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Dallas — Sometimes the predictable, well-made play can feel as comfy as your favorite pair of loafers, even as some of its themes induce discomfort. That's the takeaway in playwright Dominique Morisseau's Detroit '67, now having its area premiere at African American Repertory Theater.
Set against a violent backdrop—the 12th Street riot of 1967 starts just at the end of Act I—and with plenty of precisely placed conflict, it's easy to map out where this play is going well before each turn approaches. But that doesn't make you root for these characters any less, nor does it lessen the contemporary relevance. It's impossible not to think of the recent riots in Ferguson, Missouri, for example. Very similar conversations and plots could have happened in any black family's home nearby, as protesters and tear gas-wielding and riot gear-clad police officers erupt outside.
Chelle (Regina Washington) and her brother Langston "Lank" (Vince McGill) run an after-hours speakeasy in the basement of their Detroit home. He's got a thing with fun-loving Bonita "Bunny" (Ayoka Lawson), and Chelle is slowly working on something with Sylvester "Sly" (Artist Thornton Jr.), although he's going much faster than is her style.
Lank and Sly have plans to open a real bar, against the wishes of Chelle, who knows that money could be spent more wisely (echoes of A Raisin in the Sun). But the bigger conflict happens early on when those two rescue white Caroline (Cara Reid) after she blacked out (and from the looks of her face, was knocked around) after a night of partying. They bring her into the basement, and she ends up helping out for a week until she gets back on her feet.
Who is she? Why doesn't she have family she can call? Will her attraction to black men cause a rift between Lank and Bunny? The ever-cautious Chelle knows it won't end well, but her heart speaks louder than her head.
It's a time of change. Albums are giving way to eight-tracks, and Chelle is slow to adopt (don't do it, Chelle; even the technologies after eight-tracks won't sound as good as vinyl!). And of course it's the 1960s in America, where Civil Rights is a fight that will be fought for many years (in some cases, they still are).
There aren't any surprises here, but the beauty of a play that's this firmly constructed is that it all but directs itself if the actors are experienced. That works out here because directing credits go to the trio of Washington, McGill and Lawson. It's usually not a good sign when an actor in the show also directs it, much less three of them, but that tact does no harm here. If anything, it feels a little too facile. It could use a little more grit.
Scenic designer Bradley Gray convincingly turns the K.D. Theatre stage into a basement/bar, with posters and artwork on the walls around the audience. Washington and Lawson do triple-duty as costume designers, and seem to have had success in looking for period clothes at thrift shops—it all fits the era and the characters.
McGill has played Walter Lee Younger in A Raisin in the Sun before, and Lank is closely related, emotionally (if less complex) than that character, a man willing to risk big because he's sure it'll pay off. McGill slips into the role with ease; his final breakdown is a gut-punch.
Washington, as usual, gives a performance so honest you always feel for her. Lawson and Thornton find the fire in their characters; and Reid balances an air of mystery and vulnerability with this underlying sense of confidence. She's no fish out of water.
This play is in Morisseau's Detroit trilogy, along with Sunset Baby, which Jubilee Theatre will stage in 2015. You can bet one of these theaters will follow up with the third play, Skeleton Crew, in the near future. Detroit '67 is nothing we haven't seen before, but sometimes it's just nice to be reminded that the more things change, the more they stay the same.


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I've never been one to keep quiet; this much is well known, but as of late I find myself more and more at a loss for words; aghast at the abuse and tyranny that is popping up in our nation. This is a dangerous time for peoples of all nations, especially, Americans.
I read many posts and see the concern. I read articles and see the usurpation of our God given Rights; those which we have observed for so long, as Freemen. I see the inaction of…
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Preparedness means a lot of things for different people. There, that's about as broad a statement as I'm going to make today. I've recently been in contact with several people on various formats such as this one, FB or other blog sites, and found myself having to explain my writing style to them. Fair enough, so... I got to thinking, maybe this message is more than just rebuttal to a question... maybe it has a purpose that should reach others as well. Here goes.
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Javelin Trap
Another missile trap, triggered by the old floor tile or tripwire.
Detect: Per-based Traps at -2.
Disarm: DX-based Traps at -1.
Circumvent: Automatic (don't trigger).
Evade: Hearing at -3 allows Dodge at -3.
Effects: 1d-1 impaling.
Shots: 1.
Rearm: Yes.
Steal: No.
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Your website is a reflection of you
So you've decided to build a website. You either have something to say with a blog, or you have a product or service to sell. Your website design is essentially your digital first impression. How do you want others to see you when they land on your homepage?
What is website design?
Website design is the creation of a website. It includes the layout of the site, the content production, and graphic design. The look and feel of your website can determine weather people come back or not. Think about it: if you're an attorney, and the screen on your homepage is fuschia, chances are you're not going to retain many people on your website, let alone get many clients out of it.
How easy or complicated is it to navigate? Are you a creative that has 1,000 ideas and feels the need to put all of them on your one website? Do you have different links to each of your ideas? That can be overwhelming and hard to navigate for many potential viewers and scare them off. Not to mention, too many irrelevant things can slow everything down altogether. Do you have content? Is it relevant to what your website is about? Are you regularly posting? Do you write incredible content but only post when you get around to it, or do you have a schedule? All of these things are factors in the design of your website.
Believe it or not, many people determine whether they find a particular website trustworthy or not fairly quickly; the look of the site can either build or kill trust. That said, the layout of a site can keep someone on a website or have them go back to their search engine of choice to find another. How is the website organized? Is the navigation key labeled in layman's terms


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My first travel post! Like I mentioned in my last post, traveling to Cuba was a spontaneous decision (spontaneous for me anyway). My school takes students on a business research trip to Cuba over the new year, so when it opened up I jumped on it. Then had second and third thoughts after submitting my application. (This was more a lack of confidence in myself rather than any hesitation about Cuba as a country.)
A couple of times I thought of emailing the professor to cancel my application (other students did, for various reasons). But somehow I worked up the courage to go on the trip and didn't end up making a fool of myself on the assignments. And if I did, people were kind enough not to say anything.
We were on one of the last daily flights from LA to Havana; shortly after we returned, Alaska Airlines stopped flying to Havana. Which was very well-timed for me, since I am a horrible flier and prefer non-stop flights whenever I can. The airport was tiny; I've never flown out of Santa Monica, but it might've been the size of the Santa Monica Airport. (Just kidding. Wikipedia says José Martí has roughly 13 times the amount of runway Santa Monica has.)
Funny story: on the way home, I was headed for the front of the plane when one of the attendants looked at my ticket and yelled "No!" For a split second, I thought I wouldn't be allowed on the flight and would be stranded in Cuba forever. Turns out, my seat was at the tail of the plane so he wanted me to board at the other end.
I wasn't prepared for a tropical Christmas. It was pretty nice leaving the cold LA winter for a tropical island, but having to wear business attire 8 hours a day in that weather was miserable. The weather did cool off a bit towards the end of our time, but the first couple of days were brutal.
Of course, they get hurricanes sometimes; there was some damage leftover from Maria. And it's kind of fascinating to see the waves crashing on the Malecón. I've never visited a place where there wasn't a beach or some sort of natural buffer against the ocean. The waves would bash up against the wall and splash across the sidewalk and three lanes of traffic. Seeing it at night, the power of nature slaps you in the face (sometimes literally, if you get caught in a wave).
I couldn't (still can't) wrap my mind around living on a small island where people can't get off. There's so much freedom of movement in the US that I can't imagine living any other way. Even thinking about China, it's still a massive country; it'll take quite a bit of traveling before you hit a border you can't cross. Mentally, everything seemed so scarce.
In reality, things were pretty scarce as well. Being an island, they have to import practically everything. Shortages were a regular thing. Before we left, the professors told us to bring toilet paper and toiletries and any clothing we might want to donate, as well as some candies. I wish they had been better at explaining the need for such things, and how many ways we needed to split what we brought; I pretty much gave everything away by the first half of the week.
A week in Cuba taught me I didn't need the internet to live. Granted, our itinerary and transportation were planned and provided, so I didn't need to be on my phone looking up places and Google Mapping my routes. But all the rest of it, the social media and the random posts and the YouTube rabbit holes – I don't need any of that. The best part was not having any withdrawal symptoms; I was never dying to go online.
Besides, internet in Cuba was very spotty. You had to buy a wifi card, and find a public hotspot. The cards were cheap, roughly $1-2/hr. But every time you logged on, they take 10 minutes off your card. I hadn't planned to purchase any time, but I gave in during New Year's Eve to check in and post a pic or two. This was how I figured out the 10-minute thing (I confirmed with our tour guide later); I spent $2 for maybe 10 minutes of wifi. That was also how I learned I didn't really have anything to do online (so why am I on my phone and computer so much???).
Restaurants were often out of something; at one restaurant, more than half the menu was unavailable. Fresh produce was most scarce. I've never eaten so few vegetables in my adult life. It really opened my eyes to how much I take for granted. I mean, I never thought I'd miss vegetables! By the time I landed in LA, all I wanted to eat was salad. For the next month.
The food was hit and miss; part of that is possibly attributed to the irregularity of ingredients. Some people were better at adapting than others, so they had tasty recipes as back-up. That meant some meals were the best thing I've ever eaten and some were worse than I could cook myself (I don't cook very well). It's not very vegetarian or vegan friendly; my vegan friend brought a lot of meal-replacement bars from home just in case (and she needed them).
My friends also fell in love with ropa vieja and we had that multiple times during the trip.
We had a quick stop in Trinidad, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It was better maintained but also felt more touristy. Again, I feel like I didn't have enough time to fully explore everything; I travel at a much slower pace than what our group was forced to do.
I didn't take enough pictures to show Havana and Trinidad for what they are. I wasn't thinking like a travel blogger, therefore I don't have all the shots people want to see. But there's so much you can't capture on camera (or at least, for someone with my skillset wielding a smartphone). Besides, I wasn't there to be a tourist; we spent the majority of the days doing company visits.
And of course, there were a lot more political, historical, and economic issues not addressed. We visited multiple businesses a day in a wide variety of industries; these people with varying levels of power definitely had strong opinions about the country. We had lunch with the former Minister of Energy, who worked directly with Che Guevara and Fidel Castro in the early days following the Revolution. Whatever your politics, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to talk to living history.
Being a huge ballet fan, I was disappointed at not getting the chance to see the National Ballet of Cuba (we were away from Havana the two days they performed). Then I was even more devastated to find that my backup plan (seeing Alicia Alonso's private collection at the Museo de la Danza) was also a no-go; the museum was closed 🙁
Cruising down the Malecón at sunset, in a pink vintage convertible.
Given the chance, I would definitely go to Cuba again. Ojalá.
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Despite the excitement of returning to university, January so far has been a frosty affair – both in politics and in reality.. This week has seen the falling of snow, and the creation of a fantasy, winter landscape. But within the doors of the Scottish National Gallery, Turner in January offers a much warmer, more welcoming vista – habitable only until the month expires.
The works on display are an inherited bequest of the late collector Henry Vaughan. For the modest size of the exhibition – occupying only one far room of the National Gallery – this is an impressive display to have come from a single 19th century private collection. But for fear of the watercolours fading, Vaughan requested that his collection of JMW Turner works only be displayed in low-light January, and for over one-hundred years Edinburgh has complied with his request.
The exhibition is intimate; Turner's array of watercolours and sketches escort us through his travels to such places as Venice, Lake Como, Switzerland, Durham and Edinburgh. His small yet vivid works give us a glimpse of nostalgia, viewing a past world of exploding and evolving skies, turbulent oceans and plush sprawling landscapes. Never explicitly intended for public display, Turner promotes an assembly of what are essentially vibrant postcards.
But continuing this line of thought, the National Gallery delineates a progression in his exploration and experimentation of media and techniques. Moving anticlockwise around the gallery space, we find a transition from vivid watercolour and chalk to monochrome inks and charcoals. The works fluctuate in and out of abstraction, from identifiable cityscapes, to wholly unrecognisable scenes. Landscapes undulate with excitement, and cruise with sedation. We're presented with the importance of travel to Turner, offering him – as well as ourselves – inventive ways to observe the world.
Nonetheless, Joseph Mallord William Turner gained prominence for his hazily ambiguous rendition of landscapes; the hanging of this exhibition didn't help these works to stand out as individual oeuvres. Clearly Vaughan's collection is extensive, but not to the point of needing more than one room, making this exhibition seem somewhat overcrowded as each work jostles with its adjacent. A blurring of myriad warm rotating clouds and waves may be welcomed during this icy January, but its presence throughout the exhibition verges on the overwhelming.
Likewise, however, perhaps that's the point; the gallery space boasts its ownership of such an eclectic and vast body of work, throbbing with uniformly expressive brushstrokes and sensuous, overstated colours.
The Scottish National Gallery has embraced Vaughan's Turner collection for over a century, and for clear reasons. The exhibition may be modest in size, but it bursts with both the liveliness and composure that defined Turner's career. Being a visual way to document the travel imperative to Turner's work, this admission-free exhibition is certainly worth a glance – if not this year, then the next – on an equally glacial January day.
Until 31 January 2018
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Here, Elsa Caleb, a business advisor from the Start Up Loans Company, talks about what aspiring female entrepreneurs need in order to make their business ideas take off.
A recent survey carried out on behalf of the Start Up Loans Company suggested that lack of confidence and fear of failure do play a big part when setting up a business.
As well as having a great idea, the need for a handle on figures, some great contacts and complete dedication is also important for female entrepreneurs.
Be confident
Believing in your business idea is the bedrock of a startup. If you don't believe in your product or service, why should anyone else?
You also need to believe that you have it within yourself to make it work. This belief builds determination and confidence to succeed – even in the most adverse conditions. Knowing how amazing your product is helps you develop the thick skin needed on your business journey.
Know your industry inside out
It's essential to know all aspects of your industry or chosen field; you've got to be an expert. A great idea is important, but you've got to have that industry knowledge to back it up.
It's best to do your research before setting up your company by reading books, blogs and watching talks with key industry figures.
Social media is another excellent research tool. For instance, you may choose to follow your favourite fashion designers on Twitter, or connect with other business owners on LinkedIn.
The competitors
It's vital to know your competitors, what products or services they offer and how yours will be different.
Why should consumers choose your products over your competitors' ones?
How will you stand out and what is your unique selling proposition?
Preparation and planning are key to success
When it comes to business, planning is essential. As a business owner, you've got to be able to think ahead and look at the bigger picture.
Careful planning should feature in everything you do, whether it's planning your meetings or writing your business plan.
You need to make sure you set yourself achievable objectives right from the beginning. However, it's not only about planning your objectives, but knowing how you reach them, and preferably when. Your business plan should be an evolving document.
The Start Up Loans Company offers free downloadable templates to help female entrepreneurs write a business plan as well as a cash flow forecast.
Get the business basics
If you're going into business, it helps to know the basics on finance. There are lots of free starter courses available where you can learn how to create a profit and loss sheet, understand taxation and manage cashflow.
Startup funding – what is out there?
There are several types of finance available out there. The key is to pick the right one that will suit you and your business.
For example, options range from bank loans to funding from a government-backed plan. You can also seek an investor or use accessible savings.
And finally…talk
Running a business is hugely empowering and rewarding, but it's important to have someone who you can talk to and share your concerns or worries. Offloading any insecurities goes a long way in resolving a situation.
Join business forums and support networks or don't hesitate to contact fellow business buddies – female entrepreneurs who have gone through the process are invaluable help. Having someone who understands how to run a business and its essentials is priceless.
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A large white tube mysteriously washed up on a stretch of Miami Beach sands this morning and caused officials to order beach goers to evacuate. WSVN reports that the U.S. Navy is now investigating. Updated: It's totally a U.S. Navy training mine.
There's no word yet on what exactly the tube could be or how it got there. It was spotted this morning by a man walking the beach. The witness called police, and both the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard were called it. An original suspicion that it was some sort of navigating device has since been ruled out.
Beach goers in the area were asked to evacuate.
"They just told us to leave the beach,"one witness told WSVN. "There was something on the shore ... and [police] told us, 'Please, leave the beach.'"
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A thoroughly enjoyable surprise at the Advances in Genome Biology conference last week was hearing Gene Myers of Max Planck Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Dresden, Germany. It wasn't because it was about assembling a de-novo human genome at 54x coverage from a Pacific Biosciences RSII dataset in a fraction (some 1/36th) of the time, it wasn't because of the elegance of the presentation – it was because it was for the first time in 10 years that Gene Myers attended AGBT, and for a simple reason – he did not consider short-read sequencing 'intellectually satisfying'.
You know you are hearing from an unusually talented person when they talk about things that are intellectually satisfying.
For a bit of history and context, Gene Myers was on the original team that wrote BLAST and published a paper in 1990. Published in the Journal of Molecular Biology, it was entitled simply "Basic local alignment search tool" and has received almost 50,000 citations to-date, and was the most-cited paper of the 1990's. BLAST and its iterations are still in wide use today, almost 25 years later, and due to its provenance from the NCBI (NIH), it remains 'one of the most widely used bioinformatic programs'.
A few years later, as a vice-president of Celera Genomics he was deeply involved with Craig Venter on the sequencing of the Human Genome, and as a proof-of-principle sequenced the Drosophila genome in 2000. The Celera Assembler is currently open-source, maintained by the University of Maryland here.
After I moved to the East Coast in 2005, I heard when Myers (who moved from Celera to UC Berkeley in the interim) moved to the new HHMI Janelia Farms campus in northern Virginia. (For those not familiar with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, it is the second largest philantropic organization in the US, and the country's largest private supporter of academic biomedical research, with some $16.9B in endowments; in 2013 they disbursed some $727M in U.S. biomedical research.) Throughout this time, his work centered around developmental neuroscience, as evidenced by his publications there.
It was with interest that I heard his talk, "A de novo Whole Genome Shotgun Assembler for Noisy Long Read Data", and not from the 'reads and feeds' kind of instrument-platform perspective. It was from the perspective of a person who has the ability, funding and freedom to choose the problems they want to solve, rather than the ability and funding to solve problems handed to them. Gene Myers is an example of someone who chose to work on genome assembly with PacBio data, because it was an interesting problem to him.
Not that the reads-and-feeds were ignored – they were just a footnote in the story he told about his new assembler Dazzler. Using the last-generation P4/C2 chemistry, there was an 11% insertion error, a 3% deletion error, and a 1% substitution error; while the high error rate of the PacBio RSII system is well-documented, this does represent a marked improvement over time. What was notable to Gene however, was that the errors and read sampling were almost perfectly random, which meant a much easier time for the informatic analysis, as a Poisson distribution could precisely model both.
His comment about random read sampling deserves a bit of explanation, as those not familiar with the day-to-day reality of sequencing. All DNA is not created equal – you have a stretch of DNA that can vary a lot in terms of base composition, in particular the G:C to A:T ratio, otherwise known as 'GC ratio'. Regions that are high in GC-content sequence poorly, as 'traditional' next-generation sequencing involves amplification during library preparation, amplification during template preparation, and the sequencing itself which uses modified polymerases and nucleotides for light-detection (native polymerases and nucleotides for Ion Torrent) but nonetheless, at every stage of this process particular GC- or AT-rich stretches can and do simply fail. For those interested in a cross-platform comparison, this Quail et al. 2012 paper in BMC Genomics (direct PDF link here) look at some very AT-rich (Plasmodium falciparum is about~83% AT) and some GC-rich (Bordetella Pertussis is 67% GC) organisms.
I remember a poster from the Broad that they presented perhaps two years ago at AGBT showing the read distributions across GC-poor, GC-average and GC-rich organisms, comparing several platforms (including Ion Torrent and Pacific BioSciences) and showing absolutely flat distributions for the PacBio. This very likely has to do with their method of single-molecule sequencing, which obviates the need for template amplification; however there is still a need for library preparation steps to get a SMRTbell adapter on it to prepare the sample for the sequencing process. (I wrote up my thoughts on Pacific BioSciences a few years ago here if you are interested in additional information.) If a particular read doesn't make it all the way through the sequencing process, it goes missing from the final dataset, and thus you no longer have a random representation of molecules.
The implication of these last two aspects (random error and random read start-points) is that the accuracy will converge geometrically with depth. Thus getting 100% coverage is just a matter of getting sufficient coverage, rather than a diminishing return with an incomplete dataset to assemble a given genome. (An ongoing battle is to determine when is 'good enough' 'good enough' as an assembly – an acceptable number of gaps and reads that can't be placed anywhere due to an incomplete assembly. There is the temptation to sequence just a bit more, and then some more, but there comes a point where someone decides that the quality of the work is sufficient. Just like with any other large project, it's hard sometimes to define what the finish-line goal actually is when the final product remains incomplete in some ways.)
Back to the talk, Myers shared data that indicated after consensus correction, at 10x coverage the error dropped to 0.5%, and that his assembler Dazzler was 36-times faster than the time it took to assemble the same data using a tool called BLASR; more information about the project, the cell-line used, and how it was done is on PacBio's blog here. Myers had diagrams laying out his approach (input FASTAs only, overlap, scrub, error-correct, overlap again, scrub, then assemble with input from quality scores via a Quiver datafile), and specifications on how he did it, with 512 cores running for 5 days and only 16GB of RAM, with a Distributed File System. ("It will take you 100x longer if you don't use DFS, and shame on you if you don't.")
This tweet came from Jason Chin (@infoecho on Twitter):
405K core-hours (the technical details about this process linked to in the tweet can be found here) on the Google Cloud meant that it would have taken only about 11K core-hours (just 21h on Myers' 512-core system) for the initial BLASR to Dazzler 'apples-apples' comparison, thus the 36x calculation (edited for clarity, see Gene's comment below for details). Taking a guesstimate of what the 'retail price' of a core-hour would cost (way too many variables, but nonetheless) even at $0.50 per core-hour you can see how expensive (and computationally intensive) such an exercise is with the BLASR algorithm. With this new method, a human genome can be assembled with PacBio reads on 'a MacBook laptop in 5 days' – a remarkable promise.
And thus Gene Myers comes back into the genomics realm, finding a problem of his choosing to solve. And solve it he did, with further refinements to come – he promised the correction needed some more work and that in about a month he would make it available.
Lastly, some interesting questions from those in attendance, including whether he'd look at assembling transcriptomes. Myers answered that while Dazzler is a 'pure' strategy (i.e. only long reads of a single type), a hybrid strategy would be a good thing as there may not be enough PacBio reads for a given transcript.
If you have to ask how much a 54x human genome on PacBio costs, well, could you afford it? I was told it was on the order of $40,000 USD. Yet it comes down to affordability of both the runs and the instrument; while the tool exists for a few users who can afford the approximately $800,000 for it, the RSII is still priced out of the budgets of many research and commercial laboratories.
One last interesting point is that this genome is a lot more complete than the reference-guided assembly of the same sample to 2.83GB and contig N50 of 144KB using Illumina short-reads and BAC clones; the PacBio Google-cloud de novo assembly ended up being 3.25GB and a contig N50 of 4.38MB, a marked improvement.


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Preparations underway in Jeddah
As announced earlier, work on the Kingdom Tower started in January. Thanks to Naif Saudi from Skyscrapercity forums, we can now see some movement on the site of the tower.
On the first picture we can see some construction equipments in the background. Although it is not 100% clear from the image alone, but one of these equipments resembles a pilling rig.
Although there isn't much movement on the construction site as of yet, the fact that machines were deployed to the site on January 2012, as previously announced, is a major step forward for the Kingdom Tower project.


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As the leading job site in the world, we focus on helping millions of job seekers and employers find the right fit every day. To let even more people know about the world of opportunities on Indeed, we've launched a global campaign – 'How the World Works.'
Each creative element of the campaign tells the story of how diverse jobs combine to make something work – from a simple cup of coffee, to the complex workings of the New York City subway or even the global stock market.
The campaign centerpiece is a television commercial that highlights a core message – no matter what job you do each day, you are part of a team, contributing to a wider initiative. Rather than using actors to play an engineer or IT consultant in the commercial, we put our own product to the ultimate test, using Indeed to source talent from all over the world to show 'How Commercials Work.'
We hired industry professionals from six different countries – Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, UK and US. The resulting commercial celebrates the job of each person who was on the set with us, working together to produce a great outcome. You can watch the behind the scenes video to see how it happened.
The story of our commercial is similar to the 2 million stories shared by people who have found a job on Indeed – they all start with a simple yet powerful connection between job seekers and employers. To bring that connection to life, we turned the Indeed logo into a 3D representation of some of the industries that hire on Indeed every day.
We hired designers, architects and engineers to turn each letter into a representative industry. The 'I' became retail, the 'N', transportation, the first 'D' was engineering. The two 'E's took the form of IT and accounting. Lastly, our final 'D' represents one of the industries hiring the most on Indeed, healthcare.
Over the next few weeks we will be taking an in-depth look at some of these industries and thousands of employers who build their teams with Indeed.


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What you need to know about FDA vaccine testing and trials
On July 27, the biggest test to date of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine was underway. About 30,000 Americans received shots created by the U.S. government. Some volunteers were given the vaccine while others received a placebo dose.
Another company, Pfizer Inc., announced that it had started its own study of its vaccine candidate in the U.S. and elsewhere. That study also aimed to recruit 30,000 people.
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At PowerPark, the lane of workshops at GET Nord, apprentices' talent is wanted – hands-on utilisation of new technologies and systems awaits you. Numerous exhibitors offer product-centred tasks for solving. Whether it is systems for building technology or communication, installation products or applications from the area of automation, all the tasks are hands-on and ready to be solved with savvy thinking. The participants at PowerPark are rewarded for their successful solutions with a personal certificate from the manufacturer.


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The match started with Rainhill on the attack from the off. Gaswood withstand early pressure until Rainhill get the first goal on 10 mins. Defence out of position. Simple tap in on the back post. The lads pick themselves up and get on with the game, both teams playing well. A very good contest for the rest of the first half. Both keepers making good saves to keep their team in the game. 1 – 0 at half time.
Second half gets underway as the first. Garswood slow to get going. Rainhill score from a corner 2-0, on 40 mins. From then on Garswood spark into life. Om the attck Ethan Miller wins a free kick well outside the box, on the right wing. Declan Livesley delivers an exellent cross to the back post where Keiran Lackey slides in on 48 mins. 2-1.
Ten mins later after a very good spell from Garswood, they get another free kick in the same position. Declan sends the ball into the box. This time Ethan slots the ball in. 2-2 on 58 mins. Both keepers are kept busy making good saves. On 62 mins Rainhill score again from a corner 3-2.
Garswood pick themselves up again and come back. Keiran takes the ball from halfway straight through the middle and is brought down in the box. The ref. gives a penalty kick. Wesley Spencer steps up as Captain and slots the ball under the keep on 65 mins. 3-3.
5 mins to go Garswood well on top. Everyone giving 100%. With 1 min to go Dylan Robinson receives a pass from Dan Foster. Finds himself one on one with the keeper and fires the ball into the corner, giving the keeper no chance. 3-4
Garswood work hard for last minute to keep Rainhill out. Brilliant win away from home against a very good team.
Well done lads. Heads never dropped once, and never gave up.
Excellent personal performances from: Charlie Eatock,Keiran Lackey,Wesley Spencer and Callum Eden. Good debut from Daniel Foster and welcome back Nathan Bonney, whos been out since October 2010 with a broken arm.
Man of the Match: Declan Livesley who played right wing first half and right back 2nd half.


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Top 9 Signs of a False Flag Terrorism Operation
1. The terror incident or attack follows the Hegelian Dialectic model (a.k.a. Problem-Reaction-Solution).
2. The mainstream media hypes up the possibility of a terrorist attack weeks or months before the event.
3. Following the incident, news media endlessly covers the most traumatic moments of the incident, ad nauseum to traumatize the public.
4. Terror or public safety drills are conducted prior to and during the false-flag event.
5. Eyewitness reports vary greatly from the propagated version of what really took place during the incident.
I am not sure that a false flag event is evidenced on inconsistencies which don't really have anything to do with who committed the act.
the explosive was derived from commercial fireworks
people definitely got burned, just not a lot, because you had to be within five feet of the bomb to have been inside that fireball.
one of the bombers was identified by a victim before it was even known that video footage existed.
Socratic #1: How can a blast directed in one direction affect another location?
Socratic #2: Do you have any explanation for the shadow variance, save an obvious photo manipulation, released by the MSM?
Socratic #3: Could Exhibits P and Q indicate a subliminal technique for a Psy-op? Three yellow balloons.
Exhibit R clearly notes, within it's pages, that a mass casualty event at Boston has been thoroughly documented since 2008.
the explosive was derived from commercial fireworks
3 pounds worth, which accounts for one bomb. Where did the other explosives come from?
An explosion radiates heat. I have evidence of victims with singed hair twenty feet away, yet many victims, especially female, at ground zero, have wispy hair with no evidence of singing.
6. The first two hours of "live" news broadcasts following the incident, due to limited censoring, provides the most telling evidence.
7. Counterfeit evidence suddenly appears in support of the official story to enhance the story's believability.
8. All official investigations conducted only consider evidence that supports the official story and everything that proves the contrary is ignored.
9. Any identified "terrorists" are later revealed to have intimate ties with the CIA, MI5, MI6, Mossad, ISI, or another government agency.
I've attacked this event logically, from every angle, and I simply can't agree that this was caused by two young males, without having more proof. Without seeing addition footage the FBI hasn't released.
I believe that your introduction could have been constructed better. Instead of talking about your past time, it perhaps would have been better if you dived straight into the information. Furthermore, your statement about your opinions being subjected to change should not have been included, as it weakens your argument somewhat.
Lastly, it would have been better if you had included sources (scholarly?) of or relating to the Boston Bombings incident (in order to support your assumption made from the chart).
You successfully rebutted Druid's points; however i would have liked to see a source supporting the alleged picture of the firework bombs used at the Boston Bombings. Further, your last argumentative piece would have been greater if you had provided sources to counter the 9 point model.
Winner: Adjensen.
While you have provided further interesting inconsistencies, your argument would have been a whole lot better if you had summed up your points at the end of the body. As not including a summary only leaves a set of information without a clear direction.
Your rebuttals were good, but included sources would have been nice.
Adjensen had again successfully rebutted Druid's arguments. I believe the reason being is the lack of summary on behalf of Druid42. I would have liked to see sources supporting your counter claims to Druid's.
Winner: Adjensen (by a small margin).
Your summary here was long needed, but it was good. You brought up a lot of stuff which would have greatly aided you earlier on if you had provided them then.
Overall, if you had summarised your points in the intro and body, your argument would have been so much more stronger. Without the use of summaries in the aforementioned, your position was lost.
Your conclusion effectively addressed the lack of support Druid's photos had to indicate a FF event. Your summary in the form of "means, motive and opportunity" were also effective.
Overall, your rebuttals were good, and is what set you apart from your opponent. Using better summaries would have supported your argument further.
Winner: Adjensen
Good debate both of you!!!
This was an incredibly difficult debate to judge. Due to the lack of information and evidence available to the general public, this debate had to be judged based on what seemed logical to the reader.
Druid had a very difficult task and he/she used very specific information that, on the surface, could easily sway the average person into believing the bombing could have been a false flag. To the untrained individual, the photo anomalies are quite compelling and leaves one baffled by the apparent doctoring of photos and inconsistencies of the blast itself.
But I believe adjensen was able to stand against Druid's attack by providing a clear analysis of the photos, providing logical explanations for what may seem out of place or manipulated, highlighting that the color of the flash is unreliable since colored fireworks were used to make the bombs and that the inconsistencies in the damage around the blast are unreliable indicators of foul-play since explosions are not 100% uniform 100% of the time.
This was a perfect example of how a debate on such a sensitive topic should be approached and both participants deserve much respect for the work they did, but I must give the debate to adjensen.
Winner: Adjensen.


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|Diresaur • Elder Wyrm (Boss) • Phyllo (Rare Game)
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|Amber Armlet • Argyle Armlet • Black Belt • Brigandine • Ras Algethi
Lente's Tear will allow you to get past those barriers you previously saw in Golmore Jungle, so exit Eruyt Village to return to The Needlebrake section of Golmore Jungle. The barrier you need to bypass to continue on is along the eastern edge of the The Needlebreak, but other barriers can be found to the south of this zone and in the southern end of the Paths of Chained Light. The former leads to The Rustling Chapel zone, while the latter leads to the southern part of the Paths of Chained Light zone, both of which are populated by higher level enemies, which you need not tangle with right now. Not that they're too strong for you, just that there's no profit in it, and you'll get an excuse to return later.
So, when you exit Eruyt, head southeast a bit and pass through the barrier there to enter Whisperleaf Way. This area is just a straight path to the east, with Gargoyles, Malboros and Great Malboros along the way. This leads to The Parting Glade, which has a conveniently placed Gate Crystal, a Viera you can speak with and a treasure in the southwest corner that contains an Amber Armlet . Touch the Gate Crystal to heal up, save and then go north to come to another boss.
Boss - Elder Wyrm
This boss is definitely more of a challenge than Tiamat, all because it loves to use status ailments against you. It comes with two Treants, who are aggressive this time, but they aren't any different than their docile counterparts, so you will want to cut them down to size as soon as the battle begins. This will make it much easier to concentrate on Elder Wyrm, who will still be attacking you during this short process. As already mentioned, the Elder Wyrm will use a lot of ailments in this battle, as it has access to Slow, Break, Blind, Silence, Sleep and Confuse. Of the ones listed, Confuse, Silence (depending on who it is) and Break are the most important ones to remove.
However, things get a bit more complicated, as the Elder Wyrm's ultimate attack can add more fuel to the fire. When you see it ready Sporefall, get ready for another round of status ailments, which includes Confuse, Slow, Silence, Blind, Poison, Oil and Sap. Oil is the big one here, as Elder Wyrm also knows Fireball, so that combo will do some insane damage to a character, should they remain oiled. The catch about this move is that it hits in a cone-shaped range in front of Elder Wyrm, so you could use Decoy on your tank character (preferably with a Main Gauche and shield combo), then turn Elder Wyrm from your other party members.
Having a White Mage with Esuna is very helpful in this battle, but Remedies with Remedy Lore 3 will also help. There is one thing you want to look at when fighting the Elder Wyrm, and this part is completely optional. The rare steal for this wood-woven wyrm is something called an Emperor Scale, an item needed for the Bazaar recipe for the strongest gun in the game. The reasoning behind mentioning this is that this piece of loot is limited to a steal from this boss, a later Mark, and a Monograph drop/Poach from one of the most challenging normal enemies in the game. You only need two of them, so stealing one from this boss and one from the Mark later on will limit the need to have to struggle with the strong enemies. If you feel you are up for it, you can equip the Thief's Cuffs on someone and keep attempting to snatch the Emperor Scales from the Elder Wyrm - you should have a save right outside the boss room!
After the battle is over, you might notice a treasure located in the boss' room during the Congratulations screen, which contains 9,872 gil. Feel free to return to the previous room to save and heal up at the Gate Crystal, then return to the small area where you encountered the boss and exit via an area transition to the east to continue on.
The Branchway
At the start of this level you'll find yourself traversing a grassy path east, then south… almost like being in a jungle! Sadly, the experience isn't long-lasting, as you'll soon find yourself back on the walkways that run through the Golmore "Jungle". From here you can turn west or east, but since the western path leads to a dead-end (which may be of interest later) continue east, instead. A short distance to the east the path will split into two, a northern one and a southern path. You'll encounter Malboros and Great Malboros on both paths and if you want to spawn the Rare Game here, Phyllo, you'll need to slaughter those Malboro.
Before that, though, there is one single treasure to grab here, if you want it. Take the southern path, head down some stairs and when you reach a fork turn west to reach a dead-end, at which is a chest which may contain a Black Belt accessory. Grab it, then get back to the business of killing Malboros by returning to the previous fork and clearing the northern route. Once you've done that there is a chance that Phyllo will spawn when you go to either of the dead ends on the map - either the dead-end at the western-most point of the zone just off the path leading to the area where you fought the Elder Wyrm, or to the dead-end where you found the Black Belt. If it doesn't spawn, you'll have to move two zones away (The Parting Glade - where the Gate Crystal is - should suffice) then return and try again by clearing out all the Malboros. Keep in mind that you won't know Phyllo is there until you are on top of its spawning spot, as it remains hidden until there's prey close enough for it to attack.
Phyllo :
Phyllo is pretty much nothing more than a stronger version of the Redmaws you encountered in Henne Mines. Its regular attack can inflict poison and it won't self-destruct with Self-Sacrifice, so you don't have to worry about that. It does have Gnaw and Leech, the latter of which can't be reduced with defense. The only new skill it has over the others is Eerie Soundwave, which can hit multiple characters if they are grouped together. It can drop a Bat Fang or Spiral Incisor, plus you can steal a Taurus Gem from it and if you want to poach it, you can acquire either a Pebble or Ras Algethi (Guns 4).
The Greenswathe
Although you can take either the northern-most or southern-most paths in the previous zone to get here, to easily grab an item use the southern of the two paths. There might be a Treant here, as well as more Malboros (both kinds) and Gargoyles. Where the map bends upward on the lower path is where your desired treasure lies, which could just be an Argyle Armlet . Now, it didn't really matter which path you took in the previous zone, as they both converge at the eastern side of this one. One other pit stop you want to take is the platform at the center of the northern path, where you will find a Diresaur. When you're finished, head through the transition to your east to arrive in Paramina Rift.
Diresaur :
The Diresaur might look familiar, as it is really nothing more than the Wild Saurian from the Estersand. It is definitely the beefiest normal enemy in Golmore Jungle, and likely the strongest, physically - Malboros and Panthers can be more annoying with their ailments. It doesn't really have a lot of attacks, as it uses a normal attack, Ram and Sonic Fangs, the last of which is the most dangerous because of the small chance for an instant KO. It can drop a Tyrant Hide, Earth Magicite, Hi-Potion or a Float Mote, plus you can steal a Tyrant Hide, Earth Magicite or Leo Gem. That last item can be important, as it's used in the Bazaar recipe for the Nihipalaoa, an accessory that is one of the more powerful items in the game (need three of them). If you decide to poach the Diresaur, you may get a Tyrant Hide or a Brigandine .


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I call the love of my life, Lindarella, as in Cinderella for good reason.
On the evening of June 5th, 1983, as we set out to celebrate her birthday, I turned to her in the car and said, "Now, you know that we really don't have to do anything special tonight and what really matters is that we're together, right?"
"Right." She smiled.
"Wrong." I said as I helped her get out of the car, sitting in my driveway.
I walked to the curb and snapped my fingers in air and, as if by magic, a stretch limousine pulled up.
"Linderella, your coach is ready."
The rest of the night was, as the limo driver put it, "One surprise after another."
A dozen roses were waiting at the flower shop on our way to the restaurant that overlooked downtown Los Angeles on a clearer than usual night and with every stop the trunk would open and out would come another gift.
What can I say? When you're in love and inspired, the sky's the limit.
Everything had been perfect. But, I had planned one more surprise.
After we left the restaurant, the next 30 minutes down the 405 Freeway seemed like 30 seconds. We slowly pulled up to our most magical place in the world: Disneyland and from the gate, we could hear the festive sounds of the Electrical Light Parade. It was now, 11:30 pm as I explained,
"We have 30 minutes to make it to the castle."
I grabbed Linda's hand and we proceeded to weave in and out of the crowd lining Main Street, headed to our destination. At 3 minutes before midnight we stood in front of the castle, and with hundreds of people all around still watching the parade, I handed her an envelope with a card shaped like Aladdin's lamp that read, "Rub the lamp, close your eyes, and make a wish."
She opened them to one more gift: an engagement ring. And so, amid the noise and commotion, I asked her to marry me.
At that exact moment, the float carrying Cinderella and Prince Charming came by as they stood next to a tall clock ringing 12 midnight.
28 years later, we still believe in magic.
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Ely's Cinema Success
After its grand unveiling at the start of the month, Ely's cinema is shaping up to be a huge success.
Under the nurturing wing of ADeC the cinema at The Maltings is fast becoming a great way to spend a summer evening. The range of films is astounding; so far I have seen a French comi-drama about schoolchildren and a film based on the true history of Rwanda's massacres in back in the early 90s. July has even more treats in store; Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the jewel in the crown.
Yet it is really the atmosphere of the place that makes this cinema a lot more inviting than city centre multi-plexes. Greeted by steward volunteers before sitting down to watch a good film with a glass of excellent wine; this really sets it apart. If you haven't been, I would seriously recommend giving it a try. Watch a film, sit outside afterwards and enjoy a beautiful summer evening on Ely's glorious river.


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So what matters here is the answer to one question: can we trust a rally? We haven't been able to so far; you can bet some money will try sell into it, as they have for months.
So skepticism is in order. Bulls argue that after events on the weekend, when the fed acted aggressively to help sell Bear Stearns and stabilize the markets, there's a greater sense of confidence that the Fed is getting creative in trying to deal with this credit crises. There's also a double bottom on the major indices, which soothes the nerves of technicians.
The biggest help short term will likely be the quadruple witching expiration tomorrow; the Street has been net short the market for months and the remains a lot of trapped shorts in the market. This is part of the reason we are seeing this morning's sharp 15-point rally in the futures, which occurred in the forty minutes.
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Addictions – what to understand and what to do
Addictions can be destroyers of lives by striking at the heart of self confidence and affecting your capacity to live a life that works. Or perhaps for you right now, it is not quite at that stage.
In an event, are you ready to quit? Or are you at the stage where you realize that there is a problem? And have you discovered that will power is not enough on its own?
I can help you get your life working and overcoming your addiction.Addictions can be awful and overwhelming or subtle, shameful and secret. And there are differences between these. But the similarities are much more important.
What is the nature of the psychology of your addiction? How can it unravel out of control? And what is the way back to mental health, control and a satisfying life which works and where there is no need for the dependence?
- Addictions are primarily psychological which can be overcome by sticking with tried and tested principles
- Addictions also have similarities to obsessive behaviours. At their core, there is a desperate holding on against the fear of the vacuum if they were to let go. Lives can become increasingly unbalanced where needs are not being met and stress and low self esteem are spiralling out of control – which in turn feeds the addiction
- There is an important distinction between dependencies that are shameful and /or illegal (drugs, such as cocaine and cannabis, gambling, sex) and those that are socially acceptable (alcohol and smoking), which require something a little different. Eating and diet based addictions are also somewhat different, if only because we must all eat.
How an addiction works
Consider a baby cuckoo in a sparrow's nest
The baby cuckoo begins its life there as an egg – a bit different from the others but harmless and inert. And then the egg hatches and very quickly the young cuckoo chick begins to pull its weight – and disposes of the other eggs or chicks – those that have the right to be there. And the cuckoo grows bigger and bigger fed by the incessant activity of the cuckoo chick's surrogate parents. And as their activity grows and grows and the chick grows and grows – well in time there is nothing else. That chick has taken over everything and left – nothing – no space and no time – no anything
And that is how an addiction works
At the beginning, it is fairly small and there other parts to your life. But as the addiction grows (if it does), then it begins to take over – and this can reach the stage that a large part of one's time is spent thinking about it, preparing for it and indulging it. And of course if the addictive activity is illegal and/or expensive and/or shameful, then some of that time is spent in concealment.
Which hints at why a dependence can take over? Concealment separates you from people who can meet your essential needs appropriately for connection and intimacy and shared experiences. And so that, just like the cuckoo, it is taking over and pushing out from the nest something that is actually much more important. And then when this happens it can become really scary of course, even to contemplate letting the lifestyle dependence go – because what else will you have?
The scariness as well the compulsion to prepare and indulge and feed the addiction shows that crude emotion is in control.
Why do addictions seem so hard to beat?
(Human Givens Institute explains)
So what is it that makes addictions so easy to acquire and so difficult for most people to shake off? The answer lies in the chemical reward mechanisms that the human brain uses to motivate itself to act and learn.
The excitement we get when we are keen to do something is produced by dopamine, a natural brain chemical, very like cocaine in its effect, that raises our emotional level so we want to take action. And the warm feelings of satisfaction we get after doing something — eating, laughing, having sex, or achieving some new understanding or skill — are produced by endorphin, another natural substance (which is similar to heroin). Working together these chemicals keep us interested in doing the biological functions that preserve the species, and stretch each one of us to learn and achieve.
In a well-balanced life, a reasonable amount of natural reward is felt by the human every day, but in a life where essential emotional needs are not met and abilities are not stretched, the rewards do not come and life feels flat and meaningless.
This kind of life is rich territory for addictions to target, as every addictive substance or behaviour either stimulates a reward mechanism or provides a chemical reward directly. Dangerous activities stimulate production of dopamine, generating a feeling of exhilaration; injecting heroin gives a warm, cosy feeling like the natural feelings of satisfaction you might get after fulfilling any biologically necessary function.
Understanding the emotions at work
- There is the dopamine surge – anticipating the pleasure and the endorphins which is the warm after pleasure of satisfaction. Both dopamine (cocaine) and endorphin (heroin) are of course essential for humans to keep active, engaged and stretched. But when addicted, the balance has gone. More and more of the activity/consumption is required as a life of balance goes and this psychological dependency is often then fuelled by a physical dependence as well
- Habits then become harder to break as trance states become stronger and stronger
- Underlying it all is the anxiety, fear or sense of hopelessness – and always collapsing self esteem and confidence. These are never too far away – fuelled by the simple fact and experience – that all of this secret and heavy activity simply does not work.
Your intelligent, rational and far seeing brain knows that there is a better way for you and that the addiction is doing far more damage than good. There are much better ways to live and to begin to live and so you forget that from small beginnings massive change and progress toward a balanced life is not just possible but inevitable.
The Path of Addiction Busting
- Understand that the emotions and emotional triggers have to be shifted and not even to pretend that your rational brain or your will alone can do it on its own.
- Take your time – and don't even begin to face the addictive habits directly until you have begun to take tiny steps that show you the possibility of a more fulfilling life and bring you a measure of control.
- Change your relationship to the dependence. Be less friendly toward it and separate yourself from it but don't necessarily begin to hate it. It is after all doing its best to keep you safe.
- Know that when the time comes you will be ready to get rid of it – to loosen the power of the addiction trance state.
Maybe I can help you to get to this stage:
- You will have learnt and understood the psychology of your addiction (the cuckoo again) and know the needs in your life that are not being well met.
- You will know the difference between:
- Substance abuse – cocaine, cannabis, heroin etc.
- Shameful addictions – gambling, internet pornography, sex and retail etc.
- Binge activities – alcohol and eating disorders, including bulimia
- Weight Loss – overeating and lifestyle balance
- Smoking cessation – legal, not shameful but where the physical addiction is typically stronger than the psychological addiction
- OCD – Obsessive behaviours and Eating disorders – addiction like and can be difficult to shift
- Compulsions, moods, and behaviours – that can be impossible to understand or explain.
- You will have begun to understand the need to build motivation – either primarily positively in favour of a better future or mainly negatively against the future you will have if you persist with the addiction. That out of this the trance addictive state is weakened.
- Identified any trauma in your past that needs to be cleared – using Rewind
- Identified the habits and patterns that need to change, the stories you delude yourself into believing that keep you hooked and the way in which your brain fuels the anticipation of pleasure – but always lets you down afterwards.


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Housatonic Community College offers three summer sessions
Registration for Housatonic Community College's three summer sessions is going on now.
Session I goes for eight weeks from June 2–July 24. Sessions II and III run for five weeks, from June 2–July 3 and July 7–Aug. 7.
Tuition for a three-credit course is $507. People can register in person or by mail, fax or online (www.housatonic.edu). The registration deadline for each session is the first day of class.
The sessions offer flexibility, affordability and a variety of class subjects for everyone, according to HCC officials.
The three-session structure gives students the flexibility to study at their own pace, tailor their course load to their individual goals, and still have time for a vacation before the fall semester starts, HCC officials said.
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WVUTeach receives more funding to train math and science teachers
By Sunshine Wiles, WV MetroNews
A teaching program at WVU that is really in its infancy is picking up steam and funding.
Two years ago the university received a $1.45 million grant from the National Math and Science Initiative to start training science and math teachers at the secondary level through WVUTeach. This month, WVU announced a new $1.2 million grant from the National Science...


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What to Look for in a Point of Sale System?
In many hospitality businesses, the point of sale (POS) is often overlooked or taken for granted. Having the right point of sale system in place could mean that your business thrives, not just survives. From the humble cash-till, to $100,000 custom systems, POS systems come in all shapes and sizes. But what POS is best and how can your business benefit from having the right one?
In truth, the days of the cumbersome and stationary cash till are slowly being put behind us. Most of the top POS systems out there have predictably gone the digital route. iPad based POS systems, in particular are proving to be the fastest grower. This trend is hardly a shock, iPad based POS systems have the advantage of drawing on the modern user's familiarity and comfort with mobile apps, plus they make point of sale fully mobile, touch screen and user-friendly.
There are a host of really useful POS systems out there today that are affordable, easy to implement and super versatile, giving you all the functionality of a cash till in the traditional sense, but also providing you with tools that could empower you as a manager or business owner and change the way you run your business for the better. In the world of restaurants and hospitality in particular iPad based POS systems take the form of complete venue management systems that are used to perform all the functions of running a restaurant like accepting payments, table service, placing orders, communicating with the kitchen etc.
Here are some key things to consider when looking at a point of sale system:
- Usability
Let's say that you have a new staff member, or you are new to a point of sale system yourself. How long would it take you to get to grips with the process and implement it? How long would it take you to train someone on it? As with everything in business, time is money. The nature of business doesn't allow for tedious systems requiring hours of training or complicated day-to-day processes. Ideally, A point of sale system should be intuitive enough for a complete 'newbie' to start working with it straight away with minimal guidance. For general use, you would expect the system to be relatively self-explanatory with useful and informative prompts where needed so you could just dive straight into it without worry. But, remember, while some of the better POS systems will definitely allow for this kind of seamless integration, other systems still have a way to go. So, choose wisely.
- Speed
As far as speed goes, once again, time is money! If your point of sale system is browser based, you may have significant delays in being able to place orders or performing other functions. Another point to be aware of when it comes to browser based systems, is that they can become a little inconvenient if the Internet goes down, effectively stalling operations. A native app, like Meza or Vend (one that is installed straight onto the tablet), will provide you with more reliability so if your Internet or electricity goes down, you can still operate.
- Reporting
How can a point of sale system help you with perfecting your menu, you may wonder? The point of sale is the channel through which all of your business will flow, this means all of your orders and timings. With Meza, for example, the in depth reporting capabilities can provide you with valuable information on how your business is performing. How much revenue is a certain dish generating? What are your busiest times? Where are the most popular places to sit? You can use this information to fine-tune your business and make it more profitable. For example, you may find that certain dishes are actually making you lose money instead of gaining it. Drop the things that aren't worth your time or money to offer, it probably means customers don't like it, and if they don't like it, why would you offer it? Meza's fully customisable backend even extends to the iPad itself, where you can edit your menu on the go.
- Staff Management Capabilities
Have you ever had to deal with a staff member who you know hasn't been pulling their weight, but you didn't have the data to back it up? A modern point of sale system should provide business owners with the capacity to keep an eye on staff, their performance and hours with minimal hassle. In Meza's case, each staff member has his or her own four-digit pin. This means you can use the internal reporting to see how many people they have served and when. Staff management is much easier when you have numbers to back you up.
In summary, POS systems have come a very long way in the past few years, no longer just acting as a platform for basic over the counter transactions. Modern Smart POS systems are going for the "do-it-all" approach, and are steadily becoming an integral component in running a modern business. The key, of course is going out there and choosing the right one for you.
Take a look at the features that Meza offers and see how we can help your business succeed.


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Cougar Vantar Scissor Gaming Keyboard
The Cougar Vantar Scissor Gaming Keyboard is a very nice and not so expensive scissor gaming keyboard with lots of interesting features that will make every late night gamer happy.
FN Key Shortcuts
Anti-Ghosting Technology
Scissor Switches
8-Effect Customizable Backlight
Key switch - Scissor
Anti-ghosting keys - 19-Key Rollover
Interface - USB plug
Dimensions - 132(L) X 445(W) X 20(H)mm
Backlight - 8 Backlight Effects
Cable Length - 1.6m
Weight - 600g
- Good quality materials
- RGB programmable lighting effects
- Silent operation
- Anti-ghosting feature
- Small footprint
- Not so expensive
- The key caps are only partially visible
- The lack of tactile feedback
- Some wobbling under heavy gaming sessions
You are looking for a gaming keyboard, like the new RGB ones that are so trendy at the moment, but are on a tight budget? Look no further than the COUGAR VANTAR Scissor Gaming Keyboard. With this small gaming keyboard you can have the performance and the looks of much more expensive products, at a fraction of the cost. Plus, you have some extra bonuses. Let's look at it more closely to see if it is worth it…
All our reviews start with a look at the specifications, and this is no different:
|Product name
|COUGAR VANTAR Scissor Gaming Keyboard
|Key switch
|Anti-ghosting keys
|19-Key Rollover
|USB plug
|8 Backlight Effects
|Cable Length
|1.6m Braided
|132(L) X 445(W) X 20(H)mm
Cougar targets with this keyboard gamers who want a silent gaming keyboard with silent quality feedback. This is no mechanical keyboard, rather a "scissor" switch type. What this means, is that under the key cap there is a plastic structure that resembles a couple of crossed scissors, hence the name. When you press the key down, the "scissors" close and the switch is activated. Letting it go will make a small spring push the cap upwards thus reopening the contact. This type of keys are usually found on laptops, due to the simplicity and silent operation they offer. Yet, they do not offer great feedback, since the key travel is very limited and there is no way to know exactly know when the key activates. It is cheap to manufacture, though.
Packaging and Contents
The carton box into which the keyboard is sold is small and slim. On a black background there is a picture of the illuminated keyboard and the main features of this product:
The back side of the packaging sports as usual more information:
The side of the carton box is uninteresting… Just a recap of the specs and model name:
As usual for Cougar, there is not much inside the carton box: just the keyboard and the small instructions booklet.
Description and Build
The Cougar Vantar Scissor Gaming Keyboard is small and thin, but still packs loads of features. The keyboard is flat and small if compared to normal gaming keyboards, being the small footprint sometimes an advantage though, if you think on going to lanparties or to a friend's house. The long braided cable is enough for the tallest desks, being securely held in place to the keyboard housing. The front plate is made of plastic and has a sort of brushed aluminum look to it, which is not too bad actually.
The LED ring goes all around the keyboard, too. This is what probably makes this keyboard shine (pun intended).
Turning the keyboard over, we can appreciate the presence of 5 rubber feet and two additional plastic feet that can be flipped open to raise the keyboard a little bit.
The tag reveals all the details:
Once connected, the keyboard is immediately recognized and installed as a generic keyboard by the Windows Operative System: you will not need to install any software to make it work. I am not the type of gamer that likes flashy lights and blinking keyboards, so of the eight color combinations I decided to settle for the stable mono-color one, named "Constant" (well what else could it have been, right?). You can choose through "Rainbow 1", "Rainbow 2", "Breathing", Wave", "Constant", "Rhythm", "Customize" and "Ripple".
You circle through the effects holding pressed the FN key plus the keys 1 to 8, and in some cases you can change the pattern with the arrow keys.
Another nice feature of the Vantar, is the fact that it has "anti-ghosting technology" on up to 19 keys, which are the ones gamers use the most, by the way. These 19 keys are: W, A, S, D, Q, E, Z, X, C, B, Tab, L-Ctrl, L-Alt, L-Shift, Space, and the four arrow keys.
Using the Keyboard
Using the keyboard for the past weeks has been quite a surprise, since I was not really expecting to have under my fingertips such a nice keyboard. I am used to using a mechanical keyboard for all my typing and gaming sessions (the rare ones I still manage to organize). The silent operation of the scissor keys have been a nice discovery, since I was used to hear that clickety-clack of the mechanical keyboard I used to fill up the silence of the lab late at night. the noise was sometimes so loud that during Skype calls, for instance I was asked to stop typing since they couldn't hear me!
The Vantar changed all of this: the silent operation and the fact that I could finally turn off the office lights and still see the keyboard in front of me was a very nice surprise. Yet there are some strange quirks I found using this keyboard.
For once, even with the lights off, the key caps are only partially visible: the upper part of the letters is not perfectly lit, which makes it hard even with the raised keyboard to perfectly see the letters.
Secondly, the lack of tactile feedback took some time to get used to, since I was so used to the mechanical keyboard, but after some mileage and some "misfires" and typos, then I started to typing with "almost" the same speed as with the other keyboard.
Thirdly, even if the construction is sturdy, and the materials are of good quality, sometimes I feel the whole keyboard bends under the weight of the strongest keystrokes during gaming sessions. It does not bend so much, it kind of wobbles a bit up and down, but enough to feel the difference with a more sturdy keyboard. This is probably more due to the plastic unfolded feet than anything else, though.
The Cougar VANTAR Scissor Gaming RGB Keyboard is a very nice, light and colorful keyboard that will surely light up you late night gaming sessions. The RGB backlit keys are easy to use when writing a long document or even playing your favourite FPS. It is not a mechanical keyboard, but for the price it does not get any better, really, since you can take it home for less than 35€. This is the reason we decided to give this small but fully packed keyboard our GOLD AWARD.
Thanks to Caseking for having sent the product object of this review.
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Dietary supplements, tablets, medical nutrition and meal replacers are examples of healthcare nutrition products. Healthcare nutrition products can easily be enriched with inulin, which is an excellent source of soluble dietary fiber.
Inulin and oligofructose are bifidogenic ingredients and thus can contribute to a healthy gut microbiota. The soluble dietary fibers are fermented to short chain fatty acids which are an important energy source for especially the colon and the body.
Inulin has proven effects on glycemic response thereby promoting healthy blood glucose and supports diets for diabetics. Interestingly, inulin and oligofructose have been shown to modulate hormones which may play a role in satiety. The low caloric value of these ingredients enables you to develop weight management products. Thus, inulin and oligofructose can play a role in management of metabolic syndrome where blood sugar levels and overweight are two key issues.
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text: Rick Brewster 1,716 Posted August 1, 2019 Report Share Posted August 1, 2019 Yesterday's build has a few things that I'm fixing in today's new build. Hopefully I can get the final build pushed out to everyone for this weekend! To get this update, make sure you have "Also check for pre-release (beta) versions" enabled in Settings, and then click on the Check Now button. Direct download link: https://www.getpaint.net/files/zip/test/paint.net.4.201.7152.40366.install.zip Changes since 4.2.1 beta build 7151: Fixed: JPEG XR support is limited to Windows 8 or newer (it doesn't work on Windows 7) Fixed: The old JPEG XR plugin is no longer blocked if you're using Windows 7 (btw it's actually more accurate to call it an HD Photo plugin) Fixed: The mouse wheel may now be used to scroll the Palettes menu in the Colors window (thanks @AndrewDavid for the suggestion and @toe_head2001 for the fix!) Changes since 4.2: New: JPEG XR file type support Fixed: Holding Ctrl when dragging a selection with Move Selected Pixels will again leave a copy behind (but only with the mouse) Fixed crashes when saving DDS images Fixed VTF plugin compatibility; it was not working in 4.2 except for images that were an exact power-of-2 size on each dimension Fixed: .BMP files can be opened even if they're not actually BMP images (they still need to be a valid WIC-supported file type such as PNG, JPEG, etc.) Fixed (stabilized) menu ordering of effect plugins that have duplicate names Fixed metadata handling that was preventing some images with EXIF tag 330 from being able to load Fixed metadata preservation for old images that pad EXIF string values with null terminators Fixed title bar text color when using certain custom accent colors in Windows 10 Fixed very bad performance when opening large images with embedded rotation metadata 2 The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to post Share on other sites


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rspec version 1.2.0 has been released!
Behaviour Driven Development for Ruby.
### Version 1.2.0
* If you use the ruby command to run specs instead of the spec command, you'll
need to require 'spec/autorun' or they won't run. This won't affect you if
you use the spec command or the Spec::Rake::SpecTask that ships with RSpec.
* require 'spec/test/unit' to invoke test/unit interop if you're using
RSpec's core (this is handled implicitly with spec-rails)
* setup and teardown are gone - use before and after instead
* you can still use setup and teardown if you're using
Test::Unit::TestCase as the base ExampleGroup class (which is implicit
in rspec-rails)
* The matcher protocol has been improved. The old protocol is still
supported, so as long as you're not monkey patching rspec's built-in
matchers, or using extension libraries that do, this should not affect
you. If you run into trouble, you'll just need to change:
* failure_message => failure_message_for_should
* negative_failure_message => failure_message_for_should_not
* All references to rubygems have been removed from within rspec's code.
* See http://gist.github.com/54177 for rationale and suggestions on
alternative approaches to loading rubygems
* deprecations
* BaseTextFormatter#colourize - use colorize_failure instead.
* BaseTextFormatter#magenta - use red instead.
* enhancements
* cleaner integration with with heckle-1.4.2
* allow registering example groups with a path-like key (Pat Maddox)
* start DRb service at "druby://localhost:0" (Hongli Lai) - See
* consistent reporting of errors as failures
* added spec/test/unit as more intuitive path to loading test/unit interop lib
* added explicit autorun feature for running specs with ruby command
* added handling for does_not_match? for matchers that want to know
the context in which they were called
* lots of ruby 1.9.1 compatibility fixes from Chad Humprhies
* improved feedback from
be_kind_of/be_a_kind_of/be_instance_of/be_an_instance_of (Jakub
* added --format silent (l) option, which is now the default when
running --heckle (Bob Aman)
* sexy new custom matcher creation (Corey Haines & David Chelimsky -
initial concept by Yehuda Katz)
* improved matcher protocol - old one is still supported, but new
one is cleaner and prefered
* bug fixes
* support delegating operator matchers to subject with should_not
* all arguments are included if --drb is specified in spec.opts
(Neil Buckley). Closes #671.
* added --autospec option hack (used internally) to get --color to
work when using --drb and autospec.
* Fixed mock framework failure message bug in which similar calls
were excluded from the output
* cryptic error message on change.rb when the from value is wrong
(Michael Murray). Closes #706.


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January 11, 2018
AB 1576 authored by Assemblymember Marc Levine (D-Marin County) passed the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee on Thursday, January 11 in a 6-0 unanimous bipartisan vote. The bill will require sexual assault and harassment trainings and develop health and safety standards for talent working in the entertainment industry.
The entertainment industry is plagued with cases of sexual abuse and misconduct with no system in place to require prevention training. AB 1576 will help proactively address these issues by empowering individuals with the resources necessary to both prevent and properly report misconduct.
Additionally, many professionals in the entertainment industry are expected to maintain an unnatural level of thinness that not only has creates unrealistic beauty standards, but is also life-threatening. Research has shown that this demand has repercussions on young women who are exposed to media depicting these unnaturally thin models.
The legislation will be heard next by the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
Below is a summary of Assembly Bill 1576
Reference: AB-1576 Modeling agencies: licensure: models: employees. (2018). California: Adam Levine.