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Unwanted insects in your garden are just that: unwanted. There are numerous ways to manage garden undesirable bugs naturally that are also low-cost, simple and good for the earth.
Protect your organic soil and advantageous insects
While pesticides might get rid of the insect, they usually cause more harm than great. Unfortunately, numerous house and industrial garden enthusiasts are unaware of options to pesticides. That's due to the fact that s are a big part of our culture. Grabbing a quick fix– albeit an unsafe repair– is a deep seeded and detrimental habit.
Apart from damaging the soil and being a health danger to people– including our children– pesticides present a major issue. They eradicate types indiscriminately, causing useful garden co-habitants to disappear together with the harmful ones.
An organic garden with beneficial insects
The fact stays that not all insects are unwanted insects. More than just great luck, ladybugs are an extremely valuable natural pesticide to have in your garden, feeding on a myriad of insect unwanted insects consisting of aphids if you ever see little alligator like insects around your garden, leave them be! Certainly, s are not as smart as your typical kindergartner– they eliminate bugs on a wholesale level while distressing ecosystems and destroying your plants as well as your soil.
Are your garden pests resistant to pesticides?
Over the years the unwanted insects end up being resistant to the pesticides and progressively larger amounts should be used. The result is a covered crop and a pesticide resistant bug, a crop that is more vulnerable to the bug pest.
Are you hurting the local bird population?
Current research studies have actually been performed concerning pesticides' result on regional bird populations. Birds consume the bugs, which have consumed the pesticides. With no bugs and no birds those predators which live off of the birds vanish too, triggering a big interruption in the regional ecosystem which is never ever useful to growth of any kind.
Birds eat bugs!
Motivate birds to come into your garden by placing a bird bath in the garden and by planting plants that will bring in birds such as sunflowers. There are even seasonal sunflowers that not just attract birds year round however, can likewise be planted like a hedge and repel deer and other animals. Helianthus maximillani.
Natural insect control is rooted in a vigorous, well balanced community. Years of pesticide use may be so disruptive to a local community that the land might become unusable after only a few years. They remain in the soil and end up being more focused with each year of use, ultimately rendering the soil unable to produce vigorous plants.
The soil can recover
There is hope. Some items like methyl bromide can be changed by merely including raw material to the contaminated soil. The outcome is addition of the organic part of this pesticide to the raw material that you already added and liberation of the bromide ion. At the very least, you can include organic matter to a packed soil to simply water down the concentration. However, you can also search for the MSDS online for that to discover how to amend it.
Organic alternatives to pesticides
There are numerous natural, organic options to pesticides that are more long-term, safe, normally efficient and energetic.
One of the simplest insect control devices is a barrier. By covering a row of crop with a light netting (which allows the sunshine to come through) flying undesirable insects are efficiently kept away from the plants.
Another simple method of pest control for a small garden is handpicking. Numerous slugs and Hornworms can be handpicked off of plants with terrific success. Drop undesirable bugs into a meal of soapy water to kill them. Certain moths and bugs can be knocked out of trees with a stick; enable them to fall onto a large piece of fabric so that they can be collected and, later, immersed in a soapy solution or incinerated.
Beneficial Insects Will Control the Bad Insects
Some bugs like the Ladybug and the Green Lacewing are called useful because they are the good guys who are on the hunt for the bad guys that are feeding on your plants. Here is a list of useful bugs, with links to where they are offered by an Earth friendly supplier.
Green Lacewings Chrysoperla carnea
Green Lacewings are an all purpose helpful insect that feed upon insects such as aphids and other bugs that will feed and come on your plants. Green Lacewings are best for a backyard garden, larger garden, or a greenhouse.
Easy way to eliminate slugs and aphids!
Particular varieties of plants are more resistant to pests. Some research study into the types of plants you grow and the unwanted pests typical to your location could prevent a lot of insect problems.
How native plants can restore your garden
Purchase regional transplants to avoid bringing non-native undesirable pests into your garden. Add mulch and other easy barriers around your crops, check your garden routinely. Healthy plants are naturally more resistant to predators; much like having a strong body immune system. All of these techniques are natural and easy preventative procedures to assist you get a pest free garden.
If your preventative procedures did not work, there are many, natural and natural plant sprays that can control unwanted insects. A mixture of Petroleum oil and water sprayed onto a plant is a natural pesticide that has actually been used successfully for hundreds of years. Numerous oils, shells and plant extracts can likewise be used as safe, reliable, natural pesticides.
Natural pest control is a more secure and, eventually, more efficient means of keeping an energetic organic garden. With a little bit more understanding it ends up being obvious that making use of non-organic pesticides is not only inadequate but hazardous and reckless. By comprehending your native habitat environment and working in collaboration with establishing a balance of advantageous insect predators such as ladybugs, praying mantis, and birds, as well as planting species that naturally forbid invasion by undesirable bugs, you too can have an energetic garden by operating in collaboration with your garden.


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At instaGiv, we are passionate about helping charities reach new supporters and boost their donations. We just love it. Has to be one of our favourite things, along with puppies, jelly and everyone checking out their mobile phones.
Some people aren't crazy about that last one, but we love it.
That's because the main tool we use in our fundraising campaigns is the humble text message.
We help more than 300 charities spread their message and gather donations through SMS.
Find out how you can harness the power of SMS with instaGiv to boost your fundraising.
SMS Donations – Greater Reach and Engagement
SMS has been shown to be a much more effective marketing medium than email and social media. Keep your Facebooks and Twitters, we're sticking with the retro approach and the mighty text.
Recent research shows that 90% of text messages will be read within 3 minutes of being sent and 98% of texts sent will be opened within 24 hours.
Collecting donations via SMS is an excellent tool for charity campaigns. The instaGiv platform allows charities to set up a campaign easily and quickly that can reach thousands of people instantly.
SMS Donations – Innovate Using Keywords
Our Competitions Feature enables charities to create their own SMS competitions as a way of reaching new donors.
This involves inviting supporters to text a keyword to a short code to be entered into a random draw. You can also ask them to answer a question with options (A,B,C) to make it a bit more competitive.
The instaGiv system can handle your competition from start to finish and will even automatically choose winners for you.
The 'Pick a Winner' mechanism will generate 3 random supporters to be the winners of your competition.
SMS Donations – Ensure Compliance
At instaGiv we are working hard to ensure that all of our clients are ready to comply with the upcoming GDPR.
The GDPR, which comes into effect in May 2018, will see a huge change to data protection law.
Obtaining informed consent from supporters that you communicate with will become even more important.
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Roger Corman presents this horror anthology based on three stories by Edgar Allen Poe, where all three segments are introduced by and star Vincent Price.
'Tales of Terror' is a movie which generally is hard to accept as a serious horror film, but fun when considered as a camp and kooky entry into the genre. Vincent Price is excellent in all three of his fairly contrasting roles and one could certainly see this film as a major piece of evidence when attempting to ascertain just how great and diverse a performer the late Mr. Price actually was. Roger Corman's directorial lavishness served to give the entire a movie a certain air of pomposity that lacked from some of his previous efforts and the varying directorial styles that Corman utilised throughout the film are the most prominent reason for the enjoyability of the movie.
In the first segment, entitled 'Morella', Vincent Price stars as Locke, a man traumatised to the point of insanity following the death of his wife (Leona Gage). Locke blames the early passing of his wife solely on his daughter Lenora (Maggie Pierce) and is therefore unimpressed and enraged when she shows up at his door twenty-six years since he last saw her. However, the relationship between the two starts to grow strong, before events take a horrifying turn. Easily the most solemn and horrific of the three stories, 'Morella' is unfortunately too short a segment for one to really enjoy the production. It seems that Corman preferred to concentrate the majority of the segment solely on the relationship between Lenora and her father, thus leaving the ending scenes looking rushed and the viewer to feel rather unsatisfied. That is not to say the story itself is not entertaining, it just does not appear to have fulfilled its potential. Good performances, some magnificent (albeit brief) haunting scenarios and a frightful image of a decomposed corpse are the highlights to this segment and certainly help to save it from the problems with pacing.
The following segment is far more corny and amusing. Entitled 'The Black Cat', this story follows the drunk, cat-hating Montressor (Peter Lorre) who during one of his less sober moments, challenges Vincent Price's wine-critic character of Fortunato to a wine-tasting contest and shortly Montressor begins to wish the two had never met. This segment seems so far removed from the opening segment that one could be forgiven for thinking they were watching a different movie. 'The Black Cat' takes a far more light-hearted tone as the entire segment is laced with camp humour – particularly the facial expressions and general mannerisms of Vincent Price during the wine-tasting contest. This is a far more extravagant Vincent than we had previously seen. Despite one or two dramatic moments of tension and suspense, the segment never really sends any chills down the spine and is quite obviously present mainly for comedy value. It is in this story that Corman primarily chooses to utilise camera effects and visual trickery to set the mood, which is usually to enhance the humorous aspects of the film, such as during the wine-tasting contest where the effects are obviously used to show the increasing state of Montressor's intoxication. Even a hallucinatory sequence where Vincent Price's character plays with a severed head has an undeniable camp, comic charm. All in all, this segment is fun but far from truly horrifying.
The final segment, called 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar', stars Vincent Price as a terminally ill man receiving pain relief through a form of hypnosis. Valdemar (Price) agrees to be hypnotised at the point of death by Carmichael (Basil Rathbone), much to the dismay and disgust of Valdemar's wife (Debra Paget) and physician Elliot James (David Frankham). Unlike the first segment, this one suffers by moving too slowly. Corman does an excellent job of building the tension where required, but he seems to take a rather lethargic approach to moving the story along. Performances from the entire cast were excellent and are the main positive aspect to the segment. Overall, this seems a fitting way to end the film and features one particularly gruesome scene. Just like the previous two segments, the story never really seems to fulfil its potential but can hardly be described as poor.
Generally, the film is entertaining despite the pacing problems and intermittent moments of overabundant camp humour. Horror fans should not go into this movie expecting a serious fright fest. Instead it is best to view when ready to see some great performances from Vincent Price in three rather differing types of story. Excluding a couple of scenes, one should not find anything horrifying about this film, but should find multiple amusing aspects and a jolly good time.


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Bonsoir mes amis.
A friend requested a blog update. Here we go my Darlin' Charlin'!
How to tell if your good friend, Jen Maki, has indulged in an adult beverage or two.
- French flows from the mouth like water from the tap.
- "Let's go on an adventure!" - or, in warmer months - "We should go swimming!"
- Why take a cab when you can walk? "Jen, it's snowing with 50 km/hr winds."
- "Wouldn't pizza rock the body that rocks the party?!"
- One eye appears smaller than the other in photos.
- I will tell you within ten minutes of meeting you that, yes, I used to work at Disney World and it was amazing.
- You'll get to hear all about how much I love my new bike and how it's like attaching wings to your feet.
- "We should go somewhere fun! Not Baba's. I don't want to stare at bands and sway."
- Devilish gleam in the eye.
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The month of March is just around the corner and Bricksworld has just released their store calendar with the upcoming promotions.
There are two product releases for March which include the hugely popular LEGO Creator Expert Ford Mustang (10265) / SGD$229.90 and the LEGO Ideas The Flintstones (21316) / SGD$99.90.
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We arrived at our campsite near Arches mid-afternoon, which unluckily for us was the hottest part of the day. Desperate to find some shade we drove further into BLM land, finally finding a small tree to provide a cool haven away from the day's blazing sun. We had a much needed spray-bottle shower, a few refried bean tacos, then settled in for the evening, leaving the back doors open and flyscreen up to try and capture the little breeze we had.
The next morning we rose in darkness, hoping to enter Arches before anyone else and hike to Delicate Arch, a rock arch so famous that it's proudly displayed on Utah's official number plate. As we rolled up to the main gates we were told by a worker that overnight construction was still going and that we weren't allowed to enter until 7am. We frustratingly pulled into the parking lot of the visitor centre and Anita went back to sleep as I made use of the wifi network I discovered.
As soon as 7am hit we joined a convoy of eager vehicles entering the park and headed straight to Delictate Arch. We were the third or fourth couple to hit the track but could see car after car pulling up as we marched ahead. It seemed that everyone had the same idea – beat the crowds and capture the perfect photo with the arch. Thankfully Anita and I are seasoned hikers, so easily overtook couple after couple as they pulled to the side puffed and sweaty.
If I'm to be be honest I had pretty low expectations of Delicate Arch. I mean, how impressive could a rock arch be, right? But when we finally reached the top we were blown away by it's magnificence. Not only was the arch gigantic but through the other side was a breathtaking view out across the park. We quickly took our photos, spent a little time admiring, then headed back down the trail just as the waves of other hikers poured over the crest. After Delictate Arch we stopped by Landscape Arch, Balanced Rock and Park Avenue, unfortunately missing Windows Arch due to road closures. We then headed to Moab town for some lunch and to spend the hottest part of the day relaxing in the shade at a nearby park.
The next morning we headed to Deadhorse State Park to view one of the most underated and less-visited viewpoints in Utah. We arrived just as the sun rose from the mountains, and with only one or two couples on the other side of the canyon rim we had the view close to all to ourselves. With nothing but the sound of a slight breeze it was truly a surreal experience.
As the morning got lighter we continued on to Canyonlands National Park where we climbed to Aztec Butte, a short but physical hike to a collection of Anasazi granaries, built in alcoves below the rim of a steep-sided mesa. After returning to Fuego we drove on to the Grand View Point where we originally intended to hike, but as we were able to drive to the best view point we thought we'd skip the hike and get a head start on driving to our next destination, the Grand Canyon – but not without a few stops along the way.
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Communication in Health, Social Care
1.1 Identify different reasons people communicate
"Communication is a process of passing information and understanding from one person to another"Keith Davis) We are social being and always depend on each others in everyday life. People communicate to build and maintain relationships - family, parenting, community. Communication is necessary for emotional intimacy.
People communicate to conduct business/commerce, to help/support each other, to learn/educate, for pleasure - story telling, film, music, art, theatre, etc.
1.2 Explain how effective communication affects all aspects of own work.
Effective communication is to understand service user and assist them in according to that. Nothing can be done properly without a complete communication. As a care worker, if I could not able to communicate with my service user because of communication barrier then the service would be unsuccessful. We used to do different type of jobs in our care job like vulnerable adult care, elderly peoples care for their personal as well as domestic care with different mental, physical and environmental situation where effective communication is a must in term of provide proper service. Effective communication, including active listening, can be hard work. People who work in health or social care environments tend to enjoy learning about other people and their lives. Things can go wrong, however, if: • the context is wrong, e.g. the surroundings are unsuitable due to lack of privacy • the service provider and service user are mismatched. Sometimes communication breaks down because of factors such as age, education level, gender and ethnic background • person withholds information because they fear being judged, for example, they have taken illegal drugs • a person fears that confidentiality will be broken, even though this should never happen, for example, about their sexual orientation • the service user thinks that the advice given is too vague and has not asked for clarification • the subject matter is embarrassing, such as talking about sex or intimate body parts • a person fears they are going to hear bad news so avoids going to a service provider until it is too late to help.
1.3 Explain why it's important to observe an individual's reactions when communicating with them
Several cases the service user could not able to respond while communicating with us but their body language, gesture or expression. And it's important to view reactions, because only about 70-80% of communication is verbal, meaning that we are gong to be missing out on a large part of communication if we aren't paying attention to peoples facial and bodily reactions.
2.1 Find out an individual's communication and language needs, wishes and preference
As a Care Planning for a patient, our best reference is the patient. We should use conversation and questions to find out what the patient understands, what language he is most comfortable using and how the system/facility can supply the materials and services to ensure his safety, health and well being. This is an interpersonal skill that is developed through experience, not one that can be researched on line. It can be done by getting information about service user from the care plan, consulting with the line manager, their relatives who are looking after them.
2.2 Demonstrate communication methods that meet an individuals communication needs, wishes and performances
Communication methods could include:
• verbal - Verbal communication uses words to present ideas, thoughts and feelings. Good verbal communication is the ability to both explain and present your ideas clearly through the spoken word, and to listen carefully to other people • non-verbal way of communication - his refers...
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High-ranking Montreal officer named new Laval police chief
Pierre Brochet worked for Montreal police for 28 years
A high-ranking Montreal police officer who played a lead role in law enforcement during Occupy Montreal and last year's student protests has been appointed chief of police in Laval.
Pierre Brochet, a deputy chief with the SPVM, was named Wednesday as the successor to Jean-Pierre Gariépy, who announced his retirement earlier this year.
The announcement was made by the Commission municipale du Québec, which currently has trusteeship over the beleaguered city.
Brochet has served as operations chief for the Montreal service since 2010, responsible for investigations and emergency communication.
"He is a candidate of exceptional value who will lead the organization toward a service that is improved, more efficient and continually adapting to the changing needs of an evolving urban centre," said Florent Gagné, the provincially appointed supervisor for Laval and a former head of the Sûreté du Québec.
Gariépy initially said he would retire at the end of 2013, but he will now leave his post at the end of August. He has denied any knowledge of corruption allegations among high-ranking Laval politicians and city staff, some of which led to arrests on criminal charges in May.
The call for candidates for the new chief was overseen by an outside firm, and the process included interviews by a selection committee struck by the Commission municipale.


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"There is nothing remotely objective about photography. Where I stand, how I got to that spot, where I direct my lens, what I frame, how I expose the image, what personal and cultural factors influence these decisions — all are intensely subjective."
Interesting thoughts about photojournalism in contemporary society.
Verve Photo- The New Breed of Documentary Photographers
Editor's Note: This article caught my attention because of Nina's unique perspective and the disturbing subject matter combined with her observations about the ways photojournalists are adapting to the disruption in the media landscape today. While I admire what agencies like NOOR (the non-profit collective that she is a member of) are doing in terms of partnering with NGOs, I'm doubtful that it's a sustainable model. I applaud Nina and her colleagues for being so proactive and at the same time doing such strong work. This article originally appeared in Columbia Magazine.
Object Lessons
by Nina Berman '85JRN
A J-school professor discusses the evolving state of photojournalism — and shares evidence from her latest project.
Rogues' Gallery / In a new work, Nina Berman photographs trial evidence from cases of slavery and human trafficking, in hopes of indirectly revealing the mindset of the perpetrator. A billy club used by…
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Heritage Language Consortium
- Project identification: Heritage Language Consortium
- Coordinator: Patrick Rebuschat (Lancaster University)
- Responsible at CLUNL: João Costa (LiFE – Formal and Experimental Linguistics group)
- Website: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/heritage-language/
"The Heritage Language Consortium, is a strategic partnership between Lancaster University, the University of Lisbon, the University of Minho, NOVA University Lisbon, the University of Porto, Tübingen University, and Camões: Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The objective of the Consortium is to promote research on language learning in a variety of settings (from naturalistic development to classroom-based instruction) and across different age groups (children, adolescents and adults). The focus of our research will be on the acquisition of Portuguese in multilingual settings, though the insights gained from Consortium projects will be applicable to other languages.
Our research will help us understand how children and adults learn new languages and identify those factors that make some of us particularly good language learners. We can then use these insights to improve language education.
Consortium projects involve leading researchers from a range of disciplines (theoretical linguistics, education, computational linguistics, cognitive psychology, language pedagogy, corpus linguistics, second language research) and a range of methodological approaches. Please visit the People page to learn more about the Steering Committee, the Scientific Advisory Board, and the Consortium Members.
In addition, the Consortium also participates in impact and outreach activities to engage with parents, teachers and policy makers. An early example of such an outreach initiative can be found here."
(Retrieved from the project website.)
Collaborators from CLUNL
João Costa (principal investigator)
Maria Lobo
Susana Correia
Ana Madeira
Alexandra Fiéis
Raquel Amaro
Participating entities
Full information at: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/heritage-language/about-us/
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- Ongoing projects
- COVID-19 Collaborative Glossary
- Read4Succeed: Improving migrant, refugee and from deprived neighbourhood children reading skills through an Animal Assisted Reading program
- TERMVEST – The Clothing Terminology: version European Portuguese
- Digital Edition of the "Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa" (VOLP-1940)
- MOCOLANG-O – MOdélisation COnceptuelle des troubles (du LANGage et de la communication) en Orthophonie
- POR Nível – Design and validation of a placement test to PFL
- ANACOR: A corpus-based approach to anaphora resolution in second language acquisition: beyond the interfaces
- European Portuguese-Standard Arab Dictionary
- Cultural Heritage Lexicon
- Chair of Portuguese as a Second and Foreign Language
- Dictionaries of Linguistics and Communication Science (DLCS)
- Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK)
- Concluded projects
- Portuguese Literature Corpus for Distant Reading
- ALPROF – Automatic Assessment of Language Proficiency for Migrant Integration
- Utopia, Food and the Future
- Development of syntactic structures in Portuguese and French monolingual and bilingual acquisition
- The Case of Grammatical Relations
- BlackBox – a Collaborative Platform to Document Performance Composition: from conceptual structures in the backstage to customizable visualizations in the front-end
- Promotion of scientific literacy
- PerGRam – Percursos para o ensino da gramática nos primeiros anos de escolaridade
- Knowledge Organisation Proposal within the scope of infertility: the role of Terminology
- Subordination in Medieval Portuguese
- Crosslinguistic and Crosspopulation approaches to the Acquisition of Dependencies
- Syntactic and lexical factors in processing complexity
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- Syntactic Dependencies from 3 to 10
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- TKB – Transmedia Knowledge Base for Contemporary Dance
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- KEYSTONE – Semantic Keyword-Based Search on Structures Data Sources
- ENeL – European Network of e-Lexicography
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Whirlwind tour of computing and telecom's top honors, awards and prizes
From the Nobel to the Marconi: Internet, Ethernet, security and other IT/telecom pioneers get their recognition
Medals, ribbons, plaques and prize money from regional, national and international organizations have been honoring information technology, computing and telecom's most innovative people for years (See: " Gold medals, knighthood and $1 million cash prizes: Being a tech pioneer is a real honor "). Here's a look at the top awards, and some of the winners. For a timeline of 2011's awards, click here .
Presidential Medal of Freedom. This is the United States' highest civilian honor, and according to the White House is "presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors." Those endeavors include technological breakthroughs, though often more than a dozen medals awarded each year, few are given to tech luminaries (however, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, also presented by the President of U.S., directly recognizes tech leaders). The Presidential Medal was established by President John Kennedy in 1963 and followed the similarly named Medal of Freedom established by President Harry Truman in 1945.
Presidential Medal of Freedom winners from the tech industry. Winners have included IBM President Thomas Watson, Jr. (1964), HP Co-founder David Packard (1988), Intel Co-founder Gordon Moore (2002), and Internet pioneers Vinton Cerf (2005) and Robert Kahn (2005), shown here with former President George W. Bush..
National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Established in 1980 by the U.S. Congress and first given in 1985, the medal is awarded by the President of the United States "to individuals, teams, and companies for achievement in the innovation, development, commercialization and management of technology." The award was originally called the Medal of Technology, but the name was changed in 2007. The medal program is administered through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office at the Department of Commerce.
National Medal of Technology/National Medal of Technology and Innovation winners. Winners for these medals and the National Medal of Science are listed here . Winners have included Apple co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs (1985), IBM System/360 developers Fred Brooks, Erich Bloch and Bob Evans (1985), Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (1992), Digital Equipment Corp. Co-Founder Kenneth Olsen (1993), Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe (2003) and video game console creator Ralph Baer (2004), shown here with former President George W. Bush..
Nobel Prizes. There technically is no Nobel Prize in Computing because Alfred Nobel did not designate that there be one in his will, which followed his death in 1896, a tad before the computer industry took off. However, there is room for consideration of high-tech innovators for awards such as the Nobel Prize in Physics and Noble Peace Prize, which come with a $1.6 million cash prize in 2011.
Nobel Prize in Physics. Perhaps the most direct recognition of a tech/telecom innovator by the Nobel Foundation was 2009's awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Charles Kao , called by some the Father of Fiber-optic Communications.
A.M. Turing Award. Sometimes called the Nobel Prize in Computing, this award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) annually recognizes "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer field." The award, first given in 1966, also comes with a $250,000 award funded by Google and Intel. The Turing Award is the highest honor bestowed by ACM, though its other prizes include the Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences, which recognizes "personal contributions by young scientists and system developers to a contemporary innovation that, through its depth, fundamental impact and broad implications, exemplifies the greatest achievements in the discipline."
A.M. Turing Award winners. Award winners might not include a lot of household names among those following the IT and telecom industry, but their discoveries and innovations have had a huge impact nonetheless. Among those winners you might be familiar with: Unix pioneers Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (1983); RSA public key cryptographers Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman (2002); and Internet pioneers Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn (2004). As with many tech awards, men have dominated, though women such as MIT's Barbara Liskov and IBM Fellow Frances Allen (shown here) have also won the Turing Award. 2010's winner, a man named Leslie Valiant who is a Harvard University computer scientist, has influenced through his work everything from artificial intelligence to distributed computing.
IEEE Medal of Honor. Established in 1917, this highest of the IEEE's dozen of annual medals and awards "is presented when a candidate is identified as having made a particular contribution which forms a clearly exceptional addition to the science and technology of concern to IEEE." The award consists of a gold medal, a bronze replica, a certificate and honorarium. One award is given each year, though several years no award was been given. Other significant IEEE awards include the Richard W. Hamming Medal for "exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems and technology," the Alexander Graham Bell Medal for "exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and engineering," the IEEE John von Neumann Medal for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology and the Grace Murray Hopper Award for "the outstanding young computer professional of the year" – an award captured by Ethenet inventor Bob Metcalfe, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and spreadsheet creator Dan Bricklin.
IEEE Medal of Honor winners. The winners (see full list ) include Intel big shots Gordon Moore (2008) and Andy Grove (2000), Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe (1996) and Mos Joel of AT&T Bell Labs for his work on telecommunications switching (1992). Others have been recognized for advances in everything from radio waves to mathematical theory to DRAM. Shown here is 2010 winner Andrew Viterbi, the Qualcomm co-founder whose technical achievements have advanced everything from Wi-Fi to 3G cellular to satellite communications (on his left is IEEE President Moshe Kam and on his right, 2010 IEEE President Pedro Ray).
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. Established in 1976, 100 years after Graham Bell's telephone invention, this award recognizes "exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and engineering." Winners have included Father of DSL John Cioffi (2010), packet switching pioneer Paul Baran (1990) and Qualcomm Co-founder Irwin Jacobs. The oft-recognized Robert Metcalfe (1988), and Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn (1997) have also earned this medal.
Marconi Prize. The Marconi Society's annual $100,000 award is presented "to individuals whose scope of work and influence carry on the legacy of Guglielmo Marconi, recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize for his pioneering achievements in wireless technology." The first Marconi Prize was awarded in 1975. In 2008, the Marconi Society also established a Young Scholars Award to recognize individuals whose work puts them on a trajectory to win a Marconi Prize some day
Marconi Prize winners. Winners have ranged from Internet creators like Vinton Cerf, Leonard Kleinrock and Robert Kahn to science fiction author/futurists Arthur C. Clarke to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Shown here is the late packet switching developer Paul Baran (center), who won the award in 1991.
Millennium Technology Prize. Touted by Technology Academy Finland as "the world's largest technology prize" – that refers to the $1 million or so monetary award that comes with the trophy, dubbed "Peak," which symbolizes "the highest knowledge and the highest technology." The award is given every two years and is Finland's "tribute to life-enhancing technological innovations." Technology Academy Finland is an independent fund established by Finnish industry and the Finnish state.
Millennium Technology Prize winners. The most IT-relevant winner of the prize, which was first awarded in 2004, is Worldwide Web mastermind Tim Berners-Lee , who recently described Web access as "a human right ." Other winners have made breakthroughs in biomaterials for controlled drug release, development of solar cells and creation of new light sources. The award is presented by the president of Finland.
National Academy of Engineering Awards. The NAE "dedicates more than $1 million annually to recognize leaders in engineering for their lifetime dedication to their field and their commitment to advancing the human condition and to bring better understanding of the importance of engineering and engineering education to society." Major awards include the $500,000 Charles Stark Draper Prize, which since 1989 has been honoring "an engineer whose accomplishment has significantly impacted society by improving the quality of life, providing the ability to live freely and comfortably, and/or permitting the access to information." And yes, the NAE has been known to dub the Draper Prize, which includes a 3-inch, 14K gold medal, as the "Nobel Prize in Engineering."
National Academy of Engineering Award winners. Draper Prize winners have included many of the likely suspects: the Web's Tim Berners-Lee (2007), Internet pioneers (shown here) Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock and Larry Roberts (2001), and networked computer visionaries Alan Kay, Butler Lampson, Robert Taylor and Charles Thacker (2004)
National Science Board's Vannevar Bush Award. Established in 1980, this annual bronze medal honors the memory of Dr. Bush, who served as a science adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II, helped to establish federal funding for science and engineering as a national priority during peacetime, and was behind the creation of the National Science Foundation. The award "recognizes an individual who, through public service activities in science and technology, has made an outstanding contribution toward the welfare of mankind and the Nation." Vannevar Bush Award winners. Recipients have included HP co-founder CMU computer science and robotics professor Raj Reddy (2006), David Packard (1987) and Bell Labs' William Baker (1981).
Franklin Institute Awards. The Philadelphia museum named after Benjamin Franklin has been issuing awards since 1824 "to identify individuals whose great innovation has benefited humanity, advanced science, launched new fields of inquiry, and deepened our understanding of the universe." Among its awards are the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science, the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (which packs a $250,000 prize) and the Bower Award for Business Leadership.
Franklin Institute Award winners. Benjamin Franklin Medal winners have included computer mouse creator Douglas Engelbart (1999) and Andrew Viterbi, whose Viterbi Algorithm has been instrumental in the development of wireless and space communications systems, including cellular systems. Bower Award for Business Leadership winners among tech leaders have included Microsoft's Bill Gates (2010), HP's David Packard (1995/1996), Intel's Gordon Moore (2002) and Qualcomm's Irwin Jacobs (2001), and Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science winners include packet switching innovator Paul Baran (2001). Other laureates whose work you might be familiar with: Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Marie Curie.
Kyoto Prize. The Inamori Foundation's annual international awards, established in 1984, honor "those who have contributed significantly to humankind's scientific, cultural, and spiritual development." More specifically, prizes are awarded in the categories of Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences, and Arts and Philosophy. The prize itself consists of the academic honor, a gold medal and a roughly $500,000 cash gift. Kyoto Prize winners in the Basic Sciences category have included computer scientists Alan Kay and Richard Karp, and 2010's winner in the Advanced Technology category was Laszlo Lovasz, a Hungarian-born computer scientist whose work has resulted in tools for simulating how large-scale networks work (See all winners here .)
Japan Prize. Established in 1985, the prize "honors individuals whose original and outstanding achievements in science and technology are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind." It consists of a certificate, medal and cash award of around $600,000. Winners have included Internet inventors Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn (2008), Web creator Tim Berners-Lee (2002) and Kenneth Thompson/Dennis Ritchie for writing Unix (2011).
ITU World Telecommunication and Information Society Award. This honor – a trophy and citation -- has been bestowed annually since 2006 to "eminent personalities who have contributed to connecting rural communities to the benefits of ICTs ." The award is given each May 17, the day that marks the anniversary of the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention and the creation of the International Telecommunication Union. Winners have included President of Finland Tarja Halonen, Internet pioneer and head of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives Robert Kahn (2010) and the Mozilla Corp. (2007).
Electronic Freedom Foundation Pioneer Award. Established in 1992 to "recognize leaders on the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and innovation in the realm of information technology." Winners have included many of the usual suspects, such as Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe (1996) and packet switching pioneer Paul Baran (1993), but also Linux hero Linus Torvalds, Pamela Jones (creator of Groklaw) and Hari Krishna Prasad Vemuru, a security researcher in India.
National Inventors Hall of Fame . Founded in 1973, the hall is located on by the campus of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (from 1995-2009, it was based in Akron, Ohio). The not-for-profit hall "honors the men and women responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible. The organization seeks to give these outstanding individuals the recognition they so rightly deserve as well as inspire future generations of innovators through the light of their examples." To be eligible for the hall, inventors must hold a U.S. patent and their invention "must have contributed to the welfare of mankind and have promoted the progress of science and the useful arts."
National Inventors Hall of Fame winners. This hall isn't all about computers and telecom. Among the 460 inductees as of 2011 are inventors of everything from margarine to windshield wipers to the Philips screw. This year's inductees included security giants Whitfield Diffie (shown here giving acceptance speech), Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle, and past techies inducted include Alexander Graham Bell, packet switching pioneer Paul Baran, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Internet creators Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn.
Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows. The museum, which re-opened in 2011 after a six-month renovation with a major retrospective on the history of computing , features its Hall of Fellows as a wall of framed photographs of the industry's greatest contributors. Fellows are given a trophy and feted at a dinner gala. The first Fellow, compiler creator Grace Murray Hopper, was named in 1987. According to the museum: "Chosen on the basis of accomplishment, Fellows are nominated by the Museum's community and selected by a panel composed of Museum staff, historians, industry leaders, and other Computer History Museum Fellows. Sufficient time must have elapsed between a specific contribution and an individual's nomination in order to properly assess the historical importance of his/her achievements. No preference is given to accomplishments in software or hardware, to computer science over electrical engineering or any other formal discipline, to commercial success, or to the nominee's age."
Computer History Museum Hall of Fellows inductees. The Hall features more than 50 fellows, including 2011 inductees Bill Joy (seen here), for his work on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix system and for co-founding Sun, and the public key cryptography pioneers Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle.
Academy of Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards. The geeks behind the movies are annually recognized at a ceremony held a couple of weeks before the more familiar Academy Awards ceremony. Winners in 2011 included those recognized for such achievements as developing "software systems culminating in the Rush render queue management system" and "development of the Cablecam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies." Actress Marisa Tomei hosted the 2011 ceremony. And as for the Academy Awards themselves, "The Social Network" movie about the rise of Facebook won a few Oscars in 2011.
Honorary knighthood: Commander of the Order of the Royal Empire. The one-time king of computer software, Bill Gates, received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 2005 for his business skills and fight against poverty, though as an American citizen, Gates can't use the title "Sir". Not so for the London-born Sir Timothy Berners-Lee of Worldwide Wide fame, who was knighted in 2004 for "services to the global development of the Internet."
Honorary degrees. Dozens of honorary degrees have been bestowed upon technology's biggest names, some to individuals for achievements and others no doubt in part for their companies' generous endowments of research centers and the like at big universities and colleges. Famous Harvard University dropout Bill Gates circled back and picked up an honorary degree from the school in 2007 while speaking at the commencement ceremony . Others with honorary degrees include Cisco CEO John Chambers, who received one from Duke University, where he delivered the 2011 commencement address. Apple's Steve jobs was given an honorary degree from Stanford University, where he gave a commencement speech in 2005 .
Other prize-related stories:
Why there's no Nobel Prize in Computing
Web, Internet inventors have cleaned up on awards
Gold medals, knighthood and $1M cash prizes: Being a tech pioneer is a real honor
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Here's the schedule for next week – the last week of the year!
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One of the key findings:
Buying patterns will shift from today's "shadow IT" customer acquisition to more mainstream enterprise IT purchasing. This will be driven by an increasing view of EFSS as a strategic platform, which will raise concerns and diligence around security and governance controls.
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Thanks to Jack Dorsey's unwavering support for this blog, I'm back on twitter. One of the first stories I ran across on that open sewer was the sad tale of rape victim Martha McSally, the CONservative republican senator from Arizona. McSally ran as a Trump supporting politician, and makes a number of hot-button issues a feature in her political life.
Those hot button issues include feminism.
And McSally has also made a rape accusation against a superior officer.
It is notable that Senator McSally has refused to identify the man that she claims has raped her. Why would a sitting U.S. senator protect a dangerous criminal with a history of raping defenseless subordinates? We have to wonder.
Of course, thanks to feminists like McSally, we don't really know what 'rape' means, since the lexical range of that word has been widened to include things like smiling and nodding at some dumb wimminz on an elevator, or holding the door for an elderly granny. Nearly every interaction with any wimminz can be spun into a rape, at this point, and that is how feminists like McSally want it.
More generally, what was McSally doing in the U.S. Air Force? If anything, this sad tale ought to be a reason to expel every wimminz from military service immediately.
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Dark Days is the final Black London book. While I am sad to say goodbye to Jack and Pete, this is a satisfying wrap up to one of my favorite series. Thankfully, the author ends things so that she could, theoretically, go back to this world and characters someday. But even if she doesn't, I closed this book content with how things stood. This has been a unique series in that Ms. Kittredge has alternated narrators and we end on my favorite: Jack. I have loved being in Jack's head from the beginning. I adore seeing the world through his eyes. He loves Pete and their daughter so whole-heartedly, that he will do anything, literally, to protect them. Ms. Kittredge is a very talented writer and I look forward to what she brings us next.
Jack and Pete have been through some tight spots. But this one might be the end of them. Belial needs Jack's help. A creature has escaped from Hell and it is like nothing Jack has ever faced. The creature is amassing quite a following and revolution is spreading through the ranks of Hell. But what happens in Hell doesn't stay there. It will spill out into our world. When it looks as though Jack's greatest fears are going to come to pass, will he finally have to give in to the Morrigan and lead her army of the dead?
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text: I am an idiot. Time after time I choose famous restaurants and think we will be blown away. Time after time I am dead wrong. Le Cirque is New York's famous restaurant of Kings, Queens, Hollywood and celebrities from all over the world. The owner "Sirio" is a culinary legend and the Godfather of restaurants that Donald Trump is quoted as saying "He is the only person I ever imagine going into the restaurant business with". We entered Le Cirque to find a dead hostess with no expression, hello or anything. She just stood there and stared. The Maitre De welcomed us and checked our reservation. We checked our coats and were quickly seated in one of those long tables where you have people sitting on the right and left of you. Guess who sat next to us? Well it was Sirio himself. A grumpy old man that barks orders at his staff and treats patrons like dogs. I am serious. No smiles, no welcome, no nothing. Totally absorbed in himself and yelling at his staff. Problem with sitting next to Sirio is that the entire staff caters to him and forgets the other guests. Our waiter was missing in action after Sirio sat down. I had to give him a little lecture at the end of our meal because he neglected my wine pairing during our last course. "For all this money, I told him, you would think the service would be exceptional". He apologized and took something off the bill. I won't comment on the cost of this dinner because it was far too expensive and I am embarrassed. Lets just say that I could have flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles for less. The Thanksgiving Menu offered a selection of first, second, third course plus dessert. I chose the Frois Gras Terrine. This dish sucked. Served like spam on a bed Green Apple Sauce with sliced apple on top and Squash Tempura. The Squash was excellent and far better than the rest of crap on the plate. We then had a Pasta with Mushroom dish that was excellent. Fresh sheets of pasta covered in a mushroom ragu. Keli had the Australian Prawns and loved them. For our main course we tried the Turkey with Stuffing and Roasted Pheasant. The Turkey and stuffing were average. The Pheasant was dry and pretty bland. The meal was served with Sweet Potato puree, roasted Brussel Sprouts and Chest Nuts. The Sprouts were o.k., the potatoes were fair and the chest nuts were crap. For dessert we had a basic piece of chocolate cake and a tiny morsel of pumpkin pie. We would have been better off ordering the complete Thanksgiving meal from Zippy's for around $50. Once again Drew was duped by the big name restaurants and celebrity chefs and owners.


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A jaded homicide detective working a serial murder case is teamed up with a new partner - a law enforcer from an alien race. Big-city life in the near future is full of violence and tension for Saigo City homicide detective David Silver. His latest assignment is to track down a serial killer dubbed "Machete Man" because he hacks his victims to pieces. But Silver and his partner Mel Burnett just caught a break: One of Machete Man's intended victims - an elderly woman who would've been number six - escapes. And the killer left some DNA behind. Too bad the bureaucrats in charge have brought in a third wheel to assist the Homicide Task Force. Hailing from a superior race gifted with advanced technology, the Elaki have come to Earth to advise in everything from politics to medicine to big business - and now, it seems, police fieldwork. Standing seven feet tall with scales that ripple in the breeze, String resembles a stingray and smells like fresh lime. But he's turning out to be an unexpected asset in a case that's quickly morphing into something even more sinister: a far-reaching conspiracy that could leave a lot more people dead, including Detective Silver. A twisting, complex crime tale with intriguing characters, including Silver's DEA-turned-enforcer wife, Rose, and an Elaki named the Puzzle Solver, Alien Blues realistically depicts a world in which aliens and humans can coexist.


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Total Living Network (TLN) is a religious broadcasting channel based in Aurora, Illinois which carries a wide variety of family and ministry programs.
Programs include:
- Marriage: For Better For Worse, a show dedicated to helping people restore and refresh their marriages using biblical principles
- Enjoying Everyday Life with Joyce Meyer
- In Touch with Charles Stanley
- Life Today with James Robison
- Significant Insights, featuring one-on-one conversations with notable guests
- Aspiring Women, a women's talk show produced by TLN
TLN is also involved in the production of original specials, such as The Da Vinci Code Deception, and is committed to producing new types of Christian programming to reach seekers and to build up the Church.
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The cuticle and muscles of insects fluoresce in UV light, however, and the reemitted light occurs within the human visible spectrum. The insect protein rubber resilin has a characteristic blue fluorescence. , in wing bases) and these may be detected with the aid of a dissection microscope, the specimen being directly illuminated with an ultraviolet hand lamp. Such lamps are sold for observation of fluorescent geological samples. There are various problems associated with ultraviolet fluorescence microscopy.
Cleaning. The cleaning of specimens very largely depends upon what is desired in a given test. Obviously, if one desires to measure the yield stress of a flattened sclerite, the subtending epidermis will contribute to errors of cross-sectional area measurement as also will fragments of muscle or other adhering tissue. For a thick sclerite (50-100 /Lm), cotton wool swabs are effective in removing noncuticular material, while for the very thin and delicate cuticles of larvae and pupae extraneous tissue can easily be teased away with a fine brush.


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…Guyana to host India/WI T20 and ODI matches on August 6 and 8
WEST Indies will begin their bid to become World Test champions during the India Tour of the Caribbean, which starts in August and will be sponsored by MyTeam11 and co-powered by Skoda and Kamla Pasand.
The West Indies and India will play two Tests – from August 22 to 26 at the Vivian Richards Cricket Stadium in Antigua and from August 30 to September 3 at Sabina Park in Jamaica – during the five-week Tour, which also includes three Twenty20 and three One-day Internationals.
Guyana will host the final Twenty20 on August 6 and the first ODI on August 8 at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence. These matches will see the India cricket team return to Guyana for the first time since 2002.
The two Tests open the new ICC World Test Championship, which will be played over the next two years and has been introduced to give greater context and competition in the "Ultimate Test" of the game, combining strategy, skill and endurance.
"The West Indies and India have a long and colourful rivalry, and the MyTeam11 Series will bring more thrilling competition across every format of the game," said Cricket West Indies Chief Executive Officer Johnny Grave.
"We'll be seeing some of the World's best players go head-to-head in T20Is, ODIs and then in the new World Test Championship. West Indies fans, young and old, will have the opportunity to see some incredible cricket."
The MyTeam11 Series starts with three T20Is. The first two matches will be contested back-to-back on the weekend of August 3 and 4 at the Broward County Stadium in the city of Lauderhill in the American state of Florida.
Only one of the two T20Is produced a result when the two sides played at this venue three years ago before sell-out crowds, with the second match ending in a no-result, due to a rain and technical delay.
In the first match of the series, India's K.L. Rahul scored the second-fastest T20I century off only 46 balls, eventually finishing on 110 not out for the highest international score in the venue's history.
The two teams also posted the highest international innings totals in the venue's history for a World record of 489 runs, with the West Indies winning by one run, thanks to an even hundred off 49 balls from left-handed opener Evin Lewis.
"We're excited to bring two more T20Is to Florida, giving the West Indies diaspora in North America the opportunity to watch the team play 'live' and in person," said CWI Commercial, Marketing and Communications Director, Dominic Warne.
"This continues our plans of growing our audience and the game's appeal in North America to increase participation and investment back into the West Indies. The MyTeam11 Series will provide a chance for a growing audience in the United States, who follow the West Indies, to experience the fast-paced action of the T20 format."
The last of the three T20Is in the MyTeam11 Series will be played on August 6 at the Guyana National Stadium, where the series also transitions to the 50 overs-a-side format. The first ODI takes place on August 8, the first time in three decades the two sides will contest an ODI in the South American nation.
The MyTeam11 ODI series concludes with matches on August 11 and 14 at the Queen's Park Oval in Trinidad.
Tour itinerary West India vs India
ST JOHN'S, Antigua, (CMC) – Following is the itinerary for India's tour of West Indies announced Wednesday by Cricket West Indies(CWI):
Sat, Aug 3: 1st Twenty20 International – Central Broward Regional Park, United States (10:30 am start)
Sun, Aug 4: 2nd Twenty20 International – Central Broward Regional Park (10:30 am)
Tue, Aug 6: 3rd Twenty20 International – Guyana National Stadium, Guyana (10:30 am)
Thu, Aug 8: 1st One-day International – Guyana National Stadium (9:30 am)
Sun, Aug 11: 2nd One-day International – Queen's Park Oval, Trinidad (9:30 am)
Wed, Aug 14: 3rd One-day International – Queen's Park Oval (9:30 am)
Sat, Aug 17-19: Tour Match – Coolidge Cricket Ground, Antigua (9:30 am daily)
Thu, Aug 22-26: 1st Test – Vivian Richards Cricket Ground, Antigua (9:30 am daily)
Fri, Aug 30 – Tue, Sep 3: 2nd Test – Sabina Park, Jamaica (9:30 am daily)