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Daniel Felizzatto – Chairman of the Board
Daniel Felizzatto has been a Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office since 2005. Mr. Felizzatto has worked as a trial deputy in Los Angeles where he prosecuted domestic violence cases, drug prosecutions, gang crimes, illegal weapons offenses and a variety of other felony and misdemeanor crimes, and in the District Attorney's Sacramento Legislative Unit.
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Paul Cappitelli – Executive Board Member
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Additionally, Paul served for 5 years as Executive Director of the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) from 2007-2012. In that capacity, he was responsible for providing leadership to POST Staff in the development and administration of training for approximately 75,000 California Peace Officers and 10,000 professional staff.
Since 2013, Paul has been a special law enforcement consultant. In this role, he has provided a variety of services to law enforcement and other municipal and private clients including, but not limited to: Critical incident/administrative/personnel investigation support, assistance with public agency defense litigation, assessment of ethics and public integrity issues, development and enhancement of training and administrative policies, analysis of complex problems to determine viable solutions and threat/security assessments. Paul is presently providing expert analysis and evaluation of police practices in defense of public entities as an independent consultant.
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Larry Morrison – Executive Board Member
Michael Saragosa – Secretary
Michael Saragosa has over 13 years of increased responsibility in the State Legislature and Executive Branch, government relations industry and political management of campaigns. Prior to Quintana-Saragosa Public Affairs, Micheal was Coalitions Director for the Meg Whitman for Governor Campaign and oversaw the campaign's ethnic, gender, youth, trade association, and Central Valley outreach programs, staff and consultants.
A veteran of state government, Michael served in a variety of high-level positions within the Schwarzenegger Administration. He was Undersecretary of State and Consumer Services ensuring that the programs and activities of Agency's 17 departments and 17,000 employees are properly planned, operated and coordinated. Prior to his appointment as Undersecretary, he was appointed as Executive Director of the Employment Training Panel (ETP). ETP is a joint business and labor program that allocates over $100 million annually in workforce training dollars.
Michael served as the main liaison between the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Governor's Office. Prior to his position in Cabinet, he served as Chief Deputy Appointments Secretary and was responsible for the daily operations of the Appointments Unit managing the recruitment, interviews and recommendation of candidates to the Appointments Secretary, Chief of Staff and Governor.
Michael has been Chief of Staff and has served several State Legislators. Michael is widely recognized for his expertise navigating government entities and being able to deliver results in complex situations. Michael is the unique consultant who can traverse the halls of government and provide political management and coalition building expertise for his clients.
Erin Sasse – Executive Board Member
Erin Sasse has over 10 years of experience working in the State Legislature, Executive Branch, local government, and political management of campaigns. Currently Ms. Sasse is a Regional Public Affairs Manager with the League of California Cities.
Prior to joining the League of California Cities, Erin was Chief of External Affairs for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) where she was the main liaison between stakeholders and the Department. Furthermore, Ms. Sasse has served in a variety of positions within the Schwarzenegger and Brown Administrations, serving as Assistant Director of Legislative Affairs and Outreach at the California Lottery Commission and as a Senior Field Representative for Governor Schwarzenegger in the Riverside Office. In this capacity she represented the Governor in both San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.
Sasse has served several State Legislators and has worked on various political campaigns including re-election campaign for Governor Schwarzenegger in 2006 and President Bush in 2004.
Erin is excellent in crisis communication, coalition building, and navigation difficult policy initiatives. She is excellent at coalition building and creating and maintaining relationships. Ms. Sasse graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Political Science.
Ryan Sherman – Executive Board Member
Dennis Smith – Executive Board Member
Dennis Smith has been a longtime advocate for victims' rights and is aware of the pain and trauma that victims and victims' next-of-kin suffer.
Dennis earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from California State University at Sacramento.
He began his forty-four year career with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department and then moved on to the State of California Department of Justice, Bureau of Organized Crime and Criminal Intelligence. Subsequent State of California assignments included serving as Deputy Chief of the Emergency Management Agency's Law Enforcement Division; Senior Investigator with the Board of Parole Hearings; Parole Supervisor with the Parole and Community Services Division; and most recently until retirement, Deputy Commissioner with the Board of Parole Hearings.
Christine Ward – Executive Director
Christine Ward has been assisting victims of crime and advocating for victims' rights for over two decades. She began her career in victim assistance/advocacy answering the crisis hotline at the Center for Women Studies and Services (now Center for Community Solutions) in San Diego, CA as well as providing accompaniment and support to sexual assault victims at evidentiary exams.
Ms. Ward has since worked for centers across the county, developing and managing programs that assist victims of violent crime. Ms. Ward is an accomplished trainer and speaker and presents on a variety of topics including victim support/assistance, victim advocacy, and professional and personal development.
Ms. Ward has created outreach tools to improve awareness, and encourage activism, around issues pertaining to victims of crime, crime prevention and victims' rights. She is the co-creator of the internationally recognized Watch Your Drink – Watch Your Friends drug facilitated sexual assault educational program and has presented on this program across the US and Canada.
Ms. Ward has worked extensively with various law enforcement agencies to improve communication with and assistance to victims of crime.
Ms. Ward has received several awards and recognition for her work assisting victims of crime and in advancing victims' rights. In 2006, Ms. Ward was honored with a special recognition award from the Trenton, New Jersey Police Department for her service and dedication to victims of domestic violence and for her commitment to the training of the Trenton Police Officers. In 2008 she was honored with the California Governor's Crime Victim Advocacy Award for her dedication to serving victims of violent crime. In 2009 she was appointed by the Governor to the state Domestic Violence Program Advisory Council and was re-appointed to the Council in 2015.
Ms. Ward holds a BA in psychology and a Masters Degree in Public Administration with an emphasis on non-profit management. Ms. Ward is a survivor of violent crime and has been active with the Alliance since its inception in 1992.
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While Elhawary created the device to help improve worker safety and reduce workplace injuries, they're aware of the potential for Big Brother-like situations to arise. Most concerning to him is the idea that employers could use the data collected for disciplinary action, firing or removing workers who are the most likely to get injured and force the company to incur the cost of medical fees. "I definitely have that concern," he says. "Byt the companies we're working with are sort of self-selecting. It's companies that have good safety culture and trust between managers and workers." He encourages companies to be upfront when introducing it to workers, making sure that they know there isn't a GPS or camera, nor is there is any audio monitoring. He also believes that human behavior will ensure it can't be used for anything other than encouraging health and safety. "If employees suspect it's for disciplinary action, they just won't wear it," he says.
Elhawary says that there are already around 10,000 REFLEX units in the field, and hopes to expand the company beyond industrial applications into personal wear for individuals with the potential for back strain, like elderly gardeners or weightlifters. But first, he wants to become the leader in warehouse and factory worker safety. "The average non-professional person running in Central Park has a heart rate monitor, a phone, a wearable, and more," he says. "But you have workplace employees with incredibly physical jobs who don't see more than a safety training video. So we feel there's tons of opportunity."


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Introduction to the Awareness API
Making an application that is aware and reacts to the user's context can be difficult, consume large amounts of memory, and may deplete battery life if not done correctly. To simplify common contextual application needs, Google released the Awareness API. The Awareness API is a unified platform to enable applications to query and react to changing user context such as weather, places, beacons, location, activity, headphone state, and time. The Awareness API not only unifies the implementation of these contextual needs, but does so in a manner that reduces battery and memory usage.
What is it?
As mentioned above, the Awareness API is a platform to simplify the querying and reacting to commonly needed contextual information. The Awareness API allows you to request contextual information on demand while also allowing you to be notified when specific contextual criteria you define has been met. This is accomplished through two distinct APIs that make up the Awareness API.
Snapshot API
The Snapshot API allows you to query for current contextual information on demand. Making a request to the Snapshot API for information, such as the user's current weather condition, is nearly instantaneous. The Snapshot API allows you to request for any of the following contextual information on demand: Location, Weather, Place, Activity, Beacon Information, and Headphone State. Requesting contextual information is simple and easy to use. The details for making these queries will be discussed in greater detail below.
Fences API
The Fences API provides notifications to your application when the user's context changes to meet rules that you define. For instance, you can request that the API notify you anytime the user is within 10 meters of your store or begins an activity such as a run. Furthermore, you can combine contextual rules to limit notifications to when the user is running AND is within 10 meters of your store. The Fences API allows you to define rules regarding Time, Location, Activity, Beacon, and Headphone Status. You can define these rules individually or by combining multiple with "AND" or "OR" Fences, working as their name suggests. Registering a fence is simple and the details for defining them will be discussed in greater detail below.
Why Use the Awareness API?
There are two important reasons to leverage the Awareness API today. The first is just simplicity. The Awareness API makes requesting and reacting to information a breeze. Rather than having to implement multiple libraries or tools to access the various contextual information the Awareness API provides, why not implement one to take care of them all? Secondly, by leveraging the Awareness API you are being responsible with your user's battery and memory. It is not uncommon for a user to delete an application that seemingly makes their device run slow or drains their battery. By implementing the Awareness API, you can reduce your application's footprint, which will hopefully lead to a much lower uninstall rate.
Possible Use Cases
You may not be leveraging contextual information today in your application, which might leave you wondering when and where you could Awareness to use. The possibilities with the Awareness API are endless, but below are a few ideas to get you going:
- A music application could deliver music suggestions to their user's when the headphone gets plugged in based on the current weather conditions outside.
- "Maybe your beach playlist will get you through this winter day!"
- An alarm clock app that has a smart snooze which continues to go off if the device is still motionless at a specific time.
- "Your device is not moving, get out of bed!"
- A restaurant application could start a user's favorite order when they get within a specific distance of the restaurant.
- "We see you are just outside; we will get your order started."
- A store that reminds the user of a special offer that they showed interest in when they are near your store.
- "Here is an extra 10% off the hockey stick you showed interest in before!"
In the sample application I demonstrate a few of above use cases. In one instance I listen for when the headphones become plugged in, query for the current weather and present the user with a music option to go with the day. In another example, I create an alert when the user is "still" 1 minute from the time of registering the Fence. The possibilities are endless!
How Do You Use It?
Sample Application
The remaining portion of this blog will go into detail about how to implement the Awareness API in your application. To demonstrate the implementation, please find the attached sample application. The attached sample application demonstrates how to request current weather, location, activity, place, and headphone status on demand via the Snapshot API. Furthermore, it demonstrates how to set up a fences based on the users location, time, headphone status, and activity.
Getting Started
The Awareness API is a part of Google Play Services. To leverage the API be sure that you have the Play Services SDK downloaded. You can do this via your SDK Manager. After you have downloaded the Play Services SDK, you have the choice of including the entire SDK in your application or just the Awareness API. For my purposes, the Awareness API alone is sufficient. To include just the Awareness API, add the following dependency to your
build.gradle file.
Please note that at the time of this writing, the latest Play Services version is 9.6.1
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-awareness:9.6.1'
If you have ever leveraged any other Google API, such as Maps, you are familiar with the registration process to receive your API key. The Awareness API is not without exception. For the sake of brevity, I will not detail this process here. To find more information on how to register your application and receive your API key, please go here. Once you have received your API key, you must add the following meta data within the application tags of your application's manifest.
If you plan on leveraging the Places tool within the Snapshots API, the following meta data is also required.
If you plan on leveraging the beacon information in either the Fences API or the Snapshot API, the following meta data is also required.
There is a maximum of two permissions needed to leverage the Awareness API in its entirety. If you plan on utilizing the Weather, Beacon, Places, or Location data via the Snapshot API, the
ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION permission is required. The location permission is also required if you desire to setup a Location or Beacon fence via the Fences API. Since the location permission is considered dangerous, you must request this permission at runtime for all devices running Marshmallow or later. On all lower versions, the below permission declaration is sufficient. Please find the attached article for more information regarding properly requesting permissions at runtime. It is important to note that for the Fences API, the location permission must be accepted by the user before a fence can be registered.
If you plan on setting up an Activity fence via the Fences API or querying the current Activity via the Snapshot API, the
ACTIVITY_RECOGNITION permission is required. Unlike the location permission, the activity permission is not considered dangerous and a manifest declaration is sufficient.
Connecting to Play Services
Much like other Play Services API's, the Awareness API requires a connection to the Google Play Services API Client. In the sample application, I demonstrate how to set up a singleton of the
GoogleApiClient, however, you may implement your client however you see fit in your Activity/Fragment. To connect and get an instance of the
GoogleApiClient, add the following to your Fragment or Activity.
GoogleApiClient client = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(context)
In some cases, it is necessary to know when the connection is complete or when it fails. To add connection callbacks, use the following:
GoogleApiClient client = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(context)
Once you have connected to the Google Play Services API you are now ready to use the Awareness API.
Using the Snapshot API
If you need contextual information on demand, the Snapshot API is what you need. It is very important that you ensure that your
GoogleApiClient instance is connected, otherwise, any attempt to retrieve data will result in a failure. To retrieve contextual data, such as your current activity simply implement the following:
.setResultCallback(new ResultCallback() {
public void onResult(@NonNull DetectedActivityResult detectedActivityResult) {
if (!detectedActivityResult.getStatus().isSuccess()) {
//handle failure
} else {
ActivityRecognitionResult ar =
DetectedActivity probableActivity = ar.getMostProbableActivity();
//Your handling here here.
In the above example, we are retrieving the user's most probably activity. This activity could vary from walking, running, in a vehicle, and much more. You can find the full list of possible activities here. The Activity portion of the Snapshot API, also returns the likelihood of the detected activity. This likelihood is returned in a range from 0-100 with 100 indicating that it is definite. In my experience, the most probably activity is usually correct, however, you do have the option to query for the entire list of probable activities.
At many of my clients, it is necessary to grab a single instance of the user's current location. At times like these, when you don't need to be updated of the user's every move, it seems overkill to create and implement
List probableActivity = ar.getProbableActivities();
LocationRequests and
LocationListeners. The Snapshot API makes retrieving the current location easy and simple without all the overhead of the FusedLocationApi.
if (isLocationPermissionGranted()) {
.setResultCallback(new ResultCallback() {
public void onResult(@NonNull LocationResult locationResult) {
if (!locationResult.getStatus().isSuccess()) {
//This failed.. add your handling
Location location = locationResult.getLocation();
//location.getLatitude() & location.getLongitude());
} else {
//be sure you get permission!
As you can see, the Snapshot API makes grabbing current contextual data quick and easy. Querying for other data such as the Headphone Status, current Place, current Weather, or current Beacon State is just as easy with slightly varying result parameters based on the respective query. In my experience the only query to use caution with is that for the current Weather. This data is seemingly slow to update and based on a region and not their exact location. You may want to use caution before presenting this to your user as the "current weather outside."
Using the Fences API
The Fences API works much like the Snapshot API, but with a few extra steps. The Fences API requires you to register a
BroadcastReceiver, which will receive a notification when the context pertaining to your registered Fence changes. In the attached sample application, the
BroadcastReceivers being leveraged are global receivers and registered in the applications manifest. This allows my receivers to receive events even when the application is not opened. Your uses may vary slightly and you may only need to register your receiver while a specific
Fragment or
Activity is open. For my purposes, I am going to demonstrate how to use a global
BroadcastReceiver. The Fences API also does not include the ability to define Fences based Place or Weather. In the attached sample application, I demonstrate how to request Weather data via the Snapshot API once a defined Fence has been met as a workaround.
First, you must create your receiver and implement the onReceive() method.
Next, let's register our receiver in our manifest. Note that in my implementation above, I have to static constants
public class HeadphoneBroadcastReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver{
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
if (!TextUtils.equals(FENCE_RECEIVER_ACTION, intent.getAction())) {
// The state information for the given fence
FenceState fenceState = FenceState.extract(intent);
if (TextUtils.equals(fenceState.getFenceKey(), HEADPHONE_FENCE_KEY) &&
fenceState.getCurrentState() == FenceState.TRUE) {
//add your handling
FENCE_RECEIVER_ACTION and
HEADPHONE_FENCE_KEY. The action constant is just to ensure that our receiver only receives broadcasts of intents with that specific action. The latter,
HEADPHONE_FENCE_KEY, is used to ensure that when our receiver does receive a callback that it is for the fence that we are looking for. This may become useful if you use one receiver for multiple Fences.
Please note that the action in the above manifest code, corresponds to the action defined in the manifest. Now we are ready to register our Fence.
First, just as we did for the Snapshot API, we must be sure we have an instance of a connected
GoogleApiClient. Next, we are ready to create our Fence.
The above fence, will be set to "true" when the headphones become plugged in. We can also go a step further and add other criteria to our Fence. For example, say we wanted to wait and be notified only when the user has plugged in their headphones AND is running, we could do the following.
AwarenessFence headphoneFence = HeadphoneFence.during(HeadphoneState.PLUGGED_IN);
A similar Fence could be registered with an OR declaration as well. Combination fences may contain as many primitive Fences that you need. With the above AND Fence, our receiver will not be notified unless our headphones are plugged and we begin a run. Note that the running fence is defined as "starting" indicating that I only want this criterion to be true at the beginning of my run. If I were to plug my headphones in while I was already running, my receiver would never be notified.
//create our primitive fences
AwarenessFence headphoneFence = HeadphoneFence.during(HeadphoneState.PLUGGED_IN);
AwarenessFence runningFence = DetectedActivityFence.starting(DetectedActivityFence.RUNNING);
//create combo fence
AwarenessFence ANDFence = AwarenessFence.and(headphoneFence, runningFence);
Next, we need to create the
PendingIntent which will be fired when our Fence Criteria is met in order to deliver the results to my registered
BroadcastReceiver. Please be sure to create your intent with the same Action that you defined in your manifest and in your
Finally, we are ready to register our fence. In doing so, be sure that you register your Fence with the same key that you are looking for in your BroadcastReceiver.
Intent intent = new Intent(FENCE_RECEIVER_ACTION);
PendingIntent mPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(this, 0, intent, 0);
new FenceUpdateRequest.Builder().addFence(HEADPHONE_FENCE_KEY, headphoneFence, mPendingIntent).build())
.setResultCallback(new ResultCallback() {
public void onResult(@NonNull Status status) {
if (status.isSuccess()) {
//your headphone fence was registered successfully
} else {
//your headphone fence was not registered. Try again.
That is all there is to it. Your
BroadcastReceiver will now be notified when your headphones are plugged in. Note, that you can and will receive broadcasts for events that are an indication of the context changing but not an indication that your Fence criteria was met. For example, if you register a receiver to receive a notification when the Headphones are plugged in, you will also receive a notification when the headphones are not plugged or when they are being unplugged. Due to this, it is important that you check your
FenceState in your receiver to ensure proper handling.
At times, you may need to unregister your Fence to prevent future notifications. To do so, simply ensure you have a connected
GoogleApiClient and implement the following code being sure to use the same Fence key you defined your Fence with.
new FenceUpdateRequest.Builder().removeFence(HEADPHONE_FENCE_KEY).build())
.setResultCallback(new ResultCallbacks() {
public void onSuccess(@NonNull Status status) {
//your fence was successfully removed
public void onFailure(@NonNull Status status) {
//your fence is still registerd
Final Thoughts
The steps above are just a brief overview of what is accomplished in the demo application attached. I encourage you to download and run the code to learn even more about what the Awareness API can do. Though the Awareness API is still in its early days, it shows immediate benefits for including it in your application today. Not only can the Awareness API make your code less tricky, but it can also ensure fast and efficient contextual data whenever you need it. I am excited to present the growth in options to my clients as a result of Awareness which will hopefully result in even more happy users.


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Two farmers in Raipur and Kavalda, troubled by debt and drought, committed suicide by consuming poison
News:Two farmers in Raipur and Kavalda, troubled by debt and drought, committed suicide by consuming poison
Farmers were very upset, and then they heard about the qualities and demand of moringa and grew moringa on little areas on experimental basis.
Beginning as an experiment on barren land in Chhattisgarh, the cultivation of Sohanjna has changed the condition of farmers. On proving profitable farming, now 150 acres of land is being cultivated not only in the area but it is also being exported to the country as well as abroad. Rajneesh Awasthi of Raipur, who started it, points out that some land was found lying in Baneka village of Talda block, about 40-50 km from the city. They started the production of munge/moringa. As a result, the crop resulted in 2 acres was good and today it is being cultivated at a large scale in some 150 districts of the state. More than 100 farmers have been added to this paddy cultivation with 10 times more income and less expenditure despite the rain deficiency in the last few years.
And for the frustrated farmers due to low paddy production this farming of moringa oleifera is a boon. Today, the demand for this leaf from the districts of Raipur and Bastar is also in USA, along with large herbal and organic companies of Bengaluru, Lucknow and Gujarat.
Rajneesh explains that by leaving the private job, I started cultivating moringa oleifera, two years ago. About this I got information in the agricultural seminar held in South Africa three years ago. The leaves can be cultivated four to five times a year, it is sold dry and in powdered form as well.
Less water, yielding up to seven years and spending only 20-25 thousand
For cultivation of moringa, only Rs. 20-25 thousand per acre has to be spent. Once the crop is harvested, it yields up to 7 years. Harvested every 2-2 months. In one acre, the first year 800-900 kg of leaves are harvested in 4-5 times. From next year, 1200-1500 kg of leaf is produced in one acre farm. It is bought from farmers 80 rupees per kg. The first year earns 70-80 thousand rupees and from one year to one and a half lakh rupees. In the rain, and irrigation is done in 5-7 days in April, May and June, rest of the time is not needed. 75 kg of powder leaves from 100 kg of leaves.
More than 300 diseases can be treated with moringa oleifera
Ayurveda experts say that Moringa's leaf has the ability to remove more than 300 diseases. There is a treasure of vitamins in its leaves. Vitamin A, B and C. Apart from this, carbohydrate, protein, calcium, potassium, iron etc. are in it.
This is an example for all of us that if moringa is native tree of Pakistan then why can't we also cultivate it and earn money not only by moringa oleifera in raw form but also by its products. It's not just a great business but also a great service to the mankind.


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Folic acid: Too much of a good thing?
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Documentation says: "The minimum non-zero value is 1"documentation.progress.com/.../index.html
If the -usernotifytime is set to non-zero value then each client locks USR latch once per the -usernotifytime interval or once per 10 seconds if the -usernotifytime is less than 10 seconds. Does it mean that the minimum value of the -usernotifytime is 10 seconds?
I saw the real cases where the -usernotifytime was set to a few minutes (3-10 minutes). Would it be wrong to set the -usernotifytime let's say to 10 seconds? For comparison: enabling statement cache would create much higher USR latch activity.
Yes, for ABL clients the minimum is effectively 10 seconds. This limit is imposed because the client could be a remote client connected to multiple databases, and the network IO could be significant in extreme cases. There is also some synchronization within the client process. Note that SQL does not have this limit because the SQL server is not a remote connection to the database.
You could set the value to 10 seconds, but this could also increase the network IO in addition to the USR latch contention.
Off-topic note:
V11 introduced the -noneedsattnthread parameter: no needs an attention thread used for -usernotifytime. ABL session will not launch the second thread when it's connected to a database with non-zero value of the -usernotifytime. Othewise session will consist of two threads. We can see them: ps -T p <abl-client-pid>.
21456 21456 pts/0 00:00:00 _progres
21456 21473 pts/0 00:00:00 _progres
gdb -p <abl-client-pid>
(gdb) info thread
(gdb) thread 1
(gdb) where
(gdb) thread 2
(gdb) where
Output for the second thread will contain rnNeedsAttnThread
Thanks, Kyle!
And yes, the remote ABL clients send to a server and get back one 64-byte message per notification.
By the way, IMPORT statement blocks the client's notifications. Is it expected?
The following code will reproduce the issue again any database started with non-zero -usernotifytime:
output to value("test.input").
output close.
input through value("tail -f test.input").
import unformatted ^.
input close.
message "Done" view-as alert-box.
The session will run an attention thread but it will not lock the USR latch and will block the idxactivate. Program above immitates the import of data from the third-party systems.
READKEY, UPDATE or WAIT-FOR don't have such issue.
I believe that's a bug in the ABL client. The client should allow notifications to be checked whenever the client is in a long wait for external input outside of a transaction, and this should include that usage of the IMPORT statement.
I will open a case.


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The Faithful Hand Maiden
Contributed by Tim Zingale on Dec 12, 2005 (message contributor)
Summary: A sermon for the 4th Sunday in Advent A sermon about Mary's faithfulness
4th Sunday in Advent
"The Faithful Hand Maiden?"
26 ¶ In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
28 And he came to her and said, "Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you!"
29 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be.
30 And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.
31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,
33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end."
34 And Mary said to the angel, "How shall this be, since I have no husband?"
35 And the angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
36 And behold, your kinswoman Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.
37 For with God nothing will be impossible."
38 And Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her. RSV
Grace and Peace to you from our Lord and Saviour, Jesus the Babe in the manger. Amen
The beginning of our gospel lesson this morning has a word in it that I would like to draw your attention to. The angel when he addressed Mary used this word twice, Listen he says, "Hail, O favored one, the Lord is with you." And again the angel said, " Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God." Did you notice the word that was used twice in these verses.
Yes, it is favored, or favored one. Mary had found favor with God. Chosen to give birth to God's only begotten Son is no small thing. When we think about Mary and the baby we think about the animals arranged neatly in the stable, we picture warm glowing lights, we see a halo over the head of Mary and the Babe. When we think about Mary and her favored status, we think everything was easy, everything was neat, everything was good.
And then notice another word in verse 29 But she was greatly troubled at the saying, and considered in her mind what sort of greeting this might be.
Mary was troubled at the saying. She did not go out and seek the favored status with God, God came to her through an angel. Mary was surprised by the grace of God which found her.
Mary then said in verse 38 And Mary said, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word."
Mary then consented to act as God's way of bringing grace to the whole world.
Mary was graced by God. But was it an easy life, or a difficult one as one is graced by God.
"Let's take a good hard look at the life of Mary who was called a favored one. Mary was pregnant by the Holy Spirit. Now that would be a tough one to explain to anyone. Can you imagine the gossip that the gals of Nazareth might have passed around when they went to the will to draw water. Being engaged to Joseph certainly would help the matter a bit, but we all know how humantongues wag.
Besides having to endure all the gossip, imagine how awful it would have been to ride a burrow all those miles from Nazareth to Bethlehem. It was a tough, wearisome journey. Bouncing around on the back of a burro couldn't possibility be a delight to a pregnant woman. And then when she got there, there was no hospital, no doctor, no comfortable surrounding waiting for her, she couldn't even find a place in the inn so she had to go off into a stable with the presence of cattle odor and beds of rough hay to lay on. There in the humblest of surrounding the king was born. You call that favored, but wait there is more.
What happened after Bethlehem? Joseph and Mary with the new born king were out on the road as refugees in order to escape Herod's massacre of the children. Way down to Egypt land they went, by foot mind you. Then it was back to Nazareth, back home. But back home to what? Not living high on the hog, obscurity and poverty were perhaps the trademarks of Joseph's family.


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Do Bikini Supermodels Get Frostbite? Kate Upton Might Say "YES" – Kate Upton Shoots Pictures in Antarctica
While many artisans suffer for their art, so too do models as Kate Upton talked about suffering in the freezing temperatures of Antarctica for her hot Sports Illustrated Swimsuit photo spread."
All For the Love of Modeling
This video is all about fashion style – and the cold! It gives a perfect illustration of what fashion models go through to get the shots.
The next time you complain about photo shoot conditions, remember Kate Upton in this Sports Illustrated shoot. It'll cool you down (pardon the pun).
No matter what anybody says about this exciting female model, Kate Upton is anything other than a quitter and she bravely bares almost all in the snow-covered continent of Antarctica.
Kate says;
"I'm so happy with what's happening."
One thing she accomplished on this popular video shoot was to become the first back to back cover model captured on video for Sports Illustrated magazine since the 1996-97 issues.
The previous record was held by none other than Tyra Banks.
A Freeze Bikini Pays Off at the Sports Illustrated Photo Shoot
Wow! What an amazing feat and it only took wearing a skimpy bikini in freezing weather.
Even Kate was nervous about going to the end of the earth and stated in her interview …
"I grew up in Florida and I don't do very well in the snow."
So, now you have it!
The question is, would you be willing to do photo shoots under these conditions to get on the cover of Sports Illustrated? What if your model agent called you tomorrow?
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AssessTEAM was built by entrepreneurs as a tool for easy employee evaluation, engagement, mentoring, and productivity reporting all in a single suite.
Employee performance management is a critical aspect of business management. Opportunities derived from performance management software often lead to massive improvements in team efficiency. Simply knowing who are your top performers and what products are executed most effectively by your team can lead to wiser decision making.
Our team consists of HR professionals, business owners, programmers, usability experts, and industry analysts. The product is a culmination of years of research, field tests in several countries, and great advice from customers.
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What is the price of not investing in leadership development? There is compelling evidence to demonstrate the link between leadership behaviour and people and operational performance*
Most executives know instinctively that leadership behaviour has an impact on the productivity, engagement and wellbeing of their employees most business conversations are nowhere near as powerful or directed as they need to be. As a result, a great many conversations end up being sub-optimal, and even dysfunctional and divisive on some level. Even worse, many issues simply do not get dealt with.
Here are just a few of the costliest workplace issues we see across the business landscape. Each of these issues can be linked directly to the quality of business conversations taking place:
- Teams that are only partially engaged
- Disaffected people who comply but don't contribute beyond expected minimums
- Conflict not being dealt with openly in a healthy way, and public agreement being undermined by private dissent
- Management point scoring and other divisive behaviours
- Executive Teams and Boards of Directors that fail to recognise and respond to strategic risks, or fail to fully capitalise on strategic opportunities
The good news is, we can achieve radical improvements in organisational performance, addressing these issues positively and quickly, by systematically improving the quality of our conversations.
To do that, we need to understand and respond appropriately to the interplay of structures within your organisations communication system. Problems in face to face communication are often due to the unseen influences of deeper invisible structure. So long as it remains unseen the structure can undermine and violate communicative intentions. Without understanding why, people will end up repeating old patterns of behaviour. Once the structure is made visible however individuals can learn to observe and change it.
If we understand and use these ways of interacting effectively, we can consistently have conversations that are powerful and profitable, building trust and enhancing wellbeing for everyone. On the other hand, if we don't understand the patterns and traps we fall into and we don't have an awareness of why this is happening – nothing changes.
There is a huge amount of untapped people potential within organisations. The cost of not unleashing this talent, creativity and energy is extremely high, both in financial and human terms.
At the Houston Exchange it is our wish to do everything we can to help reverse this trend.
Powerful Profitable Conversations is underpinned by David Kantor's theory of structural dynamics a complete language for understanding leadership Behaviour. This model has a proven track record, when used with trained and skilled facilitators, to transform every conversation that takes place within your business. We work with you to dramatically improve individual and team communication and help you see what's really driving the conversations within your business, so that you can consciously leverage the best contributions from all of your people.
As a result, you'll be able to get to the heart of the issues in your organisation – including the ones nobody is able to talk about – and resolve them with far less drama, enabling you to freely explore new solutions and exploit untapped opportunities.
This will free up significant time, energy and money enabling you to say what needs to be said, productively and honestly, whilst keeping everyone engaged and on side.
The bottom line is, our work delivers significant results on a variety of levels, creating healthier, more profitable and sustainable organisations.
What about your organisation – how many of your current conversations don't address the things that really matter, with the high levels of mutual trust you'd like?
And how much more would that be worth to you, financially and in human terms?
To find out how you could reap serious rewards from dramatically improving, start by having an initial chat with us about how we might be able to help. We look forward to hearing from you and starting a conversation.
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As an Air Cadet, we also provide the opportunity to play a variety of team sports, up through Wing, Region and even Corps level, playing against other cadet forces.
You can be part of the team in the following sports;
- Hockey
- Football
- Rugby
- Netball
To gain a place in the team, you need to attend a Wing Trial, where you'll compete for a place against other cadets across the Wing. If successful, you'll become part of the team for that year and gain a Wing Blue Award. If you're really good, you may also get the opportunity to play for the Region team too!
If sports is your thing, there will be no shortage of opportunities for you to get involved!


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Linking Tahoe website explores travel options to manage congestion
STATELINE, Nev. — A new website launched this week by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Tahoe Transportation District, and visitor organizations provides a hub of easy-to-access information about a wide range of travel options in the Tahoe Basin.
According to a news release from TRPA, the goal of http://www.LinkingTahoe.com is to increase public awareness of travel options for people to get to, from, and around the Tahoe Basin and encourages more people to walk, bike, use transit, take water shuttles, and choose off-peak times to drive to better manage congestion on the region's roads.
The website is a one-stop-shop for travel encouraging not only less traffic in and around the Great Basin, but it provides travel options to and from neighboring metropolitan areas such as Sacramento, Reno and San Francisco.
"We're excited to share information about the many travel options at Lake Tahoe, and to use this new tool to encourage people to try getting around in new ways before they make their travel plans," TRPA Travel Management Coordinator Rich Looney said in a statement.
Brochures about the website are being distributed to chambers of commerce, visitor centers, hotels, rental properties, and other visitor-serving locations throughout the Tahoe Basin.
"This website is just the first step in increasing awareness of travel options at Lake Tahoe," said TTD Capital Program Manager Danielle Hughes. "It will continue to be updated with new travel options as they become available, including new bikeshare and rideshare programs and services provided by new micro-transit pilot projects. In the future, we also hope to work with public and private partners to provide real-time information services to help people make their travel choices."
Harrah's Reno to be sold for $50 million, redeveloped into a non-gaming property
Per the agreement, Caesars will continue to operate Harrah's for the first half of 2020 before it's redeveloped into a non-gaming hotel and mixed-use development.


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Research has examined whether or not there are sex differences in leadership, and these differences can be seen from a relationship based or task based perspective. Leadership is the process through which an individual guides and motivates a group towards the achievement of common goals. In studies that found a gender difference, women adopted participative styles of leadership and were more transformational leaders than men. Other studies that found no significant gender differences in leadership exist.
Until recently, leadership positions have predominantly been held by men and men were therefore stereotyped to be more effective leaders. Women were rarely seen in senior leadership positions leading to a lack of data on how they behave in such positions.[1] However, current research has found a change in trend and women have become more prevalent in the workforce over the past two decades, especially in management and leadership positions. The gender gap is decreasing and these stereotypes are changing as more women enter leadership roles. The data from the primary literature on this topic is inconclusive as the two main lines of research contradict one another, the first being that there are small, but nevertheless significant sex differences in leadership and the second being that gender does not have an effect on leadership.
Studies that find gender differences[edit]
Alice Eagly, a frontrunner in the research on gender differences in leadership, found through multiple studies that differences between men and women are small and that the overlap is considerable. Nevertheless, these small differences have statistical significance in the way men and women are perceived in leadership roles and their effectiveness in such positions, as well as their leadership styles.[2] In early studies, from the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was found that women adopted participative styles of leadership and were more transformational leaders than men who adopted more directive and transactional styles of leadership.[1][2] Women in management positions tended to place more emphasis on communication, cooperation, affiliation, and nurturing than men as well as having more communal qualities.[1] Communal leadership behaviors tend to be more open, fair, pleasant and persons in these roles show responsibility. According to these studies, men were seen to be more "agentic" and be more goal and task oriented. Agentic leaders tend to be more active, task oriented, independent and focused decision makers. One of the main questions that the research has raised is if being relationship oriented or task oriented correspond to sex differences in leadership, where, women are likely to be more relationship oriented and men are likely to be more task oriented.[3]
Recent studies conducted by Trinidad and Normure in 2005, Yukl in 2002, and a study conducted by Hagberg Consulting Group in 2000 found a similar trend the leadership behaviors of men and women . Specifically according to Yukl, women have a "feminine advantage" because they are "more adept at being inclusive, interpersonally sensitive, and nurturing."[4] The study conducted by Hagberg Consulting Group also found women managers to be ranked higher in 42 out of 52 traits and skills measured, including teamwork, stability, motivation, recognizing trends, and acting on new ideas.[5] Women tend connect more with their group members by exhibiting behaviors such as smiling more, maintaining eye, and are more diplomatic with their comments [6](Forsyth, 2010). The differences between men and women may suggest evolutionary stressors that have contributed to the development of these relationship and task oriented tendencies between men and women.[6] Another explanation, proposed by Eagly and Carli (2007), attributes many of these findings not to average gender differences per se, but to a "selection effect" caused by gender bias and discrimination against women, whereby easier standards for men in attaining leadership positions as well as the fact that men make up the majority of executives results in a higher average of exceptionally skilled women than men in some leader roles.[7] Women tend to feel more excluded from career related and informal interactions with the senior management compared to men. In fact, the term "glass ceiling" can be used to describe the hindrance women face in career advancement to top management positions.[6] The tendency of men to dominate women in informal discussion groups has been observed in a number of scenarios including when both sexes were deemed to be androgynous, when group members were committed to equality of sexes, when women were more dispositionally dominant than men, and when both sexes were extroverted. Furthermore, it has been observed that the dispositionally dominant person is more likely to emerge as a leader in same-sex dyads, but in mixed-dyads, the dominant male is more likely to emerge as leader compared to a dominant female.[8]
A similar study conducted by the Management Research Group of 17,491 questionnaires found that out of common leadership competency areas surveyed, women were rated higher by their superiors in areas like credibility with management, future potential, insight, sensitivity, and working with diverse people. Men were ranked higher in business aptitude, financial understanding, and strategic planning, which the researchers note are seen to be critical to corporate advancement. No gender differences were found in competencies such as team performance, effective thinking, and willingness to listen and no differences were found in overall effectiveness.[9]
However, many of these studies on gender differences in leadership style rely on leader-only self-report data, which many leadership scholars describe as unreliable at best.[10] These sex differences are only trends and may not be seen across all groups and situations. It would be very difficult to determine how men and women would behave once they become leaders. Additionally, though relationship orientation in women and agentic orientation in men has been observed in laboratory settings, they have not been seen in studies conducted in organizational settings [6]
Differences in perception[edit]
When studying perception and effectiveness of men and women in leadership, in multiple studies, it was found that men and women are perceived better by subordinates and are seen as more effective leaders when in positions in accordance to traditional gender roles. In a study conducted in 1990, it was found that women "lose authority... if they employ feminine styles of leadership in male-dominated roles."[11] A meta-analysis conducted later yielded similar results in which men and women are both perceived as more effective leaders in stereotypical roles and both are found ineffective in non-traditional roles.[12] Female leaders are perceived as less dominant than male leaders by their subordinates. Furthermore, a single male in a group is more likely to assume leadership than a single female in a group, who is likely to have less influence over the group members. Members of the group are more likely to agree with a male leader when power is exerted than a female leader.[6] However, in a study conducted by Shelby et al. (2010),[13] female leadership advantage was investigated by specifying contextual factors that moderate the likelihood that such an advantage would emerge. These authors considered if female gender role and the leader role were incongruent and led to a disadvantage or if instead, an advantage. They conducted two studies and found that only when success was seen as internal that top women leaders were considered more agentic and more communal than top men leaders. They also found that the effect on agentic attributes were mediated by perceptions of double standards, while communal traits were mediated by expectations of feminized management skills. This particular study showed the presence of qualified female leader advantage.
Even though women exhibit many effective leadership qualities in some studies, men still assume far more leadership positions and are more likely to be seen as leaders [8]
Studies that do not find gender differences[edit]
In contradiction to Eagly's findings of gender differences in leadership, multiple studies have also claimed that there are no significant differences and that both men and women can and will have differing and similar styles of leadership.
As recent as 2011, Andersen and Hansson conducted a study to determine if there were significant differences in leadership behaviors as claimed by previous studies and authors. Andersen and Hansen studied public managers on leadership styles, decision-making styles, and motivation profiles and found that the only differences were in decision-making styles, but none were great enough to be considered significant.[1]
Additionally, in a 2010 study, men and women leaders in a large German sample were found to be the same with respect to transformational leadership behavior.[14]
Cliff (2005) studied male and female business owners, who are free to manage as they see fit, as opposed to middle managers who are more constrained, and found that no significant differences exist in men and women's leadership behavior. According to the researchers, the findings "challenge the gender-stereotypic argument that a leader's sex plays an important role when it comes to organizational design and management."[15]
Another similar study Dobbins and Platz (1986)[16] found that even men and women show equal amounts of relationship orientation and task orientation and have equally satisfied subordinates. Even though male leaders are rated as more effective than female leaders, these findings are based on laboratory research and may not hold in organizational settings.
These studies correlate with other research cited by Vecchio (2002), Dobbins and Platt (1986), Gibson (1995), and van Engen et al. (2001), who all argue that no significant gender differences in leadership exist.[1][4]
Preference for a boss[edit]
Women and men have been surveyed by Gallup each year concerning workplace topics, and when questioned about preferences of a female boss or a male boss, women chose a preference for a male boss 39% of the time, compared to 26% of men displaying preference for a male boss. Only 27% of females would prefer a boss of the same gender.[17][18] This preference, among both sexes, for male leadership in the workplace has continued unabated for sixty years, according to the survey results.
- ^ a b c d e as cited in Andersen, J. A.; Hansson, P. H. (2011). "At the end of the road? On differences between women and men in leadership behavior". Leadership and Organization Development Journal. 32 (5): 428–441. doi:10.1108/01437731111146550.
- ^ a b Levy, P. (2010). Industrial organizational psychology: Understanding the workplace (3rd ed.). New York: NY: Worth Publishers, p. 372-373
- ^ Forsyth, Donelson (2010). Group Dynamics (5th ed.). USA: Wadsworth. ISBN 978-0-495-59952-4.
- ^ a b Levy, P. (2010). Industrial organizational psychology: Understanding the workplace (3rd ed.). New York: NY: Worth Publishers, p. 374
- ^ Kinicki, A. & Williams, B. (2009). Management: A practical introduction (4th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill Irwin, p. 443
- ^ a b c d e Forsyth, Donelson (2010). Group Dynamics (5th ed.). USA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning. ISBN 978-0-495-59952-4.
- ^ Eagly, A. & Carli, L. (2007). Through the labyrinth: the truth about how women become leaders. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press., p. 130-131
- ^ a b Forsyth, Donelson (2010). Group Dynamics (5th ed.). USA: Wadsworth Cengage. ISBN 978-0-495-59952-4.
- ^ "The Glass Ceiling Revisited: Gender and Perceptions of Competency (2013)" (PDF). Management Research Group. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
- ^ Hamori-Ota, V. E. (2007) Gender differences in leadership style: Predictors of level of agreement between leader self-ratings and supervisory ratings, peer ratings, and ratings by direct reports. University of Michigan, pp 288.
- ^ Levy, P. (2010). Industrial organizational psychology: Understanding the workplace (3rd ed.). New York: NY: Worth Publishers, p. 372
- ^ Levy, P. (2010). Industrial organizational psychology: Understanding the workplace (3rd ed.). New York: NY: Worth Publishers, p. 373
- ^ Rosette, Ashleigh; Tost, Leigh (2010). "Agentic Women and Communal Leadership: How Role Prescriptions Confer Advantage to Top Women Leaders" (PDF). Journal of Applied Psychology. 95 (2): 221–35. doi:10.1037/a0018204. PMID 20230065.
- ^ Kent, T. W.; Schuele, U. (2010). "Gender Differences and Transformational Leadership Behavior: Do Both German Men and Women Lead in the Same Way?". International Journal of Leadership Studies. 6 (1): 52–66.
- ^ Cliff, J. E. (2005). "Walking the Talk? Gendered Rhetoric vs. Action in Small Firms". Organization Studies. 26: 63–91. doi:10.1177/0170840605046490.
- ^ Dobbins, Gregory; Platz, Stephanie (January 1986). "Sex Differences in Leadership: How Real Are They?". Academy of Management Review. 11 (1): 118–27. doi:10.5465/amr.1986.4282639.
- ^ http://www.gallup.com/poll/178484/americans-prefer-male-boss-female-boss.aspx
- ^ http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-16/women-dislike-having-female-bosses-more-than-men-do
- Andersen, J. A.; Hansson, P. H. (2011). "At the end of the road? On differences between women and men in leadership behavior". Leadership and Organization Development Journal. 32 (5): 428–441. doi:10.1108/01437731111146550.
- Eagly, A. & Carli, L. (2007). Through the labyrinth: the truth about how women become leaders. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press
- Kinicki, A. & Williams, B. (2009). Management: A practical introduction (4th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill Irwin
- Levy, P. (2010). Industrial organizational psychology: Understanding the workplace (3rd ed.). New York: NY: Worth Publishers


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Sports Premium Funding
We provide a range of sporting opportunities for the children at George Grenville Academy.
The Sports Premium Funding we receive has enabled us to provide all children, including those in the nursery, with 2 hours of quality sport each week. This is provided by sports coaches who specialise in the teaching of PE, dance and games.
The funding also enables us to provide after school clubs which include a different sporting opportunity from 3.05pm to 4.00pm every day. These are seasonal and include dance, gymnastics, cricket, football, netball, tag rugby, multi-skills, badminton and dodgeball.
We are proud to be part of the Buckingham School Sports Partnership. In 2016/17 we were awarded a special prize for ,small school achiever of the year' award as all children have access to quality sports provision. Last year we entered every single competitive event offered by the sports partnership and we continue to work towards this goal in 2017/2018.
At playtimes and lunchtimes we are lucky to have a trained football coach within our staff who works with the children to promote sport at lunchtime and prepares them for sporting competitions.
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The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense is what stands between the light and the dark and you can show your support for them with this team bead. Engraved on the barrel of this piece are the truest words ever spoken and they happen to be from Hellboy..."I'm on your side!" While some might be skeptical, we at What's Your Passion are happy to have him.
What's Your Passion has crafted this bead by starting with official production assets and casting it in sterling silver. These beads are fully compatible with all high-end bracelet lines (ie: Pandora, Troll, etc.) and can also be worn on a chain or leather cord.
Stand up for what's right, join the battle to protect both worlds and show your love for this hero in style.
Hellboy is in theaters April 12th!
Yes. All products by What's Your Passion are made of 925 Sterling Silver, which means it is 92.5% pure silver which is considered fine jewelry and the same as you would find in any reputable jewelry store. Some items may be made with 14kt gold rather than sterling silver. This is the same quality gold you would find in any reputable jewelry store. Some items may be accented with gold, this is typically done with an even higher purity, 18k gold.
All jewelry (especially silver) can show signs of wear after some use. We have taken multiple steps to protect your piece from the elements. First of all, we have added a special layer of precious rhodium to our silver pieces, this means it has a thin layer of metal that is similar to platinum protecting the silver. That will mitigate most of what people associate with silver tarnishing. We also use an "E-Coating" when applicable that further protects your piece from wear and tarnish.
You can wear these pieces the same way most people wear fine jewelry. Water is fine, but places like pools typically have chemicals in them that can be harmful to fine jewelry. The ocean as well is very high in salt, and can be partially corrosive to precious metals. Some of our pieces have corners that might be uncomfortable or even dangerous wearing to bed, so we recommend taking them off when sleeping.
Only use a clean, soft cloth to lightly wipe away dust from your jewelry. Only use the minimum amount of force needed to clean jewelry, it can and will scratch if too much force is applied. If you take any item produced by What's Your Passion to any other jeweler, we will not honor any warranty or returns.


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My crafting adventures with fiber.
This was in my Inbox today and I thought some of you might be interested in how a big yarn manufacturer makes acrylic yarn.
If the embedded video above doesn't work for you, visit Learn How Red Heart Yarn is Made to watch the video.