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A few people in tech had amazing 2011s and they've started the new year with a bang.
Some are working on incredibly innovative ideas and we expect their companies will continue to grow leaps and bounds this year.
Others are preparing to go public by the end of 2012.
We compiled a list of 11 sure-fire people to follow who will undoubtedly make headlines in up coming months.
Ben Milne, founder of Dwolla
Dwolla is an alternative payment network to credit cards. Milne, who is just 28 years old, founded the startup in 2008 out of a frustration with credit card fees.
Before Dwolla, Milne ran an e-commerce business for speakers. He says he lost about $55,000 per year to Visa and MasterCard and it made him feel robbed.
Milne set out to side-step credit cards completely. Now Dwolla links directly to bank accounts and makes sending money as easy as selecting a Facebook friend. Just type how much money you want to send, write in the name and email address of the person you're sending it to, and they'll be able to receive your transaction.
You can only send as much money as you have on hand. Dwolla doesn't take a percentage of your transaction, like PayPal or a credit card. It just asks for 25 cents for any transaction over $10.
Milne has received a lot of interest for Dwolla from both users and investors. Milne will likely be announcing a fresh round of financing soon (he's only raised $1.3 million to date and Betabeat reports a rumored new round of $10 million). He's had so many investors contact him that he has to keep a 700-name spreadsheet to manage the process.
Users love the product too. In July, Dwolla was processing $1 million per day. It moves between $30 and $50 million on month at a rate of more than $350 million per year.
With momentum like that, you can expect Milne to continue doing great things in 2012.
Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp, co-founders of Pinterest
"I haven't seen growth like Pinterest's since Facebook's early days," investor Jeff Jordan told us when he wrote the startup a $27 million check in October.
Pinterst which was founded in 2010, experienced explosive growth last year. "What Tumblr was to 2011, Twitter was to 2007, and Facebook was to 2006, a site called Pinterest is to 2012," Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson wrote.
That's because in one week alone, Pinterest scored 11 million visits. Monthly pageviews are rumored at more than 1 billion.
Pinterest is doing all that with a relatively small team too. With the fresh infusion of $27 million, it should be a fun year to watch founders Silbermann, Sciarra and Sharp.
Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski, co-founders of Codecademy
Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski were classmates at Columbia before they were accepted to startup accelerator, Y Combinator.
They pair came up with the idea for Codecademy, a crash course in JavaScript for the tech novice, when Sims grew frustrated with his lack of coding skills. "Paul Graham (of Y Combinator) always says to build something for yourself so that's what we did," Sims tells us.
The founders are in their early 20's and this is their first real company but they're making a big splash. They raised a $2.5 seed round and already have about 1 million people using the product. Even New York's mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged to learn to code using Codecademy this year.
Sims and Bubinski will also be working with the White House on an initiative to get more children and adults to learn to code.
Paul Berry, founder of Rebel Mouse
Paul Berry was the long-time CTO of The Huffington Post.
Last week he announced his resignation. Berry was heavily recruited by other tech companies but he ultimately left to start a company of his own, Rebel Mouse.
Berry hasn't revealed much about Rebel Mouse except that it will be a social platform and he's working with The Huffington Post's cofounders Ken Lerer and Jonah Peretti.
Given the track records of all involved, you can bet Berry has something good up his sleeve.
Jonah Peretti, founder of BuzzFeed
Until recently, Jonah Peretti's BuzzFeed seemed to be all LoL Cats and cute animal pictures. But the viral site wants to make itself more than just catchy -- it wants to become The Huffington Post 2 and a credible news source.
Peretti, who co-founded The Huffington Post, is setting himself up to have another successful venture on his hands. He just raised $15.5 million last month to start buffing up the editorial team, and we expect to see Peretti transform BuzzFeed into a news juggernaut this year.
Dave Morin, founder of Path
Dave Morin was an early Facebook guy who left to start his own company, Path. One month after its launch, Google reportedly tried to buy it for about $100 million. Morin turned down the offer.
The startup struggled for the remainder of 2011 until it relaunched in November. The relaunch, a beautiful, tight-knit social experience on mobile devices, was met with praise by media. People have been flocking to download the app.
As of this month, Path crossed the 2 million download mark. Path attracted more users in one month after its relaunch than in its entire its first year.
If Path can stay sticky, Morin's second try at Path might be something special.
Kevin and Julia Hartz, co-founders of Eventbrite
Eventbrite has been around for a while, but it just finished a really big year.
The company expanded internationally and closed a $50 million round of financing. It sold about 10 million more tickets this year than it did last year and it just introduced an off-line way to sell event tickets via iPads.
Co-founder Kevin Hartz has said his ticketing company, Eventbrite, may be eyeing an IPO. It could file as early as 2012 if it "continues to perform to very lofty expectations," says Hartz.
Kevin Rose, founder of Oink
Kevin Rose is best known for founding Digg but he has since gone on to start another company, Milk.
"When we raised the $1.5 million for Milk, we told investors we were going to try a couple of big ideas. Some might work, some might not."
The first thing Rose tried was an app called Oink. Oink is a mobile app that lets people review items in stores, like a restaurant's hamburger rather than the restaurant itself.
Within its first week, Oink was said to have 100,000 downloads. It will be interesting to see how Rose grows Oink and other Milk products this year.
Sarah Lacy, founder of PandoDaily
Sarah Lacy left TechCrunch earlier this year to start a tech blog of her own. Last week she unveiled PandoDaily and announced the participation of former TechCrunch writers Michael Arrington, Paul Carr, MG Siegler and Farhad Manjoo.
Lacy also hired three more staffers thanks to $2 million in funding from Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Matt Cohler, Josh Kopelman, Zach Nelson, Andrew Anker, Saul Klein and Chris Dixon, Greylock Partners' Discovery Fund, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Accel Partners and Menlo Ventures.
Lacy was a star editor at TechCrunch and has a bunch of the big-name writers on board at PandoDaily. Given their industry connections, PandoDaily is sure to make a name for itself in the tech blogosphere in no time.
Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer, co-founders of Fab
Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer realized their startup, Fabulous, was a failure at a party last year. They flew to London expecting to throw a rager for their site, which offered daily deals for gay men.
Instead, they found themselves in an empty club -- no one showed.
Goldberg and Shellhammer went back to the drawing board and launched Fab, a flash sales site for interesting nick knacks and funky home decor in June. Since they they've been the talk of New York.
New users are piling on in the hundreds of thousands per month and the founders say they're generating more than $200,000 per day in sales.
Fab raised a $40 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz in December. It just made its first acquisition and launched in the fashion sector two weeks ago.
Goldberg and Shellhammer say they have big plans for the company in the up-coming months. We hope their 2012 is as exciting as their 2011.
Kevin Ryan and Susan Lyne, CEO and chairman of Gilt Groupe
Kevin Ryan isn't exactly a rising tech star. He's had a number of Internet successes, the most notable being DoubleClick in the early 2000s where Ryan was CEO. But one of his new ventures, Gilt Groupe, is positioned to have an awesome year.
Ryan co-founded Gilt Groupe in 2007; he was one of the first entrepreneurs to create a successful flash-sales site. Since then, Gilt has expanded into a number of verticals including fashion, travel and home.
Although the company just layed off between 50 and 60 people, we're told it was in an effort to make Gilt cash-flow break-even by the second quarter of this year so when the company does go public, it will be profitable.
Susan Lyne, the company's chairman, told Bloomberg about Gilt Groupe's exciting 2012 plans:
"We are looking toward the end of this year (for an IPO), the beginning of next year, and really this is part of a process we've been monitoring for years now."
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Have you ever seen a t-shirt -or any piece of clothing, for that matter- you actually like, yet thought "there's no way in hell I'll be able to pull that out, like, ever"? Well, dear reader and fellow self- conscious individual, you are not alone. This is how I felt about many pieces of clothing... Continue Reading →
The Trench Trend
One of my biggest pet peeves is not knowing which jacket to wear when it's not cold but not hot outside. Doesn't this annoy the eff out of you as well? If your answer was yes, then allow me to introduce you to each other: trench coat, meet stranger. Stranger, meet trench coat. I guarantee... Continue Reading →
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This is a beautiful card that is blank on the inside. It is puuurrfect for the crazy cat lovers in your life! On the front is a picture of a fully awakened cat and on the back is the program of how to get there! You too can glean this wisdom and work on each step until you are living each moment in a most pawsitive and purrfect vibration!
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In August, 2013, a small team travelled to the village to work with the village chief on setting up and testing a ram pump, an exercise which gave the village an excellent introduction to ram pumping technology. RAM pumps use water pressure to pump a portion of the incoming water to a higher altitude and, used in the right location, can be a tremendous labour saving device which requires no electricity and little maintenance.
For more info on ram pumps please see the Wikipedia article on ram pumps.
Here is our daily log:
In the morning we headed up to Guangzhou by train to meet our third team member, Jason, an engineer from the North of China, who is our new Water Projects Coordinator. After meeting Jason, we boarded the Guangzhou-Kunming train.
We arrived the following day in the late afternoon and stayed one night in Kunming, before heading to World Vision Kunming office to collect a donated water pump.
The pump we collected from World Vision was a Green and Carter ram pump, which uses water pressure to power the pump rather than electricity. This type of pump can be used near a river to supply water for domestic or agricultural use.
Collecting the pump
After collecting the ram pump we went straight up to the village area, bringing with us a quantity of donated clothing.
Leaving with a vanload of donated clothing
Another village house with rainwater collection
Walking into the village, we saw a recent installation of guttering on a house, with the work carried out by the owner of the house, the former village chief, using our method and materials we supplied. This former village chief worked with us previously to become familiar with the process, and is now able to carry out this work without any assistance. While we will still sponsor materials, we can see that the process of "teach a man to fish" rather than give him a fish is working well.
We spent the whole day walking through the beautiful forest surrounding the village, pushing a surveyor's wheel as we walked to measure the distances to each of three springs. We checked the flows from the springs and had ample opportunity to get updated on the water supply situation in the village, which has improved but is still serious and needs further improvement-.
We spent the day setting up a demonstration installation of the donated RAM pump. In the morning, we headed to the nearby town to purchase materials and worked all afternoon with several villagers, in a shady area which sloped down from the spring we used to supply water for the pump.
By 7pm the pump was running, and the sturdy Green and Carter pump was pulsing away pumping water uphill.
The Green and Carter RAM pump in operation
The RAM pump fully installed
With the pump now operating correctly, the next step was to head to Wuding, a town around 2 hours away, and do a presentation on the ram pump at the World Vision office there. The World Vision team provided a warm welcome and a delicious lunch, and enthusiastically took notes as I shared material on RAM pumps, much of it taken from a UNICEF publication entitled "Use of Hydraulic Rams in Nepal".
Nepal has abundant water resources and high mountains but poor electricity supply, making ram pumps a viable water supply solution for communities located uphill from a river. For very little cost, and with no use of electricity, water can be pumped directly into a storage tank in a village, saving a huge number of man hours spent carrying water. This translates directly into economic benefit for the whole community due to time saved.
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'Barça Dreams' is the third international cinema project by Jordi Llompart, as a director, executive producer and screenwriter. In 2010, he already produced and directed the first 3D fiction feature film in Europe, 'Magic journey to Africa', winner of the Gaudí Award 2011 for the Best Special Effects and the Innovation Award 2008.
Llompart has also directed and produced the first documentary for IMAX® theaters in Spain, 'Mistery of the Nile', and several documentaries, such as 'Journey to Arabia', 'The nomad experience', 'Asha, daughter of Ganges' and the recently-delivered 'The end of the big cats'.
As a journalist, Jordi Llompart directed and hosted the Daily News for more than 12 years and the TV shows 'Versió Directa' and 'Fem Empresa', at the Spanish TV channels TV3 and Canal 33. He also produced and directed the documentary for TV 'The Vanishing Past'.
In the course of his career, Jordi Llompart has also collaborated with several media groups, such as the newspapers 'La Vanguardia', 'Avui' and 'Tiempo', and the radio stations Avui-Cadena 13 and Catalunya Ràdio. He has also written some divulgative books, such as 'Seres y estrellas'.
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The nervous system is very often intimidating, mysterious, complex and often poorly understood so an element of our role is to scatter this misconception for other health professionals and patients alike.
We aim to provide specialised, responsive, sensitive and seamless service that promotes self-management and self-referral. As nurses in Neurology we advocate the promotion of patient independence and continue to mobilise the necessary resources in order to achieve this. By encouraging patients to either participate in their management they become empowered with a sense of control which in turn facilitates the psychological adaptation to their Neurology disease. Alternatively when the need for intervention occurs as some patients are not willing or able to adhere to rigorous management plan their support network can be enhanced to include family, community and hospital support.
Team and patient relationship should be an active, collaborative partnership in the treatment and decision process, which should continue where possible along the disease trajectory.
Self Efficacy is defined as a persons judgement/ability to organise and implement a course of action necessary to accomplish a task and as all patients with new Neurology diagnosis are required to adapt a new behaviours in order to cope with some of the limitations their condition may enforce on them, it is important that they are involved in all decisions in relation to Rx's etc were made. Adherence and psychological adjustment then became an issue. Patients need control over some decisions and need to be able to make informed decisions regarding their treatment choices or not ad still require the support when the treatment options are declined. Our role is ever changing with each individual patient across the continuum. Ultimately we endeavour to provide quality care with the patient's best interest foremost to enhance quality of life.
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Reprinted with permission from Unifor Local2003E. The reasons to Organize a Labour Union in your workplace become obvious when you view them beside your rights without a Union. The chart below shows the glaring differences of your rights in Ontario. Most people are shocked to learn that they don't actually have any rights without a […]
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SNAs 42nd LAC will be held at the JW Marriott in Washington, D.C., located on Pennsylvania Avenue in our nations capital. This prestigious venue provides easy access to Capitol Hill and the areas renowned monuments. The hotel is just three blocks from Washingtons Metro system.
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The Crown Jewel of Pennsylvania Avenue since 1850, the name Willard has epitomized the grand hotel concept in the nations capital. Today, the Willard continues the tradition in landmark style. Located just two blocks from the White House and the National Mall, the hotel is convenient to many must-see sights, shopping and restaurants.
SNA Discounted Room Rates:
JW Marriott: $279 Single/Double; $309 Triple; $339 Quadruple
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Dont delay! Rooms are issued on a first-come, first-served basis. SNAs discounted room block will be released February 7, 2014, but may be sold out prior to that date. Room rates do not include a 14.5% city tax per room, per night.
To take advantage of the conference rate, you may make your reservation online for the JW Marriott or the Willard InterContinental (use Group Code J76). You also may make your reservation by phone. Call (800) 393-2503 for the JW Marriott or (888) 424-6835 for the Willard. Be sure to inform the agent that you are with the "School Nutrition Association" so that you may obtain the special conference rates.
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I'm not a fan of creamy pumpkin soups so this one has no dairy but still tastes great! The roasted veges make it hearty. I prefer to use a potato masher cos you can still get chunks of roasted vegetable flavour but you could use a stick blender.
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We've been having a few conversations about gutter guards lately, so we thought we'd devote a post to helping you understand the benefits of Flo-Free nylon leaf guards. These are some of the best leaf guards in the industry because they help solve some of the biggest problems that leaf guards usually create.
What are these problems? There are several of them:
- Leaf guards that allow small debris (like pine needles) to pass through the system and into the gutters, which means the gutters still have to be cleaned.
- When gutter guards continue to allow debris into the gutter they then have to be uninstalled and reinstalled so the gutters can be cleaned, which is a pain.
- Leaf guards that shield the gutter so much (gutter covers) that water can't even get into the gutters.
- Some gutter guards solve most of these problems but are made of cheap materials (foam) so they don't last more than a year or two. Picking wet foam out of your gutters isn't much more fun than picking wet leaves out.
So how do Flo-Free gutter guards solve all of these problems?
First, these fit right into your gutters like foam gutter guards do, but they don't rot. That's because they're made out of 100% industrial nylon which lasts for 25 years.
Furthermore, the only thing capable of passing through these gutter guards is water. As you can see on the photograph, the holes just aren't big enough to let so much as a single pine needle through.
That means they actually keep you off of your ladder. They just need their surfaces cleaned every spring and every fall (obviously they don't work so well if they've got a bunch of leaves blocking them). This means they really are capable of saving you a lot of time and a lot of headaches.
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Hardwell continues to dominate the dance music landscape after the sensational 'No Holding Back' with Craig David caused seismic shifts in the scene this month. Next up on his hit list is the lethal new dance floor cut 'Going Crazy' with Dutch titans Blasterjaxx, further proving his ability to collaborate with some of the most diverse and forward-thinking artists around the globe.
#RvC Ask: Ben Gold
The anthem for A State Of Trance 750 this year is from one and only Ben Gold. During his tight schedule, we sat down with him to talk about the anthem.
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Colosseum Club once again hold Armada Night on 29 July 2016. We sat down with one of the artist, Alexander Popov. Check out the interview below!
Xenia Ghali is owning Summer 2016 by placing herself among some of dance music's hottest properties. After topping the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, garnering terrestrial, digital, satellite and Internet radio play, and still climbing the UK's Music Week Dance Chart with her song 'Under These Lights,' the rising star unveils this exhilarating new music video.
#RvC Ask: Sneijder
On 22 July 2016, we were so lucky to sat down with Sneijder before his performance at Colosseum Club. He talked about his new track with The Noble Six and his label, Afterdark. Check out the interview below!
Joey Dale makes his triumphant return to Revealed Recordings with young hot shot producer Ryos alongside singer/songwriter Tony Rodini. Delivering an explosive radio anthem titled 'Armageddon', the track is set to make its mark on the scene in the coming months whilst becoming an excellent new addition to the Revealed club-dominating arsenal.
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Family Tree Template
Students Make a Family Tree with Simple Templates
Students can download the template to their computer and then add the names of their family members in the ovals.
To add a name, students simply right click in an oval and select 'add text' (Microsoft Word).
The document is in landscape layout, but space is limited and students may have to use smaller font sizes to fit some names.
Family Tree Template - For Microsoft Word
This family tree template is made for Office Word.
This one uses the "smart Art" feature.
Boxes can be added or removed and the whole tree and fonts will automatically resize themselves.
Additionally different tree colors and shadings are available to customize the appearance.
Download the template and click in a box to access the "Smart Art" tools.
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There wasn't an air fryer category before Philips. Yes, that is right. Philips the huge electronic conglomerate actually invented this segment of the market. So we can all thank them for the creation of the amazing air fryer devices.
So while Philips may be the original you do have to wonder…is it the best? Sure it seems to have all the celebrity endorsements, but really that just means they have the biggest budget..right?
Actually, we were quite pleasantly surprised to see that Philips not only created the original device but they have been consistently able to deliver high-quality devices moving forward. Actually the original Air Fryer is still a great option for those who want it, but honestly, you are better off taking advantage of the added value brought to you by the new Air Fryer features.
The HD9240 is one of the top options for air fryers on the market. It has a large basket able to hold about 2.65 lbs of food (about the size of 2 bags of fries) and able to cook it to perfection with little to no oil. Personally, I prefer to add a tablespoon of oil depending on the amount of food I'm trying to cook. I find a little bit of oil goes a long way in getting my desired results. I recommend you experiment however to find your perfect results.
Beyond the large capacity bin, the fryer has a useful 60minute timer (some of the competitors for some reason only give you 30minutes), temperature controls up to 390 Fahrenheit, an easy to use digital touch screen display, and non-stick pans for easy cleaning.
- 2.65-pound capacity (about 2 bags of fries)
- Temperature Control up to 390 Fahrenheit
- 60-minute digital timer
- Digital Touch Screen Display
- Non-Stick pans for easy cleaning
- Dimensions (LxWxH): 315 x 302 x423 mm
- Dishwasher Safe
- Material: Plastic:
- Weight: 29 lbs.
- Non-Stick Pans make for easy cleaning
- Able to cook thoroughly and evenly
- Very easy to use digital display
- Looks good in the kitchen
- Non-Stick coating could be better, wears off over time
- Many other XL models from other companies come with bigger capacity
- Priced higher than most of the competition
Watch the Philips Air Fryer XL 9240 in Action!
Summary – 9.5/10
The Philips Air Fryer line is one of the oldest and best options on the market. We love the features and polish of the HD9240. It gives us all the features we need and provides consistently good results. The price though is a bit higher than most people's budgets however, so if that is the case for you, you might want to look at some of the other models in the line such HD9220 or HD 9230. Of the two, the HD 9230 is the closest although it comes with a smaller basket.
However, if you have the money and are looking for a great fryer that will last you for many years to come, you simply cannot go wrong buying the Philips Air Fryer XL HD9240. It will keep with all your cooking needs.
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Lee Willis
Lee Willis, Senior Vice President and Executive Advisor, is a founding partner of Quanta Technology (2006). As Senior Vice President, Lee oversees Quanta Technology's growth plans and leads its strategic and technology development efforts. As an Executive Advisor, he works on projects in delivery planning, aging infrastructure, load forecasting and regulatory defense of capital construction projects and budgets.
Areas of Expertise
- Spatial Electric Load Forecasting
- Electric Delivery System Planning/Integrated Resource Planning
- Aging Infrastructure Analysis, Strategy and Planning
- System Hardening and System Resiliency Improvement
- Regulatory justification of utility capital expansion plans and project need
Past Experience & Background
- Forty-six years of experience in the electric power industry (1969-Present)
- Vice President, T&D Planning and Analysis, KEMA (2004-2006)
- Vice President and Chief Engineer, ABB Consulting (2002-2004)
- Vice President, Distribution Systems Solutions, ABB (1998-2002)
- Deputy General Manager, ABB Systems Control, SCADA and EMS (1994-1997)
- Manager, T&D Software and Services, Westinghouse/ABB (1986-1993)
- Senior Consultant, Westinghouse Advanced Systems Technology (1980-1985)
- Chairman, ERCOT Transmission Reserve Planning Committee (1977-1980)
- Various positions including apprentice line worker, Houston L&P (1969-1980)
Accomplishments & Industry Recognition
- National Research Council, advises DOC/Congress on technology (1999-2005)
- IEEE Life Fellow, elected Fellow in 1992 for improvements in planning methods for power systems
- Former chairman, IEEE Power System Planning Committee
- Former member for power systems, National Research Council
- Seven published books including the Power Distribution Planning Reference Book
- Fifty-nine papers published in peer-reviewed and refereed technical journals
- BEE – Rice University (1971)
- MEE – Rice University (1972)
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Leisuresec stands out from the crowd of manned security companies by focusing on our staff; their recruiting, screening, training and monitoring.
Don't just take our word for it though; our services, policies and procedures are externally audited every year to maintain our quality accreditation, ISO9001 and our SIA Approved Contractor Status.
Careful recruitment & selection
- Traditional & online recruitment allows us to access more candidates from your local area.
- Using innovative technologies we can select, induct and deploy relief guards in minutes; and their SIA licences are automatically checked daily.
Implementing tailored training & development programmes; run by industry accredited trainers
- We provide bespoke, site specific training. We'll work with you to design a programme tailor-made to fit your security needs.
Using a variety of methods to continuously monitor security performance
- Guards' performance is monitored against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs); activities are tracked in real-time using the FocalPoint security app.
- Our Quality Compliance team make regular site visits to check performance, service levels and provide support.
- We provide body-worn cameras where requested by the client or as the risk assessment dictates. In addition to deterring criminal activity, they demonstrate the quality of service Leisuresec guards are providing.
- We listen to and act on feedback from everyone involved in our services; conducting Customer Satisfaction Questionnaires (CSQs) at a time to suit you, speaking to the general public and our security guards during site visits and providing a channel for anyone to comment through our website.


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Data.gov started almost four years ago with a simple idea—opening up government data helps citizens make better-informed decisions and empowers businesses to be more innovative. In the years since then, Data.gov has grown from 47 datasets to 400,000, from a few agencies to 180, and from providing only the data to also providing context, community, and conversations around the data.
The new Executive Order and Open Data Policy are ground-breaking in their requirement for agencies to open up new data and information, present those in human- and machine-readable formats, and will help to usher in the next stage of open data innovation.
We are seeking your great ideas and constructive criticism as we move forward to the next phase of Data.gov. We want to scale up the quality and quantity of data, be more helpful to American businesses and entrepreneurs looking to use government data and research, more clearly support learning in classrooms, get government data in front of researchers and journalists, and bring the power of open data to American citizens.
- What can be done differently and better to make open government data more useful to you?
- What features do you want to see?
- What topics are missing or incomplete?
- What ways can we better connect with your community?
It's all about getting you to the data you need as quickly as possible in a variety of machine-readable formats with better search, more APIs, easier ways to share data, more data resources federated. You've told us via forums, list serves, hack-a-thons, blogs, and meetups around the country that we need to have more and better capabilities for developers and innovators. We are listening.
So, what's new and different?
Search. We've taken a lesson from other open data sites, and built our new catalogs on a great tool, CKAN. This new catalog harvests data from all the US federal agencies, as well as other organizations that are part of the government geospatial community. The improved search lets you search and browse options from simple keyword search to filtering and faceting by tags, formats, publishers, and locations. The geospatial search allows you to draw your own custom bounding box. Found some great data? You can save and share your search results via each dataset's persistent, unique URL for linked data fans and easy reference by researchers and data journalists. Check out a sneak peek at our new combined catalog. You can compare this to the old separate catalogs for "raw" and geospatial data. We are finalizing a few things on the catalog, so let us know what needs to be different. Need local data? Check out the data published by Cities, Counties, and States.Data.gov.
APIs. What is the most often heard phrase at meet ups and hackdays? "Give me an API and get out of my way." We hear you. As more and more agencies launch developer portals, an API catalog is under construction to provide an automated, filterable catalog of all APIs across government. While leaders like the Labor Department and Census Bureau already offer a range of advanced APIs, we recognize that other agencies are newer to this. To help, we've been scaling out a range of tools and resources to empower all federal agencies to adopt an "API first" model that will grow ever more quickly the web services that developers can use to further their innovation. The new catalog comes with a full RESTful JSON API to all metadata fields so everything in the web interface can also be done via the API (from search queries to downloading data files).
Data publishing. Soon, gone will be the days where agencies have to input their metadata into a Data.gov form or send over a spreadsheet (yikes!). Later this month we will start harvesting JSON files from agencies that are publishing catalogs.
Data pages. We are running through some options for new designs and formats to enhance the usability on the site, including the pages for the datasets. We'll open these ideas up to you as they evolve, but stay tuned for suggestions developers have given us to show what is related to the dataset you are viewing:
- News results
- Related datasets
- Ideas from you on how to use the data and comments about the data
- Apps and services that are using that dataset
- Questions and answers
Open source. Data.gov has also gone open source. Want to download and use the code or, better yet, contribute extensions, code, and ideas? Jump over to Github and start hacking. You'll notice multiple forks here contributed from our international partners in open data as part of the Open Government Platform (OGPL). The Government of India contributes a Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 code base, Canada is contributing their Web Experience Toolkit, and the Open Knowledge Foundation in the United Kingdom provides CKAN 2.0. You can contribute directly to one of these code bases, to OGPL overall, or create a new fork.
Open questions. We are encouraging the government data owners to chat with you in a new Open Data community at StackExchange (coming next week) and talk about and improve the quality of the data. This way, questions about open data also become a form of the open data itself.
So if you're passionate about the possibilities of open data and what new frontiers need to be explored or what barriers need to be demolished, share your ideas publicly or one on one! We will be launching some new features this month and throughout the summer and fall as we hear back from you. Help us put the data to work. Data liberación!
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This is Alena Rust with, we think, Edwin Coriano. But this casual pose stands in contrast to their booking photos, snapped after they were arrested on charges related to the sexual trafficking of a woman against her will.
Rust's pic is included in the following roundup of June 2014's most memorable mugs. See all 23 below and be sure and click on the captions or links to check out our original coverage.
Read more in "Reba Doyle gets jail time, probation for baby slap caught on video." Read more in "Update: Jack Elway tore out some of girlfriend's hair and extensions, police report says." Read more in "Report: Teens Brendan Johnson and Cassie Rieb burned, tried to dismember his grandma's body." Read more in "William Macumber, convicted killer freed by justice project, back in jail for child sex assault." Continue to see more of June 2014's most memorable mug shots. Read more in "Will juvenile lifers get a reprieve? Inside Colorado Supreme Court hearing." Read more in "Gloria Suazo, ex-cop, allegedly breaks bad in a big way -- as a heroin dealer." Read more in "Nicholas Davis, aka 'Infamous,' one of five charged in crack deal ending in murder (3)." Read more in "Update: Johnnie Duran, eighteen, surrenders in hit-and-run death of his own uncle." Continue to see more of June 2014's most memorable mug shots. Read more in "John Brothers, ex-pastor and teacher, convicted of sex assault on twelve-year-old boy." Read more in "State Patrol denies hyping mega-drunk Keith Kilbey into a stoned-driving poster boy." Read more in "Photos: Dave Nazeri still in coma after hit-and-run involving teen on learner's permit." Read more in "Dennis Willmore, sex offender, busted for first of two kidnapping tries in same area." Continue to see more of June 2014's most memorable mug shots. Read more in "William Lornes's conviction -- and how a lottery ticket helped bust kidnapper for murder." Read more in "Kings That Reck: See 15 places hit by one of the busiest Colorado burglary crews in years." Read more in "Lea Porter disappearance: Chris Waide busted on suspicion of sex assault, murder." Read more in "Did media frenzy over Emily Johnson murder lead to Lorenzo Montoya's dubious conviction?" Continue to see more of June 2014's most memorable mug shots. Read more in "Was Occupy Denver bustee Michael Clapper just along for the ride in kidnapping, sex assault?" Read more in "Bradley Oglethorpe, sex offender, busted after returning to crime scene: a women's bathroom." Read more in "Police killing of Raymond Garcia justified despite 17 shots fired, 7 hits, DA says." Read more in "Jeffrey Warkocz, Colorado Springs cop, busted for drug felony and more." Continue to see more of June 2014's most memorable mug shots. Read more in "Jaacob Vanwinkle to enter guilty plea in murder of mom and two kids, rape of surviving teen." Read more in "Neil Cleary, DIA employee, on why he surfed for child porn at work: 'Getting old sucks.'" Read more in "Alena Rust and Edwin Coriano busted for sex trafficking after prostitution sting."
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ty-lot wrote:Sick bro
AudioTruth wrote:Everything I buy from other brands break after a couple years, this is because they are only interested in making money. I'm only interested in long-lasting eargasms.
big_dave wrote:Hark at this boy and his "we".
He was Welsh yesterday.
Bill Swansea wrote:Spot didn't record Double Nickels did he?
Awesome_Komodo wrote:Both albums sound terrible, but Zen Arcade sounds less terrible because it's more straightforward music and Spot couldn't fuck it it up.
Double Nickels On The Dime is way more creative, but Spot's production is more apparent and worse. Way too tinny sounding.
whoisalhedges wrote:New Day Rising > What Makes a Man Start Fires
AudioTruth wrote:Everything I buy from other brands break after a couple years, this is because they are only interested in making money. I'm only interested in long-lasting eargasms.
Dee Wig wrote:You'd have to be straight-up out of your goddamned mind to think Robocop was crap.
whoisalhedges wrote:What Makes a Man Start Fires? > Double Nickels on the Dime
New Day Rising > Zen Arcade
Double Nickels > Zen Arcade
New Day Rising > What Makes a Man Start Fires
DregsInTheCrowd wrote:
Ethan James recorded it, not Spot. Also it sounds awesome.
Zen Arcade does not.
Zen Arcade wins.
Suddenly there it was, on a rack up front. It was called Zen Arcade, whatever that heck that meant. I picked it up and, hey, what's this, it's a double album! As a teenage punk rocker weaned on Black Flag and Minor Threat, with a rather one-dimensional appreciation for music, the very weight of the thing, together with the heady title and the washed-over, almost Impressionist cover art was intimidating. It seemed so arty and grown-up. It also made me curious. What was this strange record?
What it was, and what it remains thirty years later, is the greatest indie-rock album of all-time; if not, in my extraordinarily biased opinion, the greatest album of all time, period.
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The last few days I've been inspired and made a few radical and exciting changes to WeddingInviteLove:
- Portfolio images are now first in profiles, since the design work of the vendors on WeddingInviteLove should be number one! I'm really excited about how this looks — a screenshot of the switched placement of the description and image can be seen above.
- The profile's sidebar is a'changin' — as seen above, links are now located on right right, but most importantly, vendors can now add their real address and their phone number. Upgraded accounts also don't have to choose between one extra URL on their profile, and instead can add both a "blog" and "online store" link.
- WeddingInviteLove is now using Typekit. Skolar Web is now used heavily around the site, and it is a seriously gorgeous font. Props to Typekit for making the system so easy to use.
- New icons everywhere! Seriously cuter. Check them out.
I think those are the major changes of note — I still am adding a few new awesome additions to the profile pages, looking forward to announcing them too!


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Vancouver, BC – December 16, 2011 – The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada today announced the appointment of Mr. Kasi Rao and Dr. Joseph Wong as Senior Fellows of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. They join seven other Senior Fellows in lending their expertise to the Foundation.
Mr. Kasi Rao is a consultant who provides strategic guidance to public and private sector organizations on matters pertaining to higher education, government relations, business development, and policy issues, with a particular focus on India. He also serves as the Senior Advisor on India at the law firm of Bennett Jones LLP. Mr. Rao has an M.A. from the University of Toronto and a B.A. from the University of Waterloo, with a major in Political Science.
Joseph Wong is Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, where he is also the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Wong has been a visiting researcher and fellow at Oxford, Harvard, Seoul National University, among others. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001, and his Hons. B.A. from McGill in 1995. Professor Wong's current research focuses on innovation, poverty and health in developing world settings.
A biography of each of the Senior Fellows is available here.
About APF Canada
The Asia Pacific Foundation is an independent resource for Canadians on contemporary Asia and Canada-Asia relations. As a national not-for-profit organization established by an Act of the Federal Parliament in 1984, the Foundation brings together people and knowledge to provide the most current and comprehensive research, analysis and information on Asia and on Canada's transpacific relations. It promotes dialogue on economic, security, political and social issues, helping to inform public policy, the Canadian public and Canada's Asia practitioners. The Foundation is funded principally through an endowment from the Government of Canada and by corporate and individual donors.
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Hi everyone, this is Esateys.
I've missed you! I actually haven't been in front of the camera for over a week. We were traveling and had some things going on with family, so it's been a little difficult for me to actually get here. And, I was going to speak from my Waking Up E page about electro-smog, you know dirty electricity which is a really, really important subject. And I will do that this week for sure. But, with the whole Las Vegas thing that occurred, I've really had a lot of things going on, so I'm going to be really transparent here today. I'm going to maybe be a little more out-there, if that's possible.
I just want to share some things with you. So, back in the 80's, I kept having these thoughts, and almost like visions, of things occurring in the world. And these things that are occurring now are those very visions. All of the many things that are happening in our world today, were things that I was perceiving long ago. Everything from the earthquakes to the volcanos, to people literally running for cover and covering themselves up. And at the time, since that was a pretty long time ago, I was somewhat disturbed, and I thought it was probably just some weird thing. But here, all these years later, I'm actually seeing and feeling what it is that is happening.
It's like it's really come true. And these things that came to me before were not things that I asked to see, these visions if you will, that I had at the time. And I never really wanted to think that any of that would be so, but what I'm experiencing now is that it is happening. So, I have really tried to do my best with staying very centered in the world, and staying in the business mode, and all of those things that I do. But occasionally I just can't help myself.
I have to speak about things that I know from a deeper level, if you will. Or, from a more macro view if you will. Because I know a lot of people right now are really traumatized everywhere in the world. I mean, we can take everything from Hurricane Irma in Houston, to the hurricanes that have occurred in Florida, to the Puerto Rico people as a result of Huricaine Maria , to now, the Las Vegas event.
All of these things are really confusing and terrifying many, many people. It's like people are becoming very traumatized, and I am a very empathetic person. So, that means that I feel a lot of things that happen on the planet, and frequently before they happen. One time back in the early 80's, I was at a Padre game in San Diego, I lived in San Diego, and I was in that stadium, and I remember so clearly having this wave go through me of some kind of terror that was going on for people. And I felt explosions and I felt all these different things. And I had no idea what was happening, now I'm just in the middle of watching a baseball game. And the next morning I heard on the news about Saint Helen's erupting and all of the traumas that occurred with that.
I could tell you a whole bunch of things that happened around that, but the point of this is that because I am very empathic, and because I feel these things, I just needed to share with all of you who are in my heart about the different things that I'm understanding. In fact, when I tune-in, it's like I want to cry myself about the things that are occurring. And yet, from a bigger viewpoint I see it very differently. So, I'm here speaking about it from a real, third-plane viewpoint. It looks horrific, it feels scary and terrifying and horrific. And I know that many of you are in a really difficult place about what's happening, especially those of you that are either in Vegas, or know people that were at the concert with all of that shooting that went on.
One of the things that I do is, you know me with my HELO, well, there's a call every morning at 7 am with Jeff Giammalva who is with World Global Network, that is so powerful, it's very profound. It's not just about business, it's about personal development and all that and I never miss that Monday through Friday. Today when I went on, of course the thing was "Pray for Las Vegas" up on the screen. And he actually didn't have the call, he spoke for a few moments and said, I am going to cut this short because my daughters know people that were at that concert. And, they didn't know whether they were alive, or what was happening with the friends. So, you can see that we're all so very closely connected. You've all heard that one-degree of separation, or three-degrees of separation or whatever it is that little separation is. It's not very far. You probably know somebody who is in Vegas or has been in Vegas, and this is something that we're all affected by. So, if what you're hearing you think other people would like to be hearing, please share this.
You can share it right now, and you can also make comments or likes, or whatever it is you feel drawn to do. Because, I really would like as many people to know about what's going on to the degree that I know it, and share that with you. We'll see how comforting, or not comforting it may be for people, because it doesn't eliminate the fact that people are dying. People are suffering. People are having the perception that they're having. But here's where the piece that gets a little bit tricky, and some people may just want to hang-up on me so-to-speak right now, because I'm going to speak about this from a little bit different perspective.
The perspective is, that the world is in its perfect place, it truly is. And one of the things that we don't frequently recognize is that, we as a collective, are really empowering so much of what's happening on the planet….pretty much everything. So, as you can see, there's a lot of negativity, a lot of fear, and what's happening is it's compounding on itself.
Now, all of this is in perfect alignment with the evolution and the cleansing. This planet is cleansing itself. She is a live, living organism, and she is cleansing herself through some of these natural disasters. Well, in the midst of all of that, of course a lot of lives are frequently extinguished, at least temporarily. So again, it depends on your belief system but if you believe in more than one lifetime, then you know that you're just, you know, recycling to get another body. If you don't believe in that, then it could be very traumatizing.
So, a lot depends on how you're perceiving what's going on, which is true for every area of your life. It's not what's happening, it's how we're framing what's happening. it's how we're perceiving what's happening. It's how we're going to decide what we're going to do tomorrow or in the next hour, because of what's happening.
Let's start with some of the gifts. Look at how people are coming together. Look at what's happening to our lives as a group, if you will, as a whole social whatever. What's happening is that people are actually opening their hearts, they're opening their homes. In Vegas this morning, people were saying come, you can be in my hotel room, come to my house. People were coming from everywhere to try and support all of the things that were occurring. So, people are really tapping into their heart-center and realizing that we need each other. We need each other. So, there's a message in all this: that what if we didn't wait for disasters to occur for us to be there with each other? To help, to extend a helping hand. To be more kind, to be more compassionate. To be in a place where we're seeing things differently than perhaps we ever have.
So, it's one of the gifts. Another gift is that literally as we clear off parts of the planet through the fires, for example. I know it seems really awful, but the planet gets to recycle that and use the burnt trees and thing like that as nutrition for the soil. And it will rise again, it will. It will. So, you're going to have an opportunity to decide for yourself, how do you want to be with this? Now, from an even more macro-view, let's look at the evolution of mankind.
Our world is a world of polarity. We know that we have high/low, yes/no, up/down, black/white, we have two eyes, two ears, we have two arms, two legs. We have two, it's a binary system. So, based on that, what's occurring is we have, for lack of…I'm gonna get philosophical here for a minute so bear with me…we have the positive, if you will. And then we have the negative. Well, this isn't unusual, we know it's true with magnets, we know it's true with all of electro-magnetics and all of those kinds of things. So, when we look at that from a bigger viewpoint, what we have is, we have all of the "positive things," and we have all the things that are a different frequency that are a lower frequency. So, we have higher and we have lower frequencies going on.
Well we as a collective, are living here, we are feeling positive. And when that occurs, because the desire of the planetary energies if you will, is about to constantly be more in-balance, or one to usurp the other. So, when things start really opening up, and things become really positive and there's a lot of great things in the world…..eh, here comes the lower frequency to come up and seemingly try to match that or usurp that. And, that's part of what's occurring. And what that does, that conflict creates change. The conflict creates breaking free of old habits, of ways that we have been living. Ways we have been thinking, ways that we have experienced our lives with each other. And that is the gift. That's a gift.
Have you ever noticed that humans in general, they don't usually move too much unless you put a cattle-prod on them? We kind of go with the, pain will be my best motivator, kind of thing. Well guess what? If we don't move because we have desire for change and a commitment to be the most we can possibly be, we get the cattle-prod. And that comes from traumas, disasters, things that are going on that are really challenging for us as our mortality is threatened.
It's important to recognize that there are no accidents on, or off the planet. There are no accidents. Things are happening from a bigger viewpoint that are allowing us to come together more as a unified connection point, if you will. Or as a community or as a society. It's the rub that's causing us to reach out or think differently. It's bringing appreciation for many, many people. I've been saying this for many years, and I'll bet you if you're watching this right now, can say this and I invite you to say this every day: my worst say is someone else's wildest dream. "My worst day is someone else's wildest dream." You realize how true that is?
Do you recognize that no matter what you're going through, even if you happen to know somebody over there, it's still the wildest dreams of somebody who is laying in a trench dying of starvation? Everything is relative, everything is relative. And your inner deep belief system is going to create you being able to see these things from whatever viewpoint you do. And if what you're feeling is tremendous sadness, then that's ok. There's nothing wrong with that, and it's very normal. But, what I support you in doing is just rising up a little bit higher and seeing it from a bigger viewpoint. And ask yourself the question: what's great about this that I haven't seen yet? What is great about this that I haven't seen yet? Because many times, we don't see the gift until after the smoke clears, no pun intended. And that is something, that when you start utilizing that as a way of life, then what's going to occur is, you're going to be able to experience whatever is occurring, differently. And then you'll be able to help other people experience it differently.
That's how we will all be able to move through and rise above, so-to-speak, some of these things that are going on. So, I want you to really consider that we have many gifts that are occurring, and that we don't know what we don't know. We don't know what we don't know. We have very, very, very minute vision. We have like blinders on, you know from every little area. Because, we are in a position on this planet, living this lifetime, in a way that doesn't allow us to see everything most of the time. It doesn't mean you aren't capable of doing that.
I've been gifted, or, sometimes it doesn't seem like a gift, to be able to see things from a bigger picture. And it doesn't mean that you're cold or you're harsh or you're unfeeling. It means you see that, and your heart is compassionate for the awareness that you have in that moment. But, it also is going to be able to get you to a place where you have the ability to move up. Because, the only way you're going to help other people in the world, ever, is to have your attitude, your vibration, your mindset, in a place that is a more elevated place. Because, being in the trench does not help anyone else get out of it. Being in the trench does not help anyone.
It does not mean you don't feel your feelings, it does not mean that you don't experience what's going on inside of you and you cry your tears, and your heart goes out, but don't become a victim. Don't allow yourself to think the world is happening without your permission. We are all a part of what is happening, and those are things that you can contemplate. So, I could go on and on, but I want you to know that you are greatly appreciated, and I really appreciate the fact that you are here with me right now. I want you to know that I'm an advocate for you. I'm an advocate for you feeling totally joy, and experiencing life from a perspective that will allow you to be successful in your relationships. In your body. With your health. With your business. With your children. With how much money you are making. With everything that comes across your plate, because it's one big adventure. And you never know what the menu's going to read on that day until you're eating it, 'til you're in the midst of it.
I'm here and I'm very caring about what's going on for you.
So, until next time, know that you are cared for. I'm an advocate for you. Who can you go out and be an advocate today? Who can you go love on today? Who can you feel such appreciation for today? Let me tell you, the world needs you. The world really needs you right now. Until next time, much love . Feel a hug.
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A full pre-purchase survey will cost you somewhere between £400 & £700; if the survey is out of the water it will also cost between £100 & £200 docking charges depending how the boat is taken out of the water - dry dock and slipway are generally cheaper than a fixed crane. A mobile crane that has to be brought on site may cost as much as £550 - be wary, sometimes the price quoted is one-way only i.e. £300 to take it out & £300 to put it back in.
The level of survey is your choice. It can be a full pre-purchase survey of the whole craft, or an "in the water" report of the boat interior (internal services and quality of fit out etc.) or an out of the water hull survey alone, or simply an engine report.
If you have specific questions or worries, put the questions in writing to your surveyor before the inspection, asking for specific answers.
Also ask if (s)he carries Professional Indemnity insurance & if (s)he is a member of a professional association. Membership to each association is shown beneath each surveyors name. The list given below explains this further.
YDSA - The Yacht Designers and Surveyors Association. Members have to pass an entry examination and submit reports for approval before accreditation by the Association.
It is important to ask the surveyor what he is going to inspect and what he isn't; what he will do and what he won't do - there is no set routine/format as to what constitutes a pre-purchase survey. Some surveyors will now include the issue of a new BSS Certificate if everything complies.
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The water level in my toilet is too high
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When you notice the water level in your toilet bowl or cistern sits higher than normal, the high water level may be an indication of a bigger problem with the toilet. Several possible problems, all of which you can solve yourself, can cause high water levels in your toilet as well as other plumbing complications.
Possible blockage
If the water level in your toilet's bowl sits higher than normal, the cause may be a partial or complete blockage in the toilet's waste pipe. By pouring a large bucket of water rapidly into the toilet bowl, you can determine if the toilet is blocked or not. If the water drains normally, the toilet isn't backed up. If the water does not drain and you have to stop pouring to avoid overfilling the bowl, the toilet has a blockage that you need to remove.
Partial blockage
Even though you poured water in the toilet's bowl and the water drained, if the toilet does not drain quickly and completely, your toilet u-bend has a partial blockage. When the water level rises to a certain point in the bowl, the water will spill over the top of the bend and flow down the toilet's waste pipe. A partial blockage in the bend will keep the water from spilling over into the main pipe as easily, keeping more water in the bowl than normal. Plunging or even using a toilet auger will clear the partial blockage.
Cistern level
When the water level in your toilet's cistern sits too high, it will regularly splash over the overflow tube. The overflow tube keeps the water from spilling out of the top of the toilet's cistern, draining the water into the toilet's bowl as it comes down the overflow tube. The water level in your cistern should sit about 3 cm below the overflow tube, keeping the water from spilling into the overflow tube unnecessarily. You can lower the water level in the toilet by changing the level of the float. If your float sits on the end of a metal rod, bend the end of the rod down. If your float travels up and down on a metal rod, turn the screw on the top of the float so the float travels down.
Flushing power problem
Changing the water level in your toilet will affect the toilet's flushing power. With less water in the toilet's tank, your toilet will flush with less power. Lowering the water level too much in the toilet's tank will lead to more blockages in your toilet. If you intend to save water, keeping the water level so low that your toilet backs up can lead to more flushing which will negate any water savings. Dual flush toilets offer a way to choose how much water you use with each flush, without risking clogging your toilet on a regular basis.
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Welcome to Project Real Life REDO, a project to re-start the (closed and finished) Project Real Life Workshop with some friends. Project Real Life was a 4Expert course by by Becky Higgins I took care of Big Picture Classes. I'm documenting the class prompts and then I'll include them in my Project Life.
Week 7 was all about Nurturing my Inner Homemaker. My views on homemaking in general were pretty well covered in the Feminism and Homemaking Part 1 and Part 2 post I wrote last year. (Those posts are super long and is also super personal.) So I feel like I have the reflection part down already, and we can roll straight to the prompts:
Front of the house: We've lived in our house, which is over 100 years old, for about two and a half years now. We love it because it has so much character, but also because it's in our favorite neighborhood in our favorite Kansas City district: Westport. There's an adventure around every corner. It also is a plus that is the house is huge for the cost. The same mortgage would get us a house the size of our kitchen + living room in Jake's parent's neck of the woods.
Homemaking goal: I want to get seriously started on gardening so we can eat our own homegrown produce. Obviously I need to weed, and I'm going to till the little bit of land behind the strawberries and tomatoes that you see here.
Homemaking favorite: I love the little decorated spots in my home that are untouchable. They're generally out of reach of Jonas, and are pretty much always clean even when the rest of the house is pretty much always a disaster. It's a place for my eyes to rest when I don't feel like I have anything in the house together. I'm excited that the mantle above was recently reclaimed from Jake and Eliza's lego obsession.
The heart of the home. We have an open floor plan on the first floor, so it's really the whole floor that's the heart. The kids can often be found running / riding in a circle around the floor plan, we might all be spread out between the dining, living, and kitchen areas having a conversation. We're not really a still family unless we're doing a really specific activity (eating, doing an art project, watching a movie, reading books, etc.), so there's a lot of flitting about between the spaces.
The photo is looking in from the dining area (which was made to be a living room) and the living area (which is supposed to be the dining room). You can see the pantry door in the kitchen to the left back there. Also, I made sure not to pick up before these pictures, but the majority of the mess is behind me.
How others help. Eliza's chores are emptying the dishwasher (Jake puts away the things she can't reach) and feeding the cats and hedgehog. I love that she's starting to do these things automatically without my asking. She's taking on responsibility well… with the exception of keeping her room clean. But mine's not clean either, so I can't complain too much.
You, the homemaker. I had Jake sneak up behind me while I was rinsing off dishes last night.
*I didn't share the "you created it" prompt, because I took a picture of the new bookshelf that we still haven't shared. However, there's handmade touches in our house in every single room.
How do you nurture your inner homemaker?
Check out the rest of my Project Real Life posts.
If you're doing a Project Real Life REDO too, head over to Document Life Workshop to link-up and to see what Allie and Alissa are doing!
As I reflected on my home and what it means to me this week, those who have lost theirs and need aid were at the forefront of my mind. If you'd like to help those affected by the Oklahoma tornados, donations can be made through the Red Cross. You can also donate $10 easily: just text REDCROSS to 90999. You can also help those without a home by donating to local homeless shelters or the Salvation Army.


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A Geographical Indication (GI) is an important method of indicating the origin of product or services. A GI aims to promote commerce by informing the customer about the origin of the product. A GI is generally protected on a national basis but there are various international treaties that provide assistance in the protection in a large number of countries.
In general sense, a geographical indication is a notice which states that a given product originates in a given geographical area. For example, the GI champagne is used to indicate that a special kind of sparkling wine originates in the champagne region of France. In India, currently, there are more than 200 registered GIs although the products liable to be registered as GI are much more in nature. But many of the products still face the problem of non-registration. This can be because –
- The idea of intellectual property is not well-known amongst regional products;
- Producers are not able to see value in such indications.
Why should Geographical Indication be protected
A geographical indication is more than just a name or a symbol. They reflect a reputation strongly linked to geographical areas of varying sizes, thus giving them an emotional component. A GI's reputation is a collective and intangible asset. If the GI is not protected, it could be used without restriction and its value would be diminished and eventually lost.
The use of geographical indication by parties who are not authorized to do so is detrimental to the business of legitimate producers and consumers as well. Not only the producers suffer damages as their business is affected, but also the reputation of their product is affected. In many cases, the producers may themselves be prevented from using the indication, if it has been registered as a trademark by a company.
Protecting a GI enables those who have the right to use the indication to take measures against others who use it without former's permission and take benefit from its reputation free of charge ("free-riders").
ALSO READ: Benefits of Trademark Registration in India
Why should Geographical Indication be protected abroad?
Intellectual property rights are governed by the "territoriality principle". This means that the protection granted in a particular jurisdiction is limited to the territory of that jurisdiction only. Therefore, it cannot be protected abroad. As a result, the geographical indication would face the risks usually associated with a lack of protection.
Therefore, the geographical indication product should be protected in each of the markets in which it is commercialized. However, to protect a GI abroad, there may be a requirement to first protect the GI in the country of origin.
How to protect geographical indications inside a country?
A geographical indication can be protected in the following ways –
- Sui-generis legislation– Under this, a state formulates a unique law for the protection of GIs. India has followed this criterion and enacted The Geographical Indication of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999.
- Register of GIs– Another way to protect GIs is to have a register of geographical indications in which information regarding all the GIs can be kept.
- Relying on a law against unfair competition/ tort of 'passing off '– In cases, where separate enactment is not present, the state can rely on the law that prevents unfair trade practices. Unfair trade practices refer to using a product that doesn't originate in the region named.
- Registration of collective marks and certification marks– Unlike individual trademarks, collective marks belong to a group of traders or producers. A certification mark, on the other hand, doesn't belong to anyone and is registered on the grounds that anyone who meets the specified conditions is allowed to use it.
How to get GI protection worldwide?
An applicant who wants to secure his geographical indication protection worldwide can do so in following two contexts –
- Bilateral context – In this context, one country enters into an agreement with another for the mutual protection of their geographical indications. After this, they exchange the list of GIs concerned and thereafter, protection is granted on a reciprocal basis.
- Multilateral context – Under the multilateral context, the registration of GI is governed by various multilateral agreements administered by WIPO and other international organizations. Example of such agreement is the Lisbon Agreement for the protection of Appellations of Origins and their International Registration. Other such agreements are the Paris Convention and the TRIPS agreement.
Where there is a comparison in the two contexts, the bilateral context prevails as registration under an international agreement, and thereby, protecting the geographical indication in the entire member states of that agreement. LetsComply can help you with your IPR registration, including Trademark registration, Copyright and Patent. To know more, call us at +91-9717070500 or send us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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We as humans are not born to LIE. We do not have a genetic disposition to lie. We do not have some inner thing that tells us to lie, when we are born. As we grow and become talkers that is when the lie starts. The big LIE is taught.
As children we learn to lie to get things. Instant gratification. We learn to lie to get out of things. Like trouble, work and doing things we do not want to do. Each generation allows a little more deceit.
God was taken out of the schools. Now there is no moral code against anything. Liars get rewarded. Good kids get ignored.
The moral compass of our country is appalling to think about. The president himself is a liar. So of course why can't little Johnny lie too. A leader of anything whether it is a project at school, work or in the community, does not have to lie. But sadly enough most of Americans have been taught it is okay to lie just a little it won't hurt. What has this done for our young generation.
Come on parents! Practice what you preach. Don't follow the mantra "do as I say not as I do!" Kids emulate what parents are. You want them to be better kids, show them a better parent.


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Storefront Renovation: "Doesn't it feel good to be done?"
If you haven't yet heard or noticed, the Mt. Airy Art Garage received a brand new set of front doors, and we couldn't be more ecstatic. Sure, the old ones had their charm, but these new ones — well, they're truly fabulous and reflect the diverse and talented spirit of our member artists.
With the arrival of this new facade, we've been hearing this question a lot: "Doesn't it feel good to be done?"
Well, why yes, it does feel good to finally achieve our exterior renovation; however, to be honest, we here, at MAAG, are never quite done. While it may seem that the completion of our facade symbolizes the end of our progression, we are far from long-term sustainability. Trust me, we love doing what we do. We love hosting exhibits, events, and programming that makes art a vital and essential part of the community. Just see for yourself a few of the things we've accomplished since the beginning of 2013 besides ushering in our new front doors…
- Remained home to five talented, working-artist studios
- Continued our monthly Jazz Jams, Artists' Breakfast Clubs, and Quilt Clubs
- Boasted talented performers and a packed house at our International Women's Day Celebration!
- Hosted an ol' fashioned and affordable Artists' Garage Sale
- Entertained Liberty City Kings Drag and Burlesque for the Valentine's Day Dance
- Participated in an on-site CultureBlocks Philadelphia discussion
- Offered Live Model Drawing classes, a Plein Air class, and Art for Kids classes
- Painted 25 rain barrels in association with the Environmental Protection Agency and our great community of Northwest artists (ranging in age from 10-85!).
- Became home to the Love, Twelve initiative for cancer survivors
- Become the home for Northwest Community Paint Days for Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
- Hosted several exhibits such as "Faces, Families, and Relationships", "Earth Day Through the Artist's Eye", and "Summer Show Off", our first open call, nonmember show
- Loved every minute of it…
2014 holds even more exciting events already in the works—a city-wide quilt show, film series, and ongoing community partnerships. Yet, at the end of the day, all of this programming costs money, and we're still a young nonprofit doing our absolute best to make it in a tough economy. So, we're asking you to show your financial support and commit to a tax-deductible donation to MAAG.
We've said it before and we'll say it again, without YOU, there is no US. There never has been, and there never will be. We'll show our gratitude on our next project— the MAAG "Thank-You" wall for our gracious supporters.
If you share in our dreams, and believe, as we do, that MAAG is really making a difference, then support us. Donate generously, donate now.


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New Delhi, Feb 3:
With the first full-fledged budget of the Narendra Modi-led government due Feb 28, the prime minister, who is also chairman of the newly-constituted NITI Aayog, has convened a meeting of eminent experts on Friday to discuss the state of the economy and invite suggestions on the upcoming budget.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Planning Minister Rao Indrajit Singh, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha and chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian will also attend the meeting, the Niti Aayog said in a statement here.
The prime minister has also convened another meeting, the first of the Governing Council of the NITI Aayog, on Feb 8, the statement added.
The meeting will also be attended by NITI Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya and full-time members Bibek Debroy and V.K. Saraswat besides senior officials from the Prime Minister's Office, the NITI Aayog and the finance ministry.
The governing council meeting is expected to provide suggestions on setting efficient processes and mechanism of interaction between the Centre and the states, the statement said.
"A core objective of NITI is to strengthen cooperative federalism. Hence the consultative meeting with the CMs of states and lt. governors, which was convened by the prime minister on Dec 7, 2014, has played an important role in shaping the objectives, functions and structure of NITI," it added. (IANS)


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At the New York Botanical Garden's 2011 Orchid Show "The Orchid Show: On Broadway" (Bronx, New York)—March 4, 2011
orchid bento
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This turned out far fancier than I intended. The local grocery store was having a sale on edible flowers (.50 for 6 orchids, ridiculously cheap!), probably for wedding season. This orchid is more beautiful than anything I could make, so I thought I better showcase it.
Try as I might, I can't bring myself to eat it. I'm going to take "edible" as "safe to touch food" and floated it in a crystal bowl of water instead.
Orchid Bees on Coryanthes speciosa
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Orchid Bees – Euglossa tridentata (Euglossini) on Coryanthes speciosa, Hickatee Cottages, Punta Gorda, Toledo District, Belize
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Top Pharma companies are normally celebrated for marketing strategies and marketing acumen. But when they are compared with top marketing leaders like Google, they are almost nothing. You have to be extra innovative and creative to stay ahead of market. Marketing begins with product promotion and ends with huge sales and revenue. The perfect example is Google and Yahoo.
The foremost thing for getting successful in Pharma marketing is to choose target group wisely. For different products, targeted audience is usually different. In other words, different marketing efforts are required for different industrial sectors. Top Pharma companies have to be innovative to catch up the market trends.
- Pharma Marketing Companies should constantly try to improve their products and delivery systems like Google
- Find effective ways for converting traffic into potential clients to increase your overall revenue. You should know the tricks how to engage your targeted audience.
- Take help from professionals for converting your old system into new ones and increase the overall effectiveness of delivery system.
Why big Pharma rocks, becomes a lesson for small Pharma industries. Make your audience more informed and knowledgeable through effective drug administration and medical reports. The only solution for big Pharma companies is either they should adapt or die. There are plenty of business examples that were failed to adapt and finally they were out of market. They were overtaken or dominated by their competitors because o wrong marketing tricks.
This is the reason why you have to be extra cautious when choosing some marketing technique for your organization. Analyze big successful domains and especially your competitors closely and take wise decision at the end. Pharma Marketing Companies India, beware, same can happen to you. Be active, innovative and smart to stay ahead of market and increase overall revenue and profits for your Pharma business.


text: Bring your kids to the Disneyland might be one of the best time in your life. It is really a magical place which can let your kids never forget the journey with their favorite Disney characters. Disneyland Park is the first of two amusement parks assembled at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened on July 17, 1955. It is the main amusement park planned and constructed under the immediate supervision of Walt Disney. Its name was changed to Disneyland Park to recognize it from the growing complex in the 1990s.


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