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Are you thinking of going into transportation business that requires the use of taxi or cab? Do you want to know the best car for such a taxi business? This article will guide towards buying the best car for commercial taxi transportation business – intra and inter- city taxi /cab transportation.
The most popular business in Nigeria is transportation business. It is one of the fastest growing business opportunities in Nigeria. Nigerian's high population has made transportation business a lucrative one. Commercial Taxi make between N3, 000 to N5, 000 daily, while the small buses make between N10, 000 to N15, 000 daily.
Choosing the best car for commercial taxi business
The most important critical step you have to take before starting transportation business is deciding what type of car will work best for your business. This is because not all cars are used for commercial taxi transportation business in Nigeria.
Apart from this, your location or locality for the business has to be taken into consideration. The taxi business in Nigeria, particularly in Lagos, is now more. Not all cars used as commercial taxi in Lagos can be used as commercial car in Abuja.
Factors to consider when buying a car for taxi business
- Fuel economy – this is one of most important factor to consider when purchasing a car for commercial use. Volkswagen, Opel, etc. models has good fuel efficiency.
- Rugged cars – many Nigerian roads are so bad. When it comes to using a car for commercial transport, fuel economy and ruggedity are the first 2 things to consider. There are lot of port-holes here and there. It therefore necessary to consider rugged cars for Nigerian roads when buying a car for commercial use. Most Toyota models are rugged cars.
- Available of the car spare parts – availability of the car spare parts need to be taken into consideration when buying a car for commercial use. For example; Opel model car spare parts are readily available in Northern part of Nigeria than any other part of Nigeria.
- Maintenance – availability of specialize car mechanics and electrician must be faction into your budget when buying a car for commercial use.
- Good rear passenger space and carrier
- Engines capacity – when buying car for commercial purpose make sure it is up to 1.6 litres engine or at most 1.8 litres engine capacity.
Best cars for commercial taxi transportation business
In Nigeria generally, most taxi/cab operators only accept Toyota, Nissan and Volkswagen car for commercial taxi business.
In western cities part of Nigeria like Ibadan, Ado-Ekiti, Ondo, Akure, Oyo; Audi 80, Volkswagen jetta, Golf 3, Nissan Sunny and Nissan micra are popularly used for intra city taxi transportation. These cars have good rear passenger space; boots and they are 1.8L i4 engines. Their fuel efficiency is superb. Their spare parts are readily available and relatively cheap.
In North city like Jos-Plateau, Bauchi and far – northern part of Nigeria; Opel Vectra, Golf 2, Golf 3 and Golf 3 wagon are popularly used for intra and inter – city taxi transportation business. Opel is quite fast, spacious both for the rear passengers and the boot; the engine is a 1.8 SOHC GM engine. Opel Vectra is used in Adamawa, Gombe, Taraba, Bauchi, Kano; Plateau, Niger states. Their parts are readily available in North and cheap but not in west. Opel brand is more common in the North; they attribute their preference to fuel economy, easy maintenance, speed and stability.
In south east cities like Enugu, Ebonyi, Owerri, Anambra; Toyota camry, Toyota carina 2, Golf 2, Golf 3, Nissan Sunny and partially Mazda are popularly used for taxi/cab business. Their spare parts are available and relatively cheap. Toyota camry is commonly used for intra and inter- city taxi transportation in Enugu. Toyota usually doesn't have mechanical/electrical problems as other cars. Their parts are abundant and cheap. They have resale value (if properly maintained).
Honda and Toyota model cars for transportation business
Honda is a reliable and good and among the best selling cars worldwide but not anyway used as taxis, one reason being that the spare parts are expensive than Toyota. Honda Accords are stronger, but fuel economy and maintenance is higher than Toyota and the rest. Honda civic and city are compact cars with good fuel economy but they are too fragile. Honda cars are not very rugged… that doesn't mean they are not reliable. Thirdly, Hondas are not used because of its suspension system especially the rear. The Honda's rear suspension cannot be modified to carry more weight or repaired when bad. There is because of the diameter of Honda shocks which is smaller when compare to both Toyota and Nissan and even Mazda. Many commercial drivers sometimes modify the suspensions of Toyota by doubling the coil spring to carry more weight while there is no allowance for that in Honda shocks. Also, the toyota and Nissan shock absorbers can be opened and resealed once the oil and rubber seals leak.
Most cab companies that use newer model of cars use either Toyota or Nissan Sunny. However, at the airport you will see varieties of cars as taxi including 2000+ model Hondas.
Volkswagen Golf MK1, 2 and 3, Passat, Jetta, Audi 80, Nissan Sunny, Mazda 626 have 1.6-2.2L Inline 4 engines, 4 or 5 doors, good rear passengers and cargo compartments, fewer electrical components than recent cars, spare parts availability and mechanic availability, durability, and also year of manufacture 1986-1996. Toyota cricket or first-lady is known and called circa 1986-1992, toyota carina II is 1988-1992 but carina E is 1993-1997. This is the same age range of cars, Opel Vectra is circa 1988.
In summary, best car for intra and inter-city transportation business in Nigeria include; Volkswagen Golf MK1, 2 and 3, Passat, Jetta, Primera , Audi 80, Nissan Sunny, Mazda 626, 323, volvo 244, Sienna, 504,505, Toyota camry, Toyota GL, Toyota corolla, Opel vectra. Few Honda Concertos and Golf 4 can also be used for commercial taxi business. 2000 and above model of Jetta, Volvo, Primera, Mazda 626 are very fragile and hardly used for commercial purpose.
Buy your taxi car online
Buying car is very easy these days. You can sit down at the comfort of your home and buy new or fairly car online. All you need to do is to search for the car you want to buy online from any of these sites and order for it. The pictures should be there for you to see. Once, the car you order arrive border, go inspection and clearing it.
Warning: don't pay for a car you've not seen, and touch with your hands


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Drunken driver gets 30 years for double murder
A habitual drunken driver who swerved off of Interstate 10 last year while speeding and texting, killing a 10-year-old and her mother as they sat in their disabled vehicle, was ordered by jurors Monday to serve 30 years in prison for each death.
The terms will be served concurrently.
Christopher Hughes Lamar, 27, last week became the first person in Bexar County ever convicted of felony murder instead of intoxication manslaughter because of prior DWI convictions. The unique prosecutorial tactic allowed jurors to consider an expanded punishment range of up to life in prison instead of the usual maximum of 20 years.
Friends and family of Kaylee Flores and her mother, Jessica Rodriguez, 28, said after the sentence was announced that they had hoped jurors would take advantage of the increased range to keep Lamar off the streets for life.
"He's (driven drunk) four times," said family spokeswoman Brandi Rose, whose daughter was Kaylee's cousin. "He can be put away for a long time — it doesn't matter. He's an alcoholic. He's going to always drink and he's going to always get behind the wheel."
Although Texas law allows intoxication manslaughter cases to be stacked at the judge's discretion, that is not an option for dual murder convictions when tried together, prosecutors said. Lamar will have to serve at least 15 years before he will be eligible for parole.
Jurors in the 290th state District Court deliberated the punishment about four hours.
During closing arguments earlier in the day, defense attorneys Louis Martinez and Eddie Bravenec asked for sentences of between 12 and 20 years, emphasizing that their client didn't mean to kill anyone.
"You're not sending him to the prison ... for unintentional murderers," Martinez said, pointing out that his client is likely to be targeted for violence and rape by fellow inmates because the case involved a child victim. "You're sending him to prison with the worst people in society. You're sending him to a place where none of us would want to be for five minutes."
But there were plenty of intentional acts — drinking two Guinness beers plus an entire bottle of vodka, opting to get behind the wheel of a 4,500-pound SUV and driving 80 mph — that caused the deaths, prosecutors Tamara Strauch and David Henderson responded.
"Do you want to live some place where you can't pull over on the side of the road?" Henderson asked. "That man can never, ever, ever be allowed to get behind the wheel again — ever."
Prosecutors declined to suggest a specific sentence.
Applying felony murder — accidentally causing a death in the course of committing another felony — to habitual drunken drivers is a relatively new statewide phenomenon. Test cases emerged about a decade ago, but the practice has spread rapidly among prosecutors in the past several years after appellate courts upheld the strategy.
The first caseout of Houston and involving the death of a 5-year-old resulted in a 55-year sentence. Since then, almost all jury verdicts have been similarly "enormous," according to W. Clay Abbott, DWI resource prosecutor for the Texas District and County Attorneys Association.
Six other DWI felony murder cases are currently pending in Bexar County.
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Facing by Naq Lee is dedicated to all model lovers out there. A simple concept of shooting a model's face for a couple of seconds, played to Lucy Rose's Night Bus, make up this entire video. Shot during the Spring/Summer 2012 fashion weeks, the video features 26 models with a good mix of up-and-comers and regulars of the modeling scene but do not be disheartened if you find your favourite missing.
In order of appearance: Frida Gustavsson, Natasha Poly, Anja Rubik, Aymeline Valade, Kelly Mittendorf, Anais Pouliot, Tanya Dziahileva, Aline Weber, Kasia Struss, Milagros Scholl, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Valerija Kelava, Antonia Wesseloh, Sigrid Agren, Alana Zimmer, Anabela Belikova, Karolina Kurkova, Sara Blomqvist, Isabeli Fontana, Hyoni Kang, Iekeliene Stange, Catherine McNeil, Daphne Groeneveld, Jessica Stam, Jules Mordovets and Bruna Tenorio.
Just something to ogle at for a few minutes; which is your favourite?


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Craig Smith, of Firefly Workshop, has been planning a home observatory and is working out the details of easily building a domed roof for it. He writes:
Anybody with a decent telescope knows that a telescope should be cool as the night air to prevent heat radiant distortion. Aside from keeping it out in an unheated shed yet still having to set it up, one will sometimes make an observatory of sorts. Many have built retractable roofed sheds and the like. But my mind kept working at a cheap lightweight dome roof built in the classic style. Anybody with basic carpentry skills can build a cylindrical wall structure or octagon walls, but the dome roof has always been a difficult and expensive build. Here's my prototype made from cardboard, 1/6th scale.
A single 3/4″ sheet of 4′ X 8′ plywood, supplies the material for the framework. The circle makes the base, and circular cutouts outward from that make the frame ribs. Since there is some leftover waste, the framework will be lighter than the full sheet of plywood. But many little galvanized framing brackets used to fasten it together will add some weight, as well as the roofing material. A 24″ wide roll of galvanized flashing will be used to make the 10 roof pie-segments and the rear rectangular segment. Put on with small galvanized box nails, each pie panel will overlap the one next to it, sealed waterproof with silver flashing seal caulk during assembly.
The retractable watertight sky opening will be tricky. But if all else fails it could be made like a standard flat roof access door only curved. Standard flashing and roofing techniques are a must here to keep an expensive telescope safe and dry.
Have you ever built such a structure? Got any design input for Craig?


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Keen Delaveaga Shoe - Women's
Historic Range: $41.98-$79.98
Reviewers Paid: $120.00
4-star: 1
3-star: 0
2-star: 0
1-star: 0
This is a good stable multipurpose shoe with excellent grip and waterproof lining. I would recommend this shoe for hiking in walking in wet conditions.
- great fit
- waterproof
- excellent grip
- nice style
- laces are too short
- too warm
I use these shoes for hiking and walking in easy to moderate trails. This shoe fits my fairly high arches and my narrow heals/wide toes perfectly, with minimal break in period. They are excellent arch support and are waterproof. I fit a 8.5 in all Keens footwear, including this one. They offer great grip on wet surfaces and enough traction for hiking.
Like all waterproof shoes, I find them a bit warm after a while and the laces are a bit short for this diagonal type of lacing system. They seem well-built but I only have had them for a little while and I don't know how long they will last.
Source: bought it new
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Delegate Maggie McIntosh, Chair of the House Environmental Matters Committee, Delegate John Olszewski, and Senator Bill Ferguson today announced Recycle For Real™, a legislative initiative to boost Maryland's recycling rates. The bill aims to create a "fully refundable 5-cent beverage container deposit that will provide a financial incentive for Marylanders to redeem and reuse the billions of beverage containers sold in the state each year," according to the press release.
Revenue from unredeemed beverage containers would go to benefit statewide environmental programs as well as recycling programs in Maryland counties and Baltimore City.
Maryland's recycling rate is currently a dismal 22 percent – the majority of the approximately four billion beverage containers used every year find their way into Maryland's landfills, highways, the Inner Harbor, and all around the Chesapeake Bay.
If passed by the Maryland General Assembly, Recycle For Real™ has the potential to increase the state's beverage container recycling rate to 75 percent. Maryland would join 10 other states currently operating deposit programs and have an average recycling rate of 76 percent.
National Aquarium's Government Affairs team will be working with the sponsors of Recycle For Real™ and other conservation groups over the next few months in Annapolis to make sure this initiative is successful.
Want to stay up to date about the container deposit bill and other National Aquarium conservation priorities? CLICK HERE to sign up for legislative updates!
Stay tuned for more updates on Recycle for Real™ and other important local conservation initiatives.


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Nicholas D. Kristof to Receive Goldsmith Center Career Award for Excellence in Journalism
By: Press Release | Harvard Kennedy School
CAMBRIDGE, MA – Nicholas D. Kristof, columnist for The New York Times, will address an audience of students, faculty, journalists and members of the public on Tuesday, March 5 at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The program begins at 6 p.m. in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, and is sponsored by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
"Nick Kristof is one of the most inspiring journalists of our time," said Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center. "His work's great power is that it awakens passion and concern in others."
Nicholas D. Kristof, a columnist for The New York Times since 2001, writes op-ed columns that appear twice a week. Kristof won the Pulitzer Prize two times, in 1990 and 2006. In 2012, he was a Pulitzer finalist in Commentary for his 2011 columns that often focused on the disenfranchised in many parts of the world.
Kristof grew up on a sheep and cherry farm near Yamhill, Oregon. He graduated from Harvard College, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1981 and then won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where he studied law and graduated with first class honors. Kristof has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to more than 150 countries, plus all 50 states, every Chinese province and every main Japanese island.
After joining The New York Times in 1984, initially covering economics, he served as a correspondent in Los Angeles and as bureau chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. In 2000, he covered the presidential campaign, and he is the author of the chapter on George W. Bush in the reference book The Presidents. He later was associate managing editor of the Times, responsible for Sunday editions.
Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, are authors of three best-selling books: China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power; Thunder from the East: Portrait of a Rising Asia; and Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide in 2009. Kristof is also the subject of the 2010 HBO documentary executive-produced by Ben Affleck, "Reporter." Kristof is a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers.
Past recipients of the Goldsmith Career Award include Alan Rusbridger, Seymour Hersh, Christiane Amanpour, Peter Jennings, Gwen Ifill, David Fanning and Daniel Schorr. The Goldsmith Awards also include a major prize for investigative reporting and two book prizes.


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GuruliciousLife brauchte ein neues Button oder Icon Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 119 Designs von 25 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
i'm a startup co.
trying the iOS market.
i need an iPad app icon please.
for a Quotation app.
thanks for your interest.
anyone who likes quotes or quotations (as in saying, proverbs etc. not stock quotes or job quotes : )
so it can be any age audience, any culture. young to old should be able to recognize symbol.
- sensual, emotional, vibrational, sexy (in abstract way : )
- light, friendly, joyful, deliciously edible, inspiring!
- naturally elegant, simple but sophisticated
- see attached competition. icons are ugly in all senses, color, symbol, layout etc. just added file so you do not waste your time in wrong direction : )
please use your creativity to be different.
- relate icon to quotes, what people say
- don't just take it literal i.e. with quotation symbol, be original, maybe use mouth as symbol...
- make icon simple enough to be instantly recognizable and relatable to quotes
- create enough detail to intrigue if icon is use in print or blown up, so it does not look too bland
- make simplified version for small size and in-app user interface logo
- slick but organic (not stiff, maybe newage-y is fine : )
- visually stunning, different
- texture
- depth/hole
- use shadows
- glow
- reflections
- transparency
- more glassy than metallic
- as colorful as you wish (colors evoke emotion well...)
final output should be for app icon but also print.
after all your hard work on icon, imagine if need to blow it up: i can't get back to you, so please design right from start, in hi-res. you can do comps in low res for speed, but if chosen for final design, please create full res.
winning final format:
- vector (ai or freehand)
- plus layered psd, 300 dpi, min. 6000 pixels
- no clip art / all original
if i love your work, there's more!


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Critical Miss: Highlanders Anonymous
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Am I the only one who's noticed this?
I'm going to paste this comic in every "am I the only one" threads from now on.
I laughed at the comic.. but the phrase "am i the only one..." shouldnt necesarily invalidate the rest of the question... i'd wager less than half the people who say that dont really believe they are the only one, and instead they're actually saying in a round about way: I am the only person i know who ---, do you also ---?
I don't get it...yeah...
Am I the only one that found this funny?
Thank you, now I have an Escapist-Based image macro for use on the Escapist :D
Isn't the text from that comic pretty much said verbatim in just about every thread like that on the forums? Well maybe not the clown bit. That's new.
*thinks there should be a forum badge for starting "Am I the only one" threads*
Keep an eye on threads with titles "Am I the only one.. Blah Blah Blah?" on the Escapist forums. (Or any forums..)
I see this being used all the time on youtube. It annoys me to know end. Part of me thinks it's just used to get their comment liked by people prove they aren't the only one. Part of me thinks that they really think that they're the only one who's seen Troll 2.
Am I the only one who has inappropriate thoughts about Erin?
Technically true, but people usually only bother phrasing it like that if they're posting something one-note in reaction to something popular. "Am I the only one not hyped for Skyrim?" for example. Of course not, you're just the only one who thought your lack of interest in something deserved its own post!
I like it when Erin talks dirty. Hot little minx that she is.
Anyway... The rule was broken!
Statistically speaking, you'll probably never be the only one.
Unless you're Tigger. In which case, good luck being forever alone, dude.
Hmm. Exploitable rule.
Am I the only one who thinks I'm the most awesome person on the planet, if not universe?
Perfect, seriously, 100% grade A. Hate it when a thread opens with that line.
I'm sure you're not the only one ;)
Pretty sure I'm the only one who knows the 7 digit number I am thinking of.
Oh, now people know.
Those threads bug me.
Seems Critical Miss just got really meta, right guys?
I mean am I the only one who noticed?
No, there are plenty of people who think that about themselves. :o
Just because you try to make it about yourself doesn't mean it is, my child.
Am I the only one tempted to make an 'am I the only one?' joke?
Why is it good to point this out? Why do people do it? There are plenty of other things that you would get shouted at for taking completely literally like this, so why is this one exempt?
I just don't understand...
Thank you. Someone needed to say it, I would have done it, but I'm afraid saying it would have either gotten me banned or ignited a flame war, neither of which would have been worth it.
Am I the only one who's playing Skyrim right now?
Thank you, this won't solve anything, still...
Am I the only one....who really wants some cherry bakewell right.now?
I don't get it.
Is the fact that YOU, Critical Miss team, are very late to a popular realisation supposed to be ironic?
Am I the only one who can recognise rhetorical questions?
Oh, wait...
Was this comic really necessary? I mean, you didn't even make a joke, you just said the exact same pointlessness pointed out by some twonk that takes everything literally in every thread starting with 'Am I the only one' ever.
Am I the only one that found that a waste of time. (wow, including 'am I the only one' as a joke may be obvious and chronically unfunny, but that's still more of a joke than this comic included).
am i the only who will not use this picture on every thread in the near future?
I have a challenge then:
Am I the only one on the Escapist who liked Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire?
Am I the only one who REALLY lol'd at the description at the bottom (of what the finished sentence should contain)?
Hats? My badass horns are embedded in my skull.
am I the only one who reads the sign off message?
The expression in panel four may be the most haughty face I've ever seen.
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"Scared of My Son"
Inside the Mind of a ShooterJeff says his son, Andy, was a friendly little boy. "I never thought Andy would grow up to commit murder," he says. But on March 5, 2001, his then 15-year-old son went to school with a .22 caliber revolver and 40 bullets in his backpack and opened fire on his classmates, killing two and wounding 11.
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Jeff was at work when he saw the news footage of the event, and he went to the school to look for his son. After two hours of searching, he found a few of Andy's classmates. "They were balling and through their tears, they went, 'He did it,'" Jeff recalls. "I was devastated. I just felt like the whole world was crushing down on me."
Jeff says that morning, Andy wrote a goodbye note, went to school, entered the bathroom and loaded the pistol, walked out of the stall, shot one student in the back of the head and another kid in the stomach. Andy reloaded his weapon five or six times and shot at others. "Andy had enough of the bullying, picking on him in front of his friends," Jeff shares. "Andy was turned into a killer."
Jeff and his partner, Donna, join Dr. Phil in studio. Donna's son was at the high school the day of the shooting.
Jeff recalls learning that Andy was the school shooter. Did he miss warning signs? "I felt like somebody just, literally, ripped out my heart, threw it down and stomped on it."
"You wanted to die that day?"
Capable of Murder?Jim and Nicole are scared of their 16-year-old son. "I am 150 percent sure that my son could kill somebody," says Nicole. "When my 15-year-old son gets angry, it's like a light switch; his eyes turn black. I hate to say it, but all I see is evil." She says that one of their fights turned violent, and the teen hit her in the mouth. "After my son punched me, I told him I hated him," she shares. "I have so much guilt, because I don't hate him. I love him so much."
"My son has told me, when I'm restraining him, that if he gets lose, he will kill me in my sleep. He will get a knife and stab me to death," Jim adds.
"It just feels like I'm not in control of myself anymore," the teen reveals.
"I never dreamed that my baby could become a monster," Nicole says.
Kelly and Nick also fear their 14-year-old son. "I am terrified that my son is capable of being a killer," Kelly says, pointing out that her son held his 5-year-old stepbrother's head in the hot tub until he started throwing up. "We had to let my mom keep our dog because my son has tormented her so much that the dog shakes every time he comes into the room." She says the teen has broken his bed, a desk and a dresser, put holes in the walls and ripped parts of the carpet. "I'm to the point where I'm ready to give my son up to authorities."
"My stepson cannot control his temper at all," says Nick. "I think it's 100 percent sure fact that my stepson is going to go to jail soon if he keeps on the same path."
The teen reveals, "I can control my anger sometimes, but when things that are important to me make me mad, then it's kind of hard to control."
Dr. Phil speaks with Nicole and Jim and lists some of the circumstances that may be contributing to their son's behavior. And, hear from the teen. Do his parents have a reason to worry?
Dr. Phil offers to have the teens evaluated at the Lawlis Peavey PNP Center, where they will receive tools to change their behavior.
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UH Chief Information Officer elected PTC president and board chair
Lassner to serve as first PTC president from Hawaii since the 1980sUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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University of Hawaiʻi Chief Information Officer David Lassner has been elected Chairman of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) Board of Governors and President of PTC.
PTC is a Hawaiʻi-based international membership organization formed in 1980 that promotes the advancement and use of information and communication technologies within the Pacific hemisphere. The organization has more than 400 members and hosts the largest annual telecommunications conference in the Pacific.
As the newly elected PTC board chair and president, Lassner will help to create new ways to integrate and reach out to the unofficial members of the PTC community. "This will help us to chart a future for the new competitive and rapidly converging Internet-based information and communications technology environment in the Asia-Pacific region," stated Lassner in a recent statement to PTC members.
The 28th annual PTC conference recently took place on January 15-18 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikīkī. More than 1000 delegates attended PTC ʻ06, and at least 2000 additional members of the telecommunications sector have joined them for a variety of bilateral business meetings that are scheduled around PTC each year.
PTC brings more high tech executives and managers to Hawaiʻi on an annual basis than any other annual in the state. This benefits Hawaiʻi businesses, educators, students and policy-makers who enjoy opportunities for learning and networking with an international community that would otherwise be unavailable in Hawaiʻi.
"PTC'06 continues the resurgence of the PTC annual conference that began in 2005," said Lassner. "The conference enjoys greater attendance than in any year since the downturn at the beginning of the decade in the telecom and dot.com industries." Attendees have reported that PTC'06 has the strongest and most relevant conference program in many years.
Featured speakers in Honolulu for PT'06 included: Vint Cerf, now VP and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google who is considered one of the fathers of the TCP/IP protocols that underlie the Internet; (Retired) Admiral Tom Fargo; Vinod Kumar, President of VSNL International; Brad Garlinghouse, VP of Communications Products at Yahoo!; Ruoqi Guan, President of China Network Communications Group; Dato' Abdul Wahid Omar, Group CEO of Telekom Malaysia; and David McGlade, CEO of Intelsat.
Lassner is only the second PTC President from Hawaiʻi and the first since Bob Engelbardt of GTE Hawaiian Telephone served in the 1980s. Other officers elected to the board are: Robert Mao, CEO of Nortel Networks China; Ken Zita, Managing Partner of Network Dynamics in New York; Robert Walp, Chairman Emeritus of GCI, Alaska; Tim Shea, VP of Asia Pacific Sales for Loral Skynet, Singapore; and Bruce Drake, Executive Director for the Pacific Region of Industry Canada.
For more information on the Pacific Telecommunications Council, visit www.ptc.org. To learn more about David Lassner, visit www2.hawaii.edu/~david.


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In the fall of 1986, Mrs. Katharyn L. Wunderley completed a project which resulted in a compilation of information about hundreds of individuals who lost their lives in
cholera epidemic of 1849. Mrs. Wunderley used these ten sources in her
research. Sandusky
Names are listed alphabetically, with the sources used indicated for each name.
Some entries provide very brief details, while others are lengthy, such as this listing for William Townsend:
About two hundred fifty victims of cholera were buried in the
Harrison Street Cemetery,
now known as the . A single column honors the memory of those who
died. About one hundred twenty persons were buried in the Cholera Cemetery . After St. Joseph Catholic
Cemetery was opened in 1850, at least
thirty tombstones were put in place in memory of cholera victims who lost their
lives in 1849. Three ministers who died
of cholera are buried side by side at Oakland Cemetery .
Oakland Cemetery
A marble monument bears the name of Rev. N.W. Fisher, former pastor of the Congregational Church; Rev. H.P. Ward, a Methodist minister; and Rev. T.C. Cooper of the Bethel Church. To learn more about the many individuals who died of cholera in


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This package includes:
– 40 day guests for the wedding breakfast
– 80 guests for the evening reception
– Complimentary function room hire (not including civil ceremony)
– Alcoholic fruit punch on arrival/after the ceremony
– Wedding breakfast (three course meal with coffee and mints)
– One glass of house wine per person during the wedding breakfast or glass of sparkling wine for toast
– Evening buffet
– Executive bedroom for the bride and groom on the night of the wedding
– Early check in (12pm) for the bride on the day of the wedding
– Services of one of our Fairy Godmothers
– Toastmaster and dedicated staff to provide you and your guests with the ultimate service experience
– Red carpet for your wedding arrival or civil ceremony
– Crisp white table linen, crockery and glassware, small coloured sashes for the chair covers x40
– Cake stand and knife
– Use of the picturesque grounds for wedding photographs
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You've read how VMWare and SpringSource are joining forces. But what exactly will be the technical changes emerging from this merger? SpringSource CTO Adrian's Colyer provides a first glimpse at concepts that include blueprints, vApps and provisioning, that will start to appear on account of this merger. Read Adrian's Colyer's post 'Virtualization & Enterprise Java': http://blog.springsource.com/2009/08/13/virtualization-enterprise-java/
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The late comedy great, Richard Pryor, was groundbreaking in his ability to push the envelop and redefine the industry for many comedians after him. He was known for his ability to bring to light social challenges in a humorous but thought-provoking way.
The Richard Pryor Special? aired in 1977 and was a ratings and critical success. In one particular sketch, Maya Angelou gave a chilling performance along side Pryor that displays her keen ability to convey the human spirit in a truly moving way.


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I have to day, that was an awesome film. In fact, y'know the red lexus he was driving near the end? I had seen that car concept ages ago! It was at some motorshow that was covered by http://www.cardesignnews.com . I love that bit where he goes into GAP and it says, "Hello Mr. Yakamoto!" (or whatever the name was). A very cool film indeed.
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Three supervisors voted against the move, which will bring up to 49 percent more trash to he Flint landfill each day.
More trash, more cash.
The Ontario County Board of Supervisors gave final approval Thursday to Casella Waste Systems Inc.'s proposal to increase its intake of trash at the county landfill on Routes 5 and 20 in Flint from 2,000 to 2,999 tons per day. In return, the county will receive an additional $1 million a year, plus another $1 million over five years.
Three of the 21 supervisors voted against the 49 percent increase: Lloyd Kinnear, R-Canandaigua; Mary Luckern, D-town of Geneva; and Norm Teed, R-Phelps.
Teed expressed concern about Casella dumping trash in Ontario County from all over the Northeast, and questioned whether the landfill would fill up before the county's contract with Casella expires in 2028.
Luckern expressed concern over increased truck traffic. Kinnear said he didn't support it because the increase will create more methane gas than the gas-to-electricity plant on the site — or the New York State Electric and Gas Corp. grid — can handle.
Before the vote, Seneca Castle resident Jill McLellan expressed her opposition to the increase, citing concerns over possible effects on groundwater quality and tourism.
Supervisor Don Jensen, R-Seneca, said after the meeting that discussions are under way to see if the county and Casella can come to an agreement with Empire State Pipeline — a natural-gas pipeline project crossing Ontario County — to use the methane gas.
Casella has said it will burn the excess methane gas with flares only as a last resort. Converting the gas from decaying garbage to electricity is more desirable than burning it because it eliminates most of the odor and recycles the gas into a useful product.
Daily Messenger writer Julie Sherwood can be reached at (585) 394-0770, Ext. 263, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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[SatNews] A vehicular system that transmitted voice and wideband data between two separate tactical networks like sending or receiving a call or text message.
Harris Corporation provided first-of-its kind integrated wideband networking capabilities that successfully connected dismounted soldiers to senior commanders within a Brigade Combat Team at the recent U.S. Army Network Integration Evaluation.
Harris deployed a two-channel Falcon III® AN/PRC-117G vehicular system that transmitted voice and wideband data between two separate tactical networks — analogous to a call or text message that moves from one carrier's cellular phone to another. The system consisted of two AN/PRC-117G radios connected to each other in a vehicular amplifier adapter.
Soldiers at the NIE 12.1, which took place at Fort Bliss, Texas and White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, also integrated the AN/PRC-117G with the new AN/PRC-152A wideband handheld radios to extend networking connectivity from brigade to the tactical edge. The extended system resulted in wideband communication services that covered all of White Sands, an area of 3,200 square miles.
The AN/PRC-152A was used to send voice, data, and position location information from the dismounted soldier over a backbone Adaptive Wideband Networking Waveform (ANW2) network. The AN/PRC-152A is the first NSA Type-1 certified handheld radio to offer wideband networking as well as standard legacy waveforms.
"The two-channel Harris radio systems evaluated at NIE provided soldiers across the battle space with real-time voice, data and video, delivered for the first time over the secure, wideband tactical network,'' said Maj. Gen. Dennis Moran (Ret.), vice president, Government Business Development, Harris RF Communications. "This exercise illustrated how our COTS non-developmental item radio technology is playing a major role in the broader wideband network, enabling enhanced communication and collaboration from brigade and battalion level networks down to the individual soldier. We support the Army's focus on continuous innovation and will continue investing our own research and development resources to bring new technologies to the user, quickly and cost-effectively.''
The two-channel AN/PRC-117G vehicular system at NIE 12.1 simultaneously operated two wideband waveforms. One radio operated the JTRS Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW), for communication from platoon levels through to company commands; the other radio ran ANW2 and transmitted voice and data from company to battalion and brigade. The Harris system moved information between the SRW and ANW2 networks, allowing for seamless communication across the battlefield, from platoon level to battalion and back. Once the data reached the ANW2 network, it was populated over the Army's Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, providing a common operating picture from the foxhole to the brigade headquarters. Applications used over the Harris Falcon III radios were TIGR, file transfer, chat messages and email. During NIE 12.1, the Harris radios were deployed in rucksacks, vehicles, aerostats, fixed wing aircraft and RAID towers.
The Army also evaluated two additional wideband radio products from Harris: The Highband Networking Radio (HNRe2), which provides an IP-based network with links capable of throughput rates up to 27 Mbps, for VoIP, video and C4I services, and the RF-7800W High-Capacity Line-of-Sight radio, which delivers quick-to-deploy, point-to-point or point-to-multipoint wireless Internet Protocol infrastructure. During the NIE, the HNRe2 delivered nine nodes of critical communications — including IP transmission of ISR data — using terrestrial and airborne assets to establish a backbone network from brigade down to company echelons. The Army used the RF-7800W radios to provide remote video feeds to command posts, battalions and headquarters installations as well as an alternative data link between key nodes.
Harris' expanded participation in the NIE 12.1 follows its highly successful performance in the inaugural exercise earlier this summer. Shortly after the completion of the first NIE, Harris received a $66.3 million order to provide AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radios in support of Army tactical radio modernization.


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'Bank of Bob' finances $25 startups
For years, writer Bob Harris enjoyed a unique opportunity - traveling to some of the most luxurious hotels in the world on behalf of ForbesTraveler.com.
But, as he bounced from one five-star palace to another, he felt uneasy about the inequality of the industry: The people who build these places don't get to see or experience them. He decided he would somehow give back his salary from the decadent escapes he'd had.
That's when he discovered Kiva, the San Francisco crowdfunding site that enables individuals to offer $25 loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world.
Harris began lending via Kiva.org. Then, some friends joined in, building a community of lenders they called, aptly, Friends of Bob Harris. Over the last three years, they've collectively lent more than $3 million.
In 2011, Harris decided to go meet some of the entrepreneurs and write about his travels, microfinance and Kiva's impact. That took him to a dozen countries - Bosnia, Nepal, Cambodia, Kenya and more - and resulted in a book: "The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Loan at a Time" (Walker & Co; available March 5).
Recently, he spoke with The Chronicle about his travels and what he learned. This conversation was edited for length and clarity.
Q: You're not a development expert, economist, or one who even knew much about microfinance. So was that a struggle at all for you?
A: Yes, you're right. I'm not any one of those. So for me, I was very clear early on that this was a learning experience. But that simplicity helped also. Because to a certain extent, the questions that I would ask, the reader would also. And many of these questions were very basic, such as: How do these small businesses work? How do people who are making just $3 to $4 a day balance their finances?
But then, I was also much more interested about their lives - what are their dreams, who are they fighting - very human-level questions. Sometimes you can get caught up in all the data and lose sight of the bigger picture. So it's not a microfinance textbook; those have been written.
Q: The field of microfinance has faced some criticism, particularly that the interest rates of some lenders are too high. Did you ask the entrepreneurs point blank about this - what did they think of the lending criteria?
A: As a Westerner reading the media, that is the impression you get. But that's not what I heard. And I would ask people point blank about this, outside the earshot of (lenders') staff. I didn't hear complaints about this at all.
I did get feedback on what other changes they wanted. They wanted longer grace periods; a longer length of time between getting the loan and their first payment so that they could think more about long-term investments; they wanted a version of "revolving credit." I never once heard about the interest rate. And this may not be characteristic of the industry as a whole. But I went to a dozen countries and I didn't hear it.
The interest rate issue is not contextualized. You can look at a number and say, gosh, that's really high! But take into account the local inflation rate, or the rates offered by a commercial lender.
Q: Over the course of your travels, which took over a year, did you see any changes in microfinance, developments that illustrate that this field is still growing, experimenting?
A: Mobile. It has to be mobile. Everybody that I talked to was already more involved in mobile transactions, implementing it or planning to add it to their services.
Also, I saw that Kiva's place in the industry has grown. I visited the offices of Juhudi Kilimo in Nairobi. They are a field partner for Kiva. They actually have been able to attract more funding because they work with Kiva. So, it's helped them in terms of legitimacy.
Microfinance has gone through a whole cycle. It was in vogue when Bangladesh's Grameen Bank and Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize, then there was a backlash because of the suicides and government crackdown in Andhra Pradesh. These are the only two phases that it seems people have read about when it comes to microfinance.
It's about as drastic as if you knew only two extremes of air travel - landing on the moon and the Hindenburg disaster. And from that you're trying to figure out, is that a good thing? But most of the change is gradual, happening at a routine-level that is totally outside the super-good or super-bad headlines people see.
Q: What are your thoughts about microfinance in this country? Kiva has been lending here in the U.S. Do you see any differences?
A: The last chapter in the book looks at microlending in the U.S. Kiva has been working in cities that have taken a hard hit because of the economy, like Detroit. So I came back home and I visited some entrepreneurs here. And I have to tell you, it's exactly the same. The guy running the restaurant in Chicago - his dreams, his daily struggles, honestly were very little different from a family in the Philippines that I visited. They were just at a different economic level.
Microfinance is here, it's growing, and a lot of Americans just don't know that it's taking place at home as well. The bottom line is that struggles are really the same. That's a repeating theme in the book. A lot of this is universal.
Q: Where do you really see the impact of microfinance at the local level - something that blew you away?
A: I was really struck in Kenya. There people finance cows the way people here finance cars, basically. They are financing cows that are very productive in giving milk. So, the cost of the cow is paid off in the first year and then after that, they can just use the milk as an additional income. That's transformative. There's less risk to the lender, because it's asset finance. It works really well. I met people who were as excited about their cow as a taxi driver might be about his car. And they're really building wealth that way - it's a practical, simple, viable model that can be replicated
That has its own challenges, though, because now there needs to more dairy-processing systems, and more beef is being produced. But these folks have a source of income.
Q: You wanted this book to be a "beach read." Why?
A: Preaching to the converted only brings the converted.
When Americans watch news on TV, they tend to see a dangerous world. But the trace of it is, that is the news. Think about it. When a shooting takes place in your town that doesn't mean the entire place is dangerous. So it's very deceiving. Every place I went, people trusted me, extended their welcome, opened their doors to a total stranger - simply out of kindness. I want Americans to read about that openness. People really do have the same hearts all over the world.
It's about microlending, but it's also about why we want to do microlending - that is, to make it a better place to live. And there are hundreds of thousands of people out there, trying to do it everyday. So, if people read that and walk away, that would be ideal.
If there are just a few important words in the whole book, they're the words that a guy in Lebanon said to me. He ran a restaurant; thanks to war, he lost his material wealth, his restaurant. But, he said to me, in his poor English, forcing him to speak simply: "The more you love, the more you win." That sums up the book.
Esha Chhabra is a freelance writer. E-mail: email@example.com


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From Jason Alvey at KCL:
You are invited to a Special Guest Lecture to be held on Thursday, 21st February 2013, at 3:30 – 4:30pm in Small Lecture Theatre, First Floor, Main Building, Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill Campus.
Professor Andrey Rzhetsky, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
'Computational analysis of complex human disorders'
Focusing on autism, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, my talk will touch the following questions. How understanding of genetics and epidemiology of disease can be advanced through modeling and computational analysis of very large and heterogeneous datasets? What are the bottlenecks in analysis of complex human maladies? How can we model and compute over multiple data types to narrow hypotheses about genetic causes of disease? How collaborations across multiple fields of science can bring translational results to initially purely academic studies?
Andrey Rzhetsky is a Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, at the University of Chicago. He is also a Pritzker Scholar, and a Senior Fellow of both the Computation Institute, and the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology at the University of Chicago. His research is focused on computational analysis of complex human phenotypes in context of changes and perturbations of underlying molecular networks. The input data for these studies is supplied by large-scale mining of free text, computation over clinical records, and high-throughput systems biology experiments. Most recently in 2011, Rzhetsky was awarded a $13.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health titled "Conte Center for Computational Systems Genomics of Neuropsychiatric Phenotypes." This five-year project involves investigators from seven institutions across the United States and Israel who will study new computational methodology for the analysis of multiple complex mental health disorders, such as autism and schizophrenia.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 123 diseños de 40 diseñadores freelance.
Logo for Company name: 'The Dog Scholar'.
Logo for a dog training school. This is the first step to logo, business cards and a website, for now just logo.
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The Dog Scholar
What we're doing:
- Private dog training
- Training at the owners house
- Residency training - where the owner drops their dogs in the morning & picks the dog up in the evening.
- Behavior modification. Help with individual behavior problems.Our customers:
Someone who wants to have a close relationship with their dog. Who wants to be able to go for walks, take them out in the car, go on camping trips, etc & know that their dog will come when they call, will walk by their side & will be well mannered. We do not want an owner who wants to train their dog to be a guard dog or who wants police training. Its more about their relationship with the dog. We assess the client to see what their relationship is with the dog.
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Gun control, yes, but the world today certainly is not like it was some years ago when I grew up. Many good things, such as technological changes and medical discoveries, have helped in making this a better world.
However, disregard for human life, the violence seen on television, in the movies and in video games, the lack of parental control, religious fanaticism and the bad behavior of persons who should be role models are but a few items that I believe have changed our world. In addition, current laws could not prevent such acts as the recent killings in Newtown, Conn. Many times, individuals are known as probable events ready to happen, but law-enforcement agencies are not allowed to intervene until a crime is committed.
Many people know of such individuals, especially individuals with mental health issues, but do not act. Civil liberty organizations cry foul when individual liberties are threatened. Gun advocates and our Constitution support personal ownership of a gun. In this day and age, many individuals own guns for their own personal protection, for hunting or target shooting. Somehow, criminals are always able to get a gun. This is a dilemma that must be solved.
First, really enforce the laws we already have. Second, I believe we can change with some changes in the present gun laws, changes in mental health laws, changes in police enforcement laws, changes in Federal Communications Commission regulations, etc. Do you see a theme here? Our legislators have to make changes in our laws that will better help prevent such atrocities in America.
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The Property Council of Australia hosts a full calendar of over 350 events nationwide every year, attracting over 50,000 members and guests. These include division lunches, conferences, forums, site tours and awards ceremonies designed to inform, educate, celebrate, inspire and provide members with quality networking opportunities to generate new business.
Our events help generate and communicate the ideas and policies that shape the Property Council's advocacy work, providing our members the opportunity to discuss those issues most important to them. All sectors - commercial, residential, retirement, retail, industrial and capital markets - are represented in our dynamic programs.
Our events also highlight and celebrate the leading economic and social contribution the property industry makes throughout Australia. We recognise innovation and world-leading best practice in the work our members do.
Our conferences and event delegates include institutional investors, developers, builders, planners, government and property professionals from all states and territories.
To further strengthen our public policy thought leadership, the Property Council has extending our event reach internationally. Building on the professionalism of our domestic events, our international study tours are designed to inform, educate, inspire and provide members with quality networking opportunities to generate new business. International cities and tour themes are selected through extensive consultation with our members to deliver unparalleled professional development learnings relevant to the opportunities and challenges faced by the Australian property industry.
In 2019, we have taken our delegates to Singapore (17-22 March 2019) and headed to London in July (19-26 July 2019).
In 2020, delegates will have the opportunity to Vancouver and Seattle in August.
UPDATE 27 February 2020: The Japan Study Tour from 15-21 March 2020 has been postponed until 2021 following the upgrading of the Australian Government's travel advice to 'exercise a high degree of caution' in Japan due to a heightened risk of sustained local transmission of coronavirus.
The Property Council of Australia's top priority is the safety of staff and delegates. If you have registered for the tour, please contact Sophie Gazzoli on firstname.lastname@example.com, 02 9033 1930 or 0438 311 789 for further information.
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Future Cities Summit is a new one day conference exploring the theme of creating great places and thriving cities for people. Held in Sydney on 24 May 2019, the Summit explored innovation, disruption and the progress we are making to leave a legacy for the next generation and beyond.
Through our thought-leaders and local and global case studies, we investigated how creating great places is fuelled by the economy, infrastructure, people and leadership.
In 2020, Future Cities Summit will be held in Sydney on Thursday 25 June.
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"The Property Council's Property Leaders' Summit" is an exclusive, invitation-only event that connects the top 150 CEOs and investment decision makers from around the globe with the political leadership.
Held in Canberra, this flagship industry event brings together international and domestic leaders from the property and investment sectors and key politicians to discuss the future of the industry, investment, the economy and capital markets.
The Property Leaders' Summit website
This exciting invitation only event brings together the nation's parliamentary leaders with decision makers spanning the entire spectrum of the property industry. The Property Leaders' Summit closing dinner at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra was held on 18 June and hosted The Australian Property Hall of Fame award ceremony. Industry legends are honoured each year and inducted into The Australian Property.
The Property Hall of Fame website
The Property Congress is the Property Council's premier annual national event and has featured on our event calendar for over 40 years.
The event addresses the big issues driving property development and investment in Australia and globally. The Property Congress brings together established and emerging leaders in the property industry. Attendees are active participants in the commercial, residential, retail, industrial, development, retirement living and investment sectors of the industry.
In 2019 we landed on Hamilton Island from 11-13 September and in 2020 will be travelling south to Hobart, Tasmania from 28-30 October 2020.
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The National Retirement Living Summit connects senior leaders, retirement living staff and representatives from related industries to discuss trends, initiatives and opportunities in the sector. The Summit is the biggest and most anticipated annual event devoted entirely to retirement living sector.
The Summit will again host the National Retirement Living Awards which recognise high achievement across all areas of the retirement living sector, by people and companies helping ensure senior Australians have an enjoyable retirement. Winners will be recognised in seven categories.
Programs are designed in close collaboration with the industry to provide invaluable discussion and training on trends and practices.
In 2020 the Summit will be held on the Gold Coast from 23-25 November.
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W hen we see others suffer, it is natural to want to do something to relieve their suffering. That's why there is such an outpouring of support when there is a natural disaster.
Both U.S. domestic and foreign policies also cause a great deal of suffering. But it's harder to see. Our ideological conditioning, our ignorance of the actual effects of the policies, our own busy lives and the sheer volume of issues keep us from responding to the suffering caused by domestic poverty, inequality and by U.S. militarism.
The discussions about the so-called "fiscal cliff" are a case in point. Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, job training programs, education and other domestic programs are on the chopping block. Social security is already very meager, not enough for seniors to meet all of their basic needs. When people can't meet their basic needs, they suffer.
As Rob Urie points out in "Democrats, Social Security and the Fiscal Cliff" (counterpunch.org), the "Fix the Debt" politicians, corporate executives and financiers aren't discussing eliminating tax deductions that benefit billionaire hedge fund managers. Nor are they discussing raising corporate tax rates, significantly cutting military spending or raising personal income tax rates on the super wealthy. The rich wouldn't suffer at all if the burden fell on them. And people in other countries would suffer a lot less if we stopped occupying their countries and killing them.
Unfortunately, many politicians in Washington and elsewhere aren't concerned with the suffering that their policies create. Their primary concern is the next election and ensuring they can raise the funds for a campaign, most of it from corporate and wealthy donors.
Contact Congressman Jared Polis at 303-484-9596, Senator Michael Bennet at 303-455-7600 and Senator Mark Udall at 303-650-7820 (more contact info. at congress.org) and let them know what your budget priorities are (see nationalpriorities.org for more info).
If you're in Boulder, stop by Polis' office at 4770 Baseline Road, Suite 220. If the politicians don't hear from you, they'll assume you agree that cutting programs that benefit the elderly, poor and middle class is OK with you.
And contact us at 303-444-6981, ext. 2 if you want to work with others on these issues.
Carolyn Bninski is on the staff of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center.


text: Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, last night won the finance category of the Airline Strategy Awards, one of the industry's most coveted awards.The award, announced in front of the world's leading airline figures at London's The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, recognised the strategic contribution the finance team has made to the success of Etihad Airways. The prestigious accolade adds to an already impressive trophy cabinet for the airline's finance department, which has won a number of awards over the past five years in aviation finance and treasury from industry bodies and professional associations.The award was accepted by James Rigney, Etihad Airways Chief Financial Officer, who said: "Our expert team plays a key role in the business achieving its financial goals, most notably in beating Etihad Airways' break even target in 2011 to record the airline's first ever profit. This award is testament to the efficiency of the financial strategies put in place by the management team over many years."As we deliver our objective of sustained profitability, finance will continue to support the business through its innovative approach. Our robust financial planning and management will also help us to meet the airline's ambitious business and financial goals."The Airline Strategy Awards, which were launched by the international magazine Airline Business, recognise excellence in boardroom leadership, covering a unique set of industry categories across leadership, marketing, environment, technology and finance. The awards are also designed to recognise the role that management talent plays in shaping future success for their airline. Etihad Airways' finance team has played an important part in supporting the rapid growth of the airline while developing strong financial planning, procurement, cost control and financial governance through the implementation of cost benchmarking, budgeting and budgetary controls. Strong relationships have also been built up with the global financial markets to support Etihad's aircraft financing, treasury and hedging activities.In what has been a volatile time in the global financial markets, the finance team has effectively managed the airline's exposure to credit, foreign exchange, jet fuel and interest rate markets. They have also played a key role in Etihad Airways' investments in other airlines such as airberlin, Air Seychelles, Aer Lingus and Virgin Australia and driven revenue and cost synergies with partner carriers.James Hogan, Etihad Airways President and Chief Executive Officer, said: "We are now a fully integrated, international company and the finance department acts as an enabler for the rest of the business. Our goal is to achieve best in class service, deliver sustained profitability and most importantly meet the highest safety standards. Despite a challenging global economic environment, the work of our finance team has given us the foundation to meet that mandate."The announcement of the Airline Strategy Awards continues Etihad Airways' success at the showpiece event, which saw it win the marketing award in 2008."We are thrilled to again be recognised in these prestigious awards. It is a strong endorsement of the hard work, dedication and commitment of all our staff who are the key to our success and have helped Etihad Airways grow into one of the world's leading airlines," Mr Hogan said. James Rigney, Etihad Airways Chief Financial Officer (left) receives the Airline Strategy Award from Peter Morris, Chief Economist, Ascend – a Flight Global advisory service. Source = Etihad Airways


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Or I could log onto Lord of the Rings Online and run around like a hobbit for a few hours on Sunday and relax that way. Which is precisely what I did.
The game is pretty detailed in terms of lore and graphics (at least from what I'm used to in World of Warcraft or even Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning).
So I checked out the the shire, ran into the Sackville-Baggins arguing at Bag End, and then wandered off to the hills to enjoy grand scenery in Evendim.
And yes, for the record I did review materials for the exam I have Monday night. I just can't force myself to have a jam-packed 6 hour study marathon. You either know the stuff, or you don't.


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ROCKFORD — The deadly shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school one year ago put a spotlight on safety measures and crisis preparedness, officials said, particularly at grade schools.
Twenty-six people, most of them first-graders, died at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.
In the 20 years preceding the Sandy Hook tragedy, most school shootings that resulted in multiple deaths and injuries took place at high schools or on college campuses. Sandy Hook upset that trend in a shocking and dramatic way.
Whether it was the baby faces of the 6- and 7-year-old victims, the heart-wrenching stories of loss that followed or the detailed reports of how the shooter got into and moved around in the school, something changed in the minds of many educators.
More so than ever, said Rockford School District Security Director Fred Diehl, teachers and building staffs wanted to talk about what they should do if something like that happened here.
"Before, I would go to schools to give presentations on security and it was 'What are you here for?' 'Fred's here to talk about security again.' ... It's definitely different now," Diehl said. "I walk in a building and teachers come up to me. 'I want to talk to you about my classroom. What's the best way for me to lock down? What do we do after we lock down? Where's the best place to put the kids? Should we try to escape?'
"It's exactly what we need them to be asking."
The shooting at Sandy Hook caused classroom teachers to take a more active role in security planning, Diehl said, and to be more cognizant of basic safety rules like keeping building doors locked and not letting visitors roam the hallways.
The Rockford School District made a number of security improvements to school buildings this year, as well, Diehl said.
Several new security vestibules were built and cameras were installed. After years of being unable to lock most classroom doors from the inside because the doors didn't have the right hardware, new locks were added to 1,700 classroom doors over the summer.
The next step, Diehl said, will be to expand the district's use of keyless entry systems. In an emergency, he'd like to be able to lock a school's interior doors from downtown or from each school's main office. Right now, someone must physically go to each door and turn a key.
In the Freeport School District, school leaders always have taken "a hyper-vigilant" approach to building security, Communications Director Stephanie Helms said.
Helms serves on the district's safety team along with law enforcement officers, emergency first responders, community members, administrators, teachers and staff members.
The team coordinates training for natural disasters, fires, various types of danger threats and intruder alerts.
Only one of the district's eight school buildings doesn't have a security vestibule, Helms said, and that's only because a particular construction challenge at the school's entryway must be addressed first.
"Even before Sandy Hook, we arranged for an independent security company to come in and give us an assessment on what we were doing," she said. "We got a glowing report."
Helms remembers writing a letter to parents a year ago. The district sent it home with every elementary school student.
In the letter, she said, she assured parents that the district was doing everything possible to keep their kids safe.
"Acknowledging fears goes a long way," Helms said. "Having heightened awareness is good sometimes. ... It causes you to re-examine what you do."
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text: Friday, April 13, 2012 Self-referral Study Finds Higher Costs, No Improvement in Cancer Detection A new study that links urologists' self-referral to increased use of tests to detect prostate cancer without better outcomes is being hailed by the Alliance for Integrity in Medicare (AIM) because it provides independent, peer-reviewed evidence that self-referral is a serious problem that drives up costs with no benefit to patients. AIM is a broad coalition that includes APTA and other medical specialty, laboratory, radiation oncology, and medical imaging groups. The study, published this month in Health Affairs, found that urologists involved in self-referral arrangements bill Medicare for 72% more specimen evaluations for patients with suspected prostate cancer than urologists who send specimens to independent providers of pathology services. Despite the increased billing, the study found that self-referring urologists usually detect cancer at a much lower rate than do urologists who do not self-refer. The per-patient cancer detection rate for self-referring urologists in 2007, according to the study, was 12 percentage points lower than that for non-self-referring urologists. AIM is urging Congress to revise the physician self-referral law's in-office ancillary services exception that allows urologists to self-refer patients to pathology labs they own directly or in which they have an ownership interest. "Other medical services, including advanced diagnostic imaging, physical therapy, and radiation oncology, are also prone to significant abuse through this exception," says AIM. AIM's press release has been featured in The Wall St Journal and Politico.


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Accel Partners' Jim Breyer to Leave Facebook Board in June
Jim Breyer of Accel Partners will step down from the Facebook board this June, according to an SEC filing.
"It has been a genuine honor to serve as an investor and board member since April 2005 as Facebook has grown from an emerging social network for U.S. college students to a global service that connects over a billion people," Breyer said in a statement.
"After over eight years of board service, it's time to step aside in light of my other responsibilities, including my recent election to the Harvard University Corporation Board. I will leave the board knowing that Facebook is a global Internet leader with exceptional leadership within the company and on the board," he said.
Breyer will continue to sit on the board until the date of the annual directors' meeting, the filing said, which will occur on June 11 this year.
"Jim made many, many important contributions during his long tenure on the board and we were well-served by his presence," Facebook said in a statement. "We will continue to have a strong relationship with Jim and going forward, we're thankful we can continue to rely upon the tremendous depth and expertise of our recently expanded board."
Breyer has served on Facebook's board of directors since 2005, and has been a partner at Accel, a venture capital firm, since 1987. He currently sits on the board of Brightcove, Dell, News Corp. (which, disclosure, is the parent company of AllThingsD) and Walmart.
At its annual shareholder meeting in June, Facebook will ask its shareholders to reelect the eight currently sitting board members (not counting Breyer), including Marc Andreessen, Erskine Bowles, the recently named Susan D. Desmond-Hellmann of UCSF, Don Graham of the Washington Post, Reed Hastings of Netflix, current COO Sheryl Sandberg (who was also named to the board relatively recently), early investor and long-time adviser Peter Thiel and, of course, CEO Mark Zuckerberg.


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Motivating Clients With Innovative Exercises
To retain clients, personal trainers must understand how to motivate them. Motivation begins at the very first meeting, and continues with innovative training that keeps them captivated.
During the initial goal-planning session, be up front with your clients and inquire about their interests. Ask In what hobbies do you participate? or What would be fun and exciting for you in a workout? This way you can reach into your fitness toolbox and choose exercises and routines geared toward their interests. For example, if your client is interested in sports, you can incorporate fun and challenging sports moves or drills into the program.
When goal planning with your clients, it's important that you set small measurable goals that lead toward the overall goal. Then reward your clients as they reach each smaller goal. This gives them positive affirmations along their fitness journey with you.
Finding the Motivation
Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are two methods that clients rely on to get them through their workouts. Intrinsic motivation occurs when a client participates in his workout for the challenge and enjoyment of it, thus being internally driven. Unfortunately, many clients are not intrinsically motivated and lose their interest quickly.
Extrinsic motivation is the more common type of motivation. It has nothing to do with personal enjoyment. With extrinsic motivation, external factors drive the clients to work out, such as being told by a doctor that they need to exercise.
The good news is that there are many variation tools that you can use to help keep your clients interested, regardless of whether they rely on extrinsic or intrinsic motivation. The key is to keep educating yourself by learning numerous exercise variations. This means learning to become innovative with your exercises and routines.
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There are many externally geared tools you can use to add variety to a routine. Swiss balls, elastic tubing, slideboard training, medicine balls and balance-type apparatus are some tools you can include to make exercise more fun. These exercise tools can add the skill and balance crucial to everyday activities.
Circuit-Training Tricks
Innovative routines can also help alleviate boredom. You can incorporate circuit training, cardio resistance and sport drills. Cicuits are 10 to 15 predetermined exercises that your client will perform one after another with little rest between sets (usually 30 seconds). If you're planning on doing two to three sets of these circuits, you can add variety by having each exercise performed for 90 seconds during the first circuit, 60 seconds during the second and 30 seconds on the last circuit.
Cardio-resistance circuits in-corporate cardiovascular and resistance exercise during a workout. An example could be performing one set of each of the following: chest press, lat pulldown, shoulder press, biceps curl, triceps extension. Follow this with three to five minutes of stair climbing or jumping rope. Then switch back to resistance exercises like leg extension, leg curl and calf raises.
Sports drills allow you to break up the monotony by adding some sports moves and drills. Use a medicine ball for a chest catch and toss exercise against a wall. Or mimic sports moves like a tennis directional lunge, stepping out to the left, center and right.
Safety First
One piece of advice I often teach trainers is to never sacrifice safety at the expense of adding a new and challenging exercise. Personal trainers must employ the risk/benefit rule to any exercise. Simply put: Never have the possible risk of injury outweigh the potential benefit of the exercise.
Motivating clients means tapping into the many innovative resources available to you. Add extrinsic variety by incorporating new exercises, changing the exercise order, adding balance apparatus and modifying the way they perform an exercise. Understanding what motivates your clients by finding what they consider to be fun and challenging is an important factor because it fuels their intrinsic desires, developing their inner drive. Remember that if they have fun while working out, they'll continue to work with you.
Robert Garza, president of Fitness Performance Centers in Deerfield, Ill., offers Innovative Exercise Workshops for CECs and can be reached at (847) 562-43886 or [email protected] .
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The new season of the Real Housewives of Orange County does not premier until tomorrow night, but the stars of the show are already starting to make headlines.
TMZ is reporting that Slade Smiley, serial housewife dater & boyfriend of Gretchen Rossi, owes $80,000 in back child support to the mother of his sick son. What makes this worse is the fact that Slade's 9 year old son, Grayson, is is fighting an inoperable brain tumor .
Slade has filed a request in L.A. County Superior Court, asking a judge to lower the child support bill because he says he's unemployed and makes zero dollars. Slade's rep tells TMZ that Slade has "jumped through burning hoops to take care of [his son's] well-being and health."
The mother of Slade's son however tells a different story, stating that Slade has only seen his sick child twice in the last year and a half, and hasn't even sent the kid a birthday card.


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ATLANTA — This weekend will be a busy one for Dorian Joyner, Sr. Sunday morning, he will watch his oldest son graduate from Morehouse College.
Joyner will have a front row seat for commencement. After all, he will be a fellow graduate himself.
Joyner started his Morehouse journey back in 1984, but never finished. Three years ago, he decided it was time to come back. By then his son, Dorian Joyner, Jr. was already a freshman.
When the younger Joyner heard his father was coming back to Morehouse, he admits, it was a shock at first.
"I said, 'oh, you're coming back to visit some of your friends?'" he remembered. "And [Dorian Senior] said 'no, I'm coming back to be a student.' I said – can you repeat that?"
While most kids come to college to get away from their parents, Dorian Junior says he never felt like he was under his father's thumb.
"We used to have a support system. Sometimes he would come to my room to ask about a problem or a class or a professor to take," he said.
Daddy Dorian, who allows his son to call him by his first name on campus, said the two have their own friends and schedules, so their paths rarely intersect.
But after three years of learning from and pushing each other, the two have a bond that goes deeper that father and son.
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The Friendster craze is officially 'so five minutes ago.' The sentiment was confirmed when my college roommate, now a producer's assistant at ABC World News, propositioned me for an interview about the website. When the reporter asked me about fake profiles of ABC's anchor Peter Jennings, I replied, 'Everyone knows that Peter Jennings is a Fakester.' Friendster's network of profiles, pictures, and testimonials are attached through visible webs of mutual friendships. The site spins conventional online dating into an addictive form of social research that makes unexpected reunions possible for singles and couples alike. In Friendster's second wave of popularity, pranksters have created 'Fakesters,' charlatan profiles that serve up fandom, tributes, institutional affiliations, or conceptual identifications. Pop stars like Beyonce Knowles, not to mention celebrity dogs,have cultivated large circles of friends. For intelligensia-hounds, Guy Debord was recently spotted on Friendster using a 1000 word Situationalist manifesto in his 'About Me' column. Some of the most clever conceptual fakesters include the number Pi, who likes Dating both Men and Women, Gay Clich
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These six golden retriever puppies are more than just adorable balls of fur — they're working to heal the invisible wounds of U.S. combat veterans.
Known as Holly's Half Dozen, the future service dogs are being petted and socialized by recovering service members from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and the National Intrepid Center of Excellence in Bethesda, Md.
And you can watch them live 24 hours a day for the next eight to 10 weeks on explore.org.
The litter of five girls and one boy, all born to a golden retriever named Holly on June 24, will spend the next two years lifting the spirits of wounded veterans by providing them with a therapeutic and purposeful mission.
Veterans work with the dogs through Warrior Canine Connection, an organization that helps service members with both physical and psychological injuries. The trainers who socialize the dogs are combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and the people who receive the trained service dogs are veterans with mobility-limiting injuries.
The live webcam was launched by nonprofit multimedia organization explore.org and Dog Bless You, a group that pairs war veterans with service dogs. The camera is part of explore.org's Pearls of the Planet initiative that aims to reconnect humans with animals and nature.
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Feature stone: Aquamarine
A pair of platinum drop earrings from the Garrard 1735 collection set with central oval aquamarine and round white diamonds.
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In 1893, at her wedding, Queen Mary was given a much-admired tiara by the Girls of Great Britain and Ireland. Around its base runs a graceful arrangement of round and lozenge diamonds, which is the inspiration behind this collection.
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Panache was founded in 1982 by Anthony Power, the current Chairman of Panache and a former senior executive with Playtex bras. Twenty four years later and Panache lingerie is one of the world's fastest growing lingerie companies. The Panache lingerie brands and contract ranges have become synonymous with quality, excellence in fit, contemporary design and value for money. Consequently, the family business directed by John Power, Managing Director with Anthony Power as Chairman, is fast developing into a major international bras and other lingerie brand.
Panache Lingerie Designs
The Panache lingerie design team, based in Yorkshire, England, is recognized as one of the most progressive in the lingerie business, with outstanding technical ability and creative flair. Panache bras has expanded dramatically over the past 6 years by exploiting its several well known lingerie brands, moving into overseas markets and creating a targeted brand range.
To acknowledge such growth, Panache bras has received a number of prestigious awards such as The Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade and the UK Fashion Export Award three times. One particular bra that gets a lot of press is the Panache Superbra. The Panache Superbra comes in a full range of styles, from hip, fashion lingerie to core basics, all designed to perfectly support, shape and fit women with a larger cup size. The Panache Superbra is made for women in the D-K cup range.
Popular Panache Styles
One of the most talked about bras in their line is the Panache Atlantis Bra. With a totally innovative design, this Panache Atlantis Bra is designed to increase a woman's bust size by at least one full cup size. How does the Panache Atlantis Bra do it? Magic? No, but almost. The Panache Atlantis is a liquid-filled bra. It's only suiting that it should be called the Atlantis, after the lost city, though when a woman puts on this bra she certainly won't get lost in a crowd. The Panache Atlantis is her ticket to getting noticed.
Panache at Freshpair
At Freshpair, we are proud of carrying a large selection of Panache bras that allow us to get women into the proper bra size and make her feel as comfortable and sexy as she's ever felt before with the right Panache bra. Some of our Panache customer favorites are the Superbra Porcelain Molded Bra, which has seamless molded cups for super-smooth shaping. Other popular Panache bras and tops include:
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- Panache Tango II Underwire Balconnet Bra
- Panache Cotton Camisole with Built-in Bra
Panache also makes several panties to match their bra collections. Popular Panache panties include the Panache Floris Brief, Panache Porcelain Elan Lace Brief, and the Panache Andorra Hipster.


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It is true that the concept of the party-plan business does not appeal to everyone. But it is hard to argue with success. A good example of a currently successful business is the Scentsy flameless candle business. I had never heard of this company until I began looking at party-plan companies and realized that I had a Scentsy flameless candle in my front room.
Adapting this business form to genealogy is a natural extension of the needs of the genealogical community. One of the major challenges for a significant number of potential family historians and genealogists, it adapting to the rapidly changing technology. Where do you go for one-on-one support for moving from a paper based genealogy to computers and software? The answer comes through establishing a support system of family history consultants that work with small groups and individuals to help them and teach them the basics of genealogy in a non-threatening home-based gathering.
Let's face it, many of the genealogists are retired, older people with limited incomes. These are the people who can benefit from this type of business plan.
The main difference with Celebrating Family History is the motivation and the need. Here is a quote from Holly Hansen, the founder of Celebrating Family History:
You can develop a love for family history and you can give your family members the same kinds of skills and understanding Holly's grandmother shared with her through Celebrating Family History at home.
Family History Heals
Family history heals on so many levels. It brings great joy to the aged. It brings excitement to the researcher as each new layer of family is discovered. It helps each of us gain a better understanding of who we are and how we got to where we are today! Holly said, "Family history is the reason I am who I am and the reason I love to share the joy of research with everyone I can."The concept here is to have groups gather with a resource consultant. Of course, the program will have products and the basic product will be the "Celebrating my Family Tree" program that is presently certified for FamilySearch Family Tree access. The program is powered by Ancestral Quest but the emphasis of the program is support from the consultants for installation and further education on the program and genealogy in general. Other family history related products will help support the basic educational aims of the business.
It will be interesting to see how this concept evolves. You should be aware that Celebrating Family History is associated with Family History Expos and I am an associate of both organizations.


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RIT to participate in global hack-a-thon
Event is part of Random Hacks of Kindness Global Hack-a-thon 2012
Random Hacks of Kindness is an innovative twist on what are traditionally known as random acts of kindness. It's a global initiative made up of a community of more than 5,500 innovators in more than 30 countries developing open source technology to address some of the world's most complex issues.
Rochester Institute of Technology is participating and is a host site of the Random Hacks of Kindness Global Hack-a-thon from 9 p.m. Dec. 1 to 9 p.m. Dec. 2 in Student Innovation Hall in the University Services Center on the RIT campus. The event is free and anyone is welcome to participate. To register, go to https://rhoktheroc2012.eventbrite.com.
Random Hacks of Kindness has hosted four global events to date with more than 4,000 participants. Governments, emergency responders and citizens have used the solutions developed by this community.
RIT students and faculty will be among those working with federal, state and international organizations at this weekend's global event. Organizations such as the Peace Corps have identified issues their volunteers are facing in the field, posting a list of problems on its website to be addressed during the hack-a-thon. Participants also will have the opportunity to help New York residents affected by Hurricane Sandy with a mobile website for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's storm resources page that's currently in the prototype stage.
Sean Herron, a member of NASA's Open Government team, will be among those attending the event. He works to facilitate open source and open data projects throughout the agency and promotes the use of technology solutions to solve common problems. Herron previously worked in the Space Operations Office at NASA headquarters, where he contributed to public outreach projects involving the space shuttle and International Space Station. He is an avid Web developer and advocate for engaging the public in NASA's mission of exploration and discovery.
Also in attendance will be Rob Bishop, a developer with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charitable organization founded with the goal of promoting the study of computer science and other related topics.
Global sponsors of Random Hacks of Kindness include The World Bank, NASA, HP, Google, Microsoft and others. RIT's event is sponsored by The Office of the RIT Associate Provost of International Education and Global Programs, the Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the RIT Lab for Technological Literacy. The Lab for Technological Literacy is sponsored by StormFrog Inc. and Red Hat Inc.