text: Janet Garcia, director of MindLeaders, explores how small businesses can use Facebook to gain a commercial advantage. MindLeaders combines talent management and elearning into one platform, and was founded in 1981. The controversy following Facebook's floatation on the stock markets may have caused some companies to hesitate before using social media as a business tool. But if so, they are missing out on a major opportunity. Facebook now has around 900 million users worldwide, so there's an excellent chance that these will include a business's core market. To reach these prime targets, businesses can specify the ages, locations or interests of those they wish to reach. It means that marketing spend can be much more precisely focused on those prospects most likely to become customers. In a recent real-life case, an Irish hotel demonstrated the potential to earn over three-quarters of a million euros in just 24-hours after an offer was claimed by around 27,000 people by careful Facebook targeting. The hotel wasn't large enough to accommodate everyone who wanted to take up the offer, but its success does illustrate the power of advertising this way. If an ad or an offer is attractive enough, others will do the work by recommending it to their friends and distribution becomes viral across a network of like-minded people. However, using Facebook to advertise and market a brand can be confusing for a newcomer. Research shows that the majority of small businesses now have a Facebook Page, but they are not using it to engage with their customers. A study by Recommend.ly found that 82 percent of company and brand pages post less than five updates a month. This is understandable; creating a Facebook Page is free and, while businesses don't need to pay to keep posting new content, it does take time and effort to keep it current. However, to put it in perspective, businesses need to balance this use of time against the benefits of having an ongoing dialogue with customers. Market research surveys are expensive, but this way, businesses can enjoy ongoing grass-roots feedback on what their key markets think of their products and services – and importantly, about other related issues too. It's a forum for photos and videos too – and as a business establishes a fan-base, its news will become part of its customers' news feed and so its story will spread. So far, so straightforward. Many businesses get this far, yet don't go any further. But Facebook wants to see more small businesses using Facebook to reach customers and has been developing different ways to help them build customer loyalty – and new sales leads - using the site. Optimising Facebook for business does require a consistent strategy surrounding brand personality, style and tone. It takes time to continually feed a page with updated news and relevant content to help establish a valuable fan base and keep a brand name continually on the news feeds. However, time and effort will be repaid with tools such as Sponsored Stories or interactive advertisements linked to a friend's 'likes' or recommendations. It has been shown that people are far more likely to remember the name of a brand when it is linked to a friend's name and four times as likely to buy from that brand. In other words, there's a real difference between just having a Facebook presence and proactively seeking to optimise the opportunities it presents. So how does a small business with limited time and resources get to do this? Outsourcing the work to an agency specialising in social media is one option. However, inevitably this will be expensive – and in many cases unnecessary - as using the social network isn't complex and there are currently many courses available for businesses wanting to learn more. But evaluating these can be time-consuming in itself. What to choose depends on time available and how best an individual learns. For a small business, elearning courses are probably the most practical as they can be fitted around a working day and addressed in small chunks to prevent learning overload. They also enable you to revisit sections that most interest you whenever you need to. The best use a variety of media such as video, images, narration and interactive screens to engage with their audiences. Look for a course run by training companies that are already experts in delivering elearning – and one that offers not just tips and tricks but also suggests ways to develop a cohesive overall strategy. Preferably, choose a course that has been developed in co-operation with Facebook as those without this can soon become out of date. Finally, don't be duped into paying too much, even the best online courses are very affordable to ensure users get return on their investment as soon as they start making money from their efforts. In short, generating revenue from promoting your business on Facebook is simple, once you know how. But learning how isn't difficult – or expensive – either. Don't let lack of time or knowledge mean that your business misses out. It's an opportunity that's there for the taking.


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#DiamondJubilee #October12 #QuezonMemorialCircle #ZumbaDance #GuinessWorldRecord #Year2014 #Sunday #FreeCONCERT #QuezonCity #FUTUREPerfect It was another Sunday of FUN at the CIRCLE! ZUMBA Dance gathering and free concert! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203193880674328&set=a.10200687367933076.1073741829.1427450153&type=1&theater
#MissUniverse2014 #January25 #Year2015 #Sunday #USCenturyBankArena #FloridaInternationalUniversity #PhilippinePapalVisit #PopeFrancis #January15to19 Finally, Miss Universe 2014 will be held at US Century Bank Arena Florida International University on 25-January-2015 Sunday. BAKU as a venue was cancelled because there was so much unrest in Azerbaijan today! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203193682989386&set=a.10200687367933076.1073741829.1427450153&type=1&theater
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TSU Cheer Competition(with Pyramiding)
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October 10-12,2010
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Lowly Coffee Trees and Vine
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Sadness is an understatement of what we have felt upon hearing the news on the ill-fated Bell412 Presidential Helicopter that crashed at Barrio Tinoc Ifugao on the lenten week of 2009. The pilot, Philippine Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Ronaldo Sacatani has been a classmate at Tarlac College of Technology now the Tarlac State University in 1990 before he and another TSU student, Christopher Magdangal, a freshman engineering student, entered the portals of the Philippine Military Academy after hurdling the tough academy exams. To the bereaved family of Lieutenant Colonel Ronaldo Sacatani, Condolences from TSU BSEE Batch 1992.
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The Year of Mark Twain
Given my white hair and bushy eyebrows, I have heard more than a few times that I look like Mark Twain. This resemblance is a source of amusement to my friends. A few months ago we went to see Hal Holbrook in "Mark Twain Tonight," his famous show where he impersonates Samuel Clemens. My friends joked that at the intermission I got more requests for autographs than Hal Holbrook. This year I've decided to take advantage of that resemblance.
2010 marks the 175th anniversary of Clemens's birth, the 100th anniversary of his death, and the 125th anniversary of the publication of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Celebrations will be taking place all over the country and abroad. At this very moment, no doubt, hundreds of school children are writing reports on his books. Come summer, I predict, dozens of small towns in the South will host look-alike contests where young people will dress like Tom Sawyer or Becky Thatcher. As for me, having written a good deal about Twain and having purchased a white suit, I'm hanging out my shingle and advertising my availability for talks at your local library.
In my experience, folks want to know about the life of the man who wrote those classic books. If the curious are adults, I send them in the direction of Justin Kaplan's solid biography Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, but if they're youngsters I point them to Sid Fleischman's The Trouble Begins at 8. Fleischman's amusing work is subtitled "A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild West." And that's where it all began.
Samuel Clemens grew up in Hannibal, Missouri (it would later become St. Petersburg in his books). Seeking more adventure and fortune than Hannibal could offer, the young Sam hatched a plan to make his first million by importing coca (a then legal stimulant taken for listlessness). So, he made a riverboat trip to New Orleans with the idea of traveling on from there to South America where he would set up business. But he got distracted. By the time he got to New Orleans, this bored boy from a sleepy hamlet had discovered excitement at last--in the glamorous world of steamboat pilots. He decided to become one.
Clemens called his years as a steamboat pilot the happiest of his life, but they were brought to an early end when the Civil War broke out and the rivers were shut down to traffic. So, Sam promptly signed up for the Confederate Army; as he said, after two weeks of learning all he could about retreating, he quit and joined his older brother Orion who was heading to Nevada as Territorial Secretary. Out West, Sam tried his hand at prospecting, started a forest fire, and eventually turned to journalism, making ends meet by writing about such things as jumping-frog contests and adopting the name "Mark Twain" (a term used to describe the depth necessary for the safe passage of a steamboat).
Leaving Nevada, he became a humorist on the lecture circuit and eventually traveled to Europe; he would write about that trip in his hilarious and best-selling book Innocents Abroad. On his return, he met and eventually married Livy Langdon, and they set up home in their famous steamboat-like mansion in Hartford, Connecticut. They were living there in 1876 when The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published and when "Mark Twain" became a name associated with children's books.
The most famous scene in Tom Sawyer is, of course, the "whitewashing of the fence" where Tom is faced with a boring chore and hoodwinks his friends so that they pay for the privilege of painting the fence. Tom Sawyer is a sunny book full of comic scenes like this, incidents that remind you of childhood: superstitions, warts, playing hooky, pretending to be pirates, boring school recitals, and playground romances with girls like Becky Thatcher. The next novel was different.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a darker book and probably meant for older readers. To be sure, it is often remembered as a summer's tale about a barefoot boy and an escaped slave riding a raft down the Mississippi and trailing their feet in the water; and perhaps it is just that kind of story for young readers. But growing older, many will come to realize that—as Lionel Trilling said—this book is "America's most eloquent argument against racism." Indeed, if the central moment in Tom Sawyer is where Tom is admired for tricking his friends into whitewashing, the most important moment in Huckleberry Finn is its opposite: where Huck plays a trick on Nigger Jim and Jim calls the boy out for treating a friend like that. As Huck later explains, he got down on his knees and apologized to Jim, and he "weren't never sorry for it afterwards."
The third of Twain's three great children's books is The Prince and the Pauper, a novel I have a special fondness for and that was written in tandem with Huckleberry Finn. In one book Twain unwinds Huck's racism when, after his apology to Jim, Huck comes to the slow realization that black folks have feelings same as white folks do. In the other book, Twain unwinds the prejudices of class because once the prince exchanges clothes and places with the pauper, this member of the royalty comes to learn that the poor folks have feelings the same as rich folks do. The prince learns this by living, as it were, in another's skin. You might call this learning by impersonation.
That's a lovely phrase--"learning by impersonation"--and an apt one for someone like myself with a white suit in his closet. But think about it. It's also a wonderful description of reading.
So, here's to Mark Twain! Here's hoping 2010 is a wonderful year for introducing new readers to Mark Twain and here's hoping that his books get passed down for generations!
The Trouble Begins at 8
Ages 9 -12 yrs.
By Sid Fleischman
HarperCollins, $18.99 (Hardcover)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Ages 9 - 12 yrs.
By Mark Twain
Penguin, $7.00 (paperback)
There are hundreds and hundred of editions of this classic; and with the exception of abridged versions, many make fine purchases. I like this Penguin edition.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Case Studies in Critical Controversies)
Ages 9 - 12 yrs.
By Mark Twain; Edited by Gerald Graff and James Phelan
Bedford/St. Martin's, $9.74 (Paperback)
If you just want the novel, then there are many, many editions of the book. But my experience is that kids are often introduced to this book in high school, where it can be controversial. For that reason, I recommend this edition by Graff and Phelan because they collect in an appendix many worthwhile essays on the topic of race and the book's reception. These encourage useful discussions.
The Prince and the Pauper
Ages 4 - 8 yrs.
By Mark Twain
Penguin, $10.00 (Paperback)
Again, there are multiple editions of this book to choose from. But I am partial to this one because I am responsible for it; besides the Introduction, I labored for a year with various first editions to create what I believe is a version of the text most faithful to Clemens' intentions.
Jerry Griswold is the Director of San Diego State University's National Center for the Study of Children's Literature. His most recent book is Feeling Like a Kid.


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LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Henden will bring fresh ideas to NK board
Ed Habecker, Poulsbo
For Position 4 of the North Kitsap School Board, I want a person who will bring new and fresh ideas to school district management.
I want someone who has the business experience essential in establishing organizational priorities and effectively balancing the cost-benefits of those priorities.
I want someone who, unlike the incumbent, will not react to every educational concern with the same old bureaucratic, knee-jerk, organizational rhetoric.
I am voting for Scott Henden, a longtime resident, businessman and family man with demonstrated intelligence, common sense and business success on his resume. I trust Scott to support what's best for both the school district and the taxpayers.


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A Brighter Choice for Safety
Luna Technologies International, Inc.'s LUNAplastT product line illuminates without the need for electricity, maintenance, or a power connection. LUNAplast, which benefited from tests conducted at Johnson Space Center, is available as rigid plastic and acrylic sheeting or flexible vinyl rolls. An environmentally-friendly material, it is available in a full line of screen-printed emergency signs, directional markers, and international safety symbols for illuminating hallways, walkways, and other indoor or outdoor areas. The material is durable, ultra violet-stable, and fire- and weather-resistant. Luna Technologies' innovation is the result of advances in photoluminescent (PL) technology. PL lighting provides emergency exit systems for any setting in which safety is a concern, such as ships, hotels, manufacturing plants, office buildings, tunnels, and mines. As a non-electric system, PL products provide a backup to standard electric emergency lighting systems. LUNAplast products were installed on the lower walls and floors of the Pentagon as part of the renovation and reconstruction project that took place after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. LUNAplastT is a trademark of Luna Technologies International, Inc.
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Protect Maine's Economy by Slowing the Rate at Which the State's Minimum Wage Will Increase and Establishing a Training and Youth Wage
|Wage and Labor
|Representative Joel Stetkis, House 105
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UPDATE: After the Senate voted in favor of the bill, 19-16, the bill moved back to the House for its final vote. Unforunately, the House voted 72-75 against the bill. See the ROLL CALL. The bill is dead.
UPDATE: The House voted the bill Ought Not to Pass on the first vote. It fell 81-69. See the ROLL CALL. We supported a No vote which was against the Ought Not to Pass motion. The bill now moves to the Senate where is may be amended to gain greater support in the House.
UPDATE: The committee voted the bill along party lines with Republicans supporting an amended bill that would create a youth wage at 80% of the prevailing minimum wage and slowing the rate of increase to $12 per hour. The Democrats on the committee voted to oppose the bill.
We support the establishment of a youth wage and efforts to address the indexing.
This bill affects the minimum wage by:
1. Reducing the minimum wage from $10 per hour to $9.50 per hour beginning June 1, 2018;
2. Reducing the amount by which the minimum hourly wage rates are scheduled to increase annually on January 1st from 2019 to 2021 from $1 per year to 50 cents per year, and decreasing from $12 to $11 the minimum hourly wage rate required to be paid in 2021;
3. Eliminating the cost-of-living adjustment to the minimum wage; and
4. Establishing a training minimum wage for employees 18 years of age or older and under 20 years of age for the first 90 days of employment and a youth minimum wage for employees under 18 years of age.


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Kessler Law, LLC
Adam S. Kessler focuses his practice on New Jersey and New York commercial litigation and real estate transactions. Mr. Kessler has experience in all aspects of litigation, from pre-trial discovery through appellate practice. Mr. Kessler has handled a wide variety of commercial disputes, including partnership disputes, business contract claims, real estate and foreclosure related litigation and landlord-tenant matters.
In his transactional practice, Mr. Kessler regularly counsels clients on commercial and residential real estate purchases, financing and sales, as well as real estate title issues. Mr. Kessler also has experience counseling Condominium Associations and their Board's on day-to-day business issues and litigation matters.
Mr. Kessler received his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law graduating with concentrations in Real Estate and Litigation. While in law school Mr. Kessler worked in the Legal Department of Morgans Hotel Group, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development and clerked for the Honorable Gill S. Freeman at the Complex Business Litigation Court in Miami, Florida.
Mr. Kessler has an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and is a member of the North New Jersey Syracuse Alumni Association.


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Hi guys! So if you are following me over on my instagram @hellotashablog then you would have seen that I spent the last week in Paris. I'd never been before so I was beyond excited to see and do everything. I took a gazillion photos but I will be sharing everything about my little trip so keep your eyes peeled for those posts. For todays post though I wanted to share what I wore on my trip over there, I only had hand luggage so had to be as concise as possible but turns out it was 39 degrees when we were there so I was glad for my minimal clothing.
Day 1: We actually arrived in the late afternoon so I just headed out in what I travelled in on that day. For travelling I always want comfort so my Topshop pleated trousers were perfect, elasticated waist and loads of room for pure comfort, I teamed it with just a plain black body from Primark and jazzed up the outfit with some tan accessories, my hat and black choker. Although the outfit was comfy and even though we only walked around for a couple of hours I was so so hot as we landed to 30+ degree heat and all black was probably not the best idea.
Day 2: I was more prepared for the heat on day 2 so chose my favourite Topshop shorts (which are now £10 in the sale!) and a little black cami top, it kept me cool all day despite the blistering heat. I wore my Topshop lace up sandals throughout the whole week as they are just the comfiest flat shoes although they did give me some rather hilarious tan lines.
Day 3: When planning my outfits for Paris, the one item that was first in my bag was this New Look bardot dress. It's super light-weight and I thought it would look really chic to walk around Paris in. I've featured this dress on my blog before in this post if you want to read a little bit more about it.
Day 4: Another travelling outfit, we were leaving in the afternoon so spent the morning wandering close to our hotel so I wanted something easy and comfortable. The heat was still unbearable so my black pants were a slight mistake again but super comfy to walk around in. The orange cami top I just threw on to try to keep cool but I love the casual vibes of the whole outfit.
What's your favourite look that I wore? 1, 2, 3 or 4?
Thanks for reading as always!
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Paid Users Permitted To Buy Over 100 Userpics
Short, concise description of the idea
Paid users are now permitted to buy 100 userpics, billed annually. Permit us to buy additional increments of 100. During subscription reductions, allow us to review all active and inactive icons, and choose for ourselves which will be active at any given time.
Full description of the idea
The absolute maximum number of userpics a paid account can get is 135 (100 plus, in very small increments over a span of several years, up to 35 "loyalty pics" for renewing the paid LJ account). There are LJ communities dedicated to making userpics, and many people do it as a hobby on their own. Others are just addicted to the pics. These people would all happily pay more for additional increments of 100 over the 100 which can be purchased now. People who don't want more wouldn't buy more.
I'm not a programmer and don't know if this would have to be worked into the user's account space, or what, but if so, LJ could allow people to give up their gallery space or their voice posting space in order to have more space for icons. I admit I have no understanding of what a user's account space is, or what limits it may have, or how to check on that.
Finally, for this to provide the greatest satisfaction with the least hassle, it should be possible for someone who is NOT renewing one or more increments of 100 to review ALL their active and inactive userpics and select which will remain active at their new, lower, userpic allotment, instead of LJ choosing for them. They would do this review after LJ has inactivated the excess using whatever protocol LJ now uses, by going through whatever LJ has left and marking some "inactive" to create space to go into their inactive userpic archive and shifting the ones they can't bear to leave behind to "active" status. LJ could choose to limit this to one episode a year, if having users repeatedly revise their "active" list becomes a server burden.
There was an earlier thread on this idea in 2004, but the issue has changed. The earlier suggestion was about getting more than 50, and is out of date, and made no suggestions about permitting users to review the inactive icons to choose individual icons to reactivate within their lower limit, if the user has declined to renew their subscription to higher icon limits.
- More income for LJ
- Tremendous satisfaction for userpic addicts
- Greater convenience and happiness for people who have paid for large userpic collections, but who have decided to downscale their accounts, by letting them choose which icons will remain active at the new, lower level, instead of LJ choosing arbitrarily or randomly.
An ordered list of problems/issues involved
- Minimal programming time (I think)
- Minimal server burden, because allowing one person to buy 200 userpics would be no more of a burden than allowing two people to buy 100 each
- When someone chooses to renew only 100 pics instead of 200, LJ would have to have some way to put the others on inactive status, just as LJ does now when someone who has bought 100 decides not to renew. (This seems minor, since the programming already exists to deal with people who drop their 100 subscription down to the standard level for paid accounts.)
- With higher income, LJ would have higher corporate taxes?
An organized list, or a few short paragraphs detailing suggestions for implementation
- Add more options on the page which now permits us to buy 100 userpics to raise the number to 200, or 300.
- In paid accounts, allow us to choose from a menu, checking off which benefits we want, with a box for "give up gallery space for 100 free user pics" and "give up voice posting for 100 free user pics" but make clear that these aggregate with each other, and with the paid 100, so that a person could have all three: the 100 paid, the 100-in-lieu-of-voice, the 100-in-lieu-of-gallery.


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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
This is where the President gets his priorities implemented. It is the biggest part of the executive office of the President. The OMB implements and enforces Presidential policy through five processes.
- Budget development and execution in all areas from economic recovery to health care to National Security.
- Management which oversees the agency performance, Federal procurement, financial management and information/IT.
- Coordination and review of all significant Federal regulations by executive agencies to reflect Presidential priorities, assess and ensure other impacts (economic, etc.), and information collection requests as part of regulatory decision making.
- Legislative clearance and coordination to ensure consistency of views and proposals with presidential policy (congressional communications, testimony, and draft bills).
- Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda to agency officials (the way the President directs actions by Executive Branch officials).
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
CBO produces policy analyses, cost estimates of legislation, and budget and economic projections that serve as a basis for the Congress's decisions about spending and taxes. Every piece of legislation affecting the use of the nation's resources undergoes CBO's scrutiny. The agency is a public-sector think tank that employs an elite, multidisciplinary staff of professional analysts--public-policy and budget experts, economists, and other critical thinkers who enjoy challenges--at levels ranging from undergraduate and graduate interns to researchers with doctorates and substantial experience. (cited from the website under Who We Are)
That citation was the best way to get an inkling of what this agency is all about. What the "elite" staff does is huge. Briefly, they perform in-depth studies, analysis, projections, and cost estimates for the submitted budget by the President. The proposals are put forth to Congress initially in a publication, Budget and Economic Outlook, issued in January and updated in the summer. The CBO's Outlook is a big deal that offers a 10 year federal economic forecast, and more. It is available through the website.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO)
This agency is dubbed the "congressional watchdog" because it investigates how the feds spend taxpayer dollars. The agency is independent, nonpartisan, and works for Congress. The chief of
GAO is the Comptroller General of the United States (a 15 year term appointment by the President).
The GAO supports Congress to meet constitutional responsibilities and to ensure accountability of the federal government. This is the agency that advises Congress and other Executive heads how to make it more responsive, ethical, equitable, effective, and efficient: how to save billions for the taxpayers and government via improvement of government operations.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
The BLM's mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. (cited from the home page on the website)
The agency manages over 245 million surface land acres and 700 million sub surface acres of mineral estate in the U.S. It has about 10,000 employees and nicely enough, it generates more revenue than it spends.
One of it's focused priorities is Climate Change. It states that climate change is affecting public lands in ways that could impact on Americans' quality of life. It's nice to know that this very powerful agency is alert to this big change, and responding with some initiatives.
The careers offered include; surveyor, biologists, fire and aviation professionals, Field Managers, District Managers, State Managers, and rangers. Those are some of the most common.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
The BLS is another independent statistical agency responsible for collecting, analyzing and sharing economic information to support public and private decision making. It is the foremost Federal agency for measuring economic price changes, labor market activity (pay, benefits, unemployment, workplace injuries), and working conditions.
You can check out the U.S. economy at a glance or a selected state by viewing charts that are fairly layperson friendly. The charts have the unemployment rate, change in payroll employment, average hourly earnings, consumer price index, producer site index, and the U.S. import price index. It's not a bad site for stats!
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
This independent agency regulates interstate transmission of oil, natural gas and electricity. That is a brief sentence of what it does. What it doesn't do is what the State Public Utility Commission does, like regulate natural gas and electricity sales to customers, or provide oversight for the construction of oil pipelines. There are other areas outside of FERC's responsibility listed on the website that are worth reading.
Interstate commerce of electricity and natural gas sales, acquisitions and mergers are sometimes reviewed by FERC. State, private, and municipal hydroelectric projects are inspected and licensed by FERC. Among the many regulatory procedures the agency provides, enforcement is also big.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
This was created in 1974 to protect people and the environment from non-safe radioactive materials use. It is a big regulatory agency covering three specific areas; commercial reactors,
uses of nuclear materials, and nuclear waste transportation, disposal, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities.
The Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA)
This is considered an actual government agency responsible for collecting U.S. payroll taxes. FICA are the tax provisions of the Social Security Act, as they appear in the Internal Revenue Code. Here is a video explaining the tax.
Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Wow, a branch of the Library of Congress that provides nonpartisan research reports to House and Senate members. This is a legislative branch agency so it provides 24/7 access of policy and legal analysis. I would like that service provided to all U.S. citizens. Wouldn't that be nice to have an analysis of a policy such as immigration reform to really understand what it is all about?
Centers For Medicare (CMS)
Believe it or not, this is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and human Services. This federal agency administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the Children's Health Insurance program. It provides health care for 100 million people, and of course has regulations, guidance and standards among it's many services.


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ATLANTA — Georgia Tech and Georgia each started over on defense two years ago, hiring new coordinators to install 3-4 schemes.
As No. 13 Georgia prepares to visit No. 25 Georgia Tech on Saturday, defensive coordinator Todd Grantham's Bulldogs boast one of the nation's top-rated defenses. Georgia has held seven teams below 20 points in its nine-game winning streak.
Defensive improvement has come slower for Georgia Tech, which has held only two opponents — Maryland and Clemson — under 20 points. Coordinator Al Groh's defense has given up more than 30 points in each of its last two games.
Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson says the comparisons may not be fair. He says there's more to examine than the two years in schemes with three down linemen and four linebackers.
"Well, I guess you can draw comparisons," Johnson said. "You can compare whatever. It'd be hard to compare unless you play the same people, I think. That would be the only fair comparison. There's different personnel and a lot of different things, I think.
"Coach Groh would be the first to tell you we're not as far along as we'd like to be. But as I said at times we've played good enough to win eight games. It's kind of been a mixed bag."
Georgia ranks No. 4 in the nation in total defense and No. 2 — behind only Alabama — in run defense and third-down conversions.
Two additions have played key roles.
John Jenkins signed with Georgia from Gulf Coast Community College. Jenkins (6-3, 351) joined Kwame Geathers (6-6, 350) to give the Bulldogs a combined 700 pounds of run-stoppers at noseguard, a key spot in the 3-4.
"Getting Jenkins of course was big for us," said Georgia coach Mark Richt. "He is a big space-eater at noseguard that you've got to have in this system."
Jarvis Jones, a transfer from Southern Cal, became a force at outside linebacker. He is second in the nation with 12 1/2 sacks and leads the Southeastern Conference with 18 1/2 tackles for losses. David Pollack holds the Georgia record with 14 sacks in 2002.
Jones is one of six finalists for the Butkus Award given to the nation's top linebacker.
Defensive end Abry Jones and outside linebacker Cornelius Washington each have 4 sacks.
Other key players include converted safety Alec Ogletree at middle linebacker and safety Bacarri Rambo, who has seven interceptions. Defensive backs Brandon Boykin and Branden Smith have combined for five interceptions.
Georgia's improvement is obvious to Georgia Tech running back Roddy Jones.
"They're a year older, a year more experienced, and they understand the defense better," Jones said Tuesday. "And the guys they replaced, they replaced with really, really good players. (Jenkins) and the Jones kid playing outside linebacker for them, they're really good.
"They're big, they're fast, they're strong and it's going to be a challenge for us."
Georgia has forced 27 turnovers, the ninth-best total in the nation. Richt said his defense's success on third downs and forced turnovers are the key indicators of the unit's improvement from last year.
"Our defense has been effective at getting people off the field on third down," he said. "A year ago, we were not very good at that at all. I can't tell you how many times guys had third and long and made it. We've gotten some third down stops. That changes everything.
"Last year, people had some fairly long, sustained drives against us. We just couldn't get off the field on third down. That one stat has made a big difference, along with the turnover ratio. The amount of takeaways we're getting. Those two areas hit me the most."
Grantham says his players have kept their focus and given consistent effort.
"It's the next week, the next game," Grantham said. "You either get better or you get worse and it's an opportunity for us to get better and improve our defense so that's what we're going to do.
"You're always going to coach them hard and expect and demand and confront guys and do those kind of things, but for the most part I think they've prepared pretty well and they've answered the bell when we've asked them to. I've been pretty pleased with their preparation."
Linebacker Julian Burnett leads Georgia Tech with 103 tackles. Linebacker Jeremiah Attaochu has five sacks but his season may be remembered for a crucial personal foul late in the Yellow Jackets' home loss to Virginia Tech.
Asked to summarize his defense, Johnson said, "Well I don't know that the defense is any different than the team as a whole.
"I mean, it's been up and down. Certainly we haven't played with the kind of consistency that we'd like. I don't know that you're ever going to be satisfied until you're holding people to no points or 10 points or something like that. It's always a work in progress. I think we've played in spurts and we've done enough to win eight games. We'll see if we can win some more."


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JTDS Driver Cannot be Found
I am using Netbeans to build an app that connects to a database server to do some tasks (create databases, queries, etc.).
When I run my app from within Netbeans it creates databases just fine.
When I run my app from c:\Temp (or anywhere outside or Netbeans) I get an error that says net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbs.Driver.
So it looks like it can find the driver that I added to the Classpath within Netbeans, but it can't find the driver when the app is run from outside of my IDE.
When I open up a DOS prompt and echo the Classpath it shows the driver:
c:\Temp>echo %CLASSPATH%
8-bin.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\RationalSDLC\ClearQuest\cqjni.jar
Any ideas?
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How do you run the application? If you use java -jar (so it is an executable jar), the CLASSPATH environmental variable is ignored. The jar itself controls the classpath, through the class-path line in the META-INF/manifest.mf file.
As far as I remember from using Netbeans, it will put the proper dependency jars in a lib subdirectory for you. You need to distribute your application jar with that lib directory relative to it.
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Canucks See Rivals And Partners In New Seattle NHL Franchise
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Sitting high above the ice of Rogers Arena, Vancouver Canucks general manager Jim Benning has fond memories of his time playing junior hockey for the Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League and their trips up Interstate 5 to play at the old Mercer Arena against the Seattle Thunderbirds.
Well, how fond he is depends on the perspective.
"They had chicken wire, and the fans were rowdy," Benning recalled recently. "The thing with the chicken wire is like you'd line up for a faceoff and they could spit right through the chicken wire."
While Benning's memories of his time playing against Seattle are still there — and who could forget chain-link fence in place of glass boards at one end of the rink — he's also thinking ahead. Looking out at an empty arena a couple hours before a Canucks faceoff, he can envision a few years from now when fans of Seattle's new NHL franchise are making the trek north on I-5, through the border crossing and into downtown Vancouver to watch their team play the Canucks.
He has no doubt it will be a healthy rivalry and great for the sport in this corner of North America. But the Canucks see the addition of Seattle as more than adding a rival 2 ½ hours away by car. Seattle will be a critical partner for the future success of both franchises.
"We see this as a kind of one plus one equals three. We're going to be able to grow the sport of hockey in this region, working with the Seattle team," Canucks COO Jeff Stipec said.
The approval of Seattle as the 32nd NHL franchise earlier this week has thrilled hockey fans who have for years made their way north to Vancouver to see the game played at its highest level. But there's an almost equally excited group just north of the 49th parallel who can't wait for 2021 when the Seattle franchise begins play.
"Vancouver is already a partner. They were the most enthusiastic team in the league about this. They love the idea of this rivalry," Seattle team President Tod Leiweke said. "I think for the two cities to connect like this, the two cities are 130 miles away but now they're going to connect in a whole different way and I think that's one of the great things that is going to come out of all this is a deep, deep visceral connection between Vancouver and Seattle and we're going to play some great games."
Adding Seattle to the league helps the Canucks in various ways, from marketing, to travel, to simply interest in the game. Stipec is already planning ways the Canucks can sell Seattle's addition, even if it's three years away.
Stipec noted that even as the Canucks' on-ice product is improving around a core of young stars and rejuvenating interest in the city after a few down seasons, the fans flocking back to the games are seeking new and different opportunities.
"Our season ticket members, what they're looking for now are experiences," Stipec said. "They'll hop down, go to Vegas, follow the team down to Vegas. But to be able to put together some packages where our season ticket members are hopping on the bus, having a great time, going down to Seattle for a game and then coming back, that's something they're really excited about, too, and we're excited to be offering that."
While it would seem the proximity of the two cities could create issues when competing for dollars on the business side, it doesn't appear that will be the case largely because of the border. The border creates a natural break between the two teams, both in their attempts to gain market share, but also in corporate dollars and talent acquisition.
"It couldn't be a more perfect storm for the Canucks in that it's not that we just have somebody that's two and a half hours away, we have that international border between us," Stipec said. "So that protects us a lot from corporate partnerships, broadcast rights, a whole bunch of things. It's not like a Pittsburgh-Philadelphia situation. So it's great that way, that we have our own protected markets in a sense in some of those key areas."
The Canucks have not actively sought to promote themselves in the Seattle area. Playoff games have been broadcast on Seattle sports radio at times through the years, but any fans that have made an investment in being Canucks ticket holders have found them.
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Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is planning to introduce organisational elections to pick the party's leaders, from "top to bottom", including Congress Working Committee (CWC) members and office bearers like general secretaries.
"Rahul wants transparent elections in the entire party, like in the Indian Youth Congress and the NSUI. He wants to introduce elections in the party at all levels," said AICC general secretary Ajay Maken. Asked if elections would be held to elect CWC members and AICC office bearers, Maken replied, "from top to bottom".
While Rahul introduced elections in the IYC and NSUI, the national presidents of the two bodies are not selected through internal polls.
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NEW YORK-- Oil prices rose on Thursday after data showed the rise in U.S. crude stockpiles was smaller than expected.vU.S. crude oil inventories rose 0.6 million barrels in the February 17 week to 518.7 million, up 8.9 percent from last year at this time, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Thursday.
It was the seventh consecutive rise but the rise was smaller than what the analysts previously expected.
The West Texas Intermediate for April Delivery added 0.86 dollars to settle at 54.45 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while Brent crude for April delivery increased 0.74 dollars to close at 56.58 dollars a barrel on the London ICE Futures Exchange. (PNA/Xinhua)
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Communication, civil society's standing debt
by Mario Lubetkin
Porto Alegre (Brazil), 29 Jan 2001 (IPS) -- Civil society has a pending debt: an in-depth debate about communication, agree specialists in the sector participating in the World Social Forum, underway in this southern Brazilian city.
Regina Festa, a Brazilian professor at the school of communications at Sao Paulo University, expressed her surprise at the "absence of discussion on the power of communication" during the six-day Forum.
Festa, speaking at the conference that ends Tuesday, said it is "very serious" that civil society does not perceive the need to regulate the communications media, and stressed the difficulty in developing alternative proposals to the current media superpowers.
Many of the world's media moguls can be found at the World Economic Forum, an event running concurrently in the Swiss alpine resort of Davos, where corporate executives, financiers and government leaders are discussing globalization strategies.
The World Social Forum, meanwhile, which has brought thousands of delegates from 123 countries to Brazil, is a gathering of primarily left-leaning academics and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and is serving as a counterbalance to the meeting in Davos.
US communications analyst Norman Salomon agreed with the Brazilian professor that there are a limited number of initiatives to fight the internationalisation of values driven by big media.
"When they ask me about concrete routes toward building powerful tools of alternative communication, I say we need divine intervention," the expert said.
For Salomon, the key lies in achieving "the freedom to be heard"; to do so means breaking down the current logic behind the communications media.
Aruna Roy of India, recipient of the Magasausay award for actions benefiting information for rural groups, stated that when civil society's activities are covered by the media, "they are no longer marginal."
Festa pointed out that "according to current standards," that which is not found in the media "does not exist."
The communication specialists agreed at the Porto Alegre conference on the diagnosis of the relation between the mass media and civil society, criticising the lack of space, the information vacuum, created around social matters by today's major media.
They increasingly cover issues related to trade, entertainment and consumption, said Festa, while they bury news about important matters and people from poorer regions.
Brazilian sociologist Emir Sader stated that "there is no democracy without truly open spaces for communication, (which means) we can say that there is currently no true democracy anywhere in the world." Sader asserted that today the world is experiencing the hegemony of the US-based media, "which condition and serve as a model for the world."
The president of the IPS Executive Board, Roberto Savio of Italy, stressed that 39% of the world's communications media are concentrated in the USA, and 44% of all television signals originate in that country. Savio characterised communication as "indispensable" for overseeing the globalization process.
In that sense, Roy indicated that the right to know is directly related to the right to live, pointing to the campaigns in India for access to public documents, because "without information there is no control over our governments."
Salomon, in another intervention in the discussion, insisted that the commercial side of communications creates dependence in editorial decision-making, and cautioned that the leading advertising agencies are already globalizing. That vision was seconded by Brazilian cartoonist Ziraldo, author of numerous children's books, who criticised the subjugation of the communications media to "the economic dictatorship of advertising."
Ziraldo also denounced the impact of the media on the public, "which is less and less accustomed to reading and reflecting."
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Salomon asserts that the problem of building democracy cannot be resolved by the Internet, though Festa believes that the worldwide network permits a deepening of pluralistic attitudes.
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Crime-busting former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has said London Mayor Sadiq Khan "should be ashamed of himself" for spending his time denigrating President Donald J. Trump while "crime is spiralling" in his city.
"Sadiq Khan should be ashamed of himself," the political veteran told Britain's Sunday Express.
"He's so busy attacking President Trump's visit and, in the meantime, crime is spiralling in London. Maybe he should just do his job instead of attacking a world leader."
The heavyweight Republican spoke after Khan's decision to authorise a giant balloon depicting the President as an orange baby in a nappy to fly over the British capital during his visit to the country later this week. Khan has been a highly vocal critic of Trump both during his presidency and during the presidential campaign, repeatedly calling for the visit to be cancelled.
The leftist mayor suggested respect for freedom of expression and peaceful protest were behind the balloon decision, although Khan has not always been such a free speech warrior — pouring over £1.7 million into an "online hate crime hub" to police mean comments on the internet at a time when the police are struggling to cope with a violent crime wave and leaving many burglaries uninvestigated, for example.
Murder Surges 44 Per Cent in Khan's London Amidst 'Troubling' Rise in Serious Crime https://t.co/lM2ewca1Z5
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 20, 2018
Giuliani warned that Khan's constant attacks on President Trump — who has been one of Britain's few genuine friends and supporters abroad since the Brexit vote — could damage the historic British-American friendship, and even undercut the tourist trade.
"Many people who come to London are Americans. More than half of us in the U.S. now support the President and even those who don't support him, support his office," he observed.
"I would not like to go to a country where someone with the authority of a mayor was rallying people against them. It's highly inappropriate. He's probably suffering from some of the criticisms that President Trump has made of him, which are valid," he added.
"If crime is going up, he's obviously not paying attention to his job. This is one mayor who can tell him how to reduce crime – you have to pay attention to your job. From one mayor to another – do your job, Mr Khan."
Trump: "At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is "no reason to be alarmed!" https://t.co/ESfgEPOYpV
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 4, 2017
Giuliani cut crime in New York City substantially during his time in office, implementing the 'broken windows' model of policing which sees the authorities tackle low-level crime and disorder robustly, in the belief that the results will cascade upward.
This diverges markedly from the approach of the Metropolitan Police in London under Khan's oversight, with police leaders suggesting that investigating many low-level crimes is "not practical" and that they will increasingly not bother doing so in many cases.


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I'm still streaking. Haven't missed a day yet. I have to admit there have been a few times that I had absolutely no motivation to run but I don't like to lose so the competition side of this is keeping me in the game. I did have to modify things for a few days. I had a pretty bad cut right across my tailbone and sit ups were agonizing so, with approval from the others of course, I did a five minute BRUTAL plank workout for a few days. I might want to add that back in at some point even though I'm doing sit ups again. It would be really cool if somewhere in this I actually saw proof of ab muscles.
My biggest struggle with this whole streaking thing is seeing two mile runs on my Strava. I mean it's barely worth even getting on my shoes for two miles! Right? Um yeah … given how pathetic my running has been the past couple of years, I need to be damn happy with any mileage! My goal is that if I make it through the entire month of January, then February's daily minimum becomes three. March … four. Maybe.
Anyway, my week 2 streaking results were:
- Day 8: 3 miles/50/50 (average pace 8:41)
- Day 9: 3 miles/50/5 minute plank workout (average pace 8:55)
- Day 10: 2 miles/50/5 minute plank workout (average pace 8:44)
- Day 11: 2 miles/50/5 minute plank workout (average pace 9:08)
- Day 12: 4 miles/50/5 minute plank workout (average pace 9:38)
- Day 13/Day 14: 29 miles/100/100 (average pace: slow)
- I combined days 13 and 14 (Long Haul pacing) since I'm not sure which miles were before midnight and which were after.


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How To Make Cool Friendship Bracelet for Beginners with Half Hitch Knots
Summary: See this purple ombre friendship bracelet tutorial and learn how to make cool friendship bracelet with half hitch knots for beginners.
With basic half hitch knots you could make a friendship bracelet with purple threads in ombre style. The instruction part will show you details about how to make the cool friendship bracelet for beginners.
Necessities for purple ombre friendship bracelet:
1mm aqua nylon thread
1mm violet nylon thread
1mm purple nylon thread
Bronze ribbon end
Bronze Lobster claw
Bronze jump rings
How to make cool friendship bracelet for beginners:
Step 1: Braid bracelet with half hitch knots
1st, cut 8 pieces of 70cm nylon threads, 4 for aqua color, 3 for violet and 3 for purple;
2nd, knot them together and separate them into 3 groups by color;
3rd, do backward knot around aqua first with aqua second, and tighten the knot;
4th, do another one around aqua second with aqua third;
5th, similarly handle the aqua fourth;
6th, do backward-forward knot around aqua fourth with violet first;
7th, do backward knot around violet first with violet second, and similarly handle the violet third;
8th, repeat from 6th and 7th to handle the rest purple threads;
9th, so the first row is done.
Step 2: Finish the braiding part
1st, repeat step 1 and braid the bracelet as long as you desire;
2nd, cut off excess threads and melt ends with lighter;
3rd, add ribbon end and crimp it down;
4th, untie the first knot you tied in step 1;
5th, similarly handle it with a ribbon end.
Step 3: Add clasp onto bracelet
1st, connect 3 jump rings together;
2nd, attach them onto one ribbon end and add lobster claw;
3rd, attach another jump ring onto the other ribbon end.
Finally the purple ombre bracelet looks like this:
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2400 sq foot house
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Mud room
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3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
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Blogging platform WordPress will now accept Bitcoin as a form of payment, the site announced yesterday.
Bitcoin is a form of digital currency that uses decentralized (peer-to-peer) technology to manage transactions and validate payments instead of a government-regulated banking system. Anyone can convert their local country's currency into Bitcoins.
People with a free WordPress.com-hosted blog (not to be confused with the free open-source WordPress platform available on WordPress.org) can now use Bitcoins to buy most upgrades, such as removing advertising or enabling blog design customization.
WordPress said it decided to start accepting Bitcoin because of its "role" as a universal currency. PayPal and a number of credit card companies actually restrict transactions in certain parts of the world due political circumstance, high criminal activity, and more.
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Currently, few legitimate businesses accept Bitcoin, which has primarily been used for black market (aka mostly illegal) transactions. And since banks aren't involved with Bitcoin transactions, purchases don't leave a "paper" trail for law enforcement agencies to track criminal activity.
U.S. federal government isn't too fond of Bitcoin — and with good reason. A universal currency like Bitcoin could hypothetically destabilize a government's capability to regular its finances. And if that happens, it could disrupt their authority.
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"I think the technology is value-neutral," WordPress creator and Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg told VentureBeat via email. "I'm sure many people use paper dollars and euros for bad things as well, but that doesn't mean they're intrinsically bad (or good).
"I hope many more businesses, particularly digital ones, follow our example and support Bitcoin so it can continue to shake off its early reputation."
WordPress said the Bitcoin payment option will be available for all WordPress.com blog upgrade purchases in the next few months.
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