto Racing
NASCAR should mandate SAFER barriers everywhere at all tracks
My two cents
It's easy to say NASCAR should mandate energy-absorbing SAFER barriers on every wall at every track on which its national series race.
It's not an easy task. There are legitimate financial concerns – it's an enormous investment, particularly for a track that hosts only one weekend of NASCAR activity a year.
Even so, NASCAR should mandate SAFER barriers everywhere.
Why? Because it's an easy solution to what is becoming an all-too-familiar problem – the sport's most valuable assets, the drivers, keep finding the unprotected walls in accidents.
It's not an easy fix, but it's better to be safe than sorry. And NASCAR's approach should follow that axiom.
SAFER barriers do not guarantee a driver won't get hurt, or even killed. But SAFER barriers will ensure less of the force of an impact will be transferred to the driver.
No one can tell if Kyle Busch's injuries would have been less severe – or eliminated altogether – if his Toyota had hit a SAFER barrier at Daytona International Speedway in Florida instead of a concrete wall.
We'd all like the chance to find out.
Better safe than sorry.
Vickers set for return: Just three months after having corrective heart surgery, Brian Vickers will make his first Cup series start of the season Sunday in Michael Waltrip Racing's No. 55 Toyota.
Vickers, who has battled clotting issues that have necessitated two heart surgeries, is scheduled to race the rest of the season. Waltrip drove the car in the season-opening Daytona 500 and Brett Moffitt finished eighth last weekend at Atlanta as the team's substitute driver.
"Overcoming problems like this is just what you have to do in life," Vickers said. "There's a lot of people battling things tougher than what I have battled."
Busch fill-ins named: Joe Gibbs Racing announced Denny Hamlin, Erik Jones and Boris Said will share fill-in duty for many of Kyle Busch's planned races in the Xfinity Series.
Hamlin will drive the No. 54 Toyota in five races, beginning this weekend at Las Vegas. Jones, a regular in the Truck series, will drive for the team in two additional races, bringing his season total to 19. His next race is to be March 14 at Phoenix.
And Said will drive for the team in seven races, with his first event to be the May 2 race at Talladega, Ala.
There is no timetable for Busch's return.
Smith remains in No. 41: Xfinity Series regular Regan Smith once again will drive Stewart-Haas Racing's No. 41 Chevrolet in this weekend's Cup race.
It will be the third consecutive race Smith has filled in for Kurt Busch, who remains indefinitely suspended by NASCAR for his involvement in a domestic violence matter.
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Kobalt Tools 400
Where: Las Vegas Motor Speedway
When: 3:30 p.m. Sunday
TV: Fox
Radio: Performance Racing Network
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Principle Animation Finished
Dec 24th, 2007 by admin
Animation on The Beast is done. Of course, surfacing, effects, rendering, compositing and editing need to be done, but that's somehow easier. When I started this project I didn't even know if I could animate.
4 Responses to "Principle Animation Finished"
Good news roland! show us something! i really enjoy watching your works. Congrats for doing all in blender! Saludos y felices fiestas!
on 24 Dec 2007 at 10:53 pm2Kanika Mishra
Good work. I am also an animator but I work in more traditional style at gesturegraphics.com. It will help if you let me know your views about myr work. Kanika from http://www.GestureGraphics.com Please visit the link below to see our work on ifreelance.com http://www.ifreelance.com/pro/33721
on 04 Jan 2008 at 6:48 pm3Fredster
Will this book be showing how to do an animation from beginnign to end? Did i understand correct? If yes then that's great!
That's what i actually wanted from the Essential Blender book, learning the basics and with the stuff that you're playing around you'll be adding step by step every in chapter and in the end you have gone through everything And you'd have a finished animation! Don't know if i got it too sound right now:)
on 10 Jan 2008 at 4:01 pm4CubOfJudahsLion
Looking forward to both film and book. Are we to expect something like "Inspired Animation" but Blender-specific? Because that would be truly, truly great for the community. Good luck!


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4 lbs. hamloaf mixture (70% ground ham and 30% ground pork)
1 1/3 c. bread crumbs (food processor works well)
3 eggs
3/4 tsp. dry mustard
1 c. milk
Mix all ingredients, form 1 1/2 inch balls and bake on a greased tray for 45
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3 c. brown sugar
1 tsp. ground mustard
1/2 c. white vinegar
2 c. water
Remove all lumps from brown sugar, add all ingredients, then pour over cooked
hamballs, frequently baste or have the glaze cover all of the hamballs, allow
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Sargent Nebraska
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400 N. 5th Street
P.O. Box 366
Sargent, NE 68874
308-527-4119; 308-527-3332 (Fax)
Sargent HS and Loup County HS have agreed to combine students for high school sports. The new name will be the Twin Loup Wolves. Team colors will be burgundy, black, and silver.
School Closing Information
Here are the television and radio stations to listen and watch for school closing information...
Television Stations:
NTV Channel 13 Kearney
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Channels 10-11 Lincoln/Grand Isand.
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As the winter season is upon us, it may be necessary on certain days to either close school, start school late, or close early due to inclement weather.
Due to the fact the district covers a considerable amount of square mileage, weather conditions might differ in different parts of the school district. The district's continued effort will be to provide for the safety of all students.
It is important, should both parents work or not be at home during regular school hours, that the student know where he or she can go should an early dismissal of school be necessary as weather conditions can change in a short period of time. It is possible that the buses may return some mornings after they arrive at school or be turned around during their route.
Due to severe weather conditions that may improve during the morning hours, school may begin later, rather than at 8:20 AM, and buses will run accordingly.
History of Sargent Public Schools
The first school was started in 1880 and the present school District #84 was created in 1884 with 25 students. By 1915, the enrollment was at 215 and by the 1940's, the students numbered 340 with 15 teachers. Currently, for 2010-2011 school year, the school has 169 students enrolled. In 1967 several smaller school districts consolidated with Sargent #84 and a complete bus schedule was added. The district currently covers nearly over 200 square miles.
Many Ways to Donate
Sargent Corner Market donates 1% of total receipts given by customers when you shop at SCM. You can find the box next to the check out counter during the months of Sept. 1st thru April. Just drop your receipt in the box... it's that easy!
Sargent Public School has participated in this program for quite awhile now but it's always good to remind everyone! Have your child or stop by the school main office to drop off clipped box tops education coupons! One can make a difference! Visit www.btfe.com for more information on which products carry this coupon.
Our school has joined the My Coke Rewards for Schools program. What does that mean? It means every time you enjoy a participating Coca-Cola product, you can donate the My Coke Rewards points to our school. The donations will help give our students things they need, like sports gear, creative supplies, books, classroom tools and more! For more info
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We are now accepting (CLEANED out) #1 and #2 ONLY plastic bottles. We are also accepting aluminum cans. Please bring them to the east entrance to the gym, or contact Jet Mankle to pick them up. This is being done as a KEEP NEBRASKA BEAUTIFUL program.
Adopt-A-Classroom invites the community into the classroom in support of teachers and their students. By adopting a classroom, donors form partnerships with specific classrooms providing financial and moral support. The result is a meaningful contribution to education in which donors experience the impact of their efforts and celebrate in a classroom's success.
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"With the current state of the economy it is tough to give the way we would like to. One way to help the school is to shop at businesses that give back to the school. We have several area businesses that donate to our programs and I encourage you to keep as much of your business local as you can! This helps our community and the district. But, if you are already doing some shopping at Target PLEASE look into their REDcard program."
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Overseers help create a sense of community and friendship in meetings.
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The local chapter of the National Technical Honor Society (NTHS) was established in 1985. As a national organization, NTHS has as its purpose:
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Awarded to a junior or senior majoring in Department of Human, Environmental, and Consumer Resources or any subsequent name the department might bear (ATM, HRM, IDE); cumulative 3.0 GPA and selection based upon scholarly performance and leadership potential.
Frances G. Sanderson Scholarship
Awarded to undergraduate in ATM, HRM, IDE programs who demonstrate leadership ability, motivation, and commitment along with scholastic performance. Financial need may be considered.
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Awarded to students with a declared major in Communications Technology; cumulative EMU GPA of 3.0 or better; financial need as determined by the School of Technology Studies.
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Awarded to both undergraduate (3.0 GPA) and graduate (3.5 GPA) student in the Construction Management program; preference given to juniors and seniors and to applicants with expressed interest in entrepreneurship within the construction industry. Applicant must provide (2) letters of recommendation from past or current employers, demonstrate professional promise and entrepreneurial ambition and submit a personal statement about goals in the construction industry.
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Available to graduates and undergraduate students who are majoring in Construction Management. For undergraduate students preference will be given to juniors and seniors with a 3.0 GPS or higher. Graduate students must have a 3.5 GPA or higher. Applicants must submit a personal statement about their goals in the construction industry and two letters of recommendation from current or prior employers.
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Awarded to the students who place first in the Junior Review process in the Interior Design program. No application required. Student is selected by the Interior Design committee.
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Support .NET Builds without requiring Visual Studio on the server
To build certain PCL libraries and libraries for Windows 8 RT requires having Visual Studio on the server.
Nick Berardi writes about a workaround that allows running a build server without VS, but it's really just a workaround for functionality that should be easy.
Not to mention there's probably licensing considerations we're just ignoring by doing that.
Please make it easy (and legal) to build .NET projects on a server without requiring a Visual Studio installation (or license) on that server.
Thank you for your feedback, and your overwhelming support for this feature.
To support the creation of more lightweight build servers, we now have made available Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools (https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2017-rc). This release allows you to build native and managed MSBuild-based projects without requiring the Visual Studio IDE. By default (that is without selecting any workload options) the Build Tools provides support for managed projects. You can also optionally install the Visual C++ compilers and libraries, MFC, ATL, and C++/CLI support.
While Visual Studio 2017 has not yet RTM'd, we're marking this User Voice suggestion as "Completed", and we will continue to update the Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools as we provide updates to Visual Studio 2017.
If you have additional capabilities that you would like to see included with the Visual Studio Build Tools, please create a new User Voice entry so that we can more easily track your feedback.
Thank you once again for your support for this request!
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irperez commented
I mentioned this to MSFT 5 years ago, and their official response was "As Designed"...
Craig Deubler commented
VS community edition is a great help with this, but it's still a huge unnecessary install.
Graham Bunce commented
@martin. No, the build environment should be as stripped bare as possible to make sure there is nothing on it, in the gac, etc that mean it can build in one environment but not another. "works on my machine" pseudo-certification should be avoided, and can be with a clean room build server, so +1 from me...
damianh commented
Can't believe this is still a thing in this day and age.
Søren Nielsen commented
And when you allow this, also allow for a way for Clickonce applications to change assembly name and productname, to allow for side by side installation of Test, CI and Production versions.
Sten Frostholm commented
I would very much like to see a special build server MSI installer - which shoud install only the necessary stuff required to build .NET Projects made from Visual Studio (without VS itself). Not only Windows 8 builds requires workarounds if VS is not installed
Here is a few examples we had to deal with at GN ReSound:
1) Put Microsoft unittesting dll's in NuGet packages - normally located in the GAC here:
2) Add another Visual Studio Web Publishing dll to source control (C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll).
Above is just examples, I'm sure many other task, build and test stuff is missing if VS is not installed on a build server.
3 votes from me
Camilo Martin commented
THIS! Here, see my frustration when trying to use Node.js on Windows: https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-gyp/issues/479
Jared Parsons commented
It would be great if the fix for this also fixed VSIX projects. So annoying for companies to have to go through problems like this
Martin Hinshelwood commented
Should I point out that there are no licencing considerations with this. You are free to install VS Ultimate on all of your build servers if your organisation owns even a single Ultimate licence. Your build server should reflect your development environment and not your production one... there is no compelling reason to invest in not requiring VS on the build server.
Kat Lim Ruiz commented
I agree, although the request should be stated differently.
The request should be: make Visual Studio, as an application, lighter, more portable and more self-contained (everything under one folder like Eclipse, or all the others).
And this would automatically drive the separation of interests between the tools, the IDE, and so on.
Additionally, when we install several VS versions it's ****!. All the DLLs, different folders, csproj associations, etc.
Stuart Williams commented
This would be extremely helpful.
Rudi Larno commented
Similar issue: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2035455-use-nuget-to-install-most-of-the-components
Plus more in the comments.
MotoWilliams commented
Also doing file system web publishing would be a must for a build server.
I've gotten it working with the following steps:
- Installing BuildTools_Full.exe
- NDP451-KB2861696-x86-x64-DevPack.exe
- Copying C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\Web\ from a VS Machine
- Copying C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\WebApplications\ from a VS Machine
But this should be a simple installer to go from a clean OS install to working build server. For the sake of the children of planet earth don't make this part of TFS.
Immo Landwerth [MSFT] commented
I completely agree. It's more than just PCLs, though. It's effectively all SDKs and 3rd party tools that extend the build process, such as Windows Installer XML (WIX). I'm not trying to say "this is no my problem" (in fact it's very much in my yard) but I think we need a more generalized approach, akin to package management.
Jason commented
++ Idea
matthewdeanmartin commented
Better yet, could this be a part of the RTM TFS. In certain large organizations you can't event get power tools or service packs on a TFS server, forget about Visual Studio.


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We have a girl scout in house and it's cookie season! My favorite is the Thin Mints, I try not to eat too many of them. I could eat a whole sleeve in one sitting and I used to. But I've been really good, maybe it's because there's such an abundance of them around here. I decided to make the kids some milkshakes for an after dinner treat the other day. These are simple and quick to make. They are also very yummy.
Any cookie can be used, different flavors of ice cream. Here are some great combinations:
Savannah Smiles- these lemony cookies would pair well with vanilla ice cream, or a raspberry sorbet shake. Drizzle the cups with raspberry syrup, top with raspberries and a sprig of mint.
Trefoils- my other favorite cookie are these shortbread cookies! The sky is the limit with these, but a simple vanilla ice cream with butter vanilla extract will let the cookie shine in this one. Or go for a butter pecan shake with ice cream, salted caramel, Trefoils, and pecans. Top with crushed Trefoils and pecans after you drizzle salted caramel in your glass.
Do-si-dos and Tagalongs- classic peanut butter flavor, one with chocolate the other without. A shake with chocolate ice cream, a scoop of peanut butter and either of these cookies blended up will please any peanut butter and chocolate fan for sure!
Samoas- For something a little different a tropical shake made from frozen bananas, coconut milk, a little sweetener, vanilla, and coconut flakes for the shake part of this would be yummy. If you want Samoa goodness throughout, omit the sweetener and throw a few cookies in the blender. Serve with Samoas on top of the shake, thread them through the straw for some cookie fun.
Two new cookies this year were the Girl Scout S'mores and the Toffee-Tastic. What kinds of shakes would you make with these?
Thin Mints MilkshakesChocolate ice cream
Vanilla ice cream
Thin Mints
Peppermint extract or essential oil
Vanilla extract
Optional add ins: coffee, or Irish Cream
Chocolate syrup
Crushed Thin Mints
- In a blender combine/blend all the ingredients for the milk shakes. Start with just a splash of milk. You can always add more if the shakes are too thick, but if they are too thin then you need more cookies and ice cream.
- Drizzle chocolate syrup around the sides of your glasses.
- Pour milkshake into the glasses.
- Top with crushed Thin Mints.
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I have listened to the weather forecast many times in my life, and I believe that they are correct some of the time. The rest of the time, well, they are just plain wrong. So why do we listen to them at all? Perhaps we are just looking for someone to give us their best guess. Maybe we want it to be sunny out, so we will look for someone to agree with us?
Sometimes investing is like listening to the local forecast. We know that it's just a guess, but we want to hear it anyway; kind of like reading your horoscope perhaps.
Well I'm no weatherman and I don't look to the stars for answers, but I did find these facts interesting:
Did you know that this year, the market has not closed below last year's ending balance on any day? That's right, every single day the market has been up this year as compared to where it ended last year. That's pretty amazing! But it doesn't end there.
Did you also know that both September AND October were up this year? In the past 30 years, that has only happened four other times. In other words, five years out of 30 (this year and the other four) both September and October were up, which works out to only 16.6 percent of the time.
So far in 2013, the bulls have been running around in the sunshine.
So what does this tell us about what may come in 2014? Given the bull market we are currently in, does that mean it will continue? And if it does continue, how long will the sun shine on your investments?
Those are really good questions to ask. And looking back into history might help provide some guidance.
Generally speaking, how the market performs in one year has no influence over what it will do the following year. If this year is up, next year is still a flip of the coin. If this year is down, next year is still a flip of the coin, as well. In other words, there is no correlation between market performances from one year to the next.
But there is a definite correlation between the last four times that September and October were both up. History shows that it tends to bode very poorly for the following year. The last time both September and October were up was, you guessed it, 2007. And how well did that work out for you in 2008?
Here's my point. Just because a bull market is running now does not mean that it will continue into next year. It might, or it might not. The more important question you should be asking yourself is simply this:
How well are you protected when this bull gets tired of running?
If you are like many people, you really don't know, unless you've had your portfolio risk tested or stress tested.
If you're not sure what that means or how that could be done, just give us a call and we'd be happy to go over it in more detail. Just like a good farmer, you should know how to take advantage of the weather, rain or shine.


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Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by doug, Jan 29, 2009.
I disapprove of their use of the semicolon.
Last I checked it is acceptable to use a semicolon in the separation of a compound complex list. I am pretty sure it is actually correct but your are right it looks funny. I think it should have been " ; and, ..." separating the two lists.
"The department also has received applications from Tesla Motors Inc., of San Carlos, California, which makes electric cars; and Alico Inc., in La Belle, Florida, and Irvine, California-based BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc., both of which are planning cellulosic ethanol plants."
You're supposed to use a semicolon to avoid confusion. Here's a good example I stole from
LEO: Semicolon and Colon
"I have recommended this student because she communicates well with other students, faculty, and staff; completes her assignments ably and on time; and demonstrates an ability to organize people, materials, and time."
The semicolon looks awkward here because there's a list of three things, but only one semicolon. It would be confusing to read the sentence without the semicolon, but that's only because the writer put too many commas! Why is there a comma after "Tesla Motors Inc." or "Alico Inc." ? They're not needed there. If the unnecessary commas weren't there, they probably could've used a semicolon without confusion.
The only reason a semicolon would be needed is because of that last part "both of which..." It refers to the last two companies, so the writer needed to split them up from the first one, Tesla.
It's not 100% clear what's "correct" here. Either way, the real problem is that this was just written badly.
I didn't say it was wrong, per se... just that I disapprove (and then in a feat of irony, I used one to make a wink :wink.
I don't like that the semicolon has evolved to be a "somewhat bigger comma."


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- Yarn Forward Summer 2008 Issue 6 (market research)
- Craft: 07 and 08 (lovingly sent by Mimi in Yakima)
- Knitting Rules by Stephanie Pearl McPhee (I need to laugh too sometimes)
- The Knitting Answer Book by Margaret Radcliffe (Knitting Tote-Sized for Emergency Reference)
- The Knitter's Handbook by Elenor Van Zandt (Yes, I am obsessed with reference materials. How did you know?)
The upside is that I now have a plethora of post fodder in reviews and such. In fact, there are only upsides: when I look at that stack next to my knitting bag, I know that I am home.


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What we have with this economic crisis is the perfect storm, which was described by Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, in the link above, as:
"There is not enough money. That may seem unfamiliar to people." [he told Sky News.] "But that's because this is the most serious financial crisis at least since the 1930s, if not ever."All of which makes our current situation potentially worse than the Great Depression. This is because; we still have a huge amount of debt in the system; we have nation states (like Greece) bust; we have bust banks; and all the economic levers, including record low interest rates, and QE, have been pulled, both here and in the USA. So there's nowhere left to go - not as far that is, as neoliberal economics is concerned - see Larry Elliot's article in the Guardian.
On top of all this, now we hear that yet another bailout of European banks is planned by Sarkozy and Merkel in the EU. This will cost at least £200 billion, but the EFSF could go up to €2 trillion. But hang on..... where is all this money coming from? Why, from you dear taxpayer, you and your children, and your children's children will have to fork out at least that amount, and possibly more, to bail out commercial banks. And yet, this really is the plan - a kind of madness.
The Guardian have summarised the current situation in their Eurozone graphic - see below:
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An analog kick generator, the Volca Kick produces a wide range of bass sounds for sound design. An analog circuit based on the powerful resonant sound of the original MS-20 filter, it lets you create kick sounds only possible through analog circuitry, ranging from solid kick drums to crisp kick basses. The 16-step sequencer, a distinctive feature of the volca, now has a new Touch FX feature that lets you control an effect instantly, giving you even more live performance potential. Experience the stunning power of an analog kick that cannot be obtained from a plug-in or a sample.Note: Ground shipping only. Item cannot be shipped air.
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