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You can't go wrong with a perfume gift on Valentine's Day, but this year we're stepping it up a notch. We're talking extra-spesh, personalised perfume gifts that they'll never forget. So prepare to be your best ever, with our personalised perfume hacks...
Give them an engraved perfume
The more meaningful the better when it comes to perfume. So show that special someone how much they mean to you with an engraving on the bottle. Think of this as your ultimate Valentine's Day gift: their favourite perfume with their initials or a personal message. What could be better? We recommend gifting Hugo Boss Boss The Scent For Her, which she'll love with her name on it. Oh and she'll fall head over heels for the sexy blend of cocoa and honeyed peach! For that guy in your life, how about Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb? Its magical combo of cinnamon and grapefruit means he'll want to wear it every day. That's you sorted for Valentine's Day.
Stick a photo on the wrapping
We all know fragrance brings back memories, so you'll be totally upping the romance if you stick a photo of both of you on her perfume present. Or you could wrap up her absolute favourite scent, then choose a picture taken of her when you best remember her wearing it. Opting for a summery scent like Tom Ford Orchid Soleil for her or Davidoff Horizon for him? Get a picture from your last getaway together. They'll love all the effort you've made - see, we're giving you all the credit. Well done you!
Wrap your perfume in lottery tickets
Don't estimate the power of perfume and luck on Valentine's Day. If you want to be a total LEGEND this year, wrap their new perfume in lottery tickets. Cool, eh? Let's face it, they'll be totally stunned. For some extra good luck, buy them a hot new scent. We can't get enough of Paul Smith Rose for her, which mixes peony, bergamot and white musk or Joop! Wow! for him, with its delicious notes of vanilla, tonka bean and citrus. Now how can you NOT be lucky after that?


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Buy-side firms use many tools and processes to manage their clients' investments. When firms grow, the complexity of their support infrastructure only compounds. As firms struggle to meet growing demands, a question emerges: when new or updated software is needed, is it better to build or to buy?
This is not a simple decision. There are important challenges all buy-side firms must overcome during the "build or buy?" decision-making process. Here are six common challenges and best practices to keep in mind if your organization is looking for a new software solution.
1. Intuition is Often Wrong
As with many complex decisions, key stakeholders sometimes weigh their options and decide that the answer is obvious based on their intuition. This type of decision-making can be risky. Intuition is often wrong, especially when the true company needs and system requirements aren't fully known or understood at the outset.
Best practice: don't rely solely on your intuition or the intuition of key stakeholders. Instead, test your intuition through due diligence.
2. Limited Visibility
Often, core users of a current system are not key decision makers and do not have the authority to provide their perspective in the build or buy decision. Key stakeholders, who have a very different perspective than core users, must understand the totality of the value, integration, and functionality of the current and potential systems.
Best practice: involve those who will be daily users of the system early and often in the decision process. They bring a unique and important knowledge base to your firm's daily operations.
3. IT and Data Security
Another important consideration is your IT and data security infrastructure. This should be explored no matter what type of system you choose. Security—and who is in charge of that security—is critical for your systems and data.
Best practice: look for a solution that alleviates, rather than deepens, the burden of IT and data security. Whether you build or buy, your new software will have significant implications for how IT will manage data and security.
4. In-House Development Capabilities
Does your firm already employ a team of developers? If so, is your team large and skilled enough to build out the new system you envision? These are crucial questions your firm needs to consider early in the decision-making process.
Best practice: if your firm doesn't already employ one, factor in the resources required to build and maintain an in-house development team.
5. Scale and Complexity
How complex is the system you envision? In general, the smaller the scale and level of complexity, the easier it is to build. Conversely, systems that are complex and require highly specialized software are usually more cost-effective to purchase.
Best practice: focus on your firm's long-term goals. A long term perspective will help you determine how complex your new system should be, how it will adapt to new challenges in the future, and whether you will gain the most value by building or buying.
6. Industry Best Practices
Are your peers facing the same challenges as you, and does a similar solution work for many in your industry? If so, buying an industry-leading software solution is likely the choice with the most return on investment.
Best practice: consider the many significant benefits of a technology solution that solves common industry challenges based on industry experience and client feedback.
Want to learn more? Click here to download Clearwater's To Build or Buy? A Decision Making Framework for Buy-Side Firms to help your firm through the build or buy decision and to see the decision making process in practice.

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The Battle between Asian Cuisines
Feb 15, 2015 21:45 · 617 words · 3 minutes read
- Let's go out for Asian food!
- Sure. The usual choice?
What's your usual choice when it comes to Asian food? By usual, I mean convenient, not favorite.
Very often many people I know group Thai, Malaysian, Vietnamese under the same roof as Chinese's step-brothers or sisters, while Korean and Japanese are in another. They don't think Indian belong to Asian cuisine at all. And the rest barely exists.
I remembered the first time I suggested my Russian friend back in Boston to grab some Malaysian food. Mouth widely opened, he said: "What?!? Malaysian is another type of food? Isn't it the same as Thai or Vietnamese?"
When you live in diverse cities like London, New York, San Francisco, the above scene doesn't happen very often, but once in a while, you see similar image mirroring that eerie effect. Choices are abundant. Google any kind of food you fancy to eat and you will surely find one. At the same time, you also see many fusion restaurants. And when it comes to fusion, you don't hear American fusion, African fusion, or European fusion very often. It's always Asian fusion.
This is where the battle begins.
You find it hard to differentiate one from another. Rice and noodle, spring onion and bean sprout, herb and spice, fish sauce and soy sauce, kimchi and tofu. You are bewildered and you end up associating one dish to ten countries in Asia. So you go to Asian fusion (or Chinese) places for the rest of your life, and you never get out of this battle.
I'm not suggesting you should never visit an Asian fusion restaurant. But for a start, you don't jump into the ocean before learning how to swim in the pool. You don't want to visit a fusion restaurant with menu that makes you dizzy and a myriad of choices I guarantee you have no idea what they are, and finally you give up ordering the easiest and most familiar dishes.
Put some work in learning about a nation's food. Your nation's food is like your mum's food. You surely don't want to mix your mum's food with others'. You take pride in your mum's cooking. So do others. Respect that.
We are global citizens. Everyday we experience a sense of togetherness and constant mix of cultures, and at the same time, we stand strong for your own identities. Acknowledge others' identity. By doing so, you acknowledge yours and encourage others to do the same. We are very lucky to be able to reach the world with just the tip of our tongues. Think about it in terms of food, you might find yourself having croissant for breakfast, burrito for lunch, and sushi for dinner. Voila, you've already covered three continents within the course of a day.
Fix your mindset. Fix the way you experience food, not only Asian food but any kind. Start with one country. Do your research. Pick a restaurant. Ask for advice. Try different dishes (not Pad Thai every time you visit a Thai restaurant). Repeat the process. Soon enough you will know exactly what to look forward to when you order Korean seafood hotpot or bubble tea with mango poppings.
We should see Asian cuisines as a close group of friends, in which each and every one has distinctive traits and characters, yet they are in harmony. They don't fight against each other. They don't compete. They nurture the others, and by doing so, they nurture their own identities.
So perhaps the battle between Asian cuisines is nothing but the battle created in your mind.
Fix that, my friend.
And oh next time let's meet for some Ethiopian food.


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D: Akira Kurosawa
20th Century Fox/Toho (Akira Kurosawa)
Japan 1980
179 mins
W: Akira Kurosawa & Masato Ide
DP: Takao Saito, Shoji Ueda, Kazuo Miyagawa & Asakazu Nakai
Ed: Akira Kurosawa
Mus: Shinichiro Ikebe
PD: Yoshiro Muraki
Tatsuya Nakadai (Shingen Takeda / Kagemusha), Tsutomu Yamazaki (Nobukado Takeda), Kenichi Hagiwara (Katsuyori Takeda), Kota Yui (Takemaru), Hideo Murata (Baba)
Akira Kurosawa's samurai epic begins in 16th century war-torn Japan, a petty thief is hired as the double of a samurai warlord and upon the warlord's death, must stand in his place to keep the army's morale from dying.
Kurosawa's movies were a huge influence to George Lucas and Star Wars, to which Lucas stumped up some of the cash to co-produce this movie.
At nearly 3 hours long it's a difficult slog to get through and doesn't hold interest as well as the director's best work (The Seven Samurai), but the film is alive with colour, great costumes and spectacular visuals as well as staying faithful to the traditionalism, honour and loyalty of the samurai way.
Many scenes are hypnotically inert, but when the battles scenes do come, they are well worth the wait.


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As you'd imagine from their similarity in name, the Robo R2 3D and the Droid R2-D2 have much in common. While the former cannot boop-beep-beep-bee-boop and engage you in deep conversation like the latter, both printer and mech serve as loyal companions, absorb critical information, and reproduce it for you as needed to save the galaxy from the Empire.
The Robo R2 3D printer creates physical rather than holographic reproductions of your designs within its 8" x 8" x 10" build volume. Faster, according to Robo 3D, than most others in the consumer 3D printing space at a rate of 250mm per second. You can also command R2 printing from an iOS device or cloud libraries thanks to WiFi and mobile connectivity and a 5" color touchscreen built into the printer unit. An onboard camera and free Robo app pair up for monitoring print progress from your mobile.
In addition to Apple iOS and macOS, the Robo R2 is supported with Windows and Linux, and can handle file types STL, OBJ, and AMF.
Robo's design has a minute resolution of up to 20 microns applicable to over 30 materials. These include PLA, carbon fiber, wood, metal infused, and flexible material. Add a second extruder and you can print two materials at once. The R2's 3D print platform automatically calibrates and self-levels.


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News Explainer: The decline of Aussie retail
The Australian retail industry is in crisis with a number of major Aussie brands closing so far in 2019.
Coles has launched a fresh sales campaign offering sweeping discounts, with retail experts predicting Australia is on the verge of another supermarket price war.
The major chain says the deals will focus on products to feed families, such as slashing the price of whole uncooked chickens by 60 cents per kilo to $3.90 per kilo, chicken thighs down $1 per kilo to $11 per kilo and lunch wraps cut by 30 cents to $2.
RELATED: Woolworths and Coles bin weekly specials
RELATED: Kaufland announces plans to open at least 20 stores
"We are helping to lower the cost of dinner, lunch and breakfast solutions with a focus on own-brand fresh products and branded big value packs in grocery," Coles chief marketing officer Lisa Ronson said.
"We've been reviewing the products our customers are buying every day and determining where we can really make a difference to their cost of living.
"We know customers need bakery staples like rolls, wraps, croissants and muffins day in day out for breakfast and lunch so we've lowered the price on these items knowing it can make a big difference to their family budget."
The announcement is a continuation of the major supermarkets' plans revealed earlier this year to focus more on everyday lower prices rather than drastically cut prices for short periods.
Woolworths announced a similar strategy, with both major chains wanting to gain "price trust" from their consumers by removing short-term specials.
But this extension of savings for more than 300 products is sure to ignite yet another price war as the two embark on a period of heightened competition from Aldi, Costco and the soon-to-be-launched German powerhouse Kaufland.
"It's a short-term gain for long-term pain," Queensland University of Technology retail expert Gary Mortimer said.
He warns that in a market consisting of two or three main players, price slashing or discounting ultimately leads to price wars.
"When you announce cutting prices on 300 items this week … while Coles will experience a sales lift in the next week or so, guaranteed Woolworths and everyone else will meet those prices," Dr Mortimer said.
"So shoppers then realise they can get those low prices at any retailer, then that spike in demand normalises and people go back to shopping at Coles and Woolworths and getting the low price on their chicken thigh.
"All that does is erodes the margin, so we're now selling the same volume of product but now at lower margin and that's why it's less sustainable."
Dr Mortimer doubted the strategy ahead of the inclusion of a supermarket giant backed by the fourth biggest retailer in the world.
"Why would they be taking a price message to market on low price 18 months before Kaufland launch," he said.
"You just can't go head-to-head with a global retailer on price."
He did say, however, that Coles' branching out into smaller format stores and investing in online sales is vital because these are areas Kaufland will ignore.
"My advice to retailers, not just Coles, is focus on a point of difference, don't focus on price because price is so easily copied," Dr Mortimer said.
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Singapore, 16 February 2019 – The Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre (SCCC) and Genealogy Society Singapore (GSS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today to encourage and help Singaporeans trace their family trees and compile the Singapore Chapter of their extended families.
Signed by SCCC Chief Executive Officer Low Sze Wee and GSS President Ng Yew Kang, and witnessed by Mr. Baey Yam Keng, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, the MOU combines the strengths of SCCC and GSS. SCCC provides the platform for local Chinese families to congregate and has conducive facilities to conduct activities; while GSS brings with them their expertise on genealogical studies and research, and leverage their networks with clans, socio-cultural and civics associations within and outside Singapore for this project.
Said Mr. Low, "Here at the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, we always look for innovative ways to increase public appreciation of our local Chinese culture, in order to create a greater sense of belonging amongst young Singaporeans. Our identity starts from the very heart of our homes, and our families. A deeply rooted understanding of our forefathers, who they were and where they came from, provides the necessary foundation to better understand who we are today." Mr. Ng said, "GSS is happy to partner SCCC in promoting the need for Singaporeans to compile the Singapore Chapter of their extended family histories. GSS would guide and offer them help along their journeys of discovery. Genealogy is an integral part of the Chinese culture dating back thousands of years and Singaporeans should not forsake this valuable cultural asset. We should instead use genealogy to trace our roots and to strengthen family relationship."
The project is slated to commence in mid-2019. A joint committee between SCCC and GSS will be set up as part of this MOU to regularly discuss the project.


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Hi Everyone! I love Halloween 🙂 which is kind of odd as I can't watch horror movies at all. Spook movies stay with me too much! BUT I love Halloween parties and seeing the trick or treaters.
My projects for our Halloween hop are a fun candy centerpiece for a party or your desk at work And a card. that uses items from the Spooky Sweets Bundle.
For my card, I wanted to share a couple of easy techniques. 1) Moon Glow and 2) Texture Embossing.
For the moon's glow, take Whisper White ink and a sponge dauber and sponge a circle slightly larger than the punch out moon. Just like when you look up at the night sky, there is a slight glow around the moon!. This also creates a contrast to allow the bats to stand out.
One might not think about Swirls and Curls Embossing Folder as a Halloween background. Don't be afraid to try different embossing folders in a new way!
Here's a super cute way to offer straws to your party guests or just use as a party décor element. Fill a vase with Halloween Hershey's Kisses and accent with the Black Glittered Organdy Ribbon. I found the paper straws at Target I believe. I had them in my party supplies stash. I added the bats with a Wobble element onto a 1-3/4″ circle punched out with Pumpkin Pie. The bats and circle match the bat/orange wrapped Kisses!
And please join me at my Sunday Night Stamping this week on my
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where I'll demonstrate several ways to use the Shimmer Paint.
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Apart from the indisputable fact that water, through the source, is an essential nutrient, what might make one source superior to another? First of all, most of the bottled waters people elect to purchase aren't on the spring. A few of the water in bottles in the supermarkets-especially those who work in the more expensive containers-is through the supermarket's tap, actually. Merely buying water in the container doesn't imply it's from your healthy source.
That being said, regular water has strict regulatory agencies to observe its safety. Any office of Ground Water and Drinking Water works with environmentally friendly Protection Agency (EPA) to make certain safe mineral water in each community. You will see a local Consumer Confidence Report about water in your town which can be available annually online. You will find laws to shield tap water in the usa, such as the Safe H2o Act that is overseen with the EPA.
From an article from the National Resource Defense Council, a few findings develop in the bottled water appear a lot less safe: They compare the principles of what is allowed in bottled versus city water and discover that there is no E. coli (fecal bacteria) allowed in tap water, but no prohibition on this bacteria for water in bottles; city plain tap water have to be filtered and disinfected, but there aren't any federal filtration or disinfection requirements for water in bottles; high degrees of bacteria found in plain tap water (which has to be tested 100 times a month in larger cities) can trigger a violation, however, there is no measure available to penalize bottled waters (which only need testing weekly); and drinking water plants are exempt from standards for certain toxins and cancer-causing chemicals that plain tap water plants must meet. Furthermore, there is absolutely no mandatory reporting of violations for bottled water (nevertheless there is for regular water), with no "right to know" reporting telling consumers what is of their water, as city water systems have to issue.
Testing by the National Resource Defense Council found some bottled waters to contain industrial chemicals, arsenic, along with other compounds. Citing differing regulatory statutes from state to state, and from the US to Europe, these studies led the crooks to conclude that drinking water could not be regarded as to become routinely safer than plain tap water.
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Smart from the Start (Smart) has developed an ecological approach to promoting school readiness. Children cannot be served in isolation from their families, and families cannot be served in isolation from their communities. Therefore, we are working to promote change simultaneously on all three levels:
- Programming for children birth to five has been designed to equip children from low-income communities with the cognitive, language, physical, and social/emotional assets that facilitate school and life success.
- Smart addresses the needs of every member of the family. Smart recognizes and builds on caregivers' strengths. Caregivers have access to crisis intervention and family stabilization services. They are encouraged to set long- and short-term goals to improve their economic status and to overcome social challenges. Opportunities to enroll in adult education and career exploration programming are open to all Smart caregivers.
- Our community-based work is designed to improve families' access to, and use of, existing community services, while also ensuring the highest-quality services through close partnerships with other agencies. The Smart model works to engage and enlist the support of both formal and informal stakeholders, business proprietors, and other community-support agencies.
Program Descriptions:
● Prenatal Outreach and Education Program: Expectant families meet weekly to get to know other families in their neighborhood, participate in workshops and prenatal education opportunities, and to learn about services in their community. Each participating family is given a baby shower and layette items for their baby. Our prenatal education program is curriculum-based and often co-facilitated in partnership with health centers or the federal Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program.
● Smart Start Home Visiting: Home visits are offered to families with newborns and each family receives a Smart Start basket. During the visit, the core principles of raising a learner are introduced. Families are enrolled in Smart and those in need of crucial services are connected with community providers.
● Breakthrough Parenting: This comprehensive, curriculum-based program helps parents understand how children think and how they function at different ages. It helps them to provide effective discipline by teaching children what to do, rather than only what not to do, and coaches them to avoid using manipulation and violence.
● Baby Basics: In this ongoing support and educational program for parents and caregivers with babies ages birth to 12 months, families learn about everything from infant brain development, breastfeeding, and infant massage to time management and how to care for older siblings along with a new baby.
● Play-to-Learn Groups: Structured play groups are offered for caregivers with infants and toddlers, especially for those children not already in structured child-care settings. During play groups, early learning and parenting skills are promoted in the context of play. Families are also connected to necessary services. Our curriculum has been customized to engage the multicultural, urban population of families we serve.
● Socialization Groups: Curriculum-based socialization groups take the place of traditional child care. We want every moment we have with the children to provide fun opportunities to learn and grow, and, therefore, these groups are designed to promote school readiness by providing fun learning activities.
● Support and Empowerment Groups: These loosely structured group meetings engage families in early learning, provide parenting support, and help to prevent the social isolation that often comes with raising small children in challenging circumstances.
● Parenting Workshops: This series of one-time workshops explores topics chosen by families to address their specific parenting challenges. For example, ReadBoston has facilitated an Early Words workshop to provide in-depth, hands-on, individualized support for parents to help them improve the language development of their children. Workshops are also presented on issues such as immigration, criminal offender record information (CORI), housing, and other subjects of concern to families in our communities.
● Adult Education and Family Literacy: Smart offers a selection of adult education courses, including on topics such as English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), high school equivalency credentialing , computer skills, job readiness, and family literacy, using curricula that include a focus on child development and school readiness.
● Financial Literacy/Career Planning Program: Cohorts of families are engaged in activities that explore attitudes and values related to money, develop skills for saving and budgeting, and identify goals for self-sufficiency. This eight-week intensive course includes individual coaching and encourages sharing of goals with the group. We also offer one-time workshops on specific topics of interest. Smart program staff members have been trained to provide basic financial literacy to all families.
● Crisis intervention, Information, and Referral to Vital Services: Smart provides support and advocacy for families during crises and links families to existing community services and supports, such as food and clothing pantries, substance abuse treatment, counseling services, and housing.
● Little Explorers Field Trip Program: Smart creates multiple opportunities for families to get out of their homes and communities and to visit unfamiliar sites and participate in enriching activities in Boston. The goal is to broaden experiences for adults and children, with a focus on language and literacy development during the trips.
● Community School Readiness: Smart facilitates community stakeholders working together to define some key activities and approaches to reinforcing school readiness everywhere children and families go. The larger community is engaged in understanding their role in promoting early learning.
● Family Leadership Program: This cross-site program has a specially designed curriculum to support and empower caregivers from underserved communities. Leaders attend workshops and trainings on a variety of topics to learn more about issues that families and children in their community face, and to build their skills as advocates, trainers, and leaders.
● Address the Stress: This program is led by licensed, multicultural clinicians and includes summer camp, as well as group and individual therapy, to help children and families cope with stress and to build resiliency . It helps them address the challenging effects of toxic stress and trauma, including post-traumatic stress disorder.
● Smart 2 School: This program addresses families' anxiety about navigating the Boston Public School system. It guides them through the registration process and the first day of school, including school visits, workshops, special guest speakers, and more. Smart 2 School is a curriculum-based program, providing families with the guidance and support they need as they make the transition to school. Smart 2 School prepares children, but it also prepares families to confidently continue in the roles they have as their children's first teachers and advocates.
● Community Unity Partnership Initiative: Smart provides thousands of community residents access to early learning and social support resources through this initiative, which places "play-to-learn" spaces and book giveaway stations in neighborhood businesses, such as laundromats, barbershops, bodegas, auto repair shops, natural pharmacies, and other businesses frequented by young families.
● Focusing on Fatherhood: This cross-site program is facilitated by trained male family leaders from Smart communities. Programming includes open discussions, family trips, guest speakers, parenting skills, and workshops, as well as education, employment, and support and referral services. Smart's LEAP (Leadership, Empowerment, and Advocacy Program) for Woodland Terrace, in Washington, D.C., is a curriculum-based program specifically designed to provide urban youth and families with support for setting and achieving their own goals for self-sufficiency and healthier lifestyles.


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Subterranean Press reports that Joe R. Lansdale's Act of Love is due in they're warehouse shortly. Their edition includes not only the novel proper, and a killer full-color dust jacket by Timothy Truman, it also sports over 20 b&w interior illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, as well as a long original Hanson story, "A Bone Dead Sadness."
Description: In 1981, Joe R. Lansdale, then a noted short story writer, published his first novel, a paperback original entitled Act of Love. A ferocious account of the search for a killer known as the Houston Hacker, Lansdale's debut was written years before the Hannibal Lecter phenomenon left its mark on American popular culture, years before the "serial killer novel" became a distinct — and highly marketable — publishing category. Thirty years after its initial appearance, this pioneering novel continues to exert a raw but undeniable narrative force.
Set in the vividly evoked urban squalor of Houston, Texas, Act of Love moves with great authority between the disordered mind of a compulsive killer and the increasingly desperate perspectives of the policemen who hunt him. In the process, it offers a detailed portrait of a complex murder investigation and anatomizes a city under siege, a city held hostage by a latter day Jack the Ripper.
As long time Lansdale readers will note, Act of Love introduces the soon-to-be-familiar figure of homicide detective Marvin Hanson. More importantly, it introduces, in embryonic form, some characteristic authorial virtues: the deceptively effortless prose, the flawless sense of place, the graphic depiction of inhuman violence, and the casually profane, instantly recognizable Lansdale humor. Unavailable for far too long, Act of Love makes a welcome reappearance in this deluxe anniversary edition, which includes the definitive text of the novel, a new introduction by the author, and a never before published short story featuring Marvin Hanson. The result is a significant — and necessary — act of rediscovery and an irresistible gift for Lansdale aficionados old and new.
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Easter Sweeper will keep you engaged until long after Easter!
There are no lives to lose, and you don't have to annoy your friends to progress. Play as long as you want. This game will fill your holidays with lots of pleasure!
Swap, drag and sweep the sweet Easter pieces, like the Easter eggs, the chocolate bunnies, the creamy cupcakes, the candy stars and green spring leaves. Make matches of 4 or 5 to create powerful bombs and power-ups. And use the magic wand to collect a single piece. You'll be rewarded with cookies, cakes and lots of chocolates!
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Why Investors Prefer Lean Startups
For many Startups, it's a major challenge to attract investors. This is because usually the risk is high and the potential of payback is hard to prove. With the Lean Startup method, you can reduce the risk of losing money and prove your potential. This is why investors prefer Lean Startups.
It can be a very frustrating experience to pitch your Startup to potential investors. You have an idea you know will be a huge success, but the potential investor may not understand it… Investors in general have two main questions: 1) What can I earn?, and 2) What is the risk? If the potential earning is low or the risk is high they would rather keep their money invested elsewhere. This article is about how you can prove potential and reduce the risk, and why Lean Startups are preferred.
What is different with Lean startups?
Over the last few years this new startup model has gained great attention. It favours experimentation over planning, customer feedback over guessing and iterative development rather than traditional large scale water-fall projects.
Today entrepreneurs build a "minimum viable product" and test it with real world clients. They develop their business model, products and services based on learning from customer feedback and behaviour. And investors love this type of Startups.
What do you want from an investor?
Investors can bring more to the table than just fresh capital, they bring experience, contacts, customers and sector knowledge. You need to decide if you want an active or passive investor, what type of investor you would like, how much capital you need to raise, what share of the company you are willing to offer and also what exit strategy you suggest for the investor.
Pitching for Investors
When you are ready to present your business for potential investors you should start by making a list of ideal investors you want to approach. Start by pitching your ideas and plans to the ones at the bottom of your list and study what's expected of you and take interest in what kinds of questions they ask. You can safely assume that a professional investor would know a lot about Lean startups.
It is likely that you will be overwhelmed at first and your first initial meetings will probably take you by surprise. This gives you the opportunity to improve your presentation before you invite the most interesting investors for a meeting.
Prove your potential
So this is where the rubber meets the road. Lean startups build their business model by testing a set of hypotheses. You build validated learning step by step by documenting your experiments, which you can then build into your business model. This is also what you need to show to your potential investors. There will be a few unique numbers that all investors are looking to understand:
- Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC): How much does it cost to get a new customer. You should be able to document through your initial product/market fit analysis how big your average marketing and sales spending is per customer. Also you should be able to predict development in CAC going forward with a target CAC.
- Lifetime Customer Value (LCV): How much estimated earning will you make from one customer during the whole duration of your relationship. Research churn data from your sector and prove the average revenue and cost for your delivery.
- Your ability to scale the business model: If you can prove that the LCV is (substantially) higher than the CAC the next question will be if you can scale your business.
- All the other questions: Sure, you will have to answer a ton of other questions too. You need to tell your story of the reasons behind why you started your company, your big vision and business idea. What problem are you solving? What is your business about? what is your unique competitive advantage? Who is your main competitors? Who are your team? Why will you be a success? To name a few important ones.
Lean startups reduce risk
One of the really unique ideas of Lean Startups is the fact that you build a lean company. This mean that your business model can be tested and proven with significantly lower investments and reduced risk. Investors do not like taking risks and that's why they love Lean startups.
The best strategy for many is to self finance the first step of building your company, until you can provide evidence on your CAC, LCV and scalability. With that proof you have successfully reduced the risk of investing in your Startup. Then investors are more likely to want to invest in your company and help you scale your business model.
Here at Cloudnames we work with many Lean startups and follow the same principles ourself.
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It's time for you to learn robotics in an easy and stimulating way!This material is composed of two main experiments: one about how to make a line follower robot and another about how to make an anti-collision robot. Several topics will be shown, where steps will be taken to achieve the objectives. The main purpose is that the user who is beginning to understand the fascinating world of robotics, or even the user who already has good notions, can begin to build a robot that takes actions from the reading of sensors, or following a path formed by a line, or avoid colliding with walls. This material is part of RoboCore's Robotic Starter Kit. With this kit you can develop the experiments proposed here and many others.
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In my previous note, I highlighted several municipal offices that are up for election in April around Boone County. Filing for these end soon if you are considering running this year. Be thinking about running in 2021 and beyond if your city council seat is not up this time.
For those of you wanting to be involved with this year's elections by volunteering, contributing financially, or following us on Facebook, there will be plenty of chances to support President Trump's re-election campaign plus all our statewide and local Republican candidates. We plan to have an election headquarters, which will support candidates and GOP organizations. We'll also be in parades, have get-out-the-vote efforts and host events.
Your local Republican Party has monthly meetings to give you a chance to meet grassroots Republicans and to become connected with like-minded individuals. The party meets on the third Tuesday of each month at the Conley Road HyVee Club Room starting at 7 p.m. Several openings exist on the central committee currently, and all spots are up for election in August if you file during the filing period. Attend our January meeting to learn more.
Another way you can help is to be a Republican election judge on Election Days. With four elections in Boone County this year (March presidential preference, April municipal, August primary and November general), we need to fill our allotment of Republican election judges to make sure precincts run smoothly and that potential issues are handled according to state law. Please send us an email to get on our list of judges that we submit to the county clerk.
Finally, update your voter registration if you have moved within Boone County, or register to vote in Boone County if you have moved here, with the Boone County Clerk's office. This will help reduce problems and confusion on Election Day.
Mike Zweifel
Chairman, Boone County Republican Party


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Approved Trainers - Are You Utilizing this Resource?
Posted Thursday, March 21, 2019 by Shelly Nye
Have you checked out your Training Transcript?
The next time you log in to your User Portal account, notice the button under your 'Approved Trainings' tab called "Training Transcript". Click on this button to view, download and/or print a PDF document containing an up-to-date listing of all your Registry-approved trainings between January 2017 and the date that you generate the transcript. Training sessions are always listed in reverse chronological order beginning with the most recent date first.
The Transcript of Approved Training includes your personal information (Trainer ID, trainer type, trainer expiration date and approved topics) as well as the details of each approved training in your account (approval code, title, CKA, start date, # of approved hours and status). Not only is this a great way to easily view all of your approved training sessions in one fell swoop, because it's a comprehensive, up-to-date and professional document, it's also a great way to verify your trainer approval status when applying for jobs, when submitting proposals to present at national conferences or for any other reason you may need to show proof of your approved trainer status in Nevada.
Individuals responsible for managing a sponsor/organization account can download a transcript following the same steps outlined above. The Transcript of Approved Training for organizations includes much of the information contained in the transcript for individual trainers but also includes the trainer name(s) for each approved session. This is a quick and easy way to keep track of the number of training sessions being delivered, especially useful when multiple trainers are associated with your account.


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Another week gone! Here's what I got up to:
January 15th
I threw my lush bath bomb into the bath. It had little hearts inside!
January 16th
I continued my hearts theme and saw double!
January 17th
Congratulated myself on a job well done. You don't want to see the before picture! I love being organised.
January 18th
Went somewhere new tucked away from the tourists in London


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Letter From Lyn
Remember that I said I like to learn something new every day?
Yup, I'm still learning!
What I've learned now is that the title of an article in this computer world is very important. It's something to do with key words, (whatever they are!)
For instance, I can't just write A Seaside Meal. I have to write Eating Freshly-Caught Herrings on Hastings Seafront.
Get what I mean? I'm learning!
I sometimes find that Webitor Gareth has slightly altered my title. That's OK. He knows what he's doing!
Thanks to Celebrity Chef Agent Andy, we've just been sent to over 20,000 apps users (whatever that is!)
Well I don't understand these things. On the other hand, I doubt if Agent Andy or Webitor Gareth can make their own curtains!
Have you heard of the late Alistair Cook? He was an Englishman who emigrated to the USA. He sent a weekly Letter From America to the BBC for many years. They covered all aspects of American life, history, politics, etc.
What I want is writers from as many different countries as possible to send me a weekly diary, telling us all what's happening in their country, food, their family, the weather, or anything else that they think will interest our readers.


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Next year marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, sparking off a string of exhibitions around the world celebrating one of humankind's most prolific polymaths. At the Uffizi Gallery, in the heart of da Vinci's former home of Florence, the Codex Leicester journal has been put on display, loaned to the museum by Bill Gates, who bought the tome 24 years ago for US$30 million. The exhibit, Water as a Microscope of Nature: Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester, has been on show since late October and remains at the museum until January 20.
In light of tech maestro Gates's involvement, it's fitting that exhibition curator Paolo Galluzzi and the Uffizi have worked to enhance many of the Codex Leicester's pages through technology, bringing some of the hard- to-decipher handwriting to life on scrollable screens that allow the viewer to "turn pages" digitally. The beauty of the illuminated manuscripts, the fascinating quirks of da Vinci's "backwards" handwriting and, of course, the author's star power are attracting science nerds and art buffs alike.
This is only the second time the journal has been on museum display in Italy. The Uffizi's progressive director, Eike Schmidt, has stated that this particular exhibition demonstrates the institution's efforts in "making accessible for everyone complex themes about scientific research".
The exhibition, highlighting da Vinci's musings on the nature of water (which he believed to be the driving force of all nature) as well as the celestial realm, reveals the workings of one of the Renaissance's greatest minds. Often contradicting the Catholic Church's theories on the structure of the solar system and nature, da Vinci's writings in the Codex Leicester offer the scientific background and observations to many of his theories, inventions and works of art, explains Galluzzi.
This is not an exhibition that you'll scan quickly, for the devil is in the details. Its importance lies in the radical ideas explored by the painter of The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa – his seeing proof of prehistoric life in fossils, his extraordinary drawings, his musings on phenomena yet to be realised: "Once you have tasted flight, you'll forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned upwards." Then there's da Vinci's fascinating theories about the Moon and Earth – even when he incorrectly postulates that the Moon's glow comes from the sun's light being reflected off water on the Moon's surface.
The Codex Leicester exhibition is also in part an ode to Florence, at da Vinci's time an important centre of European thought, art and culture. The Arno river that flows through the city features heavily in his theories of how water is a reflection of the natural system as a whole. Indeed, da Vinci's time spent in Florence means that much of his work is a triumphant testament to the city's arts, history and culture, which is one of the reasons that the Uffizi exhibit is partly sponsored by native Florentine luxury men's brand Stefano Ricci.
As is common in Italy, it is fashion houses that are the saviours of much of the country's historical heritage. The €22 million sponsorship of the Colosseum renovations in Rome by Tod's, Fendi's restoration of the Fontana Trevi, Bvlgari's rehabilitation of the Spanish Steps and Foundation Prada's work with art and architecture are cases in point.
Stefano Ricci's support of Florentine heritage has also been in the spotlight. In recent years the maison bought an ancient silk mill – Antico Setificio Fiorentino, the oldest in Europe – from the family of Emilio Pucci. A loom built on a da Vinci design is one of the fashion house's most prized possessions. The night before the Uffizi opening, during an intimate dinner at Antico Setificio, the brand hosted a special display of another da Vinci tour de force: drawings and writings from the Codex Atlanticus.
"We are honoured to bring all these special volumes to Florence," said brand CEO Filippo Ricci, addressing the VIPs gathered for the occasion. "It was something which started about a year ago when we started conversations with the Uffizi Gallery, for this specific anniversary. We also have a special document that states the birth of Leonardo da Vinci noted down by his grandfather."
That tome, too, is remarkable. And not long after the daytime crowds finish ambling across Ponte Vecchio, the magic of Florence, especially under flickering candlelight, is all too real – even half a millennium after da Vinci's death.


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Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
The Federal Universal Service Fund is established by the Federal Communications Commission to promote the availability of quality telecommunications services at just, reasonable and affordable rates for all consumers, including those in low income, rural insular and high cost areas.
The UTC has the legal authority to designate qualified common carriers as Eligible Telecommunications Carriers (ETCs) in Washington for the purpose of receiving federal high cost support and low income support. All the wireline incumbent local exchange carriers are ETCs. In addition, UTC has also designated the following wireless ETCs.


text: Dr. Isah A. Lawal is an Associate professor of Applied Data Science at Noroff School of Technology and Digital Media. He has over ten years of professional university work experiences, including teaching data mining, machine learning and AI courses. He has participated in many collaborative multidisciplinary research projects involving big data analytics and smart systems at different universities in Europe and Middle East. Dr. Isah has authored several articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences ranging from data-driven predictive modelling to machine learning for smart systems. He is also a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA and Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK.


text: Cask and Hide was created by Indi, an incredible maker who has a passion for simple and functional design. Her bags are made of full grain leather and are unlined in order to show the leathers natural texture. She wishes to grow her business one day in hopes of alleviating the challenges of military spouse employment. She married into the military and understands how challenging it is to pursue a career as a military spouse, and also how important it is to fully support ones spouse as he or she serves our country. The dream at Cask & Hide is to employ military spouses throughout the world to do a small part to help with this struggle.


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Like Boden, but hate their prices? You'll change your tune when you see how much some of their clearance stock is. They have only gone and reduced selected items even further and are offering an extra 10% off with code 6T2C.
It's not just clothing for the kids that's in the sale, but womenswear and men's as well. The selection is brilliant, so it's worth a look.
- Printed Nightie* was from £24 now from £8.64
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The 6T2C code will give 10% off all full price and clearance styles until 11.59pm on 15th January.
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Solved Matrix Tile – edit predefined perspective for Logical Disk. Used Space Bar.
Is it possible to edit a predefined perspective for the Matrix Tile? I've got a donut tile that is scoped to a group of servers and class logical disk. This drills down into a predefined matrix tile that I can't edit – I'd like to add a path column so that I can see server names.
Also, while I'm at it, why does the 'Used Space' bar never seem to be populated?
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Hit custom and just edit the json – The webinar and docs are decent, it's pretty easy to use!
Coffee break webinar: https://youtu.be/DqOmikXZ5ZY
KB: https://support.squaredup.com/v4/Walkthroughs/Tiles/HowToUseTheMatrixTile/
If there's no data, check if there is any when viewing the metric on the object (click into it). If there is, then there's something wrong with the matrix tile; if there isn't, then there's likely something wrong with the collection. Flush the health cache on the agent.
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Name: Jim Gore, WSET Certified Educator and Principal of WSET School London
What route did you take to your current role?
A simple part-time job in Oddbins while at university put me right in the centre of the wine and spirits world. Whilst there I achieved my WSET qualifications, and was hooked. Moving back home to Burgundy and spending some time with my mother (who has worked in education all her life) convinced me that WSET was the place for me. The final transition in to being a WSET Certified Educator was solely down to Karen Douglas, WSET Director of Global Education, who saw long before I did that education was my calling!
What's the best thing about your job?
The students, when you've managed to explain something that they may have misunderstood their entire life. The wines don't hurt either! 🙂
And the worst?
The lack of time it feels like we have to go in to detail on such a fascinating subject.
What's an average day look like?
Early start, check your wines and IT and dive straight in to teaching. Most days involve tasting 18 to 24 wines. Realistically we have no more than 30 minutes break over the day so a good night's sleep is essential with all preparation done the day before.
What's your best piece of advice to someone looking to land a job in your field?
Passion, knowledge and energy are essential but the ability to explain things simply and build skills in your students is the key. Education is not telling people what you know but being able to make them fully understand the topic and then testing that they understand. It's a subtle but essential difference. The days of standing in front of a class and giving a lecture are well and truly over. Get some practice public speaking and be prepared to prepare, a lot!
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I think selling wine is the best job in wine! If you do well you get wined and dined by all the wine makers and you can shape the future of wineries and areas by pushing them more.
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Users will have to link their Aadhaar card number to their mobile number and the deadline for this is February 6, 2018. Also mobile operators like Airtel, Vodadone, Reliance Jio and Idea Cellular will be rolling out Aadhaar verification via OTP or one time password from December 1, 2017. We explain how this will work for users.
Aadhaar card and linking with mobile number: How will OTP feature work?
According to a PTI report from last week, the Unique Identification Authority of India or UIDAI which is the body in charge of Aadhaar data, has approved plans by telecom operators to utilise new modes like OTP for Aadhaar-based SIM re-verification of existing subscribers. This new facility will be available from December 1.
"Their (telecom operators') plans have been approved… They have come and we have told them they will implement (the process) from December 1," UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey told PTI last week. He added, "Mobile companies have assured the UIDAI that they will implement OTP-based verification of mobile numbers by month- end and this will allow people to get the verification done without actually visiting the store or retail agent."
So with this new method users will not have to go a telecom retail store in order to get the re-verification done for Aadhaar linking with their mobile numbers. A user will get the OTP sent to their mobile number from UIDAI and this will allow for the re-verification. Currently users have to go to the store and do the eKYC with their fingerprints.
The only problem is that the OTP will only be sent to the mobile number that was registered with Aadhaar. So if you have a new mobile number, which is not linked to your Aadhaar card, you might not be able to use the OTP method. Unless you still have access to the old SIM, you will not be able to access the OTP.
Aadhaar card and mobile number linking: Is this compulsory?
For now, linking the Aadhaar number and mobile number is mandatory. The last date for this as we've pointed out is February 6, 2018. Earlier this month, it was reported the Supreme Court refused to accept a new plea challenging the linking of mobile numbers with Aadhaar card numbers. The Court is currently listening to several such petitions, which is why it did not accept a new one.
In March, the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has issued an order calling for linking of mobile numbers with Aadhaar card data. The latest petition wanted this order to be declared"unconstitutional" and "null and void," according to a PTI report.
I don't have the mobile number linked to my Aadhaar card anymore. So does this mean I cannot get re-verification done?
You can still get the re-verification done for your new mobile number. But the OTP method won't work here. The customer will have to go to the telecom operator store in this case and get the verification done for their new mobile number. The Aadhaar card will have to be carried for this and the mobile number re-verification will be done via a fingerprint scan.
Also in case of the disabled, chronically ill and senior citizens, the government has ordered the companies to carry out the exercise at their homes.
Finally, in order to update mobile number linked to your Aadhaar account, a user will have to go to their nearest Aadhaar verification centre. They will have to submit relevant documents to update their personal details, including address or mobile number. Once the new mobile number gets linked to the Aadhaar number, the user should start receiving SMS from UIDAI on this number.
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I'll be traveling down to San Diego this weekend to participate in the Thread Show at the Horton Plaza. They're stepping they're game up by hosting it in a mall setting, so stop by if you are in the area to pick up some gear for cheap. See ya there. Date: Sunday, September 26th Time: 11am - 6pm Location: Horton Plaza Event Space, 4th and Broadway, San Diego


text: Nose tackle Mike Purcell, ahead of defensive tackle Lawrence Okoye, has been promoted from the 49ers' practice squad to add depth for Saturday's game against the San Diego Chargers"He s been good. He ll do a good job," coach Jim Harbaugh said Thursday. "He s ready to go and feel very confident that he ll do a good job. Purcell is mainly a nose tackle, and he'll back up Quinton Dial, who may help man the line's other spots, along with Justin Smith, Tony Jerod-Eddie and Tank Carradine.


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Scented Cocktail Candle - Sweet Honey Bourbon
Scented Cocktail Candle - Sweet Honey Bourbon
With this sweet and spicy cocktail candle, you'll get the scents of orange marmalade, tamarind and honey. All infused with bourbon, coumarin, and clove and layered by brown sugar and tobacco.
Weight 0.6 pound
3.5 inches in diameter x 3.25 inches tall
Glass container with soy blend wax
Lead-free and tin-free cotton wick
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♥ Do you want your kids on their BEST behavior ALL the time?
♥ Need a nice stocking stuffer packaging or a gift card cover?
♥ Is your Elf Out of ideas already?
♥ Santa Mail directly from the North Pole, approved by Santa himself via the crazy elves is here!
ELF MAIL SACK - Mini Christmas Bag
It's time for those crazy Elves to help spread Holiday cheer!!! Whether your kids are Naughty or Nice, help Santa and the Elves deliver things in style (3 sizes available)
This drawstring pouch is made from unbleached cotton muslin. There is a double-knotted cord at the very top of the bag to close and open the pouch. Because these pouches are handmade the outside measurements listed below are approximate and no two bags are probably identical.
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Color: Off-White with a heat pressed design in the center.
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Among the services we provide:
- Customized Roadmaps and Health Navigation Systems that help cancer patients navigate their cancer journeys with confidence and the best possible quality of life.
- We provide a systems-based approach, creating a roadmap of your cancer journey; based on your personal preferences, we offer guidance and toolkits for building your support team, understanding your diagnosis and treatment options, creating your strategic and action plans, developing questions for your doctors, and identifying complementary care resources and quality of life enhancements.
- Customized Roadmaps and Health Navigation Systems for chronic diseases and rare disorders: similar to the tools offered to cancer patients, but tailored to a client's disorder or disease, their needs and desires.
- Help with getting the correct diagnosis and management plan for chronic disease or a rare disorder;
- "State of the Art" Research : to make sure that each client has all the information that they need to make fully informed decisions, based on the most relevant, up-to-date science; and translating this into usable knowledge for the client;
- Reviews of evidence-based treatment protocols as well as any applicable preliminary clinical research outcomes that could be useful;
- Information about doctors and medical facilities, and their respective specialties;
- Identification of doctors for second opinions;
- Overviews of any applicable clinical trials for consideration;
- Planning for doctor's appointments, with comprehensive, tailored questions and clear goals;
- We also attend doctors appointments, in person or by phone, and provide detailed notes and follow-up care summaries;
- Outreach to financial counselors and insurance companies to solve billing and payment issues.
- Patient Safety: Planning for a hospital stay, with a focus on what clients can do to create conditions for successful outcomes; additional steps that a client's support team can take to enhance patient safety;
- Help with the development and support of caregiver teams; and
- Design and implementation of whole-health wellness plans.
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2019 Town Hall Rich List Roadshow: Slough
The average council tax bill has gone up by more than £900 in the last 20 years and spending has gone through the roof. Councils are trying to plug their financial blackholes through tax rises and cuts to public services, rather than scaling back the pay packets of council staff.
The Chief Executive of Slough Borough Council was the highest remunerated council employee in 2017-2018 receiving £595,077 in total remuneration.
We will be raising awareness on the Slough High Street about this extortionate pay package.
April 11, 2019 at 12pm - 2pm
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Slough, Berkshire SL1
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'I LIKE YOU, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW YOUR BRAIN WORKS'…. When I first heard that Elizabeth "Betsy" McCaughey was going to be on "The Daily Show," I was a little concerned. McCaughey doesn't need the publicity, and she has a nasty habit of making demonstrably ridiculous claims about health care reform. Indeed, much of the widely-believed right-wing nonsense about reform can be traced back to McCaughey.
She started lying about the administration's health policies in February, and she's been on a tear since.
But my concerns were unfounded. Jon Stewart didn't invite McCaughey on to offer a platform for her nonsense; he invited her on to make her appear ridiculous. As David Kurtz noted, "As funny as he is, Jon Stewart is often at his best when he drops the comedian schtick and just goes with his whip-smart 40-something Jew routine, like he did last night with GOP whackadoodle Betsy McCaughey."
As Alex Koppelman added:
McCaughey's latest falsehoods have taken hold with a disturbingly large portion of the American public. But she couldn't get them past "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, who had her on his show Thursday night and subjected her to one of his better interviews, meticulously picking her points apart and demonstrating their inaccuracy, leaving her stumbling and stammering in an attempt to defend her position. By the end of it, he told her, "I like you — but I don't understand how your brain works."
McCaughey tried, repeatedly, to ingratiate herself to Stewart and his audience. She talked about how much she loved the show, how much she enjoys Stewart, and that she actually loves the idea of health care reform.
Stewart was unmoved, calling her ridiculous rhetoric "hyperbolic" and "dangerous," and mocking her and other "doomsayers." Under the circumstances, the criticism was mild compared to the extent of the damage McCaughey has done to the national discourse.
The interview went way over the allotted time, and ran online in multiple parts. I've included them below, though I should note that the clips are uncensored and include some language that may be NSFW.
Part I:
|The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
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|Betsy McCaughey Pt. 1
Part II:
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Oh, I love technology, but not as much as you, you see...4 comments Posted by RachelRenae at 2:04 PM
Right now I'm working at a computer learning center. Part of what we do is send our instructors to company sites to train their employees, and typically the people who took the class fill out a little paper evaluation. Part of what I do is enter those evaluations into our system so we have them digitally. (This, ladies and gentleman, is what we call busy work).
We just sent 5 or 6 of our instructors to run some classes for Weld County School District (Weld County teachers were strongly recommended but not required to attend classes like Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint). As I've been entering the evaluations from this particular session, I've chiefly noticed two things:
- Teachers make giant smiley faces in all the comment sections, as compared to everyone else who... well, don't.
- Teachers make excellent and consistent smileys.
But there was one evaluation which stood out to me this morning. Iris (who identified herself as an English teacher, big surprise) felt led to pen a lengthy paragraph about the demise of education and the rise of technology in the little section marked "Comments/Suggestions to improve your experience?" I was baffled and moved by her (somewhat misdirected) eloquence, and sad that this little Microsoft Vista evaluation form, that probably only I will ever read, would be her only forum. So I have decided to share Iris' comments/suggestions with you all. Perhaps it will inspire you. Perhaps it will challenge you. And perhaps... it will make you laugh.
"I am sad that great literature and the newest technology are truly moving in opposite directions. We are now forever handcuffed to technology while the great foundations of our historical, literary, and artistic past continue to die protesting but quiet deaths. We have inherited fragmented education (thank you, technology!) where students no longer read complete novels but instead, they jump on spark notes... and text messaging continues to erode essay writing. There is a price tag..."
I just don't know what else I can add to this. I was so surprised to find such lofty language and such passionate expression in so simple (and, it could be argued, inappropriate) a setting that much of its seriousness was diluted by the sheer random humor of it.
Wildly emotive comments? Spontaneous, dramatic suggestions? Do share.
Monday, August 27, 2007
My life explained in little yellow pills5 comments Posted by RachelRenae at 1:25 PM
I started a new pack of birth control today. Maybe you didn't want to know that, but let me explain. 1 pack is 4 weeks long, exactly 28 days. It struck me as I was staring at the neat little rows of round yellow pills that I would be taking the last few pills in South Carolina.
Let me walk you through the unfolding of the event which I have been simultaneously dreading and eagerly anticipating. You follow the first row, day by day, to pills 4 and 5 (thursday and friday), when Stephen and I will be camping in Aspen to see Ben Harper and Nickel Creek in concert. We planned this months ago.
Jump down to the second row and follow the little pills all the way to the end. Second to the last pill (September 8th) is my 22nd birthday. 3 months ago I insisted that we stay here AT LEAST until I had celebrated my birthday with my family. Sunday my parents are throwing a going-away party for us and my dad is frantically trying to finish a painting project he's been working on nonchalantly for a long time.
Next row. Pill number 3 is my last day at work. Pills 4-7 I'll be cleaning and packing and crying. Sunday I'm singing on the worship team for the very last time at the church I've been in since I was 10 years old.
And now, the last row. Pill number 2 is Stephen's last day. Third pill in this row is moving day. My dad and sister are going to spend pills 3-5 driving down to our new house with us and helping us get settled. By the last two pills of this pack, I'll be living in South Carolina. If we could jump to the next pack, we'd see Amy and my Dad flying back home on the second pill, and me being in transition for 26 more pills.


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Armed clashes in Nagorno-Karabakh; increased military tensions in the border area with Armenia - Azerbaijan
Update 2020-09-29 (2): On Tuesday (29 September), an Armenian fighter plane was shot down by a Turkish fighter, according to a spokesman of the Armenian Ministry of Defence. The Armenian plane had taken off from Azerbaijani territory. Turkey denies the incident.
Update 2020-09-29 (1): The Azerbaijan military offensive continued on Tuesday (29 September). Troops are advancing towards the city of Fuzuli. Civilian casualties were reported from Hadrut.
AFP, dpa
Presumably imminent military operation to liberate the city - Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique
2020-09-03: According to reports from Thursday (03 September), the military of Mozambique is planning an attack on the city of Mocimboa da Praia, which is currently held by terrorists. Increased troops are already to be gathered in the surrounding area. The population in the surrounding area has been called upon to leave the area. The town had been taken by jihadists on 12 August after days of attacks.
Several injured after rocket attacks on several cities - Riyadh and Jizan, Saudi Arabia
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Update 2020-01-10: The British foreign ministry (FCO) revised its travel advise for Iran on Friday (10 January) in connection to intelligence reports indicating that the crashed Ukrainian passenger aircraft had been hit by an Iranian surface-to-air missile on Wednesday (08 January). All travel to Iran is now advised against and travellers are also advised against travelling to by air to, from and within Iran. Travellers are also advised to consider leaving Iran. The German Federal Foreign Office continues to advise travellers to postpone non-essential travel to Iran, if possible.
Several killed in border towns after shelling from Syria - Turkey
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Heightened security measures and operations of security forces are to be expected. Ongoing armed clashes are to be expected. Travellers are advised to exercise high caution, to strictly avoid operations of security forces, and to follow instructions from security forces.
Warning against ongoing attacks from Yemen - Saudi Arabia
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Heightened security measures are to be expected. Travellers are advised to inform themselves via local media and authorities about the current situation on site, to exercise high caution, and to strictly follow instructions from security forces.
Dozens killed in attacks in the south-west of the country - Aden, Yemen
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Heightened security measures and operations of security forces are to be expected. Ongoing armed clashes are to be expected. Travellers are advised to exercise high caution, to strictly avoid operations of security forces, and to follow instructions from security forces.
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Rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip targeting Greater Tel Aviv - Gush Dan, Israel
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A rocket alert was triggered in Tel Aviv and in Eshkol Regional Council, bomb shelters were opened in Tel Aviv and the Israeli missile defense system Iron Dome was activated.
More possible attacks by the Taliban in Jaghuri District - Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
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