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hostage-taking 101: time is not on your side! — especially when your confederates chase different goals, expect different ransoms, serve different masters and respond differently to stress. should the theatrics play out too long, hands at each others' throats may be your only reward ...
salon: appearing on MSNBC on friday, congressman peter king continued his epic verbal assault on ted cruz — and, to a lesser extent, rand paul — by describing the texas senator as a "RINO" (republican in name only) and a "fraud."
speaking with MSNBC's andrea mitchell, king called the ongoing government shutdown "the strategy of ted cruz" and wondered aloud "why more republicans around the country didn't join me in denouncing ted cruz" before the shutdown began. "we cannot allow our party to be taken over by the likes of ted cruz and rand paul," king continued, describing cruz and paul as "isolationists" and "RINOs" who "don't represent traditional republican principles."
"ted cruz, what he did here, was lead the party into a dead end with no strategy, somehow convincing a number of house republicans that we just sent this to through senate as far as defunding and closing down the government, he would manage to get harry reid and president obama to back down," said king. "he never had a plan. it was fraudulent from the start. and we have to cut this guy off now."TPM: mccain's appearance on fox came shortly after sen. ted cruz (R-TX), the leader of the movement to defund the health care law, spoke at the values voter summit. maccallum asked mccain how he felt about cruz "representing" republicans at a meeting scheduled for friday at the white house.
"first of all, martha, please, he's not representing us there" ...daily kos: [tex rep louis gohmert:] "when it comes to the shutdown that's going on, i heard just before i came some senator from arizona, uh, a guy that liked qaddafi before he wanted to bomb him, a guy that liked mubarak before he wanted him out, a guy that's been to syria and supported al qaeda and rebels, but he was saying today the shutdown has been a fool's errand. and i agree with him. the president and harry reid should not have shut this government down!"TPM: tensions are flaring between house and senate republicans over how to defuse the crisis ahead of an oct. 17 debt ceiling deadline. house GOP members expressed concerns during a private saturday meeting that the senate GOP would undercut and jam them by striking a deal with president barack obama that conservatives dislike.
... "they're trying to cut the house out, and trying to jam us with the senate," a fired-up [WI rep. paul] ryan told reporters after the GOP meeting. "we're not going to roll over and take that."breitbart: on his radio show on friday, fox news host sean hannity said house speaker john boehner (R-OH), along with the rest of the republican leadership in the house, had to be replaced.
"i do think leadership in the house needs to change," hannity said. "i don't think john boehner is equipped for the job. i don't think he has the stomach to negotiate. i don't think he has the ability to communicate the positive, solution-oriented vision for the country."
... he said the GOP has a "communications problem" that has been reflected in the party's bad poll numbers.
hannity also ripped republican leaders in washington for "alienating" the tea party. hannity named senators like john mccain (R-AZ) and bob corker (R-TN) for being the top offenders and said their "unwillingness to stand strong" and constant bashing of the tea party is "irritating every conservative i know."AP: "we're not saying obama is right. we're saying what republicans are doing is wrong," said matt cox, a former executive director of ohio's cuyahoga county GOP.TPM: erick erickson, prominent conservative blogger, said on his blog friday that he will be donating to the primary opponents of house speaker john boehner (R-OH) and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell (R-KY) because of the way both leaders are approaching negotiations on the continuing resolution and debt ceiling.
"republican leaders in washington, DC are signaling they will cave on the fight against obamacare," erickson wrote. "GOP leaders, by caving, are signaling they want us to primary them."
erickson blamed the GOP's sinking approval ratings on boehner and other republican leaders.
"[n]ow that john boehner and the orange man group of capitol hill are the faces of the GOP, obamacare's popularity is going back up and the GOP's popularity is going back down," erickson wrote.redState: but john boehner, eric cantor, mitch mcconnell, and john cornyn will ensure that obamacare is fully funded and give the american public no delay like businesses have.
in doing so, they will sow the seeds of a real third party movement that will fully divide the republican party.washington post: conservative groups that advocated for a standoff spoke openly about their motives. at a breakfast with reporters wednesday, michael needham, chief executive of the conservative group heritage action, freely admitted that he was "pretty optimistic" that we will soon see a crackup of the old republican order.thinkProgress: as the government shutdown enters its eleventh day and the nation races towards a possible default, a growing number of republican lawmakers, leaders, and voters are publicly blaming congressional republicans for the budget impasse. ...
"it's time for someone to act like a grown-up in this process," former new hampshire gov. john sununu (R) told the associated press. michigan gov. rick snyder (R) agreed, remarking on monday that "this is not how we should operate. it shouldn't be about people fighting and yelling.' "the bottom line is we need that money in our economy to save rural hospitals and jobs in the rural areas," arizona gov. jan brewer (R) told the arizona daily star on thursday, criticizing the GOP'e effort to defund the affordable care act.
the criticism comes as an associated press-GfK poll released wednesday showed that "three-quarters of republicans nationally said their party in congress deserves a moderate degree or most of the blame for the shutdown" ...
in yet another sign of trouble for the GOP, business interests are also showing signs of discontent, signaling a possible rift with republicans ahead of the 2014 mid-term elections.
iowa republicans "are recruiting a pro-business republican to challenge six-term conservative rep. steve king (R), a leader in the push to defund the health care law," the associated press reports and party establishment leaders in michigan are threatening to recruit and fund challengers to rep. justin amash (R) and other tea party aligned candidates.TNR: "the business community has got to stand up and say we are not going to back the most self-described conservative candidate. we are going to back the candidates that are the most rational," says john feehery, a former aide to delay and hastert who is now president of quinn gillespie & associates, a washington lobbying firm.
what washington business lobbyists say on-the-record about the house republicans and about tea party activists pales before what they are willing to say if their names aren't used. one former republican staffer says of the anti-establishment groups, "they want to go in and fuck shit up. these non-corporate non-establishmentarian guys — that is exactly what they are doing. and the problem with that is obvious. what next? what happens after you fuck shit up?"
conservatives went looking for fresh plunder from the administration in a raid that was supposed to pit republican vs. democrat — not GOP vs. GOP and certainly not along every conceivable fissure:
house vs. senate.
extreme vs. moderate.
upstart vs. established.
ideology vs. money.
anarchy vs. order.
none of them came prepared for a suddenly resolute president or a unified party behind him. no one expected to run into a veritable stone wall — against which the GOP, to its own horror, seem incapable of thwarting the urge to batter itself delirious, in what historians might one day call the "republican war into irrelevance".
Saturday, October 12, 2013
not the civil war they dreamt of
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What does it mean when you dream about a bride?
In Jungian psychology, dream images of a bride or bridegroom may embody the anima (in males) or the animus (in females). Traditionally, brides symbolize purity and innocence. Beyond the obvious meanings of a spouse or spouse-to-be, a bride or a bridegroom can also represent someone else with whom we are in a partnership (e.g., a business partner). (See also Marriage.)

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I wrote this poem for Four Directions Hiking about the dog I took hiking last week, Rodriguez.
Have you ever met a shelter dog who speaks right to your soul
With fur as dark as starless nights and eyes as black as coal
A dog who walks with authority and was born to lead a pack
Whose steadfast gait on rocky trails shows he's got your back
A dog with ears skyscraper tall and snout cucumber long
Whose presence makes you want to dance and bust out in a song
A dog who is a little shy but comes out of his shell
Whose only need is someone who will get to know him well
A dog whose loyalty and smarts denotes shepherd DNA
…If not then you must meet Rodriguez and take him home today!
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Hiking last week
We put a backpack on him with a water bottle on each side to make him feel like he had a job. He did so much better and walked like he had a purpose. Also, we started the hike in the back, but he kept pulling and yelping, so we moved him to the very front and he did awesome. He definitely needed to be the leader.
I had to add this one of Lou Ann, who also hiked with us. Her enrichment person puts these sunglasses on her all the time and she LOVES them. She doesn't try to take them off. It's so funny.
Both Lou Ann and Rodriguez were adopted yesterday. Approximately 200 dogs were adopted at Stray Rescue's huge event over the weekend, including my sweet enrichment dog, Virga!


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Giuliana Rancic opens up about regret of putting off babies
HollywoodNews.com: E! News personality Giuliana Rancic has her first child, but it wasn't such an easy path which she now thinks was in part due to how she put off starting a family.
Rancic opened up about how she sort of regrets pursuing her career more than she pursued starting a family with husband Bill Rancic, states RadarOnline. "I always say how I chased my career instead of chasing guys. No one ever told me, 'Oh, by the way, your eggs change when you reach a certain age,' I didn't think 35 was old!" Rancic said about waiting until 35 to start trying for children.
But it seems that it all worked out correctly as trying to have a child late in life helped her to discover her breast cancer. And eventually, she welcomed her first child with Bill via gestational carrier.
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Correction in OLTAS challan
NSDL receives tax collection data as uploaded by the bank. NSDL is not authorized to carry out any changes in the data sent by the bank to TIN.
The fields that can be corrected by the Taxpayer through Bank are tabulated below
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|Type of Correction on Challan
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|Within 7 days from challan deposit date
|Assessment Year
|Within 7 days from challan deposit date
|Total Amount
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|Major Head
|Within 3 months from challan deposit date
|Minor Head
|Within 3 months from challan deposit date
|Nature of Payment
|Within 3 months from challan deposit date
Note :
- Above correction mechanism is applicable only for physical challans with deposit date greater than equal to September 1, 2011.
- Any correction request initiated by the taxpayer after the time limit specified above shall be rejected by Bank.
- For challans with challan deposit date from September 1, 2011 to September 30, 2011, the time limit for correction in TAN/PAN, Assessment Year and Amount will be within 45 days from challan deposit date.
- The fields that can be corrected and the entity authorized to carry out corrections on challan with deposit date less than September 1, 2011 are as below:
Sl. No. Type of Correction on Challan Performed By 1 PAN/TAN Assessing Officer 2 Assessment Year Assessing Officer 3 Major Head Assessing Officer /Bank 4 Minor Head Assessing Officer 5 Nature of Payment Assessing Officer 6 Total Amount Bank 7 Name Bank
- For rectifications in challans paid through online mode (internet challan) , taxpayer may contact their concerned Assessing Officer (AO) of the Income Tax Department (ITD).
- More details on Challan Correction Mechanism available at http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/_layouts/15/dit/pages/viewer.aspx?path=http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/documents/challan-correction-mechanism-26082011.htm?int=1&IsDlg=1


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Winners of an inaugural arts competition aimed at positively promoting
the Waikato River and its importance to both iwi and community, were announced
at a special awards ceremony on Wednesday 11th June 2014 .
Sponsored by Waikato-Tainui and McCaw Lewis, with the support of Waikato
Society of Arts and Te Awa, 24 finalists were selected for the Waikato River
Art Awards 2014. Artists were encouraged to produce art work that
conceptualised the beauty of the river, either as it is now or as it could be
in the future.
WSA are delighted to have been a supporter of this event and proud to say ten of the works exhibited have connections to the WSA. They are
WSA members: Sue Roots, Darren Wise, Anne Carter Jones, Deborah Forket, Michelle Colson, Alvin Xiong, Sam Timmings.
WSA Artschool Student: Alisha Smart
Previous member: Margaret Stirling
Unfortunately Denise Batchelor was not able to be present at the awards.
The judges were impressed by the standard and variety of work.
The competitions theme - Tooku Awa Koiora: The River of Life, Each
Curve More Beautiful than the Last - is derived from a maimai aroha
(lament) shared by Taawhiao, the second Maaori King and also forms part of the
vision and strategy to restore and protect the health and wellbeing of the
Waikato River.
"We are very pleased to partner with McCaw Lewis to support this arts
initiative," said Taipu Paki, Implementation Manager at the Waikato Raupatu
River Trust. "This is a fantastic opportunity to focus on the Waikato River
through the imagination and aspirations of our artistic communities."
The Waikato-Tainui award went to Darren Wise for his stainless steel art work entitled He Piko He Taniwha.
Tauranga-based artist James Ormsby, who along with renowned carver Fred
Graham and arts advocate Barbara Moke selected the winners, said he was humbled
to be part of the judging panel and appreciated the diversity of the entries.
"The messages in the work are challenging, confronting and honest. It
was as if we were experiencing an ordering of our imaginative order. To see
that process coming through the work that was submitted is very encouraging."
Casey Carsel's digital painting Ocean Tile Triptych won the Youth award.
A total prize package worth over $5,000 was distributed to the winners
and includes a hoe nukenuke by Waikato carver Warren McGrath. An exhibition of
all the selected works submitted are on display at Te Awa and gives the public
a chance to view the winners as well as select a winner for the People's Choice
The exhibition is open to the public in the Atrium at the northern end of Te Awa
(The Base) until 25 June 2014. It is free and open to the public. For more
information visit www.wrrt.co.nz/latest-news or http://mccawlewis.co.nz/articles/news/
or like our Facebook page www.facebook.com/wraa2014.
WSA members Gay and Don Shirley (WSA Executive / McCaw Lewis) with Michelle Colson.
Fog on the River by WSA member Anne Carter Jones.
Alvin Xiong, WSA member and finalist, enjoys the event with friend Phillip Tse.
Youth award category (left) River of Life by WSA Artschool student Alisha Smart and (right) The River by Sam Timmings, WSA member.
Winner of the Tainui Award He Piko He Taniwha by Darren Wise, WSA member.
WSA member Alvin Xiong's work Dancing in the Darkness.
Sentiment / Sediment by WSA manager Michelle Colson.
The price package is worth over $4,000 with four different categories of winners. The overall winner will also be presented with a beautiful hoe nukenuke carved by Warren McGrath.
The exhibition will display art work from an array of
artists, up-and-coming and established, young and old. The judges panel which
will select the winners consists of James Ormsby, Fred Graham and Barbara Moke,
all of whom have prestigious backgrounds in the art world. The judges will each
display one of their own Waikato River art works as well.
The exhibition will be held in the Atrium at the northern
end of Te Awa (The Base) from 11 to 25 June 2014. It is free and open to the public and all
visitors are encouraged to vote for their favourite art work. The winner
of the People's Choice award will be announced following completion of the


text: Computers, Laptops & Tablets Apple How Your Mac Applications Make Use of App Nap to Save Energy Taking a Nap Isn't Always the Best Use of Your Mac's Time By Tom Nelson Writer Tom Nelson is an engineer, programmer, network manager, and computer network and systems designer who has written for Other World Computing,and others. our editorial process Facebook Twitter Tom Nelson Updated November 13, 2019 Apple Macs iPad Tweet Share Email Ever since OS X Mavericks, some of your Mac applications have been taking naps when you're not watching. Apple introduced the App Nap feature to allow for longer battery life in MacBooks, and better power efficiency in desktop Macs. How App Nap Works App Nap works by suspending an app when OS X determines it isn't performing any useful task. The OS performs this magic by watching to see if any app that has open windows on your desktop is completely hidden by other active apps. If an app is hidden behind other windows, OS X checks to see if the app is performing an important task, such as downloading a file or playing music. If it isn't doing something the OS thinks is important, App Nap will be engaged, and the app will be put into a state of suspension. This allows your Mac to conserve power, which lengthens the time your battery will last before it needs recharging, or, if you're connected to a power source, increases the efficiency of your Mac's use of energy. Why App Nap May Not Always Be the Best Thing Most of the time, App Nap can be a powerful tool for keeping a MacBook running when it's away from a power source; even desktop Macs can see less power consumption with App Nap. But it may not always be the best choice, depending on which apps are being forced to sleep. The OS tries not to interfere with apps that are still performing tasks while in the background, but we have sometimes found one of our apps sleeping when it should have been working, thus prolonging a task that should have been completed much sooner. In other cases, apps taking naps have failed to respond to an input they were supposed to make use of, such as an internal timer that tells an app to perform a task every x number of minutes. Thankfully, there are two ways to control the App Nap function. Controlling the App Nap Function Before we delve into how to enable and disable App Nap, it's important to note that not all apps are App Nap aware. Some apps can't be controlled by App Nap, nor will they respond to App Nap's enable and disable commands. Luckily, it's easy to tell which apps are App Nap aware and which ones are not. Disable or Enable App Nap on an App-by-App Basis App Nap is enabled by default in OS X, but there's an easy way to turn App Nap off for an individual application. Open a Finder window, and navigate to the app you wish to disable from napping; it will usually be in your /Applications folder. Right-click on the application, and select Get Info from the pop-up menu. Make sure the General area of the Get Info window is expanded. (Click the chevron next to the word General so it's pointed down.) If there's a Prevent App Nap checkbox present, you can put a check mark in the box to prevent naps, or remove a checkmark to allow naps. If there's no checkbox, then the app isn't App Nap aware. You need to restart an app if you changed its App Nap checkbox setting while it was running. Disable App Nap System-Wide App Nap can be turned off across your entire system. This can be helpful for desktop Mac users, or those who always leave their MacBook plugged in. In those conditions, App Nap isn't a critical power-saving system, and you may prefer to allow apps to run background processes at any time. Launch Terminal, located in the /Applications/Utilities folder. In the Terminal window that opens, enter the following command: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAppSleepDisabled -bool YES You can triple-click the above line of text to select the entire command. You can then copy/paste the command into the Terminal window. Press Enter or Return, depending on your keyboard. The command will be performed, although no feedback about the command's status will display in the Terminal window. When you disable App Nap system-wide, you're not placing check marks in the Prevent App Nap checkboxes; you're simply turning the feature off system-wide. Apps that would have responded to the App Nap feature will continue to do so if you re-enable the App Nap feature system-wide. Enable App Nap System-Wide If you've tried some of our other Terminal tricks, you most likely have already guessed that the command to disable App Nap can, with a slight change, be used to enable the napping feature system-wide. To enable Nap App system-wide, simply enter the Terminal command: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAppSleepDisabled -bool NO Once again, you can triple-click the above line of text to select it, and then copy/paste the command into Terminal. Press Enter or Return on your keyboard, and the command will be executed. Using the global App Nap enable command doesn't overwrite the App Nap settings of individual applications; it simply turns the service on system-wide. Each app can still be enabled and disabled individually.


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Best Places to Work: Intuit, Reno
Since its inception in 1983, Intuit has grown to a company with close to 8,000 employees across five continents, including 11 sites here in the United States. The overarching goal at Intuit is to create financial software that makes life a little simpler, with flagship products such as QuickBooks, TurboTax and Mint. At the Reno office of Intuit — named one of the five Best Places to Work in Northern Nevada — more than 400 employees focus on Intuit Payroll, which offers software support for payroll services.
About the company
"We're the nation's most popular do-it-yourself payroll service, with more than one million small business payroll customers," said Jason Shipp, Intuit Accountant Professionals Manager. "We not only help businesses make money, we also help them pay employees."
Shipp said the primary functions of the Reno site include helping small business owners set up the Intuit payroll program, assisting them through its first use and then remaining available for ongoing support.
"Our tax operations team is also housed in Reno, which allows us to pay and file for our clients using the Full Service Payroll," said Barbara McKinnies, payroll tax operations leader and Reno site leader for Intuit. "In addition to all of that, we have compliance analysts, project managers and engineers at the Reno location focused on payroll innovations and enhancements."
Bringing the talent to life
According to Intuit managers, the task of hiring talented employees for the Reno office is made much easier with the recognition that Intuit is one of Northern Nevada's Best Places to Work — an award the company has received multiple times.
"In software technology, a company's core strength lies in the depth and talent of its team. It's no small challenge to recruit and hire in a field that's short on talent, especially when faced with competition like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and Apple," said Shipp. "As a potential hire for the Intuit Reno office, you are choosing a location in which you will spend most of your life. Knowing that an organization prides itself on being recognized year after year as one of the best places to work in the Reno area lets you know that this company does value its people."
The details of what makes Intuit a great place to work vary from special wellness perks, such as preventive care assessments and healthy cafeteria meals, to an array of employee social events that focus on having fun.
"Site engagement councils help bring these events to life, often partnering with teams across the company and local nonprofits," said McKinnies. "Intuit Reno has a Halloween carnival, annual turkey bowling, Christmas in July to help Veteran's Guest House and an Earth Day Celebration, just to mention a few."
The company also demonstrates a pronounced commitment to community outreach. For example, Intuit is a top sponsor for numerous local organizations and events, such as the Northern Nevada Food Bank, the Reno Tahoe Odyssey, the Great Reno Balloon Races, Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful and more. In addition, Intuit employees are allotted 32 hours of paid time off to volunteer for nonprofit organizations.


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New Jersey Schools Adopt RFID to Secure Their Facilities
The Belleville School District is deploying active tags and readers to track the locations of all personnel and students within its schools and on its buses, as well as at "blue light" telephones on the campuses.
Sep 06, 2013—
New Jersey's Belleville Public School District is implementing an active radio frequency identification solution to locate students and faculty members within its schools, as well as students on its 21 buses. The technology is being implemented as part of an extensive security system that the district believes will make its students and staff some of the best-protected in the United States. The use of RFID, cameras with built-in analytic software, and a new phone system—as well as the posting of armed officers and a new director of security—is intended to prevent tragedies like the December 2012 shooting in Newtown, Ct., and to provide location data for use in generating attendance reports, or during a problem such as a medical emergency or fight.
The solution, which is being installed by Clarity Systems Consulting Group a computer services company located in Mine Hill, N.J., consists of 433 MHz active RFID hardware and software supplied by Wade Garcia and Associates, an RFID systems provider based in San Antonio, Texas. Wade Garcia develops active 433 MHz tags and corresponding readers that operate via the company's own proprietary air-interface protocol.
Bruce Kreeger, Clarity's CTO and president, says the need for RFID became apparent once it was determined that the use of cameras and phones still allowed some vulnerability. For one thing, he explains, cameras cannot always make it possible to identify who is in a particular image. For another, personnel lack the time to scrutinize every photo to determine who is where. In addition, he says, if a shooter were to enter a classroom, the teacher would not have time to pick up a phone. RFID would, however, enable the district to locate any individual in real time, while a "panic button" on a teacher's RFID badge would ensure that a distress signal could be sent quickly.
Therefore, the district is installing 190 readers throughout its schools, and plans to provide RFID tags to its 600 staff members and 4,800 students. RFID readers are also being installed on its 21 buses, each with GPS units to identify the location of each tag read, and to forward that data to the software residing on the district's database via a cellular connection.
Staff members' tags come with two buttons. Pressing one of the buttons, Kreeger explains, indicates that help is required (the software can forward an alert to employees onsite), while the other signals a 911-level event (such as a shooter being in a room), and can also trigger a call to police and other emergency services. Staff members' tags, as well as those of middle- and high-school students, will also come with passive low-frequency (LF) RFID inlays to enable access control. Teachers, for example, could use the LF inlays to enter restricted areas, while older students would utilize the proximity function to access bathrooms. If an excessive number of students attempted to enter the bathrooms, they could be denied entrance. Moreover, the software could identify if the same individuals were repeatedly visiting the bathrooms simultaneously, possibly suggesting a drug-use or fighting issue.
Each active-tag reader captures the ID number of every badge within range, and transmits that information to the Wade Garcia software. The badge's active tag is typically set to beacon its ID number every 28 seconds. In the system's software, a tag's ID is linked to the name of the individual assigned to that badge, as well as to some details, such as whether he or she is a student or staff member—and, if that person is a student, his or her grade level. The district can then log into the software at any time and view the locations of specific individuals on the premises. For example, if a parent arrives to pick up a child for a doctor's appointment, staff members can sign into the software and determine in which room that student is located. Employees can also use the software to ascertain where an individual has been throughout the day, or at any given time within the past 30 days, says Mike Wade, the owner of Wade Garcia and Associates' owner.
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The casino industry is a complex and difficult market. Even very successful casino operators can't rest on their laurels. Other casinos battle fiercely, consistently, and eternally for your customers.
Many casinos realize the power of data when it comes to keeping customers happy. When your competition is right around the block (or right next door), keeping your clientele happy is the key to keeping their business in your casino. Comps and even your location can be matched by the competition. But, your customer service will drive your business and differentiate you from the others. The best way to collect the customer experience data you need is with customer service surveys.
Choosing a research firm to conduct the survey is an easy choice, right? After all, everyone has the same services – just like every casino has the same games. As a casino operator, you know that couldn't be further from the truth. Every casino property is different and must be treated as such when it comes time to deploy a customer service survey.
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Survey: Spam is scourge of messaging world
Just how big a problem is spam? A new survey ranks unwanted e-mail up against other messaging priorities.
Spam -- barely a blip on businesses' radar when researcher Radicati Group conducted a corporate messaging study two years ago -- has emerged as the top priority, according to this year's report.
Sixty-two percent of respondents cited the reduction of unwanted e-mail as a key undertaking. The report from the Palo Alto, Calif.-based consultancy also uncovered figures that show messaging loads spiraling upward.
The average user now receives 81 e-mails each day, and nearly one quarter of them are spam, according to the study. It also found that the average inbox requires 9.6 MB of storage space to handle a typical day's incoming mail. That's nearly double the 5.0 MB cited last year.
"The real cost of spam is in the amount of network infrastructure that gets used up unnecessarily to support 24% of all e-mail," said Sara Radicati, Radicati Group CEO.
The report found that smaller organizations -- which generally have fewer IT resources and less of a budget for antispam software -- bear a bigger spam burden.
Other important messaging initiatives include fortifying security, identified by 30% of respondents, and upgrading messaging software, cited by 28%.
Businesses said they had to fend off roughly 21 virus attacks in the last year, but on average, less than one of those attacks caused significant downtime or damage. The study showed that the more antivirus products an organization has installed, the more secure its infrastructure is.
On the software upgrade front, the Radicati Group found that about one in five shops plan to move to a new directory, and, of those, 64% said they plan to make the move to Active Directory. The introduction of Microsoft Exchange 2003 later this summer, Microsoft's first major messaging server release in three years, will account for much of the new messaging software adoption, said Marcel Nienhuis, the report's author and the Radicati Group's leading analyst for messaging and collaboration.
Of the organizations polled worldwide, 52% said Microsoft Exchange is their primary messaging server, and 23% are Lotus Domino shops. Forty-four percent said they have deployed messaging servers from more than one vendor.
In North America, Microsoft Outlook topped Lotus Notes in terms of overall installed base client adoption, 41% to 23%.
Other findings:
--Outsourced messaging hasn't caught on. The 82% of companies that said they run messaging entirely in house identified loss of IT control as a key inhibitor to outsourcing.
--Seventy percent of the businesses surveyed are running instant messaging. But only 22% have standardized on a corporate solution. Lotus Instant Messaging (formerly called Sametime) leads the corporate IM race.
--Roughly one in five companies has deployed unified messaging, the practice of retrieving e-mail, telephone, fax and other messages from a single source. But they've extended those capabilities only to select workers, largely because of the high cost.
--Only 2.6% of the total work force e-mail population currently has wireless access to e-mail. Another 9.2% are expected to gain wireless capabilities in the next 18 months.
"Corporate Messaging Survey, 2003-2005" polled IT workers and decision makers at 50 companies worldwide; respondents spoke on behalf of a combined 804,827 employees.


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There's nothing quite like experiencing live electronic music: It's a dance-music presentation that goes far beyond the abilities of a mere DJ and brings rock 'n' roll energy to the dancefloor. That excitement permeated the members of Hybrid (Mike Truman and Chris Healings), as well as the clubbers who attended the Welsh group's live performance on Nov. 29, 2003, at New York City's Avalon nightclub. This event was special not only because it marked the end of Hybrid's hugely successful Morning Sci-fi North American tour but also because it was the only stop to feature New Order's legendary bass player, Peter Hook, performing with the group.
Early on, the band fed off the energy from the crowd and shot it right back with the speaker-busting tracks "Visible Noise" and "I'm Still Awake." The live version of "I Will Survive" was a big hit due to the new vibe that tour singer Adam Taylor brought; it also served as a good example of how Hybrid manipulates its album tracks, steering them more into an organic rock-based space for live performance.
Hook made his appearance midway through the set, throwing down his famous bass lines on "True to Form" and "Higher Than a Skyscraper" and just about putting the crowd over the edge. Offering one final glorious moment, the irresistible breakbeat opus "Unfinished Symphony" closed the show. It was possibly one of New York City's best live-music events of the year. The influential UK DJ Pete Tong went on to entertain the Avalon crowd afterward, but he couldn't match what Hybrid had already brought to the table.


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What is passion? The internet suggests passion is "A very strong feeling about a person or thing. Passion is an intense emotion, a compelling enthusiasm or desire for something." I think that definition would apply to the CL7 I have for this feature as Kate's passion has produced it.
Being a girl does not mean you are clueless or pay a shop to do your work and then show off the finished results. Kate has worked hard creating the car you see before you with many frustrations along the way like reaching a point where she wanted to sell the car (we have all been there while building our pride and joy). Finding parts and matching them with her own idea was a long process but I think we can all agree the final look is worth the time, and thankfully this is not the finished result!
There are not many manual Euro R's likes Kate's going around New Zealand which is a good thing since her styling is individualized and sets her apart from the others. Flares and the front bumper work well with car and don't detract too much from the overall angles and body style, however, looking at the car from the rear is where the flares make a more prominent statement, allowing Kate to run some lovely 18×9.5″ wheels with 25mm spacers to not only fill the flares but add some much loved camber to the look. Brembo brakes were added to keep the stopping power sufficient as well as compliment any build with quality while the BC Gold adjustable suspension allows her to change the height to suit the application.
I am told that this iteration of the car is only just the beginning with more parts coming for it like new wheels, a new bonnet, seats and a final fitment of the flares. With these things in mind and the way the car looks now, I can only get more excited to see it with all the new parts on. Thankfully Kate is not someone to do it on the cheap and I think the overall style of the car suggests that with good parts being used on a good car to create a fantastic result. While it may be all style and stance, Kate has been on the track just as a play day scenario which has made her want to get back on there so I doubt we will only see Kate's car parked up at the show and shine.
I am thankful to Kate for allowing me to photograph her car and I look forward to seeing it again once all the parts have arrived and are installed. Keep an eye out for her car at the shows or on track once its done since it will stand out for sure.
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Wells-next-the-Sea is a small working harbour town on the North Norfolk coast, 20 miles from Cromer.
It is no longer by the sea, but on a creek with saltings between the town and the sea.
Today, one of the town's major industries is tourists.
The Embarkment runs for a mile towards the sea, and was built to prevent the harbour from silting up completely. The narrow gauge Wells Harbour Railway runs beside the Embankment path.
As with so many waterside towns, the original settlement is a little inland.
St. Nicholas Church dates originally from the mediaeval period, but was largely rebuilt in the 19th century after a disastrous fire.
John Fryer, one of the men cast adrift from the Bounty, is buried in the churchyard.
Nearby is the Friends Meeting House of 1783.
The Wells and Walsingham Light Railway has its terminus on the edge of the town.
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Looking for a weekly spread? This is one that I designed for myself and really love. I do some variation of this spread most Sunday nights to help me prepare for the upcoming week. I find it quite helpful.
Card #1 – Theme/General Energy of the Week
Card #2 – What I Most Need to Focus on This Week
Card #3 – Challenges That May Come Up This Week
Card #4 – Advice/What Strengths I can Use to Overcome These Challenges
I'll usually lay the cards out in a pyramid-like shape with Card #1 on top and Cards #2, #3 and #4 as the base. Then I'll pull some cards off to the side to look at a couple major areas in my life to see if there is anything going on that I should be aware of. For me this usually looks like:
Card #5 – School
Card #6 – Tarot Business
Cards #7 – Social Life
You could easily substitute things like "relationship", "family", or "work", depending on what major aspects of your life you want to keep tabs on that week. Another options is to look at the "spiritual", "emotional", or "creative" energies of your week. Sometimes I'll even change it up week-to-week depending on what feels like needs extra attention. If a card comes up that indicates a struggle or a conflict in a particular area, I'll sometimes pull an additional advice card if I feel like I need that.
I really enjoy doing this type of reading, it forces me to take time before the week starts to come up with a plan and set some intention. Often I'll sit down with my tarot journal AND my day planner while doing this reading and take an hour or two to get all organized. It makes me feel more relaxed heading into the week because I feel like I'm on top of everything. Also I love planning and I just so geek out on this type of thing. 🙂
I hope you find the spread helpful.


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If there's one celebrity who is nailed the cold-shoulder trend flawlessly then it would be Bollywood beauty Deepika Padukone.Team up your culottes like Deepika in exaggerated Cord off-shoulder top with Tome culottes. Mercedes Salazar earrings and Louboutin pumps felt right for the outfit. Statement accessory made case for a perfect summer look.
Jacqueline Fernandez
Go sexy-glam on a night out like Jacqueline Fernandez. If you love your pencil skirts then this Deme off-shoulder top with Asos metallic skirt as donned by Jacqueline can be your next night-glam look. Adding another interesting element to the ensemble was the plain black choker.
Kendall Jenner
Super-model Kendall Jenner nails this festive look in her cold-shoulder top and thigh-high slit flowy skirt. Heavily accessorized look works well for festivals so next time you plan to head for a music festival then see how you could work a cold-shoulder look just like KJ.
Lisa Haydon
When you have a sexy-bod like Lisa Haydon why shy away from the off shoulder trend!! Keeping it casual-chic in a metallic jogger and a white off-shoulder top Lisa gives us major 'Abs' goal in this ensemble.
Olivia Palermo
Wondering how you could team a cold-shoulder top for a day look this summer then Olivia Palermo gives you a perfect example. Keep it simple with a pair of denim and glam up your day look with bright footwear. Go bare neck and flaunt your collarbone.


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Under the hashtag #StrongInHijab, Islamic supremacists and their willing gophers on the left — middle-class Western feminists — instituted "World Hijab Day" yesterday. In one of the most pathetic and destructive displays of virtue signalling, non-Muslim women were urged to wear the garment of oppression, subjugation and misogyny. While women are fighting and dying for their most basic rights, left-wing goons are working to impose the misogyny of the sharia.
No cares if you wear the hijab. No one cares if you wear purple hair, for that matter. The real world recognition day should be in tribute to women who are forced to wear the hijab, beaten and/or arrested if they don't. World Hijab Day is a stunning indictment of the hypocrisy of the evil left as much as choosing the sharia-promoting, forced marriage advocate Linda Sarsour for their leader. The real "feminists" are fighting for a fraction, a sliver of the freedoms their Western "sisters" enjoy. One campaign fighting against the enforced hijab in Iran set up by Ms Alinejad is My Stealthy Freedom. It is "dedicated to Iranian women inside the country who want to share their 'stealthily' taken photos without the veil," and aims to be a "living archive" of their fight.
As David Kurten points out, punishments for removing a hijab can be brutal – Islamic regimes are known to physically beat women for non-compliance with their dress codes. This is true not only in the Middle East, but increasingly on a local level in the West.
A brave headteacher in a London primary school recently took action to ban children under 8 from wearing hijabs in her school. The school is in an area of east London which has undergone almost total population replacement from white working-class 50 years ago to mostly people of Bangladeshi and Pakistani Muslim origin today. The response of the local community was to organize a campaign of intimidation against her until she backed down.
Remember: this is the country the Democrats are fighting for, opposing President Trump's efforts to stop them from nuclear arming.
Tehran cracks down on hijab protesters: Police arrest 29 women for appearing in public without a headscarf and accuse 'foreigners' of inciting calls to ban the compulsory Islamic dress code
- Some 29 women arrested for taking off their hijab in public in Tehran, Iran
- Police are cracking down on protests, imposing large bails on women arrested
- Vida Movahed, whose protest went viral, was held in a Tehran jail for a month
- Women are protesting the compulsory headscarf, which is religious law in Iran
By Sara Malm For Mailonline, 2 February 2018:
Tehran police have arrested 29 women for appearing in public without a headscarf as protests against the dress code in force since the Islamic revolution of 1979 intensify, Iranian media reported Friday.
Those arrested were accused of public order offences and referred to the state prosecutor's office, Iranian nnews agencies reported without elaborating.
Chief prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri had played down the escalating protests on Wednesday, saying they were 'trivial' and 'childish' moves possibly incited by foreigners.
The original: Vida Movahed, 31, was arrested after taking off her hijab in public and standing on a telecoms box in Tehran in December – inspiring others to do the same
Unprecedented images more than a dozen women of protesting the same way had been widely shared on social media.
Montazeri said those flouting 'hijab' rules – which require headscarves and modest clothing – must have been encouraged by outsiders.
But even religiously conservative Iranians have voiced support for the protests, with many saying that religious rules should be a personal choice.
At least two photos shared on Twitter on Wednesday showed women in traditional black chador robes, standing on pillar box with signs supporting freedom of choice for women.
One held a sign reading: 'I love my hijab but I'm against compulsory hijab.
On Monday, a woman named locally as Nargess Hosseini, was arrested after standing on an electricity box in central Tehran, waving her head scarf in front of her.
Journalist and campaigner Masih Alinejad, the founder of the White Wednesdays and My Stealthy Freedom movements, which fights the compulsory hijab in Iran, has claimed that Ms Hosseini's bail has been set at a record-high level to detain others from protesting.
'While the law imposes a maximum of $12 or two months of jail time, the court has recently asked for a bail of $125,000 to release one of the newly detained women,' Ms Alinejad tweeted Thursday.
A prominent human rights lawyer told AFP on Tuesday that one of the detained women had her bail set at more than $100,000 (80,000 euros).
Ms Hosseini was copying the brave stance of Vida Movahed, a 31-year-old mother-of-one whose protest and subsequent arrest a month ago is thought to have started the movement.
A video showing her calmly waving her white hijab tied to a stick above the crowds in the Iranian capital, went viral on social media.
Ms Movahed, who became known as The Girl In Enghelab Street, was released over the weekend, after spending a month in custody with her 20-month-daughter.
eing brave: Another Iranian woman with bright turquoise hair has taken off her head scarf and holds it out while standing in silence
A young woman filmed during her protest revealed that she was encouraged by passersby, who later helped her and stopped police from arresting her
Copying: A woman as an unidentified street in Iran holds her white hijab out on a stick, mimicking the stance of Ms Movahed in solidarity and to protest enforced headscarves
Thousands of social media users shared messages of support after her disappearance, dubbing her the 'Girl of Enghelab Street' after the area in central Tehran where she staged the protest.
Iranian activists started a Twitter campaign using the hashtag #WhereIsShe, demanding that the government reveal what happened to her.
The campaign eventually went global both on and offline, with protesters at the recent Women's March in the U.S. waving placards with the slogan.
Ms Movahed was protesting Iran's Islamic law, which requires women to wear a headscarf and long clothes that cover the arms and legs.
The Islamic dress code, in place since the 1979 revolution, considers veiling obligatory for any female above 13 in Iran and says they should cover themselves from head to toe while disavowing any figure-hugging dress.
Breaking the rules can result in fines of up to 500,000 rials (£17) and up to two months in prison.
Two for one: Two young women are seen holding out their headscarves at an unknown location in Iran this week
Join the force: After initially being shared by human rights campaigners in Iran, the fight to find out the fate of the Girl of Enghelab Street went global
Support: Two participants in the Women's March in Boston, US hold up placards with the campaign slogan
Reformist lawmaker Soheila Jelodarzadeh said the protests were a reaction to the harsh policies of the past.
'Once upon a time we imposed restriction on women and put them under unnecessary pressure and that provoked these protests with women taking off their headscarves in the streets,' she told ILNA.
'It's the result of our mistakes.'
President Hassan Rouhani, who came to power in 2013 promising a more moderate stance, has previously said it is not the job of police to enforce religious rules such as those forcing women to cover their hair.
But in April 2016, officials said there were 7,000 undercover morality police reporting on things like 'bad hijab' – a blanket term usually referring to un-Islamic dress by women.
Figures are rarely given, but Tehran's traffic police said in late 2015 they had dealt with 40,000 cases of bad hijab in cars, where women often let their headscarves drop around their necks.
These cases generally led to fines and a temporary impounding of the vehicle.
The Girl of Enghelab Street: What she stood for
The woman who took her hijab off in public and waved it like a white flag in central Tehran, was protesting the Islamic dress code enforced on women in Iran.
The woman, reportedly a 31-year-old mother, broke the law by exposing her hair in public, risking arrest and fines.
The Girl of Enghelab Street, nicknamed so because of the name of the road where she took her head-scarf off in protest, has spurred many other women in Iran to do the same.
Missing: The unnamed woman was taking part in a women's movement called White Wednesdays, which protests the enforcing of strict Islamic dress codes in Iran
Since her protest on December 27, she has become a symbol for Iranian women's fight against compulsory hijab, with many sharing the video of her protest on social media and illustrations of her brave stand.
She has become the 'poster child' for the White Wednesdays movement, which encourages Iranian women and those who support their plight to take off their hijab, and was started by journalist and campaigner Masih Alinejad.
White is one of the most common colours of headscarves in Iran, which only allows 'modest' shades such as white, brown or black.
Another campaign fighting against the enforced hijab in Iran set up by Ms Alinejad is My Stealthy Freedom.
It is 'dedicated to Iranian women inside the country who want to share their "stealthily" taken photos without the veil', and aim to be a 'living archive' of their fight.
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Josh's birthday is Thursday, our usual leftover day, so that makes things interesting, meal-plan-wise, this week.
In honor of the insanity that begins tomorrow (25 Days of Holiday Goodies), I'm going to keep this MPM post fairly brief.
Saturday: Thanksgiving leftovers
Sunday: tree-trimming goodies (including several that will appear in the 25 Days of Holiday Goodies mash-up)
Monday: hamburger steak, green veg, roasted parsnips
Tuesday: jambalaya and green veg
Wednesday: pancakes and ham slices
Thursday: Josh's birthday dinner out
Friday: leftovers
Saturday: grilled something or hot dogs
Sunday: roasted something
What is on your meal plan for this week?


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László Fejes
Hungarian photographer
Involved in György Szabados "Body of Work":
1964; 1974; 1981; 1982: Hungarian Jazz History 8 – György Szabados. Famous "Wedding" picture finally used for the Front Cover of the 2001 CD release.
Excerpt from the LINER NOTES of CD:
The music of our CD is based on the LP record titeled "The Wedding" witch was published in the 1970s. The title was inspired by the photo of Laszlo Fejes having the title The Wedding which – first in Hungary – won one of the first prizes of the World Press Photo in Hague in 1961. Owing to political reasons, the photographer suffered a slight for this picture in Hungary. Therefore, though the Szabados record made in 1974 could have this title, the photo was not allowed to appear on its cover, however Fejes exhibited his picture in the Art Gallery of Budapest in 1972. The inspiring photo on the cover of our CD represents a posthumous salute for the world famous Hungarian photographer. Finally, let us quote the words of George Szabados from 1988 remembering his visit at the Art Gallery exhibition where he saw the photo: "d' it was shocking to see it, browse on it, leave it and still see it. And to see it again and again and be happy. Then never had even the copy of it in hand any more, because inspiration has occurred: the vessel of soul was filled with unearthly power not destined for its own purpose. To make itself beautiful. The music sounded inside (of me)"
1982: Szabados – Adyton. Photographer of the picture on the backside of the LP Cover.
The picture was made in 1980, Oct. concert with Szabados Trio at the Contemporary Music Festival, Zeneakadémia (Music Academy), Budapest (HU):
Jazz-hangverseny a Zeneakadémián – Jálics Kinga, Film Színház Muzsika 1980.11.08
Concert from 1985, 14 March, at Kassák Klub, Budapest, was dedicated to the memory of László Fejes
Musicians who contribute as known:
Szabados György – piano
Baló István – percussion
Benkő Róbert – double bass
Gonda János – piano
Bontovics Kati – vocal
Dresch Mihály – reeds
Friedrich Károly – trombone, trumpet
Kimmel László – reeds
Lőrinszky Attila – double bass
Regős István – reeds
and unknown others
Szabaods György: A hitelesség tökéletes csendje [In: Fotó, 1988/7. (július 1.), 292.-293.old.]
Fejes László – a Jazz Forum fotópályázatának győztese [In: Fotó, 1988/7. (július 1.), 296.-303.old.]
FEJES LÁSZLÓ KIÁLLÍTÁSA [In: Film Színház Muzsika, 1984/09/15, 21.old.]
A Fotóművész arcképe [In: Film Színház Muzsika, 1984/09/22, 18.old.]
Article [In: JazzMa, 2015/11/23]


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I like how Rebecca Foster's poppy seed art looks similar to stencilled graffiti. "Each image was made on A0 mountboard and took about 5 hours to create. Additional shading and detail were added as they were being photographed," notes by the artist.[1]
Below: A portrait of Elvis made with crackers and cream cheese by Rebecca Foster.
1. Foster, Rebecca. From an email transcript to Illusion website. Retrieved on July 17th, 2011. Photos and artwork © Rebecca Foster


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NZ Fuel and Electricity Energy & Life Cycle Emission Factors
This paper describes the results and methodology used for determining the primary energy, carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emission factors for New Zealand electricity and fuels. The analysis is based on using life cycle analysis (LCA) methodology so consequently includes all upstream as well as in-use emissions. The results have also been compared to the MED published in-use emissions.
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I like Nigella a lot. Her recipes aren't too complicated and they are always a success. This one wasn't any different. We divided the amount of ingredients by half - as it's only 2 of us here and we used only olive oil for the pesto. This dish is quite quick to prepare and you have only 1 pot to clean afterwards! :) I was concerned a little about all the different textures of potatoes and pasta together but I have to admit it worked well. I liked it a lot and definitely will make it again!
Recipe comes from Nigella's new book "Kitchen" - which is very nice collection of checked, hearty and in most of the cases very quick too, family recipes.
How to make it...
- 500g large floury potatoes, peeled and cut into 1.5cm slices, each slice quartered into chunks
- 500g linguine pasta
- 200g fine green beans, trimmed and cut in half
for the pesto:
- 100g basil leaves (2 fat bunches from the greengrocer, or 4 supermarket packets)
- 100g grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 garlic clove, peeled
- 100ml regular olive oil
- 100ml extra-virgin olive oil
Put the prepared potato chunks into a large saucepan with enough salted water to take the pasta later, and bring to the boil.
Cook the potatoes until tender, about 20 minutes, then add the pasta. Check the packet cooking instructions, and at about 4 minutes before the end of the specified cooking time, add the green beans. If you are using artisanal egg linguine, which takes less time, you will need to alter your strategy.
While this is bubbling away, whiz the ingredients for the pesto in a food processor. Before you drain the saucepan, remove and reserve about 1/2 cupful of the cooking liquid. Tip the drained potatoes, beans and pasta back into the dry pan.
Add the pesto from the processor and enough cooking water to give a runny sauce that coats the strands of pasta as you work it through with a fork or pasta claw. Serve immediately.


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Fantasy, YA | Future Tense | LJ Cohen
Matt is 17, going on 18, and haunted by visions of the future. As a kid, he'd had a vision of a fire, and soon after, his parents had died, leaving him an orphan, in and out of foster homes. Mr and Mrs Powell, who foster other children than Matt as well, are good people, but Matt worries that his visions of death and pain would envelop anyone he cares for—and they would die horribly--and so all he looks for is to 'graduate' foster care when he hits 18. He's trying not to rock the boat.
Then he meets Amara, and Amara's great-aunt. Amara's in his school, and their first encounter is Matt inadvertently and anonymously saving her from a group of bullies. The more Amara tries to understand what Matt is about, the more he tries to push her away. Not that he can. Amara's blind great-aunt reads tarot cards, and sees the 'gift' in Matt.
Now, that's the point at which I would normally flap my hands in exasperation and abandon the book, because, I mean, tarot? One step below astrology, the way I look at it. I mean, I was looking at a fantasy book, not a superstition book.
But LJ Cohen's writing dragged me into the story. By the time this came up, I was totally involved with the characters, and I wanted to know how a happy ending could possibly be pulled out of those dark and dangerous visions. It's a fantasy book, and tarot is just a prop for parts of it. You could replace it with potions if that makes you feel happy. (LJ Cohen later told me on her Google+ profile that she uses tarot as a plot-advancing device and does not advocate it, so there. And yes, that does mean the author is accessible to fans).
Suffice to say that said happy ending occurs, after a breathless rush through a fast-paced story with characters you really care about, credible villains, heroic actions, and suitable comeuppance for the wicked. Which is not to say it's a bloodless story. People get hurt, some badly. It's all very credible and real, and you feel every emotion along the rollercoaster of the story.
Do I recommend this book for young adults of all ages?
Do I, indeed!


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The book «Our Daily Bread - The history of cereals» is a revised version of a book published in Norwegian in 2010.
The world has three great grain cultures: the Asian based on rice, the American based on maize and the Eurasian based on wheat, rye, barley and oats.
In Europe these have divided the continent into three bread zones: wheat in the West, rye in the East and barley or oats in the North. All originated in the Middle East. A few thousand years later they were grown to 70 degrees N in Norway and to 4000 meters in Ethiopia. Which mutations made this possible? What mutations enabled the phenomenal increases in grain production in the 20th century?
Blessing and tyrant
The first chapter in the book sets the tone, and gives the reason why this book is so important:
In spring 2008, a surprised Western media started to report about food and grain supply as news material. Financial newspapers printed report after report about rice farmer welfare in Thailand. Writing about food was no longer tantamount with restaurant menus or new gourmet products.
Sighted investors had noticed that the prices of grain had fallen over many decades, a trend they hoped would turn back. And so, from 2005 to 2008, the world market prices for wheat and corn became tripled, rice quintupled.
How can the world feed itself in 2050 when the worlds population rises to 9 billion, and grains not only must feed us, but also supply raw materials and fuel to a bioeconomy?
Cannot eat money
"Two messages of the book are that we cannot eat money and we do not live from bread alone, but cannot live without it. The book appeals to all involved in crop plant research, production and processing, to policy makers, teachers, students and all those interested in culture and core issues of human existence. [The] enthusiastic, thoughtful, artistic, informative multidimensional (...) approach makes this book unique."
Dr. Axel Diederichsen, in Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 2012
Åsmund Bjørnstad (f. 1951) is a Professor of Plant Breeding in the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås, Norway.


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Course 42
What is Course 42?
According to the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the number 42 is the "Ultimate answer to Life, the Universe and Everything" so this seemed to be a very appropriate name for a course that aims to equip students with ways of dealing with the demands, pressures and opportunities they will face during their time in education and their future roles in the 21st century world. This will include issues related to health, careers, life skills, internet safety, citizenship and society and personal skills.
Course 42 also includes RSE – Relationship and Sex Education which is delivered in Key Stages 3 and 4, closely following the advice of the PSHE association. This enables the College to follow the recent change in government policy where the teaching of RSE is a requirement, and will be statutory, in all schools by 2019. The amendments will continue to allow parents a right to withdraw children from sex education. Relationship and sex education is designed to ensure pupils are taught the knowledge and life skills they will need to stay safe and develop healthy and supportive relationships, particularly dealing with the challenges of growing up in an online world.
In Years 7 and 10 the students have one lesson per fortnight, in Years 8 and 9 there are two lessons per fortnight. In Year 11 the content is delivered on Deep Learning Days. All students will be taught by a range of teachers during the year as the groups rotate.
|Year 7
|Mrs N Bennett
Mr D Walters
Miss H Chandler
Mrs K Needs
|Year 8
|Miss T Mann
Mrs N Bennett
Miss M McConnachie
|Year 9
|Mrs H Elliot
Mrs N Bennett
Mr A Pearce
Mrs K Howden
|Year 10
|Mrs N Bennett
Mrs M Higginson
Mrs K Needs
Mr A Pearce
Mrs H Elliot
Course 42 – Year by Year
Year 7
Friendships, group and team working, global awareness and citizenship, careers, study skills, puberty, safety, making sensible choices
Year 8
Self-esteem and body confidence, social media and relationships, be safe – be assertive, choices and consequences, race, nationality, equality and identity, empathy, study skills, careers, sex and embarrassment
Year 9
First aid, reality v pornography, relationships, making choices in relationships, legal highs, the law, crime and punishment, the government, elections and voting, personal identify and addiction, finance, careers, KS4 option choices, mini enterprise and business.
Year 10
Healthy v abusive relationships, respect, trust and goodwill, exploitation, intimidation and violence
Addiction, legal highs, contraception and teen pregnancy, sexual health, body checks, self-esteem, rejection, resilience.
Careers Education including – CV writing, interview skills, choices at post 16 and preparation for work experience. Finance, budgeting, different types of debt, pay and tax.
Year 11
Grooming, trafficking, internet safety, mental health and well-being
Please note these topics are subject to change according to the needs of the students and external influences


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How does vision determine the size, shape and boundaries of objects in our environment? Research in my laboratory centers on various aspects of visual perception and the visual control of action. Recent research on the visual system has grown into an exciting collaboration among psychologists, physiologists, computer scientists, and mathematicians. My research continues to blur the lines between these fields in two ways. First, traditional psychophysical methods are enhanced using advanced computer graphics and image processing techniques for stimulus generation and analysis. Second, both mathematical methods and computer simulations are used to model the psychophysical results. As much as possible, the simulation models attempt to reflect a feasible physiological implementation, as I have a strong interest in neural network models of vision. Next, I describe each broad area of my research in turn.
Texture and pattern coding. Sometimes when one texture pattern is placed on a background of another, the two segregate quickly and seemingly effortlessly into foreground and background. Other times not. Why is this? What sequence of linear and nonlinear image transformations leads to this variation in texture segregation performance? Our research in this area consists of both psychophysical experiments and computational modeling to determine the details of the visual machinery used to code, interpret and segregate texture patterns. More recently, we have also looked at the identification of shapes defined by texture (e.g., letters) and the estimation of texture properties (e.g., surface roughness) in 3-d rendered scenes. We have examined the cortical coding of 2nd-order patterns by looking for orientation-selective adaptation of cortical responses to 1st- and 2nd-order patterns using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in collaboration with David Heeger (NYU). We have are also exploring a new model we have developed to account for cortical pattern adaptation, which has implications for computational theory, physiology and perception.
Perceptual decision-making. I study how observers make perceptual decisions under uncertainty. Sensory signals are noisy and an ideal observer will combine such signals with knowledge of their uncertainy, prior expectations and knowledge of potential outcome- and decision-continent rewards to guide decisions. We ask whether humans act as ideal decision-makers and, if not, where are compromises made or heuristics used. We have shown that orientation estimation appears to be consistent with the ideal-observer model and that humans use a prior distribution of orientations that matches environmental statistics. We have studied how the decision criterion for a perceptual discrimination is placed as a function of rewards, prior probabilities and changing conditions. We have developed a new model of how sensory evidence is accumulated over time, which has implications for modeling reaction-time and cued-response tasks.
Sensory cue integration. I have worked extensively on the issue of how the visual system combines information from multiple sources or cues. This research has been continuing for a number of years in collaboration with Larry Maloney (NYU), Marty Banks (Berkeley), Wendy Adams, as well as several graduate students and postdoctoral research associates. This work begins by considering what an ideal decision maker would do in such a situation. Human performance in cue-combination tasks is compared to models based on statistical decision theory. In many cases, Bayesian models are used in which it is understood that information sources (visual cues or prior knowledge) are uncertain, and should be combined with reference to the form and amount of uncertainty in each. Our studies have looked at cue combination in the perception of depth from multiple depth cues (binocular disparity, motion, texture, shading, contour, etc.), depth cue disambiguation (in stimuli with contour and shading cues), depth cue scaling (with multiple cues to the viewing geometry, including the possible interaction of the motion and stereo cues to compute the viewing distance) and edge localization (with cues of texture scale, orientation and contrast). More recent work considers multisensory cue integration including vision, audition, proprioception and touch.
Visual control of action. We have also applied statistical decision theory to modeling visuo-motor control. In this research, subjects perform pointing or other tasks under tight time constraints. Subjects earn points (and eventually, money) for fast, accurate performance of the task (pointing at a target region), but lose points if they respond late or point towards penalty regions. By measuring outcome uncertainty (the variance in motor outcome), we can compute the optimal aim point for any configuration of payoff and penalty regions and values. In a variety of situations, subjects are optimal or near-optimal in this task. That is, they earn as many points as would have been earned by an ideal movement planner having the same movement variability as the subject. Subjects appear to have available an estimate of their movement variability and take it into account in movement planning, even in situations in which that variability has been increased (artificially) by the experimenter. More recently we have studied movement planning for reaches and saccadic eye movement using both learning and adaptation experiments to study the coordinate systems in which movements are planned.
Depth perception. I am interested in the details of how the visual system determines depth and object shape using a variety of visual cues. I have done computational and psychophysical studies concerning several such cues including the kinetic depth effect, binocular stereopsis, and shape from texture, contour and shading. Binocular stereopsis is particularly interesting as the raw information (the disparities in the positions of features in the images from the two eyes) must be scaled based on estimates of the gaze distance (vergence) and direction (version), and these can, in turn, be estimated using both retinal cues (the pattern of vertical disparities) and extra-retinal cues (knowledge of the eyes' positions).


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Walking the dog
I'm just a walking the dog
If you don't know how to do it
I'll show you how to walk the dog
C'mon now c'mon - Rolling Stones, "Walking The Dog"
I'm just a walking the dog
If you don't know how to do it
I'll show you how to walk the dog
C'mon now c'mon - Rolling Stones, "Walking The Dog"
When I was in Bali I stayed at a resort inland, far away from the Aussie bogan tourists. I remember the place well, though I cannot remember its name. The resort consisted of a cluster huts in the middle of miles and miles of rice paddies.
|UES dogs and their adoring owners
"An affinity for frogs". It sounds like the title of an early 20th century novel. That, or "affinity" being a collective noun such as in "a murder of crows" or "a flock of ducks".
"An affinity of frogs".
I have several affinities but dogs are not one of them.
I used to like dogs, my last dog being Sunday who I adopted while pregnant with my first child. Sunday was eventually shot by a farmer near the Victorian town of Bellbrae. She was a sheep dog, just doing her job with his sheep.
No dog has ever replaced Sunday, and since her death I have never taken to another dog. In fact I can't remember how I ever even liked them.
It is hard to like something that licks other dogs arses and then tries to lick one's face. Yuck. Plus they bite and shed fur everywhere. Definitely unhygienic.
|Two weird dogs, Central Park
The City of New York even has a "one bite law" for dogs. And yes I know, they have a "one pothole law" ... But it is the "one bite law" that gets me.
The idea is that the first bite is free. For the owner that is. So if you get bitten by a dog and it is the first (reported) time that the animal attacked, you cannot get compensated for medical costs by the owner. After all, the logic goes, the owner had no way of knowing that the dog would suddly turn into a savage beastie.
Not only that, but if the dog bites again, then you can only claim medical expenses. No "pain and suffering". No hefty compensation.
|NYC Dog Walker
I was recently bitten by a service dog. New Yorkers can "register" their dogs as service dogs simply by filling out a form on the internet and paying a couple of hundred bucks. They get a tag that is attached to the dog's collar.
This means they are able to take the dog with them to restaurants and apply for dog-free apartments. They don't have to be physically disabled. A person can claim you need it for "comfort".
ONE'S OWN comfort that is. I was recently attacked by such a dog in a restaurant. There was no comfort involved for me! But what really gets up my nose is that when I back away from a dog in an elevator, the owner invariably says, "Oh but he's friendly, he doesn't bite do you coochy coo?"
I do know that there exist lovely loving dogs. But I am taking no risks. I have no affinity for dogs. They do not comfort me. Ah, now I have a new collective noun, which does in fact relate to the title of a novel - The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan. An excellent read. Much better than any dog.
And now I must go and dress my "one bite" wound.
Till next time.


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In 2015 the talking newspaper was fortunate to be awarded funding from the National Lottery. The much needed funds made it possible to replace most of the old equipment.
The funding also paid for the development of this website with built in audio and colour swapping ability that has improved access for the society's service users.
A big thank you to the National lottery.