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That's how many times greater the average CEO's pay is than the average median employee's pay, according to a new report from Glassdoor.
The report, which compares CEO pay to median worker pay at companies in the S&P 500, found that "[a]cross all companies, the average CEO pay was $13.8 million per year, the average median worker pay was about $77,800, and the average ratio of CEO pay to median worker pay was 204."
Among the companies with the largest CEO to employee pay ratios are Chipotle, where CEO Steve Ells earns 1,522 times what the median Chipotle worker earns, and Walmart, where CEO Douglas McMillon earns 1,133 what the media Walmart employee earns.
Glassdoor's survey was sparked by the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) recent announcement that, starting in 2017, public companies will be required to share ratios of CEO pay to median worker pay.
According to Dr. Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at Glassdoor, the SEC's new rules may have a significant impact on candidates' decisions regarding where they'd like to work.
"We already know that the majority of job seekers want to work for a company that embraces workplace transparency, which includes salary transparency, so knowing a CEO's salary, or what others earn within the organization, will likely have an impact on the recruiting and retention of employees," Dr. Chamberlain explains.
Chamberlain believes that, in the wake of this SEC decision, companies that choose not to disclose information about CEO and median worker pay may be at a "competitive disadvantage" in the talent market — even if they aren't public companies required to share such information under the new rules.
"They may be seen as outdated or even as if they're hiding something among prospective candidates," says Dr. Chamberlain. "It will impact the job search and job-decision process for many job seekers, as this will now be an added data point they take into consideration when determining where to work."
It Hasn't Always Been This Way
While a CEO to median employee pay ratio of 204 may not seem like a lot to some, it's much higher than this ratio was in the past. In 1965, for example, the average CEO to employee pay ratio was only 20. Between 1978 and 2013, CEO compensation increased by 937 percent, whereas the typical employee's compensation increased by only 10.5 percent in the same time period.
In part, Dr. Chamberlain believes the rapid rise of CEO compensation may have to do with globalization.
"As more companies expanded quickly, and most notably became global companies, revenues grew dramatically in many cases over time, which is one explanation as to why CEO pay grew as well, [as it is generally] tied to the performance of the company," Dr. Chamberlain says.
Additionally, Dr. Chamberlain also notes that tighter competition for talent may have driven up CEO compensation.
"As [this growth and globalization] happened, competition in some industries became even tighter, which also contributed to CEO pay increasing, due to demand outpacing the supply of top-notch leaders with global experience," Dr. Chamberlain explains.
Should CEO Compensation Be So High?
Putting aside ethical consideration and looking at this purely from a business perspective, it really depends on a few different factors.
To start, many CEOs make much of their compensation in the form of bonuses tied to company performance. So, Dr. Chamberlain says, even if a high CEO to employee pay ratio "raises some eyebrows at first glimpse," it may turn out to be totally justified on the basis of company performance.
When it comes to determining whether a CEO's pay is "too high," Dr. Chamberlain says companies need to think about how a CEO's "total pay will impact employees, investors, business partners, clients, and so on."
"If it's truly justified and clear, there shouldn't be much of an issue," Dr. Chamberlain says. "But, when CEO pay is incredibly high and there doesn't seen to be a rhyme or reason behind the figure, that's what can be risky for companies. It's up to each executive team and its board of directors to really determine how their CEO should be paid, how that pay will be communicated so everyone understands, and what factors go into it."
All that being said, Dr. Chamberlain does believe that the SEC's new ruling will spur some changes in the realm of CEO compensation.
"For instance, we may see CEOs and top executives being held more accountable, as the more money you earn, the more responsibility and weight you tend to have on your shoulders," says Dr. Chamberlain. "We may also see executive boards and companies who either raise employee pay or perhaps lower CEO and executive pay. Only time will tell."
Employers, a day of reckoning may be coming. Are you prepared to explain why your CEO makes so much more than the median employee? If so, you may be in a pretty good spot. If not — you may see your employer brand take a plunge as talented candidates and employees question why they're making so little when the CEO is, for lack of a better term, rolling in it.


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I must confess, I had a near death experience today. It happened at the car wash. I was getting the plethora of dead insect remains off of my car as I happily rolled on through the scrubbers when everything stopped. WHAT! When I was a kid this was one of my worst nightmares. The last word I heard another human say was "NEUTRAL!" I was not initially concerned, but when a good thirty seconds went by I got a little more than concerned. I think I sat there a solid full minute listening to dripping water and felt no machinery movement – it felt like an eternity – you know that awful feeling, right? I thought, "This could be REALLY bad, but I'm not going to overreact like I typically do." At last the scrubbers started scrubbing again and the sprayers started spraying again, and I was once more released into the sunshine and heat of eighty degree temperatures. Yay for living another day!
And I know what you're asking yourself. I bet you're wondering why I had all those dead insects on my car? Well, the hubby and I took a road trip last week to the Thousand Islands. There's something about taking a vacation during the last week of June that screams, "Vacation Time!" Perhaps it's all those years I was a student and then taught elementary school, but going away during this time frame is a great way to initiate summer. School's out – let the good times roll!
Now when most people think of a trip to the Thousand Islands it usually involves camping, hiking, boating and all those 'nature lover' types of things, but our trip was fashioned for the young grandparents that we are and included shopping, wine and beer tastings, and delicious meals with tablecloths and silverware overlooking the gorgeous St. Lawrence River.
Speaking of shopping, you all know how much I love my coffee mugs (if you don't then read this) and what is a vacation trip without bringing back a nice memento? You'll never guess what I got!?
You had to have seen that coming. Anyway, we stayed in a cottage adjacent to a winery and, needless to say, enjoyed the adult beverage scene there and in the vicinity. It has to be at least twenty years since I last visited the area, and I simply cannot believe how many vineyards have sprung up.
Our first wine tasting was a blast – four samples for free or six for a buck? We stood at the head of the line! I even brought a notebook to keep track of all the flavors.
Our wine tender told us the story of a German tourist who corrected her pronunciation of one of the wines that I especially enjoyed, Gewürztraminer, saying that the tourist instructed her to say it with much more anger. After a few more samples of wine we were all screaming "Gewürztraminer!!" with gusto and authority.
We took a break from wine tasting on the second day to visit Heart Island and Boldt Castle after taking a one hour boat tour of the islands and St. Lawrence River.
The castle was to have been a gift to the wife of the first owner but, sadly, she died before it was completed. We watched a short video about its history and George Boldt, who invented the phrase, "The customer's always right." He also popularized 1,000 Islands Dressing and Waldorf Salad. Click here for more info about this tourist attraction. We enjoyed a picnic lunch outside the castle, and I could not help taking pictures of all the beautiful flowers on the grounds.
Dinner was enjoyed overlooking the water at Foxy's (a recommendation of a friend of the hubster) with bacon wrapped scallops, teriyaki salmon, haddock marinara, and my favorite, a key lime martini.
Again, I was captivated by the flowers as we walked around town…
The next day it rained, but who cares? We ate a lovely lunch at Bella's (thanks for another great recommendation TB) – fish tacos, lobster bisque, curry chicken salad, and did a little shopping in Clayton.
More wine tasting occurred down the road at Coyote Moon Winery where we actually ended up buying a red sauce made with one of their red wines, Casa Papa.
I almost bought these coasters, because after all that wine drinking…
We enjoyed eating dinner at the cottage with our meal leftovers, made some pasta and red sauce, and yelled, "Gewürztraminer!!" from time to time.
A flight of beer was next on the itinerary. Well, I only took a few sips while the big guy enjoyed the beer. It was fun, but the wine was funner. (It's the wine speaking that bad grammar).
I'm glad I did not suffer any ill effects from the car wash incident today, because blogging about this trip was on my schedule. The end of June and beginning of July are great celebrations in my marriage to my St.-Joseph-Mr.-Spock-kind-of-guy, beginning with his birthday and ending with our anniversary. This plaque I saw while shopping on vacation pretty much sums up my feelings today on our anniversary…
May you and yours have a very blessed Independence Day!

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SEOUL, KOREA - The Scandinavian automaker, Volvo, is introducing its line-up for Korea Market at the 2013 Seoul Motor Show. This year, Volvo has added two new models, the all-new V40 and V60 D5 R-Design, both of which are premium hatchbacks aimed at satisfying dynamic lifestyles of their drivers.
The All-New Volvo V40
Volvo V40 is a next-generation premium 5-door hatchback leading Volvo's new leap forward, developed under the new brand concept,'Designed Around You.'
Volvo V40 presents a unique silhouette by the match between modern and sensuous design and precision styling. The fluidic side bodylines and low, strong front presents dignified appearance of a premium hatchback.
The all-new premium 5-door hatch back, V40, has more safety features than even its Volvo brothers. The long list of latest safety systems available with V40, together with the 2012 Euro NCAP Collision Test score that was the highest in the test's history, is a good enough proof for the automobile experts to recommend V40 as the most intelligent and safest automobile in its segment.
The New Brand Concept of Volvo – 'Designed Around You'
The all-new V40 allows its drivers to feel the pleasure of driving with every inch of their body with its 2.0 diesel engine (D4) and 2.0 gasoline engine (T5). The superb acceleration and cornering, and meticulous attention to the eco-friendliness provides the drivers of V40 with a perfect driving experience.
Premium Estate, V60 D5 R-Design
V60 R-Design is a re-creation of V60 with the theme of dynamic performance in both its looks and performances, continuing the V60 tradition of spacious and versatile cabin space for leisure activities. Only this time, Volvo intended to broaden the V60 appeal to the younger drivers by emphasizing the sportiness.
The essence of V60 R design is at maintaining its style while providing ample storage space. The double-wave shoulder line flowing all the way from the front to rear lamps add an impression of an agile coupe to the estate model perceived to be somewhat stiff.
The in-line 5 twin-turbo diesel engine with the displacement of 2.4 liters powers the V60, making the sports estate respond quickly and decisively even to the drivers'softest intentions. The powerful engine will demonstrate its unrivaled force at any circumstances, by generating the maximum torque of 44.9kg·m at only 1,500rpm.
Volvo V60 comes with the City Safety system as the standard feature, and it is full of other safety-oriented features, such as Queue Assist that automatically controls the speed of V60 to maintain a constant distance between a car ahead of you when you are running at or slower than 30km/h. With other numerous features, such as Active High-Beam, Road Sign Information System, 2-Stage Booster Seat, Curtain Airbags, laminated windows, Active Bending Lights, Whiplash Protection System and Side Impact Protection System, V60 is practically an aggregate of top-notch amenities and safety features contemporarily available in the world of automobiles.


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This summer I had to say goodbye to my little seal gray dog, Gina, who had stuck to my side like Velcro for over eleven years. I was sad, but content in doing my part to give her a great life and peaceful death.
Shortly after saying goodbye, I visited a friend in Rhode Island. While wandering through some little shops in the Providence area, Kathy introduced me to a line of jewelry stores. Established on the east coast, they sell American made jewelry in small main street settings. Their jewelry each has some type of symbolism or meaning, with many pieces contributing directly to charities.
We wandered around the store and looked at various charms. It occurred to me that I could get a charm on a bangle bracelet to remember Gina by. I looked in the cases and saw many options. There was a dog paw print, but it didn't quite look right for delicate Gina. Another had an elephant face and trunk. Cute, it could be a good "remember forever" kind of token. Silver or gold medallions were adorned by initials, ladybugs with design and depth, as well as coin designs. Nothing seemed to fit.
And then I saw what would be my Gina token. It was a delicate hummingbird with black detail etched into contrasting silver. Of course, as part of a successful marketing plan, the store had little cards to explain the meaning of each token. I read the little card that talked about wings that flutter in a pattern of an infinity symbol. Really? I didn't know that about hummingbirds. It further explained that hummingbirds are associated with continuity, healing, and persistence. Gina was persistent in her bond with me and gave me incredible emotional support through my brain surgery recovery.
Further, "Delicate yet strong" said the little square card in black and white. Wow. That was Gina. She was an Italian Greyhound. "Italian" refers to the toy version of a greyhound. Just like the big racers only tiny. Even though she was eleven when she died, she was still only fifteen pounds. She was built of delicate bones and tiny features. Yet she was strong. She never got tired regardless of the length of our walks. Her spirit was strong as she looked me with penetrating eyes that showed depth and understanding.
The final statement about the little hummingbird (that had more words to describe than substance to the charm) was a recommendation to wear the hummingbird charm to be "tenacious in the pursuit of dreams." Yep, that was the one. I am still pursuing dreams and will treasure Gina's companionship throughout.
I have realized, that contrary to my preconceived belief that I'm not into symbolism, that I love reminders of significance in my life.
Goodbye my little friend.
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The perfect spot for a part time sewing enthusiast! Tucks neatly way, expands out to be a cutting or layout mat. Please note that this table is not intended for use with the sewing machine unless locking hardware is installed on the fold out legs and tabletop.
If your sewing takes over your dining table at least half the time, make sure you thank Kelly on our Community for recommending an expandable sewing table.
I love this idea because there is a tidy spot to hold your sewing machine, a shelf for baskets and other sewing things that you need to keep handy, tons of tabletop space, but it all folds up into a neat little package that you can roll into a closet.
1 – Sheet of Plywood or MDF
2 – 1x2s or 1x3s
4 – 2″ Caster Wheels (Overall clearance of 2 1/2″)
5 – Sets of hinges
2 1/2″ Screws
1 – 1×32 @ 15 1/2″ (Top)
2 – 1×32 @ 26 3/4″ (Sides)
2 – 1×32 @ 12″ (Shelves)
2 – - 1×32″ @ 20″ (Leaves)
4 – 1x2s @ 29 1/4″ (Legs – Measure these!)
Step 1
If you can, take this diagram to Blue or Orange and have them make your cuts. If you are cutting this yourself, start by cutting the plywood into 31 7/8″ widths (shown above as 32″), 48″ long. Then from those three pieces, cut out the remaining pieces. Remember, always consider the width of your saw blade as you cut.
Step 2
Step 3
Caster Wheels
Now this is important – your wheels need to have a total clearance of 2 1/2″. If you wheels do not have a total clearance of 2 1/2″, DO NOT cut the legs just yet. Instead, add the wheels, then take a measurement from the bottom of the wheels to the underside of the tabletop. This will be your new leg length.
Step 4
We apologize if there was an error in this plan. Please help us out and report any errors here.
Thu, 10/21/2010 - 17:46
I love this idea! I was
I love this idea! I was just thinking have you thought of making a table like this only taller for a cutting table? (counter top height)
Fri, 10/22/2010 - 02:19
This is perfect for a
This is perfect for a beginner. Go slowly, measure-measure-measure. You essentially are building a box with accessories. Practice using your Kreg with some scrap wood. I am in love with mine!
Fri, 10/22/2010 - 02:28
I have painted plywood with
I have painted plywood with latex enamel with great results! I have used BM METAL & WOOD ENAMEL. Love working with it. I have bought quite a few cans of their Brilliant Red which is an off the shelf color. Covers plywood and any wood exceptionally well. Prime first, of course.
Fri, 10/22/2010 - 02:30
Since she refers to the cuts
Since she refers to the cuts as 1x 's , I am assuming 3/4.
Fri, 10/22/2010 - 04:46
Right, that makes sense! I
Right, that makes sense! I must have been tired last night when I asked that one. Thanks!
Sat, 10/23/2010 - 02:00
I just signed up to your
I just signed up to your blogs rss feed. Will you post more on this subject?
Sat, 10/23/2010 - 04:43
Thanks. I have loved to sew
Thanks. I have loved to sew since I learned in school. But have no room in my tiny house. Thanks I think you have saved me. Plus my husband can make it for my birthday. He won't have to think of a gift, and it won't cost much. Thanks again.
Sat, 10/23/2010 - 07:46
Thank you! I love it and
Thank you! I love it and would like to use it for a desk and craft table. I may have to build 2!!!
I still haven't done any projects yet...have some other things I have to get done first but I am so excited!
Sun, 10/24/2010 - 02:37
Good to know! Thank you! :)
Good to know! Thank you! :)
Sun, 10/24/2010 - 17:38
Thank You Ana!!! I have 2
Thank You Ana!!! I have 2 sewing machines, and embroidery sewing machine and serger all crammed into my tiny sewing room, Hubby started making me a 4x8 cutting table....I was gonna eliminate all my storage just to have the cutting/ironing table( hehehe I was just gonna take over the dining room) but now I can store all 4 machines underneath in 4 separate cabinets.....and I don't have to give up the storage i currently have!!!! So Awesome, and my family can still have dinner together at the table!!!


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The Expert Negotiator
- SchoolUniversity of Pretoria, Gordon Institute of Business Science
- FormatIn person
- All dates November 10-13, 2020
- Duration 4 days
- LocationGordon Institute of Business Science, Sandton, ZA
- Price R22,700
- CategoryNegotiation
About the course
Learn systematic steps and techniques that are required for sound bargaining and negotiation practices.
This programme is run on a workshop basis with 70% of delegate time spent in either negotiation or feedback sessions. A selection of real life negotiation scenarios are used and delegates will receive two levels of feedback so as to identify areas for improvement.
Who should attend
This programme is designed for executives and senior managers from all disciplines who are involved in complex negotiations that involve multiple issues, multiple stakeholders, high rand-values and high consequence of error should the negotiations not be finalised to the satisfaction of all parties. This programme is not suitable for individuals involved in less complex, one-on one negotiations. The focus is on analysing multiple variables of complex situations.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the programme you will be able to:
- Develop and negotiate from both standard and crisis strategic agendas;
- Establish the appropriate climate for negotiation;
- Identify the fundamentals of sound bargaining practice;
- Apply the appropriate trade-off patterns;
- Apply or neutralise the most commonly used negotiation tactics;
- Appreciate the fundamentals of team based negotiations/selection of "chief negotiators" and other team members;
- Avoid common errors;
- Identify your own negotiating style and compare it to the "perfect" negotiator style; and
- Integrate the techniques and skills acquired and demonstrate competency within a multitude of real-life simulations.
Please note that instructors are subject to change and not all instructors teach in each session of the program.
Jack Quinlan
Jack has been a Negotiation Consultant from 1984 to present. He has the following experience:
- 28 years' experience in commercial negotiation consulting and skills development, both in South Africa and overseas.
- Listed own consultancy on the main board of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in1987, as part of a consortium, and was one of the highest growth shares in South Africa that year.
- Currently consults to an extensive range of top organisations and is also very active as an entrepreneur in the commercial property market.
- Total negotiating value of consulting assignments during 2012 was R24 billion.
- Associate partners in Edinburgh (Scotland) and Vancouver (Canada).
His other experience:
- Course Convener in negotiation skills (Wits Business School 1993-2002).
- Visiting lecturer in negotiation at GIBS (Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, 2002- present)
- Adjunct faculty member at Gordon Institute of Business Science.
- Final year MBA elective lecturer at GIBS.
- Active entrepreneur in the commercial property sector via a separate trading entity.


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Affordable Driving Lessons Solihull
If you need to book driving lessons in Solihull, you've come to the right place. Just Pass School of Motoring represents excellent value for money, with skilled and highly trained instructors who can accommodate your individual requirements. Driving is an essential life skill, but we know that it isn't always easy to learn, and that's why our friendly driving instructors are all experts in their field. We can also cater for your personal preferences, so whether you'd prefer to be taught by a woman or whether you speak a language other than English, Just Pass School of Motoring is the driving school for you.
Passing your driving test isn't the easiest challenge to face, and to be sure of success you need to be familiar with all the junctions and roads that you'll probably face on the day of the driving test itself. Luckily, our Solihull based driving instructors are all locals and are extremely familiar with the area around the town. With their unique insight, they can help you to develop all the skills you need to negotiate Solihull's most popular driving test routes. From the moment you leave the Shirley test centre, to the rural lanes around Knowle and Earlswood, your expert driving instructor will ensure that you have all the key advice necessary to pass your driving test.
Professional Driving Lessons Solihull
Our professional Solihull based driving instructors are pleased to accommodate your personal schedule, so even if you have caring commitments, a job with changing shift patterns or go to university or college, we have the flexibility to fit in with your requirements. Want to get your licence in as short a time as possible? No worries! Our instructors are also happy to offer intensive courses to get you test-ready in no time. Even better, unlike many other driving schools we won't charge you any more for lessons at the weekend or in the evenings, and as we also offer great discounts for block bookings and for students, we are proud to say that we offer the most competitively priced driving lessons in Solihull with experienced, high quality driving instructors.
Manual and Automatic Driving Lessons Solihull
Here at Just Pass School of Motoring we offer an impressive selection of innovative dual-control vehicles in which you can learn to drive in comfort and style. If you would rather learn in an automatic car rather than a manual, that's no problem – we have modern automatic cars in the Solihull area that allow you to fully concentrate on the roads without any worries about when to change gears.
Driving Lessons Solihull for Pass Plus Drivers
Have you already got your driving licence but feel that you could benefit from a little more practice before tackling some of the more awkward roads around Solihull and the M42 motorway? The Pass Plus course is ideal for drivers who have recently qualified. Our skilled Pass Plus instructors can give you extra confidence to help you to negotiate both town and country roads by day and by night, and give you all the essential skills you need to navigate all the notorious stretches of the motorway system around Solihull.


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About Dutch Language Pack (nl-NL)
Dutch Language Pack (nl-NL)
|Language Packs
A full language definition for the ProcessWire admin, used by ProcessWire's Language Support modules.
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Should be safe for use in production environments. *
|Module Version
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|2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
|Date Added
|September 23, 2015
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To install a language pack, you must have the ProcessWire Language Support module installed. This is included with ProcessWire, so all you have to do is click to Modules > Language > Language Support > install. Once you have Language Support installed, you can install this language pack by going to Setup > Languages > Add New Language. Enter a title and name for the language and save. Next, you can install the files for the language pack. If your system supports ZIP uploads, you can simply drag the ZIP file for the language pack into the files field. If your system doesn't support ZIP uploads, then you'll want to unzip the language pack and drag the JSON files (as a group, or individually) into the files field. Save. Now you can test out the new language by editing our profile and selecting the new language.
Dutch language pack for ProcessWire
Dutch (nl_NL) language pack for ProcessWire.
The repository was originally created by Jasper Metselaar (formmailer). Big thanks Jasper for setting this up way back then. From March 2015 the language pack will be maintained and updated by Arjen Blokzijl for use with the latest stable version of ProcessWire. From the first stable 2.6 release we will tags all releases (both stable and dev).
This readme will be expanded soon with more details.
- Admin Helpers
- Authentication
- Core Modules
- Development Tools
- Email/WireMail
- Field Types
- Import/Export
- Input Fields
- Language Modules
- Language Packs
- Logs/Monitoring
- Markup Generation
- Photo/Video/Audio
- Premium Modules
- Process Modules
- Proof of Concept
- SEO/Accessibility
- Site Profiles
- Social, Feeds, Services
- Text Formatters
- Other Modules
- Users and Access
*Use modules at your own risk. There are no guarantees or warranties. It is recommended that you backup your site and database before installing new modules.


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Hello, Instagram Endeavors!
So glad to be back to the weekend realizing today is the second day of September! Yet also, I wanted to celebrate the most hit article with over 11.000 reads on my blog which is VSCO Filters That Fashion Bloggers Use On Instagram. As celebration I finally created another secret VSCO Filters for your weekly reference in building your own aesthetic feed on Instagram. Let's get started with the first fashion blogger.
Lydia Elisse Emilen (@lydiaemillen)
Lydia has always been my favorite fashion blogger. All of her contents always look very sophisticated. Her feed has a lot of touch of pastels and pinks which brighten the picture she posts on Instagram. Based on my analysis, you may follow her editing skill using VSCO by using these patterns,
Ali Gordon (@aligordon89)
The funny thing is, I really adore this couple. Ali is Lydia's fiance and they will be getting married shortly and they are such a good pair. Ali has quite orangish and bluish filter on his posts, similar to posts and videos by Mike Visual and Ryan Nangle. If you love the filters that Ali has, you may follow this VSCO patterns below,
Cher Bai (@chermycloset)
Blackish filter that everyone loves and very suits for buildings in Europe which gives a little touch of vintage and medieval. I have always admired Cher's style and her kinda dark filters give her posts look more sophisticated. If you are interested to have a dark yet look a little bright with pretty high contrast, you may follow this VSCO pattern below,
Sooo, that's all I have for this weekend! Honestly I have been pretty occupied lately and it kinda got me a bit stressful but I definitely will always try to stick on my schedule to always post every weekend indeed. I am sorry that I had to postpone the August Beatitude 2017 until next weekend but I guarantee I got mesmerizing things that could inspire your weekend. Thank you so much for checking out this post, I hope you like it and it would be a great hit like the previous one. Have a great weekend! Xx


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Climate change
Paris, November 14, 2014
Green Climate Fund
The provision of new financing will be a cornerstone of the future international climate agreement that must be adopted at the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Paris in late 2015. This agreement must make it possible to keep temperature increases below 2°C. A vital step in the preparation of this agreement will be the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties in Lima this coming December.
That is why the international community sought to establish the Green Climate Fund. The aim is to combat climate disruption and to create real leverage for changing the scale of our collective effort.
In order to mobilize the necessary resources, the Green Climate Fund High-Level Pledging Conference in Berlin on November 19 and 20 must be a success. Nearly three billion dollars have already been pledged, but that is not enough.
As presidents of the COP20 and COP21, we solemnly call on our partners to announce ambitious pledges on November 20 in Berlin. This is necessary for creating the conditions of trust and success for the crucial negotiations getting under way. Clearly, it is not a superfluous expense, but a capital investment in the future of our planet.


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A magical time of the year is setting upon the land. No, of course I'm not speaking of the winter holiday season. A decade in retail ruined Christmas for me forever. I'm talking about something much more wonderful. I'm talking of course about Next Iron Chef: Redemption.
I never thought I would be a Food Network enthusiast. I never got that hunger-porn feeling a lot of people get when they watch cooking shows. I don't even really like food that much. If I'm alone I often forget to eat. I suppose that makes me a poseur. It's a shame I have to learn to live with.
It was last year that Zelda started introducing me to Food related television. She started me off easy with Good Eats. There were costumes and puppets that would entertain me if the food didn't. Then it was Chopped. I was hooked pretty much instantly. The judges were awesome to watch. The competitors were always hilarious, whether or not it was intentional. Continue reading


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ntc245 | undergraduate
Foundation Of Local Area Networks
- Overview
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This undergraduate-level course is 5 To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Representative.
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Network Planning and Security
- Give examples of threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits to networks, and how they relate to each other.
- Plan a LAN.
- Explain the process of planning for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.
Local Area Networks and the OSI Model
- Define key terms related to the OSI and TCP/IP models.
- Explain the purpose of a LAN and the benefits it can provide.
- Define basic LAN terminology.
Media, Topologies, and Technologies
- Differentiate between different LAN topologies.
- Differentiate between types of media and connectivity.
- Differentiate between types of networks.
- Distinguish between various networking protocols.
Network Operating Systems
- Explain how LAN operating systems work.
- Explain the various network services.
- Define the various network services in Microsoft® Windows®.
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Three weeks. Like 16 elementary schools and some bookstores too, from south of LA all the way up to Portland.
And I met a LOT of incredible kids, and adults too.
I'm still processing it all…thanks, everybody.
This is unbelievably wonderful.
How amazing. So glad you got to experience some of the joy you are bringing to the world.
In a world that lends itself all too well to dullness, continue to be brilliant.


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AUSTIN - Texas will crack open its already-decided school finance trial in January for new testimony on how the Legislature's recent restoration of classroom funding affects the case, a judge ruled Wednesday.
After 45 days of grueling testimony, State District Judge John Dietz ruled in February that Texas provides inadequate and inequitable funding for schools. But he based his decision on lawmakers cutting $5.4 billion from public education in 2011. In May, the Legislature approved a new state budget that restored $3.4 billion.
Legislators also cut the number of standardized tests high school students must pass to graduate from a nation-leading 15 to five. The original case hinged on schools having to prepare the state's 5-plus million public school attendees for sky-high academic standards as their budgets shrank.
"In some fashion, we need to evaluate and deduce whether there have been material and substantial changes, or even just changes, to the circumstances that are outlined in my February 4 decision," Dietz said. He wants to hear six weeks of new evidence, and set a Jan. 6 trial date.
The case began in October and though Dietz gave his initial, verbal decision, he has yet to issue a longer, written ruling that will be the basis for the state's appeal to the Texas Supreme Court. Dietz says he's still working his way through a mountain of briefs - and it's not lost on him that hearing new evidence will push the release of his final ruling into next year.
More than 600 school districts, including the Lubbock Independent School District and several South Plains school districts, responsible for educating two-thirds of the state's public school students sued, claiming the cuts violated the Texas Constitution's guarantees to an adequate education, and that the "Robin Hood" finance system - where districts in wealthy areas share property-tax revenue with those in poorer parts - meant funding was distributed unfairly.
With the Texas economy now booming again, however, lawmakers rolled back many of those cuts in May. The districts continue to argue, though, that the new funding doesn't fix fundamental flaws, and Dietz isn't planning on changing his ruling that it's unconstitutional.
Still, attorney Mark Trachtenberg, who represents a group of districts in wealthy parts of Texas, argued before Dietz's ruling Wednesday that unless new evidence is introduced, the Supreme Court could refuse to hear any appeals, citing an incomplete record.
"It's highly likely we'd be right back in this court in six months if we don't do it," Trachtenberg said of reopening the case. Dietz quipped: "I want you to remember that quote."
Arguing on behalf of the state, Assistant District Attorney Shelley Dahlberg agreed that the court has a responsibility to examine what's changed since lawmakers met this spring.
Some of the suing school districts unsuccessfully opposed reopening the case, including David Hinojosa, representing schools in largely low-income South Texas, as well as the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Hinojosa said the effects of the increased school funding approved by the Legislature won't be seen for years.
"Granting the motion will cause injustice," Hinojosa told Dietz.
But Rick Gray, a lawyer who represents more than 400 school districts, noted that new evidence won't change the case's ultimate outcome.
"I don't see that there's any possibility that they made the system adequate," he said.


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Dr. Amar brings in-depth knowledge and experience from the business world as well as academia. A veteran of semiconductor industry, he is best known for leading his organizations with strategic vision and analytical thinking. Dr. Amar went on to establish Austin Elite Prep for GRE preparation, Austin GMAT Review and Austin LSAT Prep, the leading test-prep firms in Central Texas. He credits his education for his success.
Dr. Amar has a long-time commitment to academic excellence. In his early years at the University of California, he worked as teaching assistant to Owen Chamerlain, a renowned Nobel Laureate, and won Berkeley's prestigious Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award.
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A published researcher, Dr. Amar has taught and mentored students who have gone on to business schools, medical programs, law schools, and other graduate programs. His abiding belief in the value of a high-quality education is the foundation of our company.
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In addition to the care that he gives his students, Dave has strong philanthropic interests; his volunteer activities includes his current work as the principal of Big Picture Social Impact Consulting, and past work as an advisory board member for Tomberg Family Philanthropies and managing director of fundraising for a non-profit organization for at-risk youth.
During the day, Dave runs a successful residential real estate business, but his heart has always belonged to education as a way to better lives, one student at a time.
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Tales of hope and hopelessness from Morocco to Iraq and beyond
A sooty, white automobile gently swerves to the side of a dusty road near a nondescript Moroccan town. Inside the stifling contraption, reeking of stale cigarette smoke and acrid sweat, can be heard the muffled voice of a Berber belle and the twang of a battered steel string guitar. The car comes to a subtle halt, and from within emerges a cloaked figure with a gaze suspended between despondency and apprehension. After surveying the boundless expanse ahead, daubed in soft yellows and greys with splotches of white through squinted eyes, he austerely makes for the town with a pungent leather duffel bag clenched between his tobacco-stained fingers. Were it not for the conspicuous North African setting and the sweet sounds of Tamazight verse, the scene could have passed for an episode out of Kerouac. It is not, however, the spirit of the free-spirited American iconoclast that lurks beneath the shadows of the whitewashed walls here, but rather of another man of letters, whose presence is marked, yet ever subtle.
Inspired by the writings of the German intellectual Walter Benjamin, Moroccan-Iraqi director Tala Hadid's The Narrow Frame of Midnight represents a six-year long artistic effort brought to fruition through a hectic casting process and a struggle for funding, among other obstacles. The title of the film refers to a passage from Benjamin's The Origin of German Tragic Drama, which contains some reflections of his on the subject:
There is a good reason for associating the dramatic action with night, especially midnight. It lies in the widespread notion that at this hour time stands still like the tongue of a scale. Now since fate, itself the true order of eternal recurrence, can only be called temporal in an unauthentic, that is parasitical sense, its manifestations seek out time-space. They stand in the narrow frame of midnight, an opening in the passage of time, in which the same ghostly image constantly reappears.
That being said, though, Hadid's film revolves not around this concept, but rather another of Benjamin's, this time regarding history as opposed to drama. In reflecting on history, Benjamin once referred to a painting by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee – entitled Angelus Novus (New Angel) – which he termed 'the angel of history'. The painting features a figure bearing more similarities to the startling creatures in Qazvini's 13th century manuscript The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence and Esfahani's similar 14th century Book of Wonders than an angel. It stands looking rightwards with its arms raised, as if intending to provide some sort of sign or warning. To quote Benjamin,
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
At the outset, the references to Benjamin are rather scant, and Benjamin's angel has yet to take flight; it is rather towards the end of the film that Hadid beautifully manages to tie in these concepts and references. Beginning in the aforementioned nondescript Moroccan town, the film follows Zakaria, a Moroccan-Iraqi writer who has come from abroad in search of his brother, an ex-Marxist who dabbled with a dangerous concoction of religion and politics. Along the way, his journey becomes intertwined with those of a motley crew of characters, including a sensitive Moroccan prostitute (brought to life in a cameo by Moroccan-French songstress Hindi Zahra, who provided the sounds for the film's opening scene), an Algerian thug and his battered and bruised 'girlfriend', and little Aicha. Zakaria takes pity on Aicha, who begs him to save her from the clutches of Abbas the thug and his consort, Nadia, who have planned to sell the girl into a life of prostitution in France for a handsome reward. Leaving her at the idyllic countryside getaway of his French lover, Judith, Zakaria's search takes him to an almost post-apocalyptic Baghdad via a squalid Istanbul and a picturesque-yet-foreboding Turkish Kurdistan.
Where we perceive a chain of events, [the angel of history] sees one single catastrophe that keeps piling ruin upon ruin and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise …
Though on the surface the film's leading characters may seem worlds apart, they are united by their hope and their desire for freedom. Zakaria, feeling a sense of guilt and shame for not having been there for his brother when he was first imprisoned, seeks release in finding him. Aicha, on the other hand, simply yearns to frolic in the wild, verdant plains of Ifrane like other children her age, and enjoy the warmth and love of a mother she never had. Their hope spurs the two characters forth on two very different journeys, with two very different outcomes; while Aisha manages to find that which she sought, Zakaria only finds death, destruction, and utter hopelessness: the face of present-day Iraq. Like Benjamin's angel, he strives to reverse the irreversible, albeit to no avail. The words of a man he meets in Baghdad whilst searching for his brother are the only ones that bring a smidge of consolation to both him and the viewer, perhaps:
They say that when the Mongols invaded Baghdad, they burned all the libraries, destroying thousands of years of history in an instant. The rivers ran black with ink; now, they run red with blood. Iraq will rise … we will have our time again.
With such a compelling plot and storyline, and considering the tastefully-peppered dialogue, it is easy, in discussing such a film, to overlook its more atmospheric and ambient aspects. Watching The Narrow Frame of Midnight, one recalls the cinematic landscapes of contemporary Turkish films such as Semih Kaplanoğlu's Bal, Reha Erdem's Hayat Var, and Zeki Demirkubuz's Masumiyet, wherein emotions, moods, and imagery are given paramount attention. The desolate city environs of Morocco foreshadow, in a way, the unsavoury events yet to occur in the story, as well as reflect the mood of the characters; in Ifrane, one can almost, along with Aicha, feel the breeze of the sweet countryside air, and sense the soft blades of wild grass between their fingers; the grandeur of Istanbul's Ottoman relics, contrasted with the city's sordid side streets and the alien sound of Turkish confirm a feeling of strangeness, while the bleakness of Baghdad stinks of the sickly sweet smell of death.
Above all, Hadid's film is one that urges contemplation, and through the director's cinematic approach, viewers are provided ample opportunity to reflect on, and engage with the panoply of emotions sumptuously and evocatively portrayed on screen. Perhaps most moving are the film's final scenes that take place within and outside a Baghdad morgue, which Zakaria visits in the faint hope of at least being able to identify his brother's corpse, should it be there. Aside from the washing of blood, the echoes of footsteps, and intermittent recitations of the Koran, nothing else is to be heard. On the floor of the morgue, corpses lie scattered under pink sheets; the chilling bird's-eye-view shot of the scene helps one realise, to a small degree, the number of lives claimed by the most recent Iraq war, and their concealment serves as a poignant reference to the anonymous fashion in which the victims of this war are often portrayed: that is, not as individuals, but as bodies and statistics. As he stands hopelessly outside the morgue under a relentless sun, his coarse linen shirt soaked to the core, an incessant throng of black, shapeless figures brush past him, eerily evoking the imagery and feel of Shirin Neshat's film, Women Without Men, as well as her Women of Allah series of photographs. Yet again, the angel of history alights with mouth agape and wings akimbo, looking in horror at the past: The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward.
It is perhaps such scenes that remind one that Hadid's film is not only about the stories of various characters, each on a journey of their own, but also about Iraq. Indeed, the final 'chapter' of Hadid's film is not easy to digest – both visually and emotionally – as it highlights the gruesome consequences of the Iraq war and the miserable fate of the Iraqi people in vivid, brutal colour. While there's certainly much more Hadid has to say about Iraq and the atrocities that have been, and are continuing to be committed there, she feels that for the purposes of the film, enough has been said and left open for discussion. 'If I wanted, I could have made a 15-hour documentary about Iraq, but that's not what I intended to do', she remarked after the film's screening at the Toronto International Film Festival in response to a perturbed viewer who complained about there being no mention of American involvement in Iraq in the film. Ultimately, through Zakaria – that wingless angel – Hadid sublimely tells a lush story of hope and hopelessness, scaling down and imparting the horror of modern Iraq on a human level. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise …


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I have posited elsewhere in these pages that the government (when run by this particular crowd of liberal Democrats at least) very likely engages in tax policy designed to eliminate political competition.
If, for example, you drive off all the wealthy people or confiscate so much of their wealth that they cling (bitterly) to whatever remains, the only people left willing and able to contribute to increasingly expensive political campaigns will be rich crony friends of the government, people who got waivers, or those that benefited from corporate socialism and are wealthy as a result and also dependent on that relationship.
If you own all the rich people you and your aristocracy can expect to control the power indefinitely.
I happen to think it's a solid theory so here is another one.
If you are the government, and you want to hamstring gun owners whom you object to, why not buy massive quantities of ammunition to both drive up the price and corner the supply? If no one else can get it or afford it, you–by default–not only have more of it, but command a level of policy control without the need for the public pursuit of actual policy.
And with that in mind, is that why the Department of Homeland Security just ordered another 21.6 million rounds of ammunition?
Sure, the feds use up a lot of ammunition, but we've seen an accumulation of weapons and ordinance in some strange departments. We know they want to maintain a force monopoly, but the banning schemes are not popular. So why not keep the demand high, paid for with taxpayer dollars for a nice dose of irony, and force the rest of us to pay more for less?
You never know with these folks. That might not be as crazy as it sounds.


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When: Thu., April 11, 7 p.m. 2013
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill professor Bart D. Ehrman has too many books with his name on the binding to list them all here. But he's probably best known for 2008's New York Times best-selling God's Problem, on why we suffer, and 2007's (also NYT-bestselling) title on which tonight's 7 o'clock free talk at Colorado College's Armstrong Theatre (14 E. Cache la Poudre St., coloradocollege.edu) is based: "Misquoting Jesus: Scribes Who Changed the Scriptures and Readers Who May Never Know." Ehrman's list of recent media appearances is also too long to recite, so let's just say the engaging biblical scholar's been making the rounds on shows ranging from the perhaps-expected History Channel to the less-so Daily Show with Jon Stewart. — Kirsten Akens
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Colour your world with the HIA Home Show!
Australia's number one Home Show returns this April to the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, Southwharf from Thursday 4 - Sunday 7 April 2013.
NEW this year, the HIA Home Show APP will help you plan your visit and navigate your way around the Show. Download free to get access to the eShowbag, rank exhibitors and products, schedule appointments, share with your social network and scan your favourites at the Show.
A new Show feature in 2013 is the 'Design Studio- Colour Your World'. This will inspire and entertain home owners on how to incorporate colour in and around their home. The interactive
speaker forum at the Design Studio will give visitors the opportunity to learn about colour coordination and discuss practical colour solutions for their own design dilemmas.
Returning due to popular demand is the 'HIA Award Winners Showcase'. Discover the best-of-thebest award winning home designs and building products from a range of exhibitors - a "must inspect" for renovators and those building a home. The HIA Australian Housing Awards showcase creativity, innovation and excellence in construction and design which has become synonymous with Housing Industry Association builder members.
For home owners planning a renovation, 'Ask an Expert' is a specialised free consultation service at the Home Show. Bring your plans and ideas and get professional renovation advice from HIA builders, HIA GreenSmart tradesmen, interior designers and HIA kitchen and bathroom experts. Visitors will be able to polish up on their culinary skills through the popular 'V-ZUG Cooking School', with intimate cooking classes taking place. Visitors will learn gourmet recipes, how to prepare fresh produce and see the latest kitchen technology in use. Plus, visitors will have the chance to win a $25,000 V-ZUG Package including a Cooking Tour of Italy with Dominique Rizzo plus V-ZUG appliances.
For those after a hands-on lesson, the new V-ZUG Masterclass includes a 3 hour cooking session and 5-course meal of the delicious recipes demonstrated.
This year one lucky tradesperson will have the privilege to be crowned 'Tradie of the Year'. This engaging online competition will feature the best tradies from Melbourne. Entrants will go in the running to win a Tool Shed valued at $4,000 from Matt's Home & Outdoors, a Bar Fridge from Bar Fridges Australia valued at $2,500, tool package from NewStyle Direct valued at over $1,000 and Pro Skill work pants for each of the 10 finalists. Public voting via Facebook and the Show website will commence March.
Find new building products, flooring, bathroom fixtures and fittings, fireplaces, lighting, window coverings, doors and windows, furniture and furnishings, outdoor living, fencing, storage solutions, appliances, homewares, home security, and more. With 300 + exhibitors on show, visitors are sure to leave full of design inspiration, advice and products to improve their homes and lives. Remember to bring your smart phone, iPad and building plans to have the best Show experience!
Dates: Thurs 4 – Sun 7 April, 2013
Venue: Melbourne Exhibition Centre
Thursday 4 10am – 6pm
Friday 5 10am – 9pm
Saturday 6 10am – 9pm
Sunday 7 10am – 6pm
Tickets: $16 online, $20 at the door, Concession $16, Qualified Trade FREE, Kids under 18 FREE
Web: HIAhomeshow.com.au
LifeStyle readers have the opportunity to purchase half price tickets* to the 2013 HIA Melbourne Home Show at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. To take up this fantastic offer simply visit www.hiahomeshow.com.au , click on 'Buy your tickets now' and enter promotional code 'Lifestyle'. *Off the 'Gate' ticket price – Save $10 per ticket!
*Terms and conditions apply. Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. Tickets are valid 4-7 April inclusive. Tickets cannot be exchanged or redeemed for cash. A maximum number of four adult tickets per promotional code can be purchased online (discount is only available on the gate price regardless of whether purchased online). Ticket must be presented at the show to gain entry.


text: These files provide a template for creating a Custom Design for well plates. The well plates may be configured as 24 well (4x6), 96 well (8x12) or 384 well (16x24). All three files contain rows for a 10 plate experiment. If fewer than 10 plates are going to be used, the tables can be subsetted. If more than 10 plates are going to be used, additional rows will have to be added by cut-and-paste, then the plate number will have to be adjusted manually. There are three embedded scripts in each file for randomizing how the plates are filled, one for complete randomization, one for filling the rows in order but randomizing on the columns, one for filling the columns in order but randomizing on the rows. To use these files with Custom Design, follow the following sequence. 1) Open the appropriate template file. 2) Subset the template to the number of plates being used for the experiment. 3) Use one of the embedded scripts to sort the table to get the desired randomization. 4) Enter Custom Design. 5) In the Factors outline node, click Add Factor and select Covariate. 6) In the pop-up window for selecting columns of covariates, select Plate, Row and Col. 7) Add the response(s) and design factors for the experiment using the normal procedure. 8) Click Continue. 9) Make the normal adjustments for constraints and effects, then click Make Design. The assumption is that the robut will fill the wells in the sequence order of the runs. This will reflect the randomization determined during step 3.


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When you need legal representation, you cannot always count on the support of an individual attorney. At times, you need the help of a legal firm. The best thing about working with a legal firm is that you benefit from a larger team that is able to handle all the parts of your case. Even so, not every firm you find out there is right for you. Most will only offer mediocre services. So, what are some of the things you need to consider when choosing a law firm for your case?
Their specialty
The first thing you need to know is the kind of law that the firm practices. There are various types of law which include tax, healthcare, banking, family, commercial litigation, environmental, employment and more. It is up to you to select the firm that specializes in what you are up against.
Law firms are broken down by area of practice, size, legal topic and location. You have to select the law firm that is more relevant to your case. Take a look at the number of similar cases they have handled and pay attention to their success rate. Selecting the right law firm will make the difference between walking free and going to jail.
Size of the firm
Based on your type of case, the size of the firm you hire from will determine your chances of success. For example, if you are handling a huge case for your multimillion dollar company, you will need a bigger firm; a firm that has the resources and the manpower to handle your complex case. Using a small law firm will cause the staff to strain and this may lead to poor representation.
Legal awards
One way of guaranteeing the firm you are about to hire is right for the job is looking at their legal awards. The number of honors and awards a law firm has received will tell you a lot about the reliability of their services. Awards are given for great services and they are the best source of proof that a company is good at what it does.
Legal fees
A very important consideration you need to look at is that on the service fees. Different law firms will charge differently for their services. Although you may be charged a flat fee or hourly rate, it is important to ensure that you can comfortably afford the fee. Paying more than you can afford will only lead to more problems during or after the case.
The reputation that the law firm has garnered over the years counts a lot. This is what lets you know what you can expect once you hire the firm. Take some time to listen to the reviews given by recent clients. Were they satisfied with the service? Too many negative reviews are a red flag.
The law firm you hire will have a huge impact on whether you win or lose the case. Always make sure that you pick the firm that you are most comfortable working with.
via Jim Butler
Jim Bulter is an experienced DWI attorney in Texas who is committed to helping his clients avoid jail time. Over the years, he has received many legal awards for the exceptional services he offers. Take a look at some of his honors and awards here.


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Roll Camera and Action
As I have been developing this sci-fi fighting game Future Fighter (TM), I have never thought of the design and production of the moves as choreography. I guess that is because the moves for the first character, Omega, were simply motion capture sequences of me using moves that I use every week in my real-life sparring sessions. I imagined the second character for Future Fighter (TM) quite differently, though. He was not me. He was not even any real-life opponent I had encountered. He is a massive enforcer of God's will who uses unbelievable strength and superior armor to quickly decimate his opponents. Since that is not me at all, I found myself acting for the first time.
Get intimidated by clicking on the thumbnail to see him tower over Omega in this first look of the Omen Knight's fighting stance. Up next is his first devastating attack, so follow me to grab the video file as your free-download-with-every-post. Give the gift of sci-fi to your friends by using the share links below.
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A Discovery – Sterne Explains some Literary DevicesPeter Jones
Recently we purchased an early collection of Sterne's books now offered for auction, including a lovely first edition, second state of A Sentimental Journey, The Sermons of Yorick, and Tristram Shandy. The Tristram Shandy set, while a nice Second and First Edition run, sadly lacked volume two, but had the scarce Second Edition copy of Volume One. this would be the first to bear the Dodsley name as printer, and would have been purchased in March or April 1760, when Sterne was in residence near Dodsley's shop.
When collating our copy we came across one page, that had been carefully folded over before binding to preserve the contents (see photograph). We recognized the handwriting as possibly Sterne's. We compared the handwriting with our reference library and on-line sources. They appear identical. The ink also is of the same composition as the ink in the Sterne signatures and with other errata corrections that we have observed in other Sterne sets and in this set. We have included a side by side comparison of a Sterne letter dated 1761 with our copy of Page 126 of Volume One. They appear identical in all aspects.
On Page 126 of Volume One, Sterne writes; "—-he would sometimes break off in sudden and spirited Epiphonema. or rather Erotesis, raised a third, and sometimes a full fifth , above the key of the discourse,—"
In his own handwriting Sterne explains the literary devices linked to the words he chose to use. (see photographs)
On "Epiphonema" he writes:
"an Exclamator containing some sentence of more than ordinary sense, which (i)s placed at the End of a Discourse"
On "Erotesis" he writes
"An Interrogation" "a figure when by asking questions, the matter is aggravated."
Later on Page 140 Sterne provides a translation of a passage where he writes "Mr Shandy apprehends it may, par le moyen d'une petite canulle, and sans faire aucun tort au pere."
Underneath this printed passage he writes in his own handwriting;
"- By means of a Syringe, & without doing an injury to ye Parent—"
The First Edition of Tristram Shandy, privately printed by Sterne, having sold out in a matter of days and having taken London by storm with public figures of taste such as Garrick publicly endorsing the new book; led to Sterne making a deal with the Dodsley's, with the Second Edition appearing in March 1760. The Third and Fourth Editions would follow later the same year. It was the Second Edition that truly conquered London, and that appeared for sale just as Sterne embraced London High Society.
"the news that the author of Tristram Shandy was really in London ran like a flame through society. With a view to impending social demands , Sterne left Cholmley's on the eighth of March [1760]; and after looking over Piccadilly and the Haymarket, moved into commodious lodgings at the second house in St Alban's street, now no more, just off Pall Mall…The new apartments, near Dodsley's shop and in the very heart of fashion, became the centre of extraordinary scenes. "From, Morning to night," Sterne wrote to Miss Fourmantelle, "my Lodgings, which by the by, are the genteelest in Town, are full of the greatest Company. I dined these two days with two ladies of the Bedchamber; then with Lord Rockingham, Lord Edgecomb, Lord Winchelsea, Lord Littleton, a Bishop, &c., &c. I assure you, my Kitty, that Tristram is the Fashion."
Cross, The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne, Yale University Press, MDCCCCXXV, Vol 1, Pg. 194
The picture of Sterne entertaining London Society must have included, from time to time, Sterne providing annotations to his volumes for an admirer or critic asking for the meaning of a controversial passage. Witty wordplay is a hallmark of Sterne's writing, as he bends words this way and that, so we are delighted to present a rare insight into the famed author's mind.


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The photos you see on this website were professionally assembled and photographed because we wanted to show off our cake toppings in the best way possible. But that's not to say your cake won't look mighty fine too!
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A deliciously sweet and tangy Apple Cranberry Pie filled with crisp apples and cranberries covered by a flaky, buttery crust. THE perfect holiday dessert!
It is officially holiday season! Well, it has been for a few weeks now, but, as usual, I am late to the celebration because I just can't seem to be able to even catch my breath these days.
The good news is that I was able to make this amazing pie to share with you before Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving is next week!!! Can you believe it? I seriously feel like this year has just flown on by. Before we know it'll be New Year's Eve and that will be the end of 2017.
But for now, let us simply enjoy and celebrate that Thanksgiving is near and we'll get to eat lots of delicious desserts like this Apple Cranberry Pie.
Is your Thanksgiving menu ready? I have been thinking about a few dishes but haven't set my ideas straight yet. I want to make too many dishes, but I know that in the end, I'll need to narrow it down by a lot if I really want to enjoy the holiday. I'm not one to spend all day in the kitchen.
This Apple Cranberry Pie is a big contender though. It is so delicious and super easy to make. The tangy flavor of the cranberries, the sweetness from the apple and the spices combination make this dessert a Fall favorite. I used store-bought pie dough to shorten the cooking process so that we can spend less time in the kitchen and more time to enjoy with family.
Serve it with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream and you are all set for the night.
Apple Cranberry Pie
- 4 large apples, cored, peeled and cubed (about 6-7 cups)
- Juice from 1 lime, freshly squeezed
- 1 cup cranberries, fresh or frozen
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons apple pie spice
- 1 teaspoon lime zest
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup water, plus 1 additional tablespoon for egg wash
- 1 box (2 sheets) pie crust, store bought
- 1 teaspoon white sparkling sugar, optional
- Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees.
- Put the apple slices in a large saucepan and drizzle with fresh lime juice. Toss to coat the apples. This will keep the apples from browning. Add the cranberries, sugar, flour, apple pie spice, lime zest, vanilla extract and water. Stir until combined.
- Place the saucepan on the stove over medium heat. Let cook, stirring occasionally, until cranberries start to break and water has reduced completely. Remove from the heat and set aside.
- On a slightly floured surface, use a rolling pin to roll out the dough about one extra inch from it's original size. Transfer the dough to a 9-inch pie pan. Pat with your fingers, making sure it is smooth. Trim the extra overhang of dough with a knife and set aside. Fill pie with apple cranberry filling.
- Roll out the second sheet of dough and carefully transfer to the pie pan to cover the filling. Trim off the excess dough and pinch the edges using a fork to seal the edges. Cut multiple slits in the top of the pie.
- In a small bowl mix together the egg and 1 tablespoon water. Using a pastry brush, lightly brush crust and edges with egg wash. Sprinkle pie with sparkling sugar, if using.
- Place pie on a baking sheet and bake for 30-35 minutes, or until crust is golden brown. When the pie is done baking, remove from oven and cool for one hour before serving. Cut into slices and serve with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream, if desired.
- I like to use a store bought crust for ease and convenience, but you can make yours from scratch if you prefer. Make it gluten-free by using a GF crust.
- Bake the pie in a pre-heated oven so that it cooks evenly.
- If you plan on storing the pie, let it cool completely before wrapping it.
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There will be a delay of a couple of weeks while I go insane trying to finish the last minute details of getting our Service Unit Campout rolling. We're down to counting noses and making sure nothing gets overlooked.
Which is maddening.
I'll be back once my sanity has returned.


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10 years ago, the world was shaken to it very core by the devastating attack on the World Trade Centre Towers & Pentagon. Everyone will remember where they were when the news hit and the sadness that these events caused. At SCP today we wish to pay our respect to our american friends. Our thoughts are with those friends and families that lost loved ones in this tragic event and those who fought to save many more.
Today we unite together to as one, to show the love between fellow man and woman alike and remember those who lost their lives.
Though we shall never forget, though scars remain, we will rebuild and we will move forward. Love and Respect in honor the victims, survivors, and their families.


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This week's latest installment in the Civitas Institute's "20 Changes in 2010: A Primer for State Reform" focuses on protecting private property rights.
Our Nation's forefathers and framers of the U.S. Constitution regarded the defense of property rights as one of the few and fundamentally unchanging roles of our government. Changing regulations and ambiguous language in the state's general statutes threaten to diminish the property rights of North Carolina residents.
Check out the whole article to learn about ways North Carolina can strengthen its defense of private property against State coercion.


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Mucker Q&A – David Cooley, The Revolutionists, MuckFest MS Los Angeles
Meet David Cooley, a fundraising rock star of The Revolutionists and first-time mucker who will be taking on the course at the first-ever MuckFest® MS Los Angeles.
MuckFest MS: What's the story behind your team name?
David: My wife, Jodi Michele Cooley, has an MS Blog called MS Revolution, so I thought I'd incorporate her name for my team.
MuckFest MS: What initially made you decide to register for MuckFest MS?
David: I participated in a mud event last year with my childhood best friends. I loved it. I was looking to do another type of race and saw an ad for MuckFest MS LA, and I was in!
MuckFest MS: Who is your inspiration for participating in MuckFest MS?
David: My wife Jodi. She is the strongest, most positive person I have ever met. I have sat in awe of her many, many times. For 10 years, I have been watching my wife suffer and struggle with this disease. I've been sitting on the sideline whining about her plight and shaking my fists at the heavens, and I got sick of it – I decided I would finally do something about it. This MuckFest MS run and fundraiser is my first step.
MuckFest MS: You are a fundraising rock star. What is your number one fundraising tip?
David: I decided to not be afraid to ask anyone. I didn't just ask, "Hey, wanna donate to a cool cause?" I used my personal story to ask for help. I also remind people and tell my friends who are fundraising to remind people of the personal nature of their donation request. Sadly, most people have someone in their life who suffers from MS, so I found they either used my wife or someone else they knew as inspiration for their donation.
Also, this was a posting I put on my Facebook as an example:
"I realize how powerful the ice bucket challenge has been to raise money for ALS. These days there are many such causes with each of us giving where we can. My case is close to home. I am in the middle of my own fundraising efforts to help my wife. My wife Jodi has suffered for over 10 years from Multiple Sclerosis. I have sat back for years watching and complaining but doing nothing. Not anymore! I am entered in the 2014 MuckFest MS. Please help me raise money to find a cure. If you can, please donate today."
I then added my link to donate and have been shocked by the response!
MuckFest MS: As a team captain, how do you motivate your team to fundraise?
David: Similar to the above, I told them to ask, ask, ask. Anyone. Anywhere. Worst thing they say is no, and then you move on. I'm also hoping to do a lemonade stand with a few of the participants' kids to get them involved as well.
MuckFest MS: What are you most excited for in your first MuckFest MS event?
David: Simple. Laughter, giggles, and lots of mud!!!! My niece is flying out from Boston to join me in the race, and I can't wait for her to play as well.
Great advice, David! We'll see you, Jodi, and The Revolutionists on October 25th!


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Nichiporchik explained that the decision to release a version of SpeedRunners for free was due to the pirating community's reaction to their last game. "During the pre-Steam release of No Time To Explain, we simply created a version with pirate hats and put it on The Pirate Bay. Did it hurt us? Probably not. We got dozens of e-mails from people who found it via TPB and bought it afterwards, sending really positive comments about how funny the joke was. ... The press coverage spiked our sales. Don't buy into developers blaming piracy for lost sales, it's just silly."
The free version of SpeedRunners that Tiny Build plans to launch won't be the full game, mind you. Nichiporchik wrote that he believes players will spend money - sometimes eagerly so - as long as they see value in a service being provided. In the case of Battlefield 4, the service is multiplayer. Nichiporchik wrote that he's pirating the game to see if it runs on his computer, and if it does, he'll "happily" buy the game off Origin. In the case of SpeedRunners, that service is online multiplayer. The free version will only support local multiplayer and offline bots.
SpeedRunners is on Steam Early Access right now, so if you'd like, you can put your money down now, later, or, should you choose the free version, never. The choice is yours.
Update: A sentence from an earlier draft of this story that further clarified Nichiporchik's reasons for piracy was accidentally omitted. It has been re-added to the post body.


text: Inkie14 0 Posted November 12, 2014 Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 Hi everyone. As some of you know, I have been battling late-stage Lyme disease for years and the last few months I've had to come home from college, and spend all of my time being very sick, stuck in my house. When I was at school, I had an exciting senior project in the works (it involved infecting Jerusalem crickets with a new species of parasitic hairworms recently discovered in the county). I was doing lab work for grad students, organizing the California Polytechnic State University insect collection, and doing a few side jobs for professors. Now that I'm home and can't do those things, I need to find something useful and productive to do to get me closer to my goal of becoming an entomologist/taxonomist and give me some more experience, without requiring me to leave the house because some days now I need a wheelchair to get around and barely have enough energy to get out of bed. I'm thinking that the perfect thing to do would be to perform some sort of experiment, type up the results in a scientific paper, and maybe get it published in some obscure journal somewhere. I have pretty extensive experience with experiments- I've written more scientific papers than I can count for classes (I'm a fourth year Animal Science major with a Biological Sciences minor) and I've helped a few grad students and professors with their experiments. So I have some questions for anyone who would like to offer some tips or advice: 1>>Do journals require that you work under a professor if you are only an undergrad student? 2>>Do you have to have multiple authors or work with a group of people if you want to be published? Or, does it at least increase your chances of being accepted? 3>>Do you have any ideas at all of questions that my experiment could examine, or species I could work on? What's a question about cockroaches or spiders that you've always wondered but never found the answer to? At home I have a dissecting microscope, a dissection kit, a jewelry scale, lots of insect pins, hundreds of small deli cups with caps, a few 30 gallon rubber bins... I have a decent amount of supplies, but I also have access to my high school AP Biology classroom which has a limited amount of equipment, and I miiiiiiiiight be able to get access to someone's lab at UC Davis if I ask. I have plenty of various species of roaches, and a small colony of Phidippus audax so I was thinking about experimenting with one of those, or I could always buy a different species online. 4>>Does anyone know of any journals I may be able to publish a paper like this to? Obviously I'm not going to send my paper to Nature or Science or the Oxford Journals (lol), but I might be able to find a journal somewhere that will publish me. 5>>Anyone want to work a little with me on this? If you can help me come up with some good ideas and we can get a helpful dialogue going, perhaps we could both do the same experiment and compare results, perhaps combine them? Or, if you just want to help a little, I could just mention your name in my paper. ANY other tips and advice is greatly appreciated. Questions, constructive criticism- throw it at me. This is still in the planning stage so I could use any and all help. Thanks for taking the time to read this, have a great day everyone. Link to post Share on other sites


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There are many types of batteries available and progress continues in refining the various technologies. This is both accelerating the shift towards electrical power and is the result of the ongoing shift. One is providing steam to the other.
The increase power production through renewables, California is already exceeding the 50% goal of renewable energy today (although not every week) and it is well on the way of meeting the 50% renewable for 2030, is increasing the availability of electricity at all levels and this is pushing studies for better and better electrical energy storage.
Electrical energy storage is complicated, storing electrons is not easy: they are really tiny but to store them you need atoms and atoms are huge in comparison to electrons, 100 million times bigger. Hence, to store an electron you need a space that is at least 100 million times bigger. To give you an idea that would compare to needing a 25 warehouses each fifteen stories high 50m per 100m to store a single box of shoes! This explains why batteries are relatively bulky and heavy.
In the end most batteries are based on exploiting chemical reactions that absorb and release electrons. One of these chemical reaction is called redox (reduction oxidation) and it is the one used by redox batteries (see clip explaining how they work. These batteries are very good since they have a basically unlimited number of cycles of charge-discharge but are even bulkier than other types of batteries, like the lithium ones.
Researchers at IBM labs in Zurich have managed to shrink a redox battery to the size of a chip creating layers of polymers that form modules 1.5mm thick that can be staked to deliver the required power. The layers are manufactured through a 3D printer.
This micro battery produces 1W net of power per square cm (it actually produces 1.4 W but 0.4W is used to circulate the fluid in the battery that powers the chemical reaction).
Interestingly, these modules double up as heat dissipators, cooling the chip.


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Interesting story in The San Jose Mercury News, Open-source science helps San Carlos father's genetic quest:
"We used materials that are public, freely available," said Rienhoff, a physician and scientist, as Beatrice frolicked nearby. "And everything we've learned we've put back out there, in the public domain. It's for the patient's good, and the public good."
Born with small, weak muscles, long feet and curled fingers, Beatrice confounded all the experts.
No one else in her family had such a syndrome. In fact, apparently no one else in the world did either.
Rienhoff — a biotech consultant trained in math, medicine and genetics at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle — launched a search.
He combed the publicly available medical literature, researching diseases, while jotting down each new clue or theory. Because her ailment is so rare, he knew no big labs or advocacy groups would be interested.
In the end, basically he compared his daughter's exome to that of everyone else in the family. By comparing in such a fashion he managed to zero in on a possible causal mutation. This is awesome (the fact that now they know, not the mutation itself). In the near future (~2 years) I plan to have everyone in my daughter's pedigree sequenced to a high degree of accuracy so that I can trace with precision the sequence of de novo mutations which make each individual distinctive. Not only that, but it may be useful in the future in assessing possible disease risks unique to a given individual.
Hugh Reinhoff told his story at the Open Science Summit. I don't think open and DIY science is going to be the whole future, but it is going to be a substantial part of the future. There are just some things that you as an individual have strong incentives to do which you can't get others interested in. Additionally, collaborative open source science is probably one major push on the margins to make those selling services be more professional and add genuine value. If any reader in the Valley is excited about this sort of project you might want to contact Joseph Jackson. He's got a lot of ideas and enthusiasm, and is genuinely interested in making a difference in peoples' lives with a new "bottom-up" paradigm. I'm normally skeptical of such populism, but I'm not entirely happy with the status quo, so a shake up might do science some good.


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Nikon is planning to update its ultra compact mega-zoom camera A900 successor. We have already published the registration details of the camera a while ago. And be assured will update you soon as we get any new information related to the camera.
The Nikon A900 camera features 20MP 1/2.3″ BSI CMOS Sensor and a massive 35X optical zoom lens. The A900 also records 4K videos at 30FPS and a fully tilting screen. For, wireless file transfer and remote controlled operation we also have Bluetooth (BLE), Wi-Fi, NFC Connectivity.
What we expect in next version – Nikon A1000
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Rise Above Your Current Health Situation
In the last 30 years the world of health and wellness has grown and evolved with amazing innovations and scientific breakthroughs. We've seen countless exercise fads, miracle diets and supplements that come and go. Despite the intense interest in these wellness fads and cutting edge technology, we've also experienced a drastic decline in the health status of our nation. Increases in chronic illness such as heart disease, diabetes and many types of cancer have highlighted this decline along with an obesity rate that has more than tripled in most states since 1980s.
In the year 1859 the author Charles Dickens published the book "A Tale of Two Cities", and in that book the now famous opening first sentence started like this "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times". While that phrase was referring to a different time and different set of circumstances, it is very much applicable to the current state of health and wellbeing in America. We have the medical technology to unclog or transplant heart arteries after a heart attack, surgically remove and treat cancer, we can cure things like tuberculosis, whooping cough and plague. The world now knows more than it has ever known about nutrition, vitamins and what type of eating patterns are necessary for optimal health and preventing disease. Fitness apps and watches are all the rage as we have the technology to measure every heartbeat and every calorie burned and consumed. So while it's the best of times with scientific knowledge and amazing technology that just ten years ago we only saw in science fiction movies, it's also the worst of times. As far as weight gain goes, America is more than 3 times heavier than it was in 1985. Since that time diabetes has risen by 500% and heart disease is the number one killer when it comes to health related issues. Stress related ailments such as depression, anxiety, various mental illnesses and emotional disorders are also on the rise, and due to this decline in health status health care is getting harder and harder to afford.
In short, whole modern civilization it the most "advanced" it has ever been. The world is also the sickest it has ever been and there appears to be no slowing down of the downward spiral that human health is experiencing. In the midst of this best and worst of times of wellness and illness, there is one fact that mainstream practitioners are not talking about. That fact is that God, The Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, created us in His very own image to know, love and serve Him and He wants us to be happy, healthy and whole in this life and in eternity after this life (1-2).
Since our very purpose in this life and in the next is to be in relationship with God, human health of body and soul cannot be fully understood or achieved without this relationship. Since God designed and created the human person as body and soul, it only makes sense to view the science of human health through a theological lense as intended by our Creator Himself. Jesus Christ came to bring freedom and healing to the human person, and the Christian Faith has proven to be a movement of health and healing for the human person (body and soul) with God at its center from its very beginnings (3-5). True peace and holistic health can only be achieved through the grace that comes from friendship with God.
Let's take a journey through history and examine the theological and scientific truths behind why we are so prone to illness and physical ailments of every kind, and explore what can be done to transform these ailments into human wellness and wholeness. In order to fully understand the human person and the root causes of illness, disease and death we need to go back to the very beginning.