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Annabel Karmel, the UK's number one parenting author and the expert behind a delicious new organic baby purée range, shares her top tips on introducing your baby to solid food.
Ready, set, wean…
The Department of Health recommends that babies should not begin weaning until they are six months old. However, all babies are different, and you may feel your baby is showing signs they are ready for weaning slightly earlier.
If you think that's the case, speak with a healthcare professional who will be able to advise. However, please note that it's important not to start your baby on solid foods before 17 weeks as their digestive system has not fully matured.
Introducing first foods
To begin with, the food should be simple, easy to digest, and unlikely to provoke an allergic reaction.
Start with a single ingredient, ideally a fruit or veg. Try root vegetables like carrots, sweet potato and butternut squash; they have a naturally sweet flavour. Mix them with a little breast milk or follow-on formula.
It's difficult to predict how much a baby will eat, since their appetites and needs will all be different. As a rough guide, your baby will only take one or two teaspoons of purée. Increase the quantity as your baby develops. Babies have a strong sense of appetite, eating when they're hungry and stopping when they're not – use this as a gauge.
First vegetables: carrot, parsnip, butternut squash, sweet potato
Try: Annabel's Lovely Carrot, Apple & Parsnip Organic Baby Purée
First fruits: apple, pear, banana, papaya, avocado, peach
Try: Annabel's Delicious Banana, Pear & Peach Organic Baby Purée
Introducing new flavours
Once you've mastered the art of weaning and your baby has accepted their first tastes, now is the time to get a little more adventurous.
Babies grow more rapidly in their first year than at any other time in their life. Beyond six months they need nutrient-dense foods that provide a good source of iron to boost their diet.
Here are the most important ingredients and how you can use them…
Chicken: Full of protein and so versatile. Combine with vegetables or fruit.
Try: Annabel's Tasty Chicken & Butternut Squash Purée
Red meat: Iron is important for your baby's brain development.
Try: Annabel's Cosy Cottage Pie Purée
Oily Fish: Helps the development of your baby's brain, nervous system and vision.
Try: Annabel's Scrumptious Salmon Purée
Fruit: Vitamin C boosts iron absorption, so it's important to include citrus or berry fruits in your baby's diet. Start with small quantities and combine with other fruits like apple or pear.
Try: Annabel's Fruity Apple, Blueberry & Vanilla Purée
Vegetables: Introduce new flavours like peas, broccoli and spinach with my easy organic sauces. Simply add salmon or chicken for the perfect home-cooked meal.
Try: Annabel's Carrot & Lentil Sauce
In the kitchen
Now you know the ingredients, how to cook them? Try these recipes; they're all highchair hits…
Have fun trying out new flavours with your little one!


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Together with its municipal partners innogy wants to actively shape the future. We have developed ideas for successfully implementing the transformation of the energy sector that are tailored to the individual needs of our local authority partners: the "Municipal Energy Concept" (KEK) programme by innogy fosters climate protection, energy efficiency and infrastructure.
The basic idea behind the concept is the expansion of renewables – because we believe that the proportion of electricity generated from solar energy, wind energy and hydropower will continue to grow strongly over the next few years.
If you have already started to plan projects on climate protection, energy efficiency or infrastructure in your municipality, then take advantage of our expertise: contact your local municipal consultant! Together, you can discuss and agree suitable concepts for promoting your projects in a cooperative and transparent atmosphere. Use innogy's energy expertise for the benefit of your municipality.

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Herbicide technology has revolutionized our ability to manage a variety of common turfgrass weeds. However, these granular, powder and liquid marvels are simply tools in an overall strategy for integrated weed management. Incorrect herbicide use or, worse yet, poor fundamental turf management, offsets the benefits these tools can offer us. With that in mind, plan herbicide use and other weed management techniques with a weed identification reference in one hand, a calendar in the other and an herbicide label in your back pocket. The integrated approach to managing the annual onslaught of weeds means first outsmarting the weeds and then using tools like herbicides to finish them off.
What does it mean to outsmart weeds?
Newspaper reporters are taught to ask key questions such as who, what, where, when, why and how. Determining the answers to these types of questions for weeds is the fundamental premise of integrated weed management and the key to outsmarting weeds. Weeds thrive when turfgrass is struggling. This can be due to climate but also can be due to controllable factors such as poor drainage and soil compaction.
Weeds that thrive under controllable circumstances are known as indicator weeds. For example, prostrate knotweed, spurge and goosegrass all can outperform turf in compacted soils and point to compaction as a possible problem when they occur persistently. Nutsedge and annual bluegrass are often concentrated in moist or poorly drained areas. Remediation of problem sites is a necessary long-term approach to weed management and can help prevent unnecessary future herbicide applications.
Weed life cycles
Outsmarting weeds also requires knowing both the weeds themselves and their life cycles. Weeds can follow one of four life cycles: summer annual, winter annual, biennial or perennial.
Biennials are relatively rare in both nature and in turfgrass systems, so they do not warrant much discussion here, beyond the simple fact that the life cycle occurs over a two-year period.
Annuals may not always begin and end their life cycles in the same calendar year but always within a 12-month period. Summer annuals, as the name implies, enjoy their most active growth during summer, following a spring germination period and preceding a fall seed dispersal and death. Common summer annual weeds in turf include crabgrass, goosegrass, foxtails, spurge and prostrate knotweed. Winter annuals characteristically germinate in fall, overwinter as juvenile plants and complete their life cycles the following spring. Common winter annual weeds in turf include annual bluegrass, wild garlic, chickweed and henbit.
Perennial weeds can persist for several years under good growing conditions and thus represent the greatest challenge to effective control. This persistence depends on storage structures that help perennials survive through stressful times. Examples of such structures are taproots, bulbs or nutlets, rhizomes and stolons. Common perennial weeds in turf include bermudagrass, orchardgrass, quackgrass, dandelion, clover and nutsedge. As I'll discuss below, control of these different weeds is highly dependent on both life cycles and the specific biology of weeds within each life-cycle group.
Weed control strategies: broadleaf weeds
Selective broadleaf herbicides include the phenoxy group (e.g. 2,4-D, dichlorprop, MCPA, MCPP), the benzoic acid group (e.g. dicamba) and the pyridinecarboxylic acid group (e.g. clopyralid, triclopyr). A more recent introduction to the turf market is quinclorac; and the newest broadleaf herbicide, carfentrazone, is formulated as a mixture with phenoxy chemicals.
In established turf, these herbicides do not normally harm turfgrass plants. However, seedling turfgrass plants have less green tissue and are less efficient at breaking the same herbicides down, making them more sensitive. Check the label for post-application seeding intervals, which may range from 2 weeks to a month or more. Also, most products require you to wait until new turf has been mowed three times before using them, though a few can be used somewhat sooner.
Life cycle plays an important role in determining the ideal time to apply broadleaf herbicides. Perennials such as dandelion or clover are at their weakest in fall, when food reserves are low following summer. These weeds experience a growth resurgence in fall, and send new reserves to storage structures in preparation for winter. If you apply herbicides in fall, you can take advantage of this flow of reserves to the roots to help the herbicide reach these critical storage areas.
This strategy works only if no new planting is set for the fall. When turfgrass is seeded in fall, wait until after the new turf has been mowed three times, be it in mid-to-late fall or the following spring. Spring applications may be somewhat less effective because perennial broadleaf weeds are sending resources to the shoots for flower production, so their underground parts might survive.
Annual broadleaf weeds are most commonly controlled with post-emergence herbicides. That is not to say that pre-emergents aren't available for controlling annual broadleaf weeds. Where problems with winter annuals are apparent, it may make sense to use a pre-emergent such as isoxaben. However, post-emergent products are generally cost-effective and usually are applied anyway for broadleaf perennials, so it makes sense to rely on them for annuals as well. Post-emergents also interfere less with fall overseeding.
Post-emergence control of annual broadleaf weeds is best when they are young and before they produce flowers. Once annuals begin flowering — in spring for winter annuals or in late summer/early fall for summer annuals — herbicides are less effective because resource allocation is no longer to leaves and roots. Further, their life cycles are nearly complete, and the application is only hastening what is already about to occur (the end of the weeds' life).
Post-emergence broadleaf herbicides are most effective when spray-applied. Sprays provide better coverage of target weeds and surfactants can improve the coverage even more. Granules require moist foliage to stick to the leaves of target weeds and so may not provide adequate control if conditions are not ideal. However, granules are a less-risky way to apply broadleaf herbicides when sensitive broadleaf ornamentals are near the treated area and drift is of some concern. They also can be applied with a spreader, which is very efficient for large areas. Numerous products exist for broadleaf weed control; always consult the herbicide label for proper rates and other application directions.
Weed control strategies: annual grasses
Selectively controlling one type of grass growing within another is challenging. Thus, even though a few post-emergence options such as MSMA and quinclorac are available, pre-emergence control has become the standard for annual grasses.
Strictly speaking, pre-emergence herbicides do not influence germination but rather kill young grass plants as they try to emerge through the soil surface. Most pre-emergence herbicides inhibit both root and shoot growth of plants that encounter them in soil. This makes them highly effective on developing weeds but also possibly detrimental to newly established turfgrasses. Mow newly seeded turfgrasses at least three times before applying pre-emergence herbicides to assure safety.
Siduron and quinclorac are exceptions because they can be used in conjunction with seeding of most cool-season turfgrasses. Oxadiazon is another exception. It can be used to control weeds during sod or sprig establishment.
Except for dithiopyr, which has some early post-emergence activity on annual grasses, pre-emergence herbicides are ineffective on annual grasses once they've emerged, so proper timing is critical. Factors in nature (phenological indicators) such as spring tree flowering are often used to time pre-emergence applications, but soil temperature is the most consistent gauge. Crabgrass germinates once soil temperatures consistently reach 55°F in spring, while annual bluegrass germinates once soil temperatures drop to this range in late summer or early fall.
Because of the variable climates we experience, soil temperatures — and, therefore, proper application timing for summer annual grass control — range from February in the southern Transition Zone to May in northern states. For winter annual grasses such as annual bluegrass, the application window ranges from August in northern states to early fall in the southern Transition Zone.
Summer annual grass control often requires a repeat application later in the growing season because most pre-emergence herbicides don't persist in soil for the entire growing season. Dithiopyr and prodiamine have relatively long soil residual and often will persist through the growing season with only a single application. Immediately water in any pre-emergence herbicide to move the material into the rootzone where it becomes active.
Control of perennial grasses
Three approaches are available for control of perennial grasses: mechanical removal, nonselective herbicides and selective herbicides.
Mechanical removal of perennial grasses may provide a temporary solution but storage structures such as rhizomes allow these weeds to come back. Plus, physical removal is labor-intensive if the weeds are numerous.
Nonselective herbicides are effective against perennial grasses but present an aesthetic risk to the turf, except when used to control cool-season grasses in dormant warm-season turf. Choice of nonselective herbicide is important with perennial grasses. For best long-term results, choose herbicides with systemic activity such as glyphosate or glufosinate. Time applications when the target weeds are growing actively and allow time for a second application if it is necessary to achieve better kill.
Selective herbicide control of perennial grasses in turf is the most challenging option because of the biological similarity between the weeds and the turf. Timing of selective herbicide applications should also focus on when the weeds, rather than the turf, are growing actively. This approach is most promising for controlling volunteer warm-season grasses in cool-season turf. Herbicides such as fenoxaprop or fluazifop may selectively suppress warm-season perennials (such as bermudagrass), but getting a complete kill is usually unrealistic. Cool-season turfgrass tolerance to these herbicides should always be confirmed by checking the label for proper rates and timings. Control of perennial grasses in managed turf will usually require an ongoing effort, regardless of what approach you select.
While weeds present unique management and budgetary challenges, do not forget to focus first on the turf and then on the weeds themselves. A healthy turf, be it a fairway, lawn or athletic field, is the cornerstone of weed control and a springboard for planning herbicide applications.
Sensitivity to anti-chemical public sentiment also begins with attention to proper cultural practices. Whether it means dealing with club members, homeowner clients or concerned parents, public relations are now a regular part of the job. Avoid viewing and using herbicides as the sole solution to weed problems.
Remembering these fundamentals will make managing turf weeds more efficient and help you maintain a quality rapport with those who look to you for expertise and professional discretion.
Dr. Matthew J. Fagerness is professor of turfgrass science at Kansas State University (Manhattan, Kan.).
All products mentioned in this article are shown in the "Turfgrass Chemical Update," beginning on page 22. It provides a complete listing of all herbicides registered for turf use, including extensive label and supplier information.
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Ferruccio Lamborghini developed his namesake based on one simple belief: the others simply weren't good enough. The spirit of our founder lives on today. Not only in our iconic vehicles, but also in the lifestyle that comes with driving them.
We invite you to discover unique, benchmark-setting experiences with our revered vehicles, designed to appeal to both Lamborghini owners and those considering Lamborghini for their next super sports car.
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Having taken longer to reach my point in the previous "Piece Of Advice" post and not gotten to the second time that single piece of advice turned out to be the best advice I decided to add a second edition.
To recap the best piece of advice I was ever given first turned out to be the worst piece of advice I was ever given, then it turned out to be the best, then it turned out to be the worst, then it turned out to be the best…..still following?
The advice was "treat other people as you wanted to be treated." In the first edition I treated my older brother like I wanted him to treat me but he treated me like crap anyway. Then on my second attempt after years of being a rebellious teenage shit at school I started treating my teachers the way I wanted to be treated and I was rewarded not only with an excellent job reference but a lifelong friend.
So what was left for the second edition? Well I'm sad to say that while I grew out of the rebellious stage, a little bit, I never grew out of the idiot stage because without too much effort I was able to repeat a very similar situation from my childhood days as an adult.
By the time I was forty five years old I was a line haul driver for a major diary company in Melbourne, I drove a Kenworth Aerodyne B Double from Caulfield to Bairnsdale five nights a week carting a bulk delivery of dairy products to a regional depot in the country. The trip was a 600km round trip and I left the city each afternoon at about 4pm and arrived home at about 4am depending on how many holds up I had. At times it was a hard slog but coming home to my wife and five kids was always a major driving force that kept me riding that white line every day.
Before the kids were of school age I used to come home, sleep for six hours then spend a good portion of the day with my family enjoying the life a family provides. When the kids started school I was still able to get some good family time in by kipping for just a few hours and then getting up and weekends were always family time. It wasn't ideal but it was a life, it was a job and we got by.
By the time the oldest kids had entered secondary school life hadn't changed much. I was still dragging that rig up and down the highway on a nightly basis but the one difference was that I was getting tired, I just didn't realise how tired. Without knowing it mum's advice slotted itself into the dark corner of my mind 'Treat other people as you wanted to be treated'. Well I wanted to be left alone.
For some reason I didn't have problem with the job I had a problem with everyone else and from that dark corner of my mind I was able to take mum's advice and I quickly started to leave everyone else alone in the hope they would leave me alone.
As the kids got older they demanded more, they constantly wanted money, they constantly wanted belongings and they thought I was an endless source of both money and patience. The wife, to her credit tried to keep the kids off my back knowing full well that I was becoming grumpier and more tired as every month in the truck dragged on but there was little she could do about it. She too was getting sick of me not being at home or at very least not being there awake. She also seemed to take the same advice and quickly started to treat me as I was treating everyone else.
So what does a road weary, line haul truckie who has driven more than three million kilometres do when he wants to be left alone? That's right he takes a job driving interstate, Melbourne to Perth to be exact. A round trip of eight thousand kilometres and the ability to be alone in the cabin of my truck for six or seven days of every week.
By the time I'd racked up another three years riding that long white line across the country I was so reclusive that even getting out of the truck to fuel up was annoying me. My wife and I barely spoke to each other even when I was home and my kids had grown up without me even noticing.
Unlike when I was a kid and mum's advice bit me only for a short time this time it had bit me and settled in for the long haul just like I had. It wasn't until one of those rare days where I was actually off the road and sitting down at my local pub when Mr. Rogers, my school automotive teacher, walked in and sat down. We spoke for several hours over several beers and by the time the bar tender was calling stumps I'd come to the realisation that Mr. Rogers wasn't just my school teacher the guy was actually my life teacher, even if he didn't know it. In those few short hours in the pub Mr. Rogers made me realise what was important, made me realise that again I'd taken mum's advice the wrong way.
The following day, after I'd gotten rid of the hang over, I quit work. The next thing I did was write mum's words down on a sticky note and put them in my wallet and then I set out rebuilding my life. Of course it wasn't as simple as it was back in my school days, I didn't just read mum's words and suddenly I was a changed person but it did work.
I started to treat my wife like the love of my life, the way I wanted to treat her all along but for some reason forgot how. I started to treat the kids as young adults and started to involve myself in their lives. But most of all I started to treat my family as a family and not just people who lived in my house. One thing all those long hours on the road gave me was the financial security to allow me the time I needed to repair the bridges I'd demolished I was just lucky those around me allowed me to do so.
Just like those seemingly endless trips across the country the road to repair is a long haul and one I am prepared for (and thankfully so are those around me).
So there you go, one single piece of advice, two different interpretations and four episodes where that advice shaped my life.
Funnily enough while that advice from mum changed my life there is also one other thing that it did the second time around that it couldn't do the first time. As a teenager although I was able to realise the advice I wasn't able to thank mum for it, now as an adult, a husband and a father who is thankful for what he has and the lessons he's learnt I have not only been able to thank mum face to face I have been able to do it publicly!


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Life-changing transformations await your child at the Valley of the Sun YMCA overnight camp.
Overnight camp teaches self-reliance, a love for nature and the outdoors, and the development of attitudes and practices that build character and leadership—all amidst the fun of camp fires, bugle calls, canoeing, archery, talent shows, and meaningful relationships.
Camp Sky-Y make our teens better people. This is our goal, our passion, our mission. It's what separates us from all other camps. Our activities, from rock climbing to dance to swimming, emphasize human values such as self-esteem, caring and responsibility.
These traits are values your teens can carry with them always. They will be guideposts by which they will be measured as they pass through life. Do they treat their siblings with love and respect? Later on, their spouses with honesty and caring? And their own children with the adoration you have for them today?
We keep all of this in mind while making sure your teens have the time of their life. Activities in the weeklong camps range from ceramics and photography to bouldering and ranch work. All the while, your children will be learning internal values that are not emphasized in summer camps offered by other public and private institutions.
We are the Y, where your teen is never a number. We recognize your teen as an individual with the potential to be a future leader. Our Counselors in Training camp at Camp Sky-Y provide the guidance, and help to reinforce the core character traits in positive, nurturing environments. Here are the teen specialty overnight camps the Y offers:
Camp Sky-Y has been building friendships and making memories for over 70 years.
This camp for teens ages 16-17 is an introduction to basic camp counselor skills and an opportunity to work with children in a camp setting. Teens will learn to lead, motivate, and teach campers about the importance of camp experience in their lives.
Call 1-800-660-1385 for more information.
This spring teens can jump in and join the experience of our most popular camp programs.
Designed for tweens and teens, this camp places kids with their peers as they travel throughout the area and have fun seeing new places and keeping busy!
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Our ethical business practices
The French subsidiary Biospringer, based to Maisons-Alfort, manufactures and sells baker yeast extracts and hulls, which are used in numerous food applications for their aromatic functions and are popular with major food groups such as Unilever, Nestlé and Givaudan.
Increasing customer confidence
These corporations implement social responsibility best practices throughout their supply chains and commit their suppliers to following their example. To this end, Biospringer joined the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) in 2009.
This organisation aims to promote the sharing of ethical data in companies. Since 2012, the subsidiary has been participating in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), which provides information on companies' greenhouse gas emissions. It also collaborates with the CDP's water programme, which aims to disclose companies' water footprint.
These long-term commitments ensure longevity in the customer relationship and mobilise employees around meaningful issues that extend beyond the company's boundaries. For example, Biospringer has signed two agreements with its client Unilever and has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% compared to 2011.
Data transparency
Biospringer draws on three mechanisms to build a long-term relationship with its corporate clients:
- Sedex, a non-profit organisation, uses its online system to share information about ethical and responsible commercial practices in the supply chain between customers and suppliers.
- CDP, a non-profit organisation, has since 2003 been conducting an annual survey of major companies concerning the integration of climate change into their strategy, theirapproach to the carbon constraint and their greenhouse gas performances.
- The CDP's water programme is an initiative launched by CDP in 2009. Its goal is to provide investors with better information on companies' water consumption and their management policies.


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The 10 Costliest Floods in American History
The Mississippi flood, the second most destructive in the history of the U.S., has finally begun to subside, but others are anticipated to spring up around the country later this year.
The New York Times reports that snow packs in mountains in the U.S. West are high enough that, "Fear of a sudden thaw, releasing millions of gallons of water through river channels and narrow canyons, has disaster experts on edge." Experts can anticipate the damage, but are nearly helpless to prevent it.
The floods sweeping through the Mississippi River Basin and other parts of the region have become an increasing concern not just to the people living there, but to anyone concerned with the health of the U.S. economy. The costs of aid, of reconstruction, of destroyed crops and of lost business are estimated by some to be as much as $9 billion, and that forecast may prove to be conservative. This disaster also taxes national resources. CNN reports the National Flood Insurance Program could buckle under the weight of its obligations. "The massive Mississippi River flooding is expected to leave behind a giant bill for the government program, which offers affordable insurance to people who live in risky areas and then backstops their claims," the news network says.
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Quinten Clarke is the Founder and President of the Canadian Esophageal Atresia Network. He was born with an esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula and currently works in the public health sector. Quinten has previously volunteered with many non-profit organizations including the Canadian Cancer Society, the BC Children's Hospital Foundation, the Alberta Easter Seals and Variety: The Children's Charity. In his spare time Quinten enjoys skiing, archery and curling up with a good book. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Health Sciences from Simon Fraser University. You may contact him via the CEAN email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Tabinda (Tabi) Jatoi is the Director of the Canadian Esophageal Atresia Network's Ontario Chapter. She is the first born child of a conservative feudal culture of a developing country. Her parents broke all the cultural taboos and raised her to face the world and speak up for her rights. This enlightened her passion to be a "Change Manager"! She chose to be a healthcare provider, strongly addressing the needs of basic health care facilities and services for families of low socio-economic status. She describes herself as a woman who is passionate to empower families through knowledge and education about healthy, positive and happy lifestyles. She is dedicated to bringing awareness about health seeking behaviours and making healthy choices. For more than two decades she has been active as a philanthropist, health care provider, woman's rights advocate, motivational speaker & Mompreneur. She said, "I was shocked at my own friend's comments about my son's colostomy bag & his feeding issues." She decided to raise awareness about VACTERL/ TEF- a congenital condition! Her son was born with this medical issue. She felt it is her responsibility to give back to community & bring awareness to the general public. She feels that this will enable these families and individuals to play positive role in the community. These strong individuals and families need to be understood and embraced with love. She is active on social media. You may contact her via her email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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University of Chile attacked with Tear Gas and Water Cannon
It doesn't only happen in Turkey. Yesterday, while filming in Santiago, I had my first experience of tear gas. I went to film the latest student protest march against the heavily privatised education system which is a heritage of the … Continue reading


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In addition to looking for an Elasticsearch / Solr Engineer to join the Sematext team, we are also looking for an Lucene / Elasticsearch Engineer in EU for a specific project. This project calls for 6 months of on-site work with our client in Netherlands. After 6 months the collaboration with our client would continue remotely if there is more work to be done for the client or, if the client project(s) are over, this person would join our global team of Engineers and Search Consultants and work remotely (we are all very distributed over several countries and continents). This is a position focused on search – it involves working with Elasticsearch, but also requires enough understanding of Lucene to allow one to write custom Elasticsearch/Lucene components, such as tokenizers, for example. Here are some of the skills one should have for this job:
- knowledge of different types of Lucene queries/filters (boolean, spans, etc.) and their capabilities
- experience in extending out-of-the-box Lucene functionality via developing custom queries, scorers, collectors
- understanding of Lucene document analysis in the process of indexing, experience in writing custom analyzers
- experience in mapping advanced hierarchical data structures to Lucene fields
- experience in scalable distributed open-source search technologies such as Elasticsearch or Solr
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The CurdBee Weekly #9 featuring April Sadowski
Welcome to another CurdBee Weekly! We've got some pretty exciting stuff going down soon, and have a few sneak peaks for you at the end of this post. Before that though, we speak to our first CurdBee PRO user April Sadowski, and find out what she has to say about freelancing, design and supporting your local economy. We're super psyched to have her aboard and know you will find what she has to say pretty interesting. Read on!
April Sadowski SpeaksApril Sadowski and her feline friends (L to R) Sobe, Samantha and Sasha.Hi April! Tell our users a little about Aibrean's Studio. What goes on inside?Well there is no "inside" because the business is just me and I don't have an office location. I started freelancing in 2003 right after graduating from college. Since it was hard to get a job for a while, it was an obvious choice for income.You are a freelancer as well as a full time Art Director. How do you balance your full and part time work?Luckily I have a lot of flexibility in my full time job because it's in-house. I have a flexible work schedule and I can work on freelance if there is downtime. I don't really have to worry about conflicts of interests. There is another person where I work that has his own freelance business as well. I am always upfront about my situation with clients so they know my full time job comes first. I am attentive to their needs and I have an online work schedule so they can view my availability.You publicly state that you support the local economy and work with local businesses and vendors on client projects. Could you tell us more about this? Does going local actually work?Of course not everything can be done locally, but I work with a local programming company, Edge Webware on projects (they are located about 30 minutes from me) and use local printers for jobs that require printing. Most of my projects are web-based but I'm able to provide any print-based design as well. My education is more catered to print and that's what I do during my full time job. Even though most of my clients aren't local, they are more comfortable with my working local because I can do press checks for quality and meet with the developers should the need ever arise. I of course, am not against a company wanting to work with their own local vendors on projects. I just don't like off-shoring anything. I typically find the only reason people do that is because they think it's cheaper however typically there are communication barriers and quality suffers.What tips would you give freelancers or SMEs who want to start supporting local businesses?People need to learn to not be afraid of the assets they have around them and realize that local business relationships can be a win-win for both. Instead of assuming your local printer is going to be more expensive than an online outfit, why not get quotes from printers in the area? People don't typically realize the online printers will print digital and use a poor quality paper in order to deliver those prices. With a local printer you can walk in and view your work as it's being printed if you wanted to. The same goes for any type of business – don't be afraid to call them. If Jerritte at Edge never picked up the phone and called me for a job, I would probably have never known his company existed.You're a designer, writer, voice actor and producer. What's the best and worst thing about being a jack of all trades?I think it's great to be able to offer a variety of services. I've had a client hire me to do their on-hold messages and automated voicemail. I think the hardest thing is to not become overwhelmed because there are times when all is needed at once. Luckily the last three are hobbies more than anything else (at this point anyway) so I can delegate my time on my own schedule for them for the most part.As someone with a keen eye for the visual, how would you rate CurdBee's design and layout? Anything we can improve on?I think it's refreshing. The only thing I ever hear people complain about is the name. Curd? I wouldn't have thought anyone would want to be associated with something that is coagulated sour milk but you managed to pull it off with a fresh design and charming bee mascot.Note: Fair enough! As we've explained in the past though, in the Sri Lankan context curd stands for prosperity (Curd and Treacle is a fantastic traditional Sri Lankan dessert) and the bee stands for hard work. We made the connection and thought it was an apt name for our app. :)You've been one of the most vocal proponents of CurdBee, often going out of your way to introduce new users to our product. Thank you for that! Why are you such a strong CurdBee advocate?Your system works and your customer service is top notch. You are constantly keeping up with needs and demands and offering more than most billing services.Incidentally, you were also the first CurdBee PRO user. What made you an early adopter of our paid service?Besides the super affordable prices and plenty of free offerings to others? You offer Google Checkout as a payment option and I hadn't been able to find anyone that supports Paypal and Google Checkout. I have had clients rave about the checkout process (in fact, one kept wanting his cart to look like yours!). Another feature that has kept me is the custom domains.What as-yet-unannounced feature is on top of your CurdBee wishlist?I would love to add more information to my estimate/invoice statements (such as links to my blog/Facebook/Twitter) and be able to further style what is sent out (such as background image, colors and fonts for headers and body copy). It would be great if I could make them look more integrated with my website (especially since I use the custom domain service).Note: It is already possible to include your website link in invoices and estimates. You can also define a Custom Field and include your Facebook / Twitter URL. Both these options can be found Settings -> Company Profile in your CurdBee account. Of course, a full template redesign is on the cards too and CurdBee will soon have a lot of other invoice styling options. Stay tuned!What upcoming CurdBee feature are you most looking forward to?I can't wait for time tracking to arrive! It will help tie everything together rather than using multiple applications.
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Huge shout out to @curdbee who's online invoice software absolutely rocks. Makes doing the menial tasks of being freelance more manageable!We wrote it to scratch a personal itch, and we're glad it's helping other people. Thanks for saying hi, Nathan!
@curdbee are there plans to upgrade the invoice logo and colour options in the near future? I'd love to see some additional options, css etcWe tweeted back to say yes, there are, and we're going to get to them soon after this upcoming release cycle!
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Visiting recently at the Creation Museum with his family—for the fourth time—was Tony Breeden. Tony heads up a creationist ministry in West Virginia (where I am today—speaking at Appalachian Bible College, which includes an open-to-the-public talk Thursday evening) , and one of his outreaches (a national one) is to involve churches in something called Creation Sunday. Find out more about his unique ministry (he is also a very good speaker) at www.creationletter.com.
Creation Sunday (February 14) is a call to churches to dedicate a church service to the doctrine of creation and to counter something called the Clergy Letter Project, where churches (maybe 12,000 of them) will be—believe it or not—celebrating an "Evolution Sunday" (on the same date) and promoting evolution as true and Genesis as myth.
You can see a photo of Tony speaking to our staff last year here.
State of the Nation 2On February 16, there will be a live broadcast over our website (and on other places—to be announced) of an address I will be giving inside the Creation Museum on the state of the nation. Last year, my first State of the Nation presentation resulted in so much traffic on our website, the technology couldn't handle it! However, we have greatly changed things for this year to be ready for such a possible response. I will tell you more about this presentation in future blogs.
For now, I urge you to set the date aside—go to AnswersLive.org for more information.
Christ our passoverThanks for stopping by and thanks for praying, Ken
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It happened again.
Closer Jim Johnson blew his third consecutive save opportunity, serving up a solo home run to Travis Hafner with one out in the top of the ninth to tie the game 4-4.
Robinson Cano grounded out with the count full, but Hafner drove a 3-1 pitch into the seats in left-center field.
Johnson shouted at himself as the ball cleared the fence, his head snapping down. And the Yankees fans in attendance erupted.
Hafner is now 2-for-4 against Johnson.
Lyle Overbay followed with a single, but Curtis Granderson struck out and David Adams grounded to second while Pedro Strop warmed in the Orioles' bullpen.
Johnson has surrendered eight runs and nine hits in 2 1/3 innings in his last three appearances.
Update: Pedro Strop replaced Johnson in the 10th and gave up back-to-back doubles to Ichiro Suzuki and Vernon Wells to give New York a 5-4 lead.
Strop had allowed one earned run in his last 11 1/3 innings over 13 games before tonight.
The Yankees put runners on the corners with two outs - Strop walked Cano intentionally - and Hafner singled off Brian Matusz to increase the Yankees' lead to 6-4.
Matusz had stranded 16-of-17 inherited runners this season and 30-of-32 since moving to the bullpen last summer.
Mariano Rivera will try to close it out for the Yankees and extend the Orioles' losing streak to six games, all the defeats coming at Camden Yards.
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A very loose interpretation of the story of Anabasis from Greek mythology, Walter Hill's 1979 production The Warriors is a popular fan favorite that does a fine job of mixing action, adventure, and glam rock. Released on a rather dodgy looking disc by Paramount a few years back, they've got back to the vaults for this film and have now released Walter Hill's Director's Cut of the film, but – and let me be clear about this as it's sure to annoy more than a few fans – they've failed to include the original version of the film and there are some serious changes to the film…but more on that in a minute. Let's get the plot synopsis out of the way first.
For anyone who hasn't seen the film, it starts off when a gang named The Warriors are requested to send some delegates to a huge meeting organized by Cyrus (Roger Hill), who happens to lead the biggest of the New York City street gangs, The Riffs. Cyrus pleas with the rest of the gangs for unity – he feels that if they all work together then the city will be theirs for the taking and not even the cops will be able to put a stop to them. Everyone seems to be in agreement about this but then suddenly, a punk named Luther (David Patrick Kelly of Commando) from a gang called The Rogues shoots Cyrus dead. When the crowd turns towards where the gunshots erupted, he blames it on The Warriors and chaos ensues. As the cops move in to shake everyone down, the Warriors run for it and whole up in a cemetery for a while to try and come up with a plan on how to get back to their home turf on Coney Island.
When they spot the subway, they figure that they can hop the train to Union Station and catch the connecting train back home – should be a breeze, right? You'd think so except that The Riff's want payback for the murder of Cyrus and they think that The Warriors are responsible for it. They put out the word by way of a local radio disc jockey who instructs all the boppers to get down to it, and all of a sudden The Warriors find that the rest of the gangs are out to bring them in dead or alive.
An extremely stylized film set in the not too distant future, The Warriors is a blast from start to finish. It starts off with a fantastic opening sequence in which the gang members all make their way to the place where Cyrus will speak and once the murder happens, it's off like a bullet. The movie moves along at a very fast pace and while this does happen at the cost of character development, we still get to know enough about everyone, Swan (Michael Beck) and Mercy (Deborah Van Valkenburgh) specifically, that we at least know enough for the movie to work. The film has a lot more to do with the actual chase than the characters who are being chased and as such it doesn't require an in depth background for each gang member to function properly – we know who they are and that's more or less enough.
The cinematography in the film is excellent. The scenes shot in the innards of the New York City subway system are creepy but very effective allowing gang members to arrive from behind a video game or a tiled wall while the sounds of trains whiz past them, lights painting everything in a very stale and antiseptic hue. Color plays a huge role in the look of the movie and also allows us to differentiate between the gangs, as they all have different colors or uniforms be it the Yankees-esque Baseball Furies or the Leatherman/Village People look of The Rogues. The camera work also does a fine job of capturing the violence that inevitably erupts when the gangs collide – the thud of a baseball bat, the slash of a knife, or the sound of a bullet fired from a revolver are all brought to grim and gritty life when the time comes for the fights to blow up like they do.
In this new director's cut, however, there are some serious changes made to the film. First up is the opening sequence. While the fantastic montage of talking heads, shoulders, subway trains and maps is still intact, we don't go into it until we witness a new narrated prologue which makes the comparison to the Greek myth on which the story is based about as subtle as a brick to the face. In Hill's narration he mentions how he wanted to create a comic book like atmosphere for the movie and to that effect they've seen fit to add some comic book panel transitions to the film. This, more than the narrated prologue and the insertion of a 'sometime in the future' tag, is the most obvious change made to this cut of the film. It feels a little out of place and it makes this less the film we all know and love and more a completely different animal. The scene that this hurts the most is the scene where the Baseball Furies are first introduced. A lot of the impact and sheer coolness of this scene is sucked out by substituting a comic book panel – an unfortunate decision.
Now, had Paramount opted to include the original version of the film on this DVD (they could have easily done it via seamless branching as the run time of the two cuts is very, very close) these changes wouldn't bother me in the least but as it stands now, fans who want the theatrical version are going to have to hold onto their original DVDs (if they have them in the first place) or try and track down the original DVD of the film. What irks me is that the presentation of the film is so much better and so much improved on this release and that Paramount has chosen not to give us the original cut of the film in what is definitely a much better looking and sounding presentation of the film.
Now that I've said my piece, how does the movie itself hold up? Very well. Even in this rather different version it still plays out nicely. The performances are fine for what they are, the cinematography is still ahead of its time and the pacing is still tight. Cyrus and the radio DJ still have some of the best quotable lines of dialogue in movie history and the gangs all still look too cool for school. The Warriors is a lot of fun and has stood the test time better than a lot of other movies of this ilk, including many of the films that came out afterwards and ripped it off. It's a great film, one well worth revisiting even if you have to see it again via this new director's cut. The fantastic sets and costumes are still there, and The Warriors are still the coolest gang around.
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Paramount's new 1.85.1 anamorphic widescreen transfer is pretty impressive stuff. The black levels are very strong and very deep but they don't hide any of the fine background detail in the image. Print damage has been all but completely eliminated and only faint hints of film grain are detected during playback. Color reproduction is excellent, especially some of the lighting hues that are used in certain scenes like the subway or the Coney Island amusement park. Skin tones look lifelike and natural and don't appear too pink or too yellow. There aren't any issues at all in terms of mpeg compression artifacts and only some slight line shimmering is present (you'll spot it in the usual places – along the edges of cars, on the speaker covers of a boom box, and on some checkered and striped shirts on background characters). All in all, this is an exemplary transfer and the movie looks excellent.
Yet another reason for purists to be upset is that Paramount has not included the original mono mix for the film and instead opted for your choice of a brand new Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound mix or a Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround mix, both in English. There is a French mono mix included here, but it's obviously a dub and unless you speak French and don't speak English, you're not going to want to watch the movie that way anyway.
Griping aside, the quality of both English mixes is quite good. The surrounds are used effectively and really get a good work out during the gang rally scene at the beginning of the movie and during some of the more action intensive moments in the later half of the film. Dialogue is clean and clear and the score comes through sounding really, really nice. There's some serious strength to the lower end and your subwoofer will thump along with the film nicely. Some keen directional effects come at you from all angels in a few spots which does add some atmosphere to the movie and there's really very little to complain about here in terms of audible quality.
English and Spanish language subtitle options are available on this disc for the feature only, as are English language closed captions for the hearing impaired.
First up in terms of extra features is a brief one and a half minute video introduction from the director of the film, Walter Hill, who explains that had he had complete control over the film back when it was being made, this director's cut is how he would have wanted it to turn out. While I can't say I agree one hundred percent with the changes, it's his film so who am I to argue.
The real supplements come in the form of four documentaries, each of which focus on a different aspect of the film and feature interviews, stills from the movie and the making of the movie, and clips from the film. Here's a quick rundown of what to expect out of these featurettes:
The Warriors – The Beginning: At just over fifteen minutes in length, this documentary examines the journey from book to movie through interviews with the film's producer, Lawrence Gordon, and director Walter Hill. Gordon is quite interesting to listen to as he is very honest about the hesitation he felt in getting the movie bankrolled, and neither he nor Hill really knew what they were getting into with this project as they fought with Paramount over a few issues in getting it made.
The Warriors – Battleground: With pre-production covered, here we delve into some details about casting and about the first half of the film, mainly the scene with Cyrus and the gang rally. Some nice interview footage with Michael Beck, David Harris, David Patrick Kelly and Deborah Van Valkenburgh is in here as well as comments from Gordon and Hill. This does an interesting job of showing us how they set up the events to come in the later half of the film and some of the changes that were made to the movie along the way. They also cover some of the details of the shooting locations and of the character of Cyrus and why he was so important in starting the movie off. This one runs just under fifteen minutes.
The Warriors – The Way Home: Clocking in at a hair over eighteen minutes, this is the longest of the four segments and it focuses in on the last half of the movie, once The Warriors are on the run. The same interviewees from Battleground are on hand here as they discuss some of the fight choreography, the finale scene, casting decisions, sets, shooting on the subway system and the various burbs of New York City and more. There's also a fair bit of attention given to the costume design used for the various gangs in the film by way of some interview footage with designer Bobby Bianco.
The Warriors – The Phenomena: This last segment, which runs roughly fifteen minutes, wraps everything up nicely and again uses the same interviewees. This time out, everyone looks back on the film and gives some information on how the movie affected their lives and their careers. Many of the actors credit the film with launching their career and Hill considers it a highlight stating that he still has people come up to him on the street and tell him how much they love the movie. The explain why they feel that the film has the staying power that it does and everyone more or less waxes nostalgic on how much fun they had making it and how much they really enjoy the movie.
All said and done, with a combined running time of roughly an hour in length, these four segments do a very nice job of filling in the blanks on the making of the film. While I feel that Hill probably should have recorded a commentary track for this release and the absence of any deleted scenes (supposedly they exist, and one was originally announced for this release but it definitely isn't here) or even a still gallery is a shame, fans of the film should enjoy this material very much.
Rounding out the extra features are a theatrical trailer for The Warriors a preview for the upcoming video game adaptation from Rock Star (which looks really, really cool), and a few other unrelated DVD releases available from Paramount.
While the fact that Paramount DID NOT INCLUDE THE THEATRICAL CUT OF THE FILM on this release is a huge irritation, the new version does play well aside from the comic book transitions. The print quality is great, the sound is great, and the four documentaries are pretty interesting and do give some really good background stories on the making of the movie. While I've got mixed emotions about the new version, Paramount did do a nice job on the release and the film does play well – this one earns a hesitant high recommendation based on the strenght of the material and the excellent presentation, but purists beware…
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One of the perks of being a Dorfold Hall wedding photographer, is being invited to some of the best properties in the country; and right up there is Dorfold Hall. I've been privileged to shoot a number of weddings here, yet every time I'm struck by its beauty and majesty; making it one of the leading wedding venues in Cheshire.
Take a look at Jess and Ed's wedding and then Ellie and Dan. Both had very different Dorfold Hall weddings but both were amazing days. We captured both weddings on Photo and Film so make sure you grab a glass of something cold and sit back and watch the film and take in the images.
I'm often asked what makes a wedding venue special. With its sprawling gardens, rich history, inspiring interiors, and great customer service, Dorfold Hall has it all. As someone who knows the venue well, here's a few reasons to host your wedding day here…
There's something reassuringly British and prestigious about an estate that was built for royalty. In case you didn't know, Dorfold Hall is a grade 1 listed Jacobean house, that was built for King James to visit. It's rich history spans back to the 1600s, and is traceable to the family that still owns it today. As a family run business, you get a sense of real pride from the owners, with plenty of personal touches that make a wedding day so special.
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I can say with some confidence that capturing Dorfold Hall Wedding Photography is a wedding photographer's dream! It has plenty of stunning backdrops from its perfectly manicured gardens, to its grand rooms.
The light here is also fabulous. It bounces off the buildings and captures the architecture in all its glory. Yet the building itself never takes centre stage, always putting the happy couple firmly in the frame.
Manicured and impeccable, Dorfold Hall's grounds are the perfect setting for wedding photography. There's a circular courtyard, which gives an intimate feel to Wedding Photography at Dorfold Hall – the ideal place for groups shots.
There's also plenty of private coves where the happy couple can be photographed. The lake is one of my favourite spots, with crystal clear water and luscious shrubbery, possessing a certain romance about it.
An Amazing Wedding Venue In Any Season
The wedding breakfast and reception will likely to place inside Dorfold Hall, and there's no end of opportunity for breath-taking photos here too.
Carved wooden walls with paintings of regal figure provide a charming background for all those magical moments. Rooms are immaculately decorated with flowers, candles and original furnishings, that always bring wedding photos to life.
If your wedding party stays here, you'll be able to enjoy the cottages and rooms in all their splendour. With original oak furnishings, wooden beams and beds so comfortable you won't want to leave; many parties have told me how much they've enjoyed their stay. Not just fit for a King, I'd say that Dorfold Hall is fit for a Prince and Princess about to make their special vows too!


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In collaboration with a talented group of wedding and event vendors,styled shoot Vintage Dreams was brought to life. It was a beautiful simple setting.The images show my love for vintage things and pastel colours.
Photography: Paula Scalco Photography
Styling and Creative Direction: Destylio
Vintage Event Rentals: Party Social
Flower Crown & Arrangements: Blossom Tree Flower Shop
Cake: Nice Ribbon Atelier
Hair & Makeup: MHG Beauty
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Building the Right Environment to Support AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning
This article offers a brief overview to the new features in Servlet 3.0. Then, using code samples, it dives into the details of using annotations for Servlet 3.0 filters and listeners. The discussion also touches on how to plug frameworks and other libraries into a web application using web fragments. The article concludes with a brief discussion of Servlet 3.0's support for asynchronous processing and highlights of the enhancements made to the existing APIs.
To make the development process easier, Servlet 3.0 introduces annotations. Similar to the changes in EJB 3.1, the introduction of annotations makes the web deployment descriptor –web.xml optional.
Apart from the features mentioned here, several other enhancements have been made to the existing API. The sections towards the end of the article will explore these features one by one in detail.
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THQ recently announced the upcoming release of the uDraw Game Tablet peripheral for the Nintendo Wii. The device will hit the shelves ahead of the holiday season in North America, bundled with uDraw Studio, a drawing, colouring and art-based video game.
The small white handheld tablet offers a 4 x 6 inch drawing space and detachable, pressure-sensitive stylus meant to offer subtle control and precision. The Wii Remote docks into uDraw Game Tablet which draws its power directly from the Wii Remote. The tablet also features tilt-and-roll movement options, allowing players to interact and control in-game characters by moving and directing them through game levels, as well as an SD card port which will allow players to save and transfer their artwork. Read More...
"We've designed the uDraw GameTablet to offer something for everyone: the kids can doodle, save their creations on an SD card and print their artwork for display on the refrigerator. Students can improve their skills through in-game tutorial lessons. And the whole family can sit down together for family game time with products like Pictionary," said Martin Good, Executive Vice President of THQ Kids, Family, Casual Games and Global Online Services.
"We are impressed with THQ's innovative design and focus on bringing a new gameplay experience to the Wii owner with their uDraw GameTablet," said Steve Singer, Vice President of Licensing for Nintendo of America.
Along with the bundle, priced at $69.99 USD, the company is releasing two other games—Pictionary and Dood's Big Adventure—sold separately for $29.99 USD. THQ is also planning another wave of titles for the peripheral over the course of 2011 and beyond. The drawing tablet is also scheduled for international release in early 2011. An advertising demo of the software and peripheral can be viewed on the uDraw website.
In other peripheral news, California-based PLX Devices Inc has released the XWave for the iOS platform. This device uses technology developed by Neurosky to control your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch using brainwaves. While the peripheral does not yet have the ability to control device functions, an accompanying app works as a brain control training program, allowing users to become familiar with controlling virtual objects using their mind and to learn how to let their brain control their attention and meditation levels.
For example, the apps objectives include having to levitate a ball for a certain amount of time, changing a colour based on the relaxation of your brain and training the brain to maximize its attention span. A secondary app is also available from the iTunes Store called XWave Tunes. This app allows users to connect with each other through music that stimulates their brainwaves.
"The human brain is the most powerful, complex thing in the universe, and for the first time, we're able to harness its amazing power and connect it to everyday technology," said Paul Lowchareonkul, Founder and CEO of PLX Devices Inc. "With the development of 3rd party apps, the potential for innovation is limitless."
PLX Devices is looking forward to the release of third party applications by offering a software development kit. The XWave and XWave app are currently available for purchase as a bundle online for $99.99 USD. A video demo can be viewed here.


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Enterprise application development is also known as enterprise application software. It has applicability in organizations, business firms and such places in comparison to individuals who use it. Enterprise application development is an integral part of an information system which is computer based. The enterprise mobile application development is a comprehensive collection of products and services which enables the development of applications in the mobile phones. It is also known as mobile enterprise application platform.
Enterprise application development provides business logic support functionality. The software processes, displays, manipulates and stores big amount of data. The data may be large and complex. It automates and supports the data. These softwares are robust, scalable and performing type which can be used as a network with more than one user and it serves more than one user at a time. Cross platform considerations are an important big drive behind the using of mobile enterprise application programs.
We offer business oriented tools such as online shopping, enterprise application integration, human resource management, automated billing systems, online payment processing, security and enterprise resource planning. The enterprise software contains a collection of tools for various business and such other purposes. Thus enterprise application development provides support for a lot of business firms.
Enterprise mobile application development develops application software's for low power handled devices. It includes mobile phones, enterprise digital assistants and personal digital assistants.


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The news that Edward Snowden had somehow managed to persuade 20 to 25 of his fellow colleagues at the NSA to give up their passwords and login information has probably shocked IT professionals and corporate security types. "What kind of slipshod IT security is the NSA running?" Could the smartest guys in the room really be so dumb and trusting? As Reuters reports:
Snowden may have persuaded between 20 and 25 fellow workers at the NSA regional operations center in Hawaii to give him their logins and passwords by telling them they were needed for him to do his job as a computer systems administrator, a second source said.
This may seem incredible to those involved in information assurance that a system administrator, who had only been at the job a few months, could talk that many people out of their passwords. Don't these people have any information security training? Every company IT department teaches its employees to never share their password information. Didn't these guys have any training?
It turns out they do. The Department of Defense, which the National Security Agency falls under, has extensive computer security training. But that only begs the question further. Snowden was so new at his base in Hawaii that he probably didn't have any long term personal relationships to play on in order to trick people out of their passwords. But I don't think he needed to trick anyone. And I think I know why.
I should preface this by saying this is just my personal opinion, but I think the popular idea of intelligence agencies and organizations, at least American ones, as a font of constant paranoia, looking over your shoulder at all times, and a lack of trust between co-workers, as depicted in movies and popular culture (think the Bourne movies) is totally opposite of the real situation. I think the security problem in US intelligence organizations, which Snowden exploited, is that everyone trusts each other too much.
Security Clearances for Top Secret and above levels cost thousands of dollars and can take months to complete. Once you have a security clearance, it's not only a marketable item, but it's sort of a short hand as to what kind of character you have. Although it actually means you've mostly stayed out of trouble and have not screwed up too much, it's taken as a certificate of approval that this person is trustworthy and of good character. So if you work in a classified facility, surrounded by cleared people, some of them may strike you as crazy, or unpleasant, but not thieves, not crooks, and not traitors. Why? It's nothing they did, it's simply from the fact that they are working there; they've been vetted.
Once you are on the inside, you are part of special limited clique, in which everyone on the inside of the vault door holds secret knowledge that those on the other side of the vault door don't know, and can't know. It's like being part of Skull and Bones, only instead of knowing secret arcane nonsense; you know real things about the world that matter. That dividing line between those on the inside of the door and those on the outside is huge.
One of the first things they teach you in Basic Training and Boot Camp is to keep you locker and money locked up and secure at all times. Even the camaraderie of military service isn't enough to be sure your buddy won't grab your wallet in an act of desperation. But like Singapore, if you decide to leave your wallet on your desk at work in your secured facility, you can mostly be assured that it will still be there, undisturbed, when you come back from break. Having many roommates in the past with security clearances, I never worried for a second about leaving money or valuables around out in the open. I may have worried if they would clean up the kitchen after fixing dinner, or vanishing for days on end, but I never worried that they would steal from me. I granted them an automatic level of trust that most keep within close family members.
And maybe that's the problem. In spite of all the security, and in spite of all the rules and security procedures, it doesn't mean a thing unless people can operate with even a normal level of caution. In my corporate environment I would never turn over my password to anyone, system administrator or otherwise. But if I was back in the classified world, inside that insular level of trust, I can't be sure how I would react. And the fact that I would even question that is the problem.


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The Verve guitarist Nick McCabe and bassist Simon Jones are to make their live debut as The Black Ships in London this June. The band will play London's King's College Students Union on June 2.
The Black Ships, who formed in 2009, also count drummer Mig Schillace and violinist Davide Rossi in their line up. Rossi, though never formally in The Verve, played on their 2008 album Forth and featured in the band's live line up frequently after that.
Tickets go on sale on Friday, April 15, at 9am (GMT). To check the availability of The Black Ships tickets, go to NME Tickets, or call 0871 230 1094 (UK). Also try the the Gigs and Tours website.
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- Update 6/16/2018: The Black Ships links above are now broken. This article will be kept intact for archival purposes.


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High temperature anti chemical abrasion wear resistant coating ceramic epoxy repair putty compound
used in repairing and protecting mining use slurry pump overflowing part rubber lining
One of companies ash disposal system,the pumps which used for ash flushing & slag-flushing water system and high concentrations of
mortar/grout conveying system are both centrifugal slurry pump,but because the mortar/grout of 4 sets unit comes together into one
concentrated tank,the mortar/grout after concentrating passed one slurry pump unit(3 sets of same type slurry pump is tandem) and
transported to ash yard,as the change of coal markets,the quality of the coal which current power plant used is reducing drastically,
the ash content is too large,sometimes the cement-water ratio concentration of high concentrations of mortar/grout which slurry pump
transported reach to about 1:2,the normal time is also about 1:2.5 to 1:3,the concentration of mortar/grout is large,cause the overflowing
part of slurry pump serious abrasion and corrosion,at the same time make the pump inner circulation area increase,enlarge the volume loss,
it will exacerbate noise and vibration,reduce the working performance and efficiency of slurry pump.cause the surface of overflowing part
to appear faveolate pot hole,it will wear through the overflowing part during serious,result in the mortar/grout out-leakage,pollute the
environment,cause the electrical machine supercurrent phenomenon,general operational cycle of the slurry pump of transporting high
concentrations of mortar/grout is about 4 months,then you should change a set of overflowing part,so the material cost is high,
and the maintenance quantity is large.
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then scrape the repairing surface to be flat and smooth with scraper blade,at the same time,control the repairing thickness to be within the thickness range
of original slurry pump spare part,curing for 24 hours.
Based on the repairing analysis of the slurry pump from this company,the slurry pump model is 4/3E-HH,the manufacturer is Shijiazhuang Industrial
Water Pump Factory,the rate of flow is 120m3/hour,the lift head is 50m,the power is 75KW,through running for about 6 months,through inspecting
the abrasion loss/quantity of pump front guard plate,it is mainly the condition before pumps repairing,at the same time,the partial surface of front guard
plate still has the epoxy repair putty compound.It explains that the abrasion parts after repairing can reach to the usage period of new spare part completely.
(the operational cycle of slurry pump new spare part is about 5 months).
The costs of buying slurry pump spare part:Front guard plate is 4500RMB,back guard plate is 3900RMB,guard jacket is 7800RMB,stuffing box is
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When I take on a new client, I ask myself, "How can I guide this business into becoming the best, most productive, and financially healthy in the world?
How can I help this individual become the greatest version of themselves?
What needs to be 'cleaned up' so that they may deliver results with their unique products and talents?" Moreover, how can I help them to become more socially responsible?
If your company is hemorrhaging cash, money is not moving; deals are not closing, you have no idea what the business should create next or if you have merely 'been there and done that' chances ARE you are NOT EVEN THINKING OF THINGS like social responsibility.
When I first speak with someone, I get into the back-end of the company. I want to know your numbers. I want to know precisely where all stands. That way, success is measurable and quantifiable.
I love helping businesses become more lucrative and contribute in the way they intended; I love it. I love working with money and numbers.
WHY? I love what money propels in a business when it earns more than ever thought possible.
Why? The more solvent and lucrative a business is, the more the owner and its partners may be creative. Moreover, if it is all managed well, the more these individuals are free. Free to be who they are and free to give more in the areas they are most passionate.
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In the financial arena, the numbers are the interpretation of value. Even if your businesses are netting a profit of 10 million and you want to gross 12 million but, there always seems to be a stumbling block, and you miss the mark…there is a reason behind this.
Numbers are not emotional, but it is the emotion or feeling that you project onto those numbers that make them what they appear to be.
If you, your partners, your employees are distracted in some way, the hard-wiring that is causing these certain chemicals to flow; IS what is keeping you in the same 'thinking feedback loop' without even knowing it.
What do I mean by 'same thinking feedback loop'? The bullet points listed BELOW UNDER EXAMPLES – it's not the first time that these circumstances have happened; it's a pattern. That pattern gets bigger.
How do I know it? The circumstances become substantial, and the consequences are even more significant.
When someone says to me, "It is NOT about money, " I pause, reflect and think to myself, "Oh,Yes it is!"
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What do numbers tell me?
1) Lack of clarity with them results in a lack of transparency across the board in business.
2) Avoidance of numbers, things get avoided – in other words, you attract in 'avoidance' in your business – loss of opportunities.
3) People pleasing, care taking of your business associates that are not holding up their end of the bargain, somewhere there will be debt – and it can be the kind of debt associated with the descriptions above.
4) I find that if an individual, business or company has stopped growing, inventing and creating new platforms, personally as well as, professionally, the numbers get stuck.
DISTRACTION (in particular with relationships) IS A DEBT – TO YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS. That distraction, whether personal or professional, may appear in the form of 'hiding behind someone,' obsessing about a partner, arguing, take care of, or not being truthful with who you are and your intentions.
For example, one of my clients was one of the Partners for Aardex. A sustainable green commercial developing company; who built hospitals and intuitions out of green material.
I worked with the owner because one of his projects was stuck. It was a hospital project, a multi-million-dollar catastrophe, and he couldn't figure out why. It was also, in the media. It was the first time; their name was tarnished. I won't go into the detail of it but, the bottom line, the partner overseeing this project was 'hiding a lot' of personal information. Therefore, he attracted 'hidden circumstances,' that affected the business, no mystery a multi-million-dollar mess – the numbers don't lie.
Secondly, the owner is one of the most honest and straightforward people I've ever met; however, he 'took care of' partners a bit too much. For example, I found out there was a partner that was on the verge of being fired because he was $400,000 in debt to the company – the numbers don't lie.
I met the partner and convinced the owner to allow me to work with him; I identified what pattern caused him to 'snag chemically.' The bottom line, he swore he would never become like his father, a white-collar worker, his passion was extreme skiing; and here he was doing what he swore he would never do. He was hugely self-debting, and it showed up in the numbers.
Once I uncovered all of this, within six weeks of working together, he was scheduled to close between 4.2 million to 7 million on his deals. His deals closed at five million, paid the company back and bought the company from the owner. He owns it to this day.
After he bought the company, he curtailed it to better suit his needs. Now he gets to do both, extreme ski and earn money doing what he loves to do.
4) If there is an addiction to substances, to lying through omission, or not being true to yourself, the company may be extremely lucrative BUT, the company will 'feel off.' Therefore attracting more 'off' experiences, and this may happen BOTH personally and professionally.
After, targeting what's stopped the cash flow by identifying where the pattern starts, I am easily able to quickly turn things around and get into the invention and development phase.
Leaping over limits and growing beyond what you thought possible is exhilarating!
Because you have an entirely new chemical flow, that feels otherworldly.
It is – otherworldly – it is your FUTURE WORLD.