text:
Here's the machine on which
we built our reputation -
the Model Y Famco linker.
This is the sausage industry's
standard, able to produce many
kinds of linked sausage products
at high speed and profit. The Model Y
can twist links from 4 to 14 inches long,
adjusting automatically to casing
diameter. It can produce links at the
rate of 75 feet per minute without
strings or clips. Model Y features
unmatched performance in
twisted links with closed ends.
data: Heavy-duty non-corrosive construction for easier cleaning and wear
resistance. Powered by 1/3 HP single phase 115v AC motor. Dimensions (inches)
Length 69, Width 24, Height 24, weight 275 lbs. When ordering, specify
type of sausage, type of casing, length and diameter of link, cut into
singles, pairs or noncutting production.
The Short Frame Famco Model Y Linker is smaller, more specialized for the smaller producer. It is ideal for the packer producing up to 3,000 lbs. of linked pork sausage per week. (For higher production, we recommend the full size Model Y as a more practical machine.) The short frame model is engineered specifically to produce 4, 5 or 6 inch links in small diameter casing. It can cut automatically in singles, pairs, or even continuous linking. Like all Famco Linkers, this linker is made of materials that are strong and easy to clean. The optional linker cart shown above adds mobility for efficient production.
Mechanical data: Heavy-duty, non- corrosive
construction for easier cleaning and wear
resistance. Powered by 1/3 HP single phase
115v AC motor. Dimensions (inches): Length 48,
Width 21, Height 24, Weight 190 lbs.
When ordering, specify type of sausage,
type of casing, length and diameter of link,
cut into singles or pairs.
Do you also want the optional Famco Cart?
Simple, fast and more affordable,
Famco's Mini Linker brings a
new concept to high-speed
sausage making.
Form & Cut
This handy machine forms links
from a stuffed strand by pinch and cut, pinching for a positive closure and then cleanly cutting the links apart. Famco Mini links up to 260 links per minute. Produces all popular lengths. Forms and cuts any size casing up to 35 mm in diameter. Features easy maintenance as well as easy change of cut-off blades. The proven Famco Mini is priced well below competitive
form and cut machines.
It is also ideal as backup equipment.
On to our Next Page - Accessories
Mechanical data: Non-corrosive construction for wear resistance and simplicity of cleanup. Powered by a single phase 115v AC motor. Dimensions (inches): Length 29, Width 15, Height, 26 Weight: 75 lbs. The Mini can be attached directly to a Famco conveyor.
e mail us:
or Phone In Your Order!


text:
For companies that are embarking on an IoT project and want a powerful yet easy-to-configure system with basic capabilities, then VDSR may be the solution! This intuitive and highly functional cloud-based system provides the following features:
- Complete Company, User, Role and Device management and administration
- Configuration of data readers, logging and alarms via a user-friendly web browser interface
- Automated configuration management for any size fleet or machine group
- Real time visualization of data through a powerful set of graphics – gauges, meters, LEDs, graphs, tables, etc.
- Event and timer based logging
- Alarm notification through email and SMS
- CAN variable 'injection' for parameter updates or other functions
- Automated software updates
- Controller software flashing for STW controllers
VDSR integrates seamlessly with machines.insight.
Diagnostics 'projects' are simple to create and configure and provide unlimited views of real-time data with a wide variety of visualization graphics
Asset location is displayed along with basic information about the machine on Google maps. Devices can be accessed via the map or from a list.
Data readers are used to access data on the vehicle's CAN bus. Configuring them is easy and fast, but with full flexibility.
Logs can be generated for any number of variables and with a wide variety of parameters. On change and event-triggered logs allow memory and bandwidth resources to be conserved.
Logs, configuration files, logos and software updates can all be uploaded or downloaded through the Device Files page.
VDSR Dashboard – Integrates fully with machines.insight
Administration of VDSR is incredibly flexible and allows the definition of groups, companies, users, roles, devices and settings.
Users are assigned a role and may belong to multiple groups and devices.
Roles determine what functions a user may perform on a very granular level
Latest Release Notes: VDSR_2.3.0 Release_Notes
ESX-TC3G Telematics Controller Datasheet
machines.insight Solution Overview

subset: commoncrawl


text:
MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Governor Robert J. Bentley speaking before a crowd of 200 people at a local tractor show said that he will be putting his foot down in regards to road rage.
The governor said that this problem has been going on for way too long in Alabama and it has become a downright nuisance.
He stated that he has his personal secretary presently working out the paperwork details for The Alabama Anti-Road Rage Act of 2014.
The governor said that he decided to implement the act due to the fact that in Alabama just about everyone in a vehicle or truck carries some type of firearm, be it a pistol or a rifle.
He explained that he recently saw FOX News do a piece on Alabama road rage and he hated it. He said it made the wonderful citizens of the wonderful state of Alabama look like the modern day version of the Hatfields and McCoys.
Governor Bentley stated that as of April 8, 2014 anyone involved in an act of road rage will be arrested and put in jail for 8 days.
He said that upon a second offense the individuals will be fined $17,000 and put in jail for 19 days.
In Other News. Hollywood has revealed that filming will soon begin on the latest James Bond film titled James Bond: The Search For The Saudi Arabian Prince's iPod.


text:
Philosophy 433 History of Ethics Darwall Winter 2008
I. Classical Natural
II Hobbes's rejection of CNL
III Anti-Thomist,
Empiricist Method
IV The
Problem of Normativity
V Traditional
Projectivist Interpretation?
VII Projectivism About Color
I. As we learned last time, the combination of Aristotelianism and Christianity called now scholasticism influential before the early modern period was characterized by a (i) teleological and (ii) nonmaterialist metaphysics, and (iii) by a rationalist epistemology.
All natural things have an essence which includes a telos or final cause, and this essence can be known by reason.
II. Hobbes rejects all three of these:
(i) He will have nothing of final causes. He aims to explain all natural phenomena mechanically, in terms of prior causes and mechanisms, rather than teleologically. He rejects the Aristotelian notion of final cause as unintelligible except for creatures with "sense and will." (See De Corpore, The English Works of Thomas Hobbes, v. I, p. 131-2. And for them, he re-identifies final causes as efficient causes, specifically, as the "endeavours" that cause all voluntary action. Moreover, he denies that value is inherent in the nature of things: "For these words of good, evil, and contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them: there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves." (6.7) [we will need to talk about this more!]
(ii) He is a materialist. Thus, when talking about the sorts of things that can be referred to by names, he includes, in the first instance, matter, qualities of matter, and the properties of our own bodies. (4.15-18)
(iii) He is an empiricist. All knowledge, indeed all thought, begins with experience: "The original of them all [the "thoughts of man"] is that which we call sense." (1.2) And reason "is nothing but reckoning, that is adding and subtracting, of the consequences of general names agreed upon for the marking and signifying of our thoughts." (5.2) I.e., reason is the faculty which enables us to draw inferences from our experience.
III.. It would be difficult to imagine a more radical break. And Hobbes has nothing but contempt for "the Schools." Thus:
"But the philosophy-schools, through all the universities of
grounded upon certain texts of Aristotle, teach another doctrine . . . I say not this, as disproving the use of
but because I am to speak hereafter of their office in a commonwealth,
must let you see on all occasions by the way, what things would be
in them; amongst which the frequency of insignificant speech is one."
"For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man." (4.13)
To enter into an "account" words must refer clear referents, again, something that: (a) we have empirical access to "there is no conception in a man's mind, which hath not at first, totally, or by parts, been begotten upon the organs of sense." (1.2), and (b), consequently, is either: (i) "matter or body," (ii) "some accident or quality which we conceive to be in it [body]," (iii) "the properties of our own bodies," or (iv) other names (4.15-18), i.e. some material body or property.
In contrast with this, scholasticism is replete with "insignificant speech": "entity, intentionality, quiddity, and other insignificant words of the school." (4.1) In particular, as we have seen, he rejects Aristotle's category of natural ends (telos) or "final cause."
Thus, only material things can be referred to, because only they can be experienced. Any attempt to use language to refer to anything which is not corporeal must yield nonsense.
IV. When, however, when we turn to the heart of Hobbes's ethics and political philosophy in Chapters 14 and 15, we note that he helps himself there to what appear to be fundamental normative axioms, viz., various "law of nature" and the "right of nature" A LAW OF NATURE (lex naturalis) is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life or taketh away the means of preserving the same, and to omit that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved. (14.3)
PROBLEM: How can Hobbes "account" for the normativity (oughtness) of these laws of nature? What makes them other than insignificant speech? After all, they would appear to concern not what properties various material bodies (say, human ones) do have, but which they ought to have. What does 'ought' refer to?
V. Commentators differ as between two answers to this question:
A. One group (Taylor, Warrender, Martinich) take these normative propositions at face value and accept some kind of intuitionist or theological voluntarist account. Here the problem is, how can Hobbes hold this consistently with his empiricist, materialist metaphysics and philosophy of language.
B. The more usual view (e.g., Gauthier, Hampton, Kavka, et al) is to take Hobbes's empirical naturalism seriously, and to take Hobbes at his word when he says that the "dictates of reason" he calls laws of nature are really only "conclusions or theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves." (15.41) Here the problem is: where is the normativity? How do we get any claim about how human being ought to act from such natural facts as that unless they act in certain ways, they will not survive? For that don't we need the proposition that they (I) ought to survive? And where do we get that?
A common answer is that Hobbes believes human beings can't avoid desiring
their own survival and that the claim that my survival is good, or that I ought to survive, means the same thing as that I desire to survive. In support, they offer the following passage: "whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth good: and the object of his hate and version, evil." (6.7)
But how does this solve the problem?
i. First, isn't subjectivism of this sort manifestly implausible? That I desire something would seem to be just a fact about my empirical psychology, whereas if something is good then it is something that would warrant or justify my desire. Moreover, if subjectivism were true, it would be difficult to
understand how there can be ethical disagreements. If I want something to occur and judge it good and you are averse to its occurrence and judge it bad, then there is nothing over which we are really disagreed, since we can both agree that I want and you don't want it.
ii. Second, it is by no means obvious that Hobbes is asserting subjecivism in 6.7. What he says is that whenever someone desires something she calls it good. But that doesn't mean that in calling it good she is saying that she desires it.
How do we solve the problem?
VI. To begin to see how I think Hobbes does this, we need to consider what he says about color and color perception. I will be arguing the following:
A. Hobbes explicitly analogies the case of value to color. (To think about ethical properties on the model of secondary properties is very common these days (see, e.g., McDowell, Smith, Mackie, etc. I believe that Hobbes is the first philosopher to have done this.)
B. He offers a projectivist account of color.
C. He offers a projectivist account of value (and of normativity).
VII We should begin with Hobbes's theory of color in 1.4. First, there is the "seeming, or fancy" "which men call sense; and [which] consisteth, as to the eye, in a light, or colour figured; to the ear, in a sound; to the nostril, in an odour . . . " These experiences are "a representation or appearance of some quality, or other accident of a body without us."
Our experience of color, for example, represents color as in the objects we experience. However, considered reflection on our experience shows that this cannot be so. There is nothing in the object "that causeth [our experience] but so many several motions of the matter, by which it presseth our organs diversely." There are only the material properties of the object that cause us to see it as colored. The colors and sounds that we experience bodies as having are not in the bodies themselves. "For if [they were] . . . they could not be severed from them, as by glasses, and in echoes by reflection, we see they are: where we know the thing we see is in one place, the appearance in another." So there is nothing, actually, to color but the material processes in us and in the objects we experience, although this is not what appears to us. Color appears to us as in the object, although it really isn't.


text:
At Chaves Heating and Air Conditioning, we provide the highest quality humidifier service in Hudson, MA and surrounding communities. We offer information to help you make informed and educated decisions. For information on our indoor air quality services, visit our Indoor Air Quality page.
Humidifier Basics
A humidifier is a device that emits water vapor to increase the humidity in your home. The experts at Chaves Heating & Air Conditioning can help you determine if your home or business needs a humidifier.
A humidifier is often used to battle the symptoms associated with cold weather. The dry air caused by cold weather can wreak havoc on your respiratory system and it can also damage your wooden furniture, musical instruments and more. A humidifier combats all of these things by reintroducing the needed moisture into the air in your home.
Benefits of a humidifier include:
- Relief for chest congestion
- Relief for sinusitis
- Heals chapped skin
- Helps to remedy colds and allergies faster
- Can help prevent nosebleeds
- Can help prevent snoring
- Protect furniture
- Protect wooden instruments
Chaves Heating & Air Conditioning proudly services Hudson, MA and the surrounding areas. If you believe you may be in need of a humidifier, contact us at 877-7-CHAVES or 978-562-5309. You can also request service online to schedule an appointment to assess your home's humidity levels and, if you have a humidifier, the state of your current unit.
Contact Us Today for Service
Serving Hudson, MA and surrounding communities
"Excellent service person. Fast service & took care of problem"
– Marcia L.
Chaves Heating & Air Conditioning provides heating, cooling, indoor air quality, commercial, and HVAC maintenance services to residents in Acton, Bolton, Clinton, Concord, Framingham, Lancaster, Leominster, Shrewsbury, Upton, Worcester, and other surrounding Massachusetts communities. Visit our service area page to learn more about how we can service you and to view the other communities in our core service area. Contact us today at 877-7-CHAVES or schedule service online.


text:
Amid its shift toward representation of more traditional celebrities with mainstream appeal, like the actress-turned-lifestyle guru Tia Mowry, digital network Kin Community has added three entertainers to its roster: singer Jordin Sparks and The Bachelorette contestants JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers.
In addition to the signings, Kin — which specializes in home makeover, cooking, and DIY-style content — is poised to launch its first-ever competition format titled Beauty School Knockout, with host (and recent signee) Vanessa Lachey. In each episode, two contestants must create a beauty look using unconventional products. The series will debut on Facebook Watch, where fans can vote on their favorites using polls.
Mowry, Sparks, Fletcher, Rodgers, Lachey, and singer-turned-digital creator Adrienne Bailon Houghton will spearhead Kin's new "neighborhood" company strategy, which it describes as an interconnected network of family-friendly owned channels across YouTube, Facebook, IGTV, and Amazon.
Mowry's Quick Fix series serves as the anchor to Kin's new neighborhood structure, and has garnered as many as 8 million views per episode, according to the company — putting it in step with linear hits like Chopped, Property Brothers, and Keeping Up With The Kardashians. The company intends to add three additional channels to the neighborhood by year's end. "We're seeing our neighborhood grow quickly," said Kin CEO Michael Wayne, "which is good for brands, platforms and audiences alike."
Sparks, who won American Idol and is a new mom, will share her passion for baking on a new YouTube channel launching later this year. Meanwhile, Fletcher and Rodgers — who are engaged — will also launch a channel later this year to spotlight their love of fashion and home decor, respectively, as well as to give viewers a glimpse inside their relationship.


text:
Independence Day!
What does the 4th of July mean to you?
As I recently found out not everyone is aware of the text of this document that has helped shape the course of events that have allowed this small group of colonies to become one of the most powerful nations in the world. NPR shared the complete text of the Declaration of Independence a document written over 200 years ago, but some saw it as an attack on the current Trump administration or a call for violent revolution to our current government. Here is the article with some examples of responses to NPR. What should we make of the responses to NPRs posting of the Declaration of Independence?
This week I like many others enjoyed time with family and friends. We watched some fireworks and took a break from work to enjoy the experiences that were available to be present with others. What I found myself conscious of was the fact that I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about why we have the 4th of July as a day off of work and a day we celebrate as a National Holiday. I didn't think about the events that lead up to this day, or the sacrifices that people made to allow us to celebrate our Independence from a government that was tyrannical and unresponsive to the needs of the people. I realize that I didn't take time to reflect on the meaning of this momentous occasion.
Tonight I have just a few questions that don't have to be answered right away. I hope you will take a few minutes or hours or even days to contemplate your responses. We are not in the normal 1 hour time slot as I want to honor the meaning of Independence Day with reflection.
Tonight our chat is going to be just a couple of questions posted and allow you to respond with video responses. This could be you creating a selfie video, or creating a voice over of images that represent your answer, or videos you have found that represent your ideas, or links to resources that fit the situation.
Q1. What does the 4th of July mean to you?
Q2. How do you honor the ideals of Independence Day or the sacrifice others made to allow us to have our freedom?
Q3. Are we, as a nation living up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution?
Q4. How do we instill the ideals of America especially Independence and Freedom into our students so they understand the value of these concepts and act to ensure them for all?
To share your videos - you can create a flipgrid video. This is the first time I am attempting to use Flipgrid, so let the adventures commence! Here is the link https://flipgrid.com/7b976d
Here is the flipgrid for Q2 https://flipgrid.com/2640fd
Q3 and Q4 you can create additional posts to flipgrid, or just create videos or text posts to share your ideas.
You can use flipgrid to create your video, or upload one that you have already made. Join the conversation about what the 4th means to you.
Individualized Education
I went to a conference a year ago or so and remember someone posed a question about the value of youtube to education. They had asked how much do we learn ourselves from watching youtube videos. A few years earlier than that I might not have had the same response, but I have found the power of youtube in my own life. I have included a few examples of the things that I have learned from watching youtube videos. While many of these are about home repair, the list would be immense if I included all of the videos I have watched to learn something new. These would include TED Talks, Khan Academy, and a multitude of science videos, and others including many created by students making videos on their own time centered on their own interests.
I learn a lot from watching these videos. I am a visual learning who understands things better by seeing them done. I know many of our students utilize youtube to learn the things they are passionate about, sometimes it is how to do a new trick on their skateboard, bike, with a fidget spinner, or to pass a level of a video game. Others turn to it for opportunities to learn about books, movies, celebrities, they are interested. The list of interests and opportunity for viewing and more importantly creating content are endless.
Youtube is one potential way to tap into student learning. We can leverage it as a place to house content for students, but it can also be a great example to inspire students to create their own content. Students can demonstrate their learning through the creation of videos, tutorials, and other projects that demonstrate their mastery.
Beyond Youtube, we have the opportunity to move education forward through more individualization of their learning. If we offer students choice in how they will present their mastery of learning, we will be more likely to engage their interests and allow them to shine. If we provide them more choices in the topics they will study, the more likely we will see our more reluctant learners engage in the activity. This could be as simple as allowing students opportunity to choose which book or story they will read.
Another example of this is our High School Social Studies teachers are approaching history in the 11th grade through various perspectives. Students are able to choose which path of study they want to embark upon. They can choose from War and Conflict, Culture and Religious studies, to several other perspectives that they will explore historical events from. This allows them choice in the way they will explore events of our past.
The idea of individualized education takes planning and foresight and effort, yet it is a path we must begin the journey forward. Our students have access to information on a scale we have never seen before. They have opportunities to learn anywhere anytime. This should be embraced as a positive in light of the potential to change the structure of education.
What is School for?
I have participated in the Twitter chat #Whatisschool several times and each time find inspiration that there is a powerful force at work in attempting to rein-vision education and especially public schools. There have been conversations about Homework, Grading, and so many other topics that I think need to happen in order to move us forward.
Today I listened to a great TEDx video by Seth Godin. Here is his post that accompany's his video. In his video, Seth asks What is School For? As part of my Administrative coursework I am reading a book "American Education" by Joel Spring. The book illustrates the ideas of Horace Mann and others in shaping public education as a way to prepare our children for lives beyond school. I think that vision continues today. However Mann and others, and many today don't necessarily want to see a free thinking citizenry ready to question society, government, parents or other authority figures. There are those who view education as a pipeline to create workers who will be subservient to the CEOs or bosses of the companies who are focused on profits. A lot of this I already understood as someone who taught History and Sociology. What I came to realize is the large scale efforts and by so many different groups to achieve very similar results at work behind the scenes in public education. What stood out to me about this post and the video was the fact he was not only brining to light the issue, but also looking at ideas for change. We need to get rid of memorization and factoid knowledge and replace it with inquiry and individual choice. Some of the things he discussed would be so revolutionary for education that the way school looks and operates would forever change. It might be a lot more of a blended model of education where students access content online and engage with instructors face to face later. It might be difficult to have schools with the traditional brick and mortar buildings in place as students can chose from a variety of courses that suit their interests and needs.
I like his comparison between work and art. The idea that we will work tirelessly and go well beyond expectations for things we are passionate about is absolutely true.
There were so many interesting points. I encourage you to take a look.
Ben Brazeau
April 2018


text:
The advent of the Internet revolutionized marketing for escorts. Now a girl could create a free internet ad, have an inexpensive website, post her own pictures and be found by potential clients. Of course with the internet other things have arisen including review sites, cam girls and a cornucopia of pornography.
by Hannah Jay
While there are lots of girls who want to keep things simple and content themselves with a Skipthegames.com ad, other escorts go to some lengths to create major web presence for their escort brand. One thing about the internet is that while it is very inexpensive to publish material that is only the first step. Somehow you have to have your material rise above the vast amount of material published by your competition.
There is no sure fire way to "game" the internet and, in fact, it is a waste of time to try. Being the first result for "escort" on Google is as pointless as it is impossible for an independent escort. In fact, search results in themselves may not matter that much.
What really matters
For an escort time really is money and there is no point investing time if you are not going to make money. When you recognize this a great deal of the hype surrounding internet marketing falls away. As an escort you want to sell your services. You only have a set number of hours in a day and you want those filled up as efficiently as possible.
To fill your hours you want clients calling or emailing or texting you. Which means the "right" people have to be able to find you.
The simplest way to put the word out is a free ad on Skipthegames or one of the other escort sites. Now, once you have done that is there more you can do to find the right sort of client? Of course there is but time is money. You do not want to be spending your day updating your Facebook page, Tweeting up a storm and tying to think of things to blog about unless there is going to be a payoff.
Once you go beyond the straight advertising model and move into marketing what you are actually doing is increasing the value of your escort brand. This does a number of things all at once. First, it will increase the number of potential clients who are aware of you and your services, second, because of the brand recognition, you may be able to charge premium rates for your dates. Third, and perhaps most lucratively, you can explore higher value niche escort markets very inexpensively.
Post once, echo
For the moment I am going to assume you already understand why the internet is a key piece in an escort's marketing kit. Some escorts have websites, some have blogs or Facebook pages: but one way or another having some pictures, your specialties, your rates and a little about yourself online is important.
The problem is that a website just sits there. A blog, if you remember to update, is a bit more dynamic and Facebook can be dynamic, again if you remember to update.
The web in general and search engines, well actually Google which is the only search engine which matters, hate sites and pages which are static. If a page never changes it will rank low in the search results But, realistically, how much time do you want to devote to what amounts to secondary marketing?
The answer is that you probably should not even think of spending more than a few minutes a day or an hour a week updating your web presence. And you should not think of devoting less than that hour. The trick is to maximize the impact of the time you do spend.
The way to do this is to create an automated circle of social media which allows you to post one thing and have it echo across the web. Doing automation right means that you can post a picture or a special or simply a blog post about a restaurant you like and have it appear throughout your social media network.
The minor miracle of #hashtags
Entire books have been written about hashtags and how to use them for marketing. Here are the basics. Hash tags started on Twitter as a way of organizing tweet by topic. So if you were tweeting about your #dog if you put the "#" sign in front of the word dog your tweet would show up with all the other #dog tweets.
It is a simple, elegant, concept and one which can, very quickly make your social media efforts really extend your reach. How? Well you can combine hashtags, for example: #seattle and #escort will put you in the Tweet stream for each word and if you were to search Twitter for "seattle escort" there you would be.
Facebook and Google+ have adopted hashtags.
Hashtags let you use social media for marketing even when you don't have masses of Twitter Followers or Facebook friends. Best of all, you can build hashtags right into your blog posts and have them used by social media. Just make sure that your hashtags appear in the first 140 characters of your headline and post for Twitter. Facebook is many more characters.
Your own private escort echo chamber
To automate you first need a blog on your website. Using WordPress this is fairly easy to do. Even easier is to have your website built on a WordPress platform because then the blog function is baked right in. Then you need to have a Twitter and a Facebook account.
For your blog/website, Twitter and Facebook accounts (as well as your Pinterest account if you decide to have one) it is important to use an account name which will draw clients. And it is important to have your city in the name if possible. Something like "Tami-Seattle-escort" may look awkward but it is search engine bait.
Now for automation. There are many ways to link your blog to social media and vice versa.
Signing up for an account at — for example — TwitterFeed takes a couple of minutes. Once you have that account you take what is known as an RSS feed — something which is automatically generated by your blog — and marry it to your Twitter and Facebook accounts. It takes a couple of minutes but when you are done whatever you post to your blog is echoed to your social media accounts.
Step two is even easier: whether you use WordPress or some other blogging platform you can feed your Tweets and Facebook posts back to your blog. Again, this takes a little setup but the directions are easy to follow. (And for extra fun you can also set it up so that your Tweets and blog posts appear on Google+ but that takes a while and is not obviously effective.)
A third step if you have a lot of pictures—or even just a few to start—is to set up a Pinterest account and post your pictures there. Here the trick is to have the right name for the account "city + escort" will work. The fact is that very few potential clients will be browsing for escorts on Pinterest, but Pinterest boards are often listed on the front page of Google for the particular search. If you are able to set up "Dallas escort" as an account name or tag your pictures "Dallas Escort" you have a shot at the Google front page.
Content is queen!
Once you have built—or had a clever geek build for you—an automated social marketing system what do you put on it? This is obviously very much up to you but the key to social media is personal engagement. Whatever you decide to put up needs to be about you.
Or, more exactly, your escort persona. In many ways, creating a social media profile forces you to take a close look at that escort persona. Who is she?
The evolution of an escort persona can be great blog fodder. Looking at your ads—which you can post as blog entries—is a great place to start. What sets you apart from other escorts? What is your favorite consenting adult activity? On a blog it is easy to post pictures—I suggest discreet in the public areas—and posting lots of pretty pictures of your outfits and lingerie, not to mention shoes and toys, will keep your blog humming along. And each post will echo.
Doing a couple of blog posts a week is not difficult especially if you like taking selfies. At the same time, doing Tweets is even easier. Think along the lines of:
Quality Time
[link to your blog or information page on website]
#pretty #seattle #escort #stockings"
It is easy to upload pictures to Twitter. Now, if you have linked your Twitter account back to your blog it will automatically display your Tweet and the picture right on your blog page. Facebook can be set up the same way.
Whether you go for the longer blog entry or the short form tweet what you need to be looking at is how your material works to promote your brand.
Using social media for marketing an escort business is all about letting potential clients find you. However, the fact is that escorting is, to a large degree, a local business so the power of the internet to send your message worldwide is largely wasted.
Instead, what you want your escort marketing campaign to do is let client looking for an escort in your city find you and find out more about you. While time with an escort is often an impulse purchase it is also a luxury. A gentleman looking for an escort knows that the consenting adult activities are a given; but what else are you offering which will lead him to pick you?
In all your web activities you need to maintain a consistent message. While your services are important, your location, your willingness to entertain in "select hotels", the discreet charm of your incall are all part of the package.
Google is getting smarter and gentlemen are using mobile phones and tablets. A man sitting in the lounge of an up market hotel and thinking that a bit of female company is just what he needs at the end of the day will likely start looking on his smart phone. If you have been working hard on your "circle of noise" you'll have posted a few tweets about that very hotel (make sure you use the hotel's name and linking to it can't hurt).
If your prospective client has enabled geo-location his search—likely "escort in name of city" may very well bring back locationally sorted results. (If he adds the magic word "nearby" this can improve his chances.) If you have been naming hotels and locations in your social media campaign you'll move up the search results.
The circle of noise
Trying to second guess Google and reach the top of the search engine results for escorts in your city is possible but it involves a lot of work and a lot of time. The world of search engine optimization, SEO, is complicated and it changes very quickly.
The other alternative, what I call the Circle of Noise, is to flood the internet with your images and words with each element linking back to your main internet presence. With a bit of automation and a keen sense of the value of our own time you can create a social media presence which pushes your brand.
Don't be shy. Even if you are a high value, low volume escort setting out to push your brand daily is the key to finding the well heeled gentlemen who will be delighted to purchase your time. At the same time, realize that there are many girls competing for clients no matter where you are located.
Developing an integrated approach where your advertising, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and blog all are hitting the same keywords and hash tags every time you post will maximize your impact. Remember that the Google spiders are crawling the net looking for ways to deliver the best search results to Google users. Every girl will have the keyword or hashtag "escort"—the question you have to ask and answer is what else you have to offer.
There is no single, magic, formula for marketing success on the internet; the Circle of Noise puts your brand in all the right places and lets you update quickly and easily. It will take a little while but with regular posting, updating and tweeting your escorting brand will rise in the search results for your city. Your business will grow and your bookings will multiply.


text:
Rene Crevel
Rene Crevel (born in Rouen, France) was a painter, designer, and decorative artist active between the two wars. Crevel made his artistic debut with portrait and landscape paintings at the Salon d'Automne in 1920, but his artistic endeavors were multifaceted. A member of the Societe des Artistes-Decorateurs, Crevel also designed jewelry, ceramics and carpets. He worked for a number of manufacturers including the Manufcature Francaise de Tapis et de Couvertures, Grands Magasins a la Place Clichy and Coupe a Bourganeuf.
© Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics Ltd. Inc.


text:
Windsor Leadership Dialogue 2016
An independent forum facilitated by honorary custodians
For senior leaders from a range of different organisations to exchange views on the type of leadership needed to sustain a successful future, and to recognise that they all have an important contribution to make and something to learn from others."
To listen respectfully to others, to cultivate and speak your own voice, to suspend your opinions about others – these bring out the intelligence that lives at the very centre of ourselves – the intelligence that exists when we are alert to possibilities around us and thinking freshly.
Dialogue is a journey, a journey that is open to each of us. And it has the potential to create change that can impact on all of us."
How to get involved
The 2016 annual Windsor Leadership Dialogue, limited to 29 participants, will take place on 25 – 26 January 2016 and will again be held at St George's House, Windsor Castle
The Custodian Group1 endeavours to ensure a balance of participants more towards active leadership roles in organisational contexts, than those more focused on developing individuals and organisations as consultants.
The Custodians
See their bios at the bottom of this webpage.
A Changing World Changes Leadership
Since the first WLD twelve years ago, we have all experienced a fast-changing world that holds implications for leadership. For example, hierarchical reporting is being affected by the easy and rapid availability of information via the internet and mobile devices. This accelerates change in and of society, generating new expectations about democracy and social order. Future generations are unlikely to tolerate traditional models of leadership and will seek different paradigms and less management-dominated work relationships.
The new sciences of complexity and chaos theory (the 'butterfly effect') have clarified and challenged our understanding of the increasingly complex situations that leaders encounter and need to surmount. And the latest neuro-science research helps explain many default behaviours including the phenomenon of hubris to which some leaders succumb.
These and multiple other changes in leaders' environment require a reframing of what we mean by today's and tomorrow's leadership, such as:
- Ways of making things happen that draw on each person's contribution and influence.
- An approach that steps away from traditional hierarchy where the few determine the direction of the many.
- A perspective that values the whole person, beyond mere skill, behaviour and job description.
- Seeing the whole system, not reducing it to its parts, and understanding systemic risks, failure and performance.
- Holding a moral purpose and negotiating difficult ethical dilemmas.
- Elevating leadership's purpose to being of value and doing the best for the world, rather than simply being the best in the world.
Reflect for a moment on those who reach the top of organisations. Many are not good leaders. Organisations tend to confuse career success with work effectiveness. They choose people who are good at managing themselves, their career progress and their image, those who may be better at getting to the top rather than good when at the top. Such leaders may focus insufficiently on delivering benefit to their employer's stakeholders. Their egos may be driven by power, prestige, recognition or reward which guide their decision-making, even though they are remunerated by the organisation to act in its best interests! Yet many organisations still think of, identify and develop leadership talent in the same old narrow, individual-centric way. Training and education for managers (e.g. MBA programmes) are slow to adapt.
We recognise that all leader and leadership-related practices need to come under a fresh spotlight. The Windsor Leadership Dialogue aims to release some of the energy and potential for change and development.
Summary of the 2015 Annual Event - Held 26/27 January.
Collaborative Leadership in a World of Increasing Complexity
The 2015 Windsor LeaderShape Dialogue (WLD) was interested in addressing and impacting on leadership in a world of increasing complexity. Whether through re-inventing our worldview, focusing on individuals in practice, developing an organisation's leadership processes, or harnessing deep systemic change, the Dialogue explored the distinctive yet often interconnected questions which each person brought with them.
Key benefits for the diverse participants related to the nature and potential of the self as change agent, the leadership role, the leaderful organisation and/or systemic approaches to improving the environment we operate within. The world has changed fundamentally over the last 20 years fired by the internet and the growth of mobile communication. These in turn have impacted the speed of technology development, social change, globalisation and the emergence of the developing world.
At the start of the Dialogue those participating chose one, two or three contemporary themes to focus upon. The choices reflected the participants' context and interest. Themes not chosen in 2015 can be considered again in future years together with new topics that emerge. The list of themes which the dialogue considered this year included:
- Given the complexity that is emerging, is there such a thing as leadership as we have understood it?
- To what extent is the world in a macro-shift, representing a substantially new reality, challenging us to change our worldview and how we work within it?
- How does the dynamic between collaboration and competiveness need to change, and what are the implications for the individual, the organisation, particularly in connection to our behaviours, principles and values?
- How do individuals ever begin to navigate the interconnectedness of our changing world as well as the changing 'map' of our world with insight, wisdom and confidence?
- What is the role of the individual and what is the role of the collective?
Here is custodian John Knights' Blog following the event. John is also Chairman of LeaderShape
Whilst this was a unique dialogue event, we recognise that those involved may also decide to build it into their annual reflection and development process as an ongoing leadership-based learning community.
How the Dialogue is conducted
We believe that the role of the WLD is to provide opportunities to engender a paradigm shift.
- Our tested and adaptive, yet ambitious, approach to the Windsor Leadership Dialogue (WLD) enables participants to consider what's really important, step back and deepen thinking and, determine the key themes, hear different perspectives, and take the opportunity to discover and unfold what might really make a modest or even significant difference. Not everyone gains what they hope for and expect, but that unpredictability and uncertainty can hold surprisingly rich learning.
From time to time many of us feel 'in over our heads'. Having time to slow down, take a breath and learn with and through others helps renew and stimulate new possibilities and opportunities.
Ingredients of a successful dialogue include:
- Sustaining an environment of learning and insights.
- Continuing the annual rhythm.
- Striking a balance between the internal and informational.
- Embracing both individual development and systemic improvement.
- Maintaining St George's House and Windsor Castle as an ideal location to:
• give space for reflection
• provide a safe and confidential environment
• offer opportunities to challenge one's thinking and practice
• bring challenge and stimulation from a range of colleagues and experiences.
- Enabling emergent possibilities and new initiatives that may be expanded beyond the WLD forum.
- Balancing diverse attendance in terms of gender, experience, public and private sector, practitioners and advisers, employed and self-employed.
- Limiting participants to 29.
- Encouraging leadership networks and new collegiate relationships.
We use various approaches including mindfulness, contracting, small working groups, plenary sessions, reflection and review, and mini 'expert' inputs from attendees themselves.Sessions are professionally moderated, primarily by members of the new custodian group. John Knights is 2015's guardian of the overall direction of the process, while Audrey Birt, Nick Ellerby, and Eirian Lewis all act as moderators and facilitators.
The administration of The Windsor Dialogue is managed by Eirian Lewis with the support of his company, TEAL Consulting.We attract a diverse mix of people. A majority directly lead their organisational world; they include board members or senior post holders of organisations. The balance of attendees comprises experienced leadership advisers, coaches, educators and development practitioners, some of them freelance. Others are thought leaders and writers, pushing boundaries and aiming to influence emerging practice by fostering new forms of leadership in particular fields and specialisms.Those who attend the Dialogue are presented with, and asked to contribute provocative questions, exploring and reflecting on these with others who share a sense of inquiry, willingness to learn, and are open to fresh ideas about leadership.
Ground Rules
- Attendees must be available for the whole period of the Dialogue.
- Chatham House rule of confidentiality.
- Absolutely no sales pitches.
- Open to listening and learning – bring questions rather than answers – though we want attendees to have opinions of course!
There will be a broad theme each year, without being prescriptive about the detailed content of the Dialogue, allowing its focus to emerge with input from those attending.
Historical Context – Developing the New Chapter
The following provides brief background information for anyone interested in the recent history of the WLD, which was first established in 2001 as an annual residential event held in St George's House and historic meeting rooms within Windsor Castle.
The event was developed as a partnership between the Church of England, The Industrial Society, the Centre for Tomorrow's Company and the Windsor Leadership Trust. Chris Talbot, a senior civil servant and HR consultant, was its long-term convener.
Since its inception WLD has encouraged like-minded, and sometimes unlike-minded individuals, who may meet on the programme and share common interests or areas of inquiry to develop these and shape new clusters of activity and development opportunities. Many previous participants have formed ongoing dialogue processes with those they meet at Windsor Castle.
The Dialogue has benefited from a diverse representation of sectors, organisations and perspectives in the individuals who participate. Sectors have spanned national retail businesses, government departments, international leadership development communities, business schools, institutes, regulators, social enterprise organisations, third sector, armed forces, health and social care, art and media, religion, law and criminal justice, and many more.
In 2011 the organising role was combined with that of Chairperson and passed to Robin Field-Smith, who brought many years of commitment to leadership thinking and practice with a background in public service. Stephen Adamson continued his invaluable role in holding the facilitation lead.
In July 2013 Robin managed an effective transition to a new group who are passionate to sustain the WLD, build on the original aim (see above and evolve a new chapter relevant for the 21st century's second decade and beyond. A new custodian group was formed of Audrey Birt, Nick Ellerby, John Knights, Eirian Lewis and Bill Tate, each as volunteer contributors who had all been participants over a number of years. They shaped and facilitated the 2014 WLD which prototyped a different approach which was very well received by those participating.
The Custodian Group
The following paragraphs aim to offer a flavour of their background and interests
Audrey Birt is an independent Coach and Consultant with a particular interest in health and social care and heartful leadership. She has extensive senior executive experience and was previously the Director for Scotland of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and the National Director for Diabetes UK Scotland. Audrey is the Chair of the Health and Social Care Alliance and was a founder member, is in the board of The WELL a pioneering charity inspiring change in health and care, and also a trustee of the Edinburgh Gestalt Institute. She sits on the Quality Alliance Board of the NHS in Scotland as the third sector representative. She has worked as a champion for person centred health and care with the Scottish Government and is currently a champion for the Health and Social Care Academy in Scotland. Audrey's professional background is nursing, having worked as a nurse manager and in service re-design. She has an interest in gestalt in organisations and in enabling wellbeing in people, communities and populations. She is a regular blogger covering leadership, wellbeing and health and social care as well as her personal experience of breast cancer.
Nick Ellerby is an educator pioneering whole person learning, and implementing inquiry and human relations approaches to deep culture change. Nick is co-director and practitioner within a 25 year experiment developing a UK peer based learning organisation with a global influence. Senior Advisor to the UNGC/EFMD Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative and co-facilitator and designer of the International Innovation Collaboratory inquiring into emergent forms of learning for leadership with international business schools and global companies. Nick works in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He is author of Discovering the Temperaments and Peer Learning in Organisations, co-author of A Guide to Authentic Collaboration, and contributor to A Call to Engagement: Globally Responsible Leadership, The Collaboratory and Learning for Tomorrow.
John Knights' business life changed when in 1998 he had the serendipitous opportunity to learn to coach other Chief Executives and started to understand the real issues around leadership. Developing 'excellent leaders' became and remains his passion. John, chairman of LeaderShape, is an experienced senior executive coach and facilitator, and an expert in emotional intelligence, transpersonal leadership and neuro-leadership. He has been a senior executive in major international corporations, a serial entrepreneur and lecturer at Oxford University. He is author of The Invisible Elephant & The Pyramid Treasure, co-editor / author of Leadership Assessment for Talent Development and has written for HR Magazine. He is now focused on growing LeaderShape into a global organisation.
Eirian Lewisis the Managing Director of TEAL Consulting, and is an experienced consultant and facilitator specialising in systems thinking, leadership, process improvement and change. His focus is the delivery of improved business performance to achieve competitive advantage through people and processes. He has considerable experience in leading and co-creating change to raise business performance. He is particularly interested in transformational leadership, collaborative working and its implications for leadership, and in a time of constant change what can systems thinking offer leaders.


text:
**In the case of a medical, fire, or other emergency situation that could involve immediate peril to you or someone surrounding you always call your local emergency number or 911**
Emergency or not?
The specific definition of a maintenance emergency is: an issue that is dangerous, hazardous, or if not addressed immediately could cause damage to the property or your personal well-being (e.g., flooding, no heat in the winter, or gas leak).
An emergency is not: an annoying sound, air conditioning failure, appliance malfunction, drain stoppage and the like. While inconvenient, these are not considered emergencies and will be handled by our office on the following business day.
– For non-emergencies use the link at the bottom of the page.
– For emergency situations, follow the steps outlined below:
Please note, if the problem occurs in the middle of the night it is very unlikely we will be able to dispatch a contractor to the property until the morning, so please try and contain the emergency as best as possible.
- If the Emergency situation occurs during normal business hours (M-F, 9am-5:30pm) submit a work order using the link below then please call our office at (253)473-5200 to follow-up.
- If the Emergency situation occurs after business hours call the emergency cell phone at (253) 677-5239: **Please leave your name, the address of your property, and a description of the situation.
- If Park 52 determines this work order and all necessary repairs constitutes an emergency, to protect the property from damage or safety issues, we reserve the right to enter the property without tenant permission at the soonest possible time a service technician is available.
- If the maintenance issue is resolved before your scheduled appointment, please call to cancel the appointment to avoid being charged for an unnecessary technician visit


text:
Skip to comments.Drunken Liberal Shia LaBeouf Boasts of His Millionaire Lawyers When Arrested
Posted on 07/11/2017 2:10:46 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
In vino veritas.
And with failed actor, Shia LaBeouf, we learned that a lot of vino led to a lot of veritas when he was arrested for drunken and disorderly conduct in Savannah, Georgia on July 8. The leftwing LaBeouf, while heavily under the influence of his alcoholic truth serum revealed himself as the worst stereotype of the one percent rich folks when he drunkenly boasted of his "millionaire lawyers." It is unknown at this writing what his sentence will be but his worst punishment is that the highly embarrassing police bodycam footage obtained by TMZ will follow him around to haunt him for the rest of his life unto the end of time.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Do you know who I am? The young daughter on the Cosby Show?
White millionaire talking drunk smack to a black cop. Is this "white privilege"???
Funny how he brags about wealth when the all starts when he came begging the 'common folk' for a cigarette.
The entire fabric of American culture is torn when such a shining lantern of rectitude as Shia LaBeouf is arrested. I was gonna name my son after him. "LaBeouf Drill" has such a nice ring to it.
I thought foir sure you would name your boy Lafayette Esca.
/Pol/ has been hilarious discussing this.
Typical liberal elites: spoiled corrupt brats with too much money and no brains, arrogant as heck.
That is their only cause
Politico? Link?
He resembles the daughter on Rosanne to me, just not as masculine.
No, the "politically incorrect" board on 4chan. NSFW, tho.
Shia is sunni to be incercerated.
In the old days he would have been been sentenced to at least 6 months on a Georgia chain gang.
Alcoholism has its ugly side
Hey Shia, gonna wear those raggedy clothes to try and pretend to be poor again?
Shia's a human poop stain.
this guy really is pitiful
By the end of the week LeBeouf's PR team will have him apologizing to the cops involved and making a sizable donation to the local police fund.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.


text:
Job Information
Oracle Product Marketing Manager - Oracle Utilities- Content in Quincy, Massachusetts
Development and implementation of business plans, marketing strategy, and forecasts for a product/service or vertical market.
As a product analyst you will participate in every stage of the product life cycle to ensure product meets the needs of users. Drive the implementation of programs in support of the marketing strategy, business plans, and forecasts for assigned product lines. Maintains current status of customer specifications for existing and future products. Identify, evaluate, and recommend marketing opportunities in support of product line objectives. Drive product functionality delivering high quality product documentation. Lead products through scheduled release assisting others to manage commitments and resources. Measure and report progress and review deliverables.
Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Demonstrated product/project management experience. Ability to work with Executives. Strong interpersonal skills. Excellent written and verbal communication. Demonstrated product/project management experience. Creative, energetic, and enthusiastic. Team player. Experience using or implementing Oracle, SAP, or Peoplesoft applications. Basic HTML and web technology skills a plus. 8 years technology/industry experience and BA/BS/MBA degree.
Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Product Marketing Manager- Utilities- Strong background in Content Development
* *Should have a Product Marketing Background in Utilities
* *Must have a strong content development background
Oracle is transforming the way utilities relate to their customers. Our products have helped consumers save over $2B on their energy bills and are supporting countries as they meet global CO2 reduction mandates, all while helping utilities to build loyalty and get the most out of each contact with their customers.
We are seeking a Product Marketing Manager to join our team as one of the company's thinkers and thought-leaders. The role is to own the marketing strategy for our customer solutions, including AMI, and to ensure that our messaging, value propositions, and sales materials continue to resonate strongly with utility clients around the world.
- Global Marketing Planning and Strategy:
Define, advocate for, and execute against a strong marketing plan for CIS and AMI solutions.
- Solution Messaging/Positioning:
Act as the chief storyteller for the solutions, developing and implementing high impact and differentiated solution positioning and messaging.
- Demand Generation and Campaigns:
Develop and execute demand gen campaigns designed to capture the attention of prospects and drive lead generation with strong lead to opportunity conversion.
- Sales Tools:
Work alongside product SMEs to develop and deliver high-impact repeatable sales tools such as collateral, presentations, case studies, competitive positioning, etc.
- Subject Matter Expertise:
Serve as a subject matter expert on solutions in support of marketing programs, press and analyst relations.
- Competitive Intelligence:
Develop informed point of view on where competition is headed or will emerge (and why) and how to beat the competition
- Buying/Sales Cycle:
Blueprint buyer's journey and map buyer decisions / information needs at each stage
About you:
You're high-horsepower, hyper-analytical and creative in your thinking; you have an ability to distill complex ideas in succinct and compelling ways, and communicate them verbally or through strong written communication
You are a skilled presenter with experience presenting to senior executives
You are a pragmatic and practical self-starter; an outcomes-oriented person who can juggle multiple workstreams, loves to problem-solve and can efficiently drive a collaborative process
You thrive on challenge, and take pride in being an excellent teammate
You are willing to travel to support our sales team and clients (typically once per month)
You have experience or exposure to the utility, energy or clean tech sectors, and you are passionate about the future of energy efficiency and the utility industry
You have 5 years of relevant experience, and a bachelor's degree
Strongest candidates can also say any of the following:
You've done product marketing at a software firm
You have experience with web or customer experience software
You've done B2B marketing campaigns and created materials to equip sales teams to sell technology products
Job: *Marketing
Organization: *Oracle
Title: Product Marketing Manager - Oracle Utilities- Content
Location: United States
Requisition ID: 20000QGC
- Oracle Jobs


text:
Quick Pick: February 12, 2016
You Should Pity Us Instead: Stories by Amy Gustine
Add this to the list of stellar story collections released in 2016! Gustine's stories are dazzling, a wide array of fascinating tales of morality, and they're beautifully executed. There's a mother searching for her kidnapped son in Gaza, an Ellis Island conductor mourning for his old love, a father grieving after the suicide of his daughter, and more. The beating heart of this collection is the delicate nature of relationships and Gustine's wit and her compassion and love for each of her characters shines off every page.
Backlist bump: Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
Subscribe to the New Books! newsletter to get weekly updates about new releases:


text:
Originally published by Entertainment Ireland. To read the original, please click here
SPEAKING of his late father's ear for language and his ability to connect with ordinary folk, Billy Keane often reminds people of an apocryphal story of when a journalist once asked a regular patron of John B's pub in Listowel what exactly it was that made John B. Keane a great writer. With typically Kerry wit, the old codger replied, "Wasn't he the smartest man of them all; he took down everything we said and then he charged us to read it."
Sometimes dismissed as a "popular" playwright and a "stage Irish" playwright at that, John B. Keane's plays have hidden depths and dimensions beneath their pure entertainment value and Sive is no exception.
While the plot might seem elementary and borderline farcical- a story of an aunt and uncle arranging a marriage for their niece for a healthy commission- the themes that John B. Keane's Sive affirm are those of lust, greed and ambition at any cost.
Thematically, such tragic themes could describe many plays, though the brilliance behind the Abbey's programming of Keane's Sive is how it reflects Irish society past and present as unflinchingly as the best Abbey plays often do. In recent years, barstool sociologists have proclaimed that "we lost our soul" during the Celtic Tiger; that during the boom years we became greedy, lustful and animals of excess. Through Keane's Sive- as with The Field- we learn that we have always been greedy, ambitious, ruthless and lustful; that these qualities existed in Irish society long before Church and State separation and long before the prosperity and pluralism of the Celtic Tiger.
While Sabine Dargent's set might seem too impressive and overwhelming for a play and a playwright that function best when at their most intimate and inclusive, the contorted plaster on the upper end of the cottage gives the effect of a dark, stormy cloud, which becomes all the more obvious during changeovers between scenes and acts when the lighting focuses on the top of the set.
And then there are the performances: Bríd Ní Neachtain's turn as Nanna Glavin is the emotional dynamo behind the entire play, her character ranging from mischievous charm to tragic utterance, while Simon O'Gorman's Thomasheen Seán Rua is masterful, adding to both the humor and the dramatic action of Keane's play.
Range, indeed, wins out in this enjoyable play in which elegiac weight and side- splitting humor are mere scenes away from each other; no better example than the chorus of the traveler poets- played by Frank O'Sullivan and Muiris Crowley- who energise each humorous scene with rhymes and, during the play's dénouement, deliver an elegy to an age that is gone, though feels strangely vital in this faithful production.
Sive runs until 12th April.
Star rating: 4 / 5
Review by: Philip Cummins
Venue: The Abbey Theatre
Written by: John B. Keane
Directed by: Conall Morrison
Cast: Ian Lloyd Anderson, Barry Barnes, Derbhle Crotty, Muiris Crowley, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Simon O'Gorman, Róisín O'Neill, Frank O'Sulliavan, Daniel Reardon.


text:
There were 5,700 new cases of female genital mutilation recorded in England in 2015-2016, the first annual statistics show.
Female Genital mutilation (FGM) is a procedure where the female genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed.Baby boy flips the bird at his parents during 4D scan
It is also known as female circumcision or cutting. Such injuries include piercing, pricking, cutting, sewing together and removal of genital organs.
FGM has been illegal in the UK since 1985 and it is considered child abuse.
It is usually carried out on young girls between infancy and the age of 15, most commonly before puberty starts.
The Royal College of Midwives describe Female Genital Mutilation as having 'intolerable long-term physical and emotional consequences for the victims and it causes death, disability and physical harm for millions of women every year.'
The also say that the link between FGM and psychiatric disorders has 'strong evidence'.
MORE: These are the transgender pioneers under Indonesia's Islam
Globally, over 200 million women and girls have suffered FGM, and a further three million girls undergo FGM every year in Africa.
The Face of Defiance is a portrait project featuring nine survivors of female genital mutilation (a 10th is awaiting a major court case as a complainant of FGM and sexual violence and therefore not included).
FGM is embedded in many African communities and although the reasons for it are deeply complex, they can be summarised as broadly based on systems of chastity, control and perceptions of womanhood.
In early 2015 Leyla Hussein (international award-winning FGM campaigner and subject of this project), approached photographer Jason Ashwood with a view to promoting an image of survivors who were beautiful, confident and were proud of their remarkable achievements, in spite of what they had suffered through photography.
They are therapists, nurses, public speakers, authors, award winners and tireless campaigners speaking, for the most part, for the first time:
Hoda Ali
'I have truly suffered in so many ways from undergoing FGM and there are many, many others like me,' Hoda says.
'My pain has inspired me to help others manage what they have suffered and have decided to dedicate my professional life to raising awareness of FGM.'
Hoda Ali is a nurse, a campaigner and commentator on FGM on a variety of levels.
She has spoken at numerous public events and featured, along with other survivors, in the Bafta-nominated documentary The Cruel Cut.
'I was cut at aged seven in Somalia,' she says.
'By age 12 I experienced my first of many acute hospitalisations due to complications from FGM.
'Stagnant infected menses had caused pelvic inflammatory disease as I had been unable to menstruate as a result of the small hole left after FGM.
'After many surgical procedures in Somalia, Djibouti and Italy, I first started menstruating age 17.
'Medical complications from FGM continued to impact on my life through infections, adhesions, sub fertility, IVF and miscarriage.
MORE: Stunning photos capture the life of a mum with muscular dystrophy
'Due my difficulty to conceive caused by the damage inflicted during FGM I underwent IVF.
'However, I later received medical advice that risks to my internal organs were too great and that IVF could no longer be pursued.
'My mother was a victim and my grandmother before her. But FGM has now ended within my family and although I cannot have children, I have helped protect my nieces.
'They are the first generation free from FGM.
'I tell my nieces, stand up for yourself and those around you and be the voice for the voiceless
'I truly believe what doesn't kill you make you stronger. Together we can end FGM in a generation.'
Jay Kamara
'I believe strongly that our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made and so first, I chose to live,' says Jay.
Jay Kamara describes herself as a womanist and a thriver.
'A day or so after I had been cut, what felt like a few seconds had passed as I closed my eyes and shut my mind away from the noise and the pain was actually a day of uncertainty for those watching over me.
'My eyes opened slowly and connected with my mother's eyes which looked worried, her face drawn.
But as our eyes locked she asked the question: "Do you want to live?'' and then said "If you want to live you'd better fight".
'As I closed my eyes, my mind drifting not completely understanding the events. I woke still as a 15-year-old girl but, with a new normal.
'Several years later as the flashbacks started, I had decided I had to survive.
MORE: 8 things people suffering with mental illness wish they could tell you
'Pain changes us that cannot be helped. It doesn't leave anyone the same. One has the power to decide how they want the pain to change and influence their life.
'Pain is a part of life but I have chosen to grow through my pain, learning to love myself as a whole being rather than as the labelled 'mutilated' being that many women and girls who have been through this experience choose to adopt.
'This part of my journey has given me the strength and a gift to speak and influence change so others don't have to go through this unjustifiable torment.
'Sexual violence, forced body alternation, cutting, mutilation, circumcision is abuse and a crime against the mind, spirit, heart, womb and soul of a woman.
'It is a "culture" which is meant to nurture, love and guide, not afflict pain and disempower the women of the world.'
Fatoumata Jatta
'There is nothing I can do about what has already been done, but 'now' is in my hands,' says Fatoumata.
'There is always a way to empower myself and make the most of what I have.'
Fatoumata Jatta, as part of professional life, works with teachers and schools on prevention and safeguarding procedures to prevent harm of FGM to children in affected communities.
'If I'm strong it's because of my parents and what they have taught me about being a woman,' she says.
'As the eldest of six children, five of which are girls, I really felt a sense from them that a woman's place in the world is the same place as a man's, different but equals.
'They gave me all the opportunities they could, which were plenty, instilled confidence in me, and pushed me to think of myself as capable, and valuable, as someone worthy of respect and love.
'This sense of security doesn't only come from my parents, but also from the rest of my family, a large and loving group of smart, beautiful, and passionate Gambians.
'Which is why my story of being cut, surviving the practice and living with the consequences, has often felt so removed from my understanding of my own identity, and I've had to learn to integrate this part of me so that I can accept myself fully.
MORE: A new start for Tanzania's hunted children
'Intellectually I have always understood that if my grandmother had me cut as a baby, it was because she absolutely thought it was the best thing for me, that for her it was the right thing to do.
'But emotionally I've had to understand and make sense of the feelings I was left with: confusion, anger, shame, powerlessness, loss, and grief.
'For me it' has been a process of accepting many things; that being cut doesn't make me any more of a woman as my grandmother believed, but neither does it make me any less of one as I believed.
'I'm proud that I pushed through my fears to take a stand for the end of FGM. Girls and women should not be cut, it hurts both physically and emotionally, it's dangerous, and it's unnecessary.
'Organising a fundraising event with great speakers and media coverage made me feel empowered and strong in a way that was new to me, because I also felt extremely vulnerable and exposed.
'Now part of my work consists of FGM prevention and safeguarding in schools for teachers and girls, and that too makes me feel stronger.'
Hawa Daboh Sesay
'The thought of the "operation", in which I nearly bled to death at aged 13, still traumatises me and left me with lifelong physical problems and psychological trauma,' says Hawa.
Hawa Daboh Sesay is the founder and executive director of Hawa Trust Ltd and mother of two children.
She is originally from Sierra Leone but has lived in London for 24 years.
She is a qualified and registered social worker with a degree in Social Policy and a masters in social work, now working in London as a social worker in a family support team.
Hawa campaigns on many levels, speaking at everything from the Africa Summit on African Children and Families in London to the UN Women's Conference.
'I became a victim of FGM at 13 years old in Sierra Leone,' she says.
;My memory is that of my old aunty who came and took me to the Northern Province.
MORE: These are the faces of America's gun violence
'In the morning they took me to the stream where I saw lots of women dancing and singing.
'Before I knew it, I was thrown on the floor. I then felt a sharp pain and started bleeding. That memory cannot be erased from my mind.
'It was not until when I came to have my own children that I realised it was because of the FGM that childbirth was difficult for me. I also experienced acute health and psychological problems.
'The procedure is usually carried out in a bush in secret. This has left me in agony.
'The thought of the "operation", in which I nearly bled to death at aged 13, still traumatises me.
'I therefore determined to make sure my daughter does not experience the same trauma I went through. I explained to her the danger of the practice and that following our traditions does not mean we must follow FGM practices.
'I have gone with my daughter to Sierra Leone many times but I ensure that she is protected and does not go near the old women.
'She has realised the suffering I have experienced and joins me in the anti-FGM campaigns.
'I will always condemn FGM and send a challenge to those who use religion as an excuse to mutilate girls.
'The trauma and devastating impact it had on me has led me to form the Hawa Trust in order to address issues of FGM related to HIV/Aids.'
Sarian Karim Kamara
The portraits also include the subjects with their children (where they have them) who have not been cut, thereby demonstrating the break in the community cycle between mothers who speak out and refuse to continue the community practice into the next generation.
The children's future children will also be spared FGM with the cycle broken, and thus the project represents generations of change.
'I've had five children and the pain I went through on that day cannot begin to compare to any of my labour pains. It's indescribable,' says Sarian.
Sarian Karim Kamara is a community development worker, community facilitator, an activist, and a lead anti FGM campaigner with a specialist interest in safeguarding activities.
Sarian works as a community advocate and change agent for Forward UK and Manor Gardens Health Advocacy Project.
She is also the founder of Keep the Drums Lose the Knife, a project aimed to end FGM in Sierra Leone alongside working with the police to train officers.
'I was cut through the Bondo Society in Freetown Sierra Leone at age 11 together with my sisters,' she says.
'Some people think that FGM is just a cultural practice, that it is normal or acceptable for some communities.
'But it is not acceptable because it causes so much physical and psychological harm and has no benefit at all. It also damages relationships, but I feel that people do not discuss this.
'I have broken that cycle in my family and for generations to come, none of my girls will be cut.
'I have dedicated my future to campaigning to end FGM and help those who have been through it, as well as protect young girls who are at risk of it.'
The Face of Defiance hopes to grow as a concept and develop its own pictorial website as a social resource to support and empower other survivors.
MORE: Syrian refugee porn star wants to change perceptions of asylum seekers
MORE: A bucket list guide to Indonesia, and no, we're not just talking about Bali


text:
- Home
- Antivirus
- Products
- Support
- Security Center
- Company
- English ▾
Your Botnet Questions, Answered
In the last few months, we've received a good number of "letters to the editor" from readers of our monthly security newsletter, Lavasoft News, requesting information on botnets, a major player in the online security battle.
Here's some weekend reading for all those who wrote in to us, and for anyone else interested in brushing up on your knowledge on this topic -
Our May edition of Lavasoft News is a special themed issue focused on bringing you the facts on botnets, in plain and simple terms: what they are, how they affect you, and what you can do to prevent infection. Take a look.
And, for any regular LN readers out there, please take a moment to help us find out how we can improve the newsletter and bring you the news you find most valuable by filling out our (very short) subscriber survey. We look forward to your feedback and opinions!


text:
On March 21st, a PIN code will be required on all mobile devices that have a UM email account configured on them, which includes UMKC employees with @umkc.edu email addresses. This includes tablets, smartphones or any device that uses the ActiveSync protocol to connect. Many individuals across the university already use a PIN code to lock […]
Archive of posts tagged Exchange
Exchange 2010 Upgrade for Faculty and Staff Mailboxes Starts December 28th
Beginning on December 28th, UMKC faculty and staff email boxes will be migrated to Microsoft Exchange 2010. We've put together some important information you need to know about the migration.


text:
Do some fall deep cleaning now, enjoy the Holidays later!
Early fall is the perfect time to do some deep cleaning of your home. Before you know it, the holidays will be here and guests may be arriving. It can be so rewarding to get some major cleaning projects out of the way so you can relax during Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Here are some projects to consider tackling:
Wipe Down Appliances
Empty out and clean your refrigerator. Pitch old food and make room for holiday treats. Give your oven and cooktop a good scrubbing. Tackle baked on gunk and grease so that you are ready to roast a turkey. Run your washing machine with a cleaning solution specifically for this purpose. Empty the lint from your dryer vent. Wipe down the inside of your dishwasher with white vinegar and water.
Clean Windows
There is nothing nicer than having the low winter sun streaming into your home when temperatures start to drop and the days get shorter. Sunshine is healthy. You can hire a window washing company to get this accomplished quickly and safely.
Declutter and Donate
This is a great time to get rid of stuff you don't need or wear. Start with your summer clothing to free up some closet and drawer space. Go through bookshelves. See what is hidden in your basement and attic. Donate clothing and usable stuff a local charity. Some will pick up from your home. Take books to the library for their annual book sale.
Deep Clean Carpets and Rugs
Cleaning carpets is incredibly rewarding. Get rid of any dirt and allergens that have been tracked in. Remove dust mites, mold, odors, and pet hair. Having carpets professionally cleaned is the smart way to go. A good company has industrial strength equipment to really remove build-up and to revive the carpet fibers. While you are at it, consider having upholstery professionally cleaned.
For more info on carpet and upholstery cleaning check out https://pcsraleigh.com/
Go through Medicine Cabinets and Kitchen Cabinets
Clean out medicine and kitchen cabinets of items that have expired or haven't been used for a long time. Take medications to a legal drop-off location (often at the police department). Unopened canned goods and boxes of food can be given to a local food bank if they haven't expired. Wipe down the shelves to deter insects and to clean up any spills.
Scrub Bathrooms
Chances are you do clean your bathrooms. But, do you scrub the tile floors or shower walls? Cleaning tile can really brighten up a bathroom. Give your toilets, bathtubs, and sinks a thorough cleaning with solutions that have essential oils to deter mold and bacterial growth and to make the rooms smell awesome. Clear out the drains with some baking soda and white vinegar. Don't forget to clean mirrors and glass shower enclosures so they sparkle. Put out fresh hand towels for your guests.


text:
It's like a good book. The kind where the page corners have been folded, smears of finger prints lie from the previous read — the kind you go back to over and over again.
That book will always be Yosemite National Park for me.
Summer, spring, winter, fall, no matter what season it is, the park takes the purest form of nature. Experiencing winter in Yosemite National Park is one to remember as the snow glistens over the valley floor, and streaks of ice mark the towering rocks.
In a quick three and half hour drive from San Francisco, we arrived to the sun starting to peak out from Half Dome with our friends Julia & Thomas. The first stop is at Tunnel View for the expanding look into the valley. The trees line the ground, filling it up with bright pops of burnt orange and dark green. I always forget how easy it is to lose track of time here in Yosemite, and it's time to continue on.
During winter most of the main trails are closed, which is completely okay by me, as the valley is filled with all kinds of surprises. Frozen streams, snow filled fields, and coyotes prancing through in search of their next meal. As the day winds on, a lunch break is in order, and any picnic bench will do (as long as it has a view).
The day finishes off, and it's time to head home. The book I love to pick up, now has to return to the shelf, until next time.


text:
there will be pies
10 thoughts on "plentiful"
Such a beautiful shaped basket on the bike – and filled with new apples and their wonderful aroma! Pies! Yippee!
Love them both…telling us of the season we are entering…but the one with the bike and basket of apples is stunning…
Delightful shots of the apples on the tree and in the basket. – Mmmm I can't wait to see your pies.


text:
This is a ExtenZe pills review, click below if you need:
I've received a lot of positive feedback from site's visitors about ExtenZe. All mentioned that results are outstanding! So Best-Male-Enhancement-Pill.com decided to give "The Best Pill Award – Customer's choice"!
I wrote this ExtenZe review as a help to everyone who would like to know more about the pills offered by ExtenZe Plus and for those men who want to know if ExtenZe is a SCAM.
What is the best, most effective and recommended male enhancement pill? Every man who cares about health and effectiveness would like to know the answer to this question.
But the truth is that there is no single and simple answer because all people are different. Why I wrote this ExtenZe review you may ask? Well, it is really important to help people set up their personal opinion and assessment of the product based on compiled facts and tests.
This review should help you find answers to the following questions:
- Is Extenze effective in male enhancement?
- Is it worth my time and money?
- Does ExtenZe work and what do I do if it is not as effective as promised?
- Is Extenze a SCAM?
- Are Results Permanent?
And many other reasonable questions that you should ask before purchasing and taking enlargement pills.
I've decided to test Extenze Personally and bought 6 months supply
Almost 90% of all enlargement pills share a similar functional concept based on the included ingredients but some of them have special nutrients and blend of components which are renowned for boosting your libido; improving your sex drive, increasing your blood flow and enhancing your semen.
Extenze is not an exception when it comes to penis enlargement pills that really work. It works as a blood flow stimulator that makes the most of your natural potential. As a result of forcing more blood flow into your penis chambers the penis cells stretch and enlargement becomes possible.
But what is the difference between Extenze pills and other enlargement pills? Extenze is a male enhancement pill known by distinctive features and components. These special ingredients have influence on the male hormone called testosterone.
This male pro-hormonal sexual nutrition supplement is designed to avoid the undesired and anabolic muscle building effects, and will optimize the sexual benefits of natural pro-hormones and pro-sexual nutrients.
In other words, these pills help your own body to produce an optimal and normal level of your own testosterone. It works not just like enlargement supplement but as sexual energy and overall sexual health improvement.
Actually all the information I've listed above can be easily found at ExtenZe official website, my personal experience is – Extenze works, but it doesn't work better than VigRX Plus or even Male Extra.
In my ExtenZe review I singled out some advantages and disadvantages of these enlargement pills.
- Works a bit different than other similar enlargement products
- Manufacturer declare it's safeness and effectiveness due to the natural enhancing nutrients
- I personally experienced NO side effects
- Increasing results within a couple of months both in length and girth
- Improve sexual energy and overall sexual health
- 5 years on the enhancement market, clinically tested and medically proven pills
- Money back – They claim 100% money back guarantee, but I didn't request a refund, have no idea how it works with Extenze
- The main disadvantage of Extenze I discovered is that there is no specially developed enlargement exercise program available with pills. Usually it is not a big deal to find proper enlargement exercise program online but it is always a plus to sell pills and exercise course as a complex.
- Another disadvantage of Extenze is that there are so many resellers offer this product. And prices could be very different! Moreover, there are so many unreliable and untrustworthy websites with Extenze Reviews, buying from them could become a real problem. Beware to buy ExtenZe enlargement pills from unauthorized sellers! Make sure that you purchase the real deal, not a box with unknown pills inside from a so called "OFFICIAL" website!
The main questions that you will ask me is: So did ExtenZe help me to enlarge my penis?
I'll tell you – many other reviews say that the Extenze Results are permanent however I can't affirm that. I've reached about an inch in girth and almost inch in length after taking it for 6 months. But after 6 months taking Extenze I decided to try VigRx Plus instead and results were more than impressive!
The most "bribe" benefit is the price. Extenze is one of the cheapest male enhancement pills that is available in the market nowadays. But I would recommend you not to save a couple of bucks on your health and purchase something more effective and trustworthy. Please read my VigRX Plus reviews for more info.
Today more and more men come to the conclusion that male enhancement is something to think about. And there are so many options available to naturally enhance their penis size safely, permanently and without risk. Using male enhancement pills and doing PE exercises is one of the best solutions to achieve results.
Click here for ExtenZe official website
Whatever pills you will choose remember that your health is the most important thing. Read the ingredient's list carefully, find out if there are any side effects. Make sure that the pill you about to take is 100% natural!!
Please note
To get the best results possible please use male enhancement exercises and take pills at the same time. As mentioned above, Extenze doesn't provide such program as a bonus. So..
Here's what I did. I've created my own Male Enhancement Exercises eBook. I've spent almost 6 months doing a research and writing it!
These Exercises will help you to get the best and the fastest results and more importantly – these results are permanent.
All you have to do is to sign up to my newsletter on the right. Leave your name and email address and I'll send this eBook to you instantly.


text:
Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls San Diego
Empowering Girls Through Music
Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls San Diego is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that brings the community together to empower girls through music.
Empowering girls through music education is a powerful tool for self-expression
Inspiring collaboration, communication and respect encourages girls to embrace the uniqueness in themselves and others
Creating a safe outlet for girls to express their thoughts, share ideas and cultivate dreams will help build a strong diverse community
You rock!
About GRCA:
Girls Rock Camps help girls build self-esteem and find their voices through unique programming that combines music education and performance; empowerment and social justice workshops; positive role models, and collaboration and leadership skill building. The Girls Rock Camp Alliance supports camps around the world in this mission.
Check out some media from our rock camp friends!
Los Angeles Times "Getting Their Rock On", Rock n' Roll Camp Los Angeles
New York Times "Rocking Out: No Boys Allowed", Girls Rock Camp Atlanta
Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls San Diego does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national and/or ethnic origin, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, mental or physical ability, or gender identity/expression in the administration of any of its educational programs, admissions policies, financial aid, and other camp-related policies and programs, as well as volunteer and employment-related policies and activities.
We envision a world where girls and women collaborate and lift each other up; a safe space to create and nurture self-esteem and self-expression.
As a result of our weeklong summer camp, we strive for a positive impact on all the participants as they continue their journeys as the future generation of the community.
Copyright Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls San Diego. All rights reserved.


text:
New Log Books
New logbooks are out. We put 50+ of the 2019-2020 member logbook in the mail today. Members get a fresh logbook when they renew, or when they join ASI. If you didn't get one when you joined or renewed — most likely it's on its way to you now!


text:
The Alliance is the recognized trusted partner and convener within the organ donation and transplantation community, dedicated to providing engaged learning, innovation, collaboration and leadership for the advancement of organ donation and transplantation.
The Alliance is not a membership organization, but rather maintains a national Board of individuals who bring the best ideas from many diverse organizations. These organizations, and others in the community, work together with the Alliance to provide engaged learning in order to identify innovative practices to support the entire organ donation and transplantation community. Above all, the Alliance works in partnership with other key stakeholders to save and heal lives through organ donation and transplantation.
Professional Partnerships
Acknowledging donation & transplantation organizations who financially support The Alliance.


text:
You're missing out!
The stories you see here are just a taste of what you'll find in the print version of Land Line. Click here to sign up for your free subscription.
Hot Topics
Cargo securement final reg now in effect
For owner-operators, EPA's SmartWay program sort of dumb
By Paul Abelson
No more! The system must be changed
OOIDA members speak out in support of OOIDA Truck Safety Month
OOIDA, MoDOT partner for more parking
By Land Line staff
NAFTA news
Insurance among issues stalling Mexican truck entry
Clock ticking on HOS rules
By Dick Larsen
44 Forrest Lucas: The cream of the crop
By Bruce Mallinson,
Maintenance Q&A
By Paul Abelson
Washington Insider
By Paul Cullen Jr.
OOIDA Member Info
By Donna Ryun
Trucker to Trucker
By Ray Kasicki
Road Law
By Jeff McConnell & James Mennella
Ear implants
By René Tankersley
Tax Tips
By Barry and Howard of PBS
Truckers Speak Out
By James W. (Skip) Atkins
Road Forum
By Dave Faltermeier