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Rumors claim that one of Apple's 2017 iPhones will be made of a glass substrate which could be ceramic, sapphire, liquid metal based glass, zirconia or other similar material. Recent patents (one, two and three) have described a 'transparent display cover structure,' 'sapphire coating equipment' and 'laser polishing system for a ceramic iPhone. Yesterday the US Patent & Trademark Office published an Apple granted patent that generally relates to sapphire materials, and more particularly, to laser-colored sapphire material and methods of coloring sapphire material using lasers. The new laser system provides a way to color all or portions of a glass based iPhone without using paints that are susceptible to cracking and/or chipping, as the matte black iPhone 7 has been recently.
Apple's Patent Background
Conventional electronic devices are typically made from durable materials to protect the electronic components of the device. Various portions of the device are thus formed from materials that withstand the everyday wear-and-tear applied to the electronic device. That is, portions of the electronic device may be formed from a material that may withstand constant handling of the electronic device by a user, the transportation and/or packing of the electronic devices and undesired blunt forces (e.g., dropping, sitting on) applied to the electronic device during use. Conventional electronic devices may be formed from metals (e.g., aluminum), reinforced glass, and/or polymers (e.g., plastic, rubber).
Alumina (Al.sub.2O.sub.3), one example of which is sapphire typically, is not used to form most portions of electronic devices. As a result of the physical and/or chemical properties of sapphire, certain manufacturing processes used to form portions or components of an electronic device may be difficult and/or expensive to perform on sapphire material. For example, housings for electronic devices typically include designs, text or logos formed right on or in the material forming the housing. The designs, text or logos may be painted directly on a surface of the housing, and the housing may undergo various processes (e.g., heat-setting, coating, and so on) to prevent the paint from being removed. However, over time and normal use of the electronic device, the paint may begin to wear and be removed, as the paint is only applied to a surface of the sapphire material.
Laser etching or burning may also be used to form logos on sapphire material. However, these processes typically require the use of difficult and complex intermediate steps, such as ion bombardment of the sapphire material, in order for the etch or burn to be successful on the sapphire material. These complex steps, which are required because of the physical and/or chemical properties of sapphire, increase cost, time and complexity of successfully etching or burning the sapphire. In addition, the visible color of each etched or burned logo onto the sapphire material is typically limited to black, gray or white.
Apple's Solution
Apple's granted patent generally to sapphire materials, and more particularly, to laser-colored sapphire material and methods of coloring sapphire material by using lasers.
In a particular embodiment, process or method for coloring sapphire material includes positioning sapphire material over an opaque substrate material, typically a metal or metal alloy, and subsequently exposing the opaque substrate material to a laser through the sapphire material to induce a chemical change in the exposed portion of the sapphire material. The chemical change in the sapphire material results in a change in visible color through a portion of the sapphire material that is exposed to the laser. Specifically, the formation of a color within the sapphire material is a result of an exchange of ions and/or atoms between the opaque substrate material and the sapphire material, and/or the embedding of ions and/or atoms from the opaque substrate material into the crystal lattice of the sapphire material.
An electronic device such as an iPhone comprising a housing, a cover glass coupled to the housing for protecting a display positioned within the housing, and an input button positioned through a portion of the housing. The electronic device also comprises a sapphire component forming at least a portion of an external surface of the housing.
Apple's patent FIG. 1B noted above depicts the sapphire material, the opaque substrate material and the laser utilized to color the sapphire material; FIG. 7B depicts a back view of a smartphone that includes a sapphire material having a visible colored portion; Enlarged FIG. 2G depicts the distinction in chemically changed portions and the visible color regions 130 and 140 formed therein.
Apple further notes that the visible color portion is permanently formed in the sapphire material, and is not easily removed. Additionally, the visible color varies the operational parameters and/or characteristics of the laser beam and/or the material composition of the opaque substrate material. As a result, the sapphire material can includes distinct and different visible colored portions, and even multiple colored regions within the same sapphire material.
In a non-limiting example the laser may be an infrared (IR) laser that may emit an IR laser beam (e.g., laser beam #122) toward and/or through sapphire material #100. The operational parameters and/or characteristics (e.g., frequency, wavelength, pulse width and so on) of the laser and/or emitted laser beam may substantially affect the visible color formed on/within sapphire material during a coloring process.
For the record, Apple's granted patent that was issued yesterday was filed back in Q3 2015, well after the problems with sapphire plant partner GT Advanced Technologies filing for bankruptcy.
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On July 26, actor Park Seojoon gave an interview to various Korean media outlets. He attended the interview to promote his new movie "Midnight Runners" to be released soon, but it was notable that he mentioned about BTS' V during the interview.
Well, actually, in the movie, Park Seojoon mentions about "Over Watch", a very popular PC game among young Koreans, and when he was interviewed, he was asked if he enjoys playing the game in real life. He answered, "Yeah, I enjoy playing the game in real life. Actually, I recently played the game together with actors who have appeared in drama 'Hwarang'". You know, Park Seojoon was a leading actor of "Hwarang", while V appeared in the drama too. Since then, Park Seojoon and the idol star has been maintaining a very close relationship with each other. So, check out what Park Seojoon talked about V.
I think V likes me so much because "Hwarang" was his first ever drama. He's really good-hearted. You know, BTS has already become a top class idol group, and V is loved by so many fans all around the world. However, he's easy-going, and he is still thankful for everything. We have our chat room, and we always support each other. I think we will be able to maintain such a great relationship for a long time. I invited him to the VIP preview of my movie too.


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By Dana Stanley
This morning at the Insight Innovation eXchange we heard a series of short presentations where vendors proposed solutions to the Insight Innovation Challenge – a series of real-world market research challenges posed by end users. Each vendor had only 5 minutes to present.
It was a rapid-fire series of thought-provoking ideas. Following are summaries of each of the presentations.
Dane Jensen, GfK
Jensen discussed GfK's approach to helping clients with predicting disruptive innovation. He gave examples of Chobani Greek yogurt entering the US market, Coppertone developing sunscreen spray, and Apple's introduction of the iPhone. Market research traditionally delivers insight, but we need to add foresight. GfK's approach encourages companies to look outside their own category to outside influences. Factors they examine include new technologies, health trends and industry experts.
Ellen Guggenheim, Blue Ocean Market Intelligence
Guggenheim stressed her firm's utilization of what she called a 360 approach leveraging multiple data sources. She gave a case study of a new cloud-based business application that worked with Blue Ocean to do a market sizing exercise and to forecast their potential sales. The analysis was comprised of syndicated research, competitive analysis, primary research, secondary research and social media analysis.
Linda McIsaac and Gerald Klodt, Xyte
McIsaac and Klodt spoke of their firm's development of "cognographics" – a superset of demographics and psychographics. Cognographics are based on the way the brain processes information, and they attempt to explain at a subconscious level why people do things. There are sixteen "cognofiles" – segments based on cognographics, which explain much of behavior and motivation across a wide range of domains. McIsaac mentioned that well-known researcher David Polltrack of CBS has used their methodology.
Paul Conner, Emotive Analytics
Conner spoke about his firm's methods for revealing consumer feelings. Specifically he gave examples of how they use methods targeted at the subconscious to improve patient compliance through implicit understanding. He noted the same methods can apply in different industries. Connor used an innovative method in his presentation – he had virtual "Tonto, " "Tarzan" and "Frankenstein" of Saturday Night Live fame make 10 points about his firm's research methods.
Michael Hagerty, Mizzouri
Haggerty made the point that complex research will always have its place, but it's a much smaller place than it's made out to be. His firm's approach is to delight the customer – and do no more (such as pushing solutions on a client). They emphasize speed and simplicity. Mizzouri's primary product is a concept evaluation tool where clients control the three drivers of price: sample, stimulus and questions. They recruit participants from a national panel, then they present the concept and get the respondent's first impression – positive, neutral or negative. They they ask "why?" in an open-ended format. The second step is to present a subset of the concept components in a randomized order, and they elicit commentary from the respondent on specific elements of the concept. Finally they score images based on first impression and present that score alongside the detailed qualitative markup of each one.
Robert Moore, RJ Metrics
Moore explained how his firm helps companies use their own data to make better decisions. They can create an RJMetrics dashboard from pretty much any data that a company produces. This allows firms to monitor key performance indicators and dig down in real-time. Their three steps are: extract, warehouse and visualize. Their historical sweet-spot has been highly transactional companies such as online retailers, but their solution applies to any industry where event-based data occur.
Kerry Gilger, VisualCue Technologies
Gilger explained his firm's solution, the "VisualCue Tile," which helps firms solve their big data an analytic challenges. Simplicity and transparency are core values. Each dashboard tile represents an asset and contains icons which represent aspects of that asset. Real-time changes in data change the properties of the icons. Users can sort, filter and group tiles based on those properties. The tiles can also represent chronological and geospatial aspects of business events. He gave an example of tiles representing the performance in real-time of individual US Postal Service delivery trucks.
Shelley Kuipers, Chaordix
Kuipers explained her firm's innovation in crowd-sourced market intelligence. She said her firm's approach democratizes market intelligence. She explained three products which are in use today, including a global women's' foresight and innovation network helping firms understand women's purchasing, a crowd-sourcing prosumer indicator helping identify best customer advocates., and a predictive brand positioning matrix to help brands understand how they are perceived.
Adam Hansen, Ideas to Go
Hansen explained that business managers fear that innovation takes too long and is too risky. His firm helps increase the speed of innovation while reducing risk. They have a process called Innovation Engineering that helps firms move rapidly through the cycle of innovation. They train their clients to dissolve risks with small steps and make a new go or no-go decision on an innovation every week. They also have an innovation database. They offer three levels of innovation training basic, system and cultural change.
Fiona Blades, Mesh Planning
Blades explained that experiences build brands, like a bird builds a nest. Emotional responses need to be captured in real-time. Mesh Planning invites consumers to be your eyes and ears on your category. Participants send a text us whenever they see, hear or experience anything with a list of brands in your category. The text includes the name of the brand, the occasion, the feeling, and the experience. Then consumers have the opportunity to tell more in an online diary.
Anand Ramanathan, Embee Mobile
Ramanthan explained that his firm offers free mobile gift cards and mobile service credits to a global population of mobile users for engaging in behaviors and sharing information. They work through an app called EmbeePay on Facebook. Their service works across multiple devices because it is based in HTML5. When doing research in India, for example, iPhones and other smartphones are a bad option. They have built in rewards for respondents to realize for engaging in behaviors. Ramanathan gave a case study where Nielsen used Embee Mobile to conduct store audits in India.
Matthew Listro, CrowdTap
Listro explained that CrowdTap helps researchers reach difficult to access populations which live on social media but do not normally participate in research. They have 15 gamified approaches to get feedback from hard to reach populations on the on the devices they use. He gave an example of how Woolite generated and decided among thousands of new product names generated within one day. CrowdTap also does in-home ethnographics, shop-alongs and in-home usage tests.
Alex Slater, RealEyes
Slater explained that RealEyes helps find and measure disruption potential. They have created a way to rapidly apply Paul Ekman's famed Facial Action Coding System (FACS). This allows them to track in real-time subconscious reaction to stimuli and indeed whole categories. They have an automated service where users can upload a product concept and quickly get a report on the emotional reaction. RealEyes can help predict likelihood to purchase and likelihood to become a fan of the product.
Preriit Souda, TNS
Souda presented via video from London as he was not able to attend in-person. He talked about TNS' ability to extracting insights from social media across platforms. A key benefit is to target surveys to only those who have actually talked about your brand or visited your shop – without asking them. Don't ask if they are already telling it. Rather, focus on the why part of the equation.
Thomas Zoëga Ramsey, Neurons Inc.
The System 1 challenge. Methods that are validated, reliable and available to assess the unconscious consumer. Cognition, Attention, Motivation and Emotion. Eye2D2 predicts where people are going to look – heat map. Neuromarketing Omnibus. Upload materials – 10 locations – emotions, motivation, cognitive load. Neuromarketing Taskforce. NeuroMeta.
Murray McKerlie, Whit.li
Social media monitoring. Single source, holistic view of consumers. Consider interests, demographics, history, personality. System 1 is not the same for everybody. Personality – extraversion, conscientiousness, open-ness, agreeableness, neuroticism. New segments – "elites," "tech forward," "healthy new moms." Find engaged users of brank, examine what they follow and categorize, examine their content.
Stephen Phillips, ZappiStore
Phillips explained that ZappiStore's goal is to take human being out of research analysis. They have taken the best of market research thinking and created individual research apps to automate the process. What clients lose in flexibility, they gain price and time. They tell clients they can get them 80% of the way there for 5% of the time and 5% of the cost. Clients configure and buy automatically. They just upload a visual of the product, create a summary, set a price range, and add in product attributes. The result is a series of reports showing who loved the concept, heat map, open-ended word clouds, a price demand curve, revenue potential and more. Results are also shown against an underlying normative database,
Herwig Lejsek, Videntifier
Lejsek freely admitted that he was not even familiar with the market research industry until recently. His firm primarily sells to law enforcement. Their software searches video and images to find matches. For example, brands can find where their logos – and their competitors' – appear in video and images across multiple platforms. Where is a brand on the internet, and how is being used and modified. Lejsek stated that manual watching of video content is over.
Eric Warddrip, Placed Inc.
Warddrip explained how his firm uses smartphones as an ideal source to get a representative sample. They have 70,000 panelists across their own app and partner apps. They have validated GPS against questions asked. Demographics have been validated against social media and US Census tracts. The result is a highly precise sample which can be accessed via mobile. Warddrip gave an example of a high end clothing retailer that learned that young millennial women were browsing in their stores and then ultimately purchasing cheaper alternatives. Placed Inc. can help brands know where their customers are likely to visit, for the purposes of advertising placement.
Greg Laughlin, StatWing
Laughlin explained that the goal of StatWing is to modernize data analysis. He described StatWing as more powerful than Excel and more usable than SPSS. He explained how his tool actually has baked in the choice of data analysis technique based on the data properties. It automatically performs an analysis that is appropriate for the type of data entered. Reports and statistics produced are annotated to help the user who may need to brush up on various statistics. The tool allows an analyst to drill down and test different scenarios.
Menaka Gopinath, Ipsos SMX
Gopinath spoke about the extent to which digital convergence has changed our lives. Whether we want them to or not, people are using digital tools to live their lives. Today data is present everywhere. The goal of Ipsos Social Media Exchange is connecting the dots. They are adding a social layer to existing Ipsos research tools. They specialize in social listening and communities. They overlay social data and verbatims. They have a rubric where they visually summarize the positivity, virality, and share of social media mentions. She concluded that listening is as important as asking, and social is embedded in every story.


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In most cases, when parents are going through separation, they do not like talking to their children on what is going on in the family. They do this as they try to protect their children and prevent upsetting them. On the other hand, there are some parents that have a lot in common with the children. Thus, it becomes very challenging to strike a balance. However, family mediation is an effective process that can assist you know how and what to tell the children.
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At a very young age, it is possible for your children to realize that there is something that is not normal and if one parent goes away from home without giving any form of explanation, children can suffer from trauma. If there has been no information, they get confused and feel powerless on what is happening in their home. It is hard to tell them what is happening without blaming the other partner, but it is good to help them know what happening. By doing this, you also motivate them to know that it is not wrong to talk on what is happening and ask any questions they may have.
It is necessary for children to know that it is not their mistake that their parents had to separate. Most children develop this feeling and they may react in ways to try to make the other parent to come back.
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It can be confusing to tell the children that their parents no longer love each other. This is because they may think that one of the parents may also stop loving them too.
They develop such feelings because they may not be aware of the difference that exists between relationship that exists between child and parent and the one between adult parents. At this stage both parents must give assurance to the children that they will love them forever.
Talking to the children about what is happening makes them be open to talk about their feelings and ask any question they may have. If they feel that they are being given attention, they will be able to adapt to the situation fast.
Some of the things that children should not know and would find hard to here include:
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- What solicitors or the court say about their parents.
You can fall into this trap if you feel so much hurt, but you need to imagine how you would feel if this comes from your children. It is good to note that children come up with their own judgment regarding their parent behaviors as they grow.
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Sourcing, attracting, recruiting and retaining talented individuals that best meet the needs of your company is imperative and, at the same time, increasingly difficult in today's highly competitive global market.
McKinsey & Company, a leading management consulting firm, who first predicted 'the war for talent' maintains that now, and in the foreseeable future, talent is the prime source of competitive advantage. "The value of hard assets has declined relative to the value of a company's intangible assets – assets such as proprietary intellectual capital, winning brands and innovative ideas. Underpinning all of these is talent."
It has been over a decade since the business community was first alerted to the fact that a major battle for talent was underway. Since then, the competition has intensified as a result of workforce demographics, globalisation and differences in the expectations of the latest generation of skilled workers. It would be wrong to assume that companies have been complacent. Organisations have invested time and resources into developing HR systems and processes to improve their ability to acquire and develop talent. However, research reveals a gap between the awareness of the talent issue and an effective response to it. As McKinsey consultant Edward G Michaels III states, "Our research suggests that executive talent has been the most undermanaged corporate asset for the past two decades. Companies that manage their physical and financial assets with rigour and sophistication have not made their people a priority in the same way."
One of the biggest obstacles to effective talent management is short-termism. Talent management that is seen as a human resource initiative, separate from the business strategy, is doomed. The consequence of a short-term focus is that most talent management programmes have been inadequate and therefore have largely failed to deliver.
Research by Guthridge et al (2006) which included in-depth interviews with fifty CEO's, business unit leaders and HR professionals from around the world, support this finding with nearly half of the interviewees expressing concern that their senior leaders don't align talent-management strategies with business strategies.
Guthridge et al's research also points to 'all too human' obstacles that prevent talent management programmes from delivering business value. Fifty-four percent of respondents agreed that senior managers don't spend enough time on talent management and fifty-two percent believed that line managers demonstrated insufficient commitment to developing talent.
Companies that are gaining advantage in the war for talent have tackled both the strategic and human issues head on. Talent management is an integral part of the long-term business strategy and is jointly driven by senior management, executives and HR. These organisations have also radically adjusted the way that they manage people and have made great efforts to instil a 'talent mindset' within all levels of the organisation, that is 'the deeply held belief that building a strong talent pool is critical to achieving the aspirations of the company.' McKinsey (2001)
Again, the 'talent mindset' is steered by top management however it is crucial that every employee, at every level of the organisation, feels responsible for finding, championing, developing and helping to retain talent within the organisation.
The rewards of such actions are demonstrable. Schlumberger, a leading international oilfield service provided, for example, has a reputation for having some of the most talented employees in the oilfield services industry. They continue their aggressive pursuit and development of staff in good times and bad and have reaped the rewards, with over 80% of their top management starting with the company straight from school. McKinsey's studies also consistently demonstrate that companies that are addressing the challenges of the talent war deliver far better results for shareholders. 'Companies scoring in the top quintile of talent-management practices outperform their industry's mean turnover by 22 percentage points. Talent management will not be the only driver of such a result but is clearly a powerful one."
In his original work, McKinsey emphasised the recruitment and retention of the high performing 20% or so of managers. He found that these top-performers were twice as likely as average performers to improve productivity and increase sales and profits. McKinsey argued that these 'A-players' should receive greater investment and higher compensation than the average.
While it is still true that developing these leaders will pay dividends more recent studies have shown that such a narrow focus results in companies leaving a huge amount of human potential untapped.
Companies must make every effort to find and develop talent at all levels of the organisation including the front line staff, technical specialists and the capable, steady performers that often form the majority of the workforce. All but the underperformers should be included in a successful talent management strategy. It is important that underperformers are dealt with effectively, as they impact negatively on talent.
Read the concluding part to this series of articles next month.


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One young Obama supporter in Bladensburg, Maryland was incredibly excited to be thisclose to President Obama earlier this week.
Just for fun, let's have a caption this post this afternoon. Let's hear your best quip at the kid's inner monologue. What's he thinking when his photo was snapped?
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Research Handbook on Export Marketing
Edited by Craig C. Julian
Chapter 11: The effect of prior assessment of new product ideas on the performance of new product export ventures in international marketing
Gabriel O. Ogunmokun and Ling-yee (Esther) Li
According to the literature new product development is crucial to an organization's long-term survival and growth in today's competitive global market (Brown and Eisenhardt, 1995; Cooper, 1979; 1988; 1993; 1994; Cooper and Edgett, 2003; Cooper and Kleinschmidt, 1986; 2003; Czinkota and Ronkainen, 2001; Felekoglu and Moultrie, 2014; Montoya-Weiss and Calantone, 1994; Kotler and Armstrong, 2004; Murphy and Gorchels, 1996; Terpstra and Sarathy, 2000; Wind and Mahajan, 1997). Most prescriptive marketing literature also covers the importance of developing new products and following a process to reduce the risk of failure (see, for example, Armstrong and Kotler, 2011; 2013; Kotler and Keller, 2009; Kotler et al., 2013; McCarthy, 2010, Perreault et al., 2013; Pride and Ferrell, 2010). However, although new products could be a major contributor to company growth and profit performance, the risks associated with innovation are as great as the rewards. According to Wind and Mahajan (1997), new product development is plagued by a high failure rate. Despite the high failure rate of new products most of the empirical studies in the new product literature focus on the domestic market (e.g. Cooper, 1979; Cooper and Kleinschmidt, 1986; Parry and Song, 1994), hence Douglas and Craig (1992) in their review of the international marketing literature as well as Cavusgil and Kirpalani (1993) called for more studies to be conducted on identifying the factors that contribute to the successful performance of new products in international markets.
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A most important thing you need to consider when you want to start blogging is to choose the best suitable blogging platform for your blog. Choosing the best blogging platform for your blog will make an awesome product for you and your visitors. So always wisely choose the blogging platform or in these thing we might help you because we produce by researching on web some of popular blogging platforms to produce your blog and make you a successful blogger.
Here is the List of Top Ten Blogging Websites on Web to Create your new Blog.
1. Blogger.com
Blogger.com, A Free Weblog Publishing platform from google. if you want to create a new blog for you then this platform will be best suitable to you. if you don't know how to create a website so you can create your blog and share text, images and videos on your blog. You can also add google adsense to your blog can earn some amount of dollars using your blog but condition is that your blog is good at ranking and you applied for google adsense. With blogger.com you can easily customize your blog you can add beautiful themes to blog, integrate plugins to blog.
2. WordPress.com
WordPress.com, a most powerful content management system and blogging community in the world. No dought wordpress is the best CMS in the world but it is also one of the most powerful blogging community site in the world.Wordpress make your blog more Design Friendly, more SEO Friendly. If you want to attractive designing blog then wordpress is best option for you. find free or paid themes from lots of wordpress themes, just integrate to your blog, write your thoughts on post, make a post and wooohhhh……. Your blog is Ready.
3. Tumblr.com
Tumblr.com, A new and large world of creators means for those who are passionate to blogging. Those who are love to blog and want to make awesome blog then this option will be right for you. on Tumblr, you can find and read blogs on different different categories like Games, Art, Elections, Sports etc.
4. squidoo.com
Squidoo.com, it's a blogging platform where you can create a beautiful blog using your knowledge. You can also earn on squidoo by collecting lens from your blog. You can collect lenses by making your blog popular and get more traffic. So on Squidoo you can write articles and earn money. So if you like to Work From Home then Squidoo blogging is the best option for you.
5. HubPages.com
Hubpages.com, a also write and earn blogging site. on this site you can easily create and write and publish your blog. Attract readers to your blog and be popular on web and also earn via getting traffic to your blog. So if you love to write and wanna earn money through blogging just sign up on hubpages and post your thoughts and earn from home.
6. Weebly.com
weebly.com it's mostly used for create awesome websites but it's also used for blogging. this website has a lots of beautiful themes to integrate to your blog. this website is also provides mobile friendly blogs means you can easily view and read your blog on mobile or tablet. weebly is a drag and drop blog builder so you just have to drag and drop to create a beautiful blog and weebly has a lots of multimedia functionalities like beautiful photo galleries, slideshows, video library etc.So just signup and create a beautifully designed blog.
7. Posterous.com
Posterous.com another classic blog creator website now acquired by twitter. You can share your blog to this website. Blogs created with posterous.com are mobile friendly and SEO friendly so you have not much to do for mobile and seo. You can also assign the permissions for the blog means you can made your blog for public or only for friends. if you share anything on posterous it will automatically resizes and optimizes your images and videos. So Posterous has some awesome features like awesome themes, mobile and seo friendly themes, easily manage and customize multiple spaces, easily optimizing for your blog and more. if you want to create your blog with these type of features then this site is best suitable for you. so don't wait and just create your blog at posterous.com
8. Livejournal.com
Livejournal.com a mostly it's a social network website but also used as a blogging platform to write articles. on Livejournal you can write blogs and share it with your livejournal friends and communities on livejournal. Because of livejournal is a social network so you can easily find blogs from livejournal users on various subjects like science, technology, gadgets, information technology, shopping etc.
9. Blog.com
Blog.com as the name suggest it's only made for bloggers. More than 2 million bloggers blog using blog.com. This website has a lots of features like blog stats, domain automatic redirection, use your own favicon, lots of beautiful themes, integrate lots of widgets, multi-author blogs, post from your mobile and more. So if you need blog with these features register with the blog.com.
10. Jux.com
jux.com, A best way to share your content. It displays your content so powerfully and beautifully that you will love it.This is a perfect website used for blogging, portfolio, business, events and also travel. Using its Slideshows you can easily share your images and display your content beautifully. So create and share articles using jux and become more popular on web.
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"During his remarks, Senator Manar himself admitted that SB16 still needs work. Why would any legislator knowingly approve a bad bill? This 'pass it now and we'll fix it later' mentality is dangerous and it's how bad bills end up becoming bad laws in our state.
"The Senator certainly looked agitated and bothered as he was taking his personal shots at me and my House Resolution this morning. But we suburban legislators are taking all of this very personally. He is taking aim at our schools and defunding them.
"Had he read HR1276, Senator Manar would have seen clear language promoting a thoughtful and thorough process for complete education funding reform. My public statements regarding the dangers of SB16 have always included references to the need for comprehensive reforms so that all students across the state can be college and career ready.
"The Senator spoke at length about the bipartisan process that led to the creation of the Education Funding Advisory Committee's report. But activity over the summer has been completely partisan. Republicans only learned of the SB16 meetings from education advocacy groups who alerted us to the fact that the meetings were taking place. Senator Manar's claims that the process remains bipartisan are completely false.
"During his remarks, Senator Manar, a Democrat, said that school funding proration has been devastating to Illinois schools, yet he takes no responsibility for the fact that the Democrats are the ones who have created budgets that have cut education spending by more than $600 million since 2009. Simply making wise financial decisions that start with funding education at 100% would go far in addressing many schools' struggles.
"I invite Senator Manar to dispense with the angry partisan bickering and secret Democrats-only meetings and engage in a full and open discussion about education funding reform. We need to bring all stakeholders to the table and talk outside of the parameters of SB 16, which directly threatens suburban schools."


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About 3 Civic Plaza:
3 Civic Plaza is Surrey's only Premium Hotel plus Residences community.
The Residences at 3 Civic Plaza is located at 13495 Central Avenue in Surrey. 55 storeys and 349 units. People started moving into 3 Civic Plaza in July of 2018. 3 Civic Plaza is located next to City Center Library and City Hall and is adjacent to the Surrey Central Skytrain station. Walk to SFU & Central City Shopping Center with over 130 retailers and services. Less than 37 minutes by Skytrain to Waterfront Station. Only a 10 minute drive to Highway 1.


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December 26th, 2013. Home Design, Nice House Style for Season Changes.
With the coming of summer, is time ramp up your house style. Summer of course means new house appearance, especially in the house interior. It is important to choose the perfect color for the house wall or the house furnishings. And don't remember to change the furnishings arrangement, this way you can reflect the season change in your house.
We will start will color choosing. This is important since changing home interior color could be the occupant's daily mood. First of all is to use the colors of the sea. Decorating your interior furnishings, floor and wall would be much nicer if you use light blue color. Not only it will create the senses of spacious environment, but it wills fresh-up the overall room atmosphere. House style design is not only about picking the quality ones but also the appropriate design.
The next is to use neutral colors for your home interior. Some may argue that neutral color does not fit much with summer season. But with neutral colors, you can take your home interior style into the next level. This means home interior will looks much comfortable instead of annoying bright color that is sometimes too much to handle.
After choosing the colors is to choose the patterns. One important thing is to use stripes for your interior elements. Stripe will be perfect for your bedroom's bed, sofas or pillow. Stripe will perfectly match with room with white color.
As you can see in the pictures, this combination will maximize the spacious aura many home owners need. Using minimalist furnishings in the summer of course would be a good choice for your house interior style, since minimalist will complement the surrounding environment outside the house.
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2017 Valspar Championship Par4Miler
Want to Run the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook?
Here's your chance! Registration opens on November 1 for the second running of the Valspar Championship Par4Miler.
The race takes place at 4 pm on Sunday, March 5 — the day before the golf tournament begins. Racers have the unique opportunity to run on the cart paths through the golf course.
Registration ($35) includes the race, tshirt, medal, after party and a voucher for a can of Valspar paint. PLUS, the chance to purchase a ticket to the Valspar Championship golf tournament at Innisbrook Golf Resort for just $20.
11/4/16 NOTE: This post has been updated with new 2017 race details.
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Registration opens Tuesday, November 1st. Details on the Par4Miler website. Here are a couple of views from last year's inaugural race:
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2016 Gopher Weedon Trail Run
8K Trail Run is Sold Out for 2016
Friends of Weedon Island announced on October 18th that this year's trail run was officially sold out at 200 participants. I'm happy I'll run for the turtles again this year. Read my review: 2015 Gopher Weedon Trail Run
2nd Annual Fort DeSoto 15k
Better Weather in Second Year
This is my personal recap. Detailed Race Review —> 2016 Ft. DeSoto 15k Review
This Old Cranky Runner
Somewhere in mile 5 my stomach began to gurgle and rebel. That was the first time in 19 long distance races that I experienced stomach turmoil. I did not like it.
I'll admit I was cranky for a couple of miles. But, I kept running. After a pit stop at the North Pier restrooms, I felt better. I finished the race in 2 hours. Nowhere near a PR today, but that's okay.
I decided to think of this race as a training run. I'll keep running longer distances, and increase my hill and speed workouts to prep for the upcoming half marathon season.
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The National Weather Service Forecast Office says Anchorage has had twenty inches of snow this winter. That's about a third of what we normally have at this point. And we've so often had temps above freezing that pretty much all we've seen for months now is a crusty layer of ice (it can hardly be called snow). I pity the teenagers having to take to the roads in driver's education this winter.
I did some research on snowfall records in past years, and I found some interesting data HERE and HERE. I'm holding out hope that we'll have a redo of the following: in corner number one, winter of 2002-2003! In corner number two, winter of 2003-2004. Weighing in at a measly 36.8 inches, winter number one clearly stood no chance against its neighbor, winter number two, who weighed in at a whopping 113.9 inches and won a place in the top-five record winters for snowfall! Granted, we still have a few winter months left and could potentially get a good dump of snow, but I foresee another bottom-five record with all the warm fronts that seem to be moving in.
Since our snowshoes are languishing in storage, and our most useful item has become ice cleats, my husband and I went exploring on the trails by our house. Besides sliding around on our bums and nearly falling down a few cliff edges, we had a pleasant walk. I savored the air that once again smelled of thawing life. Winter has its own smell, but every year I forget the sweet, earthy flavor of the air when things start warming up again.


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Sanitary Bins Midlands
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The levels of hygiene in your washrooms and premises are an important consideration for any business. You have a responsibility to protect your staff and visitors from the spread of germs and bacteria by having sanitary bins available at all times for the safe containment and disposal of sanitary waste.
How confident are you that your business is meeting all these health and safety regulations for the segregation, collection and disposal of sanitary waste that you must fulfil?
Medicare provides fully managed washroom services to address common issues faced by businesses
Like all our other washroom services, Medicare offers a fully managed service on our sanitary bins, with a collection service that can be scheduled to your budget and requirements.
Always an affordable choice, no matter the size of your business, we will arrange our collection service to suit you, making it easy for you to have sanitary bins in your washrooms. For peace of mind so that you can concentrate on the day to day running of your company, we will take care of every aspect for you as part of our pro-active approach, with fast installation and continuing to give your individual needs our full attention from then onwards for a pleasant washroom experience for visitors time and time again.
Our trained professionals are licensed to carry and dispose of sanitary waste, fully complying with all relevant regulations surrounding sanitary bins, waste and its environmentally friendly disposal. Changing the liner of the sanitary bin, relining and sterilising the unit or replacing the sanitary bin with a clean fresh one on every visit, we ensure that you are provided with a complete solution, avoiding unhygienic conditions in your washrooms.
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The Sad But Predictable Demise Of FCB
Struggling FCB has been put to sleep in Australia as the agency signs an 'affiliation' deal with local independent, AJF Partnership.
The announcement that the decades-old FCB brand will be folded in AFJ Sydney from August 4 has saddened former chief executive Colin Wilson-Brown. But Wilson-Brown, who was CEO until 2001 and is now principal of The Clinic, was not surprised by the news.
"They've struggled to win business and keep their head above water for the last decade really and I think loosing major clients like SC Johnson in Sydney and then Honda in Melbourne was inevitably going to lead to them deciding there was no point being here any longer, which is sad really.
"But if you could predict an old established agency name that was going to disappear from the market FCB would have been at the top of most people's list.
"Big agencies that don't have a clear personality and position and lots of international business aren't going to survive in this market are they?"
Digby Richards, managing director of AJF Partnership Sydney, told B&T that five senior staff will be moving from FCB to AJF. The new staff will swell AJF Sydney's workforce to just under 30.
Richards would not comment on how many FCB redundancies are to follow in the wake of the affiliation.
He also refrained from naming the FCB clients that are set to move to AJF but FCB's website lists a number of clients including Oreo, Nivea, Lindt, Nivea Men and Wattyl Paint.
Richards said the move was consistent with FCB's international strategy with the firm having chased affiliation agreements in other markets.
He described AJF's partnership with FCB as a "non-equity affiliation" and said there would be no on-going relationship beyond AJF tapping into the FCB network from an intelligence point of view.
"There are no plans in that regard, it is just a commercial arrangement to help them in Australia," Richards told B&T.
"Their approach is to get the best people in the market to help service their multi-national clients and luckily they chose us."
Richards said he was excited to welcome the clients and five staff who are coming across, describing them as "grownups, not kids".
"They have a similar culture to us which is business orientated, creative solutions. It's not just about wacky ads, it is about helping clients grow their businesses."
FCB has struggled in Australia, with the agency closing its Melbourne office in 2012 following the loss of Honda.
It is difficult to pinpoint exactly how long FCB has been in Australia, according to Wilson-Brown who sold Magnus Nankervis & Curl to FCB in 1993. Wilson-Brown believes FCB has been in the market from around the mid-70s "in one guise or another".
FCB became DraftFCB in when it merged with Draft in 2006 but Draft was shaved off the agency's name in March this year.
For more see AJF Partnership's statement announcing the affiliation deal here.


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Its a place undefined in time, a location that no one would ever willingly travel to. Are we there yet? The answer is yes. But its going to take 7 to 8 years for the reality to sink in.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
War and Non Wars
This is a little off topic, but right now the world is in the midst of several armed conflicts and many are mislabeled "wars." Wars are fought by two differing groups wearing uniforms to designate their affiliations and there are rules of engagement. If you remove your uniform and go behind enemy lines, you are then considered a spy and entitled to be immediately shot if discovered. In these types of conflicts, civilians are a protected group.
In a second type of conflict many times labeled "a war," are religious conflicts. There are no uniforms to designate participants, in fact, most are masked. These barbarians think nothing of killing a man's family, if they cannot get the man himself. What we need to realize is that these people are terrorists and do not even deserve the right to surrender and be captured. They claim to be innocent civilians when discovered.
We need to recognize what terrorism is, it is an attack on everyone, not just the military of a country. We have a war in Syria and at least half of the combatants wear uniforms; in Israel, the same thing. In both cases, only one side is held accountable, only because they follow the rules of war.
In the Ukraine, they have a civil war and the war is real, they're not trying to kill civilians. It is soldier killing soldier. When it's over, the winner's rule and it has nothing to do with religion.
Most of the civil unrest in the world right now involves the Muslim religion. They are using terrorism to conquer those who block their path with mindless senseless trails of death and destruction, through terror and intimidation, with the hope to conquer, kill and convert what is left.
A pressure cooker blows up during the Boston Marathon and it sets a whole nation on edge. Our airlines could be on the verge of collapse with one or two future successful terrorist attacks.
As a suggestion, why not drop one or two nuclear bombs on ISIS to show them what we are using for a pressure cookers? We don't need boots on the ground to vaporize someone who is a terrorist. This might give Iran second thoughts on producing a nuclear device. If they want to wear a uniform and play by the rules of war, then that would change the game plan. Right now our game plan doesn't work because they don't play according to the rules of war. They are playing to win and are succeeding, the threat to kill your wife and kids will make anyone toe the line.
A nuclear bomb would bring home to them the absolute horrors of real war, more so than a car bomb or a pressure cooker. The certainty of the lethal impact of a nuclear weapon makes a car bomb seem like an act of futility. If you get vaporized, you don't get the 60 virgins. Of course I could be wrong on that, no one has come back to complain that they didn't get their quota of virgins. And if we are talking sheep, I can see a realistic possibility of filling that quota of virgins.
We need to examine the rules of engagement for terrorists. Do we play by our rules, or do we give them a dose of what they are handing out to the rest of the world?
I'm sure that I will be more on topic next week.
4 comments:
- Brian said...
I like that you strayed from the blog's theme. It is your blog.
I get tired of writing about our statist government. After awhile- it gets old and nauseating.
Most of us are waiting for the economic collapse but instead we are being treated to a decade of deficits, counterfeiting, and enriching the elite. When does it end? Who the fuck knows but I'll tell ya this- it can't go on forever.
- Wednesday, August 20, 2014 9:09:00 AM
- Jim in San Marcos said...
Hi Brian
You raise an interesting point. I'm just as enthusiastic about this blog as I was in the past, but there isn't much that is new to write about.
I really don't want to bore anyone to death either.
I agree with you, that this can't go on forever, I keep looking at this house of cards wondering what is holding it up.
And if you give it some thought, the only thing that we can really lose is our savings in the bank.
Social Security will always be there, even if the cost of living excludes food and energy and healthcare and (insert your item here).
Upon retirement you realize that senility sets in and you don't give a damn. So its Win Win all around unless you have your wits about you,
I too am waiting for the collapse, Gold and Silver bullion could be the item that allows us to retain some of our wealth.
Thank you for your comments and take care.
- Wednesday, August 20, 2014 9:24:00 PM
- Joseph Oppenheim said...
This is the most peaceful time in history (% of people dying from war).
- Thursday, August 21, 2014 10:45:00 AM
I hope you are kidding about dropping nukes in the middle east. It is our restraint that makes us a great nation.
- Monday, September 22, 2014 11:27:00 PM


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Planning Assistance Team — November 2005
New Orleans, Louisiana
The American Planning Association (APA), in response to requests from the New Orleans City Planning Commission and APA's Louisiana chapter, assembled a team of six qualified urban planners to assess the capacity of the city's planning function in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
After gathering preliminary information about its assignment, APA's New Orleans Planning Assessment Team visited the city from October 23 to 28, 2005; conducted a tour of the city's devastation; interviewed a cross section of public officials and community leaders; and thus formulated a set of conclusions and recommendations that might assist local officials as they seek to make sound decisions about the city's restoration and redevelopment.
This report presents the APA Team's general observations about the city's planning function, including activities of the City Planning Commission and the Mayor's Bring New Orleans Back (BNOB) Commission. On the basis of those observations, the report proceeds to make recommendations for addressing short- and long-term planning issues, and suggests appropriate next steps.
Charting the Course for Rebuilding a Great American City
An Assessment of the Planning Function in Post-Katrina New Orleans
By evaluating previous studies, interviewing local experts, and attending meetings of the two local commissions with the authority to lead post-Katrina redevelopment planning — the statutory City Planning Commission and the Mayor's BNOB Commission — the APA Team has been able to make some general observations about the city's planning function. We have used these observations as the basis for an analysis by which we might classify the planning function's attributes as assets, needs, opportunities, and challenges.
Meet the Team
Fernando Costa, AICP, served as Team Leader. The team included: Jane S. Brooks, FAICP; Chandra Foreman, AICP; Bob Lurcott, FAICP; Grover Mouton; and Richard Roths, AICP.


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Here we are again, Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Freddy and Eric de Ferret.
You can tell that winter is on it's way, we had thick frost on the car this morning and there was frost all over the grass as well!
Not only that, did you know that we have the first 'Storm Warning' of the year, they have called it 'Angus'!
It is supposed to be at it's worse this night or the early hours of the morning, so I reckon Holly will need to have a wee before we go to bed tonight!
Back down on the beach Holly and I were playing 'Dig and Whizz', what we didn't know was that Miss May and Eric were planning a 'Take Over' of out hole!
|OK, lets get them now!
I tried appealing to Old Two Legs but he said I was being a wimp and should not be a bad looser!
|..........but Daddy, they have stolen it from us!
|It's our ball now!
picked up the ball and put it back into the poo bag he keeps the ball!
That sorted them out!
Back home the ferrets enjoyed a rampage around the house while OTL was 'Poo Shovelling' in the ferret cages!
One of his favourite jobs!
Lunchtime came and we were down there again and the tide was still out, so no swimming!
Holly and I resumed our 'Digg and Whizz' game.
|My turn to Whizz!
They said it was too cold to hang about on the beach.
They had fun exploring the cut grass and chasing Nargles!
|Quick! Another Nargle over there!
Freddy said that he saw a Nargle creeping up on Holly and offered to chase it away.
I think that really Freddy just wanted to make Holly jump!
Naughty Freddy!
|I'll save you Holly Dog!
Sunday tomorrow and with that storm called Angus we will be staying tucked up under the duvet!
See you tomorrow!
Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Freddy and Eric de Ferret.


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Yeah, we know your bride-to-be is always the point person when it comes to fine-tuning the details of the wedding, and there are several things you (the groom) can do to pull your destination wedding weight, too. But while you're ironing out those deets, you (or your best buds) should think about that highly-anticipated mancation to get the gang together and to celebrate your last days as a single man. For the best weekend of all time – guaranteed to be filled with memories – consider one of these five locations for an epic guys' weekend… face tatt and tiger not included.
New Orleans
This Louisiana town isn't just known for its Mardi Gras celebration, it's also becoming one of the coolest places to kiss your single days goodbye. Enjoy all this southern city has to offer from jazz to beignets and everything in between. Bourbon Street is where you'll want to stay for the vibrant live music and exciting nightlife. Foodies will revel in the variety of incredible Creole and Cajun cuisine offerings, such as jambalaya, gumbo and crawfish boils. Hey, you definitely won't go hungry in New Orleans.
If country music and dive bars are more your style, Nashville is the place to see and be seen. Tennessee's capital is rapidly becoming one of the most popular places to celebrate your last single weekend. With a laid-back atmosphere, great live music, and delicious southern food, this is the place to bring the boys for a great time. Hit up a few of the local breweries or hop on the pedal tavern and bike to the hottest bars. You won't regret any time spent here.
Beautiful beaches, ideal temperatures and round-the-clock nightlife – what more could you ask for in a bachelor party destination? Enjoy water activities, sip a cold one as you dip your toes in the cool ocean water, and spend quality time relaxing on a beach. Life can't get any better. The best part about Miami is when the sun sets, the town becomes even more vibrant. Pick from dozens of delicious restaurants and celebrate in some of the world's hottest clubs. You can't go wrong partying in this coastal city with an international appeal!
The capital of Texas is another great place to spend a weekend with the guys if you're interested in an eclectic live music scene combined with a thriving restaurant scene. You and your friends can enjoy your favorite singers and bands performing everywhere, including coffee houses and annual festivals such as SXSW and Austin City Limits. And don't leave without trying the tasty Tex-Mex dishes several restaurants and food trucks serve up every day. After listening to music and enjoying some local food, choose from a variety of activities such as kayaking, stand-up paddle boarding, or visiting local watering hole, Barton Springs Pool. The groom's best friends can keep it weird in Austin with a long list of things to do and see before your bestie walks down the aisle to tie the knot.
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You can't talk about an epic boys' weekend and not mention the party capital of the U.S. From gambling and sports betting to pool parties and concerts galore, you can pretty much do anything your heart desires. Casinos are open 24/7, you can walk the famous Las Vegas strip while sipping a cold brew, and the variety of high-quality restaurants can't be beat. We know you'll have one hell of a weekend. Trust us, that's a bet you'll want to take.


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Motorcycles have a lot to do with bicycles, while the first motorcycles were basically motorized bicycles. The Suzuki company decided to create a modern hybrid of motorcycle and bicycle, which was named «Feel Free Go!». The novelty was presented at the Tokyo Motor Show.
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Lighten Up
Hey Everyone, happy Sunday. How are you? Hoe is the new week looking? One of my medical doctor cousins (yes I have more than one "Doctor Cousin") shared the picture below. It is sure to make you laugh some. It is notes that were found in patient files – mostly written by doctors. Enjoy.
Please bear with me, I have and still am in the process of moving house. I don't know where my laptop is as we speak and I know I am behind on posting winners announcement. I will do it soon. Moving house with two 8 month olds and down 6 flights of stairs with a dead lift is just mentally exhausting.
March is also looking up as we settle into out new abode….
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As Julien Bourrelle, a French-Canadian PhD candidate in Norway, Founder of Mondå, and author of The Social Guidebook to Norway emphasized in his presentation at the recent International Afternoon (read more about his presentation here: After the International Afternoon): If you want to integrate more fully in Norway and even make some real Norwegian friends the key is to get involved in organized group activities. Norwegians are awaiting you on sports teams and in student organizations, you just have to join. Today I'll highlight one such potential opportunity, volunteering at Kvarteret.
Image; http://www.studvest.no/volunteering-for-fun-discounts-or-the-training/
My stupid back prevents my volunteerism
Although I've only been a couple times, I am thrilled (as you can see from this post) by the concept of "Mikromandag"(Micro-Monday), discounted craft-beer Monday (from 17.00 till 1.00). My enthusiasm inspired me to attempt to volunteer for Kvarteret's pub. But, alas, similarly to when I (spectacularly) failed the 7 Mountain Challenge, my back injury prevented me going the distance. Bending and lifting, apparently, do not work for me. I can tell you though, that apart from my back, my experience was extremely positive. I enjoyed the other volunteers and working in the pub immensely. The student-volunteers seem easy-going but still dedicated, and they were certainly friendly and knowledgable. I still hope to heal enough to volunteer in the future.
How did it work? I signed up on Kvarteret's website (letting them know about my back concerns), was contacted by email, went in for a trial shift, then again for an interview, and then starting training. Sadly my back did not let me go further (for now). The volunteer-staff were extremely understanding, but they definitely need more volunteers. While I'm healing, you should volunteer in my place!
But first, a little Kvarteret teaser:
Det Akademiske Kvarter (the Academic Quarter), Bergen's student cultural center has a cafe, a pub, and a lot going on. Kvarteret hosts 1500+ events annually, including concerts, film screenings, and other activities, one such event is Septemberfest, coming up this weekend, the 18th and 19th of September. Septemberfest, Kvarteret's answer to Oktoberfest, offers a mini beer tasting, with kr 40 vouchers to get 2 dl tastes of 7 Fjell, Lysefjorden Mikrobryggeri, Northern & Co, and Voss Bryggeri beers. Even the cafe will offer food on Friday inspired by Oktoberfesty-ness (look out, sausages!). So grab your lederhosen and try out a Kvarteret event and some great Norwegian microbrews.
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You can check out everything else that's going on at Kvarteret's website, here.
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Learn more about Volunteering at Kvarteret
If Septemberfest and my overexcitement about good beer doesn't make you want to start volunteering for Kvarteret immediately…
- You might want to explore their volunteer page where you can watch videos about the different volunteer areas (although these appear to be in Norsk) including hospitality, security, sound and light (AV), public relations, kitchen staff, production, IT, legal, and finance.
- Or check out a short article highlighting a couple volunteers, here.
- And definitely take a look at Studvest article Internationals find volunteer opportunities at Kvarteret, which highlights the benefits and responsibilities of volunteering at Kvarteret.


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Research InterestsI am broadly interested in the power of parameterization in the context of algorithm design. In particular, I like understanding the mathematical structure of parameterized input instances, and how they can be exploited in the search for faster algorithms. Examples include, but are not limited to:
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almost one year ago, clinton administration jetsam dick morris washed up on fox news and made this bold prediction about hurricane katrina's impact on bush's popularity:
y'know, george bush basically believes the federal government should do two things: fight wars and help people recover from disasters and now he's got both on his plate. i think that his ratings are gonna soar! not necessarily in the next three days, but over the next year he's gonna look so good doing all this stuff.
morris' hosts — even bush apologist-in-chief sean hannity — were understandably skeptical:
morris: ... the people who said this storm is gonna hurt bush's presidency are just wrong. he can get all the money he wants out of congress 'cause of this disaster, the people will be solidly behind him, the media will cover it like crazy, and he's gonna look like santa claus.
colmes: so if you're advising democrats now, how would you advise them to react?
morris: to shut up and stop harping —
colmes: ha! "shut up" ... !
morris: — and screaming and hollering and pointing fingers, and start amassing national credits by showing the same liberal democratic compassion bush did.
colmes: so they should just agree with him and say he's doing a great job.
morris: yeah, they — just like right after 9/11, they hurt themselves by any kind of carping. ah, bush — this speech was fantastic!
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morris: ... you have a president that doesn't think government should do a lot. but he believes they should fight wars and that was the first term, and they believe they should recover from disasters and that's the second term. man, is this guy fortunate!
hannity: [chuckling] fortunate to have a disaster?
morris: fortunate to be able to be president at a time when he can respond without violating his principles.
with bush's approval at 41% (according to a fox news poll released on the day of the broadcast), dick probably thought his analysis was not completely ludicrous, since bush seemed to have nowhere to go but up:
today, 41 percent of voters approve and 51 percent disapprove of president bush's performance, which is the lowest job rating he has received in a fox news poll. the president's approval rating is down 4 percentage points from two weeks ago (45 percent, august 30-31), around the time the magnitude of katrina's damage was becoming clear. before the hurricane, 47 percent approved and 44 percent disapproved (july 26-27).
well, after a year of bush's "liberal democratic compassion", dick may have been at least half-right — bush had nowhere to go. nowhere but down, that is, and he's dragging his republican-led congress down with him:
the new poll finds the [sic] 36 percent of americans approve of president bush's job performance and 56 percent disapprove. these results are in line with the ratings the president has received for the last couple of months. moreover, for the past three surveys the gap between approval among republicans (76 percent) and democrats (10 percent) has been 66 percentage points.
the assessment of the job congress is doing continues to be abysmal, as more than twice as many americans say they disapprove (58 percent) as approve (24 percent).
to be fair, dick's fawning pronouncements would not necessarily have been so pathetically absurd had he been prognosticating about any other president than the dismal one we are presently stuck with. to vindicate dick's wet dreams of republican munificence, all
nerobush needed to do was to roll up his sleeves and simply deliver on dick's assurances of timely and tangible material support to katrina's victims.1 compassion — if bush actually has any to give — without assistance is nothing more than contempt.
it was sickening enough that dick neglected to acknowledge the federal government's own culpability in the disaster that so fortuitously befell louisiana. but did dick truly believe that this potemkin administration ever intended to provide new orleans with more than a white wash and red tape? did he truly believe that the destruction of a major american city ever meant more to bush than just an opportunity for another series of woefully ineffectual photo-ops in bush's non-stop dog-and-pony tribute to himself?
1 and of course, while he's at it, bush would also need to pacify iraq and lower oil prices and catch osama bin laden and jump-start the economy and ...
Sunday, August 27, 2006
one year later
Posted by aarrgghh at 5:11:00 AM
Labels: alan colmes, bill clinton, bush, congress, democrats, dick morris, disaster, economy, fox news, hannity, hurricane, iraq, katrina, new orleans, oil, osama bin laden, poll, republicans
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