text:
Jason Yormark brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 26 Designs von 16 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
I'm needing a logo to be used for a newly formed adult volleyball team that will be used primarily for the web, but also for uniforms and collateral material.
Rain Volleyball
I'm looking for a logo that merges a raindrop with a volleyball in some way that looks very modern and Web 2.0ish. Nothing too over the top as I'd like to leverage the logo for a team uniform as well so think sports logo like.
I'm using Joomla for my site and a template called Firenzie (Style 7 - the blue one with beige). You can visit here to see:
-make sure you choose Firenzie from the drop down menu at the top, then change the style to Style 7.
- The following link takes you to the theme that I will be using forthe website. I am using Style 7. Feel free to check out the demo areafor a full screen look.
- Ensure that the logo orientation is one that fits where the logo is placed in the template linked above in the top left corner.
- Use of lower case lettering throughout "rain volleyball".
- Use the color scheme showcased at this theme. Stick to the blue, light blue and white in the example logo in the theme (preferably the use of just the blue used on the site, then complementing with gradients of that blue to save printing costs). Do not use the orange used on this site.
- Need the logo to have some versatility so that I can easily change colors out for future teams (i.e. change out the blue scheme with a green one).
- Need original artwork upon completion including Illustrator file with fonts used and color separation version.
- Nothing but the raindrop(s) and volleyball as elements of the logo. No clouds, umbrellas, etc.
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


text:
Summary Report for:
27-2042.00 - Musicians and Singers
Play one or more musical instruments or sing. May perform on stage, for on-air broadcasting, or for sound or video recording.
This title represents a group of more specific occupations. For additional information, please select one of the specific occupations below.
Credentials | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2018)
|$28.15 hourly
|State wages
|Employment (2018)
|188,000 employees
|Projected growth (2018-2028)
|Little or no change (-1% to 1%)
|Projected job openings (2018-2028)
|State trends
|Top industries (2018)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2018 wage data and 2018-2028 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2018-2028). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
Disclaimer: Sources are listed to provide additional information on related jobs, specialties, and/or industries. Links to non-DOL Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France – Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland and Richard Sterne of South Africa share a one-stroke lead after three rounds of the French Open.
McDowell shot a 1-under 70 while Sterne had a 71 on the tough Albatross course of Le Golf National, leaving both at 5-under 208.
''I couldn't have asked for a better position to be going into the last round,'' McDowell said. ''The putter just has not quite got revved up to top gear yet, but hopefully that's waiting for tomorrow.''
McDowell is rediscovering his form after missing the cut in his last three tournaments.
''I bogeyed 17 probably off the best tee shot I hit all day, maybe just wrong club selection off the back there,'' McDowell said. ''I tried to nudge the putter out of the fringe and it was a bit sticky and came out hot on me.''
Bernd Wiesberger of Austria (68), David Howell of England (69) and Richard Green of Australia (70) were at 209. Soren Kjeldsen of Denmark and Simon Dyson of England were at 210.
Francesco Molinari of Italy had the day's best round, a 67 that left him four shots back. Second-round leader Fabrizio Zanotti of Paraguay fell to 214 after a 78.
Thomas Bjorn of Denmark held a two-shot lead after a birdie on No. 8 – where he nearly had a hole-in-one but the ball lipped out – before dropping four shots in the last four holes.
Martin Kaymer of Germany, Ian Poulter of England and Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain are part of a five-way tie at 213. Kaymer, the 2010 U.S. PGA champion, shot a 69 and is hoping for a top-10 finish despite feeling ''very sick.''
''The first day I was OK, but yesterday I felt terrible. And today I just feel very weak,'' Kaymer said. ''I don't hit the ball as far as usual.''
Matt Kuchar of the United States fell from contention with a 73 that left him 10 strokes off the pace.
''Below average golf for me,'' Kuchar said. ''I haven't been as sharp as I had hoped to be, but I still enjoyed my stay here.''
Ranked fifth in the world, Kuchar is making his French Open debut. He brought his family with him to France and will take a short vacation next week in the south of the country.
He said his goal Sunday is to ''just have a good round, try to get on some better form. Then, hopefully carry some momentum into the British Open.''


text:
By Nicola Bonfanti – Talent Dynamics for Sales
There are opportunities to exhibit all year long if you look for them but make sure you have a Trader on your stand to get the best from the event.
You've seen those exhibitions where smartly suited Dynamo people are sitting behind their stand talking amongst themselves or on their phones so as not to waste time but end up not engaging with many people.
They are there to be seen but not necessarily to serve. They will go home thinking the exhibition was a waste of time and money!
Or the stands where the Blaze exhibitors have wide smiles outstretched arms asking "Can I help you?" The obvious answer is "No, thanks" and scuttle on as you don't know what they do or what to ask for. They will wonder what they did wrong!
But if you want to have a busy exhibition stand, lots of people to talk to, have contact details for new prospects, give a good impression of what you do to a lot more people than you could at a networking event and maybe even make some money by selling your goods and services, make sure a Trader is on your team who will focus on the client and make sure the follow up is done!
Whatever profile you are, here are 3 of the many ways to leverage the value of your exhibition stand:
- Don't try and sell anything.
- Give something valuable in return for a visitor's business card
- Make your stand an interactive experience
1. Don't try and sell anything.
Don't expect or try to sell anything immediately. You are there to build a relationship first and foremost so spend time engaging with your visitors, finding out more about them. Have some form of short survey to gain valuable market information, have something free to give them that tells them more about you, your services and your products. Make sure any freebies relate to your products or services.
Too many people have something to give away that is just a waste of money as it is not relevant to your business nor memorable.
However, make it easy for your visitors to buy should they choose to by having special offers for the exhibition only as some people buy on impulse if you have explained your products and services well (there is a different mind-set between selling something and enabling a visitor to buy something and that difference could cost you the sale!).
Your Trader team member will make sure you have all the paperwork and everyone is followed up.
- What questions could you use to engage and draw visitors in?
- If you choose to have a free gift, what does it say about you? And what benefits does it give your visitor?
- Plan special offers to give on the day.
2. Give something valuable in return for a visitor's business card
Adding new names to your database is a key objective of being at an exhibition but visitors are more reluctant to give away their details these days for fear of being bombarded with irrelevant emails. So you have to make the give-away prize or prize draw something really special. Think about what would appeal to you ideal client – a spa break? An high octane experience like driving an F1 car or flying in a wind tunnel? Or one of your VIP programmes?
They also want to know that they will be sent valuable information not sales chasers.
- How will you encourage and reward visitors for giving you their contact details?
3. Make your stand an interactive experience
In order to engage with your visitors, you want them to spend time with you on your stand, so give them something to do while they are there.
Traders are all about the customer experience:
- Guess the price
- Competitive game
- Photo booth that gets retweeted and talked about, e.g. when I was promoting sales programmes I had cardboard cut-outs of sales superheroes people could pose in which got our stand talked about and invited to other events
- What is your key selling point?
- How can visitors have an experience or an insight of what you do in a few minutes on your stand?
Where will your exhibition be in the next few months?


text:
Official Website of the City of Milwaukee
CALL for Action (414) 286-CITY | Click for Action
Election Commission
The City of Milwaukee Election Commission is looking for hardworking citizens that have a dedication to democracy and protecting voter rights to work at the polls.
Below is a brief description and applications for three positions available at the polls: Election Inspector, Bilingual Election Inspector, Chief Inspector.
Election Inspector Applications
Election Inspectors play a vital role at voting sites. They work directly with voters and assist them in any of the following capacities:
Election Inspectors are paid $130 for a full-day shift and are required to attend one paid training class ($21.75) or retraining ($15.00). To receive training class payment, you are required to work on Election Day. Lunch and dinner breaks are allowed for full-day shift workers. A full-day shift is 6:00 a.m. to close of the voting site.
Chief Inspector Applications
Chief Inspectors manage the voting site and ensure all operating procedures are followed. Chiefs are also responsible for completing Election Day documentation, reconciling voter numbers and ballots, and resolving voter concerns.
Chief Inspectors are paid $160 and must work a full-day shift. An additional $25 is included for attending the mandatory training class. To receive training class payment, Chiefs are required to work on Election Day for the full-day shift. A full-day shift is 6:00 a.m. to close of the voting site. Lunch and dinner breaks are allowed.
Bilingual Election Inspector Applications
If you are bilingual and able to work on the upcoming election days, please complete an Election Inspector application.
NOTE: There are two shifts to choose from
The Election Commission is in need of additional bilingual (fluent in English/Spanish or English/Hmong speaking) poll workers.
The experiences at the polls are highly rewarding, challenging, interesting and personally satisfying. Many of the City's Election Inspectors have worked in these positions for 15 to 40 years. We hope that you will consider contributing your time to strong elections in Milwaukee.
Please complete a Employee Information Sheet whenever your information changes, e.g., name and/or address. Please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions or concerns you may have.
City Hall
200 East Wells Street
Room 501
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Design by City of Milwaukee


text:
Facebook Friends
1 day car insurance best insurance for new drivers best life insurance car insurance car insurance compare car insurance comparison car insurance quotes car insurance young drivers cheapest car insurance cheapest van insurance commercial van insurance compare car insurance compare van insurance daily car insurance day car insurance day insurance facebook com login gmail account sign in gmail com login gmail login screen gmail sign in accounts gmail login gmail sign in inbox insurance for new drivers life cover life insurance uk mortgage broker mortgage broker vancouver new driver insurance new drivers insurance outlook express email login outlook sign in hotmail paypal login usa paypal working capital log in sign in gmail account temp cover car insurance temporary car insurance uk vancouver mortgage broker van insurance van insurance compare van insurance comparison van insurance quote van insurance quotes young driver car insurance young driver insurance young drivers insurance
From the Blog
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!


text:
Intel has launched a new Threading Challenge 2010 programming contest that has two levels of participation and the opportunity to improve threading skills and win prizes:
- Apprentice level gives programmers new to multithreading and parallelism
- Master level targets developers with multithreading experience
The Threading Challenge 2010 will be implemented in two phases, with the Phase 1 consisting of two problems in each level and Phase 2 consisting of four problems in each level. Every fourth Monday at 12:00 PM (PDT) a problem will close and a new one nnounced in each level and contestants will have 22 days to complete their entry submission (solution only for Apprentice, or solution and write-up for Master) for each problem. You may enter only one problem at a time and will need to choose which level (Apprentice or Master) you wish to participate in during each problem cycle. You will be awarded points based on your solution submitted. Be sure to take advantage of our threading resources and tools to solve your problems and get involved in the dedicated forums to earn extra points.
Each problem set winner will be announced after the problem is closed and prizes will be awarded to those problem set winners. In Phase 2, to encourage continued participation in more than one problem, Intel will award Grand prize in each level to the participant with the highest number of points for their three top problems of the four available.
For more about the entry requirements and scoring details, see the main contest page.


text:
Sign In / Sign Out
Navigation for Entire University
- ASU Home
- My ASU
- Colleges and Schools
- Map and Locations
- Directory
by Rana Sampson
This guide deals with the problem of false burglar alarms. It begins by reviewing factors that increase the risks of false burglar alarms. It then identifies a series of questions that might help you analyze your local problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem and what is known about them from evaluative research and police practice.
False burglar alarms is but one aspect of the larger set of problems related to alarms and misuse of police resources. This guide is limited to addressing the particular harms created by false burglar alarms. Related problems not directly addressed in this guide, each of which require separate analysis, include:
Some of these related problems are covered in other guides in this series, all of which are listed at the end of this guide. For the most up-to-date listing of current and future guides, see www.popcenter.org.
In the United States in 2002, police responded to approximately 36 million alarm activations, at an estimated annual cost of $1.8 billion.1Most of these activations were burglar alarms.This guide examines current police responses and presents alternative strategies to address the false alarm dilemma. Purchasers of an alarm system are told to expect a police response to an alarm activation, even though they bought the system from a private alarm company with no link to a police department. The vast majority of alarm callsbetween 94 and 98 percent (higher in some jurisdictions)are false.In other words, alarms reliability, which can be measured by these rates of false activations, is generally between 2 and 6 percent. Nationwide, false alarms account for somewhere between 10 and 25 percent of all calls to police.2For many U.S. police agencies, false burglar alarms constitute the highest-volume type of call for service. In the United States alone, solving the problem of false alarms would, by itself, relieve 35,000 officers from providing an essentially private service.3
In some cities, police also respond to fire alarms. It is typical for burglar alarm calls to substantially outnumber fire alarm calls to police departments.
For example, in Dallas, Texas, of the 62,000 alarm calls in 2004, only 2.8 percent were valid (Security Sales and Integration 2005). In Salt Lake City, Utah, of the thousands of alarm calls responded to in 1999, only 0.3 percent resulted from crime (Salt Lake Tribune 2000). In Eugene, Oregon, from the 5,944 alarm calls in 2001, police made only 10 arrests (Salem Police Department, Burglar Alarm Task Force 2004 [PDF] ).
During the 1990s, consolidation within the alarm industry changed the way alarm companies delivered services. Larger companies purchased smaller ones, and a number of alarm monitoring companies moved, sometimes out of state, to achieve economies of scale. For example, a company in Texas might monitor the alarms of tens of thousands of customers in Utah or other distant states.When an alarm goes off, the monitoring company calls the owner. If no one answers or the person who answers gives the wrong prearranged code, the monitoring company calls the police, expecting them to respond.
The mergers also mean that alarm systems originally installed and serviced by one company may now be serviced by another. Many politicians, fearful of alienating their local security industry, often initially support police response to all alarms. However, the monitoring companies they are supporting may not be local at all.
A few alarm companies still respond as part of their contract with customers, but this is rare.
An estimated 32 million security alarm systems have been installed in the United States,4and most of these are monitored. The industry adds roughly 3 million new systems each year.Sixty percent of those are in residences, the rest in commercial and institutional properties.5Alarm industry statistics indicate that the average security system costs between $100 and $1,200, depending on its complexity, and monitoring fees average about $35 per month. Some security companies offer free alarm systems because the monthly monitoring fee alone produces strong profits for the industry. At least one of every seven U.S. businesses and one of every five U.S. residences have alarms.6The recent trend of wiring new residential construction with alarm capacity has the potential to significantly increase the number of alarm calls in the coming decade. Consequently, even those police agencies with recently enacted false alarm policies and ordinances should revisit their approach; otherwise, their workload may be further consumed with false alarm calls.
Estimates of the number of new alarms installed differ (see Hakim and Blackstone 1997; Spivey and Cobb 1997; Blackstone, Hakim, and Spiegel 2000; and National Burglar & Fire Alarm Association 2005).
In Arlington, Texas, between 1985 and 2001, the number of police responses to residential alarm calls increased 494 percent, and commercial alarm calls increased 186 percent, with 99 percent proving false. In 2001, alarm calls accounted for 19 percent of all dispatched calls for service (White 2002).
Alarm associations suggest that false burglar alarms are not evenly distributed: some alarm systems experience no false alarms, and others, many. In some jurisdictions, the pattern of false alarms is much more widely distributed.Whether concentrated across locations or not, the aggregate number of false alarm calls among all alarmed premises places a high demand on limited police resources.
While false alarm calls may be clustered among a relatively small number of premises in some jurisdictions, other jurisdictions have found a much broader distribution. For example, one study of a Midwestern capital city showed that 70 percent of all alarm permit holders had one or two false alarm calls (Gilbertson 2005).The Salem (Oregon) Police Department also found that a large number of locations accounted for the volume of alarm calls: 2,643 separate locations accounted for 5,688 alarm calls (Salem Police Department, Burglar Alarm Task Force 2004).
You may order free bound copies in any of three ways:
Online: Department of Justice COPS Response Center
Email: email@example.com
Phone: 800-421-6770 or 202-307-1480
Allow several days for delivery.
Send an e-mail with a link to this guide.
* required
Error sending email. Please review your enteries below.
Separate multiple addresses with commas (,)
Copy me
Please limit your note to 200 characters.


text:
The slaves who built the White House, "Brick by Brick"
When you see the White House on the evening news, have you ever wondered about the men who built it?
Most were slaves, including the children who mixed clay, sand and water to make the bricks. Imagine what those people would have thought if they could have known that one day, a mixed-race man would become President.
Not all the workers were slaves. Many were immigrants, and some were emancipated African-Americans.
But many were supplied by slave owners from Virginia and Maryland, who received $5 monthly for each slave they loaned to the project.


text:
For negative control RNAi experiments
Can't order online or need plate formats? Order Forms and Plate Orders
MCF-7 and HeLa cells were cotransfected with the reporter construct and either a noncomplementary siRNA or AllStars Negative Control siRNA. After 24 hours, expression of the fluorescent reporter gene was measured by [A] fluorescence microscopy (HeLa cells shown) and [B], [C] FACS analysis. Normal fluorescence was observed after cotransfection with the noncomplemetary siRNA, showing that the reporter gene is expressed. After cotransfection with AllStars Negative Control siRNA fluorescence was significantly decreased, showing that the reporter gene is downregulated.
HeLa cells were cotransfected with the reporter construct and either a noncomplementary siRNA or AllStars Negative Control siRNA. After 48 hours, western blot analysis was used for measurement of expression of the His tag. The His tag was expressed after cotransfection with the noncomplementary siRNA. After cotransfection with AllStars Negative Control siRNA, the His tag was not detected.
The reporter construct consisted of artificial target sequence complementary to AllStars Negative Control siRNA fused to a fluorescent reporter gene with a His tag.
The performance of AllStars Negative Control siRNA was validated by experiments shown in the table.
Genomewide analysis was performed to test the level of nonspecific effects on gene expression after transfection of multiple negative control siRNAs. Multiple negative control siRNAs from different origins were transfected into MCF-7, K562, and primary HUVEC cells using HiPerFect Transfection Reagent. These included nonsilencing siRNAs (with no homology to mammalian genes), scrambled siRNAs (siRNAs with the same base composition as the gene-specific siRNA but with an altered sequence), and siRNAs targeting artificial reporter genes. Subsequently, expression profiling of the whole human genome was performed with Affymetrix GeneChip arrays. AllStars Negative Control siRNA consistently resulted in the lowest number of nonspecifically regulated genes, making it a highly suitable negative control. In contrast, other negative control siRNAs resulted in nonspecific regulation of many genes from important cellular pathways (see figure "Low nonspecific effects on expression").
Live-cell nuclei staining was used to measure nuclear size. Changes in size could be an indication of cell-cycle disturbance or growth inhibition. A range of negative control siRNAs of different types were tested. AllStars Negative Control siRNA provided the best results of all the controls tested. Transfection of AllStars Negative Control siRNA did not result in any change in nuclear size compared with untransfected cells. In contrast, transfection of another negative control siRNA (Control 1) resulted in enlarged nuclei (see figure "Nuclear size phenotype unaffected").
Cell number was assessed after transfection of a range of negative control siRNAs to determine whether cells were proliferating normally. Almost no difference in cell number was observed between untransfected cells and cells transfected with AllStars Negative Control siRNA. In contrast, cell number was significantly reduced after transfection with other negative control siRNAs tested, such as Control 1, indicating that these siRNAs resulted in a growth defect phenotype (see figure "Cell number unaffected").
Nucleotide incorporation was measured to determine DNA synthesis rates in untransfected HCT-116 cells and in HCT-116 cells transfected with a range of different negative control siRNAs. Nucleotide incorporation was measured by examining the uptake of Bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU), a base analog of thymidine that substitutes for thymidine during DNA replication and is incorporated into newly synthesized DNA. Changes in DNA synthesis rates could indicate altered cell growth or cell cycle. Cells transfected with AllStars Negative Control siRNA showed a BrdU-incorporation rate that was very similar to that of untransfected cells. However, another negative control siRNA tested (Control 1) resulted in an altered profile with a lower level of DNA synthesis, which indicates that this siRNA affects cell growth or the cell cycle (see figure "Normal DNA synthesis phenotype").
Live-cell dye exclusion was used to measure potential cytotoxic effects of a range of negative control siRNAs. Results showed that cells transfected with AllStars Negative Control siRNA and untransfected cells had a similar number of living and dead cells. In contrast, other negative control siRNAs resulted in an increase in cytotoxicity (see figure "No increase in cytotoxic effects").
DNA staining after cell fixation was used to measure cell-cycle distribution (the amount of cells in G1/G0, S, and G2 phases of the cell cycle). After transfection of AllStars Negative Control siRNA, the proportion of cells in each phase was similar to that observed for untransfected cells (see figure "Normal cell-cycle distribution"). This result demonstrates that AllStars Negative Control siRNA does not adversely affect the cell cycle.
For accurate negative control RNAi experiments, the negative control siRNA should be incorporated into RISC (RNA-Induced Silencing Complex). This means that the control siRNA goes through the same biological process as the gene-specific siRNA and enables comparison of data from gene-specific siRNA with data from negative control siRNA to confidently determine results that are due to target gene knockdown.
Experiments were performed as follows.
Cotransfection of the reporter construct with a noncomplementary siRNA resulted in strong expression of the fluorescent protein and the His tag. When the construct was cotransfected with AllStars Negative Control siRNA, the siRNA knocked down expression from its complementary sequence, resulting in degradation of the entire mRNA transcript encoding the fluorescent reporter gene, the His tag, and the siRNA target sequence. The mRNA degradation resulted in knockdown of the fusion protein (see figures "AllStars Negative Control siRNA is incorporated into RISC" and "Western analysis shows AllStars Negative Control siRNA enters RISC"). To achieve the knockdown observed, AllStars Negative Control siRNA must have entered RISC.
Transfection of a negative control siRNA is essential in every RNAi experiment. Results from the negative control should be compared with results from untransfected cells. Gene expression and phenotype should ideally be similar in both untransfected cells and cells transfected with negative control siRNA. If altered expression or phenotype are observed in cells transfected with negative control siRNA, these changes are nonspecific – they are due to transfection procedures or siRNA toxicity and not sequence complementarity. Nonspecific effects should be minimal to ensure reliable RNAi/miRNA results.
Results from the negative control can also be compared with results from the gene-specific siRNA/miRNA under study. This comparison allows the researcher to pinpoint the effects of target-gene knockdown on gene expression and phenotype, because the negative control sample has undergone the same biological process, with the only difference being the siRNA/miRNA sequence.
Results from AllStars Negative Control siRNA can be used as follows:
You are not authorized to download the resource


text:
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Haskell Syntax Highlighting for Blogs
11 comments:
See this [1] or this [2]ReplyDelete
[1]: http://greayer.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/blogging-literately-in-haskell/
[2]: http://pgraycode.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/enter-hacoteb/
Use pandoc and make sure to "cabal install" it with the "-f highlighting" option -- you can then highlight code using the syntax:ReplyDelete
~~~~~~~~~~ {.haskell}
foo :: Int -> Int
foo = (+2)
This is the most convenient way I've found.
We [1] use code colorer [2], a WordPress plugin apparently based on GeSHi [3]. It's basic, but works well and supports other languages as well.ReplyDelete
[1] https://blog.typlab.com/
[2] http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codecolorer/
[3] http://qbnz.com/highlighter/
For my blog, I ran the code through hscolour and generate html output and then I added the CSS classes to my blog template.ReplyDelete
You can also use "Highlight" executable that is optional with highlighting-kate:ReplyDelete
cabal install highlighting-kate -fexecutable
Google's code-prettify looks to support Haskell but I haven't used it myself (yet): http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/ReplyDelete
Followup: Actually, these instructions for getting Blogger to use Google's code prettify work on my blog: http://lukabloga.blogspot.com/2008/10/to-test-new-highlighting.htmlReplyDelete
Best of luck!
Sigh... Sorry for triple posting, but I don't see an edit button: You'll need to add one more script include to this file: http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/source/browse/trunk/src/lang-hs.jsReplyDelete
and also follow the instructions there for posting.
- AnonymousSeptember 6, 2010 at 10:37 PM
I write my blog posts (http://randomagent.wordpress.com) in emacs with org-mode. When editing code, org-mode gives control to the major mode associated with that language.ReplyDelete
Then, when you export your text to html to past on your favourite blog manager, org-mode uses the adequate major mode to highlight your code and export the right html code for the colors.
I use SHJS to highlight Haskell syntax with JavaScript. It highlights more correctly than google-code-prettify.ReplyDelete
Following Eric@Typlab's suggestion (thanks!), I'm using CodeColorer with Wordpress 3.3 and it works beautifully.ReplyDelete
-- Ivan @ Keera Studios
PS. I know that this is an old thread, but it's still the first result when you google "haskell wordpress code highlighting".


text:
Many towns, and even populous cities, are opening their public lands to deer hunting. After much debate, they've realized that without adequate predators, hunting is essential. That's good news for communities, sportsmen and deer, too.
Philadelphia, for example, initiated bow hunting within its boundaries to mitigate severe problems with traffic accidents, plant damage and Lyme disease. Sudbury, Dover, Medfield, Andover, Weston, Framingham, Concord and now Westboro are among a growing number of Massachusetts communities which, after careful study, have opened town lands to deer hunting for the same reasons. They deserve to be commended for their decisions.
Fighting irrational anti-hunters with philosophical agendas isn't always easy, but it's clear that any community that prevents deer hunting in areas where there are too many is irresponsibly placing its residents in jeopardy and deserves to be held accountable.
Westboro is a great example of enlightened management. Hunting with permission only on private land has proven inadequate to control the town's growing deer population. We can't control a herd with patchwork strategies.
Starting this year, bow hunters shooting only down from tree stands — an effective safety strategy — will have two weeks on public and Community Land Trust land to help lower the deer population. While two weeks will certainly not be enough to eliminate the public safety issue for Westboro, it's at least a start. Hopefully, town leaders will witness the efforts of ethical sportsmen and in future years give them the parameters they need to accomplish the goal.
Much praise is in order for Westboro's town leadership, sensible residents and especially Police Chief Alan Gordon for recognizing the severity of deer-vehicle collisions in their town and proposing the bylaw to reduce them.
Gordon noted that from August 2009 to August 2010, Westboro had 23 deer-vehicle collisions. During the same period from 2010 to 2011, there were 32, and from 2012 to 2013, there were 39. The dangerous trend had to be dealt with for public safety, as well as the town's increasing Lyme disease infections.
"Although most of the collisions occur during the rut," Gordon said, "there are accidents recorded throughout the year. We have them on Route 9, Route 495, near the plazas, by Flanders Road, around Tufts and Cedar Swamp — particularly in areas near water."
Gordon had informed input before making his decision to recommend hunting on public land, which had been prohibited in Westboro since 1983. The town's anti-hunting leadership then didn't envision the problems and injuries their decision would cause. Other area towns should take note of the problems caused by anti-hunting regulations.
"Back then, we didn't have a deer problem," Gordon said. "But today, we have 30 deer per square mile. That's almost three times the healthy norm. Some agricultural interests, like the pumpkin growers, are having their business threatened, too."
Deer are expensive, too, costing every Westboro resident an auto insurance premium.
According to Gordon, "each community has a different insurance rating. Even if you don't strike a deer, you're still going to be affected when others in your town do. Insurance rates are higher for areas with higher incidents of accidents."
Gordon, asked if he had any advice to other chiefs and communities on the fence about deer hunting, urged those communities to be open-minded and work with the chief state biologist to determine population densities.
"If they're high and endangering public safety, there's no question," Gordon said. "You implement hunting."
Gordon credited the Westboro Community Land Trust, which observed deer increasingly browsing on abnormal vegetation, a sign of overpopulation and insufficient food. Native wild plants have diminished, and even are threatened, as a result of deer overpopulation.
Deer evolved to withstand huge annual mortality from natural predators like wolves, mountain lions, bears and bobcats as well as winter kill. Those critically important predators are gone from our region, and only hunters can take their place. Every community having enough skilled sportsmen to perform that task for free is very fortunate.
Deer are also fortunate to have hunters, and I'm not just talking about keeping their populations healthy. When their numbers aren't culled sufficiently, one of the worst catastrophes of all can occur — a change in positive public attitudes about them. Deer can easily go from being perceived as beautiful and valuable animals warranting our protection to being disease- and injury-causing vermin demanding eradication. Just ask residents of any town that has had many of its children infected with Lyme disease. We never want any of our precious wildlife to lose their public appreciation and value.
While the enlightened towns permitting hunting on public land are success stories, we are about to enter a more prosperous period of development, which will have dire future consequences for wildlife and the quality of our own life. Towns need to balance development with open space preservation. In Central Massachusetts, we still can avoid undesirable overdevelopment and the natural bankruptcy that have plagued so many densely packed communities to our east.
Hunting in a town is a barometer of both good wildlife populations and good land stewardship. Where hunting is absent, man has gone too far, either in human overpopulation, development, radical philosophical agendas, or irresponsible management. Every town should have a land trust and competent conservation representatives to protect its vulnerable natural heritage for future generations.
Contact Mark Blazisat email@example.com.


text:
Geoffrey Bourne has 11 years of experience in the financial IT field, successfully managing several globally distributed Agile teams in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hong Kong, Japan, and the U.S. He has worked at J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs and several start-ups. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Washington & Lee University and is a certified Sun Java Developer and PMP. Geoffrey is currently a Vice President at a major financial institution in the New York Private Bank and Personal Wealth Management divisions and can be contacted at [email protected].
In the early years of my technology management career, I practiced standard Waterfall/Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies that all too often fell short as a tool to enable my team and I to effectively reach our objectives. The memories are still vivid: Mountains of unnecessary documentation and late-night project management meetings where the focus was discussing the SDLC's process rather than meeting our objectives.
So learning about Agile was a revelation. I still remember my "light-bulb moment" when reading a borrowed copy of Ken Schwaber's Agile Project Management with Scrum and realizing that there is a different way to look at how we deliver products. Schwaber's book is now my "Agile Bible" (not the borrowed copy). Since adopting Agile, my distributed development teams have risen to a new level of productivity and enjoy a more satisfying work environment. Regular, value-added communication and meeting project objectives are now our focus rather than navigating methodology.
Since finding success with Agile, it's no surprise that I've emerged as an evangelist of Agile's virtues. However, a few years ago my understanding of Agile was put to the test after a colleague challenged me to apply Agile to a team made up of distributed onshore and offshore members. Over the course of our conversation, I was cornered into admitting that Agile doesn't speak to a distributed environment. Instead, I realized that over the course of many years working with a distributed Agile environment, I unconsciously compensated for gaps by modifying practices…which begs the question, "Is Agile still Agile in a distributed environment?"
I experienced a re-awakening of my commitment to Agile at a talk given by Agile Scrum guru and co-creator Jeff Sutherland. Like my colleague had challenged me, a member of the audience asked Sutherland to apply Agile to distributed teams. Needless to say, Sutherland's response was similar to mine but with a lot less stammering! He, too, ran into inconsistencies with distributed Agile teams and worked around them by applying new processes and techniques that are not necessarily prescribed by the standard Agile process. All was right with the world again.
Realizing that there was a need to face concerns about applying Agile to a distributed team (rather than run from the challenge!), I began to coalesce and document my experiences in effectively running an Agile team within a distributed environment. And what did I find is my conclusion upon meditating on Agile in a distributed environment? Distributed Agile is still Agile, but with a twist.
The Challenge
A primary tenet of the Agile process is the co-location of the team. Ideally, developers sit only a few feet away from the Product Owner or business partners. This co-location typically facilitates several benefits of Agile: frequent communication and feedback, a sense of ownership, and team building. However, managers are often forced, due to budget constraints and corporate policy, to manage a distributed team comprised of both onshore and offshore resources. These distributed Agile teams often have unique challenges that the Agile process doesn't address.
The biggest challenge managers face with a distributed Agile team is a breakdown in communication. Typically a distributed team is composed of an onshore Product/Business Owner and development staff partially or fully offshore. From a U.S. perspective, the time zone difference can vary from a few hours in Latin America to 12 hours in parts of India. (The time zones I discuss here are from an Eastern Standard Time, EST, perspective.) This time zone difference coupled with the lack of co-location is conducive to a breakdown in communication, and dealing with this challenge needs to be of primary focus. In this article, I discuss optimizing communication when managing a distributed Agile team. Although many forms of Agile exist, I focus here on principles from a SCRUM management and an XP engineering perspective and presupposes a basic understanding of both.


text:
- Home /
- Index™ Chopping Board Set
Features & BenefitsIndex™ includes 4 cutting boards featuring index-style tabs to indicate which food type they should be used for – raw meat, vegetables, fish and cooked food. All boards have non-slip feet and sloped edges to catch any stray food and juices. They also have knife-friendly cutting surfaces and the case has a non-slip base.
This stylish and practical set looks great in any kitchen and comes in regular or large sizes.
Regular- 33 × 23.5 × 8.5cm (Boards 20 × 30cm)
Large- 37.5 × 8.5 × 27.5 cm (Boards 24 × 34cm)
Designed by Damian Evans
Care and Use
Dishwasher Safe Boards
Food Safe
BPA Free
Index™ Chopping Board Set
From: €64.99


text:
The Cache API is a system for storing and retrieving network requests and corresponding responses. These might be regular requests and responses created in the course of running your application, or they could be created solely for the purpose of storing some data in the cache.
The Cache API was created to enable Service Workers to cache network requests so that they can provide appropriate responses even while offline. However, the API can also be used as a general storage mechanism.
Where is it available?
The API is currently available in Chrome, Opera and Firefox. Both Edge and Safari have marked the API as 'In Development'.
The API is exposed via the global
caches property, so you can test for the presence of the API
with a simple feature detection:
const cacheAvailable = 'caches' in self;
The API can be accessed from a window, iframe, worker, or service worker.
What can be stored
The caches only store pairs of
Request and
Response objects, representing HTTP requests and
responses, respectively. However, the requests and responses can contain any kind of data that can
be transferred over HTTP.
Create the
Request object using a URL for the thing being stored:
const request = new Request('/images/sample1.jpg');
Response object constructor accepts many types of data, including
FormData objects, and strings.
const imageBlob = new Blob([data], {type: 'image/jpeg'});
const imageResponse = new Response(imageBlob);
const stringResponse = new Response('Hello world');
You can set the MIME type of a
Response by setting the appropriate header.
const options = {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
const jsonResponse = new Response('{}', options);
Working with Response objects
If you have retrieved a
Response and wish to access its body, there are several helper methods
you can use. Each returns a
Promise that resolves with a value of a different type.
|Returns an
ArrayBuffer containing the body, serialized to bytes.
|Returns a
Blob. If the
Response was created with a
Blob then this new
Blob has the same type. Otherwise, the
Content-Type of the
Response is used.
|Interprets the bytes of the body as a UTF-8 encoded string.
|Interprets the bytes of the body as a UTF-8 encoded string, then tries to parse it as
JSON. Returns the resulting object, or throws a
TypeError if the string cannot
be parsed as JSON.
|Interprets the bytes of the body as an HTML form, encoded either as "multipart/form-data"
or "application/x-www-form-urlencoded". Returns a
FormData object, or
throws a
TypeError if the data cannot be parsed.
|Returns a ReadableStream for the body data.
For example
const response = new Response('Hello world');
response.arrayBuffer().then((buffer) => {
console.log(new Uint8Array(buffer));
// Uint8Array(11) [72, 101, 108, 108, 111, 32, 119, 111, 114, 108, 100]
Creating and opening a cache
To open a cache, use the
caches.open(name) method, passing the name of the cache as the single
parameter. If the named cache does not exist it is created. This method returns a
that resolves with the
Cache object.
caches.open('my-cache').then((cache) => {
// do something with cache...
Retrieving from a cache
To find an item in a cache, you can use the
match method.
cache.match(request).then((response) => console.log(request, response));
request is a string it is first be converted to a
Request by calling
Request(request). The function returns a
Promise that resolves to a
Response if a matching
entry is found, or
undefined otherwise.
To determine if two
Requests match, more than just the URL is used. Two requests are considered different
if they have different query strings,
Vary headers and/or methods (
PUT, etc.).
You can ignore some or all of these things by passing an options object as a second parameter.
const options = {
ignoreSearch: true,
ignoreMethod: true,
ignoreVary: true
cache.match(request, options).then(...);
If more than one cached request matches then the one that was created first is returned.
If you want to retrieve all matching responses, you can use
const options = {
ignoreSearch: true,
ignoreMethod: true,
ignoreVary: true
cache.matchAll(request, options).then((responses) => {
console.log(`There are ${responses.length} matching responses.`);
As a shortcut you can search over all caches at once by using
caches.match() instead of calling
cache.match() for each cache.
The Cache API does not provide a way to search for requests or responses except for matching entries
against a
Response object. However, you can implement your own search using filtering or by
creating an index.
One way to implement your own search is to iterate over all entries and filter down to the ones that you want. Let's say that you want to find all items that have URLs ending with '.png'.
async function findImages() {
// Get a list of all of the caches for this origin
const cacheNames = await caches.keys();
const result = [];
for (const name of cacheNames) {
// Open the cache
const cache = await caches.open(name);
// Get a list of entries. Each item is a Request object
for (const request of await cache.keys()) {
// If the request URL matches, add the response to the result
if (request.url.endsWith('.png')) {
result.push(await cache.match(request));
return result;
This way you can use any property of the
Request and
Response objects to filter the entries.
Note that this is slow if you search over large sets of data.
Creating an index
The other way to implement your own search is to maintain a separate index of entries that can be searched, stored in IndexedDB. Since this is the kind of operation that IndexedDB was designed for it has much better performance with large numbers of entries.
If you store the URL of the
Request alongside the searchable properties then you can easily
retrieve the correct cache entry after doing the search.
Adding to a cache
There are three ways to add an item to a cache -
add and
addAll. All three methods return
The first is to use
cache.put(request, response).
request is either a
Request object or a
string - if it is a string, then
new Request(request) is used instead.
response must be a
Response. This pair is stored in the cache.
cache.put('/test.json', new Response('{"foo": "bar"}'));
The second is to use
request is treated the same as for
put, but the
Response that is stored in the cache is the result of fetching the request from the network.
If the fetch fails, or if the status code of the response is not in the 200 range, then nothing is
stored and the
Promise rejects. Note that cross-origin requests not in CORS mode have a
status of 0, and therefore such requests can only be stored with
Thirdly, there is
cache.addAll(requests), where
requests is an array of
Requests or URL
strings. This works similarly to calling
cache.add for each individual request, except that the
Promise rejects if any single request is not cached.
In each of these cases, a new entry overwrites any matching existing entry. This uses the same matching rules described in the section on retrieving.
Deleting an item
To delete an item from a cache:
Where request can be a
Request or a URL string. This method also takes the same options object as
cache.match, which allows you to delete multiple
Response pairs for the same URL.
cache.delete('/example/file.txt', {ignoreVary: true, ignoreSearch: true});
Deleting a cache
To delete a cache, call
caches.delete(name). This function returns a
Promise that resolves to
true if the cache existed and was deleted, or
false otherwise.


text:
Feb 28, 2020
Growing Eastern north Carolina automotive dealership seeks Service Business Development Representative in the Greenville area to handle incoming calls, make outgoing calls and follow-up communications. The position will interact with both new prospects and our existing customers in person as well as by phone, mail, and email. Your responsibilities will include maintaining positive, ongoing communications for the purpose of increasing service appointments and customer satisfaction. Qualifications: Answering both inbound and internal phone calls Handle roughly 100 plus calls daily Communicate professionally with customers and fellow employees Requirements: Direct customer phone communication experience a must Must have the ability to work a varying Monday-Saturday schedule; Successful telephone communication skills Outstanding written communication Microsoft Office and online computer skills Ability to perform multiple tasks Outgoing personality and motivation is a must Experience in a call center or the automotive industry is a plus; Prior dealership or service experience is not necessary but previous experience in a dealership BDC is preferred – we will train the best person for the position! If you have had successful experience in Customer Service Communications or other Phone Communications – we want to talk to you about this position. This is a great opportunity for the right person, with plenty of room for professional and personal growth. Please contact: email@example.com and forward resume.
Brown & Wood Buick GMC Cadillac Mazda Greenville, NC Full-Time


text:
Sony has ditched Grouper, its attempt to get in on the user-generated video content bandwagon, and rebranded the site as Crackle. The company announced Crackle's debut today as a "streaming entertainment network" and has shifted its focus from amateur video to more professional resources. The goal of the site will now be to provide "fame partnerships" with Sony executives for the budding filmmakers whose work will appear on Crackle.
Crackle will offer branded channels for different genres of video such as "Judgment Day" for reality show-like judgment of contestants, "Scrambler" for indie music videos, and "High Wire" for standup comedians. There will also be channels such as "Wet Paint" for animators, "Firehouse" for stories from real firefighters, and "Moving Targets," a sketch variety channel. Like Grouper and other video sites, however, Crackle's Internet audience will still be able to watch, share, and embed videos from the site on their blogs and social network profiles. While user-generated content may not be Sony's thing, sharing content still is.
Crackle's carrot
By what criteria will the Crackle team decide to connect Crackle's semi-professional video producers with industry contacts? "We reward the best video creators with Crackle funding, promotion, syndication and even greater exposure to our large media partners," Crackle cofounder Josh Felser said in a statement. Some of the rewards include cash prizes for winning contests in various channels of the site in addition to opportunities to pitch ideas directly to Sony Pictures and attend conferences. Other "prizes" for excelling in various Crackle channels include a Crackle Studios development deal, pitch opportunities with Columbia Pictures, pitch opportunities to IMPROV Comedy Lab, and flights to perform in different venues.
Why did Sony decide to rebrand Grouper as a talent-scouting web site? Felser told PaidContent's Staci Kramer that attempting to make money on a user-generated video site that's not named YouTube was too difficult. "We realized user-generated video is something everybody likes to watch, but it's not a great business," he said. "User-generated is dead to us. We are out of the user-generated video business."
Technicalities about what defines "user-generated" aside, the Crackle team also has Sony's marketing machine behind it. The company said that it plans to pair its channels with various advertising partners and even allow them to skin a specific channel to create an entirely branded environment for viewers. Not only that, but advertisements will also air within the video player itself, meaning that even viewers who have embedded the videos on their personal web sites will be subject to Crackle's advertising structure even without the branded pages.
Sony obviously hopes that this new site structure will help push Crackle ahead of competing video sites. With a revenue plan and a carrot to dangle in front of aspiring talent's faces, all Crackle needs is the talent to show up and the audience to follow.


text:
Search by Printer or Cartridge
Choose From Featured Brands
View Ink & Toner Finder
Residential Delivery Available!
Extended lead times may apply.
Enter Zip Code
If you have a username and password you can
instead of providing the Zip.
Why do we need this information? This information helps us determine product
availability in your area and connect you to your organization's Business Account
if one exists already.
Already have an Instant Registration Code?
Use your Instant Registration Code
to get started - Fast!
Federal Government Customers
Since 1898, the dedicated group at W.B. Mason has been passionate about bringing amazingly low prices, superior delivery and outstanding personal service to businesses of all sizes. From our humble beginnings in a small warehouse in Brockton, MA, we have grown to become the second largest, privately owned office products dealer in the United States. We have all your workplace essentials, from office supplies and furniture, to break room and facilities maintenance. Let us be your one source for all of your office needs.
Copyright W.B. Mason. All Rights Reserved.


text:
The Classic Gem
Regular price $ 0.00
The Making of Your Masterpiece
Ever thought of creating a sentimental or unique piece of jewelry but not sure where to start? Our designers specialize in 3D CAD CAM technology and can create a realistic render of your jewelry concept and 3D print a wax prototype, which is then used to cast and set into your dream jewelry piece. We are there every step of the way to ensure your jewelry looks just like the way you envisioned it to be.
Custom designs are not only unique but they are built perfectly to fit your finger or gemstone versus retrofitting or re-sizing stock, which in some cases can weaken the structural integrity of a ring with many intricacies, or in other cases create gaps or an unfinished look. Each diamond is hand calibrated by our diamond specialist within one tenths of a millimeter and matched for color, clarity and table size. The results are always stunning and more importantly made with precision and solid craftsmanship. Learn more about our standards and quality here.
L2R: Picture of CAD Render, Wax Prototype/3D Print, and Complete/Finished Mounting
Custom Made Diamond Ear Cuffs
Click here to see a sampling of 3D CAD Designs.
We have deep rooted experience in jewelry design architecture and industry expertise and knowledge in the background of metal-smithing/casting, stone setting/jewelry craftsmanship and gemology. We strive to make this process as seamless and fun, as it is informative in three simple steps:
The process typically takes 18-21 business days end to end, however depending on the scope of work, order, and current capacity, we can usually expedite custom orders to 10-15 days (excluding weekends and holidays).
Step 1: Consultation
b.) Casting in the metal you chose such as platinum or white gold, rose gold, yellow gold in (585 or 750 / 1000 Au).
The turnaround for this phase of the process is usually 3-5 business days.
The Difference in our Diamond Melee Quality
What quality of diamonds to do you use in jewelry manufacturing?
In most designs, the major cost of a piece is determined by the quality of the gemstones used, from color and clarity, and last but not least the cut quality which is often overlooked. This small detail produces a big impact in the overall look of a piece. Every diamond melee that we use in our production are fully faceted, which makes a huge impact in the fire, brilliance and scintillation needed to bring a jewelry masterpiece to life.
Fully faceted, or full-cut melees diamonds are basically miniature versions of the the standard brilliant cut diamond, and are precision cut with 58 facets to produce the most optimal light performance for its size. We take pride in using the finest cut qualities of full-cuts (58 facets or more) coupled with higher end tiers of color and clarity to ensure that your fine jewelry scientifically cut and designed to maximize light performance versus "economic quality" melees that are commonly used in the marketplace today consisting of single-cuts (with only 17 or less facets).
Image below shows a Single Cut compared to a Full Cut diamond.
Here is a snapshot of three tiers of diamond qualities we use in our jewelry manufacturing.


text:
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, raised more than $200,000 on June 11, 2009, as it honored three leaders in the LGBT community who have played pioneering roles in the fight against AIDS: Patricia Field, Lady Bunny, and Cleve Jones. Alan Cumming hosted the event, which featured a special performance by the legendary Debbie Harry. Honoring with Pride was chaired by amfAR trustees David Bohnett, Donald A. Capoccia, and R. Martin Chavez, Ph.D, along with celebrity chair Cheyenne Jackson.
Lady BunnyLegendary drag artist, comedienne, chanteuse, DJ, and founder of "Wigstock"Bio
Patricia FieldAcademy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning fashion conceptualizer(Above photo: Mike Ruiz).Bio
Cleve Jones Pioneer gay rights activist, founder of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, and historical consultant to the film MilkBio
DATEThursday, June 11, 2009
LOCATIONNew York, NY
© 2020 amfAR All Rights Reserved || amfAR's mission is to end the global AIDS epidemic through innovative research


text:
Greenpeace staff and volunteers protest outside the Russian embassy in Seoul. In support of the 28 Greenpeace International activists, as well as a freelance photographer and a freelance videographer currently in custody pending investigations into a peaceful Arctic oil protest.
© Jean Chung / Greenpeace
To post a comment you need to be signed in.
Are you sure to remove this comment?
Are you sure to report this comment as abuse?
1 - 5 of 1172 results.


text:
Thank you. You should be receiving a reset link at the email address you provided shortly.
Fill out the form below
*First Name
*Last Name
*Email Address
*Phone Number
Best Time
Thank you for your interest in this program. We should be contacting you shortly.
This online Microsoft Outlook 2016 class will introduce you to the 2016 interface and teach you how to work with messages, calendars, contacts, and tasks. You'll then move on to learning how to manage accounts and the inbox and then learn about the more advanced features of Outlook, such as working with notes, using signatures and themes, and learning about some of the new features in the 2016 version.
Upon completion of this course, you will be prepared for the Microsoft Office Specialist Certification exam 77-731 (Outlook). This course offers enrollment with or without a voucher. The voucher is prepaid access to sit for the certifying exam upon eligibility. Proctor fees may apply, which are not included.
Hardware Requirements:
Software Requirements:
Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online. Manuals are included as downloadable PDFs throughout the course.
There are no prerequisites to take this course, however you must have familiarity with using a personal computer and in a Windows environment. You must also be able to launch and close programs, navigate to information stored on the computer, and manage files and folders.
Tracy Berry has been a senior graphic designer/programmer, instructor, and consultant since 1993 and has developed hundreds of logos, marketing materials, websites, and multimedia solutions for customers worldwide. She was also involved in several large corporate software rollouts. She has helped many organizations optimize and streamline data solutions. She teaches both onsite and online courses and has her CTT (Certified Technical Trainer) certification. Tracy specializes in teaching graphics, desktop publishing, web design, and reporting/productivity applications.
Copyright © Education To Go. All rights reserved. The material on this site cannot be reproduced or redistributed unless you have obtained prior written permission from Education To Go. Education To Go and ed2go are registered trademarks of Education To Go, a part of Cengage Learning.
A password reset link has been sent to the email address you provided.


text:
Events 2018 organised by the Educational Department
In addition to regular guided tours, the Education Department of the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site offers special visits and excursions dedicated to certain topics (e.g. women in the Dachau Concentration Camp). The complete list of events can be downloaded here. Please note that the special tours will be given in German.


text:
2 new charter schools get OK
Maine Charter School Commission approves plans
The Maine Charter School Commission has approved two more schools, an elementary school in Gray and a middle school in Harpswell.
Bob Kautz, the commission's executive director, said Tuesday's vote was 7-0 for the Harpswell Coastal Academy. He says that the facility would initially serve 60 students from grades 6 to 9.
Kautz said the vote was 6-1 for the Fiddlehead Schools of Arts and Sciences in Gray, an elementary school that would initially serve 42 preschool and first-grade pupils. It would be located across the street from the Russell School. One commissioner voted against it, saying there are already good schools in Gray-New Gloucester.
Those approvals bring the total number of charter schools approved for next fall to five. That includes two that opened for the current school year.


text:
Online submittal of FSC Compliance Certification is now available. You must have a user name and password to proceed. The Compliance Certification form can be downloaded from link below. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS ON THE FORM AND FILE YOUR CERTIFICATION WITH THE CORRECT CERTIFICATION TYPE. Click on "Log in for Cigarette Certification" to get started.
Fire Safety Programs » Fire Safe Cigarettes
A fire-safe cigarette has a reduced propensity to burn when left unattended and the use of such cigarettes will help prevent tens of thousands of cigarette-ignited fires each year. Fire-safe cigarettes are a proven, practical, and effective way to eliminate the risk of cigarette-ignited fires. The most common fire-safe technology used by cigarette manufacturers is making the paper thicker in places which acts as "speed bumps" in slowing down the burning of a cigarette. Traditional technology keeps a cigarette burning even without puffing, and a cigarette can smolder for up to 45 minutes. During ignition tests, 90 percent to 100 percent of traditional cigarettes will cause fires within 10 minutes.
The cost of cigarettes is not anticipated to increase due to fire standard compliant cigarette technology. In comparing prices in upstate New York to prices in Massachusetts (after New York began requiring fire standard compliant cigarettes), a Harvard School of Public Health study found that prices remained comparable.
In addition, according to the Harvard School of Public Health study, there is no evidence that the small increases in five of the fourteen toxic compounds noted in FSCCs "affect the already highly toxic nature of cigarette smoke." However, there may be reduced availability of a small number of older brands and sub-brands due to the new fire standard compliant cigarette regulations.
The establishment of Fire-Safe Cigarettes in North Carolina is not an anti-smoking campaign. The State Fire Marshal's Office is primarily concerned with fire safety and preventing deaths, injury and property loss due to cigarette ignited fires.
In order to reduce the number of fires and fire related deaths and injuries due to cigarettes, two bands are placed in the fire safe cigarette paper. These bands are less porous than the surrounding paper and require smokers to inhale more deeply in order to increase the oxygen and temperature of the burning cigarette paper enough to burn through the bands.
During the 2007 session, the NC Legislature passed House Bill 1785 NC Fire Safety Standard and Fire Fighter Protection Act (GS 58, Article 92), sometimes referred to as the "Fire Safe Cigarette Act" ". It requires that all cigarettes sold or offered for sale in NC meet the criteria for reduced ignition propensity cigarettes, and packs will be marked with the "FSC" symbol near the UPC code. When it goes into effect on January 1, 2010, this law is expected to significantly reduce the number of people in North Carolina who are killed or injured from mattress or upholstered furniture fires caused by cigarettes left burning.
Whether you smoke a cigarette, pipe or cigar, you are smoking burning tobacco. In the right circumstances, an improperly discarded tobacco product can start a fire. Although fire standard compliant cigarettes may reduce the likelihood that a cigarette will ignite a fire, one must still follow safe smoking practices.
Please follow the following safety tips:
For more information:
For consumer complaints please contact manufacturers.
The Manufacturers listed below have provided the respective contact information:


text:
Controversial chemical BPA found on paper money
Bisphenol-A, a hormone-disrupting chemical linked to cancer, diabetes, early puberty and neurological problems, might now be lurking in your wallet.
Twenty-one out of the 22 $1 bills tested in California, 17 other states and Washington, D.C., carried small amounts of the chemical, which is commonly used in plastic bottles as well as in food can liners, adhesives, sports safety gear and dental sealants, according to a report being released today by the group Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families.
The findings from the Washington, D.C., coalition of public health advocates, environmental groups and green businesses stretch BPA's ubiquity even further. BPA has now been detected in paper - heat-activated receipts from cash registers and dollar bills - in three studies this year.
"Companies are using large amounts of BPA on receipt paper and now it's winding up on our hands and on our money," said Erika Shreder author of "On the Money: BPA in Dollar Bills and Receipts." "Congress really needs to pass legislation that reduces exposure to chemicals that can cause cancer and other diseases that are on the rise in this country."
Manufacturers of bisphenol-A insist the chemical is safe and shows up in only trace amounts in people. Nonetheless, BPA has come under increasing regulatory pressure in other industrialized nations. In September, Canada declared BPA a "toxic substance;" and just last month, the European Union voted to ban the compound from baby bottles.
FDA: 'Some concern'
Legislative efforts to curb BPA in California and nationwide have failed due largely to heavy lobbying by business groups such as the American Chemistry Council, according to Shreder. Still, seven states and the city of Chicago prohibit the chemical in baby bottles, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration early this year listed it as a chemical of "some concern" after previously calling BPA safe.
First synthesized in the late 1800s but not utilized in plastic production until the 1950s, BPA is one of the most widely manufactured industrial chemicals in the world. As its use has exploded, however, so have the number of surveys on BPA's health impacts.
Hundreds of studies show that rats and mice exposed to BPA in utero are more likely to grow obese, develop cancer, reach reproductive maturity at an early age and exhibit neurological problems such as hyperactivity and aggression.
Transfer to skin
Most people probably ingest BPA as it leaches out of drink and food containers. But the chemical's ability to transfer from paper to skin is a new arena of investigation. It is unclear whether BPA passes through skin and into the bloodstream in a typical person. However, a Swiss researcher this summer demonstrated that, after regular contact, BPA can no longer be washed off and can lodge in deep layers of the skin.
Many product makers, bowing to consumers' BPA anxiety, have started ditching the chemical and slapping "BPA-free" labels on everything from pacifiers and disposable forks to gym water bottles.
Those warnings aside, the biggest BPA producers maintain that concentrations in people remain extremely low.
"Typical exposure from all sources is about 1,000 times below safe intake levels set by government bodies in Europe and the U.S.," said Steven Hentges, director of the Polycarbonate/BPA group at the American Chemistry Council. "In comparison, the trace levels of BPA claimed to be present in dollar bills are insignificant."
But some of the first human-BPA research suggests the compound might affect the building blocks of human life.
Scientists at UCSF last week revealed that BPA exposure might harm the eggs of women undergoing in-vitro fertilization. Even such preliminary results alarm many public health experts, given that 93 percent of subjects in a large-scale 2004 study had BPA in their urine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Safer Chemicals group reported one newer dollar bill had no BPA. The highest quantity - 11 parts per million - came on a dollar bill from Massachusetts. The rest fell somewhere in-between, including the California sample, which bore less than 1 part per million (The $1 bills were collected from the group's advocacy partners around the country). The amounts were far lower than those detected in cash register receipts, where BPA is a key component of thermal paper.


text:
St. Louis West Field Office
Clients should contact the St. Louis West Field Office with any requests or comments regarding GSA-operated buildings within the St. Louis West jurisdiction. The St. Louis West Field Office is located at 4300 Goodfellow Blvd, Building 107 in St. Louis, MO. The Field Office is responsible for the property management at the following locations:
|Building Name
|Charles F. Prevedel Federal Building
|9700 Page Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63132
|Sammy L. Davis Federal Building
|1655 Woodson Road
Overland, MO 63114
|Goodfellow Federal Center
|4300 Goodfellow Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63120
|National Personnel Records Center
*leased property
|1829 Dunn Road
St. Louis, MO 63138


text:
LOWER MANHATTAN (PIX11) — Almost 12 years after terrorists rammed jumbo jets into the Twin Towers, destroying the World Trade Center, authorities have discovered what they believe to be part of one of the planes that struck the towers on 9/11. The part, a piece of landing gear, came complete with the Boeing ID number, behind the site of the Ground Zero mosque.
The NYPD announced Friday that a part of the landing gear was found tucked on Wednesday morning between the rear of 51 Park Place and another property behind it, 50 Murray St., a few blocks away from where the towers stood from the early 1970s until Sept. 11, 2001.
"The NYPD is securing the location as it would a crime scene, documenting it photographically and restricting access until the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner completes its health and safety evaluation protocol, after which a decision will be made concerning sifting the soil for possible human remains," the NYPD said in a statement.
Cops said the plane part was found after surveyors for the property owner were checking the back of 51 Park Place — the building where the controversial interfaith mosque was supposed to be — on Wednesday. They called 911 about 11 a.m. to report what they initially thought was damaged machinery .
"The aircraft part will not be removed until the process is completed, at which point it will secured by the NYPD Property Clerk."
American Airlines and United Airlines have declined to comment on the discovery of the landing gear.
A spokesman from Boeing told CNN that once a part is sold to an airline, Boeing won't be able to provide any information on it.
The owner of the property, Sharif El-Gamal, released a statement saying, "Soho Properties recently discovered a piece of the aircraft from the World Trade Center tragedy. We immediately alerted the City of New York and the New York Police Department, and they are currently removing the piece of evidence from the site. We are cooperating fully with the appropriate authorities to make sure this piece of evidence is removed with care as quickly and effectively as possible."


text:
Cross-posted from the Smart Chicago Collaborative Blog
The US Department of Transportation has issued a data challenge for civic app developers to build apps that address public safety, access to transportation, and that help the Department of Transportation better understand and reduce traffic congestion.
Goal: Develop tools to help people make decisions about transportation.
Specifically, the Department is looking at three categories for the challenge.
- Safety: how can we address safety concerns and challenges? What communities have the safest roads and transit, and why?
- Transportation Access: how can planners improve the way transportation connects people to jobs, school, housing, and community resources?
- Traffic Management and Congestion: how can we better understand and reduce traffic, congestion, and emissions?
US DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx had this to say about the challenge:
It's all part of a balanced and responsible approach to improving our transportation system. Yes, we need to continue investing in infrastructure, but we also need to make better use of the resources we already have, and one of the most valuable resources we have is data.
Over the last few years, there has been a tremendous change in government at all levels–rather than sitting on their datasets, from city to county to state and across the agencies that make up our federal government, organizations are making their data publicly available in formats that make it easier for innovators to convert that data into information and useful tools for the public, urban planners, policymakers, journalists, and others.
Even with thousands of datasets open to the public, we still need innovators like you with the vision to develop tools that help people use data to make decisions.
The winning team will be invited to US DOT headquarters to take part in a special ceremony with Secretary Foxx and other senior officials.
Deadline: April 30th, 2014
Data Resources:
The US Department of Transportation has over 1600 transportation related data sets at data.gov along with several developer resources. These developer resources include:
- Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Open Source Data API
- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) SaferBus API
- Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Safety Data APIs
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) APIs
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) API
At the local level, Chicago also has several sets of data related to transportation including:
- Average Daily Traffic Counts
- Daily Boarding Totals for the Chicago Transit Authority
- Historical Congestion Estimates by Region API
The State of Illinois' Department of Transportation also publishes data on transportation including:
Examples of Transportation Related Apps:
SpotHero: SpotHero is a civic startup that efficiently connects parking demand and parking supply. SpotHero allows parking spot owners to earn income by renting their spot when it's unoccupied.
SpotHero was the winner of the Apps for Metro Chicago Challenge in 2012. Since then, they've graduated from TechStars/Excelerate, raised 2.5 million in VC funding, expanded to seven cities and has hired twenty people.
Chicago Bike Crash Map: Crash data for Chicago in 2005-2012 where a bicyclist or pedestrian was the first point of impact by a driver's automobile, as collected by responding law enforcement and maintained by the Illinois Department of Transportation.
TextMyBus – Built by Code for America for the the Detroit Department of Transportation. This app lets riders text a number to see when the next bus is.
Questions about the challenge
Q: Do I have to build something specifically for this challenge?
No, this challenge is all about highlighting the great work being done around using transportation data. So, if you've built a transportation app already, feel free to submit it!
Q: Do I have to have a fully completed app?
The apps need to have a working prototype, but beta versions are more than OK.
Q: Is there a place I can have my app user tested?
Yes, if you're in Chicago and want to utilize the Civic User Testing group to test your app you can submit your app for testing here.
Q: If I win, will the Department of Transportation use my app?
Winners will be featured on the Department of Transportation website and your app will be accessible by the public through that website.
If you have other questions about the US DOT Data Challenge, you can email email@example.com with your questions.


text:
Part of Australian history, the Drizabone Oilskin coat like the Akubra hat is synonymous with the Australian identity. The Dirzabone coat was designed Edward Le Roy a Scottish sailor who found that a torn ship sail could be used to make long coats and sou'westers. The painting of the fabric with a mixture of oils made the coats excellent wet weather wear.
Drizabone range now includes not only coats but jackets, vests, trousers, hats and sweaters that come in a in a variety of fabrics and weatherproofing finishes. Plus Drizabone also offer a range of leather accessories. Drizabone products are made and designed with great attention to detail and using the highest quality materials.
At the Nungar Trading Company we have a large range of Dirzabone coats and products at the best prices.


text:
Soft and feminine, this new lightweight lace trim hijab is so comfortable and practical, yet stylish enough to be classified as a dressy hijab. A must have for your hijab wardrobe.
Fabric Description and Care
• Hand wash or dry clean
• 75" x 31" (191 cm x 79 cm)
• Viscose and Cotton blend
• Thickness: Light
• Weight: Light
• Texture: Soft
• Visibility: Slightly see through
• Somewhat prone to creasing
• Wearability: Not slippery
While we try our best to ensure product colours shown are a true depiction of the actual product colours, we do not guarantee a true colour match.
Your order will be shipped within two business days, unless otherwise specified. Please note that we are able to provide tracking numbers for the following shipping methods ONLY:
Expedited US Business
Xpresspost USA
Xpresspost International
We strongly recommend using one of the above shipping methods for your peace of mind, security and speedy delivery. When an order shipped internationally reaches the destination country, the package may be subject to Customs clearance procedures which can cause delays beyond original delivery estimates. These delays are normal and beyond our control. If in doubt, or for additional information, please email us at [email protected]
Additional Information
|Enable/Disable Addtocart


text:
Mobile Apps Development
Website Optimisation
Mobile Integration
Design and Usability
Application Management
Get your applications into the palm of their hand.
Technology is our forte
Did you know… as of 2013 there were 224 million monthly active mobile app users in the US alone?
100% satisfaction guaranteed
Mobile Apps Development
We can help increase you reach a greater audience by facilitating your app's inclusion into app stores. Read more
Website Optimization
Make it easy for them – optimizing your website for mobile devices ensures your visitors are getting Read more
Design and Usability
Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Maecenas a nisi mauris.Read more
Application Management
We know the ins and outs of the Apple App Store (iPhone/iPad) and Google Play (Android) marketplace, to…. Read more
Mobile Integration
By-pass the browser. Whether it's a content management system or email service, a custom…Read More
Development with PhoneGap
By utilizing PhoneGap development, in just one step your mobile app can be deployed seamlessly across all mobile…Read more
The IFCON Advantage
Your Mobility Partner.
The mobile world is moving fast & does your current web product keep pace? Partnering with IFCON Technologies will get you ahead of the curve. And keep you there.
Featured Project
Bravo – Make Video Calls – Multiplatform
Bravo, a multiplatform application being developed where users can make video calls to other user and share Images and Video while being in the chat. Users can also use comment featues while in the video chat.
Krishna did a great job for this project. The code he created was clean and I am already working on another project with him. I liked working with Krishna on this project. Even though we kept changing the features, Krishna and his team was patient in delivering the project. Highly recommended.
Vj Anma
Seatle, Washington, United States
Good provider. He delivered the project as requested. Definitely would use again and he will be invited for future projects.
Randy Anson
Taxfix Inc
Spring Branch, Taxes, United States
This is the first time we have worked with IFCON and I just want to say how professional they were. From the very start they made us feel at ease. The project went perfectly with IFCON completing every task on time and with no fuss. These really are a fantastic well organized company; we will be working with them again and will recommend them to everyone. Thanks again IFCON.
Guy Moxey
www.moxeyonline.comGloucester, United Kingdom


text:
Citizen insecurity thwarts Latin America's development, says UNDPNov 12, 2013
Regional Human Development Report recommends prevention, institutional reforms and long-term national agreement to tackle violence
New York - Insecurity is a shared challenge that obstructs social and economic development in every country in Latin America, says a new UN Development Programme (UNDP) report launched here today. But crime control measures alone are insufficient; the most effective way to reduce citizen insecurity is by improving people's lives, boosting inclusive economic growth and enhancing security and justice institutions, according to the Regional Human Development Report (HDR) 2013-2014.
The HDR "Citizen Security with a Human Face: evidence and proposals for Latin America" reveals a paradox: in the past decade, the region experienced both economic growth and increased crime rates. Despite social improvements, Latin America remains the most unequal and most insecure region in the world. While homicide rates reduced in other regions, they increased in Latin America, which recorded over 100,000 murders per year, totaling more than a million from 2000-2010. While homicide rates stabilized and even declined in some parts of Latin America, it is still high: in 11 of the 18 assessed countries the rate is higher than 10 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, reaching epidemic levels. Moreover, the perception of security has worsened, with robberies hiking threefold in the last 25 years, says the regional HDR.
"Citizen security is a sensitive issue which preoccupies many political decision-makers and reverberates in the heat of electoral campaigns," said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark. "It is a crucial issue for several regions, including Latin America and the Caribbean, because without peace there can be no development, and without development there can be no lasting peace."
"There is no magic solution to insecurity, but this serious problem can be remediated—with vision and long-term political will," said UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNDP Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Heraldo Muñoz. "Each country needs to secure a National Citizen Security Agreement between the government, political parties and civil society so it truly becomes a state policy."
The HDR focuses on six main overlapping threats that negatively impact the region: street crime; violence and crime committed by and against the youth; gender-based violence; corruption (the misappropriation of public property, whose provision is the responsibility of the state); violence committed by state actors and organized crime.
"While some threats—such as organized crime, especially drug trafficking—are often used to explain insecurity, the regional, national and local dynamics are much more diverse," explains the HDR coordinator Rafael Fernandez de Castro.
One of the main lessons drawn from Latin America is that the "iron fist" policies do not work: strong police and criminal repression in the region have often coincided with high crime rates, the report says. The assessed experiences confirm that protecting the rights to life, to dignity and to physical integrity is essential to citizen security, which, as a public good, is a responsibility of the state, highlights the regional HDR.
MAPPING INSECURITY - While poverty and inequality decreased in most of Latin America from 2004-2010, in more than half of the assessed countries homicide rates rose, even in countries with lower levels of poverty. In addition, one in every three Latin Americans reported being a victim of a violent crime in 2012, says report.
The region's rising consumer expectations and relative lack of social mobility drive "aspirational crimes," says the HDR. The transformations sparked by rapid and disorganized urban growth, as well as changes in family structure and school system deficiencies have also influenced crime in the region. Moreover, firearms, substance abuse and drug trafficking also drive violence, even though they are not direct causes of crime, according to the HDR which states that "the capacity of Latin American states has not risen the challenge of insecurity: corruption and impunity and lack of proportionality in sanctions have undermined its effectiveness and legitimacy."
UNDP-conducted surveys in prisons in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Peru highlight persistent social challenges. One in every three inmates left home before age 15 (in Chile, one in every two), and between 13 percent (Argentina) and 27 percent (El Salvador) never met their father or mother. The survey also revealed that 40 percent of inmates in Chile did not finish primary education. In all assessed countries, more than 80 percent of inmates did not complete 12 years of schooling.
The report also reveals a direct correlation between urban growth and crime: most countries with an urban population growth above 2 percent per year (the natural population growth) also reported increases in homicide rates, with the exception of Colombia and Paraguay. "The problem is not the size of the city, but the institutional capacity to include groups in marginal conditions," says the regional HDR.
Young Latin-Americans, especially males, are the most affected by crime and violence and yet are the most common perpetrators, according to the report. El Salvador (92.3) , Colombia (73.4) , Venezuela (64.2) , Guatemala (55.4) and Brazil (51.6) have the five highest youth homicide rates in the world (per 100,000 inhabitants), according to 2011 World Health Organization data .
The HDR highlights gender violence as a persistent threat and an obstacle to human development, public health and human rights in the region. Records of domestic violence, rape and female murders (femicide) have increased in almost all assessed countries. Among the UNDP-surveyed inmates who had committed sexual offenses, between 75 percent and 90 percent reported knowing their victims before the crime and between 20 percent and 40 percent were family members.
PERCEPTION OF INSECURITY - In all assessed countries the perception of insecurity is greater than the direct victimization, says the report. Five out of 10 Latin Americans perceive that security in their country has deteriorated. But in Honduras, for example, which has the highest murder rate in the world (86.5 per 100,000), eight out of 10 citizens feel safe in their neighborhoods—in line with the regional average. In contrast, in Chile—which has the lowest murder rates in the region (2 per 100,000) and low levels of victimization for theft—the perception of safety is worse than in Honduras: seven out of 10 citizens feel secure in their neighborhood.
COSTS OF INSECURITY - Insecurity impacts individuals, societies and democratic institutions. It also affects the region's economic potential: without the excess mortality due to homicides the region's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) would have been 0.5 percent higher, equivalent to a potential gain of more than US$24 billion in 2009. In addition, Latin America lost 331 million years of life in 2009, considering the loss in life expectancy and the region's population, based on the homicide rates for 15 countries.
Honduras incurs the highest costs of crime and violence as a percentage of their 2010 GDP (10.54 percent, equivalent to $1,7 billion), followed by Paraguay (8.7 percent, or $1,7 billion), Chile (3.32 percent, or $7.2 billion) Uruguay (3 percent, around $1.2 billion) and Costa Rica (2.52 percent, or $915 million), according to a UNDP-Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) study for the report, which analyzed the costs of crime and victimization levels in those five countries. Public expenditure as a result of crime (police officers, judges, prison system, among others) is higher in all countries except Uruguay, where the costs incurred before crimes are committed (such as security, insurance, prevention) is higher.
STATE RESPONSE - Reforming basic justice and security institutions—police, judges, public prosecutors and prisons—is essential to respond to citizen insecurity, says the HDR, which emphasizes the need to restructure the hiring, management and professionalization of staff. The report analyzed the proportion of police and judges in different countries and conducted surveys that revealed very low levels of public confidence in the criminal justice systems. Except Nicaragua and Panama, more than half of Latin Americans expressed little or no confidence in their courts' response in case they were victims of theft or assault.
The UNDP report states that the prison system is in crisis in almost all countries in the region. Some factors such as institutional weakness of the police and courts, overpopulation and abuse of preventive detention are key challenges. In addition, the rehabilitative function of prison systems has not been prioritized in the region, according to the report, turning them into "spaces that promote violence, human rights abuse, criminal networks and recidivism." Also, the perception of Latin American citizens of incarceration as a solution to the security problems has hindered the attempts to reduce the prison population, boost alternative measures and encourage social reintegration, stresses the HDR.
BEYOND THE STATE - The report highlights the importance of "non-state actors' " response, including civil society organizations and international cooperation. However, it emphasizes that due to the growing sense of insecurity, the expansion of the middle classes and the "thinning" of the state, private security guards are increasingly being hired in Latin America at an average annual growth rate of 10 percent. The region now has almost 50 percent more private security guards (3,811,302) than police officers (2,616,753) and Latin American private security agents are the most armed in the world, with rates of gun possession per employee ten times larger than Europe. This phenomenon further increases inequality, as social groups have different capacities to deal with crime, says the HDR.
RECOMMENDATIONS – The report emphasizes that efforts to improve citizen security must take into account the specific needs and demands of women and young Latin Americans, highlighting 10 political recommendations based on lessons learned from the region: 1. Align national efforts to reduce crime and violence, including through a Citizen Security National Agreement as a state policy; 2. Generate public policies to protect those most affected by violence and crime; 3. Prevent crime and violence through inclusive growth; 4. Decrease impunity by strengthening security and justice institutions while respecting human rights, 5. Promote the active participation of society, especially local communities in the construction of citizen security 6. Increase human development opportunities for young people 7. Tackle and prevent gender-based violence in the domestic/ private and in public spheres; 8, Safeguard victims' rights; 9. Regulate and reduce "crime triggers", such as alcohol, drugs, arms and weapons through a comprehensive public health perspective 10. Strengthen international cooperation coordination and evaluation mechanisms.
The regional HDR assesses citizen insecurity in 18 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela.
In New York: Carolina Azevedo, email@example.com , Tel: +12129066127; Vincenzo Pugliese, firstname.lastname@example.com, Tel +12129065296
In Panama: Pablo Basz, email@example.com, +507 305-4864
For broadcast quality footage: Boaz Paldi, email@example.com, Tel: +12129066801


text:
With more than 100 golf courses along a 75-mile Atlantic coastal strip, 1,600 restaurants, beaches, shopping complexes, amusement parks and live entertainment theatres, you've got lots of choices to make in Myrtle Beach. Perhaps your most important decision is where to stay. How about a roomy holiday rental instead of a small hotel room? Myrtle Beach has an amazing inventory of beachfront rentals, condos, cottages, cabins and villas that offer you spacious accommodations and a great base to explore the phenomenal entertainment options in the area. Whatever you choose, rest assured, we'll help you find the right place for you and your family at a great price.
Sixty miles of sandy beaches provide the perfect venue for a variety of family-oriented water sport activities, including sailing, jet skiing, deep-sea fishing, snorkelling and scuba diving. Golfers will find great value at top-notch courses designed by golf architects like Pete Dye, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Fazio and Greg Norman. Saltwater marshes, dense native forests and the Intracoastal Waterway provide major features of many designs. In the evening, enjoy live family-friendly entertainment at The Carolina Opry, Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede Dinner & Show and Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament. Shop till you drop at a wide selection of shopping malls, factory outlets, speciality shops and flea markets.
Fill up your tank and some fabulous day trips await you. Charleston, the antebellum city loaded with historic buildings and Civil War sites, is less than a two-hour drive. The colonial city of Georgetown, where you can lunch at a waterfront café and then walk the oak-lined streets, is a 35-minute drive. If fishing or bird watching is appealing, head twenty-five minutes south to Pawley's Island, a barrier island.
Beach house? High-rise condo? Cottage? If you're looking for a holiday rental on or near the sandy beaches, there are several areas to consider, including North Myrtle Beach, Central Myrtle Beach, Surfside Beach and Garden City Beach. Regardless of where you stay, you're never far from golf, beaches, shopping and entertainment. For families, Myrtle Beach has one of the best tourism infrastructures anywhere. There's something to enjoy for every member of the family.
If you opt for a holiday house with a pool and a fully-equipped kitchen, you can save money and prepare a phenomenal meal while the kids splash away. Some rental homes have spacious patios where you can grill steaks, burgers and hot dogs and let the good times roll. It sure beats the high prices and hassles of dining out.


text:
FEBRUARY 2012 : WATCH GHOSTGIRL IN FULL RIGHT NOW! Click HERE...
It's been 2 years since we made our short film and as that means it's now lived it's festival life, we thought we'd just go right ahead and share it with you. FOR FREE!! We really hope you enjoy our movie. We're extremely proud of the story, the performances and perhaps most of all that it was one of the very first 'films' to be shot on the 5D way back in Feb 2010 and, shooting in as much low light conditions as it does, made it pretty pioneering!
Haven't clicked that link yet? WATCH IT NOW, FOR FREE, HERE!!
For earlier news story - with behind the scene's clips, awards, how 'Ghostgirl' came to be one of the first dramatic films to be shot on the 5D and for links to Dave Armstrong's popular technical videos about using the kit, for instance, go to our NEWS page.
VISIT OUR BLOG for the story of how 'Ghostgirl' came into being, and for personal notes from Writer/Director Dave Armstrong about using the Canon 5D/Zacuto rig etc