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I post articles because I think they are of interest. Doing so doesn't mean that I necessarily agree with every—or any—opinion in the posted article.
History Is Knocking for Obama http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/history_is_knocking_for_obama.html
Excerpt: Gimme a "health care" bill...any health care bill! Even if it kills the old and the sick by compulsory rationing. See, if somebody has only a statistical ten years to live, then his or her life is worth only one-seventh of an infant who has seventy years to go. There's only so much pork sausage in the national pie.
Congress horribilis
Excerpt: Mostly, however, last year's Congress will be remembered for two efforts that will damage the economy for years to come: government health care "reform" and the $787 billion stimulus plan. The federal deficit ballooned to $1.4 trillion and national debt increased to over $12 trillion in 2009. The binge of deficit spending is all but guaranteed to be the excuse for coming tax hikes that will have to hit a far wider swath of Americans than those fabled rich Mr. Obama promised to target. Indeed, the Democrats' health care plan already includes numerous and onerous tax increases.
America Rising: An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians
Unfortunately, when 67% of the voters didn't know on election day 2008 which party controlled Congress, and so many vote on perceived narrow self-interest, or on things like race, gender, ethnicity or party, this video only speaks for the engaged and enraged minority.
The Fix: A critical month for House Democrats
Excerpt: December was a cruel month for House Democrats. On the first day of the month, Rep. John Tanner decided to call it quits, opening up a conservative-leaning seat in Tennessee. Eight days later Washington Rep. Brian Baird, also in a competitive district, followed suit and then on Dec. 14 Tennessee Rep. Bart Gordon announced he would step aside in a district that Arizona Sen. John McCain won with 62 percent in 2008. The month was capped off for Democrats with the news just days before Christmas that Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith (D) was switching parties. The cumulative effect of that series of political blows was that many Democratic members left for the holiday recess with a bit of a bad taste in their mouths -- despite the best efforts of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.) to convince them it's not all that bad. Given all that has happened over the past month, January is a critical period for House Democrats. Do a series of members -- fresh from conversations with their families and nervous about the political environment -- decide that discretion is the better part of valor and step aside this month? (Keep an eye on people like Iowa Rep. Leonard Boswell and Arkansas Rep. Vic Snyder.) And, if so, do they set off a wave of retirements that turns what looked like a traditional midterm cycle for Democrats -- with losses in the 20-25 seat range -- into one in which control of the House is up for grabs? Expect Republicans to push VERY hard on wavering Democratic members over the next month so that they know what they are in for if they decide to run for re-election. By the end of January, we should have a pretty good sense of whether December was just an isolated bad month for Democrats or a sign of a bad year to come.
Number of Democrats Falls to New Low, Down Six Points Since Election 2008 http://commonamericanjournal.com/?p=8760
Excerpt: In December, the number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell to the lowest level recorded in more than seven years of monthly tracking by Rasmussen Reports. Currently, 35.5% of American adults view themselves as Democrats. That's down from 36.0 a month ago and from 37.8% in October. Prior to December, the lowest total ever recorded for Democrats was 35.9%, a figure that was reached twice in 2005. See the History of Party Trends from January 2004 to the present. The number of Republicans inched up by a point in December to 34.0%. That's the highest total for Republicans since December 2007, just before the 2008 presidential campaign season began.
Obama is moving America Right
Excerpt: A year ago, political, cultural, economic and media pundits were united in singing President-elect Obama's praises. They assured us that by working with enlightened congressional leaders like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Obama would give us a post-racial, post-partisan, post-Bush Valhalla. There, no citizen would ever again be left wanting for decent health care, a rewarding job, a home warmed in winter and cooled in summer with green energy, a comfortable pension, or a college education. It would be an America in which our liberal leaders would finally deliver "change we can believe in" instead of merely promising it. Best of all, they would do it by "cutting taxes for 95 percent of working Americans" and instituting a "net spending cut" on the federal budget. Verily, it seemed, there truly was a free lunch after all. What a difference one year makes. Liberals may be forgiven for looking at the latest public opinion surveys and wondering if they somehow stumbled into the Valley of Death instead of Obama's promised paradise. The president remains somewhat popular personally, but, as Matthew Continetti of The Weekly Standard wrote recently, "Obama's domestic program is exceedingly unpopular. The public disapproves of the president's bailouts, stimulus, health care reform, and cap and trade policies, not to mention his decision to close the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay." That Continetti was perhaps too kind is seen in this stunning fact: When George W. Bush returned, bloodied and bruised, to his Texas home after eight years in the White House, 43 percent of Americans surveyed by Scott Rasmussen "strongly disapproved" of the job he had done. Today, after less than a year in office, 46 percent express the same intense level of opposition to Obama.
Ten campaign themes to watch
Excerpt: Important themes are emerging as party leaders move into full "campaign mode" 10 months ahead of the 2010 midterms.
A Warning To All Americans
Excerpt: We lived in California during the winters of 2007 and 2008. We became addicted to Fox News and watched O'Reilly and Hannity and Colmes every night. When we got back home, we upgraded our cable to get Fox. I watched the Presidential campaign very closely. Initially, because I thought the Democrats would nominate Hillary Clinton and then, in astonishment, when they chose an even more hard-left candidate. All of last year, I told everyone I could that Obama was not a Democrat; he was a Marxist. He is far to the left of any European leader and even our far left party, the NDP. I read Saul Alinsky when I was in University. I studied him and his writing carefully. When Bill Ayers and his idiot wife were bombing and killing people at random in the Weather Underground, Weather Underground and the Black Panthers were closely allied. I read David Horowitz's account of changing from a Marxist to a conservative after seeing that the government was afraid to prosecute members of the Panthers for murdering his personal assistant. He suddenly understood the evil that Marxism really was. After the student radicals failed in creating a Marxist revolution in the United States by violent means, they embraced Alinsky. You would be wise to read "Rules for Radicals," because it outlines how Hillary and Obama planned to get into power, and what they intended to do when they got it. Socialism is not the correct descriptor for what Obama and the Democrats are doing. They are going to be much more far-reaching than anything Sweden has ever been able to do. Obama is following Alinsky's plans, those set out in "Rules for Radicals" and his other writing. The Democrats are attempting to create one-party rule in the U.S., and, in achieving that, will create crisis after crisis by their own actions and use those crises to nationalize the means of production in the U.S. You are in the middle of a communist revolution, and few in the U.S. can actually see it for what it truly is…. The incredible increase in the money supply is going to create Zimbabwe- and Venezuela-style inflation, and with it, controls on the currency and the amount of money that can be taken out of the country.
Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/03/16/you-ask-i-provide-november-2nd-1922-arctic-ocean-getting-warm-seals-vanish-and-icebergs-melt/
Global warming is getting scary. Excerpt: The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. --November 2nd, 1922.
Jordan emerges as key CIA counterterrorism ally
Excerpt: Hours after last week's deadly attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan, a revision was made in official accounts of the number of intelligence operatives killed in the suicide bombing. Instead of eight deaths, as initially reported, the CIA acknowledged only seven. The eighth victim resurfaced over the weekend when his flag-draped coffin arrived in his native country, Jordan. The man, a captain in the Jordanian intelligence service, was given full military honors at a ceremony that referred only to his "humanitarian work" in war-torn Afghanistan. In fact, the man's death offered a rare window into a partnership that U.S. officials describe as crucial to their counterterrorism strategy. Although its participation is rarely acknowledged publicly, Jordan is playing an increasingly vital role in the fight against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, sometimes in countries far beyond the Middle East, according to current and former government officials from both countries. Traditionally close ties between the CIA and the Jordanian spy agency -- known as the General Intelligence Department -- strengthened after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, occasionally prompting allegations by human rights groups that Jordan was serving as a surrogate jailer and interrogator for the U.S. intelligence agency. In the past two years, in the face of new threats in Afghanistan and Yemen, the United States has again called on its ally for help, current and former officials from both countries said.
Iran denies entry to Sen. Kerry
So much for soft diplomacy and changing our image in the Muslim world.
Pantybomber exposes naked bureaucracy
Excerpt: On Christmas Day, a gentleman from Nigeria succeeded (effortlessly) in boarding a flight to Detroit with a bomb in his underwear. Pretty funny, huh? But the Pantybomber wasn't the big joke. The real laugh was the United States government. The global hyperpower spent the next week making itself a laughingstock to the entire planet. First, the bureaucrats at the TSA swung into action with a whole new range of restrictions. Against radical Yemen-trained Muslims wearing weaponized briefs? Of course not. That would be too obvious. So instead they imposed a slew of constraints against you. At Heathrow last week, they were permitting only one item of carry-on on U.S. flights. In Toronto, no large purses. Um, the Pantybomber didn't have a purse. He brought the bomb on board under his private parts, and his private parts weren't part of his carry-on (although, if reports of injuries sustained in his failed mission are correct, they may well have been part of his carry-off). But no matter. If in doubt, blame the victim. The TSA announced that for the last hour of the flight no passenger can use the toilets or have anything on his lap – not a laptop, not a blanket, not a stewardess, not even a paperback book. I can't wait for the first lawsuit after an infidel flight attendant confiscates a litigious imam's Koran as they're coming into LAX…. But by then the president of the United States had also taken to the airwaves. For three days, he had remained silent – which I believed is a world record for the 44th president. Since Jan. 20, 2009, it's been difficult to switch on the TV and not find him yakking – accepting an award in Oslo for not being George W Bush, doing Special Olympics gags with Jay Leno, apologizing for America to some dictator or other... but across the electric wires an eerie still had descended. And when the president finally spoke, even making allowances for his usual detached cool, he sounded less like a commander-in-chief addressing the nation after an attempted attack than an assistant DA at a Cook County press conference announcing a drugs bust: "Here's what we know so far... As the plane made its final approach to Detroit Metropolitan Airport, a passenger allegedly tried to ignite an explosive device... The suspect was immediately subdued... The suspect is now in custody and has been charged..."… And, just as the thug states understand they now have the run of the planet, so do the terror cells. A thwarted terror attack at Christmas is bad enough. Spending the following week making yourself a global joke is worse. Every A-list despot and dime store jihadist got that message loud and clear – and so did American allies already feeling semi-abandoned by this most parochial of presidents. Expect a bumpy 12 months ahead.
Happy New Year. Yes, Virginia, the System Didn't Work and May Never Work http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/sam-blumenfeld/2686-yes-virginia-the-system-didnt-work-and-may-never-work
Excerpt: But our protectors apparently had no reason to prevent this young man from boarding an international flight with almost 300 other human beings aboard. In other words, all of that security rigmarole at our airports is one big charade to give the impression that your government is actually protecting you. All it has done is make al-Qaida think of more ingenious ways of getting bombs on planes. But it is obvious that al-Qaida doesn't recruit American grandmothers and bored American housewives to carry out their plans. They get young Moslems, imbued with extremist views who easily stand out in crowds of middle-class travelers on transcontinental flights. What does it take to spot a young extremist Moslem bomb carrier? If you're wearing multicultural blinders you will never spot him. Indeed, you will not want to spot him, for that would be tantamount to practicing ethnic profiling, which, as we all know, is absolutely forbidden by our government. And so, flying on planes all over the world for the foreseeable future will remain something akin to Russian roullette. The vast majority of flights will be perfectly safe, not because of airport security, but because there are not enough al-Qaida suicide bombers to get on the thousands of flights that take place every day. All they need is one flight to blow up in order to succeed in their efforts to disrupt the civilized world and claim victory. But there is a much simpler and less costly way of providing airport security. Simply have a psychologist look over the passengers about to board an aircraft, and ask, who among them might want to have sex with 73 virgins in Allah's paradise? Asking that one question would eliminate much of the idiotic practices that now come under the heading of airport security. Of course, no system is fail-safe. But that one question would get us as close as possible to such a system with the least inconvenience to everyone.
Why the coming year could be tough for U.S. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Why-the-coming-year-could-be-tough-for-U_S_-8714358-80541162.html
Excerpt: Last year may have been the worst ever in America's battle against bin Laden. That is troubling news. Since 2001, there have been 28 failed terrorist attacks against the United States. That averages out to about three foiled attempts per year. In 2009, there were six failed attempts -- the most in one year. The fact that the numbers were up is not of itself a telling statistics. The numbers are still small. But, there are other facts to worry about.
Iran Expands Its Target List http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704152804574628334107697564.html?mod=djemITP
Excerpt: The nagging question of the nuclear age has been what if a madman gets hold of an atomic bomb? That question is about to be answered as Iran's defiance puts it on a collision course with the West. On Nov. 4, 2009, Israeli commandos intercepted an Antiguan-flagged ship 100 miles off the Israeli coast. It was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons from Iran and bound for Hezbollah in Lebanon. Since the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war, Iran has rearmed Hezbollah with 40,000 rockets and missiles that will likely rain on Israeli cities—and even European cities and U.S. military bases in the Middle East—if Iran is attacked. Our 200,000 troops in 33 bases are vulnerable. Shortly before this weapons seizure, Hamas test-fired a missile capable of striking Israel's largest city, Tel Aviv. Iran is capable of disrupting Persian Gulf shipping lanes, which could cause the price of oil to surge above $300 a barrel. Iran could also create mayhem in oil markets by attacking Saudi oil refineries. Moreover, Iran possesses Soviet made SS-N-22 "Sunburn" supersonic antiship missiles that it could use to contest a naval blockade
Yemen kills rebels it says behind threat to U.S. embassy
Excerpt: Yemeni forces fought al Qaeda militants on Monday, killing at least two they said were behind security threats which forced the U.S. embassy and other foreign missions to close. "These (militant) elements are believed to be behind the threats directed to the U.S. embassy," a Yemeni security official told Reuters. "Clashes are still continuing." The United States embassy in the capital, Sanaa, said it was staying shut for a second day in response to al Qaeda threats. Britain's embassy has been closed since Sunday and Japan suspended its consular services on Monday due to security concerns.
White House: No matter what, we're sending Gitmo prisoners back to Yemen http://commonamericanjournal.com/?p=8775
Aiding the Jihad. Excerpt: As Susan [Ferrechio] notes below, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the Obama White House not to go forward with plans to send a number of Yemeni terrorists now being held in the Guantanamo Bay detention facility back to their home country. But the Obama White House insists it will continue to send those Gitmo inmates to Yemen — a country now recognized as a hotbed of terrorism so dangerous that the U.S. has decided to close its embassy there. On Fox News Sunday, top White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said the administration "absolutely" intends to keep sending Guantanamo prisoners to Yemen. The administration has sent seven detainees to the country, Brennan said, with six of those sent in December. "Several of those detainees were put into Yemeni custody right away," Brennan said. He did not elaborate on how many is "several" or where the other Guantanamo inmates sent to Yemen might be today. But he said the U.S. has faith in Yemen to handle the situation. "We've had close dialogue with the Yemeni government about the expectations that we have as far as what they're supposed to do when these detainees go back," Brennan said.
US maintains extra airport checks for countries on watch list http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/04/us-airport-security-enhanced-screening
A small step in the right direction. Get ready for howls from those who believe that a Muslim's right not to be offended is more important by far than your right not to have your family murdered. Excerpt: Foreign passengers flying into the United States from 14 mostly Muslim countries deemed to have links with terrorism face continuing heightened airport security checks amid increased nervousness in the US after the failed attempt to blow up a passenger jet on Christmas Day. The US transportation security administration announced that everyone flying into the US from or through certain countries would go through "enhanced screening" at airports.
Pakistan: Islamic cleric arrested for parceling out nine-year-old and three-year-old for marriage http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/pakistan-islamic-cleric-arrested-for-parceling-out-nine-year-old-and-three-year-old-for-marriage.html
Remember, all cultures are equally valid. Probably the 3 year old that got him in trouble, nine being the marriage age under Shari'a law. Excerpt: Mohammad Ayub, father of the vani, Nazi Bibi, was arrested late Saturday and nine jirga members and a cleric Shamsur Rehman were arrested two days back. The jirga members were arrested for declaring two minor girls vani to resolve a marriage dispute. A jirga at Sathan Galli area had declared two girls, Nazi Bibi, 9 and Noreen Bibi, 3, vani last month.
Brennan: Deal 'on the table' for terror suspect http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0110/Brenan_deal_on_the_table_for_terror_suspect.html#
Let Harry Reid at him—he can bribe info out of anyone. Excerpt: The U.S. Government is offering the suspect charged with attempting to bomb an aircraft on Christmas Day, Omar Abdulmutallab, some kind of incentives to share what he knows about Al Qaeda, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday. Asked why Abdulmutallab should cooperate given his right, as criminal defendant, to remain silent, Brennan replied: "He doesn't have to but he knows there are certain things that are on the table... if he wants to engage with us in a productive manner, there are ways he can do that." Asked if Abdulmutallab's willingness to talk changed once he had an attorney, Brennan declined to answer. "I'm not going to address what he did before or after he talked with a lawyer," the adviser said.
Muslim who tried to kill Motoonist involved in earlier jihad plot to murder Hillary Clinton http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/muslim-who-tried-to-kill-motoonist-involved-in-earlier-jihad-plot-to-murder-hillary-clinton.html
Excerpt: Atlas Shrugs has a Google translation of this Danish article, which says that the axe-wielding Muslim who tried to kill Muhammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard "was suspected of participating in a foiled terrorist plot against U.S. Secretary of Hillary Clinton." Pamela asks: "There was an Islamic plot to kill the US Secretary of State five months ago? I didn't hear about it. Did you? Why not? Who are they protecting? Why were we not told that there was an Islamic plot to assassinate the Secretary of State?" (Probably it was just another "isolated incident" about which we shouldn't "jump to conclusions.")
Secret Service probes Obama effigy found hanging from building in Jimmy Carter's Ga. hometown
Stupid. Not only wrong, but helps Obama play the victim card. PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — The U.S. Secret Service says it is investigating an effigy of President Barack Obama found hanging from a building in the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told The Associated Press that the large black doll was found Saturday morning along Main Street in the small town of Plains. Footage from WALB-TV shows the doll was hanging by a noose in front of a red, white and blue sign that says "Plains, Georgia. Home of Jimmy Carter, our 39th President." A witness told the station that the doll had a sign with Obama's name on it.
More Guns, Less Crime in '09 http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/more_guns_less_crime_in_09.html
Excerpt: Americans went on binges buying guns and ammunition in early 2009, worried that a radical leftist president and Democrat-dominated Congress would violate their Second-Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. The effects? Less murder, robbery, rape, and property crime, according to an FBI report released Monday. This gives the young president and Democrat Congress at least one proud but unintended accomplishment for which they'll never claim credit. Indeed, gun buyers were out in droves in late 2008 and early 2009. While it's easy to infer that increased gun ownership figures align precisely with the drop in crime in the same calendar period, you won't see that headline in the New York Times, despite their penchant for such inferences about increases in crime coinciding with increasing "guns on the street."
Capitalism Fingered as Fiend of the Past Decade
Excerpt: On the last day of 2009, that awful year, I was listening to a report on National Public Radio (yes, I'm a listener). Reporter Tamara Keith presented a by-now-familiar recap of the worst financial and corporate scandals of the decade, from Enron and Martha Stewart to Tyco and Bernie Madoff. It was a depressing slog of greed, venality and theft. When the report was over, "Morning Edition" host Steve Inskeep summarized the report with a tart: "The decade in capitalism." I don't want to single out Inskeep, since he was doing what pretty much the entire media establishment has done, particularly of late: reducing "capitalism" to its alleged sins. And that's the point. There are few areas of life where a thing responsible for so much good gets so little credit for it. Imagine if I were to collect the most infamous deeds of African-Americans over the last decade -- say, Michael Vick's dog-fighting scandal and O.J. Simpson's most recent criminal exploit -- and then put a bow on it with the phrase "the decade in black America." What if I did the same thing with Jews? Bernie Madoff, the face of Jewish America! Do the scandals of Rod Blagojevich, Charlie Rangel and John Edwards define the Democratic Party from 2000 to 2010? Do Abu Ghraib and the balloon boy sum up America? Consider NPR. As a brand, it claims to be standing athwart capitalism because it's "public." What that means exactly is a bit unclear, since it still allows corporations to fund its programming in exchange for audio endorsements none dare call commercials and relies on the kindness of listeners to keep it afloat -- listeners who, one way or another, make their money from you-know-what.
Public employees living larger than ever as economy struggles
Excerpt: The economy is struggling, the unemployment rate is high, and many Americans are struggling to pay the bills. But one class of Americans is doing quite well: government workers. Their pay levels are soaring, they enjoy unmatched benefits, and they remain largely immune from layoffs, except for some overly publicized cutbacks around the margins.
Nuclear Power and the U.S. Energy Future
And it reduces our carbon footprint, though maybe not to 1880 levels as BO proposes. Excerpt: Nuclear power is a safe and reliable source of energy. The technology exists today for nuclear power to safely provide America's energy needs. Policymakers should remove barriers that prevent nuclear energy from being fully utilized, say Sterling Burnett, a Senior Fellow, and James Franko, a Legislative Assistant, both with the National Center for Policy Analysis.
Democrats Officially Kill Successful DC Voucher Program http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/31/democrats-officially-kill-successful-dc-voucher-program/
Because poor black kids don't deserve the same chance as Obama's kids. Excerpt: This is big government at its finest hour. The Democrats have officially killed a successful private school voucher program banishing more than 3,300 low-income children back to the DC schools they so desperately wanted to escape.
Nopenhagen: The Truth is Missing From the Climate Debate
Trying to sort out the truth from the clamor.
Good budget info site
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Political Digest January 5, 2009
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WHI's heritage dates back over 65 years, and involves many individual and collective contributions that make up the company we know today.
WHI Timeline
Fort Worth Facility Founded
in 1951, WHI's Fort Worth, TX facility was founded as W. Pat Crow Forgings.
Fairfield Facility Founded
in 1963, WHI's Fairfield, NJ facility was founded as Arlington Machine and Tool.
Fort Worth Expansion
WHI expands its Fort Worth facility with the construction of new forge and heat treat buildings.
Fairfield Expansion
WHI expands into a new 56,000 square foot facility in Fairfield, NJ.
Tulsa Facility Founded
in 2000, WHI's Tulsa, OK facility was founded as M&M Manufacturing.
Tulsa Expansion
WHI expands into a new 60,000 square foot facility in Tulsa, OK.
NADCAP Heat Treat Certification
WHI obtains NADCAP heat treat certification at Fort Worth facility

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After spending millions to revamp systems and procedures to prepare for the fiduciary rule, Ameriprise won't jettison months of effort should the regulation be overturned.
That was CEO Jim Cracchiolo's message to analysts during an earnings call Thursday, when he sought to explain how the firm's efforts to comply with the rule will leave Ameriprise well situated to compete with rivals in the future. And those efforts are not insignificant; Ameriprise spent $11 million in the fourth quarter, the firm reported.
"Clearly, the situation is evolving with the new administration," Cracchiolo said. "We are remaining flexible. If the rule is delayed then we will adjust accordingly. However, we are making some changes that we believe will situate us with where the industry is going."
For example, he said, Ameriprise would stick to its plan to phase out 12B-1 fees in favor of advisory relationships with clients, which would benefit margins. The Department of Labor's regulation targets such fees for creating potential conflicts of interest.
Other features of the rule, such as the best interest contract exemption, would be ignored, should President Trump delay or reverse the regulation.
Speculation about the demise the fiduciary rule ahead of its April 10 implementation date has spiked on account of Trump's anti-regulatory rhetoric and Republican efforts to introduce new legislation to overturn it.
The move is intended to better satisfy clients who are increasingly asking for more clarity, according to the firm.February 1
Morgan Stanley and Advisor Group are moving ahead with changes despite the possibility that the Department of Labor's regulation could be reversed.January 30
The brokerage industry's watchdog would also want to play an active role in the design of a possible SEC fiduciary regulation, Robert Cook says.January 23
"There is an added sense of urgency now," says Barbara Roper, director of investor protection at the Consumer Federation of America.January 19
Cracchiolo's comments reflect the position of other leaders in wealth management, who say they will plow ahead with planned changes because clients are increasingly demanding greater transparency around adviser compensation as well as lower fees. In recent weeks, firms such as Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Advisor Group have made such declarations.
But lower fees can create pressure on revenues, a point that several analysts asked Cracchiolo about on the earnings call.
For the recent quarter, Ameriprise, which has over 9,000 independent and employee advisers, reported that revenue fell to $3.06 billion from $3.1 billion for the year-ago period, a 1% decline.
Cracchiolo said that the push toward advisory relationships was not only good for clients, but something in demand, and which would help offset revenue losses elsewhere.
"We're seeing us continuing to manage expenses quite well and we can use that to offset pressures on the revenue side," the chief executive added.
Indeed, companywide profits rose 5% to $400 million partly due to cost cutting; expenses fell 2% to $2.59 billion.
Separately, Ameriprise is also pushing to increase adviser productivity by focusing on recruiting bigger producers, particularly in the employee channel. Cracchiolo said the firm is continuing to "wean out lower producers" in the channel too.
Employee adviser headcount fell by 40 from the prior quarter to reach 2,007.
"As people are not hitting thresholds, then they are reevaluating if they should be in that channel there," he said.
The firm also said the independent channel shrank, inching down by 32 advisers to 7,668.
Meanwhile, productivity rose, climbing to $518,000 per adviser from $514,000 for the same period a year ago. Client assets also rose, increasing 7% year-over-year to $479 billion.


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"An especially interesting religious space which conveys the message of ecumenical integration. The building, situated on a hill, opens on to a small square which acts as a place for meeting and socialising, combining perfectly landscape and architecture."
The chapel rises from its site: a knoll surrounded by pine trees.
It rises from the landscape like a traditional sacred building, resembling an upturned boat – or the shape of a fish.
The project communicates using contrasts between light and shade, copper and wood. The copper facing will turn green with age and blend in with the trees and natural surroundings.
The existing buildings, part of the centre providing services for cancer patients, form a village from which the chapel rises, offering itself to patients and visitors as a place for contemplation.
The chapel's form speaks softly: the idea was to create a large landscape sculpture and a small building.
The walk towards the chapel slopes up the hill. On entering, you cross a small foyer leading into a spacious entrance, the fish's stomach: the fish was a symbol used by the first Christians and this ancient symbol fits the chapel well, because its ecumenical nature is meant to appeal to all Christians, irrespective of their congregation.
Lamellar pinewood ribbing forms the chapel's load-bearing structure. Untreated wood panelling, tending towards red as it ages, covers the walls.
Although the competition's programme contained the idea of integrating art with religious space, it was the painter-priest Hannu Konola who thought of building a Chapel where Art and Religion could commune together.
The chapel has excellent acoustics for concerts and the space behind the nave can be used as an art gallery by removing the pews.
Light filters through the high stained-glass windows onto the altar wall.
Apart from copper and wood, the most important building material is natural light, which gives life to shapes, spaces and surfaces during the day. The idea is of movement across shaded spaces towards the altar and the light, whose source is hidden from view.
The feasible project was drawn up in 1998, with the guiding principle that each and every detail should be simple and pure. Copper for the exterior covering and wood for the interior therefore play an important part in this plan.
The customer is a non-profit organisation.
Four architects worked together alongside Matti and Pirjo Sanaksenaho on the feasible project.
Building work commenced in 2004 and the Chapel was consecrated in May 2005.
Matti Sanaksenaho was born in 1966. His career as an architect began in 1989 when, at just 23 years of age, he won the Architectural competition for the design of Finland's Pavilion at the 1992 Seville EXPO, along with four fellow architectural students. As a result of the Pavilion's success he was chosen as a candidate for the Chapel competition.


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How To Prepare For The Future: Customer Data Platforms, Real-Time Marketing & More
Launching the CDP Institute Europe, David Raab and CrossEngage join forces to provide a European knowledge base for everything related to customer data management in general and to Customer Data Platforms in particular. The official launch will be accompanied by three roadshow events in London, Amsterdam, and Hamburg.
Beside outstanding dishes and drinks, decision makers in the field of CRM and marketing can expect expert insights on current challenges, methods, and technologies related to the topic.
"Managing Customer Data in a Cross-channel World"
David Raab is founder of the Customer Data Platform Institute, which educates marketers and technologists about customer data management. As Principal at Raab Associates, he has been helping marketers to understand, find, and deploy appropriate technologies since 1987. Typical projects include marketing process analysis, architecture planning, needs definition, and vendor selection. He also consults with industry vendors on product and business strategy.
David regularly speaks and teaches at conferences around the world. He has published hundreds of articles on marketing technology and is author of The Marketing Performance Measurement Toolkit.
"Marketing Trends 2018: From Hype to Practical Implementation"
Manuel Hinz is co-founder and managing director of CrossEngage. As an experienced entrepreneur, consultant, and manager, he has lead several e-commerce startups from the initial setup to a successful exit.
The Berlin-based startup CrossEngage is a leading customer data and engagement platform for cross-channel campaign management. The SaaS solution enables clients to autonomously develop, execute, and optimize highly targeted and personalized messages across all marketing channels using their favorite tools and channels.
"Navigating GDPR: How to Build Trust"
Dr. Markus Wübben is a marketing veteran, as Product Owner at Rocket Internet HQ he built a multichannel campaign solution across more than 20 countries and 70 ventures. Moreover, he was Customer Management Director at EPIC as well as Head of Industry Promotions at Arvato/Bertelsmann.
At CrossEngage, he is responsible for the technical development of the product and ensures that it is optimally used by the client. For all those worried about the upcoming GDPR, Markus will share a few key insights on the topic and be on hand to answer any questions you may have.
CrossEngage integrates all data available (product data, user data, order data and behavioral data), adding easy-to-use customer journey and segmentation tools, and connects this setup to best-of-breed marketing channels for email, direct mailing, programmatic advertising, social ads and any other channel used by our clients.


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FlashForward will be taking an extended hiatus until March 4 following Thursday's new episode, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
An ABC spokesperson tells TVGuide.com that the later date will allow the serial drama to air new episodes back-to-back without repeats. The Wrap, which first reported the news, also says ABC does not want the show to have to compete with the 2010 Winter Olympics, airing in February on NBC.
FlashForward picked up for full season
FlashForward was originally scheduled to return with new episodes in January 2010. However, a preview at the end of the latest episode revealed new episodes would not air until March 2010. Among the many revelations made in the preview was an indication that there will be another blackout.
FlashForward debuted strong in October to 12.4 million viewers and a 4.1 rating among adults ages 18-49 but has dropped off significantly since. The Nov. 19 episode attracted 7.97 million viewers and a 2.4 rating in the 18-49 demo.
No word yet on which show will take over FlashForward's Thursday time slot at 8/7c.
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One of our first indoor shows but we had space on our side for an impressive display.
We had a good day.
Aylesbury Friars Square.
One of our first indoor shows but we had space on our side for an impressive display.
We had a good day.
Aylesbury Friars Square.
Our first time at this shopping centre in Redditch.
Rushden Cavalcade and Country Show 2016
30th April, 1st and 2nd May
The Show is held near Higham Ferrers, Northants, and is in its 38th year. This is a very popular show attracting a regular 30,000 visitors, more if the weather is kind to us as it was in 2015 and 30,000 visitors came.
Details of the show at Castle Ashby Gardens
Late May Bank Holiday Sunday 29th & Monday 30th
Hand made UK crafts from some of the country's finest designer makers
Art, ceramics, felting,, fabric art, glass work, handbags jewellery, knitwear, leather, metal work, paper craft, photography, silk, textiles and wood
& lots more……
Palladian Events: Castle Ashby Craft Fair
A really busy shopping centre in Aylesbury, a town with links to David Bowie.
We had a wonderful day out last year, one of our first outdoor events, didn't sell much but Heather thoroughly enjoyed helping the ladies beat the men at tug of war.
Come see our stall at this popular show, we will be located in the arts and crafts marquee.
If you have never been to the show and would like to know a bit more about the Hollowell Steam Rally, take a bit of time to browse the rest of the site to see just what a great steam rally Hollowell
Bosworth's Summer Food and Craft Market
Sun Jul 10th 10:00am – 5:00pm
A new venue we are trying out this year.
All things craft and handmade, vintage, collectables, handmade gifts,
shabby chic and oodles of loveliness and an enticing selection of
summer foods and drinks.
Now in it's third year this is a popular event with around 50 stalls
A new venue for us this year.
Come and enjoy a family day out at our Country Fete and Family Dog Show at The Orchard, Walcote Road, South Kilworth on Sunday 31st July at 1pm.
We have lots of stalls selling local, handmade products, plants, BBQ, traditional Fete games, a Family Dog Show, crafts and much much more.
Located in the southern part of Leicestershire south of North Kilworth and part of the district of Harborough. South Kilworth is a small close knit community with a 400 year old pub, an award winning butchers and popular Church of England primary school to mention a few.
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In my career of sales I have learned the skill of reading body language, and personality style types. I apply the knowledge of body language I have learned and I pair it with NLP (neural linguistic programming) and personality persuasion. Using these powerful skills you become a chameleon. With having these tools you build instant rapport. I've taught these skills to other salemen, saleswomen, business owners, and millionaires. In my sessions you will learn how to get just about anyone to like you, how to read a person, how to spot a lie when told, how to spot single people, and much more. You also will learn different types of personality, and how to approach those different personality styles.
Body Language, personality styles, persuasion.


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Do you pay your bills online? I do, and I love the fact that it's now my computer, not me, keeping up with when the credit card bill is due, how much I owe, what I paid last month, etc., etc. Instead of a "bill drawer" stuffed with envelopes containing monthly statements, I now just log on to my Wachovia account to see what's due when and to schedule an electronic payment. It's easy, convenient and requires no stamps. And I feel "green" knowing that no trees died to produce our family cell phone bill, formerly a multipage monster.
It never crossed my mind that the credit card company or the gas company might forget to send me a bill. (I should be so lucky, right?) Or that I might be liable for late fees if that happened.
CheckFree, the company that delivers 60.5 million electronic bills every quarter on behalf of hundreds of companies, has recently developed a system to make sure that the bills get delivered on time. Jane Damschroder, Senior Business Analyst in CheckFree's Electronic Commerce Division, outlined the initiative Monday to participants at the Innovators' Summit in Traverse City, Michigan.
"We're actually monitoring whether or not that bill has come into your online banking mailbox – a service that the postal service cannot provide," she explained. And the detection process works proactively – so the missing bill can be found and delivered before it's overdue.
The system, launched in April to replace manual processes, has received rave reviews from CheckFree's corporate clients. Here, briefly, is how it works. Using JMP software from SAS, CheckFree creates a billing profile of every company in its client base. Statistical models indicate how many bills Company X should be sending out each day. Significant variation from the expected volume triggers an alert, which CheckFree employees review to determine whether it might indicate a process error by the biller. If so, the biller is notified, the missing bills sent out, and the customer can pay it – on time.
"Billers are extremely happy that CheckFree is being a watchdog for them," Damschroder said. Electronic billing saves money for billers as well as payers, so companies want to expand their programs. "This is all about getting the consumer to be happy with the service so he signs up for more [electronic] bills and he gets his friends to sign up."
As for me, I'm sold – and I'm never going back to the "old" way of paying bills. It will never be my favorite thing to do, but at least online payment makes it as painless as possible.
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Yesterday I was just mad at everyone I come remotely close to working with. Fortunately I have therapy readily available on 2LL. Nevertheless, when 4:30 came, I left work RUNNING.
Today I can't seem to get anything right.
Basically, I vote to go home, go to bed, and start fresh tomorrow.
Or--ya know--try again after lunch. Whatever.
Love/Charity: Activities & Games
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How Important Is It To Be Right When Trading
In life we generally want to be right. This is why you may hear traders framing their trading success by saying they won nine out of the last 10 trades, or that they have a 90% success rate. However, this is something that you need to be weary of, having lots of winning trades does […]
In life we generally want to be right. This is why you may hear traders framing their trading success by saying they won nine out of the last 10 trades, or that they have a 90% success rate. However, this is something that you need to be weary of, having lots of winning trades does not necessarily mean that you will be a profitable trader in the long run.
Here, Simon Garner, Trading Floor Manager at Learn to Trade, lists five steps to understanding how important it is to be right when trading through your trade expectancy in order to help set yourself up for success.
- Quality over quantity: understanding reward-to-risk ratios
As traders, the risk/reward ratio is something that we need to pay close attention to. It essentially refers to how much exposure you have in the market compared to what you stand to gain. As traders we will have particular criteria that must be met in order to take a position, which will be set out according to our trading plan. Whilst this means there will only be a limited number or opportunities each month, it means each trade is carefully thought through.
- Mental expectations: finding your winning percentage
This is something that many new traders have an unrealistic expectation about. Many expect a 90-100 per cent win ratio and that they will identify trades that are a 'sure thing'. In reality this is not the case. Many profitable traders will in fact have win ratios of 60-70%, which is why having the ability to find opportunities that provide the best risk / reward ratio is so important.
- Knowing your real ratio
While being right more often than not certainly helps, to truly determine success you need to consider whether you're making any net long-term profit. This can be shown through your average reward-to-risk ratio.
To illustrate this, imagine two traders: Sarah and Mike. Both have placed 100 trades and started with the same amount of money in their trading accounts. Mike has won 75 trades and lost 25, and Sarah 30 and 70 respectively. When Mike is right he makes a profit of £100 per trade on average, but when he's wrong he makes an average loss of £300. This means that Mike's reward-to-risk ratio is 1:3. Comparatively, when Sarah is right she makes £300 on average per trade and when she's wrong she loses on average £100. This means Sarah's reward-to-risk is 3:1.
- Finding your trade expectancy
To really understand how strategies stack up against each other, we need to take into consideration the two things: firstly, how frequently we have winning trades, and secondly, how much is gained or lost with each trade.
The solution is called trading expectancy, and it is calculated by combining your risk / reward ratio and your winning percentage. Trade expectancy essentially tells us how much we stand to gain or lose for every pound risked. It is expressed in the following way:
Expectancy = (average gain x probability of gain) – (average loss x probability of loss). We can make this a bit clearer using Mike and Sarah's results here:
Mike's expectancy per trade = (£100 win x 0.75) – (£300 loss x 0.25) = £0
Sarah's expectancy per trade = (£300 win x 0.3) – (£100 x 0.70 loss) = £20
What this tells us is that over the long run Mike is breaking even with each trade despite winning 75% of the time. For Mike's strategy to become profitable he either needs to win more often and/or reduce his risk per trade. Sarah's expectancy tells us that she is making an average £20 per trade in the long run, even though she is winning just 30% of her trades. Her reward-to-risk strategy means that she can be wrong much more frequently than Mike, but still make a profit overall.
- Refine & repeat
Your trade expectancy can improve or worsen depending on trading conditions and whether you stick to your trading plan, nevertheless, expectancy is a good benchmark. You could also think of expectancy as how much you can theoretically expect to get paid for each trade you take over time. As such it is important to constantly track as you mature as a trader. Patience, consistency and education are the most important factors when it comes to trading and compounding interest.
As we all know, it's impossible to always be right when trading forex. However, figuring out your expectancy helps shift focus away from being right per trade to instead how right you are overall.


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Here we sit, just two days into 2017 — are you ready to talk men's style resolutions for this year, yet? I sure hope so, because it's topic number one today on the blog. Talking style resolutions definitely plays into a larger approach when it comes to ways to better yourself personally in the new year — be it picking up a new workout plan, saving more money or setting a resolution to get out and travel in style, there are lots of things to focus on in these early days of January. While I very likely can't help you save money all that well — just look at my menswear wish list — we can work together to set some neat and achievable style resolutions. You dig? Good. So, I'd love to hear from y'all — what are your menswear resolutions this coming year? I set some rather lofty ones last year, including a goal to wear less blue and suit up more.
At the end of the year, I have to say … I flubbed those goals a tad. Truth be told, I realized the color blue was an essential piece in my wardrobe, from layering up with a slim henley all the way through to wearing classic suiting with a denim shirt. So, I'm going to aim to work more color into more wardrobe, for one. And, partially thanks to my recent membership in the very cool Ties.com StyleGuruSociety, I'm going to aim to suit up more this coming year — once again, the bar is set high. And with my a lovely new, custom-made suit done beautifully by the team at Alan David Custom, it should be that much easier. Seriously, I can't recommend the quality of their work enough — it's classic, customized tailoring just as you prefer it. But, back to those resolutions. Whether your resolutions involve developing a classic menswear wardrobe filled with versatile staples or simply saving up to buy the coveted Bond Peacoat, I'm here to help. From this site's ongoing #OOTD series to menswear style suggestions galore, we'll keep the fun going all year long.
So, here are my 2017 style resolutions — What are yours?? Let's here 'em in the comments or via The Style Guide Facebook page.
#1. Mix-and-match tailoring & patterns more.
Pattern-mixing in the menswear world, particularly when it comes to refined tailoring. is a bit of a tricky art to master, but it's a style skill that plenty of guys out there have honed. Exhibit A above comes to you as styled in the pages of Esquire — seriously, check out some standout shots of Michael Fassbender for a great example of how it's done. It's simple enough in practice — mixing, say, a large plaid poplin shirt with a smaller plaid wool tie, for example, or a striped tie with a patterned shirt. These are the sorts of combinations I'm aiming to try soon — follow along on Instagram to see how it works out.
#2. Ditch those boots …. some of the time.
If you follow along with The Style Guide on a regular basis — as you well should — you'll see that your SG team (of one) frequently wears and posts about stylish leather boots. Be it a tough workboot like the Original Chippewa Service Boot or something a tad more refined like the Astorflex Chelsea Boot, there's no question that a great pair can be a year-round workhorse if you style 'em the right way. However, as much as I love my suede chukka boots, and a plethora of other styles, I'm feeling the need to break out classic staples like white leather sneakers far more often — and maybe with combinations like a blazer and a slim blue chambray shirt, at that. Are you with me?
#3. Switch those jeans for chinos … every so often.
My third and final major style resolution is something I took on last year — namely, wearing classic dark denim a bit less, and wearing versatile pieces like slim cotton chinos more. The slim cotton chino really is a four-season staple, and brands like Taylor Stitch know how to make them with the best brands around — so my affinity for the classic staple certainly provides a strong starting point. Don't get me wrong, I certainly love the chinos I've got in my rotation, but I find myself reaching for inky blue denim more than, say, equally versatile olive chinos. With that in mind, I'm looking to participate in the #NoJeansJanuary challenge from the fantastic team at Style Girlfriend — will you be joining me? And I'll be making more of an effort to swap chinos into my #OOTD this winter, too.
Of course, the above items are but three resolutions I've got on my list — I'm also setting small workout goals, like knocking out sets of push-ups every day, and aiming to do other little things, like upgrade my apartment décor (if that's a goal for you as well, check out what the folks at Friday & River have to say). What do you think of the above resolutions? Do they jive with any of yours? Let's chat menswear on Twitter, and let's kick off this year in style!
Good luck out there and stay stylish,


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Audience Choice Voting Now Open for Selected 2013 ATOM Awards Categories
Whether you've already seen last year's finalists, or you've just discovered the ATOM Awards, now is your chance to have your say and let us know your favourites!
The ATOM Awards are Australia's leading film and media awards for the education and industry sectors, spanning twenty-nine diverse screen content categories including film, television, animation, multimedia, educational resources and games.
The audience choice awards offer students and teachers (and other interested individuals) from all over the world a chance to view and vote for their favourite finalist productions in selected student categories from the 2013 ATOM Awards.
We want as many people as possible to have the opportunity to vote, so please spread the word, and jump online to view the productions and vote at: http://www.atomawards.org/audience-choice/


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- Authorization to Administer Over~The-Counter (OTC) Medications - It is necessary that we have your written approval to give your child medication. This approval must be renewed each school year. If you would like to provide this approval, please complete this form and return it to the school. Eng-Authorization_to_Administer_Over-The-Counter_OTC_Medications_.pdf (78.6 KBs)
- Student Enrollment Form - Please complete prior to attending Central Elementary. Eng-O-ST-26_Student_Enrollment_Form.pdf (112.9 KBs)
- Emergency Contact Information Form - Keep parent contact information up to date. Eng-O-ST-26a_Emergency_Information_Form.pdf (109.4 KBs)
- Kindergarten Registration Form - Please complete prior to admittance to Kindergarten. Eng-O-ST-77_Kindergarten_Questionaire.pdf (29.8 KBs)
- Permission to Video My Child - Permission is given for publications, videos and newspapers, and social media to use my child's photo. Eng-Permission_to_video_and_photograph_form.pdf (38.9 KBs)
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QA / Solution
Features and Specials
Todays high quality display and monitor systems are integrated as part of the process into medical diagnostic and viewing applications. Due to this reason the performance of this systems needs to be stabilized and controlled for the time of entire use. QA is the process of checking and controlling medical viewing and diagnostic displays towards the existing medical standards.
Medical institutes are today running quality programs for a lot of equipment, but in most of all cases still the medical displays used for diagnosis and reviewing are not part of any scheduled quality routines. As a perfect display still does not exist today, missed diagnoses may be the result. As the displays are used for life critical decisions a real need for QA software solutions is existing.


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Struggling to build a strong team inside of Network Marketing?
If so, I am going to share 3 best practices for mlm team building that will help you!
As always feel free to share with your team mates if you got value!
Heads Up: How To Become A Better MLM Recruiter
One of the biggest challenges facing network marketers is how to recruit in MLM.
If you have this problem, and then this course will really help you out.
3 BEST Practices for MLM Team Building.
Without building a very strong team, you won't get far inside of Network Marketing.
However, a lot of us make so many mistakes when building a team, which can cost us in the long run.
So here are some best practices for team building.
1. Mindset and Expectations
Do not expect EVERYONE to have the same goals as you do.
Some want to just be part of the community, and some just want to earn a small amount of money.
While some, will want to go after the 6-7 figure income goals.
Having this at the back of your mind is the foundation of building a large team.
However, THAT is not all…
Watch the video where I share more on this.
Did you get value from those MLM team building tips?
If you did, feel free to like, comment, and share if you got value!
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2nd Team All-Region 12 players
Nick Haycock, a senior captain, receiver and linebacker. Haycock's 81 yard touchdown reception with two minutes left in the game sealed the deal against Monticello on opening night and help start a four-game winning streak for the Dinos.
Offensively Nick had 46 receptions for 585 yards and five touchdowns. Defensively, Nick recorded 36 tackles, two interceptions and a defensive touchdown.
Daulton Nelson, a senior captain, running back and linebacker. When the team needed a yard, Daulton would get five. Nelson was a workhorse from the running back position rushing the ball 117 times for 438 yards and five touchdowns. He also had 10 receptions for 68 yards. From the linebacker position, Daulton recorded 56 tackles and 10 sacks and was also one of the most efficient long snappers in the state.
1st Team All-Region 12 players
Dillon Manzanares, a senior captain, linebacker, running back and offensive lineman.
Manzanares was the heart of the Dino defense who led the team with 97 tackles and also recorded four sacks, one interception and a defensive touchdown.
Offensively, Manzanares recorded 47 yards rushing and 39 yards receiving after moving from the offensive line to a running back late in the season.
Tanner Gagnon, a senior captain, receiver, defensive end and kicker. Tanner made some big plays from the defensive end position and ended the season with 58 tackles, 10 sacks, a fumble recovery and a defensive touchdown.
Offensively, Gagnon had 10 receptions for 245 yards and three touchdowns. He rushed the ball 24 times for 71 yards. Gagnon was a leader on special teams as a punter and kicker. He made some key field goals and PAT's to help secure some Dino victories.
Four Carbon High seniors named to All-Region football teams
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Combined Heat and Power Engine
The Combined Heat and Power Engine (CHP) is a gas fired engine that produces heat and electricity. This is used to power and heat student residences, lecture theatres and offices across campus. Carbon emissions from electricity produced by the CHP are approximately half of those from electricity taken from the grid, whilst the cost of electricity from the CHP is significantly lower than that from the grid.
The CHP was fully operational by February 2012 and generates 2.2MW of heat and 1.9MW of electricity.
The CHP supplied 28% of the University's annual electricity consumption in 2013-14, reducing carbon emissions by approximately 2,000tCO2e per annum.


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School Nutrition Weekly Update - April 21, 2015 - Issue No. 2015.4-3
In This Issue:
- Update - Agreement Renewal - SY 2015-16
- It's Every Kid Healthy Week!
- Healthy Lunchtime Challenge & Kids' "State Dinner"
- Vacancy Announcement - Charlotte/Mecklenburg Schools
- Continuing Education Opportunity Schedule
- Important Dates
SNWU - April 21, 2015 PRINT VERSION
Update - Agreement Renewal - SY 2015-16
Don't worry, you didn't miss it. The Annual Agreement for school year 2015-2016 was scheduled to be released to the SFAs on Monday, April 20, but as you know, things don't always go according to plan. We fully expected to launch renewal season on yesterday, but have encountered a couple of delays that are beyond our control. We apologize for the delay and we will be in touch as soon as we get the green light.
In the meantime, as you are waiting to hear from us, we encourage you to take this opportunity to make sure you are prepared to complete the agreement renewal process. Please review last week's SN Weekly (April 14) for some helpful information and instructions on preparing for Agreement Renewal 2015-2016.
It's Every Kid Healthy Week!
Every Kid Healthy™ Week, sponsored by Action for Healthy Kids, is an annual observance created to celebrate school health and wellness achievements.
It is observed the last week of April each year and shines a spotlight on the great efforts schools are making to improve the health and wellness of the students and the link between nutrition, physical activity and learning.
For more information visit the Action for Healthy Kids page at: http://www.everykidhealthyweek.org/
Source: Action for Healthy Kids website. http://www.everykidhealthyweek.org/. 17 Apr. 2015.
Healthy Lunchtime Challenge & Kids' "State Dinner"
First Lady Michelle Obama, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Education, and WGBH Boston invite students to enter the fourth annual Healthy Lunch Time Challenge & Kids' "State Dinner." The top recipe from each of the 50 states and territories will be chosen. The top chef and their parent or guardian will be flown to Washington, DC where they will attend the Kids' State Dinner hosted by Michelle Obama.
Submission for the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge must be received by April 30, 2015. In order to be eligible for this challenge, lunch submissions need to be an original recipe, created by a kid between the ages of 8-12 years old, and need to follow the MyPlate nutritional guidelines. Fruits and vegetables should make up about half of the recipe or dish, and it should also include whole grains, lean protein and low-fat dairy. To learn more about this exciting opportunity, including how to enter, visit: http://www.pbs.org/parents/lunchtimechallenge/home/
Vacancy Announcement
School District: Charlotte/Mecklenburg Schools Position: Director, Child Nutrition Business Services
CLICK HERE to view/download the full vacancy announcement. If you have questions about the position, please contact Cindy Hobbs at email@example.com
Continuing Education Opportunity Schedule
NOTE: Click the title above to visit the Continuing Education page where you will find a list of scheduled Conferences, Webinars and Workshops.
Important Dates
|April 19-25
|Every Kid Healthy Week
|April 30
|3rd Quarterly Financial Analysis Worksheet Due (for Traditional Public School SFAs only)
|May 1
|School Lunch Hero Day
|May 4-8
|National School Nutrition Employee Week
|May 10 (Sun)
|Deadline for Submitting Claim for Reimbursement (for April 2015)
|May 15 (Fri)
|Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Claim for Reimbursement Deadline (for April 2015)
|June 10 (Sunday)
|Deadline for Submitting Claim for Reimbursement (for May 2015)
|June 15 (Friday)
|Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Claim for Reimbursement Deadline (for May 2015)
|June 24-25
|School Nutrition Association of NC State Conference
Have Questions? Need Assistance?
Please remember to always contact your regional consultants or specialists first for any questions or assistance unless directed otherwise.
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Cyber Criminals Are Innovating Faster Than Businesses, Say 83% Of Respondents To Infosecurity Europe Poll
The majority (83%) of respondents to the latest Twitter poll from Infosecurity Europe 2019 – Europe's number one information security event – believe that organisations are not innovating as quickly as the cyber criminals who plan to attack them. This indicates that security strategies and solutions are not being evolved fast enough to defend businesses against the ever-changing and increasingly sophisticated threats they face. An inability to innovate rapidly also points to a lack of agility and responsiveness, which will inhibit a business's growth.
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Tap / Knob Turners
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text: Pavarotti's condition has improved, wife says 5:00 AM PDT 8/11/2007 by Reuters , AP FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Empty MODENA, Italy -- Opera superstar Luciano Pavarotti, diagnosed with cancer last year, is doing better and even joking around after being admitted to hospital two days ago, his wife said Friday. Pavarotti, 71, regarded by many as the greatest tenor of his generation, was taken to hospital with a high fever in his home town of Modena on Wednesday. He is being treated in the hospital's cancer ward, with guards stationed outside. "He is calm, he is talking and joking," Pavarotti's wife, Nicoletta Mantovani, who is 34 years his junior, told reporters as she left the hospital on Friday morning. "The doctors are very positive," she said, adding that he would be discharged in the next few days. The hospital said Thursday his condition was satisfactory and that he was likely to be discharged soon. It confirmed that outlook on Friday. Local media said Pavarotti, who underwent surgery to remove a pancreatic tumor in July 2006, was suffering from a respiratory infection complicated by kidney problems. The singer has not been seen in public since the cancer operation, which forced him to cancel the remaining dates of his 2006 farewell opera tour. After the surgery, Pavarotti had vowed to return to the stage this year, but he has called off a number of appearances in the past few months, fuelling media speculation about his condition. Reports have said the singer, who has a 5-year-old daughter with Mantovani, is confined to a wheelchair. Since his operatic debut in 1961, the rotund, black-bearded tenor has become one of the most recognized classical musicians in the world, regularly gracing the stage at New York's Metropolitan Opera, London's Covent Garden and Milan's La Scala. His fame grew when he sang the "Nessun Dorma" aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" at the soccer World Cup in Italy in 1990 alongside Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras. Pavarotti's manager Terri Robson last month denied his condition had worsened. She said he was working on a recording of sacred songs and also teaching students daily. News of his admission to hospital shook Modena, famous as the land of balsamic vinegar and home to the factories of luxury car brands Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini. "In the 1990s, I went all the way to New York to see him sing, and today I am sad and worried," 77-year-old pensioner Annamaria Corghe said. "He has truly been a great. The others are good, but one wonders who will come after him." FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Reuters email@example.com @thr AP firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says the administration will "take a very long look" at a massive multibillion-dollar contract the Pentagon is about to award for a cloud computing system.
Amazon Web Services Inc., a division of Amazon, and Microsoft Corp. are finalists for the contract estimated to be worth as much as $10 billion over a decade.
Trump says Thursday at the White House that he's been hearing "tremendous complaints" from other companies that the contract was not competitively bid, among other issues. Some Republican lawmakers also took their concerns about the Pentagon's handling of the contract directly to Trump.
Trump is a critic of Amazon, which is owned by Jeff Bezos. Bezos also owns The Washington Post, and Trump has criticized the paper's coverage of the administration.


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Big Sean's rap inspiration comes from lyricists from past and present.
During a lengthy conversation with Fat Joe via Instagram Live, the Detroit MC shared his list of top five favorite rappers of all time. The ranking included the late Notorious B.I.G., along with Eminem, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, and JAY-Z. Sean, who is hot off the release of his latest album, Detroit 2, admitted that he could easily expand the list to a total of 10 acts and include the likes of Rakim, Nas, Tupac, Snoop Dogg and OutKast.
The rapper also showed some appreciation for Fat Joe himself. "You being one of the most inspiring MCs to me and one of my favorites because of not just the impact you've had but the longevity too," he explained. "You defied the odds and I think that's a true testament of your character."
When Sean made mention of Em, Fat Joe confessed that he recently received a call from Slim Shady, urging him not to retire from the game. "I'm like, 'Yo, this is all I ever wanted my whole life, for one of the rap gods like Eminem to call me and tell me, 'Joe, you nice. You need to get back in there.' I couldn't believe it," he continued.
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I was always the curious girl who asked endless questions, loved to learn, wished to hold, desired to feel, and craved to create from the weight of the world in my hands. Maybe I always loved traveling because I felt that I never really belonged anywhere and was a lifetime tourist or traveler, stranger in a stranger land, and a foreigner in foreign fields as the observer and outsider.
At age 8, I eagerly boarded a jumbo jet to Hong Kong with a small backpack containing my Sega game gear and Barbie dolls. In my mid-teens and early 20's, I formed a love affair with cute stationary and colored pens to meticulously hand write (no typing allowed) to people from all over the world. Soon following this love affair was me hanging a world map to decipher all the colored continents where I pushed pins to locate someone across the world who would read my words and be my very special friend who gave me new worldly perspectives and understandings. At age 15, I traveled for the first time all alone for about 14 hours to Hong Kong. I had never felt so free and so me all at the same time. Fear was not in the equation in the slightest.
There were many reasons as to why I loved traveling. New and worldly perspectives derived from cultures, food, languages, politics, and everyday ordinary living that was extraordinary. Seeing how much my temperamental body and the strength of movement could withstand from ongoing walking, exploring, and discovering. Most of all, there was something unexplainably magical, powerful, and freeing to be anonymous where no one would know me and my history. A clean slate. Yes, my very own slate to construct these memories and moments in the present and for the future without anyone knowing anything of my past.
On all my international ventures and especially this latest to Spain and Portugal, I was all about typical touristy things: Take tons of pictures, tackle the tasty tapas, feel the flamenco music and dancing, slurp up sangrias, and befriend my persnickety body once again when we tested foreign areas that involved climbing cobbled steps just to feel on top of the world without anyone or anything (including myself) to stop me.
There is so much in life that the camera lenses cannot capture. There are so many words that cannot express the learned and lived experiences. All my glossy and smiley travel pictures that have spoken my words and experiences of joy on my travels have yet to speak of the "if it were me" moments that are not as pleasant, perfect, and pretty, but all the more about reality.
Like the blood red and mustard yellow striped flags that hung and waved in the gentle winds in Barcelona to symbolize the desire for independence and freedom. Like when the clock struck midnight in a stuffy bus station from Seville, Spain to Lisbon, Portugal and I encountered the Puerto Rican boy who wore a "Marvel Comics" T-shirt who spoke impeccable English and Spanish and was using this to help strangers figure out which station to take to get to their destination. Like the middle-aged Spaniard man who caringly and quietly approached me in the blinding and bright supermarket to ask if I was okay when he glimpsed me sitting on an upside down food basket because I felt dizzy and as though I would faint from my blood pressure dropping. Like the man who was lying nearly dead in front of a Barcelona café with holes in his clothes and his flesh rotting of stink so severely that flies nipped deliciously and devilishly at him.
My travel companion and dear friend stopped to stare at this pitiful and nearly dead man to call the ambulance. Back in roughly 2008, we began our friendship with a superficial title of "penpals" when exchanging handwritten airmail letters on cute stationary in even cuter envelopes decked out in stickers. Now with our Spain and Portugal travels that were filled to the brim of deciphering maps, walking with periodic rests, pensive conversations, exhaustion, laughter, and discoveries, I could firmly say that we were friends. Good friends, at that.
Before finding the man who was lying nearly dead in front of the Barcelona café that resulted in her ringing the ambulance, we were about to go to a famous café that served crispy and sugary churros dipped in a cup full of rich and dark chocolate.
She apologetically said to me, "I'm sorry, Mary. We will get the churros after the ambulance comes."
"No, please do not apologize. You just have such a good and caring heart. People will just walk past and not do anything, but when the police or an emergency happens then everyone watches for entertainment," I said softly while glancing yet again at this man who we were not sure who was dead or alive.
"Yes, people are really sick. It is just…well, Mary, if it were me, I would want someone to stop to check if I was even alive."
I stared at her round-eyed and full of dawning realization and understanding.
Yes, if it were me, I would want the same.
"If it were me" moments have had the most profound effect on my life and so many, resulting in compassion, understanding, responsibility, connection, and action for and towards the better. These moments have taken me out and away from myself to try to imagine what it is like for others to become a better me and to do more for the greater good. Truly, when we the last time we ever really put ourselves in other people's shoes to try to understand even if on the surface? Honestly, when was the last time we showed compassion and acted in sincere kindness rather than ignored in ignorance?
All this time with all these traveling excursions, I thrived on the "clean slate" factor only to conclude now that we never know what has been written and experienced on the slate of anyone. Only when we catch glimpses of these slates that require some help then we should go for it and be a part of the writing on the slates. Although we will never really comprehend or know what a person is going through or how a person feels even when placed in the same situation, we can go outside our comfort zone for the unfamiliar to put us in a place of others and their own perspectives to help, understand, and show and give kindness. Maybe the world needs more "if it were me" for more social and community responsibility.
I do not want to go through life being a tourist to only see the surface. I want go through life being a traveler to feel the substance. That girl in me who was always curious about the world in my hands now just wants make and create the better just from trying a little harder to be and imagine "if it were me."
Because, the truth is this: Someday "if it were me" could turn into "it is me."
Keep smilin' until we meet again,
Mary ;-)


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The guys return this week to kick off a new show concept based on how music relates to human emotions; the first of which is Happiness. In this long form music and discussion episode, you'll get tips on how to achieve happiness. You'll also learn steps you can take to prevent unhappy psychotic vampires from sucking away your joy.
In addition to the great tunes selected by your hosts that inspire their own happiness, you'll also get tracks suggested by listeners that have helped keep their chin up. Songs from David Lee Roth, Y&T, Nazareth, Bon Jovi, Poison, Edguy, Reckless Love, KISS, Slash's Snakepit, and Enuff Z'nuff. We hope you enjoy Happiness - Ep257 and SHARE with a friend!
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Even though Belarusian music scene is not so well-known and widespread abroad, there are some performers that will make your heart beat faster.
Here is a list of most authentic and popular local music bands right now: from folk, punk and pop to techno and acid jazz so even the most demanding listeners will find something to suit their music tastes.
Turn the music on louder and start dancing! There are no boundaries when it comes to good music.
1. Vuraj
The band experiments with authentic Belarusian folk and connects it with contemporary music styles.
The group was created as a music and theatre project in 2010, and its main genres are instrumental theater, fairy folk, folk-rock, psychedelic folk and ethno-disco. In VuRaj songs one will spot strong cultural messages, mythological images and principles of echoism. The band takes part in many folk festivals both in Belarus and abroad.
Powerful energy and deep pagan melodies are especially admired by their fans.
2. Shaman jungle
This is one more folklore inspired music band, formed in 2011.
The music of Shaman Jungle is based on imagination and fascinating rhythmic patterns, where there are no barriers to experiments and improvisation. The musicians define their style as ethno-trance, where trance is understood as a state of mind.
Their most likely styles may be ambient, jazz, jungle. Musicians always improvise, experiment with various ethnic instruments and electronic music while performin. They often accompany their shows with oriental dances, fire, neon show and plastic theater.
3. Brutto
Brutto is a punk rock band founded by Sergey Michalok, the former lead singer of the iconic Belarusian band Lyapis Trubetskoy, whose music was forbidden in Belarus for some time.
The band was formed in 2014 right after Lyapis Trubetskoy broke up. Their genres are punk rock, alternative rock, street punk, hardcore punk, anarcho-punk.
The former members of Lyapis Trubetskoy surprised their old fans with another side of their character – in Brutto's songs have complex lyrics and a more acoustic sound that reaches deeply to their fans. Their latest concert was held in Minsk in March.
4. Mustelide
Mustelide is a solo project of Natalya Kunitskaya who is labeled 'the electronic princess' by the press.
Her experimental pop music makes Natalya a special personality in the Eastern European electro-pop scene.
Fancy electronic vibes, groovy rhythms and sensual, shady vocals create a mysterious atmosphere at Mustelide's performances. Being a songwriter, singer and producer, she is shaping and directing her artistic vision only by herself.
5. Navi
This young Belarusian indie pop duo will represent Belarus at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. The band consists of Arciom Lukjanienka and Ksienija Zhuk who perform their songs mainly in the Belarusian language. Their melodic lyrics and soft pleasant vibes won't leave anyone indifferent.
Naviband will perform in Kiev with the song "Historyja majho zhyccia" ("the story of my life").
6. Port Mone
Port Mone is an instrumental trio influenced by jazz, minimalism and ambient music. They turn the traditional harmonies of the accordion into a mix of ambient, noise, experimental and traditional music.
Since its forming in Minsk in 2006, Port Mone has become a favorite among Eastern European music critics, they have won the hearts of fans in Poland, Croatia and Russia.
Recently the musicians have launched an original art project to draw attention to the development of renewable energy in Belarus. They are recording the new album using only green energy.
The mobile sound recording studio will be taken first to the wind turbines, and then to the solar park where the music will be played and recorded.
7. Shuma
The word 'shuma' derives from the archaic Belarusian word "shamiarec' that means 'to make noise'. But what Šuma (spelling is different from the subtitle) creates is far from noise – it's a delicate mixture of high quality electronic music and pagan Belarusian songs performed in a contemporary manner.
Their spectacular shows are usually accompanied by traditional choreography and visual performances. Their genres may be defined as electronic, acid jazz, ambient, techno, folktronica, ethno-electronic.
It's likely you've already heard Shuma: the lead singer of the band voiced the announcements at the Minsk railway station.
8. Serebrianaya Svadba
This Belarusian cabaret band appeared in 2005 and has quickly become popular not just in Belarus but in Russia and the Ukraine.
Their extraordinary musical style includes elements of chanson, country, Latin American and Russian folk music. Serebrianaya Svadba ("silver wedding") uses a lot of musical instruments, as well as a wide set of props that turn their shows into a cheerful, bright and colorful carnival.
9. Yashar Gasanov
Yashar is a musician, producer and DJ from Minsk.
He first became famous for making rap but then switched to electronic music. He has rich experience in writing music in various genres but now works mainly in the styles of trap, dubstep, moombahcore and house.
10. Stary Olsa
Have you ever heard about medieval Belarusian instruments such as Belarusian bagpipe, lyre, svirel, jew's-harp, ocarina, birch bark trumpet, hudok or tromba marina?
You can hear them all in the songs of Stary Olsa, a medieval folk band that plays the music of the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania, where Belarus was an important cultural and geopolitical part in the 13th–18th centuries.
The band is also known for covering popular rock songs using their medieval instruments. They actually released an album with covers via a Kickstarter campaign in 2016.
The name Stary Olsa means "Old Olsa", where Olsa is a left tributary of Berezina in Mogilev region.
This guide was written by Nadzeya Prasvirava for BelarusFeed. Special thanks to Eugene Karpov for inspiration and to Nadia Metelitsa for proofreading.


text: Music by Unicorn, lyrics by Dan Swano I am walking in the silent rain, where the young one's free, the old man's sane, I am waliking it alone, this magic lane. The sap of those who shall remain, regain the throne of redulence, unify the leprechauns and go. Renew the sapid sward Welcome. They return. The turbid mere will quail. Zoetrope. Turning around in circles as we live. The gyration has made it turn. The tot that touches the tottery turf He's wishing it would be a birch so that he could taste the cosy bark. I am dreaming of a branch of lime. Knowning it would heal his maul, trying hard to misgive his chief. The minx a jinx with whisk?? And it is waiting to reform. The torsive hedgehog won't!! Zoetrope... Watch how it burns! Oh, for how long? Do we have to wait for infinity? Oh, for how long? Do we have to wait for infinity now? Now you've heard the weirdest tale. Phrases that's unentaled. Now fold your rod and come along to where those tales began...Go! You have taken all what you are!


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SPF stands for sun protection factor. It is a measure of ultraviolet B protection. It is the amount of light that induces redness in sunscreen-protected skin, divided by the amount of light that induces redness in non sunscreen-protected skin.
For example, a sunscreen with an SPF of 15 will delay the onset of a sunburn in a person who would otherwise burn in 10 minutes to burn in 150 minutes. So SPF 15 sunscreen allows a person to stay out in the sun 15 times longer. It is important to remember that SPF does not predict ultraviolet A protection.


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Tips for Parents
By Helen H. Heron
One of the most important contributions you can make to your students is to support them in making their own decisions about which college they should attend. If you have been discussing college choices with them during the application process, you are in a position to be very helpful. You will find two sets of questions that will help your student make the best choice in Tips for Teachers and Tips for Students. Use what works for you!
Look at College Countdown, A Planning Guide for High School Students to find out more about choosing colleges and universities and making good decisions. For ordering information, click here.
Permission is given to reproduce this document in its entirety or quote portions as long as you reference the source, Helen Heron, author, and Heron Publishing.
Helen Heron, author of College Countdown, A Planning Guide For High School Students, at www.heronpub.com


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I first attended The Future of Technology in Education Conference (FOTE) last year (2009) and I said at the time I aimed to go back. I was delighted to be asked to speak at the FOTE 2010 conference and I was able to talk to the assembled audience about some of the work that we do at Learning and Teaching Scotland within the Consolarium
FOTE is a good idea – it is free to attend and consists of short 20-minute presentations by people from a variety of backgrounds. It is also a good networking opportunity and attracts nearly 400 delegates – this year it sold out in just under 90 minutes. Most of the audience come from the further and higher education sector.
One of the things that FOTE does well is its pre conference website and its during conference sharing. Other conference organizers could learn a lot from what they do here.
Also, during the conference it is live streamed and also broadcast within Second Life. Both of these things are fairly easy to do but again it allows for more remote participation and attracts a wider variety of audience.
Chris Smith (who runs the popular education website shambles.net) just stumbled across the conference on the morning that it was due to start. He tuned in via second life and twitter – and even though he lives in Thailand he was able to participate as a full conference delegate.
Usefully, Chris has posted some of his conference feedback as a Screener recording:
I wonder what we can learn from FOTE for events like the Scottish Learning Festival. I'll post some of my other thoughts about this years FOTE 2010 Conference.
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Simulator Study of Heavy Truck Air Disc Brake Effectiveness During Emergency Braking
In crashes between heavy trucks and light vehicles, most of the fatalities are the occupants of the light vehicle. A reduction in heavy truck stopping distance should lead to a reduction in the number of crashes, the severity of crashes, and consequently the numbers of fatalities and injuries. This study made use of the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS). NADS is a full immersion driving simulator used to study driver behavior as well as driver-vehicle reactions and responses. The vehicle dynamics model of the existing heavy truck on NADS had been modified with the creation of two additional brake models. The first was a modified S-cam (larger drums and shoes) and the second was an air-actuated disc brake system. A sample of 108 CDL-licensed drivers was split evenly among the simulations using each of the three braking systems. The drivers were presented with four different emergency stopping situations.


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On the internet, there are thousands of fake guides, which claim that it is possible to hack Instagram accounts by using their software, but did you know that a lot of these How to hack Instagram guides instruct their victims to use software which is actually loaded with malicious code.
This malicious software will try to steal the Instagram credentials or any other credential from the device which is running the "How to hack Instagram software".
The sites which will claim to hold a illegal tool that is possible to breach Instagram accounts will often use these type of names to "sell" their software to their victims:
- Hack Extreme Instagram
- Instagram Hacker
- Instagram Password Hacker
How to hack Instagram scammers on the internet
The scammers which are behind the Instagram hacking websites, will make sure that they have a good looking website — a lot of these scammers are familiar with various methods which allow them to increase their infection rate.
The scammers will think about:
- Creating good looking website
- Providing customer support at the start fase
- Making sure that you download the file
Instagram hacking tools vs Antivirus programs
A lot of these Instagram hacking tools do get noticed by antivirus applications, but it is possible that some might slip through the sensors of the antivirus application which is running on the device.
In 99% of the cases, the Instagram hacking tools are fake, and the other 1% are brute forcing tools, which will take ages to complete.
Ethical hackers
Ethical hackers have methods which allow them to penetrate any environment which is operated by humans.
The Instagram account of public users (not Instagram employees) are often very vulnerable to social engineering attacks, and so I strongly urge you to stay away from tools which claim to be capable of hacking Instagram accounts.
As you can see from the picture above, it is way easier for someone to apply an social engineering attack instead of using brute force tools which get recognized and identified very quickly.