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I have a large slow ASP.net site that uses master pages.
I've identified that the user will have a better experience if they can see the header and navigation while the rest of the page is being generated/processed/loaded from the database.
I've done some simple tests and I can do Response.Write() followed by Response.Flush() in page_load(), and IIs will use chunked encoding and send the output to the browser immediately while the rest of the page renders.
I want to do the same thing, but only send the master page header and navigation.
Any pointers on how to achieve this?
Using ASP.net 4 and IIs 7.5
If anyone can give some pointers on how to change the site to use AJAX without having to change every page and link, I'd appreciate it. Thanks!

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Abrams, Spielberg Pay Riveting Homage to B-Movies of Their Youths with 'Super 8'
The childlike sense of wonder so evident in Super 8 might well spring from director J.J. Abrams' memories of an adolescent infatuation with monster movies, and his filmmaking as a boy on the long-obsolete Eastman Kodak cameras from which his latest work takes its name.
But try telling that to anyone weaned on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goonies and E.T. Whether Abrams is channeling the spirit of producer Steven Spielberg or paying tribute to his mentor's most audacious fantasies, Spielberg's influence on Super 8 is impossible to miss.
Twitter Users to Be Granted First Look at J.J. Abrams' 'Super 8' at the Metreon
Fellow geeks, get ready to tweet. Paramount Pictures and Twitter announced today that sneak-preview screenings of J.J. Abrams' eagerly anticipated sci-fi fantasy Super 8 will take place all day Thursday at theaters across the country – including the AMC Metreon here in San Francisco – a day before the movie opens nationwide.
To promote the sneak previews, the companies have designated the hashtag #Super8Secret, which Paramount has also sponsored as a promoted trend, giving Twitter's global users a direct link to buy tickets. Participating theaters will be treat those in attendance to a free popcorn (with a concession purchase) at each showing. Hosting movie sneak previews marks a first for Twitter.
Dog Days Ahead: June Movie Preview
Just as winter is the season of Oscar hopefuls, the dog days belong to big-budget popcorn fare – star-studded comedies, explosive adventures and comic-book crusaders bent on saving humanity from imminent destruction. This June will be no different, with a strong crop of contenders mining for box-office gold, including:


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San Diego County Water Authority seeks bay-delta solution that works
California needs a 21st century solution for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta, the hub of the state's water supply system. That solution must be feasible, reliable and affordable. It must be right-sized, and the state must secure firm financial commitments from those who have said they will pay for it.
The multibillion-dollar question is how best to attain that vision in the Bay Delta to sustainably meet the needs of water supply reliability and the ecosystem. It might seem like a distant problem for those of us in San Diego County, but our region draws about 20 percent of its water supply from the Bay-Delta, and we'll be on the hook to pay for a substantial piece of any solution.
The fixes being debated range from keeping the status quo to building a twin-tunnels project that would carry water under the Bay Delta for 30 miles. The state of California, interest groups, water agencies, environmental organizations and others across the state are advancing their favorite alternatives, some of which take an integrated approach by linking Bay Delta investments with greater investments in local supplies, conservation and increased water storage. Earlier this month, the California Department of Water Resources issued an economic analysis of its preferred project: the $25 billion twin-tunnels project.
While it may be tempting to rush into supporting one project over another, it would be unwise to commit our region's residents to pay for any proposed solution without diligent scrutiny. That's why the Water Authority is taking a thoughtful and deliberate approach to ensuring that we have the information we need to make the right choice for our region. In recent months, we have invited proponents of several Bay Delta project alternatives to share their views with the Water Authority's board of directors. Over the course of the next several months, our board will review the four major alternatives for fixing the Bay Delta to determine which one best achieves our goal of improved water-supply reliability from the Bay Delta at a cost our ratepayers can afford.
Each potential project is being assessed for water-supply reliability, ecosystem restoration and impacts on the environment, finance and funding, facilities, and governance, in accordance with policy principles and reliability objectives adopted by the board. We are committed to making sure that the selected solution is affordable, that beneficiaries make firm commitments to pay for the work, and that it creates meaningful environmental progress in the Bay Delta.
We seek regulatory certainty about water deliveries and financial certainty regarding our share of the project costs. We believe Bay Delta project costs should be allocated to stakeholders in proportion to the benefits they receive. And we want the strategy to account for plans and projects by Southern California's water agencies to increase local supplies and reduce their reliance on the Bay Delta.
The financing issue is particularly significant for San Diego County residents. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has said it will pay for at least a quarter of the cost of a Bay Delta fix. As MWD's largest customer, the Water Authority would be expected to pay for a large share of those costs — and that share could grow disproportionately larger if other MWD member agencies decide the price is too high and further reduce their MWD water purchases in favor of other sources.
A similar dynamic also could develop at the state level. If one or more state water contractors that promise to pay for the project default on payment obligations, other contractors, including MWD, could be liable for bigger payments — and that, in turn, would boost water bills in San Diego County.


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May 24, 2016
Sample ballots and absentee ballots are available at circuit clerk offices around Mississippi. And the election is only three weeks away.
Lauderdale County Circuit Clerk Donna Jill Johnson reminds voters that some of them are eligible to cast absentee ballots prior to the election.
People who work during polling hours, students away at college, and others who will be out-of-town Nov. 4 are included.
"We have lots of truck drivers. We have nurses working different shifts. We have people that work in Philadelphia, over in Alabama. There are a lot of occupations, railroad employees, that take advantage of this on a regular basis," said Johnson. "But we do encourage everybody to come in now because we will have an historical turnout. And if you need to vote absentee we don't want you waiting in line as long as you might have to if you wait."
Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann said Mississippi has 172,787 new voters registered this year.
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Is this how you do things?
That's so funny but so gross at the same time.
helicopter ****, helicopter ****, helicopter ****.
Amazing video Vulture rams paraglider mid-air, both survive !!! - YouTube!
my 4 year made me play that 3 times.
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Amazing video Vulture rams paraglider mid-air, both survive !!! - YouTube!
Right out of the gate, that sucks.
So much funnier with sound.
You can't die. That would upset the equilibrium in the Cave.
Prohman Empire.
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[Anything] is easy if you are content to suck at it.
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Ehhh. That means this video is normal...
Originally Posted by mramseyISU
my 4 year made me play that 3 times.
Had to play it for my kids three times and my wife twice.
That reminds me, do they still sell Man Cave hot dogs at Hilton?
"Me not winning isn't important. You do!"
Originally Posted by Naughtius
That reminds me, do they still sell Man Cave hot dogs at Hilton?
So that is where Kemp got the idea for his manure spreader invention.
"There are five real good recruits in the state. We got three of them. One couldnt get into school, and the other went to (the University of) Iowa...which is about the same thing." - Coach Johnny Orr
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The Green Bay Packers may squash the Chicago Bears, but Illinois beats Wisconsin when it comes to economic recovery and job growth. Since the beginning of the fiscal year in July, Wisconsin ranks 50th – dead last— among the states in job performance, losing 27,600 jobs. Illinois ranks 14th, gaining 11,000 jobs.
If Wisconsin had simply matched the national rate of job creation since April, nearly 34,000 more families would have a breadwinner with a full-time job.
Is Illinois' better performance the result of luck, weather or work ethic? None of the above.
According to a new assessment of Wisconsin's economy by the Institute for Wisconsin's Future (IWF), Governor Scott Walker's budget policy choices played a prime role.
IWF's short, hard-hitting report is titled The Price of Extremism: Wisconsin's economy under the Walker administration. The report shows Wisconsin's stalled economy is no accident of fate. According to the data, Wisconsin lags behind Illinois and the national economy because the Governor's "cuts only" approach drastically reduced consumer spending, a major roadblock on the path to economic recovery.
As the report notes, big cuts in state and local government programs and in workers' take-home pay are bad choices in a difficult economy. In tough times, the worst thing a governor can do is further shrink the economy.
The comparison with Illinois is instructive. Going into this year, both states faced serious revenue shortfalls.
But their governors chose opposite strategies.
In Wisconsin, Governor Walker undermined collective bargaining rights and reduced take-home pay of hundreds of thousands of people employed by schools, communities and the state. He slashed over one billion dollars a year from state programs and spurned hundreds of millions of federal dollars that Wisconsin could have received. At the same time, he cut taxes on the state's wealthiest taxpayers and biggest corporations.
In Illinois, Governor Patrick Quinn shepherded increases in corporate and personal income taxes through the Legislature, in order to make sure that cuts in state programs were as modest as possible. Illinois took a balanced approach to its budget, mixing revenue increases with cuts.
The report estimates that Walker's policies are causing the loss of about 18,000 full-time private sector jobs this year. When the state takes money out of the economy, it hurts business. Under Act 10, a typical state worker took home $70 less each week. This depletes the household budget, costing local businesses $70 a week. The combined impact of this policy alone subtracted $700 million from economic activity. Details of how Walker's economic policies starved the market are found in IWF's report. Also included is a county-by-county breakdown of how much purchasing power was lost due to the Governor's measures.
For more details, including copies of the various documents referred to in this press release, see the IWF web site at: www.wisconsinsfuture.org.
The Institute for Wisconsin's Future is a non-profit research and public education organization based in Glendale, a suburb of Milwaukee. Its work is funded primarily by national philanthropies.


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State Opening of Parliament 2016
The State Opening of Parliament is the most exciting and important event of the Parliamentary calendar.
As Head of State, it is The Queen's duty to formally open each new session of Parliament.
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh travel in a coach from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster. Spectators can watch the procession from The Mall and Whitehall.
The ceremony takes place at the House of Lords. It is also broadcast live on BBC television.
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The proposal put forward on this page is a reconstruction of the Stellar beliefs of Egypt during the Old Kingdom, in particular the identification of the star Deity Sah through seals dating to the 2nd Dynasty of Egypt, which have been sourced from here, and will be shown to be what the Pyramid texts of the VIth Dynasty are describing, this in association with the interlinked concerns of Sopdet and Sopdu. The texts regarding Sah have been sourced from here.
This proposal rejects the conventional considerations that Sah should be associated with the constellation Orion, i see that as a mis-representation from the Late Period of Egyptian history, were whilst the constellation Orion could be considered as being related to the timing of the Sokar Festival of Khoiak, the mergeance of Osiris-Sokar, and the increasing rise in status of the former and demise of the latter, saw association of Orion solely with Osiris, with writers of the Classical period such as Plutarch making a facile identification of Horus or Osiris with Orion, and Sopdet-Isis, being the natural consort, seen placed alongside in the unfortunate role of Dog-Star/Sirius, this in former times more probably relevent to the cult of Anubis. It should also be considered that the Constellation Bootes was understood as Orion to some Greek authors, from here;
Arkturos is mentioned twice, W. 566 and 610. By Arkturos Hesiod means the same as Homer by Bootes; in later Greek he is also called Arktophylax, and Aratus seems to use Arktophylax for the Constellation, and Arkturos, just as we do, for its brightest star; Arat. Phen. 91 seqq., 'Behind Helike moves, like to one driving, Arktophylax, whom men also call Bootes, since he appears to lay his hands on the wain-like Bear; all of him is very conspicuous, but under his belt rolls brightly the star Arkturos himself.' The Schol. on this passage says that Arktophylax was an Arkadian, son of Zeus and Kallisto, and that he was brought up by a goatherd on Mount Lykaion, and being with his mother in danger of his life, Zeus in pity turned him into a star. He adds, 'This is said to be Arktophylax, Bootes, Orion, . . . and also he is called Trugetes (Vintager). Theon and Hesychios also call Bootes Orion, and it has been suggested that there were two Orions, Bootes being one.
It is undisputed that the sequential relationship between 'The Big Dipper', and the stellar Deities Sah and Sopdet is critical to any undertanding of what progression through the afterlife entailed, and the terminology of the Pyramid texts expresses this linkage in the sense of the joining of hands of the various parties involved, suggesting practical proximity is neccesary.
The seals proposed as the primary evidence are cartouches bearing the name of 2nd Dynasty Kings from their tombs, with the focus being on the raised and fallen figure located within these,shown above a 'ladder'. This figure in some of the seal impressions has an arc tracery of small circles above his outstretched arms, which also appear in Later astronomical ceilings denoting stars, and also bear comparison to the circular hieroglyph for a grain of sand or metallic particle, thus essentialy a poetic allusion to an arc tracery of stars above the figure, clearly identifying it as a Stellar Deity.
Moreover, as this Stellar Deity appears within the cartouche of the Kings, then there is a direct association between this Deity and the King himself, being placed in the context between the Horus identification hieroglyphic and the scepter of power. Currently in Egyptology the figure is seen as a Lord/Official (Nb) representing an unkown institutional practise, the 'ladder' is thought to go on to become the hieroglyph representative of the word 'Mer' associate with canals, waterways, also seen in terms of the place of ascension of the Ba, and indeed the word for Pyramid in Egyptian.
sealings refer to an unknown institution (nb) and to the official in charge
of its direction (there is sometimes an Adj-Mer official of the Nb).
For the King is a great Power who has great Power over the Powers
The King is a sacred image the most sacred of the sacred images of the Great One
And whomsoever he finds in his way him he devours piecemeal(?).
The King's place is at the head of all the august ones who are in the horizon,
for the King is a god, older than the oldest.
Thousands serve him hundreds offer to him,
there is given to him a warrant as Great Power by Sah, father of the Gods.
The King has appeared again in the sky. He is crowned as Lord of the horizon;
He has broken the back-bones
And has
taken the hearts of the gods
The fallen figure is realised in quite natural artistic terms, and the stars that will most readily lend theselves to incorporating this image are those in the vicinity of the Constellation Bootes, which has a striking three star asterism paronatella to the horizon when rising in the East, which translates to the vertical when setting in the West, this being the proposed striking visual premise for the development of this Cult.
The generally given translation of the word 'Sah' itself is that of 'Toe-Star', identified here with Alpha-Bootes/Arcturus
The figure is shown above a ladder which is, relative to the horizon, on a South-North axis, and this was a fetish of the cult of the figure arising,whilst also given the outstretched arms the figure could be seen to arise as a Heron. In the seals the figures are depicted differing in height above the horizontal and also when seen thus their angle has shifted correspondingly as is the natural progression of the stars high into the sky to circle around the Pole.
I have gone up among the great ones, I have descended among the sheswe;
I have gone up upon the ladder
with my foot on sah and my arm uplifted.
May I soar cloudwards to the sky like a heron,
may I surpass
the side-locked ones of the sky,
It's interesting to note that the Greeks had myths relating to the Constellation of Bootes which show very strong correspondance to the mythic elements of falling asleep comparable to death, and arising from such, this was related to the Constellation having seasonal risings relevent to viticulture, which is also the most ancient aspect of the cult of Osiris, and the underlying theme of his Feast of Wagy, notable also in the Grrek myth is the role of Virgo ;
It was said that the Herdsman was the national sign of ancient Egypt, the myth of the dismemberment of Osiris originating in the successive settings of its stars; and that there it was called Bacchus, or Sabazius, the ancient name for Bacchus and Noah; and that Kircher's planisphere showed a Vine instead of the customary figure. Its risings and settings were frequently observed and made much of in all classical days, Hesiod says: "When in the rosy morn Arcturus shines, Then pluck the cluster's from the parent vines" and again, but for a different season of the year: "When from the Tropic, or the winter's 'Sun, Thrice twenty days and night's their course have run; And when Arcturus leave's the main, to rise; a star bright shining in the evening 'skies; Then prune the vine". Roman writers and others have similar references to Bootes, or to Arcturus, as indicating the proper seasons for various farm work, as in the 1st Georgic:"Setting Bootes will afford the signs not obscure".
In another story, Bootes is seen as Icarius, a grape grower in Attica. Icarius was a very friendly man and unwittingly gave Bacchus (Roman Bacchus - Greek Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy, he had a cult followings throughout much of the ancient world), who happened to be incognito, the freedom to inspect his vineyards. Bacchus was so impressed with these vineyards that he decided to tell Icarius how to make wine from grapes. Icarius did so, and was delighted with the results. Icarius invited all the other shepherds and friends of the neighborhood to a festival to taste the heavenly liquor for themselves. The party was a great success but they all drank too much and, under the influence of the wine, fell asleep. When they awakened the next morning with terrible hangovers and headaches, they discussed what had happened and decided that Icarius must have planned to poison them all. They agreed that Icarius should pay for this with his life. They overpowered the innocent man in his sleep, killed him, and threw his body in a ditch. The Dogs, Asterion and Chara (of the constellation Canes Venatici), missed Icarius, their master, and began to whine. Erigone, Icarius' daughter (associated with the constellation Virgo), heard the dogs and let them off their leashes. Immediately, the dogs started to sniff and search for Icarius until they found his dead body in the ditch. In despair, Erigone committed suicide and the dogs leapt in the deep ditch to die with their master. [NPS p152]. (See Virgo in the Myths of the Zodiac by Kalev Pehme for a more complete account of this story).
"The whole tragic story of Icarius, Erigone, and the Dogs can be seen unfolding in the sky. When Bootes (Icarius) culminates high in the south, Taurus, the Bull, the sacred animal of Bacchus, has just set, which means that Bacchus has left Icarius after his visit, leaving the wine recipe with Icarius. At the same time Orion also sets which means that the shepherds fall asleep under the influence of the wine. Next morning when Orion comes up he appears as an enormous giant, just awakening from his sleep and brandishing his club, the signal that the shepherds have decided to kill Icarius. This can be seen in the west where Bootes sinks below the horizon. Then, as the shepherds sneak off, notice how Orion sinks down to the west. In the east rises the constellation of Virgo, the Virgin, who represents Erigone. The Hunting Dogs also rise and the search begins. When Bootes culminates again it means that the dogs have found Icarius. Next we see the trio sink towards the west which indicates the end of the story when they all die".
ERIGONE, in Greek mythology, daughter of Icarius, the hero of the Attic deme Icaria. Her father, who had been taught by Dionysus to make wine, gave some to some shepherds, who became intoxicated. Their companions, thinking they had been poisoned, killed Icarius and buried him under a tree on Mount Hymettus (or threw his body into a well). Erigone, guided by her faithful dog Maera, found his grave, and hanged herself on the tree. Dionysus sent a plague on the land, and all the maidens of Athens, in a fit of madness, hanged themselves like Erigone. Icarius, Erigone and Maera were set among the stars as Boetes (or Arcturus), Virgo and Procyon. The festival called Aeora (the "swing") was subsequently instituted to propitiate Icarius and Erigone. Various small images (in Lat. oscilla) were suspended on trees and swung backwards and forwards, and offerings of fruit were made (Hyginus, Fab. 130, Poet. astron. ii. 4; Apollodorus iii. 14). The story was probably intended to explain the origin of these oscilla, by which Dionysus, as god of trees (Dendrites), was propitiated, and the baneful influence of the dog-star averted (see also Oscilla)
He initially seems to be a fierce underworld deity, but Shezmu was quite helpful to the dead. Although he was a harsh executioner of the wicked, he was also a great protector of the virtuous. Shezmu offered red wine to those who had passed on. Other than wine, he was in charge of earthly objects such as embalming oils, and perfumes.
Among the gods, his job was to use the bodies and blood of the dead to create sustenance for Unas. Osiris was the one who ordered the use of the wicked one's blood to be turned to wine.
On a darker note, Shezmu's affinity with the color red linked him to evil. Crimson was a feared and hated color among the Egyptians. Not only is it the universal color of blood, and therefore death, but it was the color of the god of chaos, Seth. Since it was also the color of the setting sun, red was associated with the coming darkness and the reign of Apophis the serpent demon.
The evidence
would suggest that from the Pre-Dynastic Period up until the beginings
of the First Dynasty that ritual killing and usage of blood sacrifice
was an aspect of the Afterlife Cults of the Period, the sign involved
in both killings from the labels of Aha and Djer is the 'ladder' sign,
associate with the Sah figure above it, from the Second Dynasty seals.
The seal of Djer appears to show the transition of a bound corpse carried
in funerary procession, to being shown held upright, in association with
upright 'ladder' fetish., note also the triangular fetish carried aloft.
Raise yourself because of your strength, may you ascend to the sky,
may the sky give birth to you like sah, may you have power in your body,
and may you protect yourself from your foe.
The upright figure relative to the setting position of Sah in the West, we can assume has been well fed upon the flesh of the condemned, and nourished by their blood, to stand triumphant. The position of the figure bears comparison to the early Dynastic representations of the King about to smite the head of his enemy held in his left hand, with the mace held in his right. The arc tracery of stars above the head of Sah appear to have beeen seen as comparative to a crown, though in the Middle Kingdom it is a stylized glyph possiblyy representative of the three stars paranotella upon the horizon, that constitutes the crown of Sah..
furthur comparison is made between the crown of Sah, and the sun's crown
when emerging from the Akhet, the ecliptic path of the sun, to be greeted
by Horus within the same path, which will be shown to be associate with
the star Regulus, that was alongside the ecliptic path of the sun, and
would rise with it at the time of the mid-summer innundation of the Nile.
Around 2500BC, the summer solstice was located near Regulus, meaning that
around that period, the Sun was located near Regulus at the start of summer,
and the combined heat of the Sun and Regulus was believed to produce the
excessive heat of that season.
"The elder one fell on his side but stood up as a god, his control with him and his crown atop him. This Pepi Neferkare has fallen on his side and Pepi Neferkare will stand up as a god, his control with him and his crown atop him like the Sun's crown when he emerges from the Akhet and is greeted by Horus in the Akhet "
The reed-floats of the sky are set in place for Re, the reed-floats of the sky are set in place for Re, that he may be on high from the east to the west in company with his brethren the gods. His brother is sah, his sister is sepdet, and he sits between [them] in this land for ever. The reed-floats of the sky are set in place for this King, the reed-floats of the sky are set in place for this King, that he may be on high from the east to the west in company with his brethren the gods. His brother is sah, his sister is sepdet, and he sits between them in this land for ever.
The sky is pregnant of
There are two triangles that need to be considered with regards to the Sah/Sopdet/Sopdu relationships, the first is the commonly observed Arcturus/Spica/Denebola instance known as 'The Spring Triangle', which is roughly equilateral in form. The arms of the fallen figure and risen, from the 2nd Dynasty seals would project toward Denebola, as seen in the diagram above, suggesting that this star was possibly also relevent to the cult of Sopdu, in the sense of a greater Regulus based constellation located amongst the stars of the constellation Leo. This first triangle also bears comparison with the triangular aprons worn in Egypt.
It is the second Arcturus/Spica/Regulus triangle which i would suggest was seen as the primary, as this is equivalent to the triangle of the Sopdet hieroglyph, also seen in the name of Sopdu, were also a lion can be seen illustrated, suggesting that he was at some point associate with the constellation Leo in one form or another as a Lion.
The most critical fact is that during the Old Kingdom the heliacal rising/mergance of Regulus with the Sun took place at the time of the Summer Solstice, at the postion of 62*., correspondant with the Nile Innundation, and marking the New Year. For example on July 12/13th according to the Julian Calendar, in 2,570 Bc at 4.45 am the Summer Solstice would occour and Regulus and the Sun would be merged.
The rising point of Spica for this date and location (Giza) on the horizon would be at 76*, which would be the Solstice~Equinox midpoint occuring in Mid May, and this would be seen as giving birth to the Summer Solstice, relative to Sopdet/Isis. The correspondant Autumnal quarter point of the year would occour in Mid November at 104*, and be related to the cult of Sokar and the Feast of Khoiak, whilst the Winter Solstice took place at 118*, correspondant to the rising place of Anubis/Canis Major, essentialy then the seasonal progression of the Sun along the horizon was from the rising point of Sirius, at the Mid-Winter Solstice, to the rising point of Regulus at the Summer Solstice (62*), covering 56* in total. There was also the noted heliacal rising/return of Sirius at around the time of the Summer Solstice, this in a sense the culmination of events inaugerated at the Winter-Solstice rising point of Sirius, this star going on to become very closely associated with Spica/Erigone/Isis.
Securi dormite,
canes: custodiet hortum
(Sleep dogs in safety: Sirius will watch over the garden with his beloved Erigone...Priapus)
Perhaps the most critical comparative of Spica/Sopdet and the Star Sirius (Anubis) in Egyptian thought can be found in the 'Dramatic Text' refering to Sirius and its noted seventy day period of invisibility, related to the period of embalming and purification through water;
"The one (star) which goes to earth dies and enters the Duat .. It stops in the House of Geb seven decans.It looses its impurity to the earth in seven decans .It sheds its impurity to the earth. It is pure and it comes into existence in the horizon like Sopdet
Thus Sirius comes into the existance upon the horizon, purified, as the case would be with water, comparative to the association of Sopdet coming into the horizon, also notably purified, however the purification of Sopdet would be seen as purification through the air, the association of the wind with winged Isis, and the oscillation rituals through the air as seen in Greek rituals regarding Erigone. Thus essentialy the concern was with Solar seasonal positions along the horizon, in conjunction with the rising points of key Stars, and the sense that this can be seen in relationship to an arc extending down from Ursa Major, through Bootes and Virgo as far as Canis Major.
These occurances transformed in ritual and percieved as magic, thus so Sirius/Anubis associated with purification through water, Spica/Sopdet purification through air, whilst Regulus would be purification through fire, given the solstice mergance with the Sun. The point equidistant between the Winter solstice and equinoctal point, at 104* would see Orion/Sokar associated with Earth, a chothonic Deity, celebrated at the Festival of Khoiak, and associated with Sirius/Anubis in terms of the underground preperation of the deceased to beging the journey into the afterlife.
These four rising points of the Sun throughout the year, and their association with the stars that arose at the same point upon the horizon, in terms of four elements of nature would suggest the basic premise for what developed into the Alchemical tradition developed by the later Greek philosophical schools, with the basic premise of purification of the four elementals then their unification, given that the Winter Solstice/118* was correspondant with water, the midpoint between winter solstice/equinox at 104* Earth, the midpoint between summer solstice/equinox at 76* wind, and the summer solstice 62* fire, then the equinoctal point of 90* would see the balancing of the elementals. The sequance would be Water~Earth~Wind~Fire for the four elements, the fifth principle would see the four elements in balance, and this would be overall represented by the principle of Ma'at. During the Old Kingdom, and before, the Scales of Libra rose due East shortly before the Autumnal Equinox, whilst at the Vernal Equinox they would set due West after sunset, it is most likely the Scales of Libra developed from the Egyptian model of the Scales of Ma'at, and that the rising/setting point due East/West represented the concept of balance between hemispheres and elements.
I know your name, I am not ignorant of your name ;
your name is 'Limitless', your father's name is 'You-are-great', your mother's name is 'Peace',
(even) she who bears you on the path of the dawn(?), the path of the dawn(?).
May sah give me his hand,
for sedpet has taken my hand.
The earth is hacked up for me, offerings are presented to me,
even I,
for whom the Two Districts shout.
In Egyptian mythology, Sopdu (also rendered Septu or Sopedu) was originally the scorching heat of the summer sun. Sopdu's name, meaning with Sopd, derives from this heat it was said that Sopdet gave birth to this heat, and so Sopdu was seen as her child.
The effects of the scorching of the sun lead many ancient cultures to see it as war-like, and the Egyptians were no different in this respect, with Sopdu consequently being seen as a war god. Because heliacal rising occurs in the east, and the sun's heat begins there daily, Sopdu was referred to as Lord of the East, and had his greatest cult centre at the easternmost nome of Lower Egypt, which was named Per-Sopdu, meaning place of Sopdu. The combination of being a war-god, and being associated with the easternmost edge, lead to Sopdu being depicted as an Asiatic warrior, with a shemset girdle and long axe, and more generally being said to guard Egypt's borders. When the Egyptians conquered Sinai, he was also thought to guard the turquoise mines, which predominantly lay within Sinai.
name is composed of the hieroglyph for sharp, a pointed triangle, and
the 3rd person plural suffix (a Quail); thus a literal translation of
his name is sharp ones. However, the triangle glyph was really a representation
of a plant thorn, which the Egyptians referred to as a tooth, and so his
name could be seen as the plural of tooth, i.e. teeth. Consequently, war-gods
also being associated with death, he was said, in the Pyramid Texts, to
protect the teeth of the deceased.
There is an interesting comparison that can be made between the 'Sothic triangle' and the cone shaped bread offerings often seen illustrated, as in the example left from Karnak, and right were Sopdu is offered such in a cup.
This will be derivative of the fact the Isis-Sopdet was Goddess of grain/bread, and a great agricultural Deity, with Sah-Osiris being her consort
Even yet at harvest time the people make a dedication of the first heads of the grain to be cut, and standing beside the sheaf beat themselves and call upon Isis, by this act rendering honour to the Goddess for the fruits which she discovered, at the season when she first did this. Moreover in some cities, during the Festival of Isis as well, stalks of wheat and barley are carried among the other objects in the procession, as a memorial of what the Goddess so ingeniously discovered at the beginning."
Diodorus Siculus
There were also cone shaped funerary seals which some have seen possibly related to the bread offerings, again this is all suggestive of the importance of the triangular motif/relationship.
cones may have been used for a variety of functions. Egyptologists suggest
that they may have been used to identify the tomb owner (almost like a
modern cemetery marker, as an ornamental memorial, as a boundary marker
or even as a symbolic offering of bread...
The given method for visually navigating around these Northern Constellations, as mentioned in Classical times, is to Follow the arc to Arcturus, then speed (or spiral) to Spica", thus visually follow the arc of the Big Dipper down to Arcturus then continue the progression toward Spica. If one draws up such a curvilinear relationship, then it will be found that the centre of the arc/circle described will be located at Regulus. This arc progression is essentialy what is involved in the Greek myth regarding 'the swing'...The festival called Aeora (the "swing") was subsequently instituted to propitiate Icarius and Erigone. Various small images (in Lat. oscilla) were suspended on trees and swung backwards and forwards
Sah is encircled by the det, pure and living in the horizon.
Sepdet is encircled by the det, pure and living in the horizon.
I am encircled by the det, pure and living in the horizon.
It is well with me and with them, It is pleasant for me and for them,
within the arms of my father, within the arms of Atum.
The siting of the Pyramids at Giza relative to centre takes into account the setting positions of Arcturus and Spica.
Whilst the site divides into ten sectors, each of 36 degrees, the 4 degree zone banding which gives tolerance to the slightly shifting star positions, this is capable of harmoniously incorporating the 32 degree 'Sothic Triangle', indeed Khufu's Pyramid takes up 32 degrees of field of vision when viewed from centre, with a setting point for Arcturus directly through centre.
In symbolic terms
a mirroring transferance of the Heavenly concepts onto the site seems
likely, the transferance of the spiritual forces associate with Regulus
at the Sphinx therefore, born of the essence of Sah and Sopdet, who
thus also translate to centre in the form of the Son, that merges with
the Atum-Re
Part One- Preliminary study of Pentagonal geometry and associated Phi ratio in terms of the cult of Osiris.
Part Two-Furthur consideration of the geometry as regards architectural projections upon the Giza Plateau.
Part Three-Considering the contextual implications of a subdivision of Giza into ten sectors.
Part Four-Examaning the central area of the projections around the Sphinx and associated cults.
Part Five-Determination of the central cultic role of Sokar~Osiris in terms of the Giza Necropolis.
Part Six-The Birthing of Nefertem through the Sacred Centre.by the waters.
Part Seven-The Egyptian Model of the Five Celestial Divisions.


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Bad managers impact our productivity as well as our attitude toward work, but a recent post on HBR Blog Network suggests that nice bosses might not be all they're cracked up to be, either.
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The key is in the definition of nice. Almost everyone would agree that an ideal manager has qualities that could be construed as nice. Our favorite bosses -- the ones who mentor us, shepherd us through corporate culture, empower us to make good decisions, and defend us from detractors -- certainly fit that description. But there's one thing "good nice" bosses have that "bad nice" bosses don't have: strength.
Weak bosses don't have the clout to help their reports get their projects done, and or the conviction to head a problem off at the pass. Worse, HBR contributor Greg McKeown says, they might think they're doing the right thing by not micromanaging their underlings.
"This is a problem hidden in plain sight," writes McKeown. "The issue has been unintentionally camouflaged by leadership thinkers (I am guilty) who may have overemphasized overmanagement and underemphasized undermanagement. The majority of the leadership literature over the past 25 years has done this. But what happens if an undermanager reads an article, book or attends training of this kind? It may encourage them to continue in their hands-off, low control, absentee approach. They may say, 'Yes, I don't like to smother my people or control them.' They may speak about empowerment and enablement. All the while they allow their people's career prospect to decline slowly."
So what's the answer for workers who are stuck with an ineffectual leader? There's often a limited amount you can do in terms of managing up in situations like these. But learning to recognize when your well-meaning boss isn't able to help you move forward is a good way to make sure you don't get stuck in that position for long.
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My son and I took in a lap of our 9 mile neighborhood loop today before supper. I mounted the camera on my bike and shot some video. It comes out a lot smoother on the road than the offroad video I shot last week.
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Crime watch, police address troublesome intersection
Members of the South Side Neighborhood Watch got an update from Acting Scranton Police Chief Carl Graziano about a dangerous intersection in the city at Wednesday night's meeting.
The chief informed South Side watch members he sent a letter to the state Department of Transportation May 27 asking for a traffic study to be conducted and stop signs placed at all four corners of Pittston Avenue and Orchard Street.
He has yet to receive a response, he said.
PennDOT spokesman James May said crews will do a traffic study in response to letters from elected officials or city leaders, adding that they will work with elected officials to determine whether a change to traffic patterns would be warranted.
Since January 2008, there have been 26 crashes at Pittston Avenue and Orchard Street, injuring seven people and involving 56 vehicles, the chief said. And those are just the crashes reported directly from the scene of the intersection - Chief Graziano said the number is probably much greater if you count reports taken within the few blocks surrounding the intersection.
Drivers attempting to cross Pittston Avenue or turning from Orchard Street onto Pittston Avenue have trouble seeing vehicles, he said.
"Your line of site isn't that great," Chief Graziano said at the meeting.
South Side Neighborhood Watch President Andrea Wharton said neighbors are also concerned there are not pedestrian crosswalks in that intersection.
The group is schedule to hold its next meeting July 17 at 6:30 p.m. in the South Side Senior Center.
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Drop out SwankHilary Swank was a high school drop out.
The Oscar-winning actress, who plays an inspirational high school teacher in new movie 'Freedom Writers', admits she was far from being a model pupil.
She said: "I'm not proud to say I'm a high-school dropout. I'm not proud to admit that happened, but it happened. I think school is really, really important and we have an education problem in America and it's a shame. It's a shame for any kid to feel hopeless about their future."
However, Swank insists unlike the students in the movie, who are all from a deprived inner-city neighbourhood, she never despaired about her future because her mother, Judy, was always there to support her.
The 32-year-old actress admits her problems at school were that she talked too much and always broke the rules.
She explained: "It was kind of the relentless, 'Stop talking, Hilary. You've got to stop talking.' On the report cards it said, 'Hilary will not stop talking. She's a blabbermouth.' That kind of thing."
Swank's mother moved them to Los Angeles when Hilary was 16 so her daughter could pursue an acting career. The pair were forced to live in their car until Judy raised enough money to rent an apartment.
It was in Los Angeles where Swank enrolled at South Pasadena High School to finish her education but subsequently dropped out.
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U.S. Department of State 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report - Cameroon
|United States Department of State
|Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
|Publication Date
|5 June 2006
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|United States Department of State, U.S. Department of State 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report - Cameroon, 5 June 2006, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4680d87d2.html [accessed 30 May 2016]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Cameroon (Tier 2 )
Cameroon is a source, transit, and destination country for children and women trafficked for labor and sexual exploitation. The majority of child victims are trafficked within the country, although some are also trafficked from Cameroon to Nigeria, Gabon, and the Central African Republic and to Cameroon from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Benin, and Niger. Children are trafficked for domestic servitude and street vending; as forced laborers on tea, cocoa, banana, and rubber plantations; for forced work in spare-parts shops; and for commercial sexual exploitation. A smaller number of women and girls are trafficked to Equatorial Guinea and Europe for sexual exploitation, often lured away by fraudulent marriage proposals.
The Government of Cameroon does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. To strengthen its response to trafficking, the government should educate law enforcement officials and the public about its new anti-trafficking law and increase efforts to prevent trafficking.
The Government of Cameroon demonstrated increased progress in combating trafficking through law enforcement means over the past year. In December 2005, the government enacted a statute prohibiting child trafficking. The government expects to present a draft law against adult trafficking to the National Assembly in 2006. The government has also begun drafting a Child Protection Code and is finalizing a Family Code that will increase the minimum marriage age for girls to 18. Authorities arrested 12 traffickers during the year. Eight are awaiting trial, including one who is in police custody. One trafficker was deported to the U.S. where she was convicted for a trafficking offense. The General Delegate for National Security in December 2005 signed an order creating an anti-trafficking vice squad within the National Office of Interpol. The government does not provide specialized anti-trafficking training to law enforcement officials.
The Government of Cameroon demonstrated significant efforts to protect trafficking victims over the reporting period. The Ministry of Social Affairs continued operating temporary shelters in all 10 provincial capitals of the country that provided repatriated child victims with care while officials located their families. The government also referred victims to local NGOs and orphanages for assistance. In 2005, the government collaborated with the ILO on a U.S. Government-funded project to remove 1,200 children from cocoa plantations and provide them with schooling or skills training. In May 2005 the government collaborated with the Gabonese Government in repatriating 11 Cameroonian trafficking victims from Gabon. The government has identified three provinces with high concentrations of trafficking victims where it will begin training law enforcement and government officials to better identify and provide protection to victims. The government does not punish victims for unlawful acts committed as a direct result of their being trafficked.
The Cameroonian Government demonstrated modest efforts to prevent trafficking. In partnership with the ILO, the government established village child labor committees to educate communities about the dangers of child labor. In November 2005, the Minister of Labor signed an order creating a National Committee for the Implementation of the International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC) responsible for integrating IPEC activities into national efforts against child labor. The government began drafting a National Strategic Plan Against Child Trafficking, which it plans to present to the National Assembly for adoption in 2006.


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Tata Steel today reported a 9.4 per cent increase in sales volumes to 2.06 million tonnes from its Indian operations in the October-December quarter.
The private sector steel major had reported sales of 1.88 million tonnes in the corresponding quarter a year earlier, the company said in a statement.
Production of saleable steel during the quarter rose 3.9 per cent to 2.15 million tonnes from 2.06 million tonnes.
"Flat product saleable steel production was best ever in Q3 at 1.48 million tonnes (previous best 1.46 million tonnes in Q4 FY'13)," Tata Steel said.
Flat products such as hot-rolled coil and cold-rolled coil are used in automotive, heavy machinery, pipes and tubes, packaging and appliances sectors.
The company's hot metal production increased 1.6 per cent to 2.31 million tonnes during the quarter. Crude steel output rose 3.7 per cent to 2.16 million tonnes.
Tata Steel had reported sales volumes of 2.03 million tonnes and production of 2.2 million tonnes of saleable steel during the second quarter of this financial year.
Tata Steel's sales in April-December period stood at 6.1 million tonnes while production of saleable steel during this period was 6.5 million tonnes.


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Volunteers needed to get Milton Theatre ready for May reopening
The Milton Chamber of Commerce announces the reopening of the Milton Theatre; it went dark in 2010. The property was purchased in 2013 by Glenn and Lisa Howard of Milton, and the Howards have now leased the space to Premier Center for the Arts.
Based in Middletown, PCA is an organization focused on educational programs intended to nurture well-rounded performers. Students at PCA receive instruction rooted in strong technique and are given opportunities to perform. PCA students participated in over 200 student performances last year and are on pace to surpass that number in 2014, including a recent performance in Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Fred Munzert is the executive director and a producer for PCA Productions and will be leading the effort to bring programs to the Milton Theatre.
PCA is on pace to open the doors in May 2014 with a free children's workshop but needs community support through volunteers who can help put finishing touches on the theater building to meet its opening-day goal.
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Ensemble casts aren't just for television and movies anymore. Sure, there have been video games that have nailed the feeling of bringing together vastly different characters into the same universe to serve some uniform purpose, but few seem to boast the buzz-worthy names that are coming to populate Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes. Following along with the Marvel theme, upcoming film Big Hero 6 will be making its way into the figure-based adventure game.
There was little doubt that while other Disney properties would make their way to the forefront in Disney Infinity 2.0, the focus would remain on those spandex-clad heroes we all know and love. For this reason alone, the inclusion of comic series and soon-to-be Disney animated film Big Hero 6 makes complete sense.
Making the jump from the silver screen will be series protagonist Hiro Hamada and his inflatable robot Baymax. As has come to be expected from the Disney Infinity series, these characters will come in the form of their own figures that will unlock their playable selves in-game. Like Donald Duck and Marvel's rogues gallery of villains before them, these figures will also present players with hundreds of items, vehicles, and locales like San Fransokyo from the upcoming movie.
Hiro will represent a more cerebral take on the Marvel universe as instead of relying on his brawn, he will be highlighted by the mind-controlled microbots that come as a product of his genius-level intellect. At the opposite end of the spectrum is Baymax. Despite being an inflatable robot with an even bigger heart, he packs a fierce knowledge of Kung Fu, super strength, thrusters, and a rocket fist that would even make Hulk jealous. Rounding out the package, players will also be able to collect a Chem Capsule Power Disc which will open up the ability to freeze would-be enemies with a cloud of frost.
Judging by the images and trailer, this futuristic addition to Disney Infinity 2.0 will retain much of the humor that fans would expect from the upcoming film. From Hiro's microbots which materialize as dangerous rows of spikes to Baymax's combination of agility and raw power, the new characters look to be no slouch in the action department as well. Arguably most exciting though, is the inclusion of a futuristic cityscape to explore and build upon.
While this will hardly represent the first urban environment to make its way into Disney Infinity, the high-tech nature of San Fransokyo as well as its melding of cultures makes for a striking and visually interesting environment that will make itself right at home in the game's creation-focused Toy Box mode. Who could say no to hover-boarding past neon advertisements while taking on a horde of mutated pirates?
Between this announcement and the inclusion of the Guardians of the Galaxy, it's clear that Marvel and Disney Interactive are focused on integrating not only their most recognizable properties into Disney Infinity, but also the ones that are sitting on the horizon. If this is the case, then this series could prove to have some serious lasting-power based solely on the constant flow of new content coming out of these two media giants.
Will you be picking up Hiro and Baymax for Disney Infinity 2.0 when it launches later this year? What other Disney and Marvel properties would you like to see make it into the game?
Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (2.0 Edition) releases on September 23, 2014 for PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.
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I want to convert my Mezzo I-4 to a sram dual drive 27 speed and have some questions:
1. what wheel should I buy and where to the proper 16 inch wheel in the USA?
2. What about spokes? Where do I get them, and what type/size do I need.
3. Will I need to buy a new chain, or will the current chain fit OK?
4. What modifications, if any, will I have to make to the frame to accommodate fold.
5. What gear inch span will I get (low gear, high gear)
6. What did I forget to ask?
I know bhkyte has made this mod and am hoping he can help me out here.


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TALLAHASSEE — Among the notables spotted in the Capitol today: Frank Biden, the Ocean Ridge resident whose brother, Joe Biden, is vice president of the United States.
Frank Biden is president of the Mavericks High School in West Palm Beach and director of the Florida Charter School Alliance.
"I'm a charter school advocate and a choice advocate and have a lot of friends up here. It's always fun to be at opening day. I'm a fan of the political process," Biden said while standing outside the House chamber before Gov. Rick Scott's State of the State speech.
"We are embarking on another year where we want to make sure that the voices of parents and kids in charter schools, public charter schools, are heard. And there's a great bipartisan flavor around this issue that we want to continue to encourage." Biden said.


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Just doing to obligatory greeting thing... am excited to explore this place, I've seen some truly beautiful maps here. By day I'm a film contractor and by night I write fantasy and build the world around it, which of course involves my own inept attempts at maps! Hopefully the masters here can teach me a thing or two.
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CRM Business Analyst (2389) Vancouver, Canada
About Colliers International
Colliers is the leader in global real estate services, defined by our spirit of enterprise. Through a culture of service excellence and a shared sense of initiative, we integrate the resources of real estate specialists worldwide to accelerate the success of our partners. Putting into action our values of Service, Expertise, Community and Fun, we foster a collaborative, fun culture and give back to the places where we live and work. Our most valuable resource is our people: energetic, innovative thinkers who care equally about doing great work and providing exemplary service to clients and to one another.
We are successful because we enjoy what we do!
Purpose of Position:
We are looking for a CRM Business Analyst to join our Vancouver or Toronto office. The CRM Business Analyst will work primarily with MS CRM 4.0 and 2013 to deliver an upgraded application. The existing application has complex customizations that need to be accommodated in the new CRM2013 environment. In this role the incumbent will work with the Information Systems team and business users to develop the business and reporting requirements for development in partnership with the CRM Architect and developers. Experience in managing/coordinating system deployment is required.
The candidate will be a team player that participates during all stages of business system projects i.e. documentation, requirements gathering, development, testing, training and deployment of business systems. In this role the incumbent will be expected to participate in and/or drive the deployment, delivery and improvement of future business applications, training programs and application improvements. A key part of this role is to gain in depth knowledge of both the business and system processes.
Summary of Essential Job Functions:
- Drives the gathering and breakdown of business requirements to develop a requirement specifications that will determine the estimate of cost, time and resources
- Work with the CRM Architect to implement and deploy the business requirements that support the business processes
- Conduct workshops or key meetings for business requirements to capture and record as-is/to-be analysis
- Proactively identify strengths and weakness and suggest areas of improvement along with possible solutions according to customer and user requirements, their strategies and their goals
- Develop business cases and support the prioritization process
- Review and edit requirements, specifications and recommendations related to a proposed solution
- Work with the project manager, architects, and other developers internally and externally to define metrics and performance goals for the solution
- Manage transitioning of requirements and use cases to the designers to ensure a clear and complete understanding of the solution specification
- Integrate new market trends and technology developments into the solution setup
- Ability to drive system functionality and process improvement changes to reduce cycle times and provide more value-add to business units
- Identify areas for improvement and propose/implement recommendations for increasing effectiveness of business processes
- Support stakeholder alignment
- Evaluates and communicates process and technology changes to the business with clarity and supporting documentation
- Develop training and end-user support materials, including classroom materials, online support materials, job aids, and quick reference guides
- Any other ad hoc duties as assigned
Required Skills
- Have approximately 5 years of experience in business analysis with relevant experience within the disciplines of Communications, Training, Project management and Application support
- Excellent knowledge and a thorough understanding of complex ERP systems
- Experience providing functional support and development of enterprise systems
- Understanding of mapping processes and requirements gathering
- Hands-on skills and proficiency in applicable software, problem determination, and troubleshooting techniques
- Able to manage multiple priorities and understand competing priorities
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task, analyze, and problem-solve complex issues
- Work with detailed technical information
- Work well independently and in a team
- Organized, detail-oriented, analytical, and good decision-making and issue resolution skills
- High level of initiative - to initiate and follow through to completion with projects and processes
- Excellent interpersonal skills and strong customer service orientation
- Comfortable dealing with senior leadership team
- Above average capability with operating the MS Office Suite – Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Ability to adapt to an ever changing environment
- Commercial real estate, property management and retail industry experience an asset
If you enjoy working in an optimistic, energetic and dynamic work environment that emphasizes social as well as business interaction, then we invite you to apply.


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It is Wednesday already? This week is going by so quickly. I can't even believe it. I want to take a few minutes today to talk to you about meal planning. Here is how we do it. Wednesday (today) we plan our meals for Saturday through Friday for the upcoming week and make our grocery list. Ugh. It takes so long partly because we do this right after dinner so we are not hungry. I usually like to make something that takes longer on Sundays, like a big, special meal. It needs to have leftovers because I never want to cook on Monday. It tends to be a day that I just don't have time. Tuesday and Wednesday I usually make something that we can eat for 2 days or can be remade into something else. Thursday is the worst day to plan. I NEVER want what we planned for the day unless I trick myself and put my favorite thing on Thursday. If it is leftovers there is no way we will actually eat that for dinner on Thursday.
What is a great option on Thursday? Pizza. Pizza is the answer because it is easy and I can choose the toppings based on what I want to use in the fridge. This particular pizza, BBQ chicken pizza is so good that I am excited to make it on Thursday. It is sweet from the BBQ sauce, with a hint of garlic, freshness from the green onions, and spice from the sliced jalapeño. It kind of makes my taste buds dance, a necessity for those last few days of the week. I forgot to mention that there is bacon. Bacon makes everything better. It makes the pizza a little smokey and gives little crunchy surprises with each bite.
This is one of my favorite pizzas to make. It makes great leftovers and fab cold. I think the added bonus is that you could actually use left over chicken and just add some BBQ sauce. I didn't have left over barbecue chicken, so I made some really quickly in the toaster oven.
Now I want to know how you plan your meals? Is it once a week? Once a month? What are the problems that you and your family have when meal planning? I would love some tips or tricks from others!
BBQ Chicken Pizza
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Keywords: bake
Ingredients (6-8 slices of pizza)
- 1 pizza crust
- cornmeal for dusting
- 1/4 pound chicken
- BBQ sauce
- 1 jalapeño, sliced
- 1/3 pound mozzarella cheese, grated
- goat cheese
- 2-3 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
- 2 tablespoons green onions
Heat the oven to 450 degrees. Cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces and coat with BBQ sauce. Spread out on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes.
Heat oven to 500 degrees. Roll out the pizza crust. Sprinkle the bottom of the pan or pizza with cornmeal. Place the crust on top. Sprinkle the remaining ingredients over the crust. Bake at 500 for 15-20 minutes or until bubbly and crispy.
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I make it in the crockpot! Put an onion cut into quarters on the bottom of the crockpot, then put the whole chicken on top of it. Pour half a can of coke, then most of a bottle of BBQ sauce over the chicken. Then, slice a lemon into quarters and put it on top of the chicken. It ends up being a sweet and sour type of sauce and is sooo good. The sauce can be used as gravy over rice.


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Celebratory bullet pierces roof of Kealakekua home
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KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (AP) A Kealakekua man says a stray bullet fired during New Year's Eve celebrations pierced the roof of his home.
Farzad Fazeli says the bullet left a 1-inch diameter hole in the ceiling of his dining room, then hit the wood floor near a table and bounced toward a window. No one was in the room at the time the bullet struck between 10:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Tuesday. Fazeli says police confiscated the bullet, but told him it would be difficult to pinpoint exactly who fired the shot.
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By Lorin Ullmann, IBM® Master Inventor, Lead Architect, Integrated Service Management for System z®
Tivoli System z Architecture and Technical Strategy, IBM Development Lab, Austin Texas
If you are responsible for your organization's most critical applications, then you are very likely working with mainframes. You also have likely been called back into work at night, or over the weekend, in order to diagnose and fix a computing problem. Read more of this blog to learn why IT organizations are implementing comprehensive Service Management technology strategies.
The mainframe runs the most critical business applications
The mainframe runs applications that allow people to use their credit cards to purchase goods, withdraw cash from an ATM bank machine, check-in at a hotel or airport, process their house insurance claim after a fire, receive their weekly paycheck into their bank account, receive government services like social security, or enable critical operations by our military. The figure below illustrates common pattern in the mainframe computing application environment. Application software architectures used today by businesses are critical and complex. Software components running on the mainframe provide computer processing for the storage of critical customer data, execution of IT transactions, hosting application business service logic, and access by internal users and external customers.
Figure 1: Example System z Application Architecture Pattern
Performance monitoring lowers business risk
These mainframe applications, often referred to as "workload," are most often the company's most critical assets, generating business revenue with a proven track record of being operational, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The software components have been highly tuned, modified by programmers over time, in order to guarantee response times for the end user. The collection of software components must work together seamlessly to run billions of business transactions a year.
In order to lower business risk, mainframe organizations use monitoring software, specialized applications or tools that collect information used to provide indicators that everything is working fine. A healthy application means the company continues to make money, as customer can access their data and perform transactions by using the company's services. Performance monitoring tools also highlight software parts that are not performing. Performance indicators, sometimes referred to as "metrics or key performance indicators (KPI)," are collected to provide early identification of potential bottlenecks that could eventfully provide a poor user experience. For example, the ATM or web banking application might perform slower than expected, but only when a large number of users log in at the same time.
IT staff depend on problem determination tooling
Monitoring tools alert operators of potential issues and then help the subject matter experts ( SMEs) determine the root cause of an issue. Using the example of an unusually slow response time for an end user, the SME will investigate each area of the computing software and hardware environment. This common problem determination approach permits the SME to eliminate technology areas as the potential root cause.
Problem determination of an application slow-down is difficult and time consuming because there are many potential areas of concern. In addition to the application software environment shown in Figure 1, the SME must also consider the hardware storage, server and network environment and any non-mainframe servers that are part of the application data and logic flow. The non-mainframe servers often referred to as "distributed servers, "in the company's data center often connect the mainframe and drive the use of computing resources on the mainframe in order to support their customer's business transactions.
Comprehensive IBM System z Monitoring Solution
The IBM System z Monitoring Solution Architecture design addresses the need to streamline problem determination for complex application architecture run-times by collecting performance metrics in a high performing, 24x7 highly available environment. The figure below illustrates the general solution scope based on OMEGAMON® and ITCAM monitoring technology.
The OMEGAMON and ITCAM technology families provide single data collection, and screen visibility across entire System z and subsystems, supporting personas with both 3270 displays for rapid response times for system programmers and graphical user interfaces for SME operations staff. The solution provides data for event monitoring, reporting and automation tools for both real-time and historical use cases. Best practices are provided for both out of the box for IT staff, and ready to be customized by an organization.
Figure 2: IBM System z Monitoring Solution Architecture
In closing, a few key points are reiterated below:
Lorin Ullmann, the lead development architect for Tivoli's Integrated Service Management for System z and an IBM Master Inventor, focuses primary on System z technical strategies, solution architectures, and software designs across the Tivoli portfolio that help clients address today's IT challenges. During his 25-year IBM career, Lorin's architectural contribution has spanned a broad range of technologies, including systems management; Java™, OS/2™, thin client and pervasive device operating systems; printer device drivers, graphic and video engines; power management firmware; PS/2 personal computer video circuit board hardware; and IO optical storage peripherals.


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Abstract pleasures. Cosmological musings. Portraits of people both real and imaginary…
The Museum of Glass in Tacoma has three unusually complementary exhibits on display into early 2013, making it well worth a trip there — especially if you want to stretch your conception of what glass art can do.
Here's what's on show:
"Ray Turner: Population" (through Feb. 3)
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Artist Ray Turner calls his oil-on-glass portraits "head paintings," and that's exactly what they are: faces, viewed full-on, in 12-inch- by-12-inch panels. There are close to 170 of them in the show, which suggests a certain degree of repetition — but that's not the case.
The reason: Turner is working simultaneously in two distinct veins and on two distinct scales, making for fascinating tensions and contrasts within the show.
The biggest installation, "Population," consists of 105 portraits of people, done in a naturalistic impressionist style. The portraits are arranged in five horizontal rows of 21 panels apiece. The selection of people portrayed has varied from city to city, as the exhibit travels from Akron, Ohio, to Bellingham and now, Tacoma. For each tour stop, Turner has painted figures from the local community. In Tacoma, that includes glassblowers, members of the Puyallup tribe and fellow alumni from Tacoma's Stadium High School, which Turner attended in the 1970s. (He now lives in California.)
Individually, the portraits have a quick-sketch spontaneity to them. The paint on the glass can be creamy, curving, a little reckless, and Turner's subjects, caught in candid poses, sometimes are distorted in feature or color. No matter what freedoms he takes in rendering his models, each retains his or her open, distinctive character.
On the large scale, though, more is going on. Behind each portrait on its clear pane of glass, a matching square of gallery wall has been painted a background color. (The color looks, at first glance, as though it's painted on the back of the glass, but that's an illusion.)
Step back from this "mosaic" of 105 people, and you'll see they're linked in a grand chromatic progression, going from yellow to umber to purple to red to green. The colors' sweep lends a vibrant buzz to the whole installation, even as individual portraits retain their magnetic draw.
The second largest installation in the show, "Good Man Bad Man," finds Turner following the same formal principle as in "Population," but with wildly different subject matter. The 45 "head paintings" in it are imaginary beings, some of them nightmarish deviations from the human.
In a catalog accompanying the show, Turner explains that "Good Man Bad Man" had its origins in a question his son asked about the first painting in the series: Did it depict a villain or a hero?
Turner's own take, 10 years later, is that the visages in the series "exaggerate both sides of our human experience … with two forces colliding in constant strife, good often dominating, but never fully overcoming our dark lord."
The vaguely anthropomorphic beings Turner conjures into view are startling with their masklike, twisted, melting, dazed or menacing faces. Some are blanched out, as if overexposed to light. Others are luridly colored head-smears, with occasional physiognomic details (a rough circle for an eye, a sketchy notion of an ear) to suggest something human coming into being. Turner's brushwork is fast, free, rule-bending. Each protean face is placed against a black backdrop, except for the bifurcated disintegrating visage at the very center, which is backdropped in red.
"Population" is a fine, ambitious, community-embracing work. But Turner is more riveting when he lets his demons out.
"Maestro: Recent Works by Lino Tagliapietra" (through Jan. 6)
Dale Chihuly calls 78-year-old Lino Tagliapietra the world's "greatest living glassblower," and this survey of the Venetian artist's work from the last decade makes clear why.
"Maestro" is a wonderland of elegantly fanciful abstract shapes, colors and patterns. Its 65 glass sculptures seemingly float, soar or do loop-the-loops in ways that defy their glass medium.
The Museum of Glass has published a handsome catalog to go with the exhibit, prefaced with an eloquent essay by Claudia Gorbman, a professor at University of Washington, Tacoma. Noting that Tagliapietra likes to title his pieces after places ("Fiji," "Piccadilly," "Pago Pago," "Tatoosh"), creatures ("Dinosaur," "Batman") or other cultural markers ("Masai," "Makah"), Gorbman writes, "The labels are evocative but do not by any means limit what we can see in the works."
Whether you take them as strictly abstract or read something figurative into them, the free and ceaseless inventions on display in "Maestro" are a pure delight.
"Scapes: Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana" (though Jan. 27)
These sibling glass artists — also from Venice — take inspiration from Hindu cosmology in this atmospheric exhibit. Divided into sections titled "Earth," "Space," "Sun" and "Moon and Constellations," the show was created entirely in the Hot Shop at Museum of Glass.
Alessandro's glass paintings, on the wall, are in call-and-response to his sister's three-dimensional glass work, arranged in cases or on pedestals. The paintings are roughly rectangular. Some depict celestial bodies afloat in a darkly lustrous cosmos. Others, such as "Delta (2)," specifically reference earthly sights. In the "Space" section of the show, his paintings are searingly bright sheets of mirrored glass.
Laura's sculpture plays more overtly with the Hindu notion of a "cosmic egg" from which heaven, Earth and the complexities of the universe were created. Some are embellished with gold, silver or copper gild. All have a strong presence and mystery.
The four galleries, taken together, are temple-like, with different rooms consecrated to different purposes. The Museum of Glass lighting team contributes almost as much as the artists themselves in letting you take an imaginative leap into the realm of the sidereal and primordial.
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